Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 744: Ten Thousand High-Quality Turkic Warhorses!

Chapter 744: Ten Thousand High-Quality Turkic Warhorses!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

Wang Chong viewed this first transaction with Hulayeg with extreme importance. If there were no hidden schemes in this transaction and everything proceeded smoothly, his own plans could finally be realized.

If Hulayeg could bring him one batch of Turkic warhorses, he could definitely bring a second, a third, and even more. Perhaps with the assistance of this number one horse merchant, the Great Tang could obtain an endless stream of high-quality warhorses from the Turkic steppe, filling in the Great Tang's largest weakness.

"It's really exciting! Hulayeg, I hope that you won't disappoint me…" Wang Chong muttered.

Outside the window, a wind began to blow!

No one knew that a storm was stirring in the distant Wushang that would gradually sweep across all of the Western Regions.

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Hulayeg was truly as cautious as Wang Chong had predicted. Not long after the first letter, Wang Chong received a second letter from Hulayeg. He had even sent a servant disguised as a Hu jewel merchant to enter the City of Steel.

Before conducting this first transaction, Hulayeg hoped that he could receive an advance payment of a hundred thousand taels. This aroused quite the quarrel amongst Wang Chong's subordinates, but in the end, Wang Chong overruled them all and gave the hundred thousand taels to the servant.

One needed the proper demeanor to make big deals, and it was impossible to conduct such deals risk-free. In comparison to the benefits the Great Tang stood to gain in the future, one hundred thousand taels was nothing at all.

With this advance payment, the details of the transaction were quickly worked out. The time was set for two days later, at night. Once the Zi Period¹ had passed, they would meet at a location one hundred li northwest of the City of Steel to make the exchange.

But Hulayeg had made an additional request. He hoped that Wang Chong would be there in person.

Time flew by, and two days quickly passed.

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