In the middle of the grassland and the central capital, except for the area around Huang Hanjibu, all the rest of the place is rampant with horse thieves, and if you want to cross this area, in addition to the herds of guards, only the brave people are left.

At this time, Xiao Zheng was walking alone on this plain, this trip, he did not go to the Xingshi people, and even the Bodhisattva's golden body was not taken by him, but only brought a broken array. One person, one horse and one sword, but it is very similar to the wandering swordsman in the novel he reads.

This time his destination is Zhongdu, Da Zheng and the salt, iron and grassland horses have always been the highlight of trade, now Xu Lin has blocked Zhongdu, even if occasionally some small caravans can be smuggled over, it is just a cup of water carriage, and there is no room for a large business like horse trafficking, only when you become a family do you know that it is difficult to be in charge, only to know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are cheap, but the accumulation is not a small amount.

However, this is not an unsolvable problem, you must know that the bigger businesses have powerful people behind them to support them, and now Xu Lin has blocked Zhongdu, not only cutting off Xiao Yu's way of life, but also cutting off the financial routes of those powerful people. How did that old saying come about? Cutting off people's financial paths is like killing their parents, and what Xu Lin and these powerful people have formed is a great enmity of life and death! Now it is just a lack of an external opportunity to provoke a contradiction between the two that they can endure for the time being.

Xiao Yu is willing to be this opportunity.

Speaking of horse bandits on the border, except for those who were captive by the nobles of the grassland and played by the border army of Zhongdu, the rest are some small horse thieves who are not very successful.

These small groups of horse thieves have a common characteristic, that is, the general number will not exceed 100, but most of the members are ruthless, come and go like the wind, the nest is hidden, and they will only do some "small business", which will not provoke revenge, accumulate a small amount of income, and can survive.

When Xiao Yu first came to the grassland with the grassland mission, the group of horse thieves with about 400 people he encountered was actually dressed as a cavalry under the command of the princess.

Xiao Yu traveled all the way, but he didn't meet any blind horse thieves to find his bad luck, after all, he dared to walk alone on this grassland, first, the depth is difficult to determine, and secondly, he can't squeeze any oil and water. Of course, if you don't open your eyes and provoke a master, it won't be a matter of some damage, and I'm afraid that my life won't be saved.

A few years ago, there was a group of horse thieves who took a look away and provoked a great cultivator of the frost realm, and more than 50 people up and down were slaughtered by the great cultivator of the frost realm, and since then they have lost this name on the grassland.

Of course, these horse thieves are not weak and deceitful soft eggs, and when they encounter weaker than them, they are naturally like jackals on the grassland, leaving no way for people to live.

is still the same sentence, there is no real freedom in this world, even if it is the Taoist sect leader, the Buddhist host, and the sword sect master, who seem to be like immortals, these characters are also involved in their own ways, or the sect, or a certain person, or a certain thing.

Xiao Lie, the first person in the world, the great master of the realm of heaven and man, is not trapped in the muddy water of the Eastern Capital Court and can't get out?

Xiao Yu sat on the horse, his left hand gently rubbing the sword head held under the palm of his hand, the reason why he dared to go to Zhongdu this time was because he got a news that his half-brother Xiao Jin was sent by Xiao Lie to Zhongdu as an inspector.

What is the meaning of Xiao Lie's move, Xiao Yu didn't think about it, but he knew that it would definitely be beneficial to him, and if he wanted to contact the powerful people who were cut off by Xu Lin, Xiao Yu also needed someone to build a bridge in the middle.

After walking forward for a while, Xiao Yu noticed that there was a temporary camp fifty miles away from him, and now that merchants were forbidden in the capital, there were fewer caravans than horse thieves, and there would never be a group of scholars who went out on a trip to the spring in this deserted place.

Today, there is no horse thief who is looking for Xiao Yu's bad luck, but Xiao Yu wants to find the bad luck of the horse thief.

At this time, it happened to be evening, this group of horse thieves was preparing to bury the pot to cook according to their respective division of labor, the leader of the horse thieves was a bearded man with two staggered scars on his face, and he put a mace a man tall beside him, looking fierce and vicious, he was not sorry for his dignity, he was really not a good bird, but also a master with dozens of lives under his hands.

To say that you can pull up a team of horse thieves here, it is not a simple job, either a scimitar and a war horse in each hand is considered a horse thief, if you can't see blood, it will definitely not work, maybe you will have to be killed by the caravan guards. Moreover, it is necessary to guard against the sweep of the border army of Zhongdu, the hunting of several large tribes on the grassland, and the annexation of those big horse thieves, etc., even between several similar horse thieves, you have to guard against black eating black. To be the boss, you have to guard against the people below to get yourself down, and the gold and silver women who snatched it have to be a bowl of water, and you must be able to convince the public, you must know that there are few good people among the horse thieves, and you can't hold it down, so don't blame others for stepping on you and climbing up.

As the unique smell of yellow mutton wafted throughout the camp, the originally quiet horse thieves also began to talk and laugh.

The topic of conversation is nothing more than money, women.

An old horse thief who was blind scooped a bowl of broth, and while snorting and sucking, he said to his companion on the side: "We have had a hard time this month, and I am afraid that we will not even be able to put salt in this soup, and a bird will fade out." ”

A horse thief with a long simple knife on his back said with a smile: "Old blind man, if you want to complain, go to Xu Lin, the capital of China, if he doesn't let Da Zheng's caravan out of the customs, we won't even be able to put down salt, and by the way, let's see if your old face can let Xu Lin open up the net and give us a little way to live." ”

The old horse thief got the nickname of the old blind man because he was blind in one eye and was old, and he spat and scolded with a smile: "Fuck you, why don't you try it?" Don't you always shout that you are Xu Lin's lost illegitimate son. ”

When the few horse thieves on the side heard this, they immediately coaxed: "The old blind man is right, Xu Laosan, when will you go to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors, and the brothers will be able to touch your light, and go to Zhongdu for a walk." ”

Xu Laosan stood up and scolded: "Go and go, when Lao Tzu recognizes his ancestors and returns to his ancestors, first arrest your kid to the Zhongdu Prison, and torture him again." ”

At this time, there was a young man sitting beside the leader of the horse thieves, this young man was different from those fierce horse thieves, but he was in his twenties, handsome, polite, and dressed as a scholar.

The words of his subordinates did not deliberately avoid him, the leader, and the two black beards with two crisscrossing scars on his face sank like water, and said to the scholar beside him: "Military advisor, what do you think Xu Lin is going to do?"

Seeing Blackbeard coming, the white-faced scholar known as the military advisor smiled, and said slowly: "Eighty percent is a stumbling block for the grassland, but don't worry, this method can't grow, and now the capital is forbidden to business, not only are we in a hurry, but even those businesses are also in a hurry." Those businesses are ugly dogs with owners, and now I guess those owners are about to come out. ”

Blackbeard nodded convincingly. This white-faced scholar was originally a scholar who traveled with a small business, but he didn't want to just meet Blackbeard's group of horse thieves, and the people of the small business were slaughtered, but only this scholar was left, the leader of the bearded horse thieves originally planned to keep him to see if there was any oil and water, but he never thought that this kid was thoughtful and vicious, and helped him annex several groups of similar horse thieves one after another, and now he is the military advisor of this horse thief, the stable number two person.

is really in response to that sentence, it is not necessarily possible for a scholar to govern the world, but it is very simple to cause chaos in the world.