"Young master, this is a guest from the grassland, and he has something to discuss with you." Lin Li pulled Ye Chen aside and whispered to him.

Ye Chen turned out to be a grassland person at first glance, although the Han people were dressed, but at first glance they were from the grassland, according to later sayings, they were ethnic minorities, but at this time they were Hu people.

Ye Chen nodded quietly.

This time, he brought back not only 500 war horses, but also a lot of grassland furs, which were very valuable in the hinterland, and he could make a lot of money by selling them.

This made Wu Xian look at it, and his injured heart comforted a lot, at least this time the caravan still brought back a lot of wealth.

Ye Chen quietly asked Lin Li to bring the people back, and then he asked Wu Xian and Bai Feng to go back together to meet the visitors from the grassland.

Now the relationship between Dahan and the grassland is not very tense, in fact, there is no need to be so secretive, Ye Chen feels that maybe the other party is just a tribe, and it is inconvenient to let other tribes know.

After being polite in the living room, Ye Chen took the person to the study and did not allow anyone to approach.

In addition to the grassland visitor in the study, there were Lin Li, Bai Feng, and Wu Xian.

"Rubatu has seen the honorable lord." After saying that, he put his hand on his chest and saluted.

"Thank you, and greet your king on my behalf."

"My lord, this is a gift from our king." Lu Batu respectfully brought a gift box to Ye Chen.

"Haha, thank you for the gift of the king, and I will also give you a hundred jars of high-quality Du Kang wine."

High-grade Du Kang wine, a hundred jars is a gift of 500,000 yuan, this gift is heavy enough, but it is the market price, it doesn't cost a lot of money for Ye Chen, he also needs the war horse of the grassland, and it is certain to have a good relationship.

"Thank you, honorable lord."

"I wonder who your king is? And what is the messenger here for? ”

"I'm representing the King of Cliffs this time, and I hope to establish a friendship with adults."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, I don't know what kind of friendship King Cliff wants to establish with us."

"We want to trade with adults, a lot of trade." Rubatu said with some excitement. As if the trade he spoke of was not ordinary trade.

"Trade, of course, my Ye family is a business family, and I like to do business the most, but I don't know what you need, and what can we get?"

This is sleepy someone sent a pillow, Ye Chen worked hard to build a huge caravan, and the grassland was the focus, why is this, isn't he just trying to control the grassland.

"We need plenty of food and iron and salt, and of course your Dukang wine, which is best for our steppe heroes." Rubatu licked his lips as he spoke, it seemed that he had drunk Du Kang.

"As long as you want the starting price of Du Kang wine, there is no big problem with salt, and I will try my best to arrange food for you, but the iron tools are controlled by the imperial court, we can't get much, and the price is very expensive."

Of course, Ye Chen's words have moisture, and it is not difficult for him to deal with food, but he is not willing to sell too much, although this iron tool is controlled by the imperial court, but where can the imperial court manage so much now, and the following families have made it themselves.

"My lord, our king very much hopes to establish a deep friendship with the adults, and please help us with the grassland."

As an envoy, Lu Batu still has a certain understanding of the Han Dynasty, and he knows some of the habits of the Han people, so he thinks that Ye Chen is just making excuses to raise the price.

"Okay, of course, I'm also willing to establish a deep friendship with the Cliff King, so that I can guarantee that your warriors will be fed with food, at least no one will starve because of lack of food this winter, but iron tools..."

"Thank you for your help, but I still hope that your lord can help us get some iron weapons, this imperial court in order to limit our force, do not let iron weapons flow into our grassland, which makes us Wuhuan weaker and weaker, sooner or later will be annexed by the Huns."

Speaking of this, Rubatu was very angry and very sad, as if their homeland was being invaded by the Huns.

Ye Chen thought to himself: "You also know that the purpose of not giving you iron weapons is to limit your strength, I am not afraid that you will be annexed by the Xiongnu, I am afraid that you will enter Liaodong." ”

At least Ye Chen knew that during the Three Kingdoms, Wuhuan invaded the four states of You, He, Qing, and Hebei several times, bringing painful disasters to this ancient land of Shenzhou.

"Well, please rest assured that I, as your friend, will definitely help you. But we also have conditions. ”

"Thank you again, sir. If you have any conditions, please say, as friends, we will try our best to satisfy adults. ”

"First, in the future, you can only trade with my Ye family, and you must not trade with other Han people; Second, we need a bunch of horses, good horses, and I hope you will provide us with enough horses. ”

"Greedy Han Chinese." Rubatu secretly cursed in his heart, but he didn't show it. He thought that Ye Chen wanted to monopolize the transaction with them and obtain huge profits.

Of course, he was not wrong, but Ye Chen had other plans.

"Please rest assured, as long as you can meet our requirements, of course we are happy to only trade with you, as for the horses, there is no problem, there is no shortage of horses in our prairie."

As for whether these horses would pose a threat to them, this Lu Batu was not worried at all, because even if Ye Chen was given five thousand horses and five thousand cavalry were formed, it would be nothing to them.

After reaching a basic agreement, Ye Chen asked Lu Batu to rest, and he wanted to have a small meeting to unify his thoughts.

"Lin Li, what is the strength of this Cliff King."

"Young family master, this king of the cliff has average strength on the Wuhuan side, and he has a good impression of us Han people, so this time we are looking for them to trade."

Ye Chen doesn't care what their attitude towards the Han people is, they are all virtuous, as long as the Han people are weak, they will invade, this is the case with the Wuhuan invasion in a few years, the Wuhu Chaohua in the back, the Mongolian iron cavalry in the later years, and the Qing soldiers entering the customs are the same.

"Lin Li, trading with Wu Huan, there are some requirements, you have to remember clearly."

"Please ask the young master to command."

"First, the grain can only ensure that they are just enough to use, and there can be no surplus, salt is the same, and iron tools can only be used in small quantities, this standard is not to make their strength change qualitatively, you not only have to trade with the Cliff King, but also sell our Du Kang wine to other tribes."

"Yes, young master, I understand."

"Hmm. And you go and get five hundred high-quality horses for the Ye family this time, only five hundred are needed, and now our Ye family can't afford to raise them. ”

Wu Xian listened to Ye Chen's words and glanced at Ye Chen, and thought: You also know that you can't afford to raise it, what are you not good at, get the horses over.

"Don't worry, the young master of the family, it's not difficult to get this horse in the grassland."

"Well, then you go down first and find Rubatu well."

"Yes, young master."

"Wu Xian, this time with the king of the cliff, the transaction volume is estimated to be no less, in the next few days, you mobilize materials, let the caravan travel as soon as possible, in addition, send more guards."

"Be careful, young family master, we have all these things they want in the Ye family's warehouse, and they can be called at any time."

Although the Ye family is also short of food now, what is lacking is not the present, what is lacking is the future reserves, plus the last time the Wei family came to buy Du Kang wine, a large amount of food was transported, so the Ye family is not short of food for the time being.

For the trade with the grassland, this Wu Xian is still very enthusiastic, because there are very large profits this time and again, if it weren't for Ye Chen's pit goods to get back a batch of war horses, then the income of this trip alone would be tens of millions.

After explaining some things, Ye Chen sent Wu Xian and asked him to get busy, he did have a lot of things to do.

"My lord, it seems that your arrangement is not as simple as simple trade for the grassland."

Bai Feng is not a fool, Ye Chen must have a purpose in arranging it this way, but others are considering it from a business perspective, and it is very reasonable to consider Ye Chen's behavior from this aspect.

For the sake of huge profits and grassland trade, they want to monopolize and obtain greater profits.

But Bai Feng knew Ye Chen's ambitions, so he naturally wouldn't think about Ye Chen's behavior purely from a business point of view.

"Hehe, then tell me, why is it not simple."

"Lord, do you want to control the grassland?"

Ye Chen smiled and said, "It is not these things that need to control the grassland, only force can control the grassland." ”

Bai Feng couldn't help but wonder, could he have guessed wrong?

"The grassland must be controlled by strong force, which is good, but we don't have to control the grassland, we just need to infiltrate the grassland and provide us with financial income and a source of war horses in the future."

"Hmm" Bai Feng nodded, but he still looked thoughtful, obviously he didn't believe that Ye Chen's arrangement was so simple.

"When my Ye family squeezes out the caravans of other families from the grassland, then we control the economy of the grassland, but this is a very dangerous thing, when the grassland is discovered, they will not be afraid, nor will they compromise, they will only do their best to invade us, this Liaodong has always been under the front of their iron cavalry."

Now Bai Feng somewhat understood Ye Chen's strategy.

"Economic means are the best means of infiltration, when we infiltrate the whole of Wuhuan, then we know their movements well, we can divide them, trade with them and their strength will not increase much, because they buy Du Kang wine, grain, salt and other consumables, and we can expand rapidly."

"When we have money, we will naturally have soldiers, and if we have the strength to fight them, then Wuhuan will surrender, if we don't have the strength to fight them, but we have the ability to protect ourselves, and if they can't beat us, they will obediently trade with us, so that one day we can completely make them surrender."

Bai Feng felt that he had met the Ming Lord, at least Ye Chen had a sense of the overall situation and understood strategy.

"Zimo, you have to go to the grassland this time."

"My lord's command."

"We have to build up intelligence on the grassland, so this time you have to select some people to join the caravan, mainly to collect intelligence, and this time you will be asked to observe the situation in the grassland. Lin Li and they don't know my intentions at all, and they can't let them know, so they can only send you to do these things secretly. ”

"Please rest assured, the wind will complete the task."

This unexpected visitor to the grassland made Ye Chen feel that it was a good opportunity, and using this opportunity, the Ye family could rely on the grassland trade to develop again, and it could also allow him to obtain other benefits.