Chapter 81: Winter!!

On the first day of the first month of March, the sun was still shining, and the heavy snow outside Xijing City had turned into ice, and the road was slippery and difficult to walk. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ironically, it was not the horse team that walked at the head of the procession, but three stone mills dragged parallel by horses.

The Emperor of Liao's Luan finally set off for Longshou Mountain.

Yelu Chongyuan and Nerugu drove with them, and the frame of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs of the Liao State also accompanied at the same time, and Shi He Yuanying, the governor of the Yanzhao Palace, stayed in the palace to deal with all matters related to the palace.

Ouyang Xiu also followed Emperor Liao's Luan to Longshou Mountain to watch the ceremony, and Wei Chiwen was entrusted by Tie Xinyuan to bring him a long letter, asking him to return to the Song Kingdom before opening it.

Ouyang Xiu pondered for a long time, and finally accepted the letter, just asking Yu Chiwen to tell Tie Xinyuan to do it himself!

After Tie Xinyuan learned about it, he just smiled dumbly, and then continued to urge Huo'er to buy grain, cloth and livestock from Xijing as much as possible!

It took a month and a half to walk from Xijing to Hami, and when the displaced people arrived in Hami, it was time to start preparing for spring sowing.

Tie Xinyuan added minced meat to his meals, he was not trying to win people's hearts, in fact, he had lost the idea of gathering people's hearts, people's hearts are profit-oriented, as long as they give enough benefits, they will naturally do what the people want.

The practice of increasing minced meat is only to restore the health of these weak homeless people as soon as possible, and only in this way can they immediately devote themselves to the great cause of spring sowing after a short period of repair in Hami.

Seeing that the yellow and thin faces of the homeless people gradually became fleshy and angry, Tie Xinyuan felt that his efforts in the past half a month had not been in vain.

The homeless people have ox carts on the road, and it is only a little troublesome when they pass through the desert, and he believes that they can cross the desert in good health after a month and a half of good food and drink.

Mr. Xu is now the most popular person in Xijing, especially among officials.

Compared with Khitan Nanjing and Zhongjing, Xijing can be regarded as a barren land, except for grain and livestock, there are no special products here.

Therefore, relatively speaking, the materials here are extremely abundant, but the money is very small. The sudden and huge export of the wealth that officials had amassed over the years, much of it in grain and livestock, made them extremely excited.

For this reason, they became more and more interested in driving out the displaced people, and only when more displaced people appeared, could they sell more grain and cloth.

Under the strict raiding of the government, there is no longer a single ragged person in Xijing City.

The eviction of the displaced people soon became a matter of public expectation.

It was only natural that the displaced people would be driven out of the city, and then carried by a cloud to the far west.

Xu Dongsheng, a big high-roller in Xijing City, no matter how many homeless people he received, was still lamenting the lack of manpower.

The fact that Yiyun wanted to establish a state in the Western Regions was not a secret to these bureaucrats, and when Nerugu boasted to his sons, he had already denounced the uselessness of the country that Yiyun wanted to build.

Therefore, everyone wants to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a fortune, especially after listening to the cloud saying that they are now poor and only have money left, some crazy bureaucrats even secretly asked Xu Dongsheng if the displaced people elsewhere wanted.

As long as it is the government, it is naturally opposed to the position of the exiles, and these bureaucrats, who have inherited the political essence of the Great Song Dynasty, also believe that if they can get rid of the exiles, they are throwing off the burden of their own jurisdiction.

Most of the officials in the Yanzhao Palace, they didn't have so many materials to sell to Xu Dongsheng, and the governor of the palace, Shi He Yuanying, actually sold the surplus maids in his mansion to Xu Dongsheng as goods.

And Xu Dongsheng still accepted it with a smile, and gave it a high price!

In just three days, Xu Dongsheng and He Yuanying became good brothers who talked about everything, and an edict from the Yanzhao Palace, more than 23,600 displaced people outside Xijing City were ordered to move west.

In this way, Tie Xinyuan doesn't even have to win people's hearts at least, for these homeless people, having someone accept it is already the happiest thing in the world.

The guards of Xijing Mansion were responsible for escorting them until the Zupu Palace, and after arriving at the Zupu Palace, there would naturally be people from Hami to greet them, and then they finally arrived in Hami after crossing the 300-mile desert.

I don't know how Xu Dongsheng operates in the middle, which not only saves a lot of manpower for Qingxiang Valley, but also saves the endless troubles along the way.

Since Tie Xinyuan sold Guan Zi to Xu Dongsheng, this guy always asks him to guess when he talks to Tie Xinyuan now.

Tie Xinyuan was in no mood to pay attention to Xu Dongsheng's careful thinking, the matter was done well, and many times he only asked about the result and did not ask about the process.

I don't have enough time, now the Jiangnan water town is a good season for green willows to sprout, and the wild goose that flew to the south for the winter is about to cross the Yanmen Pass and return to the north, and Tie Xinyuan has no reason and time to continue to stay in Liao.

Meng Yuanzhi followed Yelu Chongyuan to Longshou Mountain, Xu Dongsheng had to stay in Xijing as a hostage, and now he was the only one with thirty-six elite warriors of Qingxiang Valley and five hundred Khitan herdsmen preparing to go to Hengshan to find wild horses.

This will be another long journey, and the shepherd must be obtained as soon as possible, otherwise if he sells the wild horses, Tie Xinyuan will probably be despised to death by the rich Bi who made a fortune by deceiving the Qiang people.

Grumpy, genetically ancient wild horses are naturally the best stallions, and after these horses get to the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to wasting forage, the only contribution is to leave some high-quality offspring for the Great Song Dynasty.

And these high-quality offspring need to be bred for at least two generations before they can become tall war horses.

The emperor may have this kind of lofty vision, and the prime minister may have, knowing that this will have long-term benefits for the Great Song War Horse.

As for falling into the hands of the magistrates, they will not think about it so long-term, they will only see that these wild horses are wasting money and food in vain, and they are also dragging down his path to promotion.

He Yuanying likes to feast and drink, and is often drunk, he would rather respond with those officials and scribes with poetry and wine, than go to the smelly pasture.

Therefore, the 500 shepherds are all good shepherds carefully selected by Xu Dongsheng himself.

Yelu Chongyuan has a huge ranch in Xijing, occupying the fattest pasture between Xiaoyang River and Longshou Mountain, where countless cattle, sheep and war horses are raised, except for the royal pasture of the Khitan, this is the largest private ranch in the Khitan.

The rich and invincible country is talking about people like Yelu Chongyuan, who has won a lot of good things by gambling with Emperor Liao over the years, such as the name of the emperor's younger brother, and a large number of fiefs in Yanyun and Yanyun, including this official ranch that was formerly subordinate to the Privy Council of the Northern Court.

At the first glance of Xu Dongsheng, he finally understood what Tie Xinyuan's other goods were.

Most of the herdsmen in the pastures in Xijing are herdsmen with Han blood, and when Xu Dongsheng selected the herdsmen, he had a heart and eyes, and specially selected those herdsmen who had nothing to worry about, even if they were herdsmen who had already become a family, he also tried his best to wipe out all the families.

Xu Dongsheng originally planned to equip each herdsman with two more war horses, but was sternly rejected by the ranch steward.

The reason for refusal made Xu Dongsheng's heart and liver jump non-stop, and the steward said that once the herdsmen were equipped with two war horses, as long as there was a chance, this group of people would run away without a trace.

On weekdays, these people are allowed to work, and they are all subject to mutual protection and mutual inspection, and if one person escapes, the whole team will be punished, and only in this way can we ensure that these people work obediently and will not escape.

The strength of a horse is limited, as long as it is pursued, it can always be pursued, if it is two riding horses, these herdsmen who are skilled in equestrianism will run away in the blink of an eye.

In the end, Xu Dongsheng had no choice but to stuff a large sum of money into the steward, and then all the five hundred herdsmen were replaced with high-class horses in the pasture!

Tie Xinyuan saw five hundred shepherd slaves shivering in the cold wind, and said to Xu Dongsheng in disappointment: "There should be 1,500 war horses." ”

Xu Dongsheng glared at Tie Xinyuan and said, "No one agrees to ride two horses, and there is no possibility at all for riding three horses."

I kind of figured it out, you didn't want to go after beating Ouyang Xiu with a punch, and you were ready to change your plan and really give Da Song a little benefit, God, is Ouyang Xiu's face made of gemstones? So valuable! ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "I suddenly discovered that there are people like Da Song and Ouyang Xiu, who should not collapse in a short period of time, and they are worth our help." ”

Xu Dongsheng said with a smile: "You are a scholar, I am a businessman, and now I find that scholars are much more ruthless than us in business."

At most, we are just selling our own goods to make money, you are selling other people's goods to make money, admire, admire! ”

Tie Xinyuan smiled slightly: "The name of the assassination of the big cannibal is famous all over the world, and the old man in the mountain can stop crying in the land of the Western Regions, after we leave, you have to find a way to get these assassinations on the head of the big cannibal, how to do it, you don't need me to teach you, right?" ”

"Is Lao Meng willing to wear a cannibal robe and put a big beard on his face? Willing to use a scimitar? I heard Lao Meng say that he still wants to go back and kill Xijing Mansion Yin, leaving a little clue for others to follow.

In addition, you must also die, otherwise you will sell Nerugu's herdsmen and war horses, and I will not be able to explain here. ”

Tie Xinyuan said with a smile: "I will die in the hands of the Xixia people in Hengshan, you don't have to worry about this, Lao Meng pretended to be a big cannibal and killed people not once or twice, he knows what to do."

Okay, don't talk about this, I left you a detailed plan, you just look at the implementation, I'm leaving tomorrow, please leave Xijing for you. ”

Xu Dongsheng got up and hugged Tie Xinyuan and said softly: "Take care, I won't send you tomorrow, I and Lao Xu, Tie Huo are not here, you must be careful yourself, there is a discordant ......"

Tie Xinyuan patted Xu Dongsheng's back and said, "Thousands of miles away!" (To be continued.) )