Yuwen Chengchao said: "The matter is naturally not minor, but it has not reached the point of irreversibility."
"Oh?" Zhao Yi asked hurriedly: "Master, could it be...?"
"If the White Wolf King had not left any room, he would not have just let people burn down Tangren City." Yuwen Chengchao said: "I heard from people who came back that although the Wutuo cavalry set fire, they did not kill anyone. Shopkeeper Bai was also just killed by Wutuo.
Tuo soldiers captured him, but no life was hurt."
Fatty Fish immediately said: "Young Master, it seems that although the White Wolf King was furious, he did not completely lose his mind. At least he was given a chance to turn around."
Yuwen Chengchao said: "Tangren City is a trading place. The merchants traveling from east to west have brought so much benefit to the White Wolf King. He burned down the trading place. If it were you, what would be the reason for this?"
"The trade field can bring huge benefits to the White Wolf tribe. Even if it is not for the individual, but for the entire tribe, I will endure it no matter how big it is." Fat Fish sighed: "If this fire is burned, it will not only burn
After destroying Tangren City, it also burned the hearts of those merchants. Who will dare to continue trading there in the future?"
"The damn fat man is right this time." Zhao Yi immediately agreed: "If it were me, unless the people in Tangren City share my hatred of killing my father and seizing my wife, why would I bother them?"
"Tangren City is doing business, who would offend the White Wolf King?" Dapeng frowned and said: "It is almost impossible to kill your father and take your wife. And as far as I know, the White Wolf King's royal tent is far away
Tangren City is only a day or two away, so how can there be a direct conflict?"
Qin Xiao thought for a while and finally said: "Eldest Master, is it possible that the White Wolf King did this out of necessity?"
"We have no choice?" Yuwen Chengchao looked at Qin Xiao: "How do you say it?"
"I don't know much about Tangren City." Qin Xiao said: "But from what you said, Tangren City is too important to the White Wolf Tribe. No matter how stupid the White Wolf King is, he will not cut off his arm. Since he did this, he must
There is a reason, and he even has to do this, that is to say, compared to the benefits brought by Tangren City, if he does not do this, it will bring greater trouble to the White Wolf tribe." After a pause, he continued:
"Although he did this, he did not do anything wrong. He only set fire but did not kill anyone. He left room for maneuver."
Yuwen Cheng nodded and said: "What my father means is that the White Wolf King only arrests people, and he also arrested shopkeeper Bai, which probably means that the Yuwen family will send people to deal with this matter. Although I don't know what happened, Bai Lang
The room for maneuver left by Wang should be for the Yuwen family. He knew that Shopkeeper Bai was a member of the Yuwen family, so he deliberately captured Shopkeeper Bai in the hope that the Yuwen family would send someone to explain it clearly. If the matter could be properly resolved, what would happen to the Yuwen family?
There are benefits to both sides.”
"Are you going to send someone to Wu Tuo?" Fat Fish's face tightened: "Young Master, who are you planning to send?"
"Me!" Yuwen Chengchao said calmly: "The matter is very important. If you just send one person randomly, the White Wolf King may feel that our Yuwen family does not take this seriously at all, and even anger the White Wolf King because of this, and things will turn out to be the opposite.
It’s not easy to deal with. I am the eldest son of the Yuwen family. If I go there in person, at least the White Wolf King will feel that we value him."
Zhao Yi's face became serious and he said: "Isn't Uncle Meng always in charge of the accounts? Tangren City is a trade and it is related to accounts. Why not let Uncle Meng go over to solve it this time?"
"It's useless to talk about it now." Yuwen Cheng said: "Also, Uncle Meng is just a relative of the Yuwen family. Even though his father thinks highly of him, in the eyes of the Wutuo people, he is not a member of the Yuwen family at all."
Fat Fish sighed: "If
If we don’t care about anything else, only the eldest son is the most suitable person to go to Wutuo to resolve the dispute in Tangren City this time. Regardless of status or ability, the Yuwen family cannot find anyone more suitable than the eldest son.” He then asked: “The eldest son.
Young Master, did the old Marquis say when he would leave?"
"Father asked me to wait for two more days to see if anyone comes back to report the detailed situation." Yuwen Cheng said: "If there is no other news within two days, then we will leave in two days."
"So urgent?" Zhao Yi said in surprise.
"Shopkeeper Bai is in the Wutuo people's prison, I'm afraid he will be even more anxious." Yuwen Cheng said: "What my father means is that among the eight Wutuo tribes, the White Wolf King of the White Wolf tribe has always belonged to the Zhuhe sect, and he does not want the Wutuo tribe to
Tuo met with the swordsmen of the Tang Dynasty. On his territory, the merchants coming and going were relatively protected, and the Tang people who came out of the customs were relatively safe."
"If other tribes could sit and collect money like him, they would not be hostile to the Tang Dynasty." Zhao Yi said: "If we travel non-stop day and night, we should be able to reach Tangren City in less than seven or eight days."
Yuwen Chengchao shook his head and said, "You can't just go there like this."
"Is the eldest son worried about becoming a target?" Fat Fish asked.
Yuwen Cheng said: "Don't forget what Wang Xiao just said. The White Wolf King probably set fire to arrest people not on his own initiative, but because he had no choice. Think about it, who can make the White Wolf King
You had no choice but to cut off your arm?"
"In the Wutuo Khanate, only King Wutuo Khan has this ability." Fatty Fish said: "But why does King Wutuo Khan want to embarrass the Tang people?"
"We still don't know what the situation is, so we can't openly negotiate with the White Wolf King directly." Yu Wen Chengchao said thoughtfully: "Maybe the White Wolf King doesn't want us to find him directly."
Fat Fish understood and said: "The eldest son wants to conceal his identity first. Go over and find out what's going on. If there is a chance, he will come into contact with the White Wolf King again?"
"I happen to know that the Dou family and the Tian family seem to be preparing to leave the customs in the past few days." Yuwen Cheng said: "They are going to leave the customs under the banner of the Longhe caravan. They have been preparing for a month or two."
Zhao Yi reacted: "Eldest Master, are you saying that we leave the customs together with Longhe's caravan?"
"The Wutuo people have always been wary of the people in the pass." Yu Wencheng said: "If a few of us go out of the customs on horseback and carry swords, we will be targeted by the Wutuo people immediately. It will not be easy to get rid of them. Only caravans can
After leaving customs, the Wutuo people will relax a bit, and we won't be conspicuous if we are among the caravans."
Fat Fish frowned and said: "Young Master, when Tangren City was burned, we should not only get the news, the Dou family should also know that something happened over there. I am worried that after getting the news over there, Longhe's caravan will be destroyed when they leave the customs.
Postpone or even give up.”
"I'll leave this matter to you." Yuwen Cheng said: "After dawn, you go directly to Longhe Trading Company and tell him that this time the Tiandou family must leave the customs. There is no room for negotiation. If they
If you don't agree, you won't have to go out to do business in the future." His tone was very strong.
Zhao Yi saw that Qin Xiao was not familiar with this, and explained closely: "For merchants to leave customs, they must be organized by a trading house. The trading guild will arrange escorts and routes to ensure that the merchants' goods can be sold smoothly, but the profit of the goods,
You’ll be charged 20%.”
Qin Xiao thought that if he was responsible for protecting safety and clearing checkpoints along the way, charging 20% of the profit would actually be reasonable.
Qin Xiao is not very clear about the ways of business, but he knows something about it.
Xilingmen valve
In addition to the taxes collected from the people, the most important income is actually trade.
Xiling has always been a trading center for merchants traveling from east to west. Before the Wutuo people prospered, the Central Plains had commercial connections with the Western Regions. For hundreds of years before the founding of the Tang Dynasty, many caravans braved hardships to go to the Western Regions.
This opened up the Xiling trade route. Merchants from the Western Regions also followed the example of the Tang Dynasty and went eastward into Xiling. The merchants traveling from east to west made Xiling extremely prosperous for a time.
However, many years after the Wutuo Rebellion, trade routes were interrupted. King Wutuo Khan took the initiative to request the resumption of trade, and the Xiling clan also tried their best to facilitate this matter.
After the trade routes were restored, the existence of horse bandits also affected the smooth flow of trade routes. After the Xiling clan attacked the horse bandits, they began to implement various strategies in commerce. For example, to trade in Xiling, merchants on both sides had to go through the trade controlled by the clan clan.
OK, no direct transactions in private.
If there are merchants who want to strive for higher profits and are willing to risk going out of customs, they must be organized by the trading house in Xiling and hang the flag of the trading house.
Although the Dou family and the Tian family were both wealthy gentry in Xiling, they still had to go to the Longhe Trading House controlled by the Yuwen family to leave the country.
In other words, whoever wants to make money by going out of business will definitely not be able to do so without the permission of the three gatekeepers of Xiling.
"Yes!" Fat Fish nodded and said, "I will go there as soon as it gets light."
"Also, we also have some goods here." Yuwen Chengchao whispered: "The Marquis Mansion will prepare it, but it will not be used for business, but for giving gifts. When we get to Wutuo, we will check first
After knowing the situation, I heard that the White Wolf King is also a greedy and beautiful person. Let’s prepare a gift for him first and find an opportunity to give it to him. We don’t care whether Tangren City can recover or not, but we must at least rescue Shopkeeper Bai safely."
"If Shopkeeper Bai knew that the old Marquis and the eldest son were so worried about his affairs, he would die without regrets." Zhao Yi sighed.
Fat Fish glanced at him and said calmly: "Don't worry, if you are imprisoned by the Wutuo people one day, the eldest son will not ignore you."
"Damn fat man, you can't spit out ivory from your mouth." Zhao Yi scolded: "This time when you come out of seclusion, you will be the first to be killed by the Wutuo people...!" Halfway through, he knew that such words would be fine.
If he said it as a joke, it was also a bad sign and he would swallow the rest of his words alive.
"We will pretend to be the escort of the caravan and accompany us." Yuwen Chengchao said: "There are hundreds of caravans leaving the customs every year, and each team is accompanied by a guard, so when we go out of the customs, we will not attract attention."
"The eldest son has already thought about it," Fatty Fish said, "If you plan ahead, there won't be any problems."
Yuwen Chengchao shook his head and said, "It's not that I have thought everything through. It was Vice Commander Liu who advised my father and made the arrangements."
"Vice Commander Liu?" Fat Fish was startled: "Liu Wenxuan?"
When Qin Xiao heard Liu Wenxuan's name, he thought of the strange scene at dusk that day, and his back felt numb.
For some reason, ever since he learned that the inexplicable disappearance of many people in Baihu Camp was related to Liu Wenxuan, Qin Xiao felt uncomfortable when he heard the name.
"It is my father's wish to let him go with him this time." Yuwen Cheng said: "Vice Commander Liu has won the trust of his father. He is cautious and prudent in his actions, and he is very resourceful. We still know nothing about the truth about the incident in Tangren City.
We don’t know exactly what we will encounter on this trip, and we don’t know. With Liu Wenxuan accompanying us, we will be more confident in dealing with difficulties when encountering them.”