Seeing the anxious look of Cons and others, the ten thousand men smiled and said, "But you can go to a place to have a look."

"Where?"

"Leave the gathering place and walk about a kilometer up the river. There is a temporary gathering place where you should have what you want, but you need to be mentally prepared and it will cost a lot."

"Damn it, I actually forgot that place!" Geralt slapped his head suddenly.

Cons asked, "Where is that?"

Geralt looked at Captain Wan and hesitated for a moment.

"Sir, is there..."

The ten thousand men smiled and said, "Don't worry about our face, Lord Cons, it's actually a market opened by the prairie horse thieves."

"Horse thief?"

Everyone on Cons's side had wide eyes, looking unbelievable.

What people in the grassland hate most is not natural disasters, not wolf disasters, but horse thieves.

Horse thieves make a living by looting, and they are scaryly greedy. The herdsmen and livestock, such as livestock, are either killed or captured, while lifeless items such as pastoral flag bags are either burned or taken away. The tribes visited by horse thieves are completely left without any grass.

The chief of ten thousand men smiled bitterly, "Isn't it strange that we let the horse thieves open nearby?"

"This is also impossible. Although we hate horse thieves, and although we are strong, we cannot afford to offend horse thieves on the entire grassland.

"The horse thieves have a range of areas. Horse thieves outside the range cannot cross the boundary at will, otherwise the horse thieves within the range will attack these peers.

"But sometimes there is no limit, that is, retaliation against the herds flag that destroyed the market opened by horse thieves, and the horse thieves in the entire grassland will attack everyone in this herds flag.

"So in order to avoid trouble, we will not touch this horse thief market. Besides, this market is like our market. When our market ends, they will also end. When the market is opened, they will not cause trouble, but will try their best to maintain order. If this is the case, why bother yourself?"

"Can you get a map for such a horse robbery market?" Cons was a little confused.

The ten thousand men smiled and said, "Don't underestimate the horse thief. When it comes to the horse thief map, it is the most detailed. You must know that they are active in the entire grassland. Most of our map information was purchased from the horse thief.

"However, the maps purchased by us outsiders are just a brief picture, which is the approximate location of the gathering places of the hostess and the approximate direction of the important water source.

"The more expensive the price, the more detailed it is. It is said that the most advanced one is recorded in addition to recording all the gathering places of the herds and flags, as well as the activity points of all wild horses, and even a small lake with an area of ​​dozens of meters.

"It's just a rumor. Ma Tuo himself said that it's impossible to have such a map."

Cons and others immediately laughed.

People like me don’t need to have too detailed maps, just a map marked with each herds’ flag gathering place and major water source.

This map is enough to allow people like me to set up the prairie safely.

Although Cons and others wanted to go to the horse thieves market immediately, they were penniless and had to wait quietly for Oak's arrival.

Suddenly, a guide brought a team of business groups, and Cons and others immediately politely made their seats and waited outside.

A small team leader sighed in a low voice as soon as he came out.

"I really didn't expect that the horse thief market could appear openly next to the gathering place of the Muqi."

"Hey, what's the matter? Isn't it just to open a black market next to the local guards? It's not very common in the empire." A small team leader smiled.

"Gerat, what goods are usually found in horse robbery markets?" Cons asked.

"Everything they stolen from the market will be sold in the market. Needless to say, it is even more openly selling human beings, and there are casinos, brothels, and restaurants.

"There is much more lively than the Muqi market." Geralt looked at his colleagues with a smile. He knew that these guys who were so tired of being drooled.

"The herds and flags actually allow them to sell humans next to the gathering place?" Cons was surprised.

Geralt said disdainfully, "What's the strange thing about this? Didn't the ten thousand men say it? They can't afford to offend it. In fact, these are all lies. The biggest customers of these horse thieves markets are usually the herds and flags next to the market.

"Most of the people who rob horses and sheepskin cargoes from horses are sold to Muqi at a cheap price.

"These horse thieves are very smart. They transport the things they stolen from the east to the west to sell. Since these are not the population and supplies of local herds and banners, they will not be awkward when purchasing them. Instead, they like the horse thieves market that increases their strength.

"The horse thief can survive because the Muqi uses the horse thief's hands to weaken the opponent and strengthen themselves. Otherwise, all the Muqi joint operations will not eliminate the horse thief from the entire grassland?"

"I see."

Cons and others nodded in a sudden realization. Not long after they were chatting, Oak came back with about twenty large carriages, and there were two or four hundred servants who arrived in the carriages.

Seeing these more than 20 carriages, Jingxiong Wanfu seized the mess quickly and quickly completed the transaction with the merchant group just now. Then he was a little anxious to command the guards and pulled the carriage to a piece of open space not far away.

The goods were brought down by everyone, and the ten thousand men immediately ordered dozens of confidants and documents to start inspecting the goods one by one.

His eyes had long been attracted by the strong bow, and the result of the test shot made him immediately fascinated by the strong bow.

The statistics were soon released. While playing with a strong bow, the commander of ten thousand men said to Cons, "Mr. Cons, five refined machetes, five refined iron spears, ten sabers, two strong bows, one ordinary bow, five pounds of refined salt, and another ten thousand-mile horses. How about it? Are you satisfied with this price?"

Oak, who was listening and calculating, immediately suppressed his excitement and whispered, "Sir, two thousand machetes can be replaced with four hundred, one thousand long spears can be replaced with two hundred, one thousand sabers can be replaced with one hundred, five hundred strong bows can be replaced with one thousand, one thousand ordinary bows can be replaced with one thousand, and eight thousand kilograms of refined salt can be replaced with one thousand, six hundred!

"Oh my God! There are 4,300 horses in total! There are ten horses with thousands of miles! You've earned it thoroughly!"

Cons and others were stunned, especially when they heard the price of five kilograms of salt for a horse, their heads were almost fainted.

No wonder the Empire had to implement salt concessions on the grassland. In the Empire, how much does a pound of fine salt cost? How much does a horse cost?

No wonder the crackdown on smuggling salt is so severe!

The captain Wanfu, who had already received the total number from his subordinates, saw that Cons and others were silent and looked at the strong bow in his hand that he couldn't let go, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"Sorry, I'm really sorry. I misjudged the quality of your group's strong bows. Each strong bow is four. At the same time, in order to express my apology, I also received another 10,000 kilograms of food. How about adding ten thousand-mile horses in total, a total of twenty thousand-mile horses?"

He looked at Cons nervously.

Hearing this, Cons and others were stunned, but everyone quickly realized that although salt in this batch was the most expensive, for the nomadic people, having a strong bow was the most important thing.

Just thinking about a normal bow can change to one horse. It is not surprising that a strong bow can change to four horses, and it is very likely that there will be fewer ones.

Oak came forward and whispered, "Sir, we can now exchange 5,300 horses, and there are twenty thousand miles of horses and ten thousand kilograms of food and grass. Have you agreed to avoid the long night dreams?"

Geralt also stepped forward and said, "Sir, although he may add a little more, he still agreed to him like this. However, he had to take the opportunity to make the request of the groom and the veterinarian. There were so many horses that could not be taken care of without anyone."

Now the brigade has nearly two thousand horses, all taken care of by twenty-five logistics soldiers, and has long complained. With these more than five thousand horses, I am afraid that they will strike and rebel immediately.

Cons looked at the captain and nodded with a smile.

"The deal was done, but our caravan had insufficient number of grooms, so many horses could not take care of them, and we also needed a veterinarian. If there was anything wrong with those horses, it would be a huge loss.

"I wonder if the ten thousand men can borrow a few grooms and veterinarians?"

The chief of the Wanfu, who was originally made difficult to die by the words "deal" and "but", couldn't help but say generously when he heard this request, "No problem, there is no need to borrow it. I will pick you five veterinarians and one hundred grooms from my subordinates to give you, and they are guaranteed to be the best."

"Sir, this business is done. If you have the chance in the future, come here to do business again."

Oak looked excited, but he didn't expect that a little weapon could be used to exchange for so many horses.

Cons frowned and asked, "I heard that there will be heavy snow in a few days. What do we need to prepare?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Although they had never seen the heavy snow on the grassland, just listening to what the commander said was enough to scare people.

After a walk around the trading area, I found out that a horse can be exchanged for one thousand kilograms of horse food, fifty horses can be used to pick a thousand horses, ten horses can be exchanged for a large carriage, one horse can be exchanged for five sets of horse harness, one horse can be exchanged for ten sets of sweaters, one horse can be exchanged for ten sheep, and one horse can be exchanged for five hundred wooden arrows.

Then he exchanged the newly transferred horse for twenty large carriages, 200,000 kilograms of horse grain, a thousand sets of horse harness, two thousand sets of sweaters, a thousand sheep, and a hundred thousand wooden arrows. At the same time, he also put horseshoes on the remaining horses.

For so many things, a total of 1,500 horses were spent, especially the 200,000 kilograms of horse grain. Although 400 horses were used to exchange for it, everyone thought it was worth it.

As soon as the snow comes, horses can only survive by relying on these horse grains, and the 200,000 kilograms of horse grain are enough for all the horses in the brigade to survive the winter.

As for the 100,000 wooden arrows, there are not many. According to the more than a thousand people in the Cons team, each of them is only about one hundred. However, with the original inventory, the number of nearly two hundred is enough for a while.

If it weren't for almost all the private stocks in the trading area, I'm afraid that one million Cons would be willing to exchange them.

After saying goodbye to Captain Jingxiong Wanfu, Cons and others took a hundred grooms and veterinarians, escorted forty carriages, a thousand fat sheep that were preparing to spend the winter for them, 200,000 kilograms of horse food, 10,000 kilograms of food, and more than 4,000 war horses riding, and left the gathering place in a mighty manner.

Cons did not go to the horse robbery market immediately because it was getting late, so it would be better to go to the horse robbery market at dawn.

Back at the carriage assembly site, everyone began to prepare supper, and Oak found Cons' proposal.

"Sir, have we sold branded horses in the horse thieves market? This will eliminate the accident of exposing our identity. Anyway, the black market is the place to trade stolen goods, and the horse thieves themselves are enemies of the Muqi, so they are not afraid of informing them."

Oak thinks the title of adult is better than that of the superior, and when he comes back, he also calls Cons the adult.

Cons also thought this was a good idea, but when he was about to agree, Geralt spoke out against it.

"This won't work! Sir! My subordinates thought that in order to completely eliminate traces, they would just kill the branded war horse. This is the safest way!"

Hearing this, everyone around was stunned. Xiang Wen immediately said in disgust, "Cruel! Your mount is your companion for several years!"

Several cavalry squad leader also spoke up for Xiangwen. Geralt's face turned cold and shouted loudly, "Shut up! Don't forget that horse thieves are also grassland people! Can you guarantee that they will not be enemies with the Empire? Can you guarantee that they will not attack us when they discover our imperial army?

"Who are we? We are soldiers! Imperial soldiers who can sacrifice their lives for the sake of mission! And our current mission is to return to the country safely! What is blocking our mission is the enemy, and we should simply eliminate them neatly!

"Now our mounts and our cavalry companions have hindered the completion of this mission, so we can only sacrifice them! In order not to unexpectedly expose our identity, we can only be cruel!"

Geralt's words immediately made everyone think. After a long time, a cavalry said, "I support Geralt."
Chapter completed!