Early in the morning, Yang Shiqing rode a horse to Liren City. Although the court was busy these two days, Yang Yuanqing had nothing to do. Emperor Yang Guang allowed him to rest for half a month before going back. The order of the Ministry of War was immediately taken back. Yang Yuanqing had his own plans.

In three days, Princess Leping's birthday will be the birthday of Princess Leping. He plans to go to Jiangnan after his birthday to find his aunt and Niu Niu. It has been more than a month since he returned from Dali City, but he has not gone south for a long time. This time, he will go to Jiangnan no matter what.

Today, Yang Yuanqing came to Liren City to look for Combas, and then asked about Fat Yu and the others about it. After he came back from Taiyuan City, the three of them had no news and did not leave him a letter, which made him quite worried. He was worried that He Ruo Mansion would not let them go.

Yang Yuanqing had already learned that He Ruobi was executed, but he had no guilt. He could only say that He Ruobi had blamed himself. He had already spared his life in the school life and death battle. If he had any idea of ​​himself, he shouldn't go back on his word and continue to murder him. If he failed to kill someone, he would have sent his life to him. God would not have compassioned him.

Yang's mansion is about seven or eight miles away from Liren City. Soon after, he rode his horse into the gate of Liren City. The streets of Liren City were bustling and noisy. Not only were some shops related to daily life such as rice shops and meat shops full of customers, but the rest of the shops were also full of customers.

Silk shops, gold banks, jewelry shops, musical instrument shops, etc., there are friends in every shop standing at the door and shouting loudly, attracting business. Some time ago, the emperor was in funeral, and there were many restrictions, which directly affected the business in the capital. As the Yang Liang rebellion subsided, the business in the capital gradually recovered and became lively again.

Yang Yuanqing led his horse into the gate of Liren City. There are thousands of shops in Liren City, and he couldn't ask one by one, let alone hundreds of shops in the metropolitan city. The most effective way is to find the village party in Combas.

He urged the horse to come to dozens of shops in BōSi Mansion, turned over and got off the horse, and walked towards the largest shop. BōSi Mansion refers to the business opened by Hu Commercial Bank, with a main business of operating jewelry. There are more than 30 stores, basically opened by Sogdian merchants.

Sogdian merchants had two harmony, one was living in the Central Plains for many years... They had been naturalized in the Sui Dynasty, and they could speak fluent Chinese. Like ordinary Sui Dynasty merchants, they could open Tang property, marry and have children in the Sui Dynasty. These Sogdians still mainly engaged in business, and the most common ones were Hu people's taverns and jewelry stores. The more than 30 shops in the Bōsi Palace were their industries.

There was also a Sogdian merchant...they were traveling merchants who traveled on the Silk Road...they transported Sogdian jewelry, bōs carpets, Roman gold and silverware and spices from the big food to the Sui Dynasty, and then transported the Sui Dynasty silk, porcelain and paper back to the West. In the capital, they would not stay for too long. They usually sold goods directly to the shops of the Bōs residence. They were all Sogdians, and they had a common language and belief.

The shop found by Yang Yuanqing is called Samojian Old Shop..." Samojian is also the transliteration of Samarkand. You can tell at a glance that it was opened by Kang Guoren... It is also a jewelry store, and Kangbas is Kang Guoren, and there may be news about him in this shop.

As soon as he walked to the door of the store... a middle-aged Sogdian man wearing a rolled-brim hat came up and bowed to him with the etiquette of the Sui Dynasty: "Dear guest, welcome to the shop. I wonder what kind of help I can provide you?"

But Yang Yuanqing smiled slightly, put his hand in front of xiōng and bowed to him, and said in a not-so-skilled Sogdian language: "The revelation of the Lord God of An Ahuramazda, come and inquire about someone.

Yang Yuanqing's Sogdian and Turkic language were both learned from Combasse. His Sogdian was much inferior to his relatively skilled Turkic language. Despite this, it still surprised and happy the Sogdian. After all, there were very few Han people who could speak Sogdian, and they were inspired by the Lord God.

The estrangement disappeared in the common language, and the guests became friends. The Sogdians greeted each other enthusiastically and used Sogdians instead, "Guests are kindly asked to sit in the inner room."

Yang Yuanqing walked into the inner room. This was the place where Sogdian merchants were entertaining distinguished guests. The room was bright and the walls were snow-white. Several gold-edged velvet blankets from Eastern Rome were hung. The small cabinets against the wall were filled with silver utensils made by famous Damascus crafted by famous Damascus craftsmen, and the floor was covered with thick bōs carpets, which were arranged very gorgeously.

He sat down on Hu's couch, and the Sogdian merchant presented him with a bowl of butterfly juice and asked curiously: "Does this general also believe in the Lord God of Ahuramazda?"

Yang Yuanqing smiled, "One of my friends is a devout believer of the Lord God. He is a Samarkandian. He rises up with the sun every day, believes in light and hates darkness, but I lose his news."

The Sogdian merchant understood, and he smiled and said, "I am also here in Samarkand. I wonder if I know the general's friend?"

"His name is Combass, do you know the shopkeeper?"

The Sogdian merchant laughed knowingly, "The general's surname is Yang, he is the garrison of Dali City, right?"

Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed, and it turned out that the news came here, "I am Yang Yuanqing, here to find Combas."

"He went to Gaochang Country to purchase goods. Before leaving, he asked me to tell the general, so that you don't have to worry. I just came back from Luoyang and was about to go to Yang's mansion tomorrow. I didn't expect that the general would come first. I'm so ashamed."

The Sogdian merchant heard that Yang Yuanqing's Sogdian language was not very good, so he changed it to Chinese and smiled and said, "My name is Connell, and I met Connell more than ten years ago. Later, he disappeared near Yiwu City. Everyone thought he was dead. Unexpectedly, he became a Sui army in Dali City. It was really surprising and pleasant..." Yang Yuanqing took the butterfly and took a sip, and asked strangely: "What goods did he buy in Gaochang Country?"

"He opened a wine shop and wanted to sell pomelo wine. The profit of this wine was very high, so he went to Gaochangguo to purchase goods. At the same time, he also wanted to learn the brewing process. It might take several months to come back."

Yang Yuanqing couldn't help but secretly praised Conbas for his business acumen and discovered a huge business opportunity. At this time, the brewing process of Pujiao wine had not yet been introduced to the Central Plains, and it was basically relied on long-distance trafficking, making it difficult for it to enter ordinary people.

He suddenly felt that the city of Dali was full of sunshine and the climate was suitable, and the land was fertile sandy loam, which was very suitable for roe. If you plant a lot of roe there and then use roe wine as the industry of the city, this is a very good way to make money. It is not bad. You have to stop Combass and leave the brewing process in Dali.

His heart became eager and he hurriedly said, "I want to leave a letter to him. Can the proprietor pass it to him for me?"

"Yes, I will definitely transfer it to him."

Yang Yuanqing immediately borrowed paper and spread paper and wrote a letter. Halfway through the writing, he suddenly remembered something and asked Cornell, "With Combass, there are two others, one of them is very fat..."

Before he could finish speaking, Cornell laughed, "General Yang is talking about fat fish!"

"Yes! It's him, where are they now?"

"They have left the capital long ago, but they are just going to Luoyang. The fat fish seems to be saying that they will send me some pensions. I don't know what kind of pensions they will give."

Yang Yuanqing understood that this was right. At this moment, a slight crisp sound came from the shop outside, "Bang!", and it sounded like something had broken. Almost at the same time, a young woman screamed, and suddenly became silent again.

Yang Yuanqing and Cornell looked at each other, wondering what happened? Soon a Hu guy whispered at the door: "Uncle, come on."

"General, please sit down and I'll go..."

Cornell was a little uneasy and walked out the door quickly, and he only heard him ask in a low voice: "What broke?"

The guy whispered a few times, "What!" Cornell exclaimed, and then walked quickly towards the store.

Yang Yuanqing quickly wrote a letter, blowing it dry, folding it, and then put it on the table. But after thinking about it, he was still not relieved. He had a few words that he wanted to explain to Cornell.

Yang Yuanqing got up and walked to the shop outside. There was no one in the main hall, and there were low complaints coming from a living room next to him. There was a place for trading. Yang Yuanqing walked into the living room, and there were more than a dozen couches in the living room. At this time, the atmosphere in the living room was very depressing. There were three girls standing next to the couch, with uneasy expressions.

In a cabinet behind them, there was an exquisite red enamel bottle, which was from Eastern Rome. It should be a pair, and the other one had fallen into pieces.

Cornell said nothing, squatting on the ground and silently packing up the fragments. He was very slow, little by little, carefully putting the fragments into a jade plate, as if these fragments were worth a thousand gold.

This is actually a body language, which tells the three girls that the enamel bottles they broke are very expensive.

The three girls all looked very embarrassed. Standing at the innermost, a girl with big eyes bit her mouth tightly, a handkerchief tucked uneasily in her hands. The distant mountains' green eyebrows seemed to be covered with a layer of light fog. A trace of unconcealable worry flowed out of her beautiful eyes like water. It can be seen that this enamel bottle was broken by her.

Yang Yuanqing suddenly felt that the pair of beautiful eyes looked familiar, and seemed to have seen them somewhere, but he couldn't remember them for a moment.

Finally, an older girl asked timidly: "How much does this bottle cost? We will compensate."

Cornell said with a smile: "If it is an ordinary enamel bottle, it would be fine, but this pair of enamel bottles were made by Meyer, a famous craftsman in the country of Fujiji. It is very expensive. There is only this pair in my store. Someone once paid 10,000 yuan to hang money, but I refused to sell it."

"Ten thousand hang!"

Three girls exclaimed, and they looked at each other, and the embarrassment in their eyes turned into horror. The girl's face, which was as white as a scent, turned pale, and sweat beads of water seeped out from her plump forehead. Tears appeared in her charming eyes. How could she pay for the money for ten thousand yuan?

"But only one broken, right?" the older girl asked in a trembling voice.

Cornell sighed secretly, "This is a pair of enamel bottles. One is broken. What's the point of the other one? Just like a pair of shoes, only one is sold, who would buy it?"

He could see that even if he paid one, the three girls might not be able to afford it. He could only smile bitterly and said, "That's just one!"
Chapter completed!