Outside the city of Dali, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep filled the fields outside the city. Hundreds of Sui cavalry and herdsmen kept driving them away, and cattle and sheep were not allowed to run around.

"General, this is only part of it. This time we exchanged a total of 120,000 cattle and sheep. This is the first batch of 30,000 cattle and sheep. The rest of the cattle and sheep will arrive one after another in the next few days."

Yang Yuanqing is not interested in the matter of cattle and sheep for the time being. What he cares about is that Yang Wei and the others brought from the grassland.

After a moment, the fat fish brought a Turkic man forward, and the Turkic man bowed to Yang Yuanqing and said, "The villain Dahan, on the order of the prince consort of the Golden Arrow, report an important information to General Yang."

After saying that, he took out a letter and handed it to Yang Yuanqing. The prince-consort of the Golden Arrow was Wutu, the prince-consort of the Turkic prince-consort. He had a great personal relationship with Yang Yuanqing. Wutu is now the third largest Turkic force. After the Khitan battle last year, he was praised by the Khan of Qimin. Not only did he give him 10,000 elite guards, but he also rewarded nearly half of the Khitan women, children, cattle and sheep to his tribe. Then a large number of small Turkic tribes surrendered to him, causing the power of the Wutu tribe to rise sharply, second only to the Qimin tribe and Ye Hu's Shibi tribe.

Yang Yuanqing opened the letter, and in the letter Wutu told Yang Yuanqing an important piece of information. Ye Huduji bought pig iron from the Central Plains in recent years and had accumulated as much as 400,000 kilograms. The seller of pig iron to Duji was Yu Wenshu's two sons Yu Wen Shu and Yu Wen Zhiji. Behind the letter was the time when pig iron was transported into the Turks each time.

Yang Yuanqing soon discovered the pattern, twice a year, once in spring and autumn, among which the spring is the beginning of March, and it seems to be a large scale, not only the contraband pig iron, but also valuable items such as silk and porcelain.

The informant Dahan said again: "The Prince of the Golden Arrows wants me to tell the general that this caravan will most likely buy a batch of tea in Wuyuan County this year. They will go out to the frontier in Wuyuan County. If the general can intercept them, they can seize the pig iron they carry."

Although Yang Yuanqing knew that Wutu and Duji had a conflict, he wanted to use his own strength to cut off Duji's pig iron source. However, catching the Yuwen family's handle on smuggling pig iron has always been Yang Yuanqing's goal. Last time, Yang Guang gave Yuwen Shu a face and spared his two sons. If he was caught this time, he would be sorry that they would not be able to escape.

Yang Yuanqing immediately asked, "What's the name of this caravan?"

"I'm called Hanhai Caravan, I have been trading grassland for many years. The leader's surname is Wang, and I am a fat middle-aged man."

The fat fish next to him suddenly interrupted: "General, this Hanhai caravan went out to the Wuyuan County once last year, trafficked salt to the grassland, and paid taxes to us. It seems that it has not arrived yet this year."

Yang Yuanqing pondered for a moment. If this Hanhai caravan wants to buy tea, he will inevitably deal with them and pay taxes to apply for leaving the country. It is easy to find out their movements. He said to Fat Fish: "You go to the city to monitor the situation of this caravan, how many people, how many mules and horses, what goods are there, and what goods are usually bought. Report to me immediately after checking it out."

He bowed to the reporter, "Please tell Wutu, I am very grateful for his information and will not disappoint him!"

Yang Yuanqing turned his head and headed towards the restaurant. At the door of the restaurant, he happened to meet Du Ruhui and Pei Jin and his group walked out of the restaurant. Yang Yuanqing urged him to step forward and laughed and said, "Why, it's over so soon. Don't you want me to pay the bill?"

Du Ruhui looked back at the shopkeeper who had a flattering smile but had a little nervous look and said with a smile: "Of course the wine account is still hanging on your head, you can't pay it. Anyway, they don't dare to ask for it."

Yang Yuanqing pointed at him and pretended to be angry at everyone, "Look at this guy, encourage me not to pay the bill, and I will try my best to ruin my reputation!"

Everyone laughed together, and Pei Jin bowed to Yang Yuanqing and said, "The main reason is that I am in a hurry to go back and report, so I just drank two drinks and let Yuanqing down."

"Wait a minute, I'll get things done and go with you."

Yang Yuanqing called Du Ruhui and Yang Sien aside, and the joke on his face disappeared, and said to them: "This time the emperor went to the north to visit Wuyuan. I guess his focus was on inspecting Dali City. Although the emperor likes to see prosperous things, we don't need to be too deliberate and hypocritical. Just pay attention to two points. One is to clean the streets, and we will also refresh ourselves after watching them. Then raise the beggars on the street for a few days, so that they don't let them show up. The other is to go to the wooden stack in the cave. We must check it carefully to ensure safety."

Du Ruhui nodded silently. This was his duty. Yang Yuanqing reminded Yang Sien again: "I guess when the emperor came up, he happened to meet the Jiaocheng. Turkic people would come in large numbers. You must send additional troops to patrol the Yellow River. Send more spies to every corner of the city, and no accidents are allowed."

Both of them agreed, but Du Ruhui was still a little worried about offering food. "General, hundreds of thousands of them are here. Do you think our poole wine is enough?"

Yang Yuanqing shook his head and rejected his strange idea, "It is not easy to brew our pomelo wine. Don't take it out easily. Just use milk wine from the grassland to entertain you. There are 120,000 cattle and sheep in total. The grain should be stored in the official warehouse. Perhaps there are other entertainment expenses. Anyway, you must keep this account clearly and don't be confused. County Magistrate Du, I will leave this hospitality to you."

Du Ruhui is an upright person. He doesn't want to exploit the people, but the grain in the official warehouse is full of old grain. If you take it to offer food, you will definitely complain. He looked helpless, "I guess the final result is that I, like Yang Kuo, were ordered to go to Qiu He to study."

Yang Yuanqing patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "If you want to go, I will go. It's not your turn. Just do it according to your own will. I will bear all the consequences."

After saying that, Yang Yuanqing turned around. Du Ruhui looked at his back and sighed in a low voice: "He said he didn't care. In fact, he loved the military and civilians of Wuyuan County more than anyone else."

Yang Sien also sighed: "He has lived in this land for ten years, ten years, from ten to twenty years old, his most precious years have been sprinkled on this land. How could he not care about it?"

As the Emperor and the Emperor were about to arrive, Yang Yuanqing and Pei Jin went to Jiuyuan County. Although Pei Jin's official business was to inform Yang Yuanqing that the Emperor was about to arrive, he still shouldered an important task of the family, which was about the marriage between Yang Yuanqing and his sister. According to the agreement, two years have passed, and his sister Minqiu will turn sixteen next month, and Yang Yuanqing should be on the way to get married.

Seeing that the city gate was conveniently located in front of them, their group slowed down. Pei Jin glanced at Yang Yuanqing. He wanted to wait for Yang Yuanqing to propose the marriage first. But when he saw the city gate, they were about to break up, but Yang Yuanqing did not mention the marriage with Min Qiu. Even though Pei Jin was very calm, he couldn't hold back.

"Yuanqing, the seventh day of next month is Minqiu's 16th birthday. Should you say anything to her?"

Pei Jin implicitly reminded Yang Yuanqing. Yang Yuanqing smiled. He had his own ideas. It would be okay if Pei Jin brought him Min Qiu's letter, but it would be fine to mention the marriage. Pei Jin was a peer after all, so it seemed a bit inappropriate for him to talk about such a serious topic.

"How is Minqiu doing now? She wrote me a letter two months ago, and I replied to her. I wonder if she received it?"

Pei Jin was extremely smart. He understood what Yang Yuanqing meant. They would write letters to discuss the marriage, and they didn't have to worry about it themselves. It seemed that they could only ask their grandfather to ask him.

"Okay then! General Yang, I will say goodbye. Please take care of me in the future."

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Pei, hope that we can sit together to enjoy the moon this Mid-Autumn Festival."

Pei Jin's eyes lit up and he gave him a solemn salute, "I look forward to it too!"

He turned his horse's head and ran south with his followers.

Yang Yuanqing entered the city gate and went directly to the Tea Bureau. The Tea Bureau was established last spring and has one in Zhuo County, Mayi County, Wuyuan County and Wuwei County. Basically, like Jiaoshi, it is affiliated to Taifu Temple to be responsible for the official tea trade of the entire Sui Dynasty and the Turks.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing's secret fermentation recipe had been cracked. A large number of merchants went to the south to purchase tea, processed and sold it to the grassland. As sales increased sharply, the profit of tea also decreased greatly, and it had never been a ten-fold huge profit to three-fold profit, and soon it dropped to two-fold profit. The court immediately issued an order not to trade tea with the grassland without authorization. If you want to trade with the grassland, you can only purchase goods from the Tea Bureau. This controlled the plummeting price of tea and stabilized the profit of tea at three-fold profit.

Interestingly, the prevalence of tea in the grassland began to affect the northern part of the Great Sui Dynasty. More and more ordinary families began to drink tea. The demand for tea inside and outside the Great Sui Dynasty increased dramatically, which also stimulated the cultivation of tea in the southern part. In just three years, the tea planting area has tripled.

Yang Yuanqing’s Hongrust Tea House has been converted into Hongrust Winery, which specializes in pomegranate wine. He no longer does the tea business.

The Tea Bureau Order is only an eighth-rank official, and is a young official named Cui Zhi. He was born in the Cui family of Qinghe. Like Yang Yuanqing, he is only twenty years old this year. He is honest and full of spirit.

Yang Yuanqing walked into the Tea Bureau. Cui Zhi had just approved a tea quota and was keeping accounts. When he saw Yang Yuanqing come in, he quickly stood up and bowed and smiled, "Didn't General Manager Yang go to Dali City?"

"The Lord of the Emperor is coming to Wuyuan County soon, I have to come back and prepare to pick him up."

Yang Yuanqing smiled and turned to the topic, "I want to check a caravan, is it convenient for Cui Shuling?"

"Master Yang said it!"

"Call Hanhai Caravan, Cui Shuling will help me check it out. So far, has this caravan come here to make tea attractions?"

"Please wait for the boss Yang."

Cui Zhi opened the account book and checked it page by page, checking it three times. He shook his head, "I'm sorry, there is no record of this caravan."

Fat Fish has also checked, and there is no record of tax payment in Dali City. It seems that the caravan has not arrived in Wuyuan County yet. Yang Yuanqing bowed to him and said, "This caravan is suspected of having an affair with the Turks. If they come to take tea, please inform me immediately."

"Don't worry, Manager Yang, I will definitely inform you in time."

Seven days later, the huge inspection team of Emperor Yang Guang of Sui appeared on the vast land of Wuyuan County. The inspection team had as many as 500,000 people, stretching for hundreds of miles, with flags covering the sky and great momentum.

The core of the inspection team is the emperor's palace, the city of the emperor. The city of ** is a huge movable wooden palace, made by He Chou, Shaofu Temple. As the name suggests, it is a hexagonal shape, with a circumference of eight miles, and the female wall is as high as six meters above the ground. Emperor Yang Guang and the queen and other palace maids and eunuchs lived in it, and there were three thousand inner palace soldiers defending on the top of the city.

There are hundreds of huge wooden wheels under the city. They cannot walk by themselves and require thousands of cows to pull them and push forward slowly and smoothly.

Yang Guang was in great enthusiasm. It was not the first time he came to Wuyuan County. In the 20th year of Kaihuang, as the head coach, he led a 150,000 army, and went out of Wuyuan County and defeated the Western Turkic Datou Khan. This time he returned to the old place, which reminded him of his bravery back then.

Yang Guang stood at the top of the city and smiled at his wife and children, "I thought I had once guarded the border with horses and attacked the Turks in the north. Nearly nine years have passed, but I feel it's like something that happened yesterday."

Yang Guang and Empress Xiao had a deep relationship. Although he became emperor, he still did not want to accept concubines. His loyalty was also highly praised by his mother Dugu. In replacing Yang Yong as the crown prince, he also received strong support from his mother Dugu.

At the same time, because of the heavy state affairs, Yang Guang likes to build palaces and pays attention to the show, but he has no concubines. He only has two wives, one is Empress Xiao, and the other is also a girl from Empress Xiao, known as Xiao. Half a year after the death of his eldest son Yang Zhao, his second wife, Xiao, gave birth to a son for him last year, named Gao, which was Yang Guang's third son. The birth of the youngest son brought great comfort to Yang Guang. He loved him extremely and had to take him wherever he went.

In addition to his youngest son Yang Gao, he also had three grandsons born to him by his eldest son, whom he also kept by his side so that he could educate him at any time. His second son, King Yang of Qi, stayed in Luoyang, the capital.

In addition, his elder sister, Princess Leping, Yang Lihua, also followed him this time. Yang Lihua likes quietness and generally does not like to go out. Unfortunately, her only granddaughter, Li Jingxun, passed away two months ago, immersing Yang Lihua in great sorrow. In order to get her elder sister out of her sorrow, Yang Guang tried his best to convince her to go out with her.

Yang Guang glanced at the elder sister and saw that she was still silent, and smiled and said, "Emperor Sister, this time I came to Wuyuan County, I should be able to see Yang Yuanqing. If I remember correctly, he is in the prime of the year. Should the emperor take a word for him?"

Yang Lihua sighed softly and smiled reluctantly, "He should get married this year."

"Look at your Majesty! Is General Manager Yang coming?"

An eunuch had a sharp look and saw a cavalry appearing in the distance, like a thin and black line, rushing towards this side. Yang Guang also saw it. He stroked his beard and laughed, with a good attitude. He appeared as soon as he entered Wuyuan County. It seemed that he had been waiting here long ago.

Then a guard reported: "Your Majesty, Fengzhou General Manager Yang Yuanqing and Chief Secretary Wei Siyun led three thousand cavalry to welcome the sage!"

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