Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 166
The wine had already been delivered, but those Mongolian sweaters were not interested in drinking anymore, they just waited there stupidly.This deal is too important to them, it is related to the life and death of the whole tribe, at this juncture, who is in the mood to drink?

Soon, Xu Meng hurried over with Xue Siming, Zhong Ning, and Cao Jun. That guy walked in the front with two saddles on his head.As soon as they arrived at the door, the eyes of Xue Siming and others were glued to the horses, and they turned around the horses, looking at the hooves and necks of the horses, just like a pervert seeing Xi Shi.Yang Menglong got impatient with the wait, and shouted: "You guys, stop wandering around there, get out here!"

The three heroes rushed in drooling, Xue Siming shouted as soon as he entered the door: "Good horse, my lord, what a rare good horse!"

Yang Menglong snorted and said, "Of course I know it's a good horse, but I want to know how good it is! Stop talking nonsense, and eat something to fill your stomach. After we're full, we'll go out of town and ride a few laps outside , try its speed and stamina or something."

Xue Siming and the others love to do this job. They asked for a pot helmet and a bowl of noodles with trousers, devoured them hungrily, and then set off.While they were eating, Duo Sang and the others had already saddled two of the horses, and when they were full, they would immediately lead the horses out of the city to find a place for a few laps.

Walking a few miles out of the city, there is a flat grassland. Two cattle are greedily gnawing on the withered yellow grass. An old man is watching. He is quite surprised to see so many people coming at once.Yang Menglong looked at the terrain, it was good, the terrain was flat and open, and he could run freely.He called: "Xue Siming, run a few laps and have a look!"

Xue Siming said: "Okay!" Turning over and riding on a steed, the steed snorted and kicked its hooves reluctantly, as if it wanted to throw Xue Siming off.Xue Siming slapped the horse's back with a slap: "Be honest, drive!" With his legs clamped around the horse's belly, the horse hissed and galloped away into the distance, just like a black lightning flashing across the horizon. So fast!Zhong Ning shouted: "What a horse! It runs so fast!"

Xu Meng said cheerfully: "If only I had such a horse!"

Cao Jun poured a bucket of cold water over: "You? Come on, how heavy is it for your size, wearing armor and carrying a tomahawk? Let alone a horse, even a buffalo is crushed by you!"

Zhong Ning said: "That's right! Don't give him a horse, otherwise, even if the best horse carries him for two laps, he will be so tired that he will vomit blood!"

Cao Jun nodded again and again, deeply convinced.

While bickering, Xue Siming had already run to the end of the grass, turned back again, jumped on another horse and continued galloping without saying a word.Duosang and others appreciated his riding skills, and said to Yang Menglong: "This hero is really good at riding. Even if he is placed among us Mongolians, he is still an excellent cavalryman."

Yang Menglong said proudly: "That's needless to say? Let me tell you, he is not only an excellent rider, but also a good archer. He can ride a galloping horse and shoot a bird from a branch with one arrow." Shoot it down!"

Qitai said: "That is really amazing. Even among us Mongolians, there are not many such people!"

After a few words, Xue Siming ran back again.He shouted: "Both of these horses are good, they run fast and steady, and have great endurance. They are both good horses!" He didn't even want the saddle, jumped on the third horse without a saddle, and galloped again. This guy I am addicted to riding.Although there was no saddle, his whole body was as if he was nailed to the horse's back. No matter how the horse galloped and jumped, it remained motionless. Such superb riding skills were really eye-opening, and Duosang and others couldn't help but applaud.This one also came back after a lap. Xue Siming shouted: "It's so wild and fun to ride!" He jumped off the horse and walked towards the fourth one. Yang Menglong shouted: "Wait, I will do this one myself!" Xue Siming was pulled back, grabbed the horse's mane and got on the horse, pinching the horse's belly: "Come on!"

Seeing his action, Xue Siming and Duo Sang were shocked and shouted in unison: "It's broken!" Sure enough, the horse whose mane was scratched and hurt did not run forward obediently, but neighed wildly. With a sound, first his hind legs slammed backwards, Yang Menglong was caught off guard, and his whole body lay on the horse's back, and then, the horse stood up, Yang Menglong was thrown off immediately, and fell to the ground!Even Xu Meng's expression changed at this moment, and everyone rushed up, trying to help him up, but Yang Menglong got up in disgrace, and yelled: "Fuck!" He raised his fist and hit the horse's butt, but In the middle of the blow, he stopped abruptly, grabbed the fist with the other hand, pulled the fist back little by little with great effort, and said viciously: "Now you are not my horse, I don't Move you, I will treat you slowly after I buy you over!"

The horse shook its mane, looked back at it, and snorted with disdain, indicating that it was done to Yang Menglong.Seeing that Yang Menglong was fine, everyone was relieved. Seeing that he was so embarrassed, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.Yang Menglong turned around and glared at them. He saw that each of them shrugged their shoulders and twitched their faces. They were obviously gloating about their misfortune, and he cursed angrily: "Is it funny!?"

Everyone quickly turned their faces away, but they couldn't hold back the smile no matter what.

Yang Menglong said helplessly: "You can laugh if you want to. In fact, I also think it's quite funny..."

"Hahaha..." Before the words finished, those guys laughed so hard that they staggered to and fro.Many years later, these unscrupulous guys often said to their descendants: "Don't look at that guy, he looks like a man, he looks like a villain, he fell so badly on horseback before, I can't describe it!" Yes, I saw it with my own eyes..."

After running for a few laps and taking another big fall, Yang Menglong came to the conclusion that these horses are rare and good horses, and he made a lot of money. The most important purpose of his hard work to come to Yulin is not to buy horses what?He immediately decided to exchange tea, cloth, salt, iron and other goods for one hundred such good horses.Duo Sang said that this is too much, if they sell a hundred horses, their tribe's horses will not be enough, Yang Menglong said that if the Burqin Department can produce a hundred such good horses, then he will not trade with other tribes , All those goods were traded with the Burqin Department.Duosang couldn't make up his mind, so he asked Qitai to go back and report to the patriarch, and asked the patriarch to make up his mind, and he accompanied Yang Menglong to the ferry to inspect the goods.

It was only early in the morning, and the ferry was bustling with activity. Boats shuttled back and forth between the two sides of the strait, bringing in loads of goods. People shouted and neighed, and it was extremely busy.Yang Menglong muttered: "There are much more boats today than yesterday." He went straight to Cheng Ji and greeted him in a good mood: "Hey, Boss Cheng, why did you get up so early?"

Cheng Ji was taken aback by his bruised nose and swollen face: "You...how did you become like this?"

Yang Menglong said nonchalantly: "I fell down while riding a horse, what a joke. Why, did you sleep at the ferry last night?"

Cheng Ji said: "Yes, with so many goods, I don't feel at ease if I don't keep them." His eyes fell on Duo Sang and the others, "These are..."

Yang Menglong said: "I'm looking for customers! They want to exchange war horses for our goods, pay attention, it's war horses, war horses!"

Cheng Ji smiled wryly: "I know it's a war horse, so there's no need to emphasize it again and again."

Yang Menglong also laughed: "I have to say the important things three times! I brought them here to inspect the goods. By the way, where are my goods?"

Cheng Ji casually pointed to the east: "There."

Yang Menglong said: "Thank you!" He took Duo Sang to his cargo distribution area, where many peasants were busy loading the goods unloaded from the ship into carts, and the coachmen were busy harnessing the horses. Seven or eight cars have already been loaded.On the whole, the order is not good, a lot of goods are piled up in a mess, and it is a headache to look at --- those who like Taobao can taste the joy of finding what they like among a lot of messy goods.Yang Menglong pointed at the messy goods: "These are the goods I brought, Duosang, check to see if there is any problem."

Duo Sang was overjoyed when he saw so many ironware, cloth, tea leaves, salt and other things that were scarce on the grassland. He checked the boxes to see if the cloth was cracked, if there were any holes in the iron pot, and if there were any messy leaves added to the tea leaves. , No way, these tricks are so proficient in mainland merchants, they are scared of them. For example, the powerful tile thorns have been tricked in this way, and they have to explain it to the Ming Dynasty envoy in person, and they are choked. I was speechless.Seeing this, Xue Siming and the others felt upset, and said secretly: "Our lord even returned tens of thousands of taels of silver to Mr. Cheng, and would still be greedy for your petty gain? It's really a villain's heart to judge a gentleman. Belly!" Duo Sang didn't care about the contemptuous looks around him, for him, these things in front of him were the most practical, as for being despised by others, it was not worth mentioning at all.He checked more than [-] boxes, and was a little tired. He bowed his hands to Yang Menglong and said, "Young master's character is as upright as an arrow. There are so many goods, and none of them are inferior, especially salt, a grain of sand. I can’t find it either, it’s too rare!”

Yang Menglong said cheerfully: "When you go out to do business, what you pay attention to is reputation. If you shoddy it as a good one, then you smash your own signboard! You can check other goods. I didn't check much on the way. If there is anything in it Inferior waste products, you feel uncomfortable, and I am even more uncomfortable."

Duo Sang said: "There is no need to check again. If you can't trust someone as bold and upright as the young master, then we really don't know who else to trust. Let's talk about the price. I heard that the young master also buys cattle and sheep besides horses? "

Yang Menglong said: "Yes, I also want to buy buffaloes and goats."

Duo Sang patted his thigh and said, "Our Burqin department has enough cattle and sheep! Come, come, let's talk about the price..."

Yang Menglong was in high spirits: "Wow! Well, how do you plan to sell the buffalo?"

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The result of the negotiation was a pot for an adult goat, ten pieces of cloth or a hundred catties of salt for a buffalo. Such a price opened Yang Menglong's eyes and deepened his understanding of the extent of the shortage of supplies outside the Great Wall.

In addition to livestock, he also bought a large amount of tendons, horns, and hides at a low price.These things are not very rare for the Mongols, like beef tendons and horns, they only use a little when making bows. As for cowhide, they are used to build tents or make leather armor, and they don’t use much. Every tribe has them. A large amount of inventory is completely half-sold and half-given.But this is not the case in the Central Plains. Cattle in the Central Plains are always a precious resource. Killing a cow will result in imprisonment or even beheading. If you want to get a lot of tendons, horns, and hides, it is really sad. Yang Menglong is making a fortune this time. up.If the car hadn't been used to transport sheep, he even wanted to bring back hundreds of carts of beef and sheep bones. These bones are processed into bone meal, which is a good fertilizer, and it doesn't cost money, just pull it casually.

Cheng Ji watched from the side, feeling quite depressed.Yang Menglong let him see the efficiency of the horse. Most of Wuyangwei's goods have been booked, and only a small half of his goods have been delivered... Sigh, has this kid always been so vigorous?

(End of this chapter)