The night was as cold as water, and the blind priest sat alone under the moonlit night, beside a bonfire, drinking stuffy wine. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info liquor is a liquor sold in the newly opened Sansi shop in Fuqiang Village, and it is like a ball of fire as soon as it enters the mouth, rolling into the stomach. There are also good liquors sold, and they have bought them with a blind heart, and they feel that the taste is too soft, and they are not as refreshing as the cheapest spirits.

To the west of Fuqiang Village, the merger has been completed as a village, and no matter how slow the reaction is, it can be seen that this action will soon advance westward along the Wei River, and maybe the Ding people will also merge the accounts here next year.

Fan Luo reacted mixed to this. Some watched the leaders of the village get a large amount of rewards, and they had nothing to do in Qinzhou City every day, eating and drinking spicy, full of envy, and looking forward to their own clans also merging accounts as soon as possible. Some people think that after the merger, the Tibetan people are no longer Tibetan people, and they are no different from ordinary Han people, and they fiercely oppose it. However, the people at the bottom of the Fanluo are full of hope to come to themselves as soon as possible, and they can see clearly the days of the year near Qinzhou in the east, and the taxes paid to the imperial court are much less than those collected by the Fanluotou, and the days are getting better all of a sudden. Who doesn't want to live a good life?

The old leader was against the merger of his own clan, but he was very sensible and knew that the general trend was coming, and he couldn't stop it. I had no choice but to intimidate the people of my own tribe, saying that the small tax collection of the imperial court was just a temporary sweetener, and who could stop the tax increase in the future? While stepping up preparations to welcome the Jiahan Hui clan, he can fight for more benefits when he is in the clan and the village.

At this time, no one asked the blind priest what he thought, he had been forgotten. Even his own small family had moved away from the valley where the Shangding tribe lived and came to a small valley more than a dozen miles away to survive the difficult winter.

The blind priest poured a large sip of wine, slammed the bottle to the ground, stood up, looked up at the moon in the sky, and suddenly let out a loud roar. When Daddy was young, he was also a famous warrior in the neighborhood, but he didn't expect to be so useless. Is it useful to intimidate the people of the tribe? Even if the tax reduction of the imperial court is temporary, there is sweetness in the mouth, and no matter how much the tax is raised, it is impossible to collect more than the leader of the tribe. Not to mention that the chiefs already occupied the best pastures and raised the most cattle and sheep, and once they were merged into villages, these would not be their own.

The former leaders in Qinzhou City, who were rewarded and lived a very nourishing life, were blind to the people who were in another world, and people were always full of fear of the unknown world. Those are all false, and life is real now.

When he was drinking outside alone, his seven-year-old eldest son groped over and said, "Daddy, there is a Han man in the tent, saying that he is looking for you to discuss important matters." ”

The blind priest sat on the ground again, grabbed the wine bottle on the ground, and said angrily: "What Han people dare to come to my tent!" Let him go quickly, provoke me, and cut off his head with a knife! ”

The child didn't leave, but went around the blind priest's heart, constantly muttering to him to go back.

The blind priest was impatient, flew up and kicked his son to the side, and shouted angrily: "Get out! Don't be an eyesore here! ”

That kid has always been lazy, and today I don't know if he took the wrong medicine, and he still didn't leave after taking this foot, but he was just wandering around blindly, sighing twice from time to time, and covering his buttocks.

The blind priest's heart was on fire, and he was going to fight again, but when he saw his son's appearance, he couldn't do it after all. With a loud shout, he jumped up from the ground, pulled out his waist knife, and said: "What kind of birdman came, chopped his head with a knife!" ”

As he shouted, he rushed back to his tent like the wind.

As soon as he saw the account, he saw Qiao Guanren, who had been selling smuggled salt nearby, sitting in the guest seat, surrounded by several of his companions.

Seeing that the blind priest who rushed in had a bad face, Qiao Guanren stood up with a smile, picked up a colored silk in front of him and said, "Why did the little army master come back now?" Hurt us to wait! A few gifts, not a tribute! ”

Looking at the colored silk handed over, the anger in the blind priest's heart quickly dissipated, and the knife in his hand was inserted back without sinking.

After receiving the gift, the blind priest said in his heart: "It's rare for an official to come to me once, why do you still bring such a heavy gift?" It's too out-of-sight! - Sit down, let's have tea! ”

As he spoke, he took the tea handkerchief and gift box handed over by Qiao Guanren one by one and handed them to his busy wife.

Qiao Guanren sat down, and secretly said in his heart, it is good to bring a gift, otherwise, looking at the way he looked just now, this rammer may not be able to do anything to himself. Fan Qiang loves money, this is really good, walking in Tibet, as long as there is tea silk, everything is easy to say.

The guest and the host sat down, and the eldest son, who was blind and priestly, walked in from outside the tent. When Qiao Guanren saw it, he beckoned him to come to his side and found a few delicate snacks for him to eat. This kid was obsessed with the blind priest just now, and it turned out that he was greedy for food.

After getting the gift, the unhappiness of the blind priest just now had already flown out of the nine clouds, and he asked his wife to prepare wine and meat.

As a herdsman grazing cattle and sheep, the blind priest has the heart that the meat at home is ready-made. There is no need to slaughter, and all kinds of cattle and sheep that die unexpectedly are made into all kinds of dried meat and stored when they can't be eaten. The woman was instructed by the blind priest to take some dried meat from outside the tent and bring in, tearing them while directing her son to make tea.

Seeing it, the blind duo picked up a piece of cheese in front of him and threw it over, and scolded in his mouth: "This woman is so blind, Qiao Guanren is my dearest person, and she has brought so many gifts, why do you only eat with jerky!" Go slaughter a live sheep, let's drink! ”

The mother-in-law was smashed by the cheese, and she didn't dare to talk back, so she took her son out and looked for sheep to kill.

Watching the mother-in-law go out, the blind priest said to Qiao Guan: "Don't blame the official, this mother-in-law has never seen the world, and she is lazy!" ”

"Where, where, we will come to your tent to see you, and we will be received by her." Saying that, Qiao Guanren asked the entourage around him to take a few bottles of wine, "We passed by Fuqiang Village and saw that there was a new shop opened there, selling good wine, and bought a few bottles by the way." I haven't seen the little army master for many days, tonight we will say goodbye and get drunk! ”

As he spoke, he took the wine handed over by Qiao Guanren, and when he opened it and smelled it, he knew that it was the best wine sold in the shop.

Strange to say, when he couldn't afford this wine and had to drink the cheapest spirits, the blind priest thought that it must be because the wine was too soft to suit his temperament that he didn't drink it. Now when I smell it, I think it's the best thing, and what I drank just now can also be called wine?

As the saying goes, the family has a lot of wealth, but the hairy one does not count, even if it is the son of the chief, the money in the hands of the blind priest is not rich. He has a lot of cattle and sheep at home, a lot of fur, and even a lot of gold and silver, and usually there are all young people in the clan for him to call, but there are not many things that can really be exchanged for money. Cattle, sheep, and horses are sold for a sip less, and gold and silver are even more forbidden to be spent, but wine is to be drunk every day, and tea is also to be drunk every day, and often to buy, and money is like flowing water from the hand.

People who are outside the commodity economy system have a lot of difficulty getting a penny, and the family looks at the abundance of money, and it will be over as soon as they want to exchange it for money. The more you want to sell goods, the less valuable they are, there are very few things that can be exchanged for money, and there are endless places to spend money. If you really want to talk about the purchasing power of money, the blind priest's heart may not be comparable to a small business in Qinzhou City.

In the era of commodity economy, the countryside will become extremely vulnerable to the cities, not to mention the small peasants, even the landlords will be at an absolute disadvantage in the face of industry and commerce. If you are not careful, the land will be swallowed up by the merchants, not to mention the small chiefs who are still in the state of semi-tribal slaves.

A few people drank boiled tea, and after waiting for long, the meat was cooked outside and brought in.

After putting out a few plates of fine salt, the blind priest invited Qiao Guanren to eat meat, and poured a large sip of wine into his stomach first.

Qiao Guanren took a few companions, drinking wine and eating meat, while chatting casually with the blind priest.

When the wine was half-drunk, Qiao Guanren saw the mother-in-law sleeping with the child on the side, and glanced at his companion. One of the companions stood up, held his stomach a little bad, and went out of the tent to watch there.

The blind priest drank so late that he didn't pay attention to it at all, and just stuffed it into his mouth.

Qiao Guanren coughed and said to the blind priest: "Little army master, have you been proud lately?" ”

The blind priest swallowed the meat in his mouth with all his might, and muttered, "What are you proud of! What is Qinzhou doing and merging accounts into villages, so that we, the people who graze cattle and sheep, have no way to live, and we will come to see it. I hate that my father was frightened, and he didn't dare to say a word, he just wanted to recruit my younger brother who was a proton in Qinzhou City back and earn some benefits for the clan. Where do I still have a way to live! ”

Officer Qiao stepped forward and whispered, "That little army master is watching like this? Don't want to find a way? ”

"What's there to think of? My father is in charge of everything in the clan - not to mention, there are large armies stationed around our clan now, and if there is the slightest change, they will raze the clan tent! At the moment of the army, how can you not bow your head? Ugh—"

"The army?" Qiao Guanren smiled mysteriously, "What if the army of the imperial court is gone?" ”

"Joke! That's an army of thousands, which one has a way for them! ”

"Of course, the surrounding areas can't deal with the army, but what if it's from the north?"

Qiao Guanren came to the side of the blind Duo Xin, lowered his voice, and raised his hand to point to the north.

"North? Who are the people in the north? The blind priest muttered casually, and when he saw that the official Qiao was staring at him, he suddenly woke up. The official is to say, the party people in the north? They are far away in Huizhou, how could they come to Qinzhou? ”

Qiao Guanren smiled slightly: "This time, I want to give the little army master a great fortune!" ”

As he spoke, he took out the treasure from his bosom and put it in front of the blind priest's heart.

The blind priest looked at the treasure belt in front of him, made of pure gold, and inlaid with various gems of unknown colors, which were brilliant under the light, and it was very beautiful. Such a treasure belt can be sold for at least a few dozen dollars, how much wine can be bought?