Twenty taels of silver for a captive, he silently calculated, in the past two days, more than 1,500 captives have been captured, and the calculation is 30,000 taels of white silver.

30,000 silver is definitely a huge amount of money in this era, you must know that when he goes to visit Liu Jian, a fellow countryman, he generally asks Liu Jian to leave some ink treasures, and gives a few hundred taels of silver to moisten the pen is a huge amount of money, you must know that ordinary people's homes, a few taels of silver a year is enough for living expenses.

Before there was no massive inflow of silver from the Americas, the purchasing power of silver was on par.

Originally, he just wanted to transport these captives to the capital and dedicate them to Emperor Hongzhi, but he didn't think of bringing himself a windfall.

Qiao Yong spent 30,000 taels of silver very smoothly to buy more than 1,500 captives from Liu Yu, and the fraction was directly exempted by Liu Yu.

As for Liu Yu, the chief of the trilateral system, when he tasted the sweetness, he immediately ordered to catch as many live captives as possible, and this captive was worth twenty taels of silver, which was about the same price as a bad horse.

At this time, he even hoped that the little prince would attack Datong a few more times, so that he might be able to catch thousands of prisoners and sell them for tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Here Qiao Yong sold more than 1,500 captives, and immediately organized people to put ankle chains and bracelets on these captives, and the injured captives were also treated by someone, and then he also pressed his slaves non-stop towards the capital.

He was still a little apprehensive in his heart, whether a captive could make money after spending twenty taels of silver was still an unknown, after all, these people were grassland people, and it was still unknown whether the owners of those factories and workshops would dare to use it.

If these captives can't be sold, then he will lose a lot of money in this transaction, 30,000 taels of silver, which is a huge amount of money, although his Qiao family has a big business, but a one-time transaction of tens of thousands of taels of silver, it can't afford to lose a few times, after all, it is still not as good as the Hui merchants in the south.

After about ten days of travel, Qiao Yong pressed his more than 1,500 captives to come to the capital very smoothly, and the journey was very smooth.

As soon as he came to the capital, Qiao Yong, as a businessman, also had a lot of contacts in the capital, with a wide range of contacts, and knew many owners of cement factories and coal factories, so he quickly invited some people to come over.

In a box in the Wangyue Tower in the capital, Qiao Yong was entertaining visitors with a smile on his face, and the people who came to the box were the owners of the powerful cement factories and coal factories in the capital invited by Qiao Yong.

"Old Joe, when you called the big guy over this time, it must not be so simple as inviting everyone to dinner, right?"

After three rounds of wine and five flavors, someone asked with a smile.

"Or Lao Zhang, you know me, this time, I brought a batch of goods that everyone urgently needs, you will definitely like it."

Qiao Yong smiled and said, the Lao Li he was talking about is named Zhang Rui, this Zhang Rui is the clansman of the Zhang brothers in Jianchang Boshou Ninghou, and is responsible for helping the Zhang brothers operate the Zhang cement factory.

"What goods we urgently need?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately came to their senses.

"Old Joe, don't buy it, what good things did you bring, show it quickly."

Zhang Rui smiled and said, at the same time, he was also puzzled in his mind, what is there that everyone urgently needs?

"That's right, old Joe, hurry up and show it, what we can do is urgently needed."

Everyone else nodded their heads.

"This time I brought more than a thousand two-legged sheep over~ I think you must need this thing very much."

Qiao Yong smiled, and then said very vaguely, he didn't say it directly, but replaced it with a two-legged sheep, and everyone's eyes widened slightly when they heard it, they all understood people, and they knew what it was when they heard it.

"Where did they all come from?"

Zhang Rui hurriedly asked.

"Ten days ago, the steppe wolf soldiers in the north committed Datong, and suffered a big defeat under the Datong City Pass, killing tens of thousands of people, and more than 1,000 injured people were arrested, and the goods in my hand came from here, please rest assured, I just have a hundred guts, and I will never dare to arrest our own people."

Qiao Yong told the source of the slaves in his hands.

When everyone heard this, they immediately nodded, the great victory on the side of Datong had already spread to the capital, and Emperor Dayue of Hongzhi had already ordered to announce it to the world in the form of a newspaper.

Since the Tumubao Change, the Ming Dynasty has never had such a big victory in foreign affairs, and the enemy was killed at one time, and the little prince was severely damaged, reversing the embarrassing situation of the Ming Dynasty in the face of the invasion of the northern nomads in one fell swoop.

"What about these two-legged sheep? The injury is not serious, is it? ”

When Zhang Rui heard this, he thought about it and asked.

As the manager of Zhang's cement factory, of course he knows the importance of manpower, and now all cement factories, workshops, etc. are in short supply, but these people who come to work will run back to farm when the farm is busy, even if it is useless to increase wages.

Now that the demand for cement is getting stronger and stronger, the imperial court has seen the important role of cement in defending against the attacks of the northern nomads, and has once again issued more orders to the major cement factories, preparing to repair all the passes, the Great Wall, and the city along the long border.

The cement factory of the Zhang brothers has always had a share in the large orders of the imperial court, coupled with the huge demand from the private sector, the orders are pouring in like snowflakes.

On the one hand, there is a strong demand for orders, and on the other hand, there is a serious shortage of manpower, the wages of workers in the capital have risen again and again, and the major factories and workshops have even sent people to various places to recruit people in order to recruit people, and the population of the capital has now risen by millions.

However, the major factories are still short of manpower, and everyone's situation is similar, they are desperately expanding production capacity and scale, and they are all in urgent need of more manpower.

Hearing that Qiao Yong had a two-legged sheep in his hand, the kind that didn't have to pay wages, and he didn't have to worry about leaving things behind because of farming, everyone's eyes lit up.

"This is absolutely assured, are some minor injuries, this grassland sheep, everyone knows, are all grown up eating meat, strong body, strong strength, if you are not at ease, you can send someone to inspect the goods first, and then come to talk."

Qiao Yong smiled and said, he saw something in everyone's eyes, and he knew that his batch of goods was definitely what they urgently needed.

"Old Qiao, these goods are all from the grassland, but they are not very safe, if someone in the court says something, then it will be a big trouble."

Zhang Rui's eyes rolled, and he thought about it and said.

"Lao Zhang, you are laughing, who dares to say that the nobleman behind you?"

"What's more, I've chained these two-legged sheep, including that nothing will happen."

Qiao Yong laughed even happier when he heard this, the other party was obviously making excuses in order to lower the price later.

"Old Joe, make a price, I want it."

At this time, someone said very generously, the person who spoke was called Zhu Ping, the director of the largest cement factory in Beijing, the director of the Beijing Cement Factory, and the owner behind the Beijing Cement Factory was the British Gong, Chengguo Gong, Dingguo Gong and Liu Jin, a small shareholder.

"Lao Zhu, this is not kind, how can you eat alone, those who see have a share, and those who see have a share."

"Yes, those who see it have a share, and it's more or less evenly for everyone."

"Lao Zhu, this is not good, how can good things be enjoyed exclusively."

When the others heard this, they immediately opened their mouths and said, so that they only need to give food, do not need to pay wages, and are not afraid of the two-legged sheep who are busy with the burden of farming, everyone needs it, and everyone can't finish the orders in their hands, they are expanding production and continuing to manpower.

"One price, one hundred and twenty silver, you can pick whatever you want~"

Qiao Yong looked at the appearance of everyone, smiled and quoted a price, originally he thought that it would be enough to sell a few dozen taels of silver, not a loss, and he would be content if he could earn a dozen or twenty taels of silver, but when he saw that everyone was rushing to ask for it, he directly opened his mouth.

"Old Qiao, your price is too expensive, too expensive, one hundred and twenty-one, this monkey year and horse month can only return to the capital, I recruit workers, a worker is less than two taels of silver a month at most, and a year is twenty taels of silver."

When Zhang Rui heard this, he immediately shook his head again and again.

"It's really too expensive~"

Zhu Ping also nodded and said.

"The price is negotiable, the price is negotiable~"

Qiao Yong shook his head again and again when he saw everyone, and said with a smile.

Soon everyone bargained, you fought for me, and at the price of eighty taels of silver, all the 1,500 slaves in Qiao Yong's hands were divided cleanly, and at the same time, these people did not forget to tell Qiao Yong in private, if there are such good goods in the future, they must give priority to their brothers, and the price is negotiable.

"A slave made almost a net profit of sixty taels of silver, and calculated that this transaction almost earned nearly one hundred thousand taels of silver~"

It's not that he doesn't know, he was shocked, Qiao Yong didn't expect that these slaves would be so sought-after, and they would sell so smoothly, and they were sold for a sky-high price of eighty taels of silver, and this single transaction earned almost 100,000 taels of silver.