Chapter 4 Yanqing
On the day of departure, Li Xuandu and Zhang Wenyu and his party left Dry Sheep Town and embarked on the road to the Golden Horde.
The person in charge of this caravan on the surface is the "Descending Tiger" Zhang Wendu, but in fact, it is the daughter who is dressed as a man who has the idea. I don't know if it's Li Xuandu's illusion, among the older generation, men naturally account for the vast majority, and now those who are calling for wind and rain on the rivers and lakes, except for a few women, are mostly men. But in their generation, there are some yin and yang declines, and there are not a few girls who support the portal alone. However, this is not very important, in the homes of ordinary people, it is naturally men who support the portal, because men are strong and have innate advantages. But in the Jianghu family, both men and women can practice martial arts, as long as they are successful, both men and women can support the portal.
For this young lady's male and female clothes, Li Xuan inevitably thinks of his junior sister. Speaking of which, Lu Yanbing is also a poor person, in the Qingwei Sect, the Lu family is considered a big family, but in her generation, there is no serious brother, fortunately, she was favored by Li Daoxu and accepted as a disciple, so she guarded the door, otherwise it would inevitably be embezzled by other uncles. That's it, Lu Yanbing has no serious brothers, but there are a bunch of wolf-like brothers, especially the three surnamed Li, none of them are fuel-efficient lamps, she is in the middle, she is embarrassed, and swaying with the wind is a helpless way, so Li Xuan never cares too much about her, just beats slightly. As the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, even if it is a pearl like Qin Su, who is held in the palm of his father and lover, he still has to worry about his dead mother and future stepmother, who can really be at ease.
Li Xuandu had no intention of delving into these mundane things of other people's families, but Zhang Wenyu saw that Li Xuan was Miss Qin's cousin, so he said a lot. This young lady's surname is Yan, her name is Yanqing, and she is a rather neutral name, both for women and men, and for Jinju. Of course, when introducing to the outside world, you can't call Miss Yan, but you have to call Yan Gongzi. The old steward also followed the master's surname Yan, called Yan Fang. Zhang Wenblun was originally a lonely wanderer of the rivers and lakes, with friends and enemies, once met the enemy, a fierce fight, although he killed the enemy, but also seriously injured, fainted on the side of the road, was rescued by the old master of the Yan family who passed by, in order to repay the kindness, Zhang Wenblun stayed in the Yan family after the injury, and became a guest of the Yan family.
Since the death of the old man Yan due to illness, because there is no son, many creditors are afraid that the Yan family will fall, so they have come to collect debts, and the debts owed to the Yan family have not reached the deadline, and they can't get the money back, and the business will not be able to turn around for a while, although in the end Yan Qing came forward, through her relationship with a friend, she borrowed money from Taiping Qianzhuang, and sent away the creditor, but Taiping Qianzhuang has the charter set by the Taiping Sect, and Mrs. Lu, who is in charge of the money village and the inn, has to check the accounts regularly, and encounters dead debts and bad debts, the steward in charge of this matter is not pleased. If the Yan family does not repay the debts when it expires, Taiping Qianzhuang will not be able to be accommodating, and will use the Yan family's property to pay off the debts. In desperation, Yan Qing had no choice but to take the risk of going into business, if it went well, he could almost wipe out the deficit.
When Li Xuandu heard Taiping Qianzhuang, he sighed slightly in his heart, although he is not the big proprietor of Taiping Qianzhuang, but he is the helmsman of the big proprietor family, for the Yan family, it is enough to ruin the family, and here for him, it is just a matter of one sentence. This is the benefit of power, and it is no wonder that everyone in the world is vying for power and profit, and who is willing to have their life and death in the hands of others? This is what Master said about the dominant and the dominated.
The Yan family's goods this time are mainly tea, although the price is slightly inferior to iron and salt, but it is also a first-class precious thing, from the south of the Yangtze River to purchase, about spent more than 10,000 taels of silver, plus the expenses along the way and all kinds of dots, the capital is about 15,000 taels, but as long as it can be done in the royal court, it can be exchanged for horses or cattle and sheep to be transported back to Liaodong, and then changed hands for old ginseng, Dongzhu, Mink fur and other things, whether it is transported back to the customs by land, or by sea to Jiangnan, can buy more than 40,000 taels, this back and forth profit is huge, who is not red-eyed, so it is said that the transaction of killing the head is done, and the transaction of losing money is not done. If Zhao Zheng wants to completely ban smuggling, he can only start from the root cause and make this kind of trade unprofitable, so naturally no one will take the risk of killing his head to go into business, how to make it unprofitable, the key is to open the border mutual market, and if you want to open the mutual market, the premise is that the two countries strike the war and suspend peace, which involves too much, and it is not at all something that Zhao Zheng can easily do now, so Zhao Zheng can only try his best to restrain it, but he can't completely ban it.
If you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government, and you will not know the difficulties. Just like those scholars, they talk about their hearts and scold the Quartet, but when it comes to solutions, there is no one, although they can't say wrong, but they can't talk about how to be praised.
Along the way, Li Xuandu thought a lot, in addition to the "Taiyin Thirteen Swords" that has been hanging in his heart and the "Taiping Qingling Sutra" that he has never forgotten, there are also Taiping Sect, Qingping Society, Taiping Inn, and the Qin family in Liaodong, Donghai Qingwei Sect, after his nearly two years of travel, many ideas are finally fruitful, he himself can also have some voices in the world, if this trip to the Golden Horde is smooth, he will return to Qingwei Sect, and the master officially mentioned the matter of peace with Zhengyi Sect, and then unite the five sects of Liaodong to completely eradicate the stubborn disease in the northwest, which is exactly what Situ Xuance wanted to do but did not do.
First eliminate the trouble, and then calm the internal worries. And then it's time to return to the Imperial Palace. The country is in turmoil, and the four sides are disturbed; above the temple, the rotten wood is the official; between the palace and the majesty, the birds and beasts eat the lu. The wolf-hearted dogs are in power, and the servants are in power. As a result, the ruins of the community are ruined. I have to be ruthless and rectify, this is what Zhang Suqing wanted to do but didn't do back then.
Li Xuandu's wish in life is to complete two unfinished things.
On the way, Li Xuandu hung at the end of the caravan, and just as Li Xuandu was pondering, Yan Qing at the front of the team quietly slowed down, came to Li Xuandu's side, and said, "Gongzi Qin." ”
Li Xuandu came back to his senses and asked, "I don't know what Yan Gongzi has to say?"
Yan Qing smiled slightly: "I don't dare to be a teacher, but I heard Uncle Zhang say that Miss Qin is the cousin of Qin Gongzi, so I want to ask Qin Gongzi for advice." ”
Li Xuan knew that she was a daughter, so he deliberately joked: "Could it be that Yan Gongzi is interested in my cousin?" But unfortunately, she has already married someone else, and Yan Gongzi is afraid that he will not have a chance. ”
Yan Qing heard that there was no malice in Li Xuandu's words, and he didn't care, and said: "What a family background Miss Qin has, and she is a celestial figure, how dare I think about it." I heard that Miss Qin and Li Gongzi of the Li family in the East China Sea have made a marriage, so I want to ask Qin Gongzi, have you ever seen that Li Gongzi?"
Li Xuandu was stunned, he didn't expect that Yan Qing was not interested in Qin Su, but in him Li Xuandu, he wanted to say that he hadn't seen it, but Yan Qing's eyes were quite firm, obviously sure that he had already seen it, and he had indeed seen many young children of the Qin family at Qin Su's suggestion, which was considered familiar, this matter was not secret, if he said that he had not seen it, it would make people doubt his Qin family identity, so he had to nod and said: "I have seen it." ”
Yan Qing's eyes lit up, and he asked again, "I don't know what kind of person this Li Gongzi is?"
In this world, no one knows Li Xuandu better than Li Xuandu, but Li Xuandu only feels embarrassed, his current identity is Qin Xuance, if he says bad things about Li Xuandu, it will inevitably make people think about it, and think he is jealous, but if he wants to say good things about Li Xuandu, it will become a princess selling melons and boasting, and she is suspected of boasting, but she really doesn't know how to evaluate it.
Li Xuandu had no choice but to be vague: "My status in the Qin family is not very high, at that time, we were a group of brothers who went to see Li Gongzi together, I was at the back, I couldn't see it really, I only looked at it from a few distances, and I was a perfect match for my cousin." ”
When Yan Qing heard this, he couldn't help but be slightly disappointed, and after a few polite words with Li Xuandu, he returned to the front of the team.
Li Xuandu thought about it, he didn't have any intersection with the Yan family, Yan Qing asked what he was like?