I don't know if Cao Shouyi is in the city, but I didn't have time to take a closer look last time, this time Wang Yan fortunately took his aunt and guards to walk around in this border fortress.

It can't be compared with Tokyo, but it is also a real border trade distribution center, both the Tangut and the Song people, the Liao people, and the Hu people from the Western Regions.

In the special official market, you can meet a lot of fine horses, the price is not too high, and all kinds of vendors are walking around.

The textile industry here is very underdeveloped or even stagnant, but there is also a large market, all of which are goods from Tokyo, high-end ones are used to supply the local tyrants here, and low-end ones will be transported to the territory of Western Xia in the hands of some specific merchants, or in the Golden Triangle region, in exchange for cattle, sheep and horses in the hands of herdsmen.

The trade in furs is very large, and they are still in high demand. The people in this cold place wanted to wash and sleep with their own furs, which were all luxury goods shipped to the rich areas of the south to supply the local tyrants. In this era, this is also regarded as the "advantageous industry" in this region, because the entire northwest is sparsely populated, wild animals are the most abundant, and the people are relatively strong and good at riding and shooting, so the fur obtained is very comprehensive.

In terms of official policy, whether it is the Western Xia or the Great Song Dynasty, no mutual markets are allowed during this period. Western Xia was not allowed to sell war horses to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty strictly forbade the sale of grain and daily necessities to the Western Xia.

But the more forbidden things are, the higher the profits, which creates a whole gray area. This gray area seems to be the administrative region of the Song and Xia sides, but it is no longer the area under actual control, and this gray area is enough to separate the two regimes of the Song and Xia dynasties, but the courts of both sides refuse to recognize it, or are kept in the dark.

It is precisely because of the national policy that mutual markets are banned, and the strict curfew policy in the border areas - no casual movement is allowed. Therefore, the existence of the three mountains and seven villages around Funing County, which is actually the caravan of horses and gangs between the two sides, only needs to come to Suide City to transport green salt or grain to the Golden Triangle area, and a small amount can take away cattle, sheep, horses, and countless furs from those border people who don't know anything.

It seems that these caravans are licking blood at the edge of the knife, but in fact, it is not, as long as the rules of passage pay protection money to the Suide army, they can get the default "caravan right of way", since the army doesn't care who else cares about them? for they themselves are horse thieves with swords.

Of course, the right of passage of these half-breed horse thieves will end at most until the Suide army, and they cannot go deeper. But just when it was transported to the Suide army, it changed hands and made several times the profit.

The rest of the profits are eaten by another group of people. Under the background of high salt and grain prices in Shaanxi, they transported very cheap things from the south and sold them to the horse thief caravans here at a high price, and then took away the leather goods, cattle and horses obtained by these horse thief caravans, and sold them to Bianjing at a higher price to supply the powerful and the imperial court.

Yes, even the imperial court they supplied.

In fact, this group is the military supplier of the Great Song Dynasty, the entire Great Song Dynasty lacks horses, Ma Zhengkou is the slogan shouted by these people, and the poor war horses in Wang Anshi's hands are supplied by these people, and the price is unscientific.

In fact, it is also because they are under the gimmick of a state-level military supplier that they can brazenly transport private salt from the south to this high-salt price area. These are actually Ye Qinghua's business interests.

The indispensation of salt in the northwest made Fan Xiang know that he did not know why, and severely cracking down on illegal salt was not to protect the finances but to destroy the interests of the people in the northwest, and the flood of smuggled salt would not reduce the price of salt for the people in the northwest, but would be higher, because the illegal salt sold by that group to the northwest was not for the people at all, but for the horse thief caravan to exchange for the cattle and horse furs in the hands of the border people in the Golden Triangle region.

These are the people in the northwest who have further learned about it in the official market, and the entire chain of interests is grandiose and no one cares about it. It's as natural as these bandit leaders exchanging five catties of salt for a cow from the border people, and sleeping with someone's underage daughter by the way.

This is what Wang Yan heard from a scar-faced ruthless person in the official market. Wang Yan can simulate the scene at that time: after Scarface led the team to drop some grain and salt, the daughter of the sleeping family took away the cattle and horses, and finally the herdsman girl, who should be about the same age as the little bell, stood alone in the wilderness, singing sad songs and looking forward to the future, but in fact she did not know what the future was. Because they only lived to be thirty years old, it was soon their daughters who sang mournful songs like them, and continued to look forward to the future.

Thinking of this, Wang Yan, who is not very sympathetic, also felt that it was not a good feeling in his heart. If you do something bad, you must have benefits, and the damn court has borne such a heinous crime but has not received a dime of benefits, and has been led by these people.

In this regard, the big goose is furious, and one day these benefits must be taken back, as for speaking with anger now, first fight and then talk.

So, when the scarface's bragging eyebrows were dancing, Wang Yan coldly took a brick, jumped up and knocked it on the head.

"Damn, you're not crazy, aren't you! Fuck grandpa, fuck these shit! ”

There was an uproar, and the market suddenly became chaotic, swishing, and a wave of scar-faced men like crazy came and was dodged by Wang Yan's magic trick.

"Rebel, drag them to a place with few people and kill them!" A few outer disciples from the Sky Island rolled up their sleeves and fought with them.

In the end, because of the chaos caused, Wang Yan and his party were arrested by someone to the county office.

Scarface and his party were not arrested, because they had obviously paid money and registered with the government.

This is also very good, only in this way can you meet the county master. Otherwise, if Wang Yan came to him directly, he would probably be "absent" like Cao Shouyi, and go to do the great cause of civil affairs.

The process is still very YY, the county lord ascended to the hall, and when he asked loudly who was listed in the hall, he didn't have to send money, showed his official ID card, and then it attracted some embarrassing remarks such as "misunderstanding and misunderstanding", and some praise again and again, and finally quit the hall and went to the back hall to drink tea together.

Damn, I finally have tea to drink here, and when I was in Funing County, Wang Yan didn't eat meat, but only ate grains and coarse grains, otherwise the was probably not smooth.

Lifting the tea bowl and stirring it twice, and smelling the fragrance of the tea leaves, Wang Jianwei, the county magistrate of Suide, hesitated and said: "Speaking of which, Lord Xiao Wang is not afraid of you laughing, this official probably knows your intentions, but he doesn't know why you don't do what you should do, but you fight in the market, affecting the order of my Suide County, which is very bad." Especially when the official hears that you are burdened with many punishments, it is even worse, and it is very unfavorable to your career. ”

This old thing looked stable, but when Wang Yan got up and walked over, Wang Jianwei hurriedly got up and changed positions, seemingly to keep a sufficient "safe distance" from Wang Yan.

I guess I heard people talk about the series.,I don't know how many people have said bad things about my little old king in front of this old thing.。

Wang Yan had to sit down embarrassed again, and after taking a few sips of tea, he said: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm a direct person, Lord Wang, what conditions do you want to let those people in Funing County go home?" ”

Wang Jianwei frowned slightly, and said in an official tone: "Lord Wang, this is ...... It's not good, those people are free and unobstructed. After the rainy season, before the winter, it was the time for our border fortress to strengthen the offensive, and now the situation between the Song and Xia countries continues to be tense, many things will come, many offensives are waiting to be repaired, but they do not listen to persuasion and stop work, and there have been groups approaching the city wall. You know, in terms of border warfare rules, it is already the best result that they were not executed by the Sui German army. Since it is a violation of law and discipline, and the official is embarrassed to say that he will let it go, so where is the national law? ”

Wang Yan touched his chin and said, "According to the descriptions of those who have gone home, if you want me to see it, they are not as good as dead." It's easy to be killed by the Suide army, it's easy to deal with no matter what, that's the nail board. ”

Wang Jianwei hurriedly shook his hand and said, "Young man, you don't know what you're talking about, don't be so extreme." It's really not that I can't get along with Suide County and your Funing County, but that I have actual needs in this border fortress. Now that this is a de facto thing, we must face it squarely and find a way to properly negotiate and resolve it. ”

After Wang Yan drank all the tea, he said: "I really don't have the time to talk nonsense with you here, there are endless things waiting for me to do in Funing County." You give a sentence directly, do you put those people or not? ”

"You ......" Wang Jianwei pointed at him and said: "You are not in accordance with the rules, it is already very rude, but you are still young, and the official does not care." I'm here, and I'll give you a word, now I really can't let go of these people, nominally arrested, but don't think how bad I am Wang Jianwei, I don't want to be serious with these people, if it goes well, you cooperate with Funing County, they cooperate, and get the defense offensive required by the Suide Army before the winter, and they may still be able to go home. ”

"Okay, I promised General Mu Guiying's communication, and it has been done." Wang Yan didn't say anything more, got up and left with the people.

After the people left, Wang Jianwei smashed a tea bowl in the direction where they disappeared and said, "Who are you scaring about?" In this northwest land, who has not seen a few ruthless people. It's like it's true, but you also have something to do in Funing County? People are taken back by you, and if you don't do anything, you will borrow food to live, what does that kind of county want to do, but no one will do many things in my Suide County, and I don't know how to lift. ”

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"That's your communication?" Coming out to walk in the market, Mu Guiying felt a little surprised.

Wang Yan shook his head slightly and said, "Auntie, you didn't understand. Wang Jianwei is a bureaucrat who is kind to the mud, he is not good for such a person, but he will not clash with me casually. So I already knew from the beginning that it was useless to talk to him, that he had his pressure, and that he dared to go around in circles like me, and that he definitely had the tacit support of Counsellor Lee. ”

Mu Guiying pouted and said, "Counselor Li is so bad? ”

Wang Yan shook his head again and said, "I can't say it's bad." It's just that from Li Shen's point of view, Funing County has long been abandoned, but the Suide army must support and protect it. The status of the border fortress of the Suide army is undoubtedly confirmed, and in this case, low-cost civilian manpower must be needed to serve and build an offensive, but it cannot be the locals of Suide County, because they simply do not have the ability to pacify the people. Back then, Fan Xiang was demoted because of this kind of thing. In Li Shen's consciousness, if excessive labor destroys the hearts of the people of Suide Fortress, then it will be even more impossible to hold on to it when something happens. Therefore, from the perspective of our Minister Li Shen, no one in the entire northwest region is particularly important, who to sacrifice and who to keep, these two issues are vital interests between us and the Suide Army, but in the eyes of the marshal Li Shen, it is just a trade-off, and it is the overall interest. ”

"It sounds complicated, I still don't know what you and Sen Minister Li are doing against each other, which of you is the bad guy." Mu Guiying said embarrassedly.

"Neither of them. Funing County has no human rights, and is not even regarded as a Great Song Dynasty administrative region, which is the consensus in the northwest now, but the high-ranking imperial court does not understand and is unwilling to admit it. It is certain that if you have no human rights, you will be bullied and sacrificed, just as it is normal for cattle and sheep to be killed and eaten. In the past, Funing County actually played the role of cattle and sheep, but by mistake, the emperor sent me, a parent official, to Funing County, so the cattle and sheep in Funing County had a father, and someone hurt if there was a father. Li Shen is not a leader in the strict sense of the word, so he seeks his own government in his position, and as a parent official, I want to speak for the interests of the people under my rule, and this is where the conflict between me and them lies. ”

Wang Yan concluded: "This is the resonance formed by the combined force of many factors. Li Shen: I don't want to talk about him, but there must be some 'family Tartars' in this matter, and I will remember them for them. ”

"What now?" Mu Guiying said.

"Contact Di Yong, who entered the city in advance, I want to know some information." After Wang Yan instructed, he found a restaurant, and then the two people from the bottom of the empty island went to find Di Yong's people......