In June, Wei Wentong of Changfeng Motorcycle Company took a special trip to Hualong County, which is actually not far from Shanshan, only 300 miles away, and there is no desert on the road, all grassland wasteland. Chang'an's Daxing Medical School and Louguan both need medicinal materials, and they originally had to buy them from merchants in the Western Regions, but now they feel that they have their own goods, and Wei Wentong came this time to transport all the medicinal materials that Jiang Fei had prepared for nearly two months at one time.

Yang Chong specially invited Wei Wentong and Yuan Jiu to have a meal at home, and the maidservant who cooked the dishes was brought from Chang'an, and the dishes were getting better and better, so that Wei Wentong and the others kept praising them. Yang Chong persuaded Yuan Jiu and said, "Brother Yuan, what's the point of you always driving that carriage, why don't you come and help me." ”

Yuan Jiu looked at Wei Wentong and said, "How can I help you?" ”

"That's great." Yang Chong said unequivocally: "Look at what I'm busy here, there is a shortage of literate people." When the crushing field opens again next month, I really don't have enough manpower, it's just a lonely place, and I'm ready to let him return to the vulgar. ”

Wei Wentong laughed when he heard this, and laughed for a while before saying, "Yang Chong, are you really not worried at all?" ”

"Worried about what?" Yang Chong guessed what Wei Wentong wanted to say, and asked knowingly; Wei Wentong restrained his smile and said, "Pei Yi is dead, do you think the two gangs of Chijin Turk and Shi Shu Huxi will let you go?" The Chijin Turks have fought several battles with Shatuozhai, and now they may not dare to kill Hanchuan Rong to come to you, but it is easy to think of bad things for you. When you build a crushing plant, you give them a target. ”

Yang Chong nodded and said, "I just want them to kill me, I have a thousand elite soldiers under my command, and I am waiting for them." ”

Wei Wentong reminded: "The Chijin Turks will not be less than your number when they come, and they will even arrange traitors among the merchants in the squeeze, you can't be too careless." ”

Yang Chong smiled and said, "Brother Wei, don't worry, everything is under control." ”

Yuan Jiu nodded and said, "If I come over, what do you need me to do?" ”

Yang Chong was overjoyed and said: "An errand is to help me buy craftsmen in Shanshan and other places, no matter what kind of work he does, as long as he is a craftsman, I want it; There is also an errand that is in charge of Handchuan Rong's workshop, after all, Miss Jiang Fei is a young woman and can't be managed for a long time. ”

Yuan Jiu pondered for a while and said, "I'd better help you buy someone first." When I return to Chang'an this time and resign from the mission, I will start from Zhangye all the way, and I will definitely bring you two craftsmen when I come next time. Wentong, from now on, I will restore the name of Yuan Hongzhao, Yang Chong, I need money when I leave, five hundred taels of silver. ”

This is not a problem, Yang Chong came to office this time, with tens of thousands of taels of silver, and similarly, Jiang Fei also brought more than 5,000 taels of silver; Yang Chong didn't even ask what Yuan Jiu was going to do, so he gave him the silver. The next day, Yang Chong was thinking about things in the yamen, and when he heard that Wang Ting asked to see him, Yang Chong immediately greeted him. Yang Chong has always heard that Wang Ting has not left, although he feels very strange, and he has not thought much about it, estimating whether Wang Ting has any business that he has not put down; In terms of official ranks, the two are about the same, but in terms of seniority in the army, Yang Chong cannot be compared with Wang Ting at all.

Wang Ting has an upright personality, seeing that Yang Chong respects him very much, he is happy in his heart, and after sitting down, he tells the truth: "Eating mountains in the mountains, draught in the water, there is no one who does not make extra money in the border gates, and Handan Chuanrong is allowed to do some smuggling in my hands, but that is the business of the big family, and the brothers below actually do not get much benefit." I always thought it was caused by the geographical location of Handchuan Rong, but now that I look at it, my mind is still not enough. ”

"Really?" Wang Ting is by no means a person with insufficient brains, Yang Chong smiled and said: "If General Wang is free, when the crushing field opens next month, you might as well come over and take a look, what business you are interested in, and we can do it together in the future." ”

Wang Ting thought that this was too fast, so he asked, "Director Yang thinks that the people of Tuyuhun will definitely come, but they have been cutting off this trade route. ”

Yang Chong smiled and said: "The reason why Tuyuhun dared to cut off the Tuyuhun trade route was because without this trade route, he could still do business with the Great Sui; Therefore, as long as we cut off the smuggling business, he will take the initiative to open this road, and the crushing farm can be born at the right time, but the conditions in Hualong County are worse than those in Huangshui County. General Wang is experienced, and there must be some things that he knows better than me, such as the Chijin Turks. ”

Yang Chong knew that Wang Ting had talked to his subordinates about this bandit more than once, and even once he was drunk and said that until someone had a connection with the Chijin Turks. Wang Ting's face flashed with a hint of discoloration and said: "The Chijin Turks are a legend, no living person has ever seen them before the Huluhe War, and the officials and soldiers once thought that they were some people's disguises. I heard that Shatuozhai once transported the corpses of the Chijin Turks to Shanshan and Gaochang to offer rewards to see if anyone knew those people, but unfortunately they got nothing. ”

In the eyes of foreigners, people of one nationality look the same. Yang Chong once heard such a story in modern society, a few people who went to Africa to do business, got the wrong passport, but took a different flight back to China, at the airport in Africa, no one found that the photo on the passport was different from the real person. This practice of Shatuozhai is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, unless, unless Shatuozhai knows that there are Chijin Turkic people in Shanshan and Gaochang, then maybe there will be a guy who sells vegetables, or a neighbor who lives next door, and recognizes these people.

Yang Chong asked cautiously, "Does General Wang know the people from Shatuo Village?" ”

Wang Ting said indifferently: "Almost everyone in the border pass knows the people of Shatuozhai and the Heavenly Wolf Gang, and their transactions with many big people need our help, not to mention that I am originally from the Taiyuan Wang family." ”

Yang Chong can understand that without the help of these generals, the smuggling business of the wealthy family is easy to make mistakes, not to mention, it will also cause reputational impact, the Taiyuan Wang family is also a well-known wealthy family in Bingzhou, Wang Ting is definitely his own person to them. However, Yang Chong didn't squeak, because Wang Ting wouldn't tell him this for no reason, Yang Chong subconsciously thought that Wang Ting was preparing to introduce the people from Shatuozhai or the Heavenly Wolf Gang to himself, so as not to cut off their financial routes in the future.

Who would have thought that Wang Ting said something else: "But over the years, I haven't earned any money, and my family is very dissatisfied with me, because I joined the Sui Han Hall." All the business is actually arranged by Sui Hantang, whether it is us, or the smuggling caravan, in the final analysis, it is a tool; What Sui Hantang gave us was not money, but the so-called secrets, so that we could earn military merits. ”