Standalone Northern and Southern Dynasties

Chapter 39: Plan Again (Fourth Update)
When Su Ze returned home, he was physically tired but mentally very excited.

He has mastered the riding technique of "following the waves", which allows him to follow the ups and downs of the horse's body, greatly increasing the speed of the warhorse under his crotch.

Leading the horse back to Jianyangli, Su Ze checked the messages on the system.

[The riding slave Su Da was carrying out the mission "Following Gao Huan to select horses for resale". The riding slave Su Da saw a dusty horse in the East Market, and Gao Huan bought the horse with ten pieces of silk.]

[The riding slave Su Da returned to Sitong City and cleaned and fed the dusty horse again. Gao Huan sold the horse for thirty pieces of silk! ]

[The riding slave Su Da received a share of the ten pieces of silk and is returning to Jianyangli.]

Wow, I made a profit of ten pieces of silk just by reselling them!

Su Ze was thinking whether he should let the riding slave Su Da leave Gao Huan and work on his own.

But Su Ze quickly dismissed the idea.

The reason was that Gao Huan was able to sell this dusty horse for thirty pieces of silk because the person who sold the horse was Gao Huan!

There are many good horses, but there are few good horse trainers. And more importantly, there are even fewer famous horse trainers.

Gao Huan had already accumulated a reputation for selling horses in Sitong City, and people had already taken the initiative to buy horses from him, so he said that only a thousand-mile horse could be sold at the price of a thousand-mile horse.

Su Da was just an ordinary riding slave, and he was not good at speaking. Even if he liked a thousand-mile horse, he would not be able to sell it at the price of a thousand-mile horse.

Cooperating with Gao Huan is a mutually beneficial and win-win situation.

There is no new news from the monk Su Tong who cast the statue. Anyway, he is casting the statue in Yongning Temple, so he should be the least dangerous.

Su Ze clicked on the message from Su Bai, the envoy of Bailu Cao.

[Su Bai, the envoy of Bai Lu Cao, is carrying out the mission "Tracing the clues (the monk Fa Zong)", and has found the clues of the monk Fa Zong, and is leaving Yongning Temple to track him down! ]

Su Ze discovered that Su Bai's trajectory on the map started from Yongning Temple and passed through many areas. He couldn't help but sigh that he was indeed an orange follower, and his ability was indeed much stronger than the purple one.

I don’t know if I can get new orange followers when the store refreshes in two days.

After completing the last mission from Princess Chenliu, Su Ze's shop now has five slots, which means he can refresh five items at a time.

With more store slots, the probability of getting higher-level goods is higher, but it’s a pity that there are no new tasks on the map now.

Su Ze guessed that in order to trigger a new task, it still had to be related to "people".

Since Su Ze traveled through time, the two missions he accepted were one for Gao Huan to identify horses and one for Princess Chenliu to seek the truth, both of which were related to important people.

These people who can leave their names in history must have influenced the fate of many people, and only their needs can be regarded as "missions".

In other words, to trigger more tasks, you have to find a way to contact more historical celebrities. This is one of the reasons why Su Ze decided to participate in the selection of King Qinghe to join the curtain.

Prince Qinghe Yuan Yi is the prime minister of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the core of the current political struggle in the court. He should have some tasks, right?
Su Bai's investigation has not yet produced any results. Apart from the dividend from Gao Huan, he has gained nothing else today.

There was a knock at the door. Su Yuyao opened the door and saw Su Da, a riding slave, pushing a cart. Looking at the silks piled on his cart, his eyes widened as big as camel bells.

"Ada! Did you rob in Sitong City? Brother, come out quickly!" Su Ze heard his sister's shout, walked out of the room, and immediately arranged for two strong women sent by the princess's mansion to deliver the silk on the cart to the warehouse in the backyard.

"Ada was sent out by me, and these silks were earned by me."

Su Ze explained to his sister, and then saw the linen clothes on Su Yuyao and said:
"Yuyao, tomorrow we'll find a few neighbors who are good at craftsmanship and have them use silk to make a few sets of clothes for the mansion."

Su Yuyao said quickly, "Who in Jianyang would use silk to make clothes? Brother, aren't you wasting silk?"

“Who can make clothes then?”

Su Yuyao shook her head and said, "The best tailors in Luoyang are all in those big houses in Yiguanli."

Su Yuyao rolled her eyes and said, "Brother, I see that the elder sister of the Princess of Chenliu is very interested in you. When she sent the silk that day, her eyes were on you. If you really want to make brocade clothes, would you like to ask that elder sister to hire a few skilled tailors from the princess's mansion?"

"What are you thinking about!"

Su Yuyao stuck out her tongue and said, "That's right, my brother will be an official in the future! The princess's personal maids will also be married with the princess."

In fact, in the eyes of the neighbors in Jianyangli, marrying the maids from wealthy families is also a good choice.

However, Su Yuyao took the matter of making brocade clothes for Su Ze to heart. These days, Su Ze kept bringing silk and cloth home, which immediately made the Su family's finances better off. As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and Su Yuyao also wanted to buy a set of clothes for Su Ze.

I heard from my father-in-law that if you are selected to enter the Qinghe Palace, you must wear a white brocade robe. With your ability, you will definitely be selected. Do you want to start making a brocade robe first?
Su Ze didn't know what his sister was thinking. He planned to go to Longhua Temple tomorrow to keep his appointment and attend the party organized by Liu Gui.

At the same time, in the monk’s quarters inside Longhua Temple, several monks were having a secret meeting.

The monk Fayuan who was sitting in the center yesterday has gone to Yuan Yi's residence. Among the Mahayana believers in Luoyang now, Fazong was silenced by Yuan Yi after the Golden Lotus Assassination, and Fayuan was imprisoned by Yuan Yi. Those of the Fa generation are no longer around, and the leader is Monk Huihui of the Hui generation.

Monk Huihui said, "Senior Brother Fayuan sent back a message that Yuan Yi is willing to help and recommend Wang Hui to participate in the selection of the Qinghe King. However, there are hundreds of people participating in the selection. If Wang Hui cannot make the final cut, he will have no chance of getting close to the Qinghe King."

"How strong is Wang Hui?"

Another monk said: "Wang Hui is very good at archery on foot and on horseback, but hunting is..."

Monk Huihui said, "This is normal. Wang Hui's family has been guarding the imperial guards for generations, and archery and horse riding are all inherited from the family. However, a low-level soldier like Tian Lie has no chance to practice."

The monks present all sighed, saying that those who joined the Mahayana sect were all monks of relatively low status.

Empress Dowager Hu worshipped Buddhism, and so did most of the emperors of the Northern Wei Dynasty, including many high-ranking officials and nobles.

Some monks were treated with courtesy by the court. When they were in the court, they were guests of honor of the powerful and wealthy. When they went out, they were followed by devout men and women. They were even more prominent than important officials in the court.

However, ordinary poor monks often could not even get enough food to eat, and had to work day and night in the temple’s fields. They were called monk slaves by the people.

Most of these Mahayana believers who sneaked into Luoyang were low-level monks from Hedong and the north.

Monk Huihui said, "Those from humble families still have the opportunity to practice hard on horseback archery, but hunting is not accessible to those from high-class families. If we want to send Wang Hui to King Qinghe, we have to help him."

(End of this chapter)