Zhang Zhigu hummed a Youzhou tune, rode a horse leisurely on the vast grassland, followed by a ticket of more than 200 guards with knives and bows, escorting dozens of tall oxen and carriages slowly westward. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Zhigu has walked this road to the Sangandu Governor's Mansion for more than ten years, and he can ride a horse to the nearest Tuji Prefecture with his eyes closed.

This year, Li Yu organized the Andong Pioneer Group to recruit a large number of more than 40 state disaster victims to Andong Tuntian. A large number of cattle will need to be prepared for the cultivation of the affected people after the beginning of spring next year, and the sheep will also be rented to the affected people to raise. In addition to supplying the army, the purchased horses were also intended to take advantage of the hard-working and easy-to-maintain characteristics of the Turkic horses to cultivate the land.

Cui Xuan's prediction for Li Yu is that about 100,000 victims may be recruited, and the pressure on both transportation and resettlement and organizing the disaster victims to cultivate in the coming year is very great.

As soon as Li Yu gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, he immediately ordered Zhang Zhigu, the head of the Youzhou Supply and Demand Office, who was in charge of the trade between the Sangqian and Dingxiang Prefectures, and Li Xingcheng, the head of the Chang'an Supply and Demand Office, who was in charge of the Huyan and Yunzhong Prefectures, to buy enough cattle, sheep and horses from the Turkic prefectures they were responsible for before the beginning of spring next year.

Only then did Zhang Zhigu personally lead his subordinates to the Sangqian Governor's Mansion with a large amount of trade goods.

Zhang Zhiguyuan was just a merchant in Youzhou City who relied on reselling Turkic horses, two years ago because he was robbed by a group of steppe horse bandits on the way to run a business on the grassland, and was also arrested as a slave, and was later rescued by King Yan when he sent troops to suppress the horse bandits.

Zhang Zhigu, who was lucky enough to escape, accidentally learned that King Yan wanted to buy horses, cattle and sheep and leather from the three Turkic prefectures of Beishizhou, Yishizhou, and Yushezhou, which were close to Youzhou.

I thought that I had worked hard for decades and was just a low-status businessman, although my family was okay, but it was far from being rich and expensive, if I had been a businessman in this life, my life in 20 years would be basically the same as now.

Businessmen don't have to be businessmen for life, and seizing an opportunity can often change their identity. Without hesitation, Zhang Zhigu stood up from among the rescued slaves and recommended himself to the generals who led the army.

Relying on his more than ten years of business experience in Monan, he has an understanding of the Turkic prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Shan Yu Protectorate. In the past two years, Zhang Zhigu has been a small procurement deacon in charge of the supply and demand department of material procurement in Yanwangfu, and has now achieved the position of the supply and demand director of Youzhou, who is now fully responsible for the trade of Sangqian and Dingxiang.

This time, the team went to the Turkic states of the steppe to receive an order from the king of Yan, so that Zhang Zhigu immediately sent people to the Sangqian and Dingxiang governors to buy a large number of cattle, sheep, and horses that were in good health and in the prime of life.

Considering that the number of cattle, sheep and horses that King Yan ordered to buy this time was higher than in the past, Zhang Zhigu was not worried about his subordinates, so he personally led people to run this trip.

In recent years, the business with the Yan Wangfu has been very prosperous, and the two sides take what they need, and those Turks will sell face when they see that it is the people of the Yan Wangfu.

But if the people in charge of the trade do not understand, are not familiar with the Turkic leaders, and those Turks are not good people, they will inevitably be deceived and even verbally threatened. If the person in charge is cowardly, he will definitely suffer.

The trade between the Yan Wangfu and the Turkic states was mainly based on the conversion of the items exchanged by the two sides into coins, supplemented by gold, silver and copper coins.

Therefore, Zhang Zhigu also brought dozens of oxen and horse-drawn carts full of goods, the most of which were filled with the spirits loved by the Turks, mainly to supply the tea leaves, exquisite silks and various gold, silver and jewelry needed by the magnates of the Turkic states.

In order to make money, Li Yu ordered the stewards in charge of trade with the Turks in the supply and demand department to do everything possible to instigate the Turkic magnates to develop the style of drinking tea, and to blow the tea brewed from the fried tea made by the Yan Wangfu that is half true and half fake.

In the past few years, the magnates of the Turkic states under the jurisdiction of Shan Yuduhu, who have never drunk tea, have been fooled by the group of foolish people in the supply and demand department of Yanwang Mansion, and it has become a trend of spreading.

In recent years, the demand for tea on the grassland has been on the rise, although it is not as good as the demand for liquor, but it is also the second largest item required by the grassland departments.

This year, Li Yu looked at the report given by Cui Xuan, and his mouth smiled crookedly.

As for the liquor produced in Yanwangfu, the Turks are even more lovely.

Especially in the cold winter season, since the Yanwangfu sold the liquor to the Turks much higher than the alcohol content of this era, the Turks liked to drink the spirits produced by the Yanwangfu in the cold winter to warm up. In winter, the demand for liquor increased greatly, and at this time, the liquor produced in the Yanwangfu would be snapped up by the Turks as soon as it was transported to the grasslands.

In addition, in the cold winter season, cattle and sheep are easy to die of freezing and starvation, so the price of cattle and sheep raised by the Turkic tribes often falls sharply. Li Yu also took this opportunity to raise the price of liquor required by the Turks, and took advantage of the Turks' eagerness to sell more cattle and sheep to lower the price of cattle and sheep to make huge profits.

After the team led by Zhang Zhigu crossed a frozen river, a cavalry of hundreds of people appeared in front, and the guards looked at each other nervously one by one.

The most important thing in the grassland is those horse bandits who have broken away from the tribes, and some tribes themselves work part-time horse bandits as robber merchants. The big ones ride thousands, and the small ones ride hundreds.

The horseback leader of the other party stood up and asked, "The person who came is Zhang Zhigu, the head of the supply and demand department of Youzhou in Yanwang Mansion!" ”

"I am, I don't know if you are the soldiers and horses of the Assassin of the Inferior Prefecture?" Zhang Zhigu asked back.

"Exactly, I came to greet Mr. Zhang on the order of the Assassin History, and my family Assassin Shi prepared a banquet in the big tent, and asked Mr. Zhang to go with me."

"Thank you!"

Zhang Zhigu led the men and horses to join the other party, and then entered the camp of the Bei Lost Department under the guidance of the other party.

The entire tribe of 70,000 or 80,000 people camped in one place, coupled with the simple fence of cattle, sheep and horses, covering an area of three or four miles, and there were tents everywhere.

Smoke was blowing in the camp, and it was clear that the herders were cooking.

Entering the camp, Zhang Zhigu and his party were brought to the camp by the people sent by the Assassin of Beishu Prefecture. Tents and other necessary living utensils are all prepared, and Zhang Zhigu only takes people to move in.

After the team settled down, Zhang Zhigu, who was a guest of the Assassin's History, and several accompanying deacons were invited to the Assassin's Tent.

"Oh, Mr. Zhang, you haven't been to my state for a long time, did you bring enough good things this time to bring people here?"

The middle-aged man with a rough and fierce face and shaved off the hair on the top of his head stepped forward enthusiastically and hugged Zhang Zhigu in his arms and slapped his back.

Zhang Zhigu also hugged him tightly and said with a smile: "Hahaha! Don't worry, this time I have been ordered by His Royal Highness King Yan, and I must bring enough good things to express our friendship! ”

"His Royal Highness King Yan is the beloved son of the Heavenly Khan, the body of a daughter. How did you personally go to Andong this year to pacify the group of Goryeo barbarians who don't know what to do? In the past few years, I have done so well with His Royal Highness King Yan, and a certain courtier has not been able to meet King Yan to thank him, this will go to Anton, wouldn't it be more difficult to see King Yan? He Li shook his head in disappointment.

"If Thorn Shi wants to see His Royal Highness of my family, and go to Chang'an on Chinese New Year's Eve this year to congratulate His Majesty on the New Year, won't he see His Royal Highness of my family at that time?"

"Okay, I've been to Chang'an more than ten years ago since I was dozens of years old, and the prosperity of Chang'an has made a certain memory new, I don't know if anything has changed over the years?"

He Li agreed with great interest and invited Zhang Zhigu to sit at the table.