As a result, he walked all the way in such a hurry and suspiciously, and when he arrived in the imperial capital, there was nothing wrong, and General Xiao realized that he had let Lu Hongjing's goods be washed once. I can imagine that thing grimacing in the Tiger Prison - it deserves it! Who made you uneasy and kind?! Lao Tzu only said that the medicine was here, but he didn't say that he would use it for you this time!

General Xiao, who was full of fire, couldn't eat or sleep well along the way, and pondered about it every day, but he didn't expect it to be "Wangshan running a dead horse", and he couldn't eat it! After entering the imperial capital, it would be even more difficult to eat, Liao Qiu left and returned to the Liao family's Taikou, he couldn't follow for a while, now the relationship between the two of them is very delicate, there is an invisible and untouchable gunpowder keg between him and the Liao family, if he goes back, the gunpowder keg will explode, Liao Qiuli is not easy to do, on one side is the flesh and blood of the closest relatives, and on the other side is the nominal "husband's family". Sensible people will not follow the past to find annoyance at this juncture. So he can only be busy by himself, either go to the court early in the morning, bother with the crises around the Qing Dynasty and the turbulent undercurrent, or disperse the court and nest in the small courtyard he bought, or find a few old people to drink, sometimes the emperor asks him to enter the palace to discuss things, and stay for a few days, anyway, try not to think about the ruthless person who didn't give him the news when he went back to Liao's house!

However, he talked to his cousin of the emperor about the situation around the Qing Dynasty, and this son of heaven also roughly agreed with his strategy of buying, co-opting, threatening, and beating him, but when he arrived at the court, all kinds of thoughts were very messy, and it was a good idea, but for some reason, there were always many more people who made trouble than serious people. On the third day of his return, in the early court, the emperor instructed Zhang Cangshui, the secretary of the ministry, to vaguely mention the matter of "wooing", who to woo? Beijung. The most likely thing around the Qing Dynasty to be co-opted is Beirong, and the two sides have been pinching for more than 20 years, and what they do is just "opening a border market".

Beirong is a nomadic people who live in pursuit of water and grass, rich in horses, furs, wild ginseng and other coarse goods, silk, tea, salt and iron and other fine goods they can't do, that's good, can't do it, then honestly get to the border and the border people of the Qing Dynasty to barter, horse fur wild ginseng for silk and tea, salt and iron, and the barbarians are honest, will not play small means to shoddy, the amount is also enough, at first it was just a sporadic exchange between the border people and the barbarians, and then the merchants saw that there was a lot of profit, so they tried to batch the Qing Dynasty in the beautiful goods to the borderLater, the scale is getting bigger and bigger, even the royal court of Beirong has been added, the princesses of the Yan family especially love the silk and jewelry of the Qing Dynasty, and are willing to spend a lot of money to buy, with the market, the merchants are even more energetic to pour out, the merchants are in groups, from the mainland to the border The situation is not so familiar, then you have to hire a group of border people to give them the business on the side of Beirong, and the livelihood of the border people has also fallen.

Qing Dynasty has always turned a blind eye to this matter, because of the bitter cold in the north, the livelihood of the border people, sometimes do one or two transactions is also a livelihood, Beirong is willing to do serious business, it is better than when they can't buy it everywhere to rob and disturb, multiple roots are put together, the court does not study deeply, the border government intends to let go, the original sporadic exchange has become a considerable scale of "border market".

However, this side of the city is really short-lived, opened less than a year before closing, the Qing Dynasty specially set up a tiger prison near Beirong, guarding Beirong, not to let this group of barbarians who can't get things to rob and disturb the barbarians, speaking of why the very prosperous border city is so dead, it is because of one thing, this incident made the Qing Dynasty, which was originally turned a blind eye, completely exploded - Beirong harbored a gang from Dashi, and also gave convenience to this group of people from time to time, this group of people retreated to Beirong after doing a big case in the Qing Dynasty, Divide the looted things into several parts, and one of them is specially sent to the Beirong royal court. Covering up and sharing the spoils, what's the difference between that and the gang?!

In order to exterminate this gang of bandits, Qing Dynasty and Beirong fought a big battle, and many people died on both sides, but the initiator - the leader of the gang of bandits escaped, fled to the southern sea, married a widow wife, gave birth to a son named Jing Feiran, and later formed a larger gang to bring disaster to Qing Chao on the sea, burning, killing, plundering and doing all kinds of evil, more than his father! And this pirate leader is also the nephew of the Great Food Emperor, although he is an illegitimate wild breed that can't come to the table, but in order to make the covenant more solid and solid, the two sides are embarrassed to climb any kind of relationship, the pirate called the Great Food Emperor "uncle", and the Great Food Emperor also endured the disgust and confessed, and the two sides had a hot fight, in contrast, the Qing Dynasty seemed much higher, hanging high in the sky, hanging in the air, when a target was waiting for others to fight, this is not called wise, called stupid hat!

Therefore, the top priority is to win over the good ones first - isn't it just to open the border market, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty can support the boat in his belly, don't mention the old things for the time being, let's also make a covenant, all are safe and healthy to do business, what you want to change to the border market, I don't stop it, but if you still want to do bad things while reaping benefits, then I can't help it, how difficult to gnaw the bones I can say!

Qing Dynasty and Beirong have been pinching for more than 20 years, and Xiao Yu and Lu Hongjing have rarely lost after taking over (although sometimes Lu Hongjing likes to use cheap tricks, and the win is not very glorious, but the soldiers are not tired of cheating, and the victory or defeat does not depend on the character, but on the result), Beirong is a little scared to clean up, and he has suffered a lot of losses before, and it is not easy to find a lottery estimate as before.

Xiao Yu first planned to move the emperor first, and then the emperor opened the golden mouth to tell the court about it. Of course, the emperor doesn't need to speak in person, naturally someone will say for him, the official department is a very important official, and Zhang Cangshui's prestige in the entire court is also one of the best, what is the result? Should you not give a face or not give a face, the first one not to give a face is the letter of the household secretary Liao Zhixin, this will be the first to jump out, that is what Xiao Yu did not expect, because this is a rare upright temperament, he never knows how to turn around, he manages the country's treasury in and out, and no one needs to open his mouth to ask him for the money that should be spent, he directly forwarded it, even the emperor should not spend the money even if the emperor does not want to take out a cent from him. Last year, the emperor wanted to build a terrace in the northbound palace in the summer, but the internal affairs office couldn't raise such money for a while, so the emperor privately told him to raise his hand to "borrow" a little, and after a while, the internal affairs office will fill this shortfall. If so, please resign. It means that you can't borrow it from him, so why don't you try to change it to a household book? That's it! The emperor had no choice but to expose this matter under the guise of haha, and never mentioned it again, as for the terrace, he never mentioned it again.

However, the opening of the border market is the key to the whole game of chess, whether you can stabilize Beirong, whether you can free up your hands to play what should be played, but it is on the ups and downs of this one.

Zhang Cangshui listed the top ten good in the border city, and also listed the top ten bad in the forbidden border city, and talked endlessly for a long time, so that most of the people in the court were moved, and Liao Zhixin said a word: Is it completely out of public heart for Lord Zhang to invite the border market? Liao Mou dared to say that those who agree and disagree with the court now have their own selfish intentions, to tell the truth, if it is only for the livelihood of the border people, Liao has nothing to say, but the Qing Dynasty is thousands of miles wide, from south to north and from east to west, how can the border people stop in the north? It's easy to open a border market, but has the law behind it ever kept up? Has the Qing Dynasty's combat power kept up? Has the armament ever kept up? If they don't keep up, then the opening of the border market is equivalent to child's play!

Zhang Cangshui replied to him: The vast majority of the world's affairs were not able to be measured at first, from scratch, from full of loopholes to impeccable, they were not waiting, they were groped all the way, according to Lord Liao, when the law is complete and everything is ready, then the border market will be opened, and it will be too late. It's too late for anything.

Both of them are members of the court, and their words are very weighty, and the words with puns are enough for many people to ponder for a long time.

The court is not good on this side, the situation is urgent, and it can't be delayed, so it is impossible to think about it in the long run, so you can only think about it from Liao Zhixin. Xiao Yu was focused on where to persuade the donkey to be angry, and he was running around all day long, until it was dark and he returned to the small courtyard he bought to sleep, tired, and had no appetite, thinking that he would fall into bed and sleep directly when he got to the place, and he fell asleep and pulled it down, and when he opened the door, he found that the house was burning with a lamp.

Xiao Yu's original body was tired and sluggish, and he grew wings and flew away, his ears were hot, and his throat was tight, so he always thought it was a dream and didn't dare to believe it. After a few steps to rush in, I saw that the person was really in front of me and didn't know what to say, so I greeted stupidly for a long time: "It's here." ”。 If it is the same as before, that is, at that time, when he just bought this courtyard with a little savings, the man came to see him, and when the door rang, he also rushed out and blocked the door like this, and he couldn't say anything with a stomach, and it took a long time to come out with two words - "Come on", it was quite natural, as if it was born like this, he has been here to guard him back, or to come over, Liao Qiuli has been here to guard him Xiao Yu came back, and for a long time, only the two of them.