The middle-aged man frowned at this time: "Do you know who is coming from across the street?"
The middle-aged man's name is Wu Ge, and he can speak to the officials in the Xi'an government office. If he is from Guanzhong, he can't scare him.
These grains are all from Guanzhong’s autumn harvest this year.
It doesn't matter if it's all wheat, just sell it.
But there is a hundred stones of sweet-scented osmanthus ball rice inside.
Once delivered to Yan'an Prefecture, it can be sold immediately at a price of sixty coppers per catty. In addition, this year is a disaster year, this tribute rice alone is worth a thousand taels of silver. Wu Ge cannot compromise unless forced to do so.
"I can't tell, but it doesn't seem to be a pole." The guard said.
Han Xi and his party really don't look like poles. Why would poles talk so much nonsense? They probably just came up to snatch them.
Moreover, Han Xi and his party were dressed neatly and uniformly, and they didn't look like poles.
After Wu Ge heard this, he thought deeply, wondering if some of his colleagues might attack him, but he didn't seem to have offended anyone recently!
"Hey! How's your discussion going?" A cavalryman waved his saber, looking very impatient and a bit ferocious.
If he hadn't thought that these convoys would bring food in the future, so that he could exchange stones for food, Han Xi would have just started looting, and he would have been grinding here.
"One, one thousand is not enough, you have to add more money." In the motorcade, Wu Ge shouted tentatively.
"Pfft~"
Han Xi laughed directly. Unexpectedly, the businessman in this convoy is a man who wants money rather than his life. But then I thought about giving you an extra stone, so I said, "I'll give you another hundred taels of gold. I'll keep the ox, the donkey and the cart."
When Wu Ge heard this, his heart ached. If he left the oxen and donkey cart behind, wouldn't his trip be in vain?
Wu Ge struggled for a moment, and finally shouted: "Okay! Let's treat it like betraying a friend today."
The big man on the side looked a little speechless. This batch of goods was shipped to Yan'an Prefecture, and it was estimated to be worth 1,560 taels. How could he look so embarrassed to lose money?
Seeing that the negotiation was completed, the leaders of both parties walked to the roadside to trade, while the convoy was still on guard.
After the big man from the caravan escort approached, he carefully observed Han Xi and his party, and found that although the leader Han Xi had a handsome face, he was slim and did not look like a wealthy person.
But the big men behind Han Xi were all over six or seven feet tall (one foot in the Ming Dynasty was about thirty centimeters).
It gives people a strong sense of oppression.
These people gave the feeling of guarding the big men, like frontier troops, and they were frontier troops who fought all year round.
Wu Ge saw that the two pieces of gold that Han Xi brought looked like stones painted with yellow paint, so he put them to his mouth and bit them.
Seeing the dented tooth marks, Wu Ge was still a little worried. He was afraid that the gold was covered with other metals or was of poor quality and he would lose money, so he asked weakly: "Can this be cut open and have a look? Of course, if not, Just pretend I didn’t say anything.”
Han Xi crossed his arms and glanced at Wu Ge with a smile on his face: "The gold is yours, you can do whatever you want with it."
Wu Ge laughed awkwardly, but still asked his servant to find a piece of silk and a saw.
After a while, two gold stones were cut open. Wu Ge carefully looked at the gold in his hands with the help of the firelight, and a smile slowly appeared on his face. They were all gold of good quality.
And I don’t know why there are irregular holes inside, which look very nice.
Seeing the smile on Wu Ge's face, Han Xi also stated his purpose: "In the future, if there is food, it will be transported to Yezhuxia. I will take ten coins for miscellaneous grains, and twenty coins for wheat and rice."
Wu Ge's eyes turned after hearing this: "Is this serious?"
Han Xi threw back the bag just thrown to him by the big man from the convoy guard: "This is the deposit for you."
Wu Ge took the bag and stuffed it into his sleeve with a smile. He knew where Yezhuxia was, a village not far from the official road: "Haha, no problem."
The guard's eyes twitched when he saw Wu Ge putting away the bag. That was his money.
The deal was reached, but the big guard was very vigilant and asked Han Xi and his party to retreat a mile.
Then people were asked to walk back. This place was only ten miles away from Ganquan. They were supposed to rest in Ganquan for a night before leaving.
However, Wu Ge had to travel all night, and then he met Han Xi and his group.
Han Xi didn't say anything about this. It was a good thing for this group of people to be cautious, so that they could deliver food to southern Yan'an where poles were everywhere.
After half an hour, Han Xi successfully received this batch of grain and seventy cows and donkeys.
Seventy-two carts, estimated to contain five hundred shi of grain.
Now Han Xi has more than 420 people and 260 horses.
If the horses are not fed with fodder, one horse will consume about three people's food a day, and it may take more when riding.
It is estimated that two thousand kilograms of grain will be needed in this day.
Five hundred stones is enough for more than a month.
Thinking of this, Han Xi considered whether to bring back a group of cattle and sheep.
The reason why we need to consider it is because seventy cows and donkeys are a big consumption. If we get another cow and sheep back, we will probably run out of food soon.
There are not many wild grasses in the mountains that can be eaten by cattle and sheep.
After thinking about it, Han Xi finally gave up his plan to bring out another batch of cattle and sheep.
After all, the food on hand is not rich enough to raise a herd of cattle and sheep.
"Pull the goods back." Han Xi waved his hand and asked a group of imperial soldiers to pull the food back.
When Han Xi and his party returned to the mountainside with carts of grain, A Niu and other villagers were shocked.
You know, the biggest business they ever did in the past was twenty or thirty taels, and the most they could grab for food was a dozen dan.
This was the first time they had seen more than five hundred stones of grain. Even when their village was at its peak, the grain inventory only amounted to more than four hundred stones.
Now with so much food and these people, I didn’t expect that their village would be back to its peak in just a few days.
"Brother Xi, where did you get all this food? You're not going to loot the county town, are you?" A Niu asked in surprise.
"Just walk around Ganquan County and you'll have it." Han Xi said casually.
All the township party members looked disbelieving. They had never seen Han Xi take them for a tour of the county town before.
Seeing so much food, the Hui people on the mountainside were also very happy.
But Han Xi couldn't be happy. There was a cave that was protected from the wind before, but now he was sleeping in the wilderness. What was there to be happy about?
With a sad face, Han Xi could only sleep under the tree with a piece of meat in his arms.
In the darkness around you, you can still see pairs of red eyes.
This is a beast that comes out at night. Because the team is close to the water source, it is naturally the place where the beast moves the most.
Han Xi squinted his eyes to sleep.
The night passed.
When Han Xi woke up, he saw several wolves and wild boars lying on the ground.
The wolves and wild boars were tied up with ropes made of bark.
Han Xi was a little silent after seeing it. He slept too deeply last night and didn't hear anything.
"Brother Xi, you're awake. You don't know that these wolves wanted to steal our sheep yesterday, but they were defeated by those big guys with nothing." A Niu said with a beaming look. It was as if he was the one who defeated the big bad wolf with nothing.
