Chapter 127: Shangrao County
When Su Yi returned to Youzhou with Gao Heihu, the relationship between Liu Yu and Gongsun Yiqing was already like fire and water, and several passes on the border of Liaodong were the main battlefields of the Great Chu army and the Hu people.
And Liu Yu's shielding of Chen Hu also made Gongsun Yiqing lose patience with him, and the two frequently played impeachment against each other, and for a time the relationship between Youzhou and Liaodong was very stiff, and the Youzhou garrison was even more hostile to the Liaodong garrison than the Hu people.
In front of the ill-intentioned Hu tribe, and then there was the Youzhou army, Gongsun Yiqing's subordinates guarded in Liaodong was very difficult, several times by Youzhou maliciously intercepted military rations, so that the front soldiers lacked food and grass, forced to hide in the pass to defend, did not dare to go out to attack the Hu people who violated the border.
Not only that, Liu Yu also demanded that a market be opened in the border fortress, called Hu City, for the Hu people and the Han people to trade their respective goods, and open up the official roads in various parts of Liaodong, and resume trade with the Hu people outside the Saiwai.
The Hu people outside the border have been ravaging the border, killing the Han people, Liu Yu's request was naturally strongly opposed by the military and people of Liaodong, but Liu Yu ignored this, and went to the court many times in a row, asking for trade with the Hu people.
Liu Yu's approach was naturally strongly opposed by the hawks in the DPRK and China, among which Huang Wenbing, the leftist minister, was the most fiercely opposed, while Pei Wen naturally supported the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Hu people, and listed ten advantages of trading with the Hu people, he pointed out that the reason why the Hu people invaded the border passes was because they lacked materials, and if the Han people could exchange their urgently needed materials for some cattle and sheep money by means of trade, then the contradictions that needed to be resolved by war could be successfully resolved by trade alone.
Due to the increasingly tense relationship between Youzhou and Liaodong, Su Yi and the others were severely interrogated as soon as they entered Youzhou, but fortunately, all he stole from Wanjia and Qinglou were gold, silver and jewelry, and there were no contraband such as weapons and armor.
Along the way, Su Yi disguised himself as a merchant who fled from Liaodong, and the carriages driven by a group of them were both luxurious and luxurious, and also simply used to transport goods, not to mention that there were many women in this group, these women were all full of charm, and the officers and soldiers who checked them just thought that they were the ladies or maids of the rich family.
After a few days of hurrying, Su Yi and the others had arrived in Shangrao County, which was less than 600 miles away from Shangjun County.
Shangjun County is located near the vertical and horizontal mountains, belongs to the remote county seat, the city is controlled by the local heroes and county commanders in turn, and now the new county magistrate has not yet taken office, Chen Hu is quite strong, this Shangjun County is equivalent to Chen Hu's words, everything is his final say.
And Shangrao County is also because of the close relationship from Shangjun County, there are many more Hu people in the city than other counties, Liu Yu has always adopted a soft policy towards the Hu people, and the county order he appointed naturally also took good care of the Hu people, and specially opened the Hu City in Shangrao County to provide the Hu people with the opportunity to do business.
In Youzhou, especially near the vertical and horizontal mountains, the status of the Hu people is even higher than that of the Han people, these Hu people can not survive in Liaodong, and have to migrate to Youzhou, and when they arrive in Youzhou, they find that this is simply a paradise for the Hu people, all kinds of policies are preferential to the Hu people, and the Hu people do not even have to pay grain taxes, which is compared with the Han people in Youzhou, it is simply a world of difference.
Over time, these Hu people gradually did not take the local Han people into account, Youzhou bandits are serious, the people have to endure the pain of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, but also suffer from the invasion of bandits, except for those powerful forces, and some martial villages, the rest of the Han people are almost difficult to have the strength to fight against these Hu people.
Liu Yu's Huairou policy did not make the Hu people grateful to Dade, but made them despise the Han people more and more, and through Liu Yu's preferential treatment of the Hu people, these Hu people even unscrupulously engaged in human trafficking.
They took the captives they captured or the Han people they had taken captive as slaves and sold them, and unlike outside the Saiwai, the price of slaves and maids was much higher than that of slaves in places like Youzhou.
But once a woman with some looks is brought out, there will soon be a powerful force to buy it back, or some old bachelors who can't afford to marry a wife will buy it back as a daughter-in-law. And those young male servants, except for the Hu people's villages, the powerful forces of the Han people are rarely willing to buy, with their financial resources, even if they recruit openly, they can recruit many young and strong family members and guards, and there is no need to buy slaves at all.
The Hu people in Youzhou are complex, there are both Xianbei and Wuhuan people, relatively speaking, the Wuhuan and Xianbei people in Youzhou are the benefits of sinicization, they began to learn some Han etiquette, advocating the Han people's hierarchical imperial system.
Most of the races such as the ghosts, the Huns, the Khitans, the Tungusic people, and the Qishannu are extremely barbaric, especially the Tunguska people, whose methods are heinous and outrageous.
It is indeed an irony that in the territory ruled by the Han Chinese, the Han Chinese were reduced to sold slaves. Liu Yu, like the lords and factions in the court, believed that these Hu people were just a group of barbarians, with little knowledge, and as long as they were given some gold, silver and sweetness, they would be satisfied, and the tense situation between the two sides could be easily resolved.
The Hu people outside the Saiwai did not farm, so they had no source of food, they were used to eating minced meat, and when they first came to Guannai, they fell in love with tea. Tea can be greasy, and the meat eaten by the Hu people is relatively fatty, so not only the Hu people in Youzhou, but even the Hu people outside the customs also like tea.
Because of this, even though these Hu people looked down on the Han people, they were still quite polite to the merchants, they could not distinguish what was a tea merchant and what was a cloth merchant, only knew that those merchants wearing silk and satin would bring a large amount of tea every time they came, and even exchanged a large amount of gold and silver with them for supplies.
Every time I saw a merchant coming, these Hu villages were like the New Year, and every family poured out.
Therefore, when Su Yi and the others came to Shangrao County, Hu Min stared at them, looking at their group of people The carriage was luxurious, rich in materials, and the women in the carriage were all charming, not to mention these Hu people, even the Han people thought they were merchants from Liaodong.
Although there are not many people and horses led by Gao Heihu and Liu Shisan, they are strong in soldiers and horses, and even the warriors of the Hu people do not dare to step forward to pick up the tiger's whiskers easily.
Su Yi looked at it, this Shangrao County is also prosperous, mainly there are many merchants here, these people are the same as Su Yi, they all seem to be dragging their families, with a horse team or transport team, which is full of goods.
These people sold their goods very quickly, and seemed to be familiar with the preferences of these Hu people, and soon, cartloads of supplies were emptied, and those merchants also made a lot of money.