Recently, Nanling has obviously been more lively than before, because the arrival of foreign envoys has led to a surge in consumption, and foreign envoys have also accompanied some business trips.

These merchants from Central Asia and the Western Regions brought goods that were not available in the land of China, such as some specialties of the Persian region of Central Asia, and local specialties of the Western Regions, and even the so-called orchids.

Most of Post's products are mostly blankets in various forms, I don't know if it's the first time I come to China, I don't know what the shopping needs of Huaxia are, and I haven't seen many other things.

The merchants from the Western Regions brought a little more things, such as some novel food and fruit wine, especially raisins and wine.

One thing that caravans in both regions had in common was that they rarely carried fragile items, so their contents were mostly put in barrels or leather bags, and they brought with them a large number of orchids.

Of course, orchids are the Chinese name for those women, these women are free men and slaves, divided into white-skinned, black-skinned, wheat-skinned, and performed whirling and blinking dances in several public performances.

The whirling dance is actually a kind of dancing and spinning dance, and the orchid is relatively exposed when dancing this dance, and the lower body of the waist is a long skirt with charms and gorgeous and bright patterns, which is very dazzling when it rotates.

The blinking eyebrow dance is actually a kind of demonic ~ glamorous ~ dance, orchids wear transparent ~ charming clothes, only in the important private parts have additional cover, when dancing, the movements are very enchanting, the hands are also very soft, and the belly even squirms, so this dance is also called belly dance.

Because of the relationship of aesthetics, the people of the empire only feel that the women who are not of their own race look strange, and most of them are looking at them with a fresh mentality, and there are almost no people who really feel beautiful or glamorous. The difference in aesthetics is what it is. Women who may be very beautiful in the eyes of the Persians or the people of the Western Regions, but they are similar to monsters in the eyes of the people of the empire, then naturally they will not be interested in buying or "female tickets", which greatly disappoints a large group of slave traders who think that they can bring foreign women to make a fortune in the Eastern Empire.

In addition to the prosperity brought by various Hu people, in fact, there is another grand event that will take place in the near future, and that is that the day of the knighthood ceremony is gradually approaching.

Quite a few people who received the notice returned to Nanling one after another. Some of the mansions where the original owners had been in the field for a long time were rejuvenated, and their arrival basically brought the necessary personal guards, and there would also be local gentry or big families in each station to take the opportunity to come together, which increased the popularity of Nanling a lot.

People who have been in the frontier for a long time return to the prosperous Nanling, naturally to relax, the first time to come to Nanling also need to carry out social activities, then Nanling City around the slightly higher grade of the restaurant will be chartered almost every day, for a time can often see the famous people in the restaurant together.

What does it mean to be famous? In an empire in a state of war, the famous people are, of course, those generals. At such an age, they are the most concerned and popular group, and as for the "playthings" such as famous prostitutes and servants, it seems that there is only room for attention in the years of singing and dancing.

Nowadays, people have basically understood what it means for them to be strong, and how can they not be welcomed by the groups that can see the benefits according to their quality of life, and who have been exploring and plundering outwardly?

"It's so hard, every invitation is empty."

"yes, it seems to be busy moving between colleagues, and there is not much time to pay attention to us."

"Wait. It is rare for those generals to be able to gather in Nanling, and it is inevitable to move around more. There should always be time to entertain us later. ”

"That's all there is to it."

Whether it is the local or surrounding families in Nanling, Ang or those who came to Nanling from afar, or foreign envoys, what they hope most is to be able to invite the commanders of each legion, but most people basically feel that they do not have enough to invite the commander of the Zhonglang general, so they can only retreat.

Let's be honest. It is also a good choice for a family to be able to invite the number two person of a certain legion, the number two person of the legion is not only the long history, but the long history is the first civil officer in charge of the documents of each legion, and many times the legion leader may not know so much about what materials are explored, but the long history must be understood.

The empire was in a period of rapid development. It is necessary to make more friends with the senior generals of each legion, those generals will definitely be able to grasp first-hand information because of the outward expansion, too many resources dare not be extravagant, and the resources that the empire does not look down on are also unimaginable benefits for each family.

Maybe Lu Zhe has some explanation, the generals and officials at all levels of each army will also publicize the situation around the garrison as long as they have the opportunity, of course, it is to attract people to go and develop, after all, the army can't just occupy an area, right?

Many of the occupied territories are not attractive enough no matter how much they are advertised, and they are basically places that no one cares about, but there are a few exceptions......

"If nothing else, it was not easy to buy land in the past, but now with a little courage and courage, you can buy a large area of land and build a farm with a small amount of money to buy land in the newly occupied area. If you want me to say, it is very promising to go to Lingnan and the grassland now, depending on the preference for soil plowing or grazing. ”

"It's not easy to do it in Lingnan now, the early stage of wanton burning of the forest caused a fire that lasted for more than ten miles, it seems that it was an accident that caused death and injury, and the empire has issued a decree that arbitrary burning of the forest is no longer allowed."

"It was a bunch of fools who set fire to it without finding out if anyone had not, and not only burned people to death, but also seemed to burn a lot of precious wood."

"Some people found that wool can be woven and clothed, and it is really good to go to the grassland enclosure to develop animal husbandry, and then buy some herding slaves, and then wait to make a fortune. The problem is ......, you know. ”

Yes, the Hu people in the depths of the grassland began to assemble a year ago, and the boiling news was flying all over the sky, but a year has passed, and those Hu people are nowhere to be seen, and the expected big war not only did not happen, but the empire continued to mobilize troops to the north to usher in a calm situation, which made quite a few people puzzled.

It is difficult for the civilians at the bottom to figure out what those Hu people are doing, but it is also the information that the civilians know, but the information that the empire has shows that the assembled Hu people have already gone south, but they turned to the west halfway. Although it is impossible to be 100% sure what intentions there are, looking at Wusun's reaction, it must be related to this.

The fact that the Hu people did not roar south had a lot to do with the surrender of Touman's army, and the news of Touman's surrender spread to the grasslands, and several tribal alliances such as Ding Ling, Hujie, and Hun Yu who had already assembled troops may have deterred the strength of the imperial army. Halfway through, he turned his head and pounced on Wusun.

The empire waited for a long time, but the first batch of envoys sent by Wusun did not arrive for a long time, and it was later discovered that they were intercepted and killed by the cavalry sent by Jitu outside the territory of the empire. Wusun later sent an envoy group, and it took a lot of troops to escort it to the territory of the empire, and the news brought by the envoy confirmed the speculation of the empire, and the assembled Hu people really pounced on Wusun, so Wusun was begging his grandfather to tell his grandmother to ask for help from the empire.

The movement of the Hu army in the steppe was not immediately announced to the people, and only a few people knew the latest news, and everyone believed that a large-scale war might break out in northern Xinjiang. Is it that there are fewer people who want to go to the northern grasslands? This is not the case. In fact, I don't know if people are too contemptuous of the Hu people, or if they are quite confident in the imperial army, but the imminent war in the northern frontier not only did not deter them, but in some ways stimulated them.

Within two years alone, more than 15 families had submitted applications to the ruling government to go to the Hetao, most of them were traditional herding families in Longxi, such as the Wu clan, the Yi clan, the Bang clan, and the Xi clan. A small number of them are families from the Central Plains, and the ancestors of these families also made a living from herding. Such as Li's, Zhao's, Song's; There was also an application on the Yandi side, but there was only one. That's Zang Di's family.

"The migration of the Ju clan, especially to the Hetao in this case, is a demonstration of our trust in the Empire's armed forces, and it is of great benefit to us to win the favor of the upper echelons of the army."

"As soon as we go, we can provide the garrison with at least 60,000 trained war horses, which is exactly what the Hetao garrison lacks."

"Those two are just incidental reasons and benefits. What's more important is that you have to bet before most people react, otherwise they don't know how much they will have to pay if they do. ”

It seems that a large number of foreigners have come to Nanling, but a considerable number of personnel from various regiments have returned. The patriarchs of the families in Longxi County who submitted applications but never received a reply also came to Nanling together.

These families in Longxi County, they took the route of Neishi County, and when they passed through Neishi County on the way, they had already seen that the empire had consolidated its rule in Neishi County in less than four months.

Out of Hangu Pass and continue to walk east, what they encountered along the way was basically carrying out infrastructure construction, and the first thing they found when they walked to a place was that almost all the local young people were employed, and the construction was also for the road.

To tell the truth, employing the young Zhuang in each place can really achieve the role of stabilizing the place, after all, as long as the young people are restrained, some people can be quickly suppressed even if they want to make a mess as long as they can't gather enough young people, and several patriarchs from Longxi County can be said to have a deep understanding of this.

The empire's control of Neishi County also started with the recruitment of young people, a total of seventy or eighty thousand young people were recruited from various counties in Longxi, and the twentieth cavalry regiment was formed, not to mention, the rest of the people either became auxiliary soldiers or as riding teachers who tutored and participated in the training of military non-commissioned soldiers, and as a result, not only many places in Longxi County were restrained at the first time, because too many young people joined the military, and many areas completed the "integration" with the empire in an instant.

There will be a big war in northern Xinjiang, and the outbreak of war is dangerous for some people, but it is a big opportunity for others, especially for the bold and capitalized families, which means an opportunity to show their faces in the center, and it is also a good time to make a fortune.

The empire will strengthen the construction of cavalry in the future, and the war horses will definitely be quite easy to sell, and those families who are eager to apply to go to the Hetao or other grasslands will only seize the opportunity because they see long-term benefits. It's not without benefits in the short term, to put it nobly, it's to support the imperial army to fight nearby, you can send materials and people, and you can sell materials at a high price, but it's not very reliable.

Of course, the empire does not need the family to help in the name of a private person, nor does it need any family to donate materials in the form of funding, but selling materials nearby does not save the empire a lot of transportation troubles, and those families who transport materials to the north by themselves can naturally get the favor from the empire, no matter how you look at it, it is an alternative investment, and this kind of opportunity is not available anytime and anywhere.

In the chaos and prosperity, I don't know who spread the news, saying that Xiao He and Mian Biao were in a hurry towards the ferry, what happened so that no one knew about the eunuch and the secretary of the Ministry of Commerce in a hurry, but it did not prevent the word of mouth from joining in the fun.

The envoys of the Central Asian countries also got the news, and they also had the same curiosity, and they were also in Nancheng, which was not too far from the Yangtze River, and decided to go over and have a look after a little discussion.

A group of people who looked different from the Chinese people, they didn't get close to find that the crowd in front of them was a little frightening, and there were people who knew the Chinese language of the Eastern Empire to get some news from all kinds of discussions.

"They have a fleet that docked at the mouth of the Yangtze River a few days ago, and this time it is the commanders of the two fleets who have brought back a lot of treasures from overseas."

"The water system of the Eastern Empire is too convenient, and the Yangtze River has a direct outlet to the sea, which is really enviable. What do they mean overseas? ”

"It seems to be the Japanese Islands or some kind of island, some time ago I docked and unloaded hundreds of boxes from the ship, and the soldiers on the fleet directly showed the onlookers, the boxes contained treasures such as gold, silver, pearls, and some strange things, one of which was a coral reef?"

People from all over the world do not have any privileges in Nanling, they can still attract a burst of novelty when they first appear, but it is only to make people feel novel, and there will still be curious eyes in the back, but more with the eyes of the soil buns, after all, their virtue of buying everything is really unavoidable to make people feel that they have not seen prosperity.

Because there is no privilege, a group of foreigners who want to get close can only crowd people, and when they squeeze, they will complain in their own language about the lack of hospitality in the Eastern Empire, but they still have to squeeze.

"This is their fleet? It doesn't look good! ”

"I don't know, but it's clear that the boats are flat-bottomed boats for inland river navigation."

"So? That is, the sea fleet stopped at the harbor, and I really wanted to see what their sea warships looked like and how they differed from ours. ”

"There will be a chance to ......, look! I don't know if it's really full of gold and silver? ”

"It's open, it's open...... It's really all gold! And white sparkling silver! (To be continued......)