I bought the artillery and grenades that I had in mind, but Boss Qian was in a better mood for a while, but he became sad in a blink of an eye: "What if this cannonball and grenade run out?" What if the gun breaks? Looking at Zhu Zhuozi's depressed face, he gritted his teeth and mustered up his courage to say that he wanted to establish a long-term arms deal with the Thunderbolt Army. He originally thought that Zhu Zhuozi, who had suffered a loss in this transaction, would refuse, but unexpectedly agreed readily, which made him have a faint worry in his heart. In Boss Qian's opinion, this Zhu picker is really a difficult business negotiation opponent, and I don't know if he will take the opportunity to ask for a price. At that moment, he waited nervously for the other lion's mouth to open wide.

Boss Qian had secretly decided in his heart that as long as Zhu Zhuozi's conditions were not too harsh and excessive, even if he proposed to ask for a hundred, two hundred, or even a thousand horses in the future, he would agree. Where there is high risk, there is high reward, and the trade on the Tea Horse Road is really difficult, but it is also extremely lucrative. With firearms and the Qian family's friendship with the tribes along the way, they can ensure that there is endless business and money on this road. As long as the trade routes are reopened, the horses will naturally not worry. On this trade route, there are not only the mountain ponies of the southwest Yi, but also the plateau horses of the Tibetan region, and even the Dali horses, the former is an excellent pack animal, the horse of the Tibetan area can be used as a pack animal and can also fight the horse, and the Dali horse is an excellent war horse.

didn't let Boss Qian wait long, and Zhu Zhuozi proposed two long-term cooperation conditions that had obviously been well thought out. In fact, these conditions are not the meaning of Zhu Zhuozi alone, but the meaning of the top brass of the Perak Army. Whether it is a compensation negotiation in the early stage or a firearms sale, it is essentially for long-term cooperation. This is also Ouyang Xuan's request that Zhu Xuanzi make appropriate concessions in the first two rounds of negotiations and try his best to promote long-term cooperation between the two sides. To Boss Qian's surprise, these conditions were not harsh in his opinion, but they were very fair and reasonable, and it seemed that the Thunderbolt Army was full of sincerity for the cooperation between the two sides.

The first terms of cooperation of the Perak Army were that they could provide firearms to Qianjiazhai on a regular basis, and even two more city defense guns in Qianjiazhai in the near future. Qianjiazhai needed to provide the Thunderbolt army with strategic materials such as salt, horses, copper, and iron ore. Each wall of the Yokohara Fort to be built will be equipped with two new city defense guns, although the rate of fire is slow but the power is long, and the light mother and child cannon can be used together, which can form a crossfire from far and near, which is really a weapon for defending the city. Of course, it is provided to Qianjiazhai is the "monkey version", in addition to technical secrecy reasons, but also because the original gun weighs 1000 catties, it is too difficult to transport it to Qianjiazhai, so it is provided to Qianjiazhai for 500 catties of urban defense artillery. The two cannons will pass through the waterway, pass through Xinjin Village and then go to Qiongzhou, and then secretly transport them to Qianjiazhai when the Huojing River is rising. This condition made Boss Qian ecstatic, with sufficient firearms, not only was his business safe, but he was no longer afraid of extortion from the government and the threat of the Mongols. Just when he asked about the price of the city defense artillery, "free", Zhu Zhuozi spit out two words, typed haha again, and then mentioned the second cooperation clause.

The second terms of cooperation were for the two sides to establish a joint caravan, with the Thunderbolts taking a third of the Qianjiazhai caravan. It's just that the Thunderbolt Army is not a cash shareholder, but a shareholder of the ammunition consumption and security forces required by the combined caravan, and the above two city defense guns are also one of them. The more than 400 young and strong people in Qianjiazhai can be organized into four companies according to the military system of the Perak Army, three of which are used as armed caravans, and one company rests and defends the village. The Perak Army will send 50 military cadres to serve as squad and platoon commanders of each company, and in addition to training in the use of firearms, they will also train in combat skills. After a little thought, Boss Qian agreed.

He knew that in the eyes of the government, Qianjiazhai sold smuggled salt and fornicated with Yibo, and in the eyes of the Mongols, Qianjiazhai refused to surrender, and both families wanted to destroy it as soon as possible. In Boss Qian's opinion, it is also a good choice to take refuge in the newly rising force of the Thunderbolt Army, not to mention that Qian Jiazhai took the lion's share of the caravan's profits, and the company commanders of the four companies are also from Qian Jiazhai. After the formation of the combined caravan, it will not only be able to obtain supplies from the areas controlled by the Thunderbolts, but also with a strong force, it can go further and even open up new trade routes. In fact, there are three branch roads of the Tea and Horse Trade Road, two of which are to go southwest to Yazhou, and then go south to the Yimin tribes, or to the west through the Diao and Yan Prefectures to the Fan tribes, and the third is from the control area of the Perak Army, through Qingcheng County through Weizhou and Maozhou to the Tubo Provinces, Qianjiazhai is currently mainly engaged in the first two trade routes. In fact, the trade route to Weimao and Weimao was shorter, but Qingcheng County and Daojiang County along the way were extremely heavy on the caravan, whether it was the Southern Song Dynasty government or the new annexed army that surrendered to Mongolia.

The third cooperation clause was proposed by Boss Qian, who wanted to send the caravan's family members to Wanjiaping Mountain. In addition to the more than 400 people who were about to be organized into an armed caravan, there were about 500 people from the Qian clan. When he heard that the new annexed army in Dayi, Yongkang, and Qingcheng counties was defeated by the Thunderbolt army, Qianjiazhai sent spies to Liuliba to spy on the situation in disguise as foot merchants, but was blocked by Wanjiabao. Boss Qian heard that the spies reported that Wanjiabao was extremely strong and guarded, as if a husband was in charge of ten thousand people, and said that the Thunderbolt army was majestic and quite strong, and he would be suspicious at that time. Today, having witnessed the power of artillery, or having received an education in artillery, I no longer doubt the strength of the Thunderbolt army. I heard General Cao say that this is still a light artillery, and if it is a new type of field artillery, it will be more powerful.

The reason why Boss Qian wants to send his clansmen away is that, on the one hand, although the Qian family village is strong, it is too small, and it is difficult to hold on for a long time if it is besieged. He believed that the "Paradise in Troubled Times, Paradise in Shuzhong" propagated by the Perak Army was not a lie, and believed that the clansmen were safer in Wanjiaping. With a stable rear, the caravan has no worries. On the other hand, he understands that he can't be a human being, and since he chose to bind the Thunderbolt Army together, he might as well be more honorable and send his family members to the Thunderbolt Army, which shows the determination of Qianjiazhai to join the Thunderbolt Army.

After reaching a cooperation, Cao Ergou sent someone to carry some of the goods back to Hengyuan with mules and horses, reported the situation to Ouyang Xuan and asked the navy to respond. A considerable number of the Qian clan people who returned to Wanjiaping this time were old and weak women and children, and they carried a lot of soft luggage, which was really difficult to travel long distances. In addition, some goods need to be shipped back to Yokohara. After discussing with Boss Qian, Cao Ergou decided to travel to Qiongzhou by land first, and then take a boat to Hengyuan via Xinjin City by water.

During the waiting days, Cao Ergou was not idle, he organized the Qianjiazhai Qingzhuang into four armed caravan companies, and immediately carried out formal training. Zhu Zhuozi is even more busy, he has been busy with Qian Jiazhai's second boss Qian Lao Er to carry out the docking of commodity supply and delivery channels, costs and financial accounting. The rest of the villagers are also busy packing their belongings in preparation for the upcoming move.

On the appointed day, Huang Dagen and his naval vessels docked at the Nanhe River outside Qiongzhou as promised. In order to prevent the defenders of Qiongzhou City from discovering it, the fleet stopped five miles away from the city of Zhouzhou. During this trip, the Perak Army not only dispatched all the ships of the navy, but Le Quanan also borrowed more than ten large transport ships from his former colleagues stationed in Xinjin City. When Cao Ergou led people by land, they all bypassed Huojing City and Qiongzhou City far away. Because the battle of hundreds of people was really not small, in fact, they did not hide from the officers and soldiers of Qiongzhou and Huojing. But the defending generals of these two cities chose to turn a blind eye, in addition to accepting bribes sent by the money boss, but also because the soldiers of the fire well did not dare to care. Although there were many soldiers in Qiongzhou, they didn't want to care, because the news they got from Boss Qian was that these people were all hungry people, and they wanted to forage for food in Meizhou because of hunger. In the eyes of the Qiongzhou guards, these hungry people are like locust plagues, the farther away from the boundaries under their jurisdiction, the better, as for who they want to harm, it has nothing to do with them.

It was still early to arrive at Xinjin City because of the fast journey from Qiongzhou to Xinjin City, but Huang Dagen still spent a lot of time in Xinjin. He did this so that the fleet passed through Chongqing Fucheng in the middle of the night without any disturbance, and reached the town of Yokohara at dawn. Although most of the defenders of Fucheng were loyal to the Peraks, Pan Luohuan and a few of his cronies were deeply hostile to the Peraks. It is no better than prevarication in the passage of scattered ships, if this mighty dozens of ships pass through Fucheng during the day, they will definitely attract the attention of Pan Luohuan, and then order the fleet to be detained or even attacked. is still what Ouyang Xuan often says, the Thunderbolt Army is not afraid of Pan Luohuan, but try not to provoke him.

When the Qian clan people disembarked from the boat in Yokohara Town, they found that a group of people had already greeted them on the shore, led by a tall young man. Huang Dagen, who was walking in the front, turned his head and shouted to everyone: "The fathers and elders of Qianjiazhai, Brother Xuan of Perak Junxuan has come to greet everyone in person."