Chapter 40: Hu Feng

Those Xianbei cavalry did not move, stopped at a place a stone's throw away from them, and the big man came up with a few people who could speak some Xianbei words, and the two sides called there for a long time, and after a while, everyone came back and brought back a few war horses.

"Brother, what are they ......" Chen Mo asked curiously as he watched Dahan take down a bag of salt from the car in a hurry, which should weigh more than ten catties.

"Oh, they're here to buy something, hey, these horses are fixed, hehe, this trip is not a loss!" The big man grinned.

"Then I'm ......," Chen Mo leaned up.

"Small tribes, they mainly exchange food and salt, at most some coarse cloth, silk cloth they generally don't dare to wear, for fear of being robbed." Dahan shook his head.

Chen Mo nodded with some disappointment and rode back.

"Lord, you look like this, I don't know that I really think you're a trader." Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo's appearance and couldn't help but say.

"Or else?" Chen Mo glared at him and said, "Do you want me to tell everyone that I am a state assassin and come to spy on the enemy?" ”

Dian Wei coughed, looked at the group of Xianbei people and smiled: "Dongjia, look at these Xianbei people, how can there be women?" ”

There were about 100 people from Xianbei, and there were indeed more than a dozen sturdy women among them.

"This brother doesn't know anything." Dahan sent the goods that the other party wanted, and when he came back, he just heard Dian Wei's words, and explained with a smile: "Whether it is the Xiongnu or the Xianbei people, their women can also shoot arrows on horses, and they have practiced this since they were children. ”

Since the Han Dynasty overwhelmed the Xiongnu militarily, I have only heard of the Han women marrying the Xiongnu or Xianbei, but few Xiongnu or Xianbei women have married, some people may not understand this, but in fact, it is not strange to know the situation of the Xiongnu.

It's not that people are unwilling, it's their own side that they are unwilling, for scholars, don't say that Hun women, that is, Han women have to be innocent, and secondly, just like Yun Si is also innocent, and there are some talents, looking at the grassland, it is not easy to find a woman like Yun Si, and the women of the Han family are so picky, let alone the Hu women who are illiterate.

The common people are not so exquisite, but the grassland women are exposed to the wind and the sun from a small age, and the children of the heads of the big tribes have few delicate skins like the Han women, not to mention the heroic temperament honed since childhood on this vast prairie, you are to ask for it, and the common people may not be able to hold it.

"Somewhat." Chen Mo groped his chin, tasted the product carefully, and agreed with this statement, he was used to seeing the appearance of his wife and concubine, and ran to the grassland to look at these Hu women, which was called a majestic, but in this case, his plan to attract a large number of grassland women seemed to be unworkable.

"Boss, do you want to buy me two?" Dian Wei suddenly looked at Chen Mo and said.

"Uh......" Chen Mo looked at Dian Wei, is the taste of this product different from ordinary people?

But after all, it is his favorite general, Chen Mo naturally will not refuse these requests, nodded and said: "Okay, I'll find two good ones for you, Uncle Wang and Uncle Zheng?" ”

Wang Biao and Zheng Tu hurriedly shook their heads, with their faces and skills, there was no problem in suppressing these Hun women, but in comparison, they still preferred Han women.

"If Brother Dian, if you like it, I have a place to go." The man had just made a lot of money, and said with a smile: "Most of these women who are sold are ugly, but the children of those tribal leaders on this grassland are at least good-looking, and they look cleaner than this ordinary grassland woman, even this ability is also greater than that of ordinary women, and even many men who are called warriors by the Hu people may not be able to beat them." ”

"Oh?" Dian Wei's eyes lit up when he heard this, he likes that kind of strong woman, but the aesthetics are no problem, why do you need those ugly ones if you have good looks.

"Some tribal leaders prefer daughters, these women usually have a higher status in the tribe, but martial arts are usually high, sometimes their leaders will choose warriors for their daughters, if they can show bravery, not only will they marry their daughters to you, but also give a lot of dowry, I think Brother Dian is very capable, if you can encounter this kind of thing, you can try." The man laughed.

"The owner?" Dian Wei's eyes lit up and he looked at Chen Mo.

"Brother, I don't know where this happens?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

"This has to be all up to luck, the tribes on this grassland have no fixed residence, even if they know which tribe has such a thing, it is difficult to find it." Dahan laughed.

"And you still say you know where to go?" Dian Wei was dissatisfied.

"I know a few gathering places of thousand-person tribes, and Brother Chen's goods are easy to sell there." Dahan smiled and said, "If Brother Chen is interested, we might as well ......"

"Okay." Chen Mo nodded and said, "If my brother can solve this matter for Lao Dian, according to what my brother said, I will let you benefit from three percent!" ”

"Happy!" The man was overjoyed when he heard this, Chen Mo brought three truckloads of goods, half of which were silk cloth, and the rest of the porcelain could also be sold in this kind of thousand-person tribe, which was a lot of profits, and at the same time he also glanced at Chen Mo, this little brother is very good at winning people's hearts!

Soon, after the Xianbei people changed what they wanted, they left like a gust of wind, Zheng Tu looked at the smoke and dust in the sky and said, "Isn't it just to change something?" With such a big battle, I thought I was here to rob the Dao! ”

"This is normal on the grassland, you look at these people who are here to exchange things, that's because we have a lot of people, they don't want to suffer losses to buy, if we have half of the people here, they will kill them directly." The man smiled: "So in the future, when you run here, remember not to be alone, not only these Hu people will beat your idea, but our caravan will also have this." ”

This is a place outside the law, although nominally, Yunzhong, Dingxiang or the territory of the Han Dynasty, but there is no official government, the law is naturally impossible to talk about, someone here folded the capital, naturally also want to make a fortune on others, and sometimes the Han people are darker than the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people will be more or less afraid of some will not provoke anyone, but the Han people themselves because they know more, so at that time meat and vegetarian are not taboo, the weak Hu tribe they dare to kill, the single Han people businessmen they also rob it, this cloud in the area, There are several groups of Han people with hundreds of people.

"It's a mess." Chen Mo sighed.

"But it's because of the chaos that I can make a lot of money." The man smiled and said: "Brother Chen, if you can sell all these goods this time, I will take thirty percent, and with the quality of your goods, it is enough for you to go back and earn a manor, and then recruit dozens of more guards, and then you will have more capital when you come here." ”

After speaking, he looked at Chen Mo's three truckloads of goods with some envy, most of them were a few people who put together a cart to sell.

"In that case, there will be a lot of taxes collected at the border gates." Chen Mo said with a smile, now that commerce and trade are encouraged in the state, but the commercial tax is higher than the agricultural tax, even if Chen Mo releases a lot of policies, it is also not low, and the state is fine, if it is a trader in other places, Chen Mo is more ruthless here.

"Who's to say it's not." The man said with a smile: "But most of us are traders in the Hedong area, and the newly appointed envoy is a rare good official, and the tax on our side is half lower than yours." ”

Chen Mo's Huainan accent, Dian Wei's three are similar, and his external identity is also a vendor in Huainan.

"If you want me to say that." Another man said to Chen Mo: "Brother Chen is young and promising, it's better to find a way to go back this time to see if you can stay in Bingzhou, we make Jun Na is thirsty for talent, Brother Chen is talented, talk extraordinary, maybe he will be taken care of, even if he is a county official, it is better than us to make money with our heads." ”

"Consider it." Chen Mo felt a little wonderful, the first time someone praised himself in front of him, and he didn't feel that the other party was sycophant or polite, he felt ...... It seemed good, and he couldn't help asking: "In this world, there are still such officials?" ”

"Of course, there is." Several traders came to be interested, and began to popularize to Chen Mo how the new Bingzhou assassin is wise and martial, anyway, for most people, whether an official is a good official or not has nothing to do with his character, it can bring benefits to everyone and make everyone live better, that is a good official.

Except for Chen Mo's team, most of them sold a lot of goods, and everyone was in high spirits, talking and laughing all the way, and arrived in Wucheng in the evening.

"Why don't you go into the city?" Chen Mo looked curiously at the people who were starting to set up tents outside, and wondered.

"Spending the night in the city, there are so many of us, at least ten sheep are enough, it's not worth it." Dahan shook his head and said.

"So expensive?" Chen Mo looked around, there were indeed many caravans stationed outside, and he glared in surprise: "Everyone lives outside, how can those inns make money?" ”

"Naturally, there are people to live, those post houses in the city are reserved for those wealthy businessmen, they live much cheaper, and even don't need money, we ordinary traders go in, we can peel off the skin, if Brother Chen wants to go into the city to see, tomorrow we will go together, there are still a lot of good things to sell in the market."

Chen Mo nodded, and after coming back, Dian Wei and the others came up and said, "Lord, why don't we enter the city?" ”

"What are you doing in the city?" Chen Mo shook his head and said, "Don't forget my current identity, I'll be here for one night, I'm not so expensive." ”

As he spoke, people set up a tent, and Chen Mo took out bamboo slips to record what he had seen and heard along the way.

Dian Wei saw Chen Mo take out the bamboo slips, so he ran away, Wang Biao sat next to Chen Mo and said with a smile: "The owner is writing a book?" ”

"No, let's record what I saw and heard along the way, although there is no writing in this grassland, but these days, there is their own knowledge."

"The owner has learned from the past and the present, how can my Han culture be comparable to these states?" Zheng Tu on the side sat down and said.

"That's not necessarily, there is no learning at all in this world at the beginning, the so-called learning, are the ancestors of the life of the record into a book, this thing, regardless of the high and low, if you think that my Han is the best, lose the spirit of the sea, after all, it will be overtaken by others, what my generation of scholars have to do, in addition to inheriting the learning of the ancestors, there should also be something that belongs to us, so that my Han culture can go through a hundred generations!" Chen Mo said with a smile while writing: "Besides, although Uncle Wang has never read a book, if you talk about how to get in touch with people, ordinary scholars are not as good as Uncle Wang, and reading books only knows more, not something to show off to others, and it is not difficult to read, but it is meaningful to be able to write your own book." ”

After chatting with Uncle Wang for a while, Chen Mo wrote down what he saw and heard today on the bamboo slips, and after drying the ink and sorting it out, he went to worship the gods and rest.