The night is easy, after Chai Jin woke up, he sat on the bed, quietly pondering, although he has four beautiful concubines, but they are usually staying in his wife Yan's room, this Yan knows Chai Jin's heart, once said to him, no matter what you do, life or death, I will accompany you, so I won Chai Jin's letter and love, what is the matter, discuss with him, this will see Chai Jin's appearance, you know that he has troubles, but he doesn't ask, just let people take hot soup, personally serve Chai Jin clean noodles, and take boiling tea, let Chai Jin relieve hangover.

Chai Jin looked at the girls around him, waved them all down, and then told Wang Yong and Sun Erniang their origins and Yan's family, and then said: "In Wang Lun's letter, he asked me for help, hoping that I could help them get through the difficulties, and Wang Yong was also flattering to me, but I haven't decided whether to help them or not." ”

Yan said softly: "If the official just wants to be a rich man, then don't help, it's one thing to take in the outlaws, these people are going to open up the mountains and make a big fuss, but it's one thing, but if the officials are still a little ambitious, then whether it is to serve the court in the future, or ...... They should all help them, because the official has no confidants, if it is always like this, if the official is born, he will not even be able to find any available cronies, but if he helps them, these people will put righteousness first, and they will definitely do their best to defend the official. ”

Chai Jin listened to Yan's words, couldn't help but be moved, and said, "That...... If I help them, how can I help them? You must know that they must be the kings of the mountains, and if the officials are corrupted, they will be staring at me, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to reply at that time. ”

Yan said with a smile: "It is precisely because they are the king of the mountain that they can help, the official's grange has to do business with the horse market in the north every year, this is agreed by the official, the Khitan people in the horse market are famous for their generosity, how much grain can be swallowed, the official can let people buy a large amount of grain in the south of the Yangtze River in the name of wanting the north of the Yi market, and then when they are transported back, they will pass through Liangshanbo, let them rob it, as for the money, we have a salt field in Cangzhou, and the salt is not in Cangzhou's upper household, we will collect a batch, I changed the salt quotation elsewhere, just saying that it was convenient to go to the south of the Yangtze River to sell grain, and then handed it over to Wang Yong, he took it, which was easy to spend, and he was not afraid of all of us, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. ”

Chai Jin clapped his hands and shouted, "Okay! Madame is wonderful! ”

Yan Shi smiled and said: "Don't worry, we are afraid that tens of thousands of times may not be able to beat this time, and this Wang Yong is not worth our expense, you must always give it a try." ”

Chai Jin nodded and said, "What Madam said is very true, if he is not worth the price, we can't throw the money into the water, it's just ...... How do you try? ”

Yan said: "Isn't this easy, we have a relationship with the Khitan merchant Yeluqing, he will go south to us every spring to buy new tea, it is estimated that it will arrive in the next few days, that Yeluqing has always thought too highly of himself, in the past two years, his guards have injured our guards, Wang Yong They are a group of grass robbers, such people, you can't use them to do anything big, it's nothing more than to use force, then let Wang Yong and Yeluqing's people fight, look at his level, don't you know." ”

The relationship between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao was different from the Jurchens later, the two countries did not have such a heavy grudge, but there was a great territorial dispute in the sixteen states of Yanyun, in the Song Taizu, Taizong and even the Zhenzong Dynasty, they were still tense, and they all wanted to kill each other's posture, but when it came to the Renzong Dynasty, the two sides eased up a lot, when the Shenzong Dynasty, Shen Kuo made the north, and completely determined the boundary between the two tenants, plus the Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji Dynasty, first experienced the betrayal of the king of the Southern Courtyard, and then there was a husband and wife father and son turned against each other, The royal family fell into a great crisis, so that the Great Liao could no longer compete with the Great Song Dynasty, so the two countries entered into a calm, ordinary business travel, envoys, mutual exchanges, and the country's fixed horse market transactions, the two countries have been peaceful for decades, and both sides have become accustomed to this kind of life.

Khitan merchants, walking in the Great Song Dynasty, is subject to a certain degree of control, in addition to the horse market goods are not limited, the state-controlled iron ore, books and these forbidden items can not be traded, tea is also in the restrictions, can only be given by the government to the tea, Khitan merchants in the hands of the merchants, and then to the official tea, which greatly restricts the export of tea, and the grassland people, from the day they come into contact with tea, will not be able to leave tea every day, so every year there will be a large number of Khitan merchants to buy tea in the south, under the repeated requests of Khitan merchants, The government also gave some merchants tea cards, with which they could get special tea, which was not much, but it was enough to make the Khitans crazy.

Cangzhou is not a tea producing area, but it has the right to sell tea cards, Chai Jin is a big household, naturally got a large number of tea cards from the government, Khitan merchants to get tea, so they have to find Chai Jin.

Chai Jin nodded and said, "This is a way, okay!" As Madame saw. ”

After the two discussed, Chai Jin got up from the bed, and after getting dressed, he came to have breakfast with Wang Yong, Wang Yong was at yesterday's wine table, and he listened to Chai Jin already said very well, so he would have the confidence to pat his chest with Sun Erniang, originally in his opinion, Chai Jin should meet today, and talk to him about how to fund them, but at breakfast, Chai Jin Yunshan fog cover nonsense, just don't go to support Liangshan.

Wang Yong frowned when he heard this, and said secretly: "What the hell is this guy doing?" ”

Chai Jin went around until breakfast passed, and then said: "Brother Wang Xian, I have one thing I want to ask you to help, I don't know if Brother Xian is willing to help?" ”

Wang Yong couldn't help but secretly despise Chai Jin, and said in his heart: "Just like you, no wonder you can't get Song Jiang, if Song Jiang is here, he will definitely show the benefits to me first, and then pretend to be embarrassed, and talk about letting me help, so that I have to recommend myself, in the end, I just saw through his tricks, and I have nothing to say, but you don't see a rabbit and don't scatter an eagle, how can you do big things." ”

But Wang Yong said calmly on the surface: "If the big officials have any orders, just say it, my brother said when I came, the big officials are heroes and heroes, and they will never let me down." ”

Although this sounds a little incomprehensible, but when he connects the front and back, Chai Jin can naturally hear that Wang Yong is expressing a certain amount of dissatisfaction, but he is not ready to take back his decision like this, in his opinion, he has made so much money, how can he give it a try.

Chai Jin said what he said about the test with Yelubiao, Wang Yong thought for a while and said: "This is also a trivial matter, the little brother just do his best." ”

Chai Jin couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "Then I'll thank Brother Xian." Later, he told Wang Yong that he was going to fund Liangshan, but he still didn't say how to fund it and how big the amount was.

Wang Yong was angry, dealt with Chai Jin, and then returned to the next place, came to see Sun Erniang, told her about the matter, and said: "This Chai Jin is really not a cool person!" ”

Sun Erniang thought for a while and said, "How sure are you?" ”

Wang Yong said: "I think the Khitan people are born to live on horses, and when I want to come to the competition, it will not be a foot fight, my riding skills are still a little worse, as long as I have to suffer in this, in addition, the horse sent by Su Yi is not suitable for the battlefield." ”

War horses are like military vehicles in later generations, you look at the old jeep, but it can be used on the battlefield, if you drive a sports car over, you are afraid of death and don't know how to die.

Sun Erniang said: "This is easy, firewood into the house, how can there be no good horse, you are doing things for him, just borrow a good horse from him, and you don't have a weapon on the horse, you have to borrow one from him, with these two things, you take advantage of the Khitan people not to come, just practice, you are the best riding skill in our mountain, I don't think it will be much worse than the Khitans." ”

Wang Yong also made Chai Jin angry and confused, and only after listening to Sun Erniang's words did he wake up, that Wang Bodang is one of the five tiger generals of Wagang, a knife and a horse, rampage, the name of 'Yong San Lang' is not called in vain, his theory is not lacking, but he has not ridden in two lifetimes, some are raw, as long as he practices for a few days, he will naturally come back, so he patted his thigh and said: "I'll go find Chai to go in!" After finishing speaking, he walked out, halfway through, and came back again, and said to Sun Erniang: "Aren't you going to pick a horse together?" ”

Sun Erniang was very bored, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll follow you." ”

The two of them came out of the house and went to Chai Jin to explain their intentions.

Chai Jin stroked his head and said: "I actually forgot about this, like this; Brother Xian, we have nothing to do in the afternoon, so we will go and pick up horses, as for the weapons, I have all kinds of styles there, you can see which one fits, if not, I will be able to make it for you temporarily. ”

Wang Yong said with a smile: "The little brother just listens to the arrangements of the big officials." ”

Chai Jin saw Wang Yong take Sun Erniang out, he had already passed his concubine, and knew that Sun Erniang was also sitting on a chair in Liangshan, thinking that he should have some martial arts, and he also understood that Wang Yong brought her over, and he must also want to pick a horse, he was wealthy, but he didn't care about this, and he didn't let people send Sun Erniang back at the moment, so he talked about martial arts in the hall, but Chai Jin didn't expect that Sun Erniang was so familiar with guns and sticks, and he didn't lose to the two of them at all.

Chai Jin was a little surprised and said, "Brother Xian, brother and sister, did you learn this martial art from you?" ”

Wang Yong smiled and said, "No, I learned it from my father-in-law." He told Sun Yuan's name and Chai Jin, Chai Jin couldn't help but add his hand and stroked his forehead and said: "The name of the mountain yaksha is also good in the rivers and lakes, I have always wanted to see and understand, but unfortunately I didn't have this opportunity, but I didn't expect my brother and sister to be his old man's daughter, this is really Chai Jin has no eyes, and I missed it all." ”

Sun Erniang smiled faintly and said, "The big official has won the award." ”

Chai Jin sighed, respected a lot in action, and no longer regarded Sun Erniang as an ordinary concubine.

The three of them talked for a while, ate refreshments, and then came out together, and went to the back of the horse pen, Chai Jin pointed to those horses and said: "These are good horses from the Liao country, but it's a pity that the Liao people are treacherous, and the horses they sell to our Great Song Dynasty are geldings, and they can't be breeded, so they can only keep buying from them. ”

The military horses of the Song army generally use geldings, but after the horses are gelding, the temperament is much more docile, which is much worse than the riders who ride fierce horses on the grassland, but there is no way, the cavalry of the Song Dynasty will only contact the war horse after entering the army, before that, there is a horse at home, and it will be the same as the ancestors.

Wang Yong and Sun Erniang saw so many horses for the first time, in a horse pen, Liang Shan would not even count the horses, not a small half of here, they couldn't help but be envious, so they walked over and watched next to the horse pen, and the horse herd next to them followed closely, ready to take out the horses they fancied.

Sun Erniang looked at it for a while, picked a peach-colored horse at a glance, pointed to the horse, and said to Chai Jin: "Daguan, can I try this one?" ”

Chai Jin smiled: "Brother and sister are free. As he spoke, the stableman went over early to open the door of the stall, led the horse out, got on the bridle, led it to the open space, and let Sun Erniang ride it around, Sun Erniang only felt that the horse was so docile, but when it ran up, there was a momentum, and it was obvious that Su Yi was not a member of the horse, and he couldn't help but be satisfied: "Daguan, I want this one." ”

Chai Jin said with a smile: "My brother and sister can take a fancy to this horse, that is its blessing, so I will ask my brother and sister to match a good saddle, and then ride with my brother and sister." ”

In Sun Erniang's opinion, the saddle bridle of this horse is very good now, but when she heard Chai Jin's words, she naturally couldn't say no, so she rode and walked for a while, and then she reluctantly came down from the horse, and let people lead it over with a new saddle.

Wang Yong will still be turning, he looked at a few horses, are not very satisfied, was about to change the side of the horse pen to look again, suddenly a long neighing sounded, he looked back sharply, and saw a white background, the body with speckled yellow hair mixed with white, looks like the yellow sand scattered on the white snow of the general horse, in a horse pen, looking at him with a horse, the horse's head is also different from the average horse, the foot is one size bigger, shaking the head, looking extremely vicious.

Wang Yong took a few steps, and then stretched out his hand to caress the horse, and the fierce appearance of the horse seemed to be reduced a lot at the moment when Wang Yong's hand touched his body, and it stuck to Wang Yong's hand, constantly rubbing.

Chai Jin will come over and say: "Brother Xian, this horse was given to me by the merchants of the Liao Kingdom when they came over the previous time, saying that they were caught from the territory of Liaodong, and the temperament is extremely fierce, no one here can restrain it, I didn't expect him to be so obedient in front of you, it seems that he is destined for you." ”

Wang Yongxin said: "Isn't it fate, Wang Bodang rode such a horse." His memory told him that Wang Bodang fought on the battlefield in the past, and was shot to death in the end with him in the middle of the yellow sand horse, so he said to Chai Jin: "Since there is fate, then the little brother wants this one." ”

Chai Jin pointed to the horse and said, "Aren't you going to try riding?" ”

Wang Yong shook his head and said: "Little brother believes that this horse has also chosen me, so there is no need to test ride." ”

Chai Jin laughed and said, "Okay, then follow the meaning of the virtuous brother." Then let the horse be brought out, and he was saddled.

After picking the horse, Chai Jin led Wang Yong and them to the school martial arts field, where there were already those Zhuang soldiers in practice, Chai Jin pointed to the weapon racks on both sides, and said: "What weapon does the virtuous brother make, just choose it here, and then I will let the virtuous brother pick it again." ”

Wang Yong responded, and walked away, thinking as he walked: "Wang Bodang is good at using knives, swords, guns, halberds, and four kinds of weapons, and now I have a sword, a sword, and an extra long whip, so I don't need to use a knife immediately, it's better to use a halberd." When he was a child watching "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and reading about the Three Heroes Battle of Lu Bu, he was very fond of the story of Lu Wenhou fighting a halberd against Liu, Guan, and Zhang alone.

Chai Jin stood on the sidelines and said to Sun Erniang: "Won't my brother and sister pick one?" ”

Sun Erniang smiled slightly and said, "I make a three-strand fork." Chai Jin nodded suddenly, this thing girl is not delicate enough, so she nodded and said: "In this way, I will let people pick a good steel fork, and then send it to my younger siblings." ”

Sun Erniang said embarrassedly: "Thank you, big official." ”

Chai Jin shook his head to show that he didn't have to, and turned to look at the field, wanting to see what weapon Wang Yong had picked.

Wang Bodang made a single-edged halberd, Wang Yong will pick a handle in it, and then with his hand, the halberd unfolded, like a strange python in Wang Yong's hands turned over, and then Wang Yong turned over the flowers and willows to dance, originally there were other people in this time to practice martial arts, Wang Yong danced before, did not care too much, but as Wang Yong danced more and more urgently, the halberd with the wind whistling, the people around couldn't help but look at this side, the more they looked at the more stunned, in the end there was no one to practice martial arts anymore, They all looked at Wang Yong's dancing halberd, staring at the flying tip of the halberd one by one, and they couldn't stop talking, and at the same time said: "Good halberd method!" ”

Chai Jin could see it even more, both eyes lit up, and he couldn't stop applauding, when Wang Yong's halberd was collected, Chai Jin hurriedly came over, grabbed Wang Yong's hand and said: "Good brother, hello; All right! "He didn't even know what to say.

Wang Yong said with a smile: "This halberd method is not used, and it has already given birth to a lot, which makes the big officials laugh." ”

Chai Jin waved his hand and said: "Where does the virtuous brother say, if this halberd method is not good, then there is no good one!" ”

During the Song Dynasty, the halberd has entered the sequence of elimination, and it is generally only used for etiquette, and there are fewer people in the world, let alone fine, so Lu Fang and Guo Sheng of Liangshan are not among the masters, because this halberd makes too few people to learn the ability, but now Chai Jin dares to bet that Wang Yong will use this halberd method, which is enough to defeat most people in the world.

He turned around and shouted, "Everything, go to my treasury and fetch my silver dragon lock sun and moon!" ”

They all went in a hurry, and after a while, they brought a halberd over.

Chai Jin pulled Wang Yong to the halberd, pointed to the halberd and said, "Brother Xian, see how this halberd can get into your eyes?" ”