Winter is coming, this day is getting colder and colder day by day, the river water is not in a hurry where the ice has begun to freeze, this season in the outside running business that can eat hard work, with earlier than the chicken - sleep later than the dog - eat worse than the pig - dry more than the cow to describe the winter running business that is really suitable, the winter day is short, a day without grasping the point of urgency can not catch up with much road

The men had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to pack up their things and feed the cattle and horses, and they had to set off for a short time with a mouthful of hot dry food, and the caravan would stop and rest for about ten minutes every hour, and after walking for a long time, the man could not stand the horses and the ox, and the merchants said that the cow and the horse were much more expensive than the human spirit, and the people were uncomfortable or bumped into a piece and could still insist on hurrying

If the cow and horse are injured or tired, it can be delayed, get up early and rush to get back the time used up in the middle of the break, the steamed bun is equivalent to a hot one, at noon the guys can not take care of the rest can only eat while walking, in the summer, the days are long and you can sleep after eating at noon, but in winter, if you don't hurry up, the sky will be dark at 4 o'clock

As soon as it gets dark, you have to find a spacious place to camp, and after the tent is set up, you have to settle the cows, horses, and vehicles, and it will take half an hour to get busy with all the mess, and then everyone can sit down and have a hot meal, and everyone is tired all day, and after dinner, they will go back to their respective tents to rest, but after a trip, people will not move, and after a while, they will be shivering from the cold, and when I wake up, I feel that I may have been frozen and fainted last night

After 4 days of eating and sleeping in the open air, the caravan finally arrived at the destination of the Manjiang capital, this time the caravan brought 5,000 quintals of grain to the Manjiang capital - 10 carts of prepared Chinese medicine - 30 carts of tea - 5,000 sets of cotton clothes and some daily necessities, as soon as the caravan arrived, the goods brought to Ah Cha Lan, he will distribute these goods according to the population ratio of each tribe, and the trade between the Barbarian Jiang people is still based on the traditional barter, Ah Cha Lan will earn some difference from the transaction between the two sides

It doesn't matter if there is nothing to replace, you can earn the daily necessities you need through labor, although the life of the Manjiang people is a little tighter now, but compared with before, everyone can at least eat and dress warmly, as long as everyone can work together to tide over the current difficulties, the days of the Manjiang Autonomous Region will definitely be better and better in the future

Ah Cha Lan gave us the goods of the corresponding value, Li Songzheng and his men settled the total value of these goods, and Li Yang went to the temple where the Manjiang people worship the gods to visit Elder Hunaji, before he and Elder Hunaji had an agreement, as long as Elder Hunaji can help him promote peace between the two countries, he is willing to give 10,000 taels of silver to the Manjiang people to build a new temple, and he came this time to fulfill his previous promise to Elder Hunaji

But this matter can't be let Achean know, with the situation at that time, Elder Hunaji can be regarded as turning his elbow outward, but every time I go to the Manjiang Capital, King Acha Lan will be warmly entertained, and there is no suitable opportunity to contact Elder Hu Naji alone, if I rashly send 10,000 silver to Elder Hunaji, it will inevitably arouse King Achalan's suspicion of Elder Hunaji

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Yang thought of a way to get the best of both worlds, that is, in the name of worshiping the gods, donate the ten thousand taels of silver to Elder Hunaji to build a new temple, and the merchant prayed for blessings, spending money to do some good deeds, and the road was safe, it was normal, as for how much money to donate, it was my own business, no one could care, and it would have no effect on Elder Hunaji if it was passed on

After coming to the temple, Li Yang first put three sticks of incense on the statue of the god of thunder enshrined in the temple, and then he tidied up his clothes and respectfully bowed to the statue of the god of thunder three times, Li Yang's awe of the statue of the god of thunder made Elder Hunaji very pleased, after worshipping, Li Yang turned around and shouted softly to the outside of the temple, "Bring things in", as soon as the words fell, the guys carried in 10 heavy wooden boxes, opened the box and saw that the box was full of white flowers and silver

Li Yang raised his hand and waved it out of the guys: You guys go get busy first

When the guys heard this, they answered, "Yes, young master", and turned around and left the temple, and when they saw the guys leaving, Li Yang lowered his voice a little: Hu Naji, this is the 10,000 taels of silver that your ministry needs to build the temple

Elder Hunaji glanced at Bai Huahua's silver, and then he put his hand on his chest and bowed slightly to me: "Master Li, you are a good person, and the gods will bless you

Out of politeness, Li Yang bowed his hand and saluted: God bless, Elder Hunaji, I still have some things to do, so I won't stay here

Elder Hunaji: If you are the head of the Li family, I will not keep you

At night, Ah Cha Lan held a banquet in the palace to entertain me and Li Song, the palace resounded with the unique and wonderful drum-flute sound of the Manjiang people, and the six young girls were dancing enchanting with the music, and the leaders such as Elder Hunaji Dorjee Sanji continued to cheer for the girls, and at this time Du Chalan also joined in and danced with the girls, but she danced a double knife dance

The dancing posture of the six girls is slightly ladylike, and Du Chalan's dancing posture reveals a trace of wildness - there is a ruthlessness in the knife technique, when the dance rises, she turned around and stabbed Li Song with a knife, and the instinctive reaction drove Li Song, who was sitting on the mat, to quickly step back a few steps with his feet, and several leaders not only laughed when they saw Li Song's panicked appearance

At this time, Du Chalan waved his knife at Li Yang with a change of hand, Li Yang picked up the wine glass unhurriedly and took a sip, he looked at the leaders with a gloomy face, Li Yang didn't even blink his eyes when the scimitar slashed down, and the distance between the scimitar and his forehead when it stopped could be stuffed into a piece of paper, Du Chalan's actions and the ridicule of several leaders made Li Yang very unhappy, if he hadn't proposed to the third child, he would have lifted the table and left

Seeing that I had a gloomy face, Ah Cha Lan glanced at the leaders again, he slammed the wine bowl in his hand on the table, and the leaders saw that Ah Cha Lan was looking at them viciously, and the smiles on the faces of the leaders were instantly retracted, and they honestly sat up straight, and Du Chalan also took back the double knife in his hand when he saw this

Ah Cha Lan: Although my sister is a girl, she has been fond of dancing knives and guns like boys since she was a child

Li Yang didn't answer, but looked at Li Song, and Ah Cha poured himself a bowl of wine: Sister, why don't you apologize to the head of the Li family and admit your mistake

Du Chalan clasped her hands into fists and bowed to me and Li Song: Please forgive the two heads of the family for the rudeness of the little girl

Li Song returned the salute: It's okay, don't worry

Ah Cha Lan picked up the wine bowl and raised a glass to Li Yang: The head of the Li family is here, let's take one

Li Yang showed a smile and picked up the wine bowl, and after a bowl of wine was down, he put the wine bowl down: King Ah Chalan doesn't know that Ling Mei doesn't have a favorite family now

Ah Cha Lan: As soon as the head of the Li family said this, I wanted to come, didn't you say that you were going to help Ling Mei in Taizhou with a big family, so why are you here now?

Li Yang slapped his hand: Coincidentally, I really helped Ling Mei get to a house

Ah Chalan: Do you know the family of the Li family, do you know the roots, my sister will suffer after marrying, it is not okay

Li Yang raised his hand and patted it on his leg, "Hey, I don't know the roots, I don't know the family, you can rest assured, Ling Mei will definitely not suffer if she marries in the past."

Ah Cha smiled slightly: How can you be so sure of the Li family master

Li Yang: Then I don't know about my family

Ah Cha raised his head and laughed when he heard this: "Haven't you already married two wives, Master Li?"

Li Yang: King Achalan really doesn't hide it, our two brothers came to the Manjiang Capital this time, just to propose to Sister Ling on behalf of the third child of my family

Ah Cha showed a hint of doubt on his face: The head of the Li family, the third child of your family

Li Yang: When King Achalan passed the three levels, the fat man who could lift 500 catties of iron tripods with both hands was the third child in my family, and you and Ling Mei had seen him before

Ah Cha muttered: "Haha", I remembered, it turns out that the strong man is the third child of your family

Li Yang: King Achalan came this time, and our brothers even arrived with a dowry

After speaking, he casually gestured to Li Song: The second child showed the list of dowries to King Achalan

Li Song took out a delicate list from his arms, and asked the maid to present the list to King Achalan, after taking the list, he carefully flipped through it, only to see him nod with satisfaction and handed the list to Du Chalan: Sister, what do you think, if it works, I and the head of the Li family will set the marriage

Du Chalan took the list and glanced at it, then threw it on the table casually: I don't marry

Ah Cha Lan: Sister, don't be in a hurry to make up your mind about this matter, you think about it carefully, I think the head of the Li family is bold and righteous, and his brother must be no different, and besides, people are still strong men who must be good at work

Du Chalan suddenly lost her temper and threw her double knives to the ground, "I don't marry, I want to marry you yourself" After speaking, she walked towards the outside of the palace violently, before leaving, she also gave me and Li Song a fierce look, the atmosphere in the palace suddenly became awkward, Ah Cha Lan just blindly smiled bitterly and didn't know what to say, and the leaders also looked at Ah Cha Lan when they saw this

Li Yang poured himself a glass of wine: King Achalan, tomorrow, you will take me around the autonomous region to see if there are any other businesses that can make money, and this year we will be ready to start next year

Ah Chalan: Okay, tomorrow I'll take you to the depths of the dense forest of Xiangshan Mountain

Li Yang: Besides, I want you to do me a favor

Acharan: The head of the Li family, but it doesn't hurt to say it

Li Yang: This day, seeing that it is getting colder and colder day by day, these guys in the caravan are too guilty to sleep all the way, especially at night when they camp in the wild so cold that people can't sleep at all, the caravan from Alan County to Manjiang Dubu has to walk for 4 days, I want to build 4 post stations along the way so that the guys can have a place to spend the night at night

Acha: Tell me the seats - I'll send someone to build these four post stations

Li Song: Second brother, you tell King Acha about your seat

Li Song thought for a while: Oops - it's really hard to say the specific seat

Acharan: Then when the caravan goes back, I'll send a few people to follow and tell them where it needs to be built

Li Yang: King Achalan, you have done me a great favor

Ah Cha Lan: It's just a gesture, let's go to a cup of the Li family

After the three rounds of drinking, the dinner ended early, and when the next day was a little bright, Li Song returned to Alan County with the caravan to prepare for the next batch of supplies, and Ah Cha and I were going to go to the depths of the dense forest of Xiangshan to investigate it, it is said that this time we would stay in the mountain for about half a month, and Ah Cha Lan specially sent a thick leather jacket before leaving

He told me that the forest is colder than outside, let me wear more clothes, after the materials are ready, our group of more than 20 people set off to the depths of the dense forest of Xiangshan, walked for nearly half a day on the mountain road, we were a group of people under a cliff to rest for a while, Ah Cha told me that this cliff in front of me was a big mountain, more than ten years ago there was an earthquake here to collapse the mountain in half, because the gravel piled up under the mountain, for a long time, the local people gave the cliff a name - gravel cliff

Walking along the gravel cliff is the depths of the Elephant Mountain Jungle, the Gravel Cliff is also the highest peak in the Elephant Mountain Forest, you can see the whole picture of the Elephant Mountain Jungle on the cliff, I really want to see the whole picture of the Elephant Mountain Jungle, so Ah Cha took me up the Gravel Cliff, as he said, standing on the Gravel Cliff, the whole picture of the Elephant Mountain Jungle is in front of me

The first feeling of the Elephant Mountain Dense Forest is that the mountain is high and dense, the mountain is surrounded by a small mountain, the small mountain is surrounded by a big mountain, the layers of mountains are one after another, and so on into the Elephant Mountain dense forest, the temperature here is obviously much colder than the outside, the river in the mountain stream is clear and thorough, people can hold it up and drink, if they encounter wild things, our line can also borrow light to improve a meal

Ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, in these ten days, our group of people turned around the Xiangshan dense forest, the situation of the Xiangshan dense forest is worse than I imagined, here in addition to the mountain is the mountain can use the resources is wood, stone-iron ore-copper ore-gold ore-silver ore is the same, the whole Xiangshan dense forest can be cultivated no more than 30,000 acres of fields at most, these fields are still all over the Xiangshan dense forest, more than a piece can have thousands of acres of less than three or five hundred acres

Now I know why the Manjiang people are so poor, the Manjiang Autonomous Region not only has a large number of people and a small amount of land, but even the available resources are only a handful, so that in the past, 1,800 people starved to death every year, and as a businessman, you must first have a keen eye and judgment, but also have a certain sense of advancement, and more importantly, you have to dare to be afraid of your hands and feet, Li Yang, who has been in business for a long time, racked his brains and did not come up with any good plan

Early in the morning, Li Yang went to the river to draw water, saw the clear river water, he took two mouthfuls in his mouth, and at this time a doe with two fawns appeared on the other side of the river, the river is not wide, at most it can be 3-4 meters, these three deer may have seen people are a little scared on the other side of the bank to look at me for a while, I think I have no malice, the three deer slowly approached the river and drank water, and then came out of the forest one after another A group of deer, some of them are big and small, and they also go to the river to drink water

Seeing the scene in front of him, Li Yang suddenly had an idea in his heart, and after having a general direction, a series of ideas poured out in his head, and when he returned to the Manjiang capital, I reorganized the ideas that came to mind, and after smoothing things out, I came to the Manjiang Palace to visit King Acharan, and it happened that Elder Hunaji-Duchalan-Dorjee and others were also there

Li Yang: King Achalan, I have come up with some ideas that you don't think are feasible

Ah Cha waved his hand at me: "Master Li, let's sit down and talk slowly."

Li Yang: The only way for the Achalan Dawang Manjiang Autonomous Region to get out of the current predicament is to break the tradition and find a new way

Ah Chalan: Master Li, then tell me how to find another way

Li Yang: As the old saying goes, if you want to get rich and build roads first, the first step in getting rid of the predicament of Manjiang Autonomous Region is to build roads first, after the roads are unblocked, the time spent to and from the Manjiang capital will be greatly reduced, and the materials here can also be transported to the outside through the roads, and the number of people doing business here will gradually increase when the roads are unblocked

Let's take a simple example, when a caravan from other places comes, you must first find a place to live, and people have to eat after finding a place to live

Ah Cha Lan: I haven't thought about the Li family's major road repair before, but it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build roads in the deep mountains and old forests

Li Yang: The top priority at the moment is to turn the disadvantage of the autonomous region into an advantage, there are very few places that can be cultivated and cultivated in the dense forests of Xiangshan Mountain, and I found that there are more animals in your forest this time, and the king of Achalan listened to my advice and must not wantonly hunt and kill animals because of the value of furs, I feel that we should build one or several large-scale breeding farms in the dense forests of Xiangshan, and breed a large number of all kinds of animals every year, so as to develop tanning-meat and bone products

Hunaji: I very much agree with the words of the head of the Li family, the mountain god has raised us, and we should also raise the mountain god, which is the way of reincarnation and order in the Miro Sutra, and all things are born together

Ah Cha Nan: This problem is not big, I can start preparing for this matter in winter, do you have any other opinions, Master Li

Li Yang: Manjiang Autonomous Region has few land and many people, and the grain planted in the left and right fields is not enough to eat, so simply keep the fields that produce more grain, and those fields that produce less grain are planted with other crops, for example, now an acre of grain is 400 catties, which is two taels of silver, but if you plant sugarcane on an acre of land can sell 2200-2400 writing, then you can grow sugarcane, right, sugarcane can be made into sugar, which can also generate a part of the profit, and the fields with less grain can also consider planting fruits and the like

Ah Chaan: The head of the Li family has to spend a lot of money

Li Yang: Well, it costs a lot of money, but this investment can be recovered in the future if it is not spent in vain

Acharan: How to take it back

Li Yang: The Manjiang Autonomous Region can implement quota sales

Ah Cha muttered with a puzzled face: What is the consciousness of the Li family master's quota sales

Li Yang: Let me put it simply, for example, the construction of the Manjiang Autonomous Region cost 50,000 taels of silver, and when a businessman goes to the Manjiang Autonomous Region to do business, he must first use the silver to buy the right to operate, and 5,000 silver for the right to operate can buy 10% of the goods in the autonomous region

Ah Cha Lan: The head of the Li family won't tell you that now there are more than 100,000 mouths waiting to eat, and I really don't have so much money on hand to turn around

Li Yang: King Achalan is a family of silver, you don't have to worry, we have a lot of Alan Chamber of Commerce, we dare not say that it is not difficult to take out 10 tens of thousands of taels of silver

Ah Chalan: You let me think about this matter of the Li family master

Li Yang: Okay, King Acharan, then I'll leave first

After Li Yang left the palace, Ah Cha Nan Hu Naji and the others also retreated first, and when the people were gone, he called Du Chalan to his side: Sister Li You also heard what the head of the Li family said just now, do you think what he said is feasible

Du Chalan: Ah, brother, I think what the head of the Li family just said can give it a try

Acharan: That's what I think too

Du Chalan: Brother, then do what the head of the Li family said

Ah Cha sighed softly: Sister, don't you know the situation at home now, just the materials needed to prepare for the winter cost us more than half of the money on hand, and the rest of the money has to be kept for the soldiers to pay, if you want to get rid of the current predicament, you can't do without the support of the Alan Chamber of Commerce

Du Chalan: Brother has something to say, you might as well say it directly

Ah Cha Lan: The girl can only get out of the predicament if she marries the Li family, and the 100,000 people of the Manjiang Capital can get out of the predicament, but I won't force you to marry you, I just hope you can think about it carefully, if you really don't want to marry, we are thinking of another way

At this time, Du Chalan's mind recalled the past, the clansmen dug grass roots-tree roots in the forest in winter to satisfy hunger, and now the clansmen do not need to dig grass roots-tree roots to satisfy hunger, she hopes that the clansmen can live like this in peace, so she made the most difficult decision in her life, that is, she agreed to marry the Li family to marry someone she didn't love

When she told Ah Chalan about this decision, Ah Chalan knew that her sister had been wronged by the clansmen and bowed to her, but Du Chalan still had a condition that she had to tell Li Yang face to face, so Ah Chalan went to chase Li Yang back

As soon as Li Yang entered the main hall, Du Chalan looked over: It is okay for the head of the Li family to agree to the marriage with the third child of your family, but you have to promise me one condition first

Li Yang: My sister turned out to be a family, not to mention one piece, even ten, I promise you

Du Chalan: As long as you take Niu Yongnian's head as a dowry, I will promise to marry your third child

Li Yang: The Niu Yongnian you mentioned is a Shaoxing guard

Ah Cha Lan was very surprised when he heard this, but Du Chalan looked very calm: That's right, it is Niu Yongnian, the guard general of Shaoxing, he killed 200 of our barbarian Jiang multi-ethnic people This is a blood feud, and he also insults and intends to defile this feud with me

Li Yang: Okay, let's make a decision, when Niu Yongnian's head is presented, it is when our Li family comes to pick up relatives

Du Chalan: A good word is a certainty

Li Yang: What do you ask for the deadline?

Du Chalan: Before June next year

When Li Yang heard this, he raised his head and laughed, "Haha" Then it's decided, King Achalan, then I'll go back first

said that he turned around and left, but at this time, Ah Cha did stop him: the dowry of the head of the Li family

Li Yang: You can accept the dowry of 50,000 taels of silver, if I fail to come as promised in June of the next year, the dowry of 50,000 taels of silver will be given to your ministry as a gift