Cao Gan didn't expect Gao Pragmatic to know about the private market, but thinking about this Gao Gongzi - no, now it should be said "his own young master" - is amazingly intelligent, so he finally didn't lose his temper, but was slightly surprised, and said: "The young master said very well, the small perennial leader leads the people to export and meet with various Mongolian ministries in the private market, and makes a lot of profits. This is also the reason why Xiao Xiao's Baili Gorge has been in charge of Baili Gorge for only a few years, and it has pulled Baili Gorge to nearly 1,000 horse teams. Originally, there were only about 300 people in the small horse team brought to Baili Gorge from Bazhou, but after the fire, the total number of horse teams in Baili Gorge was less than 500. ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, and said in his heart that his vision of seeing people is not bad, this Cao Gan is really quite capable, with the private city of Mongolia, not only sat firmly on the top spot in Baili Gorge, but also doubled the team in a few years. It is especially worth mentioning that this team is still a horse team, which is even more rare.

You know, Baili Gorge is a mountainous area, which is not suitable for raising horses, and it is estimated that most of the forage, bean cakes and even eggs needed for raising horses have to be purchased, which requires how much financial resources are enough to support? It can also be seen from this point that the scale of the Bailixia Xiangma private market presided over by Cao Gan must be not small.

So he asked: "In this way, the scale of your private market is not small, but as far as I know, thirty-one years after Jiajing, the northland horse market was closed, and the imperial court strictly ordered that it should not trade with Mongolia...... Didn't the border army check you because you didn't sell iron weapons? ”

Cao Gan smiled and said, "How can the border army check me? If I hadn't been there, the Xuanfu border army would have lost nearly 1,000 horses a year! Young master, it's not a small nonsense, if the little one hadn't fallen to death yesterday, he would have just run to the vicinity of Xuanfu, and it would be as safe as if he had returned to Baili Gorge. Don't say that Liu Xiao'er is alone, that is, he led the soldiers and horses to chase him, and the border army of Xuanfu will only tell him that Xiaoxiao has never been to Xuanfu at all! ”

Gao Pragmatic was really taken aback this time, but he still tried to maintain his composure on his face and asked, "Oh? Xuanfu Border Army...... Because of your relationship, you can get nearly a thousand more war horses every year? ”

"That's nature." Cao Gan said this, with a proud face: "Since the thirty-first year of Jiajing in the north, the official horse market has been completely stopped, and if we want to get Mongolian horses here, we can only buy them in the private market." But if the border army comes forward by itself, it is impossible to buy good horses, after all, the Mongols are not brainless stupid birds, they are usually willing to sell to the border army of livestock, horses are already few, not only few, but also inferior horses, horses, used to carry goods and pull carts is barely feasible, if used for combat riding, it is simply looking for death. ”

Gao pragmatic and sensitive found a big problem from this passage, and hurriedly asked: "The border army itself also trades with the Mongols?" Didn't you say that the border army was still quite strict about the inspection of iron weapons? ”

Cao Gan laughed and said, "Young Master, why are your Daobian Army stricter in investigating the iron trade?" The little one is already a subordinate of the young master anyway, and he doesn't dare to deceive the young master about this: the reason why the army over there strictly inspects the iron weapons out of the customs is because they themselves are big sellers of iron tools to Mongolia! Let's put it this way, at present, the iron tools that flow into Mongolia from my Ming Dynasty, whether the iron tools are finished products or iron ingots and iron blocks, will flow out of the hands of the border army, at least ninety percent! ”

Gao Pragmatic gasped, his back was a little chilly, and for the first time, he felt that he couldn't control his complexion, and asked with a cold face: "The border army is so reckless, is no one from the Nine Border Governors and Fu people aware of it?" ”

"Young Master, is this a problem of whether you are aware or not?" Cao Gan shook his head and said: "The little ones are also familiar in the Xuanfu, and if they are not afraid of violating the ban, those border troops are really not as good as our Xiangma in Baili Gorge, and the little ones don't know what Emperor Zhu thinks, if the big soldiers under his command rely on that little military salary to eat, I am afraid that they will starve to death long ago." It's forbidden to do this, how can it be forbidden? You just asked Jiubian, it is not clear how small other places are, and they dare not talk nonsense, but at least in Xuanfu and Datong, as far as the small ones know, whether it is the governor or the governor, they are all well aware of these practices of the border army, but they don't dare to say it, let alone report it - if there is a riot among the officers and soldiers of Xuanda, then the court will not be able to stop the development of the situation without killing people! What's more, once a Mongol like Altan Khan knew about the civil strife in Xuanda, no one dared to pack a ticket! I'm afraid that by then, no more Gengshu change will not be able to stop. ”

Gao Pragmatic really didn't know that Xuanda had become like this now!

Xuanda, the gateway of the Beijing Division! And the Xuanda Border Army itself is actually the monopoly-level main force of iron smuggling! It's no wonder that this Jingshi's defense is full of loopholes, if I am Altan Khan, I'm afraid that I will even have the heart to kill the Jingshi!

Fortunately, although Altan Khan is eloquent, he does not think that Mongolia still has a chance to enter the Central Plains, so he has always only asked the Ming Dynasty to open the official market, otherwise if he is ambitious, he is afraid that the entire northern land of the Ming Dynasty will be ruined! Although Qi Jiguang can, he is only the general army of Jiliao, and he has to watch the left wing of Mongolia (that is, where the Chahar Department and the "Great Yuan Court" are located), and the serious Qi family army under his hand is only a few thousand in size, even if it is full of iron, how many nails are hit?

It is no wonder that after the Hannaji incident occurred a year later in history, Wang Chonggu and Fang Fengshi advocated that peace is precious, no wonder Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng insisted on paying tribute!

Gao Shishi took a deep breath and asked, "The reason why you have been able to crisscross the Northland for many years, and the old nest is even located near Gyeonggi without fear of being suppressed, is it because of this?" ”

"That's nature." Cao Gan, once he made up his mind to belong, was quite open-minded, and he didn't mean to hide it at all, and said: "If it weren't for the identity of the young master, it might not be ordinary, and the little one knows the status of the elder Gao Ge in the court...... Young master, do you think, since the little one dared to swagger and lead hundreds of horses to hunt down Liu Xian's father and son in the suburbs of Beijing, how could he have no support? ”

Gao Pragmatic was also afraid for a while when he heard this, and said secretly: This Ming army is simply not a few reliable, no wonder decades later, the troops on the Xuanda side bear the name of "Nine-sided Elite", in fact, they can also be transferred to the interior to suppress the peasant army.

He sighed and changed the subject slightly: "I can understand why the Mongols refused to sell their horses to the border army, but don't they know that you will resell them...... Or will it be transferred to the border army? By the way, do you resell those horses to the border army, or do you transfer them to the border army? ”

"That's naturally a resale, where can I afford to send it?" Cao Gan hurriedly said: "Young master, horses at the level of war horses are not cheap, even if they are small prices, medium geldings have to be priced at about eight taels, and high-grade geldings are about ten taels, nearly a thousand a year, that is nearly ten thousand taels of silver, and this is only the cost price!" ”