After the compensation for the fallen soldiers from the plundering of the river, it could have been completely owned by Ma Lan himself, but it was taken out for public use, and the little girl was quite complaining, and now what she is doing is just earning back the wealth that should have belonged to the Ma family, Gao Qianqian is naturally full of energy.

Bian Lingcheng was willing to help, which made Ma Ling a little surprised, and he also had a little more affection for this notorious guy in the original history. He is only a lieutenant officer, and he can't directly allocate ordnance to the Anxi Army, so he can only mention this matter for the Anxi Army in front of the Son of Heaven. But it's good to have this attitude.

The lieutenant may not be unwilling to make meritorious contributions, Bian Lingcheng has come to Anxi many times, and participated in Gao Xianzhi's march several times, obviously wanting to make a difference.

"A certain family doesn't understand military affairs, but they can also see that these 5,000 soldiers have been sharpened, but they don't know where Renjie is going to start first?" Bian Lingcheng looked at Ma Ling and said with a smile.

"At the moment, there is nothing to do in Anxi, so we can only wait for the opportunity." Ma Lan smiled.

"I hope you don't have to wait too long, because you haven't been in the battle for a long time." Bian Lingcheng said with a smile.

Ma Lan grinned, and said in his heart that this guy actually had to follow him to the battlefield, which was a troublesome thing. This army was originally prepared to burn and loot on a large scale, so that the lieutenant officer would inevitably have to be subject to too many restrictions.

But looking at the appearance of this guy, he is determined to be nailed here and refuses to leave.

……

This is not better than the west of Green Mountain, but within the territory of the Tang Dynasty, if you want to send troops to fight, you must first have a famous division. It is impossible to kill as much as you want, as you want to do in the middle of the river, regardless of whether you want to kill it or not. Tubo has been defeated repeatedly in Heyuan, and has not crossed the Kunlun Pass to attack Khotan for several years, and the Turkish-Shih Khanate has just been disabled by the Tang Dynasty, and the Khan surnamed Huang and the Khan surnamed Black have lost their power, and can only watch the three divisions of Gelulu sit on the throne. The Uighurs have received a lot of favors from the Tang Dynasty for more than 100 years, and they have just destroyed the Later Turkic Khanate with the help of the Tang Dynasty and become the overlord of Mobei, and the Tang Dynasty is the closest moment of relationship, and it is impossible to betray the Tang Dynasty in the short term......

For a while, I looked around blankly, but there was no opponent. The only opponent is still west of the Green Mountain, the Persians who eat the Great Food in the Land of the River.

Ma Lan sighed in his heart, this was the best moment for Datang. It's a pity that there was the defeat of Talas, and it's a pity that a few years later there was the Anshi Rebellion.

The green mountain road is difficult to travel, and if you want to enter the river again, you must fight steadily, and you can't be like Gao Xianzhi last time, regardless of the three, seven, twenty-one, and then pounce.

The new army in Anxi has basically completed its training, and the next step is to see blood. This problem must be solved, and if there is no enemy, then find an enemy for yourself.

……

It is now nearly May, and I believe that the imperial court has also made a conclusion about the size of his merits, and the lieutenant who passed the decree is afraid that he has already gone far away.

Since he began to train the new army, he has not returned to the Grange for some days. I had only met Gao Qianqian a few times when she came to the barracks to deliver the goods, and she was getting thinner and thinner and tired, her eyes were getting bigger and bigger, and her heart hurt but there was no way. Now that the new army has finally formed its initial combat strength, it is time to go home to see her.

Led the army back to the temporary military camp on the edge of the desert, instructed Tian Mingyuan and Han Wu Li An to continue to be in charge of training, leaving Du Huan to preside over the affairs of the camp.

Bian Lingcheng did not follow this time, but stayed in the temporary barracks with great interest, preparing to continue watching the training. Feng Changqing is busy with secular affairs, and he has been focusing on the new army these days, and now he finally has an eyebrow, and he has decided to return to Qiuzi City to deal with the cases of Hu Shang being destroyed.

Today, the Majia Grange is surrounded by a red brick wall, and it is completely a huge workshop, and the grange is full of black smoke, and you can smell the choking smell of coal from afar.

Most of the new grange has been built, more than 30 concubines have moved to the new mansion, and Kang Qingqing's ancestral hall has also moved over. The main ones left here are Gao Qianqian and Qibo, and since the treasury is here, Duan Xiushi and some of Ma Xuan's personal soldiers are also here.

"Brother Ma Lan, are you back?"

I met Gao Qianqian in the grange, and the little girl was wearing a set of coarse cloth clothes made of stacked cloth from Xizhou, and her whole body smelled of fireworks. Gao Qianqian was very happy to see Ma Xuan appear, and quickly greeted her with her eyes that were getting bigger and bigger.

Ma Lan looked at Gao Qianqian's tired appearance, and felt extremely distressed, but he didn't know what to say. This girl has been tired for too long to earn a family business for the Ma family, although she is also a practicing family, but after all, she is a girl's family, and Ma Lan is still worried about her physical problems.

handed over the war horse to Ma Yong and took it away, Ma Lan took out a delicate mask from his arms, carefully put it on for Gao Qianqian, and blamed: "How many times have I told you, you must wear this thing, otherwise it will be trouble when you get old in the future, why don't you listen!" ”

"Remember!" Gao Qianqian chuckled, her voice came out from behind the mask, and she looked even more coquettish, "Brother Ma Lan, I went to the city today and found a good thing!" ”

"What's good?" Ma Ling asked, taking Gao Qianqian into his arms by the way. Behind Gao Qianqian, several handmaidens who were also gray and gray-faced let out a low chuckle, Gao Qianqian's little face turned red instantly, and she pushed Ma Lu away coquettishly and beckoned to a handmaiden.

These are the maids of the Gao family, who stayed in Anxi with Gao Qianqian after Gao Xianzhi entered the court. Originally, they followed Gao Qianqian to live in Feng Changqing Mansion temporarily, but later Gao Qianqian came to Majia Grange, and they followed.

The maidservant walked over quickly, bowed to Ma Lan, placed a small silk cloth package in Ma Lan's hand, and then retreated to Gao Qianqian's side. Ma Lan opened the package and looked at the contents inside, and his face couldn't help but change.

"There is a new Hu merchant in the paper shop, and I heard that he moved from the Green Ridge to escape the war. This is a good paper produced by their family, I have never seen such a good paper, and Chang'an's twill paper curtain paper is not so good. They want to open a workshop in Qiuzi City, and they are looking for a place in the past two days. If we can cooperate with them, our family will have one more source of money in the future. ”

Ma Lan looked at the Chengxintang paper in his hand and took a deep breath.

The figure of the Sogdian girl whose eyes were clear and clean to the extreme in the city suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.

After all, Kang Million still sold Chengxintang paper to Anxi, which means that he and Kang Lin'er should be safe.

The recipe of Chengxintang paper was his reward for the night's entertainment. originally thought that he could not care about her life and death, but he didn't expect that she was still in his heart.

When Sa Mojian was launched, Kang Million's people gave him great help. Ma Lan was not prepared to thank him, and afterwards showed no mercy to the Sogdians, and set off a bloody storm in the land of the river.

At that time, their father and daughter should have arrived in Mulu and entered the core of the Great Cannibal Zone. He then succeeded in provoking an ethnic vendetta between the Sogdians and the Great Persians in the river, and while the Sogdians slaughtered the Persians in the river, the Persians might not be able to spare the Sogdian merchants in Mulu, the capital of Khorasan, on the other side of the Wuhu River. In the end, it was he who pushed Kang Lin'er and her father into danger.

He thought that he could not care about her life and death, but at this time, he suddenly understood that some things were not so easy to forget.

He wants to be ruthless, but he is not a merciless person after all. After all, she was the one who rescued him from the prisoner of war camp, not to mention that there was a wonderful night......

There are too many gentle and beautiful women in the grange, everyone is very welcome under him, and he has tasted all kinds of wonderful tastes these days, but these women do not actually belong to him, but to the original Guanzhong man Ma Lan. Even including the girl in front of him, the one he is willing to spend his life with her is also the original Guanzhong man Ma Lan.

Only the Sogdian girl whose eyes are clear and clean to the extreme has nothing to do with the Guanzhong man Ma Lan, but really belongs to him.

"Brother Ma Lan, I have already talked to that Hu Shang. I find them a place and they give us a little profit. The exact amount has not yet been discussed, but after they know the background of our firm, they are already a little willing. ”

Gao Qianqian saw that Ma Lan was in a trance, frowned slightly and said, "Brother Ma Lan, what's wrong with you?" Are you listening to me? ”

Ma Lan came back to his senses, nodded and said, "Listen." Qianqian, you said they were ready to give you a percentage of the profit? ”

"We haven't talked about it yet! But I think it's at least fifty percent. There is no such good paper in Chang'an, but I am ready to help them sell it to Chang'an, how can it be made without fifty percent of the profits? ”

"Such a good paper is really rare. Let's go, Qianqian, let's go talk to them together. ”

……

In Qiuzi City, there are many shops in the paper shop, selling ordinary twill paper and curtain paper. Although the newly opened Kang Kee is new, the area is not small.

Paper is a Chinese product, and it has always been sold to the Hu people, and it is also an important commodity on the Silk Road. Most of the paper in the shop comes from Han Chinese workshops, and the quality is similar.

Kang Kee Paper Workshop has only been open for more than ten days, but it has stolen the limelight from all stores. More than 100 camels have consigned good paper, and the quality has never been seen in the paper industry. In the past ten days, half of it has been sold. This is still the result of people's reluctance to sell, otherwise it would have been sold out long ago.

Ma Lan took Gao Qianqian into the store of the Kangjia Paper Factory, and more than a dozen Hu merchants were surrounding a purple-haired man, talking nonsense. Seeing Ma Ling and Gao Qianqian coming in, the Hu merchants hurriedly came over to salute, and then left quickly and stupidly.

They are all merchants in the paper shop and want to seek cooperation with Kang Kee Paper Mill. Gao Qianqian has been here many times, and they naturally know that Gao Qianqian wants to interfere. Gao Qianqian is nothing, and now that even Ma Lan himself is here, Hu Shang can only cry out in his heart, where do they dare to stay here.

The purple-haired, deep-eyed Sogdian man stood up with a smile when he saw Ma Lu.

"General, don't come unharmed?" It is the pure Anxi Han dialect.

Ma took a deep breath and nodded.

This was the leader of Kang Million's guards at the time of the construction of Sa Mo, and after Kang Million and Kang Lin'er went to Mulu, he was responsible for providing Ma Lan with information on the Great Cannibal. When the day was launched, in the and. He was the leader of the Sogdians who caused chaos outside the Posilin camp.

Just as Kang was not a simple Sogdian businessman, this guy was not just a guard chief.