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"Jingle Bell ......"

On the northern Hebei Plain, a huge caravan was heading in the direction of Yancheng, and the wind chimes hanging on the carriage made a crisp sound.

Yancheng is the last city leading to the grassland outside the Saiwai, and then it is the fortress of Yuyangguan, after the Mengluo Empire occupied Jizhou more than ten years ago, many cities and towns were destroyed, but this Yuyangguan is not only intact, but also sent a large number of manpower to reinforce, naturally to prepare for the Central Plains in the future.

Jizhou originally had more than 42 million Great Zhou people, including foreigners who had lived here for a long time, but after the barbarians on the grassland conquered Jizhou, the population plummeted.

After the Monroe Empire invaded Jizhou, it implemented brutal and high-pressure rule. Due to the abundance of minerals in Jizhou, the local people are forced to mine day and night, in line with the policy of iron rather than death, more than 100,000 people die in the mines every year, but in exchange for the grassland alien race is becoming more and more sophisticated, and the mineral reserves are increasing.

By 368, even the Hulan soldiers on the left arm and right arm of the Mengluo Empire had a sixty percent armor rate (iron armor), and the grassland Mengluo Empire was in full swing for a while, and it had already shown an attitude of looking down on the Great Zhou and the surrounding neighboring countries.

After brutal oppression, in addition to the death of the people of Jizhou in the mines, horse farms and fields, more than 10,000 people were forcibly relocated to the outside of the Saiwai as slaves, most of them died in the middle of the road, and some of them accompanied the Mengluo expedition to the Western Regions. By the time Liu Ce pacified southern Hebei, the population of the entire southern Hebei was only more than 6 million, and the rest either died in wars and massacres, went to work as slaves outside the country, or fled to other provinces for refuge.

And what is gratifying is that the resistance of the people of Jizhou to the high-pressure rule of the Hulan people has never stopped, although most of them ended in fiasco, but it is this spirit of desperate survival that saved the people of Jizhou from being wiped out and lasted until the day of Liu Ce's arrival.

"Guan Qi? It's you a profiteer again, seeing that you've grown fat again, you're living a good life, how many concubines have you married? Hahaha......"

When the gatekeeper who was guarding Yancheng saw that the caravan was leading Guan Qi, he immediately put down his weapon, and then waved his hand to the alien soldiers who were about to blow the trumpet behind him, signaling not to be nervous.

Guan Qi came to the leader of the Hulan people and said with a smile: "If you laugh, I will earn some hard-earned money, and my life will not be easy." ”

The general of the Hulan city guard laughed loudly: "Don't pretend to be garlic, have you profiteers made less money from our place in the past few years?" ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at the hundreds of cars full of goods behind him, and scolded with a smile: "You profiteer, you brought so many goods this time, it seems that you are going to make a lot of money this year?" ”

"Hahaha......"

Some of the soldiers guarding the gate of the city suddenly laughed, one by one, a profiteer, so lively.

"Go, go, go......" Seeing this, Guan Qi waved his sleeves at them, and said with a mocking face, "Profiteer, profiteer, do you have a good life without us profiteers?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a few porcelain bowls and a few strings of jade necklaces from a cart box behind him and said, "You don't have such a good bowl as our profiteers?" Do your women wear such beautiful necklaces? ”

After saying that, he put down the things in his hand, went to another car, took down a jar of wine, and said, "Without us profiteers, have you drunk such sweet wine?" ”

Then he pointed to the truck behind him and said to them, "Don't you have so many good things without us profiteers?" Also laughing at the profiteers, cut ......"

"I'll fuck you, Guan Qi, you seem to have given us all this for nothing." An alien soldier was amused, and scolded with a smile, "Lao Tzu has been slaughtered by you in the past few years, do you want to calculate how many things, one day I will cut off your head and use it as a night pot to relieve hatred." ”

"Hahaha......"

When the alien soldiers around him heard this, they laughed without hesitation.

"Roll on......" Guan Qi waved his sleeves impatiently, "In our business, we would have pinned our heads to the crotch of our pants, do you want it?" Feel free to take it, but you have to give it the right price......"

"Fuck you, I'm crazy about money, I don't even want my head, hahaha......" There was a playful laugh around again.

The Hulan guard waved his hand behind him: "Okay, okay, don't laugh." ”

Then he said to Guan Qi: "Guan Qi, what did you transport?" Why is there so much cargo this time compared to previous years? ”

Guan Qi took out a small bag of tea from his arms and threw it to the general of Nahulan, and then said with a look of embarrassment: "Alas, you also know that the south is in chaos now, and it is not easy for me to come here with my head on my head, and it will be difficult to come back in the future, so I simply changed my net worth for this batch of goods, and made some living money to survive for two or three years......"

"Living on money?" The Hulan people were very satisfied with the tea leaves in their hands, and when they heard Guan Qi say this, they immediately pointed to the truckload of goods and scolded with a smile, "I said Guan Qi, you are also a fucking money?" It's getting more and more treacherous, okay, okay, let's get in quickly......"

"Thank you very much." Guan Qi saluted the Nahulan general, and then said loudly with the convoy behind: "Enter the city, hurry up!" ”

A team of trucks slowly drove into Yancheng amid the laughter and scolding of foreign soldiers, and immediately surrounded by a lot of people pointing and pointing, including aliens and Jizhou locals.

"Come on, come on, take a look, the best fabric, the man makes clothes and wears them handsomely, and the women wear them like flowers and jade, alas, come and buy it, the price is fair......"

"Don't be stunned, come and see, this pot is made of iron, unlike your clay pot that will break when you fall, come and buy a bite."

"Those masters, come and see these tea bricks, you are satisfied, the goods are genuine!"

“……”

The originally bleak streets of Yancheng suddenly became lively because of the arrival of the Guan Qi caravan.

Many people flocked to their convoy of goods, constantly picking out the goods they needed, and the eyes were full of dazzling goods.

A Huren woman picked up a delicate porcelain bowl and asked Guan Qi: "How to sell this?" ”

Guan Qi looked at it and immediately said: "Girl, you have a good eye, this bowl is a good celadon, and the five sheep have sold you!" ”

"So expensive?" The Hu woman was startled when she heard this, "There were only two sheep last year......

Guan Qi said politely: "Girl, this time is different from the past, now the south is controlled by the official army, it is not easy to come over, all parties have to make a point, this price is naturally expensive, but don't worry, our goods are of high quality!" ”

The Hu woman was embarrassed for a moment, looked at the man who was bargaining with a merchant not far away, then sighed, put down the porcelain bowl in her hand, and got up to leave.

"Alas, don't go, don't go, take a good look at this is a good celadon, you ......"

Guan Qi saw that the Hu woman was leaving, and hurriedly wanted to pull the business back, with an anxious face, but seeing that the Hu girl was sure that she had left, her face sank, and after muttering a few words to a subordinate next to her, he walked towards a caravan guard on the side of Yancheng.

"Is it clear?" Guan Qi came to the guard, picked up a porcelain vase in the car, and whispered to the guard.

The guard didn't squint, his hands were clasped around his chest, and after making sure that the front of the convoy was sparsely populated, he said softly: "We are still investigating, but judging from the known news, we have been heavily guarded all the way, but the garrison of this Yancheng is lax." ”

"Come and see, good tobacco leaves! Two animal skins in half! ”

Guan Qi saw that someone was deliberately shouting loudly so as not to reveal clues, and then said softly: "It's no wonder, less than a hundred miles down is Yuyang Pass, and there are Hu people's nests outside the pass, and it is inevitable to relax for a while." ”

The guard said: "However, the general and the military advisor are very anxious, and they must quickly find the target to attack." ”

Guan Qi looked at the heads of the people in front of the convoy opposite, and said with a gloomy face: "Don't worry, there is enough time, is there a suitable shortcut on the way here?" If you really can't do it, you can start with this Yancheng. ”

The guard said: "No, Yancheng is too dangerous, too far away from Yong'an, once we do it, we will be exposed, and we will fall into the siege of Hunu in the middle of the time, for these hundreds of truckloads of food and supplies to take in more than a thousand people, it is not worth it." ”

"I don't think it'......" Just then, another voice of pleading voice appeared behind them.

Guan Qi and the guards looked back, and immediately said lightly: "Zuo ......"

"Shhhhhh......h......hh

"Is that so?" Guan Qi looked excited when he heard this, "It's very good, but you still have to be cautious." ”

The guard also nodded: "Yes, after all, Yancheng is too far away from Yong'an, so you still need to plan carefully, and you can't take it lightly." ”

Zuo Shuo glanced around, and then said softly: "I think it's just this Yancheng, along the way, all parts of northern Hebei are relatively wealthy in this Yancheng, let's observe here for a few more days, if we can, act early." ”

Guan Qi and the guards glanced at each other, and then nodded to Zuo Shuo together, since Xu Wenjing said that he would be bold to do it, what else is there to worry about?

If Xu Wenjing heard these words here, and then thought of everything that happened after that, his first thought would definitely not be to praise Zuo Shuo, but to take a knife to cut him down at the first time.

"But can I get rid of the goods before I do it?" Guan Qi said with an embarrassed face.

Zuo Shuo said with a look of disgust: "I said Guan Qi, you and the military advisor were both born merchants, why is the gap so big?" Besides, when you finish handling these goods, they will be returned to their original owners, and you can still get a large reward, so what do you have to lose?"

Guan Qi said with a smile: "Guan is naturally not as good as the military division, the military division is strategizing, the small one is just for a small profit, let me clear all these goods first, in case I start to move, those porcelains will not be dropped." ”

Zuo Shuo smiled helplessly: "Okay, whatever you want." But he thought about it again and said, "Guan Qi, can you tell me what benefits the general promised you to make it worth taking such a big risk?"

When Guan Qi heard this, he shook his head mysteriously: "This, when you finish this errand, you will know." ”

"Shopkeeper, I have a few skins here, and I want to change a few tea bricks, you can see if it's okay."

Just as Guan Qi and the three of them were secretly discussing, an alien with several skins on his shoulders and a beard walked towards them.

The three of them each glanced at each other, and parted quietly, Guan Qi turned around and looked at the Hu man's face, and immediately smiled and said, "Let's inspect the goods first." ”

"Okay......" The Hu man came to Guan Qi and threw a pile of skins on his car.

Guan Qi casually picked up a piece of leather and looked at it a few times, the pigment was not very good, except that it was thicker, it was useless, and he frowned, and said with a smile: "How many tea bricks do you want to exchange for these skins of this broad master?"

The Hu man thought for a moment and said, "Ten yuan?"

Guan Qi smiled when he heard this: "Are you kidding?" This skin is worth ten tea bricks? I'll take all of these, three dollars. ”

The Hu man was anxious when he heard it: "Don't, these skins are very useful......"