At this time, five sets of cotton armor were hung in front of Dong Ce, in general, these pairs of cotton armor were no different from those captured by Dong Ce from the Jurchens. But on the whole, Daming's cotton armor seems to be too fine and beautiful, but the defense is a lot weaker, Dong Ce felt it in his hand, and the weight was four or five catties lighter, and the captured cotton armor Dong Ce weighed, and the helmet and armor weighed twenty-three pounds.

It is said to be lighter, but in fact, it is heavy enough, and the armor is not light - even the leather armor weighs eighteen pounds and seven taels.

Dong Ce named it a blue satin copper nail cloth face armor.

Zhou Zhong just came back from hunting, it can be said that he returned with a full load, hunted a wild boar and a fawn, and as soon as he came back, he shouted and shouted for a few of us to eat roast wild boar at night.

At this time, he was also by Dong Ce's side, pouting and saying, "What can this thing stop?" The court is also stingy, like the boss, if you can give a few sets of iron valve armor, it will be cool. ”

"What do you think the Iron Valve Armor is, you want it?" Dong Ce glared at him and said, "Besides, the defensive power of these cotton armors is not bad. ”

Of course, its defensive power is naturally far from being comparable to chain mail and Dong Ce's iron valve armor.

At this moment, Shi Jin returned.

Dong Ce ordered to put the things back in the warehouse and watched Zhou Zhong do this himself, Dong! One! Root! Read! The novel xstxt deeply feels that there are too few people, especially the people around him, and it has reached the point where it is not enough.

At this time, Zhou Bo and the others came back.

When they went, two people, two horses, and a bag of silver, they came back with a rather large convoy.

There were five or six carts, full of things, and in front of and behind the carts were a dozen or so young men, dressed as men, driving dozens of bullocks towards this side, and the smoke and dust were billowing all the way.

They came from the south, and there was a bridge over the Hunshui River, but there was already a simple bridge over the narrower Gan River, and the group went around to that side.

Dong Ce hurried over to greet him, the cart was full of things, and he watched those guys unload them in the same way, and after a while, they were piled up near the south gate, and Dong Ce felt that the money spent was worth it.

In addition to the fifty oxen, there were many other things, dustpans, stilts, baskets, hoes, plowshares, ploughshares, yokes, mats, and other things piled up all over the ground.

These things are all prepared by Dong Ce for the people who are about to join the military membership of Panshi Fort, they are poor and white, they have no belongings, and if they don't buy some more, how can they live?

The ploughing cattle were directly pulled to the outside cattle pen and raised, as for these belongings, Zhou Zhong originally wanted to put them into storage, but was stopped by Dong Ce, so they were stacked here, but they had to be put away by those guys, and they were not allowed to be mixed.

Zhou Bo and Su Dacheng led a man in his forties and medium stature to Dong Ce's side, this man was white and fat, and he seemed to have a smile on his face all the time, and he looked kind and wealthy. He wore a blouse of silk with money embroidered on it. It wasn't hot, but his face was already covered with sweat.

The man knelt down and kowtowed, his face full of smiles: "Lord Dong, the villain is Zhao Dahui of 'Jin Qinghe' Mi Mian Xing, everyone gives face, and is called the shopkeeper." ”

Dong Ce smiled: "It turned out to be the shopkeeper Zhao, please get up, please get up." ”

He stretched out his hand to help Zhao Dahui up, and said with a smile: "Thank you to the shopkeeper Zhao for bringing these farming cattle and farm tools back, otherwise, it will be troublesome." ”

In these years, even if the status of a military general is low, in front of a small shopkeeper who has neither fame nor power, his status is enough Xuanhe, not to mention the name of Dong Ce, which has spread all over the north and left of Datong Town. Zhao Dahui was quite flattered in his heart, and quickly said a few polite words, but he didn't say anything here.

Dong Ce cast a puzzled look at Uncle Zhou, and Uncle Zhou came over and lowered his voice and said a few words before Dong Ce understood.

It turned out that this time Zhou Bo and the others had walked far away and had already arrived at the lonely store. Gudian is further south than Zhenhe Fort, and it is only thirty or fifty miles away from Datong, and there is Baishan Mountain nearby. Gudian is the only way from Jinzhong to the north of Datong, and the salt merchants from all over the country go to several important towns in the west of the nine border areas - Datong Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, Lintao Town, Gansu Town - to transport grain, it is necessary to go here. It is a very prosperous business, which is very prosperous, and has developed into a large town that is not inferior to the general county town after hundreds of years of development, and the degree of prosperity is much more than that.

This 'Jin Qinghe' rice noodle shop is said to be rice noodles, in fact, there are quite a lot of shops below, blacksmith puppets, and cattle shops, and this time Zhou Bocai bought these things in this place. Jin Qinghe is not the largest business house in the lonely store, not even first-class, and Zhou Bo, a big business bank, will not go to find it, and he knows the truth that the store is bullying customers.

And the reason why this Jin Qinghe's Zhao Hui Zhao shopkeeper came with him was because Uncle Zhou negotiated the conditions with him - pay a deposit of one hundred taels first, and you have to help me transport the things to the destination, and the rest will be said when they get to the ground.

Fifty ploughing cattle and a large number of various utensils are also a big deal for Jin Qinghe, so nothing is allowed. At this point, this shopkeeper Zhao regretted it a little - what if these military masters defaulted on their debts? What can I do?

Dong Ce naturally won't repay the debt, but Uncle Zhou's method is good, he praised it, and asked Su Dacheng to take out the silver and hand it to the shopkeeper Zhao. Zhao Hui thanked him again and again, and went over there to command the guys.

At this time, Dong Ce had time to ask how much it had been spent this time.

"It's a total of five hundred and seventy taels, of which ten taels are for each head of ploughing cattle, which costs five hundred taels, which is the largest head."

"Cattle are so expensive?" Dong Ce frowned and asked.

Zhou Bo smiled bitterly: "This year, I can't live anymore." Boss, we have run all over the lonely store, which is the most fair price, and is willing to help us send it back. In addition, we bought grain seeds, and in addition to this, there was a blacksmith shop under this Jinqinghe, and we made fifty pairs of ploughshares, a hundred hoes, and fifty iron rakes. The rest of the baskets and other utensils were given to us by the shopkeeper Zhao. ”

Dong Ce smiled slightly: "This guy is a good man." ”

Because it was a big business, Zhao's shopkeeper went to break the odds, and in the end he also asked for five hundred and seventy taels of silver.

Dong Ce couldn't help but sigh, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, it was really the end of the world, there was another great drought, and prices were soaring, how could the people survive?

After pondering for a while, Dong Ce called Shopkeeper Zhao over again, he didn't go around in circles, and said straight to the point: "Shopkeeper Zhao, I can't hide it, this official is here, and there will be a large number of cattle in the future, may you supply it in your store?" ”

When Zhao Dahui heard that there was another big business coming to the door, he smiled, and nodded busily: "The supply is up, the supply is up." ”

Dong Ce said with a smile: "This official buys in such a large amount, you can get a cheaper price." ”