Dozens of horsemen adorned the official road.

The leader was a freshly dressed and angry horse, with a slender and muscular figure, a short beard and thick eyebrows, bright eyes, a straight waist, and a royal sword inlaid with rubies.

Suddenly, a chirping arrow shot at him.

"Master Hou, be careful!"

The night beside him let out a loud shout and slammed into the horse.

Burst!

The arrow directly penetrated the body of the night, and knocked the freshly clothed and angry horse of the horse to the ground, and the blue jade was in the air, twisting his waist and grabbing the horse's belly, and rolled on the spot after the horse's belly landed.

Whoosh!

Many arrows were fired, and the night guards on one side took out their round shields one after another, blocking in front of Lan Yu.

Their shields were thick and covered with cow leather, and their bows and arrows made a dull thud when fired, but they couldn't penetrate the round shields of the sapphire guards.

"Formation!"

Sapphire drank.

Those who followed him were all veterans of a hundred battles in the Ming army, the elite soldiers who rolled out of the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, listened to the order at this moment, dozens of people immediately pulled the chariot together, besieged the city in a circle, the front was a shield soldier holding a shield, and the archers and firecrackers in the back took out their weapons, and now the firecrackers around Lanyu are all equipped with the latest Hongwu flintlock pistols, and they are aiming at the arrows to deal with them, and a round of salvos.

Bang bang bang!

With the flintlock pistol firing quickly, and with archers as cover and supplement, Sapphire quickly put on her armor and began to observe the enemy.

"Master Hou, it seems to be a gang of bandits, they have already run away!"

A pro-soldier inspector came to report.

Lan Yu's face was calm, his eyes were murderous, and he shouted: "I'm waiting on the official road of the Ming Dynasty, how can there be bandits!?" ”

Another pro-soldier inspector cut off the arrows on the pawn who did not collect the arrows that he had blocked for Lan Yu in front of him, took the arrow cluster, and said in surprise: "It's the arrow of my Daming Guard......

The local government of the Ming Dynasty all need to provide weapons to the guards.

Especially the border government of Shaanxi and Gansu.

A set of weapons, including arrows, bows, knives, etc.

The standards of arrows vary from place to place, but you can basically see from the shaft and cluster of arrows where the government prepared it.

"Report, Master Hou, the enemy has withdrawn!"

"They ride war horses, come and go freely, and they are not ordinary bandits!"

The dozens of relatives around Lan Yu are all people who have fought a hundred battles, and they have a very accurate grasp of the battle situation, and they know where the enemy is coming from when they make a little contact.

Lan Yu gritted her teeth, as if she wanted to devour people.

"Dare to assassinate Ben Hou on the official road!"

His eyes flickered, he stood up, and a few elite people around him didn't collect it at night, still holding a shield around him, Lan Yu looked ahead and said: "I'm waiting to be targeted, I'm afraid that someone doesn't want Ben Hou to go to Xi'an to take charge of the military." ”

"Divide a group of brothers out, dress up in disguise, and go to Xi'an to report the news tonight by taking advantage of the night road, and ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send troops to pick them up."

"Remember, you are not allowed to take Guanyi Avenue."

Lan Yu squeezed out a voice between his teeth: "The enemy is afraid that it is the ...... of the Shaanxi military marquis."

……

Qin Wangfu.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Wei are under a big tree in the mansion, under the "double land".

The so-called "backgammon", this is actually the originator of chess.

This thing was very popular in the north during the Yuan Dynasty, whether it was the upper class of the government or the lower class of the people, they all liked to play, and there were various games, together with chess and Go, it became a more popular chess card.

Guan Hanqing, a talented son of the Yuan Dynasty, claimed to be "the leader of the world's Langjun, the leader of the world's prodigal sons." ”

Because this chess is simple to play, many Qinglou women in the Yuan Dynasty love to play, but also common in a variety of Yuan Dynasty miscellaneous songs, men and women private meeting to use, Guan Hanqing is an expert, he will be double-back and Go, and called his own trick of the first, at that time the Qinglou tea shop in the north also held a double-back competition.

Unlike chess and Go, there are various rules.

Shuanglu's playing method is whimsical, and often does not play according to the routine.

This is also the difference between the East and the West in the way of thinking, because the princess of Qin Wang Min likes to play Shuanglu, and the king of Qin, Zhu Wei, also learned this chess, and pulled Zhu Biao to play with him if he had nothing to do.

Zhu Xiongying was watching chess next to him, which was very interesting.

However, after a while, Zhu Biao had to deal with one thing.

Zhu Wei, the king of Qin, carried a horse and sighed: "Big brother, I only learned that you worked hard today, no wonder you have gained so much ......"

Zhu Biao glanced at him and said, "If you wait for the vassal king to do things well, why should I work hard?" ”

When Zhu Wei, the king of Qin, heard this, he was puzzled: "Big brother, you can't say that. ”

"We are in Xi'an, we are still very busy, every day we have to go to hand the phase, play horses and throw pots, skim orchids and bamboos, write and chant poems, juju and joke, paint and share tea, it's okay, I still need to serve back and forth between the two princesses, it's really ......"

He lowered his face, as if he was tired from doing all these things.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying both tilted their heads and glanced at Zhu Wei.

Zhu Xiongying said: "Second uncle, you are a bit excessive. ”

Zhu Wei was puzzled: "Huh? Is it excessive? ”

Zhu Xiongying sighed: "Let's tell you what my father needs to do every day, he needs to deal with more than 700 government affairs every day, and he also needs to meet with important ministers, inspect the barracks, check the official warehouse audit, about eighty or ninety officials every day, after coming to Xi'an, I have time to play chess with you today." ”

"You just eat, drink and have fun every day, and you actually feel tired......"

Qin King Zhu Wei hurriedly scratched his head.

He smiled and said: "Big brother, it's wrong for us, but, in addition to doing this, we are really not good at political affairs, if I am asked to lead the troops to fight, I still have some experience......

"You've got a chance right away!"

There were a total of fifteen horses in Shuanglu, and Zhu Biao stepped one horse forward, then raised his head and glanced at Zhu Wei, the king of Qin: "I have ordered Yongchang Hou Lanyu to come to Xi'an, the prime minister of Shaanxi and Gansu. ”

"Shaanxi and Gansu, it is the important land in the north, and Yanyun is one west and one north, it is the two arms of my Ming Dynasty, if you can't open this arm, I will not be able to repeat the old soil."

"Yes!"

Qin King Zhu Wei nodded.

At this time, Zheng He stepped forward.

He bowed and said something.

When Zhu Biao and the others heard this, they all frowned.

In fact, this matter is an old account.

During the Great Yuan Dynasty, in Shaanxi and Gansu, there were many post stations that provided food and lodging for merchants and officials, and there were strict standards for food and accommodation.

However, in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, most of the people who come and go are back to business.

As mentioned before, the composition of the Huihui is also very complicated, and not all of the Huihui at this time believe in Tianfangjiao, some still believe in Jingjiao, and some also believe in Buddhism, this part later formed the Yugur and Dongxiang tribes, but in the later part of the previous life, the time and space were also Tianfang.

At this time, they still retained some customs such as Nestorian Buddhism, shamanism, Buddhism, etc., and were relatively close to Tibet, that is, the Buddha-headed lamas in Qinghai-Tibet and other places, which was a historical legacy, related to the rise of Tibet in the Tang Dynasty and the fall of Western Xia.

After the rise of Tibet, it was very powerful, conquered Chang'an twice, and fought with the Celestial Army for hegemony in the Western Regions, and many Uighurs in the Western Regions all submitted to Tibet at that time and believed in Buddhism.

Later, after the fall of Western Xia, a large number of descendants of Western Xia fled to Qinghai-Tibet, and after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, they gradually settled in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

And whether it is the later Western Liao or the later Western Liao, they all believe in Buddhism.

Therefore, this part of the Hui of mixed ethnic groups and the Hui of believing in Heaven are not the same way, the ancestors have been turning over old accounts for a hundred years, and they may have attacked each other, because the Heavenly Kingdoms carried out a brutal massacre of the Buddha Kingdom in the Western Regions.

Then the question arises.

Settled in Shaanxi and Gansu, especially in most parts of Gansu, the Hui Department was in charge of the post station, this people were the Hui Department of Buddhism and shamanism, and the Hui Department of Jingjiao, and the Hui Department who came from the West to do business, most of them were Heavenly Hui merchants.

During the Yuan Dynasty, there were Hui Shang and Hui Guan, and found that the post guards of the post stations in Shaanxi and Gansu were not heavenly, there were many complaints, and they repeatedly clashed with the post stations, and what was more excessive was that they did not eat goats, only northern sheep.

The northern sheep, that is, the sheep, is because of the goat's taste.

This matter was known to Kublai Khan, who was furious and issued a special order to return to the Ministry of Commerce and Commerce in the Western Regions in the future, and not to be picky about eating on the spot.

But this has also led to a lot of reductions in the number of merchants in some places......

Now in the past two years, with the reopening of the trade routes of the Ming Dynasty, the Chagatai Khanate was suppressed by the lame wolf Timur again, many merchants of the Chagatai Khanate brought gold and silver, came to the Ming Dynasty to do business, and settled in Xi'an There are very many, they live near the Tianfang Temple, and gradually gather together, and the Chagatai Khanate has many fornications.

Zhu Biao and Zhu Xiongying, when they were still in Nanjing, there were tens of thousands of people in this Huishang.

Now that they have lived here for a long time and multiplied, they do not regard themselves as outsiders at all, Zheng He came to report, saying that there is a large group of Hui merchants in Xi'an, and they have begun to engage in foreign currency exchange, openly picking up the wool of the Ming Royal Bank, and the amount is too huge.

How to put it, to put it simply.

Tianfang returned to the merchants, exchanged all the Ming treasure money he earned from trading into gold and silver, and then brought the gold and silver back to the Chagatai Khanate, Samarkand and other places.

Then from that side into pepper, carpets, wine, wheat, etc., come to sell, exchange for Ming treasure money.

And so on and so forth......

In just two years, Xi'an's precious metals, especially gold, have been officially posted by the Ming Royal Bank, and the probability of gold being lost abroad after being exchanged has reached more than 30,000 taels of gold.

What is this concept......

In the time and space of the previous life, after Zhu Yuanzhang canonized Goryeo as North Korea and designated Korea as a country that will never be conquered, North Korea only offered 50 taels of gold every year.

Zhu Xiongying was furious when he heard it.

Good guys, the whole country of Daming is thrifty, and these merchants have actually begun to pick up the wool of the Daming Royal Bank!

Before, when the Daming Royal Bank was built, it was considered that there might be a malicious run, so at that time, for the wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan area, Jinyiwei were door-to-door sales, all kinds of half-buy and half-sell treasury bonds, and also "invited" them to deposit the gold and silver in the money cellar at home to the bank as a fixed deposit.

But after thousands of calculations, I still didn't calculate that Xi'an's Hui Shang was so shrewd that he had already rolled up so much gold in the Ming Dynasty.

Zheng He said a few more words, Zhu Xiongying listened to it even more angrily, in addition to the Tianfang Hui Shang, there are also some green-eyed Hui Hui who believe in the Isserika, they all have a characteristic, all of them come from the West, and they are all very rich, bringing a large number of goods from the West, all of which are best-selling, the most surgent is pepper, which is not worried about selling at all, and after it is sold, it will be exchanged for gold and brought back to the West.

"I remember, when Yuan Renzong was in time, there was a Taishi who said this, the depreciation of Da Yuan's treasure banknotes is also related to the overdeveloped trade routes, the blue eyes of the West have returned, the heavens have returned, and they have become greedy, and they have shorted the gold and silver of Da Yuan."

"Unexpectedly, these people didn't change their dead nature, and they began to suck the blood of our Daming again!"

Zhu Biao had a rare murderous intent on his face.