Lu Xu has starry eyes, and he can't wait to finish planning this deserted street immediately, inns, restaurants, groceries, forage, grain shops, cloth shops, and food streets......

If you can't run out, you can rent it out!

Who can understand the happiness of chartering a public charter wife?!

He happily entered the Dengzhou Yamen, returned all the silver he had just received, and owed another 100 taels of silver to the Dengzhou County Yamen.

Lu Xu was not worried at all, and immediately sold things in Dengzhou.

In order to make money quickly, he also asked Cui County to organize a dinner party to meet rich people this time, and the location was chosen in the largest restaurant in Dengzhou.

The shopkeeper is also an acquaintance of Lu Xu, and he was still studying art in Guanyang at the end of last year.

This time, Lu Xu did not sell food or groceries, but took out some of the embroidery he brought from the village.

Those beautiful embroidered paintings have been made into fans and scrolls, and as soon as they were opened, they shocked the rich people of Dengzhou.

Light and shadow, composition, layering, and delicate color transitions make the people of Dengzhou, who are full of martial virtues, stunned.

Anyway, they haven't seen it, Lu Xu dares to blow it, what Longxing County literati and celebrities are sought-after artworks, the latest technology from the south, each one must be carefully embroidered by excellent embroiderers for several months, and it depends on the weather and light before embroidery......

In short, it's just a mysterious ritual to bathe and burn incense to worship the gods before embroidery.

If he dares to brag nonsense, some people will dare to believe it, and one by one he will ask questions with high interest.

Lu Xu made up the book while slandering, no wonder the kind of fairy fairy ghost routine full of logical words are so popular, this group of people really haven't heard any stories! When he goes back, he must let the little embroidery girls in the village embroider a few illustrations of the story, and it is best to make a comic book to blind their dog eyes!

They were so interested, Lu Xu was embarrassed, a fan cost five taels, a scroll cost twenty taels, and they sold it hard.

After a few dinners, Lu Xu not only scraped together the money owed to the county government, but also got the "nickname" of "Lu Yijie".

Lu Xu smiled, handed over the remaining silver to Luo Chun's two cousins, and left them to supervise the construction of the shop in Dengzhou.

He didn't feel at ease about handing over such a big project with so much money to outsiders, it was best to give it to Luo Chun or Lu Qing, but they were more worried about the safety of Lu Xu going north, Lu Xu thought about it, and left this job to Luo Chun's two younger brothers.

The two of them were stunned when they got the money, and said in disbelief: "Give it to us? ”

Lu Xu took it for granted: "Otherwise, who will I give it to?" Aren't we supposed to be working together? ”

"But ......"

"There's nothing to do, I've been delayed in Dengzhou for too long, I can't delay it any longer, Dengzhou is in ruins, it's not easy to build, in short, don't be in a hurry, build two inns first, so that our people can have a place to stay." Lu Xu patted the two of them on the shoulder, "It's all up to you!" ”

This time, Lu Xu only had time to draw a very rough planning map, and regardless of whether the Luo family understood it or not, he left a dozen helpers, and left all the bandits from Dengzhou to work, and went on the road non-stop early the next morning.

The two of the Luo family and more than a dozen helpers looked at the smoke and dust billowing away, messy in the wind at the gate of Dengzhou City.

Further north, it is Baoshan County, Lu Xu still concocted according to the law, turning all the local bandits into tea shed owners and associates, and the rest of the houses that are too far from the avenue are also stuffed into the tea shed indiscriminately.

However, in Baoshan, he did not do everything as he did in Dengzhou, and generally just chose a good place on the same day, arranged good manpower, and set off early the next morning.

The bandits from Baoshan are very messy, and Chen Lian, who is in charge of supervising the bandits, is also very messy.

He doesn't have many people in his hands, Lu Xu is so scattered, how can he take care of it?

Originally, he disliked Lu Xu for walking too slowly in Dengzhou, but now he wishes that Lu Xu could be so slow.

Lu Xu is in a hurry, he threw money all the way, earned as much as he spent, and was afraid that he had not yet reached Yonggu County, and the money and goods had been wasted by him.

At first, he was still like this, how much money he earned and how much money he spent while selling, and then he couldn't figure it out at all.

His small notebook was scribbled and painted by him into a large number of small black balls, Lu Xu lay in the tent at night and read the account book by the firelight, and he couldn't understand what he wrote.

He closed the small notebook, and couldn't help but miss Yan Junqi again, if Yan Junqi was there, where would he still care.

Out of Baoshan, Lu Xu finally stopped his move of throwing money everywhere and began to focus on hurrying, which made Lu Qing, Luo Chun, and Chen Lian all breathe a sigh of relief.

Especially Chen Lian, he didn't know anything about Lu Xu's style of acting, and he was shocked to see it all the way, and silently gave Lu Xu a nickname - the boy of scattered wealth.

His family background is not bad or bad, and he knows a lot of rich children, but it is the first time he has seen someone like Lu Xu who can earn so much and dare to spend.

He doubted whether Lu Xu was in conflict with the money, as long as he had more than ten taels in his pocket, he would definitely spend it.

After Baoshan, there are only more than 50 bandits left in their team, these bandits are from Menliang County, and it is very tragic that Lu Xu does not pass through Menliang County on this way, they can only follow Lu Xu to continue north.

After Baoshan and Chuanqiu County, they arrived at Qinglong City, the capital of Shuozhou.

Qinglong City is named after its backing on Qinglong Mountain.

Qinglong Mountain has three main peaks, two of which just squeeze out a small plain, and Qinglong City is built on this small plain, guarding the main road from north to south.

This centuries-old city is not only the economic and political core of Shuozhou, but also a military powerhouse, and after many generations of accumulation, it is one of the largest prefectures in Daqi in terms of area and prosperity.

Lu Xu looked up at the bluestone boulder built, with a city wall more than 20 meters high, and was shocked to the extreme.

When he entered the urn city and was watched closely by the garrison on the city wall from a high place, he felt even more chilled in his heart, and he didn't dare to breathe.

The cold light in the hands of those soldiers above their heads is full of arrows, in case anyone accidentally slips his hand, his life is not over?

Lu Xu grew up so old for the first time to enjoy the treatment of being pointed at by dozens of bows and arrows, the taste was sour, unforgettable for life, he clamped his tail tightly and didn't say much nonsense, he answered whatever others asked, and Lu Qing was so honest that he was not used to it.

After checking his identity and checking the goods, Lu Xu put on the paperwork and hurried into the city for a moment.

When all of them entered the city safely, Lu Xu spat out and complained: "Damn, I'm scared to death." ”

Lu Qing, who had been by his side, laughed sullenly.

The author has something to say:

The heroic fortune boy Lu Yijie repeatedly jumped sideways between the bold and the timid as a mouse.

Lu Xu (annoyed and angry): Cross out! My name is (zhen) cherish (gou)life!

Chapter 142: Arrival

When they arrived in Qinglong City, Chen Lian was more familiar with them than them, and took the initiative to be Lu Xu's guide and found a big inn for Lu Xu.

Chen Lian: "Rest assured, it's absolutely safe, this is the inn that our general covers." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

Chen Lian: "Okay, you guys rest, if you have anything to ask the guys, I have to go back to the barracks, and before you leave, you ask the guys in the store to call me to the barracks." ”

Lu Xu hurriedly asked, "Is Brother He in the city?" ”

Chen Lian: "I don't know, what? Are you looking for the Overseer? ”

Lu Xu: "It's nothing, it's just that if he happens to be free in Qinglong City, I have to go and see him." ”

After getting acquainted with each other, and calling the eldest brother for two days, Lu Xu felt that he had arrived at the door, how could he not go to see him? That's not enough friends.

Chen Lian nodded: "Okay, I'll take a look for you." ”

Lu Xu took down a small jar of wine from the car, "If Brother He is not here, you can help me leave this to him." ”

This is the pear wine that Lu Xu brought from Guanyang, with a little sweet pear fragrance, and it is not delicious.

Chen Lian knew that Lu Xu was precious to his two carts of wine, and said in his heart that this kid had eyes, hugged the small jar and smiled, "I promise to deliver it for you." ”

Lu Xu waved at him.

He still didn't know what He Chengye's identity was, and asked Chen Lian, Chen Lian said, "The Overseer is the Overseer", I don't know if he is stupid or strict-mouthed.

But he didn't offend He Chengye after thinking about it, he took advantage of people and called people big brothers, and he didn't care about a big man if he thought about it, He Chengye also said that he would find a pen, and he didn't know if he found it.

He remembered that He Chengye was redrawing maps in other military camps and his subordinates, and after many days of hard work, they were inspired by Lu Xu's rough maps and deciphered the scale and direction angles.

From the marching army, they used to say that the east, west, north, south, southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest eight directions, to the target location, and then according to the front and rear directions of the mountains, rivers, landforms, and cities drawn on the map, the specific direction is judged, if you can find a guide, if you don't have a guide, whether it is distance or direction, there will always be some deviation.

Lu Xu began to draw corners from elementary school mathematics learning, under the influence of protractors and geometry problems, drawing drawings by hand, the accuracy is less than one degree, and the deviation is not more than three or five degrees, he inadvertently draws the scale and more accurate direction and angle into the simple diagram, and uses circles and dots instead of villages and towns, and the sketch drawn is like a coordinate system, which is much simpler than the military map.

Referring to his drawing methods, the Lang officials pondered some symbols representing mountains and rivers, and after many days of perfecting, they drew the first improved map, which became many times more intuitive and simple than the previous complex map.

When He Chengye got his hands on it, he found that there were many incoherent vacancies, and he sent troops to escort the Lang officers to re-survey, this time it was not only about which mountain was in front of which mountain and which mountain was behind which mountain, but to accurately measure the distance.

They raced against time to present the improved new map of Shuozhou to the imperial court within the year.

He Chengye was busy running around, and Lu Xuke didn't know at all.

He honestly and unceremoniously grabbed the inn guy and asked all kinds of information about Qinglong City, especially the prices, markets, business travel, etc., and then spent one day selling the remaining embroidery at a high price, and spent two days visiting all the small and large shops in Qinglong City, and had a general idea of the prices of grain, cloth, livestock, land, shops, etc. in Qinglong City and even Shuobei.

Subsequently, he replenished some supplies in Qinglong City, and then asked his men to go to the military camp to find Chen Lian, and continued to set off north.

Chen Lian: "You can stay in a small place like Dengzhou for several days, why don't you go to Qinglong City to visit?" ”

Lu Xu: "Of course I want to go shopping, but I don't have enough time." ”

He still wants to come back before winter, but he can't hurry.

Chen Lian laughed at him: "You deserve it, who let you delay in Dengzhou for so long, if you want me to say, if you have that silver, it is better to buy a shop in Qinglong City, there are many people, safe, and I can help you watch it." ”

Lu Xu pondered what he wanted to purchase next time, and said, "Qinglong City is too expensive, where can I afford it!" Buying a shop in Qinglong City is enough for me to buy half a street in Dengzhou. ”

Chen Lian: "Qinglong City is impregnable, which is comparable to Dengzhou." ”

Lu Xu: "Dengzhou is south, how can it be so easy to fight Dengzhou County, we have won the barbarians, and it will be safe for at least the next ten or eight years." ”

However, if the trade route goes well, he doesn't mind buying property along the way.

You don't need to rent it out yourself!

Taking advantage of the fact that the land price was cheap just after the war, the big businessmen in the south had not yet stretched out their hands and feet, and they could buy as much as they could.

From Qinglong Castle to the north, the terrain along the road becomes flat, and you can gradually see sparse cultivated fields and village farmhouses on the side of the road, and the people who are farming in the fields are very alert, but when they see that it is the Daqi people from the south, they will become very friendly.

Seeing such a large caravan of them, some people will take the initiative to talk to them on the side of the road and ask them where they are going.

Lu Xu asked if he could stay overnight, and almost no village would reject and refuse, so enthusiastic that Lu Xu was a little in a trance.

Chen Lian explained to him that between Qinglong Mountain and Qianjiaoling, there is an open land in Hongxian County and Yonggu County, which is not only the grain production area of the entire Shuozhou, but also the main plundering place of the barbarians.

There are many mountains and little grain in the south of Shuozhou, no matter what, this area cannot be abandoned, but this open land is difficult to stop the barbarian cavalry, once the barbarians break through the Qianjiao Ridge in the south, Shuozhou has to retreat to Qinglong City to defend and counterattack.

And the people of Hong County and Yonggu County, who were unwilling to leave their hometowns or did not retreat in time, were sandwiched between the barbarians and Qinglong City, and became one of the main forces resisting the barbarians.

Lu Xu was surprised: "People? ”

Chen Lian: "Well, people, our Shuozhou is high, the weather is cold, rice and wheat can't grow, only once a year, the barley, buckwheat, wheat, beans planted, not as good as the rice and wheat harvest, if the harvest is robbed by the barbarians, even if they escape, they will freeze to death and starve to death in winter, so Qinglong City is willing to accept them, and they will not retreat." ”

When Lu Xu borrowed a place in a village in Hong County, Lu Xu saw that every family had a knife, and when asked, they even proudly said that in the whole of Shuozhou, only the people of Hong County and Yonggu County were allowed to have sabers in their homes, and the government did not accept them.

Both Hongxian and Yonggu counties cover a large area, and the three-story city wall encloses the county seat into a fortress.