Chapter XII

The Northern Patrol arrived

Winter goes to spring, the weather is gradually warmer, another year has passed, the time has come to the fourth year of the great cause of March, in the middle of spring, the side is particularly full of vitality, the white clouds are long, the blue sky is like washing, the endless grassland is full of all kinds of colorful wildflowers, purple and red, swaying in the wind.

And outside the city of Dali is another scene, rows of peach trellises stretch for more than ten miles, the tender green seedlings have just climbed on the wooden frame, covering an area of tens of thousands of acres of trellises into a sea of tender green, magnificent, dozens of ditches attract the water of the Yellow River, irrigating this piece of fertile land that is very suitable for the growth of peach, Dali peach has a bumper harvest in the autumn two years ago.

It was the first barrel of peach wine brewed last year, Yang Yuanqing paid tribute to the palace, so that the emperor Yang Guangda appreciated, personally named Dali peach wine, praised by the emperor, Dali peach wine immediately doubled in value, and Gaochang peach wine sold at the same price in Beijing, becoming the most eye-catching event in the three years of the great cause, the Great Sui Dynasty has been able to brew its own peach wine.

At noon on this day, a group of envoys galloped in the direction of Dali City on the boundless Putaoyuan Avenue, and the young officials led by them reined in their horses, looked at this incomparably vast Putao orchard in surprise, and smiled at several entourages behind them: "It turns out that the Putao of Dali Putao wine is grown here, and I have seen it with my own eyes today." ”

An entourage smiled and said, "Pei Yuanjun, maybe Manager Yang is in this peach orchard, let's not go wrong again." ”

The young envoy is Pei Ju's eldest grandson Pei Jin, who is more than 20 years old this year, and serves as a member of the Ministry of Rites, this time he was ordered to send an envoy to Wuyuan County to inform Yang Yuanqing that the Emperor of the Great Sui is about to come to Wuyuan County to inspect the news, he went to Jiuyuan County first, but learned that Yang Yuanqing went to Dali City, so he had to come to Dali City again.

Pei Jin nodded, his subordinates were reasonable, he looked around, and saw an old man pruning the early seedlings of the peach, so he turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and bowed and saluted: "Boss, we are from the capital, we want to find General Yang, is General Yang in the peach orchard?" ”

The old man smiled and said: "Young man, we have two generals Yang here, one is General Yang, the defender of Dali City, and the other is General Yang, the governor of Fengzhou, who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm looking for Mr. Yang."

"In the morning, he was still inspecting the peach orchard, and it is estimated that he will return to Dali City at this time!"

"Thank you, sir!"

Pei Jin heard that the old man was actually from Guanzhong, and asked curiously: "Is the old man from Guanzhong?" ”

The old man nodded and smiled: "I am from Yongxian County, and my two sons are in the army here, so my wife and I also moved here." ”

The old man pointed to a peach orchard surrounded by a fence and said: "You see, I planted a hundred acres of peaches around here, and I can earn thousands of dollars a year. ”

"Doesn't my husband have to pay taxes?" Pei Jin asked in surprise.

"My two sons are in the army, I am naturally exempt from taxes, not only this hundred acres of peach orchard, I also have ten acres of mulberry fields and twenty grain fields, I can also buy ten stone of grain for the county government a year, this kind of day was unimaginable in Guanzhong before."

"Thank you, uncle!"

Pei Jinshi saluted, turned over his horse, and led his entourage to gallop away in the direction of Dali City.

．．．．．．

The grottoes in the mountains behind the city of Dali were originally carved out of hiding places, but now they have become the cellars of Dali City, and these caves maintain a relatively cool temperature all year round, which is the ideal place to store peach wine.

In the stone cave, Du Ruhui, the county magistrate of Dali County, was accompanying Yang Yuanqing to inspect these wine cellars, and barrels of peach wine made the year before and last year were neatly stacked in a huge cave, with tens of thousands of barrels.

"We went directly to the market without storage last year, to be honest, the taste and mellow are much worse than Gaochang Pu Tao wine, if it is not for the Holy Chrysostom Imperial Seal, it will not be able to sell at such a high price, this year I am ready to reduce the price by forty percent."

Du Ruhui was a little worried: "If the price drops, will people think that our peach wine is not as good as Gaochang peach wine, you know, many people just look at the price, thinking that the price is about high, the better the wine." ”

Yang Yuanqing shook his head and smiled: "You don't understand what I mean, I mean that the final selling price will remain the same, but the price of selling to the major liquor shops will be lowered, and the profits will be given to them, so that they will be profitable, and they will sell more of our wine, so that those Sogdian merchants will not be profitable, and they will not sell wine to the Great Sui, and after a few years, everyone will know that there is Dali wine, but they don't know that there is Gaochang wine, so that more people will be attracted to come to Wuyuan County to grow Putao, and the population of the Hetao area will be more and more, and the population will increase, and the Hetao area will prosper." ”

Next to him, Yang Sien frowned and said, "General, can the Hetao area withstand such a population?" ”

Du Ruhui laughed, "Sien is too worried, now the entire Hetao area has a population of more than 50,000, do you know how many people there were in the Hetao area during the Han Dynasty?" In the first two years of the Han Dynasty, it was recorded that there were 90 counties in the Hetao area at that time, with more than 300,000 households and a population of more than 1.46 million. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Du County Order is right, the key is to get the support of the imperial court, the Holy Lord will soon inspect Wuyuan County, we must take this opportunity to win the support of the Holy Lord for Wuyuan County, this is also the reason why I came to Dali City, we must be prepared, and every detail must be thoughtful." ”

Speaking of the emperor's inspection, Du Ruhui was worried again, the emperor's inspection generally has to be fed in the place, if it is dozens of people and hundreds of people, there is no problem, but today's emperor's inspection is hundreds of thousands of people, hundreds of officials, harems, hundreds of thousands of troops, a county can't afford it at all, the first two years to inspect Jiangnan, even those rich counties in Jiangnan can't bear it, let alone sparsely populated counties like Wuyuan County.

Du Ruhui was about to discuss the matter of offering food with Yang Yuanqing, when at this moment, a soldier's report came from outside, "Chief Yang, the imperial envoy is here, and he wants to see you immediately." ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said to everyone: "As soon as I said the imperial court, the imperial court came." ”

He turned back and asked, "Where is the envoy?" ”

"It's already here, waiting at the county office!"

Yang Yuanqing nodded, and said to Du Ruhui and Yang Sien: "Let's go!" Let's go to the messenger together. ”

Everyone went down the stone cave and came to the county government in a moment, Yang Yuanqing walked into the room and saw Pei Jin at a glance, he couldn't help laughing, "It turned out to be you!" ”

Pei Jin is Pei Minqiu's cousin, and he has met Yang Yuanqing a few times, Pei Jin arched his hand and smiled: "Yuanqing, let me find it easily!" ”

At this time, Du Ruhui also walked in, stunned for a moment, Pei Jin was stunned, and then the two laughed and hugged each other tightly.

Du Ruhui punched his shoulder socket and said with a smile: "You guy, you didn't say a word when you came to Dali County." ”

"Shame! Brother Keming, I didn't even know that you were in Dali City, everyone said that you were in Yulin County. ”

"You know?" Yang Yuanqing asked with a smile.

Du Ruhui pointed at Pei Jin and smiled slightly: "Your brother-in-law and I are classmates, we have lived in the same room for five or six years, believe it or not, the robe he is wearing now may still be mine." ”

Du Ruhui has always been rigid and serious, and his humor at this time made Yang Yuanqing can't help laughing, Yang Yuanqing saw that it was already noon, so he smiled and said: "I invite everyone to lunch, just to wash the dust for Brother Pei." ”

"Yuanqing, I'm still on business!" Pei Jin said urgently.

Yang Yuanqing patted Pei Jin's shoulder and said with a smile: "Business is usually discussed at the wine table. ”

．．．．．．

After the First World War three years ago, Dali City has become more and more prosperous, the population has exceeded 30,000, the inner city is a residential area and an administrative area, keeping quiet, and the outer city, that is, a crescent-shaped wide land between the inner and outer city where tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo soldiers were burned to death, has become a prosperous commercial area, both sides are densely packed with two-story houses, shops, wine shops, inns, green buildings, gambling halls, mansions, and hundreds of shops of all kinds.

Dali City is also the location of the Great Sui Lingwu Road to the Turkic trade, guests from all over the world gather here, flags on both sides of the street, shouting one after another.

Yang Yuanqing took Pei Jin and his entourage to the largest wine shop in Dali City, Wuhai Wine Shop, the shopkeeper of the wine shop had already received the news of the officials, packed up the best single room, and waited for the arrival of distinguished guests.

"Manager Yang, it's been a long time." The shopkeeper greeted him with a smile on his face.

He hurriedly gave gifts to Du Ruhui and Yang Sien, and today the military and political leaders of Wuyuan County and Dali County are here, which makes him a little hurried.

Yang Yuanqing saw that the shopkeeper and the guys had come out, so he waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be so polite, bring your special dishes and let the guests from afar taste the delicious taste of our Dali City." ”

"Don't worry! The villain cooks by himself and makes the guests satisfied. ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly arranged to go, Yang Yuanqing invited Pei Jin to sit down in the elegant room on the second floor, and soon the wine and food were served one after another, Pei Jin smiled and said: "Let's talk about business first!" Shengshanglongjia has already arrived in Pingliang County, followed by Lingwu County, and finally Wuyuan County, according to the time, at most ten days later, Shengshanglongjia will first arrive in Jiuyuan County, Yuanqing, time is very tight, you have to do a good job of reception as soon as possible. ”

Yang Yuanqing picked up the wine glass and said with a smile: "I don't have anything to prepare, when the saint comes up, I will invite him to drink peach wine, eat some game and local products, and follow the local customs." ”

Pei Jin was stunned for a moment, he said in a hurry: "Yuanqing, you can't be like this, don't you know about the incident between Qiu He and Yang Kuo last year?" ”

Last year, Emperor Yang Guang inspected Yanmen County and Mayi County, Yanmen County Taishou Qiu and poured out the strength of a county, entertained Yang Guang and his hundreds of thousands of followers for three days, although Yanmen County was almost exploited, but Qiu He was transferred to the rich Boling County to be the Taishou because of the effective hospitality.

Later, Yang Guang inspected Mayi County, and was too guarded by Yang Kuo as an honest official, could not bear to exploit the people, refused to dedicate food, and neglected Yang Guang a little, which made Yang Guang extremely dissatisfied, although he did not dismiss him, but ordered him to learn from Qiu He.

Since then, Yang Guang went to a place, the magistrates have done their best to entertain, dare not slack off, which makes Yang Guang's inspection an extremely heavy burden for the people everywhere, but it is also a good opportunity for the magistrates to make a fortune, there is a royal history has impeached Qiu He, the holy drive in Yanmen County for three days, Qiu He in the name of offering food, to the people of Yanmen County to collect an additional 500,000 hanging food money, he alone embezzled 100,000 hangs, and other subordinate officials do not know how much they took the opportunity to embezzle? This is a confused account, no one can figure it out, and more importantly, Yang Guang suppressed the impeachment of Yushi.

Now that Yang Yuanqing is saying it lightly, how can Pei Jin not be worried.

Yang Yuanqing understood in his heart that he was worried when he saw Du Ruhui, knew that he couldn't bear to disturb the people, and didn't know how to offer food, so he smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, I have already made arrangements, I sent someone to exchange tea for cattle and sheep to the Turks a month ago, and I will come back soon, I will entertain them with the Turks' cow and sheep milk wine, forgive them for having nothing to say." ”

Du Ruhui was overjoyed, he actually forgot the cattle and sheep on the grassland, at this time, there was a commotion outside, everyone looked out the window, only to see a group of cattle on the street outside the window, endlessly, until the city gate.

"They're back!"

At this time, footsteps sounded on the stairs, and Yang Wei rushed up from downstairs, "General!" ”

His voice was very anxious, that is, he and Fat Fish went to Turkic to buy cattle and sheep, and rushed into the room.

Yang Yuanqing saw that he was nervous, so he smiled and said, "Why, don't the Turks want to sell?" ”

"It's not! We heard about a big thing. ”

Yang Wei whispered a few words to Yang Yuanqing, a hint of strange color flashed in Yang Yuanqing's eyes, he narrowed his eyes and asked, "Is there such a thing?" Where are the people? ”

"Just wait outside the city!"

Yang Yuanqing stood up unhurriedly, arched his hand to Pei Jin and the others and smiled: "There is an important matter, I want to deal with it, I will lose the company first, I will pay for the wine, and no one is allowed to rob me!" ”

．．．．．．．．

[The eleven chapters owed in June are finally over, and I breathed a long sigh of relief, there are still thirteen days in this month, Lao Gao tries to do three more times a day, if one day, a little unwell and so on, there may only be two more, Lao Gao will say to everyone in advance]

Here are some new books from two book lovers:

1. "My Lady Luck", ISBN 2400368, an accident, Yang Lin got a super intelligence: Storm System, Khan! My book doesn't have Yang Lin, but this book does.

2. "The Burning of the Eight Desolations of Online Games", with a 2371186 number, destroys the withered and decayed, sees God and kills God, unstoppable!