"Whew!"

Ma Fu shot an arrow to kill the wild wolf that was about to pounce under Luo Cong's warhorse, and then the arrows on the city wall rained down, cleaning the wild wolf running in the snow.

Ma Fu breathed a sigh of relief after shooting this arrow, and immediately organized people to open the city gate and come to rescue the guards who were besieged by wolves.

Wang Zezhi was taken back to the city and was also relieved.

He thought that Ma Fu had rebelled, but he was saving him.

"My lord, come into the city, there are still many wild wolves outside." As soon as Mafu left the city, he escorted them into the city.

The sergeants on the city walls were still shooting bows and arrows in their hands.

In the darkness in the distance, the screams of the guards and the neighing of the horses could be heard from time to time.

In the end, with Luo Cong and Wang Zezhi, only five people escaped.

"Save them, save them."

As soon as Wang Zezhi arrived at the city gate, the soldiers began to close the door, and Wang Zezhi immediately shouted loudly.

The sergeants froze as they closed the gates, and two wolves rushed in at this moment.

Straight into the thigh of the sergeant next to the door.

"Ahh My leg. ”

"Cut it, cut it, quick, close the gates." Seeing this, Wang Zezhi immediately gave an order nervously.

The sergeants no longer hesitated, and while quickly closing the city gates, they slashed and slashed at the two wolves that rushed in.

The two wolves were quite tenacious, and they died only after being cut down with blurred flesh.

But their bite force was so great that even when they were dead, their heads were still hanging on the sergeants' laps.

Wang Zezhi was dumbfounded, he knew that the guards outside the city were not saved.

He was silent, and went to the city wall, looking out where the fire could not shine.

It was dark, and there was nothing to see except the shadow of a wild wolf running.

Even the screams of the guards and the neighing of the horses were gone.

Wang Zezhi knew that they had been bitten to death by wild wolves.

"My lord, why are you here in person?"

Ma Fu thought it was because he didn't obey Wang Zezhi's orders, and Wang Zezhi came to find him trouble, so he asked anxiously

"The winter on the grassland is too cold, I came over to see what difficulties you have here, so that I can solve them for you, but I didn't expect the situation to be more serious than I thought."

Wang Zezhi couldn't say that he came here because he suspected that Ma Fu had a problem, so he could only tell a lie against his will.

"Your Excellency, you don't know, there were already a lot of wild wolves in this area before you gave the order.

According to the herders in this area, these wolves are not steppe wolves but come from the north, and they are ferocious.

You see, all the merchants and herdsmen in the city came to the city to avoid the wolves. ”

Ma Fu explained, pointing to some of the merchants and herdsmen hiding in the city.

Ma Fu guessed that Wang Zezhi was here to trouble him, but Wang Zezhi met a wild wolf on the road, knew the truth of the matter, and did not plan to hold him responsible.

Still, Mafu had to explain.

Wang Zezhi looked at the herdsmen and merchants in the city, and was a little puzzled.

He wondered why the merchants didn't go to Naturalization City to trade, so he pointed to a fur merchant and asked.

The fur merchant was named, and came tremblingly with a fine sand fox fur.

"My lord, this... It is a complete sand fox fur, which was hunted by the best hunters in the steppe with bows and arrows, who shot into the fox's eyes with a bow.

Only in this way can the fur be the most complete.

Please smile and accept. The merchant flatteringly offered a fox pelt.

Wang Zezhi took it in his hand and touched it, and the texture was excellent.

In this era, it is already an unspoken rule for businessmen to give gifts to officers.

If the officer doesn't accept it, either the gift is not expensive enough, or the merchant will be rectified. 18

Wang Zezhi thought about it, but he still had to accept this gift.

When he had taken it, he took out a silver ingot of twenty taels from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the little merchant.

Because he used to be poor and scared when he asked for food, he would always carry a few ingots of silver with him wherever he needed them.

"I can't do it, I can't do it, I don't need to give silver, this is a little bit of the villain's heart."

The merchant was shocked, thinking that Wang Zezhi did not think that the gift was expensive enough.

"This silver is not used to buy fox skins, I am here to buy news." Wang Zezhi knew what the businessman was thinking, so he said.

"There's no silver to be needed, just ask." The merchant looked at the silver and said cautiously.

Because he didn't know whether Wang Zezhi really wanted to buy news for him with silver, or be polite and pretend.

"If you take it, what's the matter? Too little? Wang Zezhi knew that it was useless to reason with these people, so he raised his voice and said that he was very angry.

The merchant's face was overjoyed, and he immediately grabbed the silver and bit it with his teeth.

"Hey... The color is quite sufficient, adults want to know what they want to ask, just ask, the little ones know everything, and the words are endless. ”

Wang Zezhi thought for a moment and began to ask.

"Why don't you go to the Naturalization City to trade, and instead come to the town guards in the west."

"My lord, don't you know?" the merchant began to speak slowly.

It turned out that the market on the other side of the city of Guihua, with the addition of Mongolian merchants, all bartering was changing to the way of silver trading.

It was the horse market that decided this change.

Because the price of the horse market is fixed, it is traded at the price set by Wang Zezhi.

This price is fair to both herders and merchants.

Therefore, nowadays herdsmen often choose to go to the horse market to sell their horses, exchange their horses for silver, and then go to merchants to buy salt, tea, grain and other goods.

In addition, the Mongol merchants began to move closer to the mouth of the tiger, and these people gradually figured out the price of goods, and the silver they could earn from a trip to the customs became less and less.

Now there are only two kinds of goods that can still make money, one is tea and the other is ironware.

Iron tools are forbidden, and petty traders like them can't get their hands on them.

Tea has to be purchased in the land south of the Yangtze River.

Small traders like them don't know where to buy, so they can't make money from these two businesses.

So, they took the risk and went to do business farther outside the city.

This small fur trader went out of the customs from the mouth of the slaughtering tiger, passed through the Zhenyuwei, and then went north to the area of Harangwu, where the station of Western Tumut was stationed, and exchanged silk for some furs for a living.

The Haranggu mentioned by the small traders is the area of the right banner of Tumut.

I didn't think that this vendor was so bold that he would dare to run so far alone.

It is close to the Yellow River, more than 200 miles away from Guihua City, and it is not under Wang Zezhi's control at the moment.

"You're quite bold, okay, I don't have anything to ask you, you can go down."

"The villain is just for the sake of eating, and he has no guts."

The little trader smiled and went down happily.

After he went down, he took out the ingot of silver that Wang Zezhi gave him and bit it.

When he confirmed that the silver was fine, he began to brag to the person next to him.

Around him were some generalists and herdsmen, and when they knew that if they gave a gift and sold a piece of news, they would get a silver ingot, and they all became excited.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wang Zezhi is the leader of this group of sergeants.

Due to the style of border generals like robbers in this era, these people are a little scared, and they dare not come forward to talk even if they are tempted.

However, there is one exception.

This is a middle-aged herdsman with an eagle tattoo on his body and a thick leather drape on his right arm.

He opened a cage and released an eagle, which stood on his arm as soon as it came out.

"Ah, noble chief, are the goshawks of the steppe interested?"