Xiazhou City, also known as Tongwan City, has lost its splendor in later generations and was destroyed by war in the Song Dynasty. However, it is now an important stronghold of Xixia.
A horse team suddenly appeared outside Xiazhou City, carrying loads of tea. The owners of the cavalry were a group of Khitans, and there were also a few Han people among them.
The Khitan Kingdom was founded, but there were still most Han people in the territory. It is said that the Liao Kingdom had a population of more than nine million, and most of the Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures had more than five million people. During the Renzong period, due to the Khitan's policy of sinicization and softness, the Yanyun area The Han people have lost confidence in the Song Dynasty, and instead regard themselves as orthodox in the Central Plains.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there are several Han people in the Khitan cavalry. There are also many Han people in Xixia. Most of them serve as translators and guides. If a Han leads a horse team to trade alone, they will often be robbed and killed by the party members soon after entering the Xixia border, unless they are well-armed and feared by the party members.
The Khitan people have been bringing goods to Xixia more and more frequently recently. The shameless Song people have been defeated on the battlefield, and all the trade and exchanges they originally promised have been cancelled. The Han people have always claimed to keep their promises, so this code is the same code!
A good business was ruined like this! As a result, domestic prices have skyrocketed, and even tea is no longer available! The Dangxiang people were forced to do business with the unreasonable Khitans!
Angjier has been doing business in Xingqing Mansion for twenty years, and has never been favored by the government or the Dangxiang nobles. In their eyes, these businessmen are parasites that are the same as fleas and lice. Dangxiang people are born to gallop and gallop. We should not use Han people’s abacus to calculate everything!
Whenever the Song Dynasty used troops in the country, his family wealth would be confiscated and used to finance the army. The results of many years of hard work were turned into a pile of horse urine.
"These idiots with well-developed limbs and simple minds!" This is a sentence that Angier often talks about. Those brainless people in the army hang their heads on their belts, but they don't get much in return. Just a few bags of gold and silver? I don’t have to go to the battlefield to fight, but I can earn a hundred times as much as them every time!
This country is so unfair. The aristocrats are born to be aloof and have been like this for generations. They just sit back and enjoy wealth without producing anything. The monks fool the brainless people all day long, asking them to obediently hand over their money to the temple, and even those who are nothing but soldiers can ride on their heads!
The more a businessman is aggrieved by the state's expropriation of his property, the more ruthless he will be!
And not just once!
Fate suddenly took a U-turn.
After Zheng Hao came to the king's side, his status changed. He spoke good Chinese. Who made the Khitan people speak Chinese now? Chinese has become an internationally accepted standard language, but Xixia did not promote its own language. Before, it was also in Chinese.
He was also an authentic businessman. Under Zheng Hao's instructions, he was promoted to Xiazhou's envoy, specifically responsible for doing business with Khitan merchants from Datong Prefecture, Xijing, Liao Kingdom, to earn war funds for Xixia!
His status suddenly changed from a businessman who was worse than a piece of horse dung that can warm the fire, to a big businessman that the court relied on. Anyone who needed business in the major business houses had to go through his hands, and countless people in the country fawned over him.
The king personally issued a decree: The status of Zheng Hao's merchants was equal to that of the imperial officials, and no one could expropriate his family property without authorization.
What else are they afraid of!
The merchants in Xixia were transformed from low-class merchants who were ignored by others to serfs becoming masters overnight, and all of them sat on the heads of these big-headed soldiers and shit.
His envoys were responsible for doing business with the Khitan people, doing some smuggling business with some Song people privately, and dealing with war affairs. They were also responsible for counting the herdsmen and Han people's property in the area, either imposing heavy taxes or directly ransacking their homes. Just put your fat hand on the chopping board and it will be oily! There is no reason not to make money!
I heard that another group of Khitan cavalry arrived today, and the cavalry was actually carrying precious tea!
Grandma, tea is now a treasure that cannot be exchanged for gold!
This stuff can only be produced in the mountains in the southern part of the Song Dynasty. Now it is said that except for some secret channels, one or two loads can be obtained from the Song Dynasty for the nobles to enjoy. The Song Dynasty will not sell even a piece of tea to Xixia!
Xixia people eat beef and mutton and drink beef and sheep. If they don't have tea, they won't live to be thirty years old! The delicate intestines cannot cope with those fatty beef and mutton every day. The nomads all have big bellies, just because they eat meat. More importantly, because their gastrointestinal function is completely blocked by fat due to eating meat all the year round, resulting in excessive gastrointestinal function. Get fatter!
The consequence of being fat is that your belly will eventually swell to death!
Tea leaves, this is a grass-like crop, but it is like a pair of invisible big hands strangling the throats of party members!
Angier quickly dressed up and brought the brewed grape wine and the most beautiful party virgins and girls to greet these Khitan people!
Outside Xiazhou City, the common people on both sides of the city gate lowered their heads and waited for the cavalry to enter the city first. The Dangxiang people were arrogant towards the Han people, but they did not dare to complain about the Khitan people. In the era before Li Deming, the Khitan people If someone disagrees with them, they will chase them and kill them, forcing them to hand over their women and money. Over the past few decades, they have been out of the shadows.
The leader of the cavalry was none other than Yelu Chongguang!
The people following him were all members of the intelligence team, all Khitans, all of whom had their wolf heads exposed on their chests. This wolf head is the pride of the Khitan people and the taboo of the Song people. If the Song people grab it and tattoo it on their chests, they can always send it to the government to collect rewards.
This has also become the most direct and simple way to identify their identities.
Next to Yelv Chongguang were Liang Chuan Shitou and Qin Jing Yuchitian. Their identities are Han people, but now they are pretending to be Han people from the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun in order to infiltrate Xingqing Mansion and bring Zheng Zuliang back.
Liang Chuan and Su Wei planned it all night. It was too difficult for the Han people to directly contact the Dangxiang people, unless they changed their appearance!
Liang Chuan thought, why should he change it? Yelu Zhongguang and the others are Khitans, they don't even have tattoos!
The group of people carried thousands of kilograms of tea in a circle to Fuzhou, spent two ingots of gold to bribe the local government defenders in Fuzhou, and took advantage of the night to cross the border defense line and rush to Xiazhou.
The golden seal on Liang Chuan's face was so eye-catching that anyone with a discerning eye would know at a glance that he was a prisoner of the Song Dynasty. It had the same effect as the wolf head on the chest of the Khitan people.
For this reason, Liang Chuan followed the team and specially put on a mask and a cloak on his head, giving him an extremely mysterious look!
"Master, how can I be a Khitan merchant if I don't know how to do business?"
"This is not easy. Just follow what your Liao envoys did when they came to Qingyuan, and then it will be done!"
"Then I understand!"
Yelu Chongguang will never forget the virtues of the Liao envoy!
Yelu Zhongguang, his nostrils turned upward, did not even look at the party members who were guarding the city, and led his team straight to the foraging field inside Xiazhou City.
As soon as Angier saw the horse team coming, he quickly asked someone to lead the horse and help hold the horse's head down. Unexpectedly, when the servant came to lead the horse, Yelu Zhongguang deliberately slapped the horse's buttocks. The foal under him was so startled that it raised its hooves high and almost caused him to fall off the horse!
Veins popped up on Yelu Zhongguang's face, and he swung his riding crop and whipped the innocent servant in the face: "I frightened my horse!"
Liangchuan, Shitou, Qin Jing, Wei Chitian, and four other people were so frightened that their faces turned green. This is not the place where you can be as powerful as you want in your own home. This is the territory of the leader of the party. You can beat other people's children in their homes. Is it okay to use someone else's pot? . . ?
Unexpectedly, Angjier was not angry but was happy instead. He was even more anxious than Liang Chuan and the others. He trotted all the way to help Yelu Zhongguang lead the horse. He kicked the servant away with a flying leg and said angrily: "I've blinded your dog's eyes. You have thick hands and feet, can you bear the fall?"
The four people were stunned. What kind of operation could there be?
How could these people be willing to suffer such humiliation? They treat outsiders as guests instead of being treated as their own! On the contrary, the other members of the intelligence team seemed to be used to it. There was no expression on their faces, and they seemed to take it as a matter of course.
Yelu Zhongguang's proficiency in bowing and horsemanship would fall off wherever he went, it was all on purpose!
The Khitans are very hierarchical. Every time the Khitan envoys come to Qingyuan to collect property, they will first give the low-level people like them a break. If something happens, they will be whipped beforehand. To show your supremacy, you can't treat these barbarians with any heavenly etiquette. The better you treat them, the less they respect you! How could the special envoy of the Liao Kingdom know how to run a general business? Every time he came to Qingyuan, he would treat Sun Houpu and his gang of Song merchants like this.
"That's all, where is the woman?"
Yelv Chongguang was riding high on his horse, speaking with his nostrils, and even looking at Angier with his nostrils turned upward. The first thing I wanted was a woman, which I learned from the Liao envoy back then!
The Khitan people's male hormone seems to be extremely strong. Everywhere they go, the first thing they think of is not money, but women. Like boars, they are always ready to reproduce the next generation.
If it weren't for this boar-like appearance, Angjier would still doubt Yelv Chongguang's identity!
Yelv Chongguang's operation was really frightening. The four of them had pale faces and tightened their ropes, ready to turn around and run away!
Is this to incite hatred? We are here to do business, not to tear down other people’s homes and beat their children. Now we even want to play with their women?
Play too hard, don't worry about the party members falling out!
Angjier had a sense of flattery in his bones, and he said with a welcoming face: "My lower official Angjier, if you don't treat me well, I still hope that your envoy Haihan will do it. The beauties have already been arranged for your envoy at Don't complain, and they are all carefully selected." Beautiful girl!"
Yelu Zhongguang lowered his head and glared at Ang Xi'er like a wolf with his eyes. He was covered in cold sweat. He stuck out his tongue and licked his mouth hungrily: "You call Ang Xi'er, you?" Don’t go to some brothel and recruit a few stinky whores to disgust Grandpa. If those scumbag prostitutes have diseases and dirty things like my subordinates, you will stop doing business!"
After saying that, he waved his big hand behind him: "Look, these boxes are full of high-quality tea. The Song people haven't done business with you for a long time. Have they already pulled the grass stems from the grassland?" Drink it as tea! Let me tell you, this tea was shipped from Mingzhou by sea, hehe, but it took a lot of effort!"
The women of the Dangxiang people are just his reproductive tools. The living conditions are too difficult. The men may come back as corpses from the war all year round. Women are often reduced to the appendages of many people in order to survive. In this case, there are countless physical diseases.
Angjier greedily looked at the tea leaves on his horse. As the Khitan man said, he would have made a great contribution this time. Tea leaves and medicinal materials are in short supply in the imperial court. If he can bring back several thousand kilograms at a time, he will definitely be promoted. Level one!
Angjier smiled charmingly and stood next to Yelu Chongguang. He pretended to be quiet and said loudly as if he wanted everyone in the cavalry to hear: "Your Majesty, please rest assured. They are all virgins! They can squeeze out water! Your Majesty Bao Zhun satisfy!"
Yelu Zhongguang snorted from his nostrils in harmony with his performance. Even Ying didn't bother to pay attention to this cunning businessman. He snorted slightly to express his satisfaction! He pinched the horse's belly with his legs and urged the horse to move forward!
Although Xixia imitated the Han system and also set up government offices, the party members were governed by a leader system, and all orders were obeyed by the tribal leaders. The government offices were in name only, and in the current situation, they were reduced to a separate courtyard where Yelu Chongguang and his party stayed.
The beauties were really sent here. They were all beauties. Even an upright young man like Yeluhan couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva. They were really Han from Mizhi's mother-in-law Suide. This woman from the northwest was born from the blending of ethnic groups. Stunning look!
Shitou, a young man who had not yet asked for a wife, was also assigned one. He was a little dizzy looking at the snow-white breasts of these party girls, and turned to Liang Chuan: "Third brother, save me...!"
Yuchi Tian laughed loudly and patted Shi Shi's little head and said: "Boy, you haven't tasted it before, and you still want it after you taste it!"
