The folk customs of Guazhou and Shazhou have always been fierce, and the family sects are powerful, such as the Zhang family and the Suo family were the Dunhuang wealthy families during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Although Suotong moved to Guazhou, there are still close contacts with the Suo family in Dunhuang. This is why the Soton family has been able to work as escort merchants in the desert for a long time, but others dare not come up and get a piece of the pie.

In the moral concept of the Han people, it is usually more kindness than hatred, with a prominent family like the Suo family, the business has been robbed for more than a year but can be held in the stomach to endure, thanks to Li Siye in the desert to kill Zhang Kuo, in exchange for the Suo family's great favor, if it is replaced by someone else, don't say that he is a guard and capture, even if it is a lieutenant and a lieutenant, Suotong has a way to make them obediently spit out such cakes.

Suo Tong did not explain these situations to Li Siye, and Li Siye didn't know how good Suo's ancestors were, and now they are not bad. He just thinks that it is not worth it to consume the gratitude of the Suo family in this way. Moreover, the ancients attached great importance to virtue, and the act of taking away favors is actually destroying people's connections.

When Li Siye saw Suo Tong tugging on his beard and bowing his head without saying a word, he felt that this old man was also honest and cute, and the other party was a straightforward and honest person, at least he would ask for the door in the future, he should miss the old love.

"Suo Gong, the act of guarding the green ridge is indeed harming the interests of your Suo family." When Li Siye said this, his face was not red and his heart was not beating, as if the Green Ridge was not under his rule.

Suotong coughed, raised his head and said, "Why did Si Yelang say this, this vast silk ancient road is not opened for my family. The bitter cold of the Green Ridge guard, you opened up a financial route for the military households who were guarded by the Green Ridge, how could we stop because of our Suo family's bodyguard team, this kind of grace will spread the reputation of revenge, will not let the entire Longyou Dao people drown me with spit. ”

Li Siye held his knees with both hands, leaned back, and said with a smile: "It's unfortunate that I will not be the envoy of the Green Ridge soon, and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate has sent an official letter to appoint him as the captain of Zhaowu." ”

"Ouch, huh?" Suo Tong hurriedly straightened his sitting posture and folded his hands: "Congratulations to Si Yelang, congratulations." ”

Li Siye waved his hand calmly: "There is nothing to congratulate, this is just the first step of the Long March, there are guerrilla generals, Zhonglang generals, generals, generals, generals, jiedu envoys, and ...... above Nope. ”

Suotong was stunned with his hands, not knowing how to take it, because he had never met anyone who said such things.

He quickly adjusted his thinking back, and Zhengse said: "Let's still talk about business, since the Green Ridge Guard will not be under my control in the future, but I still need to make arrangements, the Green Ridge Guard will no longer be in the business of escorting caravans, but pay attention to the development of local industries." ”

"When I was looking down at the city wall just now, I suddenly thought of an idea, whether it is the silk and wool felt blankets of the Hidden Department, or the cotton jackets and quilts produced by the soldiers who guard the city in the Green Ridge, it will not be much profitable to sell them in Anxi, and only by sending them to Chang'an and Luoyang can we get double the dividends. Therefore, the Green Ridge Guards will no longer do the business of escorting caravans in the future, they only organize caravans and escort Green Ridge's own goods. ”

Watching Li Siye talk about business in front of him, Suotong had a ridiculous feeling that this young man had gone astray from becoming an official. Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the status of merchant travel has gradually declined, and now the Tang Dynasty has stipulated that Wupin officials are not allowed to enter the market, and merchants are not allowed to wear silk, except for those Sogdians who are not afraid of meat, and most of the people in the Central Plains are unwilling to be merchants.

For example, their Suo family, the children of the Changfang Zhengmai, are either scholars or practitioners, and his family side branch does the business of protecting merchants with martial arts, which is not lowly. The lowest is the six rooms that open shops all year round, and the money they earn on the Silk Road every year feeds a whole family, but they can't even enter the door of the ancestral hall during the New Year's holidays.

Suo Tong couldn't help but open his mouth to euphemistically advise: "Hei Yelang, the imperial court is most unaccustomed to the pursuit of financial gains, you have a great future, this kind of thing can be done behind your back, and you must not put it on the bright side, so as not to delay your meritorious path." ”

Li Siye knew Suo Tong's intentions, raised his hands and clenched his fists and said, "Thank you Suo Gong for mentioning it, I can take care of this matter." ”

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After the meeting between the two sides, Li Siye ordered the wine shop to bring him three pulp to entertain the guests. Suo Tong has settled the matter here, and it was agreed that he would return to Guazhou with Suo Yuanyu and Li Shiniang tomorrow. Li Siye also happily proposed that he would also leave for Qiuzi tomorrow to accept the appointment, so it was better to give them a ride along the way.

The banquet was generally lively, with the guests and hosts sitting in front of the table and toasting each other with a wine cup. During the banquet, Suotong proposed to carry out a drinking order, not to draw fists, not to guess the dice, but to play word games and rhyme. This is simply Li Siye's nightmare, his memory is repeated over and over those few Tang poems, in the Tang Dynasty, which is at the peak of poetry culture, he has not yet had the cheekiness to plagiarize the poetry of the world.

Besides, our Li Siye is a martial artist, so we won't go to the literati Wuda (there), and it doesn't fit our personality.

So he was mostly in a state of drinking, and soon became slightly drunk, and looked down at Li Twelve Niang, who was sitting at the bottom of the place.

She sat on the table without interest, her mind didn't seem to be here, maybe it was originally that kind of cold temperament, when someone frequently raised the lamp, she just held it with both hands to deal with it. When Li Siye's gaze came, she seemed to be able to feel the lower eyelashes, lowered her eyelids, and then pretended to raise her head casually, her eyes fell to Li Siye's position, and she quickly lowered her head, her cheeks flushed slightly.

Li Siye didn't notice this abnormality, and only knew that her people should not be close.

After the banquet was over, Li Siye summoned his own soldiers to arrange accommodation for the guests, and the drunken men were helped into the wine shop or the building room by the soldiers.

The sky was verdant and dark, the bright moon had risen in the sky, and the blue dome covered the four corners of the city, Li Siye couldn't help but feel a little stunned when he stood under the pillars of the grass hall. He was about to leave this place and go to a bigger environment to exert his strengths, and there was a lot of reluctance in his heart.

Before he came to take office, the city was still deserted and simple, far from being as lively and prosperous as it is now. Wine shops and shops, as well as newly built houses, have made the city more cramped, but its popularity has increased, and so has its inner wealth.

If he were allowed to stay here for another five years, he would be able to build a new city, but his path would not be here. Thinking of this, Li Siye couldn't help but sigh faintly.

"Will a rough person like Li Shou Capture Envoy also express his feelings and secretly feel melancholy?"

Li Siye turned his head to look, but it was Suo Yuanyu leaning on the pillar on the other side, and his tone was ridiculous.

"I've been here for a long time, so I'm naturally nostalgic, what are you leaning on here, aren't you reluctant?"

Suo Yuanyu raised his eyebrows, and looked left and right to talk about it: "Everyone is looking at things and thinking about people, but you are obsessed with things, don't you have nostalgic people?"

"Why not? I miss my sister who is far away in Chang'an, and after I leave, I will miss my brothers who guarded the city in Green Ridge, and I will miss ......"

Suo Yuanyu widened her big obsidian eyes, and asked seductively, "Who else will you miss?"

Li Siye shook his head: "No."

"Heh," Suo Niangzi rolled her eyelids and quickly dodged out of the grass hall. Li Siye was stunned and watched her flutter away in a green skirt, thinking that this woman was really jumping away, coming and going like the wind.

The night is long and dreamy, the day is coming soon, the Suo family team at the door of the wine shop is ready to go, Suo Yuanyu and Li Shiniang put on a cloak and a hat and got into the Xi car, and the two sat opposite each other in the carriage. Twelve Niang lifted the light veil in front of the hat, and lifted the corner of the curtain, and saw that Li Siye was preparing horses to settle his subordinates in front of the grass hall, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

Suo Yuanyu suddenly blocked in front of her, and said with a thief smile: "What's the point of sneaking in like this, if you have something on your mind, you can go down and tell him."

Li Twelve Niang hurriedly threw down the car curtain, covered her face with a light veil, and shyly spitted: "Nonsense, I don't have anything on my mind!"

"There's no concern, who is sneaking over to the other side, or I'll call him over and let you see enough?"

Twelve Niang stretched out her claws in shame and stretched out to Suo Yuanyu's chest and armpits, Yuanyu dodged with a smile, and said, "Twelve Niang spare your life, people accidentally said what you wanted."

"You still say!"

The two little ladies scuffled and frolicked in the car, and even the body shook.

Li Siye glanced at this side in surprise, and explained to Tian Zhen, Fujimu, Song Heng, Shi Jiang and the other four people standing behind him: "Fuji Mu and Song Heng, follow me to the Anxi Protectorate to be ordered, Tian Zhen and Shi Jiang stay in the city, all the affairs in the city, you two will discuss and handle, that's it, let's go."

"Li Shou captures the envoy," Shi Jiang was about to speak, and suddenly asked, "Are you going to take office somewhere else?"

Li Siye hesitated, nodded and said, "I'm just going to be ordered, and I haven't decided where to go yet, but I'm definitely leaving." But don't worry, I'll take care of everything before the new guard comes down. ”

His thoughts turned to Yu Gou's body, this guy has been under Wu Sangao in the army of Cangcao for a while, and this time he went to the Duhu Mansion, and he didn't know if he could be arranged in the position of this guard. Gotta be able to! No matter how much gold is smashed, let him be the guard of the green ridge, and the belongings he has saved by Li Siye cannot be defeated in the hands of outsiders.

In front of them, Song Heng and Shi Jiang knelt on the ground with a puff, and shouted out of thin air with red eyes: "Brothers, Li Yuanjun is leaving!" He doesn't want us anymore!"