The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 250 Chapter 249
After he listened for a while, he smiled happily, and immediately said: "If Mr. Li has any business, just tell me, as long as the king has what I have, Mr. Li can buy it."

Li Cai immediately said: "I know that the king has added [-] cavalry, and he lacks sharp weapons and excellent armor. It is precisely that I can get these things for the king. Of course, there is refined salt. However, I still need a lot of cavalry. Horses, I wonder if Your Majesty can exchange some more horses with me?"

Ta Dun immediately asked: "How many war horses does Mr. Li need?"

"No matter what, it will cost [-] to [-] horses..." Li Cai said.

After hearing this, he frowned. Li Cai bought [-] strong horses from him last year. Although the Wuhuan people have no shortage of horses, they are in the stage of expanding outward and need a lot of horses. Thousands of war horses also gritted their teeth and passed, but this time Li Caishi opened his mouth and asked for [-] war horses. Although there are many horse farms in his tribe, many of them are still immature, and the people of the tribe live in the grassland. On the ground, a large number of horses are also needed. Although he hopes to get some more weapons and armor, if all the horses of the tribe are sold out, how will they continue to roam the grassland in the future?

Moreover, the cycle of raising war horses is long. Once [-] war horses are sold, there will be no more adult war horses for riding within a few years.

Li Cai was very shrewd, he saw Ta Dun's troubled expression at a glance, and immediately asked: "Your Majesty, is there any difficulty?"

"To be honest, there are only 3000 war horses in the horse farm under the jurisdiction of this king. Last year, I gave [-] horses to my husband. I used [-] horses for myself, and the remaining [-] horses. There are only [-] horses left for adult war horses. There are more than [-] horses, and the rest have not been bred to adulthood. They are all colts and cannot go to the battlefield at all. This time, sir, I want [-] horses. If I sell all the horses to you, my horse farm will be empty. "Ta Dun didn't hide anything, he immediately expressed his thoughts, Wuhuan people are straightforward, and Ta Dun treated Li Cai as a distinguished guest, so he was very friendly to him.

Li Caidao: "So it's like this..."

Suddenly, he had an idea, and immediately said to Ta Dun: "My lord, since there are no horses here, why don't you borrow horses from other places? There are 10 people in Wuhuan, and there must be at least 10,000+ horses for breeding, right? All tribes gather together. , [-] horses shouldn’t be a problem, right?”

Ta Dun thought for a moment, and said to Li Cai: "Sir, I don't know something. Over the years, we Wuhuan people have helped the court to fight for years, and we are often suppressed by the white horse general Gongsun Zan. The horses raised by hundreds of thousands of Wuhuan people It is also very limited, and the life on the grassland is relatively poor. Although most herdsmen also have horses, most of them are for livelihood and have to exchange grain with the Han people. In the past few years, Yuan Shao of Jizhou has been secretly buying horses at the border The king has repeatedly prohibited the private sale of horses to the Han people. All the horses should be concentrated in the hands of the tribal leaders and then sold in a unified way. But last summer, the tribal leaders of the three counties of Youbeiping, Yuyang and Shanggu did not obey my order order, I sold a large number of horses to Yuan Shao privately, in exchange for a lot of money and food. In addition, I also sent troops to help the Han people to crusade against Gongsun Zan. I finally defeated them all, but this battle also cost me a heavy price. A large number of horses died in battle, and many herdsmen also fled to Han. Up to now, the horses raised by the entire Wuhuan people can reach [-] horses is not bad. Sir, you need [-] horses, which is half of the horses raised by the whole Wuhuan clan. Horses are the tools that herdsmen rely on for survival. Without them, how would we live?"

Li Cai saw that what Ta Dun said was very reasonable, [-] war horses were too many.In fact, the task Zhang Yan gave him was to buy [-] war horses, but Li Cai judged the situation and believed that Zhang Yan would definitely develop cavalry in the future, so he opened his mouth at this time, hoping to buy [-] war horses at once. After saving the money, I ran back and forth at sea.

Now that Li Cai understood the current situation of the Wuhuan people, he felt that [-] horses was too much, so he asked, "How about the [-] horses?"

"It's still a bit too much!" Ta Dun said dejectedly, but in a blink of an eye, Ta Dun changed the subject and said, "However, [-] horses can still be considered, but adult horses are definitely not enough. Mr. Xiao Maju wants don't want?"

Li Cai didn't even think about it, and immediately replied: "Yes! As long as it is a horse, it doesn't matter whether it is a pony or not! The big deal is that we will raise it to adulthood when we go back. However, the price of the pony, Should it be lower than an adult horse?"

"Of course, if Mister really wants a pony, then I will immediately find someone to gather [-] war horses for you, how about it?"

Li Cai nodded, and said: "Okay, it's still the same, using refined salt, weapons, and armor to exchange horses, I don't know what the king thinks?"

"Yes, yes, but this time, the price of the war horse will be doubled!"

Li Cai was in a hurry, and hurriedly asked: "Why?"

"You Han people often say that what is rare is the most precious thing. Now Wuhuan has only half of the original war horses left. If it is not for the sake of old friends, this king will not give you [-] war horses. And , besides you, Yuan Shao also wants to buy horses from Wuhuan, the price is much higher than yours." Ta Dun is also a shrewd person, and he made wishful thinking in his mind.

However, what Ta Dun said is true, half a month ago, he just sold [-] war horses, and they were all sold to Yuan Shao.

This time, Tadun also learned the lesson, he knew that he had bargained with Li Cai, and he also understood Li Cai's psychology. The whole Wuhuan, only he has so many horses, who dares to have such a big horse farm in other tribes?

Gradually, Li Cai felt that Tadun was also a profit-seeking person.However, he didn't say anything, but agreed to Tadun's request, but the foal could not be changed, and the price was half of the original price of a grown-up horse.

Ta Dun nodded, without any opinion. After all, raising horses is not a simple task, and whether it can be done is still a question.

In Xuzhou, the weather is completely different from that in western Liaoning, so it is not suitable for raising horses at all.

Ta Dun felt that he had done a good job in this business, and for Li Cai, he was not at a loss, because he had plenty of iron and steel weapons. In several smelters in Xuzhou, a production line had already been formed, and several smelters Together, the factories can produce a thousand weapons every day, and the quality is very good. On average, among the five smelters, each smelter has a daily production capacity of [-] weapons.

After the discussion between the two, Li Cai and Ta Dun still made an appointment to carry out the transaction at the old place, in Tuhe County, which is a subordinate state of Liaodong.Because the fleet led by Li Cai was docked on the shore of Tuhe County, and the ship was full of weapons, armor and refined salt.

The transaction is still carried out in the old way, only [-] war horses are traded at a time, and the [-] war horses are divided into four transactions.

Li Cai exchanged a stone of refined salt, a sharp long sword, and an excellent battle armor for a grown-up horse. Originally, he had brought a full load of [-] horses this time, but due to Ta Dun, the horses’ cost was doubled suddenly. Therefore, only [-] war horses can be transported back to Xuzhou each time.

Li Cai, on the other hand, continued to stay in Tuhe County, waiting for the return of the fleet, and then re-conducted the second, third, and fourth transactions.

Half a month later, the fleet docked in Tuhe County again, and Li Cai sent someone to notify Tadun to exchange things.

Ta Dun kept his promise, sent people to drive five thousand horses, and traded with Li Cai in Tuhe County.

On the day of the transaction, a handsome knight riding a white horse suddenly broke into everyone's sight, and behind this boy, there was a group of vicious cavalry, all of them brandishing sabers, chasing the white horse with shouts. handsome knight.

The transaction was in progress, Li Cai suddenly saw such a scene, and immediately asked his followers to put up a defensive posture, watching the white horse knight from a distance.

Seeing that the white horse knight was waiting in front of him, he changed direction. Li Cai could clearly see that the white horse knight's horse was tired enough, and his speed was obviously not as good as that of the pursuers behind.

Soon, the pursuers caught up with the knight on the white horse. The exhausted knight on the white horse simply reined in the horse, holding a long spear shining with silver light, turned around, returned the carbine, and stabbed a pursuer. He got off the horse, shot through the heart, and died immediately.

Then, the knight on the white horse was surrounded by the rest of the pursuers in Kanxin, but the knight on the white horse had no fear at all. He immediately stood still on the spot with his spear horizontally, charged left and right, and stabbed three times in succession. With a scream, he fell off his horse.

Seeing that his companions were all dead, the rest of them turned pale with fright, immediately turned their horses around, patted the horses and left.

The white horse knight put away his spear, took out a bow and arrow hanging near the horse's neck, drew the bow and set the arrow, and with a sound of "swish", a black feathered arrow flew out quickly, directly from the neck of the pursuer. The shot pierced the throat from behind, and fell directly off the horse, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.

Such a scene was clearly seen by Li Cai. Seeing that the knight on the white horse was very skilled in martial arts, Li Cai immediately asked people to withdraw their defenses, and shouted at the knight on the white horse: "Strong man!"

The knight on the white horse heard Li Cai shouting there, and saw the fleet of ships behind Li Cai, and suddenly thought of a way to escape from this place, so he took the initiative to go up to him, and asked, "Why did you call me, sir?" ?”

"I'm Li Cai, just now I saw the strong man with extraordinary skills, and I felt admiration in my heart. I don't know the strong man's name?"

"I'm Zhao Yun."

"It turned out to be the strong man Zhao." Li Cai saw that Zhao Yun's clothes were torn, shivering in the cold wind, and the horses under his seat were all exhausted, so he said, "The strong man is exhausted. It's noon now, and my subordinates are already cooking. , How about a strong man coming with me, resting for a while, and filling his stomach?"

When Zhao Yun was hungry and physically and mentally exhausted, he fled all the way from Yijing to avoid Yuan Shao's pursuit.

At first, Yuan Shao still had the heart to recruit Zhao Yun and sent someone to persuade Zhao Yun.But Zhao Yun didn't want to work under Yuan Shao, not to mention that Gongsun Zan, who was kind to him, also died in Yuan Shao's hands. He didn't do anything, and decisively rejected the envoy sent by Yuan Shao.

Later, Yuan Shao's counselor came up with an idea, saying that Zhao Yun's martial arts were superb and brave, and if he couldn't use him, he would kill him.

Yuan Shao announced the news that he would buy Zhao Yun's head with a lot of money. As soon as the news came out, Zhao Yun fell into the target of public criticism. No matter where he went, someone would want his life. Time, happened to meet Li Cai here.

"Since the gentleman invited you kindly, then Zhao Yun would be more respectful than obedient."

(End of this chapter)