"Why should you two do this!" Liu Cheng smiled and pulled a person from behind him: "I waited until my righteous brother came with me today, and the time is not accurate, how dare I let the two adults wait at the city gate for a long time!" “

Only then did Lu Boqi and Ma Ziyi notice Liu Cheng, the "so-called righteous brother", and saw that this person was wearing a brocade robe and a six-in-one hat, like a solid businessman. The two didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly arched their hands and said, "I don't know how to call it up and down?" ”

"Under the surname Xu, the name is Hecheng, and I have seen two adults!" Xu Hecheng hurriedly bowed down and returned the salute, Lu Boqi and Ma Ziyi didn't dare to accept his salute, so they hurriedly turned around and stretched out their hands to please: "Lord Liu, Mr. Xu, please!" ”

Liu Cheng and his entourage entered the Dema Mansion, and the other gentlemen were already standing on both sides to greet each other, and twenty or thirty seats were set up in the mansion, and Liu Cheng naturally sat at the main table. Lu Boqi wanted Liu Cheng to sit in the first seat, Liu Cheng hurriedly pushed it, and finally let Lu Boqi sit in the first seat, but let Xu Hecheng sit in the second seat, Liu Cheng sat down next to him, and Min Min sat next to him, and Ma Ziyi accompanied him in the last seat. Others couldn't help but be amazed when they saw it, Lu Boqi was the new Tongzhou Bing Beidao, and he was the host and guest of today, and it was not unusual to sit on the first seat, and Liu Cheng was such a powerful and domineering figure, with more than 2,000 elite soldiers on hand, I heard that the big man who was about to become a deputy general actually gave up the second seat to this seat, which is really strange!

After three rounds of drinking, the atmosphere on the table gradually became lively. A gentleman couldn't bear it, stood up with the intention of drinking, toasted Xu Hecheng with a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "This brother is so familiar, haven't you seen it anywhere?" ”

Xu Hecheng drank and said with a smile: "There are a lot of businesses in Shaanxi, maybe I have met Brother Tai somewhere!" “

"Business?" The gentleman suddenly became interested and asked, "What kind of business are you daring to ask?" ”

Xu Hecheng was about to answer, but heard Liu Cheng on the side interject: "I know my brother's business best, if you want to know, why don't you come and ask me directly?" ”

When the gentleman saw Liu Cheng suddenly interject, he thought that he had annoyed the fierce god by saying the wrong thing somewhere, and his face suddenly turned pale. Even stammered when he spoke: "This, such a trivial matter, where, where dare to bother Lord Liu." ”

"Don't bother, don't bother!" Liu Cheng said with a smile: "The matter of my brother is my Liu Cheng's matter, what's the trouble of speaking for my family?" Besides, my brother-in-law's business is too much, including leather goods, jewelry, livestock, and traditional Chinese medicine, if you ask him, I'm afraid he won't be able to tell for a while, so it's better to ask me! You say I'm talking about it, right? His last sentence was said to Xu Hecheng.

"What the virtuous brother said is very true!" Although Xu Hecheng didn't know what Liu Cheng said, he knew that Liu Cheng must have intentions. He nodded with a smile and said, "I'm very confused, you might as well ask him!" ”

Where did the gentleman dare to ask more, smiled bitterly twice and turned his head to leave, Liu Cheng smiled and said: "You are a strange person, let you ask but don't ask, it's like I'm a man-eating tiger." You ask Master Lu and Mr. Ma, although there was a little unpleasantness between us at the beginning, but in the end, which of them suffered from me? ”

Liu Cheng's voice is very loud, not only the people at this table. Even the people at the tables next to him could hear it clearly, and suddenly everyone burst into laughter, which made the gentleman's face flush, but even so he returned to his seat. Eat with your head down.

"Lord Liu, is it okay if he doesn't ask me?"

Everyone turned their heads, and it was none other than Zhao Youcai who spoke, only to see him come over with a smile and a wine glass. Few people in the audience knew about his trip to Chaoyi, and everyone thought that he was still holding a grudge against the past. wanted to come over to find Liu Cheng's trouble, and they were worried about him.

"Naturally!"

"That's good!" Zhao Youcai said with a smile: "Then if you do it, can you share one or two?" “

When others heard Zhao Youcai say this, their ears were pricked up, although most of the people here were gentlemen, not businessmen, but the commodity economy was already very prosperous at that time, and these gentlemen knew that the land property was the foundation of the heirloom, but if you want to make a fortune, it is faster to do business, but there is no way, so you can only put usury in the township, open a pawnshop, and exploit the township. Hearing Zhao Youcai ask this, how could he not be moved?

"I can't be the master of this, you have to ask my brother-in-law!" Liu Cheng turned sideways and let out Xu Hecheng behind him. Xu Hecheng stood up with a smile: "Zhao Sanye, my best friend is my friend, the money in the world can't be earned, if Zhao Sanye has a heart, what's the harm if you have a share?" ”

"Then thank you Mr. Xu first!" Zhao Youcai drank all the wine in the cup and retreated. Seeing this, the gentlemen at the table next to them refused to descend, and came to the main table to toast, seven or eight of the ten cups were for Xu Hecheng, and they also left famous thorns and invited them to come to the house as guests, but they ignored today's main owner Lu Boqi. Lu Boqi has been dealing with Liu Cheng for a long time, and he knows that he must have deep meaning in doing things, but he doesn't think about it, he just smiles and drinks with Ma Ziyi and talks a little bit.

"Oops!" Liu Cheng suddenly had a sharp pain on his back, and when he looked back, he was Min Min looking at himself with a smile, it turned out that the Mongolian girl had just twisted his back hard, and Liu Cheng asked in his head: "What are you doing?" ”

"If you are only allowed to play tricks on these idiots, won't I be allowed to screw you?" Min Min smiled and said, "What's wrong?" Do you want me to poke out the relationship between Xu Hecheng and you, so that everyone knows about it? ”

"Auntie, just spare me!" Liu Cheng couldn't help crying and laughing, among the people present, the most known about the relationship between him and Xu Hecheng was probably this Khan girl, just poking out the news that Xu Hecheng sold arms to Zhunger Khan in exchange for cavalry, Liu Cheng couldn't eat and walked around.

"Spare you?!" Min Min's eyes rolled: "It's too unfair that you are only allowed to play tricks on them, but I am not allowed to trick you." ”

"Good, good! Min Min Beji, just say what you want, as long as I can do it, I will definitely promise you! Liu Cheng said this, and hurriedly added: "But the rocket matter is not working for the time being, and you know the reason." ”

"Who said I wanted that?" Min Min smiled: "My requirements are the same as theirs, and I want to mix a share with you!" ”

"One share?" Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, he knew that although this sweat girl was not yet sixteen, she knew that she was an old official, and the little flower intestines in her stomach were just afraid that she would be clean. It's better to put away those small means on weekdays early. I arched Xu Hecheng in front today, naturally because of the idea of hitting the yellow and white things in the pockets of these gentlemen, this purpose must be to hide the eyes of the allergic sensitive, and what does Min Min's words mean?

"Not bad!"

"Then dare to ask, what are you going to use to mix shares?" Liu Cheng asked cautiously, "Silver?" Or something else? ”

"Naturally, there is no silver!" Min Min said with a smile: "I came to the Central Plains this time to open my eyes, the yarn spun by a worker in your factory in a day, the cloth woven is worth a woman in our tribe for a year, the yarn is finer, the cloth is more beautiful, and a piece of cloth can be exchanged for the wool of thirty sheep, this kind of trade is a loss for what we Mongolians do." Where will the money come to you to take a stake? “

"Hey, hey!" Rao is Liu Cheng's face is thick and dark, and he blushed a little when he heard Min Min's words, although his current water-powered textile factory is just a pediatric compared to the textile industry in later generations, but it is still enough to play scissors with the nomadic tribes, and if this kind of business continues, those nomadic tribes on the grassland will only become debt slaves. He was about to explain a few words, but he heard Min Min say: "We don't have silver, only people, so let's use people as shares!" ”

"People?" Liu Cheng asked with some surprise, "Which person?" Isn't it you? ”

"Me?" Min Min was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then a charming smile appeared on his face: "Okay, I don't know how much silver taels I am worth in the eyes of Lord Liu, and how many shares can I get?" “

Liu Chenggang wanted to answer. Fortunately, the instinct left over from the previous unsuccessful love experience played a role, and the words came to his mouth and swallowed back, he hurriedly smiled: "Minmin, you are joking again, you are a priceless treasure in my eyes." How can it be exchanged for a mere amount of money? ”

"Huh!" Hearing Liu Cheng's answer, Min Min's smile was even brighter: "It's about the same, daughter of the Great Khan of Zhunger." and what money can be exchanged for? I'm talking about not myself, but the cavalry. “

"Cavalry? Minmin, do you want those 300 cavalry to join the shares? Liu Cheng was stunned when he heard this, and secretly thought that you are too good at doing business, these three hundred cavalry are used to exchange for bird guns, how can there be a reason to sell them twice.

"Naturally not, these three hundred cavalry were exchanged for your firearms by my father Khan, so naturally they can't be used to buy shares!" Min Min's words dispelled Liu Cheng's worries, and he breathed a sigh of relief: "What is that?" “

"When every child in Mongolia grows up, his parents will share the property with him and live independently. The men are self-reliant, and the women are used as a dowry, and my family is no exception. Like my brother Taiji in Chechnya, when he becomes an adult, he can get five or six thousand yuan, I am my daughter's family, and I get less, and there are one or two thousand yuan, I mean take these shares! “

Min Min saw that Liu Cheng was still a little ignorant, so she explained in detail, it turned out that the "Luo" she said was the basic unit of the Mongols, that is, the meaning of the tent, similar to the household of the Han people in the Central Plains, and the chief Khan on the grassland calculated the troops they had and collected taxes according to the "Luo". Generally speaking, for every one person who falls, one out of every three Ding is a regular soldier, and two are auxiliary soldiers, plundering and cutting grass to serve the regular soldiers. If Min Min has 1,500 dowries, then he can have the capital of 500 cavalry, and if he pays military salaries like Liu Cheng, it is also possible to expand to 1,500 cavalry.

"This-" Liu Cheng was speechless for a while when he heard this, the importance of cavalry on the battlefield at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be self-evident, if you don't consider the restrictions on armor and military salaries, you will expand the cavalry under your command to 1,800, which is already the premier cavalry unit in the Ming army sequence except for the Liaodong battlefield. But do you have the stomach to eat such a large piece of meat? If it were to be incorporated under its command, would it upset the existing balance of power? After all, he wanted to use the Mongol cavalry for his own use, not to become a vassal of the Dzungars, and there was no clear dividing line between the two, and it took extremely good tightrope walking skills to walk, and if you were not careful, you would fall into the abyss.

"Lord Liu!" A voice woke Liu Cheng up from his thoughts, and when he looked up, it was Liu Juren, only to see that his face was flushed, his face was full of wine, and he looked like he had drunk too much. Liu Cheng hurriedly stood up and said with a smile: "The official has thought about other things, and I haven't seen Mr. Liu coming, forgive me!" ”

"It's okay, Lord Liu's dedication to military affairs is really a blessing for us!" Liu Juren smiled and said: "My lord, your surname is Liu, and my surname is Liu, maybe I was still an ancestor five hundred years ago!" ”

"Absolutely impossible!" Liu Cheng thought secretly in his heart, but said with a smile on his face: "On the lower ancestor, it is the Pengcheng Liu family, I don't know who you are, sir-"

"Oops!" That Liu Juren slapped his thigh violently: "Me too, I didn't expect that Lord Liu was really the same clan as me." Speaking of which, Liu Juren became more and more affectionate, and even wanted to join the sect with Liu Cheng, Liu Cheng was just casually talking nonsense, where could any ancestor be associated with him, so he had to say that he had been a monk in the monastery since he was a child, and he didn't know much about his own genealogy. That Liu Juren was not suspicious, he insisted on being a nephew of his clan, completely ignoring that he was at least ten years older than Liu Cheng. Liu Cheng couldn't shirk it, so he had to respond to this cheap cousin. The two chatted for a few words, and Liu Juren suddenly smiled at Min Min with a shy face: "I don't know which family the little lady belongs to, if it is the day of the happy event, the little nephew will definitely ask for a glass of water and wine!" “

Rao is Minmin's bold and generous character, and he couldn't help but blush his cheeks when asked by Liu Juren like this, but it is no wonder that Liu Juren has such a misunderstanding. With the expressions and demeanors of Min Min and Liu Cheng, fools can see that the relationship between the two is not ordinary, and Min Min's dress at this time is no different from that of the ladies of the Han family, if it is an ordinary lady, it may not be present at the family banquet, not to mention that a big girl's family shows her face in such a public occasion, and it can only be explained that it is a Jiangmen woman, so this situation will occur. Liu Chengzheng wanted to explain, but heard Min Min smile and said: "Borrow your auspicious words, if there is really that day, you will definitely have to drink wine!" ”

Liu Juren was already drunk at this time, where could he hear the strangeness in Minmin's words, and he retreated after singing thanks. just made Liu Cheng break out in a cold sweat in vain.

"What, you're so afraid of marrying me?" Min Min looked at Liu Cheng with a smile.

"Not really!" Liu Cheng smiled bitterly: "It's just that you are the daughter of a Mongolian noble chieftain, if you let those imperial historians know, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble." Speaking of this, Liu Cheng paused: "But it's just trouble, give me two more years, and the trouble here won't be a trouble1" (to be continued.) )