10 years of Jian'an, June.

Shinno.

It was a hot and muggy day in June. Today is another sunny sky and the sun is scorching. There was a little steam on the ground, and the void was a little distorted.

In such weather, of course, it is also a busy time for farming.

There are countless fertile fields outside the city, all of which are rice fields. Everywhere there were peasants, pulling weeds in the fields, wearing hats on their heads, stepping barefoot in the mud, and from time to time leeches would come for a moment.

It's stuffy and exciting.

"Ahh The king dog came out of the field and came to the ridge to take a rest. It's too hot today and I'm sweating.

Wang Gou's feet had just come out of the mud, and when he looked down, he saw that there were three leeches, so fat. This thing doesn't hurt when it sucks blood, so it's usually found when you go ashore.

After the king dog barked, he quickly pinched three leeches to death, and blood flowed all over the place. But it doesn't matter, for a thick-skinned person like him, bleeding a little is nothing.

After Wang Gou pinched the leech to death, he sat on the ridge, picked up the sheepskin water bag next to him and drank a few sips of water, and looked at the rice field in front of him with a satisfied face.

The green rice fields are all mine. In the middle of the rice field, there was his daughter-in-law with two sons. The son is thirteen and eleven, but he is already an expert in pulling weeds.

In addition to pulling weeds, he is also proficient in all aspects of farm work. Pumping water with a water wheel, pulling oxen to plow the fields, raising seedlings and planting seedlings, anything goes, born farmers.

Wang Gou is very satisfied. They are the land of Bashu, the servants under the command of a big family, and they are the slaves and maids of the big family all their lives.

Later, because of the reproduction of slaves and maids, the family sold the extra slaves and maids, and he came to Xinye in this way.

After arriving in Xinye, he turned into a commoner, taking his wife and sons to plow the fields together, and last year's bumper harvest made their family's life better.

There will be another bumper harvest this year, and their family will be really rich.

That's right.

Wang Gou also has an eldest son, who is nineteen years old this year. At present, he is in the army under General Zhao Yun, and he is a cavalryman, and he receives a lot of money and food every day, and he often sends it back to his home to spend his family's expenses.

"If it weren't for General Zuo and the Marquis of Hanshou, where would my Wang Dog be today." Wang Gou sat on the ridge with a grateful face.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu.

The two left generals were both stationed in Xinye. For the official general, the difference between the two is big. Liu Bei is the master of the people, and Guan Yu is just a strong general.

But for the people, both of them are about the same. Both of them are pensioners for the people, and only 30% of the land tax is extracted, and the conscience tax is collected.

You must know that the land tax in the world was dark very early, and the ten permanent servants at that time the government levied and extorted violently, the people were not able to make a living, and people who fled the famine abounded.

I heard that Cao Cao is now in Tuntian in the north, and the tax collection is fifty or sixty percent, but in fact, he is also more conscientious than the imperial court back then.

But it can't be compared with Xinye, which is only 30% tax.

"I hope that the Marquis of Hanshou and the Marquis of Xiaojun will live a long life, and my family can live a peaceful life in Xinye forever." Wang Gou was very satisfied in his heart, and also hoped that the prince of the Guan family, the prince of the prince, would be able to live a long life and be blessed.

Wang Gou's field is very close to the avenue. At this time, the huge convoy gradually appeared and headed for Xinye.

"There are fifty carts, what a caravan."

Wang Gou raised his eyes and looked a little staggered. Even if Shinno is a place where merchants from the north and the south gather, such a large caravan is really rare.

These carts were carried by horses, covered with leather cloth, and were fully loaded by their shape. The retinue consisted of more than a hundred people, many with bows and swords.

The convoy that Wang Gou saw was the caravan of the Hedong Wei family. The Hedong Wei family is a local scholar family who has been an official in the county for generations.

Because Hedong is close to Bingzhou, and the Hetao area outside the Great Wall in the north of Bingzhou is currently used by the Han court to settle the Southern Huns.

Yuan Shao sent his nephew Gao Gan to assassinate the history of the state, and he possessed the Chengchi Plain, but his strength was not as good as Zhang Yan.

Now as the pace of Cao Cao's unification of the north gradually accelerated, Zhang Yan led the people to surrender to Cao Cao, and the high cadres were trapped and annexed to the state, and it was not long before they could jump.

Because of the topography of Bingzhou, the Hedong Weijia could buy the leather in the hands of the Huns at a low price, and then go south to monopolize it. At present, Xinye is a gathering place for merchants from the north and south, and the Hedong Wei family is also eyeing here, wanting to get rid of the leather here and exchange it for cloth to bring back to the north.

The north is expensive.

While leather can be used to make leather armor, southern leather is expensive.

Cao Cao controlled the war horses in the north, but leather was not as important as the war horses, and he couldn't stop it, so he let it go, and the Wei family's business was a legitimate business.

The leader is called the guard, and the guard is the distant branch of the Wei family, so he will do this kind of thing to lead the caravan to the north and south.

Soon after, the guards led a caravan into the city. For the first time, the Wei family led a caravan to Xinye to do business, but before, they had been fully prepared and went directly to the market.

This bazaar is the famous Mi's liquor bazaar, a large number of merchants from the north and south gather in the liquor bazaar, register in the government, sell large quantities of business, and some are directly buying Mi's liquor back.

However, the Wei family's goal is cloth, not Mi's wine.

The guard is the head of the caravan in charge of the Wei family's journey from south to north, and he has been to all places in the north and south, but after he entered Xinye, he still felt the prosperity of Xinye.

The streets are lined with shops, and the streets are full of people. Many of them were foreigners dressed in fancy costumes.

The scale of this city is really huge.

The guards went south and north for many years, when the world was not in turmoil when they were young, such cities abound in the whole world, and then the Yellow Turban War was chaotic, the heroes fought against Dong, the princes were annexed, and the middle summer was already dilapidated.

Today, the big city of the Central Plains has only Xudu. On the contrary, Hebei, which was swallowed up by Cao Cao, has many big cities, such as Nanpi, Yecheng and so on.

Defeat the strong with the weak, and swallow the tiger and leopard with the python.

What's even more remarkable.

The guards knew that when this Xinye city was built in the sixth and seventh years of Jian'an, it was a small city with a population of less than 10,000.

It's only been ten years since Jian'an, and after a few years of hard work, it has already developed so strongly. I heard that there is not only the plan of General Liu Bei of Zuo, but it is more the role of Mi's wine.

And Mi's wine was created by Guan Ping, the eldest son of Guan Yu, the Marquis of Hanshou, the current General Zuo. Although Liu Bei unfortunately died of illness, Guan Yu took the throne.

Not only did Shinno not decline, but became more and more prosperous. What's even more incredible is that Guan Ping, who is only a teenager this year, actually led his troops south to pacify the three counties and nine counties, and became the county guard of Fangling, which is really a talent.

Today's Guan Ping has a little fame in the whole world.

Not blown out, but typed.

Unusual.

The guards not only lamented the prosperity of Xinye, but also lamented that this magical general horn boy in the south was wrong, and he was currently the county guard of Fangling, General Yang Wuzhonglang.

Although this position is self-proclaimed, the world recognizes it.

Strength is the king of grass.

Guan Ping is powerful.

This Mishi liquor market in Shinno is large and full of merchants. Many merchants docked their goods with horse-drawn carts on the grounds provided by the bazaar, went to the bazaar yamen to register, first got rid of the goods, and then bought the goods they wanted.

The guards parked the procession in a special venue, sent most of them to stay behind to guard, and went to the yamen of the bazaar with only five retinues.

This yamen was specially set up to be in charge of the market, and the person in charge was Mi Fang. As for the official position, Mi Fang hung a position in the shogunate of the Shogunate Zuo.

According to the guards, this Mi Fang has little talent like his brother Mi Zhu, and it is only because he is determined to follow Liu Bei to go around that he has an official position.

In addition, he knew a little bit about business, so he was sent to take care of the market.

After the guards arrived at the Yamen, they saw Mi Fang and registered the leather of the fifty carts he brought back this time, and the goods were sold in less than half an hour.

The buyer was a merchant in Hanzhong, and I heard that he had a great relationship with Zhang Lu. Zhang Lu has a lot of self-respect, and he also needs a lot of leather.

In fact, the leather business used to be officially purchased by Xinye. Because Xinye also has self-respect, but at present, in Xinye's inventory, the materials are piled up, and the leather stuff can't be stuffed.

Shinno is poor, really poor.

The poor were left with only food, supplies, weapons, and horses.

After the guards took off the leather, they registered it with Mi Fang, saying that they wanted to buy cloth and silk cloth.

Inside the yamen, in Mi Fang's office room. Mi Fang's appearance is somewhat similar to Mi Zhu, but Mi Fang is more feminine. Hearing this, he put down his pen, looked up at the guards and said, "If it is silk cloth, Xinye has it, and the price is about 10,000 yuan per horse." But I'll show you where to go, and I'll be able to buy a piece of silk cloth for nine thousand six hundred dollars. ”

Guan Ping had already written to tell Guan Yu, and Guan Yu also gave an order. The guards were not the first merchants to come to buy cloth, and many people had already been persuaded by Mi Fang to go to Fangling to buy silk cloth.

"How is this so cheap?" Like many merchants, the guards were at first not delighted, but suspicious. The price is only 400 yuan, and if you buy moldy cloth or moth-eaten cloth, it will be more than worth the loss.

"You can rest assured that they are all good fabrics, but for some reason, they are sold cheaper. Forget it, I said you don't believe it either. The place where the cloth was sold was set up in the bazaar on the south bank of the Hanshui in Fangling, which was also government-run. You go over there and take a look. It's not far away anyway. Mi Fang shook her head and said.

The guards were skeptical, but there was a great temptation to be cheap. It must be known that this time the guards planned to buy 5,000 pieces of cloth and return to Hedong, and then sell them to the Bingzhou people, or the Xiongnu.

That's one or two times the profit.

If a piece of cloth can save four hundred dollars, then it can save two million dollars, almost seventy gold.

Don't look at Guan Ping's shot, it is 3,000 gold, 6,000 gold. In fact, it is a special case, and seventy gold is already a very big fortune.

So the guards gritted their teeth and led the caravan to Fangling.