Border trade, border trade, is trade, it is bilateral. It is necessary to deal with the people within the Mu Dynasty to prevent them from causing trouble, and also to encourage the other side to dare to do business.

The Northern Barbarians occupied the west and north of the Da Mu Dynasty, bordering the Wusi Kingdom in the west and the Alanna Kingdom in the north.

The east and south of the Da Mu Dynasty are surrounded by seas. If the country wants to trade with foreign countries, it can either go by sea or by land. Whether going west or north, the Northern Tartars are a barrier that must be crossed.

The Northern Tartar are not a monolithic entity. Among the five royal courts, the little prince of the Northern Tartar has been annihilated, and the Zuo Xian King has fled. Su Fengyi has been considering which of the remaining three royal courts to choose as the breakthrough point.

Mainly in the original book, the other three royal courts have a weak presence and there is very little information about them in the original book.

After all, even Zuo Xian Wang, who unified the Northern Tartars, was just a background character in a rich storyline, not to mention the other three royal courts that were destroyed by Zuo Xian Wang.

Qiao Gui is ill, and Xue Yu is now in charge of reviewing memorials for the emperor.

Su Fengyi asked him to find all the memorials related to the Northern Tartars in the past, especially those related to the other three royal courts, and copy a copy for her.

Xue Yu naturally treated the things Su Fengyi wanted as a top priority and sent dozens of young eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department to look through several decades of old memorials, put them together into a box, copied them, and send them to Su Fengyi.

Su Fengyi arranged these memorials in chronological order from recent to far, copied out the key information, and tried to piece together the key features of the other three royal courts.

This task is time-consuming and laborious, requiring patience and carefulness, so Su Fengyi called Bai Guo and asked her to help with the sorting.

Bai Guo sorted it out for a while, then suddenly took out a copied memorial and asked Su Fengyi:

"Your Highness, how do you pronounce the two words 'Yanshi'? What do they mean?"

Su Fengyi took a look at Bai Guo's memorial, which was written more than ten years ago. It was a memorial submitted by the general of the Shen family when Taizu was alive.

The general of the Shen family at that time was Shen Quan's father.

The memorial was a report to Taizu about a war that had broken out within the Northern Tartars. The cause of the war was that the then Northern Tartar King had snatched the wife of the Right Wise King as his own.

This incident triggered a melee between the two tribes, which ended with the defeat of the Right Wise King, who led his tribe to flee.

Su Fengyi pointed at the two words and said:

"Yanshi is homophonic with Yanzhi, which means the Queen or Princess of Beilu. So this memorial is saying that the King of Beilu at that time robbed the Princess of Youxian King and made her his own Queen."

Bai Guo nodded, indicating that he had remembered, and continued to work. After a while, he couldn't help but say:

"Lu Qing recently met a female slave from the Northern Tartars, the captive that General Shen brought back from his fight with Zuo Xian Wang.

Her name seemed to be Yanzhi. She said that the Northern Barbarian slave girl was well-informed and could speak, so she often went to her to learn to speak the Northern Barbarian language.

She wanted to ask His Highness to buy the slave girl back, but the official asked for a hundred taels, which was too expensive, so Lu Qing did not dare to ask His Highness for it.

A northern barbarian female slave, asking for one hundred taels?

This price really surprised Su Fengyi. You know, an ordinary slave could be bought for five taels of silver, and those with outstanding looks would cost at most a dozen taels.

The official actually offered one hundred taels, so this slave girl must have something extraordinary.

Su Fengyi's heart moved:

"Isn't this slave girl beautiful?"

Bai Guo nodded:

"Yes, yes. I haven't seen it, but I heard Lu Qing talking about it for several days, saying that Rouge is very beautiful. It's a pity that she is old, so she has been in Guan Ya's hands and has not been sold."

She is old and beautiful.

Su Fengyi's eyes fell on the memorial that Bai Guo had just shown her, and she thought, this can't be such a coincidence, right?

It’s only one hundred taels of silver, so you might as well give it a try.

Su Fengyi was silent for a moment, and said to Bai Guo:

"Go and give Lu Qing a hundred taels of silver and ask her to buy the person back."

Bai Guo was dumbfounded:

"Huh? Ohhhhhhhh!"

Bai Guo quickly jumped up and ran out. After a while, Su Fengyi heard Lu Qing's surprised voice coming from the tea room:

"Really! Good Baiguo, dear Baiguo, I love you so much! Hahahaha!"

And the voice of Bai Guo struggling and disgusting:

"Oh, don't come over here, don't move your hands, you're hugging me too tightly, I can't breathe!"

……

Lu Qing withdrew one hundred taels of silver and went to buy the person in a swift and decisive manner. In less than half a day, he brought Yanzhi back and brought her to the study to meet Su Fengyi.

Yanzhi had no ornaments on her hair and was wearing a gray, coarse cloth dress. She knelt in front of Su Fengyi with her head lowered.

Su Fengyi asked directly:

"Who are you, the Right Wise King?"

Yanzhi didn't react until Luqing mumbled something. Then Yanzhi suddenly raised her head and looked at Su Fengyi in shock.

A straw hat and a cloth skirt cannot hide her stunning beauty; the traces of time cannot conceal her charm.

After seeing Yanzhi, Su Fengyi finally understood what it meant to look good even wearing a sack.

She is a beauty, or rather a beautiful woman.

Yanzhi has the seductive charm of a mature woman, like a ripe fruit.

But the way she looks at people is like that of a little girl who knows nothing about the world. Her eyes are the clearest in the world, like dewdrops, innocent and lovely, which is really pitiful.

The mixture of these two completely different temperaments was so attractive that even a woman like Su Fengyi couldn't help but be attracted to him and developed a desire to protect him. No wonder Guan Ya dared to offer a price of one hundred taels of silver.

In the capital city where the rich and powerful live, one hundred taels of silver is just the cost of a meal and wine for some playboys, but there are many people who are willing to spend one hundred taels of silver on rouge.

If Lu Qing hadn't known her by chance, and if Bai Guo hadn't mentioned it today, in a few days, Yanzhi might have ended up in the backyard of some powerful family.

By that time, it would be difficult for Su Fengyi to find her again.

Yanzhi's shocked look made Su Fengyi more certain about her guess, so she asked again:

"Who are you to the Right Wise King? I don't have that much patience. If you don't tell me, I won't give you a third chance."

Lu Qing was a little worried about Yanzhi, so she quickly translated it for her. Yanzhi really cried this time, with tears falling like pearls, and she said something.

After listening to this, Lu Qing was stunned for a moment, then said unconfidently:

"Your Highness, maybe I heard it wrong. Yanzhi said, 'Youxian Wang, Youxian Wang,' is her husband."

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like