customs clearance base

Chapter 1312 Caravan
Zhao Hu was stunned for a moment, and then slammed the table: "These guys! They actually reported false information about the military!"

Seeing Zhao Hu's anger, the corporal leaders shrank their heads, and a relatively experienced corporal leader boldly said: "Sir, you can't blame them. After all, everyone is scared by the restrictions of the alliance. It’s safe to store a large amount of supplies.”

Hearing this, Zhao Hu sighed, shook his head and said, "How about the food?"

"Hey, don't worry about it, there will be businessmen coming to our town soon." The corporals laughed again, and the smile was a bit lewd.

Zhao Hu frowned: "Businessman? Is there a regular businessman passing here?"

"It's not a regular businessman. This group of businessmen has the most sensitive sense of smell. We have just paid the military salary. In a few days, they will come to the door smelling the smell of gold. At that time, food, horses, weapons, fine wine, women, everything will be available. , They won’t leave until our military pay is emptied!” The corporal leaders swallowed their saliva while talking, looking expectant.

"Where are they from?"

"There are those from the provincial capital, the county government, the Feimu Banner League, and some local businessmen with powerful capital. Anyway, it is a mixture of various regions."

"There are also people from the Feimu Banner League? Doesn't it mean that we have a tense relationship with them? Can we sell weapons to them?" Zhao Hu asked curiously.

"Sir, the Flying Shepherd Banner Alliance is not a whole. There are at least hundreds of herd flags that usually make their own living. Don't look at these herd flags staying under the same banner. Usually they annex each other with life and death in the country. .

"So although the wind is tight on our side, the great thing is that the few herding flags living on the border have ambitions for our territory, and the herding flags in other places still do business with us. I heard that once they do business with us, the money they earn is enough for them What about the living expenses of a herding flag for a year. As for weapons, since there is no ban, of course it is fine.”

Zhao Hu didn't particularly care whether Mu Qi could buy weapons, he cared about other things: "You mean, the Fei Mu Banner League is not united, and it's a mess inside? Even if it invades, it's just a few Mu Banners alone? "

"Yeah, that's why the officers above don't care so much, because even if there is a war, even if our territory is invaded, they can easily drive the enemy out, but pity us soldiers stationed on the border. There is no reason to restrict the sale of weapons to them." The corporal sighed.

Only then did Zhao Hu really understand why the military officers took it so lightly.

Although the gold mine is the cause, the enemy is loose sand, and the real reason is that they will not attack aggressively.

But... Although the Feimu Banner League was a mess before, who can guarantee that they are still a mess now?

Sure enough, as the logistics corps chief said, within a few days, a large number of people dressed as nomads drove thousands of horses and dozens of carts to Kulong Town.

Their group has three head days in total, divided into old, middle-aged and young according to age, and belong to the three herd flags of the Flying Shepherd Banner League.

As soon as they arrived, they obediently presented Zhao Hu with a pair of horses with beautiful saddles.

Zhao Hu immediately accepted the gift with a smile, and immediately agreed to their request to hold a seven-day fair.

After Zhao Hu agreed to their request, Zhou Wen immediately reminded him to show that he liked their gift very much, so Zhao Hu had no choice but to get on his horse and gallop wildly.

After watching Zhao Hu go away, the middle-aged leader said in a low voice: "The skills of riding a horse are absolutely superb, and can be compared with the top riders in our country."

The youth leader was a little unconvinced: "Is that guy so powerful? He's just a second lieutenant."

The middle-aged leader smiled and said: "You have to study the military system of the August Empire carefully. For the rank of second lieutenant, you must kill ten enemies on the front line alone to be promoted. Don't underestimate those who have been promoted from the bottom of the August Empire. The officers who came up, they had no backing, they all got up with their own swords and brains."

The youth leader was still a little dissatisfied: "I still don't believe that he can compare with the top riders in our country."

At this moment, the old leader said: "The second lieutenant's riding skills were forged on the battlefield just now, and our top riders can barely compete with him."

Hearing this, the two leaders of Zhongqing were shocked.

"Then, do you still want to send him a beautiful woman to accompany him to the market as usual?" the middle-aged boss asked respectfully.

The leader of the youth interjected fiercely: "I still object! This has always been a disgrace to our warriors. Our warriors on the grasslands don't have the habit of sending women to serve others. You must know that we haven't even arranged brothels to make money. Why did you send a woman to the second lieutenant?"

The middle-aged leader wanted to say something, but the old leader shook his head and said, "No, I don't think he is interested in the woman we sent."

The middle-aged leader immediately said with a dazed expression: "The valet next to him is dressed as a woman? No wonder it's so beautiful."

The youth leader immediately nodded in agreement, and looked reminiscent.

It’s no wonder they got it wrong, because these days Zhou Wen deliberately found a military uniform with a higher collar to block his Adam’s apple. He would do this mainly because he was afraid that he would be next to Zhao Hu. I saw that those people looked at themselves first, and then looked at Zhao Hu with weird eyes.

In order to avoid embarrassment on the spot, Zhou Wen was willing to be misunderstood as a woman. As for what kind of comments would be drawn when the truth was learned afterwards, it was out of Zhou Wen's consideration.

The old leader shook his head again: "Didn't you see the boy's eyes, only the slave's loyalty and gratitude to the master? That boy may be rescued by him, and he has no other relationship except master and servant. All the beauties you can get can be put aside, let alone other women."

"Hey, I just don't know if he is the top." The youth leader guessed maliciously.

The middle-aged leader didn't want to be so unfashionable, so he immediately changed the subject: "Yes, if they buy war horses, should we sell them or not?"

"Sell, it's not time yet, and we need a lot of money to buy weapons and food. We have a lot of war horses, why don't we sell them?" the old leader said, and the middle-aged leader nodded reassuringly.

The youth leader sighed: "It's a pity that we don't have a good gambler, otherwise we could open a casino and make a lot of money."

The old boss smiled and said, "Casinos need a lot of secret doors and tricks, otherwise you will die. We nomads can't learn these things."

Hearing this, the two leaders of Zhongqing nodded respectfully.

After Zhao Hu rode his horse back, he immediately asked Dio to discuss with the three bosses about the purchase of war horses.

The Allied Country of Flying Shepherd Banner is a grassland country, and the animal husbandry industry is very developed, but food and grass are not what they are good at, so they only buy war horses from them.

Zhao Hu didn't notice that he decided to use the funds of the brigade without authorization and expanded the number of cavalry without authorization. In fact, he exceeded his authority, but he didn't know, and no one objected, and no one reminded him, so Dio act now.

After some haggling, the price of ten gold coins per horse was agreed, and Diou rushed back to ask Zhao Hu about the number of buyers.

"Ten gold coins per horse? So cheap?" Although Zhao Hu didn't understand the market, he knew that he could buy two and a half horses with his monthly salary of a second lieutenant, which was too cheap.

"The allied country of Flying Shepherd Banner is a grassland country. The number of horses is dozens of times that of the population. There are so many things. Once there are too many things, they are worthless, so ten gold coins are reasonable. If it is not reasonable, they will not start from fifteen gold coins." The gold coins will come down." Dio said with a bit of merit.

"How much money do we have now?"

"Because the silver and copper coins were exchanged by the soldiers, we now have about four thousand gold coins."

"Well, just buy him two hundred horses, and use the rest to buy grain."

Just when Diou was about to follow the order, Zhou Wen interjected and said, "Sir, Sun Jie just ran to say that our soldiers did not spend extravagantly in the market of the Feimu Banner League, but guarded the purse carefully." , It is said that the soldiers know that there is no fun in the market of the Feimu Banner League, and they should leave the money to the business groups who came from China."

"Huh?" Zhao Hu didn't know what Zhou Wen meant by saying this, but he also knew that he wouldn't say this for no reason, so he couldn't help but think about it carefully.

After thinking about the actions of the Feimu Banner League, Zhao Hu said suddenly: "The Feimu Banner League knows that they can't make money from soldiers, but they still ask for a seven-day market, obviously to sell horses to domestic business groups. !Is it this way?"

Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Yes, the chief is wise, so the subordinates thought that we can spend all the money and buy all the good horses brought by the Feimu Banner League, and then directly exchange food and weapons with domestic business groups at domestic prices , the price difference in the middle is very profitable, isn’t it a profit?”

Diou was a little worried: "Will the domestic business group disagree with this price difference transaction?"

Zhou Wen said with a smile: "Don't worry, Uncle Diou, they trade here, and we are the garrison here, so we have to show face no matter what, at worst, just reduce the price a little."

After thinking for a while, Zhao Hu said, "Okay, let's do it this way. Deo, go find some cavalrymen who know horses and horses and go pick horses, and pick the best ones."

"Yes." Dio immediately ran out, he could command the soldiers, how majestic, but he didn't even dare to think about it before.

Since there is nothing interesting in the Feimu Banner League market except for wrestling and horse racing, there are a lot of boring soldiers. After hearing Diou's order, almost everyone who claims to be an expert ran to the Feimu Banner League's enclosure pick.

(End of this chapter)