As Xie Jin worried, until the Rongchang really opened, the only people who were willing to join the Rongchang were only seven Han toasts, including Ye Shangren.

Those local slang people and Xu Hu seem to have made an appointment a long time ago, and none of them have found this Lianzhou city, as if they regard the Lianzhou Mansion, which has been in full swing in the past few months, as if His Royal Highness Zhou has never been to Lianzhou from beginning to end.

"Brother Tian, Brother Gao." In recent months, with the investment attraction in Lianzhou City, many businessmen have come and gone to Lianzhou Mansion, and the only restaurant in the city has become increasingly prosperous. Although there are also many restaurants and wine shops that have opened one after another with the sudden increase in foreign population, when it comes to the only restaurant in Lianzhou Mansion that can be handled, it is still the only Dongpo Building where His Royal Highness King Zhou has invited officials from Lianzhou.

Today, in the private room on the top floor of the Dongpo Building, there are three quite magnificent figures, the middle-aged man who is obviously the east is standing by the door and arching his hand to the two guests, with a warm smile on his face: "The two brothers are late, but let the little brother wait for a long time, come on, come on, the wine and food have already been prepared, just wait for the two brothers!" ”

"Brother Qin is polite." The two middle-aged people surnamed Tian and Gao smiled and returned the salute, and the three of them were polite and sat in the private room. As soon as the door of the private room was closed, several big men blocked the door, so as not to eavesdrop on the conversation of their master.

"Brother Tian and Brother Gao haven't seen each other for many days, I don't know if the clan is still rich in recent days?" The middle-aged man surnamed Qin said with a smile.

"Hahahaha, okay, okay. In recent years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and although my family is digging in the land, we can still count some surplus grain at home......" The man surnamed Tian laughed. The man surnamed Gao said, "It's you, Brother Qin...... Now that there is less exploitation by the Yuan Court, the business in the clan will inevitably be more prosperous, right? He chuckled. I don't know how many good beads have been produced this year? ”

"Not much, not much...... "The middle-aged man surnamed Qin said modestly. However, from the color on his face, it can also be known that the number of beads they produced must have been quite large.

This middle-aged man surnamed Qin is a Xu Hu Tusi in the territory of this Lianzhou Mansion. And these two Tian brothers and senior brothers are the slang toasts of Lianzhou Mansion. Don't look at their Han clothes, speak Chinese, and even from the point of view of etiquette and behavior, they are also complete Han people. But they are really the Tusi in the territory of Lianzhou Mansion.

Although it is located in the southwest coast, but in fact, it is not a place where the religion is not prosperous, Lianzhou has been under the rule of China for more than a thousand years, and when it comes to the Han family education, it has already been popularized to this place of Lianzhou.

When Lao Zhu was fighting for the world in the past, in order to deal with the Meng Yuan who fled north, he gave the frontier tribes who were willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the tribal leaders in the north, the Turkish heroes in the west, or the Tusi in the south, all of them were sealed as local officials, and they were allowed to inherit their positions and govern their people. This is the policy of "restraint". To a certain extent, this kind of loose ethnic policy ensured the smoothness of the Ming Dynasty's unification of the world, reduced the difficulty of the Chinese imperial court to govern the border areas, and also enabled the Ming Dynasty to save a lot of military expenditures.

However, even in that case, Lao Zhu still issued a death order to these attached Tu tribes: stipulating that they must take Han surnames, wear Han clothes, learn Chinese language, and learn Han family education. For the northern tribes that posed the greatest threat, Lao Zhu also demanded that they should not marry among the same tribe, but must intermarry with the Han people, in order to use this means to gradually assimilate them, so that they can truly become Chinese people in the future.

The Chinese culture is profound and extensive, and these Tu people themselves do not contradict it. For example, the Tu people who have lived under the rule of China for a long time in Lianzhou, their Tusi have actually been familiar with Chinese culture very early. If you talk about the ordinary people in the clan, there may be some people who don't understand Chinese pronunciation, don't take Han surnames, and don't wear Han clothes, but they, the Tusi leaders, have long been no different from the Han people. It's just that in order to rule the people under his rule, most of the Han books are hidden and tucked away, and they are not allowed to pass under the rule.

The foolish people, for them toasts, are the best ones to control. If they are influenced by the Han people who are "princes and generals, and rather have a kind of", how can they, the Tusi family, be passed on from generation to generation for generations?

They entered the city this time to sell pearls. As we all know, Lianzhou is rich in southern pearls, and selling pearls is also one of the main sources of income for these Tusi tribes. The Ming Dynasty didn't care much about the income of Nanzhu, and it was not like the previous Yuan Dynasty, which deliberately set up a pearl diving lifting division to collect the profits of Nanzhu, so these profits were naturally swallowed by their local toasts who took advantage of the opportunity to change the dynasty.

With such a big profit, then it is natural to need a way to sell. Those Hakka merchants in the city naturally came for the benefit of this Nanzhu. These toasts, every family has a large number of Nanzhu for sale. The slang people produced a little less pearls, so the two families would cooperate with the Qin family, who was born in the Xu family, and the three of them would trade with the merchants in the city to make an agreed place to sell them at a better price.

They entered the city today to make an appointment with the merchants to make a deal.

Several people exchanged pleasantries for a while, and these words naturally shifted to the boiling field in the city in recent days. Speaking of the field, the Gao surname Tusi smiled and said, "I heard that the Han people of the Ye family actually led the investigation of the imperial court and opened a shop in this field to openly sell pearls...... Hehe, just a few of their few Nanzhu, how much money can they sell? ”

"I still have to tax the imperial court, and in my opinion, these Han people are all dizzy. Let the court share the profits, how can we be happy to accept the profits ourselves? ”

"That time, His Royal Highness the King of Zhou was messing around, treating this Lianzhou as a northern land, thinking that he could also make profits by opening a field...... Xu bought off the Ye family to support him. Otherwise, if this arena is empty, where should he put the face of a prince? "Tian surnamed Tusi Dao." The ...... surnamed Ye After all, they are Han people, and they still have to be restrained by the Han government. If the king of Zhou was coercive and tempting, he really couldn't turn a deaf ear...... It's good for them to go to this mess, and we just don't know. ”

The Tusi surnamed Qin picked up the tea cup on the table, took a sip of tea slowly, and then said: "Hehe, the Nanzhu in the hands of the Han Tusi is less than a fraction of the production of our clan, and we have to collect taxes from the imperial court, how can we be our opponents?" ”

"The Ye family wants to accompany King Zhou, but as soon as King Zhou finishes suppressing bandits, he will return to Beijing. At that time, even if the Ye family does not die, it will be greatly damaged. Maybe you will have to sell the pearl pool in the clan......" Tusi surnamed Qin smiled slightly, and seemed to have Zhizhu in his hand. "Maybe I'll wait this time, and I can go to the next level!"

These toasts are naturally not monolithic, and there are also secret fights and open contentions. If they can take the opportunity to annex the Nanzhu business of those Han toasts, these people will naturally not do it.

"Okay, let's not talk about that." After chatting a few more words, the surname Qin is Tusidao. After all, this is the city of Lianzhou, and even this Dongpo Building is now the property of the Zhou Palace. Although they had arranged guards at the door beforehand, who could guarantee that the partition wall would not have ears.

"It's better to hurry, after trading the goods with those merchants, it is only right to return to our clan...... It's strange and strange, why are those merchants so slow to come today? On weekdays, when they see us and others coming to the city to sell pearls, shouldn't they be rushing to them one by one, right? Tusi, surnamed Qin, looked at the door where there was no movement, and said in confusion.

(End of chapter)