Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 329 Buying a Horse
"It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, why not today!" Jin Ren asked with a smile: "Go to the horse market over there in the west market and have a good time, and I will pick you a good horse. We warriors, a good horse can be half a horse." Fate!"

"Then I will be disrespectful!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile. After playing polo this time, he has a deep understanding of the "horse storage" of the Tang Dynasty. In fact, there is no shortage of horses in Baekje, but the number of war horses The quality is still not comparable to that in Chang’an, but the local climate is actually quite suitable for breeding good horses, especially Jeju Island, which is a famous horse breeding base for later generations. Wouldn't it be a good thing to build a good racecourse in Jeju Island?
"Alright!" Jin Ren asked with a smile: "It's too early now, let's have a drink or two first, and then go to see the horses later!"

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West Market, Horse Market.

"It turns out that this guy is talking about shopping and buying horses in such a way!" Wang Wenzuo looked at the dozens of horses listed in front of him and the horse dealer kneeling on the ground, and he couldn't help but secretly lamented the arrogance and lust of the ancient nobles.He originally thought that what Jin Renwen said about buying horses was that the two of them strolled along the West Market, and every horse dealer asked him to take out good horses for him to choose, and then bargained for a discount, and gave him some saddles. It's the same as going to a 4S store to buy a car before time travel.But in fact, before the two of them reached the gate of West Market, the officials on duty had already greeted them to the official office, and then more than a dozen horse dealers came in to kowtow one by one, and then pulled out their best horses for themselves to choose. If he showed a satisfied expression, someone would take the horse aside, and after seeing a horse dealer, he would obediently retreat, and another dealer would bring the horse in without haggling over the price or paying the bill.It's not like buying a horse, but like paying a tribute.

"Sanlang, what do you think of this blue horse?" Jin Ren asked with a smile: "Although it is not as good as Li Jingye's chrysanthemum green horse, it is still a very good horse, at least much better than the one you are riding now!"

"Oh, let me try riding it!" Wang Wenzuo jumped on the horse and ran back and forth twice. Sure enough, the horse ran smoothly, and he could hardly feel any ups and downs when he was riding on it. A horse can understand the owner's wishes. Although the horsepower cannot be compared with Li Jingye's horse, it may be more suitable for Wang Wenzuo. After all, his current official position does not need to charge forward in person.

"It's really a good horse, but it's a pity!" Wang Wenzuo jumped off the horse, looked up and down and sighed.

"It's a pity? What's the pity? I think this horse is pretty good!" Jin Ren asked.

"This is a mare. I want to buy a few stallions. I will be a stud when I go back to Baekje and set up a horse farm!"

"So that's how it is, it's quite simple, so I'll choose this one!" Jin Ren asked with a smile, "If it's a stallion, it doesn't matter if it's older. Come here, let each horse dealer send one horse." A stallion with good traits will come to my house."

"Yes, sir!" The servant replied.

Seeing Jin Renwen turned around and was about to go out, Wang Wenzuo hurriedly said: "Brother Renshou, the price of this horse has not been negotiated yet!"

"The price of a horse?" Jin Ren asked for a moment, as if he had heard a tale from the Arabian Nights, he laughed, and before he could explain, the servant at the side smiled and said, "Wang Sima, what a noble man my lord is, how can he be like a marketer?" Small people usually bargain with others? It’s all about what the horse dealer says!”

"How much is it?"

"That's right!" The servant's face was filled with arrogance: "Not to mention the fiefdoms of Silla, my husband also had two thousand households in the Tang Dynasty, how could he do something that would be disrespectful to him!"

"That's all!" Jin Ren asked to dismiss the slaves, and said with a smile, "You and I will walk around the West Market to see if there are any interesting things!"

"This is the so-called top aristocrat!" Wang Wenzuo secretly sighed, what was the level of the two thousand households that Jin Ren asked about at that time?The eldest grandson Wuji ranked first among the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. He was also the eldest uncle of Emperor Taizong, and he also had the dual status of a noble relative.Yuchi Jingde also had [-] households.Princess Taiping was Wu Zetian's favorite daughter, so she was exceptionally granted [-] households, and later added [-] households.In the Shenlong coup, Princess Taiping made great contributions to adding [-] households.Obviously, no matter in terms of credit or closeness, Jin Renwen cannot be compared with the above few, so why can he have a food town of [-] households?

This starts with his origin. The Tang Dynasty was a society with a strong aristocratic style, and the so-called aristocratic style means that his birth determined the power of officials.Jin Renwen is the son of the king of Silla, and he came to serve as a bodyguard for the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The treatment he received from the Tang Dynasty could not be lower than that he could receive in the Silla Kingdom. Therefore, Jin Renwen's treatment in the Tang Dynasty was actually Compared with the Yuanzhi clan, the starting official is from the third rank, and the food town should be less than what he enjoyed in Silla (after all, he is qualified to inherit the throne, and his elder brother must compensate for this.) So compared to For the same third-rank officials, Jin Renwen's family wealth far exceeds that of other people. After all, most third-rank officials in the Tang Dynasty do not have a father who is a king.He is handsome, versatile, noble, has money in his pocket, is a high-ranking official from the third rank as soon as he becomes an official, and has extremely high united front value for the Tang Dynasty. Who doesn't like this kind of person?
The two walked around the West Market, and Wang Wenzuo took a fancy to everything, and the slave behind him stepped forward and handed the shopkeeper a famous card, asking him to send it to the Jin Mansion later.Wang Wenzuo was not used to this special way of shopping at first, but soon got used to it, as if it had always been like this.

After about an hour or so, the two arrived at the other end of the West Market, and the servant stepped forward and said, "My lords, this is the end, let's go back!"

Jin Renwen nodded, and was about to turn around when he suddenly heard a huge noise coming from outside the square wall, and people were also walking towards the city gate not far away, he frowned: "Go and ask, what's going on outside?" something wrong?"

The house slave responded, and came back after a while and said, "Report to your lord, it's a cockfight, everyone go to watch!"

"Cockfight?" Jin Renwen laughed, "Come on, Saburo, let's go and have a look, it's very interesting!"

Wang Wenzuo shrugged his shoulders, followed the enthusiastic Jin Renwen, and walked out of the west gate of the West Market. As soon as he left the west gate, he saw a flood of people walking west along the street. Wang Wenzuo saw himself appearing on the left and right. All kinds of vehicles, as well as poor men with bulging pockets on their backs on foot, through the constant crowing of chickens in the pockets, Wang Wenzuo knew that they should be filled with straw and fighting cocks, and many vehicles carried some chicken coops. I wonder if all the fighting cocks outside Chang'an City have come.

(End of this chapter)