Late October.

Located in the Guanzhong area north of the Qinling Mountains, the first winter snow of the year began to fall one after another, and the people of Chang'an City put on the fur fur trafficked by Hu merchants from the Western Regions early and covered it with a felt blanket, which is woven with thick cashmere wool The blanket is quite strong and durable, and the more important one is that the warmth effect is very good.

The East City of Chang'an.

The largest Hu merchant was a Hu merchant named Wu Shilu, who came to Xianyang as early as when the first emperor was alive and was once received by the first emperor.

During the reign of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, Wu Shilu was unwilling to give his wealth to Zhao Gao, and was ostracized by the powerful Zhongshu Ling, and Zuihou had to leave Xianyang gloomily.

Five years of the new calendar of Great Qin.

Wu Shilu returned to Qin from the Western Regions by the southern route, and found that the former capital Xianyang had become an empty city, and on the Leyou Plain on the bank of Weishui, a large-scale new city was rising rapidly.

With the unique acumen of a businessman, Wu Shi Lu felt that the Chang'an City in front of him would be a new starting point for his development, in order to confirm his judgment, Wu Shi Lu purchased more than ten shops in the East Market in one go, and in just one year, the appreciation rate of these shops was amazing.

With the profits of the shop, the main grain business, Wu Shi Lu, has now expanded its business to silk, brine salt, brocade and other fields, speaking of which, the development of Wu Shi Lu is also thanks to the Qin army's victories again and again, if there is no Li Yuan's crusade to the west, even if he wants to operate these scarce materials, it is impossible to get much profit from other princes.

With the improvement of relations between Qin and Western Chu, the main arteries of trade between the East and the West were connected without hindrance, and for the merchants, such a situation was precious, and they were now seizing all the time to make money after suffering enough from the war.

In order to thank the Qin State for the convenience, and in order to earn more wealth from the revival of the Qin State, Wu Shilu and some big businessmen have taken the initiative to donate a lot of grain and wealth over the years, which can be regarded as a kind of return. In exchange, it was a quiet change in Qin's national policy of emphasizing agriculture and business.

The first emperor won the government did not have a good impression of commerce, and the kings of the Qin dynasty also rebuked commerce and trade, and if he wanted to change these traditional views of the Qin people, Li Yuan used a lot of brains and thought of a lot of methods, zuihou, or decided to respond to all changes with the same, and the state did not interfere in the business activities of the merchants, but handed them over to the merchants themselves to negotiate and solve. Of course, the state still has to extract a certain amount of tax revenue in it.

In terms of proportion, Li Yuan did not impose heavy taxes like the Huns, as a man with modern business acumen, he knew very well what commerce would bring to a country, and if a country had no flow of goods at all, then the country would also decline.

As long as the Qin State continued to maintain its enterprising momentum, those merchants who came for profit would not leave. What Li Yuan wants to do now is to attract more big businessmen like Wu Shi to settle down in Chang'an.

As long as people are in the Qin State, then the merchants have more wealth. Zuihou are all from the Qin State, and at this point, Li Yuan obviously learned the practice of hiding the wealth of the people, and the wealth of Wu Shilu and others is not consumption. It is still a stockpile, as long as it is used and hidden in the land of Qin, it still cannot escape Li Yuan's control.

Dongshi Street Entrance.

On a cold and windy morning. A small shop shrunk their necks, open the door of the shop with heat, ready to welcome the first customer of the new day, the value of the shop in the East Market has now risen dozens of times, at the beginning, when Li Yuan ordered to supervise the construction of Chang'an City, he reserved more than ten shops in the East City as his own private property, this decision only two years later, it confirmed its wisdom.

Wu's grain shop.

A yellow-faced middle-aged servant woman struggled to carry a dung bucket, covering her mouth and nose with one hand, and laboriously pouring foul-smelling filth into the public toilet.

With the increase in the population of Chang'an City, the capacity designed by Li Yuan and Xin Chai at that time had already been broken, and in such a full load of operation, the grim situation of cleaning and sanitation work was placed in front of Chang'an Ling Yan Le.

Yan Le, who went to the public toilet early in the morning to inspect the situation, stared at the back of the woman who covered his nose, and was stunned for a while, this figure looked familiar, which reminded him of a person.

The widow of Liu Bang, King of Han: Lu Pheasant.

It's just that Lu Pheasant can be regarded as a person who has been a princely wife, and her hometown is in Chudi, how could she appear in Chang'an City and become a servant woman with a lowly profession.

"This lady, where are you from?" Yan Le dismounted, blocked the woman's way, and asked.

"This, this lord, the slave maid is from Hanzhong County, and he is from the Xicheng area of Hanzhong." The woman carrying the dung bucket said, she obviously didn't expect Yan Le to stand in front of her, her feet were weak in panic, and the dung bucket in her hand was dumped, and the filth immediately filled the entire bluestone road in the public toilet.

"Shen Liu, didn't you say that you came from Nanjun a few days ago, why did you become a Hanzhong person again, listening to the accent, you are a bit like a Chu person?"

Beside him, there were already a few women who had dumped feces in unison, and they hid far away while exposing the middle-aged woman just now.

The prosperity of the East Market, while bringing wealth, also gave birth to a special industry: pouring dung.

For healthy women who do not have a skill, the business of pouring dung takes almost no effort except to get up earlier and have a lot of strength, so the profession that is inferior in the eyes of outsiders is also fiercely competitive within the healthy women, and the woman who was stopped by Yan Le called Shen Liu still has a bit of posture, and she is particularly weak in a group of strong women with big shoulders and round waists, which also makes her isolated.

"You're talking nonsense!" The woman turned, her finger over her face and screaming at the group of servants.

Her scream sounded to Yan Le, but it clearly had the tone of Chudi, this year, it was normal for Qin and Chu to have official or non-governmental contacts, a woman from Chu came to Chang'an City to beg for food, it was nothing, but what made Yan Le strange was that she wanted to object?

"Is that her?" Yan Le's eyes swept over the woman's face, and then he stopped and couldn't move away.

"Do you mean I'm mistaken?" Yan Le muttered to himself, since he took up the work of the Military Intelligence Department, Yan Le ordered his subordinates to paint portraits of the possible enemies facing the Qin State one by one, among them, Liu Bang, the king of Han, and his old subordinates were undoubtedly the focus of Yan Le's greatest attention.

Lu Pheasant, this woman, is not simple.

This is the judgment made by Yan Le after carefully observing Lu Pheasant's experience, and it is precisely for this reason that after Liu Bang's death, Yan Le did not reduce his attention to Lu Pheasant.

From the analysis of the information of the intersection, Lü Pheasant, Lü Xu, Lü Ze, Lü Shizhi and other Lü have gathered at Huang Bu, these people have a deep hatred for the Qin State, and their every move is worthy of Yan Le's close attention.

Now, a woman who looks like Lu Pheasant is suddenly on the scene in Chang'an, whether she is Lu Pheasant or not, Yan Le has decided to Haode to investigate and see what kind of purpose this woman with a strange behavior of pouring dung has. (To be continued......)