Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

"My name is Qu Qing, and I am the steward of this shop. If you don't mind, please follow me inside to have a look!"

"good!"

Qu Qing took the Tongguan County Magistrate to visit the three shops. He spoke humorously and quoted classics to introduce the uses and origins of each item.

"Oh? You really are from Southeast Asia?"

"That's right. The boss just attended the Kuaiji Grand Meeting, so he thought of bringing some food to the north for his subordinates to taste."

"The Lady of the Xie Family is kind-hearted!"

The head family of the Black Stone Guard, the Chenjun Xie family, had Xie Xian, who was granted the title of Viscount just a few months ago. Although Ji Cang was not good at military affairs, he still had to read the government reports.

The reason why Ji Cang was interested in the ironware in the grocery store was that the quality of the farm tools and iron pots produced by the Xie family was much better than the previous brittle pig iron. Moreover, this place was located at the border. If these things were obtained by foreigners and melted into weapons, it would be a disaster.

"Have you issued a purchase restriction order for this ironware?"

"Purchase restriction order? Doesn't this only apply to copper coins and salt and tea?" Qu Qing's expression remained unchanged, but he also knew that the quality of his own things was still a little bit out of control. Si Ji had just finished worrying about it, and now Ling Jun was worried again.

"Regulations, indeed, mainly yours, cough."

Ji Cang coughed lightly.

Qu Qing immediately said, "Oh! Don't worry, these are all made through secret techniques and cannot be easily melted!" At this point, in order to ensure the authenticity, he ordered, "Come here, bring some iron tools back to you, Lord."

Whether it can be melted or not, you can find someone to try it yourself and you will know!

Qu Qing thought of the huge blast furnace in the back mountain of Taozhuang. It took the Dong family and the Mo family disciples half a year to build it. And it was said that the bricks used in its construction were different from ordinary bricks and stones.

Thinking of the largest blacksmith shop in Tongguan and the ordinary furnace, he could only laugh!

Seeing Qu Qing's confident expression, Ji Cang thought more. If the Xie family's secret technique could really make iron as good as bronze, then what about the swords on these soldiers?

As he spoke, he glanced at Si Ji and Jiang Wu's waists. Qu Qing did not miss Ji Cang's gaze. He took out a few iron coins from his sleeves and handed them to Ji Cang, saying, "Sir, these are Xie's iron coins. I heard that some people use these coins to make objects with patterns on them. They are very exquisite."

"Oh! Xie's Iron Coin, I want to see this."

Qu Qing's words show that iron coins are easy to melt, but other things are difficult to melt.

The Xie family actually made their own coins with iron. It seems that these iron coins can already be circulated in the market, or they can only be digested internally. But this is a sign that a clan is growing and developing.

After the two of them exchanged some business boasts again, Ji Cang said goodbye with the child. Looking at the various shiny tools on the back of the carriage, Ji Cang seemed to be heavily worried as he sat in the carriage.

"Why are you unhappy?"

In the little boy's opinion, the things sold in the Black Stone Guard's shop are delicious and useful, which can be considered a benefit to the people.

"Two tigers fighting each other is not necessarily a good thing..."

At this time, Xie Xian was explaining map lessons to the selected scouts.

"Every time we go to a place, we draw a landmark and record the time we ran, the approximate distance we ran, and even the specific plants we planted."

In Xie Xianjue's strategy game, the most important thing in the early stage is to explore the map. Her requirements are not high. The map she bought from the tribe at a high price can already roughly detect the nearby terrain, but there are still some places covered by the fog of war.

Now their task is to fill in these gaps.

This is not a game, and danger cannot be explored at the cost of soldiers' lives, so Xie Xian took a roundabout approach.

We pretended to be a caravan, and we came to collect sheep. Many tribes don’t sell sheep in spring. After building good relationships, we found out where the nearby tribes are, and then I would go ask.

Of the five thousand people, half were left behind, and the remaining half began to split into teams of a hundred people and run around everywhere. As for the sheep they collected, they either kept them for themselves or sent them to the city to be processed into jerky.

So in just five days, the terrain outside the pass and the area a hundred miles to the north had been almost completely explored.

When the map was finally handed to Jiang Wu, he was stunned. In fact, they in the guard camp also exchanged maps privately, because the patrol location was different every time. You go this year and I go next year. After a few times, everyone tacitly exchanged their maps.

He hurried back to find all the maps and compared them one by one. In Xie Xian's words, this is called checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.

The next step was the second plan. First, several small tribes that had suffered from the bullying of the Tuoba tribe joined the Old Jin. They brought news that some merchants were collecting sheep in Tongguan recently.

Generally, merchants collect sheep in summer and autumn. Herders reduce the size of their flocks for the winter, but there are always people who can't make ends meet during the year, and some people come to collect sheep. It is a rare opportunity.

After a winter, many people were running out of food.

So many people drove their sheep towards Tongguan, and for some reason their route went a little further north, intentionally or unintentionally.

This attracted the attention of the warriors of Tuoba Ying tribe, and then some people were killed and robbed. When everyone arrived at Tongguan cursing, they found that the people who robbed them were actually selling sheep. The worst thing was that they were selling the sheep that had just been robbed.

"What? Your iron pot is gone?" a group of Jin people shouted.

"We have almost sold out this batch of goods. We will have to wait another month for the next batch!" Jiang Wu mechanically repeated this sentence with an expressionless face.

Although there are still dozens of iron pots in the warehouse, Mr. Qu said that once they are sold out, they are all sold out.

"What about the kelp? Give me a few bundles." After hearing what Jiang Wu said, the Jin people could only be furious. It was because they got the news too late.

"There's only enough kelp left for two sheep." Jiang Wu dug out the kelp from a sack as tall as a person.

"I want the kelp. I heard it's salty!" Several barbarian warriors at the back pushed their way through the crowd and came in.

The Jin people looked over and felt that their enemy looked very familiar. They immediately shouted angrily, "Erhan, don't go too far." The speaker was the herdsman who was leading the Jin people this time.

Their chief had told them to be tolerant towards the barbarians, but this time when they went out to exchange supplies, these barbarians followed them closely, as if they had eyes. Not only did they have more than a hundred sheep robbed, but these guys also wanted to steal their supplies.

"So what if it's excessive? This iron pot is to be presented to the chief," he said with a ferocious look in his eyes. Everyone who looked at him felt their scalp tingling!

Erhan put down a wooden sign, picked up two iron pots, and walked away with a group of barbarians, laughing loudly.

"You damn barbarian, you've gone too far."

"Xu~ He hasn't gone far yet!"

"Then what should we do? We can only buy some smaller ones. Oh!"

The barbarian warrior Erhan turned an alley and saw a dirty-faced figure squatting in the corner of a mud wall. When he saw Erhan coming, he immediately greeted him flatteringly, "Warrior Erhan, what did you get today?"