As long as there are war horses to hand over to the imperial court, Wu Shaoling doesn't care about a thousand taels of silver, and he doesn't need to use his private property for these silvers, "Zicheng, go to Weili tomorrow, these silvers still need Zhao Feng to go through some procedures." ”

"Father-in-law," Li Zicheng pretended to hesitate, "in case Lord Zhao doesn't allow ......"

"He dares!" Wu Shaoling glared, it seemed that it was not Li Zicheng in front of him, but Zhao Feng, "Our family asked him to go through a procedure, because he can afford him, there is no self-made war horse, let's see what he will do to the court!" The teacup that had been held in his hand finally fell.

Li Zicheng knew that he should leave, he got up and left his seat, knelt in front of Wu Shaoling and kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you father-in-law for success, my subordinates will retire!" The subordinates will go to Weili tomorrow to ask Lord Zhao to see. ”

When Zhao Feng met Li Zicheng, he sat on both sides with Liang Wencheng as usual, Wu Shaoling was the protagonist, but the protagonist cherished words like gold as usual, basically squinted his eyes and watched, and he didn't know that Wu Shaoling didn't sleep well last night and was making up for sleep in the lobby.

"The subordinates knock to see the father-in-law, and knock to the two adults!" Li Zicheng almost fell to the ground, his forehead did knock on the ground, I don't know if it was dusty, "My subordinates came to make a difference!" ”

"Li Baihu, get up and speak," Zhao Feng laughed, quite satisfied with Li Zicheng's attitude, "Since you are here to make a business, then the war horses should be ready, right?" ”

"Lord Hui, my subordinates have tried their best, but fortunately they have not been dishonored," Li Zicheng got up and stood in front of the three of them, "Hey, the war horse is the treasure of the Mongols, and the good horses that are being used, the Mongols are even more important than life, if it weren't for the ...... If it weren't for their lack of food......"

"Li Baihu has worked hard!" Zhao Feng kept smiling, his smile was mostly courteous, there was neither surprise nor much enthusiasm, just like a monk striking a bell and chanting scriptures, or talking about something completely unrelated to him.

It's okay to go through the motions, this kind of boring meeting will end early, as long as the silver is given, Li Zicheng was about to be modest, when he suddenly heard Liang Wencheng suddenly ask: "Li Baihu, did you really get fifty war horses?" ”

Li Zicheng looked at Liang Wencheng very surprised, he didn't see Liang Wencheng much, but every time he met, he always felt that he looked at himself with a gloomy gaze, this kind of gaze was definitely different from Wu Shaoling's scheming and Zhao Feng's submissiveness, as if he wanted to see through his inner world through words and eyes, so that in the matter of buying war horses, he was a little secretly frightened, for fear that Liang Wencheng would see the horse's feet,

"Lord Liang, how dare your subordinates deceive your father-in-law and the two of you? These war horses are to be handed over to the imperial court, if you fool them with bad horses, how many heads do your subordinates have? Rest assured, it is definitely a war horse used by the Mongols themselves. ”

"However, Li Baihu just said that the Mongols sold their war horses because of a lack of food, and now it is summer, which is the season when water and grass are the most vigorous, how can the Mongols be short of food?"

Ma Qiao, just now he only cared about bragging about his own merits, it seems that he has blown it too much, this Liang Wencheng, I don't feel good, he is as careful as a hair, not as easy to fool as Wu Shaoling, Li Zicheng's heart moved, cheered up, "Adults don't know, in summer, aquatic plants are indeed abundant, but aquatic plants are only food for cattle and sheep, Mongolians do not eat aquatic grass, what they lack is not aquatic grass, but cattle and sheep."

"Poof!" Wu Shaoling laughed out loud, "Zicheng is right, Mongolians are also people, and they don't eat water and grass." In Li Zicheng's memory, this seems to be the first time he laughed, and I don't know if it was to support himself.

"......" Liang Wencheng was suddenly choked and speechless, just stared dryly, since Wu Shaoling had already spoken, he couldn't make fun of Li Zicheng.

And Zhao Feng always has a harmless smile on his face, like a fixed template, neither can he see that he is happy for Li Zicheng, nor does he have any expression of condemnation of Li Zicheng, and he is not even in the mood to watch the excitement.

"Lord Liang," Li Zicheng explained, "my subordinates heard that the Mongols lost many battles with the Jurchens, and not only lost a large number of people, but also lost countless cattle and sheep. ”

"Oh." Liang Wencheng was skeptical, but Li Zicheng's explanation seemed to be very reasonable, so he didn't ask any further.

Zhao Feng became a peacemaker and took the opportunity to change the topic, "Li Baihu, where is the war horse now?" What is the price? ”

"Back to my lord, the war horse can reach the outside of Xining City at noon at the latest, eighty-five taels per horse, because the delivery is on our land, the Mongolians are a little worried, so the subordinates and the Mongolians have agreed, one hand to pay the money, the other hand to deliver, I hope the adults will prepare the silver money earlier."

"That's good," Zhao Feng's gaze was on Wu Shaoling, but Wu Shaoling lowered his head and returned to the appearance of an old monk, and he called softly: "Father-in-law......"

"Oh?" Wu Shaoling suddenly opened his eyes, as if he had just woken up from sleep, "Lord Zhao, just follow the agreement, so as not to cause extraneous branches." ”

Liang Wencheng whispered: "Since we are on our land, if we swallow the war horses of the Mongols......"

"My lord, no," Li Zicheng said hurriedly: "You should be true to your word, if we swallow the war horses of the Mongols, this business will become a failure, who will sell war horses to us in the future?" ”

"Bastard thing!" Wu Shaoling was also very dissatisfied, and after scolding, he also glared at Liang Wencheng fiercely, "Let's not talk about the war horses of the Mongols, how will you deal with the imperial court in the future, you swallowed the war horses of the Mongols, once the Mongols attack the military forts everywhere with all their might, Lord Liang, how will you deal with it?" After speaking, he said hatefully: "If Lord Liang can resist the invasion of the Mongols, Xiningwei will not be encroached on many grasslands, and now he has to buy war horses from the Mongols." ”

Liang Wencheng's face turned red, his expression was extremely embarrassed, and he lowered his voice and said: "That's what my subordinates said, and they didn't really plan to do it, these truths, my subordinates will still understand." ”

"Mouthy!" Wu Shaoling recovered the words like gold, but these two words frightened Liang Wencheng and shrank his neck and didn't dare to speak anymore.

Zhao Feng said in a low voice: "Father-in-law, my subordinates understand," and said to Li Zicheng: "Lord Ben immediately arranged manpower and prepared to carry the silver to exchange war horses outside the city, and Li Baihu should also prepare early." ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will arrange it immediately." Li Zicheng bowed his hand and was about to leave the official office, but he didn't expect Liang Wencheng to rush and say: "Father-in-law, Lord Zhao, my subordinates are willing to go outside the city to accept the Mongols' war horses." ”

"Then there is Lord Lao Liang," Zhao Feng said: "Lord Liang has been in the army for a long time, and he needs to be carefully checked. ”

Wu Shaoling said with a cold face: "Lord Liang, the war horse is not only related to the imperial court's trust in Xiningwei, but also the basis for the imperial court to allocate food and salary. ”

Liang Wencheng bowed his hand: "Father-in-law, rest assured, his subordinates understand that his subordinates will never make extraneous branches." ”

"Father-in-law, two adults, my subordinates have come to Xining this time, and there is a reluctant invitation." Although Wu Shaoling agreed to allocate 1,000 taels of silver yesterday to restore the ancient city of the triangle, Li Zicheng knew that it was his personal opinion, and the silver taels needed for repair still had to be paid by Weili, and it needed to be discussed by Weili, at least it had to go through the motions.

Zhao Feng still had a smile on his face, "Li Baihu, please say." ”

"Father-in-law, two lords, subordinates were ordered to buy war horses from the Mongols, but the Mongolian tribes near Zhenhai Fort have sold all the good horses, and it is impossible to have any more gains, if you want to buy the remaining fifty war horses, you have to go deep into the grassland, so ...... Therefore, his subordinates want to preliminarily repair the ancient city of the triangle, as a bridgehead to communicate with the Mongols, and this ancient city of the triangle can also monitor the Mongols in the future......"

"The Triangle Ancient City?" Liang Wencheng frowned, could it be that Li Zicheng wanted to take advantage of this to recover the lost ground? He glanced at Zhao Feng, and saw that Zhao Feng would always be that servile but humble look, and his heart was disgusted, and he turned his gaze to Wu Shaoling, "Father-in-law......"

Wu Shaoling opened his eyes slightly, and said softly: "Our family has agreed, but Xiningwei is not rich, so he can only allocate one thousand taels, and the rest of the silver and manpower can only rely on himself to find a way for the time being." ”

"Just according to my father-in-law!" Wu Shaoling had already expressed his position, Zhao Feng didn't dare to object at all, and a thousand taels of silver was not a big deal, most of it was a reward for Li Zicheng.

Liang Wencheng fixed his eyes on Li Zicheng's face, as if he wanted to see him as transparent glass, but he didn't speak again after all.

At the end of the meeting, Liang Wencheng took the silver, put it in a cloth bag, carried it on a war horse, and went to wait outside the city.

Outside the west gate, dozens of war horses raised their heads to the sky and roared, two men in Mongolian robes held long whips, patrolling the perimeter, several Ming soldiers carefully accompanied the two Mongols, one soldier was bowing his head to the Mongols at the moment to say something.

Liang Wencheng reined in the war horse, and when the war horse completely stopped, he looked at Li Zicheng and said in a deep voice: "Li Baihu, to be honest, where do these war horses come from?" Is it really from Mongolia? ”

Li Zicheng hurriedly reined in the reins of the horse, because the incident happened suddenly, the front legs of the war horse stood up, and he almost lifted him off, he barely sat firmly on the horse, his face was red, "Lord Liang, these war horses are indeed the war horses of the Mongols, and their subordinates dare to guarantee ...... with their heads."

"I knew that they were the war horses of the Mongols...... Liang Wencheng glanced at Li Zicheng's big red face, and didn't ask any more, but his eyebrows were deeply locked.

Liang Wencheng didn't know Mongolian, so naturally Wang Anping temporarily acted as a translator, and after completing the delivery, he asked the soldiers to drive the war horses into the city first, but he came to the Mongolian man alone, and slapped him on the shoulder, "Brother, these war horses are really good!" ”

"That's, it's all war horses...... The "Mongolian man" realized that something was wrong, and he was about to cover his mouth, but it was too late, and he couldn't help but froze on the spot, his face was blue and white with fright.