At the beginning, although the caravan organized by Han Bier suffered heavy losses, the pearl jade brought back from the Western Regions, resting chicken tongue incense, ** and other Western Regions commodities were sold for a large price in Tokyo; This made Han Bi'er very excited, and she also wanted to organize a caravan to go to the Western Regions, but was stopped by Yang Yi's group.

Taking a big risk and making a lot of money, it's not bad, but this kind of money is too bloody, if it weren't for the reason of understanding the Western Regions for the first time, Yang Yi wouldn't have made any caravans, and there is no need to do this now.

After the Hexi Corridor was isolated by the Western Xia, the trade between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Regions could only go through Qinghai Lake, the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains, and the Qaidam Basin to Khotan, and the southern route of the Silk Road was barely maintained; However, due to the fact that Tibet itself was divided into small tribes, and the various vassal states of the Eastern Black Khanate were also at war, this Silk Road was also extremely difficult to walk, even intermittent.

The Great Song Dynasty was a very mercantile dynasty, and there was not much discrimination against merchants, and the mansions of the big merchants in Tokyo were built magnificently, and the servants were like clouds, which was more magnificent than the prince's house; Many court officials also vied with wealthy merchants and magnates for the rich dowry.

After the opening of the Wang Shaoxi River, due to the long logistics and transportation lines in the land of Hehuang and the difficulty in supplying grain and grass, the imperial court adopted the measure of "raising and raising the border", and set up many farms in various parts of the river to carry out tea and horse trade, and wantonly recruited Han and Tibetan merchants to go to Hehuang to do business, and used the income of the field to supply the needs of the border army.

The imperial court did not discriminate against merchants and encouraged commerce, so that the goal of "raising food while the border" in the Hehuang area was basically realized, and a large amount of grain and grass transportation was saved. But this is far from enough, the Silk Road is a hen that lays golden eggs, and now even the eastern section is basically in the hands of others, how can Yang Yi be willing?

After convincing Zhang Dun, Cai Jing and others, the household department allocated 350,000 yuan to the staff hall for the first time, and there will be 200,000 yuan of operating funds every year in the future, and the functions of the staff hall began to be strengthened; More than half of the 200 people who came back from the Western Regions with Ma Hanqing joined the Staff Pavilion, and some personnel were selected from the border army scouts, and finally third-rate Nine Sect personnel were recruited from the people; After being closely organized and trained by the staff pavilion, they are sent to enemy countries to collect intelligence, map mapping, sabotage, assassination, rebellion, corrosion, unrest, and even spread the epidemic if necessary.

Under Yang Yi's secret planning, the first batch of 113 people from the Zhifang Pavilion were sent to Western Xia, and the most important thing was the sale, rebellion, and assassination of the Western Xia civil and military generals in the Hexi Corridor, and this golden passage must be returned to the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

Perhaps, it is precisely because he saw the rolling financial resources of the Silk Road that Cai Jing's appropriation was so simple.

At present, the annual income of the Great Song Dynasty is about 130 million guan, and if the Silk Road can be unblocked, the annual income is expected to increase by another 20 million or 30 million guan.

The work of large-scale disarmament is still proceeding in an orderly manner, and the Gyeonggi region has completed the work of dismantling, reorganizing, and placing generals, and has not caused any turmoil.

However, Cangzhou on the East Hebei Road triggered a rebellion of more than 400 people, and the Cangzhou area implemented a local resettlement program, but the local officials engaged in fraud during the resettlement and extorted money from the retired soldiers. This caused great indignation among the soldiers, coupled with the martial arts in Cangzhou, and the people were fierce, and a turmoil occurred.

After receiving the report, the imperial court attached great importance to it, and after urgently convening a meeting of the political affairs hall, it sent He Shikuan, the secretary of the criminal department, to Cangzhou to appease him, and thoroughly investigated the illegal acts of the local officials.

Accompanying He Shikuan was the 2,000 cavalry led by Yao Xiong, and if he could not be appeased, the imperial court would not hesitate to forcibly extinguish the rebellion.

Local disarmament is still ongoing, and at this juncture, if a spark is set on fire, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Yang Yi himself didn't care too much about this, it is normal for some problems to arise in such a huge disarmament action, as long as they can be solved in time, there should not be too much turmoil, and he also has enough confidence in the ability of He Shikuan and Yao Xiong.

Therefore, his main mind was still on the Staff Pavilion, and secretly assisted Ma Hanqing to build the overall structure of the Staff Pavilion first.

The distance between Tianzhang Pavilion and the Privy Council is not more than 100 steps, Yang Yi and Ma Hanqing walked together when the shift was over, and now Ma Hanqing is also a six-rank official, and it is not suitable to live in the Yang family again, Yang Yi helped him find a house in Jingmingfang, which is expensive, but it is not far from the Yang family, which is very convenient.

The two of them chatted while riding their horses.

"Han Qing, your master is strange, I wrote to him to go to Beijing, but he didn't even hear back."

"My lord, why did you let Master and his old man enter Beijing?"

"Naturally, let him help fool people, hehe, your master is quite good at pretending to be a ghost, but it's a pity that this old guy is too slippery."

"Adult ......"

"Okay, let's stop talking! Qingyun Lao Dao, who doesn't know those flowery intestines. ”

"My lord, you ......" Ma Hanqing was about to run away.

Yang Yi smiled faintly and stopped teasing him.

There are all kinds of signs that Qingyun Lao Dao does have some Taoism, maybe he also realized that he let Shi Jing have ulterior motives, so he hid in Hangzhou and did not move; This guy took the initiative to send a few words to himself last time, obviously with the intention of showing goodwill, so that he could take some benefits from himself in the future. At this time, he was afraid that he felt that Jingzhong was not calm, and he was worried that his shoes would be wet, so he hid and couldn't come.

As soon as the two of them entered Jingmingfang, they saw Mu Lanhua riding a peach blossom horse, dressed in military uniforms, and greeted them with a few heroic female soldiers.

Mu Lanhua turned a blind eye to the eyes around her, and shouted when she greeted her: "My lord, why don't you let me go to Cangzhou?" This hellish place in the capital is annoying. ”

She glanced at Ma Hanqing quickly as she spoke, but her expression was so proud, Yang Yi was secretly funny, this chick is waiting here today, I'm afraid she didn't come to talk about this.

"Uh, Mulan! This specific situation needs to be analyzed specifically, as for how to analyze it, this will be analyzed by Han Qing for you, if he doesn't understand the analysis, you will analyze him! ”

"My lord, why are you like this? People are talking to you about business. Mu Lanhua's proud expression seeped into some embarrassment.

"Business? I said Mulan! Don't you see, is this street a place to talk about business? Han Qing, tell him where to get down to business. ”

"My lord, why don't you go to my house and tell me." Ma Hanqing is now the director of the CIA, and he is still cautious about this.

"That's a good idea. Walk! ”

Mu Lanhua really had no objections, and the female soldiers behind her were giggling, and they didn't know what they were laughing at?

As soon as he entered Ma Hanqing's house, Yang Daguan patted his thigh and said, "Oh, it's not good, I forgot to bring a book to Qingniang, I'll go back to Tianzhang Pavilion to get you, you guys talk first." ”

"Your Excellency!"

Yang Daguan didn't care about Mu Lanhua's call, like a human trafficker, and slipped faster than a rabbit when he reached his goal.

Of course, Mu Lanhua is probably just putting on a show, wishing that he, the trafficker, would disappear faster.

Yang Daguan almost fell when he ran down the steps, and it seemed that the person who was pimping was really going to be sent by heaven...... When I got home, I happened to see Qing Niang swinging in the yard with a few rings, the pomegranate tree on the side of the green curtain had borne fruit, full of green, and Qing Niang's fragrant red face was swinging around on the swing, elegant as a cloud.

Seeing Yang Yi come back, she hurriedly asked the girls to stop the swing, jumped down lightly, and shouted from afar: "Brother Yang, Brother Yang, it's done!" It's done! ”

Yang Yi asked suspiciously, "What has it become?" ”

"Brother Yang, our family's wine is finished!"

"Really?" Yang Yi stretched out his hand to support her body, and said with a smile, "Where is it?" Qing Niang, take me to taste it. ”

In the flower hall of the second hall, Thirteen Niang was playing Go with Li Xiangxian, and there was a little girl ring standing behind each of them, and she took a small fan to fan them cool.

Li Xiangxian's eyebrows frowned slightly, she was undecided, she combed a falling horse bun, a jasper hairpin was inserted horizontally, and the bead flowers on the hairpin head shook slightly, gorgeous and dignified.

"My sister's chess skills are exquisite, and my sister seems to have to throw in the towel!"

Thirteen Niang smiled coincidentally, and was about to answer, when she saw her own official and Qing Niang both walking in, she and Li Xiangxian got up together to greet each other.

"Lady, Bi'er! Let her fetch her wine! ”

"Bi'er went out again, saying that she was going to arrange people to go to Hedong to transport wine into Beijing, and the officials wanted to taste the wine, and the concubine was already prepared."

Li Xiangxian was well-behaved, she was willing to work thirteen mothers there, she walked to the table first, quickly opened a few glasses, and then opened a white porcelain bottle, and as her wrist flowed, red wine flowed into the glass.

Yang Yi picked up a glass by himself and looked carefully, the color of the wine in the glass was not dark red, but a light red, which was probably related to the variety of grapes, he took a small sip, closed his eyes and tasted it, several beauties looked at him with blank eyes, waiting for his evaluation.

"It's gone!"

As a result, half a day later, Yang Daguan only came out with two words, which made several beauties angry.

In order to escape the two-finger Zen of Thirteen Niang, Yang Daguan hurriedly beckoned: "Come on, come on, lady, fairy, and you, Qing Niang, let's have a toast together to celebrate the success of our winemaking." ”

Bite!

The four glasses touched together, the wine and the beauty, the beauty was overwhelming, the beauty was a mess, and Yang Daguan had a feeling of getting drunk before drinking.

"As the saying goes, drink water and don't forget to dig wells, come, let's pay tribute to Qing Niang's little obedient cup, and thank her for her great contribution to the brewing industry of the Great Song Dynasty."

Bite! The four glasses touched each other again.

"In view of Qing Niang's outstanding contributions, the official decided to award her a ...... Hey! Qingniang, what are you running? I haven't received this award yet. ”

Qing Niang ran to the door of the hall, looked back, and said with a smile: "People don't want it, Brother Yang will award the award to Sister Qing'er!" ”

"What award?" Thirteen Niang was obviously inexperienced, until the lips came "Poof!" Only then did he realize that Yang Daguan's face was in front of him.

"Official, you are going to die!" Thirteen Niang's acceptance speech is a little special, you can't blame her, whoever wins this award for the first time is inevitably a little excited.

"The award is over!"

Seeing that Thirteen Niang's pretty face was as red as blood, the jade hand stretched out...... As the presenter, Yang Daguan had already prepared, crossed the river with a reed on his left foot, chased the cicada in eight steps with his right foot, and mixed the Qiankun Great Movement Exercises, flashed to the door, and selflessly gave the stage to Thirteen Niang alone.

Qing Niang and Xian'er smiled early and bent their willow waists!

(To be continued)