Ye Dacheng saw that it was Ah Gui, and his face changed slightly, but he reacted very quickly and immediately smiled: "It turns out that the brother is here, come, come in and eat melons!" After that, he pulled Ah Gui in, sat down in his seat, and said with a smile: "Introduction, this is my old friend, these are my colleagues, let's get close!" ”

"In Xia Gui, I've seen you!" Ah Gui made a group gesture to everyone: "I used to be an errand under Brother Ye, and now I do some leather trading in the north by myself to earn a living money, and if there is trouble in the future, please make it convenient, thank you here!"

Everyone responded in unison, and most of the people present were clear-eyed, and they all saw that Ah Gui's arms were muscular, his waist was straight, and his palms and fingers were full of calluses, which were obviously left behind by drawing a bow and wielding a knife. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info But it's not an ordinary person who can do leather trading in this chaotic year, but I don't doubt his identity. The long-faced man smiled and said, "This brother said that he was engaged in leather trading, but I heard that the begging charms are all reversed?" Where did you come from? ”

Ah Gui said with a smile: "This brother, it's the opposite of begging and charming, but they still have to eat salt and food, I honestly do some small business and earn some living money, but I can still get by!" ”

"Oh? But I have heard that the army has built a city at the mouth of a great river in the far north, and has brought a lot of salt and iron in large ships. ”

"Old Ke, what do you mean? Plate my brother's bottom? Ye Dacheng feigned anger and said. Without waiting for the long-faced man to argue, Ah Gui smiled and said: "Brother Ye is okay, just tell the truth, this brother is right, the Ming Kingdom is building a city at the mouth of the Haramu River, transporting troops and grain, and recruiting barbarians for a long-term solution, but I am just a small business, an ant-sized thing, and they can't care about me?" ”

"That's it!" The yellow-faced man interjected: "Lao Ke, we are also from the Ming Kingdom, and it is not clear what kind of virtue the master is?" Fighting a war is a war, making money is making money, these are two different things, this brother is in the way of whose business! Eat melons and shut your mouth! ”

Everyone present was more refined than a monkey, and they all started to coax, and the long-faced man stopped asking. At this time, someone knocked on the door outside the courtyard, but it was the guy from the street wine shop who brought the wine and food, and everyone hurriedly put the dishes and chopsticks on the table. Ah Gui took a sip and frowned: "Man, the smell of this wine is also light, right?" How much water do you have in your shop? ”

"Brother Xian, it's no wonder that he is the wine, now the wine in this Shengjing City tastes like this!" Ye Dacheng said with a smile: "This year's spring famine is particularly serious, many people starved to death outside the city, and the government issued an order to ban winemaking. ”

"And I didn't hear about it last time I came!" Ah Gui pretended to be surprised, he stood up and said to the guy, "Wu Na guy, there should still be a Chen bar in the cellar of your store?" Send some quickly, you are obviously a pool of water, where can you enter? ”

The guy had a look of embarrassment on his face, and when Gui saw this, he untied a deerskin bag from his waist, untied the rope and threw it on the table, and said with a smile: "Isn't it just money?" Let these uncles drink happily, Lao Tzu has money in his pocket! ”

The deerskin bag fell on the stone table, revealing a piece of white flowers inside, all of which were thumb-sized silver coins, and the man's breathing suddenly became heavy, and he nodded and said, "Uncle, please wait for a while!" ”

"Hmm!" Ah Gui nodded, took a silver coin from his pocket and threw it to the guy, and said with a smile: "Go and come back quickly!" ”

The guy answered, and quickly ran out of the door, Ah Gui sat down with a smile, poured the residual wine in the cup on the ground and said with a smile: "The little brother was reckless, please forgive the eldest brother!" ”

"Brother, can you show me the silver coins in your pocket?" The long-faced man asked suddenly.

"Yes!" Gui smiled and took out a few silver coins from his pocket and handed them to the long-faced man, who looked at the silver coin, only to see that the reverse side of the silver coin was a pattern of a spear and an arquebus crossed, and on the front was the word "One Yuan", and there were spiral-shaped lines on the edge. He looked at the other coins, all of which were almost identical. The long-faced man threw the silver coins back to Ah Gui and asked, "Dare to ask, these silver coins look like they were newly minted, where did you come from, brother?" ”

"This silver coin was minted by the Mongolian Jinong, and this is what his soldiers were paid for!" Ah Gui said with a smile: "I sold a batch of ginseng in the past in the first days, and sold it at a good price, we all call this silver coin Silver Horn, the amount is sufficient, and it is easy to carry, and the merchants like it very much!" ”

"I see!" The long-faced man smiled and asked no more. Ye Dacheng knew that Ah Gui must have a good intention in doing this, pretending to know nothing, and got up and said: "I'll go to the kitchen to see, why hasn't the baby brought the dishes for a long time, and I don't know what to do!" He got up and went into the house, leaving only Gui and a few of his colleagues to sit together.

Ye Dacheng left, the atmosphere in the courtyard became a little awkward, and everyone's gaze on Ah Gui became subtle. With their minds, they naturally know that Gui's identity is not so simple. Since ancient times, this kind of trade merchants who have traveled to and from the border have more or less part-time spies, which is an open secret for the soldiers on both sides, as long as they are not too excessive, no one will take it too seriously, after all, the border line is sparsely populated, the transportation is inconvenient, leeks can be sold for meat prices, and the little supplies transported by the imperial court are enough to feed the cats. really wiped out all these merchants, and in the end it was these Qiu Ba themselves who were unlucky. But looking at Ah Gui's style, he doesn't look like a spy with a heavy responsibility, after all, this kind of person is afraid of attracting the attention of others, how can he think that Ah Gui will take out the silver coins minted by Liu Cheng and use them everywhere like this?

The long-faced man thought about it, and then cautiously tested: "This brother, Brother Ye just said, you used to eat swords like us, how can you start a business?" ”

"That's a long story!" Ah Gui said with a smile: "Don't hide your rank, when I was in the Guanning Army before, I still didn't collect all night, eating two portions of the total salary. Da Linghe surrendered Dajin in the first battle, so he ate food and became a soldier under the command of the Great Khan. Later, he was ordered by the official to go out on an errand, but he didn't want to encounter a disaster halfway and almost lost his life. Luckily, a lama passed by and saved my life. I'm also tired of this knife licking blood business, fortunately these years familiar with the path, so I changed my career and ran a single gang, fortunately business has been good in recent years, and now I have twenty or thirty men, hundreds of big livestock, married a wife and a concubine, and placed a house in Datong, with four or five hundred acres of good land. I plan to run for another two years, wash my hands, save some money, and go home to retire! ”

These people are all middle and low-level officers in the Later Jin Han Army, since Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, they have given considerable treatment to the Han army, given Grange slaves, rewards and punishments are relatively fair, plus Jin's continuous military victories against the Ming State, they can also get a considerable amount of spoils, it should be said that these officers are still relatively satisfied with their lives. However, since Huang Taiji's last expedition to the west, the situation has undergone subtle changes, Liu Cheng's successful integration of the Monan grasslands actually cut off the route of the emerging Later Jin regime to invade the heart of the Ming State bypassing the narrow Liaoxi Corridor, and the result was that the Later Jin regime could no longer obtain the necessary salt, tea, cloth and other materials from the Ming State through plunder, although through Liaoxi, or other smuggling routes such as sea and Korea, the Later Jin could still obtain a certain amount of materials, but its cost and quantity could not be compared with the past. Liu Cheng's subsequent attacks on the left-wing Mongols and Horqin and the instigation of the charming uprising of Qilie also forced the Later Jin regime to use limited resources to launch a counterattack, especially the Battle of the Baiger River last autumn, which can be said to have suffered a devastating blow to the Later Jin army. In order to quickly make up for the losses and win the ensuing civil war, the Later Jin regime had to gather all the resources it could to replenish its army. As a result, the market became more and more depressed, prices were high, and even the lives of low- and middle-ranking officers like these Han soldiers were seriously affected. At this time, when I heard Ah Gui mention the solid life of a businessman, I couldn't help but show envy on my face.

"Hey!" The yellow-faced man sighed: "If it is really a catastrophe, there will be a blessing in the future." Brother, you really have a front and back eye, you have been a rich man after a few years of hard work, compared to you, we are simply beggars on the roadside! ”

"Brother Tai said it was funny!" Ah Gui pretended to be surprised: "Although the Jurchens are fierce, they are very generous to military merits, you should all be rich, how can I compare with a businessman?" ”

"Rich?" The yellow-faced man smiled: "Brother, you are slapping us in the face, don't say anything else, just now the water in your mouth, our brothers can't drink it every day." Yes, the Jurchens do not deduct military salaries, and the rewards and punishments are fair, but Shengjing is expensive, and there is not much left to fill the belly of the family, not to mention others! ”

"I see, I didn't expect that!" Ah Gui pretended to be like waking up from a dream, and at this time the guy had already delivered the good wine, Ah Gui got up and paid for the wine, and poured the wine for everyone one by one. The yellow-faced man didn't wait for Ah Gui to move the cup, he drank all the wine in the cup, and after a while, he sighed: "Hey, I haven't drunk such good wine for a few days!" ”

The others also drank all the wine in the cups, and Ah Gui didn't say much, just kept pouring wine for everyone. The yellow-faced man drank three bowls in a row, closed his eyes and tasted it, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes, and he suddenly asked, "This brother, can you drink this kind of wine every day when you are at home?" ”

Ah Gui was stunned when he heard this, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face. Seeing this, the yellow-faced man sighed and said, "That's it, you don't have to say it, I already know!" ”

Seeing that the atmosphere was a little embarrassing, a person next to him hurriedly laughed and scolded: "Okay, you ancestor leper, this brother paid for you to drink good wine, didn't you?" If you want to drink, drink two more sips, can't you block your bird's mouth? ”

"Phew!" The yellow-faced man spat out: "Where is Lao Tzu crying for wine?" Lao Tzu shed tears for himself and the future of everyone! Now we still have water to drink, if we continue like this, I'm afraid we won't even have to drink urine! ”

Ah Gui was secretly happy when he heard this man's words, but he was afraid that this person was testing him, so he pretended to be scared and covered the yellow-faced man's mouth: "This brother should not talk nonsense, be careful of causing trouble!" ”

"What a bird disaster!" The yellow-faced man broke away from Ah Gui's arm, pointed to his head and said loudly: "The leaders of the Tartars are fratricidal with each other, Liu Cheng is pressing step by step, and the Jurchens are too busy to take care of themselves, where do they have the heart to take care of us?" The ranks here are all their own brothers, and there is no need for my ancestor leper to hide it from you, if anyone shows Lao Tzu a clear way, the seven and a half catties will be sold to him! ”

"Ancestral leper! You shut up! Ye Dacheng entered the courtyard from pushing the door, and just heard the words of the yellow-faced man, and shouted: "I knew your virtue, Lao Tzu shouldn't have called you today, if you want to die, find a rope to go to your own house, don't harm my brother!" ”

The yellow-faced man was scolded by Ye Dacheng, and he suddenly wilted, sat on the stone bench with his buttocks, and just bowed his head and drank. At this time, Ye Dacheng and Ye put the dishes on the table and greeted: "Everyone drink and eat, don't get drunk today!" ”

Everyone responded, and they ate and drank one after another, but they were rushed by the yellow-faced man's words, and they all had their own thoughts, and their voices couldn't help but be quiet. Ah Gui saw all this, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart: I'm not afraid of anything else, I'm afraid that you have no ideas!

Everyone ate the white rabbit and didn't do it until Dongsheng, Ye Dacheng and a few house slaves sent the drunk colleagues home one by one, and it was already the time to return home. He and Ah Gui sat down and drank herbal tea, and asked in a deep voice, "Brother, what are you doing this time?" ”

"There's nothing to do, I just want to see it in Shengjing!"

"See?" Ye Dacheng was stunned when he heard this: "It's not like you haven't been to this Shengjing, and you have a special trip to see it?" This time it's not the same as last time, Dolgon has already sent out to fight Abatai, you have no identity cover, be careful of causing trouble! ”

"Don't be afraid!" Ah Gui patted his pocket: "With this as the bottom, who can stop it?" Dolgon, he came out of Shengjing alive this time, I'm afraid he won't be able to come back alive! ”

"What?" Ye Dacheng was taken aback, he stood up and looked around to see that there was no one, and then lowered his voice and asked, "Could it be that the one from your family who personally led the army came?" ”

"Huh!" Ah Gui laughed noncommittally twice: "I didn't say that!" ”

Seeing Ah Gui's unfathomable appearance, Ye Dacheng became more and more worried in his heart, and asked cautiously: "Brother, if the Jurchens are really finished, can you keep my house safe?" ”

"That's nature!" Ah Gui smiled: "Not to mention the brotherly relationship between you and me, just with the things you did before, you can also keep your family safe!" ”