"Hey, Liang Qiming, you should pay attention to your image. You are now the leader of a mansion. You are not a disciple who is in the imperial capital. No one who understands you will say anything. Those who don't know will think that it will be troublesome if the officials in the northwest are all like you." Qin Mu joked with Liang Qiming.

"When you sit and talk, you don't feel your back hurt. You are surrounded by beauties every day. I pity us, we still work hard for you day and night. When we go home at night, it's a long night, we can't sleep alone." Liang Qiming sighed with a shaking head.

Qin Mu sneered at this, "All right, don't pretend to be noble in front of me. I heard that someone bought a beautiful female slave from a past slave caravan two days ago. Well, by the way, I heard that it is an Indian and German beauty!"

Qin Mu was very happy, "Zhuge Fang just said a fair word, why did it become a tune to play with women?"

Liang Qiming was suffocated and did not speak. Qin Mu continued: "He said that a flower was really put on cow dung..., alas!"

Liang Qiming was happy, "He is indeed too bullying. For the sake of his old friend, I didn't care about him."

"No, you misunderstood. What I mean is really too insightful!" Qin Mu finished speaking seriously, and Liang Qiming realized that he was fooled.

Seeing Liang Qiming's angry look, Qin Mu continued calmly: "I also heard from the supervision department that some officials lingered in the wind and moon places at night, seriously damaging the image of our Northwest government officials."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuge Fang's heart immediately hung up and he secretly beat the drum. He didn't dare to speak again.

"I ask the supervision department to investigate and punish them seriously, and no matter who he is involved, they must investigate them to the end!" Qin Mu's words were righteous.

"Uh, this, government officials are actually human beings. You have also said that one way to civil and military affairs is to relax and relax. It is not a bad idea for people to entertain during rest time." Liang Qiming gritted his teeth and explained those behaviors.

"Well, it seems you're doing this, too."

Qin Mu stared at Zhuge Fang with a smile and a little embarrassed expression, "In this way, I agree with your opinion. I heard that Tokugawa County has opened a newly-built place called Shuiyue Xiangxie. It is said to be a Liansuo store in Shuiyue Xiangxie in Yuhang Prefecture, Jiangnan. It is extraordinary in style and although it is expensive, it is still full of every night. It also said that Tao Qian, the "Qinsheng" who is famous in Jiangnan, is also coming to perform his career recently. How about it? Please invite me to watch it, how about it?"

Zhuge Fang exclaimed in his heart that he was deceived, but he had to agree.

"Also, you have to make up a reasonable reason for me over there." Qin Mu said with a slight mouth in Chaoliwu.

"Okay, it's time to talk about the serious business. This matter is indeed a bit troublesome. Now we have a good relationship with the Huns and the people who control our main trade routes. Once the relationship deteriorates, we may suffer a lot of losses. But if we don't accept it, it will have a considerable negative effect. Those small forces and tribes that have always defected to us will be discouraged, which will also be a great blow to our image." Qin Mu gently rubbed his forehead.

"Yes, the Huns have always regarded the Jelis as a branch of their own. If we accept the Jelis, they will definitely give up. In addition, the Huns have a strong internal opposition to living with us. They will definitely take this opportunity to cause trouble. Our economy has just improved, and the foreign shipment of goods has to rely on the business road in the north. Once it is interrupted, the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Well, I know this. Now it depends on whether we can come up with a solution that both sides can accept, but it is indeed very difficult to get the Huns to accept it."

Qin Mu had already stood up, carried his hands on his back, and slowly paced around the small courtyard covered with green trees, thinking hard.

"Oh, in the future, we still have to find ways to make the goods shipped more, otherwise it will appear too passive once it is controlled by others. We must also find ways to open up the joints of the five Western Regions and do our work to see if they can reduce tariffs, so that we can reduce the pressure of relying on the northern channel." Qin Mu said in a deep thought.

"It may be difficult. The countries in the Western Regions have always had high tariffs, and they belong to several countries. It is probably unrealistic to hope to follow this path, unless we can control their survival power. However, this is not enough to relieve near-thirst. The most urgent task is how to answer the representatives of the Jeli people." Zhuge Fang shook his head and did not agree with Qin Mu's idea.

"I know this, I just feel it."

To be honest, Qin Mu has not come up with a solution that has the best of both worlds until now. What bothers Qin Mu even more is that this incident has disrupted the military plan he is about to prepare for.

"Let's do this, Zhuge Fang, you can arrange for the Jeli envoy to rest for a lifetime and tell him that we will give him a satisfactory reply in the past two days, but keep it confidential." In the end, Qin Mu still had no better idea, so he had to let Zhuge Fang leave first.

...

It is dark late in the summer in the northwest. It is already past nine o'clock in the evening. The sky is still bright and there are still no people on the streets. Many people come out to take a walk after dinner. Some women take the opportunity to go to the night market. From time to time, patrol patrols can be seen walking around conscientiously.

Qin Mu didn't want to show off again, so he pulled Liu Yan back to the mansion under the escort of the guards. As soon as he returned to the mansion, Dilena, who came out, told Qin Mu that Lord Jin Ningjin of the Intelligence Agency had been waiting in the living room for a long time and said that there was an emergency to report.

Qin Mu had not even had time to change his clothes, so he came to the living room. He knew that it must be something very urgent, otherwise Jin Ning would not have run to his house to wait for him in person. He could have waited until the next day to report to him in the Jiedu Office.

"grown ups!"

Seeing Qin Mu come in, Jin Ning quickly stood up and prepared to salute.

Qin Mu waved his hand and signaled him to sit down, and he could also sit down at will.

"I have emergency information about Loulan to report to the adults." Jin Ning said straight to the point.

"speak."

When Qin Mu heard the word Loulan, his ears stood up.

As early as three months ago, Qin Mu ordered the intelligence department to speed up the collection of intelligence from the southwestern neighboring Loulan and its surrounding countries. Although the new Director of the Intelligence Agency Jin Ning did not understand Qin Mu's intention, he still insisted on implementing the arrangements of his superiors. He also knew that his legendary boss had always acted like an unexpected move, but it was not aimless. (To be continued...)
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