Liu Mingzhi grabbed the reins of his horse and looked up at the city of Qingzhou. The flags were flying and everything seemed extremely peaceful.
The silence was a bit eerie.
Qinglian looked at the Qingzhou City in front of her melancholy: "Husband, Lian'er has also gone home. It's such a familiar yet strange place!"
"Silly girl, when you have a husband, you have a home. Our children are still waiting for us at home. Be happy!"
Qinglian nodded calmly and hugged Liu Mingzhi tightly: "My mother, father, and sister should have closed their eyes when they saw Lian'er living such a happy life in heaven. When things are over, I want to pay homage to them!"
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"Yes, of course, let's go together and let the father-in-law and father-in-law meet their son-in-law, so that they can rest assured that their daughter will be entrusted to the person for life!"
"Thank you, husband!"
"Uh-huh, how about you two take care of my big brother who is alone and don't worry about it?"
"Okay, okay, Lian'er has seen it, brother is not happy, we have to pay attention!"
Qinglian nodded shyly!
Liu Mingzhi looked stern: "Let's go into the city. It's time to see what Qingzhou really looks like. I hope we don't really go on a killing spree!"
Song Qing also solemnly packed the bags behind him. He had prepared the Imperial Envoy's seal, Shang Fang's horse-killing sword, and the imperial edict. The rest was left to the officials of the Qingzhou Prefecture to manage the situation.
"drive!"
"When someone comes, dismount your horse. No horses are allowed in the city!"
As soon as the three of them arrived at the city gate, they were stopped by the guards, and the three of them were also wrapped in extremely sharp spears.
Liu Mingzhi looked up calmly and glanced at the inscription on the city. There was no doubt that it was Qingzhou.
Liu Mingzhi and the others turned over and dismounted, looked at the guards around them who were holding spears, and smiled lightly.
"Brother Bing, may I ask if this is Qingzhou Prefecture?"
A young soldier who seemed to be the leader pointed at the city gate behind him in a arrogant manner: "Don't you know how to see for yourself? What are you doing in Qingzhou? Where do you get your credentials?"
"Yes, yes, Brother Bing, please wait a moment. I'll get my ID right away!"
"Brother, Xiaoqing, bring your identity documents to Brother Bing to see!"
Qinglian's identity certificate had long been processed by Liu Zhi'an and Song Yu. The officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs knew that the person who applied for the household registration certificate was his colleague Liu Bingdao's wife, so they were not embarrassed, thus eliminating the need to investigate Qinglian's predecessor.
, directly stamped with the large seal of the Ministry of Revenue.
No matter what, there are people in the DPRK who can do things easily. This sentence is absolutely true!
Liu Mingzhi took the body certificates from Song, Qing, and Qinglian, then took out his own, and secretly gave it to the head of the guard.
The leader of the government soldiers took the diplomas from the three of them and felt that the weight was wrong. He lowered his head and saw that there was an ingot of ten taels of silver sandwiched in the diploma and he immediately put it away without leaving a trace, and the expression on his face became kind.
Looking through the identity certificates of the three people became careless, and he looked through it casually: "Well, two household registrations from Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River, and one household registration from the capital. Yes, the big seal is clear and the identity certificates are correct. Put them away.
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"Thank you, Brother Bing! I would like to ask Brother Bing, Qingzhou is the prefecture of Qingzhou Prefecture, why are there no ordinary people and merchants traveling there? If it weren't for the map, the three of them would have thought they had taken the wrong road and ended up in a deserted place!"
The leader looked stern: "Why are you asking about this? Go, go, hurry into the city, and stop asking if you shouldn't!"
Liu Mingzhi laughed again and secretly stuffed a piece of silver in his hand: "Brother Bing, please forgive me. I am from a merchant family. Isn't this the imperial court's expansion of business? I followed my father's order and wanted to come to Qingzhou to buy some tea. Your tea in Qingzhou is...
It’s quite famous, so I asked Brother Bing to be accommodating just to make money!”
He weighed the silver ingot in his hand again, looked around, pulled Young Master Liu aside, and looked at Young Master Liu seriously: "Brother, for the sake of being so righteous, listen to what my elder brother says and go back.
It’s hard to do business in Qingzhou this year!”
Liu Mingzhi pretended to be a little panicked and looked at the leader of the soldiers: "Brother Bing, please don't lie to me. It will be miserable if I fail to complete my father's mission. Isn't the tea production in Qingzhou Prefecture not good this year?"
"Stop asking about these things and listen to big brother and change places!"
"Brother Bing, it's not that I don't want to change places. My family is in the tea business. Tea from other places has already gone north. I have collected some shoddy tea and can't explain it to my father. The Hu people in the north are not that good either.
You’re lying. Brother, please tell me carefully what happened!”
The leader looked at Liu Mingzhi with an unkind expression: "Come on, let's go, if I hadn't put you in jail and treated you as a spy because you still know the rules, go and collect tea leaves somewhere else!"
Liu Mingzhi sighed sadly and shook his head: "It's a pity that I brought 300,000 taels of silver notes and ran away in vain. Thank you to Brother Bing for informing me. We are destined to meet again!"
"Brother, Xiaoqing, let's go. The tea production in Qingzhou may not be good this year. Let's change the place!"
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The leader looked at the backs of Liu Mingzhi and the others as they prepared to get on their horses, hiding the greed in their eyes.
Liu Mingzhi turned around and looked at the leader blankly: "Brother Bing, what's wrong?"
The leader pondered for a while: "Well, for the sake of you coming all the way, brother can't see your hard work in vain. I will report to the governor that you first go to the city to stay at the Yunlai Inn and wait for me.
After informing the governor, he will come to find you!"
"Brother, if we don't have tea, we won't have anything to do in the city, so let's forget it!"
"There are tea leaves, you go to the city and wait for the news!"
Liu Mingzhi, who originally wanted to divert to the east gate and try to get some information, pondered for a while and nodded: "That's fine, but Brother Bing, we can only stay for one day at most!"
"Okay, okay, let's go to the city first!"
"My dear, farewell!"
"Brother, Xiaoqing, let's go to the city and wait for news from Brother Bing!"
"Listen to the young master!"
The three of them led their horses into the city gate. Liu Mingzhi looked a little ugly as he looked at the street full of hawking sounds: "Brother, look, something terrible must have happened in Qingzhou Mansion!"
Song Qing also looked sternly looking at the many hawking scenes, and his face turned blue.
This all depends on the fact that some of the hawkers are not selling goods, but children, both boys and girls, with straw tags.
Although there are not many children with grass tags, it is still shocking enough.
"Young masters, take a look at these leather goods. They are all high-quality leather. They cost only one tael of silver each. They are cheap to deal with!"
Liu Mingzhi stopped and looked at the fur goods in front of the stall and frowned: "Boss, how can there be any business selling fur goods in this season? Besides, you will lose one tael of silver to death. I see that your leather goods are so complete. By winter ten
I’m afraid the supply of two silver coins exceeds the demand!”
Song Qing also grabbed a snow-white fox fur and looked at it: "Boss, this fox fur is worth at least one hundred taels of silver in winter. If you sell it for one tael of silver, there won't be any flaws!"
"Oh, you have to be able to survive until winter. No matter how good the skin is, you can't use it as food, you can only sell it at a low price!"
"Boss, I heard that the locust plague in Qingzhou Prefecture is serious. Is it true?"
p.s. I’m too busy today. If there’s no update before ten o’clock, don’t wait.