Fenghou

Chapter 1530
On the vast grassland, a caravan composed of more than a hundred camels is slowly heading east to Linhuang Mansion. The owner of the caravan is the Mughal Yin Balu. He and his brother Yin Erhan finally arrived in Linhuang City. After settling down, the two brothers married a pair of Khitan sisters as their wives, bought a ten-acre mansion, half of the two families, and bought a five-acre shop opposite the mansion, both of which were in the best locations, for fur business. 1
The two brothers made an appointment and went out to collect goods in turn. There were no people in Liaodong, and basically no leather goods came out. They mainly focused on the grasslands, specializing in old goods, old sheepskins, old wolf skins and deerskins, as well as those on the grasslands. precious drug.

This time, Yin Erhan's wife was eight months pregnant, and Yin Erhan could not go out, so Yin Balu went to the grassland to receive the goods.

The goods that Yinbalu carried were salt and tea, which were the most popular in the grasslands. Wherever he went, he was treated like a VIP by the herdsmen, and of course he could buy the best fur goods.

Yin Balu returned to the shop in Linhuang City, and was immediately surrounded by several Han merchants. They had been waiting for half a month, and they dared not go to the grassland. Huangcheng received the goods. The Yin brothers' goods were of high quality and fair prices, and were very popular among Han merchants.

"Liu Dongzhu just went back, why did he come again, he made some money!" Yin Balu laughed to a middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man is Liu Peng, a big fur merchant in Hejian Mansion. He said with a chuckle, "The business has been good these years. The emperor focuses on business, exempting business tax and checkpoints along the way. As long as you don't have bad eyesight, you can basically make money. While you can make money now, hurry up and run a few more times, and you won’t know in the future.”

At this time, Yin Erhan came out of the shop and said, "From now on, you can pay taxes normally! As long as you pay taxes normally, you can definitely make money. You can't expect to be tax-free all the time."

"That's it! That's it! Two proprietors, please give me more goods this time."

Suddenly Liu Peng's eyes lit up, and he found that there was an old white fox fur in Yinbalu's horse bag, which was white and delicate without any variegation. He had never seen such a high-quality fox fur.

"Ah! This is the best, Yin Dalang, you must give me this fox fur, and the price is up to you."

Yin Balu slapped his hand away, "You really dare to ask for it. It takes a hundred years to produce a fox king skin. Can you buy this? I saved it with the Flying Dragon Life-Saving Pill in a small tribe. A dying child, the only seedling of three generations, his grandfather thanked me for saving his life, and gave me the fox king skin that he had treasured for 30 years, which is dedicated to the emperor, so don’t think about it.”

Liu Peng withdrew his hand angrily, and said unwillingly, "You don't want to buy ten thousand guan?"

Yin Balu curled his lips, "The Son of Heaven might bestow this fur to the Meri Disease Department in the future. Are you afraid of causing disaster if you buy it?"

"Yes! Yes! I just don't want it, don't say such bad words."

Liu Peng also knew that this kind of top-quality fur was not something he could get, so he had no choice but to go into the store to pick up goods.

Yin Balu gave the purchase ledger to his brother, and he took the fur and walked to the Dudu Mansion.

The full name of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, including Linhuang Mansion, Dading Mansion and the surrounding vast land. There are a total of [-] garrisons. Ten thousand troops guard Dading Mansion.

To the north of Linhuang Mansion is Daxing'an Mountains. From the grassland to Shangjing, one must pass through Linhuang Mansion. It can be said that Linhuang Mansion and Dading Mansion are the two gates of the entire Liaodong region.

Niu Gao was writing a report in the government office, and a soldier reported, "Yin Balu has something urgent to see!"

Niu Gao nodded, "Please come in!"

Not long after, Yin Balu walked into the lobby quickly, bowed and saluted, "See the governor!"

Niu Gao liked this majestic man very much, he put down his pen and smiled slightly: "What good news did you bring me?"

"There are several important pieces of news, but first of all, this piece of skin, this is Xiao Minjin's dedication to the emperor."

Niu Gao gently stroked the snow-white fur and praised: "It's a good thing! Why didn't you think of offering it to me?"

"Ah! The villain still has to go to the grasslands, and then go find him for the governor."

Niu Gao laughed and said: "I'm just joking with you, I will present this leather for you to the emperor, where did you find it?"

"In the Meiman tribe, although it belongs to the Mierqi tribe, the people of this tribe are very simple and generous."

Niu Gao nodded, "I remember, what else is there?"

"There are two other important news. One is that the [-] troops from the Western Liao Dynasty will unite with the Naiman tribe, and they will return to Kedun City. Wanyan Wushu will host the Quartet Alliance in Kedun City to jointly resist the Xiliao army."

Niu Gao was taken aback, surprised and delighted and said: "Wanyan Wushu is in Kedun City?"

The search for Wanyan Wushu was also a task entrusted to Niu Gao by the emperor Chen Qing. For more than half a year, there was no news at all. Unexpectedly, Yin Balu brought the news to him.

"This is the second big news that the villain wants to say. The Kingdom of Jin still has [-] troops and tens of thousands of Jurchens in Ketun City. Wanyan Wushu is currently leading them in Ketun City."

Niu Gao gasped, and hurriedly found Kedun City on the map, it was thousands of miles away from Linhuang City, no wonder no news could come out, there were still remnants of the Kingdom of Jin hiding in Kedun City.

Niu Gao walked a few steps with his hands behind his back and asked, "Are these two pieces of information reliable?"

"It's absolutely reliable. It was the chief of the Meiman tribe who told me that he was also recruited by the Khan of the Mierqi tribe and ordered him to lead five hundred warriors to the city of Ketun to gather."

Yin Balu said his goodbyes and left, Niu Gao immediately wrote two urgent messages, one was forwarded to Jingzhao via the middle of Yanshan Road with an eagle letter, and at the same time he sent cavalry to rush to Yanshan Road with an expedited delivery of [-] li.

The reason why it has to be sent twice is mainly because the eagle letter may not be able to be delivered, and it will miss a major event.

This morning, a [-]-member Yong army squad arrived in Shangjing. The leader of the cavalry was still Xu Changzhou.

Xu Changzhou has been to Hanzhou and has experience in dealing with the epidemic. He was also sent to lead the army to investigate in the area of ​​Shangjing.

Including the military doctor Yang Rong, each of the two hundred soldiers wore thick cotton masks and buckskin gloves on their hands, walking cautiously along the way.

In fact, the military doctors all agree that half a year has passed, and there are almost no people in northeastern Liaoning, and the epidemic should be over.

They went north and passed many villages, but they were all deserted. There was no one there, and no bones of the sick and dead were found, perhaps dragged away by wild animals.

There are indeed many wild animals, such as tigers, leopards, wolves, bears, etc., often haunt them.

At noon, they were only ten miles away from Shangjing, and they could vaguely see the walls of Shangjing. The closer they were to Shangjing, the more nervous they were.

At this time, a soldier suddenly pointed to the front and exclaimed: "There is a tent!"

The soldiers all saw that on a low hill, there were nearly a hundred tents, and there seemed to be children. My God! There are still living people in Shangjing.

Xu Changzhou immediately led the crowd to urge their horses to rush up. The people who lived here were caught off guard, and it was too late to escape, and they all lay on the ground begging for mercy.

Xu Changzhou shouted: "Don't be afraid, we are not here to fight!"

The common people couldn't understand. At this time, an old man asked in Chinese: "Aren't you here to attack the city?"

Seeing that the old man seemed to be Han Chinese, Xu Changzhou said to him, "Tell them, we are here to check the epidemic situation, and we will not kill innocent people indiscriminately."

The old man said a few words loudly, and the Jurchen people were shocked for a while, and they stood up quickly, and several old men came forward to cry.

Just now the old man translated: "They said that the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin left their patients and went to Linhuang. Later, a Han Chinese medicine collector came and took them out of the city and lived in the outskirts of the city. Everyone was cured slowly, but the Han man who picked the medicine died of the disease unfortunately, we cremated him and buried his ashes in front.”

Xu Changzhou nodded and asked, "How many people are still alive?"

"There are more than 300 people. Everyone has gone fishing by the river. Only the elderly and children are here."

Military doctor Yang Rong went over to check everyone's condition. It seemed that everyone was in good condition, but he was still a little uneasy.

Xu Changzhou called the old Han man just now and asked about the specific situation.

"I want to know the situation in Shangjing!"

(End of this chapter)