Zhen Qian has been buying "turbid wine" from Zhao Wenshan and Han Guangyu for a while, and the two sides are business partners, although they know that Zhen Qian still has the secret recipe for soju in his hand, but soju is too spicy and exciting for people who drink boldly, and it is not the best product in wine, so he has lost his peeping heart.

But the most important thing is to weigh the pros and cons, and there is no absolute certainty of the secret recipe for soju from Zhen Qian's hands.

Some people don't like the spicy taste, some people like that bold wine, a glass of soju can make people who are tired for a day feel relaxed, and at the same time play a role in the benefit of relieving the cold and relieving fatigue, so the burning knife has been liked by two kinds of people as soon as it is listed, one is a martial artist, and the other is a herdsman living in the ice and snow in the north.

After the Sogdians tasted the burning knife in Luquan County, they immediately regarded the burning knife as a treasure, and like Zhao Wenshan and Han Guangyu, they immediately wanted to buy the production process of the burning knife.

Ten night pearls the size of a baby's fist were exchanged for chips, but Zhen Qian was not moved at all, and only agreed to let the Sogdians bring the burning knives to the north to sell.

Of course, the Sogdians who saw the benefits would not have acted as Zhen Qian's tools for delivering wine, and if Zhen Qian had not been an official, I am afraid that it would not have been sneaky, but would have been changed to an open robbery.

Zhao Wenshan and Han Guangyu were unwilling to sell grain directly to Zhen Qian, and the "turbid wine" of doumi was only one or twenty yuan, and even the worst soju could be sold for one hundred and thirty or forty yuan per bucket, and the profits in the middle were similar throughout the ages.

But now the two families have to bow their heads and sell the excess grain in their hands to Zhen Qian, of course, they don't know that Zhen Qian's burning knife is not brewed from grain, but from cheap grains such as sorghum and soybeans.

"In a word, in the future, all the wine and grain in the hands of the two families will be sold on behalf of a certain person, and Zhen Fu will provide livestock breeding methods for the two families at the same time.

When Zhao Han and his family heard this, they secretly calculated in their hearts that the two families were not the top landlords in Luquan County, and the largest landlord Peng family had tens of thousands of acres of land in their hands alone, and there were thirty percent of the shops in the county surnamed Peng, and it was no exaggeration to make money every day.

Counting the conditions that Zhen Qian gave to the two families are good, basically he has the secret method of growing grain with a yield of four stones per mu without a penny, plus the method of captive livestock provided by Zhen Mansion for free, just thinking about sleeping will wake up with a smile.

As long as they don't take out real money, the two families naturally have no reason not to agree, and they don't want to sign any contract at all this year, even if they are landlords, they don't have the slightest idea of repentance.

During the conversation and laughter, a deal of up to 10,000 yuan was finalized, and the two families of Le saw no eyes.

Zhen Qiangang wanted to stay with the two families for lunch and take the relationship between the two sides further, when Wang You walked in from outside the door: "Dalang, the county government Peng Sihu asks to see you!" ”

In the Tang Dynasty, only the county order, the county officer, the chief book, and the county lieutenant were officials, and the household belonged to the officials, ranking first among all the officials, and the power was not small, and such a character would not easily go to the countryside.

Peng Sihu's name is Peng Le, a powerful local landlord, who sent his sister to the bed of the county order to get the position of the first official of the county government, such a snob suddenly came to visit, so that Zhen Qian had to think more about Peng Le's intentions.

As soon as the Zhao and Han families heard that Peng Le came to visit, they immediately lost the meaning of chatting and said goodbye.

"Peng Sihu, today is the fragrant wind that blows the distinguished guests to the house", Zhen Qian went out and welcomed Peng Le into the living room, and after the guests were seated, he served fragrant tea and began to pull around: "Peng Sihu is now a celebrity in the county government, and his business in the county will depend on Peng Sihu to take care of one or two ...... in the future."

Peng Le is thin and tall, with a square face, big eyes, a high nose bridge, and a wisp of goatee on his chin, which has a bit of a master's temperament, but he is well known in Luquan County, if it is not necessary, Zhen Qian is too lazy to pay attention to this person.

"Zhen Dalang laughed, who doesn't know that Zhen Dalang is kind and charitable, but in Luquan County, he has the reputation of timely rain and Meng Weijun, and he is busy with his brother's affairs, so he has to visit him today, don't be ...... to blame!"

Night owls come into the house, and nothing happens!

Peng Sihu laughed, can you please come? Why don't you have a light meal at the humble house at noon! ”

"Good! Disturbed! ”

Peng Le hit the snake and immediately agreed to come down, Zhen Qian was polite to Peng Le, and seeing that Peng Le had no intention of leaving immediately, he knew that Peng Le was prepared today.

It is said that there is good wine and good food for entertaining guests, but it also depends on who entertains them, "The time is in a hurry and the preparation is not thorough, which makes Peng Sihu smile!" ”

A pot of spicy roasted knives, a standard four dishes and one soup, braised fish, a plate of Chinese cabbage, a stack of cured meat, a dish of dried mushrooms, and a large pot of seaweed egg soup are all the dishes to entertain Peng Sihu.

Peng Le took a sip of the wine glass, a spicy and pungent taste made him a little dizzy, and he didn't know why those Hu people and martial artists liked to drink such soju, anyway, they were not good at this sip.

"Today, I went to the countryside to levy conscription in winter, does Zhen Dalang already know?"

Zhen Qian also heard the news from the county town yesterday, and he didn't expect the speed of the government to be so fast, it seems that some people are going to have a hard time this winter.

Zhen Qian was puzzled: "Isn't this year's conscription already over?" Why do you have to levy conscription? ”

Zhen Qian has an official status, so naturally he does not have to serve as a conscription, but ordinary people are not immune. What makes Zhen Qian strange is that this conscription came suddenly, could it be that An Lushan wanted to raise troops to fight against the Khitan again?

Peng Le sighed and said: "Zhen Dalang doesn't know, in August of the tenth year of Tianbao, An Shuai led 60,000 troops to attack the Khitan, and he didn't want the Xi soldiers to rebel, so that An Shuai lost his troops and lost his generals. In March of the eleventh year of Tianbao, An Shuai sent another 200,000 Han infantry to attack the Khitan, and did not want Absi to suddenly rebel against the Tang Dynasty and return to Mobei, so the army delayed the warplane, and now An Shuai wants to attack the Khitan again, so that the three towns under his jurisdiction will prepare 600,000 stone grain and grass, and Luquan County will transport 10,000 stone grain and grass to Youzhou, and it will not work if you do not levy and issue conscription in advance! ”

In order to save his own life, Zhen Qian carefully studied the Di Bao (ancient official newspaper) of the previous twenty years.

In August of the tenth year of Tianbao, a total of 60,000 soldiers from the three provinces of An Lushan Marshal went out to fight against the Khitan, with Xi 2,000 cavalry as guides. The army crossed Pinglu (now Chaoyang, Liaoning) more than 1,000 miles, to Tuhuzhen River (now Laoha River, Inner Mongolia), encountered heavy rain, An Lushan handsome soldiers traveled more than 300 miles day and night, to the Khitan tooth tent, Khitan saw the Tang soldiers, very frightened. Because of the heavy rain at that time, the bow and crossbow tendons were wet and relaxed, the general He Side said to An Lushan: Although we have many soldiers, we are tired from afar, and our combat effectiveness is not strong.

An Lushan was furious when he heard this, and wanted to kill He Side, and He Side asked him to avoid death as a striker to attack the Khitan. He Side and An Lushan are similar in appearance, the Khitan soldiers thought it was An Lushan, fought for it, He Side was killed by the enemy, and the Khitan thought that An Lushan had been killed, and the morale was greatly boosted. At this time, Xi rebelled again, joined forces with the Khitan, and attacked the Tang army, and the Tang army was defeated, with a few casualties. Shot An Lushan's saddle horse, broke the crown and lost his tracks, and An Lushan escaped with only more than 20 of his subordinates. Taking advantage of the darkness, the Khitan pursuers stopped, and An Lushan had to flee into Shizhou (northeast of present-day Chifeng, Inner Mongolia).

Then he blamed the Turkic Zuoxian Wang Ge Xie and the Hedong soldiers and horses to make Yu Chengxian and kill the two. The Pinglu soldiers and horses made Shi Siming flee into the valley and hide for nearly 20 days before collecting more than 700 soldiers. Shi Dingfang, the general of Pinglu, sent 2,000 elite soldiers to save An Lushan, and the Khitan soldiers retreated, and An Lushan was spared. When he arrived in Pinglu, most of the soldiers of the department fled, Shi Siming came out to see An Lushan, An Lushan was overjoyed, shook his hand and said: "I don't have to worry about you coming."

After Shi Siming withdrew, he said to people: "If I had seen An Lushan earlier, I would have been killed together with Ge Xie." The Khitan soldiers besieged Shizhou again, and An Lushan sent Shi Siming to repel it.

In March of the eleventh year of Tianbao, An Lushan Fafan and Hanbu rode 200,000 to attack the Khitan, and Xue Tianbao was defeated by the Khitan for ten years. First of all, the Turkic Absi came to surrender, and Tang Xuanzong treated him with great courtesy, gave him the name Li Xianzhong, gave him the title of Fengxin King, and ordered him to be the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu. Li Xianzhong is talented and strategic, and he refuses to succumb to An Lushan, so An Lushan holds a grudge. As a result, Naijuan asked Li Xianzhong and tens of thousands of Luo soldiers to help attack the Khitan. Li Xianzhong was afraid of being killed by Lushan, so he said to Zhang Wei, who stayed behind, to ask Tang Xuanzong to stay and not go, but Zhang Wei did not agree. So Li Xianzhong's troops plundered the warehouse and rebelled to Mobei, and An Lushan stopped his army. In September, Absi entered the Kou and surrounded Yongqingzha (now Guyangxi, Inner Mongolia), but was repelled by Zhang Yuanliang, the envoy of the fence.

An Lushan has sent troops to attack the Khitan twice, once defeated, once missed the war, and now wants to attack the Khitan, not only to levy conscription in various places, but also to raise a large amount of money and food to enrich the military needs.