Although Chongyi was very polite when he first saw Wang, he listened to Yang Bantou's introduction: This person visited Danzhou, Yunyang, and Zhang County, and he came from the capital. In the past, there were occasional people who passed by the capital or traveled to do business to visit, and they would be politely received. But seeing that Wang next to him is just a child who is not twenty, if the prince of the capital should be in Gentle Township at this time, or if he has worked hard to gain fame, he has a little admiration in his heart. asked the king about his intentions, and the king said that he was looking for someone; The second is to see if there is anything that can be operated in various places.

Chong Yi frowned, this is looking for someone, but I don't know who Wang Gongzi is looking for? When he learned that he was looking for Di Qing's daughter, he was shocked, Di Qing's original wife and daughter knew and even saw it, and thought that this kind of instrument had once served under Di Qing. hurriedly asked what happened, and when he learned that Di Qing had died at the beginning of the year, and his daughter was now missing, he was very sad.

Wang came to see the suffering of the people all the way, and originally came to see Chongyi with doubts, but when he saw that the children in Chongjian actually commanded the family Ding to go to the camp in Xixia County, he inevitably looked a little good at Chongyi, and suddenly saw him crying silently. I sighed again in my heart, presumably this person was once the old teacher, and I wiped my tears when I was calm. Only then did he ask, could it be that the Lord and the teacher have old friends?

Chong Yi said: "My father once fought against Western Xia with Master Di. That is, it is the trust of the deceased, and I must go all out to find it. But I don't know if Miss Di can be in Yanzhou. ”

Wang Bi shook his head: "There is no news along the way, so people are very important to Xiao Ke, so I hope that adults will pay more attention to the personnel exchanges in the border places." ”

At this time, Chongyi had already looked at the king differently, so he ordered his family to prepare a dinner. During the banquet, the king asked Chongyi for another purpose of his visit: to find business opportunities.

Speaking of this, it is natural to say that Wang Bypass saw and puzzled on the way. After talking, I learned that Chongyi is only a local official, this place is a military important place, and since it is a higher level of the military, local officials can hardly speak, and there is no need to say anything about the affairs of the court, and the military officials sent to the border are all civil ministers, these people can say it, but they can't do it. The forbidden army did nothing, the soldiers were powerless, and the management was very chaotic. To put it bluntly, don't seek merit but seek no fault. It's just not a real siege, but a provincial conquest.

Wang Pan saw that what he said was also a thing, this local official is basically useless here, and Chongyi is a military general, so naturally he is a civil official, and when it comes to emotion, Wang Fang seems to think of Di Qing's situation, and he is also forbearant everywhere, and he seems to understand a lot.

As for this business opportunity, Chongyi asked Wang if he had any ideas or could give some advice. The king said that he had been thinking about it for a few days, and was about to ask the adults if they knew anything about the horse system. When Wang said this, he remembered that he was in Pu Di at the beginning, and he actually laughed behind his back and said that his father was Bi Ma Wen, but unfortunately his father Wang Anshi was not around, and he had already resigned from the post of herd priest.

However, it is not unreasonable for him to choose to ask about the horse, first of all, this "party horse" is famous, and secondly, after all, Wang Anshi has been a group pastor, and there are also many relationships inside and outside the capital, and this road is definitely a shortcut.

Chong Yi and He Libo didn't understand Wang Bian, one was because they knew that the Song Dynasty's horse system was still relatively sound, and the other didn't understand why Wang Bian chose such a big guy. The king smiled but did not speak, and since he wanted to ask, Chongyi told the king what he knew.

According to the knowledge of Chongyi, according to the imperial court, there are two kinds of horses, one is the horse of the surrounding ethnic minorities, mainly in the northwest, and the other is the domestic folk horse. There are strict regulations on the age or size of the horse, etc., which are divided into grades and given according to the value. The restrictions on private horse buying are quite strict, Zhenzong Xianping five years, but also formulated the "Qinzhou Horse Smuggling Regulations", stipulating: "From now on, one horse will fight one hundred, ten horses will be apprenticed for one year, twenty horses will be added to the first class, and thirty horses will be judged." The official of the mana shall be given to the informant at half price. ”

Even officials were not allowed to buy horses privately to ensure government control over horses. However, due to the government's purchase of horses "good in the market and abandoned", and the private people were not allowed to buy privately, the Tibetan people drove back and forth, and many died on the way, and the profit was not much, which reduced the trading of horses and affected the government's use of horses. So sometimes private people are allowed to buy horses, but good horses must be sold to the government. In general, there were many times when smugglers were banned in the Song Dynasty, and there were few times when the ban was lifted, and the ban was only an expedient measure to adjust the horse trade.

In general: the Song Dynasty lacked horses. The king recognized this rule, and it was obvious that the number of horses was low at the moment, but if there was a war or an urgent need, it would be too late to find it. Chongyi reminded Wang that it is autumn now, and it is the opening of the border of Mashi, so you can go and have a look.

Sanchuankou is named because it is the confluence of the Xichuan River, the Yanhe River and the Wulong River, from where the river water merges into the Yanhe River to become the first-class direct flow of the Yellow River, which runs through Yanzhou. Once Li Yuanhao's army Bao Yanzhou City, Liu Ping, Shi Yuan, the deputy governor of Yanyan Road, retreated here and then was outnumbered and retreated here, and then the Western Xia army attacked here, a big battle The Song army was defeated and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood stained the river red.

The king stood on the bank of the river, looking at the river for a while, and could not bear to think about what the war had brought to the people, the family was ruined, the wife was separated, and the displacement beckoned He Libo to continue westward.

He Libo asked, "Did you remember Lord Di Qing again when you chatted with that kind of Yi yesterday?" ”

Wang Bei exhaled: "I really didn't expect that Chong Yi turned out to be the son of Lord Chong Shiheng." ”

He Libo had also heard of Shiheng, and the topic he was more interested in was Miss Di's affairs, which was related to the lifelong event of the little brother in front of him. He Libo said, "I'll just say, it's definitely impossible for the girl under the moon to be the queen of Western Xia, don't forget that she is the daughter of Lord Di!" ”

The king glanced at him: "Why didn't you say it earlier!" "When I think about it, I suddenly understand that Di Qing was famous in the Northwest Army back then, and the Xixia people were terrified whenever they looked at the bronze mask with green fangs on the battlefield." Guess why Master Di wears a mask on the battlefield? ”

He Libo smiled and said, "Our woman said that it was because Master Di was so good-looking. Not like a general who fights a war. ”

Wang Jian listened to the laughter, the two laughed and continued to walk west for a few more miles is Jinmingzhai, and the banner of Jinmingzhai can be seen on the wall of Yanzhou. The land here is relatively flat, and the geographical location is really important, and it is located at the confluence of the Yan River and the Xingzi River

Defend against enemies from the north and west.

Since the establishment of the border, especially in the past ten years, although the two countries can see each other's village flags in the distance, they have been relatively peaceful, of course, this must exclude the constant but non-warlike harassment of the peasants in the land around the village by the Western Xia soldiers.

Now it is the autumn horse market, and many herdsmen selling horses around the border, the procurement of officials, and the people of the people spontaneously form a bazaar at the "border" between the two countries, and there are even those who take the opportunity to connect and negotiate the price of smuggled goods.

When I walked to the horse market, I saw two people coming opposite me, one fat and one thin, and it was the two passers-by who met twice, both of whom had blue noses and swollen faces, one holding the other, if they hadn't greeted the king, the king would hardly have been able to recognize them.

But since they saw it, they inevitably had to ask a few questions, so they returned, and saw a horse in the bazaar, but just about to buy it, the officers and soldiers came, saying that the horse had been ordered by him and that he wanted to buy it and raise the price. The two of them looked at other horses, and after choosing a horse and going back, the horse seller blew his brother's whistle and ran back, and the two of them went back to comment, but they didn't know that it was the Xixia soldiers who took the horses to cheat the money.

Wang Bei asked in surprise, how could it be so rampant, didn't anyone care?

The two said that our people buy horses while the court doesn't care about them, and those who are officials don't use them to buy horses in the market. Besides, if our people want to buy it, we have to buy it from the government, so the officers and soldiers have to sit on the ground and raise the price.

When the king heard this, he didn't fight in one place, the border between these two countries is peaceful, and it is not for you to become buddies to bully the common people? He'd rather go and see the trade on the border.

He originally wanted He Libo to take the two of them to find Chongyi, but when he thought that Chongyi was just a magistrate, he must not know the livelihood of this black man in the horse market, not to mention that even if he knew, it would be useless. So he asked the two of them to go back to the mansion first to wait for his news, and followed He Libo towards the horse market.

There are many people in the horse market, and the heads of horses are crowded. According to the information provided by the two, Wang Bian first took a turn inside, and sure enough, he saw the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who sat on the ground and raised the price as they said, as well as the disguised soldiers and the Western Xia soldiers of the wranglers who led the war horses.

This has to boast of the king's eyesight, needless to say, the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty must be in the name of the government, and the distinction between the real and false wranglers depends on the judgment of the king.

Let's talk about horses first, the horses sold by ordinary wranglers are tied to one place, and there are all male and female. And most of these three or five people who sold two or three horses in a group did not really come to sell horses.

The wrangler sells horses, and the toothed man leads the bridge in the middle, and the transaction becomes a tooth man on both sides to collect some money, so the left and right communication of the toothed person plus the horse is mostly a wrangler.

Then there are the wranglers or the men and women, or the fathers and sons. They are all perennially grazed, dark-skinned, weather-beaten. And the officers and soldiers may not be, there is no battle this year, these officers and soldiers are not fat, fat or fat, at least they are more oily and watery than the herdsmen.

After looking at it, the heart must be that the two of them are greedy for cheapness and don't trade with tooth people, so this matter can't be too reckless. As soon as he turned around to leave, he saw a commotion in the crowd, and the people in front didn't know what they were looking at. Looking closely, it turned out that four or five people came out of the village in Western Xia.

These people were all on horseback, and four soldiers rode in a phalanx, and outside the phalanx was a middle-aged man. In the middle of the phalanx was a man riding a white horse and wearing a pure white Western Xia woman's costume, whose face was covered with a white gauze scarf, and it was impossible to see clearly from a distance.

Those people didn't come this way, they just looked at it from a distance, but everyone here was attracted by those people in the noise. At this time, some of the Tangut people in the bazaar seemed to be saying something Ajier, and after saying the respectful walker Bairi.

He Libo turned his head and asked a tooth man next to him, "Who is that?" ”

The tooth people said that it was the white stone god of Western Xia, and they were all called Ajier. He Libo stabbed the king and said, "Alas, it turned out to be a woman."

The woman was looking in the direction of the bazaar, and the king was almost suffocated, with her slender figure, her graceful curves, and the brilliance of her white jade in the refraction of the sunlight from afar.

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