The problem of the Jin merchants was discovered by a team of embroidered clothes who returned from the grassland and entered the customs from Datong.

This group of embroidered clothes surrounded a Ministry of Rites official went to a tribe in Mobei to canonize the new Taiji, but on the way back to Guannai, they encountered a large caravan.

At first, I didn't think much about it, although Daqi had taken over the seal of the Mongolian Great Khan and became the new co-owner of the grassland, and actually controlled the grassland, there were still some horse bandits who burned and looted on the grassland, especially the caravans who liked to rob the Qi people.

And it has always been like this, those big merchants are okay, they have enough ability to form a big caravan and a big guard, and they can talk to these horse bandits, and the well water does not interfere with the river water.

But the merchants who are not strong enough are in trouble, and in order to deal with these horse bandits, the merchants naturally have a set of coping strategies.

Stick together.

Several small and medium-sized caravans formed a large caravan to go out together, and in the long run, there were those fledgling small caravans on the grassland, and there were only caravans that went to the small tribes not far from the Great Wall to trade, but those who ran farther were big caravans.

After contacting that big caravan, I knew that this big caravan was a joint caravan of the Cao family of the Jin merchants and the Wang family, and the purpose was to take the young master of the Wang family to run a long-distance experience for the first time.

As for why it is a joint caravan, it is still dominated by the Wang family

According to the steward of the Wang family, it was the two of them who happened to meet on the grassland, and the Wang and Cao families married, and the young master of the Wang family is the grandson of the current head of the Cao family, the cousin of the Cao family, and the highest status of the two caravans, which is the main Wang family.

Since the party who passed the decree was of the nature of Qincha, the eight-sided and exquisite steward of the Wang family naturally would not be lazy, and he waited for delicious food and drink along the way back to Datong.

There seemed to be nothing unusual about everything, but when a few embroidered clothes were wandering around, they found that whenever they walked to several places, they would always rush out and enthusiastically hold themselves to drink.

It's unusual!

Some of the smuggling activities of these caravans were actually tacitly tolerated, and even salt and iron were smuggled to a certain extent.

It's not a big amount, it's basically a high-end knife and gun, snowflake salt and other things that the Taiji Hun Taiji of each tribe ordered from Kannai for their own use, the amount is not large, but it is very profitable.

For this reason, the merchants often give filial piety silver to the local government, and even the Datong Thousand Households that embroider clothes will receive a filial piety silver every year, and fifty percent of this silver will go into the public treasury of embroidered clothes, which is basically used as military pay or reward.

In other words, a large part of their income comes from sitting idly by and ignoring the smuggling of merchants.

It can be said that the newcomer who was stopped once or twice reacted too much, but it was seven or eight times and no one came to explain to him.

A few embroidered clothes are sure that there must be something wrong with this caravan!

These embroidered clothes also began to do everything possible to find out what they were smuggling, and after many attempts, they also found the mark of the Jingshui family in northeast Liaoning on those boxes.

But the many temptations eventually aroused the caravan's suspicions, but after all, it was embroidered clothes, and in a few words, they explained their actions clearly and thoroughly, and confused the past.

But the seeds of doubt have been planted in the hearts of both sides.

In order to prevent these people's brains from being hot and killing them, they had no choice but to settle down a few embroidered clothes, and took turns to keep vigil, fortunately, Datong was not far away, and these people still had some scruples, and the two sides returned to Datong with their own thoughts.

After escorting the officials of the Ministry of Rites back to Luoyang, a few embroidered clothes hurriedly reported to the embroidered yamen

After receiving a few reports of embroidery clothes, Tan Ji naturally did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent six hundred miles to Chang'an urgently

finally arrived at Jia Hui's table.

In this regard, Jia Hui didn't have any good way, because the detective behavior of a few embroidered clothes was discovered, those Jin merchants would start to clean up the head and tail no matter what, and hibernate for a while. After all, this is the Great Qi, not the Ming Dynasty, and those Jin merchants have not evolved to the point where they can influence the court!

This is not a troubled time, it is necessary to kill the Jin merchants and sacrifice to the God of Wealth, and the court also needs a justifiable one to do them, I can't do you just because I want to do you, I always have to come up with real evidence.

This is also the reason why Jia Hui sent Cui He and his wife to monitor them, this matter is to be monitored for a long time, the smell of the embroidered clothes can be smelled by these Jin merchants after a long time of contact, but Cui He is different, although Cui He has been a thief all these years, but what he has undergone is the upright pro-military training, and the temperament is a little creepy embroidered clothes, Cui He has a military smell!

Datong locals, after being a soldier for many years, earned enough money, and had no ambition to climb up again, and the rank on his body was enough, so he resigned and returned to his hometown with his wife, but he had no talent, and could only rely on the title given by the imperial court and the rent to live

This is the identity that Embroidery made up for Cui He.

The annual fund of 1,000 taels was also counted as a medal and was issued to them, and they did a full set of dramas, in addition, Jia Hui also gave him a medal of just 1,000 taels - from the beginning of Wupin, he was awarded General Wuluo.

If these Jin merchants who smuggled contraband were successfully eliminated this time, then this title would be officially awarded to Cui He, but if it was not done

When the people are gone, the throne is vacant

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Jia Taiwei's Qixi Nocturne Jiangchi Banquet won the first place with three poems and songs, and it spread throughout Chang'an City almost instantly during the day on the second day, spreading in the streets and alleys, and people continued to take the Qujiangchi Night Banquet poems to the four directions, I believe that it will not be long before Jia Taiwei's literary name can be completely sung throughout the country.

Although the previous song "Hillside Goat" was very shocking, everyone felt that this might be due to Taiwei's feelings, rather than Taiwei's normal level. After all, this kind of thing often happens, and you may have written an article that can be sung for a long time because of your feelings, but when you start to fight for the foundation and skills, there are too many examples of the level of the article being careless.

But after the three articles of Taiwei's Tanabata came out, this statement quickly disappeared, and no one questioned Taiwei's level anymore

Writing one song is considered to be a feeling for you, and writing two is considered lucky, but what about three or four songs?

Especially one poem, one lyric, and one song, this is due to good luck, that is, blind eyes!

Jia Hui, who was working in the Taiwei Mansion and listening to the little official's evaluation of himself outside, couldn't help but blush.

He doesn't have any ability to write poems and songs, it's just that his grandfather in his previous life liked poems and songs very much, so he unconsciously memorized a lot of poems.

Will memorize will be memorized, let him write it himself.

You can write limerick poems, but you can't write words and songs, and Tang Xian's words before also confirm this.

However, the benefits of these three Tanabata articles are not only famous.

For example, when Hu Jiu went to Chang'an Guozi to inquire about the Mengxue class today, it was surprisingly smooth.

In front of this group of old scholars, the identity of the Tai Lieutenant is not as attractive as the identity of the composer, after Hu Jiu revealed his identity to the people of Guozijian, those old scholars entertained him very warmly, and then called out one by one Mr. Jia, and never said a word of Tai Lieutenant in the whole process.

After Hu Jiu, who was blinded by the enthusiasm of the old scholars, walked out of the gate of Guozijian in a daze, he found that he had three more documents in his hand that allowed him to enter the school.

"Hehe, I've finally found something to do for these three bastard boys."

Leaning on the chair, Jia Hui smiled while flipping through the three admission papers, like a villain who had succeeded in his conspiracy.

Little cubs, feel the pain of going to school!

"Governor, Governor?" The little official looked at the Metropolitan Governor who was playing stupidly with a worried face.

"Huh? Oh, take it. ”

Jia Hui, who came back to his senses, also saw the stack of new documents held by the little official, and beckoned him to put the documents on the table for himself.

The little official saw that the Metropolitan Governor was just a daily silly pleasure, so he was relieved, and hurriedly put the paperwork in front of Jia Hui, and then turned to the other side of the table to polish the ink for the Metropolitan Governor.

This metropolitan governor is good, he never deducts anything, he is happy from time to time and gives rewards, and often pays out of his own pocket to buy some sour plum soup, mung bean soup, and some melons and fruits, etc., saying that this is for everyone's welfare and sharing it for everyone to eat

No wonder the household department offered the governor as if he were the god of wealth!

Jia Hui didn't know what the little official was thinking, and he didn't care, and at this time, a long-forgotten thing reappeared on the desk.

The group of Rakshasas who had been found in the dense forests of Xianbeilia had already passed the Tong Pass and were about to arrive in Chang'an.

It may be because they were frightened by the Liaodong military firearms killing several people in a row, or it may be that they are not accustomed to the water and soil, and they fell ill when the group of Rakshasas entered the customs and arrived in Beiping, and they did not recover until half a month ago.

The water and soil of Daqi raise people

After months of recuperation, the faces of several young Rakshasa women finally have a sense of flesh, no longer the skinny and bone-like panicked appearance, and they are forced to clean by the palace maids left behind in the Beiping Palace who take care of them, and after taking a bath three times a day, they can finally see that they are beauties.

Tsk, Slavic women don't mention anything else, but their appearance is very aesthetic.

I'm looking forward to it.

Go back to the emperor and ask for one to go home.

After writing a reading on the document in blue ink, Jia Hui began to read the next document.

It's Anthy's paperwork again.

Yang Wenjin, the protector of the capital, had already figured out the purpose of those Seljuk Zahu, who claimed to be Turkic.

Persia.

Safavids to be exact.

In the same way, the two feudal military empires in West Asia naturally could not tolerate each other, and they would have a fierce struggle over territorial ownership and religious rule, and in the long run, the contradictions between the two military empires became more and more obvious.

As we all know, Islam is broadly divided into two factions, Shia and Sunni.

Safavid Persia regarded Shia as their state religion, while the Ottomans embraced Sunni.

But these two factions were not divided by state, and there were Sunnis in Safavid Persia, and there were Shiites in Ottoman. There are even quite a few, many Shiites in the Ottoman Empire, who are always threatening the security and stability of the Ottoman territory.

A few months earlier, Safavid had given orders to his spy chiefs in Ottoman territory to operate in four parts of Anatolia, that is, in Ottoman territory, so that his spy chiefs could sway some of the rebels against the Seljuk Zahu.

Although the Ottomans were wary of Safavid Persia, they did not expect this day to come so quickly, and the rebel rebellion greatly undermined the stability in the Ottoman territory, and it took a lot of effort to suppress the rebellion.

And another thing that is well known is that heretics are more odious than infidels.

The same is true of these two factions of Islam, because it was the Shia who first provoked the matter, so the Ottomans also let go of the shackles in their hearts, and the methods used were very cruel and brutal, until the end of the rebellion, during which nearly 50,000 people ascended to heaven.

After quelling the rebellion, the Ottomans decided to settle the old and new hatreds, and began to launch a campaign against Safavid Persia. Holy war.

Safavid Persia looked at him, you heretics are still strong, I'm afraid you won't succeed, come to war!

Then it was crushed by the Ottomans and lost a lot of territory, unlike the Iran-Turkey War in the previous life, this time there was no European power to contain the Ottomans.

This group of people pushed the battle line directly to Isfahan.

It is advisable to chase after the poor, and the Ottomans are not stupid, although they may not have this statement, but they must also understand this truth, so they plan to take the opportunity to destroy Safavid Persia in one go, even if they can't eat it all, and they will also break Safavid Persia so that they can't pose a threat

Then they met a group of merchants.

To be precise, he was caught, but it didn't matter, anyway, he was going to kill people and sell goods, and just when the great lord of Babylon, Mustafa Pasha, who was besieging this caravan, was about to order all of them to be killed, the arrogant attitude of the caravan leader attracted the attention of Pasha.

This businessman is not afraid of himself!

Besieged by thousands of cavalrymen armed with scimitars, he didn't want to kowtow and beg for mercy like all the merchants he had ever met, but kept shouting something in Persian: "Lao Tzu is a Qi man!" "The army of Lao Tzu's country is staying in the east of Persia! "Dare to kill Lao Tzu, wait for you to die!" The Pasha was more interested in him.

The generous Pasha decided to forgive the Qi caravan for his wild words, and brought the Qi merchants back to the camp.

After some conversation in Persian, the Pasha finally learned what had happened in recent years in the land of their ancestors

The Mughals were killed by the Qi people!

The group of Mughuls who trampled to death the last caliph of the Abbasid Empire wrapped in a carpet were wiped out by the Qi people in three countries in a row, and now, the vast and boundless steppes of East Asia and Central Asia with abundant water and grass belong to the Qi people!

Realizing that if he continued to fight, he would likely provoke an extremely powerful opponent, Mustafa Pasha, panicked and rushed towards the caliphate stationed in Baghdad overnight with this Qi merchant.

The caliph, who had heard the story of Mustafa Pasha and the Qi merchants, obviously did not believe it, but he still agreed to allow the Pasha to send people to find and ask the Qi people who had come into contact with the Qi people, whether they were Persians or Turks, or even the Qi people themselves

As a result, the news was not much different from what the Qi merchants said, and the caliph was equally shocked, whether others recognized it or not, Lao Tzu had the cheekiness to call himself a caliph, in case the group of Persians united with the Qi people.

That. In case the Qi people are the same as the Mughal people. The West Expedition is over.

What if the Ben Caliph was wrapped in a carpet and trampled to death by a horse?

I haven't drunk enough of the fermented grape juice in this life!

The caliph immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, so he decided to send an envoy to visit Daqi, with any move to disturb Persia and Daqi as the first task, and by the way, to find out the reality of the Qi people

After a glass of fermented grape juice, the caliph made a decision, with Mustafa Pasha as the envoy, and the Qi merchant also gave him a title similar to that of a baron, and let him serve the great Osman as a translator and guide, assisting Mustafa Pasha in his mission to the Great Qi.

As for the rest of the mission. Let the Pasha decide for himself.

Thus, Babylon Pasha Mustafa and the Qi people and merchants embarked on a journey with an uncertain future.

(End of chapter)