Drive! Drive! ”

Wang Youtian and his entourage of more than 10 people rode fast horses and galloped north, leaving only a few dozen miles away from the border area between Guangdong and Huguang.

Wang Youtian, a middle-aged man who seems to be loyal and honest, he was originally a guard by Liang Xin's side, he once blocked a knife for Liang Xin, and gradually became Liang Xin's henchman, because of the glass business, Liang Xin sent Wang Youtian out.

The glass factory in Guangzhou City has been able to produce glass in large quantities, and some of the glass was transported by the People's Chamber of Commerce to various places under the rule of the People's Army to be sold, but the glass that could be digested under the rule of the People's Army was relatively small, after all, most of the rich people were raided when the People's Army occupied Guangdong, and if the glass was to be sold under the rule of the People's Army, it was necessary to wait for the common people who already had their own farmland to gradually become rich.

After all, it takes a certain cost to produce goods, and the factory will start working at full capacity, or build more factories, and the industry will slowly develop, employing a large number of workers, and the workers will have more wages than farming, and the economy and commerce will also develop.

For the time being, the People's Army can't consume much glass, and under Fang Nan's guidance, Xu Yongning set his sights on the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, which is a market more than ten times larger than the People's Army's ruled area, and can digest dozens or even hundreds of times more glass.

Selling glass to the Ming Dynasty, the People's Chamber of Commerce can't do this, but it can be handed over to those businessmen who have a background in the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, and the businessmen led by Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and others are trying to reopen the relationship under the drive of interests.

If in the past, it was not difficult to do business across regions, at most it was to pay some tolls, but now it is not possible, although the People's Army and the Ming Court have ceased fighting, but the two sides are still enemies, and in the end there can only be one winner, and the loser will only perish.

In this case, there is a barrier between the area ruled by the People's Army and the area ruled by the Ming Dynasty, which is difficult for ordinary people to overcome.

On the People's Army's side, it is good to say that under certain conditions, the People's Army allows the common people under its rule to pass through the customs and go to the Ming Dynasty, such as those wealthy gentry and merchants, hand over most of their wealth, and then they can leave.

However, there are almost no gentry and businessmen who really want to leave Guangdong, these gentry and businessmen are all shrewd people, they can still live well in Guangdong now, throw away most of their wealth and go to the Ming ruling area, they are reluctant, and more importantly, they don't know if they will be arrested by the Ming army as a spy when they go to the Ming ruling area.

Even if they have a Tongtian background to fish them out, they have to shed a layer of skin if they don't die, so it is better to stay in Guangdong, which is full of opportunities to make money.

The gentry and merchants did not leave Guangdong, and the low-level people who had just had their own farmland would not think of running to the Ming Dynasty, but a small number of literati and scholars who were still loyal to the Ming Dynasty tried to go to the Ming Dynasty.

Without exception, those who had just stepped onto the land of the Ming Dynasty were all arrested by the Ming army as spies, tortured and beaten into tricks, which became the merits of the Ming army.

Knowing this, even fewer people dared to leave Guangdong.

The people who entered the Ming ruled area from the People's Army were basically agents of the People's Army, and they had small roads to pass through, and they would not be caught by the Ming Army at all.

Many ordinary people in the border areas knew that the People's Army was good, and they wanted to go to Guangdong, but they were blocked by the Ming army, and under the threat of death, the common people could only give up going to Guangdong, and all the people who came out of Guangdong were arrested as spies.

In this way, customs clearance has become a dangerous thing, glass is a fragile item, if you want to transport it in bulk, you can't take the trail at all, you can only take the avenue, want to sell the glass to the Ming Dynasty, the merchants must open a trade route.

For businessmen with backgrounds, as long as the glass is transported to the Ming Dynasty, there is no problem in selling it, and the key is how to pass the customs smoothly.

Liang Xin and other businessmen all made the same choice, that is, to find a way to buy off the Ming generals stationed in the area.

Liang Xin sent his henchman Wang Youtian to the Ming Dynasty, carrying only a few glass mirrors and transparent glass as samples, but more of them were gold.

One tael of gold is equivalent to five taels of silver, and Wang Youtian and his party carried six hundred taels of gold, equivalent to three thousand taels of silver.

Three thousand taels of silver is a shocking wealth for ordinary people, and it is also a lot of wealth for Liang Xin, if it is lost in vain, it will also make Liang Xin feel distressed to death.

Three thousand taels of silver, as long as you can buy the Ming army to open up the trade route, even if you spend it all, it doesn't matter, as long as you transport a large number of glass to the Ming ruling area to sell, you can earn back a few, dozens or even hundreds of three thousand taels of silver.

But buying the Ming army is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing, some Ming army generals are brainless and can't buy it, Wang Youtian is dead if he goes, and there are also some Ming army generals who like to eat black and eat black.

Here, the People's Army gave some help, handed over the situation of the Ming army garrison in the border area to the People's Chamber of Commerce, and then the People's Chamber of Commerce revealed it to Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and other businessmen, and they chose the object.

According to the intelligence of the People's Army, and through his own network, Liang Xin chose a good target, which was the Ming army stationed in Linwu County, southern Huguang.

Soon, Wang Youtian and his entourage came to the border area, Wang Youtian only planned to take two people to cross the customs, and the others were waiting in a small village for the time being, carrying six hundred taels of gold, Wang Youtian only planned to bring one hundred taels.

Set off, pass the customs, and come to the side of the Ming ruling area, and it didn't take long for Wang Youtian and his party to meet the Ming army.

Seeing that someone was coming from the area ruled by the People's Army, the Ming army immediately surrounded it, which was all a merit.

Before the Ming army rushed up to arrest Wang Youtian and others, Wang Youtian shouted at the Ming army: "Brothers, slow down, my lord is a friend of General Lin, and he ordered me to bring an important message to General Lin." ”

Hearing Wang Youtian's words, this team of Ming troops hesitated, and finally did not do it, if the thing was true, they did it, and they would inevitably be punished, but the most important point was that Wang Youtian gave the Ming army commander dozens of taels of silver.

The Ming army escorted Wang Youtian and the three to Linwu County, and when they got the news, General Lin was puzzled, he didn't have a friend named Liang Xin, and General Lin felt that there was a problem here, and planned to see Wang Youtian.

And Wang Youtian came directly to General Lin with a hundred taels of gold.

"General Lin, this is a gift from my lord to you, please smile."

One hundred taels of gold flashed General Lin's eyes were a little dazzled.