Zhao Guo, Wuwei City.

This is a small city in the northwestern part of the Zhao Kingdom.

The town is really small.

The walls are only a foot high, and they look like they were built with stones haphazardly.

The city is only three to five miles in circumference, and you can easily overlook the entire city from any point on the city wall.

The city is small, but it's very lively.

Because it is the largest trading center within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Since spring, it has slowly become busy, and now in the middle of summer, it is the busiest time in Wuwei City.

As soon as you walk into this city, the first thing that comes to you is a very pungent smell, the smell of human sweat, the smell of livestock, and the smell of livestock manure are mixed together, which can be said to be a kind of "gospel" for people with a keen sense of smell.

But even so, the caravan that came here from the land of Zhao was still endless, and on this day, a group of convoys composed of dozens of carts came to Wuwei City, and the momentum was not small, which was quite eye-catching.

Since it is a trade center, there are naturally a lot of goods.

The whole city was divided into patches, which were either set up as platforms or tents, and many people wearing fur hats who obviously did not look like Zhao Guo were desperately greeting the people in the convoy in Zhao Chinese, who were not proficient.

"Distinguished guest, the Hun slaves who have just arrived, two hundred people, do you want to take a look? The price is easy to say, only Zhao Qian is charged. ”

"Guest, come and see this batch of Wusun horses, they are all one-year-olds, and there are a lot of two-year-olds and three-year-olds, Zhao Qian, cloth, and grain."

"Do you want to see the best red and blue flowers? Good material for rouge, guest. ”

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Many voices, and so on.

The leader of the caravan was called Lu Qing, and he was a fat man who was nearly forty years old, slightly chubby, and looked quite kind.

It was obviously not the first time Lu Qing had been here, as could be seen from the fact that he had been smiling and greeting some old faces on the side of the road.

"Oh, isn't this Brother Jiqu? And Brother Qu has a new wound on his face, which shows his manly demeanor, which is really gratifying. ”

"Hey, Brother Duolian, why are you so haggard after not seeing you for a year? What, Brother Duolian lost three hundred men last year when he was fighting against the remnants of Wusun? Alas, what a sad thing. Okay, let's go first if we have something to do, and next time we drink together, haha. ”

"Yo yo yo, this is Brother Lie, how is the production of female slaves today, there has been a trend of female slaves in the Western Regions in Handan recently, and many nobles like the tone of the blonde hair and blue eyes convex and backward, I heard that it came from the palace, haha...... What, you don't? The little brother will say goodbye first, and we will talk when I have time. ”

Lu Qing's mouth kept talking, and in a matter of moments, he had already spoken to the heads of dozens of tribes in the city, or the slave traders and livestock dealers.

Although most of the dealers did not have the goods that Lu Qing wanted, Lu Qing also made several transactions, so the smile on the steward's face became more and more intense.

But if you look closely, you will find that the small eyes on the kind face of this steward seem to have a faint expectation and a hint of anxiety.

Lu Qing, one of the twelve directors of the Lu Chamber of Commerce of Zhao State, and the behind-the-scenes boss of this Lu Chamber of Commerce is the former Prime Minister of Qin State, and now Wu Chengjun Lu Buwei, who has surrendered to Zhao State.

In addition, Lu Qing actually has another secret identity, that is, he is a senior member of the Zhao State's Supervision Wei Handan Branch, responsible for penetrating the inside of the Lu Chamber of Commerce, monitoring any movements of the Lu Chamber of Commerce that may be unfavorable to Zhao State, and taking advantage of the business to investigate some information that is beneficial to Zhao State.

Ten years ago, when Zhao Dan established Hu Yiwei and Supervision and Guard, Hu Yiwei, who was responsible for foreign intelligence collection, was actually the one who received more attention, but with the continuous expansion of Zhao's territory and the continuous reduction of the number of foreign enemies in the past ten years, the Supervision and Guard, who was responsible for intelligence collection in Zhao, naturally rose to the top.

According to Lu Qing's knowledge, in recent years, the supervision guard has been constantly expanding the scale of recruitment, and many new people have been vigorously promoted, and with the expansion of the organization, it is natural that there will be many new positions in the middle and high-level positions.

If you want to be promoted, of course, you can only do it by making meritorious contributions.

So Lu Qing's heart is actually very anxious.

Although the position of the head of the Lu Chamber of Commerce can bring Lu Qing a lot of money and wealth, in Lu Qing's heart, such wealth is completely a floating cloud, and only the position of the supervisor is king.

After all, it's an official, and it's an official who can report directly to the king.

Once you get out of the way in the supervision guard, you are appreciated by the king, and you are sent to the local area to take any official and half a position, isn't it beautiful? It's better than being such a businessman.

So for this trip to Wuwei, Lu Qing actually has a lot of hope.

In the past ten years of supervising the guard, Lu Qing has not been in vain, for example, Lu Qing learned a news through some of his own channels, that is, after the unification of the Central Plains, the ambitious king in Handan City does not intend to stop conquering.

The east is the sea, and the north is the vast desert, so if you look at it, to the south or west is the next very likely direction of expansion of the Zhao State.

If he can get some information related to the Western Regions and report it, then maybe Lu Qing's dream of promotion will be realized.

Lu Qing is a very smart person, he realized this as early as two years ago, so since then he has become the busiest and favorite leader of the Lu Chamber of Commerce.

This is the third time that Lu Qing has come to Wuwei City in two years, and the first three times have been in vain, and this time he doesn't want to end like this.

Seeing that the entire Wuwei City was about to be finished, the smile on Lu Qing's face, who still hadn't gotten the information he wanted, gradually disappeared, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly, and ordered behind him: "Let's find a place to unload the goods first." ”

At this time, a voice came into Lu Qing's ears: "This master, master, I heard that you are looking for slaves from the West?" ”

Lu Qing Huoran turned around and saw a short guy who seemed to be a Hun standing in front of him, nodding his head and flattering.

Lu Qing frowned, but still asked, "Do you have it?" ”

The Hun man smiled and said: "Speaking of which, I really caught some guys from the west a while ago, and one of them called himself a Seleucid, oh yes, the state envoy of the Seleucid Kingdom." ”

The Huns' Zhao Guohua spoke quite ordinary, and it took a long time to say a sentence clearly.

"An envoy of the Seleucid kingdom?" Lu Qing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Quick, take me to see that person!" ”