Siling Inspection Village is located 60 miles southwest of Ruhe County. Just at the intersection of Sancha Road, the north is Guwanzhai (now Fusui) and the southwest is Juliu Zhongzhou, which is under the jurisdiction of Taipingzhai (now Chongzuo). This small mountain village surrounded by mountains is the key, and it blocks the passage of Juliuzhai County around the 100,000 mountains into Yongzhou.

There are 67 soldiers stationed here. The inspector Zhu Zongping, who was the leader, was born in the imperial guards. His official was a three-class team with no rank and miscellaneous ranks, and he belonged to Duan Fang, the magistrate of Ruhe County.

Since May, Zhu Zongping has found that there are people setting up stalls two miles away from the inspection village. There are barbarians and local natives in the mountains, where they exchange goods. At first, he didn't care, but he didn't think that there would be more and more people setting up stalls, and it has grown to the point where people trade there every day.

The market for trading with barbarians is not open casually. If one handles it improperly, countless disputes will arise, and the above orders must be obtained. At this time, the Song Dynasty could not effectively manage the throne under Yongzhou. It was basically letting go, as long as there was no trouble. There was no official Boyi Site, and the transactions between the two parties basically relied on the mobile merchants who came and went.

Zhu Zongping had a low official position and did not dare to be the master, so he hurriedly reported it. Duan Fang's answer was to tell him not to care and let it develop naturally. Two days later, he even received a letter from the magistrate of the state, saying that it was a private grass market and the exchange of existence and whether it was a matter of mutual exchange or not, and that according to the law, he just needed to maintain order.

Shangguan can be said to be light and fluent. How dare he take this responsibility as a small inspector? Every day, he looked at the grass market not far away in the inspection village. The goods sold became more and more complicated, and he was worried.

It was not until one day that he saw the Huang County Captain of the county, and brought a dozen people to drive large boxes of ox carts and small boxes to trade with the barbarians, and he was careless and indifferent, that he felt relieved. The county captain did this, so why did he worry about it as a small inspector?

The grass market next to the inspection camp was getting more and more prosperous as if it was blowing.

Early in the morning on June 12th, the sun in the sky was still nestled at the foot of the mountain, and it just spit out a mouthful of sunshine to brighten the top of the mountain. The hazy morning light was filled with cool dew, and the sticky yellow road was filled with a fresh atmosphere.

Xu Ping rode a horse and walked on the path with Tan Hu and a few of his accompanying soldiers. Behind the team, Gao Daquan led the horse high and low, and immediately sat Xiuxiu who was so curious that she looked around.

After not walking for many roads, Gao Daquan sighed: "Xiuxiu, why are you here to join in the fun? We are not going to play, I will follow the officials to inspect Caoshi!"

Xiuxiu pouted and said, "There are barbarians selling things in the Caoshi market. How fun the things they sell! There are long-crown chickens, jade birds, and I heard that there are little monkeys selling them. Of course I have to go and see them! Otherwise, when I return to the Central Plains for two years, Su'er asked me, Xiuxiu, you have been in Yongzhou for many years, and you have seen something you can't see in the Central Plains? Could it be that I told her that we built a restaurant in Yongzhou like Baisha Town and sold white wine. When we came to the countryside of Yongzhou, we opened the land and planted rice like in the village? Then she would not make me laugh to death!"

Gao Daquan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Then you are riding in a ox cart!"

"I learned to ride a horse!" Xiuxiu said proudly, "It depends on my good horse. I am familiar with it. As soon as I get on this horse, I learn it!"

"Then I want me to hold you?"

Xiuxiu said: "Brother Gao, why have you learned to be lazy? Look at the soldiers in front of you, they are walking on the road like you, and there is not as much talk as you!"

Gao Daquan could only sigh. Can this be compared? Xu Ping gave him a higher treatment than Tan Hu, let alone rewarding something from time to time. Tan Hu was jealous of him. Who made him the one who had been with Xu Ping for several years? But Tan Hu was riding a horse, why did Gao Daquan have to lead someone else?

But he could only sigh. Xiuxiu, a little girl in her early 10 years old, left home thousands of miles away. As Xu Ping came to this miasma-ridden border, Xu Ping did not need to speak, and others treated her as a little princess. What's more, since she was in Zhongmu, Xiuxiu, who had great power, gave Gao Daquan a lot of benefits, and he had nothing to say.

The group set out before dawn, stepped on the dew in the grass, and finally arrived at the Cao Market beside the inspection village before the sun came out.

On a large open space, hundreds of people were sparsely spread out, and there were all kinds of strange things in front of the people standing or squatting, while more people were carrying big bamboo baskets and slowly walked and looked at them.

There is no order here. If you like it, you will set up stalls wherever you like it, and you don’t have to pay attention to the roadside or something. It’s messy, which makes Xu Pingzhi, who is used to the orderly society, shake his head.

Xiuxiu came to Xu Ping, looking around with her eyes, suddenly pointed to a place and shouted: "See, official, there are people selling little monkeys there!"

Xu Ping took a casual look and suddenly became stunned. The little monkey locked in the cage was actually black all over, with only a tuft of white hair on his head.

This is actually the most endangered monkey in the world in the textbooks of previous lives - the white-headed langur!

It seems that this place is the habitat of white-headed langur monkeys. Of course, this era is still everywhere, and it is not much nobler than other monkeys.

Taking a breath, Xu Ping said to Xiuxiu: "What's so strange about monkeys? Not to mention here, the corn grown in our Yongzhou field was ruined by monkeys. Li Lusan wanted to raise a tiger and watch it there."

"But that's a little black monkey! I've never seen it before!" Xiuxiu looked at the distance and said, "Tiger is a man-eating person. You scare me again!"

"Scared you?" Xu Ping kept shook his head, "I tell you that no matter where you go, there are people around you. There have been many tigers around you recently, and the state has already issued a tiger hunting and rewarding quota!"

The tigers of this era do not lie in the zoo like Xu Ping's previous life, but are spread all over the country, not to mention this remote place surrounded by mountains. A few days ago, tigers were eating people. Cao Keming offered a reward of twenty yuan for hunters to hunt, and sent someone to send the documents to Xu Ping for signing. Ruhe County has so many tigers that the government can't afford to pay for rewards, so he simply ignores them.

Xiuxiu didn't care about that, and looked at the little monkey and said to Xu Ping: "Officials, let's buy that little monkey back. I'll raise it well. When I return to the Central Plains, Su'er will also see it."

"What are you thinking about? The monkey can't be raised at all and will die in a few days. The barbarians arrested them to deceive people. Not to mention how cold the Central Plains is, the monkey froze to death in an instant!"

Xiuxiu was not willing to believe it, so she turned her head and ignored Xu Ping.

When Zhu Zongping was in the village, he saw Xu Ping and his group. Because he had a notice, he knew that his boss had arrived, so he hurriedly brought a dozen soldiers to greet him.

After coming up to see Li, Xu Ping asked him: "Inspector Zhu, when will this Cao Market usually disperse?"

"When I go back to Shangguan, the sun rises and it dissipates when it rises. Now it's summer, and the heat is too strong during the day, who can hold it?"

Xu Ping nodded. The people in the mountains were scattered and they had to walk dozens of miles to a market. They couldn't get home even if they were too late.

From the horse, Xu Ping said to inspector Zhu: "Follow me to Caoshi to take a look."

The left-sided lapel of the mandarin is obviously different from the Han people, and you can see it at a glance. They are the main body of this grass market, accounting for seven or eight out of ten of the total number of people. Most of the others are familiar mandarin, which is extremely rare for Han people.

Xu Ping and his party were particularly conspicuous. The official uniforms on their bodies showed their identity. People in the mountains avoided them from afar when they saw them, and were full of vigilance.

During the Chunhua period of Emperor Taizong, Feng Zheng practiced the "Kuading Method" when he was in charge of Duanzhou, and adopted the Dongman Tu Ding as the registered households under the government, which aroused the vigilance of these natives. The registered households had to pay taxes and serve, and the boycotted chiefs took the opportunity to spread rumors, and made the imperial taxes extremely terrifying, and scared their subordinates.

Of course, Dong Ding, who are not included in the national version, is not free. They belong to the Xidong barbarian chiefs of all sizes, and have been slaves for generations. Their and their descendants' fate is completely controlled by the masters, and they can no longer be protected by the law. Compared with the registered household registration, their fate is even more miserable.

In contrast to the imperial court that incorporated households, the Dingkou was under the jurisdiction of the Dong Chief, and the court was not in charge of it. It was called the servant in the Song Dynasty. This should be the origin of the word "官网", indicating the last remnant of the feudal serfdom in the Manhu area. These people were outside the law and were different from the slaves in the Han area before the Song Dynasty. The servants in the dynasties after the Song Dynasty became popular, but they were just the reverse spread of barbarian culture and the resurgence of slavery among the Han people.

Xu Ping walked slowly and looked at the barbarians around him coldly. Over the past few months, after hard work, he led people to plant more than 5,000 acres of sugarcane and more than 1,200 acres of rice, and also opened a lot of mountain land. He was preparing to wait until the corn in Yongzhou field matured and all used as seeds to fill the mountain land with corn and sweet potatoes.

However, at this time, his plan encountered the biggest problem. Yongzhou lacked manpower. Only by aggregating population can the economy of scale be formed. Yongzhou, which has a vast land and sparse population, does not meet this condition. Xu Ping could not wait for the people who are now to have children slowly, so he naturally put his ideas on the barbarians in the surrounding mountains.

"Kuoding Fa" Feng Zheng traveled in Duanzhou, and Xu Ping could do it in Yongzhou, but the power of the surrounding Dongmai was huge, and no one had the same awareness as Huang Tianbiao, so he could only make a long-term plan.

There are several stalls in the Cao Market that are surrounded by people. Without exception, they are all members of Huang Tianbiao’s original tribe. They sell two products, large brick tea and jars of chopped pepper. These two products have opened up the market around them, and can perfectly integrate into the lives of people in the mountains and become popular products.

After taking this mission from Xu Ping, Huang Tianbiao understood the principles of merchants as if he had learned. He combined officials and merchants without any knowledge and became a second-hand dealer. He wholesales goods from Xu Ping and distributed them to his subordinates to sell them. He took the money on the spot. He lived a very leisurely life recently and was no longer jealous of Gao Daquan and Tan Hu, and he also invited their guests from time to time.

While Xu Ping was walking, suddenly a businessman buying goods came up in the crowd and gave Xu Ping a deep bow, saying in surprise: "The student has met the magistrate, but he really didn't expect to meet him here!"

Xu Ping looked up and saw that it was the one Li Anren who met when the fairy building opened a few months ago. He was looking at him in surprise with a look of earnestness on his face.

After Li Anren and Li Xin were taken away that day, they were both interrogated by Cao Zhizhou. Xu Ping did not participate and did not know what happened next.

Unexpectedly, I met here. Xu Ping smiled and asked him: "It turned out to be you, why did you get here?"

Li Anren said: "The students are businessmen. The newly opened grass market here has a complete range of goods. It can make a lot of money to transport it to the mountains. Of course, they come here to purchase goods. But they didn't expect that the judge came to inspect."

Xu Ping looked at him, and then behind him, five or six Dali horses and several followers were transporting goods to the horse, most of which were brick tea and jars of chopped peppers baled with straw.

An image of later generations emerged in Xu Ping's mind - the horse gang on the ancient Tea-Horse Road. Unexpectedly, Li Anren had such an identity. He had to trade with the barbarians and had to establish good relations with the barbarian chiefs. No wonder he took Li Xin to Yongzhou for a trip.

Nodded, Xu Ping said to Li Anren meaningfully: "You are doing this business. Okay, follow me to see this Cao Market, and then sit in the inspection village. I have something to say to you."

Lee Anren bowed happily and said, "Affect the command of the magistrate!"
Chapter completed!