On that day in late autumn, just after noon, Amu and his entourage set off and headed for the Four Winds City of Yueguo.

Knife Mountain ......

There is not a single knife left on the mountain of knives that have not been born for hundreds of years!

The building at the top of the hill still stands in the clouds.

The door is closed.

There are no gatekeepers.

Of course, there will be no more that gatekeeper dog.

The world is still the same.

It seems that everything is as it was before, and the world is peaceful.

But in the autumn of this year, some big things still happened.

Like what......

Emperor Yu Wenfeng of the Wasteland finally adopted Zhong Bo's suggestion, and he did not send troops down the river to point at Yue Kingdom.

He did something else!

He sent officials from the Ministry of Works to recruit craftsmen throughout the country!

It seems to be the same as Li Chen'an, and he recruits skilled craftsmen in various industries!

Because he wants to build a city south of Nanxi State!

That is, the place where his second eagle was completely wiped out!

The name of the city is Border City!

It makes sense to build a city in this place.

After all, there is only one Death Valley between this place and Ning Kingdom!

On the opposite side is Youzhou in the North Desert Road of Ningguo.

Li Chen'an also built a city on the opposite side.

The name of the city is Yanjing.

Now, although only one city wall has been built, it is also because of the lack of silver in Ningguo.

In the future, the city will always be built.

He also made that place a county, called Youdu County!

In this way, he attached great importance to that place.

If there are more and more people in Youdu County, it is not impossible to fill up the death swamp.

Then this border city of the wasteland has become the most important military fortress in Nanxi Prefecture.

This money has to be spent!

Zhong Bo agrees.

It's just that no one knows that two Taoist priests were secretly sent to this city that has just begun construction.

Wasteland.

Great Wilderness City.

The back garden of the Royal Palace.

It is still late autumn in the Yujing City of Ningguo, and Nanxi Prefecture in the barren country has entered winter, and the first snow has fallen since the beginning of winter.

The snow had darkened the dusk, and lanterns had lit up in the humble palace.

A small wooden building in the back garden is also lit up with several lanterns.

Emperor Yuwen Feng of the Wasteland was on the second floor of this small wooden building at the moment.

A charcoal fire was lit in the house, and on top of the charcoal fire was an iron net, and on the iron net was a copper kettle.

Sitting opposite him was Uncle Zhong, the prime minister of the Great Wilderness Country.

The water in the pot was boiling, and Yu Wenfeng took a pinch of tea and put it in.

He had a smile on his face.

"Father, you have been by my side for so many years, and I will no longer say your credit, and I find that I have changed many habits in this subtle way."

"Habits from you!"

"Like drinking tea."

"You know the way we make tea in the wilderness, which is completely different from the Central Plains."

"The people of the Central Plains boil tea with water, and we people use milk to make tea with ghee."

"Each has its own characteristics!"

"It's just that now I'm used to this way of boiling tea, and it tastes lighter, not as thick as butter tea."

"It's also gentle, not as bold as drinking butter tea."

"Sometimes I wonder if this habit is good or bad?"

"After all, it is something that has been passed down by the desolate people for thousands of years, and if it is gradually lost like this, I am afraid that it will not be possible for two generations...... They don't even know how to boil butter tea! ”

"The tea production in our barren country is very small! You have to buy it from the three countries of the Central Plains, and the tea in the Central Plains is expensive! ”

"Salt should be bought from the Central Plains, and tea should also be bought from the Central Plains...... Now that the salt road from the North Desert Road of Ningguo has been broken, this kid Li Chen'an came to the North Desert Road for a trip, not only to destroy my second eagle,"

Yu Wenfeng took the pot and poured tea, handed over a cup, raised his thick eyebrows, looked at Uncle Zhong, and said:

"He also cut off one of the most important salt roads in my Great Wilderness Country!"

"Now the Yue country is over there...... Since the middle father said to wait another year, I also agree, after all, when the country is more chaotic, my army can get twice the result with half the effort. ”

"But there's a problem with that!"

"The food from the country of Vietnam...... Autumn begins to decrease, less and less! ”

"At the end of October, it was supposed to be the last of the largest quantities of grain."

"That's the life-saving food used to prevent our barren country from being hit by a snowstorm this winter, and to give relief to the victims so that they can survive this winter!"

"You've been here for many years, and you know that every year there will always be a certain tribe or tribe that will not be able to see the next year's spring because of the snowstorm."

"The problem now is that we can't buy food, and there is a gradual shortage of salt, so this is the only tea ......."

Yu Wenfeng picked up the teacup and looked at the tea in the teacup carefully, and only drank it after a while.

"Now this thing is very popular among the nobility!"

"Those old guys who used to herd sheep now live in a warm big house, and they used to drink butter tea and eat beef and mutton, but now they ......"

"Now they even like to make tea around the stove like this!"

"Raise the price of tea higher and higher."

"For example, this Yushan Qiuyun from Ningguo, I heard that at the beginning, one catty was only two taels of silver...... It's expensive, but do you know how much it's sold for now? ”

Uncle Zhong also picked up the teacup and took a sip, frowning slightly between his eyebrows:

"As far as the taste of this tea is concerned, it will not exceed one or two silver catties in Ningguo...... Counting the freight and profits, it is reasonable to sell for two taels of silver, but I don't know how much it sells now? ”

Yu Wenfeng stretched out a hand, five fingers and one piece: "Five taels of silver a catty!" ”

"This is nothing, in the aristocratic circles of the Great Wilderness City, wine from Ning Country is still being pursued!"

Wild people like wine.

Perhaps because they live on the grassland, they generally drink a lot of alcohol!

The barren people also make wine themselves, but most of the barren people are nomadic herders, and even if they are planted, the crops they grow are not the grains of the Central Plains, but barley.

Of course, the liquor made from this barley cannot be compared with the spirit liquor of Huapingchun brewed by Li Chen'an using new technology.

Painting screen spring is very expensive in Ningguo.

This thing has been brought to the Great Wilderness City of the Wasteland again, and its price is far from being affordable for ordinary people.

"Li Chen'an, that kid is amazing!"

Yu Wenfeng got up and took a jar of wine from a shelf against the wall.

"This is Picture Screen Spring!"

"I heard that in Guangling City in Ningguo, it sells for two taels of silver and a catty, but in the Great Wilderness City, it sells for forty taels of silver and a catty!"

"Twenty times the premium!"

"It's hard to buy!"

Putting the jar of wine on the table, Yu Wenfeng sat down again and looked at Uncle Zhong:

"Father Zhong, why do I think that the plan to go south to Ningguo has not yet begun to be implemented, but he, Li Chen'an, is already invading my Great Wilderness City?"

"I didn't see Bingge, but I felt a chill to my bones!"

Uncle Zhong sighed for three breaths, and his face was extremely serious:

"Or ...... The emperor sent people to arrest those merchants who sold tea and wine in the Great Wilderness City! ”

Yu Wenfeng took a deep breath, "I did have this intention at the beginning, but ...... I'm afraid it's too late now! ”

"Why?"

"Because I suddenly discovered that this tea, this wine, has become an indispensable part of the lives of those nobles!"

"Like my cousins!"

"They are all the commanders of the Thirteen Eagles, I went to visit once, and when they feasted me, they were served with this tea and this wine!"

"I deliberately said that I robbed these things directly with the intention of drinking, but they objected!"

"Because after robbing them once, those merchants don't dare to come again!"

"The more you drink, the less you drink, the more expensive it will get!"

"I invited the middle father to come, just to ask the middle father, the more they drink, the poorer they will become!"

"One day when they can't afford to drink, I'm afraid they'll come up with other ideas to get money...... For example, deducting the soldiers' salaries, such as being greedy and perverting the law, and so on! ”

"In this way, it will inevitably lead to civil strife in the newly unified barren country."

"Don't talk about Faning at that time, I'm afraid we will all be unable to protect ourselves!"

"This soft knife cuts flesh...... How to solve it? ”