When the four of them returned to Eagle Claw Fort and reported the results of the negotiations with Ta Wolf Tile to Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye knew that the opponent he was facing was actually the Tartar Commander, not one, and he couldn't help but get nervous again after being relieved just now.

Of course, his name must not be long before the Tartar knows, although the name of Aishan Thorn is weak, but if people have the heart to investigate, they can inquire from Gansu Town without bothering.

According to his thoughts, he and the Tartar have now started a fire, why did this Tartar suddenly withdraw, is it because there is a backhand?

Thinking about his relationship with the Thousand Households of the Gravel Castle and Zhang Zhong, Xiao Ye said that if he didn't have a headache, it would become a rough nerve.

Thinking that he had really become stuffed meat, in the military house, Xiao Ye sighed, picked up the parchment book brought back by Aman, his eyes hesitated for a moment, and soon became gloomy.

If you want to live on the grassland, you can't shrink back anymore, since you can't go back to Shiguantun, then you can stand firm here; You want to deal with this official next time, but it's okay, what this official lacks is time.

Earlier, when he was in Haixi Village, Xiao Ye was very itchy about the profits from buying and selling weapons, but in order to protect himself to the greatest extent, he never dared to sell a large number of rear-loading firearms/guns, and now he can't care about it.

Tartar pointed out the rear-loading fire/gun to buy, its biggest disadvantage is that the projectile is afraid of the tide and squeezing, and in the future, the projectile will have to be sold separately, the biggest short leg is pinched in Xiao Ye's hands, he is not afraid that others will take the fire/gun to deal with him.

Besides, his eyes are now focused on rifles, lightning guns, and heavy machine guns, as long as there are suitable materials, the rear-loading fire/gun is no longer too important to Xiao Ye.

In preparation for a rainy day, he must speed up the pace of expanding the Home Guard.

Early the next morning, two hundred-man teams sent by Tawolfwa came to the vicinity of Eagle Claw Fort with a group of cattle and sheep, and Huang Hanxiang took more than a dozen guards out of the dark fort to count the number, and took over these cattle and sheep at a price lower than that of the gravel fort.

According to the usual method of accounting, the two Tartar centurions are not surprised, the price of cattle and sheep on the grassland is very cheap, if it weren't for the fact that Ta Wolf Wa was afraid that the leader of the tribe would go crazy, maybe he would have sent some inferior war horses.

Thirty rear-loading fires/guns and three thousand rounds of paper-shell projectiles passed through Huang Hanxiang's hands and handed over to the Tartars, who quickly completed the deal; The cattle and sheep were also sent to the Eagle Claw Fort, and there would be craftsmen who would take advantage of the night to slaughter them and then stuff them into the C-shaped stone mill.

Before the Tatar cavalry left with the traded firearms, Huang Hanxiang gave the two of them several gifts, vanity mirrors, perfume, ice condensants, lighters, matches, packed in two small cloth bags, and the most surprising thing for the two centurions was that there were also two expensive pocket watches inside.

was captured by more than a dozen Tartars who were regarded as favors, and Huang Hanxiang handed them over to the other party very happily.

In the afternoon, the scouts sent by Qin Shi reported that the Tartar camp had begun to be sorted out, and the vanguard of the army moved north, and after receiving the urgent report from the heralds, Xiao Ye's frowning brows were slightly relieved.

What made him strange was that after dark, a group of Tartar cavalry came outside Eagle Claw Fort again, bringing some cattle and sheep, as well as a few dozen war horses, indicating that they wanted to trade some firearms with the Aman leader.

Although Xiao Ye didn't know that this was a personal guard sent by Lanelt in private, he faintly sensed the smell inside, so he let Huang Hanxiang trade with the Tartars outside at the price in the morning.

After thinking about it for a while, he decided that this time, he would not give a pocket watch in the gift, but a half-new umbrella.

At this point, his firearms reserves in Eagle Claw Fort have reached the lowest limit.

Fortunately, other B and C stone mills are running day and night, grinding out yellow plaster, and the number of rear-loading guns/guns in the military catalog of the machining center is constantly rising.

After finding out that the Tartar army had left three hundred miles away, Xiao Ye summoned Ah Man into the military house overnight and took out the only three remaining primary potions; He left these three potions for Mei'er and them, but after thinking about it, he didn't take them out in the end and brought them to Eagle Claw Castle.

If the potion is not added by his blood, it is just an ordinary powerful potion, even if it is a person who has evil thoughts towards Xiao Ye, it can safely increase the strength of a hundred catties.

In the stuffy military house, the lights were bright, and Xiao Ye, who was drinking ice water, watched Ah Man and his two henchmen swallow the red five-star pill with his own eyes.

Half an hour later, the three of Aman, who were covered in a strong smell of sweat, were kicked out of the military house by Xiao Ye, and ran downstairs to take a bath with a grin; Xiao Ye, who was standing in the room, looked at the backs of the three people who were jumping around and was depressed.

Could it be that they are physically strong? Why didn't he get tired at all, shook his head, Xiao Ye no longer thought about this kind of incomprehensible thing, and called Sun Xiaoming, "Go to Broken Damin, send the official military order to the letter, and let Kang Hongyuan take people to work in the early morning,"

In the basement of Shiguantun, he had already taken out a hundred rear-loading guns/guns and 3,000 rounds of projectiles again, waiting for Kang Hongyuan to take someone to transport them out.

These 100 fires/guns, Ah Man will send his cavalry tomorrow, take the crossbows stocked in the stone fort and go to the Galen tribe again, recruit 300 cavalry as reserve cavalry, and reserve the manpower first.

As for how many young and strong herdsmen there are in the Galen tribe, Xiao Ye will not care, if Ah Man does not know how to continue to annex small tribes, then he can only be a centurion.

During this period, Xiao Ye would not care about the deaths and injuries after the fighting, without many battles with swords and arrows, where did the elite cavalry come from, at most he took out some compensity.

When Aman was cleaning up the nearby Tartar tribes, some of the rescued Han slaves would be sent to Bailong Lake, and the selected ones would be pulled to Eagle Claw Fort to join his family guard. Xiao Ye no longer had the heart to do the kindness of a woman, and in order to ensure his own safety, he had to add a household guard as soon as possible.

If you want to buy another population from the side wall, at present, it is impossible, and Zhang Zhong's monitoring of the two tax cards of the official store and the imperial store is becoming more and more strict.

With the departure of the Tartar army, the vigilance of the Eagle Claw Fort was relaxed, and the normal exercise of the three hundred-man teams in the stone fort had just resumed two days before Xiao Ye left the stone fort with his personal guards and Wang Meng's family guards.

Back at Madao Stone Fort, Wang Meng and Zuo Shi each led the team to garrison and exercise, and the logistics team also resumed the operation of the mill, and the materials transported to Bailong Lake set off straight to Eagle Claw Fort, where they met Miao Biwu and continued to march westward.

As soon as he entered the Baihu Office, before Xiao Ye could catch his breath, Wang Ziliang and Xin Weilin arrived, looking at the looks on their faces, Xiao Ye knew that there was a problem with the appointment with Tartar.

Sure enough, "Lord Baihu, for some reason, those caravans found out about our deal with the Tartars, and asked to buy fire/guns as well, and even to buy Heaven-shaking Thunder," Wang Ziliang's words made Xiao Ye's heart sink.

It has not been a few days since the book and painting were detained, and the news was known by the caravan so quickly, to say that there is no Tao here, Xiao Ye really doesn't believe it.

"Which caravan brought it up?" Xiao Ye asked in a deep voice, it seems that the manpower of the Haiqi Team and the Shadow Team must continue to increase.

"The Huang family, the Tian family, the Wang family, and Jiang Bin's private caravan, the other merchants did not ask/buy firearms," Wang Ziliang replied quickly, "They asked for the same purchase, at least not less than the amount of Tartar purchases."

"And how many guns/guns do we have in stock?" Xiao Ye looked at Xin Weilin, the shopkeeper of the Shi family shop on the surface, but secretly supervising Ma Gui, naturally knew the stock of firearms.

"I've been in the warehouse for the past few days and have taken a look, there are still two hundred long fires/guns, and one hundred short fires/guns, but there are not enough projectiles," Xin Weilin shook the paper fan and said softly, subconsciously, he was not so resistant to Xiao Ye's self-protection.

Even if he was curious about the channels of Xiao Ye's trade with the Persians, he was reluctant to explore it. Naturally, the less people know about this kind of secret, the better.

"Okay, let Wang Dali bring these fires/guns to the checkpoint, go and trade with them, and ask that they must be exchanged for food, if they raise the price, we will also increase the price, and then pull it back," Xiao Ye muttered, he was also helpless now, he didn't have enough food in his hands, and he didn't even have the confidence to bargain with the merchants.

I'm afraid that now, whether it is the Tartar side or Zhang Zhong, they all regard themselves as a disease of scabies, and if they can use it, once they can't use it, the catastrophe will come in the blink of an eye; Xiao Ye, who was thinking to himself, couldn't jump up and scold even though he was on fire in his heart.

Knowing that if there was no Zhang Zhong making trouble, he would have to pinch his nose and admit it, those soldiers in the two stone forts, plus the young men from the Galen tribe and Bailong Lake, which one is not a big-bellied man, and it is still less than a pound of steamed buns to eat in one meal.

There are still a lot of old people and children in Madao Stone Fort, so we can't let them go hungry.

If it weren't for the fact that there is a lot of beef and mutton now, I am afraid that the soldiers and men would be able to perform for a day and eat more than two catties of grain.

Not surprisingly, Wang Dali's firearms transaction with the three merchants was successfully delivered, but what Xiao Ye didn't know was that the fire/gun that went out of this transaction was quickly sent to the Datong General Military Mansion, which was thousands of miles away.

In the September season, not only the ravines and wild ridges around Madao Stone Fort, but also the large vine meadows near Shiguantun have produced large and small fruits.

Wang Dali hung up a sign to buy a large number of vine grass fruits at the Madao checkpoint, and indeed let the merchants who came to trade quickly start to buy rattan grass fruits at low prices in Laoyangkou and Shiguantun, and sent them to the Madao checkpoint one after another.

Only Hu Shibiao in Shiguantun looked at the vegetables cut in the warm cellar and was speechless; Although the vegetables in the warm cellar can be grown, the tax card under the mountain made him have to sell half of the vegetables and give them to Zhang Zichang, and let Zhao Wuliang eat them for nothing.

You must know that he still owes Xiao Ye a sum of money, and secretly accepts a lot of food, if people come to ask for the debt, he will not even have face.

In the scorching summer, in the backyard of the hundred households, the water umbrella blooming above his head blocked the scorching sun, Xiao Ye sat at the stone table, sipping cold iced tea, accompanied by three wives and concubines, this hot day, although there were a few buckets of ice in the house, no one wanted to stay in it.

They were now watching with great interest as the craftsmen went about their work, waiting to see what was fresh.

Cui Hongyuan, with two craftsmen with gray sideburns, was fiddling with a pair of molds, and a basket of black fruit cores was placed next to him.

The groove of the cylindrical mold was stuffed with black kernels, which were erected on the ground, and Cui Hongyuan closed the wrist-thick fine iron cover and began to rotate the rotating rod above; This thing that squeezes the core was taken out of the stone chamber at the end of the dark hole last night.

When the outer cylinder wall of the mold was faintly hot, and the rotating rod could no longer be rotated, Cui Hongyuan withdrew from the rotating rod, opened the iron cover, and poured out a round black cylinder from it.

The seven-inch-long cylinder was packed into an earthy yellow thin-skinned iron cylinder, and when the back cover was screwed on, the glass lens at the other end of the iron cylinder suddenly shot out a bright light, and the light looked dazzling in the daytime. "Hey, it's bright, it's bright," the knife standing behind Baihu suddenly screamed when he stretched his neck, which also made Mei'er and Lina suddenly scream, and even Tian Xiuxiu, who was holding her stomach, covered her mouth incredibly.

"Hahahaha, God really help me," Xiao Ye, who was smiling, got up, took the long cylinder from the panicked Cui Hongyuan, and loosened the back cover casually, Bai Sensen's bright light went out dumbly, and then tightened the back cover, and the light turned on again.

With his movements, not only the three old craftsmen, but even Mei'er and the others knew that this was an object that could be illuminated at night, not a ghost or a demon.

"This is called a hand lamp, it is used for illumination, but it depends on the black fruit core, without the fruit core, the hand lamp will not light up," Xiao Ye looked at the mold on the ground and called Wang Dali, who was hiding on the side.

"Uncle Wang, this mold is in your hands, the black fruit core will be of great use in the future, let people make some cylinders in the hand lamp first," reversing the hand lamp, Xiao Ye said, "Let's make a hundred for the time being,"

One hundred hand lamps, Xiao Ye will give forty to four places, ten to one hundred households, and the remaining fifty will be taken out to trade with merchants.

With the increase in the number of rear-loading guns/guns in the warehouse, Xiao Ye's need for mineral materials became more and more urgent, and news came from the gravel fort two days ago that the mineral materials that Huang Fugui bought from the grassland were confiscated by the imperial store, and directly pulled to the Xilong River and poured into the river.

Fortunately, Wang Ziliang has sent someone to inform Huang Fugui that the payment will be paid, and if there are mineral materials in the future, they can save the reserves first, and then transport them to Madao Stone Fort when they have the opportunity.

Of course, Huang Fugui could send the ore to any mill, but Xiao Ye didn't dare to open this opening, if the treacherous merchant found out the strange, he would not even have the life of running away from the grassland.

There are two tax cards in the business road, and now the goods transported by various merchants to Madao Stone Fort, except for medicinal herbs, cloth and groceries, no one cares, and green salt and grain are under strict control, not to mention a little bit of copper and iron.

Compared with the trade road in Qingfeng Valley, the trade road leading to the Madao Stone Fort is already more than half of the heavy tax; If it weren't for the fact that the goods in Xiao Ye's hands had nowhere else to choose, those merchants would have already looked for other business opportunities.

For people and countries in foreign countries, the Ming Dynasty pays attention to tolerance, kindness, tolerance, gentleness, literacy and so on all elegant etiquette, but in the internal fighting, it can be said that the means are renovated and tricks emerge one after another, and the fight is not to give up.

This kind of instinct like cleanliness may be praised by foreign Yi for eternity, but after thousands of years, the barbarian finally used hundreds of millions of heads of the Ming and Han people to sit down on the bloody thick soil.

These were kicked away by the commander and the envoy to Xiao Ye, who was kicked away on the grassland, and it was impossible to calculate, but the light under the scorching sun was already in his hands.

The road under the feet is stepped on by people, and the first person to walk in the wilderness often has a slight gap in the toes, and will go to different goals.