Although Shuzhong has been famous for its peace and wealth since the pre-Qin period, it has never been the world of the Han people. There are more than 200 Jiannan Prefectures, such as Yazhou, there are more than 50 large and small prefectures, and many places are only a stone's throw away, but this does not prevent most chiefs from leading the official positions of the imperial court, and can even be called assassins or generals to the outside world. Those are located in the distant state of Jian, Du Shiyi is just a tea envoy and not a pacification envoy, naturally it is impossible to go everywhere, Lu Qi asked Lu Cong to lead the way and take them to, it is a place where the fangs gather, there are about five or six hundred people in total, all of them are barbarians.

After he stayed in the Yazhou Governor's Mansion last night, Wang Rong brought a message through the people in the Governor's Mansion, telling him that if he wanted to go out of Yazhou to visit the fang, it would be better to go to Mengshan Yejiazhai, and he asked people to come to Yazhou Map, and the next morning, he told Lu Cong such a location.

Yazhou is mountainous and Han and Qiang barbarians live together, and many villages are like this. Now it is the height of summer, and there were not many people on the mountain road leading to Mengshan Yejiazhai at first, however, when Du Shiyi and his party turned a big bend on the mountain road, they found that there were more than ten people in front of them.

In addition to seven or eight pack horses, there is also a light cart, led by middle-aged people dressed brightly, which is exactly the style that has only become popular in Chengdu this year. When he saw Du Shiyi's group of six people, he with a hooked nose glanced at Du Shiyi and Pei Ning's faces, and then glanced at Lu Cong, and finally withdrew his gaze disapprovingly, and commanded a servant beside him. After a short time, the servant came over with a horse and asked with a smile: "Dare to ask all Langjun where is he going?" ”

Lu Cong is younger than Du Shiyi and Pei Ning, but today he is the accompanying guide, so he naturally took over the conversation: "Go to Yejiazhai." ”

"Oh, it's such a coincidence?" The servant who looked like jīng Yu glanced at the master, and his face showed a bit of ridicule, "Could it be that you want to go to Yejiazhai to collect tea?" ”

This question is brainless, although Lu Cong treats people modestly, but after all, he still has the arrogance of the children of the family in his bones, and he can't help but be very annoyed when he dares to be aggressive with such a group of merchants, and when he was about to scold, someone next to him said coldly: "Yes and what, no and what?" ”

The servant followed the master, and he was also regarded as a high-level person in Yazhou, and at this moment, he saw that the young man who suddenly answered the phone had a cold face, as if he didn't look at himself in his eyes, he was angry, and said angrily at the moment: "Look at your appearance as a foreigner, don't think that some money can do things I will leave my ugly words in front, if you want to go to this Yejiazhai, you might as well go and wander, but don't want to buy a little something."

When he had said this, he turned his horse and left. And looking at the back of him going over there to report to people, Du Shiyi smiled at Pei Ning, who was becoming more and more cold: "The third senior brother is too, what do you have to talk to him about?" ”

"I just want to see what is the difference between the merchants on the ground in Yazhou and the Central Plains in Guanzhong" Although Pei Ning himself invested in share capital with Lu Wangzhi and other senior brothers, and also opened a Wangyue Sending Shop, most of the things he really dealt with businessmen were Lu Wangzhi, and he had no such experience. At this moment, he frowned thoughtfully, and suddenly asked, "Little junior brother, this person just talked about collecting tea, I remember that the tea quotations prescribed by the tea introduction division do not seem to have been involved here?" ”

Du Shiyi nodded with a smile and said, "Needless to say, it must be in disregard of the ban and buy tea in private." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two brothers, Lu Cong couldn't help but mourn in his heart for the group of businessmen in front of him. This trick hit an even bigger one, and it literally hit the tip of the gun

However, he muttered so much in his heart, but the other party seemed to not restrain himself, but instead sent another person over when he passed through another type intersection. This person's attitude was even more arrogant than the previous servant, and after throwing the copper coin directly on the ground, he said with pity: "If you want to make money, you might as well pick up this money and go home, if you follow it down to Yejiazhai, what will be the ending at that time, don't blame the master of my family for not reminding you."

Seeing that this person left the conversation again and turned the horse away, Lu Cong couldn't hold back anymore. After bursting out the words "deceiving people too much", he turned his head to look at Du Shiyi, thinking that the other party was younger than him, and he might be even more uncontrollable, but who knew that what he saw was a face that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.

"Everyone else has already talked about this, rest for a while, don't hang behind them, they do their things, let's go into the village later."

Because the group did not announce in advance this time, Lu Cong was instructed by his father to take all actions and obey orders, and when he entered Yejiazhai, Du Shiyi knew that what Lu Cong said was true, and most of the people here were made up. The so-called weaving fang,It is a deep degree of sinicization.,In the early Tang Dynasty, it had already entered the familiar Qiang or familiar barbarian of the household.。

I saw that the wooden houses everywhere still had a strong foreign style, and most of the men and women who could be seen were wearing clothes with strong ethnic customs, but many of the words coming from everywhere were Chinese that he could understand, and he could even see many Han businessmen. Wang Rong did point him to a suitable place, where the sinicization is deep, and there is almost no need for translation, which can be called a typical example of weaving fangs.

Seeing Du Shiyi walking around the stalls set up here and there with great interest as if he was an ordinary person, Lu Cong couldn't help sweating on his forehead, and when there was no one else around, he took two quick steps to catch up with Du Shiyi, and then said in a low voice: "The outside is all the goods that fool those ordinary merchants, if they are familiar businessmen who often come and go, most of them will go directly to the house to trade, and there are no good things outside." ”

Although Pei Ning was not more interested than Du Shiyi, he was actually very curious about this first scene, and couldn't help but ask at this moment: "What are most of the transactions here?" ”

"Furs, medicinal herbs, bamboo shoots and fungus and other mountain delicacies, the most famous of which is the flavor of the wild goose wood, and even sent to the two capitals as a tribute. Secondly, there is bran, which is rare after all. As for the silk cotton, although they also learned to raise silkworms with the Han people, they were not good at it after all. Speaking of this, Lu Cong paused, and finally said honestly, "However, the most traded tea is now." These fangs have been deeply sinicized, and they have been living in the local area, and they know the water and soil well, and the tea they grow is better than the quality of the Han people in the outside world. And near Mengshan, it is the most haode tea in the whole Yazhou. ”

Du Shiyi listened and nodded, and was about to ask Lu Cong to take him to the head of this village to speak, when he saw that in front of the tallest wooden house not far away, the door opened, and an old man of different races who was about sixty years old sent a brightly dressed middle-aged man out, and the people waiting outside also crowded up when they saw this. From such a distance, he only heard the old man say in slightly stiff Chinese: "Zhao Lang, don't worry, we have been in contact for many years, even if you don't say it, I will never sell the tea to others, and if the government inquires at that time, I will naturally keep it a secret for you." ”

"Then thank you Ghost Lord Ye"

The middle-aged man thanked him with a smile, arched his hand and said goodbye, and then led someone outside, but the old man who was called the Ye Ghost Lord also gave him two steps. When he saw Du Shiyi's group, his face was sè yīn, but he immediately thought that he had just done enough work in the house, and this fledgling young man would definitely return home, and he suddenly showed a smugly sè. When he passed by Du Shiyi and others, he even said with a smile: "Hou Shenglang, you want to fight with me, but you are still a little tender."

However, the old man, who had a completely disregarded attitude towards Du Shiyi and the others, suddenly looked at Lu Cong's face with some hesitation when he walked by Du Shiyi and the others, and when he walked out a few steps, he suddenly stopped with a surprise and looked at Lu Cong in surprise and said, "You are ...... Lu Shilang? Son of Ludutu? ”

Today, the most important village was finally negotiated and a group of young merchants who were behind him were told a jǐng notice, Zhao Guansheng originally breathed a long sigh of relief, and his heart was quite complacent, but when he heard the two titles coming from behind him, he only felt a chuckle in his heart, and involuntarily stopped and turned around. The young man who saw what the Ghost Lord Ye was right first looked at his companion a little unnaturally, and then coughed easily: "I haven't seen you for two years, but I didn't expect the Ghost Lord Ye to remember me." He only felt bitter in his heart first, and then a burst of weakness.

How could he be so unlucky, it was not a businessman, but a person from the government? And is it the son of Lu Qi, the governor of Yazhou, who rarely shows up? Oops, he had people go and humiliate him repeatedly, and just now he left down such a provocative word

"It's really Lu Shilang"

The Ye Ghost Lord was surprised and delighted for a while. Although Lu Qi, the governor of Yazhou, has hardly moved in the past two years, he is like an invisible person, but when he first came here to inspect, he also solved the problem of getting water for them, and sent the soldiers and horses of the Governor's Mansion to help them dig a canal buried due to a landslide, so he naturally missed Lu Qi deeply. Seeing Lu Cong admit his identity at this moment, he immediately hahadaxiao said: "I didn't expect that there would be another distinguished guest today, so I will order them to go down and let them slaughter a sheep and entertain the most distinguished guests in the village."

How did Lu Cong know that people really still remember his father's kindness, so much so that he wanted to treat himself as a distinguished guest. In a panic, he waved his hand and shook his head again and again, forgetting everything else for a while, and actually pointed at Du Shiyi and Pei Ning and explained: "It was Grandpa who asked me to accompany Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi to come together, and the Ye Ghost Lord is not polite."