"Oh, Master Wang, haven't you been here for a few days?"

As soon as Li Yuanba and the others entered the door, Xiao Er came over to say hello, but when that Xiao Er saw Wang Jun who was following Li Yuanba, he directly crossed Li Yuanba and greeted Wang Jun.

With their eyesight, they can naturally see that Li Yuanba and Wang Jun are together.

"It's Xiaoliu!" Wang Jun nodded to the junior and said, "How is your business lately?" ”

"Thanks to you, business has been good lately!" Xiao Liu smiled and said, "Master Wang, are you still in the old position?" ”

"Well, are people coming?" Wang Jun bowed his head slightly and said.

"He's already here, is it still the same old way?" Xiao Er and Wang Jun talked as if they were playing a dumb riddle.

"Then let's go upstairs!" Wang Jun turned around and made a gesture of inviting upstairs and said.

The 'Puff Court' is a private room on the third floor, near the east window.

Boss Han Nuohan ordered a few side dishes, and there was a pot of sake on the table, drinking by himself.

At this time, the sound of light footsteps came in, and then I saw Wang Jun leading Li Yuanba and the others, opening the thick door curtain and walking in.

"Han Nuo has seen adults!"

Seeing the comer, Han Nuo stood up directly and saluted Wang Jun respectfully.

"Well, get up!" Wang Jun glanced at Han Nuo lightly, turned around and introduced Li Yuanba: "This is the Governor of our Governor's Mansion, and His Royal Highness the Martial King of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

"Huh? The little one has seen the prince! ”

Han Nuo was taken aback, he didn't expect that he would have the honor to meet this master who was above ten thousand people under one person in his life.

"Excuse me!" Li Yuanba waved his hand, beckoned Li Ke's little brother to find a chair and sit down, looked at a few small dishes on the table, and said: "Hey, I didn't expect that there is only medicine collection in Chang'an City, and this 'Piff Pavilion' actually has it!" ”

"The 'Puff Pavilion' dishes are changing very quickly!" Han Nuo said respectfully: "Lord Wang, do you want to bring up a few special dishes on the 'Pifu Pavilion'?" ”

"I've already let them serve according to the old rules!" Wang Jun took over Han Nuo's words. Changing the subject: "What's the matter, is there any new news in the black market recently?" ”

"Lord Wang, my lord!" Han Nuo said: "Two days ago, the black market was quite calm, but last night suddenly a noble man came from Goguryeo and began to buy exquisite iron and armor in the black market!" ”

"Do you know who they've been in contact with?" Li Yuanba asked in a deep voice.

"I heard from friends in the black market that there are people from Xingyang, and it seems that they have come into contact with people from Goguryeo!" Han Nuo thought for a moment and continued: "But the little one hasn't seen the person from Xingyang yet, so he can't be sure if this matter is true!" ”

"Inside the black market. Are there any of our Heavenly Guards? After listening to Han Nuo's report, Li Yuanba turned his head to look at Zhao Sanpao who was standing aside.

"Yes!" Zhao Sanpao nodded and said, "But they received the secret order from above, and only His Majesty can call the Heavenly Guards in the black market!" ”

Li Yuanba was silent for a while, then suddenly took out a small golden plaque from his arms and said, "Three guns, you take it and take a trip to Tianjiwei, and transfer the people of Tianjiwei in the black market." I'm sure they'll know what's going on when they see this! ”

"No!"

Zhao Sanpao was convinced of Li Yuanba's words, took the token and turned his head and walked out.

……

While Li Yuanba was still investigating Goguryeo's acquisition of weapons, he was in a small blacksmith shop in the west of the town. A secret deal is underway.

"Shopkeeper Zheng, the price you gave is too expensive, and the money we brought is not much, can you see if it can be lowered further?"

In the innermost slightly dimly lit room of the blacksmith's shop. A shrewd middle-aged man with two wisps of rat whiskers sat on a small chair with a smile on his face. Behind him were three family guards, seven long and eight short.

Sitting opposite the middle-aged man was a big man in a thin shirt, the muscles bulging under the dark skin of this big man, looking extremely strong, but his face was full of honesty.

If outsiders saw this scene, they would definitely think that the shrewd middle-aged man was bullying this honest man.

But what about the actual situation?

"Shopkeeper Quan, it's not that I refuse to lower the price, but the price has been pushed to the lowest, if you still want to lower the price, then you can only ask for another master!"

The man's voice did not match his appearance, like a resentful little daughter-in-law.

"Don't, let's discuss everything!"

The shopkeeper of Quan was taken aback, this time he came to Dengzhou to buy iron tools and armor in great demand, and it is definitely not just a few hundred weapons and armor that can be solved, if you miss this one, I am afraid that it will be difficult to meet such a seller in the future.

"Quan's shopkeeper, I will give you a sincere price, don't embarrass me, if you sincerely want to buy, you will pay the deposit today, and we can load the goods in the early morning of tomorrow!"

Shopkeeper Zheng directly gave an ultimatum to Shopkeeper Quan, the meaning is obvious, if you want it, hurry up, if you don't want it, get out of me. Egg.

"This ...... All right! The shopkeeper of Quan thought for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "This is a 100,000 taels of gold cabinet ticket, which can be exchanged in the 'Datang Cabinet Workshop' in Chang'an City, you can go and confirm it!" ”

Because most of the things in the black market are contraband that are not allowed to be bought and sold, or things that cannot be bought in the market, they are much more expensive in terms of price.

But since you have decided to buy things in the black market, you must be prepared to be a fat sheep and be slaughtered by others.

As for the cabinet ticket, this is easy to explain.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was no silver ticket, but the Tang Dynasty people used to use copper coins, copper coins weighed six catties and four taels per piece, and they had to carry a large number of copper coins out of the house, which was heavy and very inconvenient.

As a result, there are cabinets in the market that save money on behalf of others, and the cabinets are also like the money houses of later generations.

In the Tang Dynasty, the institution specializing in coin deposit and lending was called the cabinet shop, and the cabinet ticket was equivalent to the place where Li Yuanba undertook the exchange in his previous life, so this cabinet ticket can be regarded as circulating money.

"Hehe, the shopkeeper of the spring is to be bright!" Shopkeeper Zheng laughed, he took the so-called cabinet ticket handed to him by Shopkeeper Quan, looked at it twice, and said: "At three o'clock today, our boat will be waiting for you at the ferry port in the town, and you only need to arrive at the ferry on time!" ”

"Okay, I'll be there on time!" Shopkeeper Quan answered, and then seemed to remember something, and suddenly asked out loud: "Shopkeeper Zheng, please forgive me for taking the liberty of taking the liberty of the weapons and armor you sold us, but they are from the Zheng clan in Xingyang?" ”

Shopkeeper Zheng's face changed slightly, but he quickly covered up the past and said:

"The shopkeeper of Quan laughed, we are not a big family like the Zheng family in Xingyang! Moreover, at present, the imperial court implements all kinds of controls on the five surnames and seven wangs, even if they want to transport weapons and armor, I am afraid it will be an extremely difficult thing! ”

"Oh!"

Shopkeeper Quan glanced at Shopkeeper Zheng deeply, and the expression on his face was quite meaningful.

"Click!"

At this moment, there was a sudden soft sound on the roof of the small blacksmith shop, and the faces of the shopkeeper Quan and the shopkeeper Zheng in the room changed in unison.

"How many of you, go out and see what's going on?" The shopkeeper of Izumi commanded the three men dressed as domestic servants standing behind him.

The three servants all had a cold face, and after hearing their master's order, they tacitly separated a person and went straight to the blacksmith's shop.

Outside the blacksmith's shop was quiet at the moment, the roof was full of broken bricks and tiles, and there was a cat all black, languid under the sun, wagging its tail from time to time.

"Master, just a cat!" The servant returned to the shop and respectfully reported it.

"Whew, it's just a cat!" The shopkeeper breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had let go of a big stone in his heart.

"The shopkeeper of the spring is really cautious!"

Shopkeeper Zheng glanced at Shopkeeper Quan with a smile, as if he was comforting Shopkeeper Quan, and he also seemed to be comforting himself.

Shopkeeper Quan glanced at Shopkeeper Zheng with a smile and said, "It's better to be careful!" ”

"Nature, this is nature!" Shopkeeper Zheng laughed, and the expression on his face became even more honest.

……

A general store in the south of the city, a utility room that seems to be a mess of things.

"Smack!"

A man wrapped in a black suit, pushed open the door of the utility room, sneaked in, fumbled in the utility room, fumbled in the utility room for a long time, and suddenly twisted the oil lamp holder fixed to the wall.

"Huh!"

With a soft sound, a portal eight feet square appeared on the ground, and the ground below was bright, and the steps could be clearly seen.

A gleam flashed in the black-clothed man's exposed eyes, and his figure disappeared into the portal below, and the portal was closed the moment the black-clothed man went down.

There was a large secret room under the portal, and in the middle of the long table was a middle-aged man with a white beard sitting quietly.

"My lord, I'm back!" The man in black knelt on the ground and saluted the middle-aged man respectfully.

"How? Have you traced who is talking to the people of Goguryeo? ”

The middle-aged man glanced at the man in black lightly and asked.

"Zheng's blacksmith shop at the west end of town!" The man in black immediately replied, "I followed those Goguryeo people behind, and I went straight to the Zheng blacksmith shop all the way!" ”

"I remember, the Zheng blacksmith shop seems to be opened by a person from Xingyang, and the shopkeeper seems to be surnamed Zheng!"

The middle-aged man's brows furrowed, as if there was some mystery that was difficult to solve.

"That's the ......" the man in black replied, detailing his tracking of the Goguryeo people's whereabouts today.

When the man in black spoke, the middle-aged man's brows furrowed even deeper.

"Shopkeeper, there is a distinguished guest coming to the door!"

Just as the middle-aged man in black and black looked at each other, a somewhat light voice sounded in the secret room. (To be continued......)