customs clearance base

Chapter 1321 Pretending to be a Chamber of Commerce (1)

Seeing this, Geralt couldn't help sighing to his subordinates: "This is the shortest time I know that the captive bannermen can serve consciously. Second Lieutenant Zhao Hu really has a way."

His subordinates were a little disapproving: "This is a very simple matter, just select officers from among them."

"Hey, it's very simple? Have you ever heard of anyone who let the captured bannermen command themselves? If it were you, even if you knew they were loyal, you wouldn't betray them at will, but how dare you choose from these bannermen? Pick all the officers?"

Speechless.

So subordinates can only be subordinates.

"Sir, there is a gathering place [-] kilometers ahead. There are thousands of huge herd flag buns alone, and there are too many small herd flag buns!"

The scouts sent to investigate brought this news to Zhao Hu.

Dio immediately said happily: "Okay, we can go there to buy a batch of arrows. It is best to get a map. If we can't get it, we must ask for the direction. Otherwise, the map issued by the army is blank. A few years in the prairie."

This statement immediately won the approval of everyone. Getting lost on this huge prairie is no fun. Zhao Hu hadn't made a decision yet, and Geralt, who was following Zhao Hu because he had no mission, immediately spoke out.

"Thousands of giant shepherd flag bunkers? This is only the size of the banner owner's garrison! Sir, although their banner owners have pulled away a large number of troops, the gathering place will never be less than 3 to [-] people, even if they are all Women, children, old and young, but there are thousands of strong guards, shall we bypass them?"

A team leader who followed Zhao Hu for the same reason as Geralt immediately refuted.

"Don't be an idiot, we are now a caravan, and we are not afraid of being suspicious when we see that the gathering place actually detours?"

Geralt immediately scolded, "You're an idiot! Don't even think that our mounts are either branded with the imperial army mark or the wooden flag mark! Don't try to keep them from seeing them, those herdsmen are all masters of raising horses , seeing so many of our war horses, it would be strange not to come and take a look! Let them take a look, wouldn't everything be ruined?
"It's better to let them suspect now than to enter the settlement and be hacked to death immediately, right? I'm taking the lesser of two evils!"

Now the captains were all dumbfounded, yes, these war horses of mine are all branded, and you can know the details of these people at a glance, so you can only make a detour, alas, I thought I could go to the gathering place to have fun happy.

Looking at the dejected captains, Zhou Wen giggled. "Don't forget, the war horses we bought in the market, and the horses that pull the carts are not branded."

The captains who were confused by Zhou Wen's appearance became happy again.

That's right, why didn't I expect it, I really deserve to be Zhou Wen's personal guard.

Sun Jie, who had a normal sexual orientation, couldn't stand the gazes of those team leaders, and immediately hid aside with his hairs on end.

These soldiers have not seen the market for a few months, and the sows have turned into scorpions. Now that Zhou Wen is full of femininity, I have long forgotten that Zhou Wen is a fake woman, and they are all lustful. If it is not for the concern that Zhou Wen is Zhao Hu His personal guards, I'm afraid they attacked at night long ago.

Geralt asked with a frown, avoiding the drooling colleagues beside him. "There are only two or three hundred horses without brand marks. We have more than a thousand people here. It would be weird to have a hundred people go in and only a few people left outside."

"It's not weird, we are a caravan, of course we have to send someone to check before doing business, this is very normal.

"However, most of the people who go in must be servants, otherwise they will still attract attention, because there are no business groups of all foreigners who dare to hang out on the prairie."

Everyone agreed with Diou's statement, and all looked at Zhao Hu. After all, it was useless for people like myself to say more, and it was up to the officer Zhao Hu whether to go or not.

Zhao Hu, who had been silent all this time, of course would not go against the opinions of the public, and nodded in agreement.

Needless to say, Zhao Hu's personal guards must have gone with Zhao Hu. For the servants, all the officers above ten commanders went, and a centurion was also selected.

On the imperial side, ten squad leaders, twenty corporal leaders, and all the logistics soldiers were selected, and the remaining officers were left behind.

Why can all the officers of the servants go?Simple, although Zhao Hu was very reassuring about them, other officers were not so reassuring, fearing that these promoted officers would incite the servants to rebel and take away the leaders, and those servants without ego would be as obedient as sheep.

Geralt, who knew the details, still didn't remind anyone.

Zhou Wen excitedly pulled his horse to get ready, and was suddenly pulled aside by Dio.

"What are you doing, uncle? You're in a hurry."

"Zhou Wen, you'd better not follow the officer to the gathering place."

"why?"

"Well, the reason is your appearance. Whether you are a man or a woman, your appearance is indeed fascinating. If you let a powerful person see your appearance, you will definitely cause trouble for the officer."

Zhou Wen was speechless, and nodded after a long time. "Understood, I won't follow."

Seeing that Zhou Wen was reasonable, Diou said with a smile: "That's good. When you first followed the officer, you looked a bit like a woman at most. I don't know what happened, but now you have changed into a charming, beautiful and charming person." , It's really strange, will the appearance change after becoming an adult?
"Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise I will cause trouble when I am in the imperial capital."

Zhou Wen touched his face with some doubts. He hadn't looked in the mirror for a long time, and he didn't know how his current appearance had changed from before.

Seeing Zhou Wen's puzzled expression, Dio shook his head with a wry smile. He didn't know if this guy was born in the wrong place, but his every move has a style, God is really blind.

When he was ready, Zhou Wen suddenly said he would not go, Zhao Hu glanced at Zhou Wen, smiled and nodded.

Zhao Hu is not an idiot. He is very clear about the reason why Zhou Wen, who was originally excited, suddenly changed his mind.It seems that a personal guard is a personal guard, no matter what, he always thinks of the officer.

Putting on unbranded war horses, Zhao Hu and his party left the convoy and rushed to the gathering place ahead.

When they were ten kilometers away from the gathering place, the scouts at the gathering place stopped Zhao Hu and his group.

"Who are you?"

The ten bow riders drew their bows to be on guard. When they saw the flag behind the scout captain, Geralt, a guy with too much knowledge on the grassland, stepped forward and saluted.

"Dear warriors under Jingzi Muqi, we are a free caravan, and we are going to visit the gathering place of your banner, hoping to be welcomed by the warriors."

Hearing this, Sun Jie's youthful heart drew a centurion and asked in a low voice. "Old Dao, what is the pattern on the flag?"

Zhao Hu once asked the servants the names of the eight centurions who won the lottery, but unfortunately they either had tattered names like numbers, or they didn't even have names, only a nickname.

Zhao Hu, who is not very good at naming names, named them Dao, Sword, Spear, Bow, Shield, Iron, Horse, and Bing. Originally, Zhao Hu wanted to give them the surname of his own Zhao, but he didn't expect that. Unexpectedly, everyone was against it, not only his personal guards and imperial soldiers, but also the eight centurions strongly opposed it, so in the end it had to be like this.

However, just one name made the eight centurions weep with gratitude, and it also made the eyes of the other servants turn red with envy.

This incident made Zhao Hu understand that in this continent, a surname is really very important, because now he discovered that none of his imperial soldiers had a surname.

Lao Dao was a little nervous and shook his head. "I, I don't know, I only know the wooden flag and a few herding flags around the wooden flag."

As a person who came up from the bottom, he is really not used to expressing himself. Just such a sentence has already made him sweat.

Seeing this, Sun Jie patted him on the shoulder understandingly.

The other scouts didn't respond, only the ten commander carefully looked at Zhao Hu and the others.

"You are a free caravan, where are your goods?"

Geralt replied with a smile, "It's just ten kilometers behind, we stopped there because we didn't want to make the trip in vain."

The ten commander gave a scout a wink, and the scout immediately galloped towards Zhao Hu's direction. Zhao Hu and the others were shocked. It would be bad if the scout found the brand, but seeing Jie La He continued to have a long relationship with that husband without paying attention, so he temporarily stabilized his mood.

Soon, the scout came back. Looking at the time it took to go back and forth, everyone knew that he just watched from a distance, and they all settled down.

Knowing that the other party had brought nearly a hundred large carriages, the Ten Commander saluted Zhao Hu and the others very friendly.

"Jingzi Muqi welcomes you. You are so lucky. Today is the third day of the market, and there are still four days left for you to trade."

After Zhao Hu and others had a hala with him, they were released.

Dio touched Sun Jie and pointed to Geralt with his chin. Sun Jie asked loudly with curiosity on his face. "Brother Geralt, you are amazing. You are so familiar with this grassland. You can tell what the flag is by looking at the other party's flag."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Geralt couldn't help laughing. "I'm a native of Wenbei Province. When I was young, I followed my parents into the grasslands to do business, so I know a little bit about them."

"Then why do you come to be a soldier? A businessman is very promising."

"The business has failed, the family has fallen, and I have no ability but to be a soldier."

"By the way, he didn't give a gift to the Ten Commander just now, why didn't he pick on us?"

Geralt thought it was Zhao Hu's instigation, so he still explained with a smile. "We brought nearly a hundred large carriages. How dare these small officers embarrass the large caravan? Maybe we will do business with their upper echelons, and a word will make them unlucky.

"If we only have a dozen or so carriages, we won't be allowed in without benefits."

(End of this chapter)