bookcurios Chapter 123: Man-made swordsman
Chapter 123: Man-made swordsman
What Lan Xiongying said was drunken talk. He didn't even know the price of the wine, but he boasted that he would buy all of it.
How can such words not arouse suspicion?
The Nalan family is a relatively large ethnic group on the grassland. The Nalan family can be found from the Luosha Kingdom in the west to Xiaoxingling in the east.
In fact, the Nalan people also have Tatar blood.
In short, the bloodlines on the grassland are not pure. This is mainly because the population of Eastern Judah is declining. In order to expand the population, they will marry local women, but the identities of the children born are also divided into different degrees of kinship.
Although Li Laixi was happy about Lan Xiongying's bold words, alcohol was controlled by the military. Even if he could get the goods, the quantity was scarce after all.
"It seems that I still have to ask Prince Zhao about this matter." Li Lai Xi thought to himself.
Zhao Sheng's alcohol is made by mixing bean dregs, turnip dregs and sorghum straw, and also contains a small amount of grains such as barnyard grass and sorghum.
The proportion is still relatively small compared to grain.
The wine they drink does not contain bean dregs or sorghum straw.
But there are some sand dates mixed in it.
The other type is wine, blueberry wine and jujube wine, both of which have an alcohol content of about 18 degrees.
The alcohol content of the liquor is controlled at over 30 degrees, which is also brewed to suit the tastes of people in Dingzhou and Shangjing.
Li Lai Xi accidentally mixed alcohol with a concentration of about 70% and homemade saxaul wine, diluting it to about 40% and winning the favor of the northern Huns.
It just so happened that Zhao Sheng was in Weizhou during this period. There was a large camp in Weizhou city, garrisoned by two regiments.
The joint defense was drawn from the first and second governors.
Zhao Long also has his own personal guards in Weizhou City, numbering about 500 people.
The two regiments were responsible for the left and right sides of the barracks in Weizhou City. Zhao Sheng lived in the main camp when he came here.
Li Lai Xi held his business card and handed it to the guard at the gate.
"General, I am the shopkeeper of the Zhao County Li family in Weizhou. I have come to see our son-in-law."
What this means is that Zhao Sheng is the son-in-law of the Li family, and they are the managers of the Li family, and they have come to see the son-in-law when they have something to do.
The gate guards were soldiers of Prince Zhao. Of course, they knew that Prince Zhao was the leader of the Dingzhou army. It turned out that his surname was Li.
After passing the message and getting Zhao Sheng's consent, Li Lai Xi was really happy.
"Your Highness, I am Li Laixi, the shopkeeper of Weizhou, from the Li family of Zhao County. I have a problem and I came to ask for your advice."
He looks so fawning and doesn't look like a good person.
But that's probably how businessmen are in this era.
Zhao Sheng suppressed his inner complaints and asked, "What's the matter, Shopkeeper Li?"
"Ah, that's right. Today I negotiated a deal with the Lan family. It was about the liquor business. It was the saxaul wine brewed by our Li family."
As Li Lai Xi spoke, he hunched his back again and his voice became cautious.
"Is there something unspeakable?"
Zhao Sheng finally realized that the old man was holding back on what he was saying.
"To be honest, my Lord, we mixed alcohol into the saxaul wine."
"Alcohol? Where did you get the alcohol?"
"Your Majesty, alcohol is now used as a medicine and can be used for external injuries. Our family bought some and tried mixing it with some wine. It's drinkable and delicious!"
When Li Laixi said this, he was obviously losing his confidence, but for the sake of business, he had to beg.
"Is that so!..." Zhao Sheng seemed to have noticed the business opportunity. He had originally planned to use the discarded bean dregs and other waste materials as feed for pig farming this year. After hearing what Li Lai Xi said, he was also tempted.
"Well, that's a good idea you put forward. I need to think about it and see if I can make a fine wine specifically for the Li family. It will definitely taste better than the wine you have now."
Li Laixi was delighted to hear this, but unexpectedly he heard Zhao Sheng say, "Brewing wine is a waste of grain, but I know we have millet and sorghum in the north, and the yield is not bad."
After hearing what Zhao Sheng said, Li Laixi knew that the Lu family had close contacts with the Xianbei and often transported millet and sorghum from them. Unfortunately, the Li family was not familiar with these intricacies.
"My Lord, the Lu family you mentioned has its own ways, but unfortunately we are not familiar with the rules of the Xianbei."
"This is not difficult. Just find the King of Yan in Yanzhou."
In fact, Zhao Sheng also knew that some people in Yanzhou were making millet and sorghum food, but there were more millet and wheat in Dingzhou, so Zhao Sheng used millet, which was less tasty, as the material for making wine.
Despite this, corn is the staple food and Zhao Sheng dare not waste it.
When Li Lai Xi learned what was needed, he promised to send people to the Xianbei to buy millet and sorghum food.
In fact, the Xianbei were also a nomadic people. Later, they were squeezed by the Eastern Expedition Army. The people of the Rakshasa Kingdom retreated here and started a great war on the grassland.
After all, according to the racial distribution in later generations, the Rakshasa belonged to the Europeans, while the Xianbei belonged to the North Asian population, and the differences in language and customs were too great.
Originally, there were Xianbei people in the Northern Liang area. In the past, Tuoba, Yuwen, Murong, and Duan were all Xianbei people.
Later, as space compressed, the Xiongnu moved north and the Xianbei fled to the northeast to survive.
During the Zhou Dynasty, the Xianbei people had already started farming in the northeast region, and grazing was only a small part of it. They had become accustomed to attacking and learned to defend.
At this time, there were three major Xianbei tribes, led by Duan Yu, Murong Bai and Yu Wenhua, three young masters who controlled the lifeline of this nation.
The Lu family, which was eliminated, not only did not gain any benefits from the road construction, but also lost future business dealings with Dingzhou.
The Lu family then remembered that Lu Yihou had not contacted their family for a long time, so they sent their housekeeper to contact them.
"Captain Ma, there are more than a dozen people coming down the mountain and heading towards us."
"Did you see who it was?"
"An elderly man, with a dozen young men."
"No matter what, capture everyone near the mountain gate."
After Ma Biao's order was given, the people in front of the stronghold's gate were under control, and a centurion led his men to capture these people.
"I'm the Lu family's housekeeper, and I asked your head of the family to come see me..."
The Lu family's housekeeper started yelling at the top of his lungs, and even Ma Biao came over and refused to tolerate him.
"Master Lu has gone to enjoy his life. If you have anything to tell me, please write a letter and I'll pass it on."
The Lu family's housekeeper looked at Ma Biao with a ferocious look, thinking that he was even more ferocious than a bandit.
So under the tyranny, he wrote a letter to Lu Yihou, which roughly meant that the head of the family wanted to see him, and by the way, he sent troops to Guangchang County to cut off the main traffic route.
Then Ma Biao turned his face and said, "Write a confession, saying that your Lu family colluded with bandits and robbed people. You have been captured and must do hard labor for three years. Only after you are pardoned can you return home."
The Lu family’s housekeeper almost rolled his eyes on the spot: How could you set up a trap like this?
Helpless, I am at the mercy of others.
After more than a dozen people signed their names, they were sent to Guangchang County to work in coal mines.
Here, they saw Lu Yihou, who was already the district chief of District 1 and was responsible for coal mining. There were also prisoners of war from the Huns last time.
It is impossible for Zhao Sheng to let them unite together, so separating them is the most reliable option.
Promote those who perform well and motivate the diehards.
At first, Lu Yihou wanted to play the role of the boss, but later he found out that there were people who wanted to be the boss more than he did.
In this way, a game between the Huns and bandits could unfold among a small coal miner. Lu Yihou had to rebuild his old territory. He couldn't defeat the new army, nor could he defeat the Huns?
In this way, Lu Yihou was once again elected as the boss and became the district chief of Coal District 1.
Only after losing and gaining again did Lu Yihou realize that being the district chief here was more glorious than being a mountain king before. At least he didn't have to wash his own clothes or get his own meals.