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Liu Jun was very happy to get thirty horses. He most wanted to build the Nine-Headed Birds into a high-speed motorized firearm unit with all cavalry. He didn't have to become a cavalry, but he had to be a musketeer with horses.

One person and one horse can only maneuver for a short distance. If it is a long-distance combat, the ideal is to have two horses for one person, or even three horses. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Huguang had already replaced Wu Song and became the granary of the Ming Dynasty. It turned out that Su Song had matured the world. Later, a large number of economic crops such as cotton and mulberry were planted in the plains in the Susong area, but the grain was not self-sufficient and needed to be transported from other places.

It was at this time that Huguang continued to develop and replaced Su Song as the new granary of the Ming Dynasty. Now it is Huguang and has a full world. The granary of the Jianghan Plain in Huguang is not a place for horse production. Good Hetao horses or horses outside the mouth must be transported from outside the pass. After the rise of the Liaodong Jurchens, the horses in Liaodong were almost cut off, resulting in the increasing price of horses. The corruption of Gansu and Shaanxi also hindered the import of Hetao horses.

Nowadays, in eastern Hubei, many times you can’t buy a good horse even if you have money. Finally, Liu Jun was not willing to miss such an opportunity.

The Nine-Headed Birds only had thirty horses, and the remaining 100 horses were discussed and divided by Zhao Cheng, Mei Zhihuan, Zhu Chong and others, and almost all the remaining silver supplies were divided.

In general, the bandit suppression was in good condition. The military households, township warriors and militia who came to participate in the war had already been able to drive out the banks and luggage before coming. After this easy battle, there were basically no casualties. After the war, there were rewards and food. The officials led the team gained a lot. Only a small part was given to the military soldiers and militias, and a small part was kept for registration and storage, while the remaining big heads were divided equally.

For Shangguan like Zhao Cheng, the seizure of money is small, and the key is to wipe out the gang of thieves who had just committed the traitors in the village. This is a great achievement.

Zhu Chong was a resident of Qianhu, although he was an unpopular garrison and the performance of the bandit suppression was the worst, but after all, he was a thousand households and the only real official army in the bandit suppression. Therefore, he finally got a lot of useful information.

As soon as the dirt split meeting was disbanded, the guy immediately found Liu Jun.

"I seem to like horses more?" Zhu Chong smiled, like a profiteer.

Liu Jun looked at Zhu Chong a few times, and his heart moved, "Does the Lord Qianhu want to sell me how many pieces?"

"Not a few, only thirty." Zhu Chong said with a smile, pointing three points.

"You really want to sell it? These are all good horses."

Zhu Chong didn't care at all, "I know it's a good horse, and I know that my nephew wants it, so I came to you. How about the price of three thousand taels of silver?"

"Two thousand!" Liu Jun returned a price.

"The price is a bit low." Zhu Chong laughed. Although the horse is a good horse, Zhu Chong was not willing to keep the thirty horses by himself. The most important thing was that he didn't need it. Although he was in charge of a thousand household office, the military equipment of the garrison was actually abolished. He only raised fifty servants for more than one thousand military quotas, and he rarely practiced it for the remaining half a year. Although the horse is good, it consumed a lot. If a war horse needs to be raised, it is equivalent to raising five infantrymen, and it costs less than thirty taels of silver and fodder a year.

Zhu Chong raised a servant, and the salary paid for less than 30 taels a year was less than 30 taels. He would not be happy if he asked him to spend 30 taels of silver to raise a horse. Therefore, he had already planned to sell the thirty horses he had given to him and exchanged them directly for the silver, which would save money on horse raising in the future.

"Uncle Shi just gave me a favor." Liu Jun also guessed the meaning of Zhu Chong selling horses at this time. Two thousand taels of silver is almost equal to less than seventy taels of silver per horse. This price is definitely cheaper than the market price.

Zhu Chong looked at Liu Jun and finally said, "Two thousand five."

"make a deal."

Although the bandits have been removed, more than a thousand people are not in a hurry to leave.

According to Zhao Cheng's meaning, we have to search for one or two Tianshan Mountains to check if there are any fish that have missed the net. At the same time, we also have to search the village carefully. In addition, the army has worked hard, so we will have to rest here for a night tonight and reward it with wine and meat.

Liu Jun's Nine-Headed Birds team made an exception when they did not score trophys during the day, and even gave more points than other teams when they were rewarded.

The nine birds were divided into two fat pigs, ten sheep, one cow, and thirty jars of wine.

In addition, the silver and grain rewards to each team were also given as much as possible. Liu Jun still sent them to everyone first and then kept them for everyone.

Then it was announced that pigs and sheep were slaughtered, and meat was stewed with fire.

There are many hunters in the Nine-Headed Birds, and they are also good at killing pigs and cattle.

At this time, Liu Jun also put down his team's airs, walked around the teams, and then got back ten oxtails. Li Zhen followed Liu Jun like a follower, just like a shadow. Because of the words of Zhao Cheng and Mei Zhihuan, Li Zhen became more and more confident and was simply attached to him.

She held her skirt, and her feet were jogging along the embroidered shoes before she could barely keep up with Liu Jun's footsteps. Although she was very tired, she had no intention of giving up at all.

"What are you doing with so many oxtails?" she couldn't help asking curiously.

"This is our supper!" Liu Jun deliberately shook the ox's tail at her.

"Dinner?" Li Zhen was extremely surprised and stared at the ox tails in a daze, "Can this be eaten?"

Liu Jun said, "Of course you can eat this, you will know after you eat it. We will eat the oxtail tonight, and there is also a stewed beef neck and a stewed beef hoof!"

Li Zhen was a little messy. What are the things that are all about? Can they be eaten with oxtail, ox neck, ox hooves? Although most people rarely have the chance to eat beef, Li Zhen has eaten beef a lot, but he has never eaten these bits and pieces.

"I won't eat these." Li Zhen turned his head and snorted.

"This is our dinner tonight. If you don't eat it, you'll be hungry. Of course, if you don't follow me, you naturally don't have to eat this."

Li Zhen didn't speak, but he still followed Liu Jun.

Liu Jun walked aside and asked someone to raise a few nests from the village, set fire to boil water, and then he started to clean the oxtail, cow hoof, cow neck with a knife. Li Zhen thought he was scaring her, but he didn't expect that he really wanted to make these foods.

“Isn’t beef enough?”

"One cow, two pigs, ten sheep, and one hundred people are enough. But the beef and pork are not as delicious as the oxtail and ox neck and ox trotters I made." Liu Jun said without raising his head. In the past, Liu Jun was also a foodie, and he often ate oxtail rice, spicy ox trotters, and ox neck soup. It was indeed a few delicious dishes.

Just now, he saw everyone killing pigs and sheep and then throwing two or three pounds of meat into the pot to stew it. He suddenly lost his appetite. He happened to see that they only took beef, threw the oxtail, ox head and ox hooves aside, and brought out his memory. He simply made a few things by himself and prepared to comfort his stomach alone.

"Where is your family in Wuchang? What is the name of your father and brother?" Liu Jun asked Li Zhen while handling the ingredients. Although it was a bit uncomfortable for a big girl to stick to him like this, he had read some psychological books before, in which he preached that sometimes some people would have a lot of abnormal behavior after being frightened, such as some hostages were kidnapped by kidnappers, and after getting along for a long time, they would even take the initiative to help the robbers, etc.

Liu Jun felt that Miss Li was probably too frightened because she had killed the robber in front of her before, but she temporarily relied on herself and felt that she was safe and could protect her.

"You want to drive me away?" Li Zhen suddenly became unhappy. "Do you just dislike me so much? Tell you, I was just robbed up the mountain by thieves and had never been bullied by them. I am innocent."

Liu Jun rolled his eyes and said, "Why are you talking to me about these things? I'm not your fiancé."

"I trust you."

"But others won't believe it." Li Zhen lowered her head, "I don't want to go home, I...I want to be with you."

"Sister, do you want to be with me? This is what you think. We have no relatives and no reason, and you are not afraid of others' gossip."

"Tell you, I have a fiancée."

Li Zhen burst into tears again and ran back to her maid and mother-in-law in tears.

"Jiye, this girl really falls in love with you. Could it be that this is called love at first sight?" Li Chunjiang wrapped his legs in thick gauze and leaned on a crutch, but he still had the leisure to make fun of Liu Jun.

"Go to you, I have a wife." Liu Jun cursed with a smile.

"Why, why did she rely on you? Alas, brother, I was still stabbed to save her, but she insisted on sticking to you. I felt sad and crying after thinking about it." Li Chunjiang sighed. "You must have had good luck with love."

"I think she is crazy about the slut." Liu Jun said with an axe chopping the cow's neck while raising his eyebrows.

"You just hurt the girl's heart, and they just said they wanted to be with you, but you ended up saying that you have a fiancée." Li Chunjiang was a kind-hearted guy.

"I'm telling the truth. I guess that girl was very scared. Now she is a little confused. Because I saved her, I treat me as a temporary support. We are a gentleman, and we can't take advantage of others' danger."

"So, you think of yourself as a saint."

"I am certainly not a saint, but I just do something and don't do anything."

Liu Jun felt that telling the girl that he had a fiancée would definitely make her more awake, and maybe she would be willing to go home. As a result, he underestimated Li Zhen's persistence. When the ox neck soup, ox hoof soup, and oxtail soup stewed in the three pots gave off a strong fragrance, Li Zhen came back.

"Why are you back?" Liu Jun asked.

Li Zhen looked up at Liu Jun and said, "Didn't you just say that we'll eat beef neck, ox hooves and oxtails tonight? And they also said that these are better than beef."

"Yeah, that's right."

"Supply a bowl of oxtail soup first." Li Zhen picked up a large pottery bowl and handed it to Liu Jun. That way, it seemed that the person who ran away crying and ran away was not her at all, as if that incident had never happened.

"Girl, do you have amnesia?" Liu Jun couldn't help asking.

"No, my memory has always been very good. I will never forget that Mr. Liu rescued me from the thief. The grace of a drop of water is to be repaid with a spring of water. The great grace of life is not repaid. Therefore, the little woman can only repay her with her body..."

"Stop!" Liu Jun quickly interrupted her, "Girl, you are a little confused now, so let's not talk about these things for the time being? This way, before contacting your home, you can stay in the Nine-Headed Birds for the time being, but don't say anything about your body, and follow me in the future, okay?"
Chapter completed!