In the patrol village yard, Xiuxiu curiously teased a pair of emerald birds in the bird cage, and turned her head from time to time and said to Gao Daquan next to her: "Brother Gao, be careful, don't let the pair of parrots fly, I want to teach them to sing, and go back and give it to Sister Suer!"

Gao Daquan carefully held up the wooden stick and confronted the two gorgeously fur parrots squatting on it. He was quite curious about why the birds spoke human language. The two flat-haired beasts were not afraid of him. They twisted their heads and looked at him carefully, and from time to time they looked at each other and didn't know what to communicate.

On the ground next to it, there were mountain goods sold at the grass market. There were three long-crying chickens in the cage, which were specialties in the southwest region. They were tall and handsome, with a bright voice. Half a basket of geckos in the bamboo basket were precious medicinal materials. Xu Ping bought them specially and sent them home to nourish their parents and Lin Su Niang. There was also a large string of mountain auspicious products, a local specialty, and Xu Ping bought them and ate them himself.

He had to eat old turtles wherever he went. Xu Ping's habit made Gao Daquan wonder. Isn't it better to have money to buy big fish and meat? Maybe he is tired of eating it?

In the living room of the inspection village, Xu Ping sat in the main seat, looking at the steaming tea that the soldiers had just brought on the table, and was a little amused and laughed. The tea was not filled with tea, but a small paper bag, with two bubbles coming out from time to time.

It was difficult to sell tea, so Xu Ping simply gave it out as a benefit. Everyone who received the national salary in Yongzhou had a share, including this inspection village. Unexpectedly, he was a treasure here and waited for him as a judge to come and take it out for entertainment. Inspection Zhu, who was sitting next to him, was looking at him eagerly.

In the guest seat, Li Anren picked up the bowl, gently picked up the tea bag, went up to take a sip, and then carefully put the tea bag in, and made very careful movements.

Xu Ping saw it and asked Li Anren: "What do you think of this tea bag?"

Li Anren said respectfully: "Reported to the magistrate, it is convenient to soak tea in this way without affecting the taste of tea. It seems that students are really smart and will be able to make a big move in the world in the future!"

Xu Ping frowned: "But in fact, this tea bag is not easy to sell at all!"

Li Anren smiled slightly and said, "Of course it is not easy to sell nearby. Businesses like students use horses to transport goods in the mountains. Tea bags take up too much space, and even if the price is twice as expensive as tea bricks, it is unpaid. I have also sold it several times, and they are all for the big barbarian leaders. They are generous and willing to pay high prices."

Xu Ping sighed. This is not consistent with the plan. The tea bags are made of scraps. They originally ordered the cheapest tea. How could they feel happy to sell them as good tea? He is quite conscientious. Although it is scraps, it is still the same raw materials as other teas. Unlike his previous life, he wished he could break the entire tea tree and make tea bags. Add some serious tea leaves to them and they are all high-end products.

"Then, where should this tea bag be sold?"

Li Anren said: "Only the Central Plains are not suitable for other places. The barbarians all make tea, so they can't drink it, and it's not easy to transport it."

Xu Ping waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's talk about this later. I'm asking you to come here. I want to ask if there are many businessmen nearby who do business with barbarians like this? What kind of business are they doing?"

Li Anren was waiting for this and hurriedly said, "It is not easy to do business with the barbarians. You must be familiar with the leaders of the barbarians. Besides, there is no road, and it depends entirely on horses passing through the mountain roads. If there are few people, it is difficult to get to the tigers and leopards on the road. If there are too many people, there are many horses needed. How many people have such financial resources? For example, there are only three or five nearby states. The bulk items used to be salt and satin, and exchange for barbarians' gold, silver and cinnabar, plus some local medicinal materials and animal skins. Tongzong made tea bricks and pickled peppers, which was exactly the taste of the barbarians. Now only students do this business. Although it is profitable, the goods are intermittent and inconvenient."

After saying that, he looked at Xu Ping with anticipation.

Xu Ping smiled: "I have all the goods there, but I'm afraid you can't sell them all!"

"Where is the judge? As long as there is a stock, I can sell all the goods that are 100 times more than on the market now!"

"Your family can do such a big thing?"

Lee Anren said: "If you can't make a family, I can find a few more companies to do together. As long as you can trust students and let me distribute the goods, you will definitely be far better than you are now!"

Xu Ping did not comment and asked Li Anren: "Let me tell you where you sell the goods now."

"My horse team went west to Guangyuanzhou, Tianzhou, and south to Yongping Village. Yongzhou was under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, and there were everywhere! Hundreds of barbarian chiefs of all sizes were familiar with each other!"

"Didn't go west again? For example, Dali?"

Li Anren was stunned: "Where are ordinary people who dare to do cross-border business? The two countries are separated by Temodao and Ziqi, which is most taboo for outsiders to enter. I heard that someone in Guangyuanzhou trades with Dali, and the students don't know the details."

Xu Ping did not give up and asked, "Is there no human trafficking in Dali and Malaya to sell?"

If we only exchange gold, silver and precious medicinal materials, the trade volume would be too small. During the Song Dynasty, the trade with Dali should be mainly horses. I didn’t expect that no one has done this business yet.

Lee Anren shook his head: "The road is dangerous and far, and I haven't heard of anyone doing horse business."

Xu Ping was a little disappointed. There were no donkeys and mules nearby, and the power was mainly cattle and horses. The cattle were used to plow the land, so it was a bit inappropriate to make the machine power. The horse that adapts to the local environment was Dali horse. Xu Ping wanted to expand the related industry, and a large number of Dali horses were indispensable, but he did not expect that the horse's trade route had not been opened yet.

After asking about the barbarians' transactions, Xu Ping asked Li Anren again: "Where did the salt and silk you traded with the barbarians before come from? These things are not produced nearby."

"Salt comes from Qinzhou and Guangzhou, mostly Guangzhou, and goes up the Yujiang River. Most of the silk comes from Guizhou, and you can reach Yongzhou by water. There are also many Guangzhou merchants who specialize in this business, and the students know several of them."

Xu Ping was also thinking about the sales of sugar and said to Li Anren: "When will there be a few Guangzhou merchants who know me to introduce to me? There is still a business here for them to do."

"There is a family whose manager is named Huang Shimi. Like a student, he once studied Jinshi. He had passed the Guangzhou Experiment, but he had not passed the provincial exam. Their family has been doing this business for several generations, with a big family and a wide network of contacts, which is the most suitable."

"Scholars are the best. They are easy to speak and less trouble. In a few days, you will lead him to Ruhe County to see me and I will discuss with him."

Just as the two were talking lively, a soldier suddenly rushed in and saluted to inspector Zhu, "Report to the inspector, Huang Conggui from Zhongzhou outside brought his people to Caoshi to make trouble, and everyone was dispersed!"

After reporting, I remembered Xu Ping, who was sitting in the upper position. He quickly turned around and saluted with his hands, but didn't know what to say, and stood there stupidly.

Zhu Zongping stood up and asked Xu Ping with a guilty conspiracy, "Prince Tong, the natives in Zhongzhou do not know the laws and come to the inspection village to make trouble several times every year, and their subordinates persuaded them to go back with kind words. This time they come again, so please ask the Prince Tong to tell him what to do?"

Before Xu Ping had dealt with the Tu Chief, he said to Inspection Zhu: "You and I will go out and have a look first."

He stood up and said to Li Anren again: "You can wait in the village."

Li Anren said, "The students have some friendship with the little yamen, so why not go out and have a look together."

When he arrived at the village, Zhu Zongping went to order the soldiers of the army. Xu Ping ordered Gao Daquan and Tan Hu to gather their entourages and go out with him. Xu Ping also heard that the nearby barbarians rely on their large numbers of people and often do not take the government seriously, but bring more people to prevent accidents.

As soon as the village gate opened, fifty or sixty people rushed out. Xu Ping and Zhu Zongping rode in front of them and saw twenty or thirty people surrounding a young man not far away. The young man urged the horse and chased the barbarians in the grass market. The horse whip in his hand was slapped without shame and cursed.

Seeing the soldiers and horses coming out of the village, the young man stopped and looked at Xu Ping and his men coming coldly.

Inspection inspector Zhu rode out and shouted loudly to the young man: "Huang Conggui, you are so bold, you dare to make trouble in the inspector village! The magistrate of this province is here, and you are not here to pay a visit!"

Huang Conggui tilted his head and looked at Xu Ping, and said sarcastically: "What a magistrate? We barbarians only know that Cao Zhizhou in the city, and except him, no official recognizes it!"

After hearing this, Zhu Zongping secretly complained. This boy didn't know how to be so arrogant, but he couldn't get out of the Taiwan Strait. It's not a trivial matter to make a fuss about hundreds of soldiers in his family. It's not a trivial matter to make a fuss in the court, and he couldn't afford to bear his small official hat. He would just admit it. Xu Ping behind him couldn't explain it. He was his immediate boss and he didn't have to be the official.

Seeing that Zhu Zongping was not talking, Xu Ping did not make things difficult for him, he rushed forward and said to Huang Conggui with a calm expression: "This official, Xu Ping, the governor of Yongzhou, is under the rule of the state, regardless of the military and civilians, under the prefecture, I and Cao, what are you? How dare you despise the authority of the court?"

At the end of the conversation, the tone was already extremely harsh.

Huang Conggui was surprised and looked at Xu Ping for a moment before saying, "We natives only know the magistrate, but they don't know what kind of official the magistrate is! My father is also the magistrate, why should you be the magistrate?"

Xu Ping said coldly: "I have changed the people of the outside world and don't know the etiquette of the court. I will still be forgiven. I will not care about you. But if you bring people here to rush into the market and beat and scold the people, do you know that you have violated the laws of the court?"

"What's the law? The people you recruit to buy and sell things here are all our slaves. Their things are all from our family. They are sold privately. What's this not stealing? Not only will I beat them, I also want to capture them back and chop them up to sacrifice to ghosts! Let's see who dares to trade with you!"

Speaking of this, Huang Conggui raised his horse whip viciously to scare the surrounding Shengman.

When Zhu Zongping heard such lawless words, he felt distressed. How could Xu Ping be able to withstand this tone when he was an official? Once it started, he and his soldiers would inevitably have to fight with Huang Conggui's people. If they caused rebellion by the Zhongzhou barbarians, how could he be able to bear it?

Xu Ping's expression darkened. If Huang Conggui was asked to go back all over today, the grass market would be ruined from now on, and his plan would be difficult to unfold.

Twenty or thirty people stood in a row behind Huang Conggui, all in green clothes, naked feet, and the weapons in his hands were messy. Some were holding short swords and spears, and some were holding rattan cards.

This is the servant soldier under the Huang family in Zhongzhou, also known as Tian Zijia, who is only loyal to his master and does not know what the imperial government is. It is the reliance of the Huang family.

When the barbarians fought, the servants were lined up like this, stretched out from afar, and they fought and surrounded the two wings. The more crowded parties surrounded the less crowded parties and beat them up, and there was no other tricks.
Chapter completed!