"How about seeing the cunning of this group of steppe wolves, Lord Yuwen." Qin Min laughed playfully, as a quick envoy, self-familiarity is a necessary Su zhì, and he has only been here for a few days and joked with Yu Wenyi.

Yu Wenyi was a little helpless, what Qin Min said made sense, he had been here for so many days, and he hadn't opened up the situation yet, and he felt that he had failed Wang Xiu's expectations.

Originally, I thought that this group of northern barbarians was just empty of force, but their brains were a mess of pigs and sheep, how could they have the wisdom of **** Shangguo. At this time, he didn't think so, the lower echelons of this group of people were simple, and even a little blindly obedient and foolish, but the upper echelons were full of deceit, even more aggressive than them, and the result of failed calculations was often death, and there was no second way to choose.

This makes every decision of the barbarians have a strong smell of blood, and there is also unusual caution, which is often difficult for them to bet some, for the Great Song Dynasty, people are naturally willing, and it is not the same thing when it comes to taking refuge.

"These pigs and sheep have taken so many of our things, and they are really unwilling not to earn them back." Qin Min smiled softly, he also had some understanding, and he didn't want to see these grassland people, and said: "It depends on the means of Deng Da's shopkeeper, whether he can squeeze these pigs and sheep dry, oh, I still need the help of Lord Yuwen." ”

Yu Wenyi raised his eyebrows, he did not reject the merchants, and even agreed with Qin Min's approach, anyway, he earned back the money given to the various departments of the grassland, and what he paid was nothing more than items made of soil and silk, so why not? So he said in a deep voice: "It seems that the governor has a plan." ”

"What a plan, it's just to do a small business and earn some hard-earned money to subsidize the ministers. Hey, Lord Yuwen lives in the temple, how do you know the suffering of the envoys, just the money from the imperial court, not enough for a large family to eat, not to mention the cost of transportation, the court does not give a penny, everyone has to earn it themselves. Qin Min was spitting bitterness, looking miserable and helpless.

Yu Wenyi has a black line, this fellow governor is really a wonderful person, not only crying poor but also using this as a reason to make money wantonly, I really don't know what Wang Xianggong thinks, he smacked his lips and said: "It's not easy to be a governor, but I don't know how to do business." ”

"Salt and iron in exchange for furs, and of course other good things, porcelain and silk are necessary." Qin Min is very out of the road.

"Salt and iron are very strictly controlled, especially iron products, which are strictly forbidden to enter the grassland." Yu Wenyi is talking about the Jurchens, they are very strict with the grassland, and other items are good to say, copper and iron products are strictly forbidden to flow into the grassland, not to mention the first battle, that is, trade, but also mostly barter, as much as possible to reduce the use of coins by the grassland.

Even the Jurchens understand the truth, Qin Min will not understand? Obviously, there is another mystery in this.

"It's all about exchanging the captives' things for benefits, and they are still under control, and they won't be equipped in large quantities, and more importantly, it's better to let the beggars and Kereh be armed to a limited extent than to let the captives fight with their scalps." Qin Min said a little lazy.

Yu Wenyi understands it, but he doesn't agree with it so much, he has been in contact with even the greed of the grassland people, and he also sees the terrible combat power in it, so these people are divided for the sake of profit, and they can't form a strong joint force, so they are repeatedly succeeded by the Jurchens.

If this group of barbarians obtained a large amount of copper and iron and made corresponding arrows, I am afraid that the situation would be another scene.

He suddenly remembered Wang Xiu's evaluation of the grassland barbarians, they had a strong leader, and if they led these rabble, and then they were well-equipped with armor and arrows, it would be the most feared disaster in the world, and it would bring extinction to the Great Song Dynasty.

"Why do you want their furs, and not secretly transport the war horses through Guò Hexi?" He suddenly thought of the place he had neglected, the Great Song Dynasty court lacked war horses, and did not hesitate to launch a war in the northwest, he saw a herd of horses on the grassland, why not return to Yi in large quantities, even if there was no Xia before the destruction, you can also pass through Guò Guanxi, and transport it eastward from the jurisdiction of the Longyou Protectorate.

Qin Min glanced at Yu Wenyi in surprise, a little incredulous, and said: "Tongguò Hexi transshipment, Guanshan thousands of miles, the war horse will not exist in ten, the price is not ordinarily large." In addition, the imperial court has excellent armor, the grassland horses are short, and the tenacity is more than enough to impact it, so the forbidden army should not be equipped in large quantities at this stage. ”

"I see." Yu Wenyi suddenly realized, only then did he remember the horses he saw, short in size, if the Song army was fully clothed, I am afraid it would be a very peculiar scene, no wonder the front-line troops of the Jin Army are not equipped with grassland horses, the iron armor is too heavy, the Liangzhou horse from Hexi is different, the body is tall and has impact and toughness, it is simply a fusion of the strengths of the Eastern and Western horses, a very perfect war horse.

"However, it can be seen from Guantang that Mr. is also interested in grassland horses, and is ready to take Hexi, and Tongguò trade will cause grassland war horses." Qin Min said lightly.

Everyone is a smart person, there is no need to say too much, Yu Wenyi understands Wang Xiu's thoughts, and also finds out the direction of some policies of the imperial court, the Great Song Dynasty guards and horse troops should change to light, and the imperial court does not plan to expand the pastures in Hexi, on the contrary, it may be further reduced.

However, he said that it was still on the battlefield in the northwest, and the military information he had just obtained came from the Qiyan tribe, and the horse army of the Qiyan tribe and the Kereh people attacked the grain city and captured the city in one fell swoop.

According to the region, the grain city should be the combat area of the Song army, even if it is still in the hands of the Xia army, it is not the turn of others to capture it, even the general of the Jin army is promoted, since the provincial Weicheng is tentative, he also abides by the rules very tacitly, and never wants to stretch out his hand south of the Keyi Gate.

These ignorant pigs and sheep actually attacked the grain city with light troops, and still took the city in front of a brigade of the Song army, without any evasion, and simply regarded the Great Song Forbidden Army as nothing.

For the people of the Xia Kingdom, the Song army would also burn and loot, but it was all sporadic atrocities by stragglers, or they slaughtered the city for strategic deterrence, as long as they were honest, their lives would not be threatened.

The real disaster was broken by these barbarians of the steppe, who burned and plundered the entire city, killing men, robbing women and children, and plundering all the gold and silver treasures.

The most important thing is that a large amount of grain and grass hoarded by the Xia army was also burned by these people, they did not have any far-sighted plans, all the wealth that could not be taken away was lost, the old, weak, sick and disabled were all killed, and they had no long-term business plan at all, and they did not even consider the feelings of their allies, which stunned the Song army who rushed over.

Some of the people who escaped, as well as the remnants of the Xia army, saw the Song army's troops, hesitated to meet the life-saving immortals, and leaned up to seek protection, and asked the town lord of the Song army to save their homes and stop the slaughter of the grassland barbarians.