The geographical location of Zhangjiakou is important, guarding the ancient trade routes, since the Ming Dynasty Longqing Emperor reached a peace agreement with the grassland tribes at that time, it has become a horse market.

The so-called 'horse market' is not just about selling horses, the Mongolian tribes are nomadic tribes, there is no production, and at the beginning they used horses to barter, and the horse market came from.

After the opening of the horse market, Zhangjiakou was extremely prosperous.

According to historical records, the scale of the Zhangjiakou horse market in Xuanfu is that the annual satin horse "shall not exceed 30,000", while the two towns of Datong and Shanxi are only 10,000. "Zhangjiakou is barren, the market is established, and the satin cloth is bought from the south of the Yangtze River every year, and the leather is easy to come from Huguang." Business is prosperous, "the people are safe, the merchants are spoken, and the Central Plains is no different".

It can be seen that its business is prosperous.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Zhangjiakou in the Ming Dynasty: "Coming to the far fort, there are many department stores." Car, Lu, horse, camel, sheep, 旃 (felt), 毳 (fluff), cloth, silk, tile, poppy, bow, pill jumping, money, Pu Bo skills, must have. "Outside the Great Wall" dome thousands of tents, faintly exhibited. The shooting distance is inexplicable.

It can be seen that because of the prosperous business of Zhangjiakou, the entertainment industry around it has developed. Among them, Juju, Jumping Pills, Yiqian, Pubo, etc., are all one of China's hundred operas. For example, 'Tamari' is said to be the origin of modern football.

In particular, in the late Ming Dynasty, small markets were opened to allow the people to trade in small agricultural and animal husbandry products, and the scale of influence was expanded.

Although it is early spring, it is still the last winter, and the weather in the northern border city is still very cold. It's just that the cold snap can't stop the enthusiasm for doing business, and now it's full of people.

Li Guo came to Zhangjiakou this time and brought several waves of people. A wave of Jianghu artists selected from Sun Dengke's propaganda team are actually Li Guo's soldiers. There are more than a dozen gangs of horse runners, monkey tricksters, entertainers, fortune tellers, etc., and there are 100 people. The leader is called Hao Qianjin, Hao Qianjin is also very heroic on the battlefield, and it is more useful here to perform breaking boulders.

A wave led by Gu Ying was stationed in the remote mountains outside the Great Wall of Zhangjiakou, with a number of 300 people, and there were plenty of weapons, materials, and food. They are just a kind of backup force in case of emergency.

Old Qian, that is, Qian Duoduo, had already taken two guys into the city on his own, ready to get the previous things done.

And Li Guo and Nie Xin took Meng Zicheng and Luo Hu to pretend to be merchants and walked into Zhangjiakou with more than a dozen people.

Here belongs to Nie Xin is well-informed, has also been to the capital, but also under Yangzhou, although Zhangjiakou is rich, but by the character of the northerners, the architecture here is also rough atmosphere. Nie Xin likes carved railings and jade masonry, and he likes small bridges and flowing water, which is not eye-catching here.

Although Li Guo came from modern times and saw it, modern buildings are just high-rise buildings and cement pillars, which are not worth talking about. When I just crossed the poor countryside, even my pants were leaky, how could I have seen a big town in the real past! Meng Yi also felt novel when he arrived in Zhangjiakou.

Meng Zicheng and Luo Hu and other people are pure soil buns, if they hadn't met Li Guo, they might not have turned around in a ravine, how could they have been to such a big place? Looking at the flow of people coming and going, Mencius and Luo Hu and others lowered their heads, and the heroic appearance of fighting with the enemy on the horse with a knife and gun was gone, and their expressions were very twisted.

Seeing this situation, Li Guo rented a secluded courtyard and scolded these people angrily, "You dogs, you are shallow-eyed, and you will become like this in Zhangjiakou, if you go to the capital in the future, will you still be able to survive?" ”

"I can't make it." Luo Hu said cowardly, "Daddy Li, since I changed into this new dress before entering the city, I have felt itchy all over my body. As soon as I entered the city, I was even more uncomfortable. ”

"Poor!" Li Guo scolded. "I won't be happy!"

"Daddy Li, if I don't go back, let Xiaosi enjoy the blessings, I won't be guilty of this." After Luo Hu finished speaking, the rest of the people laughed.

"No! Wang Si has captured the firecracker, and I asked him to lead someone to train! Li Guo glared.

"How about Brother Tie Dan?" Luo Hu was a little reluctant.

"You can know what he looks like just by that broken name of the iron egg, can he do it?" Li Guo's face was not good.

"Why don't you let Zhu Huan, who has the best martial arts in the children's soldiers, come? He... Luo Hu didn't finish his words, Li Guo flew over with a flying foot, and kicked Luo Hu all over the yard.

Looking at Luo Hu, Li Guo couldn't help but be happy, "Luo Hu, you little rabbit cub listen to me, you have to talk less, think more, watch more, and learn." It's likely that we'll really be able to use the trade routes in the future, and it's not just to make money, you remember, you're doing great things right now. ”

In fact, when Luo Hu and others first arrived, their behavior was a little embarrassing, which is human nature. But Luo Hu, a young general, is shrewd and capable, and he really made a lot of contributions to Li Guo in the future.

But not now, these mud-legged people have never seen the world, so they have to be trained, and they have to say that they are doing business now, and it is strange that they will not be laughed at and lose their big teeth.

So, Li Guo's people didn't go out much and started training.

How to train? Li Guo can't do this, he has to come to Nie Xin.

"First of all, you must have integrity!" This was the first thing Nie Xin said.

Li Guo was stunned for a moment, temperament? Why? Outside the Seychelles?

"The integrity mentioned here is not stubbornness! Because what you have to learn in the future is to do business, and you need to be more tactful. Nie Xin continued.

That's right, Li Guo thought to himself.

"But why talk about integrity? It's because you have to have your own scale. Just like our Tiger Master, with the belief of saving the common people in the world, this is the integrity of the Tiger Master, and the courage to kill the enemy in battle is his scale. ”

After Nie Xin finished speaking, everyone brushed and looked at Li Guo with a look of admiration. Li Guo didn't notice a fever on his face.

"So why do you want to do business? Because doing business is like being a person. With integrity, the bearing is naturally extraordinary, and it will be easy to be accepted, and it will be easy to be accepted by others, and it will be able to do business. In addition, when we came, we also told you that you must not only learn to do business, but also learn to gather intelligence, which is also a big deal. Being in a foreign land, it is absolutely impossible to have no integrity. Nie Xin stopped talking.

Li Guo nodded, it was the first time he had heard of integrity in business.

"Let's talk about sleekness, in addition to integrity, business should be tactful. The integrity is inside, and the sleek is outside. Do you know why copper coins are round on the outside and square on the inside? That's it. ”

"And who knows what sleek is?" Nie Xin asked.

"It's what you see and what people say." Luo Hu said.

"Well, well, little monkey cub, there's development." Nie Xin praised. "However, tactfulness is not easy to learn, come, Luo Hu, you can demonstrate with me."

Nie Xin moved out a stool, sat on it, and ordered Luo Hu, "Go, scoop a bowl of water for me." ”

Luo Hu answered and handed it to Nie Xin.

Nie Xin raised his hand and splashed water on Luo Hu.

"Master Nie, what's wrong with me? You splash me with water! Luo Hu was stunned.

"Look at it, look at it, it's not tactful!" Nie Xin stood up and couldn't stop reprimanding.

"Oh, Master Nie, I understand. Brother Zicheng, you and Nie Ye will demonstrate for me to see. Luo Hu rolled his eyes.

"Okay." Mencius smiled and went to fetch water.

Well, the son can be taught, Nie Xin sat down. No, why did the stool behind him disappear in an instant? Poof! Nie Xin, who fell to the ground, suddenly realized that Luo Hu had gotten the stool in his hand at some point, and he was laughing.

"You little monkey cub!" Nie Xin jumped up, picked up a stick, and chased Luo Hu all over the yard.

Luo Hu ran while muttering, "Master Nie, you're not tactful!" ”