"Beigong Boyu, I will never give up with you!"

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Dong Hu's biological father Dong Da was originally Dong Zhuo's personal follower. After Dong Da's death, he left nothing except for leaving 3,500 yuan of burial fees and a butcher shop.

The northwest is poor, and people are more fierce and wild. There are many children who have lost orphans. If it is common sense, even if the child is lost orphans, some relatives can still surrender. But the reality is cruel. Due to the military system of the Han Dynasty, everyone has to pay the "head tax" since the age of five. Boys are better, and girls are even more miserable. If they don't get married after fifteen years old, they will have to pay five times the levy every year, that is, six hundred coins.

The Northwest is not like the Central Plains where the land is fertile. Everyone is so poor that they can’t afford the extra 100 or 600 yuan to pay the capitol tax. If you can’t even raise your own children, how can you support others’ children?

The northwest is poor, Lintao is even poorer, and there are many beggars in dilapidated temples outside the city. Dong Hu became an orphan at the age of ten. Although he has the soul of an adult and is born to be fatter and stronger than ordinary babies, his body is still a baby body after all, and it is no problem to kill pigs and sheep. But there is not only these in life, he also needs some helpers, so he recruited a few beggars who don’t spend money as partners.

With too much mouth, it was difficult to support him by slaughtering a pig and sheep in just one day, so he had the idea of ​​slaughtering offals that others would not want to eat.

Perhaps because of the epidemic several times a year, people are unwilling to eat unclean cattle and sheep internal organs. No one is willing to eat the sheep offal at the beginning, so they can only let beggars outside the city go to the store every day to change people's concepts.

The food in the Han Dynasty was relatively simple. In addition to being boiled in an urn, it was more expensive to cook. The food was also lacking in salt and oil. Without the blessing of large ingredients, there was no salt flavor. It would be strange if someone was willing to eat the mutton soup with a strong smell!

Without big materials, Dong Hu himself looked for spice seeds from spice traders in the Western Regions. Spice seeds are extremely difficult to find. Merchants have smart minds. Even if they know that some spices can be planted in the eastern land, they will grind the seeds into pieces to make dozens of times the profit. Moreover, it is easier to transport after being ground into powder. However, no matter how to grind them, you can still find some spice seeds.

With spices making material bags, buying expensive salt from the street is naturally not a long-term solution. Therefore, Dong Hu has the opportunity to follow others to sell salt.

Pushing down a domino will trigger a series of dominoes to fall to the ground. Since Dong Hu came to the late Han Dynasty for no reason, he knew what kind of world he would face.

This world is dominated by wealthy families. During the three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, I don’t know how many princes and nobles were enthroned. Even in Lintao, the northwest, half of the land still belongs to the Dong Zhuo and Dong family?

Dong Hu is very realistic and never thought of fighting for the world. It would be good to be able to live a life without a chaotic world.

The original idea was very simple, just to simply want to survive, but life was difficult and realistic. When he pushed down the first domino, the cruel reality forced him to push down countless dominoes. So he had a butcher shop, a restaurant, hundreds of beggar brothers and sisters, a fur shop, a blacksmith shop provided armor and knife tools for the caravan, and a salt merchant and camel team to earn money to support the family...

Meng Du had been dealing with Dong Hu for several years and knew that although he was just a fifteen or sixteen doll, he had considerable strength from the Dong family and knew that he could take out five hundred soldiers and hundreds of iron armor.

The mountain of rocks is not big, and it does not take much time for Mengdu to summon the leaders of various horse bandits. When Dong Hu told dozens of leaders about the incident in Huangzhong, everyone understood the difficulties they were going to face, but there were many quarrels and different opinions on sending troops.

There are dozens of nearly a hundred small horse bandits in Jishi Mountain, and most of them are excluded from the Hu tribes in Hehuang. If they have the opportunity to return to the wealthy Huangshui Valley, they will naturally be willing to do so. The key is who will be the leader and how to distribute the interests in the later stage.

After quarreling for several days, Dong Hu saw that Jishishan could not make a final decision for a while, so he had to take the camel caravan back to Lintao first...

After leaving Jishi Mountain, Dong Xiaoyi suddenly ran to Dong Hu and stretched out his thumb.

"It's still my elder brother who is unparalleled in wisdom, he actually deceived Jishishan so easily and let us go."

Dong Hu couldn't help but frowned slightly and said dissatisfiedly: "When will I deceive Jishishan?"

"ah?"

Dong Xiaoyi was shocked and confused and said, "We have killed the people who Po Qiang, and we can't even think about going to the West Sea to sell salt in the future. Isn't this one-time transaction?"

Dong Hu reached out and knocked Dong Xiaoyi on the head and said seriously: "If a person has no faith, he will not stand. If he is a person, he must be trustworthy, no matter who he is."

Dong Hu thought for a while and said, "Businesses put profit first. This is always the case, but there is a difference between personal self-interest and national interests. For example, the imperial court pays money from each person's pocket. For each of us, we will lose 120 yuan every year. But you must know that this money is dedicated to the soldiers. Without the protection of soldiers, everyone will live in a turbulent world of fighting and turbulent."

Dong Hu thought of the bad things in the court at this time and sighed: "It seems that national benefits are contrary to personal small profits, but in essence they are protecting everyone's small profits, but we just don't feel them, but we just see them."

"Besides, helping Jishishan return to Hehuang and kill those damn Po Qiang will not be much harmful to us in the future. At least we will reopen the Xihai Yan Road, so we don't have to go to Sichuan and Shu in a pretentious manner."

Dong Hu looked at the group of brothers and sisters who were surrounding him and said solemnly: "There are more than 500 brothers and sisters we need to support. The eldest brother has no land. It is difficult to support so many words with just a few stores. In the end, it still has to sell salt. What places can sell salt?"

"One is Hedong, two are Sichuan and Sichuan, and three are Xihai. Two of these three are under the imperial court. Not only do we have to pass by many prefectures and counties and pay more tolls, but the most serious thing is that we are competing for business with the great salt clans in Chang'an for two or three hundred years. Just because we have hundreds of helpless people who are qualified to compete for business with those great clans?"

"The West Sea is different. There is salt in the West Sea. You can just dig it with your own hands. There is no government and eunuchs who take care of it. Apart from giving some soldiers and tribal tolls along the way, we don't need to pay more, and we only sell a few counties around Longxi, which will not anger the great clans in Guanzhong."

Dong Hu sighed: "For the national welfare, helping Jishishan fight with the Hu Hu in Huangzhong will greatly consume the strength of both. Po Qiang suffered heavy damage, and the soldiers of Jincheng County could force them to bow their heads, and dare not attack and rob us openly. After Jishishan suffered losses, we would not have to pay so much toll."

"For us, if we fail, Jishishan and Hehuang Huhu suffered heavy damage. None of them could face the anger of the court and did not dare to block the salt road. The cut-off salt road was opened."

"It was successful. Jishishan defeated the Hehuang Huhu. Because we helped them, we would gain some benefits no matter what. For example, the fields and slaves in Hehuang, we could also build a village in Hehuang. At that time, we would not even need to pay tolls with anyone, but we could also charge tolls for others and become a powerful person."

"If we succeed, we will gain more benefits. If we fail, we will be 70% sure to open up the salt road that is about to be closed. Whether it is success or failure, it is not the worst result for us. The worst result is to let Po Qiang take advantage of the situation and make it difficult to control it. It not only blocks the salt road and cuts off the way for hundreds of our brothers and sisters to live, but also allows countless Qianghu to join Po Qiang. What will they do if they make it difficult to control it?"

"If you will break through Jincheng, you will completely occupy Jincheng, you will turn to Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, you will turn to attack our Longxi County. Without Longxi County and Lintao, how can we lonely and supportive people survive?"

Dong Hu said with a serious expression: "People cannot just look at the front of them. This matter is decided. After returning to Lintao, except for the blacksmith shop and craftsmen, all males will join the army. This matter is related to the life and death of all people. We must fight to the death!"

After scolding him, Dong Xiaoyi did not dare to say anything more. Although Yuzhe did not speak, he nodded in support of Dong Hu's decision.

The fact is still like this. If they don’t fight to the death or open up the Xihai Yan Road, they will have a way out. However, Dong Hu was uneasy. He didn’t know if Jishishan could defeat Po Qiang in the end, or if thousands of bandits in Jishishan finally surrendered to Beigong Boyu.

He didn't know that these destructive things were not mentioned in the so-called Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

I remember that Beigong Boyu, Han Sui, Bian Zhang and others rebelled when the Yellow Turban Army rebelled, but Dong Hu did not hear the news of the Yellow Turban Army rebelled. He did not know what year Guanghe was, nor did he remember what year the Yellow Turban Rebellion was. The only thing I knew was Beigong Boyu, Han Sui, Bian Zhang, and finally rebelled. At this time, Dong Zhuo was dismissed and left at home because of the involvement of the Grand Marshal Duan Bing.

Before the Yellow Turban Army rebelled, Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and others could not rebel, but Dong Hu knew that these guys had rebelled in the end. Even if they falsely accused them of rebelling at this time, Dong Hu would not have any burden.

“Not ready to rebel…”

"Maybe...is an opportunity."

Dong Hu murmured softly, running towards Lintao. Nearly two hundred people behind him had to drive the horse and mule to the road when he saw him like this...

Dong Hu decided to bet with Beigong Boyu, who was not ready to rebel. In order to return to the wealthy Huangshui Valley, Jishishan also decided to join the gambling game. Neither side had a way out. Without Xihai Yan Road, both Dong Hu and Jishishan would fall into a difficult dilemma.
Chapter completed!