Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

"Bad horses? We don't have any bad horses here. How can you look down on people so much, General?"

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Recalling what he had seen and heard along the way, Xu Huang wished he could chop off the heads of those profiteers one by one, and hang them on the poplar trees by the roadside, so that those bullying guys could have a good experience of maliciously manipulating market prices What a despicable and despicable act that makes people feel sincerely angry.

But when he thought that he was no longer the yellow scarf bandit leader who followed Yang Feng around his hometown in the river east, Xu Huang had no choice but to suppress the anger in his heart, so he said goodbye to the other party without saying a word, and then went to find the next one. A businessman willing to meet himself.

You must know that even in Yangzhou, Jingzhou, which is located in the south of Dahan, or even Qiongzhou Haiya in Jiaozhou, the price of this horse is only about 1 yuan, and the most expensive time did not exceed [-] yuan.

But now, with the order money of more than 400 catties of gold entrusted to him by Zhang Yan, the highest price Xu Huang can accept psychologically is only [-] yuan per horse.

Along the way, he kept asking and trying, until now, Xu Huang no longer knows how many horse dealers he has met, and how many intermediaries who claim to be Hu regimes he has asked.

But in the hands of these dog-like profiteers, Xu Huang can be said to have achieved nothing, and the task in hand has not achieved the slightest progress.

Seeing that the time has come to mid-June, and it has been almost half a month since I set off, Xu Huang at that time naturally knew that in two or three days at most, even if he did not complete the task, he had to go south to merge with Zhang Yan Returning to life, so I naturally feel extremely melancholy in my heart.

Just when he was driving a carriage and was going to try his luck from Wuyuan to his next destination, a boy who was a little thin, wearing a barbarian's robe, and with a dark and skinny face came to him like this. him at that time.

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"Hey, eat quickly."

"After eating, you still have to take me to your tribe."

"I don't have much time, don't delay."

Looking at the little boy in front of him with some complicated eyes, who has obvious Han characteristics, but his eyes are shining with orchid colors like stars, Xu Huang just drained the tea in the tea bowl in one gulp, and then Throwing the tea bowl back on the table with a "duh", at the same time looking at the wilderness of Yanmen County, there was inevitably a trace of unspeakable anxiety in his eyes.

And it seemed that he was surprised by his height of more than eight feet and nine feet. The boy who was drinking the porridge in a slow manner before suddenly ignored the burning of the porridge in the bowl, and swallowed it in a hurry. up.

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Xu Huang remembered very clearly that it was a somewhat quiet night. In order to rush to his next destination Yunzhong as soon as possible, he had to set off from Wuyuan County overnight and drove eastward in a carriage alone overnight.

Just when he left Jiuyuan County, the largest county in Wuyuan County, he found a dark and thin figure quietly following behind him.

A sense of vigilance gradually rose in my heart. You must know that at the Hu-Han border, it is very common for Hu people to enter the city pretending to be Han people, and then follow them out of the city to loot after finding their target. things.

It is precisely because of this that those young girls in the Wuyuan area hardly dare to show their faces in public after dark.

With his big powerful hands lying on the handle of the knife at his waist, Xu Huang slowly reined in the horse pulling the cart, and his pair of powerful eyes could not help but subconsciously narrowed slightly.

But when he was secretly thinking about whether he should be the first to take the lead, a rather fluent Chinese sentence came out from the mouth of the shadow not far away.

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"General, do you want to buy some horses?"

Chapter 22 The Yitu Clan

"Nalan, do you really have so many horses?"

Suspiciously asked the boy in front of him, Xu Huang was waiting for him silently, and at the same time secretly recalled the little things that happened along the way when he left Wuyuan County.

And what impressed him the most was that that night, he and the little boy in front of him named "Yitu Nalan"—maybe "Yitu Nala" or "Yitu Nala" met for the first time. We met once.

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As a general, although Xu Huang's strength is only the peak of the third-rate, the embarrassing level of the second-rate, but due to the scarcity of cultivation methods and production conditions in this era, even a general who is not in the ranks can be said to be a thousand miles away. find one.

Although in terms of strength on paper, Xu Huang is probably not much stronger than Pei Yuanshao, and can only be ranked in the middle level under Zhang Yan's hands, but if the comparison target is placed on the subjects of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, Xu Huang Akira is actually better at fighting than [-]% of the population.

If it weren't for the large amount of gold carried on the vehicle behind him, Xu Huang would have absolutely no intention of taking this kind of banditry seriously.

But when he thought that he was alone now, and at the same time he was still burdened with the tasks entrusted to him by his lord Zhang Yan, Xu Huang's naturally cautious temperament made him subconsciously plan to go all out in the face of every little thing, in case Zhang Yan's important event was delayed.

Seeing the black shadow gradually approaching him not far away, on that somewhat dark night, Xu Huang actually had a thought in his mind to make a preemptive strike and directly preemptively strike.

It's a pity that before he was about to strike, a sentence of extremely fluent Chinese came from the mouth of the black shadow.

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"General, do you want to buy some horses?"

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"Are you Chinese?"

Two voices sounded one after another between Xu Huang and the shadow. Not long after, Xu Huang saw a dark and thin young man appearing from the shadow, and at the same time, he was also captured by the person in front of the carriage. The dangling torch exposed the face to his view.

Different from the other party's distinctive blue eyes, just opening his mouth, this skinny young man's fluent Chinese made Xu Huang have a good impression of him deep in his heart.

You must know that in the past few days, Xu Huang, who has traveled to the northern border of the Han Dynasty, has rarely heard such a standard and friendly hometown dialect without a trace of accent, as if he was born in the Si Li area.

Even for those pure Han people who do not have any Hu blood, in the long-term transactions and contacts with the Huns and other grassland tribes, it is inevitable that their accents will be contaminated with some of the other party's word habits.

Now when he heard the boy in front of him speak, Xu Huang was surprised to find that the other party not only had an extremely pure accent, but also was as fluent as a textbook.

Such a situation happened to a man who was obviously a Hu, or a mixed-race child with Hu blood. Naturally, it was no longer commendable and could be easily described.

Examining the boy's somewhat thin body, Xu Huang couldn't help but relax slightly after realizing that the boy was only wearing a short knife on his waist, not holding a weapon, and there was no one else around. The tense muscles all over the body gradually became a little loose.

Moving away the big hand that had been holding on to the handle of the knife, he just looked curiously at the little one who came to meet him alone in front of him.

I saw that the boy was about thirteen or fourteen years old, with a three-cornered felt hat unique to grasslands on his head, and a pair of big smart eyes were constantly looking at himself in front of him at this moment.

In his eyes, besides seeing the slight expectation, Xu Huang also felt a lot of uneasiness and eagerness suppressed deep in his heart.

Not knowing why a child on the other side had such emotions towards him, Xu Huang paused for a moment, as if he was a little curious about the origin of this boy.

Afterwards, after some general communication, I realized that just like young males in the inland areas often need to help their families with farming, young people on this grassland often also serve as guest merchants to help their families manage their businesses. In this way, Xu Huang took the boy and drove towards the Yanmen area mentioned by the other party.

According to the boy, Yitu Nalan of the Xiongnu clan, he saw Xu Huang who was negotiating with a horse merchant in Jiuyuan County, so after Xu Huang left the county, he followed him secretly come up.

The reason why he chose to show up at night is because his family, or clan, is a force located in the Yanmen area in the east of Bingzhou. To put it mildly, he would be expelled, but to put it more seriously, the entire Yitu clan attached to the Youxian Royal Court would suffer a lot of suppression and blows.

Nodding secretly, Xu Huang naturally knew that after hundreds of years of contact with the Hu and Han people, not only the Han people and the Hu people learned a lot of crafts to make a living on the grassland, but even the Hu people also learned a lot from the Han people. thing.

Leaving aside how much the Hu people have learned about the behaviors of gentlemen such as "Book of Songs", "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", and "Book of Changes", at least the open and secret struggles of merchants in "Spring and Autumn" were learned by the forces of the Southern Huns and their original intentions. The concept of territory that he had practiced since he was in the grassland was well combined.

Although the current people of the entire Southern Huns are nominally under the jurisdiction of Liu’s Qiangqu Shanyu, and at the same time they are attached to several border states and counties of the Han Dynasty, but under this Qiangqu Shanyu, the Southern Huns are not only divided into The two large forces, Zuo Xian Wang Ting and You Xian Wang Ting, are indistinctly opposed to each other. Even the clans under the Wang Ting are cede territory to each other, and the fight between them has never stopped.

If it is true what Nayitu Nalan said, and the Xiongnu Youxian King Tingyitu clan represented by the other party is willing to directly sell a batch of horses from the grassland to him, then Xu Huang not only does not need to go to those Han people in the border counties. , At the same time, the price of horses of the same quality will be much lower than originally estimated.

After roughly inquiring about the area where the other party's clan lived, Xu Huang first estimated the distance between himself and Mayi of Yanmen, and after finding that the journey of two or three days was completely acceptable to him, he agreed to Nalan's request. They brought him together towards Yanmen in the east.

But now, the two of them are in a teahouse near the northern border in Mayi, and they are dealing with their lunch today.

PS: A small test, guess which heavyweight is the ancestor of this well-Sinicized Hu-Han hybrid?

The first person who guesses correctly can go to the group and ask the author for a trick.

Chapter 23 The struggle within the Huns

Gululu drank all the barley porridge in the bowl as if scrambling. In fact, not only Xu Huang was uncertain at this time, but even Yitu Nalan felt extremely nervous in his heart. Even in this summer, There is a slight coolness between the hands and feet.

The reason why he was nervous was not that he was worried about whether his clan could provide enough horses, but simply because this transaction amounted to several thousand catties of gold. The Tu clan, and even the entire Youxian Royal Court can be said to be extremely important.

In these years, after Qiang Qu Shanyu gradually aged, the southern Xiongnu were faintly divided into two mainstream factions, the Zuoxian King's Court and the Youxian King's Court. Political positions have always been somewhat contentious.

After the Han Dynasty gradually weakened and the Zuoxian Wangting, which represented the rebellious forces, gradually became stronger, the Youxian Wangting, who had always been pro-Han, had become somewhat difficult to survive independently on the grassland.

In order to help his clan and the forces behind the clan gain a firm foothold, Nalan very much hoped that he could facilitate this deal and let the general from the south choose his Yitu clan as the horse trading partner.

In consideration of maximizing the interests between the two of them and increasing the probability of the other party choosing him, Yitu Nalan took the initiative to take the risk to show himself and contact the other party even when he was in Wuyuan County.

To be honest, this kind of behavior is actually a bit reckless. After all, judging from the opponent's height of nearly nine feet and dense muscles all over his body, this general Xu from the south is definitely not someone to mess with. Perhaps even compared to the number one warrior in the clan, Hu Chuquan, the younger brother of Youxian King Yu Fuluo King, is not much weaker.

Just thinking of his ancestors and the teachings of his relatives passed down from generation to generation like ancestral precepts, Yitu Nalan said nothing to let the Xiongnu really fall into the control of those war lunatics from the Left Wise Royal Court.

Fortunately, although the general in front of him was nine feet tall and his voice was like thunder, it was clear that the other party was not as irritable and irritable inside as he appeared on the outside.

And after getting along with each other for this period of time, Yitu Nalan faintly developed a faint liking for Xu Huang's existence.

With a majestic appearance and a kind conversation, Xu Huang is a perfect man who meets the aesthetic standards of both the Hungarians and the Han people.

Nalan, who has only one elder sister since childhood and has no other male relatives like an elder brother, naturally has an indescribably close feeling to people like Xu Huang.

In the past few days, the other party not only silently paid all the travel expenses for himself, but also protected his own safety while encountering some roadblockers.

It was precisely because of this that Nalan, who was originally of mixed Hu-Han origin and did not reject intermarriage, could not help subconsciously thinking about his sister in his mind.

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"Don't worry, General Xu, let alone [-] horses, even if it's [-], as long as you give us some time, the Yitu clan can get them together for you."

"Let's start off later, and go north for about half an hour, and we will arrive at the racecourse where our clan trades with the Han people in the south. There are eight gold and ten horses in the prairie. How much do you want? as much as you can take.”

Touching those clean and beardless lips, Yitu Nalan stood up and patted Xu Huang's chest. Just like his name, he was full of the sunny temperament unique to teenagers.

After hearing the words, Xu Huang also got up silently, threw a few copper coins to the waiter who was waiting by the side, and led him out of the teahouse on the border.

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The grassland in summer is not hot, it is just a little bit sunburnt.

Wearing a prairie felt hat on his head, Xu Huang was driving the carriage while listening to Yitu Nalan telling him various scenery and stories along the way.

Near the villages on both sides of the road, some small settlements where Hu people and Han people live together are dotted like stars.

On the faces of those Han people, most of them are full of dust and dust that is unique to farmers. At the same time, there are also some small cracks between the hands, which are obviously left by many years of fighting with the land. A mark that cannot be erased from the body.

And those Hu people are easier to recognize than the Han people.In addition to protruding cheekbones and deep-set eye sockets, the long-term life of riding horses and wandering has made their skin red, swollen and dry under the strong wind.

Passing through these small settlements one after another, the two have already set off, so Xu Huang is not as eager as before, just watching the lowest-level Hu people and Han people in front of him, feeling the influence of their different living habits. There is a slight gap in appearance.

It didn't take long, after the people on both sides gradually became a little sparse, some pastures divided by simple wooden stakes appeared in Xu Huang's sight.

"Nalan, don't you use fences to separate your horse farms?"

"If some horses sneaked away from this horse farm at night, wouldn't you suffer a great loss?"

Some curiously asked the boy behind him, Xu Huang looked at the environment he was in with cautious eyes, and at the same time secretly checked, if he was unlucky later, what conflicts would arise with the power of the other party's Yitu clan , How should I proceed to get away from the vicinity of this grassland smoothly.

This place is already located in the border area of ​​the entire Mayi County. It can be said that if you go further north, you will find the endless northern prairie. It is a natural pasture where the Huns have only failed once in hundreds of years.Although Xu Huang was quite confident in his martial arts, considering that this was the northern border of the entire Han Dynasty, the desolate scenery inevitably made Xu Huang feel a little vigilant.

Inside the carriage at the back, more than 400 Han Jin of gold were neatly stacked in the box. This is the activity fund that Zhang Yan gave him before he left, and it is also the reason Xu Huang came out to buy horses this time. Available deposit.

And after a while, these shining precious metals will turn into real armed forces, be handed over to Xu Huang, and eventually become part of the wealth that Zhang Yan can control.

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