In case there is any conflict with the barbarians in the future, they will still have to ask the Tiger Ben Army to save their lives.

Lu Xu turned his gaze to the bitter gourd-faced grain officer, and asked with a smile: "It turned out to be a misunderstanding, it scared me, then just now you said that as long as you use the military post to transport things, you have to use it as a military service?" ”

The grain officer's relaxed expression suddenly tightened again.

When the adjutant general heard this, he turned his head sharply to look at the grain officer, his eyes were both appreciative and reproachful, and he said in his heart, what a good reason! It's a pity that I didn't pinch the soft persimmon, and I broke my teeth.

The grain officer smiled bitterly: "Well, in the past, no one else used the military post ......"

Lu Xu: "You're right, that's still Taishi He's fault, otherwise you can deduct it, and I'll ask Taishi He to compensate." ”

The grain officer immediately changed his words: "Don't, don't, don't, I'm talking nonsense, I didn't memorize the military regulations." ”

Lu Xu: "That ......"

The grain officer gritted his teeth: "Don't worry, I will go to lead the army." ”

Lu Xu accepted it when he saw it: "Look at what you said, misunderstanding, you go back and memorize the military law, and then apologize." ”

The grain officer clasped his fists and saluted: "I'm sorry, it's because I forgot to be a thief and delayed the county order to take office, please do a lot of Haihan." ”

Lu Xuchao said "generously": "My lord, it's not early, since there is no misunderstanding, let's go, Lu Zhou, don't write it, pack up and leave." ”

Lu Zhou, who has not yet found Shui Yanmo: "...... Oh. ”

He immediately packed up his pen and ink and put the token in place.

The deputy general saw the token from afar, and his eyes were dark, he could really write a letter to the prince's mansion!

He saw a letter in Lu Zhou's hand and asked, "What is this?" ”

Lu Zhou: "I'll send it another day." ”

The deputy general said enthusiastically: "No need, since the prince has the messenger token of the prince's mansion, he can send it." ”

Lu Zhou looked at him, and then at the little soldier who had refused to accept his letter before, and said politely: "I'm not in a hurry, wait for the weather to be good, or send other letters to Beijing together." You have a point, the road is far and difficult, and I will explain to His Highness in the future that I will only send letters once a month. ”

The creep nodded hurriedly.

The partial general sent by He Chengye helped them load Lu Xu's things into the car, Yan Junqi handed over the selected medicinal materials to the military doctor, Lu Xu took Yan Junqi's documents back from the grain officer, handed over the two letters written by Fan Xiao to the deputy general, and asked him to transfer them on his behalf and continue to travel north.

This time, no one made it difficult, and they quickly got out of Crouching Tiger Pass.

When they left the customs, the deputy general immediately went back to the post station to take the letter that Lu Zhou was going to send and open it for inspection.

He didn't dare to open the letter written by Fan Xiao, Lu Zhou's, he had to take a look.

The grain officer also came, and they swept through quickly, and it turned out to be an ordinary letter that looked like a family letter, recording what Lu Zhou had seen and heard in the past five days and some feelings.

The content I wrote last night was full of praise for how majestic and majestic Crouching Tiger Pass was, lamenting how hard the soldiers practiced in the heavy snow, writing that the soldiers on duty had almost become snowmen, and that everyone had chilblains, but lacked clothes and medicine, and so on.

He also asked the soldiers on duty about their usual food, and Jiang Hao lamented that they were not well fed and clothed, and the hardships and hardships of the border were compared with the extravagance of the magnates in the capital, which was shocking, and hoped that the imperial court could allocate funds to them as soon as possible to keep them fed and clothed.

Adjutant General: "......"

Food Officer: "......"

In order to save paper, Lu Zhou wrote very small, the sky was gloomy outside, and there was no light in the house, so they had some difficulty watching.

However, Lu Zhou's words are straightforward, the memory is true, and there seems to be no difficulty in the whole text, and when they read Lu Zhou's writing that their hands and faces were frostbitten, their feet had to be pulled out of every step on the snow, and they ate clear water and wild vegetables with bran cakes, they almost burst into tears.

Obviously, they eat like this themselves, but why do people feel so miserable when they write it?

The grain officer was full of regret.

finally came to a person who could write and speak, and could go straight to the prince's mansion to cry for them, how could he offend people?

I don't know if it's time to scold them next.

The grain officer sighed, "Alas, my lord, am I going to lead the army?" ”

Adjutant General: "What do you say?" ”

Even if Lu Zhou didn't write a complaint, Zhu Ji saw everything he should have seen and shouldn't see, so could it be difficult to wait for the general to send someone to enforce the law?

The grain officer cried and mourned, and went to lead the army majestically.

The adjutant also sighed and put down the letter, walked away with a gloomy face, and after a while turned his head and came back, "Give me the letter first." ”

Little Soldier: "Don't send it to him?" ”

"Send!" This letter has to be sent for everything! He wants to take it away and copy it, and go back to them to learn how to cry poor.

Chapter 273: Arrival

Out of Crouching Tiger Pass, Lu Xu began to scold wildly, no wonder the northwest is not good, he was robbed first when he went out of the customs, and he had to do it again!

Lu Xu has rich experience in being robbed from Guanyang to the present, and it is the first time that he has played such a blatant scoundrel and shamelessness.

Back then, the Xiao Cavalry Army also played a bandit.

The northern army finally said that they would pay it back on credit.

When you get to the Tiger Army, you don't even want to have a reason, so you just grab it?

They know He Chengye, the Tiger Benjun wants to detain things, if they don't know He Chengye, without the token of the Prince's Mansion, can they take things out of the customs smoothly?

They are county officials, but what about ordinary merchants and ordinary people? Still not allowed to be peeled off?

With this group of bandits here, how can he engage in trade routes?

Lu Xu snorted angrily: "If you don't count on the Tiger Ben Army to save your life in the future, it's not good to turn your face and it's too ugly, and you won't be able to kill them!" ”

Lu Xu was worried, the Tiger Ben Army was brought out by Fan Xiao, and they had reached the point where the geese had plucked their feathers, so what was the situation in Dingbei County?

The three of them lost the optimism they had when they first arrived, and they were ready to take a good look along the way.

The westbound journey out of Crouching Tiger Pass is Beiguan County, and the eastbound journey is Xifeng County, and when they go to take office, they must first pass through Beiguan County and continue to the north.

Beiguan County is the smallest county in the northwest, close to Wohu Pass, and it is also the county with the highest concentration of military households and the largest concentration of Daqi people.

The county seat here is only built in recent years, the whole county is basically full of mud houses, the main street is still spacious, and a little farther away is the earthen houses and thatched houses built by the people themselves, the size is different, very messy.

They observed all the way, there were many small traders here, but the shops were not big, Lu Xu went to ask the price, and he was almost not scared.

He could understand what He Chengye was smiling at him that night, and the entire county was full of black shops.

The price is ridiculously high.

Lu Xu: "Look! Crouching Tiger Pass, who do they think they are robbing? Robbing the rich and helping the poor?! ”

Can a businessman lose?

Who will come after they have lost?

As much as Crouching Tiger Pass deducts, they will pass on that share of the money to the people who buy goods outside the customs.

He didn't know that this was also found by Su Lingzhong with great effort.

In the past, no merchants were willing to go out of the customs, and those who dared to go out of the customs also wanted to do gold and silver business with the barbarians or buy precious animal skins and bones.

Originally, Beiguan County wanted to build the county seat further north, but in order to facilitate trade with the Guannei, the county seat was moved to the south for dozens of miles.

But as soon as they moved, the people followed suit, and they preferred to have less land than to be too far away from the county seat, for fear that they would be thrown into the territory of the barbarians.

As a result, the entire county seat, and even all the layouts of Daqi in the northwest, are shrinking to the south.

Lu Xu and their mighty long team of people entered the city, attracting the whole city to watch, and the county order was alarmed.

When I asked about it, it turned out to be a colleague.

Li Xianling of Beiguan County looked at their long convoy, not to mention how envious he was, and couldn't help but say: "Yan Xianling is younger and more thoughtful than the old man." ”

He was transferred from the east, and he had been walking all the way for almost four months, not to mention bringing so many things, and people were about to fall apart.

After arriving, the whole family was not adapted, and he was sick for half a month, and he was dignified and ordered, and he couldn't find all the medicine in the county, but fortunately, his wife and children survived.

Later, Su Lingzhong wanted to open a trade route outside the pass, he was the first to respond, and he also united Xifeng County and Wohu Pass to scold for several months, and finally got Crouching Huguan to agree to let the caravan enter and exit the pass, which brought in some merchants.

After more than two years of hard work, at least the city wall of Beiguan County has been built, and the basic living materials are also available.

The hardships are not enough for outsiders, and then look at Yan Junqi, who has not yet arrived at the place, the materials brought by the good guy are vast and cannot be seen, and at a glance, there is no shortage of food and clothing.

The contrast was so strong that he couldn't help but want to pluck a handful of bitter tears, and his eyes were so sour that his eyes were hot.

Are all the prefectural orders of Daqi so rich?

I haven't heard that Daqi has a big family surnamed Yan!

Yan Junqi borrowed the post station to rest and filled the small post station in Beiguan County.

Li County ordered the officials to help together, help them put their things away, and then pick up the wind and wash the dust for them.

It is not easy to survive outside the customs, it is not easy to be an official, and there are few people in total, depending on which colleague is cordial.

Yan Junqi and Lu Xu took Lu Zhou and also brought gifts to Beiguan County to learn from the order and inquire about the situation in Dingbei County.

He was supposed to go to the county guard for this matter, but Su Lingzhong was sick and couldn't take care of himself, and he didn't even have any relatives around him, so he had to send someone to take care of him, and Yan Junqi was not embarrassed to chase him and ask too much.

Li Xianling had also not heard about the internal affairs of Guan for a long time, and when he heard that Yan Junqi was from the capital, he couldn't help but ask him about the movements of the court first.

He saw that this young man was not arrogant or rash, and he was sincere and kind, so he invited them to the county government house for a family banquet.

It was already winter, and they didn't have anything to eat, so they chopped cabbage and wrapped vegetarian buns, and put a plate of bacon and three kinds of pickles.

Li County order: "Outside the customs is not as good as inside the customs, and there is nothing to eat in winter. ”

Yan Junqi: "Lord Li is polite, we are also from a farming family, and we know the hardships of storing food in winter." I wonder if the people in the city have enough food to survive the winter? ”

Li Xian Ling's impression of Yan Junqi was a little better when he heard this, and he sighed: "It is not enough to rely on food alone, the people rely on the stored wild vegetables to make their stomachs, and before winter, they also found some non-toxic trees and grass roots, and mixed the bark and grass roots into the flour to eat." ”

Lu Zhou, who was gnawing on the buns sweetly, slammed his movements when he heard this.

Seeing that his big eyes were full of shock, Li Xianling couldn't help but give him another big bun.

"The most important thing outside the customs is nothing more than two things, one is stability, and the other is to let the people eat."

"Lord Yan was born in Longxing County, although Longxing is remote, but the terrain is flat, the water source is abundant, even if the people are not rich, it is not a problem to eat enough, this little boy is still young, probably has not seen a famine. Outside the border is different, the climate here is cold, there are few places to grow crops, it is not easy to eat a stomach, no matter what you eat, as long as you can fill your stomach, grass or trees, you have to eat. ”

"The situation in Xifeng County is better, they are close to Tianhu Mountain in the east, they can cut firewood, hunt, and find wild fruits and vegetables in three seasons. You and I have to think of more ways to do it. After Lord Yan took office, he remembered that urging the people to save grain should be the top priority every year. ”

Yan Junqi nodded, "Thank you Lord Li for your advice." ”