Chapter 114: The Great Tiger

A convoy left the Wild King and headed west.

The carriage is full of daily necessities such as linen, clay pots, and lacquerware.

The convoy walked very slowly, and it was only at noon when it stopped at one place.

When the tribal shepherds saw this, they immediately gathered around them.

The convoy guys took the opportunity to shout and sell the goods.

Liu Dahu leaned against the tree with a smile, blowing the cool southeast wind, and silently looked at the camp in the distance.

The camp was fenced off with a wooden fence for human habitation.

Outside the camp, there are many cattle and sheep grazing. Obviously, this was a small tribe that had moved from elsewhere, and perhaps several of them were led by orders under the tent of the Nook King's Anzai general.

"I'm not afraid that the Jin people will raid and rob your cattle and sheep." Liu Dahu pulled out the plug on the cowhide bladder, and after pouring a sip of wine, he snorted.

Of course, it's just a secret.

There is still a considerable distance from Heyang here, and the Jin people don't seem to have many cavalry, so it is almost impossible to avoid the sight of wild rangers.

The transaction not far away went well.

As the domestic slave of General Anxi, Liu Dahu still has a lot of face in Hanoi and Shangdang. There are some deals that only he can do, and others can't.

Guards brought food from the tribal camp.

Liu Dahu stretched out his hand to take the milk and dried meat, and ate it slowly.

"The milk is good, so it should be milked from the new lambing ewes this spring, right?" Liu Dahu asked casually.

"Exactly." The guard said, "I watched them crowd. From day to day, yin and yang alternate, and the milk is delicious. ”

"Not bad." Liu Dahu glanced at him approvingly.

This kid has a future, he is very comfortable to serve, and let him make a little fortune in the future.

As for how to make a fortune, it was too simple, just allow him to carry a little of his own goods and sell them with the caravan.

Liu Dahu sighed and drank milk and burped.

Don't say that you can't drink the newly milked milk, the shepherds have come like this for thousands of years, it doesn't matter if you kill it or not, you can fill your stomach.

The milk of cows, sheep and horses has always been the staple food of ordinary shepherds. After entering the Central Plains, there is part of the farmland that is "harvested by the sky", but dairy products still occupy the most important part of their lives.

"Don't forget to buy some mare's milk." Liu Dahu began to chew on the dried meat and commanded.

The guard answered, then carefully picked out the maggots from the dried meat, put the rest of the meat in his mouth and chewed it.

Doing business, really profiteering.

Just now he saw that the boots he brought over sold more than 50 pairs at once, including more than ten pairs of satin boots, and the rest were leather boots - boots (also written as 鞮, 鞾), there was no such word, called "Hu people crawl even shins", Zhao Wuling Wang Hu Fu rode and shot learned, but it was not popular before, and it began to be worn on a large scale in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

For warriors who often need to fight, leather boots that can protect the ankles and even the upper shin are indeed better than shoes, and they are just needed goods and are very easy to sell.

In addition to boots, they also sold a lot of trousers (crotch pants, open crotch pants worn by non-Han Chinese), felt hats, clay pots, spoons, knives and other daily necessities.

Selling luxury and expensive items really didn't make money selling such things, because the volume was too large.

And everything they sell is produced in the city, and there are indeed some craftsmen in the tribe who make such items, but the number is not enough to meet all the needs, which gives the Jin people who live in the city an opportunity.

The Han Dynasty has several states, and in the end, the Chinese (Huns) are not as good as the Jin people, and I really don't know what to say.

In the case of General Anxi's trade, the Jin craftsmen made goods, the Xiongnu sold them, the Qiang people acted as guards, and the ordinary herdsmen only exchanged skins, cheese, dried meat, mare's milk wine, and even livestock, and they could not even sell them at a high price.

In the whole process, General Anxi made the most money, followed by the craftsmen, then the Qianren, and the most lost were the ordinary herdsmen.

But life can go on, make do, don't think too much.

Another guard hurried over.

Liu Dahu raised his eyelids and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"A familiar leader said that there are a lot of Jin soldiers in Beicheng, and the situation is tense, so let's be careful." The guard said.

"How do they know?"

"Some people came back from the south to change the guard, saying that there are constantly boats on the river to the three cities of Heyang, and there are many more than before."

"That's not enough to judge."

"There are also people who say that there were originally a maximum of 1,000 horsemen on the northern side of the city, but recently they counted to 2,000 horsemen at a time, practicing the art of combined attacks outside the city, and sometimes rushing straight to monitor their rangers."

Liu Dahu sat up straight.

There are some things that cannot deceive people, such as the distribution of materials and the gathering of soldiers.

The Jin people are fighting, and it is almost impossible to achieve suddenness.

When the Han Dynasty fights, it is possible to achieve suddenness by hunting down and expelling the scouts of the Jin army in all areas.

Since the Jin army is swaggering to gather materials and soldiers in Heyang, then there must be a plan.

"You go back to the Wild King. Whether General Anzai received the news or not, I have to let him know. Liu Dahu commanded.

"Okay." The guards didn't talk nonsense, ran directly to their mounts, and turned around and headed towards the wild king.

Liu Dahu raised his head and looked at the camp again.

After the exchange, the herdsmen were in high spirits and walked to their tents.

In the wilderness, where the grass was growing, there were women milking cows.

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The old people made cheese that could be stored for a long time, and even picked wild fruits to make wine.

Children herd cattle and sheep, chase and play in the fields on horseback, and innocent laughter spreads far away.

What a great place.

Liu Dahu couldn't help but stand up and look at the endless wilderness.

Once upon a time, it was full of Jin villages. But now, the houses are crumbling, the canals are silted, and the fields are barren - it can't be said to be completely barren, at least these herdsmen have grown a lot of grain, but they never take care of it, and the barnyard grass in the field is almost as much as millet, and it is good to harvest eight or nine buckets of one acre of land, which is not good compared with the Jin people's farmland harvesting three or four hundreds.

But it's still a good place.

Recently, a tribe moved from Wuwei, first to Hexi, then to Shangdang by Shan Yutai, and then to Hanoi. When they first came to Hanoi, they were all stunned that there was such a good pasture in the world.

Hanoi is just the tip of the Central Plains.

To the south of the river, there are countless good pastures. The reputation of the Guangchengze Ranch established by Shao thieves has spread to Hebei, and it is heard that the water and grass there are abundant, even in the year of the great drought, it has never dried up, and if it can be grazed, I don't know how many tribes can be raised.

Everybody's going east and south.

At the end of last year, Yao Yizhong, the leader of Chitingqiang in Nan'an, led his troops to move east to Yumei, followed by tens of thousands of people.

Prior to this, Peng Tianhu, the leader of Lushuihu in Anding, defeated Jia Kai, and his troops also entrenched themselves in the hinterland of Guanzhong.

Eastward and southward migration is the trend of the times.

Liu Dahu also didn't know what was happening in the west, and one tribe after another moved east.

Perhaps, there is no complicated reason, just because the Jin Court is weak, everyone wants a piece of the pie.

When the nearby tribes are gone, the distant tribes will occupy their pastures, and migration is the norm in the grassland.

Who can resist the temptation of high-quality pastures in the Central Plains?

"Gone." After eating, Liu Dahu got on the horse and walked listlessly in front.

The long convoy followed, all the way west.

In the wilderness there was a melodious song, sung by the shepherds.

The people who accompanied the guards also took out their harps and played them on horseback.

Liu Dahu laughed.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, the grass grows and the warbler flies, the cattle and sheep are wild, and the horses gallop.

A beautiful scenery on the ground, this is the romance that belongs to the grassland people.

I wish this was their land forever.

******

At the end of May, the convoy entered the territory of Hedong.

When you get here, it's a completely different look.

Liu Dahu even saw a part of the farmland that had just been harvested.

The wheat stalks were piled high and pulled away by a truckload.

Birds swoop down and peck at the ears of wheat left behind in the field.

Wheat is grown in Hedong, but it is generally spring wheat, and winter wheat is rarely planted.

In recent years, there have been more and more, and the root cause is probably that the local tyrants in Hedong followed the Han Dynasty to go on an expedition and plundered many people from Hanoi, Ji County, Henan, Hongnong and other places, so the planting of winter wheat gradually increased, because it really helped to improve the utilization rate of land.

The Jin people are still a bit of a doorway.

At the beginning of June, the convoy arrived in Binh Duong, sold out the goods, and went straight to General Anxi's palace with money.

Liu Dahu did not rest, but began to inquire about the news, and reported it to General Anxi after his return.

Nowadays, the hottest characters in Beijing are one east and one west.

The westerner Zhongshan Wang Yao, repeatedly broke the Jin people, once attacked Chang'an, and then retreated because of lack of food - a huge Chang'an, Peng Tianhu did not want it, and the king of Zhongshan also disliked it, which made people sigh.

The King of Zhongshan is currently appeasing the Zhuhu in Guanzhong, and the Jin people are also appeasing, and whoever can get their support will have Guanzhong.

As for the Jin family and the lord of the dock fort, they will generally throw themselves on the winning side after the dust settles, and there is no need to deliberately appease them - even if they do, they may not have much effect.

The east is Shile.

He joined forces with the Zhenyuan general Liang Fuqi and had just attacked and killed the beggar handsome Tian Hui.

Bo Sheng, who had taken refuge in Sima Yue, led his troops to surrender.

So far, Shi Le has been concentrating on running Hebei for several years, and based on Yecheng, he has almost beaten Jizhou.

The imperial court regarded it as a servant and a general in the east to conquer Yecheng, which was extremely respected.

Liang Fufu is the general of Zhenyuan and the assassin of Jizhou (Zhi'anping).

Liu Dahu silently wrote down these news, prepared to dictate them after returning home, and the scribes wrote them down, and then brought them back to Yewang.

"Back then, Shi Chao was the assassin of Jizhou, Shi Le lived in Yecheng, and the court once wanted to appoint Shi Le as the assassin of Yuzhou, and led his troops to the south to attack Henan for the Han Dynasty." Liu Dahu sighed secretly in his heart: "Shi Le's luck is really good. If he really went to Henan, most of them would be exterminated by Shao Xun, at most they would attack and kill each other, and they would never be so good as staying in Hebei. ”

"However, the general of Zhenyuan is still based on Anping, and he is the assassin of Jizhou, and Shi Le is just the governor of Yecheng. Hebei is not up to him alone, and it is not a big problem. ”

"Next, if you break through Youzhou, Hebei will fall. The Han Dynasty was at its peak. ”

"Guanzhong doesn't know when he will be able to capture ......"

After listening, Liu Dahu returned to General Anxi's mansion and wrote down the news he got today.

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