With the large-scale movement of people, it naturally led to the creation of countless small merchants. Countless simple snack shops have sprung up on the roadside, and all kinds of shops have also opened, rouge gouache, needles and threads, only what you can't think of, nothing you can't buy. For these small businessmen, doing business in Chicheng and Ye County is like being in paradise. Not only is the market big scary, but the government has nothing to blame them. Those itinerant vendors don't have to pay any taxes, and they earn as much as they make a day. Although those shops will pay taxes, the rate of one hundred taxes is forty percent lower than that stipulated by the Great Yan Imperial Court. The only thing they have to pay is to change their household registration to Chicheng or Ye County. There was little resistance from ordinary people, including the merchants. The world is not good, for them, where they live, where they live, where is home.

The extraordinary prosperity of commerce attracted more people to come, and the increase in population further strengthened the labor capacity of Akagi and Ye Prefecture, and promoted commerce. A virtuous circle has been formed.

Before the Tea Horse Market was opened, Chicheng and Ye County prospered ahead of schedule, which Qin Wang and others did not expect.

Beneath such a prosperous and peaceful surface, there is also an undercurrent.

Qin Forget had just gotten the news that the Sanzhou military horse Chen Bing Yunbei County of the Golden Mountain had 50,000 elite soldiers heading directly at Chicheng and Ye County. What's more critical is that the county seat of Yunbei is right between Yunzhou and Chicheng, and Golden Mountain's move directly separates Qin Wang and Huang Ling, so that they can't help each other. If it weren't for Huang Ling's thousands of troops in Feihukou who had been threatening Yunzhou City, Huang Ling would have been wiped out by the Golden Mountain long ago. There is another more critical meaning of Huang Jinshan's move, that is, to ensure his interests in the tea and horse market.

In addition, the 50,000 elite cavalry of the king of the North Courtyard on the other side of Helin was divided into two, and 25,000 people were stationed outside Helin City, intimidating the Xiao family's father and son. The other 25,000 people advanced to the edge of the national border, far away from Mantou Mountain, and there was a great tendency to wave their troops straight into Akagi.

There are also 30,000 state troops of Tongzhou of the imperial court who also arrived in Chicheng and set up camp five miles west of Mantou Mountain, and Mantou Mountain controlled the land route to Helin on the left and right.

Emperor Cao Ziwen sent the Zhao family's 30,000 Tongzhou troops to come this time, which can be said to be of great significance. Last time, because of the affairs of the Xinzhou Water Division, the head of the Zhao family and the former squire of the military department, Zhao Bao, was demoted to a concubine and temporarily stayed away from the center of Dayan. Being able to hand over such an important matter as shocking the Tea and Horse Market to Zhao Qian is also another degree of compensation for the Zhao family.

In just one month, more than 200,000 troops from the Jinshan, Khitan Beiyuan, Chicheng, and Lin Xiaojia, Huang Ling, and Tongzhou armies were stationed in a hundred miles north of Dayan. The relationship between several forces is complex and very delicate, you have me, I have you. Turning this area into a powder keg, I don't know when, because of what kind of fuse, it will trigger a large-scale melee.

Akagi is also in full swing, whether it is Chicheng or Ye County, the city wall that has just been established is full of Akagi's soldiers and horses, and a bed crossbow is erected on the battlements every twenty paces, and each county has a full one hundred and fifteen

Ten crossbows, the top has been loaded with spear-like crossbow arrows, and the tips of the crossbow arrows more than a foot long are shining coldly, coldly pointing at the pedestrians below, which is daunting. These 300 bed crossbows, plus 400 on Mantou Mountain, a total of 700 were coerced by Qin Wang, Huang Lingna got 100 bodies, the 300 bodies in Golden Mountain, and 300 copies by himself, Qin Forget arranged them all in the three places, in order to deter Xiaoxiao.

In the two counties, there is a battalion of heavily armed defenders every day, giving no one a chance to take advantage of it.

Qin Wang, who was in the center of the deep whirlpool, was powerless to change this status quo, unless the tea and horse market was closed, everyone went back to their own homes and looked for their own mothers, otherwise no one could solve the current situation.

"Good, good god horse!" Cao Ziwen was in the royal horse farm, looking at the seven thousand war horses that had just been sent, and he was very excited.

One moment he touched the horse, the other patted the other. The smile on his face couldn't hide it, "Chen Liang, look, look at this jujube red horse, it's really a divine horse, yo, it hasn't been castrated yet, it's really a good seedling of a horse breed." ”

The jujube red horse that Cao Ziwen looked at was six feet tall, unusually well-proportioned, with very thick limbs and bones, and the horse's head slightly resembled a rabbit's head.

"What Your Majesty said is, look at this horse's head, just like a rabbit, could it be that the legendary Red Rabbit Horse of the Three Kingdoms looks like this?" Chen Liang quipped.

He is exaggerating when he says this, this jujube red horse is indeed a miracle horse, but it is still far from the level of the red rabbit.

"Haha, you guy just can talk, this horse is really good." Cao Ziwen personally broke the horse's mouth, "Look, it's only one and a half years old, and it's in the prime of life, Qin Forget did really well this time." ”

"Yes, this kid didn't disappoint, the slave originally thought that this guy was a disloyal and unfilial person, but he didn't expect that although he was a little rude, he also knew loyalty." Chen Liang also laughed and said, "Your Majesty, do you know what he said when the slave asked him if he was loyal to the imperial court?" ”

"Oh? How so? Cao Ziwen asked with interest.

"The kid said he didn't know."

"He doesn't know either?" Cao Ziwen raised his eyebrows and asked unexpectedly, in his heart, shouldn't Qin Forget show his loyalty at this time?

"This kid said that he was a mountain boy, and that the court was too far away for him, and that the things he did were just to keep himself and the people he cared about alive. Taking Chicheng, Shuishi and Xinzhou is also a last resort, that Golden Mountain and Huang Ling are pressing on him step by step, if he doesn't control the tea and horse market, they will have been eliminated by Huang Jinshan and others. The last time Golden Mountain sent people to attack Chicheng and Ye County, it was proved that Golden Mountain was really vicious, and actually slaughtered the entire Ye County. Chen Liang reported to Cao Ziwen what he saw and heard in Chicheng.

"What? Attack Akagi? Is it even a massacre of Ye County? How come I don't know? Hearing this, Cao Ziwen was furious.

Chen Liang smiled bitterly

"This news was covered by the Golden Mountain in the three states of Yunshuo Wei, not to mention Your Majesty, there are not many people in the court who know about it." ”

"This golden mountain is so bold, I want to kill him!" Cao Ziwen was even more annoyed and said murderously. By now, he began to wonder if it was a mistake to appoint Huang Jinshan as the envoy of the three states. He even felt that what Qin Forgot was to protect himself at all, otherwise he would really be killed by the Golden Mountain.

"Your Majesty is angry, I received news on the way here that Golden Mountain has sent 50,000 infantry to Yunbei County, and now is not the time to get rid of him. In fact, Qin Forget didn't make him feel better, Qin Forget subdued one of his ironclad elites, captured the other, and now it is also used by Qin Wang, and even grabbed the son of the Golden Mountain and other gentlemen, and extorted a lot of things from the Golden Mountain, and Qin Forget also killed 1,600 Yunzhou Army prisoners and made them into human heads. Chen Liang hurriedly persuaded Cao Ziwen.

"Killed 1,600 people? Do you want to be an adult? This kid is so ruthless. Cao Ziwen gasped, "But it's a good job, if I do the same, it's okay for young people to be happy and revenge." ”

"Yes, the minions think so, too. There is revenge and revenge, and there is kindness to repay kindness, which also shows that this kid has no scheming, so it is easier for the court to use. Chen nodded and said, "Li Chengan is also wooing him, and he only agrees on the surface, and has not done anything for him so far." ”

"I had expected that Wenman would have a golden mountain, and Li Chengan would naturally find a way to win over Qin Forget, this kid is also smart, and he knows that following me is the right way." Cao Ziwen smiled with satisfaction.

"This kid is also a slippery head, not only was he not used by Li Chengan, but he took advantage of Li Chengan first. He collected a lot of evidence of the Golden Mountain's embezzlement of money and grain for the snow disaster in the north in recent years, and gave it to Li Chengan, and the slave thought that Li Chengan should have participated in the Golden Mountain in the Dayan court. Chen Liang said with a smile.

"You're right, Li Chengan didn't give the Golden Mountain a way to live at all, if it weren't for the imminent opening of the Tea Horse Market, I would have to slaughter the Golden Mountain. It's just that the Golden Mountain is really rebellious, and I deposed him as the assassin of Yunzhou, and let him only lead Shuozhou and Ulzhou, but I didn't expect him to dare to Chen Bing Yunbei County. I really misjudged him. Thinking of Jinshan's various behaviors, Cao Ziwen regretted and was angry.

"Your Majesty is right, now it seems that the Golden Mountain may have a lot of plans, and I am afraid that there is a heart of disobedience." Chen Liang rolled his eyes and spoke.

Chen Liang is a stone on the Golden Mountain. In fact, he is not completely for Qin Wang, he also has his little Jiujiu. Now Chen Liang is only the second person in the inner court of Dayan, and the eunuch Chang Zhen who is in charge of all the eunuchs in the inner court is the eunuch who holds the pen, Chen Liang has always wanted to replace him, but he has never had a chance. Especially Chang Zhen and Wen Man stood together, and Queen Wen gave Chang Zhen as a backer, which made Chen Liang have nowhere to start. Now that Wen Man's other henchman Huang Jinshan is unlucky, he naturally wants to add to the fire. Defeating the Golden Mountain can greatly weaken Wen Man's power, and then further defeat Chang Zhen.