Gu Wei had heard this name three years ago.
At that time, he was still a young general full of vigor and vitality.
It was winter, but the court had not issued winter clothes. The soldiers were shivering with cold and could only wrap themselves in thin armor and wrapped in straw to keep warm.
Gu Wei heard from his subordinates news that soldiers had frozen to death every few days.
The winter in Mobei is really freezing.
The cold wind blowing on my face felt like a knife. Looking around, I saw thousands of miles of ice and tens of thousands of miles of snow. Human life was as insignificant as grass.
He could no longer sit still, so he asked Ren Pingsheng to secretly look for cheap winter clothing merchants who could take big orders. He couldn't bear to see these men who shed blood for Beijiang being treated so harshly by the court.
Three days later, Ren Pingsheng brought back the results.
Found it. It's very cheap, almost half cheaper than the market price. There's only one drawback. This person is not a merchant from Beijiang, but from the neighboring Yunqin State.
Gu Wei was very hesitant when he heard this.
Anyone with a brain could guess that this was military pay.
Those who are not of my race must have different hearts.
Can the people of Yunqin really do their duty and make warm winter clothes for the soldiers of Beijiang?
The person on the other end waited for a long time without receiving a reply, so he wrote another letter.
The letter was handed to Gu Wei by Ren Pingsheng. The handwriting on it was elegant and neat, making people feel that the person who wrote it would be a self-disciplined scholar-official, rather than a shrewd and experienced businessman.
"I know you are worried, but I am just a businessman. I value profit. I will do good things for anyone who gives me money. Fifteen thousand winter clothes will be made of the thickest black blue cloth and the warmest duck down cotton. Not a single one will be adulterated.
If there is any inferior product, Yunqin Huainan City Lin Qianchong will offer his life to apologize. I hope that you can drink ice in Mobei, but your blood will not be cooled. When spring comes next year, everything will be prosperous. "
"Good, good Mobei drinking ice, it can't cool the hot blood."
Gu Wei held the letter with a fiery look in his eyes.
At that time, he was a young man, facing the dark court, feeling angry and desperate.
Lin Qianzhong's words somehow woke him up.
Drinking ice in Mobei cannot cool down the hot blood.
Why fear the dark and cold court?
Why fear the long wind and thick snow in Mobei?
As long as the fire in Gu Wei's heart is not extinguished, nothing can defeat him.
He replied immediately and decided to trust this person.
However, considering Mr. Ren's identity, he is a general of a country after all. If he is caught by his political enemies, he will be charged with treason and collaborating with the enemy.
Half a month later, 15,000 winter clothes were carried on merchant ships across the vast North Sea, across the magnificent Qilian River, and arrived at Liyang under the Mobei region. They were then sent to the icy and snowy land of Mobei by one horse-drawn carriage after another.
Gu Wei was still worried, so he sent a hundred soldiers to check the condition of the winter clothes.
The answer is that each one is excellent.
Gu Wei immediately and hurriedly delivered winter clothes to every soldier's tent.
Looking at the soldiers' faces that were frozen red and purple, their hands covered with frostbite, and the porridge on the table that couldn't be any thinner.
His throat choked with sobs and he only said that it was the military pay sent by the Beijiang court.
The soldiers under Gu Wei were basically young recruits. When they heard that the imperial court actually cared about them, they were as happy as children.
It turns out that the court has not forgotten their contributions, and all their efforts are worth it.
Later, Gu Wei returned to Beijing to report on his work.
The Beijiang court was not far from Mobei and could be reached in five days.
The emperor held a celebration banquet for him.
Sitting in a palace full of singing and dancing, roasting the warm charcoal fire like spring, looking at the dazzling array of delicacies on the table.
Gu Wei felt in his heart that it was even colder than sitting in a tent in the bitter cold of Mobei.
Chilled to the bone.
After the palace banquet, he walked along the intricate and elegant corridors of the Beijiang Palace, having stepped on every brick there.
When he was young, he went to the palace with his father for a banquet. Standing in front of the indifferent emperor, he said with great ambition that he wanted to be the sharpest knife in Beijiang and he would help His Majesty expel foreign enemies and pacify the north.
His father touched the top of his head with a complicated look in his eyes.
The emperor raised his lips slightly and said with a smile: "Well, the sons of the Gu family are all brave."
At the age of fifteen, he led his first army into battle. He walked through this long corridor and came before the emperor, who rewarded him with a sword covered with jewels and wished him a triumphant return to enhance the prestige of the Beijiang Dynasty.
Although he did not like the frivolous sword, he still knelt down in respect.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
But now, only two years have passed, and he seemed to have lost all his pride and understood the look in his father's eyes.
Exquisite four-cornered palace lanterns were hung on the eaves, emitting a faint red light. In the dark night, it looked like the blood flowing under Gu Wei's sword.
Gu Wei suddenly remembered what the businessman said.
It is difficult to cool the hot blood.
From then on, he lived only for his soldiers, his family, and his own passion.
A cold wind blew across the courtyard, and the young general walked into the darkness without looking back once.
"Gu Wei, Gu Wei, what are you thinking about?"
Seeing Gu Wei standing there in a daze, Xie Ling hurriedly shook his arm.
Gu Wei suddenly came back to his senses. The girl in front of him had beautiful eyes and eyebrows. Behind her was an endless dark blue sea. There was a full moon hanging high in the sky, and the sea was vast.
It turned out that they had walked from the room to the deck while chatting without knowing when.
He turned and looked at Lin Qianzhong.
He didn't believe in fate before, but now he believes in it a little.
Unexpectedly, the young man in front of him, who looked thin and frail and had a pair of fox eyes, was actually the teacher of Faith when he was young.
Lin Qianzhong had just talked about his encounter with Caiyi.
"When Caiyi and I met, I fell in love with her at first sight. But my family would never allow me to marry a woman from the underworld, so we ran away. In a year, I went from being an inconspicuous peddler to a caravan spanning two countries, which is considered a small achievement.
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