When Qin Ze returned to the Watuer Grassland, the person in charge of going to the border to trade with the Tang merchants had not yet returned. It's just that Suyi has been waiting here for a long time.

The snowy beauty, the plain clothes, into the snow, look a little dusty.

Qin Ze was not at all curious about why Su Yi knew that he was coming back in advance, and on the contrary, if Su Yi didn't know, then Qin Ze would start to doubt.

When he saw the young man in plain clothes, he instantly behaved, and he didn't dare to gallop anymore on horseback, but obediently saluted Suyi.

"Why are you wearing so thin, what should I do if I get caught in the cold?"

Su Yi took out a handkerchief from her arms and wiped the snow off the young man's head very carefully.

Qing Xiao smiled and patted the padded jacket on Qing Nu's body, and said a little proudly: "Now that we have this, we are not afraid of the cold at all." ”

As he spoke, he tore open his clothes, revealing the padded jacket inside. And as soon as he said this, he couldn't stop telling him about Qin Ze making him a padded jacket.

Obviously, this success attracted Su Yi's attention, and at this time, Qin Ze also came up. looked at the handkerchief in Su Yi's hand, and leaned his head over familiarly.

"What are you doing?" Seeing Qin Ze getting so close, Su Yi couldn't help but take a step back and ask.

"Wipe the snow!" Qin Ze pointed to the snow on his head and said as a matter of course.

"Shameless." Su Yi squeezed a few words out of his teeth and threw the handkerchief over casually.

Qin Ze didn't take it angrily and smiled, and then carefully wiped the snow on his head. While wiping it, he said: "This thing is very useful for keeping warm, I have already agreed with those Hu merchants that I will trade in a month, and they will bring more of this thing when the time comes." ”

The old gentleman has now completely handed over the matter to Qin Ze, anyway, he has never been interested in businessmen, since Qin Ze is so talented, he naturally has to cultivate well!

Su Yi heard Qing Xiao say this before, and she was already very interested in this thing. At this time, seeing that Qin Ze also attached so much importance to it, he also walked over at the moment and grabbed a handful of cotton wool from the carriage.

Sure enough, it felt very fluffy and very warm. At the moment, his eyes lit up: "How many are there now?" ”

Qin Ze shrugged his shoulders and pointed at himself, and said, "There are two carriages in total, and we used one carriage ourselves. But next time Hu Shang will bring more, and I also asked him to bring some seeds, which can live well on the grassland. ”

As an ornamental plant, the white stack does not have much use in itself, so it is impossible for Harry to bring too much. But next time it will be different, Qin Ze asked him to bring as much as he wanted. Anyway, this thing is not expensive, and the white stacks of a carriage only cost Qin Ze fifty taels, which is simply not worth mentioning compared to spices.

Qin Ze, who was born as a farmer, naturally knows how to grow cotton, and this thing grows particularly well in areas with dry weather. In the later generations, the grassland was a high-yield area for cotton, and when it was planted in the spring of the following year, it could be harvested in the autumn.

However, it is obvious that Jieli can't catch up with this time, and Qin Ze didn't grow cotton for him anyway, so it doesn't matter. It's also pretty good if you can use this to divert Jieli's attention......

"Only one car?" Su Yi looked at the carriages lined up in a long row with some confusion and said, "What is in the other carriages?" ”

According to the previous trade, the number of wagons would be greatly reduced by exchanging silver and jerky for spices. But why is there so much more this time?

Speaking of this, Qin Ze felt full of pride, patted his chest, and led his plain clothes to inspect these carriages one by one.

Twenty or so carts of spices only used five carts of silver, which made Su Yi feel a little unreal.

Especially after hearing that Qin Ze only used five taels in exchange for a pound of spices, Su Yi was finally speechless. She didn't understand what Qin Ze had in his head, and why he was always able to surprise herself.

Of course, you have to keep sprinkling bait, otherwise how can the fish be hooked?

After a long time, Su Yi recovered, looked at Qin Ze and whispered, "The person sent by the priest to the Kulu'er Jungle has returned, you must be careful." ”

Qin Ze nodded quietly, he had been away for so long, if the priest hadn't done anything, it would make Qin Ze curious.

It can be seen that Su Yi is very happy this time, not only because he got Bai Diezi, but also because Qin Ze has pushed the price of spices to such a low price. This can be extremely useful for future transactions.

When she left, she also deliberately took a quilt from Qin Ze, which made Qin Ze's dream of sleeping comfortably in the quilt shattered again. However, Su Yi also said that as long as this thing is really useful, the reward on the Khan's side will not be less.

After handing over the goods, Qin Ze rushed back to his tent with everyone, everything was as good as ever, and everything was exactly the same as when he left. But Qin Ze didn't think so.

He was rummaged through impermanence inside and out, and he really found something. The oil used to light the oil lamps in their tents was tampered with.

If it weren't for impermanence and carefulness, I am afraid that it would not have been noticeable at all. Someone added some gray powder to it, and if you don't look at it without thinking about it, you will never find it.

Qin Ze carefully picked out some powder, which looked like powder ground from some plant, and Qin Ze and Impermanence both found that they didn't recognize this thing at all

Impermanence also looked at it for a long time and didn't see it, so he simply lit them with fire. And the strange thing is that after this thing is ignited, a white smoke will come out, and just one puff will make Qin Ze's brain instantly excited.

"It's poppy!"

Qin Ze immediately reacted, what could make people excited so quickly, Qin Ze couldn't think of anything else besides this.

This time it was Qin Ze's turn to be surprised, he never imagined that he would encounter this thing here. Although it is still some distance from real opium, this thing is obviously deliberately refined.

"Let the two tigers throw away all the oil in their oil lamps, and change all the water in the water tank." Qin Ze said to Impermanence with a cold face.

Impermanence frowned and looked at these powders, then looked at Qin Ze, and asked with some puzzlement: "This thing doesn't smell like anything, why are you so frightened?" ”

The poppy is also cultivated in Lingnan, but it is still forty years after they really appeared in the Tang Dynasty, so it is understandable that impermanence does not know this thing.

And as far as Qin Ze knows, it was Hu Shang who brought them to the Tang Dynasty forty years later. Therefore, according to Qin Ze's speculation, the reason why the priests have this thing is because of those merchants who eat a lot.

"If you smell this thing for a long time, you will never be able to let it go again. If you become addicted, you will be at the mercy of others, and life is worse than death. In the end, it was only a year to live. Qin Ze deliberately added the last sentence, he didn't want to see this thing in Datang one day, so he didn't mind exaggerating it.

Since he found out that it was this thing, Qin Ze had to be careful. If you get infected here, then I'm afraid you really won't be able to get rid of the priest.

"In addition, in the future, take water, and directly take clean snow outside, which must be careful." The poppy is not just for smelling, but also for throwing it into water.

Be careful to sail the Ten Thousand Year Boat, Qin Ze didn't know how far the priest had used this thing, so it was better to be cautious.

After changing the lamp oil, Qin Ze sat in front of the table and waited quietly. If his guess is correct, there should be guests tonight.

Sure enough, after the night had completely fallen, a series of bells came from outside the tent.

At Jieli's banquet, Su Yi once warned Qin Ze: Don't listen to the sound of bells, don't smell the incense of burning grass, now it seems that this poppy should be the incense of the priest's burning grass.

Holding a silver needle in his hand, Qin Ze stabbed it into his hand fiercely, and suddenly the whole person became a lot more sober.

The tent was pushed open, revealing the priest's grimacing-looking face. He was accompanied by several servants in robes, all holding various things in their hands.

"Boy Yanagisawa has seen the priest." Qin Ze stood up from the table with a smile and saluted the priest.

"Humph!" He could hear that the priest let out a sneer, and he seemed to see that Qin Ze had replaced the lamp oil.

"This time I have come to reward you on behalf of the Khan." The priest nodded at the subordinates on both sides as he spoke, and then several subordinates put the things in their hands on Qin Ze's table.

Qin Ze opened one of the wooden boxes with great interest, and there was a thumb-sized wolf tooth inside. There are some Turkic characters engraved on it that Qin Ze can't understand, but Qin Ze has seen this thing before, and the old gentleman has a piece there.

"Khan remembered your contribution to the grassland, and specially named you the nine surnames of Yuge, and you will be able to come and go freely with this in the future." The priest spoke strangely, always in an unhurried tone, making him feel as if he were dead.

Nine surnames are pardoned, this is actually equivalent to Jieli's think tank. And the nine surnames actually refer to people outside the Turks, like the old gentleman is this position.

Unlike the Tang Dynasty, the Turks have a complete bureaucratic system, and their current management system is still centered on tribes, so there is no such thing as three provinces and six ministries.

These nine surnames are free from the tribe and specialize in giving advice. There is no real power, but each of the nine surnames is very respected, because the person who can hold this position is either an extremely intelligent person or a person who is knowledgeable.

"Thank you for that, Lord Khan!" Qin Ze held the tooth talisman and said to the priest.

"In addition to these khans he has rewarded you with five hundred horses and a thousand sheep. And he also specially handed over the matter of this white stack to you, and hoped that Liu Yugemo would live up to the good intentions of the Khan. ”

This time, the priest's tone of voice finally changed, and he deliberately bit the three words of Liu Yuge very hard. Qin Ze knew that until now he firmly believed that he was the one who destroyed the country, but because of Qin Ze's recent series of actions, Jieli paid more and more attention to him.

So now, even the priests, in the matter of Qin Ze, have slowly lost Jieli's support.

However, he is a priest after all, and a small nine-surnamed pardon can't escape from the palm of his hand.