While everyone in Chang'an City was still enjoying the atmosphere of the New Year, the market outside Liangzhou City was a little different.

The Hu people are not New Year, although they are influenced by the Tang people in Liangzhou City, some people also try to celebrate the New Year.

However, on the whole, the atmosphere of the New Year in Liangzhou is far less strong than that in Chang'an.

"Lang Jun, although the fame of this North City is far less than that of the east and west cities of Chang'an City, the liveliness is not far behind."

Shangguan Yi took the housekeeper at home, and just after the handover with the former Liangzhou Thorn History, he started a private interview with Weifu.

Because of the credit for organizing the construction of cement roads before, and Shangguanyi was an official of the imperial court before, at the end of last year, Shangguanyi was appointed by Li Shimin as the assassin of Liangzhou.

The appointment came as a surprise and filled many with anticipation.

However, except for a few people, everyone may not think that behind this appointment, it is actually a prelude to Datang's preparation to destroy the Western Turks.

"Liangzhou is the earliest arrangement of the development of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and the northwest trade is now like a giant to inject all kinds of vitality into the development of Liangzhou, cattle, sheep, livestock, wool and other things on the grassland flow to Liangzhou, and salt, tea, ceramics, iron pots and other things from all over the Tang Dynasty flow to the grassland from here, and it is strange that the North City is not prosperous."

Although Shangguan Yi came to Liangzhou for the first time, as several important figures under the Chu Palace, his understanding of Liangzhou is actually far greater than that of Chang'an City.

"I heard that the population of Liangzhou has now exceeded 500,000, and more than half of the various Hu people who have taken refuge alone, His Royal Highness the King of Chu recommended Lang Jun to His Majesty to serve in Liangzhou, it seems that he is going to prepare to attack these Hu people?"

The housekeeper around Shangguan Yi knows a lot of news, and Shangguan Yi will not hide it from him many times.

"Liangzhou is the fief of the prince, it is located in the northwest, and now the prince is preparing to deal with the Xue Yantuo people, naturally hoping to strengthen his influence on Liangzhou.

Ma Changshi was here before, and he basically controlled the economic lifeline of Liangzhou, and now I am coming here again, I am going to let me come over to act as a black face and train the surrounding Hu people well. For those who do not obey discipline, Datang will no longer be polite. ”

Li Kuan plans to vigorously promote cotton planting in Hedong Province this year, and if these cotton fields continue to expand northward, the first thing to solve is the obstacle of Xue Yantuo.

From the northern part of Shuozhou to the northern part of Liangzhou, this vast area is now the territory of Xue Yantuo.

Now that there are so many nobles on the Shuozhou side, they will naturally find a way to suppress the Xue Yantuo people.

But here in Liangzhou, you need to push it yourself.

"Lang Jun, in fact, can you also consider promoting cotton planting near Liangzhou? If more Tang people come to Liangzhou and dilute the number of Hu people here, the development of Liangzhou is actually very worth looking forward to. ”

"You can rest assured, His Royal Highness the King of Chu is far-sighted and has his own arrangements. The matter of cotton planting is now focused on the Hedong Road side first. When we arrived in Liangzhou, we wanted to sort out the situation here with Ma Zhou and prepare for the expedition of the army. ”

Shuttling through the lively North City, Shangguanyi felt the vitality of Liangzhou.

Slowly, he stopped talking to his housekeeper, but focused on the shops on both sides of the street.

"Tea bricks, good tea bricks, one sheep for another."

Shangguan Yi looked at a shop in front of him and raised his interest.

Tea bricks for sheep, this is the first time he has seen this kind of transaction.

Because in the West Market, everyone has become accustomed to using a combination of gold and silver coins and copper coins to trade, such as barter, is still very rare.

"This Lang Jun, do you want to buy tea bricks?"

Although Shangguan Yi didn't look like he was going to buy tea bricks, the guy still greeted him very warmly.

The guys here are mainly Hu people, and if you are not enthusiastic, many people may not dare to go in.

"How are these tea bricks selling? Is it easy to sell? ”

Shangguan Yi picked up a tea brick in the shop and sniffed it on his nose.

It shouldn't be fried from some fresh and tender tea, and even ordinary people in Chang'an City may not buy this kind of tea brick.

But listening to the price, it is a sheep, which is at least equivalent to 100 yuan.

This is still in Liangzhou, if these tea bricks are sold to the depths of the grassland, will it take several sheep to change one?

This piece doesn't even seem to be half a catty.

"This Lang Jun, our tea bricks are selling okay. However, compared to the Northwest Trade, it is far behind. Whether it is the Hu people or the Tang people who live in Liangzhou City, they are slowly getting used to drinking fried fragrant tea, and the people who come to buy our tea bricks are mainly people from the surrounding tribes. ”

Seeing Shangguan's extraordinary demeanor, this guy communicated with him with rare kind words.

"The Hu people of various tribes on the grassland like to drink this kind of tea brick now?"

"Like, very much. Breaking a small piece of this tea brick and boiling it with milk or mare's milk is basically part of the daily life of the tribal herders near Liangzhou. Nowadays, tea bricks are basically second only to salt and have become the most popular goods on the grassland. ”

"Listening to your accent, it seems to be from Jiangnan?"

"Lang Jun is amazing, I am from Hangzhou, our owner is an official in Chang'an City, and he has planted a lot of tea trees, and now most of them are sold to the Hu people through the shops here in Liangzhou."

"Yang Ji Tea Shop?"

Shangguan Yi looked up at the plaque, and suddenly thought of someone in his heart.

"Is your owner Yang Benman?"

"Lang Jun, do you know our host?"

"There have been several encounters. Well done. ”

Shangguan Yi patted the guy on the shoulder and walked to other shops.

As the sun rises high in the sky, the flow of people in North City is even denser.

On the streets, the Hu people who led horses, cattle and sheep to sell, carried copper coins and prepared to procure, and carried goods to sell.

All kinds of things, lively and extraordinary.

From time to time, there are patrolling Wuhou walking by, although the flow of people in the North City is dense, the order is not chaotic at all.

"Lang Jun, look at it, Erguotou. Is this a shop owned by His Royal Highness the King of Chu? ”

After walking for a while, a wine shop appeared in front of Shangguan Yi that was obviously larger than the shop next to it.

"Let's go, go in and have a look!"

Shangguan Yi naturally knew that the winemaking workshop under the Chu Wangfu had launched a relatively cheap high-grade liquor called Erguotou a few years ago.

Now that I see the Erguotou sales shop in Liangzhou, I am naturally very interested.

"This Lang Jun, are you here to wholesale the wine or buy it for your own drinking?"

The guys in the shop had very strong eyes, and they could see at a glance the difference between Shangguan Yi and the two of them and the daily customers.

As a shop located in Beishi, the most people usually receive are herdsmen from various tribes and some shops in Liangzhou City that are not very large.

If Erguotou wants to quickly occupy the market on the grassland, he naturally can't rely only on his own strength.

Rats have rat paths, and snakes have snake paths.

Some people's methods of promoting goods on the steppes may be more effective than the Northwest trade.

After all, there are too many tribes on the prairie, and not every tribe deals with it the same.

"What about wholesale? What about drinking it yourself? ”

Shangguan Yi looked at the guy with interest.

"If you wholesale it, I will ask the shopkeeper to discuss it with you specifically, and if you buy it for your own drinking, we will clearly mark the price, and the child will not be deceived."

The guy pointed to the various labels on the shop, where the prices were already written.

Although few of the herdsmen in the surrounding area are literate, this attitude of clearly marking prices brings people a sense of security.

"A bottle of silver?"

Shangguan Yi picked up a bottle of two-pot heads in a catty bottle and looked at it.

"Lang Jun, this kind of similar two-pot head sells for a bottle of 100 yuan at most in Chang'an City."

The butler whispered softly in Shangguan Yi's ear.

"Lang Jun, Chang'an City is Chang'an City, Liangzhou is Liangzhou, if you transport these two pots to the depths of the grassland, you may be able to exchange this bottle of wine for a cow."

Although the butler's voice was low, the man still heard it.

Of course, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened, so the guy's speech skills are also specially trained.

Is the second pot head a huge profit?

Yes, definitely.

However, what is sold to the Hu people, which is not profitable?

Without profiteering, who wants to go to the steppe to do business?

Take salt as an example, now in Chang'an City, you can buy a catty for two pennies, but when it comes to the grassland, a catty of salt can be exchanged for a sheep.

"If you can sell it if it's more expensive, it's better to sell it if it's more expensive."

Buddy:......

He thought about continuing to say something, but when he heard this, there was no way to continue.

It's not going to be a fat sheep today, is it?

"Then do you still buy this wine?"

There was a little more anticipation on the man's face.

"No, I'll take a look."

Buddy:......

"Then you can take your time."

The guy left a sentence and went to greet the other guests.

"Lang Jun, these two pots are a new product that His Royal Highness the King of Chu has asked to focus on, I just took a look, since we entered this shop, there have been several Hu people who have come to buy wine, and it seems that it is selling well."

"Although the price of these two pots is a little expensive, the things are excellent. When did those Hu people drink such good wine? I don't know, a bottle of silver coins is a very affordable price in their opinion. ”

Shangguan Yi's words can be regarded as a mistake that hit the minds of many Hu people.

……

The prairie in January is still icy and snowy.

Coleman was one of Azkar's new acquisitions last year.

As a servant, Coleman's tribe did not have a better life after defecting to Xue Yantuo.

On the contrary, in the past two years, due to the unstable situation within Xue Yantuo, the life of the servants has become more difficult.

As a tribe located in the northwest, although the garrison area of the servant people is still six or seven hundred miles away from Liangzhou, they also know the situation in Liangzhou.

And when Coleman came to Liangzhou with one of the leaders of the Servant Bone Clan, Servant Gusi, he became a treasurer under Askar's account.

Of course, how high his status as a shopkeeper can be and whether he can sit firmly depends on his performance.

As Coleman's first task, it was to promote Erguotou on the grassland.

The two pots are naturally excellent.

When Coleman drank it for the first time, he couldn't believe there was such a good wine in the world.

Even the leader of his tribe, Servant Gusi, was completely subjugated.

The Servant Bone Department itself is not very high in Xue Yantuo.

Coleman's tribe is a small tribe with less than 200 accounts (the grassland Hu people count the units of households, because they live in water and grass, and each household lives in a tent, so the number of households is counted according to the number of tents).

It has no place within the Servant Bone Division.

In the vast prairie, tribes without status mean that there are no fertile pastures and not enough cattle and sheep.

This also means that everyone does not have a good life.

Under Coleman's personal persuasion, the tribal leader Gu Si decided to cooperate with the Tang people in Liangzhou.

"Coleman, the two hundred bottles of Erguotou you brought back this time have all been sold out. I originally thought that all the tribes of the Servant Bone Department were poor jingle bells, but I didn't expect that only our tribe was really poor. ”

He looked at the group of cattle and sheep in front of him, and he didn't know whether he was happy or sad on his face.

After the two hundred bottles of two pots were transported to the territory of the servant bones, they were exchanged for more than 30 cattle and more than 500 sheep.

As long as these cattle and sheep rush to Liangzhou and hand them over to the Northwest Trade, they can immediately become hundreds of pieces of money.

And Servant Bones and Coleman, they were able to get two percent of the benefits.

"Chief, you have always been kind to your clansmen, and you will help some poor herdsmen in disaster years, like some other tribal leaders, who only know how to exploit."

Coleman's words made the servant feel a little more comfortable when he heard it.

"Well, there's only so much I can do. However, now they have finally found a way for the tribe to make money. As long as we help the Northwest Trade sell Erguotou, our tribe can earn at least a few thousand yuan this year, which can only be sold by the cattle and sheep in the past few years combined. ”

He felt that his trip to Liangzhou last year was the most correct decision in his life.

Nowadays, the people of Xue Yantuo are more and more hated by the oppression of the Servants, Uighurs, Bayegu and other tribes, and many people already have other ideas in their hearts.

It is also a blessing that he can hug Liangzhou's thigh before everyone else.

Originally, the Servant Bone Clan was not a big tribe, and it didn't matter whether they took refuge in the Eastern Turks, Xue Yantuo, or the Tang Dynasty.

Following the bastards can make their lives better, and they will be more people.

The so-called loyalty does not exist at all.

"Yes, chief, I think we should sell all the cattle and sheep of the tribe, leaving only a part to prevent accidents, and then let the strong men of the tribe form a caravan with us to sell Erguotou. This time we were lucky, although we only brought a dozen people, and we sold the things smoothly, if we ran into horse thieves or something in the future, the loss would be great. ”

Coleman felt that the best way out for his tribe was to completely surrender to Liangzhou and the Northwest Trade.

Askar's happy life is the ultimate dream he pursues.

"This time, we will bring half of the strong men to make another order, if it is still successful, I will follow your suggestion, simply move the tribe outside Liangzhou City, leave the women and children there, and all the strong men will form a caravan to sell Erguotou."

He didn't want to live the same hard life as before.

When they were in Liangzhou, Aska took them to see the life of a rich man.

That bit of Dude food makes people drool when they think about it.

The prosperity of Nabei City makes people forget to return.

As for the legendary green building, it is even more desirable.