"A real man should be willing to avenge his enemies. Kingsoft has grown up so old that he has never been forced to eat. He didn't have the chance before, but now he has the chance, so naturally he can't let go of the person who bullied me and insulted me before!" Kingsoft gritted his teeth and told the reason why he wanted to stay in the mine.

"Yes, why did I forget those gods? I also stayed to help Brother Jin. If I don't avenge this, I won't be named Di!" Di Qing immediately slapped the table and agreed. Compared with Di Qing in history, he is still a young man with no opinion now, especially Jin Shan's words of revenge even touched his heart.

Li Zhang sighed secretly when he heard this. Although Kingsoft runs a casino, he is actually a good-natured person. Even if others provoke him, as long as it is not too much, he will not care too much. But now he would rather stay in the mine than take revenge on the mine tyrants. This shows what kind of bullying he had suffered before!

"No problem. I will come back with you in three days. Then I will make some more arrangements and do whatever you want!" Li Zhang nodded immediately after hearing this. Although he could use his power to directly deal with those who bullied Kingsoft, looking at Kingsoft's appearance, he obviously wanted to take revenge with his own hands, so Li Zhang naturally would not stop him.

Seeing Li Zhang agreeing, Di Qing next to him was happier than Jinshan. He seemed to want to go back immediately and teach all the people who bullied them hard. Speaking of which, although Di Qing looked tall and big, he was actually a young man. Li Zhang was a little younger than him, but he was extremely calm and obvious in comparison.

After a meal of roasted lamb, I ate it for half an hour. Finally, Li Zhang checked out and found that he had eaten two cents of money. In fact, the mutton in the northwest was very cheap, but the four young people were the most edible, especially Di Qing, who had an amazing appetite, of course, was a little worse than a wild dog.

Li Zhang didn't know when he would go back, so he hired a car in the city and asked Jinshan and Di Qing to go to Qingzhou City first. The two of them continued to stay in Tuoyuan Village for Cao Wei. Cao Ma probably couldn't go back today, because Tuoyuan Village is very important. With Cao Wei's personality, he might stay here for two days.

Sure enough, when it was almost dark, Cao Wei sent someone to find Li Zhang and the others, and then the group stayed in Tuoyuan Village for one night. The dinner was eaten with the commander Wang at the military commander's yamen. Commander Wang was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was not tall and half a head shorter than Li Zhang, but he was thick and strong, looking like a water tank. Cao Mata privately introduced to Li Zhang that Wang Fang was good at using a pair of iron maces in all directions and had the courage to be unstoppable on the battlefield.

Wang Fang is a military general, and he always eats a heroic spirit in his meals and drinks. He eats whole lamb for dinner and drinks wine from large jars at will. Although there is a ban on drinking in the army that he cannot drink alcohol, this ban is generally only valid during wars. When there is no war, it is generally not prohibited in the military camp. After all, the northwest is bitter and cold, and the weather is cold now, so if there is no alcohol, the soldiers who have no alcohol can't hold on.

The next morning, Li Zhang woke up and found that the sky outside was gloomy, as if he wanted to snow. Speaking of which, they set out from the capital in autumn and came here, it was already winter, but it had not snowed yet. Looking at what they looked like today, the first snow this year is likely to fall.

"Let's go! Let's go to the border market!" Li Zhang and Cao Mai had breakfast, and Cao Wei took Wang Fang to find them. Not far from Tuoyuan Village is the border city established by the Song Dynasty, which is the place where the Song Dynasty does business with all ethnic groups abroad. Although there are many merchants in Tuoyuan Village, they are far less than the transaction volume in the border city.

Li Zhang was actually worried about the matter on Kingsoft. When he met yesterday, he deliberately concealed it, that is, Kingsoft's wife was forced to have an abortion by her father and brother, and she ended up having two lives. He did not dare to tell Jinshan about this, for fear that he would be too sad, but he didn't know if Mrs. Jin and Jin Xiaomei would tell Jinshan when they saw him?

But it is useless to worry about this now. Li Zhang cannot abandon his public because of his own private affairs. Moreover, Cao Wei threw them in Tuoyuan City yesterday, but in fact he gave him time to deal with private affairs. After all, Cao Ma cannot not tell him about Kingsoft. Now that the matter has been done, he has to take the official position first, so he and Cao Ma nodded immediately to agree.

So the group left Tuoyuan Village, walked about three miles northwards, which was the border market established by the Song Dynasty. In fact, it was a designated trading range. The Song Dynasty and all ethnic groups from abroad transported their own commodities here and then traded them. The common currency was naturally the copper coins of the Song Dynasty, or gold and silver. However, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty were relatively scarce, so there were also a large number of barters here.

Li Zhang and the others rode their horses and came to the border market after a while. Because the border market here has been established for many years, simple shops have been built on the border market, and a road that runs east-west is divided into two parts, north and south, the southern half is mainly Han merchants, and the northern half is mainly Hu merchants. Most of the transactions are placed in the open air, and merchants of various colors shuttle through these goods, and a large order will be completed from time to time. Although it is simple here, the daily transaction volume is much stronger than that of Tuoyuanzhai.

In addition to the merchants who come and go, you can often see some officials from the Song Dynasty traveling through it with their soldiers. These officials mainly collect taxes, but here are mixed with Han and Hu, and the people are very tough. It is not easy to raise taxes. Therefore, there are hundreds of soldiers here. They will take action directly when they encounter tough bones who refuse to pay taxes. After all, no one will believe it if they are not tough here, especially the Hu people. They believe in fists, and it is more useful to beat them directly than any preaching.

"It's not bad, it seems to be more prosperous than two years ago!" Cao Wei rode on the horse and looked at the border market in front of him. He nodded with satisfaction. The border market is of great significance. It is not only an important financial source for the border, but also the more Hu people willing to come to the border market to trade, it generally means that the border will be safer.

"Hehe, although the Dangxiang people are not very honest in the past two years, they have to rely on the transactions with us to survive, so they dare not make trouble in the border market. In the past two years, not only the Dangxiang people and Tubo people come to trade, but even the grassland people farther away will also form a caravan. They can bring a large number of cattle and sheep, and even many good horses. Last year, a BMW was even sent to the palace." At this time, Commander Wang smiled with emotion. He was short and strong, with his face covered with flesh, and there was a long scar on his face. When he smiled, he was so scared that the child could stop crying.

"Let's go in and take a walk!" Cao Wei said in great interest at this time. After saying that, he got off the horse first, and then took Li Zhang and the others into the border market. He was very lively when he was watching outside, but when he entered, Li Zhang found that it was very lively, but it was also very dirty.

Because there are too many cattle and horses, there is a smell of livestock everywhere, and there is also a smell of sheep. Especially when the Hu people walked by, it had a strong smell, which made Li Zhang frown. He used to only heard that Hu people didn't like taking a bath, and because of their diet, they had a strong body odor. He had never had close contact with Hu people before, but now he saw that he was indeed well-deserved.

In addition to the body odor of Hu people, the road is full of cows and horses, and there is no one to manage it. Especially some Hu people have the intention of stool and solve it directly on the street, which makes these smells mixed. Fortunately, it is winter now, and if it is summer, the smell here will definitely be even more unbearable. With mosquitoes, it can drive people crazy.

"It's indeed a place to transform into a foreign land!" Li Zhang couldn't help but sigh at the dirty scene in the border city. It would be fine if it was dirty here, but it was also very messy. The two gangs of people who were trading might suddenly start fighting. If it were Han people, the officials from the Song Dynasty would come forward to mediate. If both sides were Hu, the officials wouldn't bother to take a look. In the end, the fist of which side had a big fist would have to follow the rules of which side.

"Brother Cao, here is so chaotic, can't you care about it?" Li Zhang couldn't help but shake his head secretly as he looked at the scene around him, and then asked Cao Mata beside him. Cao Wei in front was chatting with Wang Fang, and the two young men fell behind, which was more convenient.

"Brother Li doesn't know that our Song Dynasty has not been in charge before. It's okay for the Han merchants to at least not dare to break the court's rules on the surface, but these Hu people are too troublesome, especially the Hu people are very mobile. Maybe this year's one finger, and next year's another group of people will be another group, so sometimes they finally taught them how to learn our rules, but the next year's change of people will still be the same. And if they are too strict, it may also cause the Hu people to rebound. So in the end, the court simply ignored it, as long as the tax revenue can be raised." Cao Ma was also quite helpless at the moment.

Li Zhang was quite dissatisfied when he heard this, because in his opinion, it was not that these Hu people were disobeying discipline, but that the officials of the Song Dynasty were too lazy. They were so dirty that they could control a good border market. And it was so messy. In the words of later generations, the business environment was harsh, which would definitely affect the transactions in border markets.

Of course, Li Zhang was dissatisfied and was not satisfied. After all, the border market was not under his control, so it was useless for him to have any opinions. However, he also admired the merchants who came here to trade. In such a dirty and messy environment, they could still trade, especially in the straw huts on both sides, where there were still people eating and drinking. Li Zhang would definitely not be able to do it.

"By the way, I heard that Li Deming's son Li Yuanhao occasionally comes to the border market. I wonder if you have ever seen him?" At this moment, Li Zhang suddenly heard Cao Wei in front of him asking Wang Fang next to him. When he heard the name Li Yuanhao, he immediately pricked up his ears. Cao Wei, like him, was very interested in Li Yuanhao, but Li Zhang was more interested in how to kill this future confidant in the Song Dynasty!
Chapter completed!