Qiming 1158

Chapter 1019 Don't give a penny and still want good products?
During the period before the embargo on materials was issued after the war, the peasant army used the funds obtained from land reform and the victory of the war to do a lot of business with businessmen in the surrounding areas, and established many reliable partnerships.

The peasant army's large-scale production movement is mainly about grain, and there is still a large production gap in cloth and ordnance. Although Zhao Yucheng also learned Su Yonglin's policy and opened various textile factories, iron smelting factories, etc., the production efficiency was only a short time and a half. I won't be here in a while.

Therefore, it is more necessary to do business with merchants in the surrounding areas and purchase the materials they need.

Not to mention, as long as there is money, there is a market. In addition to normal daily necessities such as cloth, the peasant army needs steel knives, spears, bows, crossbows, armors and other weapons. Even if there is no material ban, they are themselves quite sensitive. exist.

But what they never expected was that those merchants in the Southern Song Dynasty were really hands-on, and as long as the price was in place, an absolutely forbidden item like the God Arm Bow could be obtained for you.

But their identities are not bureaucrats or officers, they are just "ordinary" businessmen with the banner of selling rice and cloth on the surface, and then when they lift the hood of their car, they are full of bows.

Can the ordinary businessman of his mother get the God Arm Bow?
ordinary?
Zhao Yucheng felt that this matter was difficult to understand and did not know how to express the tangled emotions in his heart.

It is clearly the white gloves released by the officials, yet he still calls himself an ordinary businessman!
Pooh!
But in the end, everyone is in business, business is still to be done, and money is still to be made. No one thinks that there is too much money, and the peasant army also needs goods.

So Zhao Yucheng took out the money and made a deal with them in exchange for all the necessities except food.

The price at this stage is relatively normal.

Until the material ban was issued, these Southern Song merchants began to show their merchant nature.

They rubbed their hands together and said to Zhao Yucheng—this was the price in the past, but now that the material ban has been issued, we have to risk losing our heads to deliver supplies to you. Is this price above...hehe, you understand.

Some people in the Fuxing Association branch were very unhappy with this behavior of the Southern Song merchants.

The prices they bought for materials were already very expensive, more than double the normal market price, and they are still doubling it now, which is simply too much.

And everyone knows in their hearts that all those who can sell weapons are white gloves released by the government, and they have a lot to do with the government itself. Thieves have been playing the trick of catching thieves for thousands of years, and we still think we don’t know the relationship here?
Many people feel that there is no need to continue doing business with them. Anyway, the military supplies of the peasant army are sufficient at present. If they really want to fight, it will not be a problem to support them for four or five months. months.

As far as the organization and combat effectiveness of Song Jun's Nala Crouch is concerned, we can push it back to Lin'an in four or five months!

But Zhao Yucheng didn't think so.

"For us at this stage, materials are more important than money. Never underestimate the consumption of materials during the war. It is more meaningful to exchange money for materials than to save money. As for the extra money, there is nothing to be angry about."

Zhao Yucheng smiled, took out a small notebook, and said, "It's a big deal, write down the names of these vendors, and after the revolution is victorious, we will settle the accounts, one portion will be calculated, and let them eat the food in their stomachs. Spit it all out!"

Su Yonglin is a very vengeful person, and his mind is small. If he has vengeance, he must take vengeance. No matter how long it takes, he will definitely take vengeance. He also has a small book dedicated to vengeance.

As his direct disciple, Zhao Yucheng also learned Su Yonglin's character of revenge and revenge.

He asked people to write down the list of these Southern Song merchants who were sitting on the ground and raising prices, pulled a list, and wrote it down in a small notebook.

"They are all profiteers who take advantage of the situation. They also do hoarding and wicked things on weekdays, and most of them have official backgrounds, otherwise they would be so arrogant to do business with us? Hmph! Let them be proud first, and sooner or later they will have to do business with us. Do the math!"

Zhao Yucheng said this, and others have nothing to object to.

The peasant army continued to do business with profiteers at prices two or three times higher than the normal price, buying military supplies such as cloth tents and ordnance, enriching the treasury, and preparing for war.

And with [-]% to [-]% of the profit, the profiteers of the Southern Song Dynasty still care about the ban of the court?
Not to mention that the Emperor Tiangao is far away, even in Lin'an City, under the eyes of the emperor, they dare to transport these things out and sell them to the peasant army for money.

They and the officials behind them counted the money until their hands cramped, and they were very happy to sell the good-quality military supplies in the jurisdiction to the peasant army.

Under such circumstances, the peasant army did not lack any materials at all. Through the continuous supply of materials, Zhao Yucheng reorganized the army of the four divisions of the peasant army many times, eliminating the old and the weak and increasing the young and strong, which made the composition of the army more and more. Rejuvenation.

Not only that, in terms of military training, the military instructors dispatched by Su Yonglin also worked hard.

The military instructors spent more than half a year training the soldiers of the Ming army to train the basic military literacy of the soldiers of the peasant army, so that a peasant army who had become a monk gradually had the demeanor of a regular army.

From the middle of the fourth year of Hongwu to the beginning of the fifth year of Hongwu, the peasant army held many war exercises, including field exercises and city offensive and defensive warfare exercises. The results of the exercises made Zhao Yucheng very satisfied.

The peasant army had already made great strides across the border in the direction of the Ming army. With time, Zhao Yucheng would have the confidence that he would not lose even if he fought face to face with the elite of the Song army.

The peasant army developed very well here, but the Song Army in the Jinghu Theater, which was also rebuilt after being destroyed, did not develop so well.

Because the peasant army has strict control over the quality of goods, they have seized several times of indiscriminate behavior in the Southern Song Dynasty.

It's not that they don't want to use good products, it can only be said that when they get them, there are few good products and many defective products, and others also want to make money.

But they can earn so much, and it's not that they can't bear this kind of thing.

All good products have been sold, what about the remaining defective products?

Of course, it was used by the own army.

The peasant army is a ghost and a ghost, as long as it is good, but it is not unacceptable that they paid a lot of money. Thinking about it, your own army still wants good quality without paying a penny?
Pooh!
Eight smelly hills are equipped with defective products!

If you dare to grind, you won't even give you a defective product!
After the last struggle with Wu Gong, the contradiction between the civilian officials and the military generals in the Jinghu Theater is getting bigger and bigger, and the confrontation between them is also more serious.

Although Wu Gong was driven back to his hometown to reflect, there were also several people in the civil service who were unlucky and were exiled to Lingnan.

The two sides belonged to a mutually winning state, which made the civil servants more and more dissatisfied.

Master Wenquxing in the sky still has losses in dealing with you bastards?
The civilian system, which has always looked down on and despised military generals and the army, decided to give the generals and the army a bit of color.

While making a lot of money, let these scumbags find their own position.

Therefore, in the areas occupied by the Song army in the Jinghu Theater near Jiangnan West Road, and in Xiangyang, Hanyang, Ezhou, and Qizhou where the Song army was stationed, the generals and soldiers of the Song army who were stationed gradually found that the military supplies they received were often of very high quality. Difference.

It is not the state of good and defective products in the past, but occasionally encounters good products, which are basically the state of defective products.

The bow can be broken when the bow is drawn.

The arrows vary in length, and some don't even have an arrow at all, just a wooden stick.

The quality of the tail feathers of the arrow is very poor, and it shatters when touched, making it unusable at all.

Steel knives have a lot of rust spots, and many steel knives cannot even be used for the most basic use, and they will break with a wave.

The spear looks like a shape, it is terrifyingly light in the hand, and it breaks when it is broken.

Not to mention armor, many armors are made of wood pieces to pretend to be iron pieces, coated with a layer of black paint to pretend to be good products, they are not very useful at all, wearing them in battle is equivalent to directly going to the funeral.

This made the local Song Jun very dissatisfied.

(End of this chapter)