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Chapter 172 Black Beans
Under the guidance of Master Yu, the Zhu family started their fortune as a humble fishmonger, but within five years they became very rich.For the past five years, Zhu Tancheng has been saving the three-point interest that he promised to Tan Yaoyu, and is waiting for the day when he sees Tan Yaoyu and returns the portion she deserves.

But the housekeeper didn't expect Zhu Tancheng to send all the money without any hesitation!That's a lot of money!

Seeing the housekeeper's surprised reaction, Zhu Tancheng said with a dark face, "What? Didn't you think I would swallow the money? Not to mention that the old fairy changed my name back then, so that I can be honest. Even today's family business is not worth it. It was given to me by the old fairy. How dare I forget my origin!"

The housekeeper hastily admitted his mistake, "The villain is narrow-minded! The villain knows his mistake. It's just such a large sum of money, how can it be transported to Qiuchi? It will take nearly a hundred cars to load it."

Zhu Tancheng thought about it carefully and said, "Go and contact the Jie people in Lushuihu. I heard that the Xianbei nobles in the Northern Wei Dynasty invaded the land of many Jie people, forcing them to do nothing. Now they gather in the Lushui area and become It’s a fairly large mercenary group. They don’t know how to farm, and they can’t graze cattle. Instead of helping countries fight to death, they would rather escort caravans, after all, the risk is much lower.”

The housekeeper is still worried, "Lu Shuihu's mercenary group has a good reputation. But with so much gold and silver, no matter how good the reputation is, it is inevitable that people will be ungrateful for their profits..."

Zhu said frankly, "There is no need to worry. I have already communicated with Qiu Chi's right officer, and he will send troops in disguise to respond. We just need to find more wood and hide the gold and silver in the wood."

"Wood?" The butler was puzzled.

Zhu frankly nodded, "Chou Chi's palace and palace need to be repaired, and the city also needs to be reinforced. It is normal to buy some wood. It will neither be seen as too heavy, nor will it attract the eyes of thieves. After all, wood is so important. Things are hard to grab, bad luck, and even harder to sell."

The housekeeper suddenly realized, "Master's plan! The villain is going to send someone to buy wood."

——Boundary——

After passing the news to Zhu Tancheng, Yao Yu was not idle.She recruited spies from the Third Route Army to question them one by one, and recorded what they saw and heard, no matter how big or small, in a book, and Zimo classified them into files.Then Yingfeng will improve the current Rouran map.

After a few days, Yao Yu and the others already knew something about Rouran's territory, and they were only waiting for news from other sources to further deliberate on the location of Rouran's king's tent.

Yao Yu has been extremely busy these days, and Zong Ai also broke his leg.At first, he thought that Yao Yu asked him to help him just to talk about it, who ever thought that Yao Yu really wanted him from Tuoba Tao, and used it as a messenger, instructing him to find people from time to time.

At this time, Zong Ai really hated Zhao Yu to the point of itching, but he knew that if Yao Yu wanted to kill him now, it was as simple as squeezing an ant to death.But he was not reconciled to being ruled by Yao Yu, so he began to arrange secretly by taking advantage of the daily search for people.

After inviting the rain to wait for more than ten days, the news from all parties came one after another.Knowing that Zhu Tancheng came to Beidi in person, Yao Yu said to Zimo with satisfaction, "It seems that this official business letter was not given away in vain."

It's just that the news from all parties is not satisfactory.It can be said that Master Meng and Yingfeng have made no progress.Zhu Tancheng found out that the Rouran people had exchanged a lot of supplies from a caravan a few months ago, including grain, cloth, salt, and two carts of black beans.Zhu Tancheng used some methods to confirm that the large army of the Rouran people had made a deal with the caravan in the Lishui area at that time.

Yingfeng hurriedly took out his redrawn geomancy map, and pointed Lishui to Yaoyu.Zimo also found out the news he had sorted out, and singled out all the content related to the Lishui area.

Yao Yu was always looking at the list of supplies and meditating.Grain, cloth, salt, she can understand all these, but why buy so many black beans?Black beans are the best horse feed, and the price is also high.It would be too much to feed black beans to the Khan's royal horse.But if it is said to supply horses for ordinary soldiers in Rouran, the number is too small.

If you don't understand yourself, ask someone who understands.So Yao Yu told the outsider, "Zong Ai, find some people who know how to raise horses."

Zong Ai immediately answered "No." Then he took small steps and ran to find someone.He didn't know what Tan Yaoyu was doing, he had been looking for everyone recently.

After a while, several soldiers in charge of raising horses in the barracks were found.

Yao Yu asked, "Now the horses in the barracks are feeding black beans?"

Several soldiers raising horses shook their heads, and one of the oldest ones replied, "Return to Immortal Fairy, black beans are too expensive. Except for the horses of His Majesty and several generals, the other horses are not fed with black beans."

Yao Yu nodded, it was similar to what she thought, but looking at the amount of black beans on the material list, she still felt something was wrong.So he asked again without giving up, "Then do you know what else black beans can do besides feeding horses?"

The soldiers were taken aback for a moment, they didn't know anything except raising horses.What else can this black bean do, how would they know?
Seeing a few people looking at me and I looking at you, Yao Yu couldn't help but sighed and said, "Okay. You guys go down first."

The horse-raising soldiers kowtowed respectfully to Yao Yu and walked out one after another.The oldest one stepped out of the tent door with one foot, turned back, knelt down and said, "If Immortal Fairy asks if black beans have other uses, I don't know. But it's going to be winter. When we were inter-stalls, the inter-stalls consumed a lot of black beans every year. Before mating, we had to feed black beans to the stallions, which can strengthen the horse’s yang, and the foals born will be strong.”

Yao Yu's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he hurriedly asked, "What is a mating horse?"

The veteran was a little embarrassed, for fear of saying the wrong thing and making Xian Ji abrupt, he thought for a while and said, "Our war horses are all fan horses and cannot be bred. The stallions are all selected from the newborn foals to keep. But Every year, we still have to go to the grassland to breed new wild horses, and after taming them, we will also be used as stallions, otherwise the foals born will not be as good as the next generation. Counting the days, we are about to go out to breed wild horses."

"So that's how it is..." Yao Yu said happily, "Since we can't find the Rouran people, let's go find the Rouran people's horses! Yingfeng, Zimo, look for them, there are wild horses gathering near Lishui !"

Although wild horses are constantly moving on the grassland, they still have their territories divided.As long as they find the herd of wild horses and wait for the rabbits, they will be able to wait for the Rouran who comes to set up the wild horses!
Yingfeng and Zimo also understood the intention of inviting rain, and quickly sift through the news, asked the veteran who raised the horse, and finally confirmed a place called Difuchi.

(Difuchi: Benchagan Lake where the Badrag River flows into the southwestern part of Mongolia. "Wei Shu Zhuzhuan": In the tenth year of the Northern Wei Dynasty Taiping Zhenjun (449), Tuhezhen was defeated, "King Gaoliang went out of the east , Wang Jieer of Lueyang went out of the middle way, and will meet with the army at Difuchi.")
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