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Chapter 527
Zhangjiakou in March is still very cold, and it is still a piece of withered yellow, with occasional spots of green dotted in this withered and yellowed world.

The horse market, which has been closed for several months, has reopened.

People from many tribes from far and near gathered here, ready to exchange some necessities for daily necessities to go back. Once the Ming Dynasty retreated for too long, their lives would definitely be difficult. Without tea, people would go crazy. Without iron pots If you don't eat hot milk, if you don't have salt and cloth, you can only be a savage.

This is a school yard, where the leaders and leaders of the Imperial Association Army, big and small, gather here. Everyone has heard one thing, that is, the horse market is about to reopen. She cleaned herself up to look more civilized.

"I heard that the horse market is about to reopen!" said a small leader of the Imperial Association Army.

"That's for sure. It's been spread outside the pass. The horse market has reopened. Can there still be fakes?" Another person said immediately.

"I heard that the city here is now only for our Imperial Association Army, and no one else has a share. Is this true?" someone inquired.

"Well, not necessarily, if it's only for our Imperial Association Army, why are there so many other tribes here today? It's obviously not for our Imperial Association Army." Someone said.

"No, I checked the tone of Dudu Man a few days ago. He can say that this time, the court has been fighting for this matter for a long time. It was His Majesty who made an opening for our Imperial Association Army and opened the border market on purpose. Yes, otherwise, based on the strength of the Shanxi business case a few days ago, the horse market will reopen so soon? Don’t forget, Ming Dynasty and Dajin fought hard..." Another leader of the Imperial Association Army also said Said swearingly.

"Moulte, it's still big money. Believe it or not, I'll tell Mandudu right away, and I'm sure you'll eat the whip..." Another leader of the Imperial Association Army next to him immediately threatened.

"Donglu, Donglu, I made a mistake, please don't tell Mandudu, otherwise, I'll be whipped..." The leader of the Imperial Association Army who said something wrong just now laughed immediately.

"I actually think it would be great if the emperor of the Ming Dynasty could give us military salaries? It doesn't have to be as high as the new army of Mandu Dudu. One tael of silver a month is enough..." another said.

"exactly……"

"That's right, we should mention it to the governor, the captured food alone is not enough to eat!" Someone immediately agreed.

……

There was a lot of discussion on the campus.Suddenly there was a voice: "Mandu Dudu arrived...".Only then did the leaders of the Imperial Association Army stop talking and began to wait for Man Gui's arrival.

Man Gui strode up to the general platform and looked around at the crowd.

"...all stand up for me..." Man Gui looked at the scattered leaders of various tribes under the control of the Imperial Association Army, and said with some disgust, he was used to seeing the neat and orderly queue now. This kind of mob-like team arrangement is very disgusting.

All the tribal leaders of the Royal Association Army tried their best to stand up their team in a sparse manner, so as not to provoke the anger of the Mandu Governor.

"The horse market is open today, so let's not talk too much. Come and read the name. If you read the name, come up and get the ticket. Once you get the ticket, the horse market will officially start..." Man Gui looked at the scene. The lazy team felt disgusted. They originally prepared some excuses, but now they don't want to talk about it. They just let these people receive various tickets and settle the matter. After receiving the tickets, these people naturally know the "benefits" of the tickets.

The leaders of the various tribes of the Imperial Association Army looked at Man Gui in confusion, first overjoyed, then puzzled, and asked each other what was going on, why did they still have to collect tickets?Could it be a military ticket?Salary?Many people got excited.

"Has the one from the Borzi Tribe arrived?" Seeing that the adults in his family were about to start invoices, a small official behind Mangui didn't hesitate, and immediately started reading from the list.

"It's here, it's here." The leader of the Borzi tribe rushed up to issue a military ticket?This is really strange, I just don't know how many votes they can issue, this military ticket is very valuable, no, how many military tickets are worth as much money!

"The Borji tribe has a total of [-] catties of food stamps, [-] catties of tea stamps, [-] catties of sugar stamps, cloth stamps..., salt stamps..., gun stamps..., twenty needle stamps... The wine ticket is one thousand catties..." The little official's voice was very loud, although the wind and sand at the border in March was still there, it could not cover up his voice.

Food stamps?tea ticket?Tickets?What is this?A group of imperial association troops were dumbfounded.

"Captain, can these votes be used as silver envoys?" The leader of the Borzi tribe asked carefully, why are the votes divided so finely?

"These can't be used as silver, but they are more valuable than silver." Man Gui said to the leader of the Borji tribe cheerfully, with some playfulness in his eyes.

"Commander, this, this, this..." Seeing Man Gui's smiling face, Borji was afraid of Man Gui's coercion, so he didn't dare to ask too many questions.

"Don't worry, since you are the Imperial Association Army, His Majesty will take care of you and won't let you suffer..." Man Gui said with a smile.

"That's, that's..." The leader of the Borzi tribe immediately agreed.

"To be honest, if it wasn't for the Imperial Association Army, His Majesty would not have opened this horse market at all. Don't you all think that when I and Dong Lu are fighting to death, they will open the horse market to inform Dong Lu? Donglu transporting supplies?" Man Gui still said with a slight smile.

Man Gui's smile made all the tribal leaders present feel chills.

"Your Majesty is wise, Your Majesty is wise..." Borzi said again and again.The big and small leaders below were not sure what was going on today, and they all followed suit.

"I want to tell you, but also prevent someone from giving Donglu news. Don't you think it's difficult?" Man Gui continued to say with a smile.

"That's, that's..." Borzi repeatedly agreed, and Man Gui's smile broke out in a cold sweat.

"That is, it is necessary to let everyone live a good life, but at the same time, it is necessary to strictly prevent the transfer of captives, and even more, to prevent the flow of military weapons and food to the eastern captives. That is why I have this ticket. When I buy things in the future, I have to rely on this ticket." In order to buy the corresponding things, I have no choice but to strictly control the captives!..." Man Gui said with a smile.

"what!……"

"what……"

The leaders of the big and small tribes were even more surprised, but they had never heard of this before.

"If you dare to ask the governor, that is to say, this time, we only got a pile of papers and nothing else. We lived with the Ming Dynasty and worked hard for the Ming Dynasty. In the end, we still have to rely on tickets to buy something. This, Dudu, this is too much to treat our Imperial Association Army as an outsider, since our Imperial Association Army has taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty, we will naturally sacrifice our lives to His Majesty, why does the Dudu distrust us so much?" In the Imperial Association Army, a brain came out The more sober people began to reason with Man Gui.

"that is……"

"That's right, we thought we were going to divide the money, but I didn't expect it to be a pile of paper, which is used for a ball..."

"...The Ming Dynasty doesn't treat us as human beings too much..." Someone in the Imperial Association Army immediately became noisy, and suddenly heard that he would have to pay for his purchases in the future, and that meant that his wealth and life were in Ming Dynasty's hands what!Immediately it became noisy.

"Silence!" the attendant next to Man Gui shouted again and again.

The noisy voices immediately quieted down, and they all looked at Man Gui, to see what Man Gui said.

"Hey, are there any of you who don't want to be in the Imperial Army? You can leave now. Our Ming Dynasty never forces people. If you want to get out, get out immediately. If you stay, you can do as His Majesty said. You made such an opening, but you won it for you under the pressure of the courtiers, and you dare not appreciate it..." Man Gui smiled strangely, at this moment, still want to struggle?Is that possible?A group of goods waiting to die.

The tribal leaders looked at Man Gui's attitude of getting out if he didn't want to do it, and Man Gui's strange smile, and they were even more uncertain whether Man Gui would attack them on the spot and kill them all. Man Gui didn't dare to attack under the pressure.

"I've said it all, my reputation with His Majesty has always been very good, and it's not that I haven't given you a way out. Haven't you been clamoring for payment? Although there is no payment this time, these tickets are better than the payment. It's more valuable, Borzi, your tribe doesn't need to add a few pots a year, you see, you can buy pots with this pot ticket, but you can buy it for only two taels of silver, but if you don't have this For pot ticket, you have to pay at least four taels of silver, which is the price of a high-quality horse. Do the math, just for this pot ticket, you don’t have to do anything, and you have made a net profit of two taels of silver, that’s a lot of money. double the price, what about other things? The tickets that His Majesty allocated to you are, in fact, allotted to you with a surplus. You give these tickets to those tribes that don’t have tickets. It's really not difficult, His Majesty is very thoughtful for you..." Man Gui said with a smile.

"what!……"

"Uh!……"

Furthermore, the leaders of the Imperial Association Army, large and small, immediately started discussing that there is such a good thing. If it is really like this, it is really more reliable than that military salary. Before, they also asked the Ming Dynasty to "please "Pay", even if the Ming Dynasty really paid, there was not much money in their names, but now it is different, just one Borzi tribe can get thousands of taels of silver a year, What about them?Is it almost possible to get these silvers?Calculated in this way, it is much more cost-effective than asking for a salary.

"Captain, is it really that much?" The leader of the Borzi tribe thought for a while and asked in embarrassment. He couldn't figure out whether the emperor of the Ming Dynasty treated them well or badly.

"Hehe, of course you can't fake it. If you want more money, there is only one way, and that is to do your job well and work hard to kill the enemy for His Majesty. The more credit you have, the more tickets will be allocated. Today's tickets are all based on your last year's votes." Your Majesty only cares about the merits, and you can say anything, salt, tea, wine, sugar, cloth, grain, ironware, pasture... Whatever you want, I, Da Ming, can give it to you. However, if you Stealing, cheating, and trying to fool around, then I'm sorry, there is no such ticket..." Man Gui said.

"..." People in the underground are talking again, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
"Master Dudu, if I want to build it in Ouchi, what about the grenade? Can I give it?" The leader of a small tribe asked loudly, although the voice was loud, but it was obvious that there was caution in his tone.

"Don't worry, you can change them all. You can use the extra tickets to exchange them for other things, such as Ouchi-made muskets and grenades. It's okay..." Man Gui said with a smile. I'm really not afraid of others saying that he smuggled arms to the Mongols. Even if these grenades are left unused, they will gradually start to "wake up" after two years, and the power of the gunpowder will gradually decrease. In [-], it might be possible to fire grenades loudly, not to mention muskets. A musket without ammunition is better than a fire stick.

"Wow……"

As soon as the words came out, everyone was talking again. From this point of view, the Ming Dynasty was really not stingy, so they didn't treat them as outsiders, and they all became excited, even Da Nei Zao could be exchanged!
"Captain, I don't know how many tickets our tribe can get. Let's get the tickets now so we can exchange things!" A leader of a small tribe of the Imperial Association Army couldn't wait any longer, clamoring to get the tickets and go shopping.

Man Gui waved his hand, and the clerk at the side immediately understood and continued to work on invoices.

There are not only Zhangjiakou opened in the border market, but also Xifengkou.

The border market in Zhangjiakou is different from that in Xifengkou. Outside Xifengkou, after last year's "cleaning", it is basically the Imperial Association Army. If it is not the Imperial Association Army, it is a spoil of war. Ticket sales can be completely implemented. , but this Zhangjiakou is different. The east is connected to Liaodong, the north is connected to Lindan Khan, and the west is connected to Woertus, Tumed tribes, and Xifengkou. Naturally, it is impossible to kill the Mongolian tribe in one shot, and it is like Xifengkou. Therefore, the situation of "rationing system" here is very different from Xifengkou. In addition to the various tickets for the rationing system, there are also The "bargaining price" other than the ticket can buy materials at a high price. This "bargaining price" is usually more than twice the price of buying things with a ticket. In this way, the material channels of the Mongolian tribes are not locked, so that they will not unite and make trouble. , and made the Imperial Association Army have a lot of room for profit in this, urging the Imperial Association Army to fight for tickets.

……

The border market reopened, and many tribal herdsmen came to exchange things.

"Pot ticket, what pot ticket?" A herdsman from a certain tribe came to Bianshi happily. He took a fancy to a pot and was going to buy it back, but when he asked, the pot seller asked him for a pot ticket , he couldn't touch the door.

"That's right, now, if you don't have a pot ticket, I can't sell you the pot..." the shop clerk said confidently.

"Why? Can't I pay the silver?" The herdsman asked quickly, and while talking, he also took out the vain silver to prove that he had the ability to buy.

"It's not a matter of money. Now that there is no ticket, who dares to sell you something? If you are charged with a prisoner, we still want to eat a few more bowls of rice..." The waiter didn't care about the money that the herdsman was holding. .

"If you don't sell it, you don't sell it..." The herdsman was also stubborn. Seeing that this family refused to sell it, he looked back and saw that there was another family selling pot not far away. I don’t believe it anymore, you can’t buy anything with such a lot of money, so if you don’t buy it from you, it depends on how much money you earn.

The store waiter watched the herdsman turn and leave, didn't care at all, and smiled secretly, this idiot, thought he could buy it elsewhere, I'm afraid he didn't know, in this horse market today, even though there are so many merchants doing business, in fact, behind the scenes It's impossible to shop around for one owner.

(End of this chapter)