Boss Ma hurriedly stopped his move and said: "The guest officer doesn't know, this barley wine is not poured out and drunk like ordinary Han wine, this wine is cooked and mixed with koji, sealed in the jar, put into a cool and ventilated cellar, the older the better." When drinking, you don't need a drinking utensils, but insert a hollow bamboo tube and suck the wine. ”

Boss Ma said, let the little two take three air bamboo tubes and insert them into the altar, Wang Huaqiang sucked a mouthful, sure enough, it felt clear and refreshing, sour and sweet, after entering the throat, he only felt that the stamina was long and refreshing, but it was not like the Han family wine rushing to the head. After taking a few sips, he praised: "It's really a good wine." ”

Boss Ma smiled slightly: "I am the third in the family, and everyone in this city calls me Ma Laosan, I don't know Lang Jun's surname?" ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled: "My surname is Li, my name is Mochou, and this companion's surname is Zhang." Boss Ma, I have heard that the people in the Ganliang area of Longxi are fierce, and it has always been the origin of the world's elite soldiers. Ma Teng and Han Sui of the Han Dynasty took this as a separation, and became a hegemon, when the five Hu chaos in China, this Liangzhou (Liangzhou is a large state in the thirteen states of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lanzhou is only a medium second-level state in the Great Liangzhou) has also resisted the Hu army with the strength of a state, divided for decades, and now this golden city can have any heroes and heroes? ”

When Ma Laosan heard this, he sat up straight all of a sudden, no longer sucking the wine in the altar, and his face became serious and abnormal: "Is Brother Li going to do business here, or is he just asking casually?" ”

Wang Huaqiang looked at his expression, knowing that there must be articles here, and said with a straight face: "This time I came here just to travel, and by the way, let's see if there are conditions to open a market here." This golden city is also on the Silk Road, so there should be business to do. ”

Ma Laosan sighed: "If it is a business, I advise Lang Jun to dispel this idea early." Look elsewhere. Lang Jun came all the way here. I haven't heard of the Golden City. Tigers are in trouble, don't people enter? ”

Although Wang Huaqiang has been to Jincheng several times, but the last time he came here was ten years ago, he heard this statement for the first time, and asked suspiciously: "I see that there are no mountains and forests around this Jincheng, what are the tigers?" When will tigers be able to walk in the steppe desert? ”

Mai Tiezhu gently kicked Wang Huaqiang: "The owner is so cowardly, the tiger that Boss Ma said should refer to a bully." Not really a tiger, is it. ”

Ma Laosan glanced at the inside of the restaurant, at this time the people had already left, except for Wang Huaqiang and Mai Tiezhu, there were only a few guys left, so he called the guy named Danwa, asked him to hang a sign outside to close, and erected the door panel.

After everything was ready to stop, the third horse said in a low voice: "I have a fate with the two of you, so I told the truth." Please don't reveal it to the outside world after you get out of this store, I told you. ”

As soon as Wang Huaqiang saw his momentum, he knew how terrifying the tiger of the Golden City was in this city. So he nodded, and said: "Out of your mouth, into my ears, rotten in my heart, others don't know, please rest assured Brother Ma about this." ”

Ma Laosan nodded: "The tiger in this city is the Xue family, a wealthy family in this city. ”

"The Xue family?" Wang Huaqiang thought it would be Ma Teng, Han Sui, or Yao Chang's clansmen, but he didn't expect it to be Lao Xue, whom he knew before, and he was a little surprised for a while.

"Exactly, this Xue family is actually not a local clan, but a native of Fenyin, Hedong, from the first year of the emperor's reign, there was a man named Xue Wang, who did business here, and this person relied on the trade with the Hu people on this Silk Road, made a small fortune, and became a wealthy family in the city."

Wang Huaqiang originally thought that this Xue family would be like those local tyrant families in Guzang City, a wealthy family that has been operating in Jincheng for many years, and it was not too long to hear Ma Lao Sanyi say that it was not too long to make a fortune, and he was even more surprised in his heart, and glanced at Mai Tiezhu, but saw that his eyes were also confused.

Ma Laosan took a sip of barley wine and continued: "The competition on this Silk Road is very fierce, the Xue family was the first to serve as the guard of some caravans, going back and forth between the Western Regions and Daxing, Xue Wang's son Xue Ju, is nine feet long, infinitely powerful, fierce, and has been skilled in archery and horses since he was a child, and his martial arts are strong. ”

"When he was sixteen years old, he began to serve as a caravan guard, escorting the caravan from Dunhuang all the way to Daxing, on the Silk Road in the west, bandits were rampant, Turkic stragglers, Qiang robbers, and Han people on the northwest road Green Forest Horse Bandits, all of which emerged in endlessly, as many as cattle hair."

"But this Xue Ju is with a group of evil young people in the city, there has never been an accident on the road, and his methods are also extremely cruel, those large and small bandits who want to fight his caravan idea were all killed by him, and no one was left."

"There were several large-scale horse bandits united, led by the giant bandit Sha Lifei in this area, and sent more than 2,000 people to besiege his caravan, but in the melee Xue Ju shot Sha Lifei to death with an arrow, and the other bandits had no leader and could only surrender, Xue Ju later killed all these people, and their heads were cut off and hung on the head of Jincheng for three days."

From then on, on the Silk Road to the west, no one dared to fight the idea of the caravan escorted by the Xue family, and Xue Wang gradually gave up the business to his son and started his own business. Over the years, the Xue family has made a huge fortune, and there are countless heroes and heroes who have come to Xue Ju from all over the world! There are more than 1,000 guards of the Xue family, plus most of them are fierce and cruel green forest heroes, and their combat effectiveness is even better than that of the local garrison! ”

Wang Huaqiang gasped, in the past few years, he had also heard that Xue Ju had been tossed into the climate in this golden city, but he didn't want to have such a big formation: "Is it so powerful?" Isn't this Jincheng the forefront of guarding against the Qiang people, and the combat power of the army is not as good as that of this merchant group of more than 1,000 people? ”

Ma Laosan nodded: "Brother Li doesn't know, the Qiang and Han have been living together here for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to prevent it, rather than relying on the army, it is better to have a good relationship with the Qiang leaders outside the city." This is the way to long-term peace and stability in the local area. ”

"We Qiang people, unlike the Turkic people in the northern steppe, although there are also nomadic herders, but they have been living with the Han people for a long time, and they have long learned the Han farming skills, and many people are also farming outside the city, and they are not like the Turks who completely chase water and grass and have no fixed residence."

"So many tribes still have their own hometowns, and the great thing about Xue Ju is that the money he earns from business guards will be divided into the Qiang tribe and the Han people along the way. Even when they hear that others are attacking their caravan ideas, they will take the initiative to report the news. ”

Hearing this, Mai Tiezhu sighed softly: "This Xue Ju is so powerful, not only is he a brave man, but he also knows how to buy people's hearts, no wonder he can sit big here." ”

Ma Laosan took over the conversation and continued: "Yes, Xue Ju has two sides to being a human being, and he is extremely cruel to those who are enemies of him!" All captured captives never leave a living mouth, and before killing, they are often tortured first, gouging out their eyes, cutting off their noses, tearing out their tongues, and finally beheading, and then throwing the corpses into the large grinding disc used for rice cooking, and directly smashing them into meat paste with a large stone grinder. ”

Rao is Wang Huaqiang has been on the battlefield for a long time, and the wheat iron rod has been walking the rivers and lakes all the year round, and when he heard this, his expression still changed greatly, and the wheat iron rod opened his mouth widely, and he said "ah" softly.

Ma Laosan's expression became more and more serious: "Xue Ju will send people to distribute these meat pastes to those Qiang tribe leaders and Han village leaders, along with this one will also be a whole box of gold and silver treasures, he told these people that the end of going against him is meat mud, and the heads of those people in the city who gouge out their eyes and noses, but if you cooperate with him, there will be inexhaustible benefits." ”

"So in this way, on the way from Guzang to Daxing, there is no one who does not buy Xue Ju's account, even the small bandits who don't want to cooperate with him, and they don't dare to fight the idea of his caravan. The year before last, there was a group of Tuyuhun horse bandits, taking advantage of Xue Ju's absence, to rob his caravan, and then quickly fled back to his own tribe on the grassland, thinking that everything would be fine. ”

"As a result, after Xue Ju inquired about the situation clearly, he selected more than 1,000 strong men, personally led the team, went deep into the river for more than 600 miles, found this tribe, and killed all of them, regardless of men, women, and children, a total of more than 5,000 people, and killed all of them, leaving no one behind, and captured the leader of the tribe alive, brought them back to Jincheng, and divided the corpses of five horses in public, and more than 5,000 heads were all hung on the walls of Jincheng for three months."

"Since then, no one has dared to go against the Xue family on this road, from Tianshui to this golden city, and then to Dasanguan in the east, the Silk Road traffic on this road is completely controlled by the Xue family." (To be continued......)

PS: Next shift, 17 o'clock.