take the system to escape

Chapter 53
The first time she came to the border, Ran Yue felt very shocked. The thick city walls, chilling atmosphere, and Subian Satellite TV were not something she could experience in the film and television city or scenic spots.

There is a small market town not far from the border. There are people coming and going in the market town. There are people from the Central Plains and barbarians. They come and go, and there is a lot of voices. It can be said that it is very lively.

"Where is this place?" Ran Yue looked curiously at the strangely dressed barbarians and asked Xie Ning in a low voice.

"This place doesn't have an official name, we all call it the Border Town." Xie Ning is obviously not the first time here, and he is quite familiar with the situation here, patiently explaining the situation of the town to Ran Yue .

Beyond the border is the territory of the barbarians. These barbarians like to invade the border at all times and run away after looting. As soon as the court sends out troops, the barbarians are like rabbits in the pasture, running very fast. If there are fewer people and horses, it will be useless. If there are too many, it will be useless. Expenditure is another big problem, and the land outside the customs is vast and sparsely populated, so there is no use in grabbing that land.Because the cost of exterminating these barbarians is not proportional to the income, these barbarians outside the customs have always troubled the emperors of the past dynasties like Niubibo, and they have not been able to find a suitable solution.

When the first emperor was in power, he set up a small town at the border, allowing barbarians and Central Plains people to trade in this small town. Of course, strategic materials such as iron were not allowed to trade.

For the sake of wealth, merchants were willing to take risks and traveled long distances to bring tea, spices, silk, porcelain and other items from the Central Plains to the border, in exchange for furs, medicinal materials and money from the barbarians.

In the past, in order to appease these restless satisfactions, the imperial court did not send less property, but for the barbarians, these properties could not be spent at all. Now, with the arrival of merchants, they can exchange these unused things for the necessary life Goods can be exchanged for luxuries that improve living standards.

This move by the first emperor has indeed stabilized the border for several years. After all, they can get daily necessities without fighting or sacrificing their lives, and the barbarians are also happy to come to the border for trade.

But a barbarian is a barbarian, and people who are not of our race must have a different heart.On the one hand, the barbarians often clashed with the Central Plains people in the process of trade. On the other hand, some radical barbarians saw the wealth of the Central Plains and their ambitions grew even more powerful.Therefore, the current border town is like a powder keg, a little spark can make it explode.

Ran Yue curiously looked at the busy businessmen and bustling traffic, and did not feel at all that things were as exaggerated as Xie Ning said.

"There's a fight ahead!" I don't know who shouted, and many people ran in a certain direction. Ran Yue was led by Xie Ning and carried to the place where the accident happened.

The fight was between a barbarian and a Central Plains man. The barbarian was tall and strong, with tattoos on his face, and looked very fierce. The Central Plains man was not tall and had a simple and honest appearance. small businessman.

Seeing the barbarian push the Central Plains man to the ground, the Central Plains man hurriedly shouted: "Help, this barbarian is going to kill someone!"

"What, barbarians want to kill people!" Several people from the Central Plains exclaimed, and immediately shouted to their compatriots to help.

"Compatriots, the Central Plains are bullying our barbarian warriors together, and we barbarians can't let it go!" Although the barbarians do not have a unified tribe, they are still very unified when fighting against the Central Plains.

The two parties immediately started fighting each other. You punched me and I kicked you. You looked at me and I stabbed you. There were also some people fishing in troubled waters. Anyway, the whole town was in chaos.

Xie Ning grabbed Ran Yue and led her to jump to the top of a house, watching the chaos below condescendingly.

Both barbarians and Central Plains people have good hands who can jump on the roof, and there are a few blind people who provoke Xie Ning and Ran Yue, who are taught how to behave by Xie Ning and Ran Yue in minutes, and their area quickly becomes a vacuum. Well, anyway, as long as you are not confused, you know that these two are not easy to provoke. If you don't want to lose your life in vain, it is best not to provoke them.

As for the two people who caused the riot at the beginning, one was attacking the surrounding people from the Central Plains vigorously, and the other knew that his force value was not enough, so he had already hid aside, throwing some hidden weapons from time to time to sneak attack.

Xie Ning pointed at the barbarians and Central Plains people who were fighting endlessly below, and said, "Mingyue, do you understand?"

Ran Yue was a little puzzled, and asked puzzledly, "What do you understand? Why did a good exchange market turn into a big fight scene?"

Xie Ning did not answer, but continued to ask, "How long have they been fighting?"

Ran Yue pondered for a moment and said tentatively: "It's been about a quarter of an hour."

As soon as this sentence was said, Ran Yue discovered the violation. There is no government or army here. The fight between the barbarians and the Central Plains people was very fierce, and even killed, but until now no official force has intervened. , this is too strange.

Xie Ning snorted coldly, and then said: "The small town of Guan here is equivalent to a three-way zone. The emperor of Dachen and the court don't care about it at all. The life and death of barbarians has nothing to do with them, and the death of profit-seeking businessmen has nothing to do with them. The late emperor At the beginning, this border town was established not only for the sake of easing the relationship with the barbarians, but also for the intention of luring the high-level barbarians into liking the luxury goods in the Central Plains and letting them enjoy them. However, some bold and money-obsessed people took risks and smuggled strategic materials The chaos in the border town was mostly instigated by these people. In a peaceful and prosperous world, they can only be small businessmen honestly, but as long as there is a war, these businessmen who carry a large amount of war supplies will also have Soaring capital."

"What, there is such a thing?" Ran Yue was surprised when she heard of such a thing for the first time.

"For businessmen, human life is nothing, and family and country are nothing. In order to make money, they can do anything." Xie Ning said disdainfully.

"That's right, it's these people who are mercenary. The prey I brought with my life, the barbarian Erlang, can only be exchanged for less than half of the value from the merchants in the Central Plains. This is a merchant, a merchant from the Central Plains." Under the house, A young man dressed as a barbarian said quite angrily.

Xie Ning and Ran Yue looked at each other, when did this person come, they didn't even notice that such a person came nearby.

Xie Ning has a better understanding of the customs of the barbarians. Seeing the gorgeous nose rings and earrings of the barbarian youths, he knows that he must be a barbarian nobleman, and he is even more vigilant in his heart. If possible, he is really I want to keep this young man in the small town forever, after all, he is also a Central Plains native.

(End of this chapter)