Zhangjiakou is not the most prominent part of the northern defense line.

The northern defense line is actually part of the Great Wall defense line, and in this location is Zhangbeicheng.

There is also Kangbao City outside Zhangbei City, which is the most prominent city.

However, Kangbao City is a complete military fortress, and there are no civilians or merchants living there on weekdays.

There are complete fortifications, sufficient food, grass and weapons, as well as five thousand soldiers and logistics personnel.

Once the Qiyan tribe on the grassland comes, this is the first line of defense.

Judging from the recent decades, Kangbao City has been attacked fifteen times, ranging in size.

Some are crazy-poverty and small tribes who want to go in and rob, while others want to invade the Great Wall on a large scale.

But they didn't defeat Kang Baocheng.

First of all, the garrison in Kangbao City is changed every year, and no one finds it boring and difficult to deal with.

Secondly, Dakang gave the border troops very good treatment. Everyone can earn more than twenty taels of silver every year, which is enough for their families in the rear to get a good life.

The third is that their families are almost all in Zhangjiakou, Huaian and Yihua, the cities behind the Great Wall. If these grassland beggars are let go and give them the chance to penetrate Zhangjiakou, the first one that will be affected will be their parents, wives and children.

It is easy to be alone, but after having a family, your life is no longer life, but the family members are.

So every time they encounter these beggars, they fight desperately, and do not say they are lazy and afraid of war.

In addition to the complete urban defense fortifications and sufficient food and grass, it is impossible for the beggars to remove Kangbao City unless they want to spend 20,000 or 30,000 casualties.

The price is so high that an ordinary tribe like Qiyan has only 20,000 or 30,000 troops. How could they be willing to lose their precious power here?

Therefore, most of the time, the brainy Qiyan people bypassed Kangbao City and then rushed towards Zhangbei City in order to open the Great Wall defense line, enter Hebei, and burn and kill and loot.

But the difficulty there is more garrisons, and they rarely have success.

Even if you succeed once or twice, you will be defeated by the garrison and imperial guards who flocked in, and the final result will be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, in the past 10 or 20 years, this place has basically become a paradise for transactions.

Countless Qiyan merchants came to Zhangjiakou to purchase all kinds of things they needed with their own local specialties, and then took them back for sale.

Sometimes, many caravans in Dakang would also go to the Qiyan Plateau to do some business.

Of course, these caravans are protected by various ethnic groups in Qiyan. Otherwise, if they come to rob and kill each other, who else dares to do business with you?

Without Dakang's tea, silk, porcelain, medicinal materials, cloth and other materials, any Qiyan tribe could only get poorer and poorer.

Therefore, even if there are reckless horse bandits who rob and kill the caravan, the nearby tribes will dispatch together to wipe out these horse bandits and give Dakang merchants an explanation.

In fact, many horse bandits will also help eliminate the scum among these horse bandits.

Why?

The bandit also has a lot of supplies. If he doesn't take action through Dakang's businessmen, wouldn't he be ruined?

Less gossip.

Kangbaocheng has been a little nervous these days.

Looking at the long cattle team passing by a road several miles away from the city, many veterans who took turns to Kangbao City several times were a little dumbfounded.

On the city wall, they were on guard and talking.

"Boss, I'm afraid only Boss Liu can do this transaction scale, right?" A soldier who lives in Zhangjiakou said with envy, "There are at least tens of thousands of cattle and sheep that have passed these days, right?"

"Ten thousand heads?"

The team was saying disdainfully: "I'm missing 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, don't even say anything!"

"So much? Can Boss Liu eat it?" Xiaobing said in horror.

Boss Liu is the leading livestock businessman in Zhangjiakou. He has a very good relationship with the tribes of Qiyan, and his business even reaches the Jingji area.

The last time it was said that Datong needed a batch of cows, but there was no way to get the goods. Boss Liu sent them to supplement them.

The team also knew Boss Liu's strength, but this time he shook his head, "It's impossible, Boss Liu doesn't have this strength."

"No, boss, Boss Liu has the greatest strength. Who else isn't he?" Another soldier expressed disbelief.

"This trip was at least 20,000 to 30,000 cattle and 30,000 cattle and sheep, and it's not over yet." The team was saying, "If you were in our Hebei, how could Boss Liu buy so many at once? If you can't digest it, you can only reduce the price. Isn't this a loss?"

What's more, I saw the appearance of the standard armor of the Leopard Cavalry Guard.

The team added a sentence silently in their hearts.

These soldiers rarely contacted the Nine Guards of the Imperial Guards, but the team was released from the reserve of the Nine Guards of the Imperial Guards. He could tell which Imperial Guards were from a distance.

It can actually touch the leopard cavalry guards to come from afar. Can this batch of things be afforded by a mere businessman?

The Leopard Cavalry Guard was severely cleaned last year. Without orders, would they dare to escort a merchant like this?

I'm afraid there is still a business here that we don't know!

The team was thinking about it, but did not say it out, so as not to cause more discussion and reveal the secret.

In fact, he guessed it right.

The Leopard Cavalry guards are not doing any commercial transactions, but the Qiyan Horse who was quietly transported from here at night.

Qiyanma's figure is not as tall as that of Shi Wei, Xi Qiang and Uighurs, but his speed is not slow and his endurance is better.

Such horses were used to cross with tall horses, and many of the descendants had the advantages of their parents, which were very popular among the imperial guards.

Unfortunately, there are not always such horses. It is good to have one or two horses when ten hybrids are used. Therefore, the Imperial Guard is only some of the most elite troops that are equipped with such hybrid horses.

...

At this time, on the path outside Zhangbei City, two teams were gathering together.

The elite knights had big eyes and little eyes, and did not speak.

Only the two people in the leaders chatted and laughed there.

"I can't imagine it, I can't imagine it!" Zeng Duoyi, the third steward of Prince Yu's mansion, said with a smile: "It was originally three thousand horses, but this time there were five thousand horses. It was originally ten thousand cows, but twenty thousand cows and ten thousand bulls. There were no flocks, but a total of ten thousand came... Did King Jin take out all the inventory in the clan?"

"We are very serious about the deal with the prince." The table of speaking was full of wind and frost, but laughed constantly when they spoke. "Thank you, the prince for not reducing the price for us, and also allowing us to have a good harvest in the Helda Speed ​​Division. But..."

He looked back at the dozens of carriages surrounded by his group of subordinates, and sighed: "The things on the grassland cannot be sold at a price! Tens of thousands of cattle, horses and sheep are exchanged for such a few carriages of yellow and white goods!"

Zeng Duoyi laughed, "You can't say that, General! These yellow and white things can be bought in our Dakang territory. You can buy hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, which is much heavier than these livestock! That is, King Jin doesn't want these things, otherwise you can get them back a little more."

The operation table laughed silently, "Our life is not that precious, we can't eat such fine things... But we also have to thank the prince. We also gave us more than ten boxes of cigarettes. It is rare for us kings to like these enjoyable things, but we like cigarettes very much."

"If you like it, we have more next year, so can we buy it!" Zeng Duoyi took the opportunity to do business, "How much do you want! The king can draw it by himself or sell it to other noble heads! The money you earn in this way is enough to draw it by yourself, and you all have a share."

The operating table nodded, "This is a good way, I will tell the king!"

"We have many good things in Prince Yu's Mansion, not just cigarettes."

Zeng Duoyi said, handing a cigarette to the operating table and lit the fire. The two of them chatted while smoking.

"For example, toilet paper is cheap and there is no limit on quantity. Why doesn't King Jin buy it this time?" Zeng Duoyi asked puzzledly, "Can you still endure the days of wiping it with grass leaves and wood chips after using toilet paper?"

Speaking of this, I couldn't help feeling a little sad when I didn't care about enjoying the table.

The Heldasu Division is located deep in the Mongolian Plateau. On weekdays, many businessmen are unwilling to go to their place, so many good things are not their turn.

This time, the operation table followed Jin Chenbai to the Central Plains and lived in the inn to know what a real life is.

Eat the fragrant and fatty pork, drink sweet wine, listen to the beautiful music, watch the wonderful opera, sleep with soft mattresses covered with thick bedding... These enjoyments have never appeared in the dreams of the operating table.

There is also the toilet paper mentioned by Zeng Duoyi. It almost made a joke if he used Jin Chenbai for the first time. If Mr. Feng hadn't helped explain, no one would know how to use this white paper in the toilet.

Then when wiping, everyone felt the joy of wiping soft toilet paper.

The grassland people are mostly meat-eating and lacking enough vegetables, so there are too many problems such as constipation, which are everywhere. It is definitely a pain for them to get into a large size like this. They often crack and then get infected for several days. There are also many people who can't walk.

Nowadays, wiping with soft toilet paper is a great comfort to many people. I completely feel that the way I wiped myself before is simply shit.

When Jin Chenbai left the inn, nothing else moved, but the fifty boxes of toilet paper placed next to the toilet were loaded and taken away regardless of his face.

However, it won’t take long to go back to this toilet paper, and only a few volumes can be distributed to the operating table.

The operating table also has parents, wives and children. Everyone uses it. How many days can it be used?

Thinking that there will be no toilet paper to use for a long time in the future, it is understandable that a tough guy like the operating table will feel melancholy.

"It's still poor!"

The operating table was silent for a while and said slowly: "Master Zeng, the supplies on our grassland are very poor, that is, some cattle, horses, sheep and some wild things cannot be sold at all. There are too many things to buy, so we can only abandon these enjoyable things first!"

"Hey, you raise more cattle, horses and sheep and sell them to us, won't you come?" Zeng Duoyi said.

"How is that simple?" The operating table shook his head with a smile.

"That is, King Jin is not brave enough." Zeng Duoyi continued, "If you don't mention anything else, these beggar horses are very good to us. If you only sell 10,000 horses to us a year, won't you have anything? After we buy the horses, we can't come to beat you. We're just protecting ourselves. What are you afraid of?"

"That's right!"

The operating table burst into laughter.

But he didn't answer this.

We grassland tribes don’t sell horses to you, not because we are afraid that you will attack us in turn, but because we are afraid that when we are robbing, you will have enough horses to resist!

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Chapter completed!