Businessmen not only like to make money but also have hobbies, and men like to talk about gossip from the government and the opposition, sometimes it is pure nonsense, but sometimes it is not.

Although Kanto merchants are not natives of Chang'an, it is easy to judge the story behind this trend based on their knowledge and experience of dealing with high-ranking officials all year round.

"You say, could this be a deliberate rumor from some people? Otherwise, the Tingwei Mansion wouldn't have caught it for half a year, and it didn't even catch a single hair. ”

Zhuo Wangsun saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly interrupted, consciously selling his own iron tools was refused, the Kanto merchant was very shrewd, and he saw through his thoughts at a glance, and the fat merchant questioned: "I heard that the imperial court issued a new decree to strictly control the iron tools transported to the border counties, Chang'an City produces so many iron tools every day, aren't you afraid that the Huns will be smuggled to the northern grasslands by lawbreakers?" ”

"Why are you worried about this?"

The Kanto businessman rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that there are people behind your Zhuo family who are not afraid of being stared at, and it is not worth it for our small families to attract the attention of the county guards, and the merchant groups in the border counties are a group of armed bandits who are legally smuggling, and there is nothing in their eyes that cannot be pulled out and sold, if the arsenal is open to them to sell, I believe they will be moved within a day.

Zhuo Wangsun could not convince them that sufficient profits were the source of motivation to drive people who were not afraid of death to be willing to take the risk of killing their heads, provided that there were enough profits, and there was a great risk in manufacturing and selling steel, because the iron sales network in various states and counties was controlled by large merchants, and the newly established iron-smelting workshops would be suppressed and crowded out if they rashly entered. If you can't make money, you can only deal with those local snakes at a low price in order to cut the meat and leave the market, and the only way to make money is to sell it to areas where there are no iron tools. The Xiongnu in the north were the largest demand for steel.

If it had been placed under the policy of stable relations between Han and Hungary in the past, hello, hello, everyone, maybe it would have been possible to quietly get some iron tools and sell them abroad. The Huns were interested in any iron product, and they were also the most generous customers, willing to exchange horses, cattle and sheep from the steppe for a pile of iron tools that seemed to be of little use to the Huns.

But the current tense situation is different from the past, insisting on going to negotiate business with the Huns will be targeted by the border county Taishou, and even more beware of the Huns eating black and snatching a vote to pull down, the Huns are happy to disguise themselves as horse thieves and robbers to rob the caravan when the business is not negotiated, and their routine is similar to the Han caravan in the border county.

Seongnam Taixue.

The latest issue of the "Chang'an Express" reported on the pattern and analysis of the Han-Hungarian War, and a columnist named "Yan Zhao Renshi" caught his attention. The title of the column he wrote is a typical vernacular work, the title is "The Strategic Significance and Role of the Battle of Yanmen", just like every resident of Chang'an, the drama letter also likes simple and easy-to-understand vernacular texts very much, and the big vernacular that everyone speaks is the most easy to understand, and only those old stubborns who eat the ancient will insist on communicating in classical Chinese.

"Hey, what are you looking at?"

The newspaper was suddenly taken away, and when I looked back, I saw that my uncle and grandson Qinfei also put it away, and glanced at it casually: "The struggle for the strategic initiative between the Han and Hungarians has changed dramatically after the Battle of Yanmen. Remember the first-hand observation of those who witnessed the war, and depict a magnificent war from different angles...... Hey? Seems pretty good. ”

"I'm mad that you guys are stealing my newspaper again!"

As soon as the drama letter became angry, Shusun Qin immediately relented: "What's the big deal." But this article is quite interesting. ”

"What's interesting?" He pushed the door and walked over, holding a newspaper that smelled of pine oil: "Have you read today's newspaper?" The article is very well written. ”

But for a moment, Chun Yu hurriedly entered the room. He also happened to be holding a newspaper in his hand: "So everyone is here!" I tell you! The biggest news in Taixue today is this newspaper. ”

The three of them were shocked, they didn't expect the newspaper opinion article to suddenly catch fire. You know, newspapers are a novelty, originally just as a bulletin for horse racing and polo matches recorded at the racecourse. Only half a foot long and three inches wide and the color of the game was dull yellow, in just a few years, the newspaper broke away from the simple horse newspaper category into the field of mass news, and thus became the most influential emerging industry in Chang'an.

Last year, the total profit of all newspaper offices in Chang'an reached an astonishing 23 billion yuan, and the efficiency of making money was no less than that of Chang'an's largest racecourse, but to think about the huge scale and huge investment of the racecourse, and the newspaper only needed simple technology to set up a new brand, and the huge profits and low threshold made the wealthy businessmen almost crazy, and tens of thousands of newspapers rose inside and outside Chang'an overnight.

It is undeniable that the rapid rise of newspapers has promoted the rapid development of information exchange in Chang'an City, and at the same time, it has also cast a powerful stone on the originally quiet pool of stagnant water, which is tantamount to a terrifying tsunami that instantly swept through Guanzhong and even all counties in the world.

The surviving high-quality newspaper offices did not escape the fate of being acquired, they were easily taken into the pocket by the newspaper office giants that had existed before, and inadvertently completed an industrial upgrading and upgrading within the newspaper office, and the new business model of those small newspaper offices digging interesting stories deep into the people was adopted, and more operators began to pay attention to the source of information collection, and cultivated private clue collectors to become a new industry.

He secretly provided a newspaper with various story materials and news clues within Taixue, and only the three people present probably knew the source, but this column the size of a tofu block opened his eyes to new possibilities, and he could also write things and send them to the newspaper office in exchange for more payment.

"Didn't you notice? This Yan Zhao clan has already posted three articles, and if I remember correctly, the main body of the previous article also revolved around the Xiongnu. He picked up the newspaper and talked eloquently, he was the smartest of the four, and he usually likes to study and ponder all kinds of documents and historical materials, and he really figured out a name.

Shusun Qin disagreed: "What's the big deal." ”

"Wrong!" Yin Shan and Chun Yu said in unison, under the humility of Yin Shan, Chun Yu Yu said: "I have read two other articles, the first one is called "The Special System of the Huns, the long-standing dispute between the left and right, and the 240,000 cavalry commanders with special identities", focusing on the formation and development of the Xiongnu left and right Xian kings, the political enemy relationship between the Xiongnu and the left and right Xian kings, as well as the deformed relationship between the left and right Gu Li kings, the left and right bone marquis, and the left and right captains, and the intricate veins between the 240,000 cavalry commanders. After reading this long article, I realized that the vicious and terrible Huns were also internal and external troubles. ”

"That's right."

He Shan was full of energy: "I didn't think that the four of us also have hardcore readers of the Yan Zhao people's clan, I read more and more joy like you from the first article, especially the second article "The enemies of the Xiongnu Empire, Kun Jian and Ding Ling who listen to the tune and do not listen to the Xuan, Xianbei and Wuhuan who bear hatred", let me finally understand why the Huns suddenly attacked Xianbei and Wuhuan, it turns out that these two sworn enemies with the Xiongnu have bitter hatred, Kun Jian and Ding Ling have always been separated from Shan Yuting, and the Huns' horsewhips cannot be stretched so far away. ”

"Yes, I've also read this article, King Zuo Xian can't control Xianbei and Wu Huan, and King Right Xian can't control Kun Jian and Ding Ling, it's really interesting."

The two chatted enthusiastically, and they turned out a military map of the Huns in the military academy, and scolded Fang Xuan in the grassland desert, and their high-spirited attitude seemed to have become a tide maker leading the Han Empire.

Originally, I didn't understand the drama, but there were many black cavalry wounded who were withdrawn from the Huns, some of them were frostbitten when they were scouts lying in the ice and snow for a long time, and some were injured in the battle and were forced to withdraw to recuperate, and the general outline of the Huns was drawn from their narratives, it turned out that the Huns were not the legendary fierce gods and evil, they also had to eat, drink, graze and sleep, they also had seven emotions and six desires, men and women love, their folk songs and Guanzhong folk songs are not much different, always inseparable from love, love, love, There are also all kinds of very yellow and violent lyrics.

They will be happy and happy will also be afraid and desperate, they also have weak times to beg for mercy, especially when encountering the black cavalry, there will be desperate howling and crying, and red eyes draw knives to fight two extreme situations, in the Han army under the front and iron hooves of the Huns flourished for a time is not so terrifying, their image gradually tends to be real, flesh and blood are not legendary monsters.

Folklore is always absurd and bizarre, the foolish village women have just gotten rid of the witchcraft disgust, but they can't resist the deep impression brought by the demonization of the Huns, the more afraid the more they will distort the image of the Huns, so that the people of the inner county regard the Huns as big monsters with green faces and fangs, but the battle of Yanmen changed all this, and the subsequent battle of Yinshan defeated the Huns, beheaded and captured amazingly, and laid the strong self-confidence of the people of the Han family in one fell swoop.

The rumors of how terrible the story of the Xiongnu were swept away in an instant, and turned into a story of the Han soldiers falling from the sky to fight the demons and monsters who threw away their armor, and the pavilion chiefs in charge of propaganda in each county were crying and laughing, but they could not explain the true situation of the Xiongnu, because even the Han army itself did not know much about the composition of the Xiongnu, until this article came out.

The drama letter suddenly said: "Don't you think this article is of extraordinary significance? ”

The other three were slightly stunned: "Are you saying that the people's understanding of the Xiongnu has improved, and no one will be afraid anymore?" ”

"Almost! I remember that our prince once said that fear comes from the unknown, because you don't understand, you are afraid, and if you understand, you are not afraid. The drama letter muttered to himself, he seemed to think of something, and when he thought about it carefully, he found nothing. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)