Cheng Gongying hurriedly asked the merchant about the types of goods, but most of them felt very unfamiliar.

After hearing the businessman's words, Cheng Gongying couldn't help but feel shocked.

Liu Chuang seemed not as resistant to businessmen as others, and even strongly supported them... and it was these businessmen who created huge wealth for Youzhou.

In other places, agriculture is the main focus and a large amount of agricultural tax is levied.

Under Liu Chuang's rule, the agricultural tax was not very high, which greatly aroused the interest of local farmers; but on the other hand, Liu Chuang increased the proportion of commercial tax. However, after increasing commercial tax, he also gave merchants great convenience, including measures such as improving the social status of merchants. Therefore, although this commercial tax remained high, it still attracted a large number of people to engage in it.

Cheng Gongying couldn't help but think in his mind that if the same policy could be implemented in Liangzhou, would it be successful?

But after thinking about it, I had to give up in the end...

Like Liangzhou, Youzhou, they are both bitter and cold places.

But Youzhou and Liangzhou are different, and are adjacent to the sea. This advantage seems useless if it is someone else. But in Liu Chuang's hands... Liu Chuang has an extremely large caravan that can travel north and south. He doesn't need to pay attention to the war in the Central Plains. Relying on his powerful maritime transportation capabilities, he can deliver specialties from the Central Plains and even the Jiangdong and Jiaozhi areas to Youzhou. But if you take land, you have to go through many passes, let alone wars everywhere, and if you don't make it well, you will lose all your money.

Ma Chao swept across the six countries of the Tianshan Mountains, which gave Liu Chuang an extremely strong backing in the Western Regions.

He could use the six countries in the Tianshan Mountains as a springboard to deliver large quantities of goods to the Western Regions; similarly, the products of the various countries in the Western Regions can also be delivered to Youzhou through the six countries in the Tianshan Mountains. Then he would then transport them to the Central Plains, Jiangdong, and Jiaozhi, and obtain amazing profits from them.

Liangzhou obviously does not have this advantage.

Let’s talk about anything else. Just talk about the Hexi Corridor. If there is no strong strength, who can guarantee the safety of the goods?

Liu Chuang is now in the Hexi Corridor, Mobei Corridor, and Saibei Corridor, which has indeed provided great convenience.

Once he occupied Liangzhou, he was opening up Yizhou's trade route...

Cheng Gongying suddenly felt a chill, as if she understood why Liu Chuang was so anxious to touch Liangzhou's real intention.

This guy is definitely playing a big game of chess!

Cheng Gongying muttered in her heart, and at the same time, she was thinking about how to tell Cao Cao about this news in exchange for more support.

Now it seems that Wei Duan and others alone may be difficult to resist Liu Chuang's erosion of Liangzhou.

Liu Chuang has a very powerful trump card in his hand. He can constantly attract and win over Liangzhou's powerful men to join his camp.

Now, his trump card has not yet been revealed, so the effect is not obvious. But once he completely monopolized the Western Regions trade routes, I believe that the Liangzhou tyrants will be impatient to invest in Liu Chuang. No matter how powerful aristocratic clans do not have enough money, grain and wealth, they cannot maintain the operation of the entire family. Since Dong Zhuo's disaster in Guanzhong, the Liangzhou tyrants and the Guanzhong geniuses have been deeply affected by the war. Although they tried hard to maintain it, they are constantly declining. In the past, the Qinchuan in the eight hundred miles of the past has become just empty talk.

Many powerful people in Guanzhong and Liangzhou declined and perished in the war...

A large amount of land was abandoned and the population was also losing dramatically. All of this requires a new force to join. Once Liu Chuang is willing to open the Hexi Corridor and share the interests of the Western Regions' trade routes with the powerful people in Guanzhong and Liangzhou, how can those people resist it?

The more Cheng Gongying thought about it, the more shocked he became.

He felt that the news must be spread as soon as possible so that the scholars in Liangzhou could wake up something.

The caravan slept at the foot of Yinshan Mountain overnight.

A bright moon hangs high, spreading the cold moonlight across the mountains, as if covered with a layer of silver frost.

Cheng Gongying was sitting in a temporary tent, writing quickly.

Campground. Blazing bonfire.

From time to time, there will be singing...

Cheng Gongying had no interest in this, and devoted all his energy to the letters and kept writing.

He wrote all his views and reports in Youzhou, and even his guesses about Liu Chuang. After writing the letter, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and put down his pen. I believe that after the letter was spread, it would inevitably attract attention. Whether it was Cao Cao or Wei Duan, he would no longer sit idly by and watch Liu Chuang in Liangzhou, and he would inevitably join forces to fight against Liu Chuang. Once Cao Cao and Wei Duan sent troops, the danger of Jincheng would inevitably be relieved. Ma Chao was brave and Xu Shu was resourceful... But if he wanted to fight against the entire Liangzhou, and to include Cao Cao, he might not have the strength to catch up. At that time, Han Sui could get out and plan again.

Thinking of this, Cheng Gongying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

He put the letter into his carry-on bag, then hung it on the hook of the tent, and then lie down with his clothes, and soon fell asleep.

He was worried for more than ten days.

Now that we have arrived at Yinshan, we just need to bypass the Yellow River and enter the northern desert.

Even though Liu Chuang is quite powerful in Mobei, he is still inferior to the North.

If you pass the north of Mo and enter Liangzhou, you will be safe...

Cheng Gongying finally felt relieved a little and fell asleep in a deep drowsy manner.

I don’t know how long I slept, but suddenly he was pushed to wake up.

After waking up, Cheng Gongying realized that he was tied up like a rice dumpling, and there was a smell of blood in the tent.

The three followers who followed him to leave Yanjing fell into a pool of blood.

A burly man with a beard that looked like a goat, wearing an animal-skinned robe, was reading a letter. On the desk, there was a bag, which was the bag that Cheng Gongying carried with him. Needless to ask, it was Cheng Gongying who wrote a letter from Cao Cao and Wei Duan. In addition to the burly man, there were four young people standing in the tent. The leader of the caravan who took good care of Cheng Gongying along the way was pale and sat next to the man, trembling and fearful.

"Mr. Zhang, you are..."

"My name is Yu Xuangen!"

The burly man suddenly spoke.

He folded Cheng Gongying's letter, put it in his bag, and then stood up.

"They belonged to the city of surrender and were appointed as the Wenhou tribe. Three months ago, I was granted by the emperor's uncle and appointed as the Yinshan Captain.

The emperor is very dissatisfied with you for not saying goodbye, so he sent someone to ask me to stop you and teach you some lessons... I have been waiting for you for a long time. No wonder I didn't see any news about you along the way. It turned out that he was hiding in the caravan. If Lao Zhang hadn't met me, he would have told me by chance that there was a great sage in his caravan, and I almost missed it with you. However, since it fell into my hands, let me go."

The leader of the caravan pointed at Cheng Gongying and cursed: "You thief, you want to be unfavorable to the emperor's uncle.

It’s a pity that I treat you as a guest along the way, I almost ruined the great affairs of the emperor… Yu Zhengwei, this matter has nothing to do with me, so please forgive me.”

"I know this matter has nothing to do with you, but after you go back, you have to explain it to your head. Otherwise, if the emperor asked, I'm afraid your head will not be very clear."

"I understand this!"

The two young men stepped forward and set up Cheng Gongying.

Cheng Gongying was still shouting, but as soon as his mouth opened, a young man stuffed a ball of rag into his mouth.

Judging from the movement, I was obviously very skillful.

Cheng Gongying made a whimper and wanted to struggle.

Yu Yinggen looked at him and waved his hand. He saw a young man picking up a cloth bag and putting him inside.

"Tonight, nothing happened... There has never been such a person in your caravan.

You know better than me what to do.

Please worry about these corpses... Haha, don't show your feet."

The caravan leader smiled slightly, "Person Yu just worry. A few corpses were chopped and thrown on the grassland, and there would be no trace in less than two days."

Yu Xianggen nodded with a smile, and then asked someone to carry Cheng Gongying out of the tent.

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Cheng Gongying was put in a cloth bag and felt a little drowsy.

He was first sent to a barracks at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, and then forced to change into a dress. He was then sealed with his mouth and blindfolded with his eyes, and then tied up a rope and threw it on a carriage.

From beginning to end, Yu Yigen did not appear again, and only a few entourages did all this.

Cheng Gongying was willing to speak, but found that the other party was a group of Huns and did not understand Chinese at all. Then, he was thrown in the carriage, only knowing that the carriage was galloping, and it seemed to be dispersed along the way. On the way, he was dragged out of the carriage several times, poured some water from him, and forced him to eat something, then closed his mouth and threw it in the carriage with his eyes covering it. The carriage continued to move forward...

Repeat!

At the beginning, Cheng Gongying was quite clear-headed.

But as the road went up, his consciousness gradually blurred.

He couldn't even remember that the carriage had been walking for a few days, but he couldn't figure out where the carriage was heading.

In short, I walked down the carriage in a daze, and in the end, I felt as if I was stupid and let the other party fiddled with it.

I don’t know how long it took, but he only knew that he had been rushing.

Finally one day, the carriage stopped, and someone took him off the carriage and helped him into a room.

Well, it feels like a room!

Her eyes were covered and her mouth was blocked... Cheng Gongying sat there, her head was dizzy.

The room was quiet.

I heard some voices vaguely, but I couldn't hear them clearly.

Cheng Gongying tried hard to calm herself down, and she felt even more inexplicable panic in her heart.

If someone stood in front of him, he would not be afraid even if he was forced to him with a knife... But now, after the bumpy journey of the long distance, he seemed to be about to faint. Both mentally and suffocating, he was suffering extremely severely.

He knew that the person who captured him was Liu Chuang.

But, what should Liu Chuang deal with him?
Chapter completed!