How Yan Qinghong met his friends and killed the Quartet, and how Yan Tian was humiliated by Xiang Qing, the envoy of the Northern Yan, these were just the details before the talks. No matter what the outcome is, it is not an important condition for Shen Gui, who formulates the strategy. He never thought that Yan Qinghong would be able to gain the trust of the Mobei Mission before revealing his true identity; At the same time, he didn't expect that the crown prince Yan Day, who had won the essence of the Yan family's checks and balances, would be so unhelpful.

Since they were all unimportant trivial matters on the surface, the next morning, the day before the tripartite talks were officially held, the main drama also quietly kicked off.

Mugel, a drunken Mobei envoy who was poured by Yan Qinghong during the banquet yesterday, just woke up from a hangover in the early morning. The 'burning knife' of the bad liquor of Youbei drunk during the banquet yesterday is different from the 'stuffy donkey' produced in Mobei, and it is said that Song Xingzhou, the chef of Huiyoulou, was inspired and improved from the shamanic sacrificial wine. The taste is soft and mellow, which is softer than Mobei wine, and of course it is easier to enter the throat.

A bowl of burning knives will not have the burning sensation of prairie wine, but after sobering up the next day, it can be said that it has a splitting headache. In this alone, it is a little inferior to its own grassland wine, but after all, it is a very cheap and inferior wine, and it is still flawed on the whole. However, this is also the reason why Mugel fell into the Tao, although this burning knife was originally improved from the sacrificial wine of shamanism, but when it comes to strength, it is not bad at all compared to his own grassland wine. The syrup is soft and sharp, and the more you can drink before you know it.

Mugel staggered out of the room, rubbed his eyes, and when he focused his gaze, he was as surprised as if he had seen a ghost!

In the main hall on the first floor of the post house, there are three young people, two of whom he knows: one is the "little second master" who is "not drunk with a thousand cups"; the other is the hope for the survival of the people of Mobei - the return of the "little golden tooth"; However, the young man sandwiched between the two was the first time he had seen:

"Hahaha, the two brothers got up early! My brother was greedy for a few more drinks yesterday, so that the two brothers could see the joke, right? Who is this handsome little brother? Hurry up and introduce my brother to me? ”

As soon as Mugel finished speaking, he had already reached the first floor. He deliberately walked behind Shen Gui, stretched out his big calloused hand and patted him on the shoulder vigorously.

Qi Hui first laughed, and then personally served a bowl of rice porridge to Mugel, and hurriedly introduced:

"This Young Master Shen Gui Shen and I grew up together, and now I am doing some small business in Fengjing City to make a living! And yesterday, I saw that Brother Mu looked a little worried during the banquet, so I invited my brother to see if he could solve your problems for Brother Mu. ”

According to Shen Gui's thoughts, if you go straight to the scene after just three days of acquaintance, there is inevitably the danger of doing something in the middle. If he detects one or two times and turns against him, although he will not lose everything, it will also cause some trouble.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Na Mugel heard Qi Hui's words, his eyes immediately shot out, and he didn't care about asking a detail, so he tightly clenched Shen Gui's right hand:

"I don't know what kind of business this Young Master Shen is doing?"

Shen pretended to smile mysteriously and pointed to Yan Qinghong, who was picking salted egg yolks:

"Like this second master, I have a hard time in business. But I'm just a Jianghu person, and I can't control the difficult things on this official face. ”

Mugel was confused when he heard this, but he still held the idea of playing a shot with or without dates, and said his difficulties very directly:

"It doesn't matter if you can manage it or not, after all, we can't hide the affairs of Mobei from others, it's all obvious. Last year, our grassland was hit by a cold disaster, and now we really have no food. Before the five of us came out, the family had already begun to slaughter the old horses to satisfy their hunger, but the meat of the horses was too dry, and it didn't matter if we men ate some, but the dolls couldn't! Originally, I could have endured a year and a half by relying on the high price of grain from Beiyan Nankang, but I didn't expect that this Beiyan caravan was attacked again on your Zhongshan Road some time ago! They said that before solving the danger, they would no longer dare to trade with our Mobei people. Tell me, once this trade route is cut off, isn't it equivalent to forcing us Mobei people to a dead end? ”

Mugel made his difficulties clear, but he only said some things that were on the surface, and he didn't say anything that shouldn't be said at all. It can be seen that this Mugel is just a bold and rough person on the surface, but he is measured in his heart.

In fact, they Mobei people want to use this friction as an excuse to solve the problem of food shortage once and for all. They want to use Zhongshan Road as a springboard, while cutting off Zhongshan and Dongyou Road; Then take Guanbei 1st Road as a strategic buffer zone between itself and Beiyan, so as to seek greater development space. After all, the geology of their Mobei grassland is really not suitable for cultivating crops.

After a few words, Shen Gui already had a general understanding of Mugel, knowing that this was a Mobei man who was thick on the outside and fine on the inside, and couldn't help but let go of his heart.

In Shen Gui's view, not to mention the pleasure and efficiency of communicating with such a person, he also has an extremely clear understanding of his own concessions in his heart, and he is simply the best partner.

"It's not too difficult if it's food. Although Youbei Sanlu has always implemented a grain embargo strategy against you Mobei, I believe you yourself are very clear that whether it is the grain accumulated in the official warehouse in previous years, or the good new grain that the Li family has secretly smuggled in the past over the years, and even the attitude of the Youbei officials over the years, it has always been the attitude of the people not raising officials and not correcting them, and turning a blind eye. It can be said that the so-called grain embargo has always been only a nominal policy, and you Mobei people should be very clear about this, right? ”

Shen Gui's words Mugel was speechless, because he thought about it carefully and found that it was just as Shen Gui said. Since Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt took office, the grain embargo policy against Mobei seems to have become a slogan. Whether it is the local officials in Youbei who sell old grain to fill their pockets; It is still the Li family's smuggling behavior that has been ostentatious for many years, and nothing has gone wrong for many years. Saying that it is an embargo, it seems to be more like an official act of raising prices.

"It's gone anyway, and we won't talk about it. Just this time, we just suffered from the cold disaster, and the trade route with Beiyan was cut off by you Youbei people, just relying on those smuggled old grain, how many people will starve to death in our Mobei? Anyway, starvation is death, and death in battle is death, so I simply risked my life and fought for my clan to find a way to survive! ”

Shen Gui looked at his rogue attitude of pretending to be an outlaw, raised his hand to pick up the bowl, and slowly took a sip of porridge. It was this pause that gave way to the sharp arrogance that Mugel had pretended. After his complexion changed, Shen Gui stretched out his palm, nodded his fingers and said:

"So this time you are making trouble with Beiyan, but you just want to get more food......"

Hearing this, Mugel immediately interrupted:

"No, even if you lift the food embargo at this time, we Mobei people can't afford it! The original high price of grain has drained the blood of every Mobei person, and now it is just after the disaster year, even if there is food, we have no money to buy! ”

Shen Guiwan smiled and curled his fingers again:

"Okay, then let me put it another way, you have formed an alliance with Beiyan because you want to be cheaper...... Or food that doesn't cost money. Secondly, because the trade routes have been cut off, you have no sense of security, and you want to solve the problem of food shortage once and for all; The third is because they are not satisfied with the pricing power of their own goods, which is in the hands of others, and they do not want to continue to be earned......"

Mugel didn't say the true intention of the war, and Shen Gui naturally didn't mention it. He just analyzed the pros and cons of Mugel from the perspective of a businessman. But Mugel was obviously a little impatient, and just interrupted Shen Gui's concluding remarks with a wave of his hand:

"You're right, we were pushed to the front of the stage by the Beiyan people as a last resort, but what can we do? Therefore, this incident cannot be completely resolved by a few brothers in private chat. ”

Shen Gui laughed, pointed at Qi Hui, then at Yan Qinghong, and finally pointed at himself:

"You know this little fat man, he is the head of the tooth business, and the pricing power of the goods of the three roads in Youbei is actually in the hands of the tooth man; And I also have a great relationship with the Li family of Dongyou, so I won't tell you how good it is, but I can be responsible for mediating the connection, so that you Mobei people can personally negotiate with the largest grain merchant in Dongyou, and have one more business channel; As for this little second master...... With his presence, you Mobei can also have enough trust......"

Mugel's eyes were stunned, and he asked, "What do you mean?" I couldn't help sneering in my heart: If this Young Master Shen thought that just by adding two more wine banquets on three sides, it would be enough to gain enough trust from the Mobei people, it would be a bit whimsical......

Shen Gui looked at Yan Qinghong with ill intentions and introduced it in detail:

"This little second master is also your Mobei man, his real name is Yan Qinghong, and he is the second prince of our Youbei Third Road! His biological mother is none other than Concubine Lan's Bao family, who is the widow of your Erjin clan in the Mobei grassland, and is also the righteous daughter of Bormu Khan. Is this kind of identity enough to gain your initial trust? ”

When Mugel heard Yan Qinghong's identity, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth: he himself was Bormu Khan's brother-in-law, and the righteous brother "Little Second Master" he just recognized turned out to be his grandborn relative! This mess of generations makes him feel even more headache when he thinks about it!