I should marry the traitor

Chapter 203 The Spy Visiting the Brothel
Yue Sinan is a businessman, and people who are familiar with him will call him Lao Yue.

Lao Yue's business is very simple. He buys goods in the south and then transports them to the north to sell. However, his business is not small. He has his own caravan, which has good combat effectiveness and even has several pieces of leather armor and two powerful crossbows.

In Daqian, weapons such as swords and knives are not prohibited items and anyone can carry them, but leather armor and powerful crossbows are absolutely things that private armed forces are not allowed to own in principle.

Of course, in principle, it is allowed even if it is not allowed. Especially in the past two years, the situation has been a bit chaotic, and any force that is slightly exposed has more or less hidden contraband such as leather armor and powerful crossbows.

And it is well known that in Daqian, merchants without a backer will lose all their money, and all the merchants who can become big have someone behind them.

On the surface, Lao Yue gave enough money to General Guo of Xiliang so that he could get some protection. In fact, Lao Yue also had a side job, which was to be a spy for the emperor.

Of course, his main job is still being a businessman and making money, and his side job is being a spy to get some information and then pass it back.

Although it sounds like a very dangerous profession, it is actually not that dangerous. Using businessmen to pass on information is an unspoken rule that everyone knows, and most of the information that is actually passed on is not confidential.

So Lao Yue actually lived a very carefree life in Nanli. He had money in his hands to eat, drink and have fun, and occasionally he would pass on the information he collected in Nanli back to China.

Of course, as an important town where the four military governors were stationed, Nanli was obviously different from the other three towns.

Xiliang was a simple cluster of towns, consisting of large and small fortresses without walls. There was no need for walls when issuing orders, and the Xiliang army would just rush out to rob the Western Yi.

Beishuo is a defensive pass. After all, the Beishuo Army exists to prevent the Beidi from moving south.

Dongyou is even simpler, it is just a small island with a garrison.

It can be seen that although the title of the Four Jiedushi is very grand, in fact the areas occupied by Xiliang, Dongyou and Beishuo are not very large, and the daily support of the army depends to a certain extent on the supply from the court and the collection of protection fees.

But Nanli is different. Nanli is really big, very big.

You have to know that in Jiaozhou, no one is willing to be the governor of Jiaozhou. After all, the territory of Nanli occupies almost one-third of Jiaozhou, which is a territory that the governor of Jiaozhou has no jurisdiction over at all.

In name, the Jiedushi and the provincial governor were of the same rank, but in reality everyone knew who had the final say in this area.

Being a governor in such a shabby place is no different from being a county magistrate in a subordinate county in Luoyang. You can't do anything about it.

And if your background is not strong enough, you won’t be able to take advantage of anything that is beneficial, and you will have to take all the blame if something goes wrong.

Of course, the troubles of Jiaozhou Mu had nothing to do with the common people, nor with the carefree old man. At this moment, he was sitting in an exquisite carriage, looking at the strange customs of Nanli with some obsession.

Nanli is very large, centered around the restricted area guarded by the Mu family, and encompassing all the surrounding towns and villages.

Due to its special location, although Qian people account for half of the population in Nanli, there are far more than Qian people living here. There are also barbarians from the west, Miao people from the east, and even various overseas barbarians who have crossed the sea.

Therefore, the buildings here are strange and bizarre, and the mutual impact of cultures has also created the unique charm of Nanli.

The building that Lao Yue was obsessed with was a huge house built of a stone called graystone.

This is not a precious treasure, but a specialty stone that can be found everywhere in Nanli. Its advantages are that it is solid and reliable. Houses built with gray stone are very durable. Even in Nanli, where earth dragons often turn over, there has never been a case of gray stone houses collapsing. But gray stone also has disadvantages, one of which is that it is heavy.

Although limestone is a good building material, it is too heavy, resulting in extremely high transportation costs. Houses can only be built using local materials. The high transportation costs make it impossible for limestone to become the main building material in other places.

Another disadvantage is that it is ugly. The gray stone does not look good. Although the houses built with it are sturdy and durable and warm in winter and cool in summer, they are really ugly.

Therefore, poor families cannot afford the high transportation costs, and wealthy families look down on such ugly things. Building materials such as limestone are basically only used by the poor people in the south.

The reason why Lao Yue is so obsessed with the ugly high-rise building is obviously not because he has a special liking for ugly buildings, but because the high-rise building has its own unique status.

The tall building had rows of square windows, which vaguely divided the gray stone building into several narrow rooms.

In the darkness, dim lights flickered in the small rooms. Through the windows, the burning candlelight was dyed into various colors by the colorful gauze curtains, which vaguely revealed the identity of this stone building - a brothel.

After a long time, the carriage slowly stopped at the door of the gray stone building. Lao Yue stuck his head out of the carriage and saw a somewhat simple gate and plaque.

There are four big characters written on the plaque - Shuangying Kiln.

Simple and crude, concise and to the point, it tells passers-by in a very crude way that I am doing illegal business here.

Of course, that brothel is legal no matter where it is in Daqian. As long as you pay enough money, no one will cause trouble.

As a spy, faced with such valuable information that Nanli had opened a new brothel, how could he not come and find out?

After all, a brothel is a place where all kinds of people gather, and information is most easily accessible. It is perfectly reasonable for him to come here for a secret talk to gather information.

Especially in order to play his role as a businessman well and avoid the disclosure of his side job as a spy, Lao Yue was dressed in silk and satin today, covered with jewels, and he almost had the words "I'm very rich" written on his face.

What's more, the name of this brothel is actually Shuangying. Who knows if it is some illegal organization that liberates Yinglong? Lao Yue must go in and criticize it severely.

Of course, the Sakura Dragon has been suppressed for a long time. In addition, the population in Nanli is mixed, and ordinary people have long lost their fear of the Sakura Dragon. There are many shops with names containing the word Sakura or Dragon.

The name "Shuangying" should be derived from the meaning of two dragons playing with a pearl, which refers to the highly praised special services here.

It’s just that the name Shuanglong is too ugly, so it is euphemistically called Shuangying. After all, everyone in Nanli knows what comes after the word Ying.

Old Yue had money in his pocket, and he walked with the gait of a dragon and a tiger, with every step being of great vigor. The old man at the door was dazzled when he saw him dressed in jewels.

"Sir, sir, please come in."

"Go this way, go this way."

(End of this chapter)