"Brother, do you want to buy a horse?" In the beer hall, after Zhao Xin hung up the phone, Daniel asked the other party with a curious look on his face.
Zhao Xin felt that this person’s Mandarin was only limited to that, and that person’s erhuayin sounded awkward.
"Yes. You know that poor place in Africa. There are no roads in many places. I am thinking of buying some heavy draft horses to transport them there." Zhao Xin shrugged and explained.
"Hey, you come to me about this." Daniel smiled and raised his hand to wave to a white man sitting diagonally opposite. The man quickly stood up and walked to their table.
"Let me introduce you, Andrew." Daniel did not get up, pointed directly at his subordinates, and said to Zhao Xin.
Zhao Xin stood up politely and shook hands with the other party.
Ten minutes before Daniel came in, this short guy had already come in and sat diagonally across from him, asking for a bottle of mineral water.
Zhao Xin felt that something was wrong with this person from that moment; but it was not just this one, there were two other people sitting on the seats next to the emergency exit in the distance.
In the entire beer hall, not counting the bartender, they were the only five customers!
"Andrei Andreevich Kapushkin. But Daniel usually calls me Andrew." This guy is very muscular and less than 1.8 meters tall. But one look at the neck, Zhao Xin knew that this guy must be strong and strong.
"Zhao Xin."
"Brother, sit down." Daniel waved to Zhao Xin. "Andrew has been with me for several years and is very safe in doing things." After explaining, he said to Andrew: "Andrew, Zhao wants to buy some draft horses. I remember that you are very familiar with horses."
"Yes, Daniel." Andrew then asked Zhao Xindao: "What horse do you want to buy?"
Zhao Xin thought for a while and said: "Priority will be given to Russian heavy horses or Soviet heavy horses, and we may also buy a few Don horses later."
The two types of horses Zhao Xin mentioned earlier may sound like the same kind of horses to a layman, but they are not.
Russian heavy horses began to be bred in the second half of the 19th century and are also called Russian Altyn horses. World War I and the Civil War led to a sharp decline in the number of Russian heavy horses. In 1924, there were less than a hundred stallions left in the country. It was not until 1937 that the population was reestablished. In the 1980s, the population reached nearly 50,000 animals. However, this kind of horse cannot be ridden because its disadvantage is a weak back, but it is very suitable as a draft horse.
The Soviet heavy draft horse is a new type of heavy draft horse that was only developed in the 1950s. In the 1980s, its population exceeded 35,000. Records have shown that a male horse in the 1980s weighed more than 1,000 kilograms and was more than two meters tall at the withers.
Andrew thought for a while and said: "Mr. Zhao, one of my uncles is a farmer. I will ask you right away."
Zhao Xin quickly asked: "Where is your uncle's farm?"
Andrew pointed in the east direction: "Russia."
Daniel waved his hand and asked Andrew to call. He said to Zhao Xin: "Zhao, we will talk about the pet toys later. Let's finalize the product first."
Zhao Xin then took out a piece of A4 paper that had been written in advance, opened it, and pushed it in front of Daniel with his left hand.
Daniel was about to pick up the paper, but Zhao Xin held it down with his hand and shook his head at him.
Daniel smiled approvingly at Zhao Xin, then looked down.
"Why do you want to buy that thing? Do you want to start a war in Africa?" Daniel pointed to a line of words on the A4 paper halfway through, staring at Zhao Xin with confusion on his face.
"I just need one, retired one." Zhao Xin explained quickly. "I did it purely to scare people."
"This is difficult to handle. It's okay if you park it in the mainland; but if you transport it away, not to mention the daunting procedures, the relevant departments will also notice me." Daniel thought for a moment and said. "And you have to know that those who retreat are usually thrown into the sea by the military, and they are in deep sea areas. I don't have much to do about this."
"Ah?! Wasn't it sent to the steel factory to be melted?" Zhao Xin was stunned. Throwed into the sea? What kind of prodigal behavior is this?
Daniel saw that Zhao Xin didn't understand, so he explained. "You have to know, Zhao. This thing cannot be sent to a steel furnace to be melted and made into steel. The thousands of parts on it are composed of alloys of different materials. Once melted, it will only become a furnace of scrap steel. It cannot be reused.”
Zhao Xin was very helpless and his dream was in ruins.
"Okay." Zhao Xin reluctantly took out a ballpoint pen from his pocket with his right hand and crossed out that line on the paper.
"OK. Then I can provide the rest." Daniel was relieved. He then said happily after reading the following content.
"Then I request that the goods this time be delivered at XX port."
"Oh my god, buddy, you've given me another problem." Daniel thought for a while and then said, "Okay, but you have to be responsible for the shipping cost."
After asking about the shipping price, Zhao Xin readily agreed.
The freight is the freight. Zhao Xin made up his mind not to land in that country on the other side of the ocean.
The eighteenth century doesn’t count! No refutation allowed!
At this time, Andrew had finished the phone call and returned to the table.
"Mr. Zhao, my uncle welcomes you as a guest. There are hundreds of the two kinds of horses you want on his farm. There are also Don horses." Andrew glanced at the table and quickly withdrew his gaze.
"Great." Zhao Xin was very happy. "What about the price?"
"Most adult horses cost about 3,000 euros each, and the good ones don't cost more than 10,000 euros. After all, these are just working horses. But I haven't been back for a long time, so you still have to go to the site to see it."
Zhao Xin felt happy, this was similar to the price he checked online.
He turned his gaze to Daniel: "Man, I want you to ask Andrew to accompany me. You see, I don't understand Russian at all. I will be like a blind man when I get there."
Daniel nodded indifferently: "When do you plan to go?"
Zhao Xin thought for a moment and then said: "The day after tomorrow."
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Wang Yuanfang had finished washing and was feeling sleepy. The rapid ringing of the phone made him suddenly sleepless. Picked up the phone and looked at it, Zhao Xin.
"Brother Wang, I've booked your flight ticket for the day after tomorrow. Let's go horse shopping. I'll forward the flight information to you later."
"But there will be a festival in a few days?!" Wang Yuanfang said in surprise.
"Foreigners are not celebrating the Spring Festival. Let's hurry up and get home in time for New Year's Eve."
"Okay. See you the day after tomorrow."
Wang Yuanfang hung up the phone and was stunned for a while. The flight information sent by Zhao Xin has been received. The flight will be at two o'clock in the morning the day after tomorrow.
Watching horses? He is still a stick himself. At this moment, Wang Yuanfang suddenly remembered the old man Sun who sold the horses, and he decided to call him tomorrow morning to ask for advice.
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On the other side, the leader and armored soldiers, led by the informant flag soldiers, had arrived at this small village on the south bank of the Hajimi River.
There are only twenty households in this village. The villagers mainly make a living by fishing and hunting, and only two households work as flag soldiers.
The door to Yarha's small courtyard was pushed open violently. The door slammed into the simple earth wall with a clang, bringing with it a large piece of broken earth.
"Who is it?" Yarha's voice came from inside the house. As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed open the door and walked out, holding his copper pipe rod in his hand.
"Are you Yalha?" The leader walked into the courtyard behind several armored soldiers and asked Yalha in a deep voice.
"Yes." When Yarha saw the armored soldiers, his heart skipped a beat and he suddenly became nervous.
"I heard that you went to Bear Island a few days ago and exchanged animal skins for things?" The leader looked around at the small courtyard, then walked towards the door of the house.
"This..." Yalha hesitated, and then said: "I just changed a few things."
At this time, six armored soldiers were standing at the door outside the courtyard, two were standing inside the courtyard, and the other two were following the leader. They had already made the place airtight.
The leader pushed open the door and looked into the room, only to see a young man standing in a corner of the room with a look of horror in his eyes; the back room was blocked by a curtain, so no one could be seen.
"Change something?" The leader sneered. When he entered the yard just now, he saw the big iron pot upside down under the wall, and also saw the strange pair of boots on Yalha's feet.
"The leader is asking you something, please tell me quickly!" an armored soldier said to Yalha impatiently.
"Yes. I went there three times and changed into two cotton robes, two pairs of short boots, and this pot." Yalha was heartbroken, thinking that it wasn't like stealing, so why should I be afraid.
"Who did you switch with? Tell me." The leader turned back to the courtyard, stood two steps away from Yalha, and continued to ask.
"People from Kuhayafyaka."
"Nonsense! Kuyefeyaka is under the jurisdiction of the three surnames' yamen. They arrived in the area under the jurisdiction of Ningguta. Why didn't anyone notify the yamen?"
"W-how did I know this? Sir, I am just a hunter. I met them accidentally when I went to Bear Island."
"How many are there?"
"It seems, it seems..." Yalha thought for a while and then said: "There seem to be two to three hundred people, including men, women, old and young."
When the leader heard about it, he found that there were actually two to three hundred people on Bear Island. He felt that something big was going to happen.
Over the years, the largest number of illegal ginseng harvesting, fur smuggling, and even escaped slaves that occurred and were seized within the jurisdiction of Ningguta Yamen was only a gang of more than twenty people.
Now this Yalha said there are two to three hundred people? ! Who are these people?
Thinking of this, the leader waved his riding whip and shouted loudly: "This family will all be taken back to the Yamen for questioning, and the property in exchange will be taken away as evidence."
As soon as he finished speaking, six armored soldiers outside the courtyard immediately rushed into the courtyard. Two armored soldiers bullied Yalha and restrained him with a little force. Another armored soldier took out a rope and tied Yalha up.
At this time, three armored soldiers entered the house, pushed Yarha's mother, wife, son, and daughter out of the house, and tied them together with ropes.
The two armored soldiers lifted up the large iron pot kept in the yard and asked the leader: "Sir, where can I put this pot?"
The leader pointed at the stable in a corner of the courtyard with his whip: "Tie it to the back of that horse." The horse tied in the stable was Yarha's horse.
At this time, the noise in the yard had already alarmed other families in the village, and many people came out of their homes and gathered around the door of Yalha's house.
A strong man stood at the door and asked in a low voice: "Sir, what's going on? Why are you kidnapping Brother Yalha?"
The leader turned around and asked, "Who are you?"
The strong man struck a thousand blows, bowed and said, "Sir, my name is Serdan. Last year I went to Hunchun City to give a bear to Lord Xie Ling."
"Oh. It's you. I remembered it." The leader nodded and continued to ask: "You didn't follow him to Bear Island to exchange things, right?"
"Sir, I have never seen those people. I have never changed anything." Seldan shook his head in fear.
"Yes." The leader nodded, raised his head and said to the villagers watching outside: "Listen clearly to me. This matter with Yarha is quite troublesome. If you have any news, please report it to the township chief immediately."
After saying that, he walked out of the yard and got on his horse.
Several armored soldiers escorted Yalha's family, and then led Yalha's own horse out of the yard. The ropes that tied several people were tied to two saddles respectively.
Two armored soldiers clear the way in front, and the leading horse follows behind. The other armored soldiers follow behind the leading horse.
A group of people escorted Yalha's family out of the village and headed west.
The villagers didn't start talking, shaking their heads and sighing until the armored soldiers left. Several women sighed, seeing how the Yalha family's life had been prosperous for a few days, why did this happen to them.
