Chapter Forty-Seven: What I Saw and Heard Out of the Customs

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The weather in October can only be regarded as just in time for autumn for Jiangnan, but for Shanxi, October has begun to be a little chilly.

On the morning of October 21, Yue Yang, who had already made preparations, led 1,000 soldiers disguised as ordinary guards and hundreds of chariot men to drive more than 200 carts and the Li family's convoy out of Yuejiazhuang and walked north.

Yue Yang rode on the back of a horse, looking at the front of him, there was a trace of imperceptible reluctance in his heart. After learning that Yue Yang was going to do business outside the gates, the docile Yuling secretly cried several times, not to mention the lively Yulong, who hugged Yue Yang vigorously when he got up in the morning to prevent him from leaving, and finally Yue Yang still coaxed her to stop her.

Thinking of this, Yue Yang knocked on the slightly sore lumbar spine and couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Because she knew that she was leaving today, the two sisters Linglong seemed to have changed last night, and even Yuling, who had always been a little gentle and shy, pestered herself several times, and this woman would become like a different person once she gave her body and mind to a man.

Yue Yang's movement of touching his waist happened to be seen by Li Yuan, who was also riding a horse on the side, and this guy asked with a smile: "Nephew Yue Xian, last night must have been very "hard", although the young man is in good health, I must also pay attention to my body." Everything should pay attention to a degree, once this degree is passed, it is easy to have problems, so it is better to take it easy! ”

"This old disrespectful fellow!"

Yue Yang couldn't cry or laugh in his heart, this guy used to be trembling when he was soft on himself, but now he has become more and more like an old fritter, isn't he afraid of turning his face?

Not wanting to continue talking nonsense with him, after rolling his eyes at him, Yue Yang asked, "Master Li, you are so old, why do you want to go in person this time?" Don't you have three sons at home? Why don't you let them go for you? ”

Yue Yang's words seemed to have lit Li Yuan's acupuncture points, and his originally smiling face suddenly stiffened, and it quickly retracted. After a while, he glared at Yue Yang helplessly and said, "You don't know the reason, as for coming to use this cold old man!" ”

"Hahaha......"

Yue Yang laughed out loud at this time, this Li Yuan has three sons and four daughters in his family, and it seems that he has a lot of children, but as the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Li Yuan's eldest son is twenty-seven years old this year, the second son is twenty-one years old, and the third son is fifteen years old, Now hearing Yue Yang's joke, Li Yuan is probably quite depressed in his heart.

After laughing, Yue Yang seemed to ask casually, "Okay, let's be serious." I said that your Li family resells so many materials outside the customs every year, what are the main things of these things? ”

"What are you asking for? Could it be that your in-laws plan to change careers and plan to do business outside the customs for a long time? When Li Yuan heard this, a look of vigilance suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"Not really, I'm just asking." Seeing Li Yuan's vigilant expression, Yue Yang naturally understood what the other party was worried about, as the so-called peers were enemies, the Yingzhou Mansion was so big, if the Yue family was also involved, the Li family's business would inevitably be greatly affected.

"What are you afraid of?" Although Yue Yang's reflection on Li Yuan was understandable, he still said with a smile: "I'm not interested in doing business with Guanwai, I just want to get some horses, at most I can do it a few times, and I don't want to rob the fur business, you're afraid!" ”

Li Yuan snorted and said: "It's hard to say, you kid is ruthless, what do you dare not do?" Was the Wang family driven away by you soon? ”

At the mention of the Wang family, Yue Yang's originally smiling face suddenly sank, and he said lightly: "The Wang family has wanted to put me to death several times, and the enmity between me and the Wang family has long been unresolved. And that Wang Chenglin, who dared to kill me in Wanhualou, I will have to settle this hatred with him sooner or later! ”

Yue Yang's gloomy voice made Li Yuan shudder, and only then did he suddenly remember that the young man in front of him was the guy who killed the rogue a few months ago, and he dared to talk and laugh with him these days, and he hadn't been killed by this guy after taking advantage of him, and his luck was not ordinarily good!

Thinking of this, Li Yuan wiped the layer of sweat that came out of his forehead, smiled a little awkwardly and stopped talking......

Without saying anything all the way, the convoy arrived at Datong Mansion, an important town in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, the next morning.

Datong Mansion is a famous town in China, in the Tang Dynasty, it was the only way from Chang'an to the north of the foreign people, to the Ming Dynasty, it has become an important town in the northwest defense. After a long period of repairs, the wall of Datong Mansion is high and deep, as solid as an iron wall, but there is no war for many years, so the city is also very rich, when Yue Yang followed the convoy into the high and wide city wall of Datong Mansion, even if he is used to seeing the prosperity of the modern city, he can't help but be secretly surprised, on the street that is enough to accommodate four carriages in parallel, the vehicles that come and go do not hesitate to shuttle like flowing water, and the pedestrians who come and go are also surging, and the style of a big city is fully revealed.

"How? It's better here than Yingzhou, right? Seeing Yue Yang's surprised look, Li Yuan, who had already regained his composure, asked with a smile.

Yue Yang took a deep breath and said, "It's not just strong, it's just too strong!" This is a border area! ”

Li Yuan sighed and said: "Yes, about forty or fifty percent of our businessmen in Shanxi are concentrated here, and it is difficult to think that it will not be prosperous!" If we're not in a hurry, I'll take you to see the power of the Datong girl tonight, and I guarantee that you won't miss it! ”

Yue Yang smiled slightly: "This kind of thing is not in a hurry, as long as you have silver in your pocket, you can go whenever you want, the question now is how to transport so many of our goods out of the customs, you must know that the current mutual market has been closed by the imperial court!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Yuan immediately laughed: "Hahaha...... Don't worry about this problem, the matter of leaving the customs is on the old man's body! ”

"Really?" Yue Yang couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, but Yue Yang's doubts were quickly solved on the third day after he came out.

At ten o'clock at noon on the third day, Yue Yang and the convoy had already arrived at a checkpoint called Zhenchuan Fort along the narrow official road. It's just that Yue Yang was stunned by the scene in front of him as soon as he entered this level, and there were several caravans gathered in this castle in front of him, and these caravans of a large scale were waiting in line to get out of the customs. Yue Yang scanned it with his naked eye, and estimated that each caravan here had dozens of carts and even hundreds of carts, the scale was huge, and the wheels of Yueyang's existing carts were deeply sunk into the grass, and it could be seen that the contents of these carts were all very heavy. Standing next to the city gate were more than a dozen officers and soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, they were lazily leaning against the city wall and watching these big cars pass from the front of the gate, to Yueyang's surprise, no one stepped forward to check the vehicles passing through the gate.

Yue Yang whispered to Li Yuan beside him, "Master Li, what are these vehicles loaded with?" Why is it so heavy! ”

Li Yuan smiled lightly: "These cars are loaded with iron weapons, and some are even armor and weapons, can they not be heavy?" ”

"What?"

Yue Yang was taken aback when he heard this, "It turned out to be an armored weapon, they are so bold!" Dare to fornicate with foreign enemies to make capital enemies! Are the officers and soldiers at this checkpoint idiots? ”

"Shh......h Be quiet! Li Yuan hurriedly put his finger to his lips, looked around nervously before he said in a deep voice: "You are really rare and strange, what is it to sell armor and weapons, as long as they give silver, they even dare to sell their own father!" And this business is not just done, the officers and soldiers here have long been bought by them from top to bottom, you only know now! ”

Yue Yang was suddenly messy, he didn't expect that the outpost that was an important border town would be so erosive, and the officers and soldiers who were supposed to protect their homes and defend the country turned a blind eye to the blatant smuggling of merchants, are these people still the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? If the Manchus or Tartars attacked, would these checkpoints still serve as a defense and alarm?

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