"It's mainly the rogue bosses, they should be let know." Besides.

"Don't worry, I have sent someone to deliver a letter to each of the rogues, they promise that there will be a lot of them, there are contradictions between these rogues, and many of them even have a blood feud, they will not let go of this opportunity. Even if it's to see a joke, they'll come. Zhuo Maolin Road.

Besides, he didn't think about how much money he would make, but mainly wanted them to see what would happen if they angered Da Ming Qincha and offended him.

"But there is one thing you should know, there are tens of thousands of people in these large and small rogues combined, plus some people from large and small tribes, there are even more, can you really hold this auction here now?" Zhuo Maolin reminded him.

"Are you afraid they'll attack us?"

"Even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, you have to guard against it." Zhuo Maolin is colored.

"Well, I've also thought about this, and I'll strengthen the defense of the camp in the next two days. I've calculated that this is only a day's journey from the Great Wall, and if they really want to attack us, they can fight a fight, as long as they hold on for a day, reinforcements will be sent from the border pass. Besides.

"Stick to the day? Can it be done? ”

Zhuo Maolin knew a lot about the combat power of the Rogues on the grassland, and when they were few in number, they were not a big threat, and once they gathered in the thousands, it was almost an irresistible torrent, because they were all masters of horsemanship, and they could rely on the impact of horses to destroy the opponent's defense.

In Zhuo Maolin's view, this time the swarm of people surrendered to the situation in a few faces, mainly because they gave up their strengths, and gave full play to their strengths. If more than 2,000 people fought on horseback, they might not be able to win so easily.

Besides, he is not worried, he still has a means of counterattacking the impact of the cavalry, the long snake formation, the yin and yang two yi formations are the best countermeasures for the infantry to attack the cavalry, and the sixth guard of Jinyi has been practicing these formations, on the contrary, there is not much energy invested in the tactics of the cavalry.

Among the equipment he brought with him, there were also many horse-repellent horses, tripping horses, and thistles, which were more than enough to prevent cavalry charges or enemy troops stealing camps, and they were not regular troops, so they had not tasted much equipment. In addition, not to mention the lethality of the 500 bird guns and 300 hand guns.

He felt that the possibility of all the rogue gangsters uniting as one and twisting into a rope was almost zero, and there were already many contradictions between them, and they often had to separate life and death when they met, how could they be united overnight? .

Thinking of this, he smiled and said: "Don't worry, don't talk about those rogues, it's the elite soldiers of the King of Altan who are coming, if it's only 10,000 people, I can fight with them, if they are 20,000 people, I can defend first and then counterattack, if they are 40,000 people, we have to stick to it." If it's more than 50,000 people, then they're crazy. ”

Zhuo Maolin still had doubts in his heart, but he didn't say anything more, and said with a smile: "It's good that you know it in your heart." ”

Besides, he didn't care, but he did a lot of things, digging a trench two feet wide and three meters deep around the camp, but he lacked water to make a moat.

On the side of the trench near the camp is the fence, and the inside of the fence is a few zhang wide area full of horse stakes, tripping horses, thistles and other things that are specially designed to deal with cavalry attacks, and then inside is a thousand strong bows and crossbows have been supported, as long as someone attacks, they can immediately shoot bows and arrows, and I believe that with these preparations, even in the face of the attack of 20,000 cavalry, they can cope with it.

He didn't do these things himself, but handed them over to Sun Hu to supervise, and he went back to the chariot to talk to Li Xiangjun and a few beauties, and then went to his bedroom to make up for sleep.

Not only is he catching up on sleep, but all the officials are also catching up on sleep.

These adults are all people in sedan chairs in the capital, where have they ever walked so far in a carriage, and they are all too tired to work.

At that time, the carriages were all wooden wheels with iron sheets on the outside, unlike the rubber tires and high-quality springs in later generations, so it was naturally impossible to design a shock absorption system, and all that could be done was to lay more soft cushions on the seats.

It doesn't matter if it's a short distance, but after a long journey, this kind of bump accumulates, making these adults have backaches and leg pain, as if they have been torn bones.

Fortunately, if they were to stay here for a few days, these people would drink to relieve their fatigue, and then try to catch up on sleep when they were drowsy. When I woke up, I walked around, and I still slept after eating.

Under the conditions at that time, it was really better to ride a horse, a skilled rider, but not much bumps, after all, the horse is the best shock absorber, as long as the people and horses are in harmony, riding a horse is really not a particularly hard thing.

A good rider can change horses and run thousands of miles in one breath, but if he is allowed to ride a car, it is estimated that two thousand miles of people will be fragmented.

In fact, there are only more than 100 households in this large settlement, which is less than the size of a small town in the mainland, but it is already a large settlement outside the Saiwai, and there are still some yurts scattered around, all of which are herdsmen grazing with water sources and pastures.

Besides, when I first arrived, I wondered why there were not many herders here, and it stands to reason that there should be a large tribe gathered here with water sources and lush pastures.

He inquired and found out that it was too close to the border pass, and the herdsmen were afraid that the Ming Dynasty officials and troops would come to attack and harass, so there was no climate here.

Occasionally, the officers and soldiers stationed at the border pass in the Ming Dynasty often did this, and they first sent out rangers to reconnoiter where there was a large herdsman tribe, and the guard force was not very strong, so they would sneak out from the border pass to attack this tribe, snatch all the cattle, sheep and horses, and even the herdsmen would be driven into the pass to do coolies.

Therefore, most of the residents here are Han Chinese, and they are all connected with the border gates, and the officials and soldiers will not harass them.

But as soon as this group of people arrived, the place immediately became lively, more than 10,000 people, with more than 5,000 carts, after stopping, it immediately became a small town, the scale and area of which are much larger than this settlement.

Zuo Ling was not in the chariot, but looked around the settlement, wanting to buy some precious medicinal materials, and she was followed by a car, which was not pulling silver, but salt.

Here, salt is hard currency, more popular and more in demand than silver.

The cloth, silk, and grain on Zuo Ling's cart were not taken out for sale, because Zuo Ling found that there were too few things to buy here, and it was not worth selling these things in a big way, so he had to wait until the critical time to take them out and use them.

"Ma'am, you see there's a pharmacy there." One of the guards said, pointing to a low house.

Zuo Ling shook his head: "That's a shop opened by our Han people, don't say that there won't be good medicinal materials, and even if they do, they won't sell them to us." ”

As she was talking, she suddenly saw a person squatting on the ground not far in front of her, with a straw mat in front of her, and dozens of herbs on it.

"How are these herbs sold?" Zuo Ling went up and asked.

Baturu, who was followed by Zuo Ling, hurriedly translated into Mongolian for her.

"Not for sale." The man lifted a swarthy face and said stiffly.

Baturu translated it into Chinese and spread his hands.

"What are you doing here?" Zuo Ling was puzzled.

"These herbs are not sold, they are only used in exchange for one thing." That's humane.

"For what?" Zuo Ling asked again.

As the two of them spoke, Baturu quickly translated, but he didn't feel anything awkward.

"A swarm of the heads of the third child." After the man finished speaking, he lowered his head, and there was a kind of stubbornness all over his body.

"A swarm of the heads of the third? Is that the third master? Zuo Ling asked.

The man didn't say anything, just nodded.

Zuo Ling smiled, it seems that this business is really coming to the door, but how did this person come so quickly? Didn't the news just get out?

Besides, the head is to be auctioned for silver, not medicinal herbs, and even if they can be used to offset the price, these medicinal herbs are not worth that price.

"Let's go somewhere else, this man is a little whimsical." Zuo Ling smiled and gave up.

There are indeed a lot of high-quality goods in these hundreds of medicinal herbs, but they add up to only a few hundred taels of silver, and the heads of thirty-six masters in a swarm of bees are not this price, at least each is worth two thousand taels of silver, and this is only the reserve price of the auction.

"These herbs are just samples, and I still have a lot of them." When the man saw Zuo Ling walking away, he said again.

"You still have a lot of them? How many? Zuo Ling stopped and asked.

Her favorite is not silver, but the best medicinal materials, since she began to make Chinese patent medicine, she has had enough of the lack of medicinal materials, no matter how to find a way to solve this problem. This time she went to Saiwai was undoubtedly a good opportunity to stock up on high-quality medicinal materials, she didn't want to make much money to go back, and it was completely an idea to make such a big battle.

Just like the weakness of the ancients is the calligraphy and painting of the ancients, the weakness of the left antelope is the best medicinal materials in the tunnel.

"Twenty cars." That life is hard and authentic.

Baturu was a little shocked, herbs are also very expensive outside the plug, this is not cabbage, how can it be counted on the car?

"What did he say?" Seeing that Baturu had not translated for a long time, Zuo Ling asked.

"He said he had twenty truckloads of medicinal herbs." Baturu then translated.

"Twenty cars? How big is the car? What kind of herbs are they? ”

Although Zuo Ling was a little surprised, she didn't reveal it, when she was in Beijing, the goods were also bought in one car, she just wondered what this person was doing, why there were so many medicinal materials? If you are a medicinal herb merchant, why don't you want to sell silver, why do you have to swarm the heads of three people?

"Such a big car." The man pointed to the road in the distance where the camp had been.

These vehicles, which were also trucks pulling goods, stopped when they reached the field, and then unloaded the horses to feed the fodder, and the vehicles formed a circle around the camp to form a ready-made formation.

"Such a big car? Are you sure? Zuo Ling calculated in his mind that if it was as big as the cart they were hauling the goods, the twenty carts of herbs were indeed a large amount, and the value would definitely be more than two thousand taels of silver.