On the evening of April 19, after a day and a night of galloping, hundreds of cavalry of the Ming army dressed in border army cloth armor came to the Karaqin Stone Fort, which was located more than 200 miles northwest of Yulinkou, under the supervision of the cavalry of other tribes in Karaqin.

This is the ranch of Bo Huang, located in the area of Pingquan in the later generations.

At this time, under the siege of Yanshan, the stone fort occupied by the Bo Huang gang was very conspicuous, and the scale could be said to be three or four times larger than that of the Tucheng of Bayo.

"You wait here, I'll go and inform Bo Di Taiji."

At this time, Taiji, a member of the Karaqin tribe, glanced at the hundreds of Tiancewei cavalry with defensive eyes, and although the cavalry of Tiancewei was unhappy, there was no way.

They could only watch as this Taiji left with more than 100 horsemen, and at this time, there were only more than 900 horsemen left around them.

Nine hundred people looking at a hundred people may sound very relaxed, but for the Mongols of Karaqin, it is like a great enemy.

Because if others look at it, they can clearly feel the threat brought by Tiance Guard.

More than 100 of them each wore triple armor, and the military horses they sat on also had vests that protected the forehead and chest of the military horses, and they were equipped with elite equipment.

Looking at the Mongols in Karaqin again, among the more than 900 of them, less than 200 had a simple iron armor, and the more than 800 Mongols were wearing thick clothes, and only a few round pieces of iron were on their chests and backs.

Their weapons were full of gaps after battles with other tribes, and the extent of their damage made it suspicious that if these scimitars collided with the long knives of Tiancewei, they might be cut off in a few moves.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Tiance Guard was like a leisurely stroll, while the people of Karaqin were like a great enemy.

This situation lasted until two quarters of an hour later, when thousands of cavalry poured out of the Karaqin stone fort in the distance.

Compared with the Karaqin cavalry around Tiance Guard, the cavalry under the command of this group of Bo Xuan gangsters were all wearing iron armor.

But for this, everyone knows、This is the personal guard of the Uncle。

They were dispatched just to not show weakness when meeting with the Ming army.

Soon, the thousands of cavalry escorted three people, the first on the left was Karaqin Taiji, who had just gone to report the news, and the one on the right was a young Mongol in his twenties.

Among them, there was a gray-bearded Suohei Mongol, who was wearing the fish scale armor that only the Ming general soldiers could wear, and seemed to be incompatible with the Karaqin cavalry next to him, but it looked like he had mixed in with the Ming army of the Mongols.

This fifty-year-old man is the leader of the thirty-six Karaqin departments, and the uncle of the left governor of Duoyan Wei Zuo who was sealed by the Ming Dynasty is dizzy.

He was very wary of this sudden arrival of cavalry, because early this morning, he had heard news from the eastern tribes.

There were thousands of elite Ming cavalry riding their horses to the north, majestic, so that the Karaqin tribes along the way have restrained some transgressions.

This approach soon made Bo Xuan realize that the Ming army might be borrowing.

But under the pretext of this kind of thing, you didn't discuss it with him? This made Bo Huang, who had invaded south like most Mongols in the early years, very unhappy.

"Uncle!"

Suddenly, without waiting for Bo Di to speak, Tiance Wei's Qianhu Ce immediately stepped forward and took out a white satin Wang Zhao from his arms and said:

"The King of Qi has an order to order you to lead the soldiers and horses of your headquarters to Baima Pass to discuss with you whether Baima Pass will open the mutual market."

"Mutual Market?!" Hearing this, Bo Di, who was called by his name, immediately threw the unhappiness just now out of the clouds.

You must know that the location of their mutual market is Zhangjiakou, which is really too far for the thirty-six tribes of Karaqin, especially for the Karaqin tribes who graze their cattle outside the Great Wall of western Liaoning.

If the mutual market is transferred from Zhangjiakou to Baimaguan, this will reduce the distance by at least 300 miles, and it is strange that Bo is not happy.

"Abu (father), could it be a conspiracy?"

At this time, the young man next to Bo Huang said in Mongolian in a low voice, but Bo Huang shook his head at him and said, "If it is a conspiracy, we will not be allowed to take the soldiers and horses of the headquarters." ”

After that, Bo Xuan said to Tiance Wei Baihu: "King Qi is the fifth highness of the dynasty, right?" ”

Bo Huang is the closest to Beizhili, and he still knows what king Beizhili has, he has never heard of this King of Qi, and he is obviously the king who has just been crowned.

Sure enough, as he expected, Qianhu bowed slightly, and then said:

"Your Highness brought a guard to Baima Pass this time, and you are limited to rush to Baima Pass within three days to discuss whether to open a mutual market in Baima Pass."

"Three days?" Hearing this, Bo Xuan frowned slightly.

Because if it is three days, it means that you have to travel at least 120 miles every day.

In this way, they will have to feed the war horses to eat bean feed.

If they don't negotiate, they lose money.

However, in order to make it more convenient for the mutual market, Bo Huang still learned to do it, and said with a very skilled Hongwu Zhengyun:

"Please go back and tell His Royal Highness King Qi that I will definitely arrive at Baima Pass in the afternoon in three days."

"Good!" Hearing this, Qianhu bowed slightly, and then glanced at the more than 100 horsemen behind him and said, "The whole army rushed to Baima Pass!" ”

"Drive!"

Just came to explain a word, and the thousands of households of Tiance Wei took people away, and Bo Tu also looked at the back of them leaving, touched his chin, and wondered if he should take advantage of the "family" in Jizhen to go north and go south to fight Grass Valley.

However, he thought about it and cut off this idea, because of the turmoil in Jizhen during this time, he didn't know how many soldiers and horses there were in Jizhen.

If there are many soldiers and horses in Jizhen, then he will not only lose the qualification of Zhangjiakou Mutual Market, but also lose the opportunity of Baimaguan Mutual Market, and he will not get any benefits.

Therefore, Bo Tu said to the young man next to him: "Subudi, you go and prepare a thousand stone bean feed, and we will take the people from the headquarters and the western eighteenth department to Baima Pass early tomorrow morning." ”

"Abu, will this make King Qi think that we are demonstrating?" Subu was a little worried, but Bo Di smiled and said:

"That King of Qi is only eleven years old, he is not as tall as a horse, even if there is a guard of soldiers and horses to protect him, it is useless."

"We just want to demonstrate to him, otherwise how can we reap the benefits of the mutual market?"

After that, Bo Di patted Su Budi's shoulder and said, "Go ahead and let that doll King Qi see how powerful Karaqin Tabu is doing!" ”

"Good!" Hearing what his father said, Subudi called someone to prepare bean materials, and Bo Huang also sent men and horses to tell the eighteen tribes in the area from Pingquan to Zhangjiakou that they should send troops to help in order to strengthen their momentum.

However, after Bo Xuan had done everything, Taiji Caice, who had reported the news earlier, immediately stepped forward and said:

"Uncle Dizzy, do we still want to tell the Ming army about the north from outside the border wall?"

"Huh?" Hearing Taiji's words, Bo Di thought for a while before saying, "Forget it, if you tell the fried flowers, I'm afraid it will affect the opening of the Baima market." ”

"Okay, then I'll go and inform the East Seventeenth Division." Taiji nodded, and then, with the consent of Bo Tu, sent out an expedited rider.

At noon on the 20th, they told all the Taiji of the 17th Department of the Eastern Karaqin Division, and after hearing that this matter might affect the opening of the Baima Pass to Karaqin, they also expressed their willingness to keep it secret.

Even they were still thinking that it would be better if the Ming army could destroy Nekharkha, and they would be able to seize the pastures of the middle and lower reaches of the Liao River and the Laoha River.

This careful thinking continued for two days, and it was not until April 22 that a rider was sent to report the news.

However, at the same time, in the Yanshan Mountains and hills outside the Great Wall, there were also large groups of soldiers and horses.

The eighteen western divisions plus the headquarters of the Bo Huang gangster, they gathered a total of 20,000 cavalry, and went south with a large number of cattle and sheep to Baima Pass.

At noon, they had arrived thirty miles outside Baima Pass, and in the city tower of Baima Pass, Zhu Youzhen, who had changed into a prince's fish scale armor, sat in the city tower and asked people to prepare tribute tea and various meals.

To tell the truth, as a person who traveled back in time, he did not discriminate against the Mongols, the Manchus, and the various ethnic minorities in the northeast and north.

He hated the turbulent and corrupt elites of all races, and what he wanted to do was simple: to keep the enemy out of the country.

Thinking of this, he stood up, and then walked behind the female wall wearing a twenty-four pound armor, supported the female wall with both hands, and looked at the scene in the distance.

At this time, the Karaqin cavalry in the north began to move south, and they went south while grazing, and Zhu Youzhen saw a large number of cattle and sheep, so he said to Wang Chengen:

"How's the material reserves in Baima Pass?"

"Go back to Your Highness...... Wang Chengen replied wearing a mountain armor:

"According to His Highness's wishes, I bought 3,400 stone of private salt, prepared 30,000 catties of iron ingots, as well as 6 million catties of honeycomb coal and 6,000 furnaces, 20,000 stone grains, and 50,000 stone beans."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen hesitated:

"Your Highness, do you really want to sell so many goods to them?"

Salt, iron and grain, these are all contraband, and it stands to reason that they cannot be sold, but Zhu Youzhen still sold them.

The reason why he wants to sell it is very simple, he is not afraid that Bo Di will come to knock if he has enough salt and iron.

To put it bluntly, 30,000 catties of iron are based on the iron-making technology of the Mongols, at most they can get some rough iron sheet armor, but such iron plate armor can't prevent Zhu Youjian's infantry at all.

Since it can't be prevented, and Daming needs to raise a dog on the grassland, why not raise it as soon as possible?

Zhu Youzhen needed a large number of cattle and horses, which would become his productive force in the future to reclaim the land outside the Great Wall, and horses for military logistics.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen glanced at the Karaqin people who were approaching in the distance, and said to Wang Chengen:

"According to my arrangement, even if they open the city gate, they won't be able to rush in."

"When all the people of Karaqin have arrived at the city, open the city gate, and tell Bo Tu to go up to the city tower."

Zhu Youzhen's voice fell, and he walked back to the Guancheng Tower again, while Wang Chengen walked behind the City Gate Tower with some worry.

I saw that behind the city gate, there were Tiance guards standing in a neat line.

The 3,000 musketeers with rifles had finished charging, and behind them were thickened Ming chariots with a Furlong cannon on them.

At a glance, there are more than 100 Furlong cannons.

With so many artillery pieces and flintlock rifled guns, there was only one city gate two zhang wide in front of them, and if the cavalry of Karaqin really dared to storm Baima Pass, the city gate would be the place where they were buried.

"Boom Rumble......

With the passage of time, the sound of horses' hooves outside the city gate became more and more solemn and noisy, and the scene and movement of tens of thousands of Karaqin cavalry and hundreds of thousands of horses heading south made Zhu Youzhen feel shocked by the preparation of tea in the city gate.

The boundless crowd poured in, like a surging tide, to engulf the standing White Horse Pass.

Not long after, tens of thousands of Karaqin tribesmen came to the White Horse Pass, facing the White Horse Pass, which was three feet high, they played horses under the city and looked out, singing songs in their mouths, but it was not the music of the Mongolian people in later generations.

Their singing outside of the call was not like a meeting with a friend, but a demonstration.

"Tell people to fire their guns and shut them up!"

Picking up the teacup, Zhu Youzhen took a sip and said.

Seeing this, the thousands of households next to him went down to the city gate tower and told Wang Chengen what Zhu Youzhen said.

Wang Chengen called for the cannon to be fired, and when the Tiance guard gunner who got the order heard this, he also took out the fixed medicine that had been prepared earlier, stuffed them wrapped in oil paper into the cannon chamber, and then used a bamboo pipe to puncture the oil paper and put the fire rope in.

"Ignition!"

Accompanied by the order of the firearm Chino, hundreds of artillery soldiers lit the artillery with torches prepared in advance.

With a "whoosh", the fire rope began to burn, but very slowly.

Everyone has been waiting, especially Wang Chengen, he waited at the city gate with more than 100 cavalry, and once the artillery sounded, he would lead people to open the city gate and tell him to enter the city.

"Bang!"

As if thunder exploded, accompanied by the explosion of gunpowder in the chambers of hundreds of guns, the cattle and sheep outside the city began to riot, and the Karaqin Mongols were also so frightened that they drove their horses and fled.

Bo Halo was terrified, and Taiji of the 18th Department of Karaqin West also looked at Bo Halo one after another, very weak.

For a moment, their accumulated momentum was instantly crushed, just because of a round of cannons.

"What does this doll want to do......"

Just when they thought that this was a trap of the Ming army, suddenly the gate of Baimaguan opened, and more than 100 neat horsemen walked out of it, and came under the leadership of an official in a flying fish suit.

After they walked in, Bo Di saw clearly what kind of official was this, obviously a eunuch.

However, the appearance of Wang Chengen represents that the so-called King of Qi may really be in the White Horse Pass.

After all, the flying fish suit belongs to the gift, and there are only a few eunuchs who can wear this kind of gift, and they are generally accompanied by the prince, prince, or emperor.

"Uncle!"

Wang Chengen stepped forward and shouted the name of Bo Xuan, although at this moment he was facing tens of thousands of Karaqin Mongols, and his legs on the stirrups were shaking, but he still followed Zhu Youzhen's teaching, and said loudly:

"King Qi ordered you to enter the customs, and you can bring no more than 100 people with you."

Wang Chengen shouted loudly, and the expression on Bo Xuan's face was also uncertain.

In the final analysis, he was also afraid of death, for fear that the king of Qi would be dissatisfied with him, and then slaughtered him.

If that is the case, even if there are 20,000 cavalry outside the pass, they will not be able to capture the White Horse Pass, and his position may not be able for his son Subu to sit on.

He was hesitating, but he didn't choose, because he was the Zuodu Governor of the Ming Dynasty who canonized Duoyanwei, and if he didn't dare to step forward, then the other leaders of the Thirty-six Divisions would hate him.

Because he doesn't come forward, Karaqin will have the possibility of being disqualified from the mutual market by the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he was no longer as domineering as he had been to Tiance Wei Qianhu before, but changed his smiling face, stepped forward on his horse, put his right hand on his heart, bowed slightly on horseback and said:

"Duoyan Wei Zuodu Du Bo is faint, and he has seen his father-in-law's ......"

"Don't be vain, His Royal Highness King Qi still has a lot of things to do, and he will leave after telling you about the Baima Guanhe Market." Wang Chengen trembled, but gritted his teeth and pretended to be calm, and said what Zhu Youzhen wanted him to say to him.

"It's my honor to meet King Qi in person......" Bo Tu had to pretend to be cowardly, after all, he was not prepared to turn his face with Da Ming.

"Let's enter the customs" Wang Chengen's words fell, and then he turned around and left with more than 100 Tiance guard cavalry.

Seeing this, he rode back to Karaqin's camp and said to his son Subudi, "If I die inside, you will avenge me." ”

"Abu ......" Subu tried to say don't go in, but was gagged by Bo shaking his head.

Soon, Bo Huang took more than 100 horsemen and followed Wang Chengen into the White Horse Pass.

When he entered the White Horse Pass, the gate of the White Horse Pass was also closed, and then he saw the Tiance Guards who were ready to go.

He looked at the hundred black cannons, a little weak, and completely lost the pride of the leaders of the thirty-six Karaqin tribes.

He followed Wang Chengen to the city gate, and then Wang Chengen sang on the opposite side of the door: "Your Highness, Duoyan Weizuo Dudu is fainting." ”

"Come in......"

Zhu Youzhen responded, and at this time, Zhu Youzhen was sitting in the main seat, with all kinds of delicacies on the table, and Bo Tu and Wang Chengen were arranged by him to be the first on the left and the first on the right.

There is a table in front of each of the two chairs, and each has its own food.

When he walked into the hall, he hugged his chest with his left hand, bowed his arrogant head, and said:

"Uncle faints, meet His Royal Highness King Qi ......"

"Take a seat." Zhu You didn't raise his head to speak, and Bo fainted when he heard the words, and Wang Chengen took their seats.

After he took his seat, he had time to observe Zhu Youzhen.

I have to say that Zhu Youzhen's appearance perfectly inherited the advantages of Zhu Changluo and his mother Liu.

In addition, after crossing over, he often practiced martial arts and rode horses, so now he is heroic and naturally sits in a position, but he is about the same height as Bo Xuan.

Bo Xuan was still thinking that this King of Qi didn't look like a pampered person, but he saw Zhu Youzhen's eyes look at him like lightning in the next second.

He hurriedly lowered his head, and Zhu Youzhen also said: "Don't be rigid about etiquette, move quickly." ”

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen himself also picked up the fast son, and said while moving quickly:

"I'm going to start a trade with Karaqin at Baima Pass, where you can buy salt and grain, honeycomb coal, and some iron pots and farm tools."

"It's just that these need to be exchanged for cattle, sheep and horses, and in order not to let the merchants deceive you, so this is the official market, and the price of everything is set."

"It won't say that you sell more cattle and sheep before winter, and loneliness will make people give less food and supplies."

"Xie Qi Wang Longen." Hearing that it was such a good thing, Bo Xuan was a little happy in his heart.

After all, some traders like to keep the price of cattle and horses very low before winter, so the various departments have suffered a lot.

However, they will also increase the price of cattle and horses at the beginning of spring to make up for the loss.

Bo Xuan wanted to listen to what His Royal Highness the King of Qi needed to do by himself.

"A hundred pounds of iron for a cow, or a medium horse."

"Ten pounds of grain for an ox, or a medium horse, or a medium horse for two inferior horses, or six sheep."

"Five stone and a bean for a cow, or a medium horse, or two inferior horses, or six sheep."

"Two thousand pounds of honeycomb coal for a cow, or a medium horse, or two inferior horses, or six sheep."

"Eight hundred pounds of salt for a cow, or a medium horse, or two inferior horses, or six sheep."

"Three hundred pounds of tea for a cow, or a medium horse, or two inferior horses, or six sheep."

"Five white cloths for an ox, or a medium horse, or two inferior horses, or six sheep."

Zhu Youzhen quoted a series of standards for mutual market prices, and after speaking, he said: "After this price is set, it will not change again."

"I've shown sincerity, and you'd better not try to be opportunistic."

When Zhu Youzhen said this, he kept staring at Bo Tu, and Bo Tu also knew through Zhu Youzhen's offer, and Zhu Youzhen came with sincerity.

At present, on the grassland, the price of 100 catties of iron for a cow is normal, but other commodities such as grain, honeycomb coal, salt, tea, and cloth are lower than 10% of other mutual market gates.

Thinking of this, Bo Xuan didn't still think about taking advantage, because he saw one thing from Zhu Youzhen's appearance and Tian Cewei's posture.

If he really dared to play tricks, Zhu Youzhen would really dare to ask Tiancewei to go out of the city and beat the 20,000 Karaqin Mongols outside the city.

Don't look at the overwhelming momentum of more than 20,000 people and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, but if they are the Heavenly Ce Guard of the Venerable Master's triple armor, they are simply a group of lambs to be slaughtered.

The 20,000 Karaqin people outside the city can find at most 5,000 elites dressed in heavy iron armor, and the Ming army also has more than 5,000 people, but everyone is in the top three, how can this be fought?

Therefore, Bo nodded and said with a kind smile:

"Your Highness's gift, I keep it in my heart, I swear to Baima Pass today, as long as Baima Pass exchanges markets for one day, my Karaqin 36 Department will not commit any offense for life."

"It's not by mouth to say whether you commit a crime or not......" Zhu Youzhen ate a piece of meat absentmindedly, and then looked at Bo and said:

"The barbarian Bayo Ministry is disrespectful to the Ming Dynasty and has an affair with Jianyu, and there will be no Bayo Ministry tomorrow."

"......" Zhu Youzhen's words made Bo faint and his heart sighed.

But after a sigh, he immediately expressed his loyalty and said: "I am the Zuodu Governor of Daming Duoyanwei, if His Royal Highness wants to wipe out the fried flowers of Inner Khalkha, I am willing to lead 10,000 troops as the vanguard!" ”

Bo Xuan is showing loyalty, and it seems that he became honest after seeing Tiance Wei, but Zhu Youzhen doesn't need his loyalty.

To put it bluntly, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many things in the Guannai and there were not enough military horses, he would have swept north with the four guards of the cavalry.

However, even if he didn't look down on it, Zhu Youzhen still said to him:

"Tuban is just a small trouble, and fried flowers are also respectful to my Daming." Speaking of his evaluation of Inner Khalkha, Zhu Youzhen immediately got up and said:

"From today onwards, outside the White Horse Pass is the location of the Karaqin Mutual Market, this time Gu has prepared 3,400 stone of private salt, 30,000 catties of iron ingots, as well as 6 million catties of honeycomb coal and 6,000 furnaces, 20,000 stone grains, and 50,000 stone beans."

"I see that you have also brought a lot of cattle, sheep and horses, so if necessary, you can trade with each other on the spot."

"His Royal Highness King Qi Longen!" Seeing this, Bo fainted and got up and knelt on the ground, and hugged his chest and said:

"I have brought gifts for Your Highness five hundred cows and three thousand medium-sized horses."

"I accepted the gift...... Zhu Youzhen helped Bo Tu up, and then said to Bo Tu:

"Lone also prepared a hundred horses of Shu brocade, twenty catties of tribute tea and three hundred jars of imperial wine for you."

"Your performance, I will tell the royal brother."

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Bo Tu returned the salute again, and Zhu Youzhen also said to Wang Chengen: "You can entertain the next thing, and you will return to the Yanshan military camp first." ”

"Congratulations to Your Highness......"

Wang Chengen and Bo Tu sent off separately, but Zhu Youzhen did not leave, but waited for the end of the mutual market at a battlement.

Wang Chengen did not live up to his arrangement, and Bo Xuan really did not dare to knock on the pass, after an hour of mutual market between the two sides, more than 20,000 Karaqin people returned to the north with a full load, and Zhu Youzhen also made a lot of profits.

3,000 medium horses, more than 14,000 inferior horses, more than 40,000 sheep and more than 5,000 cattle.

Such a harvest is only once, and it is estimated that the scale of trade between the two sides will continue at the level of one or two thousand military horses and several thousand cattle and sheep per month.

But even so, there are quite a few of them.

Therefore, after seeing the results of the mutual market, Zhu Youzhen looked to the northeast.

"Now, just wait for the good news of Mangui......"