When the First Army arrived at Huaiyuan Town, it set up camp outside the city.

Although Huaiyuan Town is in the northeastern frontier of the Great Sui, it is prosperous and lively beyond the expectations of Luo Cheng and others who went into the city to shop after setting up camp. In Huaiyuan in July, the climate is cool and pleasant, and it is not as hot and dry as the Central Plains.

Luo Cheng and the others were all wearing military robes and carrying horizontal knives, walking in the city, not feeling hot, and not sweating a drop.

"I didn't expect it to be so lively here!"

Huaiyuan is only a small border county, and it was often harassed by the Goguryeo people in the past, and even sometimes the Khitan people in the north will also attack and disturb the south, so there are no more than 1,000 households in this county all year round, and there are only so many hundred households in the county seat, which is said to be the county seat, but it is similar to a village in the Central Plains.

If it weren't for the permanent border army here, the people here would probably have run out long ago.

However, since the eighteenth year of the emperor's reign, after Emperor Wen decided to go east, Huaiyuan began to strengthen his defenses. The garrison increased, the city expanded and heightened, and every year the convicts would be escorted to the border to cultivate the fields and graze.

Later, the Son of Heaven also asked the Taishou of Liaoxi to set up a border market here, and traded with the Turks, Xi people, Yan people, Muwei people and other northeastern tribes, and traded with salt cloth and other cattle and horses. This border city is mainly to appease these border tribes, so that these poor people will often come to rob if they die.

Otherwise, there would be no need for the Great Sui to go so far to set up a border city.

The effect of the border market is still very good, a large number of northeastern tribes came to trade, and the border city also attracted many merchants from the Central Plains, so the dilapidated Huaiyuan County in the past has now become the Huaiyuan town with a wall of more than three zhang in circumference.

There are 3,000 border troops stationed in the town, and there are also a number of forts outside the town, which are stationed in thousands of soldiers and horses, and a total of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed in Huaiyuan and the surrounding areas.

And the border market of Huaiyuan is even more lively, every day there are many barbarians driving herds of cattle and horses to trade, Huaiyuan City also has a commercial street, all kinds of Central Plains commercial goods, everything is available here.

Qinglou brothels, teahouses, inns, and houses, one by one.

Except for the embargoed iron tools, there was almost everything here, salt, wine, tea, cloth, silk, porcelain, etc., and the barbarians came to trade, except for cattle, sheep, horses, camels and other livestock, the most that could be sold was some furs, herbs, and slaves.

In the Central Plains, a good horse can be sold for twenty or thirty times, but here, five or six thousand dollars can buy one.

And most of those barbarians don't want money, they all barter, the silk that the tribal nobles need, a good horse in exchange for a silk, and a silk Central Plains merchants have to make a lot of money.

It can be said that since the opening of the market in Huaiyuan, I don't know how many people have been issued.

A batch of goods was transported from the Central Plains, and then traded to barbarians, exchanged for livestock fur and herbal medicine slaves, and transported back to the Central Plains to make a lot of money.

However, according to Shi Meng's words, the people who can make a fortune here are actually the dogs of each family. Dogs are naturally those businessmen who throw their heads, and the owners of dogs, of course, are not nobles in Daxing, or famous families in the Kanto region. In short, they all have identities, and the border generals can also take a little part in this.

Shi Meng is Luo Cheng's subordinate, he was originally Luo Yi's Yanyun Iron Cavalry, and was sent to Luo Cheng, Luo Cheng saw that he had outstanding martial arts, especially this riding and archery skill, so he also stayed. He was tall and mighty, of mixed race, of Sogdian blood, his father was a Sogdian, and his mother was a Han girl.

has followed Luo Yi for many years, and has been in Yanyun for a long time, so Shi Meng is still relatively clear about the details of Huaiyuan Town.

"Among these businessmen in Huaiyuan Town, the strongest one is the Yuwen family."

"Which Yuwen family?"

There are many nobles in Daxing who have the surname Yuwen.

"Naturally, it was Kaifu Yitong Sansi, General Zuo Wei, and Xu Guo Gongyu who wrote it." Shi Meng didn't mind telling Luo Cheng, a countryman, about this, after all, he had sworn to Luo Yi that he would follow Luo Cheng in the future.

"Yu Wenshu is the most favored person by the emperor in today's court, known as the head of the five nobles. However, the power of the Yuwen family in Huaiyuan Town is actually his son's work. ”

"It's the Yu Wenhua who is called a light boy by the people of Beijing, if you touch him, remember to avoid it in time. This man relied on his father's power, and was most fond of misconduct, disobeying the law, and was extremely arrogant and greedy. He likes to take his family the most, ride a high-headed horse, hold a weak bow, and gallop wildly on the streets of Beijing. ”

When the Son of Heaven was still the crown prince, Yu Wenhua had already relied on the power of Lao Tzu to enter the palace as a guard, and he was also very close to the Son of Heaven and was regarded as the emperor's confidant. Although he was dismissed many times for accepting bribes, he was immediately reinstated by the crown prince soon after the dismissal.

In addition, his younger brother Yuwen Shi and Shang married Princess Nanyang, the eldest daughter of the Son of Heaven, and climbed the imperial family, so the Yuwen brothers were even more arrogant, and there was no one in their eyes.

Even the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee, if they have the slightest disagreement, they will be insulted by him.

When today's son succeeded to the throne, Yu Wenhua and even more arrogant, he was promoted to the imperial servant Shaoqing, relying on the relationship with the emperor, when he came to Yulin with the emperor and met with the Turkic Khan, their brothers dared to violate the ban and secretly do business with the Turks.

And at that time, it was not an ordinary business, but smuggling weapons and iron weapons to the Turks, which provoked the emperor to be angry, and he was going to kill Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and his brothers, and later Princess Nanyang helped to intercede, and the Son of Heaven spared him from death, but demoted him to slavery, and then gave Yu Wenshu.

However, everyone can see that giving his son to Lao Tzu as a slave is actually a disguised pardon of his crimes.

"Yu Culture and Now Huaiyuan?"

"Well, Yu Wenhua and Yu Wenzhi and the two brothers are now in Huaiyuan Town. It is said that he is here to make a big deal, and it is estimated that he is doing some illegal things. But their family is powerful, you must not provoke them. You can't afford to mess with them, even if it's the prince of Xiangyang, you can't afford to mess with them. ”

Yu Wenhua and the brothers are still slaves, but these two slaves are more special, and not everyone can mess with them.

The Great Sui was about to start a war with the Goguryeo, but the Yuwen brothers, who were the top nobles of the imperial court, were engaged in smuggling here at this time.

This is Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be there soon.

In the originally noisy street, suddenly a team of people galloped out.

These people are extremely arrogant, and they don't care that the streets are full of people, they just gallop on horseback, and everyone avoids them. However, the person on the horse has not yet realized the slightest consciousness, but enjoys this feeling of being avoided by everyone, and actually whips up his horse and laughs.

Seeing this, Luo Cheng hurriedly retreated to the side with the heirs.

At this moment, a man carrying a burden fell in a panic when he avoided it, and he struggled to get up, but knocked a child next to him to the ground.

Seeing that the horse was about to step on, the child was frightened and at a loss.

When everyone thought that the child was going to die today, suddenly a figure rushed out, and a shoulder slammed into the rushing horse.

The galloping horse was hit by this huge force and was actually knocked to the side.

The horse neighed and the child cried.

At the critical moment, the person who knocked down the galloping horse and saved the child was Luo Shixin. I saw that Shixin knocked down the horse, turned around and picked up the child, carried him to the side of the road and put it down, and reached out and touched his hair.

"Smack!"

A whip flicked over and whipped straight at Shixin.

But halfway through the draw, he was cut off with a knife, and the person who wielded the knife was Luo Cheng with a black face.