Dong Ce said: "You say-"

Dong Zhongkang said: "When we leave, can we buy some medicinal materials, ointments and medicines in Jishitang?" There are many drugs here that are excellent for bruises and sword injuries. ”

Dong Ce nodded: "Your proposal is very good, Cheng, you will be in charge of this later, buy more and save it." ”

Dong Zhongkang responded.

Ji Jiaqun said with a smile on the side: "It's not in vain that the old man let you do things here, and you know that you are going to do business at home." ”

Dong Ce glanced at Dong Zhongkang deeply, he remembered this name.

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Dong Ce handed over the errand of buying ointment and medicinal materials to Dong Zhongkang and Dong Zhongyong, and the two of them did have a better understanding of this aspect, and soon dictated a list, and the guys in the store went to get it by category, but it was just a cup of tea, and they were all complete.

There are two big bags in total, and I am afraid that there will be no one weighing thirty or fifty catties, and it cost Dong Ce a total of one hundred and seventy-three taels of silver, but this is a necessary expense. If you are stingy with this little money now, when something happens in the future, you will regret it.

Dong Ce pondered, should the army be equipped with a military doctor, not to mention a sword wound, even if the soldiers have a minor illness or disaster, they can't always endure it, right?

Out of Jishitang, Dong Ce instructed Dong Zhongkang and Dong Zhongyong to buy a few monkeys, and then took the others to his store in Yanghe City.

Buying monkeys is also one of the purposes of Dong Ce's visit to Yanghe City this time.

As for the reason, it made him a little unhappy - in the past half a month, three or five horses have died of illness one after another. The Ming Dynasty is no better than Saiwai, let alone Liaodong, it has always been extremely short of horses, and few armies can have a large enough all-cavalry corps. Although these traditional horse breeding grounds in Gansu and Ningxia have not been lost, due to poor management, official corruption is rampant, resulting in the number of war horses always stopping on paper. For example, there are more than 200,000 war horses on paper, but in fact, there is not a single horse hair.

Dong Ce's war horses didn't cost much money, but they didn't agree with it, some of the Liaodong heroes were obtained from those killed Jiannu, and the remaining Mongolian horses were snatched from horse thieves.

And this kind of opportunity to grab a war horse is not available all the time, that is, just those two times. After having these horses, it is extremely difficult to replenish them, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, war horses belong to the price of no market, and you may not be able to buy them if you have money. Dong Ce has just arrived, the time has not been long, and the road has not been paved yet!

Therefore, these war horses died, but it made him feel very distressed, and to put it mildly, I am afraid that he would rather die a few of the people under his command than have an accident with the war horses.

The cause of death has been clarified, it is due to horse plague, to put it bluntly, it is blood worm disease - fever, diarrhea, refusal to eat, and some pull blood.

The reason why I got hemoworm was because there was a problem with the forage at the entrance, and there were these messy bugs and so on in it. But Dong Ce couldn't help but give them grass, and there was no way to know the germs on the forage in this era.

That's why I'm going to buy monkeys.

As the saying goes, brine and tofu, one thing descends one thing, everything in the world, there are always some very wonderful connections in the underworld, and monkeys and horses are such a pair.

In this era, the army generally raised monkeys in the stables, which could effectively avoid horse plague. As for why this is the case, there are different opinions, but the conclusion based on thousands of years of experience is very clear - raising monkeys in the stable is to avoid horse plague.

As for the principle, there are two theories.

One is that monkeys are active by nature, and whenever these horses are slack and tired, the monkeys will tease them. In this way, the horse is always in a state of distress and has been trained. In order to improve the resistance of the horse team to hemoworm disease, so the monkey has the name of Bi Ma Wen.

The second is: In the collection of essays written by Zhao Nanxing, a Ming scholar, there is such a passage, saying: "The Book of Horses" says that the horse stable and the female monkey will ward off the horse plague, and there will be a heavenly decay on the grass month by month, and the horse will never be diseased. The basis of "Journey to the West". That is to say, the monthly menstruation of the female monkey flows to the horse's forage, and the horse eats it, and the horse can get rid of horse plague!

In all fairness, the latter should be the more convincing.

In any case, the monkey has a nickname of Bi Ma Wen anyway, which is also the origin of Sun Dasheng Bi Ma Wen in Journey to the West.

Sun Wukong once served as "Bi Ma Wen" in the Heavenly Palace, and on the way to learn the scriptures, Wukong was teased many times by Bajie and goblins. Although "Journey to the West" is a mythological novel, the official positions of the characters involved are all based on the official system of the Ming Dynasty, not fiction. However, the institution of the Ming Dynasty to manage the royal horses was established in September of the first year of Wu, with the name of the Imperial Horse Division, which was the fifth product and was in charge of the horses. But why is it called "Bi Ma Wen"? Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, in the official system of any other dynasty, there is no position of "Bi Ma Wen".

That's where it comes from.

Dong Zhongkang and Dong Zhongyong have been in this Yanghe City for a long time, and they are more familiar with this place than Dong Ce, so it is naturally very convenient for them to buy it. In fact, Dong Ce asked Zhang Mazi to go for this kind of thing, but Zhang Mazi was always Liu Sanye's subordinate, and he always went to support him, even if Liu San didn't say it, he would definitely be unhappy in his heart.

Dong Ce took the remaining family members to his storefront.

The store is located in the most prosperous section of Qipan Street, which is also the most prosperous place in Yanghe City. The surroundings are full of traffic, people's voices, people coming and going, and customers are overflowing. But this is the only storefront, the door is closed, and the iron general is guarded, and it is deserted and decadent. However, some vendors without a storefront have taken a fancy to this place, there are several steps in front of the door, the space above the steps is quite wide, and the bottom is also very open, which is a good place to do business. The vendors laid a rag or felt at the bottom of the stairs, put the goods to be sold on it, and sat down on the steps with their sleeves crossed and shouted.

Not to mention, there is a huge flow of people here, people come and go, and there are stalls here, and there is no worry that no one will come to buy, so in front of these stalls, there are also a bunch of people around them, and it is also lively to watch.

Dong Ce saw it and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. Although this is my own store, I don't have to pay rent, but this store is abandoned here for a day, and I don't know how much money I lose.

When the family saw it, they were all very unhappy, and these vendors were just selling on the street, but they swaggered to occupy the boundary in front of their own doors, looking like the owners here. Immediately, Dong Yongzhen and a group of other family members turned over and dismounted, strode over, and began to drive away these vendors.

Dong Ce looked at it lightly and didn't stop it. Those who don't do this, looking at their skillful appearance, these people are afraid that they have been setting up stalls here for a while, they are used to selling things here, and they are afraid that they have subconsciously regarded this place as their territory. If I not only do not drive them away, but allow them to continue to do it here, they are afraid that they will be more arrogant, and they will feel that they are right, not only will they not be grateful to themselves, but they will not be less gossip behind their backs. And if they use their own hands to expel them, although they will have resentment in their hearts, they should also know that they have done wrong, and this land has a master.

Besides, if they are allowed to stay here now, what about after the store opens? Wouldn't it be more troublesome?

When the vendors saw that this group of people were burly and tall, they knew that they were not easy to mess with, and when they looked at the weapons they carried, they suddenly became even more timid. Although Dong Yongzhen can fight, he is not a reckless man, and he was also rampant in his hometown. To be a qualified fighter, you not only have to work hard, but also practice good eyesight, know who can provoke whom, never dare to touch it, and have the ability to deal with the three religions and nine streams.

After he went up, he didn't do it first, but showed the handle of the cavalry knife hidden in his pocket, and shouted in a low voice: "Lao Tzu and others are Lord Dong's personal soldiers, and this store belongs to Lord Dong's family, what is the purpose of you setting up a stall here?" My lord is forgiving, I will not pursue you, and I will disperse quickly! If you don't know how to lift again, a post will be sent to Yanghe County and you will all be put in prison! ”

He first revealed his identity to deter these people, and then made threats, which enhanced the effect by ten points. Although I don't know what kind of official this Lord Dong is, I know that he is a big official when I look at his personal soldiers. And what made them even more afraid was that sentence - take it to Yanghe County and go to prison. If the people still don't care about the army, 'do you dare to kill people in the street', then they are extremely afraid of the local government.

Some of the local officials have methods to rectify them, and their role is not played by the army.

Sure enough, these vendors didn't say a word, nodded and packed up their things and left, for fear that they would be late to take them to these fierce and vicious soldiers.

Dong Ce saw that everyone was cleared, so he rode his horse slowly forward.

When he arrived at the door, he had just turned over and dismounted, when suddenly a black shadow appeared, fell in front of him, knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, but his hands were raised high, holding a broken bowl with half missing in his hand, and he said in a stack of words: "Please, sir, enjoy some food and drink." Master, your prince Wandai, the Buddha of ten thousand families, great mercy and compassion, please......" Dong Ce couldn't help but be stunned, but after a closer look, he was a beggar. The beggar was still wearing a somewhat thin autumn coat, and there were many holes in it, revealing the muscles inside. The muscles were black and dirty, and some of them had small cracks on them, and blood was mixed with sludge and accumulated in them. It wasn't warm today, and the beggar was shivering on his knees. His hands were so black that he couldn't see his original face clearly, they were full of cracked blood, his long hair was knotted together, he didn't know how long he hadn't taken a bath, and there was a sour smell on his body.

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