The price of mutton is still declining day by day, and it can be sold for two or three cents per catty in the past two days. Two more days, it only costs one or two cents. When it is late November, the one with meat and bones will only cost three or five cents a bucket.

I heard that the same was true in previous years. Many people in the city took advantage of this time to buy mutton and go back to make jerky meat. Last year, some families who made a lot of money have not finished eating this year.

Changle County has always been cheap and the grain is expensive. Since cashmere trading has flourished, most of the sheep farmers here only kill sheep in winter, so the mutton in winter is especially cheap. After spring, the price will rise again.

There are some people in the city who are more financially strapped. I heard that I have never bought fresh meat since the beginning of spring this year. I have been reluctant to say that after the beginning of winter, I often go out to the streets to check it out and ask about the price of mutton. When the price has not dropped to the cheapest, they don’t buy it very much.

Recently, almost every household in the city has eaten meat. If the conditions are better, they bought good meat and came back to eat it. If the conditions are worse, they bought the worse meat.

Luo Yong also ate meat every day in their county government office. They still ate it with grain. After a long time, they felt a little tired of it. So they bought some broken tea cakes from the tea shops and cooked a large jar in the front yard every day. Whoever wants to eat it will take a scoop of water to scoop it.

In front of the tea shops of Mawang, most of them built stoves and placed pottery pots, and they cooked hot tea all day long. The people in the city often came to them to scoop tea and eat it, and they didn't have any money.

After eating this bowl of tea, it relieves greasy and removes oil. After that, the stomach feels comfortable all day long and the stomach won’t feel panic.

The Zhao family came to Changle County this time, mainly for the tea and white wine.

In addition, I also wanted to buy some bacon and planned to take it back and sell it to merchants in Liangzhou City, mainly those who came from the Central Plains.

Zhao Chen has been staying in Changle County for a while. He went to Dunhuang some time ago and came back in the past two days. The Zhao family opened a shop there earlier, and the transaction was very good.

The Zhao family bought goods from the hands of the Central Plains merchants in Liangzhou City, and then transported them to Dunhuang to sell them with some local Hu merchants. Then they collected some goods from Dunhuang Hu merchants and transported them to Liangzhou City to sell them. This time, they had a lot of benefits.

This time, Zhao Chen came to Changle County in person. In addition to purchasing goods, he also had another purpose.

The Zhao family got news from the Central Plains merchants that the saint sent a group of clans to Changle County to learn the language of the Hu people and learn about the situation in the Western Regions. They also planned to let them out of seclusion in the future.

The Zhao family in Shuozhou, Hedong Road, originally made a fortune by doing business with herders on the grasslands outside the pass. There were many courageous men in the family. This time the court planned to extend his hands to the business roads in the Western Regions, and the Zhao family also wanted to get a share of the pie.

Zhao Chen said that they wanted to send the young people at home to Luo Yong to teach with the gentry men, on the one hand, for learning, and on the other hand, for making friends.

Luo Yong agreed and agreed to let the Zhao family send one or two people here. If there are too many, it would be impossible. After all, Luo Yong is currently in the exploration stage. If there are too many people, he may not be able to deal with it.

Regarding the matter of starting a college and teaching, Luo Yong has basically only focused on building houses and hiring teachers. Tang Jian is mainly doing it.

The last time Tang Jian sent the memorial to Chang'an City, he said that the court sent some young people to Changle County to learn Western Regions culture. The saints were correct, and now people are on the way. As for the person in charge of this matter, the other one was naturally Tang Jian, and Luo Yong had to line up in the back.

Recently, Tang Jian has been visiting and contacting talented people in the area of ​​Shazhou, Guazhou, and on the other hand, he is also actively contacting Hu merchants who have settled in the local area, especially those who can write books.

Tang Jian is not a simple person. Although he has not been doing well in Chang'an City over the years, he used to be a person who could represent the country and meet and talk to the Turkic Khan. He may not have much feelings about this matter, and many people have not even heard of it. However, these men on the frontier admired him very much, and the Hu people respected him very much.

Overall, Tang Jian’s recent work has been progressing relatively smoothly. As long as he likes, there are few people who cannot be taken down.

But he also encountered a hard nail. There was a Hu Shang who settled in the Tang Dynasty in Dunhuang. He heard that he had led a very famous caravan in the past, traveled to various business roads in the Western Regions, visited many places, and was knowledgeable. Now that he is old, he has obtained a guest registration for himself in Dunhuang and plans to retire there.

When Tang Jian looked for him, he also politely received him. Tang Jian said he wanted to teach the students of the gentry, but he refused, saying that he was a low-key person and shallow in his knowledge, so he did not dare to make mistakes in front of the gentry's men.

Later, Tang Jian went to Dunhuang several times, met many people, and had contacted this Hu Shang many times, but this person refused to give in.

In this era without maps and Internet, all the experience and knowledge of this Hu merchant is priceless and he has walked out one by one. He has never followed his footsteps and it is impossible for people who have been to many places to understand those things.

It is normal for him to be unwilling to teach this knowledge to those gentry men whom he had never known each other. After all, he also has his own children, his own hometown and compatriots.

Tang Jian couldn't convince this person several times and several times, and he was reluctant to give up, so he told Luo Yong about this.

Luo Yong stayed in Changle County for so long and drank and joked with the Hu merchants who had been in contact with him all day. He had heard of the Hu merchants that Tang Jian said before. Although the man no longer entered the desert, his legend was still circulating among the oasis in the desert. Many leaders of the caravans would visit him after they arrived in Dunhuang.

Tang Jian wanted this person to tell the gentry and men about his experiences in various countries in the Western Regions, and Luo Yong thought it was the best.

For this matter, Luo Yong also followed him to Dunhuang. This time he went there with Tang Jian. The Hu Shang still welcomed them enthusiastically, but only mentioned the teaching, but still did not respond.

"This matter is not urgent." After being rejected by the other party many times, Tang Jian did not show any anger and dissatisfaction at all, and smiled so kindly:

"Those boys have not arrived in Changle County yet, so it is a bit too early to mention this matter. Today I came for another thing."

"I don't know why?" The old Hu Shang also spoke very well and his etiquette was also very appropriate.

"I think I have heard of it. Recently, I have been in Changle County and often have wine with merchants from all over the world. I have also heard a lot of things, gained a lot of knowledge, and drew a rough map, but I didn't know where to miss it. I also asked me to pass it through it." Luo Yong said, taking out a scroll from his sleeve and handed it to the other party with both hands.

The man seemed to be moved, but he didn't say anything. He took the scroll and opened it to take a look.

He didn't expect anything at first. After all, a young man like Luo Yong who had never really been to the Western Regions was just drinking and joking with the merchants and making a random map that widely praised the mountains, rivers and rivers of the Western Regions. He was afraid that he couldn't even tell the difference between this mountain and that mountain. What map he painted was probably like a child playing house.

After a rough glance, he realized that it was not as he expected. Although the map was painted roughly, he had drawn the locations of the mountains, rivers and rivers in the Western Regions correctly.

There are also places where land and sea intersect, deserts and grasslands, and snowy mountains. After careful look, many places can match the pictures in his memory. In addition, there are many places he has never even been to. After the food industry, there is such a vast world, and the grassland in the north is actually wide...

"I don't know where this picture comes from?" Hu Shang put down the map in his hand, but he didn't believe that it was painted by Luo Yong himself.

People who have never really been to the Western Regions and who have no relevant knowledge want to draw a map of the Western Regions, but in the end they often have a bad mouth. The map that Li Shi Luosanlang took out this time first shows that the painter has an extraordinary macro-cognition of this continent, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

"The source of this picture cannot be explained to your feet." Luo Yong smiled, stepped forward and put the map away, rolled it up and put it into his sleeve.

Hu Shang's eyes seemed to be stuck on this map, and he couldn't pull them off until Luo Yong put them away. He couldn't help but stare at Luo Yong's sleeve.

"I think it must be from the Central Plains Palace?" Hu Shang had heard of Pei Ju's painting of "The Western Regions Picture Record" back then.

If this is true, then the emperors of the Central Plains would pay great attention to what Tang Jian and the others are going to do in Changle County at the moment.

"I don't know what to do with this picture?" Tang Jian asked again at this time.

"Not like an ordinary person." Hu Shangyan said.

"Haha, this is just a simple map. We are naturally prepared for this matter. Please think carefully about the teaching." Tang Jian advised again at this time.

"Natural." The Hu Shang said solemnly.

They even took out such good things, so how could they not think about it carefully? This is not only a matter of status and fame. What Luo Sanlang showed him this time was exactly what he longed for and longed for in his heart, about the many unknown places he had not yet set foot on this continent.

As long as he can find more answers and learn more about the world of praise, he will do whatever he wants even if he loses his life. He is already in such a twilight years, so why are he afraid of? He dares to go to the dragon, pond, and tiger den, let alone just teach.
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