The name 'Sang Mao Shuang' seemed to carry a lethal distemper, which made the idle stars who had just rushed over and wanted to mix a few copper coins to buy a day's food and clothing disperse.

Some of them didn't give up, and even looked at Zhang Huansheng secretly with slightly discolored faces, and there was a faint speculative look in their eyes.

Seeing this scene under the scorching sun in the border area, Zhang Huansheng smiled faintly and said: "I didn't expect that after more than a year, the shopkeeper Sang would run such a big force at once.

Don't be nervous, I'm not friend or foe with him.

At the turn of late winter and early spring the year before last, we had cooperated in some transactions in the forest together, and he also earned me a few hundred gold beads.

Before he finished speaking, not far away, an unkempt half-grown boy in his teens among the impoverished helpers suddenly brightened his eyes, did not speak, turned around and ran towards the city of Splashing Wind.

Seeing that his back quickly disappeared into the street, Zhang Huansheng swallowed the rest of the words back into his stomach, and praised with a smile, "What a clever boy." And he said no more.

After a while, some of the other gangsters seemed to have woken up to something, and a look of chagrin appeared on their faces, and at this time, the half-grown man had already nodded and appeared on the far street beside an old man with gray hair and bright eyes.

After a while, an old man and a young man came to Zhang Huansheng's face, and the old man took the lead in arching his hand to Zhang Huansheng, bowing, and laughing and saying: "Don't be a half-year-old boy and finally come to splash the wind again, it really surprises the little old man."

When I came to see you, I specially instructed the inn I opened to renovate a table of wine and food to catch the wind and wash the dust for you. ”

"Shopkeeper Sang is too polite." Zhang Huansheng smiled when he heard this, and threw the silver bead in his hand to the idle boy on the side, seeing that his face was so excited that it was not only not happy, but it was dimmed all of a sudden, but he still saluted and thanked himself respectfully, and then pointed and said: "Sang shopkeeper, this child is your subordinate."

Look at the cleverness, when this business trips, just wait for me for the time being. ”

Hearing this, the young man's face showed joy but he didn't dare to say anything, until Sang Maoshuang replied with a smile: "This child's name is Ying Shun, he is only fourteen years old, he is indeed smart, and he is serving his son in harmony. Only then did he hurriedly lie on the ground, kowtow again and again, and said, "Gongzi Xie appreciates." ”

"Get up." Seeing this, Zhang Huansheng waved his hand and said with a smile, and then Shi Shiran and Sang Maoshuang walked into the city of Splashing Wind.

After settling down in the upper room of an inn called 'Sang Hao Ge', washing away the dust around him, and enjoying a sumptuous feast, Zhang Huansheng cooked two cups of fragrant tea in the guest room, gave Sang Mao a double cup, took a cup for himself, and after tasting it, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Thanks to the hospitality of the shopkeeper Sang, but I came to pour the wind this time, I am afraid that there are many things that will inevitably be annoying." ”

Although he appeared alone in Splashing Wind City twice, the magic power he showed was unfathomable, and his bearing became more and more graceful and quiet, and his speech and demeanor were the same as that of a wealthy family.

It's just that if Gongzi still wants to do the business of the population, it is not easy to buy slaves at this time. ”

"Yes." Zhang Huansheng couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

"Exactly." Sang Maoshuang explained carefully: "Although the forest also sent troops and horses to invade the border last winter, and penetrated deep into the hinterland of Great Chu, it only hastily plundered more than 20 cities in Beiquan and Wei and Xu, and there were not many slaves captured.

Now it is the middle of summer, when the grass grows and the warbler flies, the livestock gain weight and weight, and there is no shortage of food on the grassland..."

"I see." Zhang Huansheng nodded and interrupted Sang Maoshuang's words: "Since this is the case, then I will buy fewer slaves and more livestock dealers."

Do you do business, there are no certain rules, the east can't do it, just do the west, in short, no matter what, you have to bother the shopkeeper to find some people, accompany me to go to the forest again.

Of course, the reward must be yours. ”

Listening to his final straightforwardness, Sang Maoshuang also slightly recovered his former style, and said in a deep voice: "In fact, my Sang Maoshuang can become a tyrant in this Splashing Wind City in just one and a half years, one is by chance, the gang that used to dominate Splash Wind didn't know that it provoked that master, and the leader of the main affair died overnight;

second, relying on accumulation, the connections and prestige built in the rivers and lakes in the past few decades can also convince eighty or ninety percent of the market figures in the city;

The third is to rely on money, if I lacked the two hundred gold beads given by the prince at that time, and bribed the people in the official mansion, I am afraid that it will not be easy for me to succeed.

Even if I have some of the rest of the revenue now, I always remember that in this frontier, the foothold of our people can only be a knife licking blood.

Although this road in the forest is getting more and more fierce, since the son takes care of it like this, he will accompany you on ten trips, and it is common to lie down eight. ”

Seeing him so proud, Zhang Huansheng couldn't help but applaud half-truths and half-falsely: "Sang Junguo is worthy of being the descendant of Sang Gongzhige, the ancient sage of the Quanguo 'Qiyi Doctor', and he is really a hero." Sang Maoshuang also burst into laughter, and the two talked and laughed before they dispersed.

At noon the next day, Sang Maoshuang had already summoned a caravan of hundreds of people according to Zhang Huansheng's request, and accompanied Zhang Huansheng to go out of the wind and march towards the border in the forest.

When everyone returned to Splash Wind City a month and a half later, although the team of 100 people was still intact, they were all blood-red and unkempt, and they looked like they were not humans, ghosts or ghosts.

And at the cost of this, in exchange for Zhang Huansheng secretly transported tens of thousands of horses, strong cattle, 100,000 fat sheep and grass pigs, and 30,000 surplus slaves from the hundreds of tribes under the control of the East King of the forest, and transported them back to the territory of Zhang with the two major artifacts of human pockets and Wei Tuo Boye boats.

Although it is very strange that no matter how many livestock and slaves are bought on the way to trade, as long as they are far away from the eyes of the forest people, they will all disappear overnight.

But people who live in a place where there is almost no rudeness to speak of on the frontier of troubled times know that when facing a noble person who can easily manipulate their own destiny, they can live a long time by talking less and doing more, and no one asks much.

After returning to the city and receiving the rest of the payment, the people in the caravan dispersed, and after half an hour, only Sang Maoshuang and Na Yingshun were left to stay by Zhang Huansheng's side.