There was a sound outside the house, and after following the reputation, it was Bian Ying, who was dressed in plain clothes, who came with something for the food inspection, and Fu Quan looked at it, but saw that there seemed to be some grapes on the food inspection, and immediately understood that it was for Liu Jian.

In his previous life, Fuquan knew that pregnant women liked acidic food during pregnancy, and in this life, he personally witnessed Liu Jian's pregnancy before and after, and realized that this was not a lie. During his time at the county office alone, the sour food consumed in the county office grew day by day, which was really frightening.

After pregnancy, the placenta of the mother and fetus will secrete a substance called chorionic gonadotropin, which has the effect of inhibiting gastric acid secretion, reducing gastric acid and reducing the activity of digestive enzymes, thereby affecting the digestion and absorption function of the gastrointestinal tract, causing pregnant women to have nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite and other pregnancy reactions. Because taste can stimulate the gastric secretion of gastric juice, and can improve the activity of digestive enzymes, promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, increase appetite, and facilitate the digestion and absorption of food, most pregnant women love to eat sour food.

It's just that everything else is easy to say, after all, with Fuquan's current identity, in the words of later generations, the local tyrant landlord is not bad for money, and it doesn't matter how much he eats, but only this grape is extremely difficult for him.

Think about it, now that it's winter, there are few grapes in the Central Plains, of course, not that there are none, but it can only be said that they are very rare. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Zhang Qian envoy to the Western Regions, grapes have been introduced into the Central Plains, now in the Central Plains, especially in the northwest, there are a lot of people who plant grapes, and after hundreds of years of cultivation, there are already people who can plant grapes in winter, but the quantity is rare, and according to the so-called "rare is expensive" principle, so this grape is naturally extremely expensive, at the current price can be said to be a string of gold, but also want to buy can not be sought.

Of course, if you want to know how precious it is now, there is a typical story that can prove it, this thing is the story of Meng Tuo, who was in the later generations of Liuchuan, who exchanged a bottle of wine for the history of a state thorn and a feudal official in Liangzhou.

In the second year of Emperor Yuanjia of the Han Dynasty, Liang Ji, who was the general at the time, appointed Wang Jing as the chief of the Western Regions, and believed the slanderous rumors of the King of Kumi, and wanted to imitate the Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty when Fu Jiezi, the Marquis of Yiyang, killed the king of Khotan to gain prestige, but his mouth was far inferior to Fu Jiezi, and Khotan was not Loulan, even though he killed the innocent King Yu, the situation in the Western Regions was not controlled by killing the king, and Wang Jing himself was killed by the Khotanese officers. And the angry Yu Jiao killed Wang Jing and his party, while Liang Ji was neither appeased nor crusaded. Since then, Yujiao, Shanshan, Shule and other countries have been isolated from the Silk Road, and the land exchanges between the East and the West have come to an abrupt end. Later, the "Maritime Silk Road" from the Indian Ocean bypassing the Malay Peninsula to southern China gradually emerged, and Jiaozhou and Yangzhou on the southeast coast prospered, while Liangzhou, which had dominated international trade, declined.

Since the land Silk Road in the Western Regions was cut off, Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, the trade of goods between the Central Plains and the Western Regions has been greatly affected, including grapes and wines unique to the Western Regions. Grapes don't say much, even in spring and summer, the number of grapes in the market is not much, not to mention wine, before the Tang Taizong Zhenguan annexed Gaochang in the 14th year, China did not master the winemaking technology, so the wine had to be imported from the West, and now the Silk Road in the Western Regions is isolated, of course, wine is "unique" in the Central Plains.

It was also at this time that Meng Tuo, who had a bad reputation in the north, took the best promotion route at that time in order to become an official, and befriended the eunuchs, and the eunuchs were promoted by the eunuchs in front of the emperor, thus starting his career.

Meng Tuo, this name may be unfamiliar, but when it comes to his son, it is too famous. His son is Meng Da, the man of the Three Kingdoms, who is the famous speculator, who first betrayed Shu and Wei, and then betrayed Meng Da, who was punished.

Back then, in order to become an official, Meng Tuo planned to befriend the eunuch Zhang Rang, but there were often thousands of carriages waiting for Zhang Rang to meet at the door of Zhang's house every day, and he often had to queue up for several days to get Zhang Rang's face. Meng Tuo didn't want to queue up, so he married Zhang Rang's house slaves and spent a lot of money for them. Later, Meng Tuo came to Zhang's house, and the house slaves bowed down to him on the street, took him to the plug, and was the first to enter Zhang's house. The people waiting in line were shocked when they saw this, thinking that Meng Tuo was Zhang Rang's old friend, and after Meng Tuo came out, they rushed to give him gifts. In this way, Meng Tuo got a lot of treasures in one day, so he picked a few particularly rare ones and gave them to Zhang Rang when he came to visit next time.

Among these gifts, there was a jar of wine, but after the loss of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road was cut off, and wine became extinct in the Eastern Han Empire, and even Zhang Rang never saw it. Zhang Rang was originally an alcoholic, and his son, the imperial physician, Ling Zhang Feng, was even more famous for his frequent drunkenness. After drinking the wine, Zhang Rang was overjoyed, and after hearing about Meng Tuo's promise to him, he immediately expressed Meng Tuo as the assassin of Liangzhou and helped him purchase wine from the Western Regions.

In order to reopen the wine road, Meng Tuo was in Jianning for three years, sent 500 soldiers from Dunhuang County, and led Yanqi, Qiuzi, and Cheshi Zhang Yan to lead Yanqi, Qiuzi, and Cheshi to the front and rear of the Western Regions, and sent a total of more than 30,000 troops to attack Shule and attack Zhenzhongcheng, but the result was that Zhenzhongcheng could not be captured for more than 40 days, and finally returned with a big defeat. Since then, the Silk Road in the Western Regions has become even more difficult to pass through, and it has become more difficult for the grapes from the Western Regions to enter the Central Plains, and the wine is even more extinct.

However, even if this grape is difficult to find, Liu Jian is pregnant with Fuquan's child, and Fuquan will try his best to get it for him. Fortunately, Fuquan has a mother family from Fufeng County, the Song family is famous in the Sanfu area of Guanzhong, and it also has a lot of influence and influence in the northwest of Liangzhou.

These wealthy families in the northwest have been families that have made military achievements in western Xinjiang since ancient times, and even though the Eastern Han Dynasty has advocated scripture learning, they are the families that pay the most attention to military merits in the entire Han dynasty in addition to scripture. Therefore, even though they still rely on the scriptures to worship Lang and become officials, they will never forget the northwest where their family took off, which is also the origin of the saying "Guanxi general" in the Han Dynasty. It can be said that almost all the grassroots units in the northwest are filled by the sons of the wealthy families in the northwest, and since the founding of Emperor Guangwu, they still firmly control the military and political key points in the Western Regions, and once they grasp this right, they will naturally use the power to seek personal interests for the family.

How to make personal gains? There are many good horses in the northwest, and smuggling horses is naturally a great convenience, and since the road to the Western Regions has been isolated, another way to make money has also appeared in front of them, that is, smuggling those special products of the Western Regions that have been "unique".

Since ancient times, the war in western Xinjiang has been the top priority of the country, and even in later generations, the northwest has always been a border trouble, and the trouble is terrible. These wealthy families in the northwest have been at war with the countries of the Western Regions for so many years, and naturally they have their own ways in the countries of the Western Regions, even if the Silk Road on the road is isolated, they also have ways to get some rare Western Regions specialties, but the purchase price is much higher, but these things are sent to the Central Plains, with the characteristics of the local tyrants of the Central Plains families, those smuggled Western Regions specialties can be said to be at a hundred, thousand, and ten thousand times the price for them to make huge profits, it can be said that this is a profitable business.

Therefore, if other wealthy families want to insert their feet into the northwest Liangzhou, it is extremely difficult, which is also the reason why the Liangzhou group in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was so united in the challenge of outsiders, because they have been united for more than a hundred years, and have long become an inseparable political and military group, and will not allow those Kwantung scholars to provoke.

Now, Fu Quan asked the Song family, who was a relative, to speak, and those wealthy families in the northwest still didn't obediently join the Song family, after all, if they entered the eyes of the Song family, the development of their family would not be limitless. Not to mention anything else, the current queen Song has given birth to a prince, if the prince of the Song family is really on the throne, then they can also get a piece of merit from the dragon, and the matter of the Han frontier will eventually have to be pacified, at that time, they can still have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the northwest military family, and it is not impossible to worship the marquis and worship the prime minister, learn from the former Taiwei famous general Duan Cheng, worship the three dukes, leave a name in history, and strengthen the family.

Don't think that these Northwest military families have military power, and the Han Dynasty at this time can go sideways, now is not after the Yellow Turban, the time when there were soldiers in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was the king of grass.

Think about it, "Liangzhou Sanming" also has to look at the faces of civil officials and scholars, even if he later led the Northwest Military Merit Group, shocked the Beijing division with foreign soldiers, Lai Qiang was born in chaos, Lai Qiang rose in chaos, Lai Qiang was in chaos, Lai Qiang was in power, and finally the tail was not lost, wasn't Dong Zhuo, who was impeached by the scholars and civil officials in the Kwantung region because of his penchant for killing, and finally lost his official position and was dismissed?

In the final analysis, the mainstream of public opinion in the Han Dynasty at this time was still the scholars and scholars, who held the right to speak, the power of life and death, and they looked down on the martial artists in Kansai, or they didn't disdain it at all. However, this is exactly the case, those military families in Kansai can only rely on the snort of the Kanto scholars and cultural officials. This is also the reason why Dong Zhuo entered Beijing later, and the Kansai military generals wholeheartedly supported him, because they had been eager for power for too long, since they had this opportunity to fight for power with civilian officials, of course, they had to fully support Dong Zhuo, but after all, they still had some political means, and they were mostly horsemen.

With the help of the Song family, the grapes that Fuquan gave Liu Jian to eat in Ba County were enough, of course, he estimated that even if it was not enough, it was estimated that it would be difficult to have them again. After all, the grapes sent by the Northwest Military Meritorious Family are also smuggled, even if the output of the Western Regions is more, it is impossible for them to smuggle much at one time, the key is that the risk is too great.

What came with these grapes was a letter from the military families in the northwest, of course, it was just an ordinary acquaintance, and it was just a familiar face, after all, Fuquan is now a rising military and political boss. Not surprisingly, as long as he continues to be favored by the Holy Will in this way, the position of the third prince and the general will be no problem in the future, naturally, these Northwest military families will get acquainted with him.

In those letters, Fuquan naturally read them one by one, and replied slightly, knowing the situation in the late Han Dynasty, Liangzhou, a military aristocratic group that could not be ignored, of course Fuquan had to make good friends. In any case, with this kind of human affection, when we meet in the future, all kinds of matters are easy to talk about.

In these letters, Fuquan saw many acquaintances, of course, not acquaintances he knew, but people whose names appeared in the history books in his previous life. Among them, there was one person who made him particularly interested, Ma Teng Ma Shoucheng, a native of Fufeng Maoling, a descendant of General Fubo, and the later great warlord of Liangzhou, the father of Jin Ma Chao. Now, it is the border county of Liangzhou, as a strong party, engaged in the smuggling business.

Thinking about it carefully, it is very normal for Ma Teng to be familiar with himself, after all, except for the descendants of the Fufeng horse valve, such as Ma Riyan, which is still strong, the rest of the branches have gradually weakened. Ma Teng's branch is not to mention, if his family still has a little power, Ma Teng's father will not be reduced to marrying a Qiang girl as a wife, therefore, when he knows that he was instructed to buy smuggled grapes, with the blessing of the Song family and the Fu family, even if Ma Teng is stupid, as long as he wants to revive the family, he will definitely have a cheeky face and make friends with himself.

Of course, Ma Teng must be the only one who has such a friendship, but thinking that he became famous too late, I think that many big people must not have taken this declining child of the Ma family side branch in their eyes.

It was precisely because of this that Fu Quan solemnly replied to Ma Teng at that time, he felt that he needed to have a friendship with this Ma Teng, maybe he wanted to get ahead Ma Teng saw his letter, and it was not necessary to bring someone to defect.

But this is just Fu Quan's thoughts, thinking that Ma Teng has been wandering for half a life, and his experience has long been unknown, even if he is sincere in what he says, he will definitely have to estimate the price. But this is enough, Fu Quan didn't want to eat a fat man at that time, and it would be good to contact him to enhance friendship first.