Chapter 84: Domineering
The iron tools produced by the Ma family workshop are mainly used by the Anxi army, which can be said to be the lifeblood of the Anxi New Army.
Obviously, this is not aimed at the Ma family firm at all, but at the Anxi army. Although it is necessary to speak the law on the ground of Anxi, this is the territory of the Anxi Army after all, and Ma Ling wants to see where the sacredness is and how bold he is.
The two healthy horses galloped into the city of Qiuzi at high speed and went straight to the area where the iron company was located. Passers-by saw that Ma Lan was angry, and no one dared to approach at all, but they were busy avoiding it.
"Here's it, this is it!" Gao Qianqianle stopped fighting his horse, and the horsewhip pointed to a shop in front of him.
Ma Lan took a look, and the flag hanging on the shop was written with the words Dashi, and there was a newly engraved emblem on the lintel. The shop occupies a large area, and people come and go, which is extremely lively, and it seems that this shop is doing a good business.
"This shop belonged to the He family, the original head of the iron bank, and now it has been bought by this Hu businessman, and even the qualification of the head of the line has been bought by this Hu businessman at a high price." Gao Qianqian said.
Ma Lan nodded, turned over and dismounted, and a guy hired by Hu Shang quickly ran over, grabbed the horse's reins with a courteous face and said, "Master Hou, you are here!" Want to buy something? ”
Ma Lan grabbed the horizontal knife from the side of the saddle, startling the Han man. Ignoring this guy, Ma Ling strode towards the store with a horizontal knife in his hand.
He was seven feet tall (Tang Qi) and had a burly physique, and he was so angry that the ground trembled slightly when he walked. The people who were about to enter and exit the shop were all startled when they saw Ma Luan like this, and after saluting respectfully, they hurriedly avoided the side of the road.
Gao Qianqian's face was excited, and she also showed her usual short knife, and followed Ma Lan swaggering in.
"Master Hou!"
"General Ma!"
"Your Excellency!"
The shop was extremely open, there were many customers, and when people saw Ma Lu coming in angrily, they all greeted each other in a mess. Ma Ling nodded coldly and shouted: "Irrelevant people, get out of a certain family!" ”
Who dared to disobey Ma Lan's order, the guests hurriedly ran out of the shop, and only the shopkeeper and his companion remained in the spacious shop.
Behind the counter was a bloated Persian who seemed to be the man in charge of the place, his robe embroidered with the same emblem as on the lintel. When Ma Lan saw this emblem, he sneered and had a plan in his heart, and the killing intent loomed in his eyes.
When the Persian merchant saw Ma Lan like this, he suddenly stood up, pointed at Ma Lan and shouted angrily in East Persian, and the huge lapis lazuli ring on his finger was extremely eye-catching.
A Han man was startled, and quickly grabbed him and whispered a few words in his ear in Persian.
Ma Lan ignored this guy and looked at the shop. Guizi was originally the center of the east-west ironware manufacturing in the green mountain, and the iron shop was generally mainly for the sale of weapons, and this shop was the same. But what is special is that the walls here are not ordinary horizontal knives and spears, but all fine Damascus scimitars.
The Persian merchant roared loudly again, and the Han man next to him played the role of translator, saying, "Your Excellency the Governor of the Tang Dynasty, we are legitimate merchants, and we have the freedom to buy and sell. We don't want to sell the iron ore to your home anymore, and according to the rules of the trade, we only need to pay you double the deposit to redeem the contract. I have prepared a double deposit for you, please do not hinder us from doing proper business. ”
"Legitimate business?" Ma Lan snorted and said, "Why does General Ben think that what you are selling are fakes. According to the order of our Datang Customs Market, all goods are divided into three classes, and the price is set every ten days by the head of each bank. You don't have any iron weapons marked with grades, so you dare to sell them in the iron shop, you are really not afraid of my Datang law! ”
Marlain's words startled the fellow, and when he relayed them to the Persian merchants, the words were stumbling. When the Persian merchant heard this, his face turned red and he yelled again.
"Your Excellency the Governor of the Tang Dynasty, I am now the head of the Iron Company, and the pricing of goods is also my power. Now I have made all the ironware first-class, and my ironware is the best, and I can't find such good things in the city of Qiuzi. The adults said that I was selling a guy, which was the biggest insult to me. ”
"Is it all the best? How about the horizontal knife of Bibi's family? Ma Lan sneered, and pulled out a few knife flowers with a shock of his wrist.
After the Han man finished relaying, Ma Lu did not wait for the Persian merchant to answer, and the horizontal knife in his hand was already swung out.
The horizontal knife slashed hard at a Damascus scimitar hanging on the wall, and with a soft snap, the scimitar was directly cut by the horizontal knife. Ma Lan swung his knife again, and slashed another scimitar in two.
"Dare to sell such rags! What is this not inferior! ”
The Persian merchant's eyes widened, and he looked at the horizontal knife in Ma Lan's hand, and he couldn't believe it for a while. He couldn't understand why the horizontal knife in Ma Lu's hand could cut off the scimitar he sold so easily.
How did he know that Ma Lan's horizontal knife was an old thing when he was a ranger in Chang'an, and later he brought it to Anxi, a horizontal knife I don't know how many years it has been used, it is still undamaged, it is a real treasure. These Damascus scimitars, although they are good, how can they be compared to his horizontal knives.
In addition, he is deliberately looking for faults, the Damascus scimitar is hung on the wall, but his horizontal knife is held in his hand, one active and one passive, how can these scimitars continue?
For a while, the knife light flashed in the shop, and the Hu people and Han people were driven into the corner by the sword light. Ma Lan was not polite at all, and did not look at the Persian merchant, but only cut the scimitar on the wall in two with one sword.
"How dare you sell such inferior goods in Qiuzi City, is it true that my Datang Customs Order is fake?" Ma Lan slashed and scolded. Gao Qianqian watched from the side with a short knife in her hand, and saw that the Persian merchant's face was getting redder and redder, and she smiled with joy.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the Han guys looked at each other and quietly slipped out of the door. Hou Ye is angry, who dares to touch his moldy head.
After cutting off more than thirty scimitars, the Persian merchant finally couldn't help it, and suddenly roared angrily, and more than a dozen Persian warriors rushed out of the backyard of the shop, one by one holding scimitars and looking at Ma Lu. These Persian warriors were all tall and strong, full of murderous spirits, and they were not ordinary at first glance.
When Ma Lu saw it, his heart was more determined, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Lord Governor of the Tang Dynasty, don't force me!" The Persian merchant shouted loudly in Persian.
"It's just forcing you, what can you do?" Ma Lan smiled, speaking Persian as well.
Gao Qianqian was also taken aback when she saw Ma Lu talking nonsense. The Persian merchant was stunned, obviously not expecting Ma Lan to understand Persian.
"This is my Datang's territory, this general is the general of Datang, you dare to draw a sword in front of this general, this is a capital crime! Die! ”
Speaking in Persian, Ma Lu had already rushed out, and with a twist of the horizontal sword, the heads of the two tallest Persian warriors had already flown out.
Seeing the hot blood spurting out of the cavity, everyone exclaimed. No one expected that Ma Lan would say that he would do it, and he killed two people in an instant.
Ma Lan laughed, and the bloody horizontal knife suddenly poked out, stabbing into the waist and eye of a Persian warrior, and grabbed the scimitar in the Persian warrior's hand.
The slightly sweet bloody breath poured into his nose, and at this moment he seemed to have returned to the time when he was a ranger in Chang'an ten years ago, and killing people with white blades in the fighting room was his forte.
The Persian merchant had red eyes and roared loudly, and the rest of the Persian warriors roared in unison and surrounded Ma Lan together, and the first few people swung their swords at Ma Lan at the same time.
After Ma Lu flashed to the wooden pillar with an arrow, the Persian's scimitar was empty, but he came out from the other side of the wooden pillar, and swung the scimitar in his left hand and the horizontal knife in his right hand at the same time, cutting the two Persian warriors in two. His strength was enough to cut off the war horse with one sword, and it was extremely easy to cut off the two of them.
The Persian warriors shouted, but could not keep up with him. The ranger does not have any mysterious skills, any object in the fighting room can be used by him, flashing and moving, one by one the Persian warriors fell under his sword, but he was always unharmed.
Compared to the danger of killing people in Chang'an City with white knives, killing these clumsy Persian warriors was nothing at all. That is, the horizontal knife in his hand is shorter, otherwise these guys will be killed by him in a few faces.
Seeing that all the Persian warriors had fallen in a pool of blood, those Hu men shouted and jumped out in embarrassment. Although they are Hu people, they are the people under the rule of Anxi, and they are newly hired by this Persian Hu merchant, so they naturally refuse to work for this Persian Hu merchant.
Looking at the corpses in one place, Ma Ling laughed. Gao Qianqian and Ma Ling have already been on the battlefield once, and they are used to such a bloody scene. At some point, she had a small steel-armed crossbow in her hand, which was already aimed at the Persian merchant behind the counter.
"You're so unreasonable! It's so unreasonable! The Persian merchant glared at Ma Lu with red eyes and cried out in despair.
"What do you want? In Anthy I am the truth. Ma Lan looked at the Persian merchant and sneered, "On the ground of Anxi, you dare to let people draw a knife against me, you are really looking for death!" ”
The Persian merchant gasped in despair and roared, "We are merchants who do our duty, and this is all forced by you. It is said that the Tang people pay the most attention to rules, I don't know what rules we have violated, you want to force us like this? ”
"You're a businessman with a good order? How dare a well-behaved businessman be so domineering in the iron shop? There are 220 lines of goods and wealth in Qiuzi City, and it is the first time to see a certain family that dares to be so arrogant! Ma Lan sneered, "Now, if you don't want to die, just take the contracts of those iron mines, and let's renegotiate the matter of the iron ore transfer." Of course, you don't want to get a dinar from me. ”
"You're a robbery! **Naked robbery! The Persian merchant roared.
"Dare to shout in front of this general, and I don't know who gave you the guts! Just let the general draw his sword in front of him, and the general will kill you! Ma Lan sneered, "If someone in Damascus draws a sword from your head of the house, Abdullah, the governor of Syria, will Abdullah spare him?" What a joke! ”