Hu Xiya's words made Guo Zhenxi and Ma Hua sit down, Guo Zhenxi looked at the wrinkles on Hu Xiya's forehead, "Brother Hu, Guo has something to ask!" This is also the current problem of our Anxi Village, the grain storage of Anxi Village has been available for thousands of us for decades, and there are many animal skins and medicinal materials, but we can't sell them! Because the damp poisoners in the west and the Kangju people in the north also have these things! The journey to the Central Plains to sell is too far, is there a way for Brother Hu to sell these things to the surrounding tribes and countries? ”

Ma Hua smiled, "You have someone else who also has it, who buys yours?" I don't think this Boss Hu can help it! ”

Hu Xiya motioned to MCA to shut up, "General Ma, don't interject, who said I can't help it?" ”

Guo Zhenxi's eyes lit up, "If Brother Hu really has a way, I won't fight for anything!" ”

"Then please ask Guo Duwei to take me to see your treasury, I have to see things before I can take corresponding countermeasures!"

Guo Zhenxi hesitated for a while, "Okay, I'll take Brother Hu to see our savings over the years!" ”

The treasury of Anxi Village is distributed in five caves, and the periphery of the cave is sealed with mud and planted with many trees, if it is not for Guo Zhenxi's cronies to lead the way, it will not be visible at all.

Entering the first cave entrance three zhang, there is a stone door, everyone turned the stone door into it, only to see that the stone walls in the cave are painted white, and the ground is full of corn and wheat piled up like a mountain.

"It's not easy to store these wheat and corn for so many years!" Hu Xiya exclaimed

Guo Zhenxi pointed down, "Brother Hu, the bottom of this is laid with grass and wood ash, and above the grass ash is hay, and then a layer of wood is laid on top of the hay, and another layer of lime is laid on top of the wooden board, and then a wooden board is laid on top of the lime." In order to preserve these grains, every spring and summer, charcoal fires must be built in the cave to dry the water vapor! ”

Hu Xiya bent down and pinched the dust and looked at it, "Admire, admire, it's okay to store food, but if you have this fur, you can't save it like this!" ”

Guo Zhenxi smiled, "The preservation of fur should be ventilated and insect proof, and I know it below!" ”

After looking at the five caves in turn, Hu Xiya told Guo Zhenxi his method.

"In this way, the people in the Western Regions are good at preserving fur and these medicinal materials, but in fact, there is only a lack of processing, someone has to make fur into clothes and boots, and make medicinal materials! And those jades, you have to have a skilled craftsman to polish them."

"We also understand the reason, but there is no such person among our thousands of people, Brother Hu also saw it, the boots and clothes we wear are forcibly sewn and pieced!"

Guo Zhenxi said, Hu Xiya and Ma Hua looked at their feet, and the boots were wrapped in a whole piece of animal skin from the feet to the calves, and then tied up with some hemp rope and animal tendons.

Hu Xiya laughed, "In my caravan, there are shoemakers, carpenters and stonemasons, and there are blacksmiths, military doctors and tailors in the Western Army, plus the materials you have hoarded, don't we have the best of both worlds?" ”

"Is that true?"

Looking at Guo Zhenxi, who looked serious, Hu Xiya held his hand, "Seriously!" After Hu goes back, he must bring these people, and then this Anxi Village can transport the clothes, shoes, hats, furniture, and medicinal materials we have made to sell! No, we have to let them bring their own money and goods to Anxi Village to do business with us! ”

Looking at Hu Xiya, who was full of pride, Guo Zhenxi concluded that what he said was true, so he sent someone to invite Zeng Nianhua to write him a letter to Zuo Sanxiang.

"Your Excellency the Left Sanxiang, the general of Zhengxi, is like well, so the remnants of the Anxi Protectorate are 3,759 people who have been hanging alone for more than 100 years. Our bereaved family members are looking forward to the hope that the general will come to Ili as soon as possible, rebuild the Anxi Protectorate, restore the territory of China in the past, and promote the national prestige of China. We have 10,000 loads of surplus grain, 10,000 horses of leather, 100,000 loads of medicinal materials, and one loyalty, and I only hope to return to the Central Plains to worship our ancestors and repay the last wishes of our fathers and ancestors. ”

Hu Xiya looked at the letter, "Guo Duwei, Mr. Zeng, this."

Didn't the letter mention conditions? ”

"You have promised to help us make boots, clothes, pharmaceuticals, and furniture, what more conditions do you need?"

"The position of the Metropolitan Protector? Or do you want to be an official or something, don't mention it? ”

Guo Zhenxi smiled faintly: "Isn't it much better to make money in business than to be a big capital?" What are you doing to me, I have a headache with these more than 3,000 people, and I really made me do most of the protection, and sooner or later I will either be cut down by my own people or die of exhaustion. I'm not a person who can be an official, and I still have this self-knowledge. If the imperial court can sympathize with us and give us a little preferential treatment, wouldn't it be much better than being an official? ”

"Ahem, what Guo Duwei means is that he wants to be a patriotic businessman and not covet the official position of the imperial court," Old Man Zeng added

"Understand, understand, Guo Duwei's high wind and bright festival, I will tell Zuo Dashuai truthfully!"

"Slow, I think of a condition, this condition must be promised to me, that is, your boss Hu must cooperate with us in business and be our big shopkeeper!" Guo Zhenxi patted Hu Xiya's shoulder and said

Hu Xiya couldn't cry or laugh, "This condition doesn't need to be reported to the court, can't I just promise it myself?" ”

"No, this must be reported to the court, and the court must issue an order, otherwise you will run away by then, where will I go to reason!" Guo Zhenxi said very seriously, and he also grabbed Huxi Cliff with one hand

"Then I might as well be respectful, you trust me so much, if I give you a loss in the future, you won't kill me!"

"You've taken me for a fool, and if you give me a loss, I'll let you do it until I earn it back! Don't say it, I look at the sky, you have to stay here for two months before leaving, otherwise you won't be able to go back! ”

Hu Xiya was not polite, "That's great, I'm afraid that if you drive us away now, then we will freeze into a stick on the road!" ”

MCA came in with a roast leg of lamb, "Eh, you've been talking here for a long time, and you've come up with some new terms!" I think Zuo Shuai will really give you the position of this protector, he is a pragmatic person! ”

"Haha, I'm also a pragmatic person, what to do is to protect Dadu, it's a joke with you, try to see if you have sincerity and measure! Now it seems that the two and Zuo Shuai are both heroes with sincerity and strength, please forgive Guo for saying nothing! ”

"Haha, my old horse is a rough man, he only knows how to charge into battle and be righteous, since Brother Guo is so sincere, then my old horse can't be ambiguous. Don't worry, I ate and drank well here, and I also saw the terrain here, and I will persuade Zuo Shuai to move the new capital here. Boss Hu said that Zuo Shuai might not necessarily listen to this matter, because he was a businessman. And I am a soldier, I am from the perspective of using soldiers, Zuo Shuai will definitely listen! ”

Guo Zhenxi and Zeng Nianhua knelt down together when they heard this: "We thank General Ma for the ancestors and the big guys!" If the Anxi Protectorate could be built in Yili, then our more than 100 years of perseverance would have been in vain! ”

Ma Hua and Hu Xiya hurriedly helped the two of them up, "Hey, hey, this can't be helped, it can't be helped, it hurts me!" ”

"It's all the people of Daliang, why bother like this, please get up quickly! Such a big gift, could it be to drive us away? ”

"Hahaha, okay, then the family won't talk to each other, stay for two months first, and then get through this snowstorm!"

In the next two months, in addition to drinking and eating meat and enjoying the snow, Hu Xiya taught them some of the rough methods of tanning shoes.

MCA was not idle, and led more than 100 people to train the strong men of Anxi Village, and Guo Zhenxi also taught MCA the skills of using the scimitar in the Western Regions.

After the beginning of spring, Hu Xiya and Ma Hua took half of their men and more than a dozen people from Anxi Village to climb over the snow-capped mountains to Luntai to return to their lives.

The left three phases on the side of Luntai were not idle, and they began to hoe the ground to prepare for spring sowing, and the embankment built by the wet poison people before was put in handy by the left three phases.

After looking at the height and direction of the embankment, the third phase of the left and Liu Jingchuan decided to take advantage of the situation and make a new one

A canal several miles long was excavated, and a crescent line was taken to connect it downstream.

At the bow of the new canal, a number of small ditches were dug to divert water to the south, and the land between the ditches was a square field.

"There are a lot of corpses of wet poison people buried in the ground here, which can be used as fertilizer!" Liu Jingchuan pointed to the reddened field and said

The soldiers who were hoeing immediately stopped when they heard this.

"Lord Liu, we don't eat this kind of thing in the land of the dead!"

"Yes, when I hear it, I feel sick, and my scalp is numb when I think about it!"

"Why does Lord Liu have to say it, this, how can this field be planted?"

Liu Jingchuan smiled, "Hehe, have you all eaten plums in your hometown?" Let's talk about it! ”

"That, I eat it all when I am young, it is sour and bitter, but some of them are also good!"

"Everyone here has eaten, why should Lord Liu ask more!"

"Does this have anything to do with our farming?"

Liu Jingchuan stroked his beard, "Peaches raise people, apricots hurt people, and bury dead people under plum trees." The plums you eat grow where the flesh and bones of the dead are buried. The round plums, some green, red, and black, look like human eyes? ”

"Don't say it, if you say this, I have to vomit out the plums I have eaten for decades!"

"This, Lord Liu, you read a lot, don't scare us! The"

Zuo Sanxiang also smiled at this time, "It's disgusting, I didn't eat less when I was young, so I said, it's actually nothing!" If you run out of food, you will have to eat the flesh of the dead! So farming in this buried place, nothing! And there is no fertilizer here, our manure pit is too far from here, and there are corpses buried here to make fertilizer! Don't think about it, just plant your fields with peace of mind! When the time comes, Lord Liu and I will be the first to eat it! You will rob it! ”

The general of Zhengxi and the grain and grass officer all spoke, and everyone had no choice but to continue hoeing and sowing.

After planting thousands of acres of land, Ma Hua and Hu Xiya finally came back, seeing that the two were safe and sound, and brought back more than a dozen strangers, Zuo Sanxiang knew that this trip was not in vain.

After reading the letter, Zuo San bowed to the letter, "I didn't expect that there are still lonely and loyal righteous people in this Western Regions!" Their demands are not too much at all! Didn't they ask for any reward? ”

"They have two requests, one is to implore Zuo Shuai to play the imperial court and rebuild the Anxi Protectorate in Yili! Second, I want Zuo Shuai to go to the court, leave my Huxiya to them, and help them do business! ”

"Well, as long as the imperial court agrees to rebuild the Anxi Protectorate, where to build it is my idea, this is not a problem! If you are left behind, the court will issue an order, and the court will not understand this report! Just go and help them! If they are afraid that they will not have the credentials, I will order in the name of the general of Zhengxi to stamp the big seal! ”

"Now that I am playing in the imperial court and getting a response, I am afraid that it will be two years later! Can Zuo Shuai move to Yili now? I'm afraid that there will be variables if it drags on for a long time! ”

Hu Xiya voiced his worries, and Zuo Sanxiang was silent for a moment.

The war with the damp poison people is over, Zuo Sanxiang doesn't know how long he can stay in the Western Regions, no one knows the new orders from the imperial court, and if someone takes advantage of the matter of Yu Wanli to make trouble, it will be difficult for him, the general of the expedition to the west, to continue.

Although they are generals, the dependents of the soldiers are all in the Central Plains, and it is too unrealistic to take them to divide the territory, and once they take this step, they will also implicate the King of Jin, and they will be ruined at that time.

"Well, you can, but not all, I can send you and MCA to bring a few hundred more people over! Well, bring all your craftsmen with you, and stabilize the compatriots in Ili first! ”

Hu Xiya nodded, he also knew that it was too unrealistic to let Zuo Sanxiang go to Ili now, after all, there was no news from Gaochang's side so far.