Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

Just when Chang'an was full of joy and laughter, in Fanyang Lu's mansion far away in Youzhou, patriarch Lu Chengqing looked at his uncles with a livid face.

"Give me an uncle, what is going on with this matter, and you will give me an explanation."

"On weekdays, I would turn a blind eye to your reckless behavior in Youzhou, but this time you have gone too far."

"That Zhang Yunji is the governor of Youzhou appointed by the imperial court. He has only been in office for two months. How dare you kill him?"

Zhang Yunji, originally the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, was named the male of Wucheng County by Li Shimin after Cheng Yaojin and the others were transferred back to Chang'an, and served as the governor of Youzhou.

Just yesterday, his body was found outside the city, and he was killed along with seven or eight followers.

Although the murderer has not been found yet, after Lu Chengqing, his third uncle led others to do this.

After Lu Chengqing lost his temper, an old man said, "Patriarch, you can't blame the third child for this."

"That Zhang Yunji is too powerful. If the third brother doesn't take action, I'm afraid he will find out what we did on the grassland soon."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chengqing became angry.

He tried to calm down and said to the old man, "Second Master, I have strictly ordered them not to go to the grassland so frequently."

"Who is to blame for this being found out!"

"Isn't the monthly money that the family gives you not enough, and you still have to enter the grassland so often!"

After Lu Chengqing finished speaking, several of his uncles cried out at the same time.

"Patriarch, don't you know that your cousins ​​have been spending a lot of money in Chang'an recently. They have been asking the family for money every three days. We have no choice but to make such a bad plan."

"Besides, it's difficult to do business on the grassland now. We basically returned empty-handed these few times. Not only did we not make any money, but we also got a lot of horse feed!"

The prairie business that these people talk about is a costless business.

Generally speaking, there are only two ways for caravans to enter the Turkic Grassland. One is to leave the customs from Hexi and go to Western Turkic and other places.

Now that the two major khans of Eastern Turks, Jieli Khan and Tuli Khan, are powerful, they naturally have more money and more businessmen.

In the beginning, Fan Yang and Lu's joined the trade brigade in a hurry, but soon they found that their goods were not in high demand.

The real valuables on the Turkic grasslands are those specialties from the south.

After a while of deliberation, they started thinking about other caravans.

In the beginning, they still cooperated with small Turkic tribes, using the intelligence network to tell these small tribes information about some small caravans.

After the robbery is over, the two parties split.

But gradually, they are not satisfied with sharing this matter.

So a few bold uncles of the Lu family set up a cavalry team by themselves, and made ample food and clothing by themselves.

However, in this matter, he met Zhang Yunji who had just taken office.

Zhang Yunji is a good official who started from the grassroots and is best at observation and thinking.

During the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, he was the county magistrate of Wuyang. He was famous for his good governance during his tenure as the magistrate of Wuyang.

Later, after entering the Ministry of Officials, it was also very effective.

Li Chengqian also learned a lot from him when he first took office as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Li Shimin asked him to come to Youzhou, just thinking that he would come to stabilize the people of Youzhou and lay a solid foundation for the masses to go to the Turks in the future.

Zhang Yunji did not live up to Li Shimin's trust.

After taking office, he devoted himself to his responsibilities. Not only did he have a clear understanding of Fanyang County, the administrative center of Youzhou, but he also went out of the city to inspect from time to time, wishing he could visit every corner of Youzhou.

Just like this, Zhang Yunji soon discovered the abnormal cavalry.

Seeing that the matter was brought to light, Fan Yang and Lu could only kill him cruelly.

"Hey, the matter has come to this point, we can only try our best to cover it up."

"May I trouble Third Uncle to catch some thieves and cut off the work."

"This matter must not happen again, and those who violate it will be expelled from the family!"

Regarding Zhang Yunji's death, although Lu Chengqing felt extremely irritated, but the matter had come to this point, he could only make a decision based on the interests of the family.

After dealing with Zhang Yunji's matter, he asked about the grassland.

"Third uncle, what happened on the grassland, why do you return empty-handed so many times?"

In fact, he also knew about the situation of Lu's cavalry team, but he still had to ask the person who led the team out for the reason.

Uncle Lu also sighed and said, "Hey, it's not all about the Shence Mansion!"

"The Divine Strategy Mansion? The Divine Strategy Mansion of the King of Chu?"

Lu Chengqing was very puzzled by this answer.

"The head of the family knows the caravan in Shence Mansion, the one from Pei Ju before."

"Now this caravan is led by a man named Wang Xuance."

"I don't know why this Wang Xuance has gone crazy. He kept borrowing money on the grassland. Many caravans we robbed lent money to them before they left."

"Look, here's the IOU we got from a team."

As he spoke, Third Uncle took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Lu Chengqing.

Lu Chengqing took it over and took a look, and sure enough it was neatly printed on it: "Shence Mansion borrows five hundred guan!"

Turn to the back, there are also words on this side.

Not only the date of the loan is written, but also some precautions.

For example, money can be exchanged at the household offices of various state capitals. If the amount exceeds [-] guan, you need to go to Chang'an Shence Mansion.

During the loan period, you can enjoy [-]% interest per month.

"Hmph, the interest is only five per cent. If it weren't for the backing of the government, who would lend him the money!"

At this moment, the third uncle spoke again.

However, Lu Chengqing didn't take it seriously. He took this IOU and checked it repeatedly, feeling something was wrong in his heart.

"Third Uncle, do you have any other IOUs? Show me all of them!"

The third uncle chuckled and said, "Of course we did. We returned empty-handed a few times in the first few times, but then we got so ruthless that we even grabbed the IOU!"

"Anyway, there is no name written on it. When we accumulate more, we will send people to Chang'an to get the money back."

The third uncle's words aroused Lu Chengqing's inspiration for a moment, and he quickly took two more IOUs and began to read them again and again.

Second Master Lu also noticed Lu Chengqing's abnormality, and quickly asked, "Patriarch, did you find anything wrong?"

"Hey, third uncle, you really got fooled!"

At this time, Lu Chengqing let out a long sigh, and then sat down.

"Where are these IOUs? They are clearly their means of deceiving the world!"

"Do you have any news from the grasslands, are these merchants scrambling to lend them money?"

"Do they borrow no matter how much?"

Hearing Lu Chengqing's question, Third Uncle thought about it seriously, then nodded emphatically.

"Patriarch, how do you know?"

"It seems that the situation on the grassland is really like this."

"We really fell for it?"