Wang Huaqiang smiled: "Let's talk a little more today, and then come back to the Tuyuhun of the Murong clan, they conquered the local Qiang people in the Hehuang area, and learned the ability to build a city from the Qiang people, and the country has been established for two hundred years, because the river is sparsely populated, and it is located in the bitter cold land of the plateau, the conditions are more difficult than the northern grasslands, so Tuyuhun has not been able to develop and grow, even now, the population is only two or three hundred thousand accounts, which is equivalent to the size of a large Turkic tribe.

However, Tuyuhun has always retained the tradition of the Xianbei people of the Murong family, and he has also learned the ability to herd horses and sheep, especially the art of raising horses, which is a must.

When winter comes, Qinghai Lake will be covered with ice, and the Tuyuhun people drive the high-bred mare to Haixin Mountain in the center of the lake, and by the spring of the following year, the mare will become pregnant and give birth to a sturdy foal, called the "dragon breed". Another type of Qinghai horse is the cross between the Persian horse and the local indigenous horse, which is known as traveling thousands of miles a day.

These two kinds of horses are the best in the horse, in the horse market in Daxing can sell tens of thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands of dollars a horse, the end of the land is a million profits, I came to Jincheng this time, I also want to firmly establish a business base here, in the future try to open up the trade channel with Tuyuhun, here to do war horse business is also a very good choice. ”

Mai Tiezhu was stunned when he heard this, he touched his beard, and said with a smile: "In that case, Xingman must have been talking about this business with that Xue Ju just now." That's why it took so long. ”

Wang Huaqiang said disdainfully: "Xue Ju, a reckless man, is worthy of partnering with me to do this business, I let him here just to guard the passage of the Silk Road for me, and we suffered a lot of losses in Longxi in the past few years." I just recovered in the past two years. At present, it is not yet possible to open up a new trade route to the southwest to Tuyuhun. But I have to have this mind, and I have to consciously prepare for this here. ”

Mai Tiezhu nodded: "So you want to restore the shops in this golden city first, that shopkeeper Liu must be replaced, and then send a reliable person to run this place in the future, right?" ”

Wang Huaqiang touched his goatee and smiled slightly: "Yes, Liu Yiqing of the Daxingcheng Archery Range is in charge." I think it's good, after returning to Daxing this time, I will let him replace Liu Changshui, Murong Sanzang is now a thorn in Kuozhou, south of this golden city, close to Tuyuhun, if we want to trade with Tuyuhun, we have to seek his convenience. But these are things for later, and now what we have to do is to eat something and then set off to Zhengjia Village in the north of the city. ”

Three hours later. At noon, Zhengjia Village, fifteen miles north of Jincheng City. At the door of a small courtyard surrounded by a chest-high loess wall, the wheat iron cane door seemed to be guarding the door, the tower-like figure with two unusually long legs of unusual length, plus the iron crescent cane carried upside down in the hand, frightened every household in the village to close their doors, and an old man in his fifties, with a wrinkled face, a rickety back, and a blue cloth coat, was standing beside the wheat iron cane.

The corners of Mai Tiezhu's mouth moved: "Village Chief Zheng, if you let me know that you don't do anything after taking the money, and you still bully the orphans and widows of the Shi family for three days like before, you, the village chief, don't want to continue to do it." ”

The old man surnamed blue is named Zheng Qiandi, is the village head of the village, he used to be in the army for more than ten years, after the destruction of Chen, the world was disarmed, so he was sent back to his hometown when he was old, and by the way, Chen Xuan'er's mother Concubine Shi and two younger brothers were also sent here.

Wang Huaqiang has not been to Zhengjia Village in person over the years, and has always sent more than 1,000 yuan through Liu Changshui every year, which was transferred to the Shi family through Zheng Qiandi's hand to help the family's life.

As a result, Liu Changshui first embezzled half of the money, and then half of it was greedy in Zheng Qiandi's hands, and it came to Shi's hands last every year, but about two hundred yuan, Shi's was old and sick, and his two sons were underage, so they couldn't do farm work at all.

As soon as Wang Huaqiang came here today, he first found Zheng Qiandi's home, and showed his official credentials in front of him, in this kind of small place, a five-grade instrument is enough to scare the village chief who has been a soldier all his life, and Zheng Qiandi led Wang Huaqiang and Mai Tiezhu to Shi's house, Wang Huaqiang understood at a glance that Zheng Qiandi was filling his own pockets, and after training him fiercely, he went into the house to talk to Shi's mother and son, and left Mai Tiezhu to carry Zheng Qiandi outside to watch the door.

Zheng Qiandi replied with a sad face: "General Mai, it's really wronged, this Shi family is a repeat offender of the Chen Dynasty, the villain has been looking at their family with all their heart and soul all these years, you also know that we as people of the imperial court, we can't be too protective of these criminals, the villain looks at their mothers and children, it is already a violation of the ban of the imperial court, and they usually give them more help, the money sent by the shopkeeper Liu in the city, the villain does not dare to be greedy for ink, and the more than 200 yuan overcharged is really just a remuneration paid for hiring people to farm for their family, General Mingjian." ”

As soon as Mai Tiezhu heard that this guy was still quibbling, he was angry, and shouted in a deep voice: "Your grandmother is a bear, just now Ben Jiang has already inquired clearly, the Shi family has divided a total of eighty acres of land, you are good, you first robbed forty acres, and then the remaining forty acres of land is just to let your sons and nephews turn over the land casually when the farm is slack, scatter seeds, and don't even remove grass, are you not the general who has never planted land before, and fooled you so much?" ”

Zheng Qiandi's eyes rolled, and he waved his hand again and again: "General Mai, it's really wronged, when the farm is busy, our family doesn't even plant their own land, come to help this prisoner's family farm the land, the forty acres of land are not hard to take from us, just look at their mother and son, they can't even take care of the remaining forty acres, so we took it back first."

And even the things of harvesting, husking, and drying millet are all things that our family helps the Shi family, so you can't just open your mouth and say that we take advantage of their family. If you really think so, we will return the forty acres of land planted on behalf of the Shi family tomorrow, and we will not help their family with farm work in the future, so it will be okay. ”

Mai Tiezhu sneered: "There are forty acres of land, there are more than 1,000 yuan a year, how can you starve to death, the two boys of the Shi family were still young a few years ago, and now they have grown into half-sized children, I think as long as someone teaches them to plant land for half a year, they will be able to learn farm work immediately, how can you pretend to be here, Village Chief Zheng, you listen to me, General Wang has made it clear just now, if you dare to hack the Shi family's money in the future, and then dare to bully their family, this is your end!"

Mai Tiezhu said, punched out violently, and with a "bang", a hole more than an inch deep was smashed in the loess wall, so frightened that Zheng Qiandi nodded again and again, and no longer dared to distinguish half a sentence.

At the same time, in the simple hut made of loess in the small courtyard, two dilapidated wooden doors were hidden, and the three Shi's mother and son, who were already full of white hair, sat around the only half-person-high cypress table in the house, looking at Wang Huaqiang with an angry face, tears shining one by one.

Wang Huaqiang obviously has not come out of the anger when he first saw Shi today, he hated Liu Changshui and Zheng Qiandi's greed and shamelessness, and at the same time deeply regretted that he had been too big over the years, and he didn't send someone here to investigate, looking at Shi's appearance like a family with four walls, and I don't know how Lu Dao has survived all these years, in case he really killed the mother and son because of his own negligence for a while, I really don't know how Lu Dao will explain to Chen Xuan'er in the future.

Shi Shi squeezed out a smile, wiped the tears in his eyes, and said, "Wang Yitong, we are very good here, don't worry, is Xuan'er in the palace now?" ”

Wang Huaqiang's train of thought was pulled back to reality, he calmed down his mood, and said softly: "Concubine Shi, don't worry, my brother Ai Ji is now on an errand in the palace, in the palace of Concubine Xuan, with him taking care of you, don't worry about Concubine Xuan suffering." (To be continued......)