Chapter 156: The Chaotic Horse Market

In addition to being disappointed, Lu Chen was more or less ashamed, because before the crossing, as a vendor who set up a stall, Lu Chen was not much better than these horse dealers, and he always saw the needles and did not pay attention to the rules.

Rao is like this, Lu Chen is more angry, the reason why he specially set up a city management brigade is to manage the horse market, the horse market is the foundation of Yanmen, is the source of Yanmen's development, and there is no room for failure. Moreover, the Chengguan Brigade is directly led by Chen Gong, and the captain is a newcomer introduced by Pang Tong, who is said to be a talent named Li Rui.

Now, seeing the chaotic appearance of the horse market, Lu Chen really can't see what this Li Rui is capable of.

Here the Xianbei and the Huns fought in full swing, and there were thieves who were screaming over there, and there were Han merchants playing and tasting wine, and there were more delicate concubines touching the qin, so it was not weird.

Zhen Mi was born in a wealthy family, which can be regarded as pampered, and she was a little disgusted when she saw this scene, but she knew Lu Chen's purpose, so she still covered her mouth and nose and led Xiao Meow and walked forward. The heroine doesn't matter, although she has lost her memory, but after all, she is a girl who grew up in the countryside, and she has a lot of kung fu, so she naturally doesn't feel timid subconsciously.

The only thing that is excited is Wuzhu, such a lively scene can only be seen at the falcon meeting where all the tribal warriors gather every year. Therefore, she did not recognize life the most, and looked at the foal of this house for a while, touched it and did not buy it, and then turned over the leather of that house, belittled it and walked away, and finally went to the Han shop to wrap it around her body with other people's silk.

After a while, Wuzhu was gone. Liu Bao said to Lu Chen with some worry: "Xiao Junhou, do you think that stupid woman will take the opportunity to escape?" ”

Lu Chen knew who he was talking about: "What stupid woman? That's your sister! ”

"His father robbed my father of his position, and Hu Chuquan and I have long been cut off! I think that stupid woman is going to run, and I'm going to help you get her back. ”

"Are you stupid? Forget it if you run. ”

"Gah?"

"Quack, quack? Do you think I'm willing to ask for a black bead? If I hadn't united with the Huns to deal with you, I wouldn't have agreed. Besides, didn't the Huns give me Wuzhu just to covet my Yanmen's weapons? In addition to gunpowder artillery, what do you Huns and Xianbei people lack the most? Salt and iron! ”

"Forehead ......"

"Don't do it, with Wuzhu's IQ, you have to get lost when you get out of Mayi. Feel relieved. She'll be back. ”

Liu Bao thought about it carefully, and felt that Xiao Junhou was really wise, Wuzhu had such an IQ, could he distinguish between the southeast and the northwest when he came out of Mayi. It's hard to say. Anyway. Lu Chen was not in a hurry. He was not in a hurry. It would be better if Wuzhu ran away, and no one would compete with him for favor, although this statement was a little more evil. But that's just the way it is. Lu Chen said that he would accept the Hetao, and let him be the Xiongnu Shan Yu, if Wuzhu was favored, then it might be impossible to say in the future.

I went to a few more Han shops, Zhen Mi bought some original rouge gouache and jewelry, of course, they were all very cheap, and the woman bought a dagger that was quite sharp.

Lu Chen took the opportunity to talk to a few Han businessmen, although at first most of the other party was wary of him as a "Hu man", but after learning that he was a servant of the Han family, the hostility weakened a little, and Lu Chen also heard something.

Those Xianbei and Huns did not follow the rules of the Chen Palace, they did not sell horses with stirrups and horseshoes, but only put the horses with stirrups and horseshoes in the open, and sold naked horses in the dark, they were not willing to spend money to buy stirrups and horsesshoes, although Lu Chen said that it was the cost price, in fact, everyone knew that he made money, and the Hu people were not stupid. On the Han side, the merchants knew that stirrup horseshoes were easy to make, so they bought a small amount of stirrup horseshoes and sent them back for imitation, and did not buy them in large quantities, so they hit it off with the Hu people, and the bulk transactions were carried out privately.

Han merchants greatly raised the price of salt and iron, and almost all Han merchants raised the price uniformly, causing the Xiongnu and Xianbei people to bleed greatly, and after that, the Xianbei and Xiongnu raised the price of horses and fur medicinal materials. The Han and the Hu fought a price war, and the two sides did not give in to each other, so that the Huns hoarded more and more horses, and the supply of grain and grass was almost out of supply, and the situation on the side of the Han merchants was not good, a large number of goods were hoarded, a large number of manpower was consumed in Mayi, and they were also suffering a lot of losses every day, and the real completed transactions were very few.

Moreover, what made Lu Chen most unhappy was that the Han merchants were selling grain privately, which was not allowed by the Yanmen decree. It is said that many Han merchants sold grain to the Xianbei and Xiongnu and even the Wuhuan people at the price they sold to the Chen Palace.

What a fucking chicken thief!

Lu Chen secretly scolded in his heart, if this continues, in the end, this horse market will not last long, and Yanmen will still not be able to develop. It is necessary to take coercive measures to force both parties to follow the rules in order to ensure the fairness and normal operation of the transaction, and to ensure that Mayi becomes the real No. 1 horse market.

As for the problem that Han businessmen are unwilling to buy stirrups and horseshoes, it is actually not important, Lu Chen did not have the luxury of making money with stirrups and horseshoes, after all, this kind of thing is too easy to imitate, and he could give this to Liu Da'er for free, which means that they are not valuable. Lu Chen just wanted to use stirrups and horseshoes to attract Han merchants to Yanmen, even if he knew that they were here to steal the teacher, it didn't matter, as long as they came, Lu Chen's real bargaining chips were horse markets and gunpowder.

However, the current situation is that it is still early to throw out the gunpowder, and the horse market has not yet taken place, most of the Han merchants who come are from Hebei and the Central Plains, Jiangdong, Jingzhou, Shu and other places, there are no merchants to come, it seems that it is not too far away, but not enough to attract them.

After visiting a few more shops, Lu Chen got more detailed information, so he asked Lu Zhan to call Li Rui, the captain of the chengguan brigade, over. Lu Chen really couldn't help it, unless this product was a straw bag, how could he not see the problem of the horse market?

"Three thousand? A barrel of wine? Do you think you're Lafite in '82? ”

"What is Rafi? Oh, Allah willing, dear friend, three thousand and a half baht is already gray and gray. ”

Just when Lu Chen was looking at wine in the tent of a merchant in the Western Regions, Wuzhu came back, still holding three snow-white little lambs, his little face was flushed, and he looked very happy. Over there, Liu Bao rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders at Lu Chen, to the effect that you were right.

Let's get it......

The wine in the barrel on the carpet was quickly bottomed out by the three little lambs, one by one.

"Honored guests, although it is a waste for you to feed the sheep and sheep with wine, you still have to pay." The Persians did not say Allah this time, only money.

Lu Chen rolled his eyes, looked at the three cute sheep at a loss, and asked Wuzhu: "Where did the three little broken sheep come from?" ”

Wuzhu snapped his fingers and said: "I bought it, I have good teeth, I can grow fat, and it is also a ram and two ewes, I can give birth to cubs, and we will have more than a dozen sheep next year." ”

"Buy...... What do you buy sheep for? ”

"Buy it and raise it in the wasteland in the backyard of your home. Your family is too poor, there is not a single cow or sheep, only a big black horse that can only giggle. It would be laughed at to marrying such a man, and the noble sons who used to want to marry me all had tens of thousands of sheep in their families...... However, my father abandoned me, and I can only help you raise sheep ...... by myself" (to be continued......