"Well!"

The leader of the leader, a big man with a short braid on his face and a red face wearing a sheepskin coat, stopped the horse skillfully.

"Mr. Gong, is it you again this time?" The big blushing man said with regret, "I haven't seen Mr. Leng in two years!"

"Mr. Leng is old and it is difficult to come again." Gong Chuxin said with a smile: "If you have the opportunity to go to the Imperial Palace because of the Grand Leader, he will definitely treat you with the best spirits and the hottest delicacies!"

"I'd better have that blessing!"

The big red-faced man laughed and looked up at the hundreds of cars, and the smile on his lips could not be suppressed.

Now every winter, you have to rely on various goods from the Yiwang Mansion to have a smooth winter.

Although they have lost many excellent horses, they are definitely lucky enough to compare with those tribes that have frostbite and frozen a large number of people and livestock due to lack of clothing and food.

This big red-faced man is called Huo Quba, and he is the leader of the Zhaling tribe, one of the two largest tribes in this small tribe alliance.

The system of these small tribes in the northwest is very primitive. Each tribe is divided into a large leader and a small leader. The large leader has the strongest strength and controls the overall situation. The small leader is in charge of hundreds and thousands of herders under his corps.

Then some elders participated in the discussion, who presided over sacrifices and reconciled conflicts on weekdays, and the three of them formed the main upper class of the tribe.

Among all grassland tribal kingdoms, including Uighurs, Shiwei, Xiqiang and Shiwei, their greatest rulers must be middle-aged people, usually not over sixty years old, and the younger the tribal leader is, the younger the age.

Because older people will lose their courage and motivation, they will not be able to lead the tribe to continue moving forward.

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For example, Huo Quba is only 32 years old this year. In the years when men are most physical and energetic, he was the new leader of the Zhaling clan. He went against the opposition and decided to secretly trade horses with the Yiwang Mansion, which led to the good life of these small tribes today.

Butler Leng Yuan, who negotiated with him back then, was Leng Yuan, the butler of Yiwang Mansion who persisted in developing this market.

However, after so many years, Leng Yuan is already fifty-three years old this year. He has been chasing all kinds of obstacles in the northwest for many years and sleeping in the open, which has made his body very bad. King Yi banned him from coming to the northwest last year, and replaced him with Gong Chuxin, who has always been his deputy.

Leng Yuan was promoted to the chief supervisor of the Yiwang Mansion five years ago. Gong Chuxin took advantage of the situation and rose to the second supervisor. Both of them were responding to each other in the Yiwang Mansion. Logically speaking, they shouldn't have worked hard to come to such a place.

It took at least two or three months to go, and it was still cold and cold. This kind of suffering was very painful.

But there is nothing to do about this. The matter of exchanging horses is absolutely confidential. Once it is discovered by outsiders and spread to the Uighurs' ears, then these ten small tribes will have to wait for them to slaughter, except for defecting and surrendering to Dakang.

There is no problem for the small tribe to defect to Dakang. Dakang does not have to worry about raising such a group of people, but the problem is that without their horse-wrinkling environment, where will Dakang replenish the best horses?

So first of all, these small tribes are very cautious. Unless they are led by Leng Yuan, they will not come out to greet other caravans, let alone talk about selling horses.

Gong Chuxin also followed Leng Yuan for three consecutive years, and Leng Yuan personally introduced and explained it, so that he could inherit Leng Yuan's position.

Similarly, Dakang is very cautious.

The caravans in the Yiwang Mansion are generally of more than 2,000 people, but they are definitely not ordinary guards and servants of the royal palace. They are all strong men.

The main body is composed of four hundred Qianniu Guards and one thousand six hundred Yulin Guards. Their weapons alone are filled with more than 30 carriages.

On the one hand, it is for the sake of my own safety, and I am afraid that I will be eaten by other wandering horse thieves in the middle of the journey.

On the other hand, when encountering situations, they can take the initiative to prevent the leak of information.

Another one is to send the emperor's closest imperial guards to block the news as much as possible and not be known by people outside.

In addition to sending elite troops to escort all the way, on the way back, they would not return to Tongde Mansion, which was crowded with people, but would go downstairs and enter the Dakang realm from the remote Maze City.

The terrain of Maze City is not good, with barren mountains everywhere, the terrain is still relatively steep and there is no oil or water. Even the tribes on the western plateau will not rob here, so it is relatively safe.

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"Why does it seem like there are a lot more goods this time?" Huo Quba rubbed his hands and asked with some excitement and concern.

In the past, every transaction was about 200 carriages. Now you can see that at least one third of them are more.

Huo Quba was not worried about them being bad. These small tribes were extremely poor compared to the Dakang Dynasty. What was there to be worth their concern?

His first reaction was that the transactions this year were going to expand again.

Then the second reaction was that these Dakang people's appetites were getting bigger and bigger. I wonder if they would ask for an increase in the supply of horses this time?

Since the share of 3,000 horses per year, the small tribe alliance has been killed and no longer increased. No matter how you say it, it is impossible to increase things.

But Prince Yi's Mansion has never given up. From Leng Yuan to Gong Chuxin, he would fool him every time he came over.

According to the jokes of their small tribe alliance, the most troublesome thing every year is to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and face the temptation of the two housekeepers of the Yiwang Mansion.

To be honest, they also want to sell more, but the reality is too complicated. They are afraid that if they accidentally capsize the gutter, they will regret it if the whole clan is destroyed.

The small tribe alliance said it was loose and loose, because they were in charge of their own affairs on weekdays, but they also tried every means to tie each other together.

In the past, it was to gather together to keep warm, but now it was to keep the secret. Therefore, the big leaders, small leaders, elders, ordinary people, etc. of each tribe have tried every means to marry each other for seven or eight years.

The more marriages are, the more they are tied together. Whoever dares to betray everyone at that time will not end up well. Uighurs have always been killed, and their relatives and friends will be killed.

Gong Chuxin smiled, "There are a lot of good things this year. Let's talk about it later. After walking so far, I have been hungry and thirsty. I am looking forward to eating the best lamb and sleeping with the most beautiful Zhaling girl!"

"Hahaha, let's go! That's nothing to say, it will definitely satisfy you!"

With Huo Quba laughed, he got on his horse again, guarding the caravan of the Prince Yi's Mansion, and continued to set out to their tribe's residence.

In such a very primitive tribe, it is necessary to be so rude and straightforward to match their appetite.

Otherwise, they would feel like you are a conspirator and would not dare to have a close relationship with you.

Leng Yuan was in his forties and had to kill two birds with one stone every time he came. This was all for the great cause of Dakang!

Although there has been thirty miles of Tongde Prefecture City here, it is still about thirty miles away from the residence of the Small Tribe Alliance.

Dakang and these nearby nomadic peoples are so unfamiliar. They don’t feel safe even if they have a good relationship for fifty or sixty miles apart. If they have a bad relationship, a hundred miles apart is no problem.

Why?

Even if the grassland tribe does not attack Dakang, Dakang people are always afraid.

You are so close to me, what are you doing?

And the distance is close and I have lived there. Isn’t this just suitable for us to give full play to the advantages of infantry and directly push you straight?

Therefore, this buffer zone is very important.

Such as the Small Tribe Alliance, sixty miles apart, thanks to the hills, woods and rivers here.

If it was a vast plain, they would not dare to do this.

The convoy of the Yiwang Mansion set out before dawn, and it took eight hours to reach the residence of the small tribe alliance until the sky was completely dark.

This is thanks to the fact that there are carriages all the way and there is no crossing mountains and ridges, otherwise the time will have to be spent.

An outpost had already passed the news back.

In order to show respect, a group of large leaders of the small tribe alliance all rode over on horseback and walked with Gong Chuxin for the last few miles.

The small tribal alliance does not live together, but scattered on the hilly plains nearby thirty miles - there is no need forage in winter, mainly to keep warm, so it doesn't matter if there is no grassland here.

After all, 100,000 people live together, and they are not from the same tribe. They have definitely caused trouble in the long run.

A little further away, so that everyone can keep up with harmony and cooperation.

Besides, on the grassland, what’s the difference between twenty or thirty miles apart? You can get there in one or two hours of riding a horse.

If we hadn't had everyone started a close marriage and had common secrets and interests, so many tribes surrounded by the surroundings, it would be hard to say whether we could sleep peacefully.

In order to welcome Gong Chuxin, the big tribe leaders who lived far away who had received the news set off from their tribe in advance five days ago and arrived at the Zaleng settlement located here with their various trading livestock and goods.

"Everyone's life is much better now than before!"

Looking at the bonfire not far away and the dense yurts, Gong Chuxin said without feeling moved.

"Isn't it a blessing for Prince Yi?" Huo Quba smiled, "In the past seven or eight years, our tribe has not only not starved to death in winter, but also the number of little boys has increased a lot, and more people have survived to grow up. With more people, life will naturally be better!"

Huo Quba talks about a fallacy.

It is not really good to have a lot of people on the grassland, because it means consuming a lot of resources.

Unless you keep robbing and plundering, not only the more people are burdened, but the heavier it is.

However, these small tribes also urgently need a large number of people.

Only when there are too many people can they protect themselves, survive the most difficult step, not be bullied, and can bully others in a decade or twenty years.

Normally, if there are not many resources, let alone they want to deliberately increase the population, they can't even want to not reduce the population.

Because all kinds of harsh environments on the grassland, especially in the cold winter with little food, they are born to kill people.

It is very common for a tribe to reduce its population by one tenth after a winter. Even if all tribes disappear, it has not appeared.

Now, the large amount of food provided by the Yiwang Mansion every year allows herders to have food and drink in winter, at least they will not starve to death, and the population will not be small.

In winter, you can do things by having food.

Women start to get pregnant in winter, and can give birth to children in summer and autumn, increasing the population of the tribe... So year after year, will the population increase? Will it become stronger?

So, Huo Quba said the blessing of King Yi.

The group of big leaders next to him nodded, obviously feeling the same.

Gong Chuxin smiled and raised his voice and said, "Then you will be even more blessed this time! I have brought good things you have never seen before, and I guarantee that you will be satisfied!"

"Mr. Gong, what is it?" Ju Lu Dayong, the leader of the Dayue clan, asked anxiously.

"Haha, let's eat, drink and have fun today, and let's talk about the important things tomorrow!"

Gong Chuxin did not answer, but smiled and ran forward.
Chapter completed!