Old Liu looked at Ye Qing's thoughtful look and asked curiously: "Dou, don't you still know the Tatars, right?"

Old Liu's head was surprised that it was not without foundation. After all, between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Tatars, except for the Xia Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom, there were also mountains and Great Walls. I have never heard of any Song Dynasty people who have been to the barbarian land there.

Moreover, it is said that the Tatars lived as tribes and lived a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood. The tribes had conflicts all year round, and it was not normal for them to die a hundred or eighty people every day.

"You talk about your name first, and then I will see if I know you." Ye Qing looked at Old Liu's strange eyes and said with a smile.

The Mongolians of this period, let alone themselves, were not very clear in "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty" or "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty·Taizu Ji", and even some of them were completely fabricated. How could they have more knowledge about Mongolia in this period?

What he knows is just a few quite famous people, but no matter what, he doesn't believe that the genius Temujin can emerge and become the leader of the Mongols at this time. Now at most, he is just the Khan of his Qiyan tribe.

"I really don't know this." Old Liu shook his head, looked at Ye Qing's glaring again, and hurriedly said: "You didn't let me pay attention to the Tatars, you just asked me to look at Na Luo Shichuan and the Golden Man."

"What's wrong with the Jin man?" Ye Qing wanted to raise his middle finger at Old Liu's head, but he would just forget it. Sometimes this thing can cause retribution.

Because along the way, even Yan Qingcheng and You'er, including Bai Chun and Jinse, have learned it now.

Although they don’t know exactly what it means, whenever they are speechless, dissatisfied with themselves, or are so angry that they don’t know how to answer the words, they will learn from their own way and silently and provocatively raise their middle fingers at themselves.

"The Jin Man is still in the city, but I guess he will leave soon. It seems that the Jin Man is still anxious. Moreover, after Na Luo Shi entered his shop, he has never been with other vendors. It doesn't seem like he is discussing business. Even the Xia Man and the others have not seen each other and don't know what they want to do." After Lao Liu talked about the serious matter, his expression became serious.

"Continue to keep watching. Even if they pass the Huai River and continue to go to the north, they have to find someone to stare." Ye Qing and Lao Liu, and Li San, strolled in the backyard of the inn. After looking up at You'er not far away, they continued to ask: "The Jin caravan did not move in the north and did not intend to pass the Huai River. Are they waiting for someone?"

"I don't know, I dare not get too close. Dong Chao and the others wanted to test it, but I stopped them. But no matter what, I can be sure that these people are the Jin people business trip we are looking for, with a total of 527 people." Old Liu said silently.

Now, except for Ye Qing who came to Sizhou, he came from Huai River, others are still on the other side of Huai River, and continue to secretly monitor the Jin man's business trip.

"Have all the weapons been transported?" Ye Qing asked inadvertently.

"It's been transported." Old Liu sighed and shook his head, then frowned and asked, "Who is Dong Chao? He said he was a bandit, but he didn't look like him. He said no, but they were able to lead a team of nearly 3,000 people in Jiugang Mountain, Laozi Mountain, and Hongze Lake, and have been entangled with the Jin people all the time."

"Then they always have a specific place. It cannot be like nomadic peoples, running around the Huai River every day, right? Three thousand people are not a small number. The golden people can't find it for so long?" Ye Qing sat down on the stone in front of him and rode the horse for three days, and he couldn't stand it.

Even if I had to put the thick seat cushions in Yan Qingcheng's carriage on the inside of my thighs, I still couldn't stand the bumps along the way.

"Zhongmiao Town is a place where they often gather. People from all over the countryside gather. They all have their own homes on weekdays. They occasionally plunder the caravans of the Jin people's government, including the caravans of the Xia people, etc. It is difficult for the Jin people's government to capture them. And according to my observation, they are very organized. Although there are 3,000 people, the number of people usually does not exceed 500 every time they work." Old Liu has not been in this place for nothing these days. It should have been almost the same as Li Qingzhao's family.

"Are they Li Qingzhao helping them, or are they helping Li Qingzhao?" Ye Qing was a little confused for a moment, but he was not in a hurry. After passing the Huai River tomorrow, everything will be clear.

The Qinling Mountains and the Huai River are the dividing line between the north and the south, and are also the division between the Jin and the Song Dynasty. However, the Jin people often crossed the border. However, in Sizhou, due to the rich Hongze Lake, this area is relatively peaceful, so there are a large number of bandits such as 3,000 people. Ye Qing also had to admire Li Qingzhao and Dong Chao, who was named Dong Chao, to avoid the Jin people's government.

After asking some details about Old Liu, he asked Po Li San and Old Liu to rest, and then planned how to cross the Huai River tomorrow without being suspected, and would not be discovered by the Jin people.

All this is not a big deal for Old Liu, who has been here for a long time. During this period, he has figured out various routes, including the routes that Dong Chao often traveled south by Dong Chao and others.

Where to cross the river will attract the attention of the Jin people's government. Where to cross the river is like entering a state of no one. For the current Lao Liu, it is like walking in Lin'an City with his eyes blindfolded.

Moreover, although the Huai River area is where the Jin and Song ties intersect, it is far more than the Song and the people of the Jin countries, the merchants, Xia people, Tatars, Liao people, etc., will appear here.

For them, the developed commerce and waterways here also provided considerable convenience for their transportation. Therefore, most of the taxes in Sizhou were not in the hands of the Song court, and most of the taxes were plundered by the Jin people every year.

But even so, it could not stop the business travelers from gathering here. Even if they had to pay taxes to the Jin people and still had to pay taxes to the Song people, they were willing to come here to trade.

Ye Qing was very curious. Even though he paid taxes from both countries, why are there still so many business travelers here? Are they stupid?

Yan Qingcheng looked at Ye Qing disdainfully, and then said, "Marriages have always valued profits. Do you think merchants will do money-lossing transactions?"

"You Yan family won't sell private salt, right?" Ye Qing asked carefully as Yan Qingcheng's beautiful face gradually disappeared with a bright and radiant look.

"The Yan family will not do business that violates the court's laws, but it is indeed profitable to trade with the Xia people. However, we mainly do some fur and felt business with the Xia people. The felt blanket made of white camel hair in Lin'an is expensive, and there are also some shuffle furs, mainly based on medicinal materials, wolfberry, rhubarb, licorice, elixir, etc. If you are familiar with Xia people, you can't buy Dangxiang horses, but it's just difficult." Yan Qingcheng said to Ye Qing with a proud expression.

In her opinion, Ye Qing was cute at this time. She would not be as cute as she was in her eyes as usual, but would listen carefully and concentrate on listening to some common sense that ordinary people should have known.

"You haven't considered the iron tools of Xia people? I heard that Xia people's iron tools are one in a million." Ye Qing drank the best tea that Yan Qingcheng brought to trade, which made Yan Qingcheng feel distressed.

You'er next to her was extremely aggrieved because she helped Ye Qing find the tea, but she didn't expect Ye Qing to drink it herself, and she thought he was going to show it to other merchants.

"They won't trade with us because the Yan family's strength cannot be achieved." Yan Qingcheng sighed helplessly.

"Why?" Ye Qing asked a question mark on his forehead. He felt that he was about to get the correct answer to the trade between the Song, Jin and Xia from Yan Qingcheng's mouth.

"Because of your Imperial City Department's existence!" Yan Qingcheng glanced at Ye Qing in anger, and then said: "Like salt, the imperial court naturally did not like Xia Qing salt to enter my Song Dynasty in order to protect its own interests, but Xia Qing salt is indeed better and cheaper than the salt in my Song Dynasty, so so many people selling private salt are gathered here. The Imperial City Department, Maritime Bureau Department, etc., are just making a fortune by these. The same is true for iron tools. A good sword forged by the Xia people is the most popular among the Song people, and the price is comparable to gold."

"There are so many people who are flocking to it. Isn't it possible to trade with Xia people just by using money?" Ye Qing continued to ask.

In his opinion, salt should be one of the main sources of income for Xixia. In addition to animal husbandry and other other sources, Xia Kingdom should be able to gain benefits between Jin and Song dynasties, but compared to money and goods, Xixia would not be much better? Could it be that food, tea, etc., can the Xia people exchange the Xia people's Dangxiang horses and iron tools?

"It's a human being." Yan Qingcheng looked at Ye Qing and said helplessly.

"Man?" Ye Qing asked strangely.

"Xia people are not stupid, they are very smart. In addition to tea, silk, silk, silk, silk, fragrant medicine, porcelain, lacquerware, candles, soap, etc. are all loved by the Xia people. However, although the Xia people like porcelain, they hate porcelain the most. In their opinion, porcelain is made of earth, but the price is extremely expensive. So they exchanged the porcelain craftsmen of the Song people with the green salt, iron and good horses prohibited by the imperial court to make their own porcelain." Yan Qingcheng was an angry young man, so since she first learned that some merchants used craftsmen as a transaction with the Xia people, they wanted to take back all the items of the Yan family and never traded them with the Xia people.

But some things are obviously not something that can be changed by a small businessman, so in recent years, the Yan family has basically not participated in those explicitly prohibited businesses except for ordinary business.

Ye Qing held the teacup and thoughtfully. Judging from the news from Yan Qingcheng, what was the purpose of the Mongols going south to Sizhou?

They were close to Jin and Xia. They thought it was because of the salt and iron that they had to go south. But now it seems that the salt and iron in Xixia were much more developed than in the Song Dynasty. Even though the Jin people prohibited Xia and Mongolian tribes from trading, Ye Qing believed that the Xixia people could not completely listen to the Jin people and must have a deal with the Mongolians in private.

And, what exactly did Li Qingzhao's three thousand men do? Just as Li Qingzhao said, was it a group of ordinary people persecuted by the Jin people, and then became bandits?
Chapter completed!