When Dungeith was about to leave, he thought for a moment and then stopped and asked, "Where are the poor devils shearing their sheep?" Now is the time to shear the sheep, and Dungeis knows that the herders like to get together and help each other, and even if the rest of the family is not working, they will help these days, but the place is not fixed, and he needs to ask for clarification so that he can call for help.

"Huh?" The chief housekeeper was stunned for a moment, didn't he say that he didn't have time to listen, why did he ask again, and hurriedly replied, "In a valley northeast of the sweat tent, more than ten miles away, my lord, let me tell you, these people are not authentic, unexpectedly..."

"That's it!" Don Keith didn't wait for him to finish before he interrupted, "I'll go there and gather some men to save Mandu Latu, and you stay and teach me a good lesson to those lazy minions." ”

As he spoke, Tangith had already walked outside the tent and said to the guards who had returned with him, "You have worked hard, and the others will not be able to come for a while, please come with me again, and invite everyone to drink in the evening!" ”

"Since the adults have been sent, dare to disobey their orders!"

"Drive!" A messy sound of horses' hooves sounded, and it faded away.

"My lord, my lord..." The chief butler knew the meaning of Dun Keith's words just now, and rushed out of the sweat tent, and what he saw was the figure of the money steward who fell at the end of the line.

If you want to catch up and talk about it in detail, think about your master's orders, or dispel the thoughts, Don Keith has always said that he has just been beaten with a whip, and if he is disobedient, it will be a little bad.

......

"Childe, congratulations!" Surut said to Zhiwen diligently, "Now that all of them have fallen, except for Tanghis, everyone else has agreed to your terms, and there is no hindrance to the wool harvest." ”

"Oh, and the last two have also come down?" Zhiwen asked.

"It's over, Childe." Sulut said with a smile, secretly calculating in his heart how much food he could get from Zhiwen.

"Rejoice and rejoice, Lord Surut, your harvest is not small."

Zhiwen looked at the hot scene inside and outside the valley, and was a little happy, "Although Tangith hasn't agreed yet, aren't his sheep all here?" ”

With that, he pointed to a place in the field, where the herdsmen, led by Muren, were tending the sheep for Tanghis, completely ignoring the heat, and were shearing the wool with great interest.

"That's childe's atmosphere." Sulut complimented, he didn't know what Zhiwen wanted so much wool for, but the gesture of exchanging a pound of wool for a tael of grain really made him admire.

The prestige of the Don Keith father and son after the incident with Dolgon had been greatly reduced, and now that they were not in the tribe, the herdsmen had a lot less scruples, and were naturally willing to risk a lot of food.

"What about the rest? How's it going? Zhiwen retracted his mind and asked.

"The Tribal Assembly? No problem, all agreed. ”

"I'm not worried about that." Zhiwen said that the herdsmen all knew that these herdsmen had cooperated with Zhiwen, and if they did not agree at the tribal assembly, they would be slapping themselves in the face, and besides, the food had not yet been obtained, so what could they do if they were not active.

"What I'm asking is, how did the matter of borrowing troops go?" This is what Zhiwen cares about the most, don't look at Zhiwen, Surut and others now have the upper hand, and the tribal assembly seems to be in control, but as long as Tangith is strong enough, the situation can be reversed in an instant, and the grain and the wool harvested are all in people's pockets.

"This... Not so well, Childe. Surut replied hesitantly.

"It's not going to work." Zhiwen frowned, they were all busy collecting wool, and there were only three or two people on guard with Mo Rigen nearby, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, if someone ambushed him... Zhiwen felt a little uneasy in his heart.

"Have your guards dispersed to find out Tanghis's whereabouts?" Zhiwen asked Surut.

"No," said Surut nonchalantly, "Don Keith, I won't be back until tomorrow, and I'll be late tomorrow." ”

Zhiwen couldn't, after all, he couldn't directly command Surut's private soldiers, so he had to say, "Then we can't forget tomorrow, we have to know as soon as Tangith comes back, and then start acting as soon as possible, but we can't let him turn over." ”

"Got it, Childe." Surut still replied with a big grin.

"Don't be careless," Zhiwen said with a displeased glance at him.

After thinking about it, thinking of Surut's somewhat stingy personality, he couldn't help but ask, "Lord Sulut, when you borrowed troops from others, did you say that you were willing to pay some money and food?" I remember I said that I would advance some of this money and food, and then I would give you the rest of the money when it was done, what did you tell people? ”

"Ah, this—" Surut was speechless.

As soon as Zhiwen saw Surut's face, he knew that there was something greasy in it, and he promised to provide these money and food because he wanted to gather some people as soon as possible, strengthen his own strength, strengthen his vigilance, and expand the scope of investigation, so as to discover Tangis's whereabouts in time and take action.

This is all in order to allow Sulut to become prime minister, but I didn't expect this guy to be greedy for even this money and food, it's really unbearable for uncles and aunts, Zhiwen is angry from the heart, and he wants to scold.

"It's done, it's been said!" Seeing that Zhiwen's face changed, Sulut panicked, he was really afraid of the young man in front of him, and hurriedly said, "Childe, you believe me, I really told them." ”

said that it was said, Sulut knew that there was no free lunch in the world, and if he wanted people to use his life to help, it would not work without letting some blood, but the money and food promised by Zhiwen was a big part less than his mouth, and the money and food advanced were gone, and they were all given afterwards.

At first, many herdsmen didn't look down on it at all, and they were unwilling to let their subordinates work for such a little food, so Sulut had to increase the price, of course, compared with what Zhiwen promised him, it was still a little worse, so he borrowed more than a hundred soldiers and horses from a few small herdsmen, and his own private soldiers combined, which was an advantage in numbers.

"At noon, Childe, the soldiers and horses will be in place at noon, as long as the people are together, I will act in the afternoon." Surut raised his hand in assurance.

"This is not a small matter, why do you still have time to come to me?"

"Hey, I have to borrow troops, but if I want to go into battle in person, then what should I do with these people?" Surut replied as a matter of course.

Zhiwen shook his head secretly, this kind of matter related to his own personal interests, he actually did not go into battle in person, the Mongolian departments, the lowest herdsmen still maintained the characteristics of being fierce and good at fighting, compared with the real Jurchen of Houjin, it was not much better, but these nobles in the middle and upper classes, compared with Houjin, seemed a little unenterprising.

It's just that Surut is not his subordinate, but it's hard to talk about him.

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