Li Xian's envoy had two large cast-iron stoves more than one person high, and it was okay if he couldn't buy honeycomb charcoal.

Paired with the cast iron or chimneys sold by the Ujin Shop, you don't have to endure the smoking. Putting charcoal once or twice a day can be used to keep warm day and night, including making tea and cooking, which is really the best choice for home life.

This time, the king of the horses did not only guard Jin Mingchi and did not want to develop, but the development was a little too fast. Almost every big city in the north can see the signboard of Wujin Xing, and even Huangzhou has one.

As soon as people have money, their temper will rise, if the horse Wang Shu only relies on these industries to make money, it is estimated that few civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty will have too many ideas, and even evade some taxes by virtue of their royal status, and everyone will not say anything.

But since then, Wang Shu has played a little out of line, first to make the blast furnace iron, the speed is said to be the same as opening the gate to release water, as long as the iron ore and coal can keep up, regardless of day and night, there are thousands of catties of good iron in each furnace flowing out.

Although mining and copper casting is not entirely a forbidden product, it has always been controlled by the big families of the DPRK and China. In the past, everyone had a tacit understanding and cooperated with each other to stabilize the price, so as to maximize the benefits, after all, smelting and casting is not something that can be done by a small workshop.

But Wang Xu's Wujin Bank did this, and completely broke the monopoly of several major families. If Jin Mingchi Wujin Store did not sell a large amount of pig iron to the people, if it could still bear it, when the Wujin Store in Weiqiao Town opened, what kind of mood the bigwigs in the court were, Li Xian could imagine even if he stayed in Xihe Road.

But the strange thing is that this resentment did not finally erupt, which made Li Xian unable to figure it out. As a result, he came to the conclusion that Wang Shu was not a simple person, not the kind of stupid genius or craftsman, and he must have exchanged some kind of greater benefit with the emperor or some important ministers behind his back.

What is it? This answer is not only pondered by Li Xian, but also by most courtiers. But it wasn't until last year that there was an eyebrow, and a kind of Fushou ointment, which is said to cure all diseases, quietly appeared in the Xia people and the Tubo ethnic group.

Others may not know much about this kind of thing, but the border generals who deal with the border people all day long will not be so dull. No one has seen what this thing looks like and how effective it is, whether it is the Xia people or the Tubo people, they all hide it like a baby, and they are reluctant to use it if they are sick or sick, let alone give it away casually.

But where does this thing come from, as long as you follow it carefully, you can still find clues. Flower shopkeeper's caravan! This is the only source of Fushou cream.

Since it is easy to do it if you have a source, call the flower shopkeeper or catch it and ask if it is over. No matter how big the caravan is, you have to listen to the greetings in the border area, otherwise it will disappear in minutes.

But this time it was still an exception, from Xihe Road to Yongxing Military Road, no one dared to stop this huge caravan, let alone catch the flower shopkeeper who was said to be a little beautiful.

Because she is either holding the documents of the head of the Huangzhou Soldiers and Horses in her hand, or the customs clearance diploma of the envoy of the Yanyan Road Jinglu, it is necessary to be exempt from inspection, and it is not too much to send troops to escort her. Whoever would offend the important ministers of the court guarding one side for this matter, Zhenleng must be prepared to tear his face.

But paper can't contain the fire, and soon there are rumors from Kaifeng, who is the flower shopkeeper? She is not surnamed Hua, but surnamed Fu, named Ji, she was originally a Shangguan of the six Shangs in the palace, and she was given to the horse Wang Shu three years ago, and she also presided over the Flying Eagle Club for a period of time, and then disappeared.

Unexpectedly, she turned into the leader of a smuggling camel team that traveled around the border passes and military towns.

Looking back at what Wang Shu has done over the years, the answer is about to come out. In addition to running the Wujin store, he also planted ash trees in Qionglin Garden, and hired farmers to plant rice sac flowers on a large scale in a very strange way, and he was no exception after arriving in Huangzhou.

Until this time, everyone did not associate the pony with the Fushou cream, and it was not a secret to grow rice sac flowers. According to Wang Xu, this flower is the raw material for refining incense, and the flowers are specially treated and the essential oil is sent to the palace for the manufacture of perfumes.

Well, the news is broken here. The manufacture of perfume is the emperor's small treasury, and all the processes are controlled by the inner palace, and they have nothing to do with the horses.

Moreover, this transaction is not the exclusive possession of the emperor, from the new party to the old party bigwigs have specialized in selling this kind of thing, and even in the maritime merchants of the Mingzhou, Quanzhou, and Guangzhou generations, there are also those who specialize in trafficking this kind of thing overseas. The profit is huge, but outsiders can't touch it, who dares to reach out to the emperor really dares to move the knife.

Before this matter was over, Wang Shu stabbed the big basket again, he turned Huangzhou into a special military zone, and also used Wujin to make military armor privately, and almost made the military system of the Great Song Dynasty upside down, which offended almost all the generals in the northwest, including Li Xian.

But for a while, no one would take him in a rut, not only did he have no rut, but he also had to watch him capture a Western Xia city for a while, and kill a Western Xia royal general for a while. I don't know if God is really blind, the snow avalanche can be turned into a weapon, this shit luck can't be satisfied.

But no one has forgotten this scourge, and they are looking for opportunities to get rid of it anytime and anywhere. But to be honest, this five-way summer plan really didn't calculate the horse Wang Xu, and he couldn't reach such importance.

But he just got in by himself, and he didn't know whether he was at the forefront alive or dead, and if the government and the opposition didn't react, they would be sorry for this God-given opportunity.

"These are the armor from Weiqiao Town, which is invulnerable to arrows?" Thinking about his thoughts, the striker finally moved. When following a group of soldiers through the Wusheh Ridge, Li Xian looked up at the soldiers who were still standing on the cliff and still holding their bows and crossbows, and the first thing he felt was that their armor was rather strange.

"When the lord mentioned the last general, he remembered one thing, the last general once asked the guard of Jisang City if there were Song people in the corpses in the Gulang River, he said that when he first found a large number of corpses down the river, he rowed a boat to the river to search, and indeed found a corpse that was not dressed as a Western Xia soldier, but he was not sure that he was a Song person. The armor was very similar to the soldiers here, in the camp of the last general. The last general tried it with the army's crossbow and the divine arm bow, but the frontal shot could not enter the flesh, and the slightest shot would slide away, which was very hard. After careful inspection by the craftsmen in the army, it is not known what kind of iron is forged, and its outer layer is extremely hard to break through the armor cone, and the inner layer is like soft iron, which is strange. ”

Li Zhong is also a eunuch, he is the same as Tong Guan and Wasp, after entering the palace, he will worship a master, unless there is a special change, this life will be branded as a master, and he can no longer change the court at will, in the words of later generations, he is standing in line.

Standing on the right side, the rising tide is high, the glory is rich, and the wrong person is walking to the tea and cooling, and if it is not good, he has to eat melons. So in the army, he became Li Xian's most trusted deputy general and eyes and ears, and he was also in charge of the personal guards.

"This man is unfathomable...... Do you notice the beacon tower on the top of the mountain? Li Xian didn't think about the performance of the armor anymore, and he was not good at this kind of thing. But his eyes were not idle, and he carefully inspected the front and back, left, left and right of Wusheling Ridge, and then came to a conclusion that it was impeccable.

"This thief is extremely annoying, if you don't come to greet the adult in person, you have to treat the adult as a Xia person!" After this reminder, Li Zhong discovered what was different about the beacon tower.

There were several soldiers standing on it, each holding something like a small fireball in his hand, and it was a little far away to make out what it was. But this means that as a border general, he must understand that as long as there is an accident here, the beacon smoke will rise immediately.

"There is nothing wrong with this move, Wusheling Ridge is an enemy territory, no matter how cautious it is, this horse is not simple. You tell me to go down, I should be rude when I go to Liangzhou to see the concubine, whoever can't restrain his subordinates will have someone's head, so as not to be embarrassed everywhere, drive! ”

Looking at the figures on the cliff who couldn't tell whether they were generals or soldiers, and then looking at these generals around him, Li Xian suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, and this trip to Liangzhou didn't seem to be smooth sailing.