There were also many civilians on the streets, and Lu Si ordered all the soldiers to take care of their horses first, and then sit cross-legged on the side of the street like the soldiers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are not many shops in the eastern part of the city, most of them are life shops, the big shops are on the east and west streets, if you can stay in the trading city, the military can also go to the commercial street, buy some good quality and cheap exotic goods for your home, here is a wholesale-based place, it is definitely much cheaper than buying hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Lu Si, like all the young men in his twenties, had little interest in buying things for his family, but he shook his head dissatisfiedly when he saw several sergeant majors in their thirties with short beards passing by with large bags and small bags, all of them with red faces.

At this moment there was a sudden confusion in the streets, and a caravan of mules and horses passing by suddenly stopped, and it seemed that a horse was frightened and jumped in place, and several large bags fell from the air, cracked, and apples rolled all over the ground.

"Team 1 gets up." Lu Siling said: "Cut off the pedestrians, I'll go to appease the startled horses, and if it's okay for a while, you can help the merchant pick up the apples." ”

"Let's catch up with the northern captives, and pick them up for them too?"

Lu Si stared at the soldier who spoke, and said coldly: "Next time I give an order for you to talk more, I will whip you five times." ”

The old soldier shrunk his neck, not daring to say anything more.

Lu Si's style of leading the troops is typical of that of a lancer officer, blunt, cold, rough and direct.

That is, this style can suppress the veteran oil in the dragoons, these soldiers who are already in their thirties or early thirties, many of them have been soldiers for several years, although they have good skills, tactics and physical fitness, but their talent is insufficient, at most they can be a squad-level sergeant major to the top, in the face of Lu Si, a squadron sergeant major in his early twenties, these people's mood is of course very uncomfortable, but Lu Si has never considered taking care of the mood of these veterans, his orders are orders, never discounted, and they are not humane.

This simple and rough style did not cause a backlash from the soldiers, Lu Si's performance on the battlefield was quite good, and he could always lead his troops to rush to the place where he should appear, and would not make his subordinates have unnecessary casualties, this style of sergeant major can always win the love of the soldiers, even if Lu Si's performance is not at all like a childish young man in his early twenties.

In addition, Lu Sihao is the recipient of the highest level of the Order of Excellence, and this alone is enough to shut people up.

A squad of soldiers, led by the veteran, jumped to their feet and cut off the street, by which time the chaos had ceased, and a tall Russian who was as tall as a giant had held down the horse's head and was softly pacifying the horse.

This is a rather tall Cossack, with two short guns stuck in his waist, and an infantry gun on his back, and he is not equipped with a bayonet, and the style of the gun is still gone, but Lu Si knows that this is a product imported by the Russians from the Dutch or the British, and the firecrackers made by the Russians themselves are very crude, and the power is the same grade as the Ming bird's guns, and even if the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Industry can use enough materials and seriously urge the craftsmen to carefully make them, the Russians' own firearms may not be as powerful as the bird's guns.

The Cossacks easily pacified the horses and calmed the frenzied herdsmen.

It was astonishing not only the bear-like size of the Cossack, but also its bear-like strength, that the furious horse was caught by his arm, like a jumping puppy, and after a few breaths, the horse fell silent.

A group of Russians were talking and laughing on the side, and it seemed that they didn't take this matter to heart, it was just a trivial matter.

The Han merchants and Mongols around them all let out some exclamations, whether it was the Han merchants or the Mongols who herded horses for a living, the performance of this Cossack in front of them was really admirable.

There were five or six Russians, and when Lu Si's men picked up apples that were rolling all over the ground and handed them back to the Mongols who had come with fruits on horseback, their gray-blue eyes also had some surprise that could not be concealed.

Regular soldiers are also rare in Europe, and Russians are surprised to see such soldiers in such a wild area as the steppe, but what makes them even more amazed is that these serious soldiers actually help a group of barbarians to pick up apples rolling all over the ground......

The little Russian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and in any case, it was a sight to see apples at this time.

In the sea-like forests of the Far East, wild fruits are not uncommon, but they are often sour and unpalatable, and in the long history of mankind, human beings have long distinguished and planted fruits that are easy to grow and delicious, and those that are not on the planting list mean that they are not delicious, or it is difficult to survive in batches.

The Russians also did not expect that there would be a large amount of fruit to buy in the trading city.

In fact, in many places in Mobei, there are herdsmen who are cultivating grassland and turning to planting, but the level of herdsmen is very poor, but planting some apple trees, planting some melons, and some vegetables can always be done.

In fact, a large number of vegetables and fruits were still transported from the south side of the Mo River, and the Banshengdi on the Tumo River recovered its vitality, and a large number of vegetables and fruits were still quite fresh after more than ten days of transportation, Lu Si knew that Zhang Ziming, that is, Zhang Yansheng's father, rushed to the trading city with a team of hundreds of camels and horses two days ago, and the vegetables and fruits brought over were almost sold out in two days.

This thing is unimaginably popular.

Hutchison's cans were also very popular, but they were not sold as well as in winter, and many Russian merchants and Cossacks bought a few cans in advance, which would help them on their journey when they left the city and returned to their settlements at the mouths of the rivers and European territories.

"Hello." The bear-like Cossack stretched out his hand to Lu Si, but his eyes were still cold: "My name is Schev, Stroganov, and I used to sell wood from the North Dvina River to the Sukhona River, Lake Kubena, and the Sheksna River to the Volga River, which is an important shipping route for transporting wood, and our northern neighbor needs a lot of wood......"

With a look of arrogance and thoughtfulness in his gray-blue eyes, he continued: "Later I went along the middle and lower reaches of the Lena and Ob rivers, and in my youth my family and I exterminated the Emirates of Perem and Yepancha, and then we occupied the Barabin steppes and large forest areas, where we got a large number of furs, and the Kyrgyz and natives there were good at hunting and peeling furs, and later we built Tomsk at the mouth of the Tom River, and then we walked along the forests and steppes. Fighting with the Buryat Mongols for Lake Baikal, we built the Yakutsk Castle, where His Majesty the Tsar established the Overseer's Palace, later we sent a mission to the Ming Kingdom, and later we heard a conscription order for merchants to sell furs, and now we are here, I hope we can become friends. ”

When Lu Si shook hands with this Skif, the other party's emotionless eyes kept staring at him, and he said a lot of things slowly.

It seems that the military commander hurt their self-esteem by asking these Russians to wait on the streets of the barracks area, this Russian is very smart and proud, after Lu Si and Zhang Yansheng Pegasus entered the barracks, they already knew that the merchant army of the squadron in front of them might be soldiers who were going to fight with them, so they had this tirade.

The core meaning is very simple, they came from thousands of miles away, conquered and exterminated countless foreign races, they are well-informed and the most powerful warriors, and if Lu Si is well-informed, he should know that Stroganov is a famous family in Tsarist Russia, and has made great contributions to the destruction of the Siberian Khanate.

To this, Lu Si only had a simple response: "That's not called Lake Baikal, that's called Hanhai." ”

A group of Cossacks bravely stared at a whole squadron of merchant soldiers, and if the two sides were equal in number, there might have been a fight, but the ratio was ten to one, Lu Si and Lu Si did not bother to do anything, and the Russians were full of anger and jealousy.

At this time, the apple was picked up, and several Mongolians driving a group of camels and horses came over and bowed in gratitude, but Lu Si recognized one of them, and said with a smile: "Bayan, you have been released?" ”

"Thank you, Buddha." Bayan bowed, a smile on his face. This is a 30-year-old Tumut Mongol, a tribesman of Acheng Taiji, who was sentenced to two years of hard labor after being captured, and Lu Si once detained him, and later heard that he was taken to farm, which is a good errand, better than being taken to mine.

This is also because most of the miners are captured Mongol soldiers, and the herders are generally at most farming or doing the rest of the labor.

"You're not up yet, are you?" Lu Si smiled: "You won't run away, right?" ”

"How dare you." Bayan also knew that Lu Si was joking, but he was still startled, and hurriedly said: "Buddha bless, it is also Lord Zhang's benevolence and kindness, a large number of us were pardoned in the winter and released early." ”

"Oh, I see." Lu Si nodded and said, "That's because your tribes don't have Dingkou, you don't have strong labor, and all tribes are about to starve to death." ”

"yes." Bayan said happily: "There are a lot of dead people in our tribe, plus the captured, there is hardly a man in the entire tribe, and women can do much. When I rushed back, the sheep were dying of hunger, so I hurriedly gathered grass to prepare for the winter, and it was Lord Zhang's benevolence and kindness, and the disaster relief sent my family a bag of miscellaneous grains and more than 1,000 catties of bean cakes, relying on these, the sheep and horses did not starve to death, and we did not starve to death. ”

This Mongolian man's face is full of festive smiles, it is early summer, the grass and trees are flourishing, the sheep can be full every day without rushing far, every day there are ewes and cows to produce enough*, those newborn lambs eat very well, fat and strong, people also have goat milk and cheese to supplement nutrition, now the cattle and sheep are also fat, you can slaughter an old sheep to fight the tooth sacrifice every once in a while, now the Mongolians are also generally open up the wasteland to plant some vegetables, the Bayan family originally had dozens of fruit trees and more than 100 acres of vegetable land, of course, they are all shallow cultivation, But there is always a harvest at such times, and dozens of herdsman families throughout the tribe can be put together to form a small trading caravan.