She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 107 Buying a Horse
When Xu Shu went to Lieutenant Meng's barracks again, Empress Ma followed a foreign man.

On the second day after Pei Peng came back, Xiaowei Meng had a call with Zhou County Magistrate. The three chatted about the follow-up treatment, but they didn't see Xu Shu.

After that, Captain Meng was busy caring for the soldiers, and Xu Shu was busy communicating with A Niang. During the battle with the A people, the frequent martial arts teaching between the two of them was interrupted.

Xu Shu came over suddenly, Captain Meng was quite happy.

Leaving those interests aside, Xu Shu is indeed a good seedling who learns martial arts. She draws inferences from one instance, is flexible, and not squeamish. Captain Meng likes to teach her very much.

Hearing the news, he strode out from the tent, approached Xu Shu and bowed to her, then stroked his beard and asked:

"Your Highness hasn't been here for a while, do you want to go to the school to practice?"

He glanced at the person behind Xu Shu again, and asked in surprise:

"Is this... going to send him back?"

"That's not true,"

Xu Shu looked back at the other party. Although his expression was still a bit unwilling, he had calmed down a lot. Knowing that his arms could not hold his thighs, he simply gave up.

Xu Shu was familiar with the military camp. She led the two of them to an open space where no one came before and then answered:

"His father said he would sell us a batch of horses. The price has been agreed upon with my mother-in-law. It is [-]% lower than what would be brought back by merchants."

Lieutenant Meng also had cavalry under his command, and he knew the price of horses very well. He made a rough calculation and knew that this was a rare discount, so he looked Ale up and down, and said bluntly:

"What? This reduced price is not to redeem his son? What is that for?"

"His father only asked him to go with us to trade horses, and then continue to let him stay at our princess's house."

Captain Meng raised his eyebrows, but had no objection.

Although they were fighting to the death with the Ale tribe some time ago, this is the way it is in this era. One second they are fighting, and the next second the foreigners are about to surrender, and then these foreigners may become their comrades.

There is still hatred, a few fights on the school field, and a few times fighting side by side on the battlefield, there will be friendship.

What's more, Al was captured by them from the beginning, and there was not much direct hatred.

As for what kind of consensus Pei Peng and Ah Wang reached, Captain Meng didn't ask too much, thinking that a good princess can't commit treason, that's enough.

"How many horses are there? When are we going to buy them? How many people do we need to bring?"

Xu Shu turned to look at Al, and asked him to answer the first two questions.

A'le was in a complicated mood. Horses were proof of their power in their clan. His parents were willing to sell them at a lower price. It couldn't be said that they didn't consider him, but they didn't allow him to go back and let him live here with the Han people. This made him feel unwilling.

Therefore, for Captain Meng, who was staring at his own horse eagerly, he said in a rather blunt tone:

"Three hundred horses, these are drawn by my parents from their names. They are all good horses. You have made a lot of money. As for the time, eighteen days later, at the Sena Fair, my parents will send someone to meet you , take you to fetch the horses."

The Sana Fair is a gathering that will be held on the grassland every once in a while. Not only people of all ethnic groups come here to exchange items, but also some merchants from the Central Plains bring goods that are quite scarce on the grassland to trade fur cattle and sheep.

Naturally, some merchants would also trade prohibited goods, such as salt tea and even iron, which the imperial court did not allow foreigners to sell at will.

But there are benefits, which cannot be prevented.Moreover, the imperial court did not have enough military and financial resources to take great pains to control it.

Even Pei Peng, she knows that there will be desperate merchants in Sena Daji and similar trading places, but her military strength and financial resources are weaker than the imperial court, and she can't offend the forces behind the merchants, after all, ants bite to death elephant.

Therefore, she also turned a blind eye and let Ah Wang arrange the location of the transaction here.

However, the nomads on the grasslands are not stupid. The address of Sena Daji is changed every time. With the area they graze and other circumstances, the address is difficult for outsiders to find out the rules.

In this case, even if Al's parents didn't say they wanted someone to see for themselves whether their son was safe, Pei Peng had to let him go with him, otherwise he couldn't find a place.

Xu Shu added the distribution plan that Pei Peng had thought up.

There are quite a lot of horses here, and Pei Peng can't keep them to himself, otherwise it will attract people's envy, and it will be easy for people to misunderstand that they are colluding with foreigners behind their backs.

Therefore, she only wanted a share of 150 horses, and how to distribute the 150 horses to Chief Guard Cheng and her trilogy would be a follow-up matter.

Pei Peng was going to let Colonel Meng buy fifty horses as a way of thanking him for protecting Xu Shu some time ago, not to mention that the security of Chengyang County needed Captain Meng after all. The more powerful his cavalry, the better.

Pei Peng is also going to give some to Pei Wei, not too many, about ten horses are enough, but the breed must not be the kind ridden by ordinary cavalry, she specially asked Ah Wang for ten good horses, and the price was also reduced by [-]%.

Pei Peng was very satisfied with what he bought and wanted to buy more to resell. This would be a huge profit compared to Cheng Fei's side who forced the craftsmen to improve the wine.

It's a pity that the other party is a bit stingy and unwilling to give more.

There are still ninety horses left, and Pei Peng has already written a letter to Wang Yin in Fucheng, explaining that she wants to share some cheap horses with the warlord.

Actually, Wang Yin couldn't be the master of this, but he had to tell him in the end, so that he knew what to do.

Of course, Governor Feng accepted it readily. He had more soldiers and needed more horses.

And what Pei Peng did was quite in his favor.

No matter the truth or not, when Chengyang County asked for help, Feng Zhao really sent two school lieutenants to lead troops to support.Even though there was a master who wanted something bad, but that was not his intention, and nothing happened in the end, right?

So he didn't feel uncomfortable accepting this gift from Pei Peng.Originally, he wanted to test whether Pei Peng would give him the money, but was persuaded by his wife.

He thought so too, for this little horse money, it's not worth offending Pei Peng, it's better to deduct it from the military salary.

In short, after Pei Peng divided up the number of horses, sixteen days later, a rider came from Fucheng, Xu Shu brought a dozen guards, Ale, and Meng Xiaowei brought his two sons and horses. A dozen cavalrymen gathered at the gate of the city.

Fucheng sent an old acquaintance, Tian Xiaowei, which is actually a tacit consent that among this group of horses, Tian Xiaowei, as the person who really supported Chengyang County, can get more points.

Therefore, he was in a much better mood when he came to Chengyang County this time than last time, and he smiled more like a spring breeze at Xu Shu-who let her mother really benefit him.

(End of this chapter)