Three months later, Luoyang, the eastern capital, is the middle of summer again, the whole eastern capital is as lively as a festival, the poplars on both sides of the street are hung with ribbons, all the courtyard walls of the streets and alleys are all freshly painted, the restaurants and shops are full of lights, and those large and small hotels have set up stalls outside the door, putting bowls of chilled black plum soup, specially for the Western Regions Hu merchants to taste for free.

Wang Shichong changed into a silk casual clothes, and Wei Zheng and the two of them walked in this Luoyang West City, since the Tuyuhun expedition ended with the opening of the Great Treasure King three months ago, Yang Guang's mood was very good, and by the way went north to Guzang City (at this time Liangzhou has been renamed Wuwei County), and met with the kings and khans of more than 40 countries in the Western Regions who heard the wind in Guzang City, as well as the kings and khans of the Western Turks, Tuyuhun and the Zhaowu Nine Surname Countries in Central Asia.

This time, Yang Guangxi's expedition cleanly defeated Tuyuhun and the Western Turks, and forcibly replaced the leaders of the two countries, which made the new Mohe Khan, who became the Great Khan of the Western Turks, also afraid, and sent his own prince to congratulate, and the nominal new Tuyuhun Khan Murong Shun, and the former Western Turkic Great Khan Chuluo Khan, were used as coachmen and grooms to open the way for Yang Guang's car, and the leaders of the two western powers gave in to Yang Guang so much, so that the kings of the Western Regions were shocked and frightened, and they came in person. Kneeling on both sides of the road to show absolute deference and surrender to Yang Guang.

Under the mountain calls of the kings and khans of dozens of countries in the Western Regions and even Central Asia, Yang Guang finally found the feeling of the legendary king of kings, which made him feel extremely good, the feeling of depression that he had lived in the huge shadow of his father for many years. All at once it vanished. Even the great Emperor Wen of Sui. did not make such a posture, so that the kings of the Western Regions knelt at his feet, listening to the tsunami-like "Heavenly Khan" of the kings of the Western Regions, Yang Guang only felt that he had flown to the clouds, and even his bones were light.

Taking advantage of this good mood, Yang Guangda waved his pen and issued a holy decree, ordering to start from Dunhuang. All the way to the Eastern Capital, the envoys and Hu merchants of various prefectures and counties in the Western Regions provided free accommodation and meals, and within a year in the Eastern Capital, all the restaurants and restaurants provided free wine and food to visitors from the Western Regions, and the state paid for the expenses after the Hu merchants signed and confirmed.

As a result, the city of the eastern capital suddenly became more lively than the New Year, with lights everywhere, all the restaurants and restaurants did their business outside the store, and the city was filled with wine and sour plum soup and taste. The shopkeepers went into battle in person, speaking half-baked Sogdian and Turkic languages outside the store. Greeting those merchants from the Western Regions with high noses and deep eyes, felt hats and leather robes to come and taste.

Wang Shichong walked half of the West Market, with a relaxed smile on his face, although he has always been very aware of Yang Guang's ability to die, but this time Yang Guang's spoof ability is still beyond his imagination, such a god-level loser, the iron-clad country will also collapse, Wang Shichong secretly calculated the account in his heart: A merchant in the Western Regions, who eats Haisai like this every day, can spend at least two hundred yuan on accommodation and food.

In the past few months, the Central Plains is full of fine wine, and the rumors of mountain delicacies everywhere have spread throughout the Western Regions, as long as there is a camel, people will go crazy through the thousands of miles of desert, enter the Yumen Pass, and then they will transform into hungry ghosts who have not eaten for three years, and they will eat their belly until they can't walk, listen to the news in the Longyou area of Guanzhong, there are more than 200,000 people and Turks in the Western Regions who go to the Central Plains to eat big households, plus more than 100,000 people in the eastern capital, at least 400,000 Hu people are attracted by Yang Guang's free food and lodging, and the daily expenditure is as high as 80 million, the expenditure of the Grand Canal excavation for a year is just like this.

Wang Shichong walked to the edge of a restaurant, walked most of the way, he was also a little thirsty, this West Market is the place where Hu businessmen gather the most, plus this free food policy, it can really be called shoulder to shoulder, sweating like rain, the strong smell of mutton on those Hu people, mixed with the smell of sweat after smearing spices, smelled Wang Shichong felt like vomiting, and finally squeezed into a slightly remote alley, and finally got into the nose with a sour plum soup mixed with mint flavor. It made him feel a lot better.

This is a remote alley, at the end of the alley is an inconspicuous small restaurant, the terrain here is really not good, even if it is prosperous as today, there are not a few Hu people coming, there is a low table in front of the store, on which are placed a few bowls of purple sour plum juice, put in the ice bucket to town, the smell is refreshing.

Looking at the table was a guy in his twenties with slightly darker skin, and when he saw Wang Shichong, he immediately shouted happily: "Ouch, this master, come and drink two bowls of sour plum juice, the mint and sour plum juice in the small shop, but this is a must in the Eastern Capital, there is absolutely no one in the Western Regions, and I will regret it for a lifetime!" ”

Wang Shichong smiled slightly, stepped forward, his bearded face can be mixed and drunk for free here today, Wei Zheng also followed, the guy saw that Wei Zheng's appearance was not like Hu Ren at all, his brows furrowed, and he just wanted to refuse, but the shopkeeper behind hurriedly said: "Pillar, there are guests from afar, just let people drink a bowl, it's so hot, you see that the two guest officers are sweating so much, we have to make money in business." ”

Wei Zheng laughed and bowed his hand to the short and fat shopkeeper in his forties: "Then thank you for the kindness of the store." After that, he was the same as Wang Shichong, picking up a bowl of sour plum juice and drinking it all.

Wang Shichong put down the bowl in his hand and wiped his mouth, his mouth was full of the aroma of mint, and this bowl of chilled sour plum juice was poured directly into the stomach from his mouth, as if pouring a scoop of snow spring on an iceberg on the stomach that was still burning just now, the refreshment and coolness could be emanated from almost every pore.

Wang Shichong breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's really a good drink, shopkeeper, your store is a little off, if it is opened on that street, all your sour plum juice will be snatched up!" ”

The fat shopkeeper smiled: "The guest officer's Chinese language is so fluent, alas, my shop is ancestral, has always been this façade, father, ancestors have always said, the wine is not afraid of deep alleys, my Liang family's ancestral plum wine, in this Luoyang City is also a little famous, if the guest officer is interested, you can also taste our family's plum wine, to the supreme Hongfu, now you foreign guests come to drink a few days ago, is not for money." (To be continued......)