"I'm going to go to Ulju in person to see if I can convince the Li family." Jin Cheng pretended not to see Yang Xuan's expression and said.

"No way!" Yang Xuan refused without thinking, "My brother Jin, you are the general's most respected brother, if you go, then if the Li family has a hot brain, what will happen to you, the general will not have to peel my skin?" No, absolutely not! Yang Xuan's head shook like a rattle.

"Then who else can go to this Akagi?" Jin Cheng was very depressed.

"Otherwise, I'll go, I can represent Akagi and the general, and the weight is enough." After pondering the candidates, Yang Xuan still felt that he was suitable.

"No, now that the general is not here, you are the backbone of Akagi, if something happens to you, Akagi will have an accident."

"Then who do you say is going?" Yang Xuan was slightly anxious, and his tone was very bad.

"General Qiyu, Jiang Dongchen, the third sentinel soldier of the Second Army, asks to see you!" Just when the atmosphere in the room was depressed, Yang Xuan's personal soldiers suddenly came in to report.

"Jiang Dongchen? Who is it? Yang Xuan looked confused, in his memory, Chicheng really did not have Jiang Dongchen.

"Back to the general, he specially said that if the general can't remember, let his subordinates say that he is the son of Jiang Fang, the head of the Jiang family in Ulzhou, and this time he asked to see the general to get medicine for Akagi." The soldier replied with a strange expression.

"The Jiang family in Ulzhou? Jiang Fang? Oh, I remembered! Yang Xuan thought about it carefully, and suddenly realized, seeing that Jin Cheng still looked confused, he opened his mouth to explain: "This Jiang Dongchen is also one of the few gentlemen who were arrested last time, but his father was a little picky, because he was unwilling to give more of the ransom share, he was killed by Huang Jinshan, and the Jiang family was also raided and exterminated. When Jiang Dongchen heard the news, he begged the general to give him a chance to take revenge, and the general also allowed him to train in the Second Army. I heard the people of Mingyue Hall say that this kid is still honest, and he doesn't have a grudge because we arrested him. Hey, hey, this kid is still a little interesting. ”

"Let him in!" Yang Xuan said to the pro-soldier again.

After a while, a long, slightly swarthy young man walked in with a sad and joyless face.

"Jiang Dongchen, a soldier of the third battalion and three sentinels of the Second Army, has seen General Yang and Lord Jin." Jiang Dongchen knelt down on one knee and respectfully and humbly gave a military salute to the two.

Yang Xuan's face was cold, and his serious eyes looked Jiang Dongchen up and down, dark and thin, but he was stronger, and he didn't have the original swagger. However, his attitude of not being humble or arrogant made Yang Xuan a little unable to see through him.

"Jiang Dongchen, have you ever resented my Chicheng and the general?" Yang Xuan suddenly asked.

As soon as he said this, the temperature in the room dropped by a few degrees.

Jiang Dongchen's body was shocked, he didn't think that Yang Xuan's first sentence was actually this, and his heart immediately became worried.

"Resentful." In a flash of thought, he decided to tell the truth, because he knew that no one would believe him if he didn't resent it.

He boldly raised his head and looked directly at Yang Xuan's eyes, which had completely cooled down,

"When I was working so hard in the quarry, when I knew that my family had all been killed, I hated Akagi and the Golden Mountain so much. Especially Akagi, if I hadn't been caught by you, I wouldn't have suffered so much, and my family wouldn't have died! As if remembering his previous state of mind, his face turned pale.

He took another deep breath, "But I'm slowly trying to figure it out, who can blame me for this?" We can only blame us for being too stupid at the beginning, and the 8,000-strong army couldn't even take down the small Akagi. No one is a pig or a sheep, they can be slaughtered by others, and they can't complain about others if they are caught. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xuan's face looked a lot better, "Are you telling the truth?" ”

Jiang Dongchen smiled bitterly, "Can you hide the general's lies?" Now I only hate, hate why the golden mountain is so violent? Why is it so vicious? My father was killed on the spot after just a few more words, and he destroyed me all over the house! This revenge is not shared, begging the general to give me a chance to take revenge! The muscles on Jiang Dongchen's face twisted, his angry eyes were bloodshot, full of monstrous hatred, and his clenched teeth seemed to be about to swallow the golden mountain alive.

Yang Xuan was slightly moved, Jiang Dongchen's expression made him feel cold in his heart after a long time on the battlefield, hatred, it was really a terrible thing.

"Giving you a chance? I can't think of any opportunity for you right now. ”

"Now there is!" Seeing that Yang Xuan's tone had changed, Jiang Dongchen was overjoyed, "I heard that there is a large-scale plague in Xinzhou, and I am in urgent need of medicine in Chicheng, I know where there is medicine!" ”

"Oh...... Where? Jin Cheng next to him asked with interest.

"Go back to Lord Huang, the Li family in Ulzhou!" Jiang Dongchen turned around, faced Jin Cheng, and replied respectfully.

"Go on!" Jin Cheng's eyes lit up, but he didn't expect this kid to want to go with him, so he urged.

"Yes!" Jiang Dongchen organized his language a little, "The Li family is not a big family in Dayan, but it is indeed very successful in the medicinal material business. Almost all the medicinal materials of my Dayan are monopolized by the Li family, especially the Li family has a close relationship with the Khitan people in Liaodong, and can obtain a large number of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, deer antler velvet, bear bile and so on, which makes it unparalleled in the medicinal material world of Dayan and even the whole world. Every year, the Li family would transport tens of thousands of precious medicinal materials from the north to trade with the southern countries for medicinal materials unique to the south, so as to seek violence from them. ”

"The Li family has such a source of wealth, why hasn't it aroused the covetousness of others, after all, the Li family is not a big family!" Yang Xuan asked puzzled.

"It is because of their relationship with the Khitan people that only they can obtain a large number of precious and unique medicinal materials from the Khitans. And among these medicinal materials, such as ginseng, deer antler, etc., the best ones are all tributes from the royal family, and others naturally dare not touch them casually! Jiang Dongchen didn't dare to look at Yang Xuan, and replied with his head down.

"I've also heard of this, the relationship between the Li family and the Khitan in Liaodong is really good, and others can't compare. But why is this, there are many rumors in the city, but there is no conclusive evidence! Jin Cheng nodded and added.

"What Master Jin said is right, in fact, why this is happening, I know!

Jiang Dongchen smiled slightly, "There is no other reason, it's just salt and iron, this is what Li Jun inadvertently told me after drinking too much." The Li family ventured to smuggle a large amount of pig iron and salt to the Khitan every year, so they would naturally get such preferential treatment. ”

"Smuggling salt and iron? How dare the Li family be so bold? Yang Xuan said in surprise.

You must know that salt and iron are absolutely forbidden items in the grassland trade of Dayan or the imperial courts of previous dynasties, and once it is discovered, it is a matter of raiding the family and exterminating the clan. It's not that no one has done it, but the people who do it are either absolutely strong, like the five big families, Wenman and other great families, or they end up miserable.

"Hehe, what's not to dare. Didn't you rob a lot of smuggling caravans? Since the establishment of the Great Yan Dynasty and the collapse of the entire northern border army, it has long been unable to put an end to this smuggling phenomenon. There are dozens of families in Dayan, which one is not doing this? It's just that the scale is large or small, and the smuggled things are also strictly divided, and everyone knows it! Jiang Dongchen said with a sneer.

"Didn't your Jiang family smuggle salt to the Khitans?" Yang Xuan asked suspiciously.

"Not really." Jiang Dongchen was very frank, "How many people is there in Khitan?" It's only 10 million, but the population of the four countries of the Central Plains is more than 100 million? The Jiang family naturally won't lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds, the most important thing is that the risk of going north is too great, my Jiang family doesn't have such a big background, and the competition can't be compared to others! My Jiang family's business is mainly in the south! ”

These few people believe that this time the Jiang family can be killed cleanly by Huang Jinshan in a rage, it can be seen that the status is really not high, and they can still stand suffocated and aggrieved for so many years, completely paving the road with silver. This can also explain why they are engaged in such a lucrative business of smuggling salt, but the Jiang family still has no reputation, and they have just spent it all.

"South? What business? Kaneshiro asked again.

"It's also private salt." Jiang Dongchen said lightly.

"Illegal salt, too?" Yang Xuan and the two looked at each other a few times, both in disbelief, this is too coincidental.

"Go on." Yang Xuan said.

"In fact, my Jiang family's ancestors started as smugglers of salt, and they don't have much background, and they are indeed the weakest in Ulzhou. That's why Golden Mountain can destroy my whole family without any scruples! Speaking of this, Jiang Dongchen's face once again showed resentment and hideousness.

"But it's not for nothing that my Jiang family has been safe and sound for so many years, that is, private salt. In Ulzhou and even in the whole of Yanbei, our Jiang family has the largest channel for smuggling salt, and every year it has to smuggle a large amount of smuggling salt to the southern countries. Seventy percent of the huge profits obtained every year are used to make friends with Shangguan, and in which year did they not give up thousands of taels of silver? It's just, hehe......" Jiang Dongchen sneered sadly for a while, and said no more.

Jiang Dongchen didn't say it explicitly, but Yang Xuan and the others understood what he wanted to express, he was just an upstart, he had no political background, even if he offered gold and silver to the top, he was still vulnerable in the face of power. No one would want to fight to the death with a feudal official for something outside their body.

"You're here to give me a plan, will you tell me about your plan?" Almost understood, Yang Xuan asked.