"Let Xiazhou's brothers pay close attention to the mobilization of the party and tribes, and in addition, Lanzhou will send another large caravan to Dunhuang in a month, with goods worth millions of yuan, and let Han Chan release the news. "The Chilling Cicada is the secret stake of the Brotherhood lurking in Xiazhou, and throughout Xiazhou, there are more than a dozen Sogdian and Jiangnan merchants who are connected with him, and through these merchants and several times the number of party leaders, he maintains a relationship based on transactions.

In the eyes of the leaders of the party departments in Xiazhou, Han Chan is a big wealthy businessman from the south of the Yangtze River, he has the best tea and Shu brocade in his hands, and he can eat the green salt in their hands and sell it to the mainland. Han Cicada didn't know high-level figures such as Cai Jiqian in Xiazhou, so it was easier to expose his identity, but the mobilization mechanism of the Dangxiang tribe made it easy for him to understand the movement of large-scale tribal Qiang soldiers, and many tribal leaders negotiated with merchants in advance the price of looted goods and slaves, and some even asked caravans to send large carts to accompany the army. Not only Lanzhou is well aware of the party's movements, but the reason why the party leaders win and lose more is also mostly inseparable from these tribal leaders who want money, but now the border towns of the imperial court and the party tribe are subject to many restrictions on doing business, which makes them more dependent on the caravans sent by Lanzhou.

A day later, in a manor outside Xiazhou City, the morning sun penetrated the willows, the morning breeze was cool and moist, a pigeon fluttered its wings, obediently landed on the platform where the pigeon coop stretched out, the servants who waited by the pigeon loft day and night immediately picked it up gently, one person took off a thatch pipe tied to the pigeon's leg, walked into the house quickly, handed it to a middle-aged businessman who was checking the account books, and bowed out.

The middle-aged man's skin is extremely well maintained, almost as white as his face, but his body is a little thin. His eyebrows were thick, and his eyes seemed to be hazy and always shrouded in a layer of mist, making it impossible to guess. He is Wu Yingying's old entourage in the Jinling Divine Guard, and he is also the owner of the Da Kuihe business, the seat guest of the leaders of the Dangxiang and Qiang ethnic groups, Han Cicada, alias Jin Luoan.

He first carefully examined the detailed beeswax pattern on the outside of the spear tube, then gently removed the wax, tore open the pipe, and on a thin white silk, dozens of numbers were written, and there was exactly a thousand-character text in the pile of books on Jin Luoan's desk, and he checked the corresponding Chinese characters according to these numbers, and put the book back. After a long silence, he called for his attendants to come in.

"Tell you, stewards, and Sogdian merchants with whom we have associates, who have goods in their hands and are heading to the Western Regions, to set off as soon as possible this month. If they ask the reason, they will say that the Lanzhou caravan will have millions of things out of the city next month, and we must ship them ahead of them. Jin Luoan lightly instructed his subordinates to follow, and said in a deep voice: "Also, cancel all the goods that are going to be transported to Xiazhou in the next two months, and hoard them in Shu for a few months, the volume of goods in the Lanzhou caravan is so large, even if our goods are transported to Dunhuang, it will be difficult to buy them at a good price." ”

Jin Luoan's true identity, even if he is close to him, he doesn't know, the servants only know that Jin Luoan is a big wealthy businessman in the south of the Yangtze River, after Jinling was captured by the Song army, the merchants in the north seized various industries in the south of the Yangtze River with the support of the Song army, which made the southern businessmen complain, although it was a matter of time before the bureaucrats from the north were opened with silver money, but compared with the Zhongzhou businessmen who went south, after all, they lost the first hand.

This Jin Luoan had the foresight to move more than half of his family property to Bashu, which was captured by the Northern Song Dynasty earlier, he was a foreign trader, and the foreign Song Dynasty officials happened to cooperate with each other, trafficking brocade, tea and illicit salt back and forth between Shu and the northwest states, and actually did a prosperous business in Shu for half a year. Recently, Jin Luoan fell in love with the trafficking business borrowed to Dunhuang, so he set up a warehouse in Xiazhou. He is generous, not like other businessmen, who dare to take responsibility, and has some well-informed news channels and business experience, and has faintly become the number one person in the Xiazhou business.

Jin Luoan was elected to the Brotherhood by Wu Yingying as early as Runzhou and was ordered to go to Bashu as a businessman, Wu Yingying explained to him, only doing "legal and legitimate" business, and not deliberately inquiring about military affairs, because all military affairs will be revealed from some subtle material and personnel transfers. What's more, Bashu is just a springboard for Jin Luoan to "bleach" himself. At most, the party in Xiazhou traced the road from the Yizhou government of the Great Song Dynasty, but they never expected that he was a spy in Lanzhou.

The news will be released in a big way next month, and the news has been secretly spread by Jin Luoan through the business network he has contacted. At the same time, at the behest of Kangqu Dagan, some Sogdian merchants complained to the Qiangtou people of the Dangxiang as if they were careless, because the Lanzhou caravans were selling a large number of goods from Helan Mountain and the north of Yinshan to Dunhuang, and the Sogdian caravans could no longer make much money by going to the Hexi Corridor through Xiazhou, and many other caravans' goods were also considering rerouting to other places, and there would be fewer and fewer goods on the Xiazhou route. In fact, in the past six months, under the planning of Kangqu Dagan, a large number of Sogdian caravans' goods have been diverted to Lanzhou and sent to Lanzhou to go out of the fortress, and the leaders of the Dangxiang and Qiang tribes have received less and less commercial taxes.

"If this continues, sooner or later you will have to drink the northwest wind. Cai Keshun sat on a low stool, and the account office of the appropriate manager came to report that the commercial tax received by Yinzhou this month was reduced by nearly half, and it is said that it was all because the Lanzhou of the Han State organized a caravan carrying goods from China to be diverted outside the Saiwai, which was not to take food from the bowl of the party members. Half a year ago, Cai Jiqian led a group of iron harriers to rob a large caravan in Lanzhou from outside the Saiwai, and came back safe and sound, which made Cai Keshun's heart itch, "Even if you can't grab something, it's good to scare and scare those timid businessmen, so that they dare to take the road of Saibei." Sitting in front of Cai Keshun was Yinchuan Thorn Shi Cai Keyuan, who also frowned. The Cai clan, that is, the Tuoba clan, is different from those party barbarians who do not know poetry and books, and the Tuoba clan is a descendant of the Great Wei royal family who owned the world hundreds of years ago. After the death of the head of the family, Cai Kerui, the eldest son of Kerui, inherited the throne of the Dingyan Festival, Cai Kexian, the assassin of Suizhou, Cai Keyuan, the assassin of Yinchuan, and Cai Keshun, Cai Kewen, these uncles did not listen to his orders, and the five states of the Dingyan Army were actually independent.

"Our Yinzhou is in the south of Xiazhou, if we cross Xiazhou to rob the Saibei trade route, I'm afraid it's not appropriate. I'm afraid that Jifeng's nephew will say it again. Cai Keyuan groaned. He is not like the silent and gloomy Cai Jifeng, nor is he like the irascible Cai Jiqian, he has always liked to plan and then act.