Qingzhou trip

Lu Xiangchun rushed to Shahai on the second day of heavy wind and snow.The place where she stayed was the blacksmith's shop of the Li family. She ate wild goat meat that Yan Yunhan hunted from Lutan, and heard about King Jin's return to Beijing, "Then why didn't I find Axie just now?"

"Master Xie spends himself in Prince Jin's Mansion, and is extremely busy all day long." A Lu, who decided to change her name, is the most comfortable and recovers from her injuries. No matter how delicate she is, Li Suyue doesn't believe it.During the day, she sits in the clinic for consultations, and in her free time, she spends time in the blacksmith's shop to accompany the confinement mother to forge iron.After finally meeting Lu Xiangchun, she brought salted beans to serve him a drink, "Hua Niang asked you to come to your highness?"

Lu Xiangchun waved his hand, "Okay, I'll eat the food when I come back, I'll go find Axie first." Maybe he was really hungry, so he took a piece of mutton before he left.

She followed Li Jixin all the way from the day the soldiers retreated outside Shahai City, and found that he had officially settled in Qingbai Village near Beixia Commercial Road for rectification, and he has been silent since then.A few days later, it was found that the convoy going in and out of Qingbai village from time to time, Lu Xiangchun found that the car was full of Qingbai salt that was abundant in Wuchi, Baichi and other places.This place is called Qingbai Village, and most of the people who got its name from this place started their business by selling Qingbai salt privately.

Lu Xiangchun guessed Li Jixin's idea, turned around and sent a letter to Sha Poster, and finally saw Xie Penglai sitting under the bookshelf in the lonely King Jin's Mansion.There was still a burning charcoal basin beside her, and Lu Xiangchun sat down, "When you were so busy, you were secretly studying."

Xie Penglai looked up and saw her busy and dusty, and knew that her board and lodging were impermanent these days, "Ah Chun, thank you for your hard work." He got up and poured hot tea for Lu Xiangchun, but Lu Xiangchun did not speak in a hurry, but instead looked around, "It seems that this Your Highness is gone, you can come in and out of such a big house."

"Just look up the documents." Xie Penglai said.

In fact, Xie Penglai received a message sent by King Jin later, "All the documents in the mansion will be read and called by the county magistrate Xie."

Although the battle was peaceful, the news that Zou Shiyan was killed by bandits outside the city had spread into Shahai.In addition, several salt stores in the city are running out of storage recently, making Shahai people think that the Beixia people have come back again. They killed court officials, disrupted business routes, and some even wanted to take the whole family and flee to other places.

Xie Penglai did not restart the curfew because of this, but instead opened the city gate and told people to come and go as they please.She was frank, but she was even more afraid when she wanted to leave.Who knows if there are robbers waiting for them outside?I had no choice but to lament my bad luck, how did I end up in this embarrassing situation?

Is it difficult, you have to go out to know.Lu Jinhua was sent by her to fulfill her promise to King Jin to "take Li Jixin's head" as soon as possible.Xie Penglai learned that in order to know the climate of the palace, the Northern Xia monarch even bribed several servants and maids.However, the person in Wende Palace looked down on Bei Xia, who was "a land of five cool places, barren for thousands of miles".

After the battle in Shahai, King Jin felt more and more that Beixia should not be underestimated, and so was Xie Penglai.They sent people to watch every move in the Beixia capital, and they also had full control over Li Jixin's movements.

Xie Penglai smiled, "You can drink the wine in the purple sparrow as long as you want, and it will be considered as a welcome wind for you."

Only then did the woman show her white teeth and smiled happily, "He landed in Qingbai Village." After the words fell, Xie Penglai had already spread out a map on the ground, pointing Qingbai Village's fingertips and cruising around on the map, "I'm staring at it." Green and white salt."

What she just browsed in Jinwang Mansion was also the salt price record in the commercial book. The salt price in Beijing has hardly changed, but the salt price in Jiangnan and Northwest has almost doubled in five years.Xie Penglai closed the business booklet, "Let's go buy wine."

This is the posture for a long talk.Lu Xiangchun said "yes", and when he arrived at Zique, he unceremoniously ordered a bunch of food and drink and went back to Li Suyue's house.Li Suyue glanced at Shan Cui, she understood and went back to the shop with Yan Yunhan to get busy.

"After many days of closure of the city, there is going to be a salt shortage. The salt in the east is transported to Yanzhou and other places before it can be distributed to Shahai. I also went to Yanzhou, where the price of salt is higher. Many people just buy it. Green and white salt from Northern Xia.” Shahai is also in the same situation, Xie Penglai has been in charge for these years, the city does not dare to privately sell green and white salt, but there are people outside the city who dare to do business.

"Some blue and white salts are good to eat. Some people in Yanzhou and Weizhou have used alkaline earth, brine or nitrate to make fake salt and mix it with real ones. If you eat too much, you will get sick and die if you eat too much." Alu has always been knowledgeable. I have also seen and heard a lot after being escorted all the way back from the northeast border.

They deduced that Li Jixin felt that piecemeal hijacking would not become a trend, and monopolizing the border salt road could just sit back and wait to make money.The Northwest is not as rich as Jiangnan and the capital. Except for the market transactions, only the salt tax is the most stable.

Lu Xiangchun and the others talked excitedly, but Xie Penglai gradually became quiet.Not only was she worried about King Jin who was going to Beijing, but she was also thinking about the way out for Shahai and the Northwest.Many ministers in the court insisted on embargoing Beixia's high-quality and cheap green and white salt into Beijing, hoping to besiege the other side from the salt tax revenue.A Lu saw her face, "I would like to find out about the private solution over there. After we get familiar with it, we can use it to make money for ourselves."

"How to make money?" Xie Penglai's eyes were dark, unable to see her attitude towards this matter.

A Lu didn't mind, "How long can the remaining gifts in the city last? How much wealth is left after the piles are closed every year in the Northwest? I expect His Highness to ask for it from Beijing? If you ask for it for a while, you can't ask for it forever. Opening the salt road will also make the imperial court vigilant. Why don't we let Li Jixin straighten out the salt road in Beixia for us, and we will be at the border... tie up our pockets and wait for the salt to be sold for money."

"This... is going to be beheaded." Li Suyue looked at her and hesitated.Little did he know that A Lu also liked him more because he saw that she was a horse thief.

"If you don't do this, more people will die." Let Li Jixin breathe and calm down, this person will definitely start another war.Lu Xiangchun answered, "I wanted to do this a long time ago, but my aunt didn't allow it." Lu Jinhua knew that selling salt was very profitable, and was afraid that his subordinates would forget to carry their knives to protect the victory if they followed this path.

A Lu looked at the faces of the people in the room, and casually peeled the orchid beans, "I still have to find out, whether to continue, wait for His Royal Highness King Jin to make a decision in the future. Anyway, she is going to be hard to get off at the moment, and the people in Beixia say that she is the King of Hades." , those people in Jingli must have taken great precautions against her."

These words touched Xie Penglai's mind again, her eyelids twitched, and she looked at her apprentice squarely, "Do you also think that His Highness's visit is bad or bad?"

"It's true that Your Highness has never traded at a loss. There must be something worthy of her risk." A Lu also admired Zhao Yifang for leading troops out of the city. "She is not afraid of death at all." Li Suyue and Li Suyue occasionally got into the arms of a strong man and wanted to go to the battlefield, and almost died.

After a long while, Xie Penglai finally made up his mind, "Alu is right. In the future, raising soldiers, guarding the city, running schools, or farming and animal husbandry will cost money. Although His Highness is not in the sand sea, we have to plan ahead. In addition, We have to dig down the root of Li Jixin's wall." But who to send is a difficult problem.

"I'll go." Li Suyue said firmly, she was used to business in various places, she also knew some Northern Xia customs and language, and possessed skills, so she was the best candidate.

A Lu's eyes flashed with reluctance, "You... I will accompany you."

After drinking the wine in the glass, Lu Xiangchun let out a long sigh and thought about it, "I thought I would have hope if I followed King Jin, but in the end I still have to find money by myself." She looked at Xie Penglai and joked, "King Jin will give you money for a month. How much silver taels?"

A trace of pride flashed across Xie Penglai's face, "Priceless."

The faces of the people at the table were all shocked. A Lu smacked the taste, and his eyes flashed, "You and Your Highness...?" Helping each other wholeheartedly, to the present appearance of admiration.

Xie Penglai smiled brightly, "We share the same interests." Thinking of the snowy night together like a dream, her throat felt dry.

A Lu withdrew her suspicious gaze, and then looked at Li Suyue who was so focused on going out to explore the salt road, she felt that it was better to worry about herself.

After the meal, Lu Xiangchun and Xie Penglai were sent away. She sat aside and watched Li Suyue clean up the house. Yun Bailu sighed softly that she was really worthless, and just liked to watch Yueniang busy with housework like this.

Yanniang's voice sounded outside again, she rubbed her head, "How many times has this happened?" This person came here every now and then to ask Yueniang for help or to talk about something, either to hit horseshoes, or to deliver some food.Even if she became an in-law, she still moves around quite frequently.She looked at Li Suyue eagerly, the female blacksmith smiled at her and opened the door, but she saw Yanniang bumping her head into Yueniang's arms, "Yueniang..." Yanniang's urgent voice changed to crying, she grabbed Li Suyue's arm with both hands, "My husband...is about to die."

Yanniang's eyes were red from crying, and Li Suyue was shocked when she heard it, "I was still active a few days ago, I heard him greet me from the house."

"I've had a high fever since the morning, and I can't wake up after talking nonsense for a long time. The doctor in the medical center can't help..." Yan Niang looked at A Lu with tears in her eyes, "Please Miss Yun to go and have a look."

A Lu hastily agreed, "Okay...okay, I'll go right away." Looking at Yanniang again, she threw herself into Li Suyue's arms and cried non-stop.Li Suyue looked back at her with helplessness in her eyes.

Ah Lu, who was still wondering why Master Xie and King Jin got so hot, understood at that moment that if she didn't poke the window paper, someone else would come and dig her wall.But human life is at stake, she still put aside her personal affair first, and fulfill her duties as a doctor.When I got home, I wrote a letter to ask Lu Xiangchun to bring it to Huaniang, and ask her to secure a matchmaker, so that I can settle the matter.

She hurriedly picked up the medicine box, and then went to pull Yan Niang, "Let's go and see..."

With a light hand, the medicine box fell into Yueniang's palm, "Your injury is not healed, I will carry you." Li Suyue said softly, "Healing the wounded and saving lives is a good thing, but I don't want you to be so tired."

Yanniang Lihua's face in the rain seemed to turn pale for a moment, while Ah Lu's face turned red, "I...I can walk."

Li Suyue had already lifted her feet off the ground, "That won't work, it's not the first time, so don't be shy." Li Suyue looked at Yan Niang, "Yan Niang, let's go back to your shop."