nanming man

Chapter 295 All Pigs

Gao Yihuan currently has nearly [-] war horses in his hands, and if he picks out [-] horses, it should be no problem to sell them to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty imposed a material blockade on the Shun Army. Salt, iron, grain, and gunpowder were all included in the embargo. They could not be bought with money, but if they were exchanged for war horses, the situation would be different.

War horses are also urgently needed strategic resources for the Ming Dynasty, which is located in the south of the Yangtze River.

Usually, an ordinary lean horse can be sold for seven to eighty taels. Now the Ming Dynasty has no sources of war horses at all. The value of a horse is at least about 80 taels, and there is still no market.

Gao Yihuan gave Ma Shiying some war horses, asked him to exchange some food, and gave him more profits. Ma Shiying probably would not refuse.

After all, nowadays, the strongest unit is cavalry.

War horses have always been an extremely scarce item in the Central Plains dynasty, and they are also trying their best to get something.

After the discussion was over, Gao Yihuan sent a quick horse to find Ma Hongshan and asked him to come to Runing to meet him, hoping to contact Ma Shiying through him.

Time flies, and the Jiashen year is over, and it is 1645 AD.

During the first lunar month, Wei Hou's mansion was very lively, people came to visit every day, Gao Yi welcomed them back and forth, and it was the fifth day of the first lunar month.

This morning, when Gao Yihuan had just had breakfast and was about to go to the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, Gao Chengwei suddenly reported, "Jieshuai, the horseman is here!"

Gao Yihuan was overjoyed when he heard that, "Where is the man? You bring him to the living room."

After hearing this, Gao Chengwei went to lead the people, while Gao Yihuan went to the living room to wait first.

As soon as he sat down, Ma Hongshan walked in with two attendants, and said salutingly, "This old man wishes New Year greetings to Marshal Jie!"

After he finished speaking, he turned his head and said to the followers behind him, "Present the things to Jie Shuai."

Gao Yihuan walked down with a smile on his face, and complained, "Mr. Ma, you are too polite, why don't you bring any gifts?"

Ma Hongshan said: "For the New Year, Jieshuai takes good care of the old man, so he should prepare some small gifts." He pointed to one of the boxes, "Jieshuai, this box is the high-quality velvet that the old man got. I'm not willing to use it, so I specially reserved it for Jie Shuai."

Gao Yihuan's face twitched, he turned his head and said to Qin Wei: "Put it away!"

Ma Hongshan continued: "This box is the maize and sweet potatoes that I bought from Fujian under the entrustment of Marshal Jie. This is only a part. There are two other farms that I brought with me, and they are temporarily placed in the inn. .”

When the corn and sweet potatoes arrived, Gao Yihuan was overjoyed when he heard it, and stepped forward, "Open it quickly, let me take a look!"

The entourage holding the box hurriedly opened the box, Gao Yihuan looked inside, and found a yellow stick and a red-skinned sweet potato lying inside.

He reached out his hand a little impatiently, and picked up the yellow stick. Yes, it was indeed corn, but it seemed a little small, obviously the variety was not very good.

The sweet potato was the same, only the size of a fist, but seeing these two things, Gao Yihuan was still agitated, he put it down carefully, and then ordered: "Put the box away."

Wheat and rice, these crops, have high requirements for land, like rice can only live in paddy fields.

The role of corn and sweet potato, in addition to its relatively stable yield, the most important role is that they can be planted in dry land.

In this way, the arable area will be greatly increased.

Their role is not to increase the yield of the existing arable land. In fact, few people planted other crops in the rice and wheat fields.

Their appearance is to make the originally uncultivable land arable, so that more land can be reclaimed, and the total grain output can be increased by increasing the area of ​​arable land.

With these two crops, the grain output under Gao Yihuan's rule will definitely increase, and the increase in crop types will also enhance the ability to resist drought.

More importantly, this gave him the confidence to take Yunyang.

Yunyang is in the west of Xiangyang, and there are many refugees. It is a poor place. Gao Yihuan has long been able to collect it, but this place does not produce any food. None of them went.

Once he goes, there will be hundreds of thousands more mouths, which is really unaffordable.

Now that there are corn and sweet potatoes, he can also occupy the mountainous area, so the occupation of Yunyang can be put on the agenda, making preparations for breaking into Hanzhong in the future.

Seeing that the guard put away the box, Ma Hongshan immediately asked: "Jie Shuai explained in the letter that there is something that needs to be done by the old man. I don't know what it is? If the old man can do it, I will definitely do it for Jie Shuai!"

Gao Yihuan stretched out his hand and said, "Old Ma sit down first."

After he finished speaking, he went back to his seat and sat down. After Ma Hongshan also sat down, he said: "This commander asked Mr. Ma to come here. He hoped that Mr. Ma would go to the Ma Pavilion for me, and he said that I have two thousand war horses. , I want to exchange some food with Ma Ge Department."

"War horses for food?" Ma Hongshan was startled.

Gao Yihuan nodded, "At the end of last year, my commander surrendered 20 rebels in central Henan, and then more than [-] refugees flooded into southern Henan. I don't have enough grain and grass in stock, so I want to exchange war horses for a batch of grain."

Speaking of this, Gao Yihuan stared at Ma Hongshan, "How is it? Can Mr. Ma help me make this deal."

"War horses are in urgent need in the southeast. As long as there are horses in the world, they will be bought immediately. The commander-in-chief is willing to exchange horses for food, and I think the Ma Pavilion Department will definitely be willing to exchange them. It's just~" Ma Hongshan showed hesitation on his face color.

Gao Yihuan frowned, "Just what?"

Ma Hongshan stood up and saluted: "If Marshal Jie decided to exchange war horses for food a few months earlier, he might be able to exchange for a large amount of food. If he changes now, the price of food will definitely double, but it's not worth it."

Gao Yihuan couldn't help feeling a little unhappy, "You motherfucker, you want to blackmail me."

Gao Yihuan showed a hint of anger on his face, "Why did the price of food soar? Last year, Jiangnan was stable, and the Ming army recaptured Wuchang. Only Jingzhou and other places in Huguang had wars. There shouldn't be a shortage of food."

Ma Hongshan didn't think about it in detail, but explained: "The commander-in-chief doesn't know yet. The Nanjing court took the sea route and sent 5 shi of grain and 100 taels of silver to Ping Xibo Wu Sangui. The commander-in-chief has two thousand war horses." , based on 20 taels per horse, that is [-] taels, if you want to buy grain with so much money, the price of grain will definitely rise~"

"Crack!" Before Ma Hongshan could finish speaking, Gao Yihuan slapped the seat with a slap, and he stood up suddenly, and suddenly flew into a rage, "I fucked up! Give back the damn Ping Xibo. They are all sealed as the King of Qin, so the Nanjing court is full of pigs?"

Gao Yihuan's chest rose and fell, and he almost passed out of anger.

Although Nanjing Ma Ruan and Dong Lin fought fiercely, their attitudes towards the Qing court were basically the same.

Shi Kefa and Ma Shiying, who have been defined as one loyal and one traitor in history, and have been face-painted, are actually the framers of the strategy of "cooperating with the captives and suppressing the bandits."

As early as a few months ago, the Nanjing imperial court had drafted the article "Decree to the Commander-in-Chief of Thieves" by Wang Duo, a scholar, "I heard that Er Xing commanded the Guan soldiers to defeat the thieves sharply. As soon as the python is attacked, the silk is eight inside and outside, and the silver is 200 taels, which is a show of favor. Also, the soldiers and soldiers of your subordinates are not full of food, and they have ordered 5 shi and [-] taels of silver to be transported by sea to help them."

It's just that these are internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Gao Yihuan has no power in Nanjing, so naturally he can't see the imperial edict drafted by the Nanjing cabinet.

Ma Hongshan was taken aback by him, but seeing Gao Yihuan's fierce kick, he kicked over the table next to him, and asked with a ferocious face, "Tell me, what's going on? When did the food get sent away?"

Ma Hongshan shook his head in fright, and stammered: "Jie~Jieshuai, this old man doesn't know too well, but I just heard that the imperial court made Xibo Ping the Duke of Ji, rewarded him for his contribution to suppressing the bandits, and gave him rations, and others. I don't know~"

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