What Yang Lin couldn't understand the most was why a person as rough as Lan Ying would give birth to a girl with such fine skin and tender flesh as Lan Phoenix, except that the amount of food was the same huge, Yang Lin couldn't find any common characteristics between these two father and daughter.

Lan Ying's four sedan chairmen and his stretcher-style sedan chair were occupied by Yanglin, only the blue phoenix who was the same owner was qualified to ride with him, and only then went out dozens of miles of mountain roads, many members of the art troupe began to cry and cry for their mothers, especially the recruits, many of them were girls in the boudoir to be married, and they had no experience of rushing around at all, and some of them were rich children who had never engaged in physical labor, and the weight of twenty catties was about to kill them.

But there is no way, from the day they swore to join the art troupe, Yang Lin told them the iron-clad rules, obeying orders is what they must do before they retire, they will be the same kind of people in the future, all the requirements are also the same standard, since they have made an oath, they cannot be violated.

At the head of the team is dozens of Miao strong men led by Lan Ying, they are responsible for cleaning up the obstacles on the road from time to time, as long as they can barely get off the foot, in their eyes it is a road, followed by the escort team of Yanglin, more than 200 people are fully armed, and the long muskets in their hands are aimed at both sides of the mountain forest from time to time, once a wild beast dares to rush out to attack the crowd, they will immediately kill, and at the same time, their footsteps can also trample on the road cleared by the Miao people. Only those veterans who have been on tour in Jiangnan for a few months can barely keep up with the footsteps of the escorts, they have undergone a round of physical training in Chang'an, and they have also walked the mountain roads in Jiangnan for several months, and when they reach the more rugged Xiangxi, the huge physical consumption is just a little difficult for them.

Then there are the porters hired by the merchants in Yuezhou, most of them also have experience in entering the mountains, each of them has a load full of goods, there are more than 500 people, and the recruits are basically around the sedan chair of the Yanglin at the rear. Because if they fall any further, they will really leave the team forever.

"Ling Yuhan, pull the song, mention the spirit." Yang Lin shouted on the stretcher, and Ling Yuhan, who was afraid that his subordinate members would fall behind, immediately returned: "Get the order, regiment leader." ”

"What is different about us soldiers, be prepared."

"What is the difference between us soldiers and soldiers?"

More than 1,000 people were slightly tired, and the birds and beasts in the mountains ran together, and even the mountain monkeys who followed the team all the way and wanted to pick up some food were scared away. In addition to eating, the blue phoenix, whose mouth is constantly chirping, finally found another interesting thing, humming blindly with everyone's singing, and sometimes just lip-syncing.

Such a hard and happy rush lasted for more than twenty days, until three days before Chinese New Year's Eve, Yanglin saw a small castle made of bluestone with a telescope from a distance, which is the foundation of the Lan tribe, Lou Lan City.

Lou Lancheng used to be called Lou Cheng, but after being completely controlled by the Lan tribe, it was renamed Lou Lancheng. In Yanglin's view, this is more like a castle, the scale of more than 1,000 people living is not as good as a market town in the Central Plains, Yanglin saw the Lan Yu patriarch who was waiting for them with his neck stretched out and looking forward to their arrival from a long distance.

The long dragon-like team swarmed into Lou Lan City, staining the last trace of open space in the entire castle. Yang Lin, who enjoyed the three bowls of welcome wine of the Miao old patriarch, motioned to the scorpion to take people to camp outside the city, Yang Lin had already learned some of the situation in Lou Lan City from Lan Ying, this castle-like building was just the residence of the Lan clan's descendants and daily guards, and the real Miao farmers lived on the hill near the water. A few households on this hill, a few families on that hill, control all the land belonging to the Lan tribe. The number of mountains they can occupy proves how large their sphere of influence is.

The so-called welcoming banquet Yanglin can't eat, those foods will only make people frightened, but the croaking Miao people stared at the big bags and small bags brought by him, the guests, and salivated, looking at Lan Ying's explanation in front of many Miao clan elders, Yang Lin really couldn't interject his mouth.

"Master Horse, look at the snake meat on this table, it is all with skin, our people can't eat it, and those Miao people outside the city, roasting meat actually directly burned the fur on the beast's body with fire, it's really a waste, it's a flower skin mink to get farmers to Chang'an to make fur coats, at least worth a thousand yuan." Seeing that the elders of the Miao tribe were chatting around Lan Ying, Lu Bingchang whispered in Yanglin's ear.

In fact, before seeing the goods produced by the top ten factories, Lu Bingchang didn't think that these things were worth much, but now it's different, the garment factory has been able to produce leather clothes, leather boots, leather gloves with strong cold resistance, and they are worth a lot of money, whether it is a beast or a poisonous snake, no matter what else, the value of their fur has reached a very high Cheng dù, in the eyes of the pure businessman Lu Bingchang, the Miao tribe is almost everywhere with money, and the Miao people are wasting money all the time.

"Hehe, can't you stand it? Take my clairvoyance to the west, dozens of green hills, that is a tea tree that can grow young leaves all year round, but unfortunately the Miao people don't know that thing, and they can't fry the tea, and they cut it for firewood in vain, in order to stop their strict wasteful behavior, you have to let the subordinate businessmen give them more knowledge, as much as possible to open a fixed purchase point here, build a factory for roasting tea, the imperial court out of technology, the shares account for fifty percent, you are responsible for the production and sales of businessmen accounted for three percent, and the Miao people who provide raw materials accounted for two percent, this business, done. "Yanglin has almost never left the telescope along the way, not only the tea mountain, but also a lot of orange mountains, in addition to the tea factory, the orange canning factory may also be built here in the next few years, these are all later words, there is no need to tell Lu Bingchang now.

"Of course I do, my subordinates will gather people to confess, and I can't delay for a moment, oh my god, my money!" Lu Bingchang was talking, when he swept the lens of the telescope to the mountains to the west, he began to become incoherent, this thing is really Chang'an City now a pound of tea has been sold for five yuan, the value is more than silk, this mountain is all over the field, I don't know how much it can produce in a year!

kicked Lu Bingchang's ass, for fear that he would leak the news to the Miao people, making the rest of the matter even more difficult, and drove him out of the hall with a wave of his hand.

"Hehehehe, on behalf of the entire Lan tribe, Lan Yu would like to thank God for the life-saving grace and hospitality of my son, my Lan Miao clan is willing to accept the reward of the imperial court and serve as that, oh, the position of the Great Tusi, I hope that the imperial court can be friendly with my Lan Miao tribe for generations and become a state of brothers." The old patriarch of Lan took a big wine bowl and politely walked to the bamboo case in Yanglin to ask for wine, and the rest of the clan elders also came with him, sifting the wine bowl to the brim, needless to say that Yanglin knew that these old goods were probably greedy for the high wine in the bowl.

"That's the best, accept the reward from the imperial court, and let's talk about the rest of the matter." Yang Lin took a small sip of his wine bowl symbolically, and his eyes swept towards Lan Ying's round face with a smile like a big cake, this thing is such an honest man, he actually learned to squeeze his eyebrows at him, which means that he has done all the ideological work of his father and a group of clan elders.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, Lan Yu, the leader of the Lan Miao tribe, his heart is to the Tang Dynasty, and he is sincere to me Tang Youbang"

After reading the holy decree in the rules of Yanglin, Lan Yu also took the piece of yellow silk and put it into his arms, an old face with three goatees still smiled at Yang Lin, the meaning is obvious, he didn't care about what was written in the holy decree at all, how many gifts and how much good wine the court brought to them was the problem he cared about, and the old men of the Lan Miao tribe who had suffered in the mountains all their lives had the same mind as him, and they would never want to eat food full of sand in the future.

"This is the gift list of the imperial court to the big toast, you designate a location, the porter will unload the goods there, and there are also private people who have brought you some gifts, the porters will send them together, in the future, we will be the same courtiers, brothers are commensurate, but other tribes in Xiangxi that have more than 10,000 people also need you to call them to come and be sealed, according to the emperor's will, they will be canonized as Tusi according to the size of the tribe population and territory, small Tusi, usually accept the control management of your big toast."

Yang Lin's words were kind, Lan Yu also nodded while listening, he didn't feel that he was almost sixty years old at all, and there was nothing wrong with a nine-year-old doll calling him a brother, as long as someone sent him something, as for what Yang Lin said, the toast and the little toast that are usually managed by him in moderation are managed by him when they are not usual, he didn't think about it at all.

Looking at a load of goods being sent into Lan Li's warehouse by the porters, the elders of the Lan tribe were all smiling, and Yang Lin also felt that this trip to Xiangxi had finally completed the task, just when he was thinking about how to spend a good year in Miao Village, he suddenly felt an itch in his neck, afraid that he was bitten by some insects, Yang Lin patted his hand, and felt that a sticky thing stuck to his neck, and then looked at his fingers, a red to black blood stain emitted a foul smell, which immediately attracted the attention of the Lan clan elders in joy.

"Ahh It's the Gu worm, the black spider, who is it, who is the guest of my Miao Lan clan. Lan Ying's eyes were sharp, and he was also very familiar with the foul smell, which was the smell of the poisonous insects that the Miao Gu Master had cultivated with blood. After an exclamation, the elders of the Miao Lan clan covered their noses and retreated, as if this black blood and stench would cause great harm to people.

Circumference is Yanglin, a scientific person from the next generation, heard that he was bitten by a Gu worm, and his face turned pale with fright for a moment, it seemed that this trip seemed to be too smooth, how could there be a problem when he arrived at the terminal, Gu worm, is it something that will ulcerate and die all over the body if bitten? (To be continued......)