stubborn thief

Chapter 277 Trade Radiation
Liu Chengzong felt comfortable.

The reason why he was comfortable was not the Kangning Mansion, but because of the carrier.

Border smuggling has always been one of the most profitable transactions in the world. In the past six months, the Juerwan market is backed by Hehuang Valley and faces Qinghai and Mongolia. people.

This may be the largest smuggling market in the world at this time.

Liu Chengyun, this young man who is not mighty in shape, not strong in character, and even a little bit reckless, is the big hand behind this market manipulating everything, just like a black market merchant.

On the surface, Jurwan Market looks like an official market, but in fact despite its large size, Jurwan is still a private market. From Xining or even Lanzhou.

Escorting and carrying more than a hundred cavalry, in fact, the biggest mission is not to protect him, but to transport the accounts of Juerwan to Liu Chengzong for review.

In this account, the goods bought and sold by Juerwan to the east and west in the past six months are recorded in detail.

This account has become Liu Chengzong's favorite pillow reading recently, not only because of money, although the account represents huge profits, but different people will always have different gains when they look at different things.

Through the accounts, Liu Chengzong saw the life of Mengfan in Qinghai and the secrets to control them.

The development of things in the world is generally different from a person's original intention. Liu Chengzong originally thought that Juerwan would be built into the largest arms and luxury goods market in Northwest China, with weapons, armor and exquisite wonders to seek huge profits for the Lion Army.

In fact, the profits of Bingjia and Rare Objects are really huge. In the account of the carrier, the trade volume is only 640 taels of silver, and the profit is more than [-] taels.

But these two things account for only about [-]% of the total trade volume.

As of the time when the carrier brought the account to the south, their total trade volume for five months was 25 taels.

Moreover, the trade volume has increased month by month and has not yet reached its peak.

For the things they produce locally, pickles alone are purchased from the surrounding areas of Xining at a price of [-] yuan per catty, and sold at the market for [-] yuan per catty, and they sell more than [-] catties.

Of course, there are also those who lose money, such as fresh vegetables. The carrier carried out more than 1 catties, but only sold [-] catties. The Lion Army in Haibei ate it.

Cattle, sheep and horse dung also have a large market size, mainly produced by the Lion Army, nearly 60 catties, less than 3000 taels.

Firewood is much more valuable than feces, and 50 catties is worth more than five thousand taels.

Juerwan is also a specialty mushroom, and the carrier didn’t know about it. It was a steward of Sufan in Lanzhou who ordered the purchase of mushrooms. The Seventh Department of Riyue Mountain dug up more than 3000 catties and sold them for 500 taels.

Chengyun grinned when he said this: bastard's money is easy to earn.

There are also alluvial gold produced locally, 250 taels, worth 2000 taels of silver; 4000 catties of borax, worth 1000 taels of silver; The general Yang Yao was going to make bacon as a reward for the soldiers, and he paid 2000 taels.

However, the carrier does not care about the money lost by the military supplies, because Juerwan has competitive products: dried noodles, clear oil, leather boots, wooden boxes, pockets, leather ropes, and blankets.

The chieftains and common people from Xining to Lanzhou have become the outsourced manufacturers of the carrier, and made him 15 catties of dried noodles, 1 catties of clear oil, 1000 pairs of leather shoes, [-] pairs of leather boots, and [-] pieces Leather ropes, [-] pairs of large and small wooden boxes, more than [-] pairs of cow hair pockets, more than a thousand horses of brown wool, and more than [-] blankets.

These things, worth more than 3 taels of silver, were all sold off, and there was nothing left.

There is almost no cost, and it is all profit. You only need to pay a little to Xining for the cattle and sheep sold. There is no other disadvantage except that it is difficult to sustain.

The carrier did not dare to sell cattle and sheep to the east, making the Lion Army the largest professional farming household in Haibei. Now there are more than 700 cattle and more than 6 sheep in their hands.

This is because the Mongolian tribes in Qinghai are not very willing to sell cattle and sheep, and people's bulk goods are basically traded in wool and various types of skins.

The price of wool delivered by the carrier was twenty catties worth one tael of silver, and nearly a million catties were collected.

There are tens of thousands of sheep, horse, cow, fox, wolf, leopard, lynx and other skins, some of which are kept in hand, and some are sold to merchants from Hanzhong.

The merchants in Hanzhong were hooked by Tusi Li to sell iron, and they sold more than 1 catties.

The day Liu Chengzong finished reading the accounts, he called Chengyun, and the two brothers chatted all night.

He can see Qinghai's future trade potential from the accounts, and he can also see the biggest unstable factor in his own market - the mainland.

On the one hand, the huge profits of the market come from the Lion Army's isolation of east-west traffic, and on the other hand, it comes from the trade embargo imposed by Ming Dynasty. The elder brother Liu Chengzu's occupation of Xining City made the embargo unilaterally invalid for the Lion Army.

He did not shape the Jurwan market, but the special political environment created this market.

Even without him, in the precarious environment at the end of Ming Dynasty.

In a few years, the internal rebellion of the imperial court will further worsen, and a free market similar to Juerwan will eventually be formed in the northwest. This market will firmly bind the Han, Mongolian, and Fan tribes in Qinghai, making it easier for the next dynasty .

Even with him, such huge profits cannot last for too long.

In the dim light of the oil lamp, Liu Chengzong pointed to the direction of inflow and outflow marked in the accounts, and said to the carrier: "A large amount of fur goods flow into Hanzhong, Lanzhou, and self-produced goods also flow to Tuidan and Qilian Mountains. In the future, they will also be sold to Kangningfu, Hami, Turpan, Uzang."

A huge business radiation network is taking shape.

"This is our best opportunity, but it is fleeting." Liu Chengzong spread his hands: "Our own manufacturing capabilities are still too weak."

Chengyun said: "After all, we have few people, but the market in Lanzhou and Hanzhong is opening up, and we can also buy goods from there. The merchants will naturally send the goods. No matter what they send, we can eat and sell it. "

Speaking of this, Chengyun proudly raised his face and said: "Brother, next year, we can sell goods worth 60 million yuan on both sides, with a profit of at least 30 taels. What the profit becomes is up to you."

He opened his hand and said, "If you want it to turn into silver, it will turn into silver. If you want it to turn into armor, it will become armor. You can even turn all of them into guns and cannons!"

"It's useless to ask for so much silver. The standardized market itself is more important than silver. I'm going to pay the army."

Liu Chengzong said: "Soldiers will become part of the market when they have military pay. When they buy fresh vegetables, fruits, vegetables and meat utensils, silver will continue to circulate in the market. They will put higher demands on handicrafts and attract more craftsmen. Bearing babies is much more important."

"Lanzhou and Hanzhong are both wealthy cities. In this era..."

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "No one can guarantee the long-term peace and stability of any big city. One army can destroy everything. Talent is more important than everything else. Write a letter to your father-in-law and try to dig craftsmen from the east. By the way, Wang Ziyong is here." Is it?"

"For the king's own use, no."

Chengyun shook his head and showed a complicated smile: "Brother, you really got the point. Wang Ziyong stayed in Lanzhou for half a month and went to Liangzhou Wei."

"Liangzhou Wei, didn't I let him go to Juerwan?" Liu Chengzong thought about the location of Liangzhouwei, which was in the northeast of Juerwan: "What did he go there for?"

Chengyun said: "Didn't you ask him to pull people? He pulled more than 600 poor people from Lanzhou. Anyway, he just learned from them that night a group of people gathered in the village and sang things like Maitreya's birth. They were sued by officials and told by officers and soldiers There was a battle."

"Never hit."

Chengyun spread his hands and said: "So Wang Ziyong ran to Liangzhou."

Liu Chengzong didn't quite understand the logical relationship, he frowned and said, "I haven't beaten him and came to Juerwan, you still didn't say why he went to Liangzhou."

"Go to Liangzhou to recruit soldiers. He thinks that he has never fought the officers and soldiers because the peasants can't fight. No one believes his stuff. Only hungry people want to fight together. Isn't there a ready-made frontier army in Gansu? can fight."

Liu Chengzong didn't speak, but gave his thumbs up.

Not to praise the king for his own use, but mainly because he was very speechless.

The development of things has once again embarked on an unimagined path.

He asked Wang to use it himself, not for him to recruit soldiers, but to get more Han people in Juerwan, plant land, herd cattle, etc., and expand his basic base.

He has no shortage of full-time soldiers, and even if he lacks, he will not go to Gansu to recruit soldiers. The frontier army in Gansu is in his heart, and he cannot move until he controls Lanzhou.

The first is that he cannot afford to support the tens of thousands of frontier troops there, and the second is that the cost of controlling the Hexi Corridor is too high for him at present.

The Hexi Corridor was a negative asset for the Ming Dynasty. The officers and troops stationed there needed to provide food and grass from Lanzhou and the Hehuang Valley every year. However, considering the military significance, the expenditure became extremely worthwhile.

Therefore, in Liu Chengzong's eyes, Gansu is in the best state at this time.

He didn't need him to support the soldiers, he continued to bleed Daming, and he could still protect the north of Xining Mansion. From time to time, when hungry frontier soldiers escaped, he would naturally accept them comfortably.

But it is not possible to gather hungry troops from there on a large scale, otherwise the frontier defense force will be reduced.

The best situation for a piece of land would naturally be under his direct rule, if not, the best situation would be under Daming's rule.

After all, Daming has been dead for many years. It is just a dead corpse that twitches from time to time. They are the new bones of this huge corpse. They just need to think about how to make themselves grow healthy flesh and blood, and wait until they are strong enough to naturally Will be born stronger than before.

Of course, even if it falls into the hands of others, he can get it back, but the war will bring huge damage to the population that he cannot make up for in a short time.

At least for now, Gansu Town is under Daming's trusteeship, and it has done a very good job of resisting foreign enemies. No one wants to snatch an inch of land under the noses of those hungry frontier soldiers.

But Wang Ziyong recruited soldiers is different.

Liu Chengzong was so anxious that he scratched his head, pressed the Kang table and said to Chengyun: "We can't take over Gansu."

Chengyun also has a very deep understanding of this. The Xikang prefectures alone have used up all the talent reserves of the Lion Army. At this time, the Lion Army is experiencing an unprecedented state of chaos and cannot take care of both the local area and the war.

Of course, they can still fight, there is no change in combat power, but the interior is very unstable.

Once there is a war with any major force, and a slight defeat in the north or other places, the just won Kangning Mansion will fall apart in a blink of an eye.

Even Xining may be lost. There is no military salary, no conscription system, no local laws, and even 10,000% of the ruling area has no county-level government offices, but there are [-]+ nominally ruled people.

If you lose a battle, it's nothing, and if you win a battle, it's just a tactical change.

"Then what can we do?" Chengyun was quite helpless: "You are not in Xining, and the second uncle and elder brother can't give Wang Ziyong military orders. If Wang Ziyong refuses to listen, it will affect them too much."

Chengyun said: "Brother, you don't know, you are fighting in the south, and your family is walking on thin ice."

Liu Chengzong narrowed his eyes and said, "What do you mean?"

"It's not a problem, but it's true that Brother Cao should stay in Juerwan. At least he can hold back anyone, and he has considered the overall situation."

Chengyun spread his hands and said: "Or just leave Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin at home, and listen to what elder brother says."

"General Yang was the first to defect to you, and the two thousand generals Wei and Han are loyal to you, but they are not so close to the second uncle and elder brother. What will happen if they lose the battle?"

After hearing this, Liu Chengzong relaxed, and said with a smile: "I thought something was wrong, so there is still you?"

"It's okay if you don't mention it." Chengyun said, scratching his head: "I'm the most uncomfortable in the middle. I have to provide things for everyone, and no one can afford it."

Chengyun's embarrassing appearance made Liu Chengzong laugh out loud, then nodded and said: "Okay, I understand, I will give more consideration to this aspect in the future."

In fact, it's not that he didn't think about it, he just didn't care much.

The great cause of this group of people is tied to him alone. If he is not killed in a defeat, there will be no change in what he will be like when he goes back.

If he died, this group of people would have nothing to talk about. The Qinghai Consolation Envoy may or may not be his father. If so, it may be in the small place of Juerwan, and the area around the sea may not be able to be preserved.

The eldest brother may be the chief military officer guarding the western frontier, and he may lead a few leaders to attack the northwest.

Maybe Cao Yao will give birth to a baby as he said, or he may go to an unoccupied place to allocate land for the king to realize his social ideals.

In short, the thing that can bring these people together is gone.

Perhaps Cheng Yun is the most likely to inherit Liu Chengzong's behest, but they only have this chance.

Miss this opportunity to jump on the stage of the Northwest for 20 years, and this group will eventually be wiped out in the war.

Liu Chengzong grinned and said: "This time I still haven't considered it thoroughly enough, let me choose again, we should all go south except for the eldest brother."

"But it will be fine in the future. We have the government, the garrison, and the military salary. After Mr. Yang's experience of life is over and we come up with our laws, the place will be stable."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)