Chapter 594: The Caravan Is Coming

Li Jing returned to Ningzhou and told Li De all the situation, including the grain that Tiele needed.

"Promise them that the cattle, sheep and horses will be delivered." Li De said happily.

The grain that Li De used to trade was not the price of cabbage, it was all fluctuating up according to the market price, and it was up to them whether Tiele could explain it, and now was the time to reserve grain.

Even the people who work in Ningzhou do not want money to settle but choose to distribute grain, even if Ningzhou is not short of food, but they live like this all year round, and the people are very worried about the new Ningzhou in the winter.

Li De has no good way to worry about this, so he can only wait for winter to come, and the people have enough food to survive the winter, which is the most effective with facts.

The grain in Bingcheng is still being transported here, and the workshops in Ningzhou have been producing, and a lot of the money accumulated recently has been paid for because the workers have chosen to pay for it.

Li De felt that this was not the way to go, so after the vanguard's baggage convoy returned with special products, the news spread that a trade market was going to be opened in Ningzhou.

Many merchants did not hesitate when they heard about it, and the sphere of influence under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Governor was to encourage business and trade with the Tieren, which they could not have imagined.

For a while, they thought of cattle, sheep and horses, and many merchants from the carriage and horse dealers all came here, because they heard that the price in Ningzhou was cheaper than that in Youzhou, and they could not only buy cattle, sheep and horses, but also do timber business and fur business.

On the other hand, they heard that the most lacking thing in Ningzhou is the living materials, which are enough for them to earn considerable profits once and for all, and businessmen are doing this business for profit, so how can they not seize such an opportunity now.

Taking advantage of the time now, a large number of merchants set off from Youzhou, and now Youzhou has become a commercial city with the north and south, and the military city is now a newly established trading point, and the soldiers and craftsmen living in the military city also need a lot of materials.

It just so happens that Youzhou, as a commercial city, can just meet their needs, and now there are more businessmen in Ningzhou, but they are very happy, how can they not be happy to make money.

So in this way, the merchants spontaneously formed a horse team and came to Ningzhou, which was very large, and after arriving in Ningzhou, it really shocked everyone, including Li De.

"Governor, the caravan is coming with the baggage convoy, there are many people and thousands of merchants, and the caravan is larger than the vanguard baggage convoy." Someone to report.

Li De was a little curious, why did so many businessmen come back, could it be that all the businessmen from Youzhou came?

He went out with doubts and curiosity to take a look, Ningzhou has no city walls, the convoy came over and saw it clearly, and the people of Ningzhou also saw it, in their eyes, the current scene is a lot of carriages.

What's inside, they're curious to know.

"Grand Duke, I have asked the merchant's carriage to stop the land that is to be used as a market for trade with Tieler, and they are to be stationed there." Hebida came over and said.

The construction of Ningzhou was that there were still not so many vacant houses soon, and the merchants had better arrange it, and those who were willing to enjoy it could live in the inns of Ningzhou, or they could find a place in the market to set up their own tents.

Don't say it's a grievance, these merchants have long known about the situation here, so they will carry the necessary tents when they travel, and gather together to be their shop.

After Hebida arranged them over, these merchants began to set up tents on their own, and some of them directly displayed all the goods first, without having to manage many curious people who were all going to watch the excitement.

In this way, the market was formed, and the battle of thousands of merchants could not be said to be shocking, and Li De saw this situation and let them arrange it themselves, anyway, the purpose of letting the merchants come over was to enrich the material life of the people.

Li De knows that this kind of transaction cannot be interfered with, as long as they do not become profiteers, there is nothing to do if they buy and sell, the market is to satisfy both the demand and the supplier, and the transaction can naturally be completed.

The local people who have some spare money are originally tribal people, and they are very curious about all kinds of strange and ancient things in the Sui State, especially cloth is the most popular.

Li De saw that the transaction was so good, and the pioneers also set up a stall to mainly sell fine salt, which not only attracted the people, but also attracted the eyes of the businessmen.

Where had they ever seen salt as white as snowflakes, they were dumbfounded.

"Is this salt?"

The merchants, curious to know where they had gotten these things, asked the guards in charge of selling them to the vanguards.

These people have already thought of the rhetoric, and they must not say that these Li De made them with a new salt-making method, so they found a fine salt produced in Ningzhou.

The merchants were all convinced and came to ask for the price, and this kind of fine salt was not something that just a few merchants could afford, and they had seen such fine salt for the first time.

Li De's control over fine salt is still very strict, and in the past, the sale of fine salt was carried out on a small scale through the vanguard firm managed by Wei Li, and even if it was a small scale, the profits were quite large.

For a long time, the Li family's salt mines have been secretly produced, and the accumulated reserves have been controlled in Youzhou, and the meals used by the soldiers are all fine salt.

This matter has always been a secret, and the kitchen guys have carefully selected it, and they will never leak it.

The vanguard is a very strict army of soldiers and horses, and the discipline is very strict, and there are many things that the soldiers don't need to know, and they will definitely not know.

Now the fine salt is taken out to shock these businessmen, as long as this can develop Ningzhou, to put it bluntly, it is tantamount to a scam, but courage will be very effective.

Merchants wanted to buy these fine salts as soon as they saw them, and the price was very expensive, but they knew that as long as they could be transported back to Jiangling, Chang'an, Luoyang and other places, the profits would be several times that of now.

The local tribesmen are curious, they may not be able to afford to eat fine salt all their lives, and they can't help but be a little disappointed in their eyes, but just when someone was emotionally lost, someone suddenly said: "Have you heard, the year-end welfare of the Ningzhou Workshop is fine salt, what kind of expression do you have, now start to work hard to get double the benefits." ”

Someone said this, and soon more people found out, and the merchants' eyes lit up, thinking that they could buy fine salt from the local people at a cheaper price.

The people actually think the same, but salt is too precious for them, and everyone is willing to sell it if they have fine salt in their hands.

But it's true that it can improve their lives.

How to deal with the benefits distributed to the people is itself a benefit for them, and Li De will not care.