From Yizhou to Yazhou, out of Chengdu, through Guangdu, and then from Shuzhou Xinjin, to Qiongzhou to complete the tea introduction of the Division, and then to the southwest, it entered the Yazhou boundary surrounded by green mountains. After the famous mountain, walking between the mountains and mountains, you will see a checkpoint standing in the mountain, guarding the only way to enter Ya'an, which is known as the first pass of Xishu Jidong Pass.

This way, compared with the mountain road he took when he entered Shu before, Du Shiyi experienced the hardships and dangers more, and the jade slave, who was originally excited to visit Grandpa in Yazhou, also became a little embarrassed because of the hard work on the road. Fortunately, Yang Cheng asked Yang Zhao to follow all the way, and the latter was very good at teasing and taking care of children, and Yu Nu wanted to be able to reunite father and daughter, so he gritted his teeth and stiffened up. However, when staying in the Jidongguan Inn, the little girl still had a slight fever, which also made Du Shiyi quite worried.

However, he originally wanted to place the jade slave here, and then take her to Yazhou when he was well, but he didn't expect this meaning to say to Yang Zhao, and the other party shook his head: "Ming Gong doesn't know, although the jade slave people have small ideas, they often make her two sisters helpless when they are at home." What's more, this time she came out, she was forced to get her eldest sister to agree, and her third sister was so angry that she was playing little xìng for several days because she couldn't follow. When she had a headache and fever before, she also told me when she was a little confused that she couldn't fall short for Shanjiu, and said that Ming Gong taught her. ”

Seeing Du Shiyi shaking his head and sighing, Yang Zhao said cautiously: "And she has already lost her fever before she falls asleep, why don't Ming Gong wait for Ming Rì early in the morning to see if she gets better before making a decision?" I have the responsibility to take care of her, if she really can't hold on, I won't listen to her nonsense and just follow. ”

"Alright then!"

Having said that, Du Shiyi has already decided in her heart that she will leave the little girl in Jidongguan tomorrow. He knew in his heart that in this kind of place at an altitude, it was said that he had a headache and brain fever, but if he didn't pay attention, the small illness would become a major illness, and the jade slave was only seven years old, and he couldn't make a big mistake just because he felt sorry for her missing her father and worrying about herself.

However, what he didn't expect was that Yang Zhao took Xian Yu Zhongtong to visit an old man who had been in Jidongguan overnight, and gave him a dose of medicine for his group.

Even Wu Zhiming, who is a native of Jianzhou and has entered Yazhou, immediately nodded and said after carefully reading the prescription: "This is more effective than the prescription we prepared before. After Jidong Pass, there is only less than seventy miles left to Yazhou, although the mountain road is not easy to walk, but it is one day. No matter how bad Yazhou is, it is stronger than Jidongguan, and there are all kinds of medical halls and pharmacies. ”

In response to this sentence, Du Shiyi stopped grinding her teeth with the little girl. Pei Ning is also riding shè out of sè, and the selected entourage is all jīng strong, but when he walks down the mountain road from Chengdu to Yazhou, he is all tired. When the group arrived at the inspection center under the city of Yazhou, the officials of the Yazhou Governor's Mansion, who had been waiting here a few days earlier, stepped forward, and after saluting, they respectfully welcomed Du Shiyi and others into the city.

Unlike Chengdu, Shu County, which is prosperous and wealthy, Yazhou is located in the southwest border, hundreds of miles away from Hechuan Town and Lingguan Town, there are Zhuqiang, Zhugong, and all kinds of departments are subordinate to the major prefectures, and they are set up and discarded, plus next to Tubo, it can be said that this is one of the most complicated places in the whole Bashu in addition to Yaozhou. Therefore, few people are willing to come here to serve as a magistrate, which is why the governor of Yazhou, Lu Qi, who was often ill for a few months in office, was magically and steadily appointed as the governor for three years.

And when Lu Qi, who had been the governor for so many years, learned from his son that the two envoys and deputy envoys of the tea introduction division had arrived, his face showed a bit of solemnity. He is a disciple of the Fan Yang Lu family, the descendant of the Eight Classics, and he was also the secretary and supervisor of the official residence in the court for a time, but because he was once a confidant of the late Emperor Ruizong, he was very uninterested in him today, he traveled to many places for the assassin history, for the governor, one place is more remote than the other, but he has never returned to the court. He didn't expect any change in his career for a long time, but the only thing he couldn't let go of was his son who had been around for many years.

"Shiro, you go, I have seen that Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi on my behalf, and said that although I am weak and frail, since the two noble envoys are coming, I still want to go over to pay a visit, please ask when they can spare time."

"But Grandpa, your body ......"

"Go! Although Yang Sima is now acting as the governor of the capital on my behalf, I can't really take care of anything! I've been sick for a few years, and I'm going to die for a while!"

Since his father said so, Lu Cong opened his mouth, originally planning to say that Du Shiyi and Pei Ning's official positions were far lower than their father's, but in the end they didn't dare to disobey and agreed.

However, when he came to the lobby of the front yard of the Yazhou Governor's Mansion, he realized that Sima Yang Xuanyan had not met Du Shiyi and Pei Ning and his party at the place where he had been on official business, but had actually entertained him in his private residence in the back office. Although he is twenty years old, he is not a leader, but as a child of a family, he is not a stupid person, and at this moment, he faintly sensed that Yang Xuanyan was afraid that he had something to do with these two envoys, so he hurriedly asked someone to report the meeting. When someone from inside invited him in, he entered along the main bluestone road that had been built many years ago, but he had already heard a burst of laughter like silver bells coming from inside.

"Grandpa, do you think these jade slave jewelry look good?"

I remember that Yang Xuanyan didn't bring her family except for a few maidservants, this sounds like a very small girl's voice, is it really Yang Xuanyan's daughter? So how did she come here, could it be that the two chief and deputy envoys brought it from Chengdu? If this is the case, Yang Xuanyan's relationship with them is probably extraordinarily close!

With such doubts in his heart, after a servant in front of the door opened the curtain and turned sideways to let him in, Lu Cong quickly saw the scene in the house. But I saw Yang Xuanyan, the master, in the center, and two young people on the left and on the right. The young man at the bottom left is in his early twenties, handsome, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looks gentle and amiable; The young man at the bottom right is older, as if he is about thirty years old, and his face is like an iceberg that has been frozen for thousands of years.

He had heard of the scenery of Du Shiyi's three heads and the first in the past, and he roughly knew the age of the person, and he did not admit his mistake at this moment, so he hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully bowed his hand to see it, and then his eyes fell on the girl, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Although the girl was dressed in the clothes of a typical young lady of a family, she wore the silver jewelry that Sheng Qiang often wore, especially the colorful necklace around her neck. And her bright and bright smiling face, as if the tailor-made headdress and tiara, made people reluctant to look away.

"Master, do you think these jewelry are good-looking?" Just got a brief compliment from her father, Yu Nu still refused to give up, but went around in front of Du Shiyi again, and saw Du Shiyi chanting two lines of poetry directly with a smile, she was so happy that her cheeks were red, and she almost forgot Du Shiyi's command and shouted that she would show it to her sister later. Fortunately, at the critical moment, she finally came to her senses, so she happily went back to her room to rest according to her father's instructions, but refused to take off the silver jewelry that weighed several catties at all.

"Du Shiyu, a little kid of Yunu, those things are too valuable......"

Without waiting for Yang Xuanyan to finish speaking, Du Shiyi smiled and said: "I only met a Qiang girl who was in a hurry to change money after walking into the city, so I asked people to buy it, and if she likes it, let her wear a few more, Yang Sima doesn't have to worry so much." Besides, it was really given to her, and the friendship between Yunu and my master and apprentice was nothing that could not be explained. ”

"Yes, too." Yang Xuanyan originally thought that the few catties of silver jewelry were worth a lot of money, but at this moment, Du Shiyi's explanation, he was finally relieved. And since Lu Cong came, he hurriedly changed his words and said, "Lu Shilang, you just said that Lu Dudu was going to visit Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi, would it be too reluctant?" After all, Lu Dudu is sweating a little when he hears this......"

"Grandpa is fine." Yang Xuanyan has been in office for half a year, and he is not such a strong person who holds power, not to mention that Lu Cong did not dare to forget his father's instructions, and hurriedly saluted again respectfully and said, "Although Grandpa is not in good health, it is not so bad that he can't see people, if Du Shiyu and Pei Yushi are free, I will invite Grandpa."

"No need, since Lu Dudu is not in good health, don't come out to see the wind, I will visit Pei Yushi in a while, and ask Lu Langjun to go back and say to Ling Zun."

Hearing this, Lu Cong hesitated for a moment, after all, he was worried about his father's hard support, and nodded in agreement. And he sat down for a while and retreated, and Du Shiyi asked Yang Xuanyan about Lu Qi's situation. Knowing that this Lu Dudu was quite easy to get along with, he and Pei Ning glanced at each other, and then you said, I asked about the situation of growing tea in Yazhou.

Compared with the rich and stable Yizhou Chengdu, Yazhou because of the Qiang bureaucracy, the initial influx of customers is not much, and it is just self-saturation, but in recent years, tea sales have increased year by year, tea farmers have grown from the initial dozens of people to hundreds of people, and the tea gardens around the tea gardens have been initially counted after Yang Xuanyan took office, and there are already 8,000 acres of daggers.

Before arriving in Yazhou, Yang Xuanyan could not have imagined that so many tea gardens are millions of catties of fresh tea every year, and in terms of finished tea cakes, it can reach nearly 100,000 and unlike the corn that cannot be sold at a price during the prosperous New Year's Festival, a catty of tea is worth at least half a horse, which means that the 100,000 catties of tea are 50,000 horses! If calculated according to the tea introduction of 100 catties and 10 horses, if the tea introduction division can be operated properly, the tea introduction in Yazhou alone, this is a full 10,000 horses!

Thinking of this experience, Yang Xuanyan sighed lightly and said: "It's just that as far as I know, there are still tea merchants who trade with tea households privately, after all, the new tea introduction division can't be banned for a while." Moreover, those foreigners also grow tea, and many small tea merchants quietly go to Shuqiang to buy tea and ship it out of Shu. ”