Chapter 22: Do You Dare to Fight Me?
In the afternoon of the next day, Jerodhai sent a messenger to tell him that the merchant Muhammad had gone to the city to make a deal with him.
The east market outside the east gate of this town is not big, the so-called city Bo Division, in fact, is a few tents enclosed by a wooden fence, one of the highest spacious tents is hung on the top of the white miserable beast bones, it looks a little terrifying, obviously the Khitan people now, although the founding number is Liao, but in some aspects, has not really broken away from the living habits of Ru Mao drinking blood in the white water of Black Mountain.
Although the blue and white felt laid in the tent obviously has traces of the handiwork of the slaves of the Central Plains, it still gives people an extremely rough feeling, but it is the high table and high chairs that have a bit of the meaning of the yamen.
There are two people sitting at the head of the account, next to Yelu Haitong, is an old man with fine skin and white flesh and no beard, looking at the moves, it is a confessor, it should be the Khitan people who plundered the north from Kaifeng.
Lu Ning's eyes looked at the two women standing next to him, needless to say, they were the so-called two queens of the Central Plains, the Nie family and the Zhao family.
Both of them are wearing Khitan aristocratic women's costumes, wearing white velvet felt hats, at first glance they really thought they were two Khitan ladies, but both of them were extremely haggard, their faces were gloomy and miserable, and their faces were also very thin, and their cheekbones were bulging, which was somewhat similar to the snake spirit face of later generations, but naturally it was not as curvy as the snake spirit face of plastic surgery, but overall, the situation was better than what Lu Ning thought, and the two of them could vaguely be seen in their former glory, after all, they were the favorite concubines selected by the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty from the beauties of the country.
Lu Ning glanced at the two of them, and had a strange feeling in his heart, he had only seen the names of the two in the history books and wild histories before, the two favored concubines of the Central Plains emperor who were plundered and occupied, and once thought about the situation of the two, from the emperor's favorite concubine to the plaything of the barbarian Khitans, how the heavens and the earth should not be, as a woman in ancient times, how miserable and helpless and humiliating the day the country was broken.
But now the two of them are standing in front of them, which makes people feel like they are separated from each other, as if everything in front of them is like a dream.
"Little thing!" The long whip swept towards Lu Ning with the sound of the wind, and Lu Ning turned slightly sideways and dodged.
In fact, Yelu Haitong was very angry in his heart, thinking that since the two queens of the Central Plains who were occupied by the king were treated as goods by the king, before trading with Hu Shang, he also happened to taste the taste of the queen of the Central Plains, which must be extremely ecstatic, and psychologically, it will give people incomparable impact and satisfaction.
This evil fire, since yesterday, has been burning until the day, before seeing the confessor, but do not want to, the king sent the confessor to supervise the transaction, the raging fire, it is difficult to vent, suddenly saw the handsome young slave beside Hu Shang from time to time to look at the two Central Plains queens, immediately fired, the whip was drawn.
Seeing Lu Ning dodging again, Yelu Haitong was furious and stood up suddenly!
"Wait, Lord Jerod! Xiaomin has a proposition, he wants to compete with Lord Yelu, and the lottery is 300,000 yuan, how about it? Muhammad spoke loudly, and he also stood in front of Lu Ning, with the backing of his master, and Muhammad was not very afraid of this Yelu Haitong from the bottom of his heart.
"300,000?" Yelu Haitong was stunned, he had forgotten to continue to chase Lu Ning, and looked at Muhammad, as if he thought, isn't this Hu man crazy? Sudden onset of hysteria gibberish?
The Khitan people, naturally, have never heard of the name of 300,000 dukes.
"Lord Jerry, to race or not to race?" Muhammad was extremely determined.
"You have 300,000? What do you want to race with me? When Jerod saw Muhammad's expression, the contempt on the corners of his mouth gradually disappeared.
Muhammad said loudly: "Now that the Central Plains countries are fighting, the price of horses has doubled three times a day, I just wanted to use the goods brought to trade the war horses back, and now I see the three or two thousand good horses, I can't help but see the hunting heart, I am afraid that they are all four feet seven inches and a few inches of thousands of horses, how about Lord Yelu use these good horses as a lottery?" ”
The Central Plains war horses generally have a common standard, the shoulder height of more than four feet two inches can be used as a war horse, every inch high, the value is much more, four feet seven inches, is the standard of the first-class war horse, these Khitan horses, placed in the Central Plains, are obviously the first-class horses in the first-class horses.
Speaking of which, the price of a hundred horses, although a bit of a pit Wu Yue, while the fire is robbed, but it is not too outrageous, at this point, the Khitan people and people in the market, but it is quite kind, of course, do not deceive when trading, but if you do not agree, you may rob clearly, so, I disdain to cheat, I am really interested in your goods I don't want to exchange with the equivalent thing, robbed is.
Just like Yelu Jing used two "Central Plains Queens" to exchange for a boatload of spices, it was actually the same as Ming robbery, but after all, he was the lord of Liao, so it was not good to really use it to rob.
At this point, Lu Ning, who is now in the East City, may have the same mentality as the sleeping king Yelu Jing.
He secretly had a clear understanding of the situation in Dongshi and Zhendongguan, and now in this Dongshi, there are only more than 100 Liao soldiers guarding the dozens of rings of war horse fences, and in addition, there are two stables in each fence, who are responsible for taking care of the war horses in the fence.
If you grab hard, there shouldn't be any problems.
Before the Zhendongguan brigade came out, he should have led his own troops to sweep the tail, forcing the horse herd to lead the horse to the boat, and only needed to block the Liao army in Zhendongguan for a while before he could leave safely.
However, as the lord of Qilu, if you do this, your reputation will be a little bad, after all, you and the Khitan have not yet had such a bad relationship, and even the East China Sea and this Khitan are still having trade relations, which in itself is a symbol of friendly relations.
Subsequently, he had to inform all the Hu merchants and Central Plains merchants that they should not come to Suzhou to exchange markets with the Khitans, otherwise they would definitely be concocted by the Khitans in the same way, and as many goods as they came, they would be robbed, and even if they were not killed, they would be treated as slaves and assigned to the military states under the head everywhere, that is, the slave estates.
So, after all, there must be an excuse, at least, not really to rob it.
Of course, no matter what, in the end, I am afraid that it will end with a military encounter, and after the matter is completed, Hu Shang and Central Plains merchants will have to temporarily cut off trade with the Khitan, but there is an excuse to rob, that is, the division is famous, then it is different.
Over there, Yelu Haitong heard that Hu Shang in front of him wanted him to use war horses as his head, and his eyelids couldn't help jumping, after all, the war horses were in the market, but he didn't have the final say.
But this Hu Shang understands horses so well, what he said should not be true.
I have always known that these Hu businessmen can not want their lives in order to make money, and sure enough, this is a living example.
But I heard the Hu merchant continue: "The goods I carry are worth 80,000 guan, if I lose the race, I will stay here as a pledge, and the remaining 220,000 guan will be raised by someone to redeem me, my family, in the big food, rich and rival the country!" ”
"The war horse in the East City, I will pay 200,000 yuan, if Lord Yelu loses to me, the rest of the 100,000 yuan, what will I use to offset it?"
Yelu Haitong was stunned, this guy really wants money and doesn't want to die, so he began to think about what would happen after he won?
However, if you send it to the door yourself, and you want to obediently send me your thirty or so ships, then you can't complain about me.
The king asked me to take care of this eastern market, and strictly ordered me not to rob your goods, but you and I fight, no matter what the game is, no matter what the result is, then naturally I won, can you still do it?