When Cheng Qing was busy cutting rich leeks in the northwest, Rong Jiu was running around on the vast grassland.

No one can imagine what Rong Jiu has experienced in the past half a year.

Tied to the city walls, outside the city is a vicious scarf thief?

What is that?

The scarf thieves only killed the powerful and rich and rich, and when they met the barbarians alone on the steppe, they wanted to kill all the Wei people.

Women can escape death, and will be snatched back to the tribe by the barbarians as slaves, giving birth to many children of unknown fathers as small slaves, expanding the population of the tribe.

A man like Rong Jiu doesn't even have fertility value, and he is usually killed by a barbarian when he encounters it.

It is most convenient to kill first and then loot the contents of the corpse.

Rong Jiu almost died several times, and he ransomed his life with the goods he was carrying.

"Barbarians are also human beings, and human beings have weaknesses."

Rong Jiu's business is getting bigger and bigger, and he has recruited new guys to help, and now he is teaching experience to new guys, "Don't be afraid when you meet barbarians, just let them know that you are more valuable when you are alive and can bring them more goods, and they are not stupid." ”

What others dare not sell, Rong Jiu dares to sell.

Commodities that others can't get, Rong Jiu can get.

is also a smuggler of salt, Rong Jiu is not limited to selling salt, he is the best among his peers!

This is the confidence of Rong Jiu to save his life!

The new guy scratched his head: "What if the barbarian that the villain encounters is unreasonable, he is stupid and doesn't listen to the villain at all?" ”

"That's why Lao Tzu shouted that you should learn barbarians! The barbarians can't say anything, and they still want to earn the barbarians' silver? ”

Rong Jiu's voice suddenly became louder, and the new guys all bowed their heads.

After learning the barbarian language, it is still possible to meet unreasonable barbarians, so what can I do, I can only consider myself unlucky.

If there is no risk, how can you make so much money as a salt dealer?

At that time, the ancestors of the Rong family also started by selling smuggled salt, but later they were whitewashed and were able to get salt from the official. But relying only on the annual salt introduction obviously can't support the wealth of the Rong family, and the Rong family still has the business of selling smuggled salt...... The water in this line is so deep that Rong Jiu has been doing it for more than half a year, and he doesn't dare to say that he really understands this matter.

It's naïve to think about your former self.

Just because his sister Yuniang married into the Shi family, he felt that the Rong family would definitely be inherited by him.

But the ancestors of the family and the uncles in charge just raised him, and did not send him practical work, and he was still not convinced.

What's not to be convinced!

In fact, he didn't understand anything in the first place, the ignorant were fearless, and the Rong family really wanted to be handed over to him, and it didn't take a few years for the mountains and rivers to decline.

Now, Rong Jiu is conceited to manage a small part of the industry in the family business, it should be impossible to collapse, and as a smuggler of salt, Rong Jiu has completely lost the squeamishness of a gentleman.

It is inconvenient for the merchants on the grassland to take a bath, and the temperature difference in the grassland is large, even in summer, they have to wear thick robes for the night, Rong Jiu feels that he has already pickled the taste.

But he's used to it.

Because the barbarians on the steppe are like this, he does not pickle the taste, but is incompatible with the other party.

Rong Jiu led the team to the depths of the grassland, and finally found a familiar tribe.

This tribe Rong Jiu has been here four times, and has become friends with the son of the tribe leader.

Rong Jiu has no other skills to make friends, what kind of people the grassland people like, Rong Jiu will show them.

The first time he came to this tribe, Rong Jiu was drunk, he woke up and found that his goods were all in a mess, and a lot of valuable things were missing, Rong Jiu touched his neck, as long as his head was still on his neck, this is a trivial matter.

Rong Jiu didn't say anything about the lost goods, and dared to come to this tribe to trade for the second time, of course, as expected, he was drunk again.

This time, Rong Jiu's goods were still inspected, but nothing was lost again.

Not only that, but when Rong Jiu woke up, he also saw Bilegon, the son of the tribe leader.

Bilgon said he had been tested to be a friend of the steppe people—at least in this tribe, where Rong Jiu could trade goods unhindered.

On his fifth visit to the tribe, Rong Jiu was already familiar with the place, and his good friend Bilgon came out of the tent and gave him a warm hug.

"Long time no see, my friend! I thought you should come, and you kept your word! ”

Bilgon patted Rong Jiu's back and beat Rong Jiu's chest again, expressing his miss.

Rong Jiu shook his body after being beaten, and after standing firmly, he returned the etiquette of Bilegon.

"Trustworthiness is my greatest virtue, and I have brought you truly good things."

Brute language, many Wei people can neither learn nor want to learn, Rong Jiu has studied for more than half a year, and now there is almost no problem with daily communication, and the language is compatible, so he and Bilgon can be friends.

Every time Rong Jiu came to the tribe, in addition to the goods traded, he would bring some extra "good things" to Bilgon, only to Bilgon, and the other children of the tribal leader did not have any.

In Da Wei, doing business is sleek and exquisite, and the rules of Da Wei cannot be practiced on the grassland.

Treat a tribe as a small country, the competition within the tribe is very large, and although the tribal leader does not have many concubines like the Great Wei Emperor, there is no shortage of women or children.

Since Rong Jiu had already befriended Bilgon, he could no longer contact Bilgon's other brothers, otherwise Bilgon would no longer trust him.

The fifteen-year-old Bilgon was not the most valiant of the chief's sons, but the most favored by the chief, whose mother was the chief's third wife, who had a rich dowry and herds of cattle, sheep and slaves to expand the tribe, and in the steppe, such a wife should be offered!

What's more, Bilgon's mother also has a strong backer, the Agora who unified the steppe tribes and established the "Great Qi", is Bilgon's uncle.

Originally adopted by the leader of a tribe, Agoura defeated many of the chief's own sons, took over the tribe as an adopted son, and was either killed or exiled to his brothers who dared to resist him.

But the daughters of the chieftain were all treated favorably by Agoura.

Agoura married his sisters with a rich dowry, and the marriages of these women became the bond of alliance between Agoura and the other tribes.

When Agoura attacked these tribes, there were those who supported Agoura and those who opposed Agoura. Bilgon's mother was the one who supported Agoura, and after Agora dominated the steppe, he gave Bilgon's mother the title of princess.

Relying on this big backer, Bilgon's mother and son have a very high status in the tribe, and the leaders have to be polite to Bilgon's mother...... If Agoura can take the northwest, so much the better!

When the goods were delivered, Bilegon was still complaining: "You Wei people are so despicable that you actually framed my uncle for Wei blood, saying that he is not worthy of being the king of the grassland." ”