In winter, the grasslands are very desolate, with no herds of cattle and sheep, no herdsmen, and only endless dry grass. A gust of wind blew, making the dead grass rattle.

At this time, a team of horses appeared in the distance, and it seemed to be in a hurry, and it didn't take long to reach it. The horse team looked like more than 20 people, all dressed as business travelers, looking dusty, and dragging a few boxes of goods behind.

"Lord Wang, if we go down at this speed, we will be able to reach Yizhou in less than two days." One of them said.

"Hey, I just don't know how the princess is now. In this way, how can this king go to Yizhou with peace of mind? The one who spoke seemed to be Zhao Dexin, the thirteenth prince that Bao Qing had been looking for.

"Lord Wang, don't worry. His subordinates have already sent someone to inform Chief Governor Hong and ask him to find the princess. I waited for a long time at the exit of the secret passage that day and didn't see the princess. The subordinates went down to look for it in person, but they didn't see the princess, but the red whisk jewelry store had been discovered, and the princess should have been kidnapped. But there should be no life-threatening at the moment. ”

"Hey, Hu Fei, don't comfort this king. The king knew that the princess must have fallen into the hands of that Zhuang Lei. The Thirteenth Prince sighed.

"Lord Wang, that's not necessarily. The subordinates believe that if the princess is really caught by Zhuang Lei, then Zhuang Lei will definitely push the princess out as a bargaining chip when he fights with Mr. Hong. However, until now, Chief Hong has not sent anyone to report the princess's affairs. This shows that the princess may not be in Zhuang Lei's hands! The guard named Hu Fei said.

"Have Mr. Hong's wives and children been killed?" The Thirteenth Prince asked softly.

"Lord Wang, do you know everything? Mr. Hong instructed and instructed us not to let the prince know, saying that the prince would definitely feel guilty if he knew, and he was afraid that the prince would be distracted. Hu Fei said with some sadness.

"Hey, it's the uselessness of this king, who is the master, who can't protect his subordinates thoroughly, and drags down his subordinates. I knew that there was today's disaster, and I should have given it a go. The thirteenth prince looked very sad.

"Lord Wang, when we arrive in Yizhou and see the county lord, we will think about it in the long run."

At this time, a horse galloped from a distance, fell off his horse in a panic, and said, "Lord Wang, there is a caravan ahead!" ”

"Panic what! Is it a caravan? Do you see clearly? How many people? Hu Fei was a little displeased.

"It's a caravan from Song Realm, and there are probably more than a hundred people."

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At this time, Bao Qing secretly thought in his heart how to cut off the grain route of the Liao people, and how to determine the time to cut off the grain channel.

There are also the two reinforcements of the thirteen princes, I believe that they will soon arrive in Bazhou, once the two reinforcements arrive, the Liao army will inevitably make some moves, and everything must be arranged before this.

"My lord, our people who stayed in Croton Village came to report that Najia Dahu had promised to exchange tea for grain, and had already bought off an escort officer who was responsible for escorting grain. The messenger also brought with him a man who said he had been sent by the escort officer, Dirigu, to contact him. Zhang Long said.

"Really? It seems that this Dirigu is very fond of drinking tea, and he actually risked the sin of killing his head to exchange military rations for tea. Okay, bring someone here. ”

After a while, a Liao man wearing a robe with a round neck and narrow sleeves and a fur sweater on the outside walked over, saluted Bao Qing, and then said, "Lord Dirigu sent me to show your caravan the way, we will leave half of the grain at the trading place, as long as the military rations are delivered, we will leave half of them." Before giving directions, though, I'd like to see your caravan's tea. ”

When Bao Qing heard this, he asked Cao Yun to take out the tea leaves, and Bao Qing brought a few catties of tea, which he was originally going to eat, but he didn't expect to be able to exchange food, it seems that this Liao people are not very short of food, otherwise, where would they dare to exchange food for tea?

The Liao man put the tea leaves to his nose and sniffed them, and said happily: "It's exactly the same as the general tea of the Red Whisk Trading House." ”

Bao Qing felt a little familiar when he heard the name of this firm, isn't this the name of Mrs. Nayelu's jewelry store? Could it be that this Red Whisk Merchant House was also opened by this Lady Yelu? Oh, I want to thank her for helping her general tea open up sales in Liao. If you don't do this bullshit, and become a tea seller in peace, it is estimated that your life will be easier than now.

"Then lead the way!" Bao Qing said.

This trading location is not too far away, and it is probably more than an hour away.

"My lord, look, there are Liao people in front of you, and there are more than 400 people!" Zhang Long said in a low voice.

"You quietly sent an order, so that everyone should not panic, and remember to me, our merchants who sell tea." Bao Qing said in a low voice, because Bao Qing found that he was a little trembling when he saw Liao soldiers with these soldiers.

After a while, Bao Qing came to the front of the group of Liao people, Bao Qing looked, this Liao people are indeed stumbling, not only the face of the crooked melon cracked jujube, but also the hair is very messy, the face is not kempt, the clothes are even dirtier to death, just approaching, a smoky smell, directly made Bao Qing wonder, this Liao people often do not take a bath.

Bao Qing was standing cautiously, facing the Liao people on horseback, just about to clench his fists and speak.

"Brother Jia, is this Brother Qian? Come on! A strong Liao man jumped off his horse, walked straight to Bao Qing, and suddenly came a bear hug.

Bao Qing only felt a little suffocated, it really stinks, is the etiquette of the Liao people a hug? It seems that something is wrong, when Mrs. Nayelu saw her, she hugged her without seeing her.

It turned out that Jia Dahu was also here, he was a little embarrassed, and when the Liao people didn't pay attention, he hurriedly stretched out his head and said: "Brother Qian, this Liao people, doing business is refreshing, but they don't like to take a bath very much." However, don't worry, those rich and faceless Liao businessmen still don't smell on them. ”

Bao Qing didn't want to listen to him, so he said directly: "There is a pound of tea here, all of it will be handed over to you, and you will help me trade." One or two tea leaves as your commission, and you give me as much grain as you can. For each transaction, I'll give you a fee for a tea tael. ”

"Good! Good! When Najia Dahu heard this, he smiled and hurriedly took the tea.

After about a moment, Jia Dahu came running with a smile on his face and said, "Brother Qian, you see, I helped you get sixty percent of the grain." You may not know that a lot of the military food of the Liao State was bought back from the Song Dynasty, and those mutton and beef should not be kept for too long, so this time and again, the price of grain is very high. Among the sixty percent of the grain, some of them are dried beef and mutton, so you can make do with it. ”

Bao Qing nodded, tea! I don't care, the important thing is to reduce the delivery of grain to Liaoying, so that maybe Liaoying will be more dependent on the grain source in the direction of Baozhou, and I just take the opportunity to approach the grain road.

Bao Qing looked at it, full of twenty cars, and was unconsciously startled, can it be changed so much? Bao Qing couldn't help but wonder a little. Bao Qing may not know that Mrs. Yelu only got half a catty of tea from the Beijing Bao Teahouse, and basically dedicated it to Liao Xingzong when she brought it back, leaving only a little in the trading house. Once this thing is loved by the royal family, it will naturally become famous, so this general tea is really a rare item in Liao.

This Dirigu naturally wants to get this general's tea, and with it, give it to Shangguan, are you afraid that you won't be promoted?

What Bao Qing didn't expect was that Di Ligu really did this, and he gave all the military tea to Yale Zhongxiang, the director of the Department in charge of military deployment at that time. After transporting grain and grass, not only was he not punished, but he was also promoted on the same day, from a convoy of grain transportation officers to the chief of the Yizhou grain road. The daily military rations in Yizhou are all dispatched by him.

When this Dirigu was very nervous and offered the general's tea, Yelu Zhongxiang did not listen to the matter of exchanging grain for tea described by Dirigu at all, but patted Dirigu very happily and said, it doesn't matter if the food is gone, anyway, there are Song people to send it.