"I'm about to arrive at Mayi, my lord, oh no, it's a book, why don't you go in and have a look?"

"It's fine. Although the main location of the mutual market is in Pingcheng, I heard that Mayi is the last place for the final supply of merchants before going to Pingcheng, and now it is also extremely lively, even surpassing the Yin Pavilion, making the Ma Yi Order more popular than the Yin Pavilion Order. ”

"No way, it's all caused by Zhang Wenyuan. I can often hear the story of Wen Yuan leading a hundred horsemen into the north to kill the enemy chieftain and return back to Yanmen, so although there will be foreign attacks from time to time, whether it is Qiangyin and Heping City in the north, or some Shanwu, Yin Pavilion and other places in the south, they have encountered many invasions, only this Mayi, the northerners are afraid of the reputation of the Zhang family in Mayi and the possible retaliation, and dare not coerce. There are also many northerners who have business travel with the Zhang family all the year round, and they do not want to coerce too much, so after a few years, whenever there is chaos, many business travelers hide in Mayi, and over time, or settle here, or call the people who must pass through the north, or recruit companions here, plus a large number of displaced people move here, so that this place is particularly prosperous. ”

"Yes, I have come to Mayi several times, and I feel that the appearance has changed a lot, and I don't know what the scene is like when I go to Mayi this time, and I don't know if the shops I visited at the beginning are still operating in the place where they once were."

"Shushi, what you said is too right, if you say that the most prosperous place in the entire Yanmen, it is definitely Mayi, even if it cannot be compared with today's Jinyang City, but looking at the entire state, I am afraid that there is no place that can be compared with Mayi."

"And what about Heijo? I remember that Heijo is a place where the market is exchanged with the north, so it must be very lively. It's a pity that the previous time passed by in a hurry. I didn't stay a few more days, and I didn't make it to the market that only happens once in ten days, and I feel a little sorry when I think about it. ”

"Hehe, if this Ma Yi is extremely prosperous because of the large number of business travelers and dense population, then this Pingcheng is a place that has become extremely prosperous because of chaos, and I hope that the lord will not be angry when he really sees it."

"What do you mean by that?" Li Shushi said that he was very curious, although Zhang Xiu did not stay in Yanmen for a long time, but it seems that he has a very thorough understanding of the shape of Yanmen, and he can tell the customs and customs of various places along the way. Apparently a lot of effort has been put into it.

I have to say. Although he is a military general from the northwest, since he was appointed by Li Shushi to govern Hedong, in order to calm down those contemptible remarks that he just relied on nepotism to ascend to the top, Zhang Xiu has also studied hard for many years. If it weren't for the fact that he was messed up by the matter of his junior brother Zhao Yun this time. Li Shushi felt that Lin Feng wanted to be so easy to calculate, and Zhang Xiu was afraid that it would not be so easy.

But that's not bad. After suffering a loss. Zhang Xiu has obviously gained a lot of valuable experience.

"There are also a lot of business trips in Pingcheng, after all, if you stay in Mayi, in addition to bulk goods, it is only a few shops that sell all kinds of supplies. As for business related to the North. But it's just scraps, and most of this business is done in Heijo. But that being said, being a second-tier dealer in Pingcheng is still not the most lucrative business, in fact, the most profitable thing is to go deep into the grassland and trade directly with those Xianbei people and even some other grassland tribes. The difference in supplies and the asymmetry of information can make a caravan full of people have a lot of money in the moment they return.

Of course, this is also very risky, in fact, it is not uncommon to see yellow-faced caravans in the streets of Heijo, and those unlucky people are either starved by robbing their goods, or they are doing business and losing their money. And such people are actually the most dangerous, because they all belong to the kind of people who eat the last meal and do not have the next meal, because they struggle on the verge of hunger every day, in order to survive and to be able to turn over their books, just like those gamblers who have pressed all their family assets, crazy desperate to find any opportunity to take advantage of. They don't have anything to trade in their hands anymore, maybe just cold weapons and a life that they don't care about for a long time, and they are the biggest source of border horse thieves.

In fact, the border county was originally so chaotic, and it was almost the same when it was in Wuwei. My uncle once taught me that in the beginning, no one was born a horse thief, and that the first horse thieves were either merchants who had broken down in the border counties or greedy Hu tribes. However, after a long time, these people have become an invisible profession, and even now, many caravans will still work part-time as horse thieves and robbers if they enter the grassland, anyway, you will definitely not find evidence of this thing.

In fact, many people who have ideas are very similar to rectify the chaos unique to this border county, but most people can only turn a blind eye to this situation because of the invasion of the Hu people, and under this chaos they have cultivated a large number of strong caravan armies, and when they encounter the northerners, they can also recruit caravan arms to participate in the war with heavy rewards. If you're lucky, you might even be able to take advantage of a few opportunities to flip the page. Although the hope of turning the book in this way is a bit slim, it is much better than being a pure horse thief.

Of course, the situation is much better now, after all, the northerners are not as frequent as before, and when Lord Guo was in office, he also set a lot of rules for the caravans, and with the constraints of the rules, everyone can be more or less restrained. On the contrary, it is cheaper for me, the successor, and Xiao Guicao is a lot more comfortable. ”

Looking at Zhang Xiu's eyebrows and dancing, and his appearance of walking on thin ice when he first served as Hedong Tai Punctuality, it seems that after such a long time of studying hard to enrich himself, using various jobs to sharpen himself, now Zhang Xiu has enough self-confidence, he has the ability and wrist to deal with those government affairs that he was once confused about.

Speaking of which, after experiencing the prosperity of Hedong County in the hinterland of the Central Plains and the powerful Jinli Hidden Needle, and experiencing the chaos and order of Yanmen County and the fierceness of the family, can other areas of 2,000 stones be difficult to defeat him?

Merely......

"I said Wen Qiao, listening to what you said so lively, I want to ask you, what position do you most want to hold now, is it to continue to serve as the Taishou of 2,000 stones? Or do you want to be a general on the battlefield? ”

"Needless to say. Of course, it's to go to the battlefield~ I just want to be worthy of your promotion and cultivation of me, and I also want to be worthy of the salary you sent me, and I don't want to be a joke in the eyes of others. Being able to do what Cheng dù is now, although I can say that I can be a little proud, but comparing Uncle Hansheng's cousin in Hanoi and my predecessor Guo Taishou's cousin in Yanmen, I really feel that I am too far behind them, and I am afraid that this kind of ability can not be made up for by just hard work.

And you know my temperament, so I really want to go back to the battlefield and fight in the future. Go charge. It's like Uncle Hansheng, who doesn't do a good job as a state pastor, that's the model I admire the most. ”

"You stinky boy, you don't worship your master and me, but worship outsiders. It makes me so sad, Master! ”

"Hahahaha......"

The time period of late August and early September. It is the end of summer just after the beginning of autumn, but it is also the end of the complete change of seasons. Whether it is on the grassland or in Yanmen Border County, the summer heat has not yet dissipated, and this time is the end of the last golden time of the year when the water and grass are abundant. Herders are trying their cattle and sheep to graze all the time, trying to make them fatter and stronger to survive the difficult and long winter that will come at any time.

Of course, the tribes in the Yanmen border area and the northern grasslands near Yanmen who have a good relationship with the Bingzhou army or have some ways to do so have gradually adapted to trading with the Han caravans at this time, and buying some forage made from straw from the Han people, although there will always be some problems with this kind of forage because of the road, but as long as it is properly disposed of, it can still make their livestock live a little more comfortably in the long winter.

Combined with some new methods of livestock farming that gradually spread from the Han Chinese, as well as methods of preventing and controlling livestock diseases, the Karasuma and Xiongnu who were close to the prefecture were the first to taste the sweetness, and their livestock numbers doubled in three years.

Although a lot of livestock was added, the state was more than capable of absorbing it - horses could be used for military purposes as well as for civilian use, commercial circulation and grain farming. The wool of sheep can be spun into wool by the women of the state, and this kind of sweater has been very popular in the state recently, especially the new patterns that appear from time to time in the capital of the state, and it is leading the entire area under the rule of the state army. Even through guò Li Shushi's tribute to the Han Emperor Liu Xie, it was also exported to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty and even the vast areas of the Western Regions. Needless to say, mutton, that's a big supplement~

Needless to say, how much can be provided to the state, Li Shushi dares to ask for as much as he wants, anyway, no peasant will be dissatisfied with putting a cow at home, it is really not good, and the soldiers of the state army are also quite fond of the newly developed iron plate steak of the state pastoral, although the three-dimensional steak looks really bloody enough, but the feeling of eating is addictive.

And in such a season, Li Shushi once again announced that he was skipping work and ran out with his own guards.

It's just that this time, in addition to himself, there are also those injured people with him, after all, he always stays at home, even if there is no problem, he will be sick - physical diseases can still think of a way, but psychological problems, whether it is Li Shushi or Su Xiaololi, are not 100% sure of it, even modern medicine is often blackened.

Tong Old Man, Zilong Sauce, Ziyi, Gongming, plus one Zhang Xiu, who was the least injured and was ready to give full play to the spirit that a slave owner should have, and take it back by the way to let him continue to work and be squeezed out of his last value by himself.

Compared with the previous trip to the Central Plains, the entourage of this not too far away trip has changed a lot - Wei Yan was thrown to Huang Zhong by Li Shushi, mainly because he was afraid that this guy would probably die if he threw it to Lu Bu...... The spirit of death of the second middle school teenager, you know, so it is better to let an old man like Huang Zhong who has full experience in training the second middle school to do a "life talk" for Wei Yan, as long as he thinks of the little radish head who wants to resist being pressed by the old man with a ruffian face with one finger and can't move.

I think it's so good~!

Lu Meng followed Yang Fu and Sima Yi to school, and by the way, he could take Li Shushi's recommendation to Huangfu Song to study.

Or you can go to Huangfu Song's assistant Zou Jing, although this old general who once had a written relationship with Li Shushi in Youzhou is not a famous general, but if he is asked to refer to the relevant knowledge of the northern grasslands as international relations, he can still be competent.

Chen Deng and Lu Su also hoped to go to the official school to sit first. Then give Cheng Yu a hand, wait until he is familiar with the operation system of Bingzhou, and then consider letting Li Shushi arrange a suitable place for himself, it can be said that the expression is very organized, it seems that it should be well thought out, and even there should be some communication between each other - excellent people often have a keen intuition about intelligence.

Although he planned to go to the north, Mi Fang did not follow, he also needed to deal with the Mi family's affairs in Jinyang, and in the future, he also needed to go to Lishi, Chang'an and the Western Regions to take a circle, specifically to investigate the situation of the trade route and the market of materials in various places. Anyway, Mi Fang, who probably found the direction of his life, is quite positive. You have to take care of everything yourself.

However, I heard that Su Xiaololi built yì He made a few more trips to the border city in the north before going to the Western Regions, Mi Fang seemed to not understand Su Xiaololi's purpose very much, but this time after listening to Zhang Xiu's explanation, Li Shushi somewhat understood Su Xiaololi's purpose.

Plainly. It is to let Mi Fang practice his hands in the border market. Whether it's to experience the things you need to pay attention to when trading with an alien. By the way, let's see if we can take this opportunity to build a team, after all, although the Silk Road was reopened by Li Shushi, there are also many troops along the way to protect it. But after all, it is thousands of miles long, and you need to deal with all kinds of possible contingencies, as a rich child who has lived in the Central Plains for a long time, it is really hard to say whether Mi Fang has suffered these hardships, so it is safer to find a simple one to do adaptation training before challenging the difficulty of hell, and if you find that you are not that material, you can also have a chance to give up.

After all, this investment is not only in the state or in the state, but also in the state and several families from Xuzhou have participated, the total investment is very huge, can not be treated cautiously, as the big housekeeper of the Li Mansion, Su Xiaololi's housekeeping ability is definitely full.

Chen Dao and Xiahou Juan are still in the team, but the meaning is very different from before.

Chen Dao's current status is roughly similar to Nero sauce, belonging to Li Shushi's personal guard, and by the way, she also serves as a life assistant, compared to Nero sauce, who is a bit natural to do this kind of thing, it seems that she is more suitable for this kind of work.

As for Xiahou Juan......

"Ziyi, it's okay for you to come out to breathe, always kiss me or me in the carriage, it's not much good for recovery."

"You have to take care of it!" It's a pity that it was not the honest Taishi Ziyi who stuck out of the carriage, but a certain former girl who only developed in the direction of Hedong Lion...... Of course, it should be a girl now, Ziyi is not Xiaoqiang's kind of guy who can't control himself like an animal, if it weren't for the red flag at home, Li Shushi really wanted to find this "scourge" There are definitely more than fifty of them, and they can definitely be called the public enemy-shaped self-propelled cannon and humanoid seeder of the big FFF regiment.

Hmm~ Don't think we don't know how popular this little strong was with girls when he was in Wusun, with his strong body and brave battlefield table, even if he can't marry a girl and enter the house, if it's just a borrowed seed, those tribes are not unacceptable, anyway, as long as they can give birth to healthy offspring, maybe there is a great possibility to grow into a leader in the clan.

In other words, as long as you think of the future Wusun Kingdom, the king is a Han species, and the heroes in the country are also Han species, and they can be divided into several factions or something according to their faces, and they are also drunk when they think about it......

What the? Why are factions divided based on faces, you ask?

It is said that in the team of the Western Expedition of the Bingzhou Army, I don't know that Xiaoqiang is a "talented" Cunzài.

Of course, judging from the current situation, Li Shushi can draw another conclusion.

Ziyi, you are a sullen girl!

As soon as this thought flashed, he found that the carriage in which Ziyi was riding suddenly floated out a strange purple-black smoke, and then a powerful ape arm that looked like it definitely belonged to a man stretched out from the window, as if it wanted to send a distress signal, but after struggling violently for more than ten seconds, it finally hung down weakly.

It seems that the work of cleaning up the toxins on Ziyi's body still has a long way to go.

But then again, I don't know if it's because of Su Xiaololi, the sisters around Li Shushi don't seem to have the habit of making zuò murderous dishes, not to mention whether the things they make are good or not, at least they can still be eaten, and they can barely cope with it, which is really gratifying.

"Yuzi-chan, let's do a health care for Ziyi first, otherwise my workload will increase again."

Although that's the way it goes. But sure enough, it's just like a bad-hearted girl said, no matter what it is, it needs to be exercised, jade can't be sharpened, and Li Shushi can't be trained either.

Ahem, although he said so, Li Shushi said that he is definitely not a kind of shaking M and refuses to maliciously flirt!

However, it is not too long to be able to make it become a dead dog after treating a person, but now it will be tired into a dead dog after treating five people, Li Shushi feels that maybe he should be quite talented in some aspects~

There is also a person who was also left in Jinyang. That is Miss Luo He, who has been in the limelight in Chen County.

All right. In fact, most people don't know whose masterpiece it was that night's "rat riot" or "rat meeting" that night was jokingly called "rat meeting", but within the state army, the humanoid beast that was already almost the same as Su Xiaololi in people's hearts undoubtedly consolidated its position this time.

Of course, this time she was not left behind to keep the humanoid nuke at home. It's all because the students of both the Bingzhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Bingzhou Veterinary College are looking forward to their legendary dean at this moment. It is estimated that if Li Shushi dares to take the dean goddess in their minds to hang around again. It is no wonder that there is no riot.

If it weren't for Su Xiaololi, who was the acquiesced Mrs. Li Fu, Li Shushi took his wife around, and it is estimated that the students of the medical school would also have to consider whether to echo the actions of the other two academies - even so. Li Shushi believes that if the other two academies really start a riot, there will be no fewer academy students fishing in troubled waters.

Well, although he proudly proclaimed the so-called "my big FFF group" just now, it is true that he has been separated from this sacred organization for a long time since he came to this plane, and even now, he can already occupy the opposite side of the organization.

As long as he thinks of the reaction that those radicals might make, Li Shushi feels that this is indeed a beautiful era.

Ahem, it's better not to continue to pull hatred.

Because of the injuries of the two people, even if Li Shushi helped nourish the body, it would take at least a year and a half to recuperate, and in today's tense situation in the north, it is really impossible to let Shuo Fang and Karasuma Captains, who are on the front line, vacant.

The two of them can't say anything about such a result, after all, with the current physical condition of the two of them, it is indeed very unsuitable to rush to the front line. And Li Shushi has already released the rumor, these two need to recuperate for about two years, including Xu Huang, as for Tong Yuan, it is good to be able to pick up a life, and the two of them can recuperate with peace of mind and prepare to be a surprise soldier to fight back.

Replacing Tai Shici was Wei Yue, who did a good job in the position of captain of the Xiongnu.

In terms of ability, he may be inferior to Tai Shici, but he formed a Xiongnu righteous servant in the previous Xiongnu lieutenant and the current Xiongnu lieutenant, and he should be more sure of his loyalty, and he also trusts Wei Yue. Such a force was pulled to Shuofang by Wei Yue under Li Shushi's acquiescence, and with the operation of Tuoba Liwei and Yelida, the effect may not be worse than that of Tai Shici.

As for the duties of the Xiongnu lieutenant vacated by Wei Yue, he was handed over by Li Shushi to Biqiuxing, a native of Hedong.

Biqiuxing was the first batch of young children to enter the General Staff after its establishment, and he was the longest among those young children. In the past few years, the results are not dazzling, at most it can only be said that it is not lost, but it is better to do things steadily, there will be no whimsical ideas, but there will be no stabbing baskets because of being too radical.

Considering that the responsibilities of the Xiongnu lieutenant have now changed from the original suppression by force to help the naturalized Xiongnu integrate into the state system, as well as to help the Xiongnu develop production and common prosperity, this steady and quite familiar with government affairs, in Li Shushi's view, is more suitable to be a young man who is more promising than a general.

The original group of young people has now gradually begun to go out to work, and in addition to Biqiu Xing, Wang Ling has also been sent out to serve as a staff officer and assistant to the new Karasuma Captain Guan Hai. Having said that, compared to Guan Hai, whose main responsibility is combat and training, it is obvious that Wang Ling's work is more onerous than that of other miscellaneous things.

However, the young man seemed to be very eager to try, and apparently felt that this was the only way to show his ability.

Sure enough, it's good to be young.

And unconsciously, the convoy has arrived outside the city of Mayi. (To be continued......)