Chapter 38 Thunderstorms

Not putting all the eggs in one basket is the habit of the great family, and it is a big proposition to pass on the family forever. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Each for his own lord is a good fig leaf.

Even if one brother kills another, isn't there another brother who is alive and well?

The family can survive for a few more years.

It's an ancient wisdom, and while it doesn't seem so heroic, it's better to survive than anything else.

The fate of heroes is generally not too good, so Tie Xinyuan likes heroes, just like villains can enjoy the glitz of the world, heroes can only grit their teeth and struggle in rags, and if they marry two more wives, someone will point their noses and scold, saying that this is not in line with the essence of heroes who suffer first and enjoy later.

Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" just finished has only been fermented for more than ten years, and it has become a must-read model for people.

The sentence "The world is worried first, and the world is happy after that" I don't know how many people burst into tears, and tears soaked through the green shirt.

On the surface, everyone admires it, but secretly, who knows, there may be more people who open their mouths to scold than praise.

It is unfair to put a person's moral requirements on everyone's head, and it is the last word to continue to live a life of wine pond meat forest after respecting the sages and righteousness.

Therefore, as long as it is human, except for those who have twisted minds and regard hardship as pleasure, no one wants to leave the bustling city of Tokyo and go to the wilderness of Hami.

Ouyang Xiu's son was going to Hami, and this matter couldn't be hidden, and for a while, Ouyang Xiu's countless friends came to the door one after another, wanting to know the truth of this matter.

No matter who came, Ouyang Xiu laughed and didn't say a word about Hami, this matter needs to be judged by themselves, and Ouyang Xiu is not suitable for what he says as a party.

Earlier, he was enthusiastic about advocating for the Hami Kingdom, but as a result, he was considered by others to be a person with ulterior motives, and he naturally would not repeat the mistakes of the past.

He can make his own decisions about sending his sons to Hami, and the children are willing to listen to their father's words and go out to break in, God knows what other people's sons think, so it's better not to open their mouths.

Those people couldn't get news from Ouyang Xiu, so they were extremely eager to go back to their hometown to get married, and Su Shi, the big-mouthed man, hurried back from his hometown, not to indulge in women's sex, so as to solve their doubts.

In fact, Ouyang Xiu is not the only one who knows the true situation of Hami in Tokyo City, for example, Han Qi is now very aware of the true appearance of Hami.

The last time Han Qi was disgraced because of the high price of buying grain from Hami, there are still people who say that they are fools.

As long as some unscrupulous imperial historians impeach him, they will definitely mention his stupidity.

After learning from the pain, Han Qi naturally wants to reflect on it, and the consequences of doing things for granted to outsiders are naturally to deny it to outsiders, but he doesn't have to hide it for his own people.

After all, he is a giant in the Great Song Dynasty, and he knows the truth of making amends.

When he was about to send his henchmen to Hami, the housekeeper told him that the family's long-distance caravan had been doing business with Hami for four or five years......

The family's business has always been taken care of by his wife, and Han Qi, as a privy envoy, is a shame even if he asks about it, and he has a rule of his own, that is, he must not disturb him with trivial matters at home, let alone use his name to facilitate the family's family affairs.

Of course, the previous incident is true, and the doctor will be laughed at if he is contaminated with copper odor, and his family will naturally strictly abide by it.

As for the second one, it's a big joke to say it, even if the family doesn't say it, they just say that they are from the Han Mansion, and they will do the big thing.

Han Qi called all the shopkeepers of the Hami caravan at home, and asked them one by one, asking them all in detail, even the young man with the lowest status in the caravan.

The Han family closed the door of the house, Han Qi closed the door for six whole days, and the court said that he was not sick, and every day he just lay on the chaise longue sent by the caravan shopkeeper with his eyes closed and listened to the guys at home talk about Hami, and there were three scribes next to him who recorded all the words of the caravan shopkeeper, the man, and the guards, and waited for the end of the questioning to compile the records into documents for Han Qi to see.

The last to arrive is Han Tong, the big shopkeeper of the Han family's caravan, Han Tong is the son of the family, he has been doing business for the Han family since his grandfather's generation, and he is a very important confidant, and Han Tong has seen the records of the guys and guards, so he naturally knows what the head of the family called him here for.

Han Qi patted the thick stack of record documents on the table and sighed, "Han Tong, are all these people telling true?" ”

Han Tong prostrate on the ground and said: "The old slave can guarantee that most of what these minions say is true, even if it is not true, they also heard it in Hami, and it seems." ”

"What they say, the prosperity of Hami is no longer inferior to Shuzhong, but is there such a thing?"

Han Tong hurriedly said: "Master, other old slaves don't understand, if you just measure it in the market, the old slave still has some knowledge, and Hami City may be more prosperous than Chengdu City." ”

"In this way, isn't Qingxiang City comparable to Yangzhou?" Han Qi was a little distracted, he believed that the guys in his family would not dare to deceive the head of the family, even so, he still couldn't believe it.

"The lord doesn't know, Qingxiang City is completely different from Hami City, Hami City is a place where merchants from the Western Regions gather, but Qingxiang City is not like this, not all caravans can enter Qingxiang City.

The city is divided into two parts, one is the lower city, the other is the upper city, the lower city is the place where the common people and merchants live, there are countless wine shops and tea houses, and the best goods of Hami, such as silk, porcelain, rock sugar, brown sugar, agate, jade, gold and silver, bronze, the finest ironware, paper, ink, pen and inkstone are traded here, and only large transactions are accepted.

Every year in March and September, there are also large quantities of goods auctioned in the field, and the old slave has a family as a backer, and is fortunate to participate in it twice, once with 6,700 yuan to buy 18,000 catties of rock candy, and to sell it back to Tokyo to make a profit of 5,800 yuan.

The second time with 8,100 to buy 10 pairs of reading glasses, 20 glass mirrors, because of the prestige of the old man, the field made an exception to sell a pair of binoculars to our family, asking for 1,600 yuan, this thing is a military weapon, the old slave thought that the old man would be useful to the day, so he gritted his teeth and gave it, and asked the old man not to blame the old slave for the crossing. ”

Han Qi shook his head and said: "You are an expert in business, I won't ask about these, as for reading glasses and glass mirrors, they are all accepted into the treasury by Mrs., and they are very good as gifts for New Year's holidays, 8,000 guan is not much, as for the telescope, you have done a good job, but this thing is a good thing, don't say more than 1,000 guan, even if you win 10,000 guan, it is also meritorious."

Compared with these, the old man is more concerned about the upper city, have you ever entered this place? ”

Han Tong shook his head and said: "In Qingxiang City, there is a large waterfall square, which separates the upper and lower cities, and the locals can go through the square to go to the Hami Palace on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The old slave heard that there is a place called the wolf's den in Shangcheng, which is the key place of the Hami country, there are heavy guards all the year round, and there are no less than 20 large and small valleys outside the wolf's den, and the Hami country will be stationed here as a supervisor, and the reading glasses, glass mirrors, gunpowder, gunpowder bullets, eight-ox crossbows and other ordnance are all out of this place, and outsiders cannot approach.

The old slave also heard the locals faintly say that the mountain behind the wolf's lair is a large grassland, and there is a rare temple in the world, called Da Lei Yin Temple! ”

Han Qi sighed and said, "Qingxiang City is the head, Hami City is the heart, and the rest of the cities are limbs and arms......

There are 800 miles of Hanhai in the south and the Western Xia, 300 miles of yellow sand in the east as a barrier and Khitan as neighbors, and the west and north are vast conquerable land......

Tie Xinyuan chose a cave blessed land! ”

Han Tong saw that the old man's face was not good and whispered: "Master, it is rumored in Beijing that Hami is a deserted place that must not be accepted, the old slave stayed in Hami for more than three months before and after, in order to buy goods, Hami eight big cities, the old slave only went Qingxiang City, Hami City, Huyang City, the rest of Tianshan City, Snow Mountain City, Loulan City, Sandstone City, Big Rock City has never set foot in, just the three cities that the old slave has seen, it is much larger than my Great Song Dynasty general mansion city. ”

"Have you ever seen the Hami Army?" Han Qi asked in a low voice,

Han Tong frowned and shook his head: "The Hami army generally chooses to enter the city at night, as long as the army enters the city, there will be a curfew. Therefore, the old slave has nowhere to be seen, but there is a cemetery of soldiers who died in battle outside Qingxiang City, there are many tombstones, which are buried the soldiers who died in battle since the founding of Hami, it is said that there are no less than 30,000, and there are people to pay tribute every day.

The government has a special ceremonial sacrifice for officials during the annual Qingming Festival and the two festivals of winter clothes, and the scene is extremely grand. ”

Han Qi smiled bitterly and said: "The major affairs of the country are in the Rong worship, and Tie Xinyuan has really established a country.

Han Tong, my Song people are still alive in Hami? ”

Han Tong hesitated and said, "It's the same as in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Han Qi snorted and said, "Tell the truth! ”

Han Tong hurriedly said: "In the shallow view of the old slave, our Song people live better in Hami than in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

"Huh?" Han Qi didn't expect the house slave to answer like this, and continued to ask, "What about the Han people? ”

Han Tong smiled bitterly: "Master, the Song people, the Han people, and the people from the Western Regions who first joined Tie Xinyuan's command are the three upper clans of the Hami Kingdom, and they have a yellow household registration, even if they don't work, just to vouch for those who want to do business in the Hami Kingdom, they will live better than ordinary people." ”

Han Qi was speechless, waved his hand to let Han Tong retreat, and specially instructed the housekeeper to give these servants generously, so that they could go out and not talk nonsense.

Han Qi sat under the west window for a long time, and then ordered the housekeeper to take his name card to Wen Yanbo, Bao Zheng and others to invite them over for tea.

The affairs of Hami are about to be reconsidered, and different national forces will naturally have different ways of facing and entertaining!