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It is also the prosperity of the two Song Dynasty commerce, like Qingzhou Mansion, such a northern important town, as the center of a state, Qingzhou Horse Market is naturally very lively.

Whenever the horse market opens, people come and go, there are a lot of horses, it is said that a few years ago there was a sweaty horse sold here.

Today also happened to be the time when the horse market opened, it was originally Li Jing's lack of consideration, and the way to Qingfeng Village was not far, but it was not close, so Shi Xiu suggested to Li Jing to ride a horse.

But Li Jing was swaggering when he went out, he came on foot, and it happened that Shi Xiu heard that there was a BMW for sale in the horse market today, but all military generals, how could anyone not love horses? It's just that Li Jing's horses are now allocated by the forbidden army, and they can only be said to be a good horse.

So Li Jing and Shi Xiu didn't go to the carriage and horse shop to rent horses, but went to the Qingzhou Horse Market. As for Qingfeng Village, Hua Rong can't run away after all, and there is basically no difference between going early and going late.

When Li Jing and Shi Xiu arrived at the horse market, it was still early, but the horse market opened when the sky was still bright, so it was quite lively.

Here Li Jingzheng asked Shi Xiu what kind of BMW he was selling today, and suddenly heard a commotion not far away, Li Jing and Shi Xiu glanced at each other, and rushed towards the place together.

When he got closer, Li Jing suddenly found that a platform had been set up here. There was a man on the platform, holding a horse in his hand, and I saw that this person was red-haired and yellow-bearded, skinny and thick.

Next to him, Shi Xiu introduced to Li Jing: "This person's name is Duan Jingzhu, he is the most knowledgeable about horses, and he handles good horses on weekdays, and because of his strange appearance, people call him 'Golden Retriever'."

Li Jing is now well-informed, and he was not surprised to see that this person was Duan Jingzhu, but was attracted by the horse beside Duan Jingzhu.

Duan Jingzhu was next to a black horse, the whole body was like black satin, shiny and shiny, only the four hooves were white, the back was long and the waist was short and straight, and the joints and tendons of the limbs were strong, even a layman like Li Jing could see the strength contained in the horse's body.

At this time, Li Jing heard Shi Xiu beside him suspicious, turned his head and whispered to Li Jing: "Brother Jing, if what I expected, this horse is all jet black, and its four hooves are snow-white, and it has a talking head, called 'Kicking the Cloud and Black Horse'." In the past, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, rode this black horse! ”

When Li Jing heard this, he was moved, and said to Shi Xiu: "Such a BMW, you really can't miss it!"

But Li Jing didn't have much money on him, and he didn't be polite with Shi Xiu, and asked Shi Xiu: "How much money did my brother bring today?"

Shi Xiu said with a smile: "Brother Jing'er, don't worry, the money must be enough, even if it is not enough, I also know this Jingzhu, just ask him to go to my pharmacy to get it."

At this time, someone had already made a bid, and only heard someone with a rich body shouting: "Can I buy this horse for ten taels of gold?"

There was a lot of discussion on the board, you must know that an ordinary good horse is only ten dollars, almost one or two gold, although this horse looks like a good horse, but the specific situation is unknown, this person dares to spend ten times the price, is this horse really worth this price?

On the other side, Duan Jingzhu hugged his fist and saluted the guest after listening to the offer, and responded: "Mr. Kan is also a horse lover, but this horse was obtained by me when I was born and died in the Northland, and I will never sell it for ten taels of gold alone!"

When everyone heard this, they started to talk about it, Shi Xiu saw that some people were obviously a little moved, worried about variables, and stepped forward to call Duan Jingzhu and said, "Brother Duan, do you remember the little brother?"

Duan Jingzhu heard the voice, looked back and saw that it was Shi Xiu, and replied: "It turned out to be Shi Daguan, but the Daguan fell in love with this horse?"

Shi Xiu said: "That's right, my brother has a crush on this horse, so I am determined to get this horse!" I won't let you suffer, but I'll give you fifty taels of gold, do you think it's good? ”

Duan Jingzhu also knew Shi Xiu, and he had a friendship before, and he was willing to listen to Shi Xiu's offer of fifty taels of gold, but he came to the horse market today to sell like this, but now he didn't even bid for it, just because of a word from an acquaintance, he decided to belong, and there were also troublemakers at the bottom, but Duan Jingzhu was a little difficult to step down.

When Shi Xiu saw it, he arched his hand one by one and said: "Today is really Shi Mou's urgent matter, so I am in a hurry to set the price first, and please give me a face, don't bid, Shi Xiu has thanked me here!"

Most of the people present were people from the Qingzhou realm, most of them had heard of Shi Xiu's name, and they were only a little angry before, but now when they saw Shi Xiu say this, forget it. Occasionally, the stunned Qing who was not interested was still shouting, but Shi Xiu ignored it and went straight to trade with Duan Jingzhu.

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Here Shi Xiu and Duan Jingzhu made a deal, but they really didn't have so much gold on them, so Shi Xiu discussed with Duan Jingzhu to go back to the pharmacy to get it, Duan Jingzhu trusted Shi Xiu, and did not refuse, and led the horse and followed Shi Xiu.

On the way, Shi Xiu naturally introduced his life-saving benefactor to Duan Jingzhu - Li Jing, and under Li Jing's hint, he pointed out Li Jing's identity, Duan Jingzhu was naturally respectful, and even said a little anxiously that he wanted to give the black horse to Li Jing.

Li Jing naturally wouldn't accept it, but just asked Duan Jingzhu how he got this black horse.

Duan Jingzhu saw that Shi Xiu was also beside him, and he didn't hide his secrets, it turned out that this black horse was given by a Liao man who had traded with Duan Jingzhu, at that time, this black horse was not as energetic as it is now, and it was dirty, so the Liao people didn't distinguish it.

Because he made a lot of money when he made a deal, the Liao people promised Duan Jing to live in the horse farm and choose five horses as a thank you gift, and Duan Jingzhu fell in love with this black horse at a glance, but he did not live up to the name of "Golden Retriever".

After that, Duan Jingzhu randomly selected four horses to make up the number, and then said goodbye to the Liao man, washed the black horse, and fed it for a period of time, and then brought it out to sell it when he was in the Qingzhou horse market.

But Li Jing is not concerned about this, but whether Duan Jingzhu has a channel to buy horses, since the founding of the Western Xia, the Great Song Dynasty has not even had the source of horses in the northwest, and he can only ask for the southwest in desperation, and most of the war horses in the forward camp are bought from the southwest horse market.

It's just that although these horses have strong feet and can walk any road, they are helplessly shorter than the northland horses. How can the cavalry thus formed compete with the Liao soldiers!

Although the forward battalion is only suppressing bandits now, and there is no major war, Li Jing is still willing to do this kind of thing to spend some money to enhance combat strength.

In the end, after arriving at the pharmacy, Duan Jingzhu promised Li Jing to get Li Jing a hundred good horses from the north within half a year, and Li Jing gave Duan Jingzhu a deposit of 20%, so he gave up.

In this way, it can only be achieved that the cavalry has one person and one horse, but it is impossible for one person and two horses.

Li Jing is helpless about this, the military expenses of the forbidden army are a lot, but there are more people in the forbidden army! The limited military expenditure is not spent on enhancing combat strength, but also on increasing the number of people, Li Jing can only sigh every time he thinks of this, even the old fox can only sigh at this point, what can Li Jing do