Oda Kiri stayed on the grassland for almost a year.

After Li Keshi, the general manager of the Hedong Road march, and the deputy chief Qi He Li led the army into the grassland, Xiao Tianche's mission came to an end.

After cleaning up the Xue Yantuo tribe within a radius of 500 miles in Shuozhou again, Xiao Tianche returned to Shuozhou with a successful project, ready to go to Chang'an City to live his own happy life.

Some of the widows who were willing to continue to beg for a living on the knife were sent to Dengzhou to join the slave hunting team of Chun Yu's family.

Most of the Japanese who wanted to live a stable life, as well as the Xue Yantuo who joined the team after being captured in the middle, were sent to Chang'an and Jiangnan Province.

Oda Kiri, Wei Chi Wanzhi, and Fu Yi Tie are all among the people who are preparing to go to Chang'an City to live.

After making a windfall on the grassland, Xiao Tianche, who is now wealthy, is ready to enjoy it after returning to Shuozhou.

Then hurry back to Chang'an.

"Captain, this Shuozhou City seems to have changed a lot from when we passed by last year, and many times I thought we were in the wrong place."

Yu Chi Wanzhi followed behind Oda Kiri, walking on the avenue in Shuozhou City.

"It's completely different. In fact, when I entered the city, I found that something was wrong, originally a few miles north of the city gate was the grassland, but now all of it has been reclaimed into a flat fertile field, and it is said that something called cotton is planted. And there seem to be many more workshops in the city, and the flow of people is obviously more than before. ”

Xiao Tian looked at the situation on both sides of the street dizzyingly, and was even more proud of his choice to join Datang.

"Captain, the Tang people are too rich, they actually reclaimed so much land to grow flowers."

Fu Yitie expressed his surprise in a slightly weird tone.

"Haha! This cotton is not ordinary, Tang people...... We grow cotton in Datang, not because we have a lot of money and nowhere to go, but because this cotton can be used to make cotton cloth. ”

Oda Kiri found confidence in Fuyitetsu, and felt that having such a person around him made him happier.

"Can cotton be spun into cotton cloth? Didn't the Tang people already spin wool into wool thread and wool cloth? Why do you need cotton? ”

In recent years, the closer the tribes to the Tang Dynasty and relying on selling wool, the better their lives will be.

Naturally, he also heard some wool-related legends.

"I don't know. I heard that this cotton cloth was made by the personnel arranged by His Royal Highness the King of Chu. Since I joined Iwami Ginshan, I have heard countless times about the great deeds of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and it is really a great blessing to be able to work by His Royal Highness the King of Chu in this life. ”

Although Oda Che has never met Li Kuan, he is a die-hard fan of Li Zhong.

In fact, many of the people led by Oda Che are Li Kuan or die-hard fans of Datang.

Don't think it's strange, the Japanese people are used to bullying the weak and worshipping the strong.

Today's Datang is an existence that the Japanese people dare not imagine, and the yearning and worship for Datang is definitely beyond everyone's imagination.

Not to mention people like Oda Che who have crossed paths with Datang.

"Yes, choosing to come to Datang is the most correct choice in my life. When I go to Chang'an City and settle down, I will go back to the Wa Kingdom and take my family over, and I want my children to become a real Tang people. ”

Wei Chi Wanji recalled the food he had just eaten, the inn where he stayed last night, and then touched the silk clothes he was wearing, and felt that the nobles in Nara City were not as comfortable as themselves.

"Let's go, there seems to be a new shop there, we went over and saw it."

Oda Che has heard these words several times today.

Instead of sighing with him here, it is better to see more of the prosperity of Shuozhou.

In case of arriving in Chang'an at the right time, it looks like Grandma Liu has entered the Grand View Garden.

……

Shuozhou Horse Station.

This is a place that was officially completed at the beginning of this year.

Although there are no high-rise buildings, there is no unique architecture.

But the departure time and price of the carriage marked on the stone tablets are the things that the small traders who come and go to Shuozhou to do business pay the most attention to.

These traders often hire a wagon from Chang'an City to transport the goods to Shuozhou, buy low and sell high, and then take the money back to Chang'an in a public carriage.

Then continue a new round of business.

In this way, the difficulty of selling goods is minimized.

You don't need your own carriage, you don't need to keep your own groom, you just need to hire a wagon from a cattle transport team, whether you use it one-way or round-trip.

Anyway, the business of the Lao Niu Transport Team has now developed to Shuozhou, and there are horse-drawn carriages going back and forth between Shuozhou and Chang'an City every day.

The merchant hired their carriage to go to Shuozhou, and even if there was no need to return, the branch of the Lao Niu transport team in Shuozhou could arrange for the carriage to carry another merchant's goods from Shuozhou to Chang'an in time.

To put it bluntly, the Lao Niu transport team is a bit like a thick courier company.

Ma Yingfei is the beneficiary of the public carriage from Chang'an to Shuozhou.

As a native of Chang'an City with dozens of dollars in his pocket, Ma Yingfei's favorite thing is to listen to people's stories.

Although Wuheju is such a restaurant, he can't afford it.

But near the gate where he lived, there was a storyteller who stood on the side of the road and made a living as a storyteller.

This kind of storyteller, just like those who perform acrobatics, relies on others to reward a few pennies after finishing the book, and eats with a mouthful of food.

When Ma Yingfei knew that Chang'an City had opened a public carriage from Shuozhou to Shuozhou, and the price was very cheap, he felt that the opportunity had come.

Since some of his neighbors signed up to grow cotton in Hedong Road, Ma Yingfei knew that a large number of people would definitely flow into the Shuozhou area in a short period of time.

However, the supply of many goods in the local area may not be able to keep up in time.

Therein lies an opportunity.

Ma Yingfei took all his money to Xishi to buy seeds for various vegetables, and then came to Shuozhou in a public carriage.

As a result, it didn't take much effort to quadruple his net worth.

Originally, I sold things for one penny in the West Market, but when I arrived in Shuozhou, I sold them for three or four pennies, and there was no problem at all.

Of course, this also has something to do with the clever selection of his goods.

After many immigrants came to Shuozhou, each of them was given a hundred acres of land to grow cotton.

But it is impossible for everyone not to grow any vegetables they eat, which leads to everyone's demand for vegetable seeds rising all of a sudden.

Later, Ma Yingfei found that the slaves here in Shuozhou were much cheaper than Chang'an City, especially the Huren slaves, and the price was less than half of that of Chang'an.

He boldly bought slaves with the money he earned, and then hired a carriage of a labor cattle transport team, transported it back to Chang'an City, and sold it in the human market in the West Market.

came and went, but in just a few months, Ma Yingfei's net worth has changed from dozens to more than a thousand.

"Lang Jun, it seems that there are more and more people doing our business, the price of the last time in the Xishi market, everyone basically fell by two percent, and this time I go back, I don't know if it will fall."

The business is getting bigger, and Ma Yingfei also found a trustworthy young man in his own workshop to be his partner and give him a hand.

As usual, the two of them took the public carriage from Chang'an City to Shuozhou, and after arriving at the Shuozhou Horse Station, they stayed in the inn next to the station.

"Ah Xiong, you've grown up. This time I came to Shuozhou, and I didn't plan to buy slaves to go back. I heard that a beef jerky workshop was built here, and this time I wanted to go to this workshop to buy a batch of beef jerky. ”

Ma Yingfei smiled and thought about how much money he could earn on this trip.

Beef jerky is definitely a rare item in Chang'an City.

Although over the years, there has been a lot of beef transported from Liangzhou to Chang'an City, and there are also some beef jerky for sale.

But beef, on the whole, is still a relatively scarce meat.

After all, cattle are an important agricultural material in this era.

Even if Liangzhou can collect a large number of live cattle through grassland herdsmen, it is impossible to use them all for food.

"Beef jerky? If this thing is priced right, it will definitely sell well. ”

Guy Wei Kaixiong also showed an excited expression on his face.

Sometimes, it's not necessarily because beef jerky tastes better than whale jerky or crocodile jerky, but because beef jerky is hard to come by.

In Chang'an City, there are many people who have never eaten beef in their lives.

Even if it's for a taste, many people will try to buy some beef jerky and try it.

"This beef jerky workshop should have just been put into production, and it uses beef from the grassland; I heard that there are countless cattle and sheep that have been transported back from the grassland recently, and Shuozhou can't handle them. Otherwise, many of the cattle would not have been slaughtered. ”

Ma Yingfei's observation ability is still relatively strong, and he can simply extract what he needs from some information.

Today's Tang Dynasty is different from the Song and Ming dynasties.

Because of the control of Tuyuhun, a treasure land for horse production, most of the tribes on the grassland, including the previous Xue Yantuo, were nominally subordinate to the Tang Dynasty, so there was not much shortage of horses in the territory.

It is ploughing cattle, although it is also in short supply, but it is also relative.

Therefore, after this time after sweeping the grassland, there is no need to transport all the loot back to Chang'an, and the benefits of on-site disposal may be higher.

It's like a cow, and if you get it back to Chang'an City, it will also cost you.

In the surrounding areas of Chang'an, the demand for cattle is not very strong, and the price of cattle has dropped by half compared with more than ten years ago.

That's why there are cases where slightly less strong cattle are sold to beef jerky workshops for slaughter.

Of course, there are also some beef jerky that is directly from the grassland.

But the quality of the production is not very good.

In terms of the ability to make food, a hundred grassland tribes are not as good as a Tang Dynasty.

"Then we will take this opportunity to buy more beef jerky and sell it back; However, there may soon be people in Chang'an City who sell beef jerky like us, and I think that after taking Luoyang into account, I can transfer to Yangzhou by boat, so that I can definitely make a lot more money. Anyway, there are many boats from Luoyang to Yangzhou every day, and it is very convenient to go back and forth. ”

Wei Kaixiong put forward his own views very wholeheartedly.

The more money Ma Yingfei makes, the better his life will be.

He still has this awareness.

"Ah Xiong, you have a good idea. Then let's go to Jiangnan this time to see if the money of southerners is better earned. ”

Ma Yingfei's eyes lit up, and he felt that Wei Kaixiong's proposal was completely feasible.

……

Chu Suiliang has been very busy lately.

As the agent of the Chu Wangfu in Shuozhou City, he had a lot of things to deal with.

We built a cotton processing workshop, coordinated the students of the Agricultural College of Guanshishan Academy to guide the immigrants to plant cotton, and communicated with the heads of various nobles in Shuozhou to confirm the cooperation......

Every day he had to visit many people, and many people came to visit him, and they were busy with their feet not touching the ground.

"Master Chu, I've been walking around Shuozhou for a while these days, and half of the team is willing to stay and plant cotton, can they also get a hundred acres of Yongye field?"

Before Xiao Tian Che set off for Chang'an, he was very conscientious in arranging the affairs of his subordinates.

"Xiao Tian Che, you can also be regarded as meritorious officials, His Royal Highness the King of Chu agreed that you would join the Tang Dynasty after completing the task and become a Tang person. As long as the Japanese people who stayed in Shuozhou abandoned the bad habits of your previous Japanese country, spoke Tang language, wore Tang clothes, and performed Tang rituals, then I can make the decision and find a piece of land in the south of Shuozhou to settle these people.

However, you also have to tell them that all the resettlement sites will not house a maximum of 100 people at the same time, and everyone will have to be sent to different places for resettlement. Once you accept the 100 acres of Yongye land allocated by the county government, you have to farm there in peace, and don't do anything that violates the law and discipline, otherwise something happens, and I won't intercede for you. ”

Chu Sui's conscience was secretly happy, but the words he said did not mean this at all.

Unlike the grassland herders in the case, there is not much risk in relocating the Japanese people in Shuozhou.

They themselves are outsiders, and they don't have any special status in Datang, except for being a farmer in An'an, they don't dare to have any other thoughts.

Unlike the grassland herdsmen, after the Central Plains Dynasty accepted their attachment, they were placed in the frontier in situ.

When the dynasty was strong, it was nothing.

As soon as the national power weakened, these people began to regain their true nature and became unstable elements of the frontier.

"Master Chu, don't worry. These people in our team, when they were selected from Iwami Silver Mountain, they were all loyal people who had a heart for the Tang Dynasty, and basically everyone could speak Tang language. After they settle down, I will let them all have the same name as the other Tang people, even if it is a conversation between the Japanese people, they are not allowed to use the Japanese language, and they must not cause trouble to Chu Zhubo. ”

Xiao Tian Che was afraid that Chu Suiliang would regret it, so he hurriedly made a promise.

"Okay, that night, the officials of the county government will come over to do some registration for you, and in a few days they will start to distribute Yongye Field, and you can go to Chang'an City to enjoy happiness with peace of mind."

After Chu Suiliang finished speaking, he motioned for Xiao Tian Che to leave.

He's a busy man, so how can he have time to talk so much nonsense with Oda Kiri there.