After time travel, he devoted himself to helping his father with his career.

"Where did Mingjia go?"

"Sir, Master Mingjia said she went to find medicinal materials!"

"How many people did she take with her?"

"Master Mingjia has taken away all the people she brought back, as well as all the people in the caravan who could be brought with her!"

Xiao Qingshan waved his hand for the boy to go down. He sent Dong and the children away specifically because he didn't want them to get involved, but Mingjia came back anyway.

"Oh~!"

Mingjia entered the house in the morning, had lunch with her old father at noon, and left in a hurry in the afternoon.

Regardless of whether it was Ji Lin's work or not, Mingjia had to find someone first. As for how to transport the medicinal materials back to Dianzhou City, that was another matter.

There are many tribes near Dianzhou City, but some powerful tribes have relatively few large tribes. The Baiyi tribe is the largest tribe among them, and they must have a lot of medicinal materials.

But the Baiyi tribe's gathering place was too close to Dianzhou City, and their warehouses were better filled for the time being. Mingjia simply gave up the idea of ​​going to the Baiyi tribe to borrow medicine.

Ming Jia carried the token given by Huo Zelin in her arms and led people straight to the southwest border, intending to empty out the Huo family's private treasury.

Sure enough, Mingjia took the talents to the border and immediately discovered the problem.

"Only people are allowed in, no goods are allowed in?"

"Yes, the results of several manual investigations are like this!"

Thirteen and Fourteen, with their manpower, arrived at the border two days before Mingjia, and spread out to find out the news.

Mingjia was no longer spinning chess pieces now. She was spinning the tokens in her hand very fast. She knew there was something wrong with Ji Lin.

[Throwing a stumbling block to dad, do you want him to make big mistakes in his career? Or do you want to wait until dad can no longer hold on and ask him for help, so that you can achieve something? 】

Mingjia hesitated. If it was the former, there would be some trouble. If it was the latter... maybe he could go to Fuyuan General's Mansion in advance to talk.

Mingjia felt that her life was going smoothly, and then she let down her guard. She never asked anyone to investigate Ji Lin carefully.

Dianzhou City and General Fuyuan's residence have always been located next to each other. For six years, Mingjia's understanding of Ji Lin was limited to a simple family background, which was of no use at critical moments.

……

In the only inn on the border, Mingjia frowned and stared at the four tokens in front of him in a daze, especially the fourth token that Han Yan suddenly handed over.

"Shen"

The big word "Chen" was really dazzling. Mingjia turned his head and looked at Han Yan, using his eyes to signal Han Yan to give him an explanation.

Han Yan: "Young Master Shen Qing gave this to this slave. It only means that when Young Master Jia needs it, let me give you this token!"

Ming Jia curled her lips slightly, Han Yan must have done it on purpose.

Mingjia took out the token from his master, Taifu Xie, and Uncle Li's token from the Duke's Mansion, but was hesitant to take the risk to meet Ji Lin.

Han Yan took out the token of the Shen family at this time, which was... a bit scary. After all, Commander Shen was not as good as Li Guogong in official position, but he was close to the emperor!

[At this time, Ji Lin's blockade of the border must have been approved by the emperor. He cannot break through forcefully but can only outsmart him! 】

Mingjia stretched out her index finger and tapped her fingertips on the table, as if hesitating as to what identity she should use to meet Ji Lin.

Suddenly, Mingjia focused on the smallest token, reached out and grabbed the token, and the other three tokens were also put away by Mingjia.

"resemble"

This is Xiao Qingshan's Zhizhou token. Mingjia turned the token on his fingertips and threw it in the direction of Shi Shi with a flick of his wrist.

"Uncle Fourteenth, take my father's token and go to General Ji Lin's residence to visit him! Tell him that Xiao Mingjia, the second son of the Xiao family, wants to see you!"

"Yes"

Fourteen turned around and walked out with the token!

Mingjia held her chin in one hand and continued to tap the table with the other hand, thinking about things in a fugue.

Han Yan has been following Master Mingjia for more than two years, and he thought he already knew Mingjia somewhat, but he was still surprised to see Master Mingjia choose Mr. Xiao's token from the four tokens.

However, Han Yan was gratified that Master Mingjia did not reject the token from the Shen family and collected it together with the tokens from Taifu Xie and Duke Li.

Mingjia really couldn't figure out Ji Lin's purpose. No matter how he thought about it, it was contradictory. What could be calculated about the position of the governor of Dianzhou?

Could it be that Ji Lin wants to run Xiao Qingshan away, and then arrange for one of his own people to come over and be the magistrate of the state, so that the two of them can join forces to control the southwest border and the tea-horse trade route?

but……

Five years ago, when the imperial court first began to regulate the tea-horse trade route, what did Ji Lin do?

Now that the imperial court has controlled the trade routes, it would be useless to replace them with a small magistrate.

Or...does Ji Lin want to join forces with the next Zhizhou to rebel?

It has been more than 20 years since the founding of the Daliang Dynasty, and it has become a prosperous age. Especially since Xuzhou Port was opened to navigation in the past two years, the people are very convinced of the imperial court.

When Fourteen came back, he also brought back General Ji Lin's lieutenant, saying that he was here to pick up Mingjia to his station.

Mingjia glanced around the room, and sure enough he didn't see the figure entering the shadow. He thought he was hiding somewhere on the roof.

"Uncle Thirteen and Uncle Fourteen, you stay and watch the horses. Chengwen and Han Yan follow me!"

Mingjia didn't even change her clothes. She got up and walked out of the inn, got on her horse, lowered her head and said to the deputy general.

"Let's go! Don't keep the general waiting!"

……

Ji Lin should be in his early forties, with a tall and tall figure. Some would believe him to be in his thirties based on his figure. The military commander looks even younger without a beard.

"Xiao Mingjia has met General Ji!"

"Haha, the second son of Xiao Qingshan, the magistrate of Dianzhou?"

"It's down!"

Ji Lin's tone was a little bad, as if there was a hint of other emotions hidden, of course it was more of coercion.

Facing the aura exuding from Ji Lin, Mingjia saluted and answered without being affected at all.

"Sure enough, heroes are born in youth! I heard that you are taking care of the Xiao family's property in Dianzhou?"

【I wipe it! It’s not for my dad, the feelings are for me! 】

The smile on Mingjia's face was a little deeper. Now that he knew the other party's purpose, it was easier to deal with it.

"General Ji is joking. The Xiao family doesn't have any property. I just help take care of the property of some relatives and friends!"

"Oh~! I heard that the Xiao family's patent medicine business not only sells well in Dianzhou, but also sells it overseas through the port. It can be said that the daily profits are huge!"

Mingjia still kept her smile unchanged. She chose to cooperate with Chen Shao'ang in the first place just to make a lot of money.

Although Mingjia didn't want to hide it for long, it wouldn't be discovered in less than three years.

Mingjia looked at Ji Lin silently, and she waited quietly to see what kind of request Ji Lin could make.

Her brain was running rapidly, and Mingjia actually wanted to know who leaked the news. After all, very few people knew that she sold patent medicines by sea.

"I wonder, does the Xiao family's industry need partners?"

Ming Jia now also figured out why Ji Lin never told Xiao Qingshan about his purpose.

Because Mingjia is not in Dianzhou, Ji Lin is waiting for her to show up!