Chapter 888: Daily Life at the Border

The descendants of civil officials entered the Wuluo Academy, and the descendants of military generals entered the Guozijian.

This kind of change of court is not new among the high-level disciples of the Lu Qi Dynasty. Whether Lin Chong's choice is correct or not has not yet been determined, but what is behind this kind of thing is very clear.

In the final analysis, this is still a "groveling" of the courtiers to the monarchy. From Lu Qian's point of view, the leopard head and others are really good brothers who are once in a lifetime, and they are all knowledgeable and interesting. But from a relatively objective standpoint, Lin Chong and others' choice is just to take the initiative to reduce their own strength as a means to avoid risks, which is to retreat without a bottom line in the face of monarchy.

Lu Qian's performance was naturally very interesting, but in the end, he didn't stop Lin Chong from them, didn't he?

This Pei Yun is one of the people in this trend. His father is Pei Xuan.

Originally, he thought that this would be the case for the rest of his life. After graduating from the Wuluo Academy, he first worked in the Jinling garrison, and after two years, he was sent to the palace as a guard, and then put him in the imperial front division for three or five years. It is impossible to really have the opportunity to lead thousands of troops, and it is impossible to leave a name in history, and all ambitions are pinned on future generations.

But who would have thought that more than two years ago, Lu Qian suddenly spoke, and their fate was changed again.

The opportunity to fight is in front of them, although it is impossible for them to give full play to their greatest advantages, and it can even be said that they are fighting in their most unfavorable situation, but Emperor Lu at least gave them a chance. An opportunity that is not an opportunity!

Is it a fight or a continued drunken dream? Pei Yun chose the former.

He didn't want to be full of remorse when his hair was full of gray hair in the future, and he didn't want to be a young and vigorous boy who waited for death to grow old.

Even if it is a failure, it is a good effort, isn't it? I've worked hard, haven't I?

Even if it was just to give himself a reason not to regret it in the future, Pei Yun also chose to join the army, and in the northeast, northwest and Nanyang, he single-handedly won Jinhu City.

Guy because he felt that Golden Lake City was full of warplanes. If a soldier wants to make a meritorious career and get ahead early, then go into the war.

Jinhu City was directly facing the Kupchak Khanate, and at that time, the Great Qi soldiers had just marched westward, and seeing that they were going to make a big move in the northwest, Pei Yun chose Jinhu City, but he didn't want to think that the war was coming.

At the beginning, he didn't rush to the border military town with the pride and ambition of sealing the wolf. But now he has been in Jinhu City for three years, not to mention the horses stepping on the Huns, and even the small friction between the surrounding Nabarian tribes and the Kupchak Khanate is pitiful. In the early years, the Kupchak Khanate, which did not interfere with the Khitan wells, and the Kupchak Khanate, which had a very tense atmosphere with China after the westward expedition of the Lu Qi army, sent envoys to Jinling to pay tribute.

It's a good thing for Lu Qi, but it's bad for him. The tension in Golden Lake City dissipated.

Pei Yun now felt that the Han people in Jinhu City and the surrounding barbarian people were just like ordinary people in the interior of the Central Plains, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. The farmer of the land, the merchant of business, the herding of herding. When he first arrived, the tension that was about to erupt was no longer to be found.

And the city of Jinhu where he is located is not so much a fortress as a bazaar. As one of several locations on the border between Luqi and the Kupchak Khanate, from spring to the east, merchants, herders, and farmers from the Kupchak Khanate came to trade here almost every day.

Tea, rhubarb, salt, sugar, wine, silk, cloth, and iron pots have always been the most trusted hard currency here. Especially tea as a new creature.

Since Lu Qi vigorously promoted the utility of tea bricks on the grassland, relying on Lu Qi's own excellent reputation and the real efficacy of tea, the latter soon became the most popular item among herdsmen on the grassland.

It is more glad than silk and cloth.

A large amount of tea in the Central Plains was also quickly imported into the nomadic peoples of the north with the unique behavior of 'tea bricks'.

The northern, northeastern, and northwest people of each small number, eat more meat and dairy food, less vegetables, and drinking tea can not only eliminate food and get tired, but also supplement the multivitamins and trace elements required by the human body.

And compared with rhubarb, its price is lower, because rhubarb, especially the high-quality Suzhou rhubarb, is almost all sold outside, and it is shipped to distant Europe through the sky.

Without tea, you can't get rid of meat, and without salt, you can't survive. Sugar, wine, silk, cloth, and iron pots allow the herders to live a better life. Those merchants from the Central Plains brought the necessities of life to the prairie, and at the same time, they also absorbed the endless wealth of the prairie - wool + cashmere + leather + cattle and sheep horn + medicinal herbs + dairy products + jerky.

In this series of transactions, wool, cashmere and milk powder jerky were also new to the North-South trade.

In the past, no one of the Han Chinese merchants would look at wool, which was completely worthless in their hearts. Cashmere is a concept that many people don't know. As for dairy products and jerky, what's that? That is powdered milk cheese and the most common air-dried jerky.

The latter tastes great, but it has one absolute advantage, and that is that it is easy to store and transport. Sent to the food processing plant for processing, it has become one of the components of the current Luqi military dry food.

It's just that compared to cheese, the production of milk powder is undoubtedly a little more troublesome. Therefore, most of the dairy products obtained from the nomads are cheese.

The acquisition of wool + cashmere + leather + cattle and sheep horn + medicinal herbs + dairy products + jerky has undoubtedly greatly enriched the wallets of the steppe nomads. However, the appearance of tea, salt, sugar, shochu, silk, cloth, iron pots and other utensils wiped out the newly bulging wallets of the young people.

The two sides naturally deepened their ties and exchanges with each other in such exchanges. When the young people can no longer live without this kind of life, that is, when the blue wolf is domesticated into a domestic dog.

In recent years, the price of wool outside the customs has been growing wildly. Because the sweater was officially introduced in the army of Lu Qi.

The wool of Mongolian sheep can never be compared with the wool of long-haired sheep, but there is no way, and there is no news about the long-haired sheep so far. Short wool can only be used in large quantities for wool weaving.

Although the quality of domestic wool is worrying, it can still be used to deal with it. Stir into wool, and then weave sweaters and cloaks, which are very suitable for the soldiers at the border of the northern country.

Naturally, such news could not be spread only within Lu Qi's sphere of influence, and of course the Kupchak Khanate could also hear it. The aristocrats of the latter immediately surrounded them like cats that smelled fish. The caravans of the Kupchak Khanate that arrived in Jinhu City were mostly cheese, jerky, wool and cashmere. The trading volume of the caravan is generally not large, and when there are more of them, the number of people is also mixed. The city of Jinhu has become a window for the Kupchak Khanate to know Lu Qi.

Because of this, it is becoming more and more difficult for the war between the two sides to break out.

Just as Pei Yun subconsciously frowned, a long caravan appeared on the high ground not far away.