Chapter 85 Smuggling Caravan
Chapter 85 Smuggling Merchant Team
The carriage slowly marched westward in the wilderness. Luo Dacheng sat in the carriage, whipping the whip and driving the carriage, but he was thinking about his future plans - if it goes well, it will shake the whole world!
The curtain of the car behind him was lifted, and the girl who was blocking her head was poked out, looked at the road, and said coquettishly to him in a crisp voice: "You are taking the wrong path again! Alas, you should go in that direction, don't go the wrong way more and more!"
Her voice was crisp and playful, and her big black and shiny eyes looked at him, making him slightly confused. He could only move his eyes away from her youthful beautiful face, responded, and drove the cart in the right direction.
There were ten good horses in front of the car, and he was custom-made in a town along the way. He ran in the wilderness, running fast and steadily, and very comfortable--he couldn't bear to let his wife suffer with him, especially because she was still injured. Therefore, he had to customize this somewhat exaggerated carriage with his knowledge.
In fact, the knife was not deep, but the marks were too long and looked very scary. With the treatment of good golden sore medicine made by Concubine Li Chen, the wounds had long healed, and there would probably not even be scars in the future.
His eyes passed through the raised curtains and he saw the slightly pale-looking Han girl sitting in the carriage. Seeing his gaze, he smiled at him a little apologetically.
Her eyes were as gentle as water, full of deep attachment. Her apology was for her sister's attitude towards him. During the long journey, the two girls were in love and have become sworn sisters, just like Luo Dacheng and Bao Zheng became sworn brothers.
In fact, Meng Yilan's attitude was not so unbearable to Luo Dacheng. He just felt that the girl was deliberately quarrel with him, as if she was covering up her slight jealousy.
Luo Dacheng shook his head, unwilling to think about it any more. His consciousness continued to sink into his future plans.
This time, at the request of Meng Yilan, I sent her back to her tribe. It was a tribe in Xizhubu on the Mongolian Plateau.
Of course, there is no term "Mongolian Plateau" yet, nor is there a Mongolian. The Qiyan tribe to which Genghis Khan belongs in the future should still be an insignificant tribe. Only when it continues to expand and control the entire grassland, a large number of people under Temujin's rule are changed to be called Mongols, following Temujin's Khan, jumping around the world, and establishing an extremely huge Mongolian empire.
So the current Shubu people should be the ancestors of the Mongols in the future. As for whether Meng Yilan was the ancestor of a certain branch of the patriarchal or maternal line in Genghis Khan's future, Luo Dacheng didn't want to think about it--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Although it was Meng Yilan's request, Luo Dacheng also wanted to go there and build his own armament to fight a desperate battle with the giant Liao Kingdom.
There was no pursuit of the Northern Song Dynasty. There was no need to look at the faces of the Liao people. All the people who stopped the divine people were divided into tribes of different sizes on the grassland, and there was constant dispute, but they often united to fight against the oppression of the Liao Kingdom. There was no too powerful force and was suitable for their own development.
The oppression of the Liao Kingdom was really unbearable for these nomadic peoples. Meng Yilan's father and brother started a war and fought to resist the tyranny of the Liao Kingdom, but were killed and captured, and eventually failed. The tribe was also broken up, and from a large tribe covering a vast area to a small tribe that survived.
Meng Yilan went to Shangjing to find her brother, but unexpectedly learned about her brother's death. After seeing his relics, she made up her mind to assassinate the Emperor of Liao. If it weren't for Luo Dacheng's rescue, she would have died in Shangjing.
The noise of fighting came from afar in front of him, which made Luo Dacheng frown, immediately waved his long whip, and galloped towards the wilderness ahead.
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On the road in the wilderness, a caravan was confronting the Khitan cavalry.
The so-called caravan is actually a smuggling team. The caravan leader Shen Wubao, also known as the leader of the smuggling team, was standing in front of the team on a horse and negotiating with the leader of the Liao soldiers, but he knew in his heart that such negotiations would not have any good results.
Shen Wubao's family lives in Yunzhou and is under the rule of the Khitans. However, it is a smuggling family inherited from the ancestors. Every year, the family sent caravans to Song to get some goods, quietly cross the border of Liao and Song, and sell them to Liao Kingdom. They also had to replenish some goods in the Khitan Kingdom, and transported them to the territory of the Shubu people for sale. They bought their land horses at extremely low prices, and then took them to Song to sell them at a sky-high price. They could make great profits and make their family rich as a result. They were also considered famous and wealthy families in the countryside of Yunzhou.
Although he made a fortune, Shen Wubao's family has never been willing to abandon his ancestors' business. Every year, he has to send caravans to cross the border to sell goods. The huge profits are amazing.
But corresponding to huge profits is a huge risk. Not to mention that smuggling is a crime strictly prohibited by the Liao and Song dynasties, even the bandits along the way, and the caravans with weak strength can drink a pot.
The Shen family is not afraid of bandits. They have raised a large number of heroes in private. In fact, they are all outlaws. They are desperate to make money. Every time they go to business, a large group of people will be dispatched together. After they come back, everyone can get a lot of money, and the Shen family will of course get the largest share.
Like this time, when they went out, they brought two hundred strong men, each with sharp swords, and everyone was a hero with blood stained with both hands. Ordinary thieves dared not look at them directly.
But after many people climbed the mountain, they finally met a tiger. Looking at the more than 300 Liao cavalrymen in front of him, Shen Wubao knew that he could not pass this level.
The so-called Liao soldiers are actually almost the same as bandits, just one with a license and the other without a license. In order to save military expenditure, the Liao Kingdom never paid military salaries to the Liao soldiers, but only gave them plundering licenses, encouraged and encouraged them to go to the Song territory to hunt grass valleys, and the people of the Song people who were robbed back could be sold into slaves and distributed to the Liao soldiers.
This Liao army probably wanted to travel across a long distance and rush to the Song Dynasty to attack Caogu once. Unexpectedly, he caught such a big fish here, and everyone was happy. Every cavalryman had a happy smile on his face.
Shen Wubao complained secretly in his heart. It was difficult to escape even if he wanted to escape. Moreover, with the habits of the Liao soldiers, it was a luxury to be killed and arrested and sold to slaves.
He stood in front of the caravan on horseback, signaling his subordinates to be on guard, and bowing immediately, begging the black-faced Liao general who led the team to swear to give him half of the goods, only asking him to let him leave.
The black-faced Liao general shook his head and refused, sneering at such a request in his heart. Could it be that such a large piece of fat were placed in front of him and let them cut half back? As a fierce Liao general who had been fighting against Grass Valley for many years, when he heard such requests, he regarded it as an insult to himself.
After saying that, Liao general became angry, immediately raised his sword and shouted loudly: "Kill!"
As soon as the order was issued, everyone fought for the first place. All the Liao soldiers roared, rushed to the front, and charged wildly.
At this time, Shen Wubao knew that there was nothing he could do, so he could only grit his teeth and shout: "Brothers, the Khitans are going to kill us all and silence us all! Brothers fight with them!"
The two hundred desperate people roared angrily, knowing that they could not escape this disaster today, so they simply fought with the group of Liao soldiers!
When a large number of Liao soldiers rushed into the formation formed by the caravan with large chariots, instantly, the sound of fighting and screams shook the sky. The Liao soldiers waved their swords hard, slashed the strong men on the heads, and slashed them fiercely to the ground. The blood instantly dyed a large area of ground red.
The strong men who were unwilling to wait for death roared in grief and angrily, raised their swords and guns, and slashed them hard on the Liao soldiers, but in the end they could not resist the well-equipped Liao soldiers and were cut to the ground one after another. Even if they raised their swords to resist the sabre cut off from their heads, they would just survive.
The fierce battle continued. When Shen Wubao tried hard to cut down a Liao soldier who had been fighting with him for a long time, and when he looked back, more than 200 heroes under his subordinates had lost nearly half of them. He couldn't help but sigh in despair, raised his steel knife, looked for the weak points of the enemy's defense, and was ready to break through and escape.
Suddenly, his eyes fell on a carriage in the distance. The carriage was very strange. It was pulled by ten tall horses, and the body was huge and spacious. It drove over from a distance in the wilderness.
Shen Wubao sighed in his heart, knowing that he was just a guy who was unlucky to die, but he was afraid that the drivers and the people in the car would be killed by the Liao soldiers and all his property would be robbed.
However, the driver seemed to have not seen the battle here, and was still driving the big cart and heading towards it quickly. This surprised Shen Wubao and looked at the big man who was driving the cart involuntarily.
From a distance, the man looked pretty and handsome, with a rough face. His tall and strong body sat in the carriage, and there was a faint heroic spirit that emanated from him.
Chapter completed!