Chapter 53: The Sea Market

"There are 15,000 and 67 households in Wuwei County, 64,736 people, and now there are two warehouses of grain, cattle and horses..."

I don't know how long it took, Li Wenyuan opened his eyes, looked at the blanket draped on his body, and Li Wenyuan was shocked to realize that it was getting late outside the house. At this time, a person came in from outside the door, and saw that Li Wenyuan had woken up, so he said, "Master, you are awake, come and eat something." ”

The person who came was none other than Qiu Niang, who led the team to Wuwei County with Li Wenyuan. After a long absence, Li Wenyuan couldn't hold back the thoughts in his heart, and the tense nerves during this time finally couldn't stand up, standing up and ignoring the blanket that fell on the ground, he took Qiu Niang into his arms and hugged him tightly, buried his head in Qiu Niang's hair, and greedily sniffed Qiu Niang's hair.

Qiu Niang was suddenly hugged by Li Wenyuan and stiffened, and then gently stroked Li Wenyuan's head with his hand, he also knew that the people who crossed over had nothing here, everything had to be done by himself, and he was planning the future in every detail. Even the only golden finger that is well known about history sometimes fails, especially in the troubled times between the two dynasties. There are very few history books of the new dynasty that speak for the good words of the previous dynasty, and they all use everything to belittle and slander, and use it to swear their own legitimacy.

Li Wenyuan talked to her about this matter, and the most obvious thing is how similar are the records of Shang Tang's destruction of Xia and Zhou Wu's war in ancient times? It is likely that the king of Zhou usurped the matter of Shang Tang to destroy Xia in order to swear orthodoxy, but the affairs of the three dynasties of antiquity are no longer examinable, and it can only be said that the history books cannot be trusted.

The nasal cavity was filled with Qiu Niang's hair and body fragrance, and Li Wenyuan's tense nerves relaxed a little. After a long time, he let go of Qiu Niang and pulled Qiu Niang to sit on the chair next to her.

"Qiu Niang, how did I do the things I told you?" Li Wenyuan asked.

Qiu Niang knew that he was talking about the night owl, so she said: "I only arrived this afternoon, where do I have time to get the night owl, you sleep comfortably here, those people and craftsmen want me to settle down." ”

Li Wenyuan thought that he had brought 20,000 homeless people, so he hurriedly smiled apologetically and said, "I've worked hard for you, but the things at hand are too complicated, and I didn't think about it for a while." ”

Qiu Niang nodded and said, "I know, Li Liang has plans to support Hu and stand on his own, and you still have the son of the Turkic Khan in your hand, what are you going to do?" ”

Li Wenyuan smiled and asked Qiu Niang: "Didn't we study how to solve the problem of rations for 20,000 people before?" At that time, I comforted you and said that Wuwei County had its own way to solve it, at that time I really didn't have any way, I just wanted to take one step at a time, but now, I already have 10,000 cattle and sheep, and 5,000 Turkic horses. ”

Qiu Niang didn't understand at first glance, and just frowned to ask for an understanding, but suddenly thought of something, covered her mouth and smiled: "You are really a little lucky, but the Turkic Khan can really use those cattle, sheep and horses to redeem his son?" ”

"What he wants to redeem is the fine work that infiltrated the Great Sui, not his own son." Li Wenyuan pretended to be profound.

Qiu Niang stretched out her jade finger and tapped it on Li Wenyuan's forehead, and said with a smile: "You profiteer." ”

After a night without words, the next day Li Wenyuan went to a camp near the military camp under the leadership of Qiu Niang. This camp is the company camp of those displaced people, and it is a temporary residence built by Zhang Juntai with the assistance of the army. Although the camp is a little messy, but those homeless people are extremely orderly in the camp, and no one has made any trouble, if it is not for the fact that they have been bandits in advance, they will feel that they are just some ordinary people at this moment, without any banditry.

"General! Checkmate! Zhang Juntai shouted loudly as he walked over quickly, "General, the first batch of spies we spilled out are back." ”

"But have you found a place to strike iron on the shore of Moon Lake?" Li Wenyuan asked eagerly.

"It's not news from Moon Lake, the spies came to report that there is a black market in the desert, trading some items prohibited by the government, and even slaves." Zhang Juntai said.

"The slave trade? I'll listen to you. Li Wenyuan asked curiously.

"Our spies tried their best to get in, the black market is called the sea market, it is said that there is a big man in Wuwei County behind him, and every time he completes a transaction, he will give a certain percentage to the big man, so he has survived until now. In addition to all kinds of weapons that were expressly forbidden to trade, there were also slaves from various countries, mainly Turkic, Khitan, Sogdian, and even some Sui and Great Qin. Zhang Juntai said.

"How come there are still Great Qin people?" Li Wenyuan exclaimed. Great Qin is generally considered to be the name of Rome, but at this time, the Western Roman Empire has long disappeared, and now only the Eastern Roman Empire is still maintaining orthodoxy under the pressure of many European barbarians, but Constantinople is tens of thousands of miles away, how can there be Great Qin people?

"The Great Qin people should be among the Great Qin caravans who came from the west by the Turks." Zhang Juntai said.

"Leave Udrud here to lead the soldiers, assist Renyue to straighten out the rule of Wuwei County, and you will take the gold and silver with me to the sea market to have a look." Li Wenyuan said as he tapped his index finger lightly on the table.

Zhang Juntai said: "Yes, but what are the 20,000 exile generals going to do?" ”

"Well, let's go, go to the barracks and call Udrour to discuss this matter." Li Wenyuan said.

The three of them left the camp of the homeless company and returned to the barracks, and Zhang Juntai found Udrul, who was training cavalry. As soon as Udrud entered the tent, he put his right hand into a fist on his left chest and bent down to salute: "General, you are looking for me." ”

"Ha, after Udrud arrived in the army, he didn't feel as free and easy as before." Li Wenyuan said with a smile.

"When you are in the army, you must obey the art of war, whether it is a Turkic or Han army." Udrul said in a deep voice.

"Okay, I've called you here today to tell you about the disposal of those displaced people." Li Wenyuan pondered as he explained to Uderu how to resettle the displaced people. At this time, Xue Renyue also came to Li Wenyuan to report some things in Wuwei County, so Li Wenyuan moved the place slightly and asked Xue Renyue to sit down next to him.

Originally, I just liked this little offspring with a strong scholarly atmosphere, and I arranged for him to deal with the affairs of Wuwei County because of Xue Ju's entrustment, and also arranged for the guards to be protected by people with strong martial arts. But after looking at it in the past few days, Li Wenyuan found that this little student still has a set of ways to handle government affairs, and in just a few days, the officialdom of Wuwei County has been put in order, and all the officials who saw him were impressed that Xue Renyue was watching in a good way. Even Li Wenyuan was secretly surprised:

The tiger father has no dogs.