1.49 World Peace goes to an appointment
"In December, please call the clan marriage and guest travelers, and be kind and polite, and be kind and decisive. If you take off farming and rest, you will be well-behaved (you take off farming and resting, and you will definitely benefit you in the coming year). Then you will combine the land equipment, raise oxen, and choose the land to wait for the start of the farming work. On the day of the walrus, you will worship your ancestors."
This year, the Liu Bei family overhauled civil engineering, and hemp pads were sold in the northern part of the country, and the village had a lot of income. Every family was full of joy and everyone showed a happy face.
When he was young, the elders of the clan once asked questions to buy pears. Liu Bei once answered that he would not worry about being weak, but only being uneven.
The people, relatives, and craftsmen in the village all gained something this year, which was exactly what Liu Bei thought.
The wind and snow have been strong these days, and the road is about to be closed. This morning, I suddenly heard people outside the yard neighing. When Liu Bei walked out of the yard with a big wolf-skinned cloak, he saw Su Shuang jumping up and down around the horses. A young man stood by his sleeves by arching his sleeves from time to time and lifted his cuffs and wiped the clear water from the outflow.
Liu Bei felt a little familiar at first, but also a little familiar.
After the young man turned around and saluted him, Liu Bei suddenly realized: "Zhang Shiping!"
"Zhongshan Zhang Shiping, I have seen you for a moment." Although Liu Bei was young, Zhang Shiping did not neglect at all.
"Why are you here?" Liu Bei stepped forward quickly and held him in a hand.
Zhang Shiping smiled and said, "I'm here to go to that person's heart!"
Liu Bei was stunned and smiled and said, "But one gold can tell people's hearts?"
"That's right." Zhang Shiping smiled and nodded.
"Hurry, come into the house and talk." Liu Bei pulled him and walked into the yard.
Zhang Shiping waved his hands repeatedly and pointed at the solemn foreign warriors on both sides of the horses and laughed in a low voice: "It's so good to know that these horses were all from Hu merchants in the horse market, and they didn't give them any money. Hu is narrow-minded and suspicious..."
Liu Bei was stunned. What's going on?
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping both had a little bit of Hu language. After asking, they found out that these horses came from the Horse City, Anping County, for a price of 80 gold!
Su Shuang has seen it before, and there are male and female horses, with different quality and age. However, the price is far higher than eighty gold! The price of one of the top-quality horses is as high as fifty gold!
Su Shuang estimated that if these horses were bought in separate horses, they would be worth hundreds of gold!
Seeing Liu Bei looking at him, Zhang Shiping smiled and said, "At the end of the year, the market is closed, and there is still a surplus in Hu Shang horse circle. Seeing that the snow is strong and the wind is strong, I will not take it away. If I force it to the northern border, I will be frozen on the way. I agreed with him that I would buy it all, regardless of the size of the male and female. This is priced at 100 gold. After hearing what I told you about and the trap, I only sold it for twenty more. I would like to buy it on credit first and pay for the goods on payment!"
"That's right." Before Liu Bei could speak, his mother agreed. The horses were noisy before, and the mother heard the sound and was standing under the eaves of the gate with Gongsun.
Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh: "Has Ma Shi learned everything about me and the enchantment?"
"It's not just Ma City, but the entire Anping Kingdom has been passed down as a good story!" Zhang Shiping replied with a smile.
"So, I will pay first, and then talk in the hall." Seeing that Hu was afraid of fraud, he refused to enter the house. Liu Bei asked his mother to take away twenty gold from the money box given by Hu Shang in Ma City last time, and called the young and middle-aged clan who were helping to build the house and moved to Hu Shang's car.
The car is wide and looks like a walking tent. It can be called a caravan.
Two Hu warriors jumped off the horse and worked together to send the money box into the tent. Liu Bei handed over the key again, and a Hu warrior reached out to take it and sent it into the tent.
Soon, a crisp Hu language came from inside. The leading Hu warrior breathed a sigh of relief. He stroked his chest with one hand, bent down and bowed to Liu Bei, and said Hu language.
Knowing that he was doing the Hu ritual, Liu Bei bowed and returned.
The leader of the Hu man took out a large number of horse certificates from his arms and handed them to Liu Bei. He bowed again, then turned over the horse, and a group of people roared away.
"What did he say?" Liu Bei asked casually with a canopy in his hand.
"He said he would ask Liu Bei and promised a thousand gold!" Su Shuang replied with a smile.
Liu Bei rolled his eyes and said, "Does he know how many people are in the 'recruiting Liu Bei'?"
"I guess I don't know!" After Zhang Shiping said that, everyone laughed.
How could the old patriarch not come after such a big disturbance? Check the horses and documentary certificates, correspond one by one, and then leave with a smile.
Liu Bei's family is building a large-scale construction. Zhang Shiping looked up and saw that the warehouse building towering in the backyard was visible. He tskated his mouth and sighed a lot in his heart. He rushed to the backyard with Su Shuang, but was startled by the double-story stable. Seeing that Su Shuang was also quite versatile, Zhang Shiping was immediately delighted.
He was afraid that the care would be damaged by the horse trinket. Now that he had seen Su Shuang, he let go of his worries and was anxious to rush back to his home in Zhongshan.
Liu Bei sincerely tried to stay and barely stayed for a night.
The next morning, Zhang Shiping hurriedly said goodbye and left.
Liu Bei could not keep him, so he had to bring him a package and send him away.
Zhang Shiping thought it was a food trip on the road, but he didn't expect to buy it. He reached out and found that it was a horse's hoof golden cake.
There are about twenty ingots.
Then he was in a hurry to dismount. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei reached out and slapped his hand, and the horse rushed out. Zhang Shiping hurriedly held the reins and turned around. Liu Bei was waving with a smile.
My heart warmed and my eyes were filled with tears.
Zhang Shiping bowed and left with the horse.
My mother said that Zhang Shiping was furious and ate this bowl of rice. His home was far away in Zhongshan Country, and the year was approaching, so how could he let people return empty-handed?
Liu Bei agreed deeply. So he troubled his mother to sew the golden cake into the bag overnight and mixed it with the dry food and handed it to him together when he went out this morning. The appearance looked no different from the dry food, so Zhang Shiping did not doubt that he had him, and he realized that it was different when he started.
In this way, if you lack a hundred golden cakes, the house will not be built.
Fortunately, it was cold and the craftsmen were finishing the finishing. The excess bricks and tiles were covered with straw mats, and the wood was wrapped in layer by layer, so that when spring was in full bloom, work would start separately. Liu Bei took advantage of this time to make some money.
The reason why I dared to stuff twenty golden cakes into Zhang Shiping's bag was that all the official roads were all the way to Zhongshan. The road was smooth and it was almost time to reach. It happened that during the Shengping period, bandits disappeared along the way. Liu Bei himself also went to Fan County, and the situation was far from what he thought. In this era, there were more than twenty years left before the chaotic times.
You have to prepare early.
Zhang Shiping is really a talented person. This method of purchasing in packages was called mass sellers in later generations. It was perfect for Hu merchants who were eager to return to northern Xinjiang. Su Shuang saw that in addition to a top-notch horse, most of the remaining ones were field horses, and a small number of slow horses.
As stated in "The Literature of Zhou·Xia Guan·Ma Zhi": "Horse measure three things, one is called military horses, two is called field horses, and three is called slow horses." Horses are divided into three levels, with the first being war horses, followed by field horses, and the second being slow horses.
Field horses are also called tillage horses. They are used for tillage and pulling trucks (horse-drawing trucks). Compared with riding horses, tillage horses are much larger in size and strength, more tough, but have a very docile temper.
A slow horse is also called a bad horse. You can only do some light work, such as pulling a cart. Liu Bei's family can hand over the cart to these two slow horses in the future.
Liu Bei's family has no cows, and these giant horses will be good materials for plowing the fields in the future.
The most dazzling horse in the stable is this mixed-blood horse with red hair and white forehead. Su Shuang said it was a mixed breed of Wuhuan horse and Dayuan horse. Judging from the teeth, it was under three years old. If you are a good student, you must be a thousand-mile horse.
There are also a few foals, each with mare feeding. They are too young and cannot see their appearance yet.
Chapter completed!