From the pure blood dragon clan, I started to become a human being

It was just after noon.

After Jiang Yuan finished his boxing practice, he bought two pieces of black cloth from Pei's pawnshop, spending six hundred coins. As for lunch, he got a meal from the martial arts hall. Basically, he could eat as much food as possible, but he needed to save as much time as possible for miscellaneous things like buying food.

When you walk out of the house, you have to pay five cents when you pass the gates of the upper and lower city areas. Hengshui City is located on the border, and there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor among the merchants. It is said that it is easy for Malaysian merchants to buy a few streets.

The trading partners of these horse merchants are naturally Beimang. They send out fine breeding tools and bring back excellent stallions. The Liyang Dynasty lacks land for horse breeding and is naturally weaker than Beiliang in this respect. Therefore, there is a high probability that there are senior officials in the court behind this, at least the Imperial Household Department is involved. The horse policy left by the old prime minister has achieved remarkable results, but it has also accumulated many problems.

The sounds of shouting and hawking could be heard incessantly on the street. The monks had started to leave the city after their tour. Judging from their route, they were planning to go to Beimang. There were more than a dozen pilgrims willing to join the team.

The Upper City was much cleaner and tidier than the Lower City. Constables could be seen occasionally. These people had high skills and realms, and most of them had reached the lower third grade.

It would not be difficult for Jiang Yuan to walk on the street like a ghost without attracting anyone's attention. However, if he wanted to conceal his own aura when facing top masters in the future, he would have to use special secret techniques.

According to Old Man Pei, the current prefect of Hengshui County is a scholar with almost no background. After all, the border of Jizhou is really deserted, and there are also Northern Mang cavalry lurking in the dark. This fourth-rank official will basically reach the end of his career after he has to endure a few border violations.

On the contrary, Wei Jingtang, a fourth-rank Fenwu General who also served as a county lieutenant, seemed to have a sense of "hiding dragon but not using it". He had 5,000 soldiers from Hengshui County and 20,000 elite soldiers from the six vassal kings. Unfortunately, the number of cavalry was just over 3,000, which was not enough to ride north and achieve success.

Old man Pei mentioned these two guys to tell the successor he had chosen not to mess with him. As long as he didn't put the blame on these two, he would be able to protect them. It was certainly not easy for the county magistrate to climb to the fourth rank on his own, but some things really don't depend on fate.

A white jade and ivory badge issued by the imperial court allows someone to move freely outside the government office. This kind of thing is usually only seen in the capital city of Tai'an, so it usually needs to be covered up.

Jiang Yuan passed by the Wei Mansion, and several soldiers with spears at the door looked straight ahead. In the future of the original world line, facing the Beimang cavalry, Wei Jingtang defended the two important cities of Hengshui City and Yinyao City. Shortly after Zhang Julu's death, the master and disciple went to the underworld together.

Without stopping, after sensing that there was a young master in the Wei Mansion, he gave up the idea of ​​going in to stroll around, and went straight to the pawnshop run by the government. The so-called pawnshop was similar to a middleman platform, where many things were sold, including servants and slaves.

Jiang Yuan walked into the gate. The hired gang members at the door glanced at the black coarse cloth clothes on the visitor, hesitated for a moment but did not stop him. This man did not look poor at all.

"Sir, are you planning to buy something?"

The shopkeeper in green shirt came up to him with a smile on his face, and handed over a volume of records and a rather delicate bamboo tube. The government pawnshop was different from the private pawnshop, and the quality of the pawnshop was a little higher.

The ludian is a list of goods, and the bamboo tube contains dozens of bamboo sticks, with fortune-telling words engraved on the front and various valuable antiques in the collection recorded on the back.

The bamboo tube has a lot to say, when a young woman comes, she will offer you a batch of golden and jade marriages, as for young men, they only want to see far and wide, and be both civil and military, if the middle-aged people are frowning, then "there will be a time to ride the wind and waves", and the elderly only care about having many children and grandchildren and the continuation of the family.

If the fortune is empty, there is no loss. If they are interested, these wealthy people will probably not mind buying the corresponding antique and keeping it as a souvenir, hoping for a good omen that suits their wishes.

Jiang Yuan opened the record book and went straight to the section on fine wine. In fact, one hundred and thirty or forty taels of silver were enough for a small splurge here.

"Three jars of longevity dendrobium wine, it must be top quality."

Three silver ingots of ten taels were placed on the table, and the shopkeeper in green shirt smiled sincerely. Dendrobium wine strengthens the bones and muscles, nourishes yin and clears away heat, and has always been the first choice of local young warriors. This man is probably a martial artist, and he has a good eye for drinking.
"Please wait a moment." The shopkeeper in green shirt tilted his head and gave a look, and the apprentice-looking assistant immediately went to the warehouse.
Jiang Yuan continued to climb over. His main purpose of coming here this time was to buy servants.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper in green shirt took out a thick record book from his bag and said with a smile:

"You may not know this, but our various Tan Ying Xuans serve the nobles in the capital, including skinny men from the south of the Yangtze River, pearls from the frontier, or girls from official families who accidentally fell into the mortal world. We have everything, fat or thin."

Jiang Yuan took a fancy to a middle-aged man. From the crude portrait one could only see his wrinkled brows. The text next to him indicated that he was forty years old, a sixth-rank military man. The old and new prime ministers were taking turns, and factional strife broke out in Kyoto. Another group of silk-dressing people were dismissed, and the servants of each family were forced to do nothing. Their fate was only slightly better than the emperor's comments on the case: "to be sent to the Music Bureau."

"Ning Shijian, the guard instructor of the Ministry of Works' Du Shuijian family, has a wife and a daughter. If you want them, you have to buy them together. He has military power, and if his wife and children are separated, he may cause trouble to me in the future." The shopkeeper in green shirt laughed. Tan Yingxuan believes in making money in harmony. If this guy's wife and daughter are bought by others in the future, and if they die, the other party will probably stare at him for revenge. "Let me pay for your affairs. Do you think he can kill people, but I won't?" Jiang Yuan showed his dissatisfaction.

The shopkeeper in green shirts then remembered that the other party seemed to be a warrior as well. After thinking for a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "His wife doesn't count as money. Consider it as a gift from me to you for free."

Jiang Yuan glanced at the other person. The price of an ordinary slave was about 7,500 wen, and a pretty one would cost at least 30 taels. Since Ning Shijian was a strong fighter, the price would be 80 taels.

"Over forty years old, still a sixth-rank master, can be said to have no talent. His wife and daughter are still alive and have never been stranded in the south, which shows that they are not very good. This guy didn't dare to run even at the border. Either he is not brave enough, or he is too much of a burden. Or, you have a half-step junior master who can crush a sixth-rank master in Tan Yingxuan. Which one do you think the answer is? I think there may be martial arts men in the world who are willing to see their wives and daughters become slaves, but they are definitely not many."

The shopkeeper in green shirt was speechless, wondering where this young man came from.

"As the Kyoto guard coach, your martial arts skills are not very good, but the fact that he can teach people should not be unappreciated by a branch. Winter is coming soon, and a small group of Northern Mang cavalry is heading south. I don't know whether Tan Yingxuan doesn't want to or can't keep them for his own use, but you should know it yourself." Jiang Yuan said lightly.

"Sir, seventy taels really can't be any lower."

"One or both of his wife and daughter may be seriously ill."

"Sixty-two taels!"

"When Ning's wife and daughter die in the future, he can't blame me at all. You harbored evil intentions and concealed the truth. Do you think I should lie to him before I die? After all, there is no reason for the mastermind to covet someone else's wife and daughter and still get away with it."

"Forty-nine taels." The shopkeeper in green sat down on the chair and bowed sincerely, "If it's any lower, you might as well kill me. It's really an insult to the way of doing business."

The apprentice brought three jars of Dendrobium wine. Jiang Yuan opened the lid and pushed a jar over.

The shopkeeper in green shirt was stunned, not understanding what this "meticulous" guest was going to do. No matter what, Tan Yingxuan had not yet fallen to the point of poisoning and robbery.

"The business is not a penny off, how can I be stingy when treating guests to drinks?"

Jiang Yuan picked up the wine jar and filled it up.

"Jiang Yuan, courtesy name Wenqu, age is not important. I plan to come here often in the future, provided you have the courage to buy the nobles and ladies of Beimang."

The shopkeeper in green shirt blinked his eyes. The person in front of him had an extremely outstanding appearance and he was truly extraordinary when he was drinking happily.

"Liu Sancai, you are just coming of age in the new year, and I dare to make friends with Mr. Jiang, regardless of whether you can bring the nobles of Beimang."

"Then I'll call you Brother Liu." Jiang Yuan ignored the fact that he was only sixteen years old.

The shopkeeper in green shirt took out a folding fan with four big characters of "Gold Mountain and Silver Mountain" on it. He looked at the third jar of wine on the table and asked curiously:
"Brother Jiang, are you planning to invite Ning Shijian? To be honest, my daughter is seriously ill, and I'm afraid he can't drink ten taels of silver worth of wine."

"To an old man who helped me. I've never seen Ning before, so how do I know if he deserves the drink I'm offering him?"

Liu Sancai smiled even more, saying, Brother Jiang has a keen eye for talent.

(End of this chapter)