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In the winter months, the northern border is covered with ice for thousands of miles and snow drifts for thousands of miles.

On the official road from Liangzhou to Youzhou, I only saw an ice slag-like trace, and it was difficult to tell whether it was a road or not.

There was a maroon horse with cotton hooves tied around it, and sitting on its back was a middle-aged woman wearing a black cloak, a hood, and a scarf wrapped around her mouth and nose.

The woman faced the wind and snow and let the horse move step by step. She looked up and looked ahead. The snow was flying heavily and visibility was extremely low. A little orange light swayed in the wind and snow, as dazzling as a shooting star in black clothes.

The woman's eyes flashed with joy, she finally had a way station, so she didn't have to sleep in a cave tonight.

He said silently, I wonder if that girl A Yuan has returned to Youzhou? That kid named Xiao Pan will really go crazy if he doesn't get proper treatment.

That's why she ignored the cold winter and rushed to Youzhou after delivering the news to Liangzhou.

This woman is Sister Ayuan's Master Bai.

To her surprise, she thought that this road would be very quiet. The Tatars in the border city were in trouble, so trade had long been closed, and people would not be able to interact with each other.

Unexpectedly, there were quite a lot of inns opened along the way. It is said that in the past year, there were caravans from the Western Regions traveling from Liangzhou to Youzhou. More and more people are walking this road.

The inn is a relatively simple wooden house with a large yard, stables and utility gallery.

Master Bai cleaned the snow off his body on the porch, tied the horse to the stable, pushed open the heavy wooden door, and raised a thick straw curtain to block the wind.

Just as she was about to call the postman to prepare hot tea, her eyes suddenly fell on a person.

It was a middle-aged woman, wearing a black cloak, a hood that covered her eyebrows, and a scarf wrapped around her mouth and nose.

When the woman saw her coming in, she slowly raised her head and pulled off the scarf on her face, revealing a face that Master Bai was very familiar with.

Yes, the facial features she would see every time she looked in the mirror were exactly the same as hers.

With a few swish sounds, several men dressed as postmen in the room drew out their long knives. They stood either by the door with the straw curtain constantly being beaten by the strong wind, or by the window where the north wind roared. Some of them directly pointed the knives at Master Bai. .

The woman slowly drank the tea in her hand. Her fingers were white and slender, nothing like Master Bai's slightly rough hands.

She was a few steps away from Master Bai and said with a slight curl in the corner of her mouth:

"How long do you think you can trap me?"

"I heard that you did a lot of things with my face."

"Now, it's my turn to use your face and return it."

……

Luyang, in a third courtyard in the outer city, a child of about ten years old took a bag of food and cotton clothes and secretly threw them out from a corner of his courtyard wall.

Then he squatted down, looked at the hole in the corner, and asked curiously: "Is your enemy really Princess Ling?"

A hoarse but angry voice came from outside the wall: "Yes, one of the two women who harmed me is Princess Ling."

"Where's the other one?"

"The other one is her cousin. It is said that she is in Yangzhou. When I get well, I will go to Yangzhou and find her."

The young man couldn't suppress his excitement and asked: "What happens after you find her?"

The person outside the wall said in a voice full of hatred: "I will make her life worse than death! I will kill her closest relatives, let her watch helplessly, and make her go crazy with pain."

The young man clenched his fists excitedly: "Yes! This is how you should treat your enemies!"

"Then do you dare to kill Princess Ling?"

The person outside the wall was silent for a moment and then said: "Dare you!"

The young man suppressed his excited voice and said, "Then it's agreed! I'll help you survive this cold winter, and you must kill Princess Ling."

The person outside the wall was a little confused: "Don't you want to avenge your father personally?"

The young man sighed: "My mother will not let me go. She asked me to forget my hatred and never return to the North again in this life."

……

In Youzhou City, Prince Ling's Mansion is holding a large luncheon because today is Princess Ling's birthday.

In the past few years, Princess Ling had never celebrated her birthdays with any extravagance. This year, it was said that it was to celebrate the victory in the Youzhou Defense War and to celebrate the princess becoming a mother, so she held a rare large-scale birthday banquet.

Not only officials, military generals, wealthy businessmen, and bachelors were invited, but even the children of the gentry who were still in the city were also invited by the princess to come to the banquet.

Compared with the previous indifference of the princess towards the nobles, this move greatly surprised the nobles, who quickly prepared a heavy gift and headed to Prince Ling's Mansion.

In the backyard, Shen Dongsu fed the child and the wet nurse took him to sleep. The child slept for ten of the twelve hours a day.

The other two hours are spent taking turns eating, crying, pooping, crying, peeing, crying...

Yue Jian, Chen Luoxue, Xie Qingzhi and other noble ladies were reporting aside. Chen Luoxue said first:

"The tableware is made from local kilns. Whether it can be sold at the same price as Jing porcelain depends on this banquet."

The utensils used at the banquet, including bowls, cups, plates, wine cups, etc., are all completely new styles of porcelain designed by Shen Dongsu.

Especially for large dinner plates used in winter, asbestos bags are placed underneath to keep the food warm. Compared with charcoal stoves, there is no smoke smell and no need to worry about the firepower.

Xie Qingzhi said a little nervously: "Half of today's dishes are seafood, sea cucumbers roasted with green onion, chicken stewed with fish maw, steamed fish, steamed crabs with garlic, salt and pepper shrimps..."

Whether we can promote seafood dishes and make the base's seafood popular will also depend on this banquet.

Yue Jian said calmly: "The auction after dinner will be held in the front hall. In addition to the seafood stocks from the Jiang Family Trading Company, there are also new products sent from Guangzhou. In addition, the business that the princess mentioned is cooperation with the states."

Chen Luoxue added: "The opera performances arranged by the female family members and the auction of luxury goods such as jewelry, clothing, leather bags, perfumes, and gemstones are held in the flower hall of the second courtyard, which is separate from the male guests."

Shen Dongsu nodded and said: "Well done, thank you for your hard work, go get ready!"

The three of them bowed and left with slightly happy expressions, while Shen Dongsu looked at the thick auction book in her hand and thought about it. She was going to sell some "inventory" to those noble brothers who had a lot of money and went ziplining and jumping off cliffs every day.

At the same time, to prepare for the implementation of Youzhou Law in the entire northern territory, that is to first give these nobles a little 'sweetness' and auction off the projects that they can cooperate with in the form of a joint-stock system.

Such as cotton, silk, tea, white paper, porcelain, rice noodles, dried meat, etc., but sugar, perfume, fine wine and other related confidential technologies will naturally not cooperate with the nobles.

This kind of cooperation not only allows the nobles to have more frequent exchanges with Youzhou, but her people can infiltrate into the states openly and openly. The nobles make money, and she makes even more.

Because Youzhou's manpower alone cannot support the overseas market, and there are also Chang'an and Jiangnan who are gradually liking Youzhou's goods.

It can be said that she used business methods to make the nobles become one of her suppliers. Waiting for Youzhou's influence to spread radially to the entire northern border.

Regardless of whether she implemented the Youzhou Law or subdued the enemy without fighting, the nobles lost the ability and courage to resist.

Especially the younger generation. She believed that the atmosphere of Youzhou City could easily influence the younger generation of nobles. As long as their ideas can be changed, the Northern Territory will naturally surrender to King Ling in a few years.