The snow that had been stopped for a day was drifting again in the early morning, Song Beiyun stood in the small courtyard and looked at the goose feathers and snow in the sky, and suddenly looked back at Yan Shu: "You say, the snow here is about to become a disaster, what will the north be like?" ”

Yan Shu shook his head lightly and said, "Then how do I know that for thousands of miles of clouds and moons, I am not that clairvoyant." ”

"Come, good grandson, I'll teach you another trick." Song Beiyun squatted under the eaves and picked up a small stick: "How we can judge whether there is a problem in a place can be judged from three aspects. ”

Yan Shu put on a deferential look, and Song Beiyun drew a lot of small squares on the ground with a small stick, and the words Song, Jin, Liao, and Grassland were written on them.

"The Great Song Dynasty is famous for its open source trading, and businessmen from these countries will gather around Luzhou and Jinling to buy and sell, not because of convenience but because of the large market scale, which can exchange various materials without worrying about the backlog." Song Beiyun poked Yan Shu with a stick: "This is the background and the premise, if we rely on spies alone to listen to the news, our information will be too far behind, and there is a kind of person in the world who is much more shrewd and well-informed than spies." ”

"You mean the merchants?"

"That's right." Song Beiyun smiled: "Since the beginning of winter, have you found that there are fewer beef and mutton sold, and the price of beef and mutton has risen, but there are more beef and mutton skins?" The prices of sheepskin, beef tendon and horn in the market have fallen to the lowest point in recent years. ”

"Yes, I also bought a raw cowhide." Yan Shu nodded and said, "I'm going to make a drum." ”

"Commodity movements are partly policy-driven and partly weather-driven." Song Beiyun gently tapped a magnolia tree next to this: "The foreign merchants are collecting all kinds of daily necessities, but the corresponding ones are exchanging strategic materials. Grain, iron pots, salt, cloth, vegetables, and so on began to gradually become scarce, and if it were not for the strict restrictions of the household department, I am afraid that the price of grain in the city would have skyrocketed by now. ”

"Oh? How to say? ”

"When did you see such a large-scale sell-off of horns and tendons and hides, which is meant to make bows, crossbows, and leather armor? This shows that the north has suffered a disaster, not only from the disaster, but also from a rare disaster in recent years, when herders have to hoard meat that was originally used for sale, but use these important strategic materials to exchange food and other daily necessities from other countries. Song Beiyun poked at that part of the grassland: "After that, let's talk about the Liao Kingdom, what do the merchants of the Liao Kingdom sell the most?" Grain, mainly wheat, flour. But after the winter, Liao's grain exports fell by two-thirds, replaced by some handmade products and wood products, what does this mean? ”

"What does it mean?"

"Idiot!"

was scolded by Song Beiyun abruptly, Yan Shu was stunned, from childhood to adulthood, he called people stupid, how could he be called a fool, but after all, he said 'knowing is knowing and not knowing is not knowing', so he could only silently accept Song Beiyun's humiliation.

"It shows that the Liao State is preparing for war!"

"Why can it be said that the Liao country has also suffered a disaster?" Yan Shu asked puzzled.

"This has to be seen from the perspective of commodity structure, if it is a disaster, their grain output will not be lower than that of the Great Song Dynasty, then the products they import will not be grain but cloth, medicinal materials, timber and other materials to cope with the disaster year, but now they are preparing for the war while befriending the Great Song Dynasty, which means that the disaster on their side is not serious, but the grassland is already a mess." Song Beiyun said with a smile: "Look, there are three of the Big Four in the East, do you know who the other one is?" ”

"Jin Guo!"

"That's right." Song Beiyun nodded and said: "The most comfortable place here is the Jin Kingdom, he himself does not trade much with the Great Song Dynasty, and their white mountains and black waters are almost covered by heavy snow at this time of year, people can't get in and they can't get out, these people have long adapted to this way of life, so for them at most it is a relatively unusual winter." At this time, Liao Guobao is not even, and he wants to take advantage of this snow disaster to have a tough encounter with the grassland. And the real intention of the king of the Southern Courtyard to come here is not only the good of Qin and Jin, but also to ask for help from the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Yan Shu scratched his hair: "But I didn't hear the slightest wind." ”

"Are you stupid, can this thing come out? Maybe the letter of state has been placed on Zhao Xing's table, and in order to ask for help from the Great Song Dynasty, maybe Liao State has offered very generous conditions. Song Beiyun said, suddenly opened his mouth to pick up the snowflakes, and then spit: "Phew, it's tasteless." ”

Yan Shu nodded lightly: "It seems that this merchant Jia Li also has a university question." ”

"That's it."

At this moment, Xiao Yu came back, he leaned into Song Beiyun's ear and whispered a few words, Song Beiyun nodded and said: "Tell me to go down and follow my orders, otherwise I won't blame me for not reminding me when the time comes, what does the old eunuch Wang mean?" ”

"I have explained it to my partner, and he said that everything is based on Lord Song." Xiao Yu said seriously: "But the eldest companion also said that all the consequences will be borne by Lord Song." ”

"This old Wang Ba who didn't plant."

Song Beiyun scolded, Xiao Yu's face became very subtle, his expression looked very embarrassed, and Song Beiyun immediately apologized: "I didn't say that you didn't say you, I said that old Wang Ba, you are a good little fish, different from that old Wang Ba." ”

Xiao Yu smiled dumbly: "Lord Song doesn't have to explain anything to me, I'll go and arrange it." ”

"Everything is at my command." Song Beiyun instructed: "Don't startle the snake, you know?" ”

"I understand, the thirty people who came this time are all top masters, and they can ensure that nothing goes wrong." Xiao Yu nodded seriously and said, "Please rest assured, Lord Song." ”

"Go ahead."

The little fish quickly disappeared into the snow forest, and Song Beiyun came back to his senses: "There is a good show to watch tonight." ”

"Fun? Why did you conclude it was tonight? ”

"There will be a lot of dogs coming up early tomorrow morning to burn incense and worship the Buddha, tonight is the last chance, if you miss it, you have to wait for the next time, there may not be a next time."

"Then why night?"

Song Beiyun got up, too lazy to take care of this bar: "Think about it yourself." ”

He went back to his room, and then he got into the wool felt, and lay down on the hot blanket, a comfortable mess. But Yan Shu ran in on the back foot: "Come on, come on, let's continue to talk about this Song Jinliao." ”

"What's there to talk about, it's boring." Song Beiyun yawned: "The so-called Song Jinliao is just a rookie pecking at each other by fools, if you can give me ten years and give me another 100,000 people, I can fucking fill the British Isles with the flag of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

"The British Isles? Where? Also, don't talk big. ”

"Yes, yes, I'm talking big." Song Beiyun didn't bother to explain, and turned over: "Don't bother me, I want to make up for sleep, and I have to do something big tonight." ”

Yan Shu thought for a while and sat next to Song Beiyun: "No, I'll sleep for a while." ”

"Get out, I don't want to sleep on a quilt with you, get out of the other side by yourself."

At noon, Song Beiyun and Yan Shu still slept like pigs, and the meals were brought by Qiaoyun and Ah Qiao to the two evil animals, but after eating, they continued to sleep and slept until the evening.

In the face of these two freaks, there is really nothing good to do about the girls, after all, they are all first-class geniuses, and as a genius, there are some quirks, isn't it natural?

In the evening, Song Beiyun gathered everyone in Zuo Rou's room to eat hot pot as if nothing had happened, this time it was still beef and mutton, but because he went to the temple to get some mountain delicacies, this delicacies were paired with meat, and the taste of a pot of cooking was called a delicious one.

"You're not in a hurry?"

Jin Ling'er knelt there, her state was much better than yesterday, and she began to think about Song Beiyun's plan somewhat.

"I'm in a hurry." Song Beiyun picked up a mushroom and put it in his mouth: "Look at how I turn things around and meet the source left and right." ”

"What else do you have to do?" Zuo Rou raised her head and despised Song Beiyun while eating wildly: "Then why don't you take advantage of the wind." ”

Jin Ling'er and Song Beiyun tacitly ignored this guy, but Song Beiyun twisted her thigh, and then continued to listen to Jin Ling'er say: "Why don't you take the opportunity to reveal the affairs of the Queen Mother and make her ruined?" ”

"It's useless." Song Beiyun shook his head lightly: "We all thought that the Queen Mother was the one in power, but now it seems that it is actually all fake, the real one in power is the master of the interest group behind the Queen Mother, if you guess correctly, it should be the clan to which the Queen Mother belongs." Since Li Tang, the clan has been cut down a lot, but now it seems that they have raised their heads again, and the Queen Mother is just a chess piece. And even if the Queen Mother is brought down, won't the court fall into the hands of those shit literati, there are no reformers among them, they are all people who are angry from their nostrils, isn't it good that someone is singing against them now? ”

After Song Beiyun finished speaking, he suddenly laughed: "You don't think that without the Queen Mother, your emperor's brother can hold great power, right?" It's impossible, he was put on the throne by someone, and before his own power was supported, people could still kick him down. ”

Jin Ling'er nodded thoughtfully: "My brother is really miserable." ”

"Otherwise, why do you think he wants to go back to farming and raising chickens?" Song Beiyun laughed: "So, he really can't help it with your father, His Royal Highness King Fu can only be a skinny camel bigger than a horse now, but don't worry, in a few years, everything will be fine in a few years." ”

"It's going to be a few years." Jin Ling'er pouted: "Annoying." ”

And while this head was talking, the small fish outside climbed over the wall and entered, gloomy like a shadow rushed in and hugged Song Beiyun: "Lord Song, it's over." ”

"Okay, I know, you make your people sober up, don't look at what you shouldn't see, don't chew your tongue when you shouldn't say." Song Beiyun patted Xiaoyu's head, and then pointed to the pot of ingredients that had not been touched next to him: "That's for you, come back and eat again." ”

"Xiaoyu understands."

Song Beiyun also got up: "Sister Qiaoyun, let's go." ”

Qiaoyun nodded, held the two iron chopsticks in his hands, and walked out with Song Beiyun.