Lao He, a person who can't even remember his name Yang Qi.

Yang Qi has only known his name as Lao He since he can remember, and as for his name, Yang Qi has never heard anyone call him.

He used to be a person under She Saihua, and in the entire Yang Mansion, he only obeyed She Saihua's orders.

Later, in order to find Yang Si, Yang Qi sent them out.

They were the first people to go out to find Yang Si, and they were the only ones who were not recalled by Yang Qi.

When they set out, there were two hundred men.

After a year, there were less than sixty brothers left.

They may not remember all their names, but each of them is a member of the Yang family.

Yang Qi didn't know how much they would have left next time they met.

For them, Yang Qi didn't dare to have pity and sympathy, because it was an insult to them.

What Yang Qi has for them is only respect.

They are the backbone of the real Yang family, and they are also the only group of people who die for the Yang family without regrets.

The number of soldiers and horses under Yang Qi's command, from the south to the northwest, has already exceeded hundreds of thousands.

But so far, the only people who are willing to die for him without regrets are the die-hard party among the scarecrows.

As for the other soldiers and horses, they all obeyed him more or less purposefully.

For these Yang Qi, it is understandable that this is human nature, and no one can change it.

Not everyone who follows you is willing to be a dead soldier in your hands.

But this sets off how precious Lao He is.

Lao He Mu sent Yang Qi away, secretly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and returned to the cottage, he became the babbling and giggling mountain king again.

The man in the mask did not leave from beginning to end.

He just didn't want to meet Yang Qi.

Lao He played haha with the brothers in the village all the way and entered a hidden room in the cottage.

"He's gone?"

The masked man had his back to him.

Lao He nodded.

"Take your people, come with me......"

……

Line after line.

From the heavy snow, to the grass warbler flying.

Three months went by in a flash.

Under the heavy snow irrigation, the spring grass grows extraordinarily luxuriantly, and it is full of vitality.

The further south you go, the less common it is that the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep.

Youzhou should be the most thoroughly sinicized city in Liao.

Although it has experienced a sack by the Dumpers, with the help of Southern Merchants and Great Song Dynasty merchants, Youzhou has become a prosperous city again.

Outside Youzhou City, vicious overseers can be seen everywhere waving leather whips in their hands, whipping the slaves in the fields and working non-stop.

It can be seen that the aristocracy of the Liao State also began to pay attention to the development of the agricultural culture of the Liao State.

What made Yang Qi feel happy was that although there were many slaves in the fields who were supervised to work, it was rare to see the Han people in Liaodi.

Basically, they are some men with slightly dark-skinned original cross-toes.

Occasionally, you can see a few Han people in Liaodi, either brandishing a leather whip and supervising the work, or dressed like a landlord and old wealth, sitting in the field and cursing.

This can show that Wang Mingcheng has indeed made great contributions.

He must have rescued a lot of Han people in Liaodi, otherwise there would not be such a scene in Liaodi.

As for the Liao Han people who supervised the work in the fields, Yang Qi didn't care.

Yang Qi believes that with the identity of these people, there will definitely be more opportunities to go to the southern country. And they didn't choose to go to the south, which means that they are reluctant to live now.

A group of Liaodi Hanmin who had climbed from the bottom to the middle level, they didn't need Yang Qi's sympathy and mercy.

Because they can get up from the bottom, it means that they are living well and do not need help at all.

Perhaps, they are not uncommon to Yang Qi's help.

In three months, Yang Qi lived himself into a Liao man.

His hair was messy, his body was covered with lice crawling, the clothes on his body were already pitch black, and there was a layer of dark oil, and he could smell the fishy smell on Yang Qi's body from afar.

The half-grown kid named Gou Yu, who followed Yang Qi, lived more nourishingly than Yang Qi.

Although his condition is similar to Yang Qi, he does not dislike and dislike himself, but likes his sloppy appearance very much.

When the two of them straddled their horses and walked to the field, Yang Qi could always feel the eyes of those Liaodi Han people in the field who had been promoted to slave owners staring at them all the time.

It seems that they just waited for Yang Qi or Gou Yu to show a little fugitive appearance, and then they swarmed up, grabbed Yang Qi and Gou Yu, and went to Youzhou City to exchange for some wine money.

Yang Qi was very familiar with the eyes of these people, because when he saw the first batch of Liaodi Hanmin arriving in the southern country, he also looked like this.

"Let's go~"

Yang Qi had to urge the dog to hurry up.

He didn't want to get into trouble when he was approaching Youzhou City.

At the gate of Youzhou City, after paying three copper money to enter the city, Yang Qi and Gou Yu finally entered Youzhou City.

Youzhou City seems to be very prosperous, as one of the five capitals of Liao, and is a major trade city, wine shops, green buildings, gambling houses, cloth villages, foot shops and so on.

The most prosperous should be the fur traders, as well as the slave traders.

The fur merchant was haggling with two whips, symbolizing his Liao identity, and speaking fluent Chinese.

Truckloads of leather goods were tied up and pulled out of Youzhou City.

Basically, half of the merchants on the street are engaged in the leather business.

Population business is also thriving.

On the streets of Youzhou City, there are slave businesses trading almost everywhere.

The treacherous slave trader dragged his daughter from a simple man, threw him a few dimes of silver, and scolded him that he had lost money.

There are half-grown children with a straw mark on their heads, selling their own.

Throughout the street, there are many traffickers of women, old and weak women and children, and sturdy men are rare.

Gou Yu looked at the children who sold themselves with straw sticks on their heads, as if they remembered some unbearable past, and their mood was very low.

"Smack~"

Yang Qi patted the dog's head and grinned: "One day, I will lead the soldiers and horses to come in, and you will rescue them with your own hands when the time comes." ”

Gou Yu nodded heavily, "Hmm! When the time comes, young master, you must let me be a pioneer. ”

After riding the horse and walking a few steps, the dog left tilted his head and asked, "Young Master, when will one day be?" ”

Yang Qi smiled brightly.

"Soon ......"

The two of them walked around the city for half a circle, and finally came to a stop in front of a huge trading house.

The whole business house covers a large area, with hundreds of acres of land, and from the outside, it looks like a huge building complex.

The four-story building is quite conspicuous in Youzhou City.

On the roof of the building, the word "Yi", which symbolizes the southern country, is waving in the wind.

Even the guy standing at the door looked more arrogant than the guys in the other shops.

Seeing that Yang Qi stopped at the door of this atmospheric trading house, Gou Yu looked a little cramped and uneasy.

He was afraid that an evil servant would rush out and drive them both away.

When he saw Yang Qi throw down the reins of the horse and stride into the trading house, his heart almost jumped out of his throat.

"Stop!"

Living up to the dog's expectations, when Yang Qi arrived at the door, he was stopped.

The dog immediately jumped off the horse, dragged Yang Qi and prepared to run.

Yang Qi said indifferently: "Tell your person in charge to come out to see me." Tell him that 'Yi Yang was originally a family'. ”

The guys at the door frowned, but they still followed Yang Qi's words.

After a while, a young steward appeared at the door.

When he saw Yang Qi, he was obviously a little stunned.

When Yang Qi brushed away his messy hair, he was shocked.

"Please."

The young butler, in the stunned eyes of everyone, invited Yang Qi into the firm.

Gou Yu suddenly had infinite admiration for this young master who had been messing with him for more than three months.

After Yang Qi entered the trading house, he simply washed up.

After washing, the young housekeeper had already prepared a table of wine and food for Yang Qi.

Yang Qi and the dog Yu lay on the table and began to chew vigorously.

Yang Qi asked the young steward while eating, "Are you from the Wang family?" ”

The young steward said respectfully: "The minister is a member of the royal family. ”

"Who's in charge of the business now?"

"My uncle Wang Mingcheng."

Yang Qi was a little stunned and said, "He's in Youzhou City?" ”

The young steward nodded and said, "Recently, it has become more and more difficult to replace the Han people from Liao. Even if you buy it with money, you can't buy it. So my uncle wanted to go through the relationship and see if he could find a way to buy Hanmin in Liaodi. ”

Yang Qi nodded and said, "When your uncle comes back, let him come to see me." ”

In the evening, Wang Mingcheng returned to the firm dejectedly.

After hearing that Yang Qi had arrived, he hurried to meet him.

In the room prepared for Yang Qi, there were only Wang Mingcheng and Yang Qi.

Yang Qi had already changed into a clean outfit, and after washing, he shaved off his beard, and he was a good son.

"The minister and the king are sincere, see Your Majesty."

After Wang Mingcheng saw Yang Qi, he gave a gift excitedly.

Yang Qi waved his hand and asked Wang Mingcheng to sit down.

"Has the problem of population replacement reached a bottleneck?"

Wang Mingcheng nodded and said, "Yes, many Liao nobles have a large number of Han people in Liao, but they refuse to exchange them for us. They've already spoken, and they won't let go unless we pay a big price. ”

"Then let's stop."

"Huh?"

Wang Mingcheng didn't believe his ears.

Yang Qi said: "I have already read the report that Su Yijian gave me before. The men in the southern part of the country have been replaced. And the population of the southern country has reached a saturation.

We need some time to digest the population that replaces it.

And more and more slang people are coming down the mountain, and the land is no longer enough.

Even my previous suggestion of terraces could not satisfy the constant influx of large populations. ”

Wang Mingcheng trembled and said, "How is this good? There are still so many Han people in Liaodi who are suffering......"

Yang Qi sighed with emotion: "It is impossible for us to become a fat man in one bite. The meal should be eaten one bite at a time, and the road should be walked step by step. We can't tear apart a southern kingdom that we have built with great difficulty in order to save people.

If the southern kingdom is finished, our hard work will be in vain.

I know you feel sorry for the people here, but you can't save the people here by replacing them alone.

We can only save them by force. ”

"I understand."

Wang Mingcheng said bitterly.

Yang Qi said again: "There are all kinds of business affairs about the southern country in the Liao country, and there must also be light and dark. After the southern kingdom, the commercial affairs of the Liao State were temporarily located in Dengzhou.

In the northwest, I will also introduce the business affairs of the Liao State to Fengcheng. ”

"Why?"

"This time, I traveled to Liao and focused on observing the business situation of Liao State. The commerce of the Liao State was still very primitive. This is a favorable situation for us.

Liao is now implementing sinicization, and the demand for commerce will become infinitely greater. Dependence on business will also increase.

We must attract the Liao people out and take the initiative into our own hands.

Once the Liao people go abroad to do business, their costs will increase.

And the initiative is in our hands, and we can price the goods according to our ideas.

At that time, we will be able to easily control the prices of Liao.

As long as the prices of Liao are controlled, the money of Liao will flow to us infinitely.

And we will be stronger day by day, and the Liao people will be weaker day by day. ”

Yang Qi's words, Wang Mingcheng, who listened, were dumbfounded.

Wang Mingcheng didn't expect that business could do this part.

"But if we do this, won't the Liao people change their methods to oppress the Han people in Liao......"

Yang Qi nodded and said, "Yes, but the Liao people will not just squeeze the Han people of Liao...... Most likely, they will move south and attack the Great Song Dynasty...... Because they feel that the Great Song is rich, and the Great Song can grab everything they want......"

"This ......"

Yang Qi said with a smile: "Of course, they can also start business with the Great Song Dynasty, but a battle is inevitable." ”

Wang Mingcheng lost his voice and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

Yang Qi said categorically: "Take control of the war and force the two great powers to go to war." We can take this opportunity to take advantage of the fire and recapture the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. ”

"It's too risky......"

"If they don't go to war, we won't have any chance. Because to either of them, we are grasshoppers. ”

Wang Mingcheng never thought that Yang Qi would be able to lay out such a big game.

A bureau that puts both countries in it.

Wang Mingcheng tried hard to calm down and said in a low voice: "How long does this process take, and what do we rely on to attract Liao people to do business?" ”

"The whole process...... Three to five years, not more than five years. As for how to attract Liao people? We don't need to attract the Liao people at all, we just need to attract those merchants.

A large number of businessmen attracted us to our hands, and the merchants who went to Liao only had three or two kittens, which could not satisfy the appetite of Liao at all.

When the time comes, you don't need to go to the Liao people, the Liao people will come to you.

As for the way to attract businessmen, it is in taxes.

With proper taxation and the operation of the Southern Money Bank, I believe that many businessmen are willing to cooperate with us.

As for those who do not cooperate...... Then let him disappear......"