"Xue Ping, right, I won't go around in circles, are the three of you willing to work for me?" After thinking about it for a long time, Zhiwen said bluntly.

Xue Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, and his mood instantly went from hell to heaven, if he didn't really have no choice, he didn't want to be a horse thief.

The young man in front of him, although he doesn't look like a rich and noble family, has a calm bearing, and there is nothing wrong with caring about their three mouths, but it is much better than the life of a horse thief who is precarious and has eaten a meal without a meal.

Xue Ping was about to agree, but Tao Yong next to him preemptively asked, "Serving you?" Don't care if you're full? ”

Annoyed, Xue Ping kicked him a few times, "Eat, eat, eat, you know to eat, Childe will shorten our food." ”

Yan said to Zhiwen, "Childe, we are willing to serve." ”

"That being the case, swear, I can't trust the white-toothed one." Zhiwen Road.

"It should be, it should be." Xue Ping nodded repeatedly.

Then he cleared his throat and said solemnly, "I, Xue Ping, make an oath here, and swear to serve to the death in the future..."

Speaking of this, he looked at Zhiwen, who confessed what he meant and said, "Zheng Zhiwen." ”

“... Zheng Zhiwen's son, never betray, if there is a violation, the sky will hit five thunders. ”

Immediately afterwards, it was Tao Yong who swore loudly, and even Hai Dongqing, who was a Yehe person, followed the oath.

Only then did Zhiwen let go of Tai Ban's heart and let Liu Cai untie them.

You must know that at this time, almost all people take their oaths very seriously and do not swear easily, but as long as they make an oath, they will never break it for the rest of their lives, even those who are extremely vicious.

Compared with the situation in later generations where you swear at every turn, but forget it in a blink of an eye, it is much better.

"Haven't eaten yet?" Zhiwen asked, he found that the blankets on the saddle were empty just now when he led the horse, and they must not have anything to hide on them.

The three of them touched their stomachs and smiled embarrassedly, if they weren't really hungry, they wouldn't have come to rob in broad daylight.

Zhiwen and they were targeted by the three of them not long after they came out of the customs, and they originally planned to wait until the evening to do it, but the only food left was eaten in the morning, and the horse they rode could not squeeze out a drop of mare's milk, and they did not act during the day, and they were afraid that they would not have the strength to do it at night.

"Since you have sworn an oath, you are your own people, so you are naturally full." Zhiwen listened to the rumbling sound in the stomachs of the three of them and smiled.

Then make a fire and cook without mentioning.

"I see that the three of you are not weak in martial arts, how can you be so miserable? Can't even get enough to eat? Zhiwen saw that they looked ugly, so he swallowed the bread in a few bites, and he didn't even bother to chew it, and he didn't know how many days he hadn't eaten seriously.

Tao Yonggang swallowed the contents of his mouth and said, "Eat? There has been no entry these days, and it would be good to have mare's milk to drink. ”

Zhiwen suddenly wondered that they were riding mares.

"Let Childe see and smile." Xue Ping swallowed the cake, "In the current caravan, there are few people as few of you, like the one yesterday, more than ten miles before and after, do we dare to rob it?" ”

Zhiwen thought about it, so many people, just standing still and letting them cut, the three of them had to be tired and collapsed.

"So..., why don't you gather more people?" With the ability of the three of them, they won't be unable to recruit people.

"Gongzi doesn't know," Xue Ping said while eating, "from Zhangjiakou to Liaodong, this road is very important for the Houjin, as long as there is a large number of horse thieves, it will definitely face the encirclement and suppression of the nearby Mongolian tribes and even the elite soldiers of the Houjin, only I wait for such a small fight, will not attract attention." ”

"The Mongols in this vicinity are all at the disposal of Houjin?" The eight major grain merchants are not fools, since they dare to take this road so ostentatiously, their safety must be guaranteed, but to say that Houjin has completely controlled this area, Zhiwen is a little hard to believe.

"Since the Chahar tribe moved west to the city of naturalization, the imperial court has changed the rewards of the Mongolian tribes, and these tribes in the east, under the coercion and temptation of the Houjin, have all accepted the rewards and taken refuge in the past." Xue Ping sighed, he has been outside the Saiwai years for many years, and he is clear about these things.

When Zhiwen heard this, he couldn't help but cheer up the spirit of twelve, in the future, he would have to collect wool and do things in this area, so he had to be cautious.

I didn't expect that the Houjin power had extended here, no wonder after avoiding the heavy troops of Shanhaiguan, it was easy to destroy the customs and enter the Kou as easily as in the back garden of one's own home, and the Zhangjiakou area was just because someone worked for them, otherwise it would be difficult to be spared.

Xue Ping had almost eaten at this time, so he wiped his mouth with the sleeves of his greasy and black leather robe, and the three girls frowned when they moved, and Zhiwen was also a little unaccustomed to it, almost each of them now has a small square handkerchief to wipe their mouths and noses, it seems that these three people still have to teach well.

His face was impassive, "Then tell us about the situation of the Mongols in this neighborhood." ”

"Is Childe going out of the customs to trade with these Mongolian Tatars?" Xue Ping asked.

Zhiwen nodded, pointed to the carriage and said, "Get some food, let's explore the road first." ”

Tao Yong had just finished eating, but when he heard this, he secretly pouted, if he wanted to say that this new Zheng Gongzi was a serious businessman, he didn't believe it.

The three of his brothers, with their kung fu on horseback, can be regarded as a little famous in this northern area, but under this young man, they can't even walk together.

The attendant surnamed Liu, although the bandit aura on his body was deeply hidden, he could also smell it.

and those three girls, who can actually restrain their eldest brother.

These five people seem to be weak, but they are too strong to speak, otherwise they wouldn't have looked away and crashed into it.

With such a wagon of grain, he is embarrassed to say that he is a merchant out of the country?

But it's okay, it's a long-term job, as for who this Zheng Gongzi is, Tao Yong has no heart to care, as long as he can eat enough, it's good to have a meal like now.

"North of Zhangjiakou, we call it Zhangbei, this area is a nomadic place of the left banner of the Mongolian Sunit department, and occasionally there will be people from the right banner." Xue Ping said.

"Oh? This Sunit has been divided into left and right flags by Houjin? Zhiwen asked, as soon as he heard the word "flag", Zhiwen knew that it was the handwriting of Hou Jin, and it seemed that in Chinese history, only they liked to use the nondescript unit of "flag" to divide the departments.

Xue Ping nodded, and then said, "The leader of the Left Banner is called Dabuhai Hu Shuqi, and after taking refuge in Houjin, he was named Taiji, but this person is old and sick all the year round, and the affairs of the tribe are basically taken care of by his son Tangjith. ”

"Where's the right flag?" Zhiwen then asked.

"The right banner is located to the west, and the leader is called Chao Erhong, and he has also been given Taiji."

"And where is their sweat tent?" Speaking of this, Zhiwen asked, "Sweat tent, is that right?" ”

"That's right, Childe." Xue Ping said, "A tribal leader is a little khan, and it is only after he votes for Houjin that he is called what Taiji." ”

Generally speaking, sweat tents occupy land with abundant water and grass, and there are more people and livestock, so it is naturally more suitable to do business.

"The left banner sweat tent is still some distance from here, on the shore of a lake called Eren, in fact, the right banner sweat tent is also next to this lake, but the two flags, one east and one west, each occupy a corner of the lake." Xue Ping said.