In the courtyard of the inspection village, Xiuxiu curiously teased a pair of jade birds in the bird cage, and turned her head from time to time to say to Gao Daquan next to her: "Brother Gao, be careful, don't let that pair of parrots fly, I want to teach them to sing, go back and give it to Sister Su'er!" ”

Gao Daquan carefully held the wooden stick and made eye contact with the two gorgeously colored parrots squatting on it, quite curious why the birds could speak human language. The two flat-haired animals were not afraid of him, and twisted their heads to look at him carefully, and from time to time they looked at each other and did not know what to say.

On the ground next to it is a mountain product that was bought in exchange for a grass market. There are three long-singing chickens in the cage, which is a specialty of the southwest region, with a tall and majestic body and a loud voice. Half a basket of clams in the bamboo basket is a precious medicinal material, Xu Ping specially bought it, and sent it home to make up for his parents and Lin Suniang. There is also a large string of Shanrui, a kind of old turtle of local specialty, Xu Ping bought it and ate it himself.

Everywhere you go, you have to eat old turtles, Xu Ping's habit makes Gao Daquan very puzzled, isn't it better to have money to buy big fish and meat to eat? Maybe you're tired of eating?

In the living room of the inspection village, Xu Ping sat on the main seat, looking at the steaming tea that the soldiers had just brought up on the table, and he couldn't cry or laugh. Instead of tea leaves, there was a small paper bag with two bubbles popping up from time to time.

The tea bags are not easy to sell, so Xu Ping simply sent them out as a welfare, and everyone in Yongzhou needs to take the country's money, including this inspection village. I didn't expect to be a baby here, waiting for him to come and take it out for entertainment, and Inspector Zhu, who was sitting next to him, looked at him eagerly.

Li Anren picked up the bowl, gently lifted the tea bag, leaned in and took a sip, and carefully put the tea bag in, moving very carefully.

Xu Ping saw it and asked Li Anren: "What do you think of this tea bag?" ”

Li Anren said respectfully: "The judgment is clear, the tea is wrapped in this way and it is easy to brew, and it does not affect the taste of the tea, the students seem to be very ingenious, and they will be able to make it popular in the world in the future!" ”

Xu Ping frowned: "But in fact, this tea bag is not easy to sell at all!" ”

Li Anren smiled slightly: "Of course, it is not easy to sell in this vicinity, merchants like students use horses to transport goods in the mountains, and tea bags take up too much space, even if the price is twice as expensive as tea bricks, it cannot be paid." I've sold it a few times, and it's all for the big barbarian leaders, who have a lot of money and are willing to pay a high price. ”

Xu Ping sighed, this is not in line with the plan. The tea bags are all leftovers, and they were originally set to be the cheapest tea, so how can you be happy when you sell good tea? He is also conscientious, although it is a leftover, it is still the same raw material as other teas, unlike his previous life, he can't wait to break the entire tea tree to make tea bags, mixed with some serious tea is high-end goods.

"Then you say, where should this tea bag be sold?"

Li Anren said: "There is only the Central Plains, and other places are not suitable." The barbarians all make tea, and they can't drink it when they brew it, and it's not easy to transport. ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "Forget it, I'll talk about this later." I called you here to ask if there are many merchants in the neighborhood who do business with barbarians like this? What kind of business are they all about? ”

Li Anren was waiting for this, and hurriedly said: "Don't hide the judgment, it's not easy to do business with the barbarians, you must be familiar with the leaders of the barbarians." Moreover, there is no big road, all rely on horses to travel through the mountain paths, there are fewer people and it is difficult to reach the tigers and leopards on the road, and there are more people who need more horses, how many people have such financial resources? Like the students, there were only three or five in the nearby states, and the bulk items used to be salt and satin, exchanged for barbarian gold, silver and cinnabar, plus some locally produced medicinal herbs and animal skins. Tea bricks and pickled peppers are made through the judgment, which is in line with the appetite of the barbarians, and this business is now only done by the students, although it is profitable, but the goods are intermittent, and there are some inconveniences. ”

After speaking, he looked at Xu Ping expectantly.

Xu Ping smiled: "I have the goods there, but I'm afraid that you won't be able to sell them out!" ”

"Where's the sentence? As long as there is goods, I can sell a hundred times more goods than the current grass market! ”

"Your family has done such a big thing?"

Li Anren said: "If one family can't do it, I can find a few more to do it together." As long as the judgment can trust the students and let me distribute the goods, it will be far better than now! ”

Xu Ping was noncommittal and asked Li Anren: "First of all, tell me where you are selling your goods now." ”

"My family's horse team goes west to Tianzhou Guangyuan Prefecture, south to Yongping Village, under the management of Yongzhou, everywhere! Hundreds of barbarian chiefs, large and small, are all familiar with each other! ”

"Haven't you ever gone west again? Like Dali? ”

Li Anren was stunned: "Where do ordinary people dare to do transnational business?" The two countries are separated by Temo Road and Ziqi Country, and it is most taboo for outsiders to enter. However, I heard that there were people in Guangyuan Prefecture who traded with Dali, but the students did not know the details. ”

Xu Ping didn't give up and asked: "No one sells Dali and Malai Yongzhou?" ”

If it is only the exchange of gold, silver and precious medicinal materials, the trade volume is too small, and the trade with Dali in the two Song Dynasty should be mainly horses, and no one has done this business until now.

Li Anren shook his head: "The road is dangerous, and I haven't heard of anyone doing the horse business." ”

Xu Ping was a little disappointed. There are no donkeys and mules nearby, and the power is mainly cattle and horses, and the oxen are used to plough the land, so it is a little inappropriate to do machine power. Horses that adapt to the local environment are Dali horses, Xu Ping wants to make a set of related industries bigger, and a large number of Dali horses are indispensable, but he didn't expect that the trade route of horses has not yet been opened.

After asking about the barbarian trade, Xu Ping asked Li Anren again: "Where did you get the salt and silk you used to trade with the barbarians?" None of these things are produced in the vicinity. ”

"The salt comes from Qinzhou and Guangzhou, with Guangzhou as the majority, and goes up the Yujiang River. Most of the silk silk comes from Guizhou, and the waterway can go to Yongzhou. There are also many businessmen in Guangzhou who specialize in this business, and the students know a few. ”

Xu Ping was also thinking about the sales of cane sugar, and said to Li Anren: "If you know a businessman in Guangzhou, you will introduce a few to me when you know, and there is still business for them to do." ”

"But there is a family, the person in charge is named Huang Shimi, who has studied Jinshi like the students, and he has passed the liberation test in Guangzhou, but has not passed the provincial examination. Their family has been doing this business for several generations, and the family has a big business and a wide range of contacts, which is the most suitable. ”

"Reading is the best, it's easier said than done, and it's a lot less troublesome. In a few days, you will bring him to Ruhe County to meet me, and I will consult with him. ”

Just as the two of them were talking lively, suddenly a soldier rushed in and saluted to Zhu Inspector: "Inspection, outside Zhongzhou's Xiaoya Neihuang Conggui brought people to the grass market to make trouble, and scattered everyone!" ”

After reporting, I remembered Xu Ping, who was sitting on the top seat, and hurriedly turned around and saluted, but I didn't know what to say, so I stood there stupidly.

Zhu Zongping's face was full of embarrassment, he stood up and confessed to Xu Ping, and asked: "General judgment, the natives of Zhongzhou do not know the law, and they have to come to inspect the village several times a year to make trouble, and their subordinates are kind enough to persuade them to go back." This time again, please give instructions on how to deal with it? ”

Xu Ping hadn't dealt with the chief yet, so he said to Zhu Xun: "You and I go out to have a look first." ”

stood up and said to Li Anren: "You wait in the village." ”

Li Anren said: "The student has some friendship with that little ya, so it's better to go out and have a look together." ”

When he arrived at the stockade, Zhu Zongping went to order Qi soldiers, and Xu Ping instructed Gao Daquan and Tan Hu to gather their entourage and go out with him. Xu Ping had also heard that the barbarian chieftains in the vicinity relied on the large number of people, and often did not take the government seriously, and brought more people to prevent accidents.

As soon as the gate of the village opened, fifty or sixty people poured out, Xu Ping and Zhu Zongping rode in front, and early saw twenty or thirty people not far away surrounding a young man on horseback. The young man urged the horse, chased the barbarians in the grass market, and the whip in his hand was beaten down without a head and face, and he cursed in his mouth.

Seeing the soldiers and horses coming out of the village, the young man stopped and looked coldly at Xu Ping and the others who came over.

Zhu Patrol came out and shouted to the young man: "Huang Conggui, you are so bold, dare to make trouble here in the inspection village!" The general judgment of Honshu is here, you haven't come to see it yet! ”

Huang Conggui tilted his head and looked at Xu Ping, and said in a weird manner: "What kind of general judgment, we barbarians only know Cao Zhizhou in the city, except for him, no official recognizes it!" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Zongping secretly complained in his heart. This kid doesn't know how thick the sky is, but he can't get off the stage. Come on, there are hundreds of Ding soldiers in his family, and it is not a trivial matter to make trouble, and the court blames it, and his small official hat can't afford it. If you just admit it, Xu Ping behind him can't explain it, he is his top boss, and he doesn't have to be an official.

Xu Ping saw that Zhu Zongping didn't speak there, and he didn't embarrass him, so he stepped forward and said to Huang Conggui with a calm face: "This official Yongzhou has sentenced Xu Ping, both military and civilian in the state are under the rule of me and Cao Zhizhou, what kind of thing are you, dare to come and defy the authority of the imperial court?" ”

By the end of the sentence, the tone was extremely harsh.

Huang Conggui was unexpected, looked at Xu Ping for a moment, and then said: "We natives only know Zhizhou, and we don't know what kind of official the general judge is!" My father is also a Zhizhou, why should I worship you for a general judgment? ”

Xu Ping said coldly: "Turning a foreigner, I don't know the etiquette of the court, there is still something to forgive, I don't care about you." But if you bring people here to storm the market and beat and scold the people, do you know that you have violated the laws of the imperial court? ”

"What fart? The people you have recruited to buy and sell things here are all our house slaves, and their things are all our family's, and they sell them privately, isn't this stealing? Not only will I beat them, but I will also take them back and behead them and sacrifice them to the ghosts! See who dares to trade with you! ”

Speaking of this, Huang Conggui raised his horsewhip viciously to scare the surrounding barbarians.

Hearing this kind of lawless words, Zhu Zongping felt bitter in his heart, Xu Ping was a young official, how could he endure this breath? Once the attack starts, he and his soldiers will inevitably have to fight with Huang Conggui's people, if it causes a rebellion of the Chungju barbarians, how can he afford it?

Xu Ping's face sank, if this Huang Conggui Quanxu was allowed to go back today, this grass market would be abandoned from now on, and it would be difficult for his plan to be launched.

Huang Conggui stood in a row of twenty or thirty people, all dressed in green clothes, barefoot, and the weapons in their hands were disorganized, some with short knives and spears, and some with rattan cards.

This is the family soldier under the Huang family in Zhongzhou, also known as Tian Zijia, who is only loyal to the master, and does not know what the imperial court official is, and is the rampant reliance of the Huang family.

The barbarian fights, all the soldiers are lined up like this, stretched out far away, and the two wings are outflanked when they fight, and the side with more people surrounds the side with fewer people and beats them, and there are no other tricks.

Xu Ping has been here for half a year, and he has heard of these for a long time, and he doesn't bother to say anything to Huang Conggui, so he summoned Gao Daquan and Tan Hu to him, and said in a low voice: "You two listen to my orders, and rush up to capture the barbarian leader." Be quick, don't brawl with his entourage! ”