In the evening, Song Wen and An Chun bought some cooked mutton and other things and returned to the inn. Daruch, who was bored, and the two teenagers asked the inn to prepare some meals. A few people sat in the dark lobby and chatted and ate.
Suddenly, several people appeared outside the door. One of the men raised his hands and said to a young man: "The man asked me to check out the few people who came into the city today, especially because there seems to be a Tatar among them. Check it out, please."
I looked around and found that they were staying in this inn."
The young man was a little eager to try: "Do you think they are spies from the Liao people?"
A man with a calm face next to him said: "Xiao Langjun, he can't be from the Liao... The border has been much peaceful in recent years, and the Liao people no longer have the energy to go south to harass. Even if there are some problems, they may be pirates or those wandering around.
The Bohai Pirates..."
The young man clapped his fists... "Anyway, they can't be serious merchants from the Song Dynasty. If Dengzhou is so poor, who will do loss-making business? Come on, let's go meet these people and see where they come from.
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"Young man, think twice..."
Song Wen was writing something in a notebook, using a thin wolf-hair pen with a cap, and a small bamboo tube of ink next to it.
He had long wanted to get a pencil or something, but Song Wen overestimated his creative ability. After spending a long time in Qingshan Village, he didn't have any clue, so he simply improved the brush.
An Chun, who was next to him, suddenly stood up and stood quietly in front of the table to stop a few people.
Song Wen looked up and saw a high-spirited and excited young man with four burly men in casual clothes looking at his group. Song Wen noticed that these people were all wearing cowhide-soled boots worn by officers, and he
Several people are the same.
"I wonder if any of you have any advice?" An Chun asked calmly, holding up his hands.
"Who are you? What are you doing in Dengzhou?"
Song Wen stood up and cupped his hands and replied: "People from Taoshan County on the northwest road of Beijing came to Beidi to do some business for Dian Shuai Mansion!"
"Ha ha ha ha……"
The young man burst out laughing, causing the few customers in the store to change their expressions and hurriedly hid.
The young man pointed at Song Wen and said with a smile: "I said there is something wrong with them. A few businessmen dared to mention Dian Shuai's Mansion to bluff people! What kind of place do you think Dian Shuai's Mansion is? It is not a shop for business? It is also a lie.
Gotta...uh..."
The young man seems to have some knowledge, as if he suddenly remembered that the current palace commander Gao Qiu is indeed a good hand in business and infrastructure construction!
"There are no specialties here in Dengzhou. What kind of business can you do here? Dian Shuai's Mansion... You said you are from Dian Shuai's Mansion, do you have proof?"
Song Wen reluctantly took out the waist badge Gao Qiu gave him and handed it over.
The calm guard took it and inspected it carefully, then looked at the young Song Wen with some confusion, and said to his master: "The young man is indeed a member of the Palace Commander's Palace! Or... or...
This is the palace of the commander-in-chief, Marquis Yu."
"Ah? Is it true? Why didn't we receive any news from the naval camp?"
The young man was a little depressed. The guard beside him bowed and saluted and then asked: "I wonder why the Marquis Yu entered the Dengzhou Mansion with only a few subordinates? Are there any officials from the Palace Commander's Mansion or the Ministry of War who came to inspect?"
Song Wen smiled and cupped his hands and said: "I am indeed going to the north to buy cattle for farming... Your Excellency, the Palace Commander, has set up some farming villages on Beijing Northwest Road, and I am just buying some cattle for you to use. As for coming to Dengzhou...
…It’s really just a whim. I have no other skills. I can do business and trafficking to the satisfaction of the Commander-in-Chief.”
The young man held up his hands with a hint of disappointment: "It's rude of me to say this, but there are no specialties in Dengzhou, and food is in short supply... But the people who were trafficked along the way were fed by horses, and there were bandits and thieves everywhere.
Those grain merchants are miserable, and the cost of transportation is too high! I'm afraid even you can't transport it..."
The guard next to him cupped his hands and said: "Little Prince, since you have nothing to do, why don't you escort Little Prince back to your home?"
Song Wenze invited: "Meeting is fate. If you don't dislike it, I happen to have the most popular Tiandichun shochu in Bianliang in recent years. How about inviting this friend to have a drink with me?"
The young man was a little moved, but suddenly pointed at Daruch and asked: "Okay, but why is there a Tatar next to you?"
Daruch didn't mind being called a Tatar, but he snorted and turned his head and ignored him.
Song Wen smiled and said: "Daruch was originally from the Mongolian tribe and worked as a bodyguard for a nobleman from the Liao Kingdom... Later, I had a bet with the nobleman from the Liao Kingdom, and I was lucky enough to win! So the nobleman from the Liao Kingdom
Daruch gave it to me as a personal attendant."
The young man said excitedly: "Can you defeat the Liao people? It's so awesome..."
"Uh... it's not a martial arts contest, it's a gambling and drinking contest."
The young man asked curiously: "But what spring of heaven and earth are you talking about? I heard that the Liao people and the northern barbarians are all good at drinking, and they are addicted to alcohol as much as their lives?"
Song Wen pointed at Daruch: "He has stopped drinking now..."
The two sat down, and Daruch and the others all clasped their fists and retreated, leaving only An Chun and the calm guard to accompany them.
"My surname is Zhang Minghuan, the son of the deputy commander of the Dengzhou Navy. My father accidentally saw your Tatar guard when he entered the city today. He thought some Bohai bandits had sneaked into Dengzhou!"
Song Wen cupped his hands and said: "I, Song Wen, originally worked as a capital officer in Taoshan County in the west of Beijing. Later, I was promoted by Lord Dian Shuai and went out to do business for Dian Shuai's house."
Zhang Huan sighed: "What a pity, the dignified and handsome man has been spending all day..."
The guard next to him suddenly spoke up and interrupted what his yamen was saying... "Young Master, please don't be so abrupt... This Yuhou, the Dengzhou Navy is currently vacant. My commanding officer can make the decision around here. If there is
If you need anything, please feel free to ask, the business of the Palace Commander's Mansion...my commander will definitely help you carefully."
The young man seemed a little annoyed, knowing that there was something wrong with his outspoken temperament... The guy in front of him seemed honest, but if he returned to the Palace Commander's Mansion and told Gao Qiu that he had slandered Gao Qiu and allowed his subordinates to do business, he might be his father.
They all have to run into trouble.
Song Wen thanked him, then stopped mentioning these things and just started chatting with Zhang Huan.
After drinking a few cups of Tiandichun, Zhang Huan felt as if he was about to fly! He pulled Song Wen and started chatting in random directions.
"I'm not bragging. If the imperial court can distribute the full amount of money... uh... our Dengzhou navy would dare to sail the ship to Liaodong! I heard that ginseng fur and other things are very cheap there, and those women
The real people have been paying tribute to those Liao people for generations... What a pity..."
Song Wen asked: "What happened to the Bohai pirates?"
Zhang Huan said disdainfully: "Some swaying things... the Liao people don't want to see them either, so we should be wary of them. Some have gone to Liaodong, and some have stayed in the Song Dynasty to work as fishermen. Anyway, they are a group of people who cannot feed themselves."
They are familiar white-eyed wolves with wild and cruel tempers. The imperial court sent troops to exterminate them several times, but either they could not defeat them, or they were allowed to escape to the sea or the Liao border... Anyway, they were very annoying. In addition to the Bohai people, there were also
There are some Jurchens who are on the run, Koreans, even Mongolians from the Klei Tribe, Mongols... They loot houses, plunder fishermen and so on."
Song Wen asked: "How many people are there?"
"Isn't there tens of thousands of pirates on the mountaintops, big and small? The imperial court originally thought of ordering them to be safe, but as soon as they heard that they were asked to go to Qingzhou to farm land and serve as soldiers, they all