When the old man heard this, he lowered his head and lit an oil lamp on the ground, and handed it to him. Then he also took a deep breath of hookah, and said in a desolate voice: "Baby, you are content!" Look at the uncle, it hasn't been open for three whole days! When I used to smoke this big bamboo, I still felt energetic...... Can ...... now Yawn...... It is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, and it is difficult to enter simplicity from luxury! Boy, if you feel sorry for your uncle, give me a bag to quench your thirst! Looking back at this half of the public account, the uncle helped you find a way to wipe it, don't you think it can be done? ”

Then, under the gaze of Urge, the old and the young two Miao Wu men, one of them picked up a small bamboo tube like a weighing rod, and swallowed the clouds and spit out fog at the small oil lamp that had just been lit......

Urge took out the bamboo tube in his wooden box and broke it with his two fingers slightly...... Sure enough, these two bamboo tubes are filled with fishy black-brown cream - A Hibiscus!

There is a cooperative relationship between Urge and Diting, and naturally they know the appearance and purpose of this hibiscus. She also knew that there were all those who only knew money and did not recognize people, and of course she had heard a little about their secret tobacco business.

However, she usually has a one-line connection with Di Ting, and these business-related matters are not under the care of mercenaries who fight and kill; Therefore, Urge's biggest impression of A Furong is the dark-skinned Hu merchants in Chang'an City, who set up stalls in the West Market to sell Elephant Valley.

However, even in Chang'an City, where merchants from all over the world gather, Xianggu, a spice and medicinal material, can only be sold in the West Market; Moreover, if you want to obtain the qualification to sell Elephant Valley, the conditions are also extremely strict, and the number of licenses is also limited. In other words, Xianggu is a material strictly controlled by the Xin'an Hou Prefecture, just as the export of strategic materials such as gunpowder and armor is banned.

Therefore, in Chang'an City, if you want to obtain this kind of thing, there is only one legitimate way: through the Lang Zhong test once a year, a total of three times, after obtaining the three qualifications of practicing medicine, sitting in the hall, and prescribing prescriptions, you can go to the West Market to buy Xianggu with your Shennong waist card; Of course, the price is also as high as the ninth layer of heaven......

Due to the strict control of the Xin'an Hou Mansion, although there is also an elephant valley on the streets of Chang'an City, there has never been a hibiscus ointment; Those addicts who come here from outside the country usually choose to settle in the outer city of Chang'an. First, the accommodation can be cheaper, and second, it is safer to be outside the city.

Because there is an unwritten rule in the Xin'an Hou Mansion: anyone who sells hibiscus in the territory of the land of Sanqin will be punished by beheading; Those who smoke A Hibiscus will be fined two silver and white, and they will be equipped with the army for three years! Of course, this is only a unique family law in the land of Sanqin, and Zhou Changfeng is only a marquis, and he has no right to legislate at all; Therefore, anyone who is caught with such a prisoner will be convicted of another crime that meets the criminal responsibility, and then reported to the Criminal Department of Yanjing City for the record.

Because she has settled in Chang'an City all the year round, although Urge has also heard of the harmfulness of this kind of thing, she has not witnessed its horror with her own eyes, and her two husbands and friends around her have no one who likes it, so in her eyes, Ah Furong should be on the same level as popular vices such as eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, and smoking.

This is the first time in her life that she has encountered a situation where she can use Fleur as a currency in circulation! Moreover, the people in this Miaoyi Village are all relatives of his clan in Urge!

Although Miao Wuzhai has grown more than a little bit, the root of it is that it is also a branch from the branches of the four major families; They are all related to each other, even if they are strangers who seem to be unable to beat each other, and they are two or three generations up, they are all real relatives!

Next, Urge took out a small half of A Hibiscus, handed it to the old man, and asked him about the recent situation in Miao Wuzhai! I didn't expect to know if I didn't ask, but I was shocked when I asked! It turns out that this A Furong is wreaking havoc in Miao Wu Village, and it is directly related to herself!

When the previous grandmother was still alive, all the hard-earned money she had earned from Diting was subsidized to the poor families in the village who had lost their ability to survive; But after the little grandmother took over, the population of the clan gradually grew and expanded, and the original village began to be inadequate; If you want to open up new gathering points, you must avoid friction with other tribes; If there is friction, there will be a war, and there will be casualties in the war, so the middle-aged elderly who have lost their children alone and the orphans and widows who have lost their husbands in middle age have gradually increased.

When the battle is won, a large sum of money will be spent to open up new gathering points; If the war is lost, not only will you not get any benefits, but you will have to continue to support more elderly people and orphans. If you only rely on the subsidies that Urge sends back to the village from time to time, and sells the handicrafts and agricultural and sideline products in the village, it is a drop in the bucket!

Therefore, from the perspective of the development of Miaowu Village, it is imperative and absolutely correct to open up a Miaoyi Village as an exhibition and trading center for goods!

However, the cost of opening a village is very different from that of opening a village! At the very least, trade hubs need walls and garrisons to protect merchants and goods! Fortunately, Bashu Road is rich in bamboo, and it is barely suitable as a city wall and building material.

So after some discussion, everyone chose the current location of Miaoyi Village to establish a village! This is a rare plain area, surrounded by countless large and small tribes, and a feng shui treasure land bordered by several borders! If you can open up a trading market here, you can completely solve all the problems of Miao Wuzhai now and in the future!

However, if you want to get this extremely rare feng shui treasure, you must first go through a bloody battle! Because this piece of feng shui treasure land is not within the sphere of influence of Miao Wuzhai! Even the Northern Yan Imperial Court's division of jurisdiction here is extremely ambiguous.

Of course, Zhu Yuntao, the governor of Bashu Dao, who is in charge of guarding the southwest border, is very aware of the situation of multi-tribe living here, but he is not interested in taking the initiative to clean up and suppress it, and he doesn't want to care about the bad things here at all, so he will hand over this trouble to Zhuhai Jianchi to manage it on his behalf!

First, it borders Nankang's sphere of influence, Yunnan Province; Second, there is only a line of influence between this place and the large and small golden boy Buddhas in Western Xinjiang; Therefore, this has always been a Cold War conflict zone where the three chickens and dogs of Beiyan, Nankang, and Xijiang smell each other, but they do not get along with each other. If you rashly send troops to clear out, or want to reorganize and collect the large and small tribes here, and people escape the border line of Beiyan, will you chase or not?

If you command a large army to step into the other side's border, your own clean-up operation will immediately escalate into a border conflict between two or even three countries; If you don't chase it, then as soon as your army here withdraws, those tribes will immediately go back to their homes! It can only be a waste of money and food, labor and money!

Moreover, although the living conditions of these scattered small tribes are difficult, they do not seem to envy the rich life, and have always been extremely closed and rarely in contact with the outside world; neither paid taxes and contributions to the Northern Yan court, nor was it subject to the royal law of the Northern Yan court; He thrives and lives a self-sufficient life in his own one-third of an acre.

However, although they lack medical care and medicine, and their weapons and equipment are poor, these barbarians have lived in Bashu Road for generations, and they know all about the mountains, rivers, terrain, grass and trees here! Don't look at these people, all of them are black, thin and small, like refugees who have been malnourished for a long time; But once you really start to do it, all of them are the top masters of mountain warfare! The three of them came to the tall tree, and one of them jumped up directly; Dozens of miles of rugged mountain roads, carrying a burden can also run like flying; In addition, in their long-term fishing and hunting life, they have also practiced the jungle archery skills of a hundred steps through the poplars, and they also have extremely profound attainments in setting traps, digging traps, ambushes, and transmitting news!

Due to the poverty of life and the extreme lack of materials, most of these barbarian warriors marched and fought naked and barefoot, and if they were placed on the frontal battlefield, they would definitely not be able to carry even a charge from the Zhenxi army; But if it comes to fighting guerrillas in the deep mountains and old forests, or attacking the grain roads in groups of three or five, outflanking the back road of the Zhenxi Army, then for others, it is really a matter of ease and effort!

In addition, these people have no concept of family and country in the first place, and they will fight if they can fight, and if they can't beat them, they will go directly to southern Yunnan or Western Xinjiang, and they will not be completely wiped out. If you really provoke them, then the entire southwest of Bashu Road will no longer have a peaceful birthday!

And even if Zhu Yuntao can completely clear the Bashu Dao at all costs, how much silver can he scrape in the hands of these poor ghosts? Even if he can really scrape a huge amount of taxes, he wishes Yuntao, as a minister, that he has to hand over this silver to the treasury, how much can he leave in Bashudao?

This kind of lack of oil and water, and it affects the sensitive areas of the whole body, whether it is Governor Zhu Yuntao or Emperor Zhou Yuanqing, they have always maintained a free and casual supervision method; But Miao Wu Village is not as big as the Northern Yan Imperial Court, and in the face of the development of Miao Wu Village, it has come to a bottleneck period, of course, I want to take this fat and fat land at all costs!

And this eye-catching plain was still in the hands of the ancient Xiqiang tribe at that time.

Then there are only two ways in front of Miao Wuzhai: either to fight head-on with the Xiqiang Department and completely seize this economically strategic area; Either give up this idea and go back to the days of frugality and handouts......

At that time, the leader of the clan was Xiao Grandma, and in fact, it was the patriarch of the four major families who controlled the right to speak in Miao Wuzhai. The patriarch of the Ur family has long been dissatisfied with the treatment that Urge has received! For so many years, how much benefit have the people of the other three families suffered from Urge in vain? Why should the silver earned by licking the blood from Urge's knife be divided equally among the people of the four families?

In fact, the four major families and the little grandma each have their own ideas, but the general ideas and goals are the same! As a result, the four families selected a group of adult males one after another, and prepared to officially carry out the clean-up operation against the Xiqiang tribe entrenched in that piece of feng shui treasure!

It's a pity that what they don't know is that the Xiqiang tribe is definitely not a newborn baby like Miao Wuzhai who has just come into contact with the outside world......