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When Yun Chu came to Yumen Pass, he was not in a good mood. Wenrou is a person who doesn't know how to live or die. He is full of curiosity about the desert outside Yumen Pass.

"Can you make a poem?"

Wenrou looked at the endless Gobi outside through the dark city gate of Yumenguan, and wanted to write a poem. When she saw Yunchu standing in front, she begged Yunchu to write a poem to mobilize everyone for this westward journey. .

I didn't see any emotions brewing in Yunchu, so I chanted bluntly, "The yellow sand is far above the white clouds, an isolated city of Wanren Mountain, why should the Qiang flute complain about the willows, and the spring breeze does not pass the Yumen Pass."

For Yunchu's ability to make masterpieces anytime and anywhere, Rourou has long been no longer surprised. She sat on the horse and recorded it casually, and finally asked Yunchu, "What's your name?"

Yunchu's indifferent way "Liangzhou Ci"

Wen Rou wrote down the name of the poet, the ins and outs of the poem, and the reason for writing it in the notebook.

After transcribing, he handed the notebook to the county magistrate of Jiuquan County who came to see him off and said, "Let the prostitutes sing it all the way to Chang'an."

The county magistrate of Jiuquan bowed his head to take the order. He was a small county magistrate from the eighth rank, and he had no room to refuse in front of Yunchu and Rourou.

"The last time I entered Yumenguan, I ate a delicious steamed cake here. That meal made me extremely happy, and it also awakened my stomach belonging to the Tang people in an instant."

The county magistrate of Jiuquan bowed and said, "Nowadays, there is no steamer cake in Yumenguan, but a restaurant selling oat noodles and 栲栳栳, which tastes bad."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "Since the Cheng family left Yumenguan, the rice from the Cheng family, the jujube from the Li family, and the dried fruit from the Yuchi family, and the rice cakes made from the Yuchi family have naturally disappeared.
Now that someone from the royal family of Li is coming to be the guard of Yumen Gate, it is natural to replace the zeng cake with the noodles related to the royal family of Li.
It's just human nature, I just don't know if the price of zeng cake is expensive, or the price of this oatmeal 栲栳栳 is more expensive? "

The county magistrate glanced around, and said in a low voice, "Naked rice noodles are [-]% more expensive than steamed cakes, and the frontier soldiers in the Western Regions are complaining about eating them."

Yunchu sighed and said, "It cost me [-] gold to eat a meal of zeng cake, but it seems that a meal of oat noodles cost [-] gold no matter what."

Gentle and puzzled, "Is it tax?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "If I had paid taxes at that time, it would have been more than twice as much. The Yumen Duwei's Mansion has made a fortune from this."

Speaking of this, Yunchu looked left and right again, and said dissatisfiedly, "Are all the people in Yumen Duwei's Mansion dead? There is not even a farewell person. Write it down for me. When we return to Chang'an, we will be in think carefully

The county magistrate of Jiuquan whispered, "It's the royal family of Longxi."

Yun Chu laughed and said, "Your Majesty has almost wiped out the heads of the Longxi royal family, don't they know how to restrain themselves?"

He said softly and disdainfully, "In a remote place like Yumen, you can still use it to scare people."

Seeing the warm sun rising from the horizon, Yunchu waved his hand and said, "Wait, let's go out!"

Following Yun Chu's order, the scouts who took the lead and acted as veterans from the Western Regions rushed out of the city gate on horseback.

In Yunchu's memory, there was originally a large temporary town outside Yumen Pass, formed by merchants waiting to enter the city pass, but it disappeared at this time, only some rubble piles and some ruined walls could be seen.

Occasionally, some camel teams from the Western Regions lay silently among these ruined walls, and only the leader stood at the forefront tremblingly, waiting for the unknown fate to come.

"Welcome to the Tang Dynasty." Yun Chu waved to the old leader.

The old leader stroked his chest and saluted, saying in Huihe dialect, "My lord, it is a great honor for the old harpy to receive your blessing."

Yunchu also replied in Huihe dialect, "In the distant Chang'an, there are countless people waiting for your goods. I believe that you will sell your goods there for a very good price."

The old harpy saluted again, "You are a noble person, your words must be very credible, but, even if the birds have wings, they cannot fly over this majestic city gate."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "The door is open, you can come in and out freely without growing wings."

The old happi glanced at the Yumen Pass in front of him and shook his head, "They want more than half of my goods as the entry fee."

Yun Chu smiled and said, "You can go to the door and find a food stall, you don't need to pay so much there."

After Yunchu finished speaking, he waved his hand to part with the caravan.

Gentlely frowned and said, "Are you teaching them to evade taxes?"

Yun Chudao, "It is only because there are enough missed taxes that someone will take action to clean up these moths."

Wen Rou thought for a while and said, "What if people are very restrained?"

Yun Chu looked at Wen Rou strangely and said, "How many moths have you and Di Renjie dealt with over the years, have you ever seen a moth with a sense of proportion?

As long as they start to be greedy, they will become gluttons. Their desires are hard to fill, and they will only become more and more greedy. There may be no restraint there.

Once they become addicted to corruption, they will only dislike too little, and there will be no time when they dislike too much

Don't worry, even if the court doesn't take action, we will find a way to get rid of these moths when we come back."

He smiled softly and said, "Understood, the reason why they have to charge a high city entry tax is to increase the price of those noodles, right?"

Yun Chu sighed, "It's just a normal operation."

Rourou looked back at the old Hu merchant who hadn't left yet, and said to Yunchu, "We are looking forward to more Hu merchants from the Western Regions and even places in the west to do business in Chang'an.

Unexpectedly, Yumen Pass is trying its best to prevent Hu merchants from entering the pass. Everyone regards Hu merchants as a piece of fat that can be eaten unscrupulously, but they don't know that with the existence of these Hu merchants, the people of Chang'an City can produce The more goods are distributed and sold far away, the more people can have enough to eat.

You can also get the best products in the Western Regions
Following you all these years, I have discovered that the most important thing in the transaction between Datang and the Huren is not to make money, but to return to the essence of a businessman, that is, to exchange what is needed

There are more types of food, more materials that can be used to make clothes, more medicines and more tools. In short, as long as we continue to trade, we will eventually achieve a goal and let everyone have more choices.
As long as we have more things, we can create a lot of things that have never been done based on the existing things, and open a window for us to see scenery that we couldn't see before, sounds that we couldn't hear, and things we couldn't taste. taste

And the appearance of every new thing can greatly improve our current life. As long as there are enough new things, Chang’an City will become the Chang’an City you hoped for sooner or later.”

Yunchu stared at Wenrou's eyes for a long time, and when Wenrou looked a little uncomfortable, Yunchu said, "Have I ever praised you before, saying that you are a really smart person?"

Wen Rou thought for a while and shook his head, "No, never."

Yunchu nodded, and said seriously to Rourou, "You are a person with real wisdom, with eyes that can see through the fog and see the essence directly.
What you said is not wrong at all. Another way of saying great material abundance is the great convenience and abundance of life.

Once the material abundance is achieved, people's requirements for basic necessities of life will be greatly satisfied.
Only after jumping out of the basic requirements of life such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, we Tang people have the time and energy to think about some problems that we have never thought about before, and to explore things that we were unable to explore before.”

Wenrou was not blinded by Yunchu's cloudy words, and then asked, "For example?"

Yunchu picked the horse on the ground, and a pebble flew up. Yunchu held it firmly in his hand and said softly, "What is this stone made of?"

Gentle and puzzled, "Is it a stone?"

Yun Chu laughed and said, "Why can some people extract gold from stones, some extract silver, and some extract copper and iron?"

"That's because the stone contains gold, silver, copper and iron"

Yun Chu said again, "What's left in the stone after refining these things?"

"No more, only stones left"

Yun Chu sighed and said, "How do you know, have you done such an experiment? Or do you know it yourself?

So, do you know how many years ago this rock was formed?Do you know where the original home of this stone is? "

Rou Rou looked at Yun Chu like a fool, he didn't understand, it was just a stone, why should he know his age and hometown.

Yun Chu looked at the gentle face and shook his head, "I take back what I praised you just now, you are just a half-smart person."

Gentlely gritted his teeth and said, "It means that I am a half-fool, right? Could it be that you are a complete smart person?"

Yun Chu nodded and said, "You are right, I am indeed one of the few really smart people in Datang."

"Why do you think so?"

"It's just because I wrote such a masterpiece "Liangzhou Ci" two hours ago without thinking, and you can't write it without searching your brains.
In view of this, I am smarter than you, do you need other evidence?

And poetry, in front of me, is just a little Doyle.”

Hearing the words gently, I just felt a mass of lava rushing under the skin in my chest. Once the lava erupted, it would burn all the weeds, trees and clouds, and lock them firmly in the ashes of the lava, living the same life as the world...

Leaving Yumen Pass, Yunchu didn't look in the direction of the sun. This time, he was going to go in the direction of Gaochang, where an old friend was waiting for him.

Fangzheng, the former commander of Kucha, has now become the number two person under the command of Xizhou Governor - Xizhou Biejia.

This is an official position of a sixth-rank official. During ten years, this eighth-rank Kucha Daguan Ling, relying on enough Shangguan brothers-in-law, finally became the majestic sixth-rank of the Tang Dynasty—Xizhou Bie drive!
This is very, very rare. It can be called a rising star in the officialdom in the Western Regions, and it is hoped that in the next ten years, he will covet the noble official of the fifth rank, the governor of Xizhou.

If this dream is realized, Fangzheng will be able to return to his hometown, and through being the brother-in-law of Sinongqing, he can be a director in Chang'an County or Wannian County!
This is the highest expectation of the Fangzheng family for him, and it is also the highest goal he can achieve in this life.