"The situation in Yizhou is not quite the same as that in Yongzhou. The drinker took a drink and said to Pan Long and Han Feng, "Many Yongzhou habits cannot be applied here. Otherwise, if it is light, it will cause trouble, and if it is heavy, it will kill you. ”

Pan Long nodded slightly, but Han Feng disagreed.

This middle-aged man who called himself Kong Zhang was a self-acquaintance, and seeing the appearance of the two of them, he came over and said: "You don't look like locals, if you invite me to drink a bottle of Menglan wine, I will tell you the situation in Tianwu County in detail." ”

Pan Long didn't want to deal with this suspicious-looking guy, but Han Feng said, "Are you the legendary intelligence dealer?" and happily called the guy, ordered a bottle of wine that Kong Zhang said, and preemptively did the business.

After a while, the guy brought a delicate blue porcelain wine jug, Pan Long frowned when he saw it, and asked, "What is the price of this wine?"

"Menglan Liquor is the most famous liquor in our Tianwu County, one bucket and ten times. But this wine is just produced locally, a little cheaper, this pot is about a catty, if the guest official pays the bill with official silver, two taels can be. ”

Han Feng's eyes widened suddenly, and he exclaimed, "A pot of wine, two taels of silver?!"

"Exactly. ”

"Forget it!" Han Feng immediately changed his mind, "We can't afford such an expensive wine!"

The guy didn't force it, he turned around and was about to leave, but was pulled by Kong Zhang.

"It's all here, why take it!" he said, licking his face, "Well, I'll send you some more news." I, Lao Kong, am very familiar with the entire Yizhou, in addition to the information of Tianwu County, it is also possible to add other places. ”

"No matter how much it is!" Han Feng said angrily, "How can there be empty mouths and white teeth, a few words are worth two taels of silver!"

"Intelligence isn't just 'empty mouths'. Kong Zhang said with a smile, "A lot of information I said about Lao Kong has several lives involved behind it. Human life is worth more than wine. ”

Han Feng was still arguing, but Pan Long stopped him: "A pot of Menglan brew, right? But since it's business, you have to be more detailed – the point is, if there's something we don't understand, you're responsible for explaining it carefully. No problem, right?"

"Of course it's no problem!" Kong Zhang immediately smiled, took the pot of wine from the guy's hand, carefully wiped the glass, and poured himself a glass.

He didn't mean to pour wine for Pan Long and Han Feng at all, as soon as he tilted his neck, he drank four or five glasses in a row, and a layer of red appeared on his face, before he sighed with satisfaction.

"Dream Blue Brew, Dream Blue Brew, I haven't drunk it for many years!"

Pan Long didn't mind waiting, but Han Feng didn't have the patience to watch him sigh for a long time, so he immediately interrupted his sigh and asked him to introduce the situation in Yizhou to the two.

Kong Zhang didn't delay, and the first sentence he said was "very different".

"You're right...... It's the same as nonsense!" Han Feng said angrily, "Wherever you go, you must respect local customs and traditions." Otherwise, where won't we get into trouble? Or do you want to tell me something, for example, what is the most important thing that we need to pay attention to here in Yizhou?"

"In Yizhou, the most important thing to be careful against is naturally the local heroes. Kong Zhang said, "What about your Yongzhou, because you want to support the north, so the garrisons in various places are very strong, and the government is also very diligent and manages a lot in order to collect taxes and organize conscriptions. ”

"But that's not the case in Yizhou. Our place is peaceful, rich in products, and there is no need to fight. When the common people live a stable life, they don't care much about the world's major affairs -- there is a saying on our side: "What matters to me about national affairs?" ”

Pan Long frowned, feeling a little uncomfortable.

The people of the Northland fought on the front line of the Great Xia Dynasty's external development, and have always taken killing the enemy to serve the country and making meritorious contributions as the greatest pursuit of life. What is particular about "wearing gold armor in a hundred battles in yellow sand, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken". He was very disdainful of Kong Zhang's view that he only cared about himself and ignored the country.

Han Feng's reaction was more direct than his, he sneered, and said unceremoniously: "Stability, there is no stability in the world, it's just that someone helped you block the wind and rain!"

was robbed by him like this, Kong Zhang was not angry, and said with a smile: "Indeed, we can live a stable life by relying on someone to shelter from the wind and rain." For us Yizhou people, what shelters from the wind and rain is the local heroes. ”

Pan Long was taken aback, and couldn't help but ask, "What did you say?!"

Kong Zhang smiled slightly: "That's it, for us Yizhou people, the imperial court is false, and the local heroes are real." If there is a natural disaster, it is the heroes who come forward to provide disaster relief; when there is a monster, it is the heroes who kill the demons; if there is something unlucky at home that needs help, it is also to ask the heroes for help...... Compared with the unreachable imperial court, these local prestige and capable big families are the support of our Yizhou people. ”

Han Feng asked: "According to what you said, everything is done by the powerful and powerful, so what is the imperial court doing?"

"Collect taxes. Kong Zhang laughed, "What other 'good things' can they do besides this?"

Pan Long sighed softly, roughly understanding what Kong Zhang meant.

"According to what you said, since we are walking in Yizhou, compared to the laws of the imperial court, the rules of the local tycoons are the ones that need to be followed the most, right?"

"That's right, little brother, you are a smart person!" Kong Zhang nodded vigorously and drank another glass, "It's nothing to offend the imperial court, we are everywhere who offend the imperial court, and there are not many of you." As long as you don't die, run to the sea fishing documents at the city gate, even if the soldier sees you, he may not recognize you. ”

"But if you offend the wealthy, it's different. There are big families from all over the world, some are relatives, some are friends, and some are brothers and sisters...... If you offend one, you will offend a group, and if you offend a group, you will offend the whole of Yizhou. ”

"Unless you are really a cross-river raptor, you can stand on your fists, you can run horses on your arms, you can bend steel needles on your eyelids, and you can pierce your shields with your fingers, even if you are covered in iron, how many nails can you hit?"

He took another drink and said happily, "So with us, the most important thing is to do as the locals do." Where you go, you must first know that there are people in this place who must be respected, and what rules these people have set. If you don't like this person, if you don't like his rules, you can go. But you must not die against him, or you will ......"

"Otherwise, we're going to have to move, right?" Han Feng said with a smile, "Then Master Kong, do you always belong to the door of a big family?

Kong Zhang was about to answer, when his face suddenly froze, his smile was condensed on his face, but cold sweat flowed down.

Under the table, a knife was held against his stomach.

"I forgot to introduce myself just now, now I'll make up for it. Han Feng still had a smile on his face, but the knife in his hand was tightly pressed against Kong Zhang's stomach, and he dared to move and stabbed it directly, "The kid's surname is Han, and he is from Yongzhou...... Well, the northernmost part of Yongzhou, after the Black Gobi, less than 100 miles away from the Jincheng defense line, that is my hometown. ”

Kong Zhang's eyes were almost popping out, his lips kept trembling, but he couldn't say anything.

"Since you're a news seller, you've definitely heard of people like us. I remember that the rich people in the Central Plains like to call us 'Northland barbarians', and you are about the same, right?"

Kong Zhang barely squeezed out an ugly smile: "What...... How could it be......"

"It doesn't matter if it's going to be or not, we don't care about that. Pan Long smiled slightly, and said kindly, "When you go out, safety comes first, and businessmen pay attention to harmony and make money, and we are actually similar." ”

"As long as no one wants to bully us, for example, to fool people, for example, to threaten and intimidate, for example, to cheat and deceive...... We Northland barbarians are actually very talkative. Han Feng said this, but the knife in his hand did not relax a little, "But if anyone wants to find our fault, cause us trouble, or even want to trap us, then we northern barbarians have never had one reaction." ”

He paused, and his voice suddenly became cold: "Kill him with a knife!"

Kong Zhang's eyebrows and eyes drooped, and his face was even more bitter than coptis juice.

He originally planned to see that these two teenagers didn't seem to have much experience in the rivers and lakes, and wanted to scare them, and then get some half-truths and half-truths, and trick them into suffering some losses - he might be able to share some benefits in it. Unexpectedly, before the scaring words were finished, these two boys actually drew their knives!

(!These two little things turned out to be Northland barbarians!Why was Lao Tzu so unlucky and provoked two little barbarians!)

He scolded in his heart, but he didn't dare to show the slightest anger on his face - the reputation of the people of the Northland who are fierce and aggressive, who doesn't know if they are well-informed in Daxia Kyushu?

This group of barbarians who live outside the desert, fight with the wind and sand, fight with ice and snow, fight with monsters, fight with wild people, fight with all kinds of natural and man-made disasters, and regard killing and being killed as ordinary things, are tough warriors in the world, and they are also the most ferocious killers in the world.

Not to mention the local heroes, even if it is a big summer, they don't dare to provoke them.

More than 100 years ago, the Marquis of Yongzhou took advantage of the drunkenness at the banquet to scold the barbarians in the north as "people and beasts live together, fishy and dirty, and disgusting like beasts", but less than half an hour after the words came out, a soldier from the north wiped his neck, cut off the noble head, and smashed it into the boiling soup pot.

That incident caused a lot of trouble, but in the end, the court made concessions to the Northlanders. Since then, Yongzhou's control over the northern land has been greatly weakened, and the northern land has gradually become independent of Yongzhou, as if it has become the eleventh state of the Great Xia Dynasty.

These northern barbarians even said that they would kill the dignified Marquis of Yongzhou, what is it to be a mere intelligence peddler?

Fortunately, Han Feng didn't plan to really stab him to death, but just used intimidation to retaliate for his intimidation just now. Seeing that he was frightened enough, he put away the knife. Pan Long even called his buddies and added another pot of Menglan Brew to shock him.

It's just that this time, whether Kong Zhang drinks or talks, he has become restrained, and he no longer dares to be as arbitrary as before, nor does he dare to put on the shelf of his predecessors in the rivers and lakes again.

After drinking and eating, and the news was inquired, Pan Long and Han Feng settled the account and left. Kong Zhang sat there, watching them walk away, sighed long, picked up the wine jug and poured himself wine, but his hands were shaking, and he couldn't hold the wine jug steadily.

He shook his head helplessly and laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Old, old, old, the future of the rivers and lakes really belongs to young people......