In Tianjian City, Li Yuguo and Situ Wuyou were shopping together. They were able to buy a lot of things with the help of their magical vessels.
After all, the long journey requires a lot of physical support, and there is not much food and salary left now, and the food transportation road from Tianshen Mountain to Pingjin Pass has long been cut off by the four princes.
Now they need to replenish food. The chickens, ducks, and fish from hunting alone are not enough. They need flour, rice, and things that can make them full.
If it were an army, it would be absolutely impossible for them to sneak into Tianjian City, but Li Yuguo and Situ Wuyou are two young men. To outsiders, they look like a husband and wife or a brother and sister, so they are not so conspicuous. .
Tianjian City is obviously different from Yunzhong City, which is mainly for entertainment. Yunzhong City is a prosperous metropolis, but Tianjian City is different, because Tianjian City is a military city, and you can see it everywhere. Some soldiers and officials were walking around.
Relatively speaking, the number of ordinary people is not very large.
Blacksmith shops and other things related to the war were strictly controlled. In addition to iron, there was also salt. Almost all salt sellers in the market needed to keep key records. However, Li Huguo’s Alimama was very limited in what she could buy. Yes, luckily there is salt in it, otherwise the two of them would be exposed when selling salt in Tianjian City.
Whether in this world or in Li Hugo's original world, salt is an important war resource because salt is a necessity for human beings and an important material to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army. It is also an important source of national taxation, so salt was important in ancient times. war resources.
Mainly because of the low productivity in the farming era. There are two industries that are related to the lifeblood of the country: coinage and the importance of salt property. Needless to say, salt is a necessity of life. People can not eat sugar, soy and vinegar, but they must not eat salt. At that time, There are only a handful of salt producing areas and a few salt-producing techniques are controlled by a few people. Historically, some corrupt salt transport ministers were as rich as the country. If they were monopolized by private individuals, wouldn't they be able to blackmail the emperor and order the princes
The salt tax was also an important fiscal revenue at that time. Unless you no longer want to rule the country, salt must be included in the national governance economy just like oil is as important to the country today. Salt at that time was even more important than oil today. The most important national blood.
Oil is the blood of modern warfare, and salt is the blood of soldiers.
Therefore, there were already many soldiers standing in front of the salt shop, and there was a long queue.
"We don't want to buy salt?" Situ Wuyou also knew the power of this and asked.
Li Yuguo smiled and said: "We won't buy it if we already have it. Besides, this thing is too conspicuous. Let's go... let's go to the grain store first."
"Okay." Situ Wuyou had absolute trust in Li Yuguo. At this time, he came to the grain store. Li Yuguo bought a lot of grain and rice, a total of one hundred thousand shi, and all these rice grains were collected by Li Yuguo. , the boss also made a lot of money, he was a businessman and didn’t care who the other party was, and Li Huguo bought so much, it can be said that Li Huguo is his noble person.
How dare the owner of a rice and grain store offend a noble person
After Li Yuguo received the things into the storage magic weapon, he never expected that a curfew would now begin.
"When the sun goes down, the city gates are closed." The storekeeper said, "There seems to be a war outside the city recently. There is an enemy team, I heard it is from Daikin, and it is wandering around. The Zhenxi Prince's Mansion is already in good condition. After dealing with things inside and outside the city, if you two want to leave, you have to leave early tomorrow morning, but you must not come out at night. We have a curfew in Tianjian City at night. Once anyone comes out, they will be taken for interrogation." The shopkeeper said.
Li Huguo smiled and said: "Thank you very much, boss. Does the boss know where there is an inn here?"
The boss carefully put the money away: "There are two inns in this place. The first one is at the crossroads, but this inn is where military men often stay. Sometimes military men are unreasonable, so I advise you two, If you are simply looking for a place to stay, you should go to the small inn around the corner."
After receiving the boss's tip, Li Huguo gave the boss another tip and left gracefully.
At first, Situ Wuyou was confused as to where Li Yuguo planned to go in such a hurry, but soon she knew that Li Yuguo seemed to have other purposes for his trip.
No matter what Li Yuguo's purpose was, Situ Wuyou didn't ask and just followed silently.
On the Yanjing side, Situ Wushu's face was ashen as he looked at the two disciples in front of him, Song Qinglong and Yang Xuanwu, both kneeling on the ground.
Yang Xuanwu said unwillingly: "Teacher, we obviously came back victorious, but why did we not get the glory we deserve, but we were still scolded and forced to stand here?"
"You two are really mad at me. You underestimated the enemy and almost lost. The enemy suddenly retreated. You won without a fight, but you still want me to reward you for your light skills? Do you know why you can get a chance to breathe?" Situ? Wu Shu was so angry that when he looked at the two people in front of him, he felt like he hated iron.
Song Qinglong was very innocent. He said: "Teacher, we are much better than Li Yuguo. I heard that Li Huguo hasn't come back yet. He probably died for the country. But our two brothers came back sadly with soldiers and horses. This... "
"Shut up! Your lives were saved by Li Yuguo. With one hundred thousand men, he broke through the Pingjin Pass within a month, and now he is rushing directly towards the enemy's lair. Do you know that if you can come back safely, then Are they all thanks to him?" Situ Wushu said angrily, "But you are okay, Song Qinglong, you actually refused our own people to come in and sent them ten thousand people. This is not one or two hundred people. These ten thousand people Everyone was shot dead by you! This army has been on the battlefield and they are all veterans. Do you know that veterans are a treasure?! But you are lucky, you... You actually annihilated them all! You... You really piss me off!"
"Teacher, I did that just in case. If it were the enemy's spy, wouldn't it be..." Song Qinglong didn't say any more, because the old prime minister's face was already quite disgusted.
Situ Wushu let out a long sigh: "Now you clearly know that Li Huguo's army is trapped in Daliao, but you choose to stand by and watch because of this issue of credit. You have let me down so much, so disappointed!"
Situ Wushu said it sincerely, and it was also quite melancholy, which made the two brothers and sisters around him feel ashamed, and both of them were almost speechless.