Chapter 137: The people of Xidu are very lazy, no wonder they are short of food!

During this time, Xiaozhu Jingqingzhu was very troubled, and every time he was stamped by the tassel, he would go to Yao Yun to complain.

"Qingzhu is from Xiguo, not a little goblin!" Xiao Qingzhu and Zhu Ye swayed, and complained to Yao Yun aggrievedly.

Yao Yun was distressed and funny when he saw it, this little goblin is too simple and cute, especially when he swears that he is not a goblin, he is from Xiguo, and his voice is broken!

"Good, you are from Xiguo, you are Qingzhu. ”

"Well, it's better to be Daddy!"

After speaking, the little bamboo spirit Qingzhu moved the small broken steps vividly, the bamboo leaves swayed, and suddenly went into the big courtyard to find Yaoyao Yunyun.

This scene happened for several days in a row, the little guy was insecure, and he had to ask Yao Yun every day, and only after getting Yao Yun's affirmative answer did she go to play with peace of mind.

This seems to have become a daily routine, Yao Yun began to cry and laugh a little, but when he came to ask once a day, he inexplicably poked the cuteness in Yao Yun's heart, making him feel a wonderful feeling of being attached to others.

Yao Yun heard the second elder Wu Tong say why Xiao Qingzhu was attached to him.

Maybe it's fate, Yao Yun watched the bamboo in the bamboo forest, and his mind echoed with the bamboo forest, at that time, the little goblin Qingzhu was the beginning of the birth of spiritual wisdom, which happened to be in love with Yao Yun's heart.

Xiao Qingzhu regarded Yao Yun as the parent who "conceived" him.

Yao Yun was a little crying and laughing when he learned the truth, but he didn't resist in his heart, he didn't consider Xiaozhu Jing's extraordinary qualifications from the utilitarian side, and Xiaozhu Jing's cuteness alone was enough to capture Yao Yun.

This sticky and sensible little goblin, who can withstand it!

After dealing with the Black Rhino Tribe, the impatience of the barbarian tribe in the mountains disappeared all of a sudden, and Yao Yun was also happy to be idle, except for dealing with various miscellaneous matters in the political affairs hall every day, the rest of the time was spent on cultivation.

The captives of the Black Rhino tribe have been arranged, and the young laborers are directly assigned to the iron mines, and at the same time, a group of slaves who work in the iron mines and perform well will return to Xidu to participate in farming, learn the art of farming, and lay the foundation for future promotion to the common people.

The old and weak women and children of the black rhino department also have their own uses, and they are assigned to farm work according to their own conditions, enter the weaving mill, and so on, each with its own use.

Yao Yun thought that there were enough manpower, but after more than 1,000 slaves were distributed, Yao Yun found that there were still not enough manpower.

Farming in particular, today has been ploughed by iron ploughs and oxen ploughing, and the fields cultivated have doubled, and all kinds of corresponding manpower are also very scarce.

"Hey, we can only see if the caravan from other places can bring a group of slaves over!"

Yao Yun pinched it, a month is almost over, and the caravans from other places are about to arrive in Xidu on a large scale.

......

Just as Yao Yun thought, there was a large caravan dozens of miles away from Xidu.

In the past, the caravans of the nearby vassal states always worked tirelessly to bring a large amount of grain, money, and grain seeds to Xidu for the sake of salt.

Generally speaking, although grain sells well, it is not a high-profit commodity, and the price of grain is stable in various places, and there is a lot of loss during transportation, and profit-chasing merchants do not like to sell grain.

However, Xi is an exception, Xi has salt and has the right to speak, and simple knife coins can't buy salt, so they must trade King Xi's favorite goods.

People can't go without food, they can't go without salt, and salt is obviously in greater demand here.

Behind the big caravans were the nobles of the vassal states, who had to sell grain at a loss to Xidu in order to buy salt.

In the past, they were all reluctant, after all, the officials of the vassal states did not have enough salt in their hands to parity the price, the price of salt soared, the people could not survive, and the entire vassal states would collapse and perish.

But this time, the leaders of each of the big caravans were very active, and everyone seemed to be beaten with chicken blood.

The news of the tribute list of the princes of the imperial capital has spread in the circle of the four vassal states, and the news thousands of miles away is out of reach for ordinary people, but it is nothing to the nobles behind these caravans.

The imperial capital and other wealthy vassal states had excluded many caravans from coming to the south to buy snowflake salt, and some of these large caravans were sold for a huge profit.

The big caravanserai who tasted the sweetness were very active this time.

King Xi wants grain and sells it! Anyway, the nobles of the major princes and states have a lot of surplus grain, and it is also an excellent choice to take it out for profit.

King Xi wants slaves, sell them! The nobles of that vassal state do not have a large number of slaves in their hands, so it is better to sell some of them.

King Xi asked for seeds and sold them .......

This time, the major caravans were extremely well prepared, with gold, swords, coins, cloth, and food.

All of a sudden, the peaceful and tranquil Xidu suddenly became noisy and lively.

The leader of the Izumo caravan, Brother Dao, once again came to Xidu with the caravan.

This time, Brother Dao had a lot of goods, bringing five hundred slaves, both men and women, all young slaves, very high quality, and cloth, grain and other goods, which were very rich.

As for knife coins, gold and the like, needless to say, the last snowflake essence salt auction, Brother Dao gambled a big one, and directly auctioned three stones of snowflake essence salt, and made a lot of money, even the steward of the Izumo Palace looked at him differently.

Now Brother Dao is naturally confident, and he carries five hundred taels of gold with him.

The Izumo caravan was huge this time, mighty as a long dragon, and Brother Dao sat in the carriage and walked on the field paths of Xidu, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the cultivated land on the outskirts of Xidu.

At this time, it was spring ploughing, not only Xidu, but also other places where farmers were working hard, Brother Dao was originally just simply enjoying the scenery along the road, but looking at it, his face showed interest.

The peasants in Xidu seem to be different from other places, a farmer is driving a cow to run in the field, and there are people watching and shouting on the ridges, without the slightest intention of turning over the soil and ploughing.

"The people of Xidu are too lazy, turning over the soil is a very hard thing, these farmers are bent on being lazy, with the help of animal power, not to mention, only know that they are boastful on the side, not industrious at all, no wonder King Xi has been begging to buy food, so it is. ”

Brother Dao has also farmed, and he knows the hard work of digging in the field, and people are diligent all year round and only barely make ends meet, like the lazy appearance of the people of Xidu, they deserve to starve!

Brother Dao was not interested after a few glances, although it was a pity in his heart, but he was just a businessman, and he couldn't care about the affairs of Xiguo, that was something that King Xi should consider.

"If you have salt, you are uncle, we are different!"

Brother Dao sighed heavily, his eyes were full of contempt and contempt, people who are not industrious are really spurned.

Soon the Izumo caravan arrived in Xidu, and the castle guards checked as usual.

Brother Dao immediately restrained his contemptuous expression, and replaced it with a kind smile to greet the city guards.

When he saw the city guard, Brother Dao's pupils shrank, and his eyes showed a look of surprise, he had been in the army when he was young, and he was also an Izumo elite soldier, when he saw the city guard, he suddenly had a sense of familiarity.

"This is an elite division that has trained the formation!"

Brother Dao was stunned, he hadn't seen such an elite armor soldier in Xidu in the past month, could this be the hidden power of Xidu?