Deo asked, "Sir Geralt, what was your free caravan just now?"

"The free caravan is a caravan that does not belong to any herds and flags. It is usually formed by the caravans in other places, or the upper class of the herds and flags who survived the failure of the grassland battle.

"Except for horse bandits or offending Muqi, Muqi generally won't attack these caravans. After all, the materials on the grassland need to be transported in by these caravans."

"You are so familiar with the grassland, the transaction methods and taxes, and there are some things to pay attention to, right?"

Diodao and Geralt explained with all their heart. "The transactions on the grassland are generally bartered, and gold coins are useless. Of course, there are common currencies on the grassland, namely sheepskin, wolf skin, slaves, sheep, and horses. As long as the quantity and quality meet the requirements, they can be exchanged for anything.

"In terms of taxation, it is usually collected based on transaction volume. If ten horses collect taxes, you don't have to evade taxes, and you will register when you enter and exit.

"But if you use essential items such as salt, iron, and weapons to exchange for horses and sheep, you will not only not collect taxes, but you will even get rewards from the banner owner."

"Hey, wouldn't it be tax-free for foreign caravans like this? Hey, I was worried about what goods should I use to trade, why didn't I think of salt? It's so stupid.

"Well, we brought hundreds of bags of military salt in a pack of hundreds of kilograms. We should be able to take out dozens of bags and exchange them for things, right?"

Deo thought happily, and he knew very well that even in the empire, salt was an important material, and it was conceivable what salt represented on the salt-deficient grassland.

From this perspective, although the empire did not suppress the grasslands on weapons, it also treacherously formulated the salt sale rights to enter the grasslands to suppress the grasslands.

A man will not die without weapons, but it will be done without salt.

As for this sale, no force can intervene and do not want to smuggle it at all.

You know, they are all monopolized by high-ranking officials and nobles, and they can make money with them?

Do you think you have a long life?

As for how Zhao Hu could have hundreds of packets of salt?

You should know that the empire was very generous in the allocation of materials to the border troops, especially food and salt.

The corps where Zhao Hu is located didn't know what to do. The food restrictions were tight, but a large amount of salt was transported at one time. Zhao Hu's residence had not received salt for several years, but after many years of use, there were still hundreds of bags. From this we can tell how much salt had been transported before.

Geralt didn't know what Deo was happy about and continued, "As for what to pay attention to, in the gathering place, do not have any matters related to any of the banner owners, including the local banner owners, or they will be arrested;

"When trading with an open-air hawker, never bargain, otherwise the other party will think you look down on him and refuse to do business with you; and, never go in the Muqi bag without a transaction pattern at the door, otherwise it will be in vain if you are hacked to death."

"Why are this?"

Sun Jie looked curious.

"Because the level of the maid flag is very strict, the treatment is very simple. An inconspicuous maid flag bag is likely to be lived by the banner owner's family. If you break in for no reason, of course you will be unlucky."

"Are there no guards in such an important place?"

Sun Jie was surprised. He had never heard of it before. He could break into an important place like the residence of the flag owner's family. You must know that it was equivalent to the harem.

"The women here are just tools for breeding offspring and have no status. Even the wife of the banner owner is not as good as a centurion. Except for being very favored, there would be no guards at all."

Of course Geralt knew that his words made everyone open their mouths and continue to show off their knowledge.

"Also, don't talk to women you don't know. If you talk to strange women, you will be considered to be a ill-gotten plot or a courtship."

Seeing that his colleagues looked vulgar, he couldn't help but say angrily. "Don't remind you, it's just a 70-year-old grandma. As long as you answer with her and she responds with friendly responses, even if the courtship is successful, you will be unlucky.

"After courting, he refused, he would be chased by the female family to death. I remember a foreigner once spoke to a ten-year-old girl. The girl replied to him and knew the truth. Then he refused immediately, and then he was chased by the female brother. He heard that until the girl was seventy and eighty, the pursuit was not over yet."

Hearing this, everyone shuddered, and a captain said dismissively, "It's okay if you agree or not? It's amazing to take her away."

Geralt laughed.

"You make sure the other party will answer friendly? Know what will happen if the other party yells angry?"

"What's the end?"

"Hehe, as long as the other party yells you angrily, everyone present, but not everyone can beat you up. If you beat him to death, you will not compensate. It is better to be beaten to death on the spot. If you don't die, your brother will be cut off."

Geralt's eyes looked at the captain's lower body, scaring him to his sweat.

"Oh my God, it's not that the grassland women have a low status, how can they protect them so terrible?" Sun Jie was still scared, suddenly remembered something, and asked immediately: "By the way, aren't people without marriage also in contact with maids? Then how do you deal with the children born to these maids?"

"The child born to a maid is a slave to the banner master, and his fate is completely determined by the banner master.

"The people who don't know that their parents are raised are called flag slaves, and those children given to them by the banner owner after marriage are the real flag citizens. These flag citizens with parents are the ten husbands as soon as they become adults."

Hearing this, Sun Jie suddenly realized his head.

Women who can run out and wander around are all flag residents, and their families are at least officers with ten or above officers. If they provoke them, they will of course be retaliated against terror.

With Geralt's reminder, everyone made up their minds to never provoke women after entering the gathering place, so as not to cause trouble.

You know, those of you have cut down all the young masters of the wooden flag. If you get involved in the crystal flag again, it will be a big fuss.

Just as they were talking, a group of people had approached the gathering area. Until now, everyone discovered how huge this gathering area arranged by a shallow river was. The endless herd flag bags were almost connected to the horizon.

The most popular flag bag is five or six meters in diameter and about three meters high. This type of maid flag bag accounts for almost 70% to 80% of the entire maid flag bag. There is a large carriage next to almost every such maid flag bag.

The medium-sized ones are about ten meters in diameter and four or five meters in height, about thousands.

And even more huge, that is, the giant herds and flag bags that are located in the center of the gathering place are nearly 1,000 20 to 30 meters in diameter and 7 to 8 meters in height.

The largest one is not known to be large in diameter, but it can be seen that it is at least ten meters high, and the bag on it is golden.

No, that is the Golden Treasure Camp of the Master of the Jingzi Mu Banner.

On one side of this gathering area is the shallow water river, and on the other three sides are a row of simple fences. Facing Zhao Hu, there is a wide entrance, where two hundred cavalrymen block the entrance.

These guards immediately took a warning when they saw Zhao Hu and his group. The two cavalrymen who looked like leaders rushed forward a few steps, one of them shouted.

"Register!"

Geralt immediately said to Zhao Hu: "Sir, hurry, what is the name of our caravan?"

He really regretted why he didn't think about these things clearly? Although he could speak nonsense, Hu Nai was not capable of him as a sergeant. There was a lieutenant on it.

Zhao Hu didn't know why, but suddenly remembered the ring tied close to his neck, and subconsciously said.

"Nine Dings."

Everyone who heard this was stunned. Although Geralt didn't know why Zhao Hu had given such a strange name, he still shouted.

"We are the Jiuding Free Caravan."

"please."

The shouting leader waved his hand, and the cavalry behind immediately dodged to both sides. At this time, a table and a middle-aged man with a document on the side of the door were exposed to everyone.

Geralt, who was riding his horse forward, suddenly shook and immediately whispered to Zhao Hu, "No, sir, I actually forgot that the caravan needs to show the caravan's token when entering and leaving such a flag leader's gathering place!"

"Token? Oops! Where do we have it?" Deo also panicked.

"What token?"

Zhao Hu was puzzled, and Dio quickly explained, "It is the token representing the caravan, just like their crystal flags, our imperial nobles' emblems and other things! What should I do? If I don't have one, I will be suspected! Now I turn around and leave... No, I will be even more suspicious!"

Afterwards, he was already panicked. Zhao Hu stretched out his right hand and showed the change of the clearance base ring...

"Is this OK?"

Deo and Gerat were stunned when they saw the extremely dazzling ring. After a while, Deo stuttered, "This, of course this can."

Zhao Hu read the ring to the document.

The light flashed in the clerk's eyes, and it seemed that he was a sensible person. Then he quickly wrote down the name of Zhao Hu's caravan and the description of the token, and finally wrote down the number of people Zhao Hu, and then let it go.

Seeing that the document was written in the August Empire, Zhao Hu was sure that the grassland did not have his own writing.

In this way, grassland civilization is very backward.

I don’t know if it was the function of Zhao Hu’s ring, but the clerk muttered a few words with the two centurions, and a middle-aged guide was sent to Zhao Hu.

Under the leadership of the middle-aged guide, Zhao Hu and others entered the gathering place.

As soon as you enter the gathering place, the strong smell of livestock and the smell of feces immediately burst into your nose, and then a lively and boiling atmosphere comes to you.
Chapter completed!