Chang'an, at dusk, the dull sound of drums came from the distance. It was already time to turn on the lights at Yuchi's house. Outside the study of the head of the family, Yuchi Guang, a middle-aged man in a black satin robe hurriedly walked in. When he reached the door, he did not dare to enter.
, just hand a letter to the book boy at the door.
The bookboy knocked lightly on the door, walked into the study silently, stood by the door and said: "Master, the fourth shopkeeper of Room A came to report that a camel team transporting tea was intercepted by officials in Gansu."
Yu Chiguang was immersed in reading a book, and from time to time he used a brush to make annotations on it. He seemed to be unmoved by the book boy's report. After a while, he suddenly stood up and said, "The articles written by these candidates this spring are really beautiful!" Suddenly!
Seeing the book boy standing at the door, he said casually: "I know, let the chief shopkeeper of Room A handle this matter. He is more familiar with the officialdom in Gansu. In addition, let Room Ding send more manpower to get the place back."
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But the book boy hesitated to go out, holding the letter in his hand and asked: "Do you want to read the fourth shopkeeper's Chen Qing?"
Yuchi Guang said: "Don't look at it. They are just words to excuse yourself. Others are outside. Ask them to come in."
The book boy went out and called the fourth shopkeeper in. As soon as the fourth shopkeeper entered the door, he lifted his robe and knelt down: "Master, this subordinate is guilty."
"Tell me, what's your crime?" Yuchi Guang closed his book and asked with a cheerful face. The head of the Yuchi family was only forty years old. He was tall and handsome, with a straight nose and a straight mouth, and his pupils were slightly gray. The Yuchi family had Persians.
Bloodline is something everyone knows. It is precisely because of this relationship that his family's caravan can reach distant places such as Persia and earn huge profits. This is something that the Han caravans cannot do.
The fourth shopkeeper said with sincerity and fear: "The Yuchi family has never had a caravan robbed in the past hundred years, but now it happens when a subordinate is in charge of the first room. It has lost the face of the Yuchi family. This is a capital crime."
Yuchi Guang said: "Then what are you going to do?"
"My subordinate personally led the troops to massacre the Shibali Fort and get back the goods."
"Oh, you just mentioned Shibali Fort. Could it be that those little gangsters stole our goods?" Yu Chiguang took out another book from the bookshelf and asked casually.
"It was those country boys who killed Duyi Dao and Niu Er and thought they had the final say in that area. This time they actually extended their hands to our Yuchi family. If we don't teach them a lesson, these boys will...
It’s going to turn upside down.”
"Speaking of these little gangsters, they really have some skills. It is said that several heads of the Li family in Lanzhou were killed by them. The huge Li family was almost wiped out by a bunch of kids who didn't even have their hair tied up.
, it’s not simple.” Yu Chiguang said meaningfully.
"Then... I will bring more people over here." The fourth shopkeeper said hesitantly.
"We must bring all the manpower, but killing and killing can't solve the problem. There are thousands of miles from Chang'an to the Western Regions. No matter how many Yuchi's family there are, they can't take care of them. I really admire these guys for their courage and ability. If
It would be great if you can use it for me." After all, Yu Chiguang is the head of the family, and his way of looking at problems is different from the people below.
"What if these people don't know what's good and what's good?" asked the fourth shopkeeper.
"Then there's nothing more to say. Just follow the old rules." Yuchi Guang said calmly.
In the governor's office in Lanzhou Prefecture, Gansu Province, a middle-aged man pushed back the envelope filled with banknotes with a sullen face and said: "It's not that my brother doesn't want to help, it's really that we are in trouble."
The person opposite asked curiously: "Isn't he just a small seventh-grade county magistrate? As the governor's secret agent, wouldn't you just pluck him off with just a few words?"
The middle-aged man said: "The Luyang magistrate is no better than others. Even the governor can't do anything to him. Besides, the magistrate sends people on the road to check for smuggling. There are regulations in the laws of this dynasty. What they do is justifiable. What do you say?
How can I speak in front of the governor?"
The man on the other side said: "So, then we can just let them do whatever they want and do no good?"
Mu Dao smiled awkwardly and thought to himself that your Yuchi family has been smuggling all year round. Is it legal? Of course, this can only be said in his heart, but he said: "Originally, there is no need to trouble the governor about this matter. Luyang County is so vast.
The population is sparse, horse thieves are rampant, and the government cannot control it at all. The case of extermination of the family of the previous county magistrate has not been solved yet..."
The man on the other side understood what he was thinking, and still pushed the envelope over and said, "Thank you Brother Zhang for your advice. I'll give you some money for tea."
Makudo smiled and said, "How can this be so embarrassing?" But he stretched out his hand and stuffed the envelope into his sleeve.
In Shibali Fort, in the courtyard of the Wang family, everyone was dumbfounded when they looked at the piles of brick tea: "What should I do with so many brick tea?"
Brick tea is only used by people from the Western Regions. The Han people disdain the use of products made from this kind of tea scraps. After waiting for many days, no one from the Yuchi family came to redeem it. Zhao Ding'an and others were dumbfounded. Only Yuan Feng was confident.
: "Don't worry, they will definitely come."
"But, they are members of the Yuchi family. There is an unwritten rule in the world. No one can touch the Yuchi family's caravan. Whoever touches it will be unlucky." Someone said.
"That's a saying in the Jianghu. Are we people from the Jianghu? We are the policemen of Luyang County. We are serious people from the Six Gates. How can we be as good as those horse thieves? Haha, am I right? Brother Feng
." Zhao Ding'an scolded the man with a straight face, then asked Yuan Feng with a smile.
"That's right, we are official servants. We only have laws in our eyes, and there is no Yuchi family. Let everyone be smart these two days. Put the whistle fifty miles away. If there is any trouble, report it immediately. I estimate that the Yuchi family will not
I will give up and give up."
"Don't worry, brother Feng, our people have all been spread out. As soon as someone from the Yuchi family comes, there will be news here immediately. The powerful dragon has not suppressed the local snake. I still don't believe it. He is far away in Chang'an, how can he go against us?"
." The young people all looked confident. No matter what kind of aristocratic family or rich family, they were nothing in their eyes. The Li family in Lanzhou was really good, and it didn't fall apart overnight. So now these young people are
Self-confidence is extremely inflated.
Suddenly, there was the sound of rapid horse hooves outside the courtyard. Wang Xiaoga flew in. Before he could get off his horse, he shouted: "Report! A group of people appeared on the east side of the fort. A hundred people were carrying the guy. They seemed to be looking for trouble.
of."
Yuan Feng stood up suddenly: "Copy guy!"
The yard immediately became busy. After a long period of training, the teenagers have become very qualified. They can pierce armor and hang swords in one go. The horses are all saddled. In a short time, a horse team was pulled out of the Wang family courtyard.
"Why didn't you show up earlier?" Yuan Feng asked as he walked.
"This group of people should have come in batches, in groups of three or five. They only gathered near our fort, so there were no checkpoints anywhere." Wang Xiaoga replied.
Yuan Feng remained calm and silent, thinking to himself that the quality of the sentry still needed to be strengthened, otherwise there would be no use waiting until the enemy arrived.
When we arrived at the gate of the fort, it was already closed. The strong men in the town had gathered together and lined up in a noisy manner behind the gate with spears. The men were all cursing, wondering which horse thieves were so blind to come here.
I'm really tired of looking for trouble in Shibali Fort.
The opponent was just gathering three miles away and had no intention of attacking. Yuan Feng climbed up to the tower and looked around. He saw that the team of hundreds and ten people on the other side was quite neat. They didn't look like horse thieves looking for them outside, but like domestic servants.
, since the enemy didn't move, I didn't move either. I would remain unchanged in response to all changes and see what they planned. After a while, two riders from the group came running towards this direction.
"Open the door." Yuan Feng said. They were far away, so they were not afraid that the other party would take the opportunity to grab the door. Moreover, with this posture, they seemed to be planning to salute first and then fight. Sure enough, after the two riders came in, they directly called Yuan Feng to speak.
Yuan Feng stood on the tower and said, "Yuan Feng is here, what advice do you two have?"
One of the people who came was the leader of the original camel team, and there was also an unfamiliar middle-aged man. Seeing that Yuan Feng was so young, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious. The team leader nodded to him, indicating that this was the real owner, and the middle-aged man was holding a fist in the palm of his hand.
: "I'm Han Shihe, the fourth shopkeeper of Room A of Yuchi's family. I've met Team Leader Yuan."
Yuan Feng said: "The fourth shopkeeper is here to give you tea and horse coupons. You have so many camels and bricks of tea. It will cost a lot to pile them up in our fort. If it is later, there will be a storage fee."
The fourth shopkeeper smiled faintly: "A few goods and animals are nothing to worry about. I just came here to make friends with Team Leader Yuan. Our Yuchi family has been doing this for a hundred years. If we can maintain peace for a hundred years, we can rely on it."
The first is my own strength, and the second is the help of my friends. If Leader Yuan agrees, you will be a guest of my Yuchi family from now on. Whether you go to Lanzhou or Chang'an, there will be someone to take care of your food, food, and accommodation. There are one thousand taels here.
The banknote should be considered as your hard-earned money."
As he spoke, he took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and shook them. Speaking of which, this is already a great honor. You intercepted other people's goods and they recognized it. They also plan to make friends with you. As the dominant party, the Yuchi family can
To do this is already the utmost benevolence, and to do otherwise would be a bit too much.
But Yuan Feng just didn't buy it. He said: "Of course we have to make friends, but this tea-horse coupon is also indispensable. I am following the order of the magistrate and executing the laws of the court. How dare you practice favoritism and malpractice?
It’s better to keep the banknotes from Shopkeeper Han.”
Han Shihe cursed secretly for being disrespectful, put away the banknotes and said: "There are no outsiders here, we might as well talk openly and say that tea-horse coupons are a rule set by the imperial court to exploit businessmen. The imperial laws have long been
Honkai Impact, where did you ask us to find some tea horse coupons?"
Yuan Feng said: "This is wrong. Shopkeeper Han can ignore the laws of the court, but we in the public servants dare not. Furthermore, the tea-horse coupons are not nowhere to be found. By chance, we
Someone from Baozi went to Lanzhou Prefecture to get some tea and horse coupons, and they can sell them to you at a cheap price. One thousand five hundred dans of brick tea, which is exactly one hundred and fifty coupons. If you round up the whole number, I will charge you one thousand five hundred taels."
The cost of brick tea is extremely low. In places such as Sichuan, Huguang, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the price is equivalent to that of scrap. It is just a brick-shaped object pressed from various scraps, tea stems and the like. However, it can be sold for sky-high prices when shipped to the Western Regions.
, the receiving price of a load of tea is only a penny. It can be sold for ten taels of silver when transported to Liangzhou. It can be sold for twenty taels or even thirty taels of silver when transported to Hami and Yili. Ten loads of tea can be exchanged for one horse.
Good horses are recognized as market prices, and a good horse from the Western Regions can be sold for more than 150 taels in Lanzhou Prefecture, and even higher in the Central Plains. No matter how bad it is, you can still earn more than 200 taels.
Therefore, the tea-horse trade was definitely a profit-making industry. The imperial court set up tea-horse coupons, and a load of brick tea was charged one tael of silver tax, which was not very heavy. The price offered by Yuan Feng was also very fair, and there was absolutely no sky-high bidding.
But to the ears of the fourth shopkeeper, it was more than just asking for prices. It was like holding a knife to the necks of Yuchi's family. They would cut off every load of tea. It would be worth it if this went on. The business of Yuchi's family was so big, it cost more than 100,000 yuan a year.
To transport brick tea to the Western Regions, wouldn't this mean that they would have to pay them one hundred thousand taels of silver?
Only 1,500 taels can bring back the 300 camels and 1,500 dans of brick tea worth 50,000 taels of silver. Moreover, shopkeeper Han Si also has so many silver notes in his arms, but he will never agree to this even if he dies.
It was an unreasonable request. Since the other party opened his mouth with no sincerity, there was no need to continue the discussion. The fourth shopkeeper grunted: "Okay! Team Leader Yuan is really happy. Let me discuss it with my brothers when I get back."
Yuan Feng knew that a fight was about to begin, so he held his hands in his hands and said, "I won't send you far away."
The fourth shopkeeper returned to the team and narrated the meeting in a low voice. Everyone in the Yuchi family was angry. These people were swordsmen raised in the D-shaped house. They had been supported by the Yuchi family all year round and had never had the opportunity to contribute. Why now?
The crowd was agitated and the Fourth Shopkeeper didn't need to do any pre-war mobilization. They just screamed, beat and killed.