The caravan of the steppe people drove into the wolf-killing mouth, making this small place that had been abandoned for many years suddenly lively.

The caravan buried the pot in the wolf's mouth to make rice, roasted whole sheep, mare's milk wine, and lit a bonfire at night to sing and dance.

The bonfire burst into flames two or three feet high, crackling and burning so much that you could see the flames on the mountain beam from nearly a hundred miles away, reflecting half the sky.

In those sparse villages, people fled in terror to distant places, dragging their families with their families, driving mules and donkeys, carrying chickens and ducks, carrying old people and children on their backs, and sneaking into the nearby mountains and forests without daring to come out.

This place is not only the throat of the ancient trade road, but also the necessary place for those grassland jackals to attack the farming tribes.

During the heyday of the Great Shang Kingdom, the land was always rich, and those steppe people wore sheepskin robes and cowhide boots, and often rode horses across hundreds of miles of desert and the Gobi Desert to the area around the wolf's mouth in exchange for salt, grain, and bronze. The people of the farming tribes often brought a small surplus of grain and salt to trade with the prairie jackals in exchange for their cattle and sheep.

The greatest buyers and sellers were the kings and nobles of the vassal states, who had in their hands a large amount of salt, bronze utensils, and wine, as well as a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and strange things in the depths of the steppe. Their trade was secretive, but it was also amazing, and everyone took what they wanted, and everyone rejoiced.

Later, the merchants continued to fight among themselves, various forces poured into each other, and the country declined, and finally was attacked by the Zhou people of the small western state, destroying the country, and this lively and lively life came to an abrupt end.

From then on, the steppe people, who lacked salt and food, bared their fangs and began to rob.

First, there was a small-scale robbery, and those steppe cavalry came and went like the wind, staring at the salt shops and granaries, and leaving after grabbing them. Later, some of the vassal states controlled by the Zhou people sent soldiers, ambushes, snipers, and chariots to attack frontally, and those steppe people stopped for a while.

However, this intransigence led to fierce retaliation, and the steppes organized one large-scale attack after another, plundering and increasing in number and cunning.

In the war, those steppe people quickly grew up, and often fought the armies of the vassal states that seemed to be clear-cut and brightly armored, and slowly shrank into some tall and solid cities, and did not dare to show their heads.

The steppe people began to take revenge, not only robbing, but also killing people, often burning down villages that they did not like.

As a result, the two sides, which had been working together happily, finally became mortal enemies, and as long as they seized the opportunity, farmers and nomads were always incompatible.

The big nobles could cower in tall and strong cities, paying for the army to protect them, but the small nobles, commoners, and slaves were not so lucky, and could only become the meat of the steppe population.

Those grassland people are very cunning, they don't often come to rob, but after robbing salt and other things, they immediately rushed into the vast desert northern grassland. While they feasted on the looted daily necessities, they waited for the petty nobles, commoners, and slaves to return to the fields, toiling and accumulating wealth little by little.

Then, out of nowhere, he grabs something, and then suddenly disappears.

The farming tribesmen have become the sheep of the steppe people, and from time to time they come out to bite and harvest, which makes the border people less and less and more barren.

Guo Yang had imagined that if the people of the farming tribe did not come up with a perfect solution, the grassland people would eventually turn large tracts of land into deserts and grasslands, and become their land for grazing horses. Repeatedly, encroaching on each other, those self-inflicted vassal states and nobles will eventually be cornered, either rising up to resist or completely falling.

There have been no steppe people for several years, but their reputation is like a whip, and as long as those border people see the shadow of the whip, their hearts and galls will be broken, and their souls will not possess their bodies, and they will run away early.

However, this group of grassland people seems to be different, which makes those border people hiding in the deep mountains and old forests very curious. They poked their brains out in the distance and looked around the wolf's mouth.

The grassland people didn't seem to have come to rob this time, looking at their peaceful appearance, they were bonfires, roasting whole sheep, and happily singing and dancing, but it seemed that they had come to visit relatives.

However, those people of the farming tribes did not dare to come out, they were frightened by the steppe people, and would rather hide in the mountains and gnaw stones than run out and have their necks cut.

The steppe caravans began to settle down at the mouth of the wolf, and some single-handedly traders quickly whipped up their horses, pasted cloth and silk along the road, and even pasted them on the gates of those cities two or three hundred miles away.

"The jackals are here to do business?" The news spread and quickly set off a chain reaction.

The most panicked are those who are hiding in the city, whether they are nobles or the army, as if they are facing a great enemy, while reporting to the upper levels, while strengthening the city defenses, patrolling day and night, and not daring to slack off.

Later, there was constant news that those steppe people really wanted to do business, because they had already settled down at the wolf's mouth and began to repair the ruins, as if to restore the function of the ancient trade route.

In a stunned state, the army of the farming tribe began to secretly move, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers were quietly assembled. The vassal states, which were not very harmonious in peace, began to unite as never before, forming a large army under the joint and unified command of Yan, Jin, and Zhongshan, and premeditated to block those steppe people and prevent them from having the slightest chance to penetrate into the hinterland.

The wolf-killing mouth was repaired by the steppe people after dividing it by two, and was defended by a wooden fence. What amazed people was that those steppe people got twenty or thirty behemoths out of nowhere, like some huge houses, and surrounded a big circle in the mouth of the wolf, and those hateful steppe jackals hid in that big circle to eat meat and drink wine, waiting for someone to come and do business with them.

Their cattle and sheep forage for grass nearby, and their sheepskins, cashmere, and grassland specialties hang near the behemoths, as if waiting for their new owners.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed since this strange day, and there is continuous gossip.

Zhang Laosan from Zhaojiayu Village brought half a bag of salt in exchange for five sheep, one of which was still a ewe with a lamb; The two slaves in Sancha Village, under the instruction of their masters, exchanged three bags of grain for a big bullock; A commoner settled in a broken house, carrying the only salt and production tools in the family, in exchange for twenty sheep and three mules, and suddenly became a large family within a radius of dozens of miles.

People began to tempt, sending those less important people, carrying salt, grain and other favorite things of the grassland people, and slowly approaching the behemoths of the grassland people, in exchange for the cattle and sheep and other goods they wanted.

The first man returned safely, driving three sheep, one lamb and two ewes, and he made a lot of money at first sight.

The second one also returned, and drove back half a circle of sheep with a face full of excitement.

"Damn, those prairie people are really bad at brains, just fool around, and the business will be negotiated, haha, it's earned!"

"The grassland people don't know what our prices are, this is really a good opportunity to make a fortune!"

"The jackal has finally become a human, and this is a good thing for us."

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One after another, the good news spread out rapidly through the mouths of the farming tribe's own people, and even those hundreds of miles away were a little unable to sit still.

Some want to get rich, some have evil intentions, some are scheming, some are desperate, and they start to plan quickly, simply pack up and set off.

On some official roads and passes, the armies of the vassal states guarded them to the death, preventing them from doing business with the steppe people, and repeatedly ordered harsh punishments to prevent people from taking risks.

But everyone is like a demon, carrying bags and driving mules, and would rather go over the mountains and mountains to go around a big circle than to kill the wolf.

Driven by the whip of profit, people sneaked around the mountains and flocked to those stupid steppe people.

Seven or eight inns that killed the wolf's mouth were soon opened, eating, drinking, gambling, playing monkeys, selling and singing, and all kinds of small shops became prosperous in just half a month, and the wealth was extensive.

Those steppe people were very honest, wearing dirty sheepskin robes, their hair was unkempt, they were grinning, and they were shouting and drinking and drinking wildly, and they couldn't open their drunken eyes.

Those steppe people really don't know much about business, and they can't stand the clever mouths of the shrewd farming tribesmen, and the business is negotiated in a few words. They carried the shriveled sacks of salt and grain, scratched their unkempt black heads, and muttered, as if they were still calculating whether their seven or eight sheep and one cow had been taken away.

Everyone took advantage of it, and many people became rich overnight.

Killing the wolf's mouth seems to have suddenly become a sheep slaughtering mouth, and people are flocking to slaughter the big fat sheep that run out of the grassland.

Just when people are in high spirits, some bad things are slowly breeding, and the most annoying thing is those little thieves who rob houses and houses, in groups, hiding in some remote mountain roads and woods, waiting for the opportunity to kill those who have made money, and take those cattle and sheep and other goods for themselves.

At first, the robbery was still a sporadic incident, but as the reputation of killing wolves became more and more famous, some bandits in the distance were also ready to move, sending teams of men and horses to chase and intercept those who profited.

These people were ruthless, not only robbing property, but also killing people, which soon aroused public outrage.

While keeping a close watch on the steppe people, some of the vassal states began to massacre the bandits.

Those bandits are so fat that blocking a handful of robbers is often a lot of wealth, let alone killing those big bandits.

The enthusiasm of the army was immediately aroused, and many soldiers took the initiative to ask for help, strongly demanding that they all be sent out to exterminate the bandits and eliminate harm to the people.

The bandits' life was slowly getting worse, so they had to disperse, disguise themselves as businessmen, and mix in the crowd to enter the wolf's mouth, hoping to wait for an opportunity to make a move, to see if they could do a big deal.

The order of the wolf-killing mouth has become a little worse, and from time to time there are fights and brawls in the yellow mud streets, and disgusting thieves have also begun to appear. The steppe people did not pay attention to this, anyway, they came to do business, and only wanted salt, grain, copperware, cloth and other goods, and as for the affairs of the farmers, they did not bother to pay attention to it.

As a result, some serious businessmen began to think of ways to organize a unified chamber of commerce to maintain the order of killing wolves, severely punishing those who bully and dominate the market, buying and selling, and even expelling some people from killing wolves.

For those robbers and thieves, everyone banded together to deal a blow like never before. When they find out that someone is not really doing business, they will find a way to find out the person, announce their crime in public, and then stone them into a pulp.

The robbers and thieves were frightened and had to hurry up and change careers and start pretending to talk about business, doing business. Many of them have since changed careers and never returned to the den of thieves.

The prosperity brought by commerce and trade is genuine, and what people earn is real money.

The grassland people are very honest in business, and they have a good temper, they don't talk much, they succeed, they don't succeed, and they can negotiate a deal in a few words.

On the contrary, the shops and stalls set up by the farming tribesmen were full of scheming and cunning, guarding against each other, secretly lowering prices, or secretly hoarding rare goods, and fighting with each other.

Of course, as long as there is money to be made, it is quite cost-effective to spend a little more tongue and scheming, and no one has ever complained about their hard work. Whenever night falls, the wolf-killing mouth is brightly lit, and from a distance, it is prosperous, like a dream.

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Killing wolves is booming, there are a lot of people who shouldn't come, and people who should come are still watching and wandering from afar.

None of the kings and nobles of those vassal states came, nor did Wang Huzi, Guo Yang's business seemed to have been messed up, and in just one or two months, he lost thousands of sheep and hundreds of cattle.

Of course, the real big deal has not yet begun, and his horses are only for everyone to see. Because, the steppe people set a threshold, either buy at least three hundred horses, or, shut up.

The price of steppe horses was not affordable for ordinary nobles and common people, and they could only look at it from a distance and feel satisfied.

Those horses are really miraculous horses, with big heads, thick legs, strong hooves and wrists, and they are definitely the best horses in the world when they walk.

Of course, the steppe people are not pure fools, they bring a hundred or so horses are just samples, and the real herds are still on the edge of the steppe, grazing while waiting for their new owners. This completely dispelled the desire of those vassal states to snatch by force.

After the combined army of the vassal states was assembled, they marched rapidly for a day and a night, and made a short run, and at a distance of seven or eight miles from the wolf's mouth, a single charge could trample those steppe people into pulp.

However, no one dares to act rashly.

They need those horses so badly that if they can get these jackals of the grassland to obediently give away thousands of horses, they might as well cooperate with them once.

The vassal states were wary of each other, suspicious of each other, and none of them wanted others to get the horses of the steppe people first, which greatly restrained their actions, and the expected blatant robbery was inexplicably delayed, and seemed to be far away.

While drinking and eating meat in the tall city, they repeatedly discussed and sought a solution that would satisfy everyone.

The horses of the steppe people are said to be 8,000 horses, and whoever eats them is a fierce cavalry legion! Not to mention that the surrounding vassal states and tribes will be suppressed all at once, even the Zhou people who are far away in Haojing and Luoyi seem to be shaken.

Guo Yang released a virtual bait and hung a large number of people with ghosts.

But the king's beard that he wanted to fish for the most has never been heard.

It seems that the kid still has some doubts, for fear that Guo Yang will set him up.