Chapter 18 A Rich Merchant Visits
A tall building is built from the ground. In Guo Hao's eyes, honing his martial arts is the most important thing. Although the halberd techniques instilled by the system are convenient, they are full of rigidity.
Only the skills that you practice personally until you have mastered them can be called true martial arts.
In fact, the system panel also confirmed the news. After entering the game for several months, Guo Hao successfully broke through level 10 through killing and training, and his martial arts strength reached 34 points. Although he still looks like a weak chicken, he is at least qualified to go to the battlefield.
Guo Hao put the crescent halberd aside, took the towel handed to him by Tuanzi, wiped the sweat off his body, and then threw the towel on Tuanzi's face.
Tuanzi threw away the towel, pounced on Guo Hao, and licked Guo Hao's face with her wet tongue.
Tuanzi is very intelligent and likes to watch Guo Hao exercise. Sometimes he even twists his chubby body to imitate him. Guo Hao always takes him with him when he exercises.
When Guo Hao was playing with Tuanzi in his yard, Mr. Guang rarely brought people to knock on Guo Hao's door.
"Sir, we have a visitor."
Guo Hao was very surprised. Ever since he had spent all his savings, Beifeng Village had announced to the public that, apart from the refugees who were willing to join Beifeng Village, there were very few other people visiting, and most of the visitors were received by Mr. Guang.
Now, it is Mr. Guang who brought him here personally. I wonder what his intention is.
But since guests are welcome, Guo Hao packed up and walked out of the house with Tuanzi.
Seeing Master Guang and two people at the door, Guo Hao walked out of the door and bowed, saying with a smile on his face, "We have so many distinguished guests. I hope I will forgive me for not welcoming you from afar."
"I don't deserve the gift from Village Chief Guo. We two came here because of your reputation. It's already rude not to inform you in advance. How dare you ask for anything else?"
"Since you have such a distinguished guest, why don't you go into the courtyard to discuss this?"
"please!"
Guo Hao smiled and turned to walk in, followed by Guang Lao and others.
After a group of people sat down, Guo Hao spoke first.
"I don't know your names yet."
"Su Shuang" and "Zhang Shiping"
"I wonder what you two are here for?"
Guo Hao was a little surprised. He knew these two people, the wealthy businessmen who funded Liu Bei's army, but his impression was that they were moving around Youzhou and Bingzhou. How did they come to Xiliang?
The two looked at each other, then sighed and told each other the reason.
It turned out that the two of them were originally traveling from Youzhou to Bingzhou for business, but unexpectedly there was a war in Bingzhou, and several large tribes of the Southern Xiongnu invaded the border of Bingzhou together and fought fiercely. They did not dare to enter at all and knew to take a detour to Liangzhou.
Although the journey is long and there are considerable losses, it is better than losing both your money and your life.
Guo Hao was stunned. In this day and age, there are actually Southern Xiongnu who are so fearless of death?
Wasn't it said that the Southern Xiongnu were so badly defeated that they didn't even have a decent organization and could only rely on numbers to defend the Han court against the Hu people farther to the north? How could there still be people so brave as to take the initiative to invade the Bingzhou border?
"I heard that some small tribes of the Southern Xiongnu were massacred and looted, and the Bingzhou troops happened to pass by and were discovered, and finally a fight broke out ." Su Shuang recalled.
Guo Hao and Guang Lao looked at each other. It sounded like this was someone taking the blame for them.
Zhang Shiping saw Guo Hao's strange expression and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Village Chief Guo. The Southern Xiongnu said they were invading, but in fact they didn't even get in. There is a flying general over there."
Guo Hao only remembered it after Zhang Shiping
Yes, there is a flying general in Bingzhou, how could a few Hu people possibly break in?
This is not history. Not only does the border now have Lu Bu, but also Gao Shun and Zhang Liao in their prime. The Southern Xiongnu, whose backbone was broken, is not worth mentioning at all.
Perhaps that is why Bingzhou was too lazy to explain and just started fighting directly.
Guo Hao thought about it and changed the subject, "You two haven't stated the purpose of your visit yet?"
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping frowned. They didn't expect Guo Hao's psychological quality to be so hardcore. It was as if he had done nothing wrong. If a war breaks out, all the lives will be lost.
Zhang Shiping glanced at Su Shuang and nodded slightly. Su Shuang hesitated for a while before speaking.
"I heard that Village Chief Guo found a batch of goods. The two of us can sell them on his behalf, but Village Chief Guo wants us to train a group of elite troops."
"Private soldier? That's a capital crime!" Guo Hao seemed to be thinking about something, and as soon as he opened his mouth he put a big hat on him.
"Please be careful with your words, Excellency. You just want a strong guard. Since you don't want it, then just pretend that we have never been here."
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were shocked and denied it repeatedly, even planning to get away.
It's no wonder that the two of them did this. Guo Hao immediately accused them of killing three generations of their clan. They were just businessmen, and if someone with ulterior motives heard what they said, they would have no way of defending themselves.
After all, even the powerful and wealthy will inevitably covet their savings. When a false charge is brought against them, they will have nowhere to seek justice.
They were about to get up and leave when Guo Hao spoke leisurely.
"Hey, hey, hey, why are you two so anxious? It was just a slip of the tongue."
"So what does Village Chief Guo want to do?" Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping sat down, not showing any sign of their previous panic.
"I mean, it costs extra money!"
Afterwards, they compared the items, decided on the price, and signed the contract directly.
Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping put the contract away with blushing faces and bowed to Guo Hao.
"Village Chief Guo, the promised food and silver will be delivered soon. I hope you will keep your promise!"
"Okay, okay. I'm a complete contractualist."
After the two got what they wanted, they obviously didn't want to say more. Before Guo Hao could ask them to stay, the two of them bowed hurriedly and left.
"Village chief, is this really okay?" Old Guang was obviously hesitant.
"Don't worry, if we can exchange the Hu people for so many benefits, why not do it?" Guo Hao obviously did not regard the Hu people as human beings at all.
"But what's the difference between us and the Hu people?" Mr. Guang obviously wanted to give another advice.
"But we have no choice. Are we just going to watch the Southern Xiongnu come to plunder again next year?" Guo Hao threw the agreement on the table and said coldly.
Mr. Guang didn't say anything. He understood that what Guo Hao said was right.
Being kind to the enemy is being cruel to yourself. Instead of sacrificing your own people, it is better to let all the Hu people die.
On the table, the agreement signed by Guo Hao, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping was clearly placed on the table.
Every line in the agreement is full of sin and blood, but these are all directed at the Hu people.
"The plan to traffic the Hu people was a great success!" Guo Hao smiled like a child.
