Chapter 32: Liaodong City
The cold wind was cold, Yang Wenhua, who was riding on a horse, was wearing a black cloak in addition to a long windbreaker, wearing body armor inside, carrying a two-meter-and-a-half point gun on his back, and a titanium dagger on his trouser leg.
This is all the equipment prepared by Yang Wenhua, of course, there are many things that are inconvenient to expose, which are placed in a small space by Yang Wenhua.
"I'm going too."
"Nope."
Looking at Yang Sanmei, who was pouting and unhappy, Yang Wenhua sighed and explained: "The risks of this trip are unknown, and my brother can't guarantee that he can take care of you, so you stay at home obediently, guard the small shop and wait for me to come back." ”
Since she knew that Yang Wenhua would travel far away and would not be able to come back in a few months, Yang Sanmei had been making trouble in the past two days, and began to prevent Yang Wenhua from going.
After being rejected by Yang Wenhua again, Yang Sanmei had to ask helplessly at this moment: "Then when will you come back?"
Yang Wenhua looked into the distance a little blankly, and said leisurely: "I want to come back when the spring snow first melts." ”
After speaking, Yang Wenhua took Cui Yuan and Sun Simiao, as well as a few Cui family guards who accompanied him, and rode away.
Yang Sanmei chased all the way behind, crying: "Brother, you must come back early." ”
Yang Chen, who was following behind, came to his daughter's side, and didn't say any comforting words, just hugged Yang Sanmei and said softly: "Go back, when he should come back, he will naturally come back." ”
Everything has been arranged, and after Yang Wenhua left, the small shop only sold some green vegetables, which was enough to maintain the living needs of the four members of the Yang family.
In the case that there is nothing beyond the cognition of this era, with the protection of the Cui family, and Cui Zhe is in Guanzhong, there will be no problems.
Yang Wenhua was still relatively relieved to leave.
Yang Wenhua and his party, the one with the worst physical strength is Cui Yuan, but he is also a master who can dance the sword and open the bow, such a group of people, under the condition of adequate preparation, the speed of the journey is naturally not slow.
In addition, there was a contact point of the Cui family to take care of the logistics along the way, the constant transfer of cars, horses and boats, and the assistance of Yang Wenhua with a sled, he traveled all the way.
In the end, it only took about 20 days, and Yang Wenhua and his party arrived, Liaodong City, 4,000 miles away, which is Liaoyang in later generations.
Traveling 2,000 kilometers in 20 days is naturally not worth mentioning in later generations, but in this era, it is already a miracle.
After everyone rushed to Liaodong, Cui Yuandu still couldn't believe it.
Among them, the sled accounts for the vast majority, and the sliding all the way is not only as fast as a galloping horse, but also the consumption of physical strength is also minimized.
Looking at the two simple planks under his feet, Cui Yuan sighed at the magic of Yang Wenhua's thoughts, and also increased his confidence in the family's plan to run Liaodong next.
Even if Liaodong was still under the rule of Goguryeo at this time, Cui Yuan was still full of confidence, and the family was not an imperial dynasty, but an existence that could coexist with the imperial dynasty.
When the dynasty is strong, the family will not bear it, and will only hide in the shadows silently, carefully sucking the nutrients of the dynasty, and slowly strengthening themselves.
But when the dynasty is weak, the family will open its bloody mouth and bite the dynasty hard.
What's more, like the Li family, they directly devoured the entire dynasty.
The reason why the Cui family wants to find another way out now is only because its own magnitude is too big, and there are several others of the same magnitude in Datang.
If you don't run away, just wait to devour each other.
The Li family occupies the righteousness, and even if the other families join forces, they are not necessarily opponents of others, and the other families are not monolithic.
Liaodong City.
This is the hometown of the Han Dynasty, and it was repeatedly occupied by the Sui Dynasty and Goguryeo more than ten years ago, so this place belongs to the mixed settlement of Han and Hu, and the proportion of Han people accounts for at least 50%.
After contacting the Cui family caravan here, Yang Wenhua and his party lived in a manor outside the city.
Although the five surnames and seven sects all have many clansmen's lands, and the court and the prefectures and counties also occupy many important positions, they also have their own different emphasis.
For example, the Li family focused on the military and animal husbandry, while the Zheng family focused on the prestige of Confucian sorcerers.
However, the Cui family focuses on business, and the Cui family's business is not only in the Central Plains, or in the Tang Dynasty, even in Tubo, the Western Regions, Lingnan, Xue Yantuo, and other places still have their caravans.
There are more than a dozen caravans from Liaodong, and the scale of more than 2,000 people can be seen, because the farther away this era is, the higher the profit.
For example, the fur here in Liaodong will be transported to Chang'an, and the profit will be at least twenty or thirty times more than twenty or thirty times.
After Yang Wenhua settled down, the first thing he did was naturally to let people buy ginseng on a large scale.
In this era, the price of ginseng in Liaodong was extremely low, to what extent?
Well, it's several times more expensive than turnips, after all, the yield of radishes is too large, and ginseng, although it is not uncommon, also needs to go up the mountain to find it.
The problem that Yang Wenhua is encountering now is that although the price of ginseng is low, there is no stock, which means that there is money but no goods.
Because ginseng is a medicine after all, for ordinary people, not only is it not beneficial, but there will be many discomforts, the most common of which is nosebleeds.
Now the people who dare to use ginseng as medicine, in addition to medical masters like Sun Simiao, are some witch doctors who don't know systematic medical skills at all.
Although Yang Wenhua has repeatedly raised the price of ginseng, the harvest is still very little, mainly because the time is wrong, and when the snow closes the mountain, the ginseng is all buried under the snow layer.
"I want to go to Taibai Mountain."
Looking at the wind and snow blowing outside the window, Yang Wenhua said with an unquestionable tone.
Cui Yuan also glanced out the window, and said with some embarrassment: "It's already extremely difficult for us to come here, and the wind and snow are even worse in the northeast, and now it's approaching the end of the year, I'm afraid that my subordinates won't be willing to go."
The virtuous brother needs mountain ginseng, and won't it be readily available after the spring next year, so why rush for a while? ”
When spring opens in Liaodong and ginseng sprouts, it will take almost four months, such a long time, Yang Wenhua is unwilling to wait.
Although Yang Gui's condition has been controlled, it has not been cured after all, and treatment has always been sooner rather than later, and if it drags on, it will only develop in a bad way.
"Don't wait for me, tell them that those who are willing to follow to Taibai Mountain will have a hundred taels of gold per person, and after the deed is completed, there will be another reward."
There must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, and one hundred taels of gold is relative to more than six hundred yuan, which is already a very high price in this era when ordinary people have never seen silver in their lives.
In the end, the entire caravan, more than a hundred people, were all willing to go to Taibai Mountain with Yang Wenhua, and the travel of such a large number of people would naturally attract the attention of people with a heart.