I'll hand over the system soon.

In Jiao Lan's speechless eyes, Lu Yuncheng pulled Sancho towards Youzhou City.

The frontier fortress was bitterly cold, so the city of Liangzhou was not as prosperous as Xuzhou and Yanzhou.

Youzhou is obviously a frontier city like Liangzhou, but today's Youzhou is many times more prosperous than the Liangzhou she saw back then.

Walking on the crowded streets, tall foreigners leading their livestock did not receive any hostility. On the contrary, locals warmly greeted them to buy and sell.

At the stalls and shops of Youzhou people, there are also many foreigners asking prices to select goods.

Seeing this scene, Sancho knew that Lu Yuncheng had probably put in a lot of effort in the past five years. It's no wonder that such a good young master has turned into the rough and handsome appearance he has now. It's also no wonder that Jiao Lan doesn't dislike him.

"How about it? At the beginning you said you would educate them through trade, and now I have done it!" Lu Yuncheng was filled with pride and finally found someone to express it to.

"Congratulations, you have taken a big step towards your ambition." Sancho heartily congratulated Lu Yuncheng.

"That's right, you don't even look at who I am and how much I have paid for this!" said Lu Yuncheng, who suddenly choked up.

Sancho was his only confidant and the person who helped him find the direction of his life.

In the past, he could not express the grievances in front of his father and brother. At this moment, he could finally speak out.

"You don't know, in order to convince those foreigners that we Daqi have the heart to exchange our needs with them, I took Luhu and the others and personally went to the depths of the grassland to open trade routes to lobby the various ethnic groups. I was almost killed by a wolf on the grassland. , and now there’s a big tooth mark on my leg!”

"And the street you see now. Five years ago, this was a bad alley. I turned it into what it is today little by little. At that time, the people of Youzhou learned that I wanted to open trade with foreigners. They even hit me with rotten vegetable leaves and accused me of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country!"

Lu Yuncheng was extremely aggrieved. As he was talking, an old man handed a basket of vegetables to Lu Yuncheng, "Master Lu, this basket of vegetables is for you to take home and eat!"

Lu Yuncheng quickly pushed the food back: "No, no, you can just keep it for yourselves. You bring me food every day, and I can't finish it."

The old man handed it over again stubbornly, "If you can't finish it, don't you still have General Lu?"

After saying that, the old man ran away, looking as if he was running as fast as flying.

The old man's behavior seemed to turn on some kind of switch. After a while, many people were carrying vegetables or eggs and stuffing them on Lu Yuncheng. There were even many foreigners who brought rings made by themselves to Lu Yuncheng. Yun Cheng hung it around his neck, stuffing it all over his body.

Sancho just laughed on the side and did not lend a helping hand. Jiao Lan couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to help, so he said angrily: "I told you to show off in a hurry, so why don't you go home and disguise yourself first."

Lu Yuncheng took off the colorful things around his neck with difficulty and regretted: "I didn't remember it."

It was obvious that this street could no longer be visited. A few people turned back. Sancho played with a bunch of garlands and asked Lu Yuncheng: "Are you still aggrieved?"

Just now, Lu Yuncheng said that he felt extremely aggrieved when the vegetable leaves were smashed.

Lu Yuncheng chuckled twice: "I have no longer felt wronged. Now I am the pride of our Lu family!"

In Youzhou, to put it bluntly, his reputation is better than that of his elder brother.

Under Lu Yuncheng's constant bragging, Sancho followed him to the Lu Mansion.

She came to Youzhou not only to see Lu Yuncheng, but also to lobby Lu Yunchi.

Lu Yunqi replaced his father in guarding the border three years ago, and now he is truly the new General Lu.

However, Lu Yunqi was not at home at this time, but at the military camp, and would not be back until evening.

Knowing that Sancho was arriving today, Lu Yunqi rushed back from the military camp early in the evening.

Under the moonlight, a few people were sitting in the courtyard drinking. Lu Yunqi toasted Sancho with a drink, "We said goodbye six years ago. Brother Sancho is actually the same as he was six years ago."

Six years later, his younger brother Yuncheng has grown into what he is now, but Sancho is still the handsome young man he was six years ago.

"The water and soil in Xuzhou only nourish people." Sancho drank the wine in the cup with a smile, but the word "Xuzhou" in his words made Lu Yunqi's eyes darken for a moment.

Xuzhou is where the Zhang family of the fifteenth prince’s mother family is located. Six years ago, the fifteenth prince went from the capital to Xuzhou to recuperate his health, and was recalled to the capital not long ago.

You should eat well when you eat. Sancho had no intention of ruining the good mood of everyone's rare gathering, so he didn't say anything more. He just laughed with everyone, recalled the past, or talked about his interesting experiences in the past few years.

When they were full of wine and food, Lu Yuncheng was already drunk and didn't know who was going on. Jiao Lan knew that Sancho and Lu Yunqi had something to say, so he took the initiative to let Lu Yunqi leave.

"Brother Sang, why don't you come to the study with me?" Lu Yunqi invited, putting down his wine glass, with no hint of drunkenness on his face.

Sancho readily agreed, and soon the two of them were sitting in the study drinking tea by candlelight.

In the end, Lu Yunqi couldn't hold himself back and asked first: "Isn't Brother Sang coming to Youzhou this time just to see Yuncheng?"

The moment Lu Yunqi spoke first, Sancho knew that he had won the bet and that the Lu family could no longer be a staunch royalist like they were five years ago.

Five years ago, Emperor Xiao was in good health, and the Lu family did not do anything special. It was okay not to take sides, and it had little impact on the Lu family.

But as early as five years ago, when Lu Yuncheng decided to use trade to change Youzhou, the Lu family began to be helpless.

Five years ago, Lu Yunqi would not have supported Lu Yuncheng. He should be his own general and guard Youzhou against foreign enemies, so that outsiders would have no excuse to attack the Lu family.

But who is called the Lu family, who is called Lu Yunqi, who is not someone who is willing to ignore the people in order to protect the family's future?

The Lu family has been guarding Youzhou for many years and has seen the hardships of the people in Youzhou. They have seen many children who starved to death in the wind and snow, and many corpses that were cut into skeletons as food by foreigners. Da Qi'erlang died on the battlefield.

If there was a way to make the people on the border live a better life and to save the soldiers from having to fight on the battlefield, the Lu family would do anything.

Now, Youzhou has been radically reformed by Lu Yuncheng, which has made the relationship between the people of Youzhou and the foreigners outside the customs much harmonious. There has been no foreign robbery in Youzhou for three years.

This was something that was simply unthinkable before.

Although this was because God favored him and never caused natural disasters, Lu Yuncheng's commercial role should not be underestimated.

The Lu family holds military power and encourages trade, so Youzhou has not had large-scale wars with foreigners for many years. In the eyes of everyone in the DPRK, this might be considered a traitor to the enemy.

The reason why no one has done this now is simply because they are afraid of breaking the precarious balance between the DPRK and China.

But as Emperor Xiao's health deteriorates, this balance will be broken sooner or later.

I finally added the third update, and it turned out to be really bad, and the keyboard was sparking when I typed it.

Good night, babies