June 20, 24th year of Zhaohua.

Li Chenan and his entourage arrived at Yudan City.

This is the last city in the south of Ningguo.

It is only a hundred miles away from the boundless pass.

From the beginning of Annam Province, the closer you get to the Yudan River, the more tense the atmosphere becomes.

It's just that when the Red Flame Army came back again, there were many fewer people fleeing from Annan Province.

After all, uprooting is a very sad word and a very troublesome thing.

Everyone was waiting and waiting, waiting for the results of the battle between the Red Flame Army and the Wu Army.

Yudan City is on the front lines of the war.

Some of the big merchants left the city, but more people remained, but there were fewer pedestrians on the streets, and the streets were no longer as prosperous as they used to be.

Joy Inn.

Li Chen'an and the four of them lived here.

Originally, Li Chenan thought that the inn might be empty, but he didn't expect that there were many people living in this Yuelai Inn.

Mainly businessmen.

I heard that they were all businessmen who were originally going to go to Wu to do business.

The four of them arranged to go to the lobby on the first floor and sat at a table in the far corner.

A rather handsome junior hurriedly walked over, took the towel on his shoulder and wiped the table, and said with a smile: "The guest officer came to Yudan City at this time, and it is estimated that he is also going to Wu Kingdom to do business, right?" ”

Li Chenan nodded and asked, "Look at this posture, the matter of Wuyi is not over yet?" ”

Xiao Er shook his head and sighed: "How can it be so easy." ”

He put the towel on his shoulder again, "The Red Flame Army has only been back for five days, and I heard that they have been calling for battle under the pass every day for the past few days, but those soldiers of the Wu Kingdom have cultivated into thousand-year-old turtles!" ”

"No matter how we call the battle, they just cower and can't come out."

Xiao Er spread his hands: "That's endless!" ”

"Wuya Mountain is already steep and steep, and then the wall is closed, speaking of which the wall is still repaired by our Ning Guo, now it's okay, General Wu Mian came back a little before, looked at the Xiongguan and heard that the face was black out of the water."

"It's hard to break through!"

"However, our Red Flame Army is not far from the pass, and this Jade Pill City is not in danger...... Don't talk about this, what do you use for the guest officer? ”

Li Chenan ordered four dishes, and Xiao Er left happily.

Qin Rigang looked at Li Chen'an and asked in a low voice: "Young master, it seems that we are really going over the mountain." ”

"Well," Li Chen'an pondered for a moment and then said, "Go and take a look at it first." ”

“…… After all, it is a battlefield, and there is an army for such a thing as a war, and the young master went to Wu to join his relatives, so why bother making trouble? ”

This is reasonable, but Li Chenan still insists on his idea.

"Just go and see, after all, young master, I haven't seen what the confrontation between the two armies looks like."

These are Li Chenan's heartfelt words.

Although he had personally experienced the battle of Wufan Yuan, the troops on both sides of Wufan Yuan were nothing compared to this endless pass.

Of course, he also wants to go to the battlefield to see the endless pass on the spot, and maybe find a way to break the level.

Qin Rigang did not insist.

Just then, a voice came from the next table.

"Hey......"

First there was a sigh.

"It seems that I won't be able to go to Wu in the short term."

"I'll go back to Gangnam Road tomorrow, now the business environment in Gangnam Province is quite good, make less money, make less, it's better than spending it like this."

Li Chenan looked up, it was a middle-aged man about forty years old.

An old man next to him also stroked his long beard and sighed, "Yes, the old man has been living here for half a month, and he originally wanted to go back to his home for a long time, but I heard that the Red Flame Army has returned." ”

"I thought that the Red Flame Army was back, and it would not be difficult to recapture Wuyaguan, but now I know that fighting a war is even more unpredictable than doing business."

"It's time to go back."

"Think about it, no matter whether you win or lose this battle, it is a foregone conclusion that our Ning Kingdom and Wu Kingdom will fight each other."

"If Wu Guosheng is successful, they will definitely not open the door for a short time to let us pass."

"If we win Ning Guosheng and we go to Wu Kingdom, I'm afraid that the Wu people will not be as kind to us as before, and we won't be able to do it...... If you die in a foreign country, the gains outweigh the losses! ”

Everyone pondered, this old man's words were reasonable!

So someone sighed:

"My Song family has been operating the trade route of Wu for more than ten years, and it will be completely broken all of a sudden."

"My Tao family is not the same, the shop opened in Wu has been waiting for this batch of goods to be sent over for a long time. Not to mention that the goods can't be delivered now, my shopkeepers and Xiao Er can't come back. ”

"I said, the regent has formulated a policy for our Ningguo that is beneficial to our merchants, and in the future, our focus will still be on the country, as Brother Huang said, make less money, at least there is no such risk."

“……”

Li Chenan didn't expect that this foreign trade had reached such a height.

And that's a good thing.

Of course, he still doesn't know whether Ningguo's goods are imported into Wu Guo more, or Wu's goods flow more to Ningguo.

In any case, businessmen seem to have had experience in doing business across borders.

It sounds like the Wu side at least didn't stop the merchants of the Ning State from doing business in the territory of the Wu State.

He didn't know the volume of this cross-border transaction, and he didn't know what advantages the two sides had.

He still doesn't know how the state collects taxes on cross-border business.

Because there is no record of this matter in the Imperial City Division, the officials of the court do not seem to pay attention to this matter.

Li Chenan is well aware of the importance of this matter.

It's just that until Zhongli Ruoshui's illness is cured, he doesn't have time to return to Kyoto to learn more about or promote this cross-border trade.

This is a systematic matter.

In order to dominate cross-border commerce, Ningguo must become strong.

Both militarily and in the superiority of goods.

This needs to wait for the implementation of the first five-year plan, and then put it into the second five-year plan.

Li Chenan thought so, and suddenly another voice came:

"Isn't Yan Jidao a great grandmaster? With him in the Red Flame Army, with the skills of a great grandmaster, can he leap to the endless wall to kill a bloody path? ”

Someone laughed: "Are you fighting against tens of thousands of troops on the rivers and lakes?" ”

"People have arrows!"

"Besides, there are masters in the army!"

"Didn't you say that the Seven Swords of the Tianshan Mountains were among the Wu Army?"

"Although Grandmaster Yan is powerful, he is not invulnerable, he flew to the wall, but he was afraid that he would be shot into a hedgehog before he landed!"

"Oh...... It seems that Wuyanguan can't get it back, I'm afraid it will be a confrontation in the end, and this trade route will be completely broken. ”

At this moment, a young man rushed in and shouted: "Fight, fight!" ”

Someone was surprised and asked, "What?" Wu Jun is out of customs? ”

"No, the turtles still haven't stuck their heads out, but we've thrown them at the wall...... Firework! ”

"Fireworks?"

"Yes, it's the thing that the regent invented when he was alive, and it's extremely powerful."

"So you can break the level?"

The young man shook his head and sighed: "It's difficult, it's too far away, and most of those fireworks explode in the air." ”

"It's not good to be on the head, not two of them landed on that wall."

"It's good-looking, but it's good-looking, and it is estimated that it scares Wu Jun a lot."