Economic and Trade Song Dynasty

"It should be soon, as soon as we find the entrance to the horse thief's den, they will appear." Zhao Huaizhi smiled.

"Then if we can't find the entrance to the horse thief's den, won't they show up?" Qin Juan asked him back.

Zhao Huaizhi smiled softly: "No."

Qin Juan was slightly stunned, Zhao Huaizhi was always so confident, he seemed to know everything in his mind, he didn't know if it was because he understood the laws of the world, or because his heart was so strong that he was fearless.

It was completely dark, and only one lantern was lit. They didn't dare to draw too much attention. The leader held the lantern, and the people behind walked very close.

The snow on the road on a snowy night is glowing white, and you can still see the road under your feet clearly.

I don't know how long I walked, but finally stopped. Some people fainted, probably because of the cold stomach pain, and because they couldn't drink hot water on the way, they could only drink tea made with herbs.

The tea made from herbs can temporarily replenish physical strength, and is used in military camps in extremely cold places.

A military doctor came to examine the cavalry, and they had to stop first.

"What are you boiling water for?" a cavalryman asked him.

Qin Juan: "Drink."

"Can't light a fire, it will attract the attention of horse thieves."

"I'm afraid of this when my life is almost gone." He threw two extra pieces of charcoal into it.While the military doctor was feeding the man medicine, Qin Juan came over with a bowl of hot water.

"Give him a drink." Qin Juan handed the water to the man holding the cavalryman.

The man froze for a moment, took it over and fed water to the cavalry.

Not long after, the cavalryman drank hot water and said he felt much better.

Qin Juan encountered this kind of thing when he was still in the Jihab Camp, and it can be relieved by drinking hot water. This is because the stomach cavity has been frozen, and he feels sick when he eats, and he can’t even vomit. It’s uncomfortable. Can't wait to die.At that time, the military doctors in the barracks didn't even have any medicine, but after giving him a few bowls of hot water, he felt much better.

They didn't rest for too long, the cavalry drank some hot water, ate something and were ready to set off again.

Qin Juan handed the water bag filled with hot water to Zhao Huaizhi, Zhao Huaizhi took a sip and put the water bag in his pocket to warm his hands.

Seeing this scene, Qin Juan smiled.

After walking in the dark for about an hour, they saw a small mountain. Forests and hills suddenly appeared on the grassland, which was very conspicuous.

"My lord, that should be the place." The cavalryman pointed not far away.

Zhao Huaizhi nodded, and told them slowly: "Send a few people to explore the way first, and we will rest here for a quarter of an hour."

"I'll take people there, you wait for me here." Qin Juan said, turned around and went to count the cavalry.

"No."

One of Zhao Huai opened his mouth, and the people counted looked over.

Qin Juan frowned and looked over: "Huh?" Obviously he didn't understand why Zhao Huaizhi objected so quickly.

Zhao Huaizhi: "You can't go there, just wait here."

Qin Juan snorted softly, turned around and walked towards the forest: "If you don't go, I will go alone."

"..." Zhao Huaizhi was stunned for a moment, and those cavalrymen were the same. I have never seen anyone who ignores their master so much.

I didn't pay attention to it, but I put it in my heart.

Qin Juan was afraid that Zhao Huaizhi would be in danger, and he didn't understand why he wanted to protect Zhao Huaizhi as long as he stood in front of Zhao Huaizhi.

He just wanted to rush to the front of everything, maybe he just wanted to show off in front of Zhao Huaizhi, or he simply wanted Zhao Huaizhi to notice him, to notice that he had grown into a young man who could protect him.

Qin Juan drove the horse quickly towards the direction of the forest.

"My lord, what should we do now?" A cavalryman asked in a low voice.

"Follow up first." Zhao Huaizhi rode his horse and raised his whip.

It's not particularly scary, after all, they still have reinforcements.

The only thing to worry about is the trap of horse thieves.

When he was young, he had suppressed horse thief dens, and there were traps everywhere.

I thought that the child was mature and stable, but I didn't expect that he was still a teenager.

Naturally, Qin Juan didn't know what Zhao Huaizhi was thinking, he only knew that he had experience in suppressing horse thief dens, and that he advanced through the woods could help Zhao Huaizhi and the others find their way.

It's all right now, but Fox thinks he's not steady...

Qin Juan pulled out his knife, and he used the knife to test every step he took, and would cut off the iron wire between the trees first.

Except for the iron wire, there will be a rolling stone ditch designed according to the mountain in this kind of place, so he has to go forward and destroy these things.

He had not gone far when the cavalry followed.

"Since you're here, hurry up and go up the hillside to deal with those things first." Qin Juan said, leading the horse up the hillside.

After walking a few steps, he fell down with a bang... Fortunately, he was holding the rein of the horse, but this fall was stuck in mid-air.

Seeing this, the cavalrymen behind him either laughed or cried, their expressions were extremely funny, but they didn't hesitate for too long, so they caught up with him and came to rescue him.

There is a knife hole below, but luckily Ma'er knew he was being dragged, so he pulled him up on the ground, otherwise Qin Juan would have been stabbed with a knife.

The two cavalry hurried up to pull Qin Juan up, and the horse also pulled back hard...

So, there was no danger.

Qin Juan looked at them: "Why are you laughing! This place is full of knife pits, go forward and deal with them first, don't pay attention when you are running for a while."

He let out a long breath, deeply felt his legs trembling, and the soles of his feet were a little weak.

Damn, I almost died again, but fortunately I was holding the rein tightly.

"Where are you adults?"

"In the back, he was worried that you would let us come here first."

"Who wants him to worry." Qin Juan snorted coldly and raised his head.

"You must be careful not to fall into it again hahahaha."

The cavalry bowed their heads in fear after Qin Juan said this.

Don't say that if you fall down again, you will lose all your face.

If Zhao Huaizhi heard these people talk about it in the future, wouldn't he be laughed out of his teeth.

They found a channel of rolling stones on the hillside. Two cavalrymen drew their swords and cut down the tree to block the channel.

"My lord, they are here." The sound of horseshoes approached, and a cavalry shouted.

Qin Juan couldn't help looking back, and saw that there were more and more cavalry in the forest, and gradually they could hear the neat sound of horseshoes.

It was also when Zhao Huaizhi and the others arrived that the horse thieves also noticed that someone had entered the forest.

"I was fooled! They cheated! Someone came!"

"Brothers kill 'em!"

"Kill this group of people, we trust them, and they lie to us!"

The angry roar of the horse thieves spread throughout the forest, Qin Juan and the others heard it but didn't know what they were talking about.

"Let's go in quickly, Kublai Khan and the others are probably in trouble." Qin Juan frowned and got on his horse.

At this time, the sound of fighting came from inside, and Kublai Khan and the others had already started fighting with the horse thief.

Kublai Khan said while beating: "I just wanted to persuade you to surrender, and I didn't mean to hurt your life."

"The ghost still believes your nonsense!" said the leader of the horse thief.

"You asked me to give you things. I can't do this. If I give you things, we will starve to death and freeze to death on the road within twenty miles. So that day, for the sake of my people's I can’t give you my life, and I can’t change this even if I have to choose again.” Kublai Khan said in a deep voice, “But I didn’t mean to take your life from the beginning, understand?”

"I don't believe it! I killed my brothers, and I will kill you to give them an explanation!" The horse thief rushed over with a knife in his hand.

Kublai Khan blocked his attack with a horizontal knife, frowned, and said again: "I don't know how many of my people are inside and outside the forest, but they are more than yours, so you'd better obey my arrangement now. "

"You, you, you..." The horse thief leader trembled with anger.

Kublai Khan's eyes were dark: "For the sake of your brothers' lives, you'd better listen to me."

He said with a smile on his lips.

When Zhao Huaizhi and the others came in with people, the leader of the horse thieves surrendered, and some of the horse thieves who refused to accept led the others to try to break out of the siege.

"They took the north road and ran a few."

"A stone rolled down in the ditch and injured several brothers. The rest went after them, but let them run away." A cavalry came back and reported.

"It doesn't matter, forget about those who run away, don't kill those who resist, and detain them first." Kublai Khan ordered them.

"By the way, where is that Qin? Tell him to come over." Kublai looked at his subordinates.

The cavalry replied: "They were taken away by the Patriarch of Boyawu."

Kublai pursed his lips and was silent for a while.

The cavalryman said again: "The lord said that Qin is the savior of the young master Huhu, and his subordinates didn't think much about it, so they let him go. Do you want to chase him?"

"No need." Kublai Khan's eyes were dark, thoughtful.

"Did Boyawu's people say nothing?"

"Except for Qin's matter, I only said that since Lord Kublai Khan is fine, he withdrew." The cavalry replied.

Kublai Khan: "This Patriarch of the Boyawu Clan is more interesting than those Patriarchs of the Great Ordu City."

Help others as much as you can, and leave silently when things are done.

If it was someone else, I'm afraid they would come to him now to seek benefits.

"Rectify and return to the camp immediately." Kublai Khan thought, he was not interested in competing with Boyawuhuhu for a small lieutenant general, there was no need for it.

Besides, the Patriarch of the Boyawu family had just helped him.

Qin Juan was taken away by Zhao Huaizhi.

Qin Juan also wondered why Kublai Khan's men didn't come after him.

"Zhao Huaizhi, is the Patriarch of Boyawu so proud? I thought that Kublai Khan would catch me and let me go after investigating me thoroughly." Qin Juan muttered.

Zhao Huaizhi looked over and said, "It's okay."

"It's okay, do you know Kublai Khan?"

"I know." Zhao Huaizhi said lightly.

Qin Juan looked over abruptly, and said in a bad tone, "Very familiar?"

"Not counting." Zhao Huaizhi seemed to be smiling, but the scarf covered Qin Juan so he couldn't see it.

"I have seen it dozens of times, but every time I have a different feeling." Zhao Huaizhi said calmly.

But the more Qin Juan heard it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he looked over with cold eyes: "What do you mean?"

Are you talking about feelings?

To be honest, Zhao Huaizhi smelled a bit of jealousy, maybe the young wolf didn't notice it.

"When we first met, it was a horse race. It was originally a horse race for children. Kublai Khan didn't have to participate after he was old. He should have attended with his younger brothers. At that time, my father led me, and his The eldest brother led him, I was still a toddler, and he was already a teenager, so we couldn’t talk together, and there would be no time to sit down and chat, but there was one thing I remembered deeply, he didn’t like talking like me, and he would After the start, I saw a child throwing stones at the horses in the racecourse. I saw him say to the child, "Throwing stones behind your back is a villain's act, but you should be more villainous, don't throw it so obviously, and don't stand on the ground." Such a conspicuous position, you should stand in the crowd', after he said these few words, the child ran away, and no child was injured in that horse race."

"I remember him because this person is funny. When he was young, he liked to persuade people from the worst angle. I haven't seen this kind of person before." Zhao Huaizhi looked at Qin Juan, his eyes were open and soft.

"Afterwards, it's usually someone else who comes to me."

"..." Qin Juan understood this sentence, which meant that Kublai Khan would go to Huhu for the next meeting.

After they had traveled about three to five miles, Qin Juan asked Zhao Huaizhi, "Where are we going?"

"Go to Zenan." Zhao Huaizhi replied.

"What did you go to Zenan for?" Qin Juan looked at him suspiciously.

Zhao Huaizhi looked at him, his gaze was as deep as water but frank: "Because of Brother Xuan."

For this name, Qin Juan has feelings of resistance...

After all, this is the rumored childhood sweetheart who is in the same family as the head of the Boyawu family...

Qin Juan twitched his lips, gripped the reins tightly, and unknowingly accelerated his speed.

"It's not good to go too fast. The wind gets stronger the further you go to the north. Be careful that you're freezing."

"My mask is stuck to my face, and I can't even pick it off." Qin Juan snorted coldly.

"What?" Zhao Huaizhi seemed to be frightened, and rode up to catch up.

Seeing Qin Juan's face wrapped in a leopard-print scarf and not wearing a mask, he tightened his heart and moved closer. When the lantern shone on Qin Juan's face, he didn't see any scars, so he let out a long breath.

"Do you care about my face or me?" Qin Juan said flatly without looking at him.

Zhao Huai choked, pursed his lips, and did not answer.

"You are talking." Qin Juan urged lightly.Zhao Huaizhi felt that this was a death question, and any answer was wrong, but the young wolf cared childishly.

So Zhao Huaizhi looked at the sky, and suddenly asked: "How do you protect your skin in the military camp?"

Seeing Zhao Huaizhi ask this, Qin Juan was a little surprised.

He slowly took out a small jar the size of a palm from his arms.

"This is what ensures my skin is always in good condition. A jar can last for one to two years, and a small amount can last for three years." Qin Juan laughed.

"..." Zhao Huaizhi didn't believe that there could be an ointment in this world that wouldn't go bad after three years.

"This is made by Mu Ya's mother. When I was a child, I saw that almost all the slaves in the camp had chilblains. Only Mu Ya didn't get chilblains in winter. I was puzzled. He told me that it was the ointment made by his mother. So the first thing I did after earning money was to ask Mu Ya to buy this, and later I separated from Mu Ya, and the rest was used up, especially when I went to Wu Si Zang, my cheeks were all peeling... I later found out that none of the ointments that the military doctors had given me worked."

Zhao Huaizhi: "Is it really so miraculous?"

Qin Juan handed him the small jar.

Zhao Huaizhi opened it, sniffed it, and even twisted it with his fingers.

"There is snake oil...and even..." Zhao Huaizhi's eyes lit up, "It's formation oil (petroleum)."

It's amazing that the common people used this oil to make ointment for their faces.

Generally, formation oil that can be used by ordinary people floats on the surface. In the past, armies would use this oil to smear weapons to prevent rust, and even some of it could be burned after refining, but it was too labor-intensive to give up.

I didn't expect women to use it to make ointment for men's faces.

Zhao Huaizhi smiled and returned the jar to Qin Juan.

They saw the city three days later.

Their speed is slow, if placed in the south, they can travel more than a hundred miles in three days, but it is very cold, they can only travel more than twenty miles in three days.

This city is called Bingyu, and it used to be the hinterland of King Zenan.

Now that their king has left, the city was almost destroyed by the flames of war during the year-long struggle between various forces.

But, calm is restored now.

When they arrived, it was very quiet here, no one was guarding the city gate, and occasionally a few scattered soldiers could be seen.

Qin Juan frowned puzzled and asked Zhao Huaizhi: "Didn't you say that they have been fighting to the death for almost a year? Why is it like this now?"

"Because they had a fight, and later when they arrived at the palace of King Zenan, they found that there was nothing there. The imaginary gold, silver and jewels and the soldier symbols commanding Zenan were all empty, and the palace of King Zenan was empty. " Zhao Huaizhi's tone became contemptuous, with a smile on his lips, "Then when everything they dreamed of turned into a phantom, it became like this, with no goals, just eating and waiting to die."

"Then who evacuated King Zenan's palace long ago?" Qin Juan's voice was low.

Zhao Huaizhi gave him an unexpected answer: King Zenan himself.

Qin Juan naturally didn't know how many years King Zenan had been planning to get rid of the golden cicada's shell.

Therefore, King Zenan "killed" King Zenan and blamed the craftsmen of Song State.

Zenan forces reshuffled.

However, the "dead" King Zenan appeared in Dawuer with a brand new identity, and no one knew about it.

Except Fox.

He came here to confirm one thing, thinking of this, Zhao Huaizhi's eyes narrowed.

Pass through an avenue in the center of Iceland City and reach the Elder's Mansion.

Walking half an hour further back from the Elder's Mansion is the Royal Palace of the Ice Region.

It should be empty now, or there are still a few of brother Xuan's women living there.

Zhao Huaizhi did not go to the Elder's Mansion immediately, but first found an inn to accommodate Qin Juan.

The moment he walked into the inn room, Qin Juan turned and looked at Zhao Huaizhi: "Aren't you taking me with you?"

Zhao Huaizhi said lightly, "I'll be back soon."

Qin Juan threw the burden on the table.

"Then come back quickly, I'm not familiar with this place." Qin Juan thought for a while before coming up with such a sentence.

Zhao Huaizhi nodded.

When Qin Juan came out of the room, he asked the cavalry outside the door: "How many people did your master take out?"

"Three."

"Then why did he go out?"

"My lord is going to ask the elders something."

Qin Juan hugged his chest: "Can't you just say something straight?"

"This..." The cavalry was taken aback.

Qin Juan was about to annoy that brother Xuan to death, especially stepping on the former city of brother Xuan, he felt a little uneasy deep in his heart.

"It's about Boya Wu's appointment as Patriarch." The cavalryman said.

Qin Juan was stunned. The matter of Huhu's father... Fortunately, it has nothing to do with the little sweetheart of his childhood.

He felt better.

He seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, waved his hand and said, "I'll go for a walk."

Cavalry: "Then you come back earlier, by the way, it's cold outside, you wear this."

The cavalry handed him a very thick pelt.

Qin Juan had never seen such a long fur coat before, he picked it up in surprise, felt it, didn't recognize it and didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he put it on first.

So warm, much warmer than fox fur.

"Then I'm going out." Qin Juan walked out with his sword in his arms and a bow and arrow on his back.

He wanted to find out if there were any good horses. In such a cold place, there should be some special horses. In the past, people said that Zenan's horses were good.

He crossed Long Street and found that most people on the road used sledges.

There are even sleds pulled by many hounds.

He hadn't seen it before, so he stopped and took a few more glances.

A child threw him some snow balls, and he tried to stare at the group of little devils.

But they didn't seem to be afraid of him at all, and they threw more vigorously.

"..." Qin Juan had nothing to say, the children here are more energetic than the adults here.

The children threw him for a while, and found that this man was different, and he didn't yell at them like other people, let alone hit them, so they smiled and came over to talk to him.

"Why haven't I seen you before, where did you come from?" A child asked him.

"Outside the city." Qin Juan replied.

"Outside the city? Is it far?"

"Far."

"Then how many sleds and hounds do you have at home?" another child asked.

Qin Juan: "There are no sleds, no hunting dogs, and my family only has sheep."

"Your family is really poor."

"That's right, how can you not have hunting dogs in your family? We have hunting dogs in every family, and some even have sika deer." The children "crushed" him with one word at a time.

Qin Juan: "My family only has [-] sheep now." The children suddenly fell silent.

How much is [-] sheep, and the smartest child among them has not counted...

When Qin Juan was gone, they all asked the child how many [-] sheep were.

The child shook his head: "Anyway, it's older than a hundred."

"Wow, there are more than 100 sheep in his family!" The child who figured it out shouted.

"My God! More than 100 sheep can exchange a lot of hunting dogs and sleds, so why doesn't his family have hunting dogs and sleds?"

"Maybe he doesn't like sledding, so he should ride a sheep when he goes out."

"Have you ever seen someone go out to ride a sheep?" Qin Juan could still hear the voices of those children talking to each other from a long distance away.

The corners of his lips twitched when he heard these smiles, and his stomach hurt a little.

Turning around, he entered a horse dealership.

The horses here are obviously big and long-haired, but Qin Juan can't tell the difference between a good horse and a bad one. You can only know when you ride it.

"Guest officer, do you want to buy a horse?" A groom immediately came over.

"I'm just looking around."

"You can rest assured that we are all good horses here."

While the groom was talking, he saw Qin Juan stretch out his hand and pat the horse's back casually.

These horses are tall and strong, but you have to ride them to know. He was just about to ask the groom if he could ride them.

But a horse bit his robe...

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