I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 279 How

Moreover, she said in advance that they would travel at night, and Master Wanhuai said, "Those who come here at this time will choose to travel at night."

Everyone wants to reach the trade location as quickly as possible so that they can transfer as many goods as possible to the big merchants holding the permit.

As for whether one dares to take the risk of trading with Dada outside of the market, it depends on one's own opinion.

He said: "The imperial court has not traded with Dada for more than ten years. Now that they have the opportunity to pay tribute and open a horse market, they will certainly make a lot of purchases.

Compared with the Waqi people who lived between the Mughal Empire and our dynasty and owned salt ponds, they were more straightforward when buying things.

Moreover, it is more convenient to trade with Waqi in Hetao. Waqi’s annual trade volume in Deshengkou is a little low.”

Since the Northern Lu split into Dada and Waqi, Waqi, which occupied the western desert area, was able to connect with foreign powers and was relatively not too short of materials.

As a result, it is a little difficult for merchants to earn money from the Waqif tribe.

"No wonder there is not even a foot shop next to the small post station just now." Shen Xiaoye thought again, except for the trade, few people usually take this road.

If you open an inn here, you will starve to death.

In fact, for the remaining forty miles, Shen Xiaoye's convoy slowed down significantly because of the Shi family's caravan.

Moreover, as the sky gradually darkened, the caravans moving in front, behind, left and right moved closer together tacitly.

This made it convenient for her and her two cousins, so they could ask their master as much as possible about the actual situation of cloth sales in Qin.

Shi Wanhuai naturally asked about the local cloth business in the north. The two sides spoke nine truths and one lie, and were deepening their understanding of each other (testing each other). Lu Guan and his teammates in the city caught up with them.

When he saw his friends running into other caravans, talking and laughing, he was somewhat jealous of their leisure time.

Lu Guan waved unceremoniously to find Shen Xiaoye. When she ran over with the little black cat in her arms, the last rays of sunset faded away.

She asked, "How?"

Lu Guan: "I have a friend named Dai who wanted 500 bolts of red cloth after seeing the sample."

"We only have 400..." Shen Xiaoye thought of something and asked hesitantly, "Are you saying that we should cut the remaining 400 pieces of red cloth on the cart into pieces of 20 feet each?"

"When I quoted two cents a horse, the other party asked to deliver it to the horse market before noon tomorrow, and paid half of the deposit in advance." Lu Guan handed over a fifty-liang silver ingot, "The silver ingot is of good quality."

"For the money, let's cut it!" From then on, Shen Xiaoye was determined to weave and collect cloth in the future, and to have fewer four long pieces of cloth.

The width is one foot and eight inches, more than twice that of the narrow loom of Nanbu, but it is not easy to cut it vertically in the middle with scissors.

Even if you make up your mind, you have to wait until tomorrow to cut the hair.

After arriving at the destination at night, she looked at the many tents and asked, "Isn't this horse market built yet?"

"The emperor has no time and doesn't want to build it. To the northern barbarians, he has always been: harass them if they obey, and destroy their nests if they rebel." But Lu Guan knew that future emperors might be limited by their vision. When they saw that it would cost countless silver to wipe out the barbarians, they would rather give up a lot of money and shrink the defense line at the forefront of the border.

Of course, it is also possible that the next emperor will continue the great achievements of this emperor and carry them forward, haha.

"There is something meaningful in your laughter!" Shen Xiaoye heard the sarcasm.

Lu Guan pointed at the fire outside the tent and said, "Looking at the scattered layout, they should be the tents of the caravans.

You said, should we borrow two to rest?"

"No need, we can cover the empty car with tarpaulin and move away from them." Shen Xiaoye would not disturb anyone's sleep in the middle of the night. Besides, their tents were set up haphazardly and the bonfire was close, which was very dangerous.

Lu Guan did not comment, and then said: "I will go to help, you don't stay here alone."

Having said that, he pushed her back to the convoy.

After everything was settled, everyone took shifts to rest. Shen Xiaoye and Little Black Cat were alone in a car. "Little Cat, do you want to go to the horse market?"

"I have to go, but what's the benefit?" This place is quite cold, and the autumn wind brings not only wind but also sand, which it doesn't like.

Shen Xiaoye turned sideways and said, "Buy you more dried fish?"

"Tsk, I won't go." Can the little black cat be bribed by a few pounds of dried fish?

Shen Xiaoye added: "From now on, I won't force you to take a bath?"

"Deal." This is possible. The cat arched its body and ran away in a flash.

It went straight to the designated horse market and discovered that the area surrounded by a collapsed beacon tower was actually a large military camp.

Swish, swish, swish, the soldiers in armor are patrolling one after another.

The little black cat was outside a big tent and saw the general who was out on patrol.

As it quietly retreated, it clearly saw the other party looking towards the place where it had just hidden. A moment later, the guards around him were already checking there.

"General, there are footprints of wild animals."

"How dare the wild beast enter the barracks?"

"Hey, General, there is a black animal hair here."

"check."

"promise."

The little black cat retreated helplessly without staying any longer.

Not long after, it sneaked into the Dada camp on the other side. Wow, the Dada people here were not much less fearful. Although they were not wearing armor, every Dada person had a knife in his hand.

The little black cat learned from experience and did not stare at one place for a long time in the camp. When it came back from its exploration, it complained to Shen Xiaoye: "My goodness, the Dada tribe has sent 7,000 to 8,000 people, without armor but with horses by their side.

The people of the Great Zhou Dynasty never took off their weapons, and the cavalry slept in the stables.

They are not conducting a transaction, they are clearly preparing for a war at any time."

Shen Xiaoye told it: "This is normal. A long time ago, the Northern Tartars would come back after trading and take back the items they traded.

Many caravans were also robbed by them.

You should have noticed that each caravan was escorted by young and strong men, and the hatchets and other items that were hidden were not confiscated by the checkpoints in the border towns."

“However, Dada was recently defeated this year, and their new Grand Tutor was also chosen by the Emperor, so they will basically not fight again.

Go to sleep, I have to get up early to cut cloth tomorrow morning." Shen Xiaoye fell asleep quickly after he finished speaking.

The little black cat even stretched out its claws and scratched her face, but she turned over and ignored the cat.

Nothing happened that night. At daybreak the next day, Shen Xiaoye took a few people from her family to cut cloth, while Lu Guan rode to the horse market.

When General Wang heard that he had come to visit so early, he could not help but order his guards, "Change into servant clothes and go see who is in Lu Guan's team.

Pay special attention to whether they bring small animals such as leopard cubs. "

Guard: "Yes, General, are you saying that the beast last night came from Lu Guan?"

"It's not mainly him, it's the people with him. You can check it out." As the emperor's confidant, General Wang knew that the emperor had been training a very smart little leopard recently.

This little leopard was given to Lu Guan by the Shen family, saying that it was to reunite him with the mother leopard and son presented by Jizhen.

Since the Shen family can give one, who knows if there won’t be another one.

On this side, Shen Xiaoye was busy cutting cloth and had no idea that the cat jumping around beside her had revealed its true identity last night.