Yan Xing quickly realized that these tricks he played in front of Wang Chong were simply humiliating himself, thinking that Wang Chong could lay such a big foundation in just over a year, how could the wisdom hidden in his chest be comparable to himself?

Thinking of this, Yan Xing said with great sincerity: "Shaolin, you and I form an alliance, which is beneficial to each other, I hope you can consider our proposal!" ”

Wang Chong said with a smile: "I have already thought about this matter very clearly, and it is okay to form an alliance, but the premise is that you need to meet one of my Jinfan's conditions!" ”

Yan Xing asked, "What conditions?" ”

"It's very simple, you need to give me 3,000 fine war horses every year for free!"

"What!?" Yan Xing's face changed, Wang Chong's lion mouth was really shocking, three thousand war horses a year, not that they couldn't take it out, but the word 'gratuitous' in front of them was obviously difficult for them to accept, because the interests involved were too great.

Looking at Yan Xing, who had a stunned expression on his face, Wang Chong asked with a smile: "Brother Yanming, I don't know what you think?" ”

Yan Xing took a deep breath and shook his head: "This request is beyond the scope of what I can do!" ”

Wang Chong nodded thoughtfully: "In this case, Brother Yanming might as well go back and discuss with General An Qiang before making a decision, but even if this alliance fails, I think our cooperation can still continue!" ”

The biggest difference between cooperation and alliance is that cooperation is simply business exchanges, while alliance needs to be responsible for each other's security. To put it simply, it was a problem that when Han Sui was attacked by Cao's army, Jinfan could not send troops to contain it.

Yan Xing asked with a solemn expression, "Shaolin." Do Jinfan's conditions really have to be so harsh? ”

Seeing Yan Xing's gloomy expression, Wang Chong couldn't help but soften in his heart, and said, "Let's do it, reduce it to two thousand horses, this is the minimum requirement, and it can't be less!" ”

Yan Xing looked at Wang Chong for a moment in a daze, knowing that this was really the other party's final limit. He stopped grinding, sighed and said, "Okay, I will go back to discuss this matter with my lord." But before I go back, let's finalize the deal in front of us! ”

"Oh?" Wang Chong was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Mo Fei Yanming is going south this time." And brought a lot of war horses? ”

Yan Xing smiled slightly. Stretched out two fingers: "In addition to the 'Fire Cloud Wind Chasing Beast' given to Shaolin as a gift, there are no more, no less than two thousand good war horses!" ”

"Where are these horses now?"

"At present, the ships carrying war horses are still staying in the southern Anhui Port of Trading!"

After the war between Jinfan and Jiangdong ended, the port outside the city became a commercial port for trading between the north and the south, and when the war was over, the port would be closed. All the ships inside will also retreat into the city.

Wang Chong tried to suppress the excitement in his heart. Asked: "What resources does Brother Yanming want to exchange these two thousand war horses for my Jinfan?" ”

Yan Xingdao: "Weapons, armor, grain and grass, of course, can be directly exchanged for gold and silver, but it is best to use the first three, because these are the most scarce of us at present!" ”

Wang Chong thought for a while and replied: "Weapons and armor are not good, presumably Brother Yanming also knows that my Jinfan is now recruiting troops on a large scale, and there is no extra armor to trade for the time being!" ”

Yan Xing was silent for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, then replace it all with grain and grass!" ”

For the people in the north who grew up on horseback since childhood, as long as they have a horse, a gun, and a bow when fighting, the requirements for armor are not very high, on the contrary, the most scarce thing for them on weekdays is definitely grain and grass, because the land there is barren, desert everywhere, and there are too few areas that can be used to grow crops.

"Grain and grass?" Wang Chong muttered, "Yes, yes, but I don't know what Brother Yanming's selling price is?" ”

At present, Jinfan has just finished the autumn harvest, and the granary is full, even if it is traded with more than 100,000 or 200,000 stone grain and grass, it is not enough to hurt the muscles and bones, not to mention that when the Luling side is fully developed next year, Jinfan will no longer have to worry about grain and grass in the future.

Yan Xing secretly glanced at Wang Chong and said tentatively, "How about exchanging a war horse for a hundred stones of grain and grass?" ”

As soon as Wang Chong heard Yan Xing's request, he almost couldn't help but scold, Nima exchanged a horse for a hundred stones of grain and grass, and two thousand horses were a full 200,000 stones of grain and grass, are you really my Jinfan's grain and grass falling from the sky?

"Brother Yanming, is this what you call sincerity?" Wang Chong asked with an unkind face.

Yan Xing was a little embarrassed, and said with a stiff smile: "Then Shaolin thinks how much is appropriate?" ”

Wang Chong stretched out five fingers: "50,000 stones of grain and grass, in exchange for 2,000 war horses in your hands, you will definitely not lose this deal!" ”

"Only 50,000?" Yan Xing was disappointed, shook his head, and flatly refused, "No, this is too little!" ”

Wang Chong smiled and said: "In this way, the selling price of a good war horse in the south is about one gold, and I will give you another thousand gold on the basis of 50,000 stone grain and grass, which is enough for you to recruit an additional 3,000 troops in the northwest!" ”

The north is different from the south, in the south, you need to consider the base of young and strong before you recruit troops, if you recruit all the people, who will farm and feed these troops? However, the people in the north are fierce, all the people are soldiers, and there are not many places that need to work, most of them live by grazing, so there is no need to consider the problem of fishing with all their might, which is why the population of the northwest is obviously far inferior to that of the south, but it can pull up an army of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands at every turn.

Yan Xing knew that the price offered by Wang Chong was already quite high, if he continued to bargain, it would inevitably leave Wang Chong with the impression of being insatiable, you must know that there are still many places for them to cooperate in the future, if they fall out with Wang Chong on such a small benefit, it will inevitably outweigh the losses, so he opened his mouth and agreed: "Okay, I can accept this condition!" ”

Wang Chong smiled and praised: "Wise decision!" ”

Therefore, Wang Chong immediately sent someone to call Tai Shici, and asked him to take his warrant to the treasury to obtain 50,000 stone grain and grass and 1,000 gold, and go south to Wankou Port with Yan Xing to bring the two thousand war horses back to Wancheng.

Tai Shi Ci was very excited after getting the news, and the whole person was about to jump up with excitement, you must know that these days, the troops under Jin Fan's command are constantly expanding, but his cavalry battalion is still so few more than a thousand people, all this, he sees it in his eyes, and is anxious in his heart, so the two thousand war horses sent by Yan Xing at this time are almost timely rain for Tai Shi Ci, which makes him tremble after a long drought. (To be continued.) )