Li Xiu had long felt that something was wrong, but Lu Xu was a businessman and couldn't be an official, so he didn't ask.

Hearing this, he couldn't help but ask: "Is his surname Lu?" Called Lu Xu? ”

Su He couldn't hold back: "Lu Xu didn't study, he can't be an official, right?" Should the official be surnamed Yan? ”

Li Xiu remembered the neighbor that Lu Xu always boasted about: "Oh yes, it's called...... Yan Junqi! ”

He wondered: "Yan Shulang didn't take the exam to stay in Beijing, how could he be in Beiting County?" ”

Su He: "It's in the capital." ”

That's what Lu Xuan said, saying that Yan Junqi was a big official in the capital.

Su He got up: "I'll ask Second Uncle Lu." ”

Hearing this, Jiang Junshou hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "Yes, the county commander and county lieutenant of Beiting County are Yan Junqi and Lu Xu, and they are in Beiting County at the moment. ”

He had only heard that Lu Xu had been doing business in the north, but he didn't know that Lu Xu was familiar with Li Xiu.

Listening to Li Xiu's tone, it was obvious that he was very familiar.

He briefly recounted the rumors he had heard about how Yan Junqi and Lu Xu had traveled from the capital to Beiting County.

Hearing that it was Taishi He who recommended Yan Junqi to Beiting County to serve as the county commander, Li Xiu snorted, and said in a strange manner: "The northwest needs talents, so don't we need it in the north?" No matter how good it is, it will be stuffed to the northwest. ”

Jiang Junshou: "......"

Three county magistrates in the north: "......"

Although Li Xiu didn't look at the three of them at all, he always felt that General Li's words were particularly meaningful.

General Li, aren't you even scolding yourself when you scold like this?!

The author has something to say:

Li Xiu: Write a complaint, complain, cry poor, sell miserably, and ask for people. Master He, you are eccentric!

Chapter 328: Backer

Coming out of the camp tent, Su He hurried to inform the Guanyang Alliance, which had just arrived at the camp a few days ago.

Guanyang mainly grows winter wheat, and the early spring is not so busy, while the northern territory is full of spring planting and autumn harvest, and the early spring is the busy time.

Ministries are also preparing for nomadism, and this season is also an important procurement season.

Now that the entire trade route has been smoother than before, and the road conditions are getting better and better, in the past two years, the Guanyang Alliance and other caravans will come to the north in early spring to sell a batch of spring supplies.

The north has just thawed, and the grass has not yet sprouted, but the spring vegetables and wild vegetables in Longxing have been harvested.

There are caravans that specialize in transporting vegetables in this season, and although there are losses on the road, the high price of this season can make up for the losses along the way.

The fatty and tender greens in early spring can satisfy the hunger of military households from all over the country.

In addition, copper kettles, cutlery, etc., which are convenient for nomadic tribes to carry, are also very popular.

There are now several workshops in Dengzhou and Qinglong City, which can hammer the bronze ware lightly and beautifully, and they will also specialize in making some styles that the barbarians like, which are popular among the barbarian tribes in the north.

Cloth, ready-to-wear, are also necessities.

Frequent merchants are already familiar with the general size and preferences of the barbarians, they buy leather from the north, buy cloth from the south, return to their hometowns to find ready-to-wear shops or embroidery houses, and even go back to their hometowns to distribute some handicrafts to their relatives and neighbors in the village to make clothes for the four seasons. There are also workshops for processing leather and wool throughout Shuozhou County.

Herdsmen with good conditions will buy ready-made clothes directly, and if conditions are poor, they will buy cloth and sew it themselves.

Tan Shishi's village has now opened two ready-to-wear shops, and they are busy cutting clothes in winter, which is the best-selling season.

Other caravans may go to other camps, but the Guanyang Alliance must have gone straight to Yishan Village this season.

Su He came from Daying on a fast horse, and Lu Qingdu had already sold the goods and was ready to go back.

Tan Shi's mother also went to Lunlan to buy fresh meat, and was chopping stuffing for them to make dumplings to see off Lu Qing.

Aya happened to be playing here, and when Su He arrived, she was teasing the youngest daughter of the Tan Shishi family.

The little girl was chubby, only six months old, wrapped in a flower cotton jacket, gnawing on her little finger, and looking at the jewel pendant on Aya's head with big round eyes.

Su He came to find it, and Aya thought that there was something in the clan, and her brother came to find her.

Hearing that he had news of Lu Xu, Tan Shishi A-Niang hurriedly called Qiu Yan to call Lu Qing and them back.

When a few people heard the news, they threw down the half-loaded carriage, and with a hula, a group of people ran to Tan Shishi's house.

Su He, Aya, Tan Shishi and the guys in the caravan didn't have any concept of being officials, but Lu Qing, Qiu Hu and Zhang Baihu knew a little better.

Chuanyu is not far from the champion, how can he be sent to the northwest to be an official in a good manner?

Zhang Baihu asked: "Brother Lu, they can't have done something wrong, accidentally offended someone, and were retaliated against, right?" ”

Su He: "I heard that official say that they were recommended by the Taishi, and what is the Taishi?" ”

This has reached the blind spot of the knowledge of the grassroots generals.

Zhang Baihu: "It's a big official." ”

Qiu Hu: "It doesn't matter who he is, the northwest is much more dangerous than the north, I heard a while ago that there is a war over there, Lu Xu and the three of them, no brothers and no money, where is this." ”

Qiu Yan: "When they go to be officials, do anyone dare to bully?" ”

The brother and sister from the barbarian tribe had a special right to speak, and Aya spoke first: "It's hard to say. ”

Su He: "The big tribes in the northwest are different from our tribes. ”

Tan Shishi A-Niang couldn't care about making dumplings anymore, and said anxiously: "Oh, what can I do, the three of them don't even have a dependence." ”

Lu Qing: "I'll go for a trip." ”

The room was full of stunned people.

The ladies subconsciously glanced at Aya.

This trip Aya was originally going to return to Guanyang with Lu Qing.

They finally got the guarantee letter from General Li Xiu, and after grinding and soaking for a long time, the county order specially signed the passage documents for Aya to enter the customs.

If you want to go from the north to the northwest, you can only bypass Tianhu Mountain from the south or north.

Winter has not yet passed, and the north is impassable, and if you pass through the south, you will enter the territory of Oki.

At that time, their tribe migrated over the Tianhu Mountain from the south, closely rubbing the former national border of Daqi, not officially entering the customs, and taking rugged mountain roads and trails, which was extremely difficult.

If you want to go, you have to really get in.

Jiang Junshou came from the official road in the Guannai.

But Aya's document clearly wrote the route and scope where she could go.

It is a risk to let the barbarians enter the customs, and the county order has regretted it a little so far, and Aya wants to be able to enter and exit smoothly in the future, so she has to behave better.

She can only abide by what is written in the paperwork, from the trade route to Guanyang, and she can only stay in Guanyang for a long time, and she can't go to the northwest with Lu Qing's route at all.

Aya didn't want Lu Qing to climb the mountain from outside the pass, so she gave Lu Qing an idea: "Well, you clean up, take the money to Lu Xu, go to my house to lead the horse, take half of the people to ride away, and I will wait for you at your house with the caravan first." ”

Su He: "The county guard will go back in a few days, and we will ask if you can go with them." ”

Lu Qing: "Okay. ”

They didn't have time to eat, and they went to the camp to find Jiang Junshou in a hurry, Aya ran out to stuff dry food for them, Lu Qing bent down on the horse and tugged at her braids, "Help me borrow a few horses from your house." ”

Aya: "Hmm! ”

If the county guard couldn't take them over from the gate, Aya thought, then she would pull her brother and bring the warriors of the clan to accompany Lu Qing over the mountain.

Just go back to my hometown to have a look!

You can also go and see the pink stones that are very popular with the people of Oki.

But it's destined to disappoint Aya.

Jiang Junshou had already asked Li Xiu about the Lu Xu family's caravan and what was going on with the Guanyang Alliance, and was about to take the initiative to contact them.

As soon as Lu Qing arrived, the two sides hit it off.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Qing had already sold the goods short, Jiang Junshou wanted to turn people and goods to the northwest on the spot.

The trade routes in the north are already very smooth, but the northwest is still supported by Lu Xu's network in the capital, and the northwest is short of supplies!

In particular, Longxing County is also a place of grain production, and their caravan can also connect several counties by water, gathering materials from all over the place...... Jiang Junshou couldn't help but praise when he heard it.

Jiang Junshou said excitedly: "Before I came to the north, I originally planned to bring Captain Lu with me, but unfortunately there are few people in Beiting County, and he really can't pull away......"

Because Lu Xu avoided him with a weak heart, he didn't even see Lu Xu.

Jiang Junshou regretted it, he had known that Lu Xu had this kind of connection in the north, and he had to tie people up.

He calculated on the road that if the grain from the east was transported to the northwest and sold, the grain merchants would not make any money at all.

How do you convince others to go all the way?

Their only advantage is that the scale of business registration in Beiting County remains unchanged.

Even so, it is still not cost-effective to transport food.

He was not even confident that he would be able to convince a few grain merchants.

It's different if you have acquaintances, at least there are affections.

Now it's okay, I asked if Lu Xu and Yan Jun were together, the caravan of the Guanyang Alliance was not cost-effective at all, whether it was enough or not, I just asked if I could give them the passage documents, they came out of Guanyang, but they only did the documents to the north.

Jiang Junshou can naturally do it.

Circumventing the pass from the Guannai, you have to pass through the northern border towns of the three counties, which are also the poorest counties in the three counties, and there are caravans passing by, and the three counties are not sure how happy they are.

However, the road is far away, and those counties are also very barren, and it takes half a month for a fast horse to travel alone, and if it is a caravan with a heavy load, it will take more than a month at the earliest.

This is also the situation when their caravans have horse-drawn carts and mule carts.

Counting the consumption of people eating horses on the road, it is actually quite not cost-effective.

Jiang Junshou had just gone on a trip, and he didn't hide it, and told Lu Qing the truth.

Lu Qing only said: "It's okay. ”

Instead, he asked what Beiting County lacked, and after asking, he and Su He went to contact other caravans, buy supplies from familiar caravans, and send them to Lu Xu.