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"Don't worry, Marshal. Our Tuoba tribe's loyalty to you is obvious. Even if the Dune Dynasty offers benefits, our Tuoba tribe will never waver in the slightest."

When Tuoba Jinghui felt Xia Yun's extremely deep gaze, he was frightened and hurriedly explained again.

"Don't panic. It's a good deal to take advantage of. The Grassland Inn has an excellent location. In my opinion, there's no need to treat it as just a transit station for selling goods."

Xia Yun smiled and nodded.

Before arriving at Lantuo City, he had never expected that the Tuoba clan actually controlled such a Feng Shui treasure land.

If the Prairie Inn is used as the responsible point of the intelligence agency, it will be able to radiate the entire eastern region of the Dune Kingdom!

"Marshal, what do you mean by this?"

Tuoba Jinghui looked troubled for a moment when he heard this. He totally didn't understand what Xia Yun had just said.

"If I want this place to become an intelligence agency, would you agree?"

Xia Yun's gaze swept over Tuoba Jinghui and Tuoba Jingcheng in succession.

To put it bluntly, the Prairie Inn is, after all, the property of the Tuoba tribe. If he wants to turn it into an intelligence agency, he has to seek the advice of the Tuoba tribe in advance.

"Intelligence agency?!"

The moment Tuoba Jinghui heard this, his pupils widened. Before this, such a thought had never crossed his mind.

However, when he thought about it carefully, he suddenly found that this plan was brilliant!

"Since our Tuoba tribe has sincerely submitted to the Marshal, the Marshal naturally has the right to decide the use of this grassland inn."

Tuoba Jinghui expressed his loyalty again without saying a word.

"If the commander-in-chief gives any order, we will obey!"

Tuoba Jingcheng also expressed his opinion shortly afterwards.

Although this was the first time he met Xia Yun, Xia Yun had already established a very high prestige within the Tuoba clan.

In the past two or three months.

In terms of silver alone, Xia Yun has allocated as much as three million taels to the Tuoba clan!

This is the amount of money he could not earn even after running the Prairie Inn for more than ten years!

"That's good!"

Xia Yun smiled happily, a mature idea already in his mind.

He wanted to use the Prairie Inn as Blackwater House's first base in the Dune Dynasty.

Blackwater is the most powerful intelligence agency under his command.

This was an organization previously established by Xu Wan'er.

In the past few months, Xia Yun has been busy dealing with the barbarian tribes and has neglected the management of the Blackwater Tower.

But this does not mean that Blackwater Building has stopped developing.

In fact, with Qin Shun and Qian Dajun vigorously promoting Hongyanlou nationwide in the past few months, the scale of Heishuilou has now expanded by more than seven or eight times compared to when it was first in Zhejiang!

"Get a pen and paper."

Xia Yun immediately gave the order.

Then, at Tuoba Jingcheng's urging, the innkeeper quickly brought paper, pen and ink.

Xia Yun immediately started writing the letter on the spot.

A quarter of an hour later, Xia Yun raised the pen tip and exhaled a breath.

"Immediately send someone to deliver this letter to the Hutenger Prairie as quickly as possible. Wan'er is there. She will know what to do after receiving the letter."

As Xia Yun spoke, he sealed the written letter in an envelope and handed it to Xiang Wentian personally.

"My subordinates will do it now!"

Xiang Wentian nodded in response.

Obviously, this letter is of great importance and cannot be taken lightly.

After leaving the box, Xiang Wentian quickly found his relatives and followers.

Soon, a man and a horse left the grassland inn.

……

2 p.m.

With Tuoba Jingcheng's enthusiastic arrangement, Xia Yun and his party, who had been exhausted by a long journey, were now fully satisfied with their meals and drinks.

However, it was still early, so Xia Yun took Tuoba Jinghui, Xiang Wentian and others and left the inn, wandering aimlessly on the streets of Lantuo City.

In fact, one of the reasons why Xia Yun did this was that he wanted to take a look at the customs and culture of the Dune Dynasty.

The second reason is to see if there is any information worth finding out in the local area.

Located in a high-latitude area, the average temperature in Lantuo City is only around 7 or 8 degrees Celsius.

But even so, the atmosphere in Lantuo City was very lively.

Walking out of the grassland inn, Xia Yun saw a large number of merchants and passers-by.

At the same time, wherever Xia Yun and the other two went, many people's eyes were focused on Xia Yun.

There is no other reason.

Xia Yun's appearance was too conspicuous among the group of men with blond hair, blue eyes, beards and thick eyebrows.

Anyone could tell at a glance that Xia Yun came from the Daliang Dynasty in the East.

Fortunately, Tuoba Jinghui and Xiang Wentian were very big and strong, and they followed Xia Yun on both sides like two thugs.

This prevented some people with ulterior motives from trying to get close to Xia Yun.

"Boss, look, that's a caravan of the Northern Barbarians. They live in the northwest border of the Mobei grassland. The tribe is small in number and they make a living by herding and trading."

When Xia Yun and the other two arrived at a trading square, Tuoba Jinghui's gaze passed through the crowd and quickly locked onto a group of men wearing woolen coats.

Xia Yun looked in the direction of Tuoba Jinghui's finger, and sure enough, he saw a group of men dressed in Mobei grassland attire, trading with merchants from the Dune Kingdom.

Northern barbarians?

The name of this race made Xia Yun feel a little curious.

On the Mobei grasslands, the names of the barbarian tribes are varied, but tribal names containing the word "barbarian" are extremely rare.

After all, the word "Man" represents the entire barbarian tribe. Generally speaking, even if a tribe wants to use the word "Man" as the name of the tribe, it will often be resisted by other tribes.

It was even attacked by some powerful tribes.

"What is the origin of this Northern Barbarian Tribe?"

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yun simply asked.

"According to the records of the Tuoba tribe, about three or four hundred years ago, the Northern Barbarians were once the most powerful tribe on the Mobei grassland. They unified the entire Mobei grassland by force and had several fierce battles with the Central Plains dynasty at the time."

"But in the following three or four hundred years, the Northern Barbarians gradually declined until they completely lost their voice in the Mobei grasslands. Some powerful tribes that rose up drove the Northern Barbarians to the northwestern border."

"Currently, the entire Northern Barbarian tribe has only about 10,000 to 20,000 people."

Tuoba Jinghui began to explain.

It was not until more than ten breaths had passed since Tuoba Jinghui finished speaking that Xia Yun nodded with a thoughtful look.

After hearing what Tuoba Jinghui said, he finally remembered some of the history of this world.

Indeed, before the establishment of the Daliang Dynasty, the dominant tribe on the Mobei grassland seemed to be called the Northern Barbarians!

I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, the Northern Barbarians have declined to this extent.

Thinking of this, Xia Yun couldn't help but shook his head, with a bit of sigh on his face.