In the evening, Guan Xiang took a group of merchants in Mucheng to entertain Zhang Xiaowu and others, first, to bid farewell to Zhang Xiaowu and others, and secondly, everyone knew that he was transferred to Yinyiwei to take charge of Longdu civil affairs. The family business of the merchants is huge, and it is bound to need Zhang Xiaowu's support in Longdu even more in the future.

Zhang Xiaowu also needs to take care of the relationship with the merchants, as a traverser, he knows too much the importance of the economy. Compared with the current ideology of many imperial court officials who value agriculture and suppress business, Zhang Xiaowu instead supports commerce and advocates market circulation.

Thinking of the market, Zhang Xiaowu suddenly remembered Pi Er, this kind-hearted thief knows how to govern the city and the country better than many officials, I don't know what happened to Pi Er now, it should still be a thief stealing chickens and dogs.

The next day, Zhang Xiaowu came to Yuan's house with gifts, visited the old lady of the Yuan family, and first told the old lady about his experience in Longdu, and the old lady was surprised by his choice, but after thinking about it, she had to nod and say: "You did it right, if your father-in-law had such courage as you, it would not be more than the end of the net." But how to go in the future, the old body can't see clearly, I only hope that you can prepare in time, like the Yuan family, in case of emergency. ”

"Inquire about the minister's scandal?" Zhang Xiaowu asked with a smile.

The old lady smiled and leaned back and said, "Yes." ”

The reason why the Yuan family was not wiped out was because Yuan Qi had already grasped the corruption of many officials and hid them in secrets, and then used them as a threat to protect his family. Zhang Xiaowu asked the old lady for many ways to be an official, and only returned to the general's mansion after eating at noon.

As soon as he entered the general's mansion, Zhang Xiaowu saw an old acquaintance, Bai Hao, also known as Alai Akutuoye.

"Good fellow, long time no see." Zhang Xiaowu walked over to give Bai Hao a bear hug, Bai Hao also smiled and said, "General, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing lately?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked, "Everything is fine, why did you come here today?" ”

"Buy salt." Bai Hao said, "I heard from the merchant that we can use cattle and sheep medicinal materials to exchange salt and grain in Mucheng, and the leader asked me to come over to trade, we have good mountain ginseng and other medicinal materials, but we lack other things such as salt, especially iron arrows." ”

Zhang Xiaowuqi said: "Isn't there salt production in your eight divisions? Besides, the black arrows are invincible in the world, so there should be no shortage of arrows. ”

Bai Hao shook his head and said, "Buying arrows is to prepare for the Beiyi people to go south, and buying salt is for eating." Although we have sea salt produced by the eight parts of the sea salt, the sea salt is bitter and salty, and the taste is different from that of Mucheng. After eating the refined salt of Mucheng, everyone is no longer willing to eat sea salt, not only the people of Yesha City want **salt, but even the other tribes of the Black Forest also want **salt. ”

"Yesha City is ......"

"Yesha City is Tucheng, and Yesha means Holy Maiden in the Yan Ya language, so Yesha City Translation City Chinese is Holy Maiden City."

"Holy Maiden City ......" Zhang Xiaowu paused for a moment, and asked with a complicated expression: "Is it because of the existence of witches?" ”

"Yes."

"How's she doing?"

"The witch queen had an illness, and her health began to deteriorate, so the holy woman took over the work of the witch queen, and now the people of Yesa City have a strange illness, and the holy woman is very busy."

Thinking of Jiu'er's holy and cold face, Zhang Xiaowu sighed and smiled bitterly, he never accepted that Jiu'er had completely forgotten him, and in his heart he always thought that Jiu'er deliberately deceived himself in order to protect and avoid war between the two countries. Zhang Xiaowu still has a place for her in his heart, and always thinks that she is his first lady. But he also accepts one thing, some fate is just fate, but not marriage, Jiu'er belongs to the eight divisions of the Yan Ya, belongs to all the Yan people, and does not belong to him.

Zhang Xiaowu hesitated for a moment, and planned to go to Tucheng (Yesa City) before leaving, but he still shook his head, and broke off this thought as soon as possible, which was good for both parties.

"Mucheng's eight epidemic prevention strategies, do you know?" Zhang Xiaowu said, "This plague has swept through Saibei and the Central Plains, and more than 100,000 people have died in the Central Plains. ”

Bai Hao said: "We people don't have much contact with outsiders, but I didn't expect that even so, the plague still spread to Yesha City. ”

was chatting, and suddenly Li Chuncheng came to report, saying that he had caught a group of spies, from a country in the extreme west, named Fran. The Farlangs spoke like Tatars, which was very suspicious, and the iron armor of the Farlangs was as sharp as clay, and if they rioted in the city, it was very likely to bring heavy losses to the wooden city.

Bidding farewell to Bai Hao, Zhang Xiaowu and Li Chuncheng came to see this group of Francois, and through a Tartar translation, he finally learned the identity of this group of people.

This group of Farlanders was actually the descendants of the Roland people 600 years ago, who were driven out of the Eastern Continent and migrated all the way west to the Western Continent and conquered the Western Continent. However, the actions of the Roland people also caused a joint resistance from the countries of the Western Continent, and the two sides fought for more than 200 years, and finally the Roland people established the Rouran Empire.

The Rouran Empire and the Holy Han Empire were founded at almost the same time, but unlike the Holy Han Empire, the Rouran Empire was soon split due to ideas. Some of the Roland people believed that the Roland people were integrated into the local blood and culture, while the other part of the Roland people were attached to the Roland culture and bloodline, and the two sides had a fierce argument, which eventually led to a civil war.

Those who embraced the culture of the Western continent and supported the fusion of bloodlines established the Franco-Empire and gradually became stronger, while the Rouran Empire, which adhered to the Roland's bloodline and culture, gradually weakened and gradually migrated northward.

The team sent by the Franks wanted to return to Roland to worship their ancestors, but they were captured by the ghost guard scout cavalry stationed in Roland's ruins.

Zhang Xiaowu saw the superb iron armor and blades of the people of Falan, and suddenly worried, if the Wuhuan people obtained the blade forging technology of the Rolan people, the threat of the Wuhuan iron cavalry to the Holy Han would be huge. Fortunately, the forging technology of the Roland people has always been their secret, and it has never been passed on for hundreds of years, so it should not be mastered by the Wuhuan people, so they put their minds at ease.

The Francois expressed to Zhang Xiaowu that they hoped to meet the khans of the Central Plains Empire and express their friendship.

Zhang Xiaowu was also about to leave for Longdu, so he took them with him by the way. The Franks expressed their gratitude and gave them some gifts. Zhang Xiaowu noticed that the food of the Franks was actually corn, he took the corn kernels in surprise and asked what you call this food, and the Franks said that it was called tree rice.

Zhang Xiaowu held the corn and laughed wildly: "The people of the Holy Han Dynasty, the future can live, you can live!" ”

On October 1 of the second year of Dade, Zhang Xiaowu and his 7,000 ghost guards began to set off for Longdu, this time, they will live and work in Longdu, and a series of surprising stories will also happen.