Da Song Private Investigator

***Mountain snow, no flowers, only cold.

Smelling the broken willows in the flute, I have never seen the spring scenery.

Xiao Zhan follows the golden drum and sleeps with a jade saddle.

Willing to put the sword down at the waist, straight to cut Loulan.

This is one of the six next songs of Li Baisai. Tian Hualang was strolling in the courtyard, suddenly thought of this poem, and then chanted it involuntarily. It is almost May in Linxi City today, but it is not like As Li Bai wrote in his poems, there are no flowers but only cold. It should be said that the place is already warm and harmonious, but the flowers are in bloom.

Perhaps, this land near the west cannot be regarded as the real plug.

However, although it is not under the plug, the faint sound of the Qiang flute can be heard from time to time. The sound of the Qiang flute is very low, like the mourning of a resentful woman, or like the low roar of a soldier. Every time I hear it, it is always particularly moving. .

To the north of Linxi City, there is a place called Wuya, where many willows are planted, and in that place, most of the time of the year is covered with flying yellow sand.

That place is very desolate, but every year in May, it will be very lively, because on that day, there will be a grand banquet held in that place, and the people who will participate in the banquet are prominent people in the border gate of Song Dynasty, as well as those in the military camp. generals.

The banquet is not held randomly, or it can be said that it has a very important purpose. Almost everyone has their own purpose.

This is the border gate, and the surrounding terrain is very complicated, but even so, there are still many business people, and these business people may not only do business in the territory of Song Dynasty, they may travel across the entire Xixia The Silk Road may also lead directly to the Liao Kingdom and trade with the Liao people.

This is not an easy task, because when the relationship between the three countries is at a standstill, it is very dangerous to enter the territory of other countries casually. Even if other countries allow it, they may be detained as hostages at any time .

Moreover, more often than not, these businessmen would be suspected by the generals of the Song Dynasty. After all, these people often went to and from other transit areas. Who knew that he had not rebelled?

Therefore, on such a day with fine weather and breezy winds, the generals at the frontier will entertain those people here. Apart from admonishing them, there is also a search to see if they have rebelled. It is these businessmen who need to hand over a large amount of silver every year to serve as military pay.

It's normal for both parties to get what they want.

However, this has been done many years ago, and in the last seven or eight years, this has not been done for a long time. Since Li Yuanhao of Xixia claimed to be the emperor and established the Xixia Kingdom, the relationship between Xixia and Song Dynasty has broken down rapidly. Song businessmen don't go to Xixia anymore unless they have to, so naturally they don't need to do the things they did before in this boundless place.

But if you don't do the things before, some things can be done.

Many of them are businessmen. They can see business opportunities from it. What is the true meaning of doing business? It's just selling things from the east to the west to get the difference. Many years ago, these businessmen thought of doing business in Wuya. Contacts, everyone gathers together to communicate news and conduct trade exchanges, following the instinctive development of economics and trade.

This matter has nothing to do with other countries, so even if these merchants no longer go to the Xixia Kingdom for trade, they can still trade in Wuya. After several years of development, now every May, Wuya That place is a big deal place.

The transaction takes three days, and after three days, they all go their separate ways.

And during the three days of the transaction, there will be a lot of tents and various goods in the whole Wuya, everyone exchanges with each other, and then leaves with their own goods, and because there is no inn and tavern in Wuya, so every year During the three days of the trade, everyone brought their own meals and ate them together.

For these three days, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a grand event.

When Wen Meng knew that there was such a grand event in Wuya, she kept pestering Hwarang, saying that she wanted to go and have fun.

Originally, that place was a place for merchants to trade. Hwarang and the others had stopped doing business a long time ago, and it was meaningless to go there.

In addition, Tong Zhuo came to invite Hwarang to go to Wuya together, which made Hwarang a little puzzled, but after Tong Zhuo explained, Hwarang soon understood.

Now the Emperor Xixia is young, and the military and political power is in the hands of the empress dowager. Although the empress dowager is not a good bird, she is a woman after all. She dare not rashly start a war with the Song Dynasty. Therefore, the trade between Xixia and the Song Dynasty is unexpectedly There is a slow recovery.

I don't know whether this situation is good or bad, therefore, Tong Zhuo is very uneasy, and thinks it is better to go to Wu Ya, and besides Tong Zhuo, Bai Ji in the barracks and some of his generals are also going. .

Now Tong Zhuo and Bai Ji are court officials, although Hwarang is not a court official, but after all, he has a token bestowed by the emperor, so he naturally wants to take a look on behalf of the emperor.

Therefore, due to various reasons, Hwarang, Wen Meng and others finally felt that there was no limit.

Wu Ya's banquet will be held three days later, and Wu Ya is half a day's journey away from Linxi City, so everyone is not in a hurry. During these two days, everyone has been preparing.

As there were no inns or taverns in that place, they had to provide food and drink, and besides that, tents had to be built for living.

Although these things are not very big, they are related to whether they can live comfortably after they go to Wuya, because everyone is very hardworking, and it took everyone a day just to prepare these things.

After finishing all this work, the rest of the day seemed much more boring and boring. Hwarang saw that everyone was so boring, so he joked that why don't you think about it and see if you can go and do a little Business, exchange some goods with the merchants here.

Wen Meng is a person who likes excitement and novelty. Although it is not the first time for them to do business, after hearing what Hwarang said, she suddenly became excited, so she thought about going to What to do after Wu Ya, but Wen Meng is not a business material after all, so she thought about all kinds of possibilities all day long, but in the end, nothing made her think it was reasonable, and in the end it was over. It's over.

Anyway, the second day passed, so on the third day, the group of them hurried to Wu Ya.