The slender men walked out of the river beach, put down the boats, and everyone was overjoyed to see Feng Bin save the day. The slender men were very pleased that Geng Qing and they could save people immediately, and finally succeeded in rescuing them, and rushed over to thank them.

Everyone continued to pull the fiber after a little rest, and Geng Qing sent fifty of his subordinates to work together, after all, they watched it three times just now, and they could also help without dragging their feet. Sure enough, the efficiency improved, and all of them reached the upstream before evening.

After the end, Geng Qing was in charge of the three rewards, and at the same time invited the slender men to have a dinner party of barbecue and cooked millet rice, and arranged for a soldier to accompany Feng Bin and the leader of the slender man back to Beiqu County, and told them that their lives would be guaranteed after the rule of General Pingbei in the near future.

After a few days of sailing against the wind and water, Geng Qing and his entourage finally arrived at Xihe Port in the upper reaches of the river.

This place feels distant and unfamiliar to everyone, but for the business travelers who travel to and from the north, especially around the Yellow River and to and from Jindi, this is the key port for the entire Hetao and Jindi goods to be imported into Sanfu and Sili.

Xihe Port is under the jurisdiction of Lin County, Xihe County, and after going ashore, thirty miles to the east is Lishicheng, which is the county administration of Xihe County.

Lishi is the later Shanxi Luliang, now occupied by the old Xiongnu royal court, they have a huge power, from Xihe County to the west of Shangjun, Yunzhong, Wuyuan and other places are in their sphere of influence.

Xihe County was originally set up after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty restored the Hetao, and after the Southern Xiongnu were attached, most of them were placed here, and even the Shan Yu Wang Court was located in Meiji, Xihe County.

Later, because the internal contradictions of the Eastern Han Dynasty intensified, the border was in turmoil, and in the fifth year of Yonghe (140 AD), due to the rebellion of the Southern Xiongnu Julongwusi and Che New, the imperial court had to move Xihe County to the southeast for 590 miles to Lishi County east of the river to avoid raids and raids.

Of course, the Xiongnu royal court did not move over together, and the imperial court's general Duliao and Hun Zhonglang will still defend the Xiongnu in the Hetao area.

It's a pity that more than 20 years later, with the old age or exclusion of famous generals Zhang Huan and Duan Cheng, the old Xihe County was completely lost. Although theoretically, the Southern Xiongnu still obeyed the orders of the Han court, but the follow-up Xinxihe County and other places still did not avoid the fate of being completely reduced to the Xiongnu's sphere of influence.

In the fifth year of Zhongping (188 AD), that is, four years ago, Yu Fuluo's father Qiangqu was killed by a rebellion because he repeatedly sent his tribe to serve as mercenaries of the Han Dynasty, and he was renamed the Marquis of Xubu Gu as Shan Yu, but he died of illness after only one year of reign.

Now on the side of the old court of the Southern Xiongnu, more than a dozen old kings such as the left and right Xian kings, the left and right Guli kings, and so on are jointly discussing and governing.

Yu Fuluo, the sons of Qiangqu, and Hu Chuquan were driven away because they were hated outside, so Yu Fuluo established himself as Shan Yu and asked the Han to admit help, but due to the changes in the situation in the Han Dynasty, he did not express his position and act at all.

In recent years, Yu Fuluo and the White Wave army plundered everywhere, and was even recognized by the Chang'an court, joining the encirclement of anti-Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, and was defeated by Cao Cao last year before temporarily returning to Hedong to recuperate.

That is to say, Lishi, Taiyuan and Pingyang and other places are actually under the control of the Xiongnu respectively, which is the complicated status quo in the central and southern parts of the Jin Dynasty.

Considering that there is also the Montenegrin Army led by Zhang Yan in the east of the Jin Dynasty and the Hanoi Zhang Yang Department that is free from coercion, and the north of the Jin Land is the most chaotic, with the local scholar Wang family, the Guo family, etc. occupying various places, and Liu Yu, the Han Haoqiang, the Wuhuan tribes, the Xianbei forces, etc., in short, there are all of them, and they are divided.

According to the previous plan, Geng Qing's envoy was to contact the old royal court of the Southern Xiongnu to contain the Fuluo Department, and after entering the stone city, he inquired in many ways to learn that the Xiongnu were not here because there were too many Han people in the city, but in Zuoguo City, which was a hundred miles to the north.

However, Geng Qing and his entourage were surprised that there was no sense of withering and declining from Shicheng.

The streets are filled with shamans, shamans, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and all sorts of unknown ideas and religions. It's a bit harsh to say that it's a group of demons, but it's really not easy to be accepted by them from the territory ruled by the Han Dynasty.

What's even more interesting here is that there is an endless stream of business travelers, and the county is planned as a place for business and culture. Familiar, common, rare, rare, unheard of readily available.

It also brings together the specialties of all parties, including porcelain and silk from the Central Plains, wine and ironware from Hetao, bear skin and deer antler from Youzhou, and even BMW from the Western Regions, spices, fruits, gems and other things.

Due to the chaos of the Qiang and Han dynasties in the west, as well as the fact that many Han Dynasty scholars advocated abandoning Xiliang and completely retreating from their jurisdictions, the goods of the Western Regions became more and more rare and expensive in Sanfu.

It connects the Hetao, Yinshan and then leads to the farther Silk Road, which not only has not been cut off, but has more nomadic characteristics.

Some of the Han people here gather in the countryside by virtue of the dock fort, the Huns and their daily well water do not violate the river water, rely on each other in wartime, coordinate the troops, the Hun cavalry gallops in the field, and the strong armed forces are responsible for attacking the city and pulling out the village.

As for the ordinary peasants, they had already lost their land and became slaves of the Huns, or powerful tenants, serfs, and householders.

According to some merchants, in addition to the lowly Han merchants, there are also large caravans from Hedong, Sanfu and Hebei from time to time. Although they are of the Dashi clan, they also need to sell the large amount of food and silk they have hoarded in their hands to buy what each family needs.

For example, Hedong County has a large salt pond and many iron mines, which are in the hands of the Pei family, the Wei family, and the Liu family in Hedong. As for the salt and iron monopoly? In these troubled times, it can't be carried out at all.

In addition, there were many large clans engaged in this kind of trade, and reached large transactions with the Xiongnu or local merchants.

A Han guide introduced them: "Last time, the Mi family in Xuzhou sent people over, and their convoy was spectacular, with more than 100 carts, buying a lot of Hetao and Western Regions goods, and buying 50 Ding Ling warriors."

Lishi City is full of caravans and open and secret battles, and it also breeds the profession of guide and intermediary, of course, there is no money and no such information.

Geng Qing asked a little and found that many famous families came here to carry out trade, and like the Mi family, there were not a few people who bought Hu people as a trilogy!

He asked again: "We are going to find the Xiongnu royal court, do you have any inside information?"

Although he knew that the information of the merchant travel was very useful, he was more concerned about the internal information with the Xiongnu royal court.

The man's eyes flickered, he looked left and right and said, "Let's introduce the local food, so as not to get used to it."

Geng Qing was experienced and quite strategic, and he could see at a glance that this person knew but deliberately opened the topic.

So he pulled him and said, "Don't worry, let's find a place where no one is there and slowly discuss the food, as for the money......

Geng Qing thought to himself that if the money couldn't be done or the asking price was too high, he would simply let him know that he knew the prestige of the Dong family.