Chapter 103: The Outer Lands
The official didn't understand what the butler meant, and while he was in a daze, the butler sighed, then took out a piece of paper from his bosom and handed it to the official. After only two glances, Guan Shi's body began to tremble involuntarily.
"Do you see?" The butler sighed and continued, "I don't need to say more, you should know how to deal with it, right?" ”
"Yes, the lower officials know...... Please rest assured, this ...... who will not leak out" When he spoke, the official had already torn the paper in his hand to shreds. But even so, I still don't dare to easily dispose of the shredded confetti. After hesitating for a moment, he shoved a handful of confetti in his hand into his mouth. He swallowed it in front of the butler, and then did not forget to open his mouth to let the butler check that there was no residue left.
The housekeeper disliked the taste in Guan Shi's mouth, frowned and waved his hand, and said, "Okay, don't look at it, it's not the first time you and I have worked together, do you still believe you?" Our two owners intend to promote you to the county guard of this Nanhai County, you have to be very careful, you can't make any mistakes......"
"Thank you to the two owners for cultivating, thank you for respecting the cultivation ......" Hearing that the Surabaya was going to promote himself to become a county guard, the face of the official at that moment burst into laughter. At this time, I also felt that the county keeper had died well, and he just gave up his position.
Just when the officials and housekeepers were discussing how to ensure the safety of the two proprietors of the Surabaya, in the bedroom dozens of feet away from the two, Bai Wuqiu was eavesdropping on the window to hear the two of them.
In the bedroom, he was forbidden to return to the dormitory, and when he spoke without asking for anything, he was also unscrupulous: "Old guy, what kind of county guard is so dead, and Brother Liu Xi is done like this, and he doesn't plan to avenge him?" Lao Tzu didn't understand, didn't he say that the county guard was raised by the two of them? ”
"This is the county guard's own doing, silly boy, do you think those people went directly to Liu Xi's bedroom after climbing over the wall last night, who sold it?" After laughing, he continued: "The county guard was destroyed by those people, and Sun Xiaochuan can give out a hundred taels of gold, which is already good." The money was given because the county guard had sold his life to the Surabaya before, and the violent corpse was his collusion with outsiders to plan his own family's retribution. Unexpectedly, Sun Xiaochuan, who was a storyteller at the beginning, now has such a mind. It's good to live long......"
Bai Wuqiu finally understood why Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan talked so coldly about the death of the county guard, and the two stunned sighed rarely, and said: "This is for gold and violent corpses, you people have too many eyes, or we are demons, we don't have so many eyes." If you don't accept it, do it until you accept it. ”
"Big nephew, you said this as if you were the only demon here." At this time, Xiao Ren got up on the couch and continued to Bai Wuqiu: "You are the only demon who has no heart, look at the sons of the demon king, and the heart and eye are one by one." It's not worse than Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan...... The old immortal is getting more and more chaotic now, shall we continue to go down? ”
"I've already followed here, if I don't follow to the end, will the old guy be willing?" At this time, Wu Mian smiled strangely at the point of returning, and then continued to say in his unique tone: "I also want to see who is the idea of beating Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan again, this matter should not be so simple, the person behind the scenes is not simple, Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan are not simple." Am I right? Old guy ......"
"I can't find any words to add to the old man," he smiled and continued: "My old man also wants to see the east of their Surabaya, and it is a great thing to be able to establish such a place on the island." Originally, the bait island was built because of the tribulation of monks who became immortals. Their Surabaya was completely built by manpower on an isolated island bit by bit, and they couldn't imagine what it would be like if they didn't return.
At that moment, the widow and family members of the county guard packed up the soft things in the house, and left Nanhai County with the one hundred taels of gold given by the Surabaya. And the body of the county guard was changed into a sackcloth and hung at the gate of the city. There was no notice from the government, and there was no explanation. And the people who came and went from the south to the north did not feel any discomfort, as if they did not see the corpse when they entered the city.
Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan moved to their own inn in Surabaya in the city on the same day, and because of the sudden death of the county guard, the convoy stayed in Nanhai County for a few days. Knowing that the order of the boss yamen came down, the officials of the county guarding the yamen were temporarily subordinate to the county guard, waiting for His Majesty to take over the county guard. However, at this time, the imperial court was already in a mess, and there was no leisure to pay attention to the affairs of this small Nanhai County. In the end, it only allowed the official history to justifiably succeed to the position of the county warden of Nanhai County.
After waiting for this result, the convoy of the Surabaya continued to march towards the dock by the sea in Nanhai County. Continuing along the way, nothing suddenly happened. Three days later, I arrived at the wharf by the sea in Nanhai County, and I didn't expect this little-known small wharf to be prosperous. It is more prosperous than Nanhai and other counties, and it is only a little smaller than big cities like Luoyang and Chang'an.
This pier is the main docking place for the Surabaya and overseas, and you can see all kinds of people on the pier. There are colored people, Tianzhu people, and some blonde and blue-eyed outsiders whose names cannot be named, among which you can also see the dark-skinned Kunlun slaves. If you hadn't come all the way, no one would have believed that this would be a Han land. According to the person in charge here, there are 50,000 people living in this small wharf all year round. The henchmen of Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan in the Surabaya are in charge of this outland, and there are guards of the Surabaya in the transactions on the dock. There was once a group of pirates who entered the dock by mistake, and at first they thought they would loot a lot of money, but they didn't expect that the last one would die under the dock guards.
It is because of the merchants from all over the world who come and go here that this small wharf is prosperous. And the secret kung fu of the Surabaya is also home, and no one knows about such a place in the interior. Later, after taking a turn in the dock, I realized the reason.
Don't look at the fact that there are many foreign merchants here, but they all do business with the Surabaya. Except for the Surabaya, no other Central Plains Guest Chamber of Commerce came here. After receiving the goods, the Surabaya will have a special caravan to deliver the goods to the warehouse in Nanhai County. The guys in charge of delivering the goods are either dumb or deaf. After being led by a special person to deliver the goods to Nanhai County, he came back immediately without any contact with that side. Therefore, where did the Surabaya come from so many foreign goods for so many years, it is also a puzzle for other merchants.
Because the Jin State continued the policy of light merchants during the Han Dynasty, these foreign merchants were not allowed to trade with the Jin Dynasty by law. Although the wharf here on the Surabaya is outrageously prosperous, it is just a smuggling distribution center, but under the protection of Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan, no one rushed to find trouble. This is also one of the reasons why the two brothers designed the Queen of Zhumi, and why they couldn't let the Surabaya fall into the hands of others.
"You two have a good way to build a place like this here." After turning around, the old guy who has seen the world like Gui or Not Returning can't help but admire: "The old man, I am a little clever in my own self-control, but my old man can't create such a place anyway." ”
"Xiaochuan and His Royal Highness were also forced, when we started to do business, we were forced by the government and bandits, and even the fierce-looking ordinary people dared to come over and give them a mouth." Thinking of the previous difficulties, Sun Xiaochuan smiled bitterly and continued: "Later, we were forced to have no choice, so the two of us hid here to secretly trade. This step by step has led to this improvement. ”
After finishing speaking, Sun Xiaochuan smiled again, and said to Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and the two monsters: "Since you are here, after playing for two days, we will go to sea and go to the East No. It's not Ogawa that I blow it myself, and this is the only place in the world that has such a scene. ”
"I don't have that thought, let's go directly to your east number......" Wu Mian looked at the endless sea, and said as if talking to himself: "Why does the sea breeze smell of blood......