A group of cavalry soon appeared in Zheng Ning's sight, and when he saw the soldiers who were still obviously carrying reddish-brown and dried blood on their clothes coming back, Zheng Ning had an indescribable feeling.

He didn't understand what kind of emotion it was, but he seemed to be a little excited. Even if he knew that the other party was going out to kill someone, there was still an irrepressible excitement.

Huo Gang saw Zheng Ning's caravan as soon as he came back, but he didn't expect that the other party hadn't left yet.

But think about it, if you don't let go, the other party probably won't dare to leave.

But the other party is a caravan, and it can't set off for a few days, so it is estimated that it is in a hurry, and it is the first caravan to come to him, so Huo Gang paused, and simply patted his horse directly in the direction of Zheng Ning.

Zheng Ning saw that Huo Gang had just come back, in fact, he was relieved, although the other party had just come back from the battle, he would look for himself tomorrow at the latest, so Zheng Ning was not in a hurry.

The reason why he was in a hurry before was because he didn't know when Huo Gang would come back.

But now that he suddenly saw Huo Gang coming directly to him, Zheng Ning instantly felt flattered.

He hurriedly tidied up the clothes on his body and walked towards Huo Gang's location.

Running in front of Zheng Ning, Huo Gang directly turned over and dismounted, tied the reins of the horse to the saddle, Huo Gang patted Hongyun's buttocks, Hongyun immediately hissed, and rushed directly to Huo Zheng's location like joy, because Huo Zheng would take off the saddle for Hongyun.

"Team Leader Zheng, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Huo Gang smiled slightly, and arched his hand at Zheng Ning.

"The general is polite, the general's affairs are important, not to mention that the general eliminated the black mountain thieves and these evil horse thieves for us people, in a sense, the general also protected our people, I should thank the general." Zheng Ning immediately bowed his hand to Huo Gang and bowed deeply.

"Team Leader Zheng is polite, then I won't talk nonsense, I think Team Leader Zheng should be in a hurry these days, I'll talk about the things we discussed before?" Huo Gang said with a smile.

"Of course, general, please speak, please ask how much tariff you want, and Zheng will definitely pay the full amount." Zheng Ning said seriously.

Huo Gang smiled and nodded: "Actually, the tariff we set before is ten taxes and one of the total value of your caravan's goods. ”

Huo Gang said this tax rate in a calm tone, and when he said it, he had been observing Zheng Ning's expression, ten taxes and one is ten percent of the tax, to be precise, it is 10% of the total value.

This tax is already very high, because Huo Gang is talking about the total value, not the total profit.

However, to Huo Gang's surprise, hearing Huo Gang's words, Zheng Ning was actually very calm, and there was no special expression on his face.

Zheng Ning didn't have any expression, Huo Gang continued, he wasn't going to sell Guanzi, "But since Team Leader Zheng agreed happily, I can give Team Leader Zheng a discount." ”

"Thank you, General Huo, please speak, no matter how much, Zheng will definitely pay in full." Zheng Ning said in a serious tone.

"I won't talk about the specific figures, so let's ask Team Leader Zheng a few questions, now a bucket of rice in Datang costs about 5 yuan, right?" Huo Gang asked directly.

"The price of rice in Chang'an City was about 6 wen yuan a bucket of rice when I left, and this price fluctuates every year, and the price of grain varies from state to state, but a bucket of rice is about 5 wen yuan." Zheng Ning nodded.

Huo Gang nodded, this was recorded in later generations according to the historical books, Huo Gang remembered, he didn't know if it was accurate or not, but the gap should not be big.

"Then in Liangzhou, I think the price of grain will be higher, I count 7 yuan a bucket of rice." Huo Gang opened his mouth again, a bucket of rice in Datang is equivalent to about 6.25 kilograms, and according to this conversion with modern grain prices, you will probably know how much RMB a penny of Datang is equivalent to.

However, knowing that this is meaningless to Huo Gang, he just has a reference, according to the calculation of 7 yuan, the money can always buy 887 kilograms of rice.

"So, Mr. Zheng's caravan, I charge a tariff of 50 yuan, shouldn't it be expensive?" Huo Gang said with a smile.

"It's not expensive." Zheng Ning said very simply, this price is much cheaper than what Huo Gang said before, one-tenth of the total value.

The Silk Road in this era is really profitable, which is no longer a few hundred percent profit.

It's like in this day and age, if you ship spices, like pepper, to the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, pepper can be exchanged for twice the same weight of gold when spice prices are high! At its cheapest, the price of pepper was not lower than the price of the same weight of gold.

Therefore, later generations summarized the history of war in the West and said that the history of war in the West can be named the history of war that broke out because of pepper, yes, it is as simple as that, most of the large and small wars in the entire Western Middle Ages were caused by pepper and these spices!

After pepper, fennel and other spices were introduced to China in the Han Dynasty, because of the vast area of China, there are many places where these spices can be grown, although pepper is also extremely expensive in China, but it is still much cheaper than the Persian Gulf.

Therefore, these spices, tea, and most importantly, silk are transported to the Persian Gulf, and the profits that can be exchanged for more than ten times can be said to be low.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible for so many people to risk their lives on the Silk Roads.

Therefore, fifty guan was nothing to Zheng Ning's caravan.

"Then I and Team Leader Zheng should be equivalent to 50 daily necessities such as grain, cotton cloth, and salt, okay?" Huo Gang said with a smile.

"It can be, it's just...... I'm not afraid that General Huo will know, there are not so many things in my caravan, especially silk silk, and we don't have any horses. Zheng Ning smiled bitterly and said, he didn't care about the cotton cloth in Huo Gang's mouth, he thought it was the same as silk silk.

"It doesn't matter, Team Leader Zheng can have someone send him over after returning to Datang." Huo Gang said with a smile.

Zheng Ning had always behaved very calmly, but after hearing Huo Gang's words, he looked stunned, raised his head and looked at Huo Gang with some consternation and asked, "General Huo, isn't he afraid that I won't give it after I go back?" ”

Huo Gang smiled slightly, and then said in a calm tone: "Business, based on sincerity." Moreover, we have to collect this tax for a long time. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Ning was stunned for a moment, and immediately arched his hand with a serious face and said, "If General Huo believes me, Zheng will definitely send these things safely." ”

"It's a deal." Huo Gang smiled and stretched out his hand.

"It's a deal." Zheng Ning stretched out his hand and clapped his hands with Huo Gang.