Old Liu Tou looked at Ye Qing's pensive appearance, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Dutou, you don't still know the Tatars, do you?" ”

Old Liu Tou's strangeness is not unfounded, after all, between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Tatars, in addition to the Xia Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, there are also mountains and the Great Wall, and now I have never heard of the Song people who have been to the barbarian land over there.

Moreover, it is said that the Tatars live in tribes, and they also live a life of drinking blood, and there are perennial conflicts between tribes, and it is not normal for one hundred and eighty people to die every day.

"You tell me the name first, and then I'll see if I know each other." Ye Qing looked at Old Liu's strange eyes and said with a smile.

The Mongols of this period, let alone themselves, are not very clear in the "Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty" or "The History of the Yuan Dynasty: Taizu Ji", and even some of them are completely made up, how can they have more understanding of Mongolia in this period.

He only knew a few well-known people, but in any case, he didn't believe that Tianjiao Temujin could suddenly rise to become the leader of the Mongols at this time, and now he was only the khan of his beggar tribe at most.

"I really don't know." Old Liu Tou shook his head, looked at Ye Qing and stared again, and hurriedly said, "You didn't let me pay attention to the Tatars, you just asked me to look at the Luo Shichuan and the golden man." ”

"What happened to the Golden Man?" Ye Qing wanted to raise his middle finger at Lao Liu's head, but after thinking about it, forget it, sometimes this thing will create retribution.

Because along the way, even Yan Chengcheng and You'er, including when they were in Lin'an, Bai Chun and Jin Se have now learned.

Although they don't know what it means, whenever they are speechless, dissatisfied, or don't know how to answer their own words, they will learn from their own appearance and silently and provocatively give themselves the middle finger.

"The golden man is still in the city, but it is estimated that he will leave soon, and the golden man seems to be in a hurry. And since Na Luo Shi entered his shop, he has not interacted with other vendors, it doesn't seem like he is talking about business, and they haven't even seen a few Xia people, so they don't know what they want to do. After Lao Liu Tou talked about business, his expression became serious.

"Keep an eye on it, even if they continue to go to the Northland across the Huaishui, they have to find someone to keep an eye on them." Ye Qing, Lao Liu Tou, and Po Li San strolled in the backyard of the inn, looked up at You'er not far away, and continued to ask: "The Jin caravan is standing still in the north, and they don't plan to cross the Huaishui, are they waiting for someone?" ”

"I don't know, I don't dare to get too close. Dong Chao and those people wanted to test it, but I stopped them. But no matter what, I can be sure that these people are the Jin Ren Business Brigade we are looking for, a total of five hundred and twenty-seven people. Old Liu Tou said silently.

Now, except for himself who came from Huaishui because Ye Qing came to Sizhou, the others are still on the other side of Huaishui, continuing to secretly monitor the business travel of the Najin people.

"All the weapons have been transported?" Ye Qing asked as if inadvertently.

"It's been shipped." Old Liu Tou sighed and shook his head, and then frowned and asked, "Who is Dong Chao?" Say he's a bandit, but it's not like it, let's say no, but they can be in the area of Jiugang Mountain, Laozi Mountain, and Hongze Lake, with a team of nearly 3,000 people, and they have been entangled with the Jin people. ”

"Then they must have a specific place, can't they be like nomads, scurrying along the Huai River every day, right? Three thousand people is not a small number, the Jin people will not be able to find it for so long? Ye Qing sat down on the stone in front of him, and after riding the horse for three days, he really couldn't stand it.

Even if the thick seat cushion in Yan Qingcheng's carriage was to be placed on the inner thigh, the bumps along the way were still a little unbearable.

"Zhongmiao Town is a place where they often gather, people from ten miles and eight townships gather, and they all have their own homes on weekdays, and from time to time they rob the caravans of the Jin people's mansion, including the caravan of the Xia people, etc., it is difficult for the Jin people's mansion to catch a shape, and according to my observation, they are very organized, although it is three thousand people, but every time they really work, the number of people usually does not exceed five hundred." Old Liu Tou seems to have not stayed in this place in vain these days, and he should have almost touched Li Qingzhao's family background.

"Is it Li Qingzhao who helps them, or are they helping Li Qingzhao?" Ye Qing was a little confused for a while, but he was not in a hurry, after passing the Huaishui tomorrow, everything would be clear.

Qinling and Huaihe are the dividing line between the north and the south, and they are also the division between Jin and Song, but the Jin people often cross the line, but no matter what, the area of Sizhou, because of the relationship between the rich Hongze Lake, will be relatively peaceful, so there can be such a huge number of bandits as 3,000 people, Ye Qing also has to admire Li Qingzhao and the person named Dong Chao to avoid the Jin people's official means.

After asking some more details about Lao Liu Tou, he asked Po Li San to rest with Lao Liu Tou, and then planned how to cross the Huaishui tomorrow without being suspected, let alone being discovered by the Jin people.

All this is not a problem for the old Liu Tou, who has been here for a long time, and during this time he has figured out various routes, including the routes provided to him by Dong Chao and the people who often go south.

Where to cross the river will attract the attention of the Jin government, and where to cross the river is like entering a no-man's land, for today's old Liu Tou, it is like he is walking blindfolded in Lin'an City.

And although the Huaishui area is the intersection of Jin and Song, it is filled with far more than the people and merchants of Song and Jin, Xia people, Tatars, Liao people, etc., will appear here.

For them, the developed commerce and trade here, and the waterways are also developed, which provides considerable convenience for their transportation, so most of the taxes in Sizhou cannot fall into the hands of the Song court, and most of the annual taxes are looted by the Jin people.

But even so, it can't stop the merchants from piling up here, even if they pay taxes to the Jin people, they still have to pay taxes to the Song people, and they are willing to come here to trade.

Ye Qing was very curious, obviously paying taxes from the two countries, why are there still such an endless stream of business travelers here, are they stupid?

Yan Qingcheng looked at Ye Qing with disdain, and then said: "Shangjia has always been profitable, do you think Shangjia will do money-losing business?" ”

"Your Yan family won't also sell illicit salt, right?" Ye Qing looked at Yan Qingcheng's tired and beautiful face, which was radiant and radiant, and asked cautiously.

"The Yan family will not do the business that violates the laws and regulations of the imperial court, but it is indeed profitable to trade with the Xia people, but we mainly do some fur and felt business with the Xia people, and the felt blankets made of white camel hair by the Xia people are very expensive in Lin'an, and there are some sand fox skins, mainly medicinal materials, wolfberry, rhubarb, licorice, antelope horn, etc., if you are familiar with the Xia people, the party horse is not impossible to buy, but it is just very difficult." Yan Qingcheng said to Ye Qing with a smug expression.

In her opinion, Ye Qing at this time is cute, not like on weekdays, as if he always pretends to have ghost ideas in his eyes, but will listen to himself very carefully and attentively, and listen to some common sense that ordinary people should know.

"You haven't considered the Xia people's iron tools? I've heard that the Xia people's iron tools are one in a million. Ye Qing drank the best tea that he found and that Yan Tingcheng brought over to trade, which made Yan Tingcheng feel distressed.

You'er on the side was extremely aggrieved, because she still helped Ye Qing find this tea, but she didn't expect Ye Qing to drink it for herself, and thought that he was going to show it to other businessmen.

"People won't trade with us, because the strength of the Yan family can't reach it." Yan Qingcheng sighed helplessly and said.

"Why?" Ye Qing had a question mark in his head, and he felt that he was about to get the correct answer to the trade between the three kingdoms of Song, Jin, and Xia from Yan Tingcheng's mouth.

"Because of the existence of your Imperial City Division!" Yan Qingcheng glanced at Ye Qing angrily, and then said: "Like salt, in order to protect its own interests, the imperial court naturally doesn't like Xia Qingyan to enter my Great Song Dynasty, but Xia Qingyan is indeed better and cheaper than my Great Song Dynasty salt, so there are so many people selling illegal salt here, and the Imperial City Division, the City Division, and so on, are using these to make a fortune." The same goes for ironware, a good sword forged by the Xia people is the most liked by the Song people, and the price is comparable to gold. ”

"With such a tax draw, there are still so many people rushing to it, it won't be able to trade with the Xia people with money, right?" Ye Qing continued to ask.

In his opinion, salt should be one of the main sources of income in Western Xia, plus animal husbandry and other things, Xia Kingdom should be able to obtain benefits between Jin and Song, but compared to money and goods, they will not lack much in Western Xia, right? Could it be that grain, tea, etc., can be exchanged for party horses and iron tools of the Xia people?

"It's people." Yan Qingcheng looked at Ye Qing and said helplessly.

"People?" Ye Qing asked strangely.

"The Xia people are not stupid, they are very smart, in addition to tea, silk silk, Luo, Qi, incense, porcelain, lacquerware, candles, group soap, etc., are all liked by the Xia people, but although the Xia people love porcelain, but they hate porcelain the most, porcelain is made of soil in their opinion, but the price is extremely expensive, so they exchange the green salt, ironware, and good horses forbidden by the imperial court for the porcelain craftsmen of the Song people, so as to make their own porcelain." Yan Chengcheng was an angry young man, so since she first knew that some merchants used craftsmen as a trade with the Xia people, she was eager to take back all the items of the Yan family and never trade with the Xia people from now on.

But there are some things that obviously cannot be changed by a small businessman, so over the years, the Yan family, except for ordinary accidents, basically will not participate in those businesses that are expressly prohibited.

Ye Qing held the teacup thoughtfully, judging from the news he got from Yan Chengcheng, what was the purpose of the Mongols going south to Sizhou?

They were close to Jin and Xia, and they thought that it was salt and iron that forced them to go south, but now it seems that the salt and iron in Western Xia are much more developed than in the Great Song Dynasty, even if the Jin people forbade Xia to trade with the Mongolian tribes, Ye Qing believed that the Western Xia people would not completely listen to the Jin people, and they must have traded with the Mongols in private.

Moreover, what did Li Qingzhao's 3,000 men do, is it really like what Li Qingzhao said, a group of ordinary people who were persecuted by the Jin people, and then fell into the grass?

(ps: It's a chapter today, it's a bit messy, you have to take care of it.) ）()

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