The first time, the desert trade
In the summer of the 36th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, outside Datong Pass, the yellow sand was deserted for thousands of miles. This is the border between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, and since the current Jiajing Emperor banned trade with Mongolia, this desert has been at war for many years, and the desert is full of the bones of the war dead.
The moon is in the sky, and the wolf howls outside the gate come and go, and with the strong wind blowing in this desert, from time to time some white bones emerge from under the yellow sand. Even the most daring smuggling caravans will be thrilled to see this. In the desert ten miles away from the pass, a half-human-high sea buckthorn tree moved, and then suddenly fell, only to see an iron plate under the sea buckthorn being pushed up, revealing a hole. More than 50 men in strong clothes and masks, with swords, saw that they were all warriors in a hundred miles, and they came out of the hole, and the people behind carried out twenty large boxes, and the group walked more than five miles in the empty desert before stopping.
The leader was tall and burly, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, half a head taller than his sturdy companions, a tight night suit stretched the muscles on his body to sharp edges, a pair of tiger eyes exposed outside the masked cloth were fierce, and the two ink-dyed sword eyebrows were even more imposing. The big man looked around the wilderness left and right, waved his hand, and a person behind him took out a flower cannon from his arms, put it in his hand, and went straight to the sky. Just moments after the cannon broke through the air, a cannon exploded in the sky in the distance.
The black-clothed man who had just set off the fireworks pointed into the distance, unable to hide the excitement and uneasiness in his heart: "Master, they are here." ”
Dahan's voice was sonorous and powerful, revealing a coldness, as if without any human feelings: "I saw it." ”
A camel bell sounded in the distance, and a camel team of more than 100 people came from far and near, all with fur hats and felt clothes, and their eyebrows were covered with a thick layer of sand.
The caravan stopped in front of everyone, and three people came over, one of them had yellow eyebrows and yellow beard, and was as strong as an ox, with an eagle nose and a lion's mouth, and a bearded face, not angry and arrogant; The one on the left is a Han man of medium stature, with a roe deer's head, like a translator; The one on the right is wearing a small felt hat, with two hooked whiskers on his lips, and his expression is shrewd, and he looks obviously a Hu Shang.
The Han translator came up and said haha, "It's hard work, I can't imagine that Your Excellency will still be on time at such a time." ”
Dahan's tone was like ice, but his eyes never took off the strong man with yellow eyebrows: "It's all about begging for a living, it's nothing, you guys are also very punctual." ”
The Han translator stared at the big iron boxes, and his eyes lit up: "Have you brought all the goods?" ”
With a wave of his hand, the people behind him opened the iron box, and under the light of the fire, he saw that each box was made of high-quality silk satin, and the gold thread on the silk was shining, so bright that the people around the box were dizzy for a while. The Huangmei man raised his hand, and the Hu Shang trotted a few steps, stepped forward to carefully inspect the goods, and after a while, Hu Shang walked back and nodded to the Huang Mei man.
Dahan said coldly: "You have finished your experience, so what do we want?" ”
The Han translator laughed twice: "Two thousand taels of gold, one tael is a lot." ”
Dahan's voice was raised a little, with a little annoyance: "Hey, this is not in line with the agreement, a box of twenty horses of fine silk, and it is said that each box is two hundred taels." ”
The Han translator spread his hands: "Brother, now that the war is in chaos, we are the only ones who are willing to continue doing business with you, it's almost enough." If we don't pay, who can you do it with? If you are not satisfied with the price, you can try to bring it back! A hint of pride flashed on the face of the yellow-eyed man, and the translator and Hu Shang were even more hahadaxiao.
"Hmph, I'll show you how I do business today." Dahan suddenly snatched a torch from the hands of the people around him, and threw it in a large iron box at once.
Everyone present was taken aback, and the people around Dahan all blurted out in unison: "Master." ”
Dahan raised his right hand and signaled his subordinates to silence, and he said in a deep voice to the Huangmei people: "To do business, you have to have rules for doing business, and I hate it when others don't believe in their words." If I hadn't come at the agreed price today, I'd rather burn all the silk than trade it. ”
The corner of Huangmeiren's mouth twitched, and he called the Han translator to explain a few words, and the translator said: "Our boss said, whether you like to burn or not, the price will not change." ”
Dahan sneered, his body moved, and the translator saw a flower in front of him, and Dahan had disappeared, and quickly snatched the torch from the hands of the two people around him like lightning, and this time threw it into two boxes at once, and the fire started at once, and three large fires lit up the night sky in the desert.
The beard on the yellow-eyed man's lips jumped, and the Han translator ran back and forth: "The boss said that it is not easy for you to come here, and the remaining seventeen boxes will be given to you according to one hundred and fifty taels." ”
Without saying a word, Dahan threw another torch in his hand and threw it towards the fourth box. The moment the torch fell, the yellow-eyed man flashed to the box like a ghost, stretched out his big hand, and grasped the torch firmly in his hand.
The translator ran over with interest, and after muttering for a while, he said to the big man: "The boss said, according to what you said, two hundred taels per box, a total of three thousand four hundred taels." ”
A trace of disdain flashed in Dahan's eyes, he stretched out two fingers, shook it, and said categorically: "No, it's four thousand taels." ”
Huangmei suddenly spoke Chinese, although he had some big tongues, but he was also quite fluent: "You burned three boxes yourself, and this loss cannot be counted on our heads." ”
"I said that according to the agreement, we will trade according to the money, our agreement is 20 boxes and 4,000 taels, you can't blame me for your rebellion, and you are responsible for the three boxes burned. If I don't accept it, I'll continue to burn. As he spoke, the big man suddenly flashed five steps away, and there was an extra torch in his hand, and a cold cold light flashed in the tiger's eyes, staring at the yellow-eyed man, speaking at a speed that was not fast but very resolute.
An indescribable expression quickly flashed on the face of the yellow-eyebrowed man, his face was blue and white for a while, obviously engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, Zuihou He still gritted his teeth, stomped his foot, and said to the big man: "Okay, if you are ruthless, just do what you say." The yellow-eyed man snapped his fingers, and Hu Shang rushed back to the caravan and began to carry boxes of gold here.
After the closing, the two groups turned back. After Huang Meiren walked out a few steps, he suddenly stopped, turned his head, and shouted at the big man: "I, Huang Zongwei, have dealt with you Han people for more than 20 years, and I have never seen a business like you, I don't know if Your Excellency can leave a tuba?" ”
The tall man pulled down the face scarf, revealing a thirty-year-old face, with sharp edges and corners, sword eyebrows and tiger eyes, a heroic face, a thin chin with short hair, and a trace of intimidating momentum in his cold eyes, he said coldly: "Sky wolf." ”
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