Chapter 43: Trade Routes

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It was dark, and Geng Guang walked out of Zhai Zhe's house, anger and fear blended.

"Brother Geng!" Wang Yi stood three or four feet away to greet him, with some worry in his eyes. Zhai Zhe's purpose for looking for Geng Guang, he already knew.

Geng Guang was awakened and asked, "Wang Yi, why are you here?" ”

"I'm waiting for Brother Geng here, it's getting late today, don't go back to Montenegro, rest in the village!" I have something to say to you, too. ”

Geng Guang looked up into the distance, and the mountains in the distance only saw a vague outline, and promised: "Okay! ”

The grain and grass in the cottage are not abundant, and the food in Lao Yashan is rationed by Anren, and after Wang Yi arranged the chores, he brought a two-pound piece of heavily cooked beef back.

Geng Guang took the beef, took out a dagger from his waist, slowly cut it into small pieces and put it in his mouth, and asked a little self-deprecatingly: "How are you doing here?" Isn't it much stronger than when it was in Montenegro? ”

"The big boss trusts me very much!"

"Huh!" Geng Guang suddenly felt that he had lost his appetite at all.

"Brother Geng, things always have to look forward!" Wang Yi spoke hesitantly, "Since you have already invested in the Han Ministry, your status always has to be earned by yourself." ”

"Status? I just want you all to live! Geng Guang slammed the dagger into the table.

"Troubled times, Brother Geng, this is troubled times! I'd rather be a peace dog than a troubled world. This is especially true in the grasslands, how can they protect themselves without strength and status? Was it really slavery for the Mongols? ”

"It's only been a few days, and you're obedient!" Geng Guang's anger was hard to dissipate

1ooo。 The methods that Zhai Zhe used on him made him feel like he had fallen into a deep net, and he had no ability to resist.

"With the big boss, at least I can see hope. Besides, it is beneficial for the eldest prince to stay by the side of the big boss, and recently the big boss is asking me and Che Feng to help him choose his own soldiers, that is, among those young people, these people will be the cronies of the big boss in the future! Wang Yi cautiously persuaded.

"You know everything?" Geng Guang's bull's eyes glared at Wang Yi.

Wang Yi nodded and said, "The big boss asked me to persuade you to rest assured, saying that the Han Department can only survive on the grassland by working together." ”

"The old brothers in the cottage are all up to you!" Geng Guang pulled out the dagger. Now that this is the case, what else can he do?

As the night deepened, Wang Yi entered the earthen house in the center of Lao Ya Mountain under the guidance of his own soldiers.

Under the dim oil lamp, Zhai Zhe was reading a book, which he had just brought out of the plug from the killing of Hukou, if he didn't have a book as a companion in his spare days, would he let him go to Xiao Zhiyan to drink.

"Big boss, Geng Guang is fine!" Wang Yi said in a low voice.

Zhai Zhe got up and put the book down, and said: "This is very good, you can rest assured, Geng Guang has done a good job, I will not treat him badly, now we are all in the same boat, and there is no way out if we stick to the grassland." ”

"Yes!" Wang Yi cautiously retreated.

Zhai Zhe wasn't worried that Geng Guang would not comply, he just wanted to make him comfortable.

From Geng Guang's choice to surrender to Zhai Zhe in Montenegro, it can be seen that this person is a person who knows how to compromise, as long as a person learns to compromise, there will be a second time if he has the first time, and Geng Guang has his own insistence in his heart, so he can rest assured that Geng Guang will be released. Geng Guang still didn't realize how important Ping Kui's position as the commander of the guards was, it was the knife that Zhai Zhe put in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't choose to trust Geng Guang unconditionally.

Geng Guang is not in a hurry to enter the fortress, Zhai Zhe asked him to carefully select twenty people in the cottage these days, and the others have to recruit themselves in the Ming Dynasty, as long as Pingkui has silver, it is naturally not a problem to hire guards.

The hearts of the horse thieves in winter are like grass growing in their idleness, except for those busy young people.

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After taking refuge under Zhai Zhe, the horse thieves still feel that they are doing well, the new boss has no fight, and he will not beat people with a temper at will, except for restricting everyone from leaving the cottage at will, and not allowing private fights, nothing else has changed.

Finally able to be free, Zhai Zhe took Wang Yi and Che Feng to inspect Lao Ya Mountain, and saw that the horse thieves were all over the east and the west, and he couldn't help but be confused for a while, what can he do with these people? With the prestige of the Jurchens' bravery and good fighting, a thousand horse thieves may not be able to defeat two hundred.

Early February.

Ning Sheng sent a letter that the Liu family and the Li family in Hukou were willing to complete the transaction of horses for grain with Pingkui, but the price of rice and millet would be five taels of silver and one stone.

In the past two years, with the drought of Shaanxi for thousands of miles, the price of grain in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has risen again and again, from one or two and a half coins of silver and one stone in the year of the Apocalypse to three taels of silver and one stone now. All the prohibitions of the Ming court had a price. At this time, the grain was transported out of the jam, and the two businesses had to be dotted up and down, plus their own profits, and the price soared.

"Five taels? I have to buy six taels too! Zhai Zhe shook his head helplessly. Three thousand stone rice millet requires more than 600 grassland horses, but it is enough to feed the people in the cottage for half a year and solve the immediate crisis.

In order to reassure the business, Zhai Zhe placed the location of the transaction outside the canyon directly opposite the mouth of the killing hukou.

The Liu family and the Li family respectively asked people to go out to inspect the horses, and after confirming that they were correct, they first pulled the horses into their mouths and then sent the grain out. In order to hide people's eyes, the grain cart was jammed at night, and the car wind pulled the grain cart back to Lao Ya Mountain overnight, and then let the horse thieves who had nothing to do all day carry the grain bags to the top of the mountain.

After completing the transaction, Geng Guang brought twenty shrewd and capable cronies into the fortress, leaving his son Geng Zhu to Zhai Zhe.

The fifteen-year-old boy has been covered under his father's wings, and suddenly wants to be someone else's personal soldier, Geng Zhu has been dodging since he saw Zhai Zhe, fortunately, Wang Yi in the cottage taught him how to behave.

After the grain market ended, Zhai Zhe finally found time to go to Motianling to meet Princess Wulan, one to express his gratitude, and the other he still had some things to figure out.

The snow melts on the sunny side of the mountaintop

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At the end of the day, you can see the bare rocks on the Sky Ridge from afar.

The Mongolian cavalry at the outpost led Zhai Zhe up the mountain, and Princess Ulan greeted her at the gate of the cottage, but she hadn't seen her for a month, and Zhai Zhe felt that she seemed to have lost a little weight.

After the salute, Zhai Zhe saw that the cottage was deserted and asked, "Isn't Geriltu here?" ”

"Ge Riletu led his troops to the Hetao grassland, and there are also troops there."

The two entered the village side by side.

After sitting down, Zhai Zhe casually asked, "How many of Tumut's troops remain?" ”

Ulan's face changed slightly, and he asked, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"I want to know the scale of the business."

In the past, there were nearly 100,000 people in the Tumut tribe, and the bazaar in Guihua City could attract nomads from Moxi Mongolia, Mobei Mongolia and the Western Regions at the same time, so that it could be so prosperous. Now that there are Chahar people, no one dares to go out to walk the caravan, close to the capacity of the remnants of Tumut, what kind of distance can the operation of the caravan be expanded, Zhai Zhe must know in his heart.

"I can't sue you!" Princess Ulan rests her chin with her right hand.

"Both sides must cooperate with sincerity."

"Don't push me! Actually, I don't know. Princess Ulan hung her head, her voice low and tired.

In the past month, after learning about the plight of the surviving tribes, she has gradually become a little overwhelmed, feeling both pain and disappointment, and confused about the future of the Tumut tribe.

A moment later, Princess Ulan suddenly fell on the table, her shoulders twitching slightly. This is her second time, after leaving the sweat tent, she is full of troubles and no one can confide in, the sweat tent cavalry will only act according to orders, and in front of Zhai Zhe, her backlog of love finally broke out.

It's just a girl, but she has to take on the heavy responsibility of the revival of the tribe. Zhai Zhe peeked at the sobbing Wulan, and suddenly felt a pity in his heart.

After a long time, Princess Ulan got up and turned her back on her face, stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, turned her head and smiled, and said, "Let you see you smile!" ”

"The Han will help the Tumuts!" Zhai Zhe slowed down his voice and tried to make his words sound more credible, but in fact, he didn't believe this sentence himself.

Ulan nodded and said, "Tumut's livestock are often robbed by the Chahars, and I am afraid that there are only three or four thousand horses that can be sold this year, and there will not be many furs. ”

Zhai Zhe's heart sank, I'm afraid my days on the grassland this year will not be so easy.