Zheng Wen suddenly realized that what he said was wrong, "Ke Wu, you will be angry when you say this." What does it mean to 'borrow'? The family doesn't need to be like that. ”

"My brother still settles the score! What's more, we are not a small family. Zheng Sheng said softly, "The things I am doing now, the opinions of the clan must be not small, right?" Brother, you have to persuade me here, but you also have to resist their pressure. It's really hard! ”

Zheng Wen's throat was dry, and when he was about to say something more, he heard a noise outside. Suddenly Zheng Wen was even more upset, and he even forgot what he wanted to say.

He called Xinye's steward, slapped the table angrily, and shouted, "Han Xuanyi! What's going on here, how do you do it? ”

The steward was so anxious that his face was sweating: "There is a group of foreigners buying food outside, and we have no intention of oppressing them." But it still made them make trouble, these people are really arrogant and unreasonable! ”

Steward Han explained the matter in detail. The matter was very simple, a few strangers came to buy grain, and after asking the price, they said that the price of grain in their grain store was too expensive, and they were blackmailing them.

"Twelve dollars for wheat and eighteen dollars for rice, these were the prices of twenty years ago, but they are not now." The housekeeper smiled bitterly, "They buy a lot of quantity, and if you sell it to them at such a price, the grain store will lose a lot!" ”

At this time, another gurgling sound came in, Zheng Sheng listened, and suddenly came back to his senses, eh! It can't be baldness, right? He thought that there were not many aliens in Jingzhou, and the possibility of them being Eheli was really not small.

Zheng Sheng walked to the front bunk, only to see that there was still a loud argument over there. The situation is like dry wood and fire, and the last spark is about to detonate.

Sure enough, it's them! Zheng Sheng walked up, "Bald brother, what a coincidence!" Did you come to my house to buy food? ”

A look of surprise appeared on his angry face, "Ah! Zheng Shizi. This is your shop! ”

A conflict suddenly ended.

Zheng Sheng introduced E Heli to Zheng Wen, and E Heli's business suddenly increased by several grades, and Zheng Wen, the top boss of Zheng's grain bank, was about to receive them in person.

He Li still insisted on saying that Zheng's grain price was too expensive.

Zheng Wen did not back down, he just detailed the current grain prices in Jingzhou.

He Li laughed and said, "I see, it's really my mistake." ”

Zheng Sheng smiled: "Brother bald, I heard that you were originally selling horses in Luoyang. Is the price of food so low over there? Wouldn't it be better if you went back to Guanzhong and passed through Luoyang to buy grain there, so as to save freight? ”

E Heli smiled awkwardly: "Luoyang's grain is more expensive, I think the price of grain in Jingzhou will be cheaper, so I want to buy it here." ”

It turns out that it's not cheap here either?

Zheng Sheng shook his head secretly, he didn't want to pursue any more ideas from this Xianbei person. He wanted to reach out to Zheng, but as long as he stood up, He Li would definitely retract. Zheng Sheng and his horse business, he definitely won't want to break it easily!

"Twenty-three years ago, my uncle bought fine rice in Jingzhou for more than 1,000 yuan per stone. At that time, a horse could be exchanged for more than 30 stone grain. Now a pound of rice actually costs twenty-seven yuan! What else to say is the best price! He Li said indignantly, "One of our good horses is only worth twenty stone meters?" You Central Plains people are really ......"

Profiteer, Zheng Sheng made up these two words for him in his heart. But Zheng Sheng felt that this was a problem with the prices of the entire Jin Kingdom, and it was not their family's fault, and there was no need for the Zheng family to make up the difference for them.

"Hehe, the current price of rice is fifteen yuan, which is almost thirty stone grains in exchange for a horse." Zheng Wen squinted his eyes and smiled: "Even in the Taikang year, the price of rice is nearly two thousand yuan per stone. The value of your horses hasn't changed much. ”

Zheng Sheng suddenly realized that grain is grain, which is the grain that has not yet been shelled, and it is also what the government collects taxes from the people. But the rice sold by the grain store is out of its husk. The price of the two is not the same!

He Li also smiled even more heartily.

Zheng Sheng felt that it was a little wolf in sheep's clothing, revealing its original form in the eyes of the old wolf. Actually dared to steal beams and change pillars in front of Zheng Wen, E He Li obviously couldn't cultivate at home!

After that, Zheng Sheng didn't get involved. Anyway, with Zheng Wen here, E Heli will definitely not be able to take too much advantage.

He was back on the road, and then he was chased again. This time it's Eheli.

When Zheng Sheng stretched his head out of the carriage, he happened to see E Heli lightly stop the galloping horse, he jumped down from the horse, and saluted deeply with a solemn expression: "Zheng Shizi, we can be regarded as acquaintances!" Please help us with the baldness department! ”

Zheng Sheng was stunned, why did their relationship suddenly rise to the point where it was related to the rise and fall of a clan?

"Bald brother, let's go to the car and talk." Zheng Sheng brought E He Li into the carriage.

After entering the carriage, He Li was like an angry young man, babbling about the rise and fall of their tribe.

He said that a few decades ago, their ancestor Bald Pigu led the tribesmen who had been oppressed by the majority of the Xianbei Tuoba Li, and was forced to migrate to Hexi and Liangzhou for a generation. Generations of hard work have finally owned a good pasture and can live and work in peace and contentment.

But the good times did not last long, and they were brutalized by the Liangzhou Thorn Shi Hu Lie, and their leader Bald Tree was forced to resist angrily, and was immediately attacked by the Jin court with the strength of the whole country, and finally defeated them successively by Wen Yang and the villain Ma Long.

The bald department failed in its struggle.

"Now in Liangzhou, there is the oppression of various Qiang tribes in the near vicinity, and the malicious connivance of the Liangzhou government in the distance. I'm bald, fresh, and struggling to survive. Zheng Shizi, now, I'm going to raise horses on the grassland for you, I just ask you to sell me a few more stones of grain. so that all of our men may not starve to death, and that we may raise a few more horses for you." ”

"Why don't you ask the county magistrate for this matter?" Zheng Sheng felt that Sima Xin had a good relationship with the sudden person.

He Li shook his head. Zheng Sheng didn't speak anymore, he remembered that when he was fighting with the tree function, it was Sima Jun who was guarding the pass.

If He Li befriended Sima Xin again, Sima Xin probably wouldn't help them.

So, what about Zheng Sheng?

He would never agree to it!

Doing business with nomads, exchanging money equally for the horses he needs, whether to do this, Zheng Sheng also struggled for a long time.

He was thinking, does this count as funding the Hu people? Fueled the power of the Wuhu?

But Zheng Sheng finally figured out that the horse given to him by the Hu people was more important to him than the money he gave.

The strength improvement brought by excellent horses will definitely be much more than the strength of the Hu people who have been improved by these money!

This is what Zheng Sheng firmly believes.

But let Zheng Sheng help a Hu tribe with "humanitarianism" and compassion? Zheng Sheng almost opened his mouth and wanted to ask him directly to make a promise, "I will help you, will you coexist peacefully with the Central Plains for generations to come?" ”

But Zheng Sheng held back, he couldn't believe such a promise. In the era of Wuhu Chaohua, he could only trust him and his partners.

Ten or twenty years later, will the Baldness Ministry re-emerge because of his help, and then participate in the slaughter of the people of the Central Plains?

What will happen in the future, no one knows.

Zheng Sheng's long silence disappointed E Heli, and he said gloomily: "Since Zheng Shizi is unwilling to help, then I will leave." As promised, I will bring you a foal next year. The prairie people will not easily break their promises. ”

Zheng Sheng said goodbye to him.

Sitting in the carriage, Zheng Sheng was suddenly lost, the bald He Li is still a very good person, if he can become friends with him, it will be good!

Then I thought of his superb riding skills, then of the tragedy of his two horseback riding, and finally of his riding instructors, the Wen brothers and sisters.

Zheng Sheng came up with an idea.

He jumped off his horse quickly and shouted at Eheli, who had not gone far on the horse: "Brother Bald, I have an idea, I wonder if you are willing to do it?" ”

He Li turned the horse's head back in surprise, "What's the idea?" I'm willing to do it! ”

Returning to the carriage and listening to Zheng Sheng's thoughts, E Heli was surprised: "Let us teach you riding skills?" ”

"That's right, as long as it's a warrior who is proficient in riding skills in your sudden tribe, for each one, I am willing to give a reward of 100 stone grain for a year. In addition, the price of Zheng's grain can also be 20% cheaper. But your horses will have to pay a little less. ”

He Li agreed without thinking: "Okay! Then he turned and went back to his people.

Zheng Sheng quietly diverged his thoughts, ordinary Hu people participated in the plunder, or to survive, just as the soldiers in the Jin army were also for eating bowls of rice, and the Hu people were the same. If, he used the money to recruit a group of Hu people as cavalry......

But mercenaries, can they be trusted?

Soon, he returned with the results of their discussion. It's not bad, there are three big men who are as tall as E Heli and decided to stay in Jingzhou.

He Li handed them over to Zheng Sheng and left with the others saying goodbye.

Zheng Sheng didn't talk much about the three of them. I just asked their names, and the three of them were named Yangzan, Shebuli, and Tulan.

Zheng Sheng then asked them to take charge of restraining the horses for the time being, and then he continued on his way.

Here, He Li returned to Xinye City with people.

One of the remaining three was communicating something with He Li in Xianbei, and He Li responded to him in a dissatisfied tone.

The communication between the two did not solve the problem, and the more they talked, the more angry they became. The remaining two seem to be in a worse position, and they don't dare to persuade at all.

"Ohali, Dongda, where do you come from?" A voice rang out.

E Heli turned around and looked, and his angry expression subsided: "Ah, isn't this General Guan Shao?" Are you under the jurisdiction of the county government? Well, it's a good choice. ”

I saw a middle-aged man in ordinary clothes and a slightly pale face walking over: "Just mix the bowl of rice and eat." ”

E Heli said about coming to Xinye to sell horses and buy grain: "Zheng Shizi is indeed a hearty person. ”

Guan Shao showed a strange expression on his face and replied, "Yes." ”

"I don't know what General Guan is now?"

"Since it's a mixed meal, it's natural to have nothing to do all day long!"