Zhou Wu read the map, folded it, put it in a waterproof bag, picked up the monocular, looked at the terrain ahead, then looked up at the sky, and said.

"Mr. Changsun, it's getting late now. Let's set up camp when we get to the bottom of the mountain!"

Changsun Sheng looked at the distance and then at the time. Zhou Wu was quite capable of marching and fighting, so he nodded and agreed with Zhou Wu's decision.

When we arrived at the place where we set up camp, there was a small stream flowing from the mountain.

The caravan now has sixty carriages, forty of which are empty, with two hundred and thirty people. The eighty extra people are the drivers of the forty carriages!

When you get to the place, clear an open space and surround the carriages. The open space in the middle is the camp, and people can sleep on the empty carriages.

At noon the next day, the caravan arrived at the second territory. In order to prevent the last situation from happening, Chang Sun Sheng set up a stall directly outside the city, and the guards were also ready to guard it!

He would pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand, and would never give the other party a chance to blackmail him again.

After setting up the stall, several intelligence officers were asked to ride horses and carry gongs to the city to beat and publicize it, so that people in this territory would know that there was a caravan outside the city.

I saw these people sneaking into the city under the protection of the trade treaty, and then quickly mounted their horses, beating the gong while galloping, and shouting in the local language, "There is a big city outside the east city that has everything."

Caravan!”

Then these gong-beating intelligence officers ran around the city, startling the whole city and screaming in anger in every street.

Finally, before the guards guarding the gate could react, these intelligence officers rode out of the city gate on war horses and perfectly executed Chang Sun Sheng's plan.

Changsun Sheng nodded with satisfaction as he watched several fast horses rushing out of the city gate and then slowly closing the city gate.

Since you want to be high-profile, you must be high-profile and presentable!

After waiting for a while, the lord of this city appeared on the city wall. He was a middle-aged man. He looked at the caravan outside the city. It seemed that the other party knew the situation here and shouted loudly to them.

"Your Majesty the Messenger, why do you do this?"

Changsun Sheng stepped forward and said: "This city is too small and there is no place suitable for setting up a stall. But we also want the civilians in the city to know that we are coming. We have no choice but to disturb everyone!"

There is no place suitable for setting up a stall in the city. This interface is a bit hurtful to people's self-esteem, but Changsun Sheng has decided to act in a high-profile manner, so he doesn't care about this!

After the middle-aged city lord heard Chang Sun Sheng's intervention, his already ugly face became even more ugly now, but he thought more than Kevin.

The other party disliked his small town, and he also had such a big caravan. He acted in a high-profile manner and looked not afraid of trouble. It really scared him a little!

Since there was nothing major and the other party had not entered the city, he felt that there was no need to provoke the other party. He originally wanted to keep the city gates closed, but when he thought of the trade treaty signed last time, he hesitated a little.

Finally, when he saw that the caravan members were far away from the city gate and had set up stalls, as if they were doing business, he still ordered the city gate to be opened, but he also gave another order, that is, to increase the number of guards here, but

Civilians were not prohibited from leaving the city.

He was unwilling to give the other party a chance. He was afraid that the caravan outside would be a bait. After banning the other party from doing business, he would allow the other party's territory behind to attack him.

Although there is a covenant that you cannot occupy his territory or harm him, it does not say that you cannot rob him. If the other party robs all his wealth, it is better to kill him!

This territory is very similar to Kevin's territory. It is surrounded by mountains in the south and is also a remote place. There are not many people in the territory. If you try hard, you can get two to three thousand soldiers.

But they were untrained civilians. What was their use on the battlefield? This middle-aged lord could see this much more clearly than Kevin.

Therefore, he decided that one more thing would be better than one less thing, and just pretend he didn't see these people!

But that night, he didn't think so.

"Lord, that strange caravan outside the city sells extremely valuable goods, it's unpredictable!"

A slightly hunchbacked old man reported to the middle-aged lord.

The middle-aged lord asked curiously: "Really? Butler, tell me, what do you have? Is it so valuable?"

"Back to the lord, these products include extremely smooth silk, fine white salt as white as snow, strong cloth with colorful flowers, exquisite porcelain, and..."

The old housekeeper carefully described all the goods he saw when he went out to the city this afternoon.

After talking about the products, the old housekeeper sighed: "These are all good things that I have never seen before, but they are too expensive!"

The middle-aged lord asked again: "Since it is a good thing, it is for sure. What is so strange about it?"

The old housekeeper replied: "Back to the lord, for a piece of silk one meter long and one meter wide, they actually want ten gold coins!"

As he spoke, he roughly compared how long one meter was. When he talked about gold coins, his hands were shaking. He had lived for several decades and had never seen ten gold coins put together.

What a look!

But the silk he saw today was a small pile. If the price was real, he didn't know how to describe the value of these goods.

In the eyes of the old housekeeper, this pile of silk is nothing but a mountain of gold!

After hearing the old butler's description, the middle-aged lord stood up in shock and walked back and forth in front of his throne, thinking.

Is it no wonder that the other party has such confidence? Is it no wonder that the other party is so fearless? It turns out that he has strong capital!

But this caravan came to his territory for the first time, and he didn't know what to do next. He had never encountered such a situation before!

While the middle-aged lord was worrying, the servant outside came to report that Lord Kevin had sent someone to find him!

The middle-aged lord became confused, Kevin, what's the matter with him? But he also thought about the caravan outside the city. Could it be with this envoy? After the secret meeting, the middle-aged lord was very happy to make an order with Kevin.

The same order is to recruit soldiers!

On the other side, Chang Sun Sheng saw the city gate coming out early in the morning. Although it was not closed tightly, the city guards prohibited civilians from leaving the city!

Changsun Sheng then sent someone to negotiate. Soon, the intelligence officer who negotiated came back and reported: "Mr. Hui, the guards said that our goods are too precious and they dare not let the civilians out of the city. They are afraid that we will be robbed by these civilians. They

Can’t afford to pay!”

After Chang Sun Sheng heard this reason, he looked at Zhou Wu and then at the guards in this brigade. With so many guards, would they be afraid of being robbed?

Isn't this just an excuse, so he said to Zhou Wuda: "Captain Zhou, it seems that the business here cannot be done. Let's go to the next place!"
Chapter completed!