The waist and knees were sore, Liu Mang still had to get up early, and took the attacker Wan'er to say good morning to his mother.

Originally, there were not so many rules at home, but Wan'er cared about them.

The attacker called out sweetly to his mother, and pulled Wan'er to the front with a smile.

Wan'er called her mother shyly, and the old lady's mouth was so beautiful that she couldn't close it. Holding one in one hand, the old lady couldn't see it, so she could only keep touching the hands of the attacker and Wan'er with her hands. "I just want to see the light, I want to see my treasure and daughter-in-law, and I will be content with it at a glance!"

"Doctor Li said, in another month, my mother will be able to see it!"

……

After breakfast, Liu Mang took Wan'er to Tongfuyi.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one came to report, Liu Mang had other things to deal with.

"Forehead drop god, Mrs. Liu is too early!" Tong Xiangyu saw Liu Mang and Wan'er from a distance, and greeted them happily.

"Forehead drop God, is Xiao Nizi getting more and more beautiful!" Tong Xiangyu pulled Wan'er and looked up and down enviously. "Forehead drop God! Goose should be called Madame in the future! ”

Although Tong Xiangyu is a widow, her ability to gossip makes her familiar with all kinds of "knowledge". She hadn't experienced it herself, but she could see the change in Wan'er at a glance.

"What nonsense!" Wan'er was ashamed and annoyed. She and Tong Xiangyu are both sisters and "enemies".

Well, the relationship between the shopkeeper and the bookkeeper, the employment and the employed, can naturally be classified as the relationship between exploitation and exploitation.

When the two of them met, they always had to fight a few words. Looking at Jinyang City, there are not many women who can resist Tong Xiangyu for a few rounds in their mouths, and Wan'er is one of them.

Liu Mang smiled "haha" and said, "Shopkeeper Tong, I have something serious today, you go back and fight again." ”

"Don't the goose dare to quarrel with the lady!" Tong Xiangyu smiled and dodged Wan'er's embarrassed pink fist, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

"There are a lot of merchants in your shop, and I want to find some merchants to help me do something when I go to do business outside the Saiwai. Rest assured, it's not for nothing, and you will be paid. ”

If you are paid, you will make money, and Tong Xiangyu is always 100% serious about profitable things. "Let's talk about it, so I can help you find it."

"It's okay to go into details, but you have to keep it a secret." The matter of recruiting Hu people to raise horses will definitely spread in the future, but for now, it is still necessary to keep it as secret as possible, so as not to let anyone interfere with it. Tong Xiangyu can nag and gossip, and the only thing Liu Mang is not worried about is that he is afraid that she will publicize this matter.

"The goose drips and the mouth is very strict! Don't you rest assured, not to mention that the goose and Mrs. are still sisters! ”

Tong Xiangyu said it decently, but who would believe her mouth?

Wan'er leaned over and whispered a few words in Tong Xiangyu's ear.

"Forehead drop god!" Tong Xiangyu yelled at Wan'er, "Little Nizi is so ruthless!" ”

Wan'er stared at Tong Xiangyu with a wicked smile, Tong Xiangyu was helpless, so she had to curse and swear and promise: "The goose will never say anything outside, otherwise, the goose will be ruined!" ”

Money-related matters are big things for Tong Xiangyu. "Bankruptcy" is a bigger thing than life for her. Such an oath is worth believing.

A few people entered the hut, and Liu Mang told Tong Xiangyu about the idea of recruiting Hu people to raise horses, hoping to find some reliable merchants in Tongfuyi, so that they could go north of Yanmen and help recruit some Hu people when they traded with the Hu people.

"It's not as simple as you want to drop." Tong Xiangyu's brain is no worse than Wan'er, but it is used in different places. "Do you need someone who can talk nonsense?"

"Nonsense?!" Liu Mang was stunned for a moment and smiled casually. He understood what Tong Xiangyu meant, what Hu Ren said, isn't it "nonsense"!

"Those merchants do business with the Hu people all year round, and they still don't know how to talk 'nonsense'?"

"Is it easy to talk about doing business, and you can understand it by comparing and drawing. If you recruit people to raise horses, you have to make it clear, those traders, but no one will say that. Nonsense is so hard to learn! ”

"How so?" Liu Mang scratched his head a little.

"Yes, the Hu people don't have words, and each small tribe speaks differently, so there really is this problem." Wan'er had been in the Xiongnu, and she knew the situation best.

"That's a problem." Liu Mang rubbed the small mole on his chin. If you want to find Hu people, you really need to explain it carefully to others.

Although the Southern Xiongnu were friendly with the Han people, they were also relative. It is inevitable that there will be scruples and precautions against each other. I can't understand it, I can't explain it clearly, how dare the Hu people rashly go deep into the place where the Han people live.

Liu Mang was worried, and Tong Xiangyu jumped up.

"Huh! Wait a minute! ”

With that, he ran out in a hurry.

After a while, Tong Xiangyu came back and brought back a person.

Liu Mang looked at this person and knew him. It was the merchant I saw when I first came to Tongfuyi, the merchant who brought silk cloth but couldn't sell it, named Lu Kuo.

This Lu Kuo has a poor sense of business smell and is not very good at doing business, but he has a specialty - language!

According to Tong Xiangyu's introduction, as well as his own statement, he understands the words of all the tribes of the Saiwaihu people, even including the languages of those small tribes, as long as he comes into contact with a paragraph, he can use them proficiently.

"Tengri?" Wan'er suddenly asked in Xiongnu dialect.

"Yu Zhi." Lü Kuo replied in Xiongnu.

Wan'er can only speak the Xiongnu dialect of a few tribes, and Lu Kuo can answer fluently.

The two chatted as if singing, Liu Mang listened inexplicably, and Tong Xiangyu whispered "Forehead drop god" one after another......

Wan'er finally nodded in satisfaction.

Liu Mang was overjoyed.

Lu Kuo is a talent!

This kind of talent can not only help recruit Hu people to graze in the interior, but also deal with the Xiongnu in the future, Lu Kuo is a rare translator!

Liu Mang immediately sent out an invitation and asked Lu Kuo to come to the government to do something.

Lu Kuo lost a lot of money in business, and he was worried about his future livelihood. I have no luck in business, and I lost all my capital, but I didn't expect to receive an invitation from the government! It's still an invitation from Taishou himself!

In this era, the social status of businessmen was extremely low, not to mention that Lu Kuo was still a loser among businessmen.

Being able to enter the government and do things for the government not only solves the livelihood, but also has a lot of face.

Lu Kuo was excited and thankful.

"It's time to run!" Tong Xiangyu will never forget to take credit for himself, "Do you do a good job for Taishou, you will make a fortune in the future, don't forget that the goose has the grace of knowing you!" ”

"Won't forget! Won't forget! ”

On the way back, Liu Mang asked Shangguan Wan'er: "What did you say to Shopkeeper Tong?" She's so willing to help. ”

Wan'er covered her mouth and smiled: "I told her that if she didn't help, she would transfer Brother Xiaoyi to a distant place so that she wouldn't be able to see her!" ”

……

With Lu Kuo, the translator, the recruitment of Hu people has been settled.

Everything else is also going on step by step.

Wu Yong, with Qin Qiong Huarong Shiqian and a few companions, dressed up as a businessman, rushed to Hedong. Shi Qian asked Liu Mang and brought Liu Bi, the "talent" he "recruited", with him.

Cheng Yanjin took a few brothers to the Jizhou boundary on the eastern side of Taihang Mountain and bought illicit salt everywhere. Liu Mang instructed Lao Cheng that selling salt is not the goal, creating momentum and conveying the information about Taiyuan's lack of salt to Yuan Shao in Jizhou is the key.

Cheng Yanjin used to secretly traffick salt, but now, the purchase of illicit salt has to be made with great fanfare, which is definitely a professional counterpart for Lao Cheng, who is good at bragging.

Relatively speaking, the selection of talents needs to be carried out step by step, and there is no urgency. With Fan Zhongyan presiding, there will be no problem.

And the recruitment of soldiers has already begun.

The population of Bingzhou is really small, and although Li Yan has made full preparations and done a lot of publicity, there are still very few people who come to join the army.

Liu Mang was in a hurry.

If nothing else, there are now more than 9,500 people in the army, and as long as we can recruit another 4,500 people and have a contingent of 10,000 people, we can be promoted to military ranks!