Chapter 233: Meeting (II) (The Sun and the Moon in the Silver Alliance Pot 21/50)
The envy in Li Ji's eyes could not be concealed, these cavalry myths of various caravans, known as white ghosts, were constantly approaching them at a speed visible to the naked eye.
And Li Ji noticed that the road was not wide, and the other party could still be neatly arranged into three columns in the process of galloping, and when they were galloping, even the sound of horses' hooves almost seemed to rise and fall at the same time, and the dull sound of horses' hooves almost drove the earth to tremble.
Li Ji estimated that there were about three hundred cavalry on these white horses, and about two or three hundred meters behind them were the cavalry with black armor and black horses, according to the information he received, those cavalry were Huo Gang's personal guard cavalry.
After seeing them, these white-horse cavalry directly began to slow down, and when they reached their front, the three hundred horsemen quickly stopped, and the general on the white horse who took the lead asked directly: "Are you a caravan from Yiwu City?" ”
"Back to this general, we are merchants from Yiwu City, and we have come here to exchange food stamps." Zhao Qi hurriedly spoke.
"Well, I'm sorry, the leader came to Hewan Town to investigate, so I delayed your time, please avoid it." Gongsun Lin said with a smile.
"Where the general said, it should be, it should be." Zhao Qi was stunned by Gongsun Lin's words, Huo Gang was coming over? However, the other party's words were polite, and Zhao Qi had never felt it at all in the sergeants in other places.
Gongsun Lin smiled and nodded, and then spoke again: "Gongsun Qi, you lead two battalions to explore the way." ”
"Yes!" A cavalryman behind Gongsun Lin immediately agreed, and then turned around directly and said, "Second battalion, third battalion, follow me." After saying that, he directly led about two-thirds of the people to leave here quickly.
Gongsun Lin stayed here, and the cavalry behind him was lined up, just separating the convoy parked on the side of the road from the road Huo Gang was about to take.
In this process, everyone else looked at these white horse cavalry curiously, Li Ji was naturally no exception, he paid more attention to these white horses, and when he watched them closely, Li Ji was more sure that these white horses could indeed be said to be thousands of horses, and he didn't know how long the other party had been running.
But after these white horses stopped, although they breathed heavily, they were not panting, which means that these white horses are not the limit at all, and all the white horses are much taller than the Turkic horses, for example, the pack horses next to them are also Turkic horses, but they are smaller than the other party's war horses.
Just the thighs of the war horses were thicker than theirs, and one could imagine how elite these war horses were, which were even better than the war horses that Huo Gang sold them.
Li Ji is not surprised by this, thinking about it, it is impossible for people to sell the best.
And all the armor on these cavalry can be seen from those armor pieces, which is extremely neat, which means that the other party has a very strong blacksmith, and the Turkic bows behind them are definitely carefully crafted.
The price that this cavalry needs to cost, if you even count the price of the war horse, I'm afraid that this horse alone can't be bought without hundreds of times!
There are actually a thousand such cavalry Huo Gang! This is an astronomical amount when armed.
And these war horses have been strictly trained, after they stopped here, the owners on horseback basically did not operate much, but these war horses stood in place and did not move, you know, they are flanked by delicate alfalfa grass! But these horses were stunned and motionless.
Li Ji thought about it, Huo Gang had already arrived in front of them, but to Li Ji's surprise, Huo Gang actually stopped in front of them, and Li Ji noticed that there were 10 Turks beside Huo Gang, and the clothes on these 10 Turks were very tattered, and the clothes on their bodies were even inferior to the clothes worn by those ordinary Turks under Huo Gang's rule, which Li Ji had seen before.
However, some of the decorations on these Turks made Li Ji understand that although these Turks were not good-looking, they were all Turkic nobles.
"You're a caravan?" Huo Gang stopped in front of Zhao Qi and asked with a smile.
"Looking back at the leader's words, yes, I am the shopkeeper of this caravan, and we are here to exchange food stamps." Zhao Qi paused for a moment, but still bowed his head respectfully and said, he didn't dare to raise his head to look at Huo Gang.
"You are Zhao Qi?" Huo Gang smiled.
"The chief has heard of me?" Zhao Qi was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but raise his head.
"I've heard that you are the smartest one, don't worry, although you businessmen are doing it for profit, but you have also benefited the people under my rule, businessmen like you, I welcome it." Huo Gang said with a smile.
As soon as Huo Gang's words came out, Zhao Qi's heart that had been hanging instantly relaxed, and he was recognized by Huo Gang, which meant that he naturally had no obstacles in this big man.
"Thank you, Chief, for the compliment. Zhao will strictly abide by the laws under the rule of the leader and will not deceive any ordinary people. Zhao Qi hurriedly assured that he would arrive.
"Yes, I'm relieved when you say that, by the way, since you are in business, are there any difficulties? If there is a difficulty, just say, I can solve it, I will help you solve it, and the prosperity of my territory is inseparable from you merchants. Huo Gang said with a smile.
Zhao Qi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect such a benefit, a few thoughts turned in his mind, Zhao Qi hurriedly spoke: "Chief, this difficulty is not, the leader has eliminated all the horse thieves in the vicinity, and the safety of our merchants and merchants has increased many times, we are grateful to the leader, where do we dare to trouble the leader." ”
"But I have a question, and I dare to ask the chief."
"Haha, there's nothing to be afraid of, if you have any questions, you can ask directly, I can answer you, I will answer you directly." Huo Gang said with a smile.
"Then I will dare to ask the leader, I am a merchant in Gaochang, I don't know if we can directly buy the wool cloth of the Han Dynasty, and other more favorable cloths?" Zhao Qi raised his head and looked at Huo Gang and asked.
"This one...... I can answer you, first of all, the official exchange point was opened by me to benefit the people of my Han Dynasty, and also to save manpower to distribute supplies to them, because the Han Dynasty does not have so many copper coins, you should know this, so I hire the people, I can only pay them food and cloth, and the food stamps play this role, in order to facilitate our exchange. ”
"You are willing to exchange the food stamps in the hands of ordinary people at a lower cost, so I have no objection."
"If you want to buy it directly, it's not impossible, but the price is definitely not as cheap as the exchange point, of course, it is much lower than the one on the market, but it's not much lower than the one on the market, but we don't charge copper coins, because copper coins are from the surrounding countries, the system is not very agreeable, and the people can circulate, but I have no official way to collect it, we only officially accept silver or gold to exchange wool cloth directly for these fabrics, of course, it must be in large quantities."
"It's about half a month from now, and after half a month, Iwu City will open a special trading house to be responsible for these transactions." Huo Gang said.
"Thank you, General, for your doubts." Zhao Qi was overjoyed and hurriedly saluted again.
"You're welcome, who is this next to you?" Huo Gang waved his hand, then turned to Li Ji beside Zhao Qi and asked.
"Oh, back to the general, this guy next to me is the guy I hired from Igo City." Zhao Qi hurriedly spoke.
"Dude? I'm afraid not really, right? I don't think this guy looks like a coolie at all. Huo Gang said with a smile.
As soon as Huo Gang's words fell, there were several sounds of the long sword coming out of the sheath, and Huo Zheng and the others beside Huo Gang directly pulled out the long knife on their waists in an instant, aiming at Li Ji and the others.
And Bai Ma Yicong and the others, who had been standing on the side, drew their knives almost at the same time, aiming at the rest of the caravan, Zhao Qi's whole person was startled, his body couldn't help shaking, and the whole person almost fell to the ground.
And some of the people in Zhao Qi's caravan also reacted almost at the same time, but they did not resist Gongsun Lin and them, but directly aimed at a person in their car at the same time, glaring at each other viciously.
These people are naturally the people of the Han Dynasty.
The sudden and sudden turn of the year made Li Ji a little stunned, he never thought that he would meet Huo Gang here, but what he didn't expect was that Huo Gang would directly suspect him?
However, what Li Ji didn't know was that in the spirit of the Jade Gate in Huo Gang's mind, almost all the people in this caravan represented friendly green, and only three people around Zhao Qi represented yellow marks similar to neutrality, or ambiguous attitudes.
This is also the main reason why Huo Gang just stopped.
"Gongsun Lin, there is nothing wrong with the others, it's just these three, I don't know where they came from?" Huo Gang said lightly, and as he spoke, he stretched out his hand and immediately clicked Li Ji and the others.
And Zhao Qi, who heard this, was somewhat relieved, but he hurriedly took a few steps back, and then immediately said: "Chief, these three are hired by me in Yiwu City, this one said that his name is Li Li, because his family is in the middle of the road, so he has to come out to work as a coolie." Most of the people behind me are also Han people. ”
Zhao Qi's words, Li Ji did not stop him, he knew that this problem was not easy to solve now, but he didn't know how to show his identity. Especially Huo Gang was born in the Western Regions, and he Li Ji is not a famous person, even if he says his original name, Huo Gang may not know.
As for Huo Gang recognizing him, Li Ji didn't think about it at all, because it was impossible for him to have seen Huo Gang, and it was impossible for Huo Gang to have seen them.
"Li Li?" Huo Gang's expression was a little strange, and he repeated the name, "Okay, Gongsun Lin let them go with the caravan, their caravan is fine, by the way, leave a sign for Zhao Qi's shopkeeper, with this brand, Zhao Qi's shopkeeper can get a store for free in Montenegro City in the future, I said." And the three of you will stay first. ”