After arranging people, Yu Han was still not at ease, and deliberately was by Nie Shiqu's side.

First, Nie Shiqu's identity allowed him to probe more useful secrets, which allowed him to make correct judgments. The second is that he is extremely suspicious of Li Kui's identity.

Even the head of the palace guards could not be like Li Kui, with a master like Ruan Xiaoer by his side. Especially Li Kui's attitude in the face of threats made him feel terrified. It seems that his own guards, even if they hit Li Kui's body with a fist, they can't hurt Li Kui. What's even more aggrieved is that Yu Han only knows Li Kui's surname, and only knows that Li Kui's name is Li Feng.

The enshrinement is obviously not a person's name, but an identity in the palace.

What Yu Han couldn't understand was that from beginning to end, he couldn't find out Li Kui's real name, and just a Li Feng sent him away, which made him unacceptable. At the same time, Ruan Xiaoer's reaction to killing people if he disagrees should not be what the palace should do at all. This person's identity was not found out for a day, and Yu Han could not be at ease for a day.

and the man in the cloak, which also made Yu Han feel uncomfortable with a thorn in his back.

"Li Xianfeng still has such an elegant taste, it really makes me and other rough people embarrassed. Under the tea instead of wine, toast Li to serve a cup. After Li Kui finished playing the tune, he sat down by the campfire.

Yu Han pretended to be fine, poured out a cup of hot tea from the copper kettle leaning against the campfire, and handed it to Li Kui.

Tea, silk and porcelain.

This is probably the most popular trade in the foreign trade of the Great Song Dynasty.

Unlike in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the tribes of the steppe had acquired the ability to simply smelt pig iron, and independently manufactured iron pot farm tools and weapons.

Mainly in today's Song, Liao, and Western Xia, the situation is very special.

Although the Western Xia and Liao kingdoms were states formed by steppe tribes, there were a large number of Han craftsmen in their territory, and the Central Plains technology brought by the craftsmen allowed them to avoid being controlled by the Central Plains dynasty in terms of the most important war resources.

Li Kui didn't take the teacup for the first time, but looked at Yu Han meaningfully, and the latter smiled kindly: "My tea is not poisonous!" ”

After speaking, he poured himself a sip and took a sip.

Li Kui didn't drink it after taking it, but stared at Yu Han with his eyes fixed on him, and after a long time, he said meaningfully: "Shopkeeper Yu, he doesn't look like a businessman." ”

"Oh, really?" Yu Han chuckled, his eyes were full of amusement, as if Li Kui was telling a joke. In his heart, he was even more wary of Li Kui, and Li Kui's performance was doubtful. But he still pretended to be calm and touched his face, and asked along Li Kui's words: "Yu has been in business for many years, some people have said that Yu is elegant, and some people have said that Yu is greedy. ”

"There's luxury in you."

After Li Kui finished speaking, he no longer looked at Yu Han, but stirred up the charcoal in front of him.

After the flames jumped, the shadows cast by the firelight on his face made his face look particularly terrifying.

The teacup in Yu Han's hand shook, and then he laughed: "Yu borrowed Brother Li's auspicious words, maybe he can be reincarnated in a powerful family in the next life and be a nobleman." ”

Li Kui has always felt that Yu Han is a very strange person, and the strange reason is that his behavior is always unhurried, and he deliberately erases some unique traces.

Li Kui always felt that the other party's behavior was weird. It seems to be an innate habit, or a trace that can't be washed away, which always makes this person give Li Kui an unreal feeling, like another shell on the outside.

Because of suspicion, it attracted Li Kui's attention.

Especially Ruan Xiaoer accidentally killed Yu Han's guard, what will happen to a normal businessman, Li Kui knows a little bit. But Yu Han's indifference made Li Kui completely confirm that the other party's true identity was definitely not a businessman. At the very least, the merchant is nothing more than a cover for him. When his subordinates were accidentally killed, there were only a few people who could show that they didn't care, the superiors, and the high-ranking ones; The second is the general in the army.

The latter is unlikely, and Li Kui can't see that the other party seems to have martial arts.

But the smell of the superior is getting stronger.

Yu Han seemed unwilling to be tempted by Li Kui, and began to test Li Kui: "But Brother Li is not ordinary. If you say you're the leader of the caravan guard, I won't believe anything. I don't know where Brother Li is? ”

"People from the capital."

"Sure enough, he is a human being, presumably Brother Li's identity is not simple, right?"

"It's just a royal offering."

"Offerings? Just an offering? ”

"The palace is enshrined, and there are guards chiefs, stewards, officials appointed by the Ministry of Etiquette, and eunuchs from the palace. It depends on what you think? ”

How could Li Kui be a eunuch like this, Yu Han immediately sneered: "Eunuchs don't have beards, right?" ”

"There are long ones, too. For example, there is a eunuch named Tong Guan next to His Majesty, who is famous for his long beard. Of course, most of the eunuchs grow beards for jokes, but in fact, many of Tong Guan's beards are fake and glued, and there are few beards that really grow on his face. ”

"Haha, Brother Li is really well-informed. The affairs of the capital were at his fingertips, and Yu believed Brother Li's words. Yu Han finally landed on the cup of tea soup he handed to Li Kui, the tea soup is not poisonous, and he is not a strange person who is good at poisoning. It's just that Li Kui's caution really made him very jealous. A person who doesn't believe in anyone is always in big trouble if he follows him.

It's a pity that if you want to get rid of each other, it's impossible.

At least before entering the hinterland of Western Xia, Yu Han had no way to deal with Li Kui.

Li Kui suddenly spilled the tea in his hand on the fire, there was a crisp sound, and a cloud of water vapor steamed, Yu Han was startled at the same time, Li Kui suddenly said: "There are not many nobles in Blackwater City who can consume Great Song brocade, right?" ”

"Li Xianfeng doesn't know, the situation in Blackwater City is a bit special. Although this place is the border city of Western Xia and Liao, although the land is remote, Heishui City has the largest Buddhist temple in Western Xia. Every national teacher given by the Western Xia Emperor will be stationed in Blackwater City. The powerful are as rich as the temple, and the temple has always had a much greater demand for precious goods such as silk than the powerful. ”

"The Huguo Temple in Blackwater City?"

"Brother Li also knows."

Yu Han was moved, he seemed to feel that he was almost close to the answer. If Li Kui was an ordinary royal palace, how could he know that the Huguo Temple in Western Xia was in Heishui City?

The Song and Western Xia were hostile, and the news was closed. Even the caravans were in a hurry and then returned. This kind of news, unless it is an institution like the Imperial City Division, I am afraid that it will be known to several civil officials of the remote yamen in the capital, such as the Ministry Division. Li Kui looked at the five big and three coarse, but he had the bearing of a superior person, and he didn't see much of the scholar's anger, but the warrior was full of determination.

It should be a high-status spy in the Imperial City of the Great Song Dynasty.

The relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and Western Xia has reached below freezing point in recent years. No caravan between the two countries could have been made simply for the sake of making money. It is a fool like Duanwang, who will do anything for money, to believe that the merchant will really do the New Year's coin trade in peace. Li Kui slightly confided some secrets that ordinary people, even ordinary officials, could not know, and Yu Han was greatly nervous.

After drinking the tea in his hand that was a little cool, he said with a haha: "It's getting late, and I have to cross the border tomorrow, so it's better to rest early!" ”

Li Kui bowed his head and said: "It's okay! ”

"Brother-in-law, isn't it okay for you to arrange Father-in-law Tong?"

Yu Han, who had just left not far away, was about to stand up in his ears, brother-in-law? What is the origin of this Li Xianfeng or Nie Shiqu's brother-in-law, and why does he know the most secret things about the Great Song Dynasty?

Li Kui pretended not to find that Yu Han was eavesdropping, but said impatiently: "Tong Guan's beard is already small, he is obviously a eunuch, and he has to pretend to be a man, what if this guy says a few words about him?" ”

Although Li Kui dealt with Nie Shiqu quite impatiently, he secretly gave Nie Shiqu a look, and the latter understood, and lay on the edge of the fire, leaned on Li Kui's side, and said in a low voice: "Brother-in-law, do you doubt Yu Han's identity?" ”

"How did this person get involved with the palace, do you know where it came from?"

Nie Shiqu recalled for a while, but said blankly: "He found the door by himself!" It's already the third year, and it can bring 350,000 yuan of income to the palace every year, such a businessman, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the prince to refuse, right? ”

"Did you go to Blackwater City to sell goods before?"

"That's not it, the younger brother didn't have anything to do before, but I heard from several stewards of the palace that after the caravan left Yan'an Mansion, it usually went to Lingzhou. It's also the first time I've been to Blackwater City, brother-in-law, you don't think there's a problem with Blackwater City, do you? ”

Li Kui couldn't figure out the joints either. Blackwater City may be very mysterious to people thousands of years later, after all, the city on the desert is abandoned because the water source is cut off. Even if the mystery is re-unveiled after a thousand years, it is like dust, and even the dust carries the breath of history. But for the people of Western Xia and Liao in this era, Heishui City was the only way for the two countries to trade and trade.

The rise of this city was naturally the founding emperor of the party to resist the invasion of the Liao State near this city. After that, the city became the gateway to Western Xia and Liao. The city was also home to one of the most elite armies of Western Xia, the Blackwater Army. Even when the Western Xia fought against the Great Song Dynasty at its most difficult, this Blackwater Army, which numbered 50,000 people, never entered the battlefield.

Moreover, there is also one of the most important temples in Western Xia in Blackwater City, Huguo Temple.

Li Yuanhao, the emperor of the party, is a weirdo who often does things that make people scratch his head, such as the 'bald order'. Originally, the hair ornaments of the party people followed the hair ornaments of the Tang people, and they were tossed by Li Yuanhao like this, but they could recognize the unique characteristics of their nation at a glance. But is 'baldness' really good-looking?

The construction of Blackwater City is his merit. However, it is really incomprehensible that he sent such an important person as the national teacher to the border city of Blackwater City.

What is the secret of Blackwater City that made Li Yuanhao invest huge manpower, troops, and financial resources, and even arranged the national teachers in the Huguo Temple in Blackwater City? You must know that in the early days of the founding of the Western Xia, the treasury was empty, and even the emperor had no extra money. To build such a border city, if there is no massive accumulation of wealth, then you can only consume the emperor's imperial power and credit. Especially this city is on the border, for the Western Xia country, it doesn't matter whether it is prosperous or not, but Li Yuanhao insisted on going his own way, but built a male city on the border, which is enough to make people puzzled.

A border city with a monastery of more than 3,000 monks, this arrangement is full of incomprehensible strangeness.

But Li Kui doesn't think so, there is a reason for any arrangement, Li Yuanhao is eloquent, he defeated the male lord of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State, don't think that he is in power in his later years, just think that he can be ordinary.

"What is the reason why Yu Han must go to Blackwater City?"

Li Kui was puzzled.