Zhang Mengcheng agreed to Xigui's request and continued to negotiate the price with the Mongols beside him. Although Zhang Mengcheng's Mongolian accent is not very authentic, he is generally fluent. He learned Mongolian from a deceased uncle, and after so many years of practice, he naturally had some results.

When Zhang Mengcheng was a child, the father of the Zhang brothers found that his third son was very good at accounting and learning other things quickly. Zhang's father, who had some knowledge, let his youngest son learn Mongolian with one of his cousins, and planned to let Zhang Mengcheng follow his cousin to other places to run business.

Because Zhang's father didn't have much spare money at that time, he didn't dare to expect his son to take the path of the imperial examination, and only hoped that his shrewd youngest son could make a career in business. Zhang's father's wish before his death can now be regarded as half fulfilled, and Zhang Mengcheng really started a commodity transaction with the Mongols today.

This time, Zhang Mengcheng obeyed Guan Zhiqing's orders and brought some salt cubes, iron pots and other materials he had recently collected to trade outside the Great Wall. The object of the transaction was a group of Mongols who had been introduced to him when he had exchanged heads with the military fort last time. After that, the two sides made several transactions, and they knew each other better.

The Mongols had recently been chasing down a group of horse bandits, and when they passed by, they learned that Ningsai had been occupied by Zhang Mengjin's gang, so they got on the line again. Guan Zhiqing quickly notified the big boss Zhang Mengjin, and he transported a lot of materials from Baoan County, followed by people sent by Shen Yiyuan. It turned out that Shen Yiyuan also knew this group of Mongols, and after he heard about it, he also sent some people to trade outside the Great Wall with Zhang Mengcheng.

Fortunately, the Mongols not only provided war horses, but also cattle, sheep and dairy products, so the people who came out of Ningsai had a harvest. It's just that this time Zhang Mengcheng took the lead, and during the time when Shen Yiyuan's contacts and security supplies had not yet arrived in Ningsai. Together with Che Jibao, he coerced and subdued the gang of horse bandits who roamed outside the Great Wall and in the nomadic territory of the Mongols. This gang of horse bandits consisted of Ming fugitives and Mongolian paupers, and although their kung fu was okay on horseback, their discipline and equipment were poor, so now they stayed in Ningsai and Guan Zhiqing was in charge of training.

Shen Yiyuan and his gang were led by Liu Jin, but when it came to business, it was the security guards who were in charge. Although Zhang Mengcheng had nothing to do with this person, the two sides did not stumble each other when they talked about business with the Mongols, but they were very united and adhered to the same position.

This cooperative attitude relieved Zhang Mengcheng of many of his previous worries. Through the joint efforts of both parties, the transaction was finally successfully completed. After the Mongols entertained Zhang Mengcheng and Liu Jin with their wine and meat, they each left with their own gains.

"Xiucai, what do you think of my horse." Liu Jin was more excited, he had harvested a good horse, and his level was no worse than that of Ma Xiangzhong's out-of-mouth horse. In order to exchange for this horse, Liu Jin not only took out a dozen taels of silver out of his own pocket, but also reduced the total transaction amount of Shen Yiyuan and his gang.

"Your horse is really good, I said Lao Liu, your hand is really big enough. After spending so much money in one go, don't you feel distressed at all? And you have less money to gain from your trading, so you are not afraid of the blame of your bosses? ”

Zhang Mengcheng was really surprised by Liu Jin's handwriting, and the price of Liu Jin's horse was at least forty or fifty taels of silver. Although silver is not as expensive as food and gold at this age, the dozen taels of silver that Liu Jin paid out of his own pocket alone would take nearly a year for a leader-level figure like Zhang Mengcheng to save. (Note 1)

When Liu Jin heard Zhang Mengcheng mention the silver, he was also very painful, and these silver were all the harvests he had since he fell into the grass. You must know that the pacesetters under the governor in the military town only pay more than one or two points of silver per month, and the officials and soldiers cannot guarantee that they will be paid for twelve months, and Ningsai has not been paid for almost four years.

However, seeing his mount, Liu Jin still felt that it was worth it. "There is still a chance to earn this silver, but if your life is gone, there is nothing, and a good horse can always save your life in this world. As for our big boss, there is no need to worry, there are naturally other people who will take care of the losses for us. ”

Zhang Mengcheng can guess who Liu Jin is talking about, and nine times out of ten Ru is famous. The Zhang gang called Zhang Mengjin the big boss. Shen Yiyuan's subordinates are different, Liu Jin called Shen Yiyuan a big boss. And Ru Chengming, who is also a subordinate of Shen Yiyuan, calls Shen Yiyuan the same as Zhang Mengjin and Cai Xiaozi.

Because the composition of Shen Yiyuan's subordinates is complex, there are not only the people recruited by Shen Yiyuan himself, but also other rogue leaders who have defected to Shen Yiyuan one after another. Although they are nominally headed by God Yiyuan, they are all somewhat unruly, and Ru Chengming is the worst of them. However, Ru Chengming has been under Shen Yiyuan for a relatively long time, and Shen Yiyuan, who has a good wrist, has already attracted a lot of people in Ru Chengming's subordinates.

It's just that Ru Chengming is indeed relatively capable of fighting, and Shen Yiyuan doesn't want to split his own people because of him. Therefore, Shen Yiyuan has not moved to become famous, but has suppressed and appeased, and slowly digested the intricate power relations within himself.

And this does have advantages, the power of the Divine One Yuan has become quite strong in a short period of time. Even his eldest brother Zhang Mengjin united with the old bandit Cai Shorty at the top of Artemisia to compare, and the two security guards and the local bandits could only serve the gods for one yuan. Asked for a concession to the braided hair of the god one, and untied the bunched hair and braided it after the security guard. Now even the imperial court's palace newspaper says that Shen Yiyuan is the boss of their group.

"Your big boss plans to join forces with the captive, what do you think, Lao Liu?" Zhang Mengcheng remembered the conversation between Shen Yiyuan's people and the Mongols just now, and Shen Yiyuan planned to invite the Mongols to go south to deal with the Ming army.

In fact, Zhang Mengcheng also had a similar idea, and once proposed to the eldest brother when the three brothers were alone to make more friends with the Mongols, in case of future emergencies. It's just that the eldest brother Zhang Mengjin was silent and didn't say anything at that time, and the second brother Zhang Mengguang scolded him again, and Zhang Mengcheng put the matter on hold for the time being.

"I don't know what our big boss thinks, it's just that I'm a little unhappy. It's not that we can't defeat the official army now, so why pull the captives over and divide one vote. When the official army is really about to destroy us one day, it's not too late to go to the trappers for help. Liu Jin still looks like a complete robber, he just cares about how he benefits in the future.

"Haven't you guys thought about recruiting security in the future, if the timing of recruiting Mongolians is not right, it will be difficult for the imperial court to recruit us." Zhang Mengcheng asked curiously again.

"Ha, I don't want to be recruited now, I have to earn this money back. And many of the brothers in our camp still want to make more money and talk about Zhao'an. But if it is ordered by the great master, I will not earn this money. And follow the official army to hunt down and kill other big bosses, can't you also make some money" Liu Jin's attitude towards Zhao'an was quite relaxed, and after chatting with Zhang Mengcheng for a few words, he took out the wine he asked for from the Mongols and drank it with Zhang Mengcheng.

Although Liu Jin is an alcoholic, he is still happy to share things with his good friends. He gave most of the wine that Zhang Mengcheng gave him to the other brothers in the camp. This time, he also exchanged the sweet potato wine he brought with him for some mare's milk wine, and the Mongolians also changed a lot for him in order to be fresh.

Zhang Mengcheng, who doesn't like to drink very much, is still more accepting of the taste of mare's milk wine. So Zhang Mengcheng drank with Liu Jin. , but didn't drink much. After all, if you drink too much outside, if someone comes to attack and you are drunk, it will be the end of it.

After that, they did not encounter anything on their way back, so they drove the horses from outside the Saiwai back to Ninsai. Zhang Mengcheng, who handed over the shift, chose to sleep directly and take a good rest.

On the second day, Zhang Mengcheng took part in the training of more than 100 reorganized cavalrymen. Before that, there were more than 50 cavalry on the side of Zhang Mengjin who stayed in Ningsai. Later, after reorganizing the group of horse bandits outside the Saiwai, and adding the people who were promoted to cavalry from the security guard and Jindingshan, now the Jindingshan group in Ningsai reorganized three cavalry teams, and Che Jibao, Zhang Mengcheng, and Ma Xiangzhong, who came from Jindingshan, became captains respectively.

Guan Zhiqing meant to let these cavalrymen train while in Ningsai, and first do some combat missions to train them. Because Ninsai not only had to deal with the official army, some scattered rogue horse bandits would appear from time to time, and even the Mongols in the north would also have some small groups of men and horses going south from time to time.

Although these challenges caused a lot of pressure on Ninse's defense, they were also a good opportunity to exercise. At present, the security guards in the south can only go around robbing the local villages, and to deal with those villagers, it is enough to protect the foot soldiers in the city. It is not suitable for training cavalry.

It's just that this training program is only about half a month, and Ning Sai doesn't have enough food to feed these people and horses. When the time comes, two teams of cavalry will be selected and the security guards will go south to join Zhang Mengjin's brigade.

PS: Note 1: Don't think that there are very few readers here, in actual history, even the famous King Gao Yingxiang does not have much income. In the article "Reporting Ding Excavation and Cellar Silver Sparseness" in "Sun Chuanting's Sparseness", Gao Yingxiang's henchman "Fanshan Harrier" Tuoshan Gao took Sun Chuanting's subordinates to dig up two places to hide silver in Fufeng and Liquan.

After this realistic version of the "Treasure of King Chuang" was excavated, one was eight hundred and ninety-three taels of silver, and the other was two thousand nine hundred and thirteen taels of silver. This is still in the relatively wealthy area of Shaanxi, while the Zhang family is in the poor northern Shaanxi. Zhang Mengjin and his gang robbed everywhere, leaving part of the funds confiscated, and the rest was distributed to hundreds of people up and down the cottage. It is already a lot to have a dozen taels, so the author is particularly disgusted with those novels that cost tens of thousands of taels of silver at every turn.