Chapter 5 Heavenly Horses from the West Pole

A few miles north of Beijing is the largest horse market.

As for how many miles it is, it's also unclear.

For no other reason, throughout the Orthodox years, the city of Beijing was in a state of expansion, because Zhu Qizhen placed most of the workshops of Shaofu on both sides of the Lugou River, so the development direction of the entire Beijing city was to the south.

Even a satellite city was established on the south bank of the Lugou River, and then slowly linked with the city of Beijing, not to mention, the south of Beijing was where the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was located.

The southern city wall of Beijing is the northern city wall of the Yuan capital. Therefore, even if the city wall is demolished, there are still many streets left, and the development on this basis is even more rapid.

This is also why the city of Beijing became a city in the shape of "Lu" in later generations. The construction of the outer city of Beijing is only the construction of the southern city. On the one hand, there is the problem of funding, and on the other hand, because the southern city is the most prosperous among the outer cities.

Although the southern city is the focus of Beijing's urban development. It does not mean that the north of Beijing will not develop.

It's just that there is a large school field and a military camp in the north of Beijing, and the northern army is stationed here, while the southern army is stationed in the direction of Tongzhou, that is, in the southeast of Beijing.

It has congenitally limited Beijing's development to the north, not to mention the mountains north of Beijing.

And this horse market itself is not a fixed building.

It's not a market, it's just a large open space. Countless merchants selling horses, cattle and sheep gathered together and formed in this way.

Generally speaking, it is the autumn and winter months when the horse market is the largest. Without him, even though there is a silage method, for herders, they are still used to selling a batch of horses, cattle and sheep in the autumn.

Without him, only the horses in autumn are the fattest and fat.

When Liu Chang and his entourage came to the horse market, they saw a few pieces of wood nailed to the flat ground and blocked with ropes to prevent the cattle inside from escaping.

There is no certain planning at all.

As soon as you enter the horse market, you will be greeted by a smell of horse manure. If you don't pay attention to your feet, your feet will be soft, and when you look down, you will see a green lump with all kinds of grass mixed with water, which is gently stepped on by him.

For a while, the juice flowed sideways.

That's horse manure, and it's fresh.

It's just that Liu Chang soon stopped putting his mind on this. I saw that there were I don't know how many people in front of me, gathered around, talking a lot, and being elated.

Liu Chang squeezed over desperately, stood inside and looked at it, and suddenly his eyes straightened. I couldn't help but shout, "Good horse." ”

But he saw a red horse in the middle of the clearing. The color of the whole body is like fire, and there is not a single stray hair. Eight feet tall at the shoulders, long legs and round hooves. There was a look in his eyes, as if he was facing so many people watching, and his eyes were like

There was a hint of disdain. There was a long hiss, and the voice was loud. All of a sudden, the neighing of other horses in the horse market was suppressed.

"Okay." Liu Chang's eyes were all growing on this horse, and he couldn't help but applaud loudly.

Liu Chang also doesn't have any horse skills, if you explain in detail where this horse is good, Liu Chang can't say. But he rode a war horse from birth to death, and he had a natural intuition about whether the horse was good or not.

After all, if the war horse has stubble on the battlefield, it will kill itself.

He has a sensitive feeling that this is a war horse. And it's a very good war horse.

But he saw a red-bearded fan come out, take a piece of white cloth, wipe it on the horse's neck, and then show it to everyone, but when he saw the original white veil, he was immediately smeared with a red one. It's like bloodshed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is not only a good horse, but also one of the hundred bloody horses brought by the Tile Spur Mission. Tribute to Your Majesty, Your Majesty with the story of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, leaving eighty horses to reward the princes, and the remaining twenty horses were sold by the Tile Thorn Mission, no, there is only this one left of the twenty horses. You can make an offer for what you want. The higher the price, the higher the price. ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Chang and several people sighed in unison.

He can't afford it.

The peace talks between Waspur and Daming were discussed intermittently for a year or two, and finally finalized.

The boundary between the tile spur and the Ming Dynasty is very rough. It's just a little bit of a drawing on the map. There is no other reason.

Neither the Tile Thorn nor the Ming Dynasty's rule over the Western Regions was very stable.

Neither side has yet to grasp the localities in particular detail.

Desperate to avoid war with the Ming Dynasty, he could devote his energies to consolidating his newly occupied lands and expanding westward.

And the Ming army was also eager to devote its efforts to the rectification of the Western Regions and Tuntian.

After all, the Han army has not come to the Western Regions for hundreds of years, and it can almost be said that there is no foundation left in the Han and Tang dynasties, and many things have to be started from scratch.

It all takes time.

Therefore, the Great Khan of Vaspur, Azi Timur, was named the king of Shunning. This is Mahamu, Dehuan, and the first series, the original title in the Ming system.

This is the first tribute in recent years, coinciding with the 40th birthday of the Ming Emperor, naturally prepared a lot of tribute, sweat and blood BMW is one of them.

There are also some specialties of the Western Regions, such as jade, precious stones, and so on. In addition, there are craftsmen of wool weaving that Zhu Qizhen requested.

After all, Persian carpets are also very famous real estate, and the territory of Aztimur is now bordering Iran.

Even the submission of the tile spur to the Ming Dynasty also extended the influence of the Ming Dynasty to Central Asia, so that many Central Asian khanates began to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

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It is a major event that greatly increases the prestige of the country.

Liu Chang and the others just listened to it. I never thought that the horse in front of me was the famous sweat and blood BMW.

Just think about it, such a BMW, you can't take it out for less than 1,000 taels.

But although Liu Chang is a hundred households, his annual military salary is less than 100 taels of silver. Even if he risked his death to climb the peak of the sky, the reward he got was only a thousand taels.

In addition, he has accumulated savings for many years, and his family property is only 13,400 taels, which is still Liu Chang's repeated exploits, and he has been rewarded a lot, plus the oil and water he fished with Annan.

How could there be so many otherwise.

It is said that the poor are rich. But Liu Chang was worried about his wife and son, so he not only entrusted him to take care of him, but also ruthlessly left a thousand taels of silver at home. I think he studied martial arts. But the official titles of the hundred households on his body have not been stripped off, and he is still paid a silver collar, plus he has a few hundred taels of silver in his hands, and it is probably possible to survive five years.

In the face of a sweaty BMW with a starting price of at least 1,000 taels, it is really unaffordable.

As for several of his classmates, although they are all noble children, but if you take a closer look, you will know that they are either side branches or concubines. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been in a circle with the hundred households he climbed up from dismounting.

The money in the hands of these people is only the monthly money given by the family.

In the eyes of ordinary people, it is a first-class abundance, but in fact, it is impossible to ask for such a large amount of 1,000 taels of silver, and the family's money may not be their own money.

A few brothers who just met could only sigh and watch others bid. After several rounds of selling, it was a man with clogs on his feet, a strange headdress on his head, the middle piece of his head had been cut off, and a very short man, with a strange accent in his mouth, shouted: "Five thousand taels." ”

All at once the people were stopped.

There are some poor counties in Daming, and the annual tax is only one or two thousand taels of silver.

However, Liu Fu has been in Beijing all the year round and has seen a lot of things, and it took a while before he said: "I know, he is a native of the Japanese country." Last year, when King Yu returned to Beijing to recuperate, he brought some Japanese warriors. I followed my father to see it in the palace of the king of Yu. ”

A few poor brothers asked each other, "Is the Wa Kingdom rich?" ”

"I don't know. Judging by his appearance, he is probably an envoy of the Japanese Kingdom, and he may be very rich. ”

They watched as the widow actually paid the bill with gold, and took a small box, more than 400 taels of gold, and bought the horse.

Liu Chang even had the mind to grab a handful.

Because of the large-scale mining of silver mines on Sado Island, the ratio of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty has fallen closely, and it has fallen by more than 1 to 10, and gold is a rare thing.

It's just that this envoy of the Japanese State didn't know the thoughts of Liu Chang and the others, and seeing that Liu Chang and the others had been watching, he actually bowed down and saluted them, so that Liu Chang and the others had to hurriedly return the salute.