Zong Guang was silent all the time.

After a long time, he slowly laughed.

"I knew you were a different guy from others." Zong Guang let out a strong sniffling voice: "Thank you, I actually have the same feeling. When I was a child, I always wanted to have an older brother or sister. It seems that the gods heard my prayers, but it was not as early as I thought, but it was not too late for me now. I am very happy that I really did."

Tianhao opened his arms and hugged him tightly.

Feelings are the most real bond in this world, transcending simple accumulation of any material level.

The world is big, and it is too difficult to fight alone, and it is weak.

Mishui City must be firmly tied to our own chariot.

The experienced and experienced Taoist priests are not the kind of person who can easily be moved by words. Middle-aged people are very real. Apart from the exchange of interests, they rarely believe in so-called friends.

In contrast, Zong Guang is easier to contact and feel trustworthy. His only disadvantage is his personality, which became the most prominent feature of almost all his peers in the Ming Dynasty. They are easily moved by many seemingly ordinary things and become part of the permanent memory in their minds.

There is a well-known saying in the Ming Dynasty that it is difficult to be a human being, and it is even more difficult to be an xx person.

Whether he was moved or complaining, at least Tianhao knew very well that it was really difficult to be a senior officer, especially the commander of the front-line combat troops.

Psychology is one of the many abilities required to be a senior commander. You must think from the perspective of the enemy commander's combat layout, as well as the psychological changes of your own soldiers in different environments and states.

He knew what Zong Guang’s dream was.

I can help him, but it is never free.

The same thing: We are brothers.

However, this statement is more sincere than ever before. This kind of relationship that transcends friendship is visible and tangible, and is based on tangible exchange of interests.

Zong Gu will be very happy that I taught his only son to be a qualified ruler. Just like parents thank the teachers who have cultivated excellent students, they will never forget them all their lives.

Tiger tribe territory, Yuanshui City.

Compared to last year, "Shengxinglong" is larger.

The area of ​​the shop has doubled. Zumu bought a nearby carriage and horse shop and got a very spacious yard. At the same time, he bought a lot of forage and piled up several hill-like piles in the backyard.

A large amount of peat was continuously transported from Panshi City and was constantly digested in every corner of the city.

There is a branch of "Shengxinglong" in nine districts in the city. It is actually just a window counter for warehousing and external sales, just to facilitate the purchase of people.

Peat has opened up its sales in Yuanshui City since last fall. More and more people have discovered its benefits: this thing is very resistant to burns, with almost no smoke, and the charcoal ash after burning can solidify together. Unlike traditional firewood or charcoal, it spills and flows like a little movement, everywhere, it feels uncomfortable to suck it into the nostrils, and coughs all day long.

After the winter began, the peat sold by "Shengxinglong" changed shape: flat and round, with holes in the middle. The tiger people in Yuanshui City did not understand why, but after actual use, they found that the peat today is easier to burn than in the past, and can be stacked one by one at home, without taking up space and neatly arranged.

More and more people use peat, and no one uses firewood anymore. After all, the former is not expensive. Just by consumption alone, firewood cannot compare to peat no matter what.

According to Tianhao's previous orders passed through secret channels, Zumu closed six external sales windows in Yuanshui City last week. On the surface, it was too far from Panshi City and the peat transportation was inconvenient, which led to temporary out of stock. In fact, this was a test, and the result was satisfactory: the remaining three sales counters lined up that day and continued until the evening.

This shows that the tiger people in Yuanshui City have fully accepted the new fuel of peat. They like the name "honeycomb coal" very much and regard it as a symbol of demonstrating their identity and strength. The reason is very simple. Only with money can you buy honeycomb coal. If you are a poor poor man who can't even fill your stomach, how can you have money to buy peat? They can only bring machetes and ropes to cut trees outside the city. They are tired and carry them back honestly.

The price of peat is extremely low. As long as you are not so poor that you can't even afford to wear pants, no one can afford it.

Despite this, "Shengxinglong" still made huge profits.

The shipment volume is large, small profits are fast but turnover, and the mining cost in this era is almost zero. Tianhao has accurately calculated every link. He is now the commander-in-chief of the commercial warfare, and no one noticed the danger that comes from this Panshi City, which is gradually expanding.

The missing area's commercial manager once attracted attention. The city lord's mansion ordered the whole city to search, and he must meet people and see the corpse after living. During that time, Zumu was afraid to die. He trembled and carefully contracted his power, lowered his eyebrows and looked down and was honest. In fact, the manager's family had been cut into pieces that day, and even the bones were thrown into a mill for a large stone and grinded into powder. In this barbaric era, it was very simple to destroy the corpse: there were wild animals everywhere outside the city, and they were cut into large pieces of meat mixed with bone powder and thrown over, and they were eaten clean at most half a day. Not to mention two big and one small three people, even thirty people, they would be swallowed by the cruel reality so that they were not even left.

"Shengxinglong" has a large number of trucks entering and leaving the city every day. As long as you give enough benefits, the soldiers guarding the city will not care about what is in the bulging pockets on your car. Moreover, Zumu is now an excellent business representative of Yuanshui City: he never owes taxes, and he is active in every tax payment season, like a mouse who actively begs to join the mouth of a cat.

The relationship between the city lord and the merchant is like a cat and a mouse, which is the consensus of all barbarian businessmen.

Many people envy Zumu and have been planning to seize his prosperous and prosperous business many times. But after careful calculation, they were shocked to find that this business could not be replaced at all. The reason is very simple: peat is not everywhere. God is obviously particularly favored by the Niu tribe. Their territory has the largest reserves, and most of them are open-pit mines, which are easy to mine. As for other tribes, although there are also some, they are small in quantity and are buried deep in the ground. Large-scale mining requires strong early investment, and there are too many immeasurable variables.

Everyone wants to do a profitable business. Seeing that peat mining is profitable, the mines made through hard work will definitely be divided by local rulers. This is a very conscientious behavior. If it were a bad-hearted city lord, he would simply swallow the bones and meat without leaving any left. In the end, it would turn into a wedding dress for others. Why bother?

The peat "Shengxinglong" has become a sign, and it is difficult for others to imitate. The unique appearance and the tedious practice of punching holes in the middle make jealous businessmen who only want to make money but never think about the cost investment.

What's more, Zumu is not fighting alone. Behind him is Panshi City. The young city lord is not afraid of the fierce and warlike Pig tribe. It can be imagined that he is also a persistent madman with ruthlessness, shamelessness and only profits in his eyes.

For the Niu people who came to the Tiger Territory to do business, the Lord of Yuanshui City was far less at ease than the surface. He sent someone to investigate "Sheng Xinglong" secretly, but the results were not as dark as imagined: Zumu's foundation was very clean, and the shops in the business rarely went out and never asked for information from the people in the city. All signs indicate that this is an institution that is purely engaged in commercial activities. Apart from selling goods to make money, they do not participate in political struggles and have never done any espionage.

"Shengxinglong" buys a batch of horses every month, ranging from fifty to thirty, and there are mares and horses. They are also very picky in terms of quality as long as they are strong and tall, and they don't want any thin and short, so they don't even bother to take a look at them.

Zumu sent people to send these horses back to Panshi City regularly. Every time he left the city, he would take the initiative to apply for inspection, never hiding, and there was no intention of avoiding it.

These practices made the rulers of Yuanshui City completely relieved and no longer doubted them.

For a long time, the largest trade project between the cattle tribe and the tiger tribe is weapons and horses. The cattle tribe has strictly controlled forging technology and the tiger tribe is unwilling to let any stallion pass. The strict trade barriers have existed for hundreds of years, and no one will easily let it go. This is the foundation of the continuation of the tribe, and no rulers of the two tribes have ever wanted to give up.

It is normal for the Niu tribe to come to the territory of the Tiger tribe to buy horses. Of course, the mares and sting horses on the market are picked at will, and the price is raised and lowered according to the standard of selling the Cattle tribe's weapons to the outside world. If you are cheap, I will be cheap. If you sell it, I will be extra money. As long as it does not violate the bottom line of both sides, it is an alternative material exchange.

According to the law of the tiger clan: Anyone who transports stallions to other tribes by inquiring, bribery, hiding, stealing, robbery, etc. will be the public enemy of the whole clan, and will be hunted by the tiger clan for generations, crushed and ashes.

Anti-espionage measures are so strict that even the records of every mating during the estrus of all stallions must be recorded with a dedicated person on the spot. Regardless of whether the mare is conceived or not, no one is allowed to leave the country within the limited time. Anyone who dares to violate the rules will be executed and the whole family will be beheaded.

Zumu later realized that last time he set up a banquet to entertain business managers, and it was really hard to force others to force others. No matter whether it succeeds or fails, it is a serious crime of beheading. Even if he is truly criticized and buys a stallion, he will be stopped and inspected when leaving the city. The city guard is the strictest inspector. Unless he is accompanied by a person of the city lord guard captain, and the document signed by the city lord and repeated verification and confirmation, he can only be released.

No one will abandon the things that they rely on for survival in this world at will, and the barbarians are no exception.

Zumu can only settle for the second best.

It's late at night.

The stable in the backyard of "Shengxinglong" is brightly lit. This is a large building with a height of more than five meters. It is not in a semi-open-air form like an ordinary stable. The upper floor is covered with a roof and a wall is erected on the outside. If you want to peek into the secrets, you must be in it and cannot be viewed from the outside.

The fat Zu Mu's face was covered with sweat, and his round cheeks were occupied by red. He was excited and excited. He took off his shirt, barely had two thick and fat shirts, holding a wooden cylinder more than two meters long in his hand, with nervousness in his eyes, staring at the mare lying on the ground.

Tianhao may be the first witch practitioner in the history of the barbarians to abuse anesthetics. Large-scale pharmaceuticals have now become a special industry in Panshi City. Pingjun's intelligence agency consumes a lot of anesthetics and uses prescription aspects. For example, now, it is the best example.

The mare is very beautiful, with gray-white fur and soft mane. The dark stripes around the eye sockets are like women's eyebrows. The slender horse's face shows a hint of melancholy under the light. It glanced at the obese and nervous Zumu, then slowly lowered its head, and its blurred eyes shifted to its legs tied tightly by a hemp rope. It had no idea what the dozen burly men around were trying to do.

A tall and strong follower said to Zumu carefully: "Master, I have already given it medicine, it's okay."

"Don't you give me a fart!" Zu Mu spat fiercely and cursed in anger: "Why is it still open after taking medicine? You dare to say it's okay before you even sleep? Code 1, do you think I'm blind?"

The entourage was speechless when he was scolded. He smiled and nodded in response: "Then I'll add some more?"

Zumu wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand and waved his hand in annoyance like chasing a fly: "Go quickly, hurry up, move quickly, there's not much time left."

The beautiful mare finally closed its eyes and fell asleep. It was rare for it. It grew so big that it rarely slept while lying down.

Zumu signaled the two followers to spread the hind legs of the mare with force. He hugged the long wooden tube in his hand tightly, aiming at the bright red position in the center of the mare's butt and inserted it in.

Large syringes specially designed for the northern barbarians are quite difficult to make: choose dry wood, hollow out the middle, polish the surface smoothly, cut the front section into a cone, leaving a pipe opening for liquid to enter and exit. Use thick numbness to wrap the cork and plug it from the back of the wood pipe. When used, a little melted animal oil is injected along the gap, and it will not feel so dry.

Since you cannot get a stallion through normal channels, you can only find a way from the mare.

With the last lesson, Zumu has now expanded the scope of bribery. He approached the official responsible for the breeding of horses in Yuanshui City and bribed the two grooms. After a period of "special friendship contact" full of the strong smell of money, the grooms became Zumu's brothers. They drank together, talked about women together, and did various things that transcend normal behaviors but were completely in line with moral norms and friendship.

Of course, there is another important premise: No one violates the laws of the tiger clan.
Chapter completed!