Hearing that Simon Egret was preparing a birthday gift for his mother, instead of being playful, Simon Leopard's face was a little pale, and he said with a smile: "Tell me, what gifts have you prepared?"

"I did like it, but it will take a few days. "Simon Egret Road.

"Why wait?" asked Simon Leopard.

Hearing Ximen Leopard's inquiry, Ximen Egret immediately said everything he encountered today, and his words were full of appreciation for Qiu Baihua.

"He's a nice guy!" Simon Leopard nodded and said, "If you have a chance next time, you can meet you." ”

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Three days later, the high-level meeting of Xuanling Town continued, and after more than two hours of heated discussions, a consensus was finally reached.

Four days later, Ximen Leopard informed Liu Shuang, commander of the 131st Battalion stationed in Xuanling Town, and then the 131st Battalion announced that it would conduct a two-month inspection of the Hejian area.

Six days later, the 131st Battalion set off, and at the same time, the Pathfinder representatives led by Lin Jiliang, the head of the Propaganda Department of Xuanling Town, also set off.

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At the gate of the town hall of Xuanling Town, the guards stared vigilantly at the two indigenous teenagers who were wandering at the door, these two teenagers had been going back and forth at the door for almost five minutes, and it was difficult not to attract attention.

Finally, one of the guards at the head of the group walked down the steps, walked up to the two of them, and said with an unkind face: "Who are you? Why are you staying here? I don't know what this place is! ”

In the face of the official errand, the common people will naturally feel afraid, although the Qiu brothers have never seen the official errand powerful, they just need to know that the leader of the Qiu clan does not dare to stand up when he sees the official errand.

The people that the leaders are afraid of are naturally the people of the ox fork.

"We're here to deliver furs to Miss Simon... This is what Miss Simon told us ten days ago. Qiu Baihua said resignedly.

"Miss Ximen?" the guard glanced up and down at Qiu Baihua, no matter how he looked at it, he felt like a liar, but out of caution, he still asked, "Is that Miss Ximen?"

"The younger sister of the town government, Miss Ximen Bailu!" Qiu Baihua hurriedly said.

"Yes, yes, she herself said that her name was Simon Egret. Qiu Qingcao nodded on the side.

Now the guard's expression is finally a little kinder, there are many people in the town who know that there is a Miss Ximen, but there are not many who know the specific name of Ximen Egret, at least these two indigenous teenagers are not qualified to know, and now they can call it out, it can only be what they say, it is Ximen Egret himself.

"Wait, I'll go and say goodbye. The guard gave an order, went straight back to his post, and sent a subordinate into the house to inquire.

After a while, the Ximen Egret who got the news rushed out, and when he saw the Qiu brothers and a cloth bag in their arms, he ran over with a happy face, and said, "Hahaha, you are finally here... This time I was negligent and forgot to tell the guard brother, have you waited for a long time?"

"No, no, we just came!" Qiu Baihua hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, and then handed over the cloth bag in his hand as if offering treasure, and said: "This is the leopard skin of a leopard that it took me ten days to get, it is more beautiful than the red fox skin last time, you will definitely like it." ”

"Leopard... But when she saw Qiu Baihua's expectant expression, she couldn't bear to refuse, so she had to say against her will: "Well, I like it very much, there is still a period of time until the beginning of next month, if you can still get it, I will still want it!"

"Okay, I will definitely work hard!" Qiu Baihua happily touched the back of her head and swore a promise.

"Well, Nuo, this is twenty yuan, give it to you, take it!" Ximen Bailu took a small bag from his waist and handed it to Qiu Baihua, "Maybe this skin is more than twenty yuan, count me as taking advantage of you." ”

"No, no, if you sell it to someone else, someone else won't be able to give me so much. The eldest lady is already very fair?" Qiu Baihua said sincerely.

"Hehe, this can't be helped, you are not Huaxia now, and those profiteers have no scruples if they want to deceive you. The town government can only guarantee some bottom lines and don't let them go too far!" said Simon Egret helplessly.

"Hey, if only I were also from Huaxia, then they wouldn't dare to mess around!" Qiu Baihua said with a yearning expression.

"Yes, yes..."Qiu Qingcao finally interjected.

Speaking unintentionally, listening to it intentionally, the brothers' emotion made Ximen Bailu can't help but move in her heart, thinking of the policy of changing the land and returning to the river that her brother Ximen Leopard occasionally said at home in the past few days, which made her have a bold idea.

"Actually, it's very simple to become a Chinese... We, the Chinese shogunate, welcome friends from all over the world to join our big family. "Simon Egret Road.

"Really?" Qiu Baihua's eyes lit up, and she couldn't wait to ask, "Then what should I do?"

"Of course it's true..."Simon Egret said confidently, "Let's go, it's not convenient to talk here, come into the house with me, and I'll talk to you well." ”

"Ah, enter the mansion?" Somehow, as soon as she saw the tall gatehouse of the town hall, Qiu Baihua's legs trembled a little.

"Is this scared?" Ximen Egret said disdainfully, "Men should be fearless, what is there to be afraid of in a small town!"

"Who said, who said I'm afraid!" Qiu Baihua said with a stiff neck, "Come in." ”

"Brother, are you really entering?" Qiu Qingcao tugged on Qiu Baihua's sleeve and said weakly.

Qiu Baihua glared at him and said, "Of course you have to enter, if you don't dare to enter, you will find a place to wait for me to come out." ”

"Then I'll wait for you outside... Eh, hurry up!" Qiu Qingcao finally relented.

Qiu Baihua didn't bother to pay attention to him, and followed Ximen Bailu into the town government.

The two walked all the way through the hallway, and finally came to a pavilion in the garden.

"It's right here!" Simon Egret sat on the stone chair and said, "You can do it too, I have to lean my neck to talk to you while standing, how tired I am!"

"Yes, okay..."Qiu Baihua sat down obediently when she heard this, and looked at Ximen Egret quietly, like a primary school student listening to a teacher's lecture.

"Have you ever thought about turning your Qiu tribe into a Qiu village and a Qiu town?" As soon as Qiu Baihua sat down, Ximen Bailu said straight to the point.

"This, this is okay?" Qiu Baihua was taken aback.

"Why not, as long as you want to, we accept it, no. Simon Egret pursed his lips and said.

"However, the Qiu tribe is the leader, not mine!" Qiu Baihua snorted.

"Stupid, don't you foresters allow your clansmen to go out and re-open a new tribe? If your leader doesn't agree, you can take the people who are willing to merge into Huaxia to leave the original tribe and re-establish a new tribe nearby, and then announce that you will bring the new tribe to Huaxia, and then our Huaxia will naturally send people to protect you, will your current leader dare to resist our Huaxia?" said with a seductive smile, Ximen Bailu said, " Once you are included in Huaxia, then including you, so the tribesmen of the new tribe will all become Chinese people, enjoying the treatment of the Chinese people, those profiteers will not dare to lie to you, and if you attract a lot of people, we will even build a new market there, you have also seen the prosperity of Xuanling Town, don't you want your hometown to be so lively, and your people are living a good life?"

Qiu Baihua listened to it, his eyes were full of yearning, he didn't care how the clansmen were doing, he only cared that he would become a glorious Chinese, and then his dream could come true in advance.

"However, our tribe is very small, and there are not so many people!" Qiu Baihua said with some frustration after the longing.

"It's really stupid to say that you are stupid! There is no one in your tribe, but there are other tribes! I don't believe that you alone want to be a Chinese. Ximen Egret immediately sent a plan intimately.

"That's right! Dahei in the north of the mountain still wants to join Huaxia!" Qiu Baihua said with a sudden realization.

"It's not a tendon at all!" said Simon Egret with a pleased smile.

"Then I'll go back and persuade the leader now!" Qiu Baihua couldn't sit still, and wanted to go back when she stood up.

"I just praised you and revealed your original form again. Ximen Bailu pulled Qiu Baihua and said, "You don't want to think about it, you tell him so directly, what if he doesn't want to?"

"Then I'll pull people away!" Qiu Baihua said as a matter of course, then scratched the back of her head and said, "Isn't this what you taught me?"

"Stupid!" Ximen Egret touched his head angrily, and said: "Do you understand it mildly? You explain your intention so directly, what if your leader is unwilling to kill you? You are not in a hurry to say it first, you want to test your leader's attitude, if he has no intention of merging into Huaxia, you will quietly contact other people, and when there are more people, you will split up... If he also plans to join Huaxia, you just told him, do you understand?"

"I don't understand!" Qiu Baihua shook his head violently.

"Hey..."Ximen Egret felt a little tired, but in order for himself to show his hand in front of his brother, he had to endure it.

For the next half hour, Simon Egret taught Qiu Baihua how to do it almost by hand, until he remembered it completely, and then let him go.

Qiu Baihua left the town government happily, with a yearning for a better life in the future, but he was naïve and didn't know that all this was just a big pie, because Ximen Bailu couldn't be the master at all, that is to say, what she said, the promise she made was completely uncountable.

Due to the poor concept caused by the different living environments, Qiu Baihua ignored this crucial point. In his mind, Ximen Leopard is the "big chief" of the "Xuanling Tribe", and Ximen Egret is Ximen Leopard's own sister, so he naturally has the right to make a commitment to him, which is a custom among the forest natives, the chieftain and the leader are the masters, and their families are also the masters!

Then, like this, he was pitted by Simon Egret.

Of course Simon Egret herself knows this, but will she say it? Surely not!

After making sure that Qiu Baihua was far away, Ximen Egret laughed uncontrollably.

"Hahaha... Wait for this girl to make this vote, see if my brother dares to underestimate me!"

"What is so happy, I can hear it from afar!" Suddenly, the voice of the Ximen leopard came from behind the Ximen Egret, which made the Ximen Egret who was in a YY state almost fall into the lotus pond.

"Brother, why don't you walk silently, you almost scared me to death!" Ximen Egret turned around, patted his chest angrily, and said dissatisfied.

"It's that you're thinking too much!" Simon Leopard waved his hand, walked straight into the pavilion and sat down, and asked, "What do you want, so happy?"

"No, it's nothing!" Ximen Egret said duplicityly, she wouldn't tell Simon Leopard now! If the matter didn't work out in the end, how embarrassing it would be to say it now! In fact, if Simon Egret said it now, she would have nothing to do in the future, and Simon Leopard would not hesitate to take over.

Simon Leopard looked at her in disbelief.

"It's really okay!" Simon Egret, who was a little weak-hearted, hurriedly took the cloth bag in his hand and said, "Look, the fur has been delivered!"

"Oh?" Ximen Leopard took it with both hands, and he didn't care about Simon Egret's lying, his daughter's family, when she is older, she will always have a little bit of her own careful thinking, and she can understand.

Simon Leopard quickly opened the cloth bag and took out a folded sheet from it... Spotted leopard skin, looked at Simon Egret in amazement, and said, "Are you going to use this to make clothes for your mother?"

Simon Egret blushed in cheeks, snatched the leopard skin, snorted, and ran away.

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On May 1, the seventh year of China, with the storage of winter wheat and the successful completion of the second maritime trade, the grain management that lasted for more than a year was officially announced, and the silver grain stamps issued before were no longer allowed to circulate, and only existed as precious metals or souvenirs.

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At the turn of spring and summer, it is the most beautiful time of the year in the northern grasslands, and this year, the southern part of the grasslands near the Atonement Wilderness generation is particularly lively, a group of Chinese merchants drove trucks, gangs and factions poured into the grasslands.

They came to collect the wool, and although they didn't know what the wool was for, the shogunate was willing to give money, and they didn't care about the rest.

Now is the time of the spring wool harvest of the year, there are five tribes that have reached a trade agreement with China, although these five tribes are not big tribes, but the total number of zeros is added together, 100,000 catties of wool are still there, of course, this must include fine wool, not all cashmere.

The purchase price given by the shogunate is regardless of quality, two cents per catty of wool, 100,000 catties is 2,000 yuan, and how much you can earn depends on the degree of these businessmen's mouth and heart, in short, 1,000 yuan must be earned, just run a trip to have an income of 1,000 yuan, which is already very profitable, you know, the average income in China is only one hundred and twenty yuan per person per year, and these merchants are not just wool, mutton, beef, cowhide, sheepskin, horn, tendon, some cattle and sheep offal, and live sheep, Live cattle can be collected, and if Ge Shi and others are willing to sell horses, it will be even better, and the Huaxia shogunate will definitely not skimp on money.