The night passed peacefully, except for some people around Jinju who occasionally whispered something when passing by the camp, even the defenders of Jinju did not do anything unusual.

Of course, there is no second generation who is not open-minded to come to provoke, and there is no drama such as a local snake challenging an alien strong dragon.

The conversation of the previous night had only spread among the pro-soldiers, and for the time being, it was only a private discussion, but it did not make any waves.

And unlike a group of active pro-soldiers, Luo Kaixian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart - this is still a real world after all, not the so-called drama stage where the stars are holding their feet, there are battles, and there are also more thoughts about vital interests, rather than brainless blindness, after all, what most people need most is not a triumphant leisure, but the most ordinary life in peace and stability.

After a peaceful and comfortable day, as long as you are not in a hurry, you can already call it a rest, and people who can't be idle have their own things. Those who like to fight are taking care of their weapons, those who like horses are checking the use of all their harnesses, including the wear and tear of their horseshoes, and those who like food are walking around Jinju Fortress......

Well, there are still people to operate the things that should be handled, and there are people who go to run errands to complete everything such as signing transit documents and purchasing sundries.

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The titles of the local officials of the Eastern Empire have changed many times, and the county guards, taishou, state pastors, assassins, jiedu envoys, transfer envoys, governors, etc., have all been prominent for a while.

In the Song Dynasty, in order to avoid the Jiedu envoy monopolizing the military and political power, Zhao Kuangyin has been constantly suppressing the abuse of military attache power since the beginning.

At first, this position was only a fictitious position, mostly filled by civilian or mid-ranking officials, and was intended to supervise local military and political practices, but in the late period of Zhao Guangyi's administration, it evolved into a local substantive position, and became the most important rank under the transfer envoy (similar to the provincial level).

Of course, the official system of the Zhao and Song dynasties was chaotic at this time, and titles such as the Jiedu envoy evolved into the honorary title of military attaché, but there was no bait, and the places with strong control were mostly civilian governors, and remote or chaotic places were where the military assassins were in charge of power, and the conflict and estrangement between civil and military forces were even worse than in the Tang Dynasty.

This kind of dispute, in Luo Kaixian's eyes, is a different scene.

is different from Li Jichong, the assassin of Suizhou, although the Jinzhou governor also knew about the arrival of Luo Kaixian's team, he never showed up, and Luo Kaixian, who was the hidden core of the "mission", only knew that the other party's name was Lu Kui, and this Lu didn't know whether to avoid suspicion or have other plans, so he didn't even send a scribe.

just signed his name on the customs clearance paperwork, stamped his seal, and sent the little servant back.

Since the local officials are self-conscious, Luo Kaixian is not so enthusiastic, not to mention that he has never thought of taking the initiative to visit any local officials, although traveling the world can improve his reputation and accumulate contacts, but in Luo's opinion, it is a failure to make a show, after all, he has never been a person who is exquisite.

In his Luo someone's opinion, the internal dispute of the Song people has nothing to do with him at all, and after all, the mountains and rivers are different, such a thing is really not a big deal, the second day received the receipt of the customs clearance document, stared at the signature on it and put it away, and then listened to the complaints of his subordinates, just indifferent smiles, and directly ordered the next morning to pull out the camp and continue the trip.

Of course, there was still a lot of busyness during the day, and the local officials did not come forward, but they did not make any name for themselves behind their backs, and there were no restrictions on those who should go into the city to buy or move around.

Speaking of purchasing, this is probably the thing Luo Kaixian did the most along the way, in addition to rushing. A large amount of gold and silver plus precious stones in his hand can be exchanged for incalculable purchasing power, in fact, those gold, silver and gems have no practical value in this era except for the good looks, because there are hundreds of thousands of people who need to rely on him to survive, and he would rather have countless materials in his hands, which can be coal, timber, metal ore, grain, meat, oil, and even any raw material that can be sent to practical significance.

It's just a pity that for the current level of productivity, whether it is a small city-state in the Seven River Basin before, or any state and county in Hexi now, it is difficult to satisfy his appetite.

As a result, his so-called buying is often all the way to buy.

The meaning is also very simple, every time you go to a settlement or city, you will gather all kinds of local vendors, ask about local specialties, and then pick and choose to buy a bunch of them.

It is said that you should always be able to harvest a lot, but in fact, even if you collect along the way, you will probably not gain much.

The reason for this is not complicated.

In this quaint and primitive era, in this sparsely populated area, there are too many items that do not have the concept of "mass production", except for crops that may be on a certain scale.

Compared with the concepts of a market economy or a planned economy in later generations, everything in this era is very coarse. Most of the small families of the common people in the farming country are men and women weaving in order to be self-sufficient, and those so-called millennium families are no exception, and the same division of labor is clear in order to maintain self-sufficiency; The grassland tribe said that it was to raise cattle and sheep, but most of them were just driving cattle and sheep to eat grass and watch the sky to eat, and there was less to have any concepts such as breeding and yielding.

This is actually the overall overview of the place where Luo Kaixian passed all the way.

Although there is no war in Jinzhou, there are only a few thousand households in Dingkou, and the total is only tens of thousands of people, plus there is not much arable land, and there are many fierce beasts in the mountains and forests.

The list is as follows, two tiger skins, six leopard skins, three bear skins, twelve wolf skins, and more than 30 hardwoods with a length of three zhang and a diameter of one foot at breast height, 400 quintals of corn (millet) (1), plus eight sets of stone mortars and 11 sets of stone mortars...... After a little summary, there are only so many bits and pieces, even so, it is because he is generous and not afraid of carrying inconvenience.

Knowing that she had acquired some sundries, Li Ji still ran to Luo Kaixian with some novelty to check, "Husband, it's okay to buy animal skins and grains, why do you want to buy wood?" And what are these stupid grinding discs and stone mortars for? ”

Luo Kaixian was actually a little embarrassed, but he still explained to his wife: "There are not many trees in Lingzhou, buy some wood and go back to your own usefulness, as for this grinding plate, ......"

"There are also stonemasons in the camp, Cheng Damen's uncle is a good stone chisel, and it is said that there are also big stones on the side of the coal mountain in the east of Lingzhou, and it is easy to make a few grinding discs!" Li Ji, who was tired from traveling for several days, finally relieved herself, and her twittering words should not be too neat.

"Siniang doesn't care......" Luo Kaixian can't always compare on the spot and say that he wants to try to do a windmill mill or the like, in fact, he can't explain it without making a physical object, "There is no shortage of money for the husband, at least you can save manpower by buying these, there are many things to do next year, and there are many things that need to be busy, and after the autumn harvest, how can anyone have the hand to dig the stone?" ”

Li Ji blinked, leaned over to the man, and asked in a low voice, "Don't be annoyed, husband, I want to ask how to carry the big grinding disc?" Is your trick enough? ”

Looking at the little lady's ruddy face, Luo Kaixian couldn't help but scratch her nose with itchy hands, "You little lady!" You still don't know what to do as a husband? Don't say that there are only a few sets of grinding discs, didn't the water tank carried by the sixteen people in the workshop also bring back to Lingzhou? ”

"Yikes!" Li Ji's face became even redder, and there was a busy soldier not far away, although she had a cheerful personality, her little lady was still a little shy. It's just that unlike the boudoir lady in the East, she glared at the man and said: "The husband has great powers, and he doesn't talk to people in detail, how can I know that my little lady is a mortal?" If you dare to deceive me again, you will have your own tent at night! ”

"......" Luo Kaixian, who was magnificent, was speechless for a moment. The creature that dares to love women has a thousand-year-old inheritance, and they don't need to be taught, and the methods of controlling men are all passed down in one line.

There are really not many such relaxed seasons, although Luo Kaixian is not a Lu man who does not understand the amorous feelings, but he really doesn't have much emotional intelligence when he grew up in the army and killing, if he hadn't had mercenary experience, plus he was recuperating in this slow-paced era, he was still a steel character soaked in blood.

After traveling tens of thousands of miles, his style of doing things has eased, but the perseverance and tenacity in his bones cannot be changed, and he may loosen according to the times.

Like all temporary stops along the way, places like Jinju are just a small node on the road, maybe a good time to stop and rest when you're tired, but it's not worth the ride. After less than three days of rest, the team began to move on.

Of course, Jia Ren and the others who accompanied him were also like arrows.

They come and go suddenly, they are the scenery in the eyes of Jinju people, and in the peaceful Jinju they are just passers-by, just like many passing merchants, like the wind passing without leaving a trace, including Jinju's Zhizhou Lukui is completely inattentive.

This may be the norm in this ancient oriental country.

In fact, it is not about oneself to hang high, and this is the view in the eyes of many people who think they are well versed in the world.

However, most of the time in the world is not passionate, and most things happen in ordinary trivialities after all. When the wind blows, it seems to be silent, but it changes the trajectory of the world unconsciously, such as rolling up a pile of dust, such as bringing some seeds......

However, no matter where the dust swept away, or the seeds germinated and grew, they had nothing to do with Luo Kaixian and his party for the time being, and their goal was to take advantage of the ease of freezing the river and go straight to Xingyang (2).

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Note: (1) Dan, a classical unit of mass, is equivalent to about 50 kilograms.

(2) Xingyang, Xingyang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou. Many places near Xingyang have left a good reputation in history, such as Dongyu, Chenggao, Bishui, Xingze, Wutai, Heyin and so on. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was a prefecture and county near Bianliang, Tokyo.

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P.S. Updating is a kind of inertia, and laziness is also a kind of inertia. Well, I'll admit that I've been a bit lazy lately, and I've been a little unmotivated.

Reading is a pleasure because you can wander through the stories in the book, but writing a book is like a weaver's hard work, because if you wind the wrong thread in any place, you can't make a beautiful picture.