In Gaoyang County, Hejian County, a Turkic team from the north attracted special attention, and more than a dozen Turkic men drove more than a dozen strong horses to gallop on the wide official road, constantly stirring up rolling yellow dust.

The horse team traveled about two or three miles, and then arrived at the Tuoshui wharf, from here to cross the Tuoshui, the south is Hejian County, perhaps because of the cessation of the war, there are many people waiting to cross the river on the Tuoshui wharf, merchants from the south to the north, farmers selling vegetables, and civilians visiting relatives and friends, making the wharf bustling and lively.

The arrival of this Turkic horse team immediately attracted the attention of many people, at this time a merchant slowly stepped forward, carefully looked at the dozen horses, he was obviously a person who knew the goods, the more he looked at it, his eyes widened, and finally he excitedly said to the Turkic man who led him: "Sell me one of these horses!" I will give you three hundred taels of gold. ”

"Not for sale!" The Turkic Han at the head did not hesitate to reject him.

"How about the five hundred taels of gold, sell me a horse." Merchants have raised prices again.

The people around began to stir up, and someone actually paid five hundred taels of gold to buy a horse, what kind of BMW is this, is it a thousand miles of horses?

Countless people rushed over to see the excitement, and the Turks seemed to have had a similar experience, and the leader of the big man said impatiently to the merchants: "You are really a bad person, can you afford this kind of horse?" Don't be annoying. ”

When the merchant saw that he refused to sell, his face was immediately full of frustration, and he said to himself: "You are right, how can you buy five hundred taels of gold!" ”

"This big brother, what kind of horse is this, not even five hundred taels of gold is enough." The person next to him asked the merchant with a gossip.

The merchant sighed and said: "This is a pure Turkic stallion, it is difficult to buy a thousand dollars, they actually have more than a dozen, I have never seen it in the livestock business for so many years, even in the Turks, it is very precious." ”

There was an uproar among the people around, and at this time, several young men glanced at each other. Immediately walk towards a clipper on the dock.

At this time, the Turkic man at the head shouted in fluent Chinese: "Whoever takes us across the river, we will pay three times the boat price!" ”

Immediately several ferries scrambled to carry them, and the Turks drove their horses onto two large ships, and the ferries slowly headed toward the opposite shore, where the merchant stood on the pier. Looking at the dozen stallions in the distance, he still had words in his mouth.

After a short time, the Turkic horse caravan came ashore and continued south along the official road, but after walking less than a mile, they saw a cavalry of several hundred men rushing towards them, and in a moment they were surrounded by a group.

The first general shouted: "These people are Turkic spies, take them all away from me!" ”

The Turkic man at the head scolded: "What bullshit, we are not Turks." We are Tiele people, even your lord Dou Jiande would not dare to be so rude! ”

When the general heard him call the name of the lord, he didn't dare to be abrupt, he hurriedly waved his hand, stopped the soldiers who were about to grab the horse, and hugged his fists and said, "May I ask who your Excellency is?" How do you know our Dou Gong? ”

"We are from the Baye Gukulun tribe, and most of your war horses are bought from us, and I haven't been to the Central Plains for a few years. Don't you know me? ”

The general was taken aback, "Could it be that you are the young chief of Tongtai?" ”

"Humph! Knowing my name and stealing my horse. You are not small. ”

The general hurriedly saluted, "Misunderstanding!" Misunderstand! A spy said that we only came when we found a Turkic spy, but I didn't expect it to be the young chief. ”

"What kind of spies, they are obviously greedy for my war horses, I tell you, if you move these war horses, you will be unlucky. If it's interesting, let's hurry. ”

Although this partial general did not dare to be rude, but the other party drove so many valuable stallions, if he didn't ask where he went, he couldn't afford to blame him. He cautiously asked, "May I ask the young chief, are these war horses our goods?" ”

Tongtai of the ancient department of Baye is naturally Zhang Xuan's brother-in-law, Xin Yu's brother, he went south this time to send Zhang Xuan more than a dozen of the best stallions on the order of his father, so that Zhang Xuan can breed war horses, and also brought thousands of catties of alfalfa seeds, this is Zhang Xuan wrote a letter to Xin Yu's father Tule last year, hoping to get his help, Tule did not hesitate to take out their most precious stallions, let his son take them to Qingzhou.

These horses have been slightly decorated, and they look no different from ordinary horses, plus they paid a lot of money to bribe the border guards, so they were not troubled, and passed Luo Yi's territory safely, but they didn't expect to be recognized at Tuoshui Ferry, the preciousness of these war horses.

Fortunately, the relationship between the Kulun Ministry and Dou Jiande is very good, and Tongtai has also been to Hebei several times and sold a large number of horses to Dou Jiande, and most of Dou Jiande's nearly 10,000 war horses were bought from the Julun Ministry.

Tongtai shook his head, "I'm going to send these horses to the south, not your goods." ”

The general hesitated, and said half-loudly: "I'm afraid that this will require our Duke Dou's consent before I can let you go south." ”

Tongtai was furious, and was just about to speak, when a cavalry team rushed in the distance, and it was also a coincidence that Dou Jiande was preparing to go north to Gaoyang County, and he happened to meet them.

The partial general hurriedly stepped forward to report the incident, Dou Jiande looked at these horses, he was really a little tempted, most of the war horses sold by the grassland to the Central Plains have been castrated, and there are very few stallions, and these are actually pure Turkic stallions, this is a treasure!

Dou Jiande stepped forward and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Tong Taixian's nephew, and I haven't seen him for two years." ”

Tong Tai arched his hand to him, "Dou Gong looks good, my father asked me to say hello to Dou Gong for him." ”

"Thank you father!"

Dou Jiande glanced at these stallions again, and asked with a smile: "I don't know who these horses are going to sell to?" ”

"These horses are not goods, they are my father's dowry to his daughter, and they were specially given to Jang Hyun."

The people around him exclaimed, Dou Jiande's face changed slightly, and he said slowly: "Don't you know that the virtuous nephew is fighting with Zhang Xuan?" ”

Tongtai shook his head, "We don't participate in your war, I just said, this is my sister's dowry, if Duke Dou wants to snatch the dowry, not only will he become our enemy of Bayegu, I think Zhang Xuan will never agree, please Gong Dou think twice!" ”

If you list the people Dou Jiande is most afraid of now, it is no longer the Son of Heaven of the Great Sui, nor is it the Bohai Society, but Zhang Xuan, the battle of Jibei County, killed Dou Jiande to the point of chilling, at least at this stage, he does not dare to provoke Zhang Xuan again.

Although these stallions made him excited, he still had to give up his immediate interests at the thought of causing Jang Hyun to be angry.

"Alright! For the sake of our many years of friendship, I don't embarrass you. ”

Dou Jiande immediately ordered: "Let them go to Qinghe County, and they are not allowed to make trouble along the way!" ”

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Two days later, Tongtai led the horse team to Gaotang County, although the Sui army was concentrated in Gaotang County, but in Qinghe County at the entrance of each official road have built beacons and sentry posts, so when the horse team just entered Qinghe County, Gaotang County received a pigeon letter from the border sentinel.

It is also a coincidence that Zhang Xuan happened to be in Gaotang County to inspect the summer planting, and rice is not planted north of the Yellow River, but after the wheat summer harvest is over, another season of millet is planted, and beans are planted in the slightly barren land, so that another season of grain can be harvested in the autumn.

The arrival of the horse team was expected by Zhang Xuan, that is, he wrote to Thule for help, hoping to get a few excellent stallions, in terms of time, it should be this time, but Zhang Xuan did not expect that Tongtai actually led the team in person.

When Tongtai led the horse team to the front of the barracks, Zhang Xuan led everyone to wait for a long time.

"Brother, I haven't seen you for many years!"

Tong Tai laughed heartily, stepped forward and hugged Zhang Xuan heavily, Zhang Xuan looked at Tong Tai again, only to see that he was full of beard, dark and rough skin, and he had long lost the handsomeness of the year, as if he was ten years old, but his eyes were still as clear as before.

"Brother, where's my sister?" Tongtai patted Jang Hyun's shoulder and asked with a smile.

It's not that he doesn't understand the etiquette of the Central Plains, it's just because Zhang Xuan is his brother-in-law that he is so casual.

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly: "Of course she is at home, but my home is in Beihai County, and I have to take a boat there." ”

"Good! When I'm done with this, I'll go see her. ”

Tongtai waved his hand back, "Lead the horse up!" ”

The subordinates brought up more than a dozen stallions, and Zhang Xuan's subordinates were originally standing in the distance, not disturbing Zhang Xuan and Tongtai to meet, but now the war horses were brought over, and everyone stepped forward one after another, looking up and down at the dozen war horses.

It seems that these horses are good horses, but they seem to be a little worse than the strong BMWs, and the other party has only sent a dozen good horses from thousands of miles.

Everyone looked at Wu Gang, the head of the grooms, who was the groom that Zhang Xuan brought from the capital, and now he has been promoted to captain, responsible for managing thousands of horses, and has more than 200 grooms.

He was a Soma expert, he walked to a dozen war horses without saying a word, gently twisted the horse hair, nodded and said: "They are all dyed, so they look very mottled, in fact, they are all solid color war horses." (To be continued.) )