Chang'an Meiyang is northerly, and the grassland at the southern foot of the mountain.

The war horses that were injured some time ago are recovering here, and on the other side of the war horses, there are herds of cattle and sheep, although they are not as large as the Hu tribe, but they have accumulated a lot in the past two years.

Although commerce cannot directly produce a variety of production and living materials like agriculture, commerce can promote the production of these materials, because more and better materials can be exchanged for more and better materials in the north of the general of Zhengxi, and the enthusiasm of the Hu people for production has been improved, and the number of cattle and sheep raised has gradually increased.

In the past, the Hu people were not unable to raise so many cattle and sheep, but one often had to migrate, beyond the scope of the ability, it was indeed difficult to take care of it, and the second was that the bearing capacity of the grassland was limited, the more cattle and sheep, the faster the speed of eating up a pasture, and then the number of migrations was more frequent, and the cattle and sheep needed hay reserves for the winter, in the Han Dynasty, where there was no large machinery, everything was mainly manual, which naturally limited the scale of the Hu people's breeding.

But now it's different, after entering the autumn, you can sell those weaker and older cattle and sheep to the Han people, leaving the sturdy cattle and sheep for the winter, and you can exchange for materials, and you can reduce the consumption of hay in winter, and you don't have to worry about labor so much as before, the Hu people are naturally happy.

For the Han people who belong to the general of Zhengxi, it is a common practice to sell high and buy low, as if the price of grain before and after the autumn harvest can be as if the price of cattle and sheep is very different, and the price of cattle and sheep also fluctuates with the seasons......

Even if there are really signs of not being able to hold on, the huge consumer group in Chang'an is enough to maximize the value of these cattle and sheep, and the skins of cattle and sheep, muscles and bones can be fully utilized.

Therefore, after coming and going, the number of pasture cattle and sheep at the southern foot of Chang'an Lishan gradually increased, and the value of the prosperity of northern commerce can also be seen here.

However, Jia Xu and Xu Shu finally came here to get together, not just to see the cattle and sheep, but to focus on meat.

How comfortable it is to eat meat, and when you are used to eating meat, will anyone turn around and gnaw on the soil?

Xu Shu glanced at Jia Xu with slanted eyes, turned his head to look at the people who were grabbing the last wave of pasture, and then looked at the sheep grazing in the distance, and only said after half a sound: "The pit in front is obvious......

This time, the proposal to dig a pit was put forward by Jia Xu, and then Pang Tong went to implement it.

Compared with Xu Shu and Jia Xu, Pang Tong is indeed very confusing, after all, he is young! In the Han Dynasty, when marriage and childbirth were very early, although Pang Tong was more or less an adult at this age, but the officials of the surrounding subordinates were seven or eight years older than Pang Tong, and some were even twenty or thirty years older.

However, the one who is close to the ink is black, well, no, it is not unreasonable to be close to Zhu Zhechi, Pang Tong has been mixed with Jia Xu and Xu Shu for a long time, and he is also a smart person, this pit is abducted and deceived, well, the kung fu of planning and strategy has naturally improved a lot......

It's just that Xu Shu thinks about it, although Pang Tong's age is somewhat confusing, but not long ago, he just pit the Sanfu Shi clan Hao You, even if these guys don't remember to eat, they have to remember to fight, although the pit is dug well, if not many people are dropped into it, there will not be much meat to eat.

Jia Xu squinted, laughed a few times, and then said: "People die for money, birds die for food, everyone knows it, what can I do!" ”

Xu Shu thought for a moment and nodded, it is true, the so-called easy to know is difficult to do, everyone knows that if you are not greedy, you will not be so easy to be deceived, but don't those who are deceived understand this shallow truth?

"Then it depends on whether Shi Yuan can act in this play well......" Xu Shu still has some gains and losses.

"Hey, hey......" Jia Xu laughed unkindly and said, "What are you afraid of, anyway, even if we mess up, we have nothing to lose...... I said, your binary relationship is really good, and you're still worried about his ......."

"What do you call dual...... Xu Shu said rhetorically, "They are all under the command of Zhengxi, how can there be any of you and ours, besides, if you want to say the word 'Wen' and the word 'Zi', isn't there a lot, there are several...... Hehe, it's true that there are the most mosquitoes......"

Jia Xu rolled his eyes covertly, anyway, his eyes were slender, and it was not easy to be found if he rolled them, and after pausing for a moment, he said, "What happened to Tongguan?" ”

The direction of Tongguan is Xu Shu's main work. Speaking of business, Xu Shu also put away the appearance of talking and laughing, stroked his beard and said: "I have sent more than ten teams of people to patrol day and night, and I will definitely not leak the news......"

"Hmm......" Jia Xu nodded.

Yang Biao of Tongguan, in fact, couldn't hold it a few days ago, and after getting the news of the defeat of Biqiu Xing, he had no room for struggle at all, and immediately chose to retreat. And this news is still being detained by Xu Shu and Jia Xu, and it has not been directly announced with great fanfare.

"As for Longyou......" Xu Shu looked at Jia Xu, this matter is the project that Jia Xu is mainly responsible for.

Jia Xu was silent for a moment, and said with a little melancholy: "There is Li Changshi sitting over there...... Those little bugs can't make a big splash......"

"So, Li Changshi is going to stay in Longyou for a long time?" Xu Shu keenly grasped the point and said.

Jia Xu sighed slightly and nodded.

Xu Shu was silent for a moment, sighed, and said, "That's it, it's okay ......."

Although both of them knew that when Dong Zhuo wanted to poison Liu Wei, Li Ru was strongly opposed, but the problem was that Dong Zhuo was already a little sick at that time, and in the end it was Li Ru who went to carry it out. Because of this, Li Ru basically has nothing to do with the central court, although there are not a few ministers who killed the emperor in the history of the Han Dynasty, but it does not mean that Liu Xie can tolerate Li Ru dangling under his nose, even if Li Ru's appearance is now like two people, but it is troublesome if someone pokes it out.

But under the court, it's different.

Li Ru is somewhat kind to the general of the expedition to the west, and Xu Shu and others are also clear about this matter, so the general of the expedition to the west Fei Qian took in Li Ru and named Li Ru as the long history, at the moment when the law of the Han Dynasty openly allowed the cover-up behavior, Xu Shu and others naturally had nothing to say, and even felt that it was a blessing to have such a senior who remembered the old feelings and was willing to take risks for his subordinates.

Therefore, Li Ru sat in Longyou, which became the best choice.

On the one hand, Longyou is the same as Bingbei, Jiaozhou, Youbei, Annan and other places, which is a place of exile for the Han Dynasty, and Li Ru is equivalent to serving his sentence on his own initiative in Longyou, from another aspect, Li Ru is very familiar with Longyou, and he also has some relationships and prestige.

"Okay...... Now let's see how much meat can be in the pit......" Xu Shu turned his gaze into the distance again, looking at the large herd of cattle and sheep and said.

Jia Xu also nodded, licked his lips, and smacked his lips......

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Jingxiang, Kuaifu.

Kuai Yue walked in with his sleeves flicked up, arched his hand towards Kuai Liang, and then sat down, looking angry.

Kuai Liang raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at Kuai Yue, and then didn't pay attention to him, but twisted his beard slightly, and continued to look at his scroll.

After sitting for a while, Kuai Yue finally couldn't sit still, turned his body and just wanted to say something, when he met Kuai Liang's squinted eyes.

"Uh......" Kuai Yue opened his mouth, then swallowed the words again, and then sat silently on the side.

After another half-ring, Kuai Liang put the scroll in his hand on the table, and then said slowly, "What's the matter?" ”

"The people of the Cai family and the Huang family have walked another batch of ......," Kuai Yue pressed his hand on the table, leaned forward slightly, and said.

"To Hanzhong?" Kuai Liang frowned and asked.

Kuai Yue nodded, and then said in a low voice: "It is said that Liu Jingzhou accidentally dropped a cup in the hall......"

The beard on the corner of Kuai Liang's mouth curled slightly, and said, "So it's not just the Cai family and the Huang family who have gone?" Who else? ”

"Big brother really can't hide anything from you...... Kuai Yue said with a smile, "...... There are also Ma family and Fei family ......"

"The Ma family? The Fei family? Kuai Liang's eyebrows moved, then he nodded and said, "No wonder Liu Jingzhou dropped the cup...... Hanzhong, Hanzhong is indeed a good place...... The Ma family and the Huang family have always been good, and they can be regarded as world friends, so it is not surprising that they left together...... But this Fei family...... Hmmm......"

Kuai Liang's eyes quickly turned from side to side, and suddenly he thought of something, and said, "Oh, I understand......"

Kuai Yue blinked, a little stunned, what did he understand?

Kuai Liang glanced at Kuai Yue, looked at his expression, and knew that he hadn't been able to think clearly, so he mentioned it a little and said, "The Fei family is different from the Ma family, it's their own relationship......

"Relationship with your own family?" Kuai Yue still couldn't figure it out, and when he wanted to ask again, Kuai Liang closed his mouth, and was glared at, so he could only press it down for the time being, and then said with some words: "This general Zhengxi is really so powerful?" I really didn't see it at all in Jingxiang at the beginning......"

Nonsense!

Kuai Liang frowned and said, "Say, what do you want to do?" ”

Kuai Yue laughed twice and said in a low voice: "Didn't Liu Jingzhou drop the cup?" Big brother, look, is it okay to ......?"

Kuai Liang glared, and slapped on the table with a "bang": "Nonsense!" I thought you were older in the past few years and more or less able to deal with things calmly, but I never thought you would still be so reckless! ”

"Big brother! Why did the eldest brother say this, the younger brother is also thinking about the Kuai family......" Kuai Yue was startled, and said somewhat aggrieved.

"Humph!" Kuai Liang waved his hand, first ordered all the attendants around him to retreat, and then stared at Kuai Yue and said, "For the sake of the Kuai family!" You deserve to speak! Anyway, if you don't make it clear today, I'm afraid it will cause trouble in the future! Kuai Yue, kneel down for someone! ”

Kuai Yue trembled, didn't dare to blow up his hair, and obediently left the table and knelt on the ground. In the Han Dynasty, the phrase that the eldest brother is like a father is not just a casual talk.

"When Liu Jingzhou first arrived, you just offered advice, and even invited the thief in the name of the Kuai family!" Kuai Liang said in a deep voice, "Although these sect thieves are innocent, but you don't want to think about it, where did these sect thieves come from?!" If there is something wrong with the Kuai family in the future, what will be the consequences?! ”

Kuai Yue subconsciously wanted to reply, "How could our Kuai family be like that", but as soon as he looked up, he saw Kuai Liang's face sinking like water, and he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, and by the way, he swallowed the words that were about to blurt out back into his stomach.

"A certain original advice to Liu Jingzhou, although the effect is slow, and very safe, the operation is even more mysterious, if Liu Jingzhou hands over this matter to the Kuai family to deal with, the Kuai family can take the opportunity to hold the military power, master the place, then ......" Kuai Liang said in a deep voice, "And you, in addition to the reputation of a 'mortar criminal', how much benefit have you brought to the Kuai family?" ”

Although it was autumn and the weather was dry, Kuai Yue's head soon gathered a lot of sparkling water, and then a drop of sweat fell on the bluestone on the ground.

"In the future, you want to borrow a knife, but others use it as a knife!" Kuai Liang sighed and said, "Although I was aware of it at the time, I was a little slower, and half of my fault was counted......"

Kuai Yue hurriedly kowtowed and said, "This is the fault of the younger brother, and it has nothing to do with the eldest brother......

"It has nothing to do with me, so does it have anything to do with the Kuai family?" Kuai Liang glared at Kuai Yue, angrily picked up the scroll on the table, and smashed Kuai Yue's body with his head and face, "You said it's okay, it's okay?" Wouldn't it be great that you could take responsibility yourself? Others won't blame the Kuai family? You...... It's really annoying! ”

"Big brother, stop your anger! The eldest brother ...... angrily" Kuai Yue kowtowed again and again, and said, "It's the younger brother who is wrong, the younger brother is wrong, it's the younger brother who is reckless......"

Kuai Liang gasped fiercely a few times, calmed down for a while, and then said slowly: "Since you know the mistake, why do you have to take the bait this time?" The way of the official career was originally uneven, and it is not surprising that you fell and bumped, but you actually fell twice or three times in the same place, and you still have the face to claim to be smart? ”

"What? What does the eldest brother mean......" Kuai Yue raised his head sharply, his eyes widened, and said, "Yes...... It was Liu Jingzhou who intended to ......"

"Or else?" Kuai Liang closed his eyes, shook his head and said, "You must know that the Cai family is Liu Jingzhou's inner room!" Liu Jingzhou accidentally dropped the cup...... Hehe, if this is the case, do you think you will know first or Cai's first? ”

Beads of sweat rolled down Kuaiyue's head.

"Our Kuai family is not the knife of the Liu family, let alone the lackey of the Liu family!" Kuai Liang lowered his voice and said, "General Zhengxi is now gaining momentum, and the Cai clan and Huang clan are now just using the momentum of General Zhengxi to balance Liu Jingzhou, why should our Kuai family be villains in vain?" ”

"Big brother...... Then, how should we ......," Kuai Yue said with some hesitation.

"Zhengxi has created a new paper, called snow bamboo paper, white as snow, tough as bamboo...... Kuai Liang said quietly, "Now Zhengxi has taken Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Shu are bamboo...... Tomorrow, you will bring the Kuaijia paper mill and contract manpower to the Huang Family's Hidden Courtyard, and you will say that you will be congratulated by the general of Zhengxi! ”

"This ......" Kuai Yue was somewhat reluctant.

"It's okay, if the momentum of the expedition to the west can be maintained, what is this small loss?" Kuai Liang said with a smile, "I know that you and Zhengxi have a slight disagreement, but for the sake of the Kuai family, you need to look farther......" Zhengxi and the Huang family joined forces, plus the bamboo of Sichuan and Shu, it is simply easy for the Huang family to expand the production of snow bamboo paper in Jingxiang, so Kuai's paper mill will definitely be difficult in the future, it is better to do personal favors now and ease the positions of both sides.

Kuai Yue lowered his head, was silent for a moment, and nodded yes.

"After this matter is done tomorrow, I will go back to the room and copy the thirty-first book of rites to me ten times, and I am not allowed to leave the house if I don't finish copying! How much to increase the memory! Kuai Liang continued.

Kuai Yue was helpless, so he could only nod his head and say yes......