Wang Mujiu, who went to inquire about the information, finally came back, "Your Highness, I have inquired clearly." There are two main cities in Xi'an, one is near the mirror lake in Xiguancheng, which is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County. It is there that ordinary people buy all kinds of daily necessities. ”

"What about the other one?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, the other is in Dongguan City, which mainly sells horses, jewelry and other valuable goods, which is under the jurisdiction of Xianning County."

Zhu Youzhen thought about it, the current output of soap has not increased, the price will definitely not be low, and ordinary people cannot afford it. Now soap is still a luxury, "It's late today, find a hotel to stay in first, and we'll go to Dongguan City tomorrow to have a look." ”

Xi'an takes the bell tower as the center, and extends four main roads in the four directions of east, west, north and south - Dongmen Street, Ximen Street, South Gate Street and Beimen Street, which is the widest street in Xi'an, directly facing the four city gates.

Dongguan City is the southeast of Xi'an, in the area between Dongmen Street and Nanmen Street.

Zhu Youzhen took Wang Mujiu, Liu Kun, Liu Lin and two soldiers, a total of six people, starting from the bell tower and wandering east along Dongmen Street. Crossing the Baoan Palace, it is the main road of Dongguan City - East Guanxi Street.

"This street, yes, it's very wide, let's walk along this street!" Zhu Youzhen believes that the wider the street, the greater the flow of people and the greater the value of business.

At the entrance of the street is a shop selling ceramics, with two rooms in two, the second floor structure, and the upper floor may only be the master's bedroom.

Wang Mujiu was big, and everyone entered the shop in turn.

"Guest officer, please inside. Welcome to the shop, what do you want to buy? A person who looked like a little second bowed down to greet him.

"Oh, let's just take a look, and we will buy what we see." Zhu Youzhen didn't plan to buy any ceramics at all, he just wanted to look at the layout of the store and refer to it for future soap shops.

"The guest officer looks at it casually." Xiao Er flashed to the side and gave the middle hall of the shop to Zhu Youzhen and his party.

Zhu Youzhen touched the pottery and looked at the porcelain. These ceramics are not sophisticated, and they should not be boutiques.

"Guest officer, there are blue and white porcelain in the shop, even broken porcelain...... I don't know if the guest officer wants to take a look? Xiao Er's eyes were a little lost, these people were dressed extraordinarily, if they walked in vain, it would be a pity.

"Floral porcelain?" Does this legendary porcelain with cracks and cracks on its surface really exist? However, Zhu Youzhen's interest is not in porcelain, "There is still something to do today, let's appreciate it another day!" ”

"Then the guest officer is leaving." Xiao Er bowed down again and sent Zhu Youzhen out of the door.

This East Kansai Street is lined with shops on both sides. Zhu Youzhen thought that it would be a waste if anyone built a house on this bustling street.

After walking for almost half a mile, there is a Suzhou embroidery specialty store on the east side of the street. Now although Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery, and Guangdong embroidery already exist, Suzhou embroidery still occupies a dominant position.

"Which of you knows Su embroidery?" Zhu Youzhen had only heard of Su embroidery, he had never bought Su embroidery, and the Su embroidery he had seen was Zhou Yufeng's new wedding dress.

"Your Highness, your subordinates know some, but they are not experts." Liu Lin is engaged in interrogation, and he knows a wider range of things.

"Well, let's go in and have a look." Zhu Youzhen is going to make some clothes for Wan'er and Hu Xinxue, especially Hu Xinxue, who was born as a young lady, is like herself, and is still a maidservant. Of course, what they have, Zhou Yufeng can't be less, and Zhu Youzhen can't favor one over the other.

"Your Highness is going to give ......," Liu Lin tentatively said.

"Oh, I bought it for the princess."

Liu Lin stepped forward and muttered a few words to Xiao Er.

"Guest, please. Here are all for teenage girls, and there are all gorgeous and elegant. Xiao Er bowed down to Zhu Youzhen and showed him the way.

After the preliminary identification of Liulin, Zhu Youzhen bought a butterfly green background with pink lotus for Zhou Yufeng, a foundation of broken leaves for Hu Xinxue, and an orchid embroidered on the water red for Wan'er. One horse per person can make several sets of clothes, if they exchange with each other, or exchange to make one or two clothes, Zhu Youjian can't control it. "Xiao Er, wrap it up for me and send it over at this address."

"Okay!" There is money to earn, Xiao Er's eyes are particularly bright, it is winter, it is the off-season for Suzhou embroidery sales, it is difficult to find a guest like Zhu Youzhen who buys three horses at a time.

At the end of the West Street of Dongguan City, at the corner of the southeast of Dongguan City, Zhu Youzhen finally saw the mule and horse market.

It is said to be a mule and horse market, but in fact, in the empty market, there are mostly mules and donkeys, but there are not many horses.

"Xiao Er, why are there so few horses in your market?" Zhu Youzhen frowned.

"Is the guest officer going to buy a horse?" Xiao Er ran over diligently, "Some time ago, there was a bandit trouble in Shaanxi, and the horses in the market were all requisitioned by their bandits. No, thanks to His Royal Highness King Shin quelled the troubles, the horse market was reopened, and now it is mainly mules, and good horses are still on the way. ”

"Huh," Shidao turned his gaze to Zhu Youzhen.

"Ahem...... cough ...... "Zhu Youzhen doesn't want his identity as a letter king to interfere with the normal market market." In fact, when Zhu Youzhen came out, he asked Wang Mujiu and others to call him "Gongzi", not "Your Highness", and if he asked for his name, he would use the Wang Xin he had used before.

Only then did everyone come to their senses and look elsewhere, even looking at the horse manure in the market.

"Oh, then let's go back first, there are no good horses here anyway." Visiting the horse market was originally just an incidental goal of Zhu Youzhen, he just took a casual look, this horse market in Xi'an, because it is close to Mongolia, maybe there are any good horses. Since the horse market is dominated by mules and donkeys, he has little interest.

"This guest officer, wait." A black-clothed man who was about forty years old and very sturdy next to him stopped Zhu Youzhen, "The guest officer is a person who knows the goods, I happen to have a good horse, do you want to see it objectively?" ”

"Good horse? What kind of good horse? "Zhu Youzhen is more interested in people, and it seems that he may be the owner of this market.

"The guest officer will see for himself." He said to Xiao Er on the side: "Go, bring 'Snow Fire'." ”

"Yes, the little ones will go." Xiao Er agreed and went to the stable in the southeast corner.

"You ......"

"So that the guest officer knows, my name is Li Xian, and I have been in the horse market for more than ten years." Li Xian saluted Zhu Youzhen with a fist.

"More than a decade? How is business in this horse market? Zhu Youzhen believes that Xi'an Horse Market is close to Mongolia and has a sufficient supply of goods, so business should be good.

"Thanks to the guest officer, it's okay."

At this time, Xiao'er had already led the horse over, Zhu Youzhen first glanced at it, the horse was snow-white, without a single stray hair, and the length and height of the horse were larger than the common Mongolian horses.

"Sure enough, it's a good horse! However, this should not belong to Mongolian horses, right? ”

"The guest officer has good eyesight! This is the legendary Dawan horse, the extinct 'Snow Reflecting Sun' horse. Li Xian gave Zhu Youzhen a thumbs up.

"Huh! Didn't you just say that it was called 'Snow Fire'? ”

"Yes! Its name is Snow Fire, because its whole body is snow-white, and there is no trace of stray hair. But it's hot-tempered and fire-like, so it's called 'Snow Fire'. It is a variety of 'Snow Reflecting the Sun', which is rare to see even in the Western Regions. Li Xian seemed to be praising one of his treasures.

"The Western Regions? Aren't your horses from Mongolia? ”

"The guest officer doesn't know that war horses are the life# root of the Mongols, and they will not be sold to the Han people easily, especially the excellent horse breeds, so we must open up new sources of goods." When Li Xian said this, he looked at Zhu Youzhen carefully, as if Zhu Youzhen was spying on his trade secrets.

"Don't worry, proprietor Li, we are not in the horse trading business, and we will not steal your job, we are just interested in the source of this horse. Just now, proprietor Li said that this horse came from the Western Regions, it seems that the Ming Dynasty and the Western Regions are separated by Jiayu Pass, is the army allowing you to sell horses? ”

"This ...... Let's tell the truth, the army will generally release the goods that are brought in, as long as the customs duties are paid, and this fine horse breed is mainly sold to the army. Li Xian felt that Zhu Youzhen was too young, and he didn't look like he could go out to sell horses at all.

"Ao, but, proprietor Li, Yaerqiang doesn't seem to produce war horses, right?" To the west of Jiayuguan is the current Yarkand Kingdom, which is already the traditional Western Regions, but that area is relatively desolate, there are no grasslands, and Zhu Youzhen knows that there should be no precious war horses.

"The guest officer is very knowledgeable, and Da Ming doesn't know much about Yarkand." Li Xian gave Zhu Yo a thumbs up again, "Yaerqiang does not produce war horses, even if there are famous horses." The main production area of good horses is still in the west of Yarkand, in addition to Dawan horses, big eating horses are also good. ”

"Big Eater? You're talking about the Ottoman Empire? Zhu Youzhen was silent on the surface, but secretly he was amazed, and finally met a person who knew a little about Central Asia.

"I should be, but I haven't been to the Ottomans, I've only been as far as Bukhara and the Kazakh steppe." Li Xian was also surprised, who is this young man? How did even the Ottomans know?

"Bukhara? Kazakh? Zhu Youzhen doesn't know whether to be happy or sad, this was once the territory of the Han and the Tang Dynasty, and now, except for this horse trader Li Xian, I'm afraid not many people in the Ming Dynasty still remember them, let alone worry about them, "Li Dongzhu, can you talk about Brava and Kazakhstan?" ”

"Guest officer, you ......" Li Xian finally became alert.

"Don't worry, proprietor Li, although I do a little business, I have nothing to do with War Horse, and I will never steal business with you." Zhu Youzhen knew Li Xian's concerns, and it seemed that if he didn't reveal his identity today, he was afraid that it would be difficult to gain his trust.

Li Xian raised his head and looked at the sun that had risen so high, his lips moved, and he didn't know if he was chewing the air or Zhu Youzhen's words.

"Li Dongzhu, I will personally run the front line of Jiayuguan for you, I will sell this horse, and you will make a price." Zhu Youzhen did like 'Snow Fire', he walked towards 'Snow Fire', ready to pat the horse's back.

"Guest, no." Li Xian hurriedly spoke out to stop him, "Don't hide it from the guest officer, although 'Xuehuo' is precious, it has not been domesticated so far, and people can't get close to it." ”

"No domestication?" Zhu Youzhen doesn't understand, without domestication, how can he know its ability?

"Guest officer, 'Snow Fire' is too strong, I tried my best, but I can't tame it." Li Xian felt that 'Snow Fire' was like his disaster star.

"Oh, that'...... Which of you can train a horse? Zhu Youzhen asked the entourage around him.

Immediately, five shaking rattles appeared in the air.