who said you were poor

Inside the room, the prince's ouch first came out, and then the prince's coaxing voice was heard.

Qingzhu had already realized the strangeness, and went out to get a basin of hot water and came back to wait. Sure enough, after a while, the prince came out to ask for a basin of water, and he didn't need to go in to serve the young master.

In the room, Lin Nuo had finished dressing, his face was still flushed red whether he was ashamed or angry.

Yan Cang also drank a lot of wine yesterday, his hands were not accurate, and he pinched Lin Nuo's waist so that it turned blue. Just now in the room, he used some medicinal wine to rub his waist.

Lin Nuo kicked Yan Cang when he was not awake, and seeing the other party busy getting water to wipe himself, the little anger in his heart disappeared, and he obediently raised his head to let him wash his face with a veil.

"Not next time."

Yan Cang's heart almost melted when he heard his voice hoarse and soft, but he still couldn't give up the benefits he should fight for, "Isn't it very comfortable."

Lin Nuo opened his eyes and glared at him without any momentum.

"Okay, okay, it won't be so long next time."

Lin Nuo didn't believe his nonsense, and wanted to refute, Yan Cang directly lowered his head and kissed him on the lips, "Husband, happy new year."

"Happy New Year."

The mansion was bustling from New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival, people from twelve cities came to Baicheng one after another from the first day of the new year. At this time, the northern border was not yet rich, and most of the people were starving for the winter.

Those who have been favored by the prince or the palace, even if they can't produce anything at home, they still have to hurry to come to the mansion during the New Year's Eve to congratulate them.

Lin Nuo didn't leave the yard a few days ago, so he didn't know about it.

It wasn't until the third day when I sent the older elders out of the mansion that I saw a woman outside the mansion gate holding her child and kowtowing to the mansion gate, shouting auspicious words of New Year's greetings. Lin Nuo's eyes met.

The woman didn't expect that she would be lucky enough to see the princess who was out of the mansion, so she took the child and walked a few steps forward, and said a few auspicious words to Lin Nuo at the bottom of the steps.

Lin Nuo didn't expect to meet a child who came to pay New Year's greetings suddenly. He had nothing in his hand, and just wanted to turn around and ask the butler behind him for some copper coins. When the woman saw the action of the princess, she took the child and said goodbye and left.

Only then did the guard outside the door tell Lin Nuo that some people often come to pay New Year's greetings outside the mansion recently, and even the snow near the palace was cleaned up by the people.

Some had come from farther towns and were on their way before dawn.

After Lin Nuo heard this, he immediately went back to the mansion to discuss with Yan Cang. Half a day later, a porridge shed was set up outside the palace, and all those who came to the palace to pay New Year's greetings were dragged by the guards to drink some hot porridge before leaving.

Just after the new year, it was time to start arranging spring plowing. Yan Cang dispersed the northern border army in the twelve cities and organized them into small teams, which rotated between farming patrols and military training.

The entire northern border has been cultivated in an orderly manner since April.

Due to the emergence of oil refineries, many farmers in the northern border have chosen to free up more than half of their land to grow soybeans this year.

The oil refinery also gradually opened out of the northern border.

For the changes in the northern border, the most intuitive ones are the traveling merchants.

Dakang is a traveling merchant. This is his tenth year as a traveling merchant. From north to south, he can be said to be familiar with every checkpoint of the Wu Dynasty.

He even knew exactly which mountain there were bandits in the Wu Dynasty, and which mountain to worship when crossing the road.

The main way for merchants to make money is to transport the goods from the South to the North. Some experienced merchants will basically not stay in the North, and directly take the finely crafted objects from the South to trade with foreigners.

Then exchange some unique items from foreigners and sell them to wealthy businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River or dignitaries in Beijing.

Dakang has brought a lot of embroidery from the south this year, and plans to visit the Huns.

At this time, after crossing the river in front of you, you will reach the northern border. The last thing Dakang merchants want is to cross the northern border. There will be wars here from time to time, and their goods have been robbed a few times.

It's just that if you want to do business with those barbarians in the north, you have to go through here.

Dakang looked at the city gate in the distance, and shouted to his companions, "It's time to enter Pine Forest City, so be smart."

After he walked in, he felt that something was wrong. The outside of the city was clean, and the people lined up to enter the city with their goods in an orderly manner. Just looking at the outside of the city, it looked a bit like those big cities in the south.

When they lined up to enter the city, they realized that in just two years, Pine Forest City was completely different from what they saw that day.

The streets are tidy and there are many merchants. People suddenly greet each other enthusiastically, and there are even children running around playing games.

Going forward, I don't know when a bookstore was opened beside the main street, and the sound of reading books spread to the main street, making Dakang a little dazed when he saw all this.

"This? Is this the northern border?"

What surprised him even more was that there were many snacks on the streets of Beijing that he couldn't find elsewhere.

He saw a long queue at a store, so he simply went to queue, and when he walked in, he found that the food sold was actually fried in a frying pan.

Dakang, who was holding a piece of fried chicken, smelled the aroma in his hand and walked back to the carriage. Seeing his distraught appearance, the people traveling with him hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, boss, what's wrong with this food?"

Dakang showed the fried chicken in his hand to everyone, "It was fried in a frying pan, a whole pan of oil."

"Hey! This, how can we afford this! Why is the boss willing to bleed today?"

Hearing the jokes from his companions, Dakang told them the price, and everyone thought he was joking, "It's true, but the deep-fried ones are really delicious!"

After eating, the group continued on their way, and found that Pinewood City was just a microcosm of the northern border, and it was the same for other towns they visited since then.

Not only that, but some common people saw that they were traveling merchants and stopped them directly to see the goods they were pulling.

After walking through the three cities in this way, half of the things in their car were sold.

Dakang wanted to know what happened in the northern border, so he simply changed the route going north, "Let's go, let's go to Baicheng first."

In July, Baicheng is not as hot as Beijing, and the weather is particularly comfortable.

After Lin Nuo was in charge of the Twelve City shops for a year and a half, the housekeeper finally transferred a few reliable shopkeepers from Jiangnan.

After these people arrived, they directly freed Lin Nuo from the complicated accounts. At this time, the property of the palace was not what it was a year ago, and the number of newly opened shops in the twelve cities could not be counted.

The shopkeeper trained Lin Nuo to be a big shopkeeper, and finally let Lin Nuo relax.

At the same time, after a year and a half of training, Yan Cang also promoted Yan Er to an official position, and assigned Yan Liu and Yan Qi to him, and handed over all the clerical affairs in the northern border to Yan Er.

After the husband and wife led the Northern Territory on the right track, they directly became hands-off shopkeepers.

From time to time, in the name of patrolling the territory, he went to various places in the Twelve Cities.

There are many food stalls in the Twelve Cities that Yan Cang came across some food or condiments when the two were wandering around. Thinking of those modern snacks, he asked Chef Wang to research and make them for Lin Nuo.

Lin Nuo found it strange, so he directly arranged to open a shop.

In this way, the food industry in Twelve Cities has also become extremely developed.

Today, the two were studying in the mansion whether to raise some ornamental fish in the pond, and these batches were all fish for cooking. Yan Wu ran over and told them that there were traveling merchants in the city.

Lin Nuo's uncle was a merchant, and when he heard that a merchant came to the city, he couldn't sit still, and dragged Yan Cang to find the merchant.

Dakang didn't expect that they would receive such a warm reception when they came to Baicheng.

The people of Baicheng have changed their appearance in the past few years. After paying taxes every year, they also have extra money in their hands.

When they heard that the traveling merchants came from the south, they all wanted to see their goods.

There are also those who know Dakang and the others, chatting with them next to them, "You might as well go around the twelve cities to collect and receive the goods. Many people in the northern border have things from the northern barbarians."

While talking, the originally crowded crowd suddenly gave way.

Now there is no one in the entire northern border who does not know the prince and princess. The people don't need to be chased away, and they spontaneously give way to a one-meter-wide road.

Dakang and his party heard the people around shouting the prince and concubine one after another, and for a moment they didn't know whether they should kneel down to pay respects.

In such a hesitant time, the two of them had already come close.

When Dakang saw the handsome young man called Princess, he knew in his heart that the two in front of him were the current master of the Northern Territory, King Bei Zhan and his concubine, and bowed to them both.

"My lord and my concubine."

The one who spoke to him first was a slightly shorter handsome boy, "Are you all traveling merchants?"

Seeing the curious scrutiny in his eyes, the expression was no different from the children he had seen, Dakang gradually lost his sense of nervousness, and talked to other people with a natural expression.

"Yes, we are merchants from the south. These goods are some items from the south. See if you like anything."

Lin Nuo looked at the convoy they were pulling, and counted the number, there were more than ten horse-drawn carriages, "Your convoy has a lot of people."

Dakang smiled faintly, "How dare you come out to run a business when there are fewer people."

They went around to the back to look at the things in the car. There were all kinds of miscellaneous goods on this commercial car, even a few rattles for children to play with.

Lin Nuo bought the snare drum as soon as it was uncovered. He held one up in his hand and showed it to Yan Cang, "Your lieutenant generals have a lot of family additions this year. Let's buy this for them."

The people in the caravan were secretly observing the way the two got along, and Dakang who was waiting by their side couldn't help feeling emotional that the two men, the prince and the concubine, were more affectionate than ordinary couples.

When the concubine said what she wanted, the prince would immediately respond. On the other hand, the concubine would explain to him one by one where these things should be used and who to give them to. The prince would also respond patiently and even advise him.

By the time the two of them had chosen something, the convoy was half empty again.

Before leaving, Lin Nuo came to Dakang with a smile, "There have been wars in the north for the past two years, and we also have a lot of good things in the north, why don't you just trade some things with the people in Twelve Cities to get them?" Sell ​​it in the south, don't go north again."

Dakang heard Wang Hao's kindness, and hurriedly raised his hand to express his thanks, and watched the two leave hand in hand.

This northern border is really different.

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喂，可不可以不上班呀感谢在2022-02-0914:54:46~2022-02-1014:06:20期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mines: 1 bald flower from Salted Fish;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!