Fan Yongdou made a difficult decision: to tell Huang Taiji that in order to make up the money, he spent money to obtain the right to operate the market and do business with Lin Danhan, but in the end he was cheated of Lin Danhan. He knew very well that Huang Taiji would be furious when he knew about this, and might even bring serious consequences to the Shanxi merchants. But Fan Yongdou also knew that Huang Taiji was so talented that he would definitely not cut himself down with one knife. After all, for the Later Jin Dynasty, the living Shanxi merchants were much more useful than the dead Shanxi merchants.

Li Guodong also made a bold decision: to transport the grain piled up in the west entrance to the Pianguan, and trade it with the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong in exchange for gold and silver.

Wang Quan shook his head: "We trade with thieves, this is the enemy of the capital."

"We have not provided weapons such as swords, guns, bows, arrows and firearms to the thieves. The food we sell to them can save the lives of a group of people."

In addition to food, there are also a batch of cattle and sheep brought back from the grassland, and the clothes produced in Shabeigou City are also transported to Pianguan, which can be exchanged for a large amount of gold and silver.

Anyway, the gold and silver were useless in Zhang Xianzhong's hands. They could not be eaten or worn as clothes. Zhang Xianzhong was in a hurry to exchange gold and silver treasures for food and clothing, and Li Guodong was short of silver.

When Wang Quan's caravan returned to the west entrance, he brought the grain, cotton and cloth into the carriage and led the carriage out of the Khukou. After walking for a while, the carriage arrived by the river, even the animals and carriages were on the raft, and downstream to the Shabei Ditch.

The raft was moored by the Shabeigou River and loaded with cattle and sheep brought back from the Chahar tribe. A large raft full of cargo was down the road, sailing into the Yellow River, and then down the Yellow River. After sailing for a distance, it entered Pianguan County.

The caravan had just entered the territory of Pianguan and stopped by the river.

"Who is coming?" Several cavalrymen emerged from the woods and asked Li Guodong and the others from afar.

Li Guodong called out: "We are old friends of the Eight Great Kings, so we are here to visit."

"What name?"

"Go and inform the Eight Kings as soon as possible, and say that the grassland monkey is coming to visit!"

The cavalry muttered, but rushed back to inform Zhang Xianzhong.

"I didn't expect that the monkey in the sky was really trustworthy. The goods we needed were delivered. Now, many of our brothers don't have to go hungry." After hearing this news, Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed and personally brought people to welcome him.

Li Guodong took the caravan to wait by the river. After waiting for an hour, he saw a team of horses galloping from afar. The leader wore a white felt hat, a mountain armor, a big red cloak, and a fierce horse. When Li Guodong saw the man, he knew that Zhang Xianzhong was here to greet him. He had long expected that Zhang Xianzhong, who was short of food, was so eager that someone would send food and grass, so that food could save many lives.

The bandits were not short of war horses, and most of the horse breeders in Gansu and Shaanxi were transferred to the thief, but they were driven to the narrow range of Hequ and Panguan by the officers and soldiers, and food was very scarce.

Hequ and Pianguan are already very poor, and the land is barren, and they are said to have not been harvested for nine years. The arrival of the Little Ice Age, and the once-in-a-century drought has made it even worse. It has been a thousand miles of barren land. There were no high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes that had very low land requirements. More than 100,000 refugees were trapped in the Hequ and Pianguan area. The wild vegetables, grass roots and bark were eaten up. People would still die when they ate Guanyin soil. If they wanted to survive, they could only eat people.

The bandit cavalry rushed up quickly, approaching more than twenty steps away, and stopped.

Zhang Xianzhong turned over and dismounted and walked to the river with his four adopted sons. Seeing Li Guodong, Zhang Xianzhong bowed and said, "Little brother, don't be fine!"

"Eight Kings, we have met again in less than two months!"

"There are so many people here, let's borrow a place to talk about it." Zhang Xianzhong waved his hand and brought Li Guodong and others into the woods.

Zhang Xianzhong drank and left. When there was no one around, Zhang Xianzhong asked, "Little brother, how much food, cattle and sheep have you brought this time, and how much clothing and cotton have you brought?"

"Bringing five thousand stones of food is enough for you to support you for a long time."

"Hahaha! Thank you, Shopkeeper Li!" Zhang Xianzhong bowed his fists and said.

Next, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Guodong began bargaining. Zhang Xianzhong was still extremely dissatisfied with the one-half-two-half-silver offered by Li Guodong.

Li Guodong saw Zhang Xianzhong's thoughts and said, "One stone of grain is one or five cents of silver. The price is very fair. The grain we purchased from Huguang production area requires nine cents of silver and one stone. With the expenses on the road, the price of one or five cents of silver and one stone of grain is not profitable. We just hope to save more people."

"Okay! The deal is completed!" Zhang Xianzhong, who was in urgent need of food, did not bargain anymore, but agreed readily.

There are also fifty cows and three hundred sheep. One cow was sold for twenty taels of silver, one sheep was sold for five taels of silver, and cotton and cloth were sold for good prices. Anyway, Zhang Xianzhong was not short of gold, silver and treasures. He once captured many county towns, robbed many manors, and grabbed a lot of gold and silver. The gold and silver treasures were useless in his hands, and it was better to exchange them for food and useful items.

Li Guodong handed over the goods and prepared to return to Shabeiduo with gold, silver and treasures. After this transaction, he earned about 10,000 taels of silver. In fact, the purchase price of grain was only six cents, and one tael of five cents were sold. After deducting the expenses on the road, you could earn seven cents of silver with one stone of grain. As for the cattle and sheep collected from the Mongolians, it made even more money, and the salt, cotton and cotton cloth they brought were also sold at a good price.

Zhang Xianzhong did not refuse Li Guodong's proposal to take away a group of refugees, but he agreed immediately.

"Okay, the goods have been delivered, you have given the money, and we have to say goodbye." Li Guodong bowed his fists to Zhang Xianzhong and bowed and said goodbye.

"Young brother, don't stay here for one night? My Eight Kings treat you." Zhang Xianzhong insisted on staying.

Li Guodong said: "It's really something else in the city. I can't stay for a long time. I'm sorry."

Seeing that Li Guodong insisted on leaving, Zhang Xianzhong did not stop him anymore. So Li Guodong led the caravan and more than a thousand people who had just been recruited from the refugees to leave Panguan and retreat to Shabeigou Village.

Having the food on hand, Zhang Xianzhong ordered: "Immediately open the porridge shed and take out some of the food to make it into porridge can save many lives."

The cows and sheep I bought are temporarily kept. If you want to improve your life, you will slaughter a cow or a few sheep.

The cloth and cotton they sent were all good things. Zhang Xianzhong asked someone to cut the cloth and filled it with cotton to make a cotton coat that protects the cold.

The grain and other goods sent by Li Guodong can save many lives this winter. Although there is not a lot of food, it is easy to save some food and spend this winter.
Chapter completed!