The idea of the two city gate guards may be a little simple, but the watchers secretly arranged by Li Deqian don't think so.

Kaliz asked the government to buy a piece of land many years ago, and as a merchant in the Western Regions who had a head and face in Thang Long City, many people knew about it.

And Kaliz not only bought land, but also raised a lot of farmers on his land. These farmers used to be exiled here because of natural disasters, and they can be regarded as sharing some pressure and doing some good things for the government of Cochin.

In addition, he himself is a nobleman in the Western Regions, so the Jiaozhi government has a very good impression of him. However, now is a special period, the whole city is strengthening its vigilance, and he suddenly brought in dozens of people, which is a bit eye-catching.

The land sold to him by the government was not very fertile, but it was not barren. This year, I didn't hear about the lack of harvest at the farms on the outskirts of Thang Long City, so the two people who were playing chess at the city gate put down their chess pieces and followed behind the carriage.

The surrounding onlookers immediately got two more and went on to play chess.

Calitz has known for a long time that there is a limit to how smart a person is, and even the smartest people in the world will inevitably make mistakes.

He used to think that his father was the smartest and most cautious man in the world, but his plot was seen through by the king. After that, Calitz kept an eye on everything he did, and he never thought that his clever or clumsy tricks could deceive the world.

Therefore, when he entered the city this time, the people he brought with him were indeed poor families brought out of his own village. In order to prevent the village from being investigated, he found some Yongzhou people in the Song army to pretend to be farmers and enter the village.

Most of the languages spoken in ancient East Asian countries were official dialects of a certain period in the Central Plains.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the Central Plains scholars fled south. As a result, the south was developed, and the Han Chinese came to Lingnan in groups.

Although the roots of the Jiaozhi people can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the yearning for the Central Plains culture still makes their words and language inevitably change.

In the era when everyone in the Central Plains was a distinguished guest, they absorbed a lot of things from the Central Plains.

The dialect of Guangnan West Road is not much different from Jiaozhi dialect, and the only thing that is difficult to grasp is that Jiaozhi dialect is more ethereal. And the natives here have no problem talking to them, and these people can even sing love songs to each other.

However, even after the expansion of the Pingxia camp, there were few natives, and the number was insufficient, so they had to take some clever local soldiers to make up the number.

To get down to business, Calitz led the peasants into the city, and in accordance with what he said at the city gate, he led them to a restaurant.

It's afternoon, not the time to eat. The business in the restaurant was light, dozens of people came in at once, and the shopkeeper thought that he was smashing the field, but he was so frightened that he trembled, and said that the good man spared his life.

In the end, it was Kaliz who hired a translator to get there

After explaining, the shopkeeper smiled. Hurriedly instructed the kitchen to prepare the meal, thinking that he had made another amount of money.

On the other hand, Calitz himself, after dropping the peasants to the restaurant, left in a carriage with his servants.

Seeing this, the two watchmen who were following them discussed it, one of them went into the store to investigate, and the other followed the carriage to continue to monitor Calitz's behavior.

Calitz had left to buy food for the summer camp, but now his face was full of gloom.

If it's 500 people, it's fine. At the city gate, you can make sense.

But where is the bread for 5,000 people so easy to get? 5,000 people, not to mention how much they have to eat in a day, and the they pull out every day will cost more than 20 stones.

Thinking of this, Kaliz sighed deeply. When the servant saw that his face was full of sorrow, he began to rack his brains to share the worries of his master, and he thought for a while and said, "Master, in the eyes of the villain, it is still a little reluctant for you to take on this heavy responsibility alone.

Now the Jiaozhi government is rampant and domineering, and many large and small businessmen in the chamber of commerce have been exploited. Half a month later, everyone was dissatisfied. Wouldn't it be better for the master to gather them together and take counsel together, and for each of them to share in the burden? ”

Kaliz smiled bitterly: "How can it be so simple? In today's situation, people have long been panicked. The business can't go on, everyone wants to roll up the shop and run away, who is still in the mood to do things?

Alas, it's not easy to drag the family one by one. Who doesn't have a hundred and ten servants to protect the courtyard? I don't know if the grain store in Thang Long City can get enough food for them, let alone our 5,000 people......"

Speaking of this, Calitz suddenly sighed, his eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something.

Then he lowered his head and muttered a few words, then grabbed the servant's hand and whispered excitedly: "Simmond, I am really lucky to have you by my side all the time!" You are the treasure that Allah has given me Allah! ”

"Master, you're serious." The servant hurriedly said modestly.

………………

In the evening, the two watchers met. It was clear from the other party's eyes that they didn't get the news they wanted.

"How's it going over there?" After a moment of silence, one of them asked.

The other sighed and replied, "Don't mention it, those people are really farmers." All the things they said were things in the field, and some of them I couldn't understand.

They left after eating, and I followed them to the village, and found nothing unusual. ”

"Me too.

After he left, he went back to the house and invited other merchants to drink, and he never went out since. The businessman's life has not been very good lately, and there is nothing unusual about his actions.

It seems that the two of us are still worried

Finish. ”

"It's better to think more than less, and if something goes wrong, it will be a big sin to lose our heads if it falls on us."

"By the way, do you think it's necessary for the two of us to watch all night?"

"Forget it, this afternoon is all in vain, and I have to have a good rest in the evening.

Don't forget, we're not just going to do this day. When will there be a truce with the Song people, the Cham people, and the Zhenla people, then it will be time for us to stop.

As it stands, it will take some time. If you don't nourish your spirit, where can you stand up to such a toss?

Kaliz is not a suspicious person either, he has been in our country of Annan for more than ten years. is more familiar with the old men above our heads than we are.

Don't do anything that makes people angry, wash and go to sleep, go to bed early, and wake up early tomorrow. ”

"Uh-huh!"

When the conversation was over, the two went back to their bedrooms.

At the same time, in the mansion of Kaliz, more than a dozen merchants with different appearances and costumes had gathered.

It's the dead of night. But there was no sleepiness on the faces of everyone present.

"I have called you here today because I have a very important thing to tell you. I hope you don't listen to what I'm going to say in a joke.

It's not that I'm drunk, it's that I've made up my mind. "Calitz had drunk with these people all afternoon, watched the dancing girls dance for an afternoon, and now he was a little upset.

But even if a businessman like him becomes a vegetative person, he can remain 100% sober in the face of interests.

There was no one else in the room except for the dozen or so merchant leaders of each family. Even the waiters were driven out one by one by Kaliz.

"Say it, Calitz." A thin man with red hair said: "You shabby royal family, there are not many times when you are so serious, I am willing to listen carefully to every word you say." ”

Everyone smiled and nodded, and Calitz also laughed self-deprecatingly, and then said: "Half a month ago, Li Deqian, the king of Jiaozhi Kingdom, suddenly issued an inexplicable order, which is to check any foreign suspicious people in Shenglong City.

Now it is during the war between the Jiaozhi Kingdom and the Great Song Kingdom, and it is understandable to have this order.

But we're people who have been doing business here for years, if not decades. Why do they even have to check us?

In the past half a month, almost every two days, a group of people from the government have come to my house and searched all corners of my house indiscriminately.

Then they insisted that I was hiding suspicious people and blackmailed me.

This is too much! I can't take it anymore! ”

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