Wang Ningan was once very worried that after leaving the prosperous capital, his family would not be used to it, in fact, he soon found that it was only himself who was not used to it, Yang Xi had the blood of the Yang family in his bones, and he was born to like to ride horses and gallop.

Before marrying Wang Ning'an, it was also a nightmare for the children of the capital, and they never were ambiguous in fighting. Over the years, I have had to teach my husband and children, pretending to be a noblewoman, and to be honest, I have been very tired.

The more westward the centaur went, the more she let herself go, galloping in the wilderness, archery and hunting, watching the sunrise, watching the red glow, camping and barbecue, and having a lot of fun.

Su Banniang is a talented girl, but she doesn't like the hazy Jiangnan, but has a soft spot for the scenery outside the Seychelles. Watching the lonely smoke of the desert along the way, and competing with his brother Su Shi for poetry, he was also very happy.

As for Xiao Guanyin, although she has changed too much over the years, she has changed from a talented Khitan girl to a scheming financial queen, but she really crossed the horse and west, facing the desolate and distant land, she regained the feeling she felt when she was a child, and her face was full of smiles like frost and snow.

No, after they arrived at the Lanzhou station, they made an appointment to go to the hot springs together, wash off the dirt, and then go around to enjoy the scenery of the northwest.

Wang Ningan was completely left behind, and there was no choice but to take Gouya and Xiaoyu and wander around the streets.

"Dad, look, isn't that Wen Xianggong?"

Dogtooth's eyes were sharp, and sure enough, Wen Yanbo was holding a bag and came over from not far away, and was about to go to the tea stall on the street to rest.

At a glance, I saw Wang Ning'an's grandfather.

"Oh, Jingping, come here, help, the old man's waist is about to break!"

Gouya and Xiaoyu walked over quickly and reached out to take the leather bag.

"It's heavy! What's that? ”

Wen Yanbo held the old waist and said with a smile: "Good things, two virtuous nephews, you just have to choose, even if the old man gives you a gift." ”

It is rare for Wen Xianggong to be generous, Gouya and Xiaoyu gathered around the table and poured out all the things inside.

A piece of jade, with a yellowed skin, the dog tooth grabbed a palm-sized piece of jade, looked at the sun, and couldn't help but light up.

"Good stuff! This kind of jade is less said to be 300 pieces in Xijing! ”

Wen Yanbo smiled, "The virtuous nephew has good eyesight, if there are exquisite craftsmen, clever hands, and meticulous craftsmanship, it can be worth a thousand times!" ”

When Xiao Yu heard that it was so valuable, he hurriedly rummaged through a pile of stones, these are the essence of Hetian white jade, moisturizing like mutton fat, even if he doesn't understand anything, he knows that it is worth a lot.

"Wen Xianggong, where did you get it, it's not cheap, right?" Dogtooth asked casually.

Wang Ningan smiled, "You, you're still too young, you don't see that Wen Xianggong is like an old fox who stole a chicken, I think this thing, it won't exceed 50 at most, maybe he took two or three tricks!" ”

Wen Yanbo gasped and glared angrily.

"You kid is too unauthentic, how can you slander the old man in front of the child? I bought these jade stones for ten dollars, and I bought them openly! ”

"Ten dollars?"

"What's the difference between that and robbery!" Wen Xianggong, is there anything else? ”

"The vendor that the old man bought is gone, and I don't know if there is one elsewhere." Wen Yanbo replied honestly, Gouya jumped up, pulled his second brother and rushed to the market, picking up cheap good things, you can't miss it!

The two little ones ran away with a whistling voice.

There are only two left in the tea stall, Wang Ningan and Wen Yanbo.

Lao Wen also gasped at this time, and shook his head slightly, "This northwest and the old man don't think the same!" How so...... It's not easy to describe ......."

"It's a lot of business opportunities, right?" Wang Ningan spoke it for him.

Wen Yanbo turned his head and said with disdain: "Anyway, he is also an official of the imperial court, the hope of the world, don't talk about the businessman's set, it's very embarrassing!" ”

After criticizing Wang Ningan, Wen Yanbo took the initiative to talk about business experience.

"Erlang, you said that Liangzhou is still in the hands of the Western Xia people, how did these merchants get to the Great Song Dynasty, it's really strange?"

Wang Ning'an laughed, "What's so strange about this, if you don't let the merchants come over, what will the Western Xia soldiers in Liangzhou eat?" When he came, Wang Ningan had already studied it carefully, and as the Hengshan line fell into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty, after Yang Wenguang took office, he adopted the strategy of defending the east and attacking the west.

A closer look at the border between Song and Xia, especially after Hengshan was breached, the whole situation is completely different.

It can be roughly divided into three parts, in the middle, is 700 li of the Hanhai, neither the Great Song nor the Western Xia have the ability to cross the Hanhai and launch a full-scale war, so the two sides are equal.

In the eastern section, the Jianing Military Division, which was mainly in Western Xia, was originally the strongest, and this time the Great Song launched a general offensive and did not break Youzhou.

So far, Western Xia still retains Youzhou, Shizhou, as well as Xiazhou and Yinzhou, there are more than 100,000 horses garrisoned, quite strong, they counterattack from time to time, attack and harass, the Great Song side can only take Hongzhou as a base, take a defensive position.

But on the Western Front, the situation was different, the Western Xia did not manage here enough, and the power was weak, so Yang Wenguang launched a medium-scale offensive from the Western Front, and in the past, he took the entire upper reaches of the Yellow River into the hands of the Great Song Dynasty.

Yingli was lost, the connection between Western Xia and the Hexi Corridor had been severed, and if you wanted to get from Liangzhou to Xingqingfu, you had to cross the Tengger Desert.

Not to mention in this time and space, even if you go back to the modern era a thousand years later, it is still very difficult to cross the desert.

Western Xia was only able to maintain nominal control over Liangzhou, and the rest of the military rations, salaries, ordnance, war horses, weapons, and nothing could be transported!

People are the most realistic, and the people of Liangzhou are also loyal to Li Liangzuo, and they also hate the Great Song Dynasty, and they are not willing to do business with the Great Song Dynasty...... But the problem is that what they think is useless, the situation is stronger than people!

Liangzhou did not have enough food, there was no way to be self-sufficient, their cattle and sheep needed to be sold, and they needed to exchange for grain, silk, salt, cloth, and more valuable tea!

These materials are only available in Da Song!

So you will see a very absurd scene, the two countries that were originally tense and antagonistic, privately doing more business than before, and the personnel exchanges are more dense.

This is also the inevitable result of the capture of Hengshan, and the Western Xia can no longer maintain the internal economic operation!

The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty soon discovered that they had hit a lot of luck, and as long as they spent two yuan, they could exchange it for a bullock, spices, jade, and agate, which was even cheaper!

Merchants from all over the world gathered and worked hard to sweep the goods.

Like Wen Yanbo, it is not uncommon to spend ten yuan to buy a bag of jade.

Lao Wen felt that he had taken advantage of it, but the jade vendor felt that he had made a lot of money!

A bag of jade, only 30 catties, is not difficult to transport from the Western Regions to Lanzhou, at least it is much easier than driving a cow and a horse.

But a bag of jade can be exchanged for five times as much money as a cow!

What can you buy in Lanzhou?

Salt, the best green salt, 20 wen a catty, ten yuan is 500 catties, take it to the Western Regions, exchange it with those tribes, 5 catties of salt, you can exchange it for a cow, ten catties of salt for a horse!

After deducting the road expenses, deducting the dot relationship, there are dozens of times the amount of money!

If you dislike the weight of salt, ten yuan can be exchanged for 60 catties of fine white sugar.

Sugar!

When you get to the Western Regions, it's even more precious than gold!

Just like the Great Song Dynasty was obsessed with spices, after passing through the Western Regions and entering the Great Food, the people there simply regarded white sugar as the root of their life!

Cooking with sugar, drinking water with sugar, pastries are piled out of sugar, the Great Song people will be uncomfortable when they eat it, but they are not tired of it.

Those bearded men with wide hearts and fat bodies, almost every one of them is obsessed with sugar.

If you get the white sugar of the Great Song Dynasty into a big food, as long as a few dozen catties, you can exchange it for real gold and silver of about the same weight, and all kinds of precious jewelry.

In turn, these gold and silver jewelry, when they arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, could be exchanged for countless materials, such as brilliant luster and magnificent silk, flexible and comfortable cotton cloth, as well as tea and porcelain...... Ironically, Wang Ningan always thought that the Silk Road could only be restored by opening up the Hexi Corridor, but in fact, the Silk Road had already been put into operation ahead of schedule.

Two rivals are actually working together to maintain the operation of the Silk Road, interesting, right?

Those officials and masters in the capital are afraid that they will never imagine that such a ridiculous thing will happen.

Lao Wen also had to sigh, "Erlang, to tell the truth, the old man also has to admire you, sure enough, it is not the way of Confucius and Mencius that governs people's actions, but real benefits!" ”

Wang Ningan smiled and teased: "Congratulations to Xianggong Wen, you have completely realized and enlightened, and you are not far from becoming holy on the ground." ”

"Don't say it's useless." Wen Yanbo waved his hand irritably, and said angrily: "The old man was cheated by you, and followed you to the northwest to eat sand, my Wen Kuanfu is not a person with rat belly and chicken intestines, our grievances can be overcome!" But ......"

"You've got to get enough benefits, right?" Wang Ning laughed with peace of mind, Wen Yanbo, this old guy is really shameless, but he doesn't hate it, at least the people who can be settled with money don't have to be completely destroyed, this, Wen Yanbo understands better than Fubi!

"Brother Kuanfu, who do you think has taken advantage of the current business exchange?"

"Then I don't need to talk about it!"

Wen Yanbo said angrily: "What are we taking here, and what are the merchants of the Western Regions taking?" All of them are real money, agate and jade, cattle, sheep and horses, real good things! Of course, doing business is how much we earn! And much more! Wen Yanbo grabbed the jade on the table casually and kept playing with it.

"Erlang, although this is a lot of money, but the old man is the prime minister's respect, is it possible to buy jade in the market, and then go to the capital to sell it? That's a shame, isn't it? ”

Wang Ningan smiled, "Brother Kuanfu, of course I won't let you make hard-earned money, if you want to earn it, we will make the easiest money." ”

Wen Yanbo's eyes lit up, "Will the plan be released?" ”

"It's simple, you have to speak for the merchants of the Western Regions."

Wen Yanbo was puzzled, "What do you mean?" You won't fool me again, will you? ”

"Brother Kuanfu, now we are grasshoppers on a rope, if we want to make the business last, we need a good reputation, hundreds of times the profiteering, although it is good, but it is easy to turn the business into a hammer deal."

Wen Yanbo hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Erlang, what do you mean - like the Pingxian Rongchang back then, nominally protecting the interests of the merchants of the Liao State, but actually squeezing out their wealth...... Wonderful! Wen Yanbo smiled more like an old fox, he raised the coarse porcelain teacup, and laughed: "Replace wine with tea, and the old man will do it first as a respect!" ”