The three stars have gone south, and the night is like water.

Hue City, which had been hustle and bustle all day, became silent, only the lights on the streets, and the soldiers and patrols who patrolled by were still faithfully serving the role of guardians of the city.

In the courtyard, the huge leaves of a few banana trees in the corner rustle in the breeze, acting as the best lullaby.

In several rooms, there were loud or low snoring and dreaming sounds.

However, the shopkeeper Huang couldn't sleep, and after a few tossing and turning, he felt a little stuffy in the house, so he simply got up in his clothes and went to the courtyard to enjoy the coolness.

"The big shopkeeper!?"

In the shadow of the banana tree, one of the guys in the shopkeeper of Huang Da couldn't sleep at night.

Seeing the big shopkeeper coming, he hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Little Joe? Why didn't you sleep yet? ”

The guy known as Little Joe smiled wryly, "I can't sleep!" The big shopkeeper! What I heard today was much more shocking than what I heard from these old Jiangxi watches before! ”

In Taifeng Building, I listened to those craftsmen talk about the surplus grain purchase system in the hands of the peasants, and the Nanzhong Army adopted the system of purchasing surplus grain at three times the market price to ensure the interests of the peasants. It is a security!

Ordinary people can use these industrial vouchers to buy all kinds of materials they need from various shops. This invisibly has millions of circulating funds in the market, providing strong purchasing power to the various factories in the hands of the South Chinese Army. A policy instrument to subsidize agriculture. Manufactured a market for industrial products.

Instead of exchanging salt, a necessity for the national economy and people's livelihood, for all kinds of materials needed for border defense, such as grain, cloth, horses, etc., this way of drinking water to quench thirst has been thrown off by Nanzhong's current approach!

However, this method of guarding the Han has also been exchanged for hundreds of years and countless government experiences.

The government buys grain from farmers at a high price and sells it on the market at a low price, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the market, society, agriculture and rural areas, and providing and manufacturing industrial products.

In the decades after the founding of the Celestial Empire, this policy of high prices and low prices was implemented, and the state assumed the role of stabilizing grain prices and rural areas. And when a certain bigwig who often makes bold statements and makes ordinary people endure labor pains is in power, he brazenly defends the world's condemnation. The subsidy policy for grain purchases has been abolished. Pushing grain prices to the market in an all-round way, poor ordinary farmers, on the one hand, have to face high prices of pesticides, fertilizers and seeds, and on the other hand, they have to tearfully face low grain purchase prices. It will also be encircled and suppressed by the West's oil-based agricultural companies. The cost of their produce, the price. It is not comparable to the small-scale peasant economy of one family.

For a time, there was such a thing as the peasants were really miserable and the countryside was really dangerous.

And this kind of practice is something that the Jin merchants more than 300 years ago couldn't think of a reason even if they wanted to break their heads. They instinctively felt. This is by no means an idiot practice of throwing money on the street, but it is definitely not the so-called virtue politics, and the mystery of this is only an earth-shattering secret.

"Xiao Qiao, what do you think of the quality and condition of this money?"

The shopkeeper Huang handed over a Nanzhong Tongbao that was warm in his hand.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Qiao smiled bitterly and opened his palm, and in his palm was the same Tongbao.

"Huh! Joe! It's actually the same thing that the hero sees! ”

Whether it is copper, quality, texture, or even weight, this Tongbao is no less than the Tongbao issued in the first year of Yongle Tongbao and Chongzhen. It is a hundred times stronger than the various horse racing copper coins and privately minted sand shell private money circulating in the mainland.

"Before we came out, the big shopkeepers of several shops wrote to me, saying that this money has been circulated everywhere, and many people are no longer willing to use Running Horse Chongzhen, and many ministers also ask to use this money. Xiao Qiao, what do you think of the interest on this money? ”

"What do you mean by the big treasurer? Planning to ship a batch of money back to use? ”

The two copper coins were placed side by side on the stone bench, and by the light outside the wall and the moonlight overhead, the two of them carefully observed the two copper coins.

One is the change found by Taifeng Building, in addition to being used to reward the guys, the shopkeeper Huang Da quietly settled the wine and dinner money of the craftsmen and craftsmen who chatted with them, and deposited ten silver dollars on the counter, "In the future, these gentlemen will come to your store for dinner, and it will be a small treat." ”

The other one is the change that Xiao Qiao bought newspapers and various popular books and books in Nanzhong on the street.

The inscriptions, patterns, and the same clarity on the two copper coins from different sources, were weighed in their respective hands, and the weight was the same.

"Our big proprietor also used to open their own furnace to mint money, and I also went to the official money bureau to see it, and I thought about it for a long time, and I couldn't think of how such a neat and exquisite copper coin was minted in large quantities?"

On the face of the shopkeeper Huang, through the sparse shadow of the leaves, Xiao Qiao could clearly see the loneliness on his face.

"Not just copper coins, but silver dollars. At the time of departure, the big proprietor specially wrote a letter, saying that in Liaodong, whether it was an official army or a Manchurian soldier, it was necessary to have silver dollars. If we want to think of a silver dollar to go back, we can open the furnace and imitate it. ”

It is no wonder that silver dollars are collected everywhere, and compared with the Western silver coins that the Jin merchants have seen, the Nanzhong silver dollar is obviously much more exquisite than the Western silver coins, and I really don't know how it was minted. On the front is a circle capitalized in Chinese characters, and on the back is a chrysanthemum, and then the chrysanthemum is written on the Ming Nanzhong Mint, and below is written the words Chongzhen cast in a certain year. Chrysanthemum petals are distinct. How such a delicate, beautiful and unified silver dollar was minted, Huang Da's shopkeeper was puzzled.

The Nanzhong silver dollar is not only beautiful in appearance, but more importantly, it is in excellent fineness, far better than the full-color silver of the household, even the fine-grained silver of the inner silk is quite deficient compared with this silver coin. It is no wonder that the officials and eunuchs in the capital received gifts and bribes based on the Nanzhong silver dollar.

"The big boss is extremely reasonable. However, today I was chatting with the guys at the inn. I stumbled upon something! ”

Although Xiao Qiao's words were not big, they sounded like a thunderbolt on the head of Huang Da's shopkeeper!

He looked around vigilantly, and there was no one else in the courtyard except the rustle of leaves in the night wind.

He grabbed Xiao Qiao's hand, "Say it quickly!" What do you know?! ”

"When I came back, I couldn't understand why we ate beef, pork, fish, chicken, etc. so cheaply, so I talked to the guys at the inn, and they told me the trick."

According to the guys, fish and shrimp aquatic products. Except because Nanzhong is bordered by the ocean. In addition to countless fishing boats fishing day and night, there are also methods of raising fish and ducks in rice fields for the majority of farmers.

"In addition to raising fish and ducks, we also make use of the time of day to practice intercropping. Plant rapeseed first. After the rapeseed harvest. Rapeseed is used to extract oil. The rest is used to fertilize the fields. Almost every acre of field can harvest at least 100 catties of vegetable oil every year! That's why you can see so many oil baskets and dishes that use oil like water everywhere! ”

"This?"

The shopkeeper Huang was a little disappointed, he originally thought that the mouths of the guys at the little Qiao Tong Guò inn had taken some earth-shattering secrets from it. It turned out to be just a method of how to farm, raise fish, and extract oil in Nanzhong! This method cannot be said to be useless, but it cannot be achieved in the hinterland, where the smoke is everywhere and there are people displaced by disasters and famines.

Not to mention the north, it is known as the Huguang area, which is known as the Huguang area, and now there are all kinds of homeless people and homeless people coming and going. The squire clans in various places have formed villages to protect themselves. Every day, I think about how to survive in this troubled world, and what kind of rice and fish farming are there that I still have the mind to?

That Xiao Qiao is also a clever person who is ambushed by news, otherwise he would not have taken him to Nanzhong. Seeing that Huang Da's shopkeeper was unhappy, he threw out another piece of news.

"In addition to the farmers raising their own fish, cattle and pigs, Nanzhong is more so-called professional farmers, this generation does not farm, only breeds chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and fish, etc., and there are many people who breed hundreds of pigs and cattle, or even thousands of heads. In this generation, there are more farms run by major government or businessmen, and the scale of breeding is several times higher than that of professional farmers! The big shopkeeper can know that what is a magic weapon in the hands of these people who breed pigs, cows, fish and chickens? ”

"What is it? Can they scatter beans and become soldiers? The shopkeeper Huang snorted, not feeling a little sleepy, but out of habit, he still endured the sleepiness and planned to listen to this little Qiao's words.

"Although you can't sprinkle beans into soldiers, you can also make livestock, fish, chickens and ducks grow faster, grow stronger, and fatter!"

Xiao Qiao got up to leave, and when he was young, he retrieved something from his room and handed it to Huang Da's shopkeeper.

"Look, shopkeeper, this is what I'm talking about."

The shopkeeper Huang was full of suspicion, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

He carefully looked at the nearly human-tall plant in his hand.

"What is this?"

Looking at this human-tall plant, the stems and leaves are luxuriant and the texture is crunchy. There was a slight sweetness coming out of a few fractures.

"It's called corn straw here. It's the same word as the corn used in the noodles we eat today. But it's not the same thing as the corn. This thing is good food and grass for livestock! ”

After teasing what he had seen, Xiao Qiao paused and continued to explain the information he had obtained to the big shopkeeper.

"Horses, cows, sheep, pigs, fish, chickens, ducks, and geese love to eat. And the regeneration ability is strong, it can be mowing as many as seven or eight times a year! Each acre of grassland can produce tens of thousands of catties of stems and leaves! And you don't pick the field, you can plant it in front of the house and behind the house, and in saline-alkali land! Chop it up a little and you can throw it into the pond to feed the fish! ”

"Can tens of thousands of catties be produced per acre of land?"

This number really scared the shopkeeper of Huang Da!

To Mongolia and Liaodong, he is familiar with this road. I have also heard of the amount of grass produced on the grassland, and a good grassland is only hundreds or thousands of catties per acre. Such pastures are enough to cause wars between tribes.

"Where did you get this?"

The shopkeeper Huang held the corn straw tightly, his voice was a little distorted, and he shouted to Xiao Qiao in a low voice.

"According to the guy, it was more than ten years ago, the general here Li Shouhan exchanged the price of a bucket of seeds and a bucket of gold from the Westerners. It is said to be produced from overseas tens of thousands of miles away. It's a good thing! Sow the seeds, take care of them if you want to, and let them grow if you don't. It can be harvested when it grows to about two feet in 45 days after budding, and each plant can be harvested seven or eight times a year. About all year round. For more than ten years. This corn grass was promoted by Li Shouhan to all parts of Nanzhong, so there is such cheap meat in Nanzhong! ”

A bucket of gold and a bucket of seeds?!

This price has already made the shopkeeper Huang crazy. But the price of this thing is too cheap compared to its meaning!

The man at the inn said that outside the city, the innkeeper also planted some corn and grass, and raised some cattle and sheep, chickens, ducks and geese. Almost 50 sheep can be fed with fresh grass per acre, or 500 chickens, ducks and geese. If it's a cow or a horse......"

With a "bang", the shopkeeper Huang grabbed Xiao Qiao's wrist, "Xiao Qiao." Don't talk about it anymore! ”

He stood up. The sleepiness has long been thrown by him to the country of Java! Well? It seems that the country of Java is not far from this Hue. The excited Huang Da shopkeeper couldn't stop pacing back and forth in the courtyard.

Originally, I planned to see if I could purchase some fine iron, armor, swords, and guns in Nanzhong and sell them to Mongolia, Liaodong, and various towns in the nine borders and Beijing camps, so as to make huge profits. But after I came, I realized that if I purchased a large quantity, it would be a lot of trouble. An import and export licensing document is enough to be prohibitive.

Settle for less. The idea can only be hit on those cotton cloth, edible oil, refined salt, fine white sugar and other materials that Nanzhong encourages export. If these materials are sold to Western Mongolia and other places. You can also make a lot of profits. However, no matter how high the profits of these things are, they are still much lower than those of selling weapons.

But the corn straw that Xiao Qiao took out just now. The shopkeeper of Huang Da saw the hope of making a fortune and making a fortune.

One acre of land can feed fifty sheep, so there is no problem to feed a few horses! Liaodong had idle land, and the Manchurian soldiers used cavalry and horse teams as their main combat forces. If you get the seeds and planting methods of this corn grass and sell them to all over Liaodong and Mongolia, haha! My God! This grass is no longer grass, every blade of grass is a gold bar!

"Cowpox! Tongbao! Corn Straw! ”

He repeated these three words over and over again. These are the three things that have brought him countless surprises on this day.

Cowpox can ensure that the population is only a little larger, so that Huang Taiji and his banner lords and Mongol princes do not have to lose a large number of people due to pox, so that the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers and horses can ensure that they are enough to maintain the level of war.

Corn straw is here to support these populations. With enough soldiers, those Bayala soldiers, armored soldiers, and unarmored Yu Ding, as long as they want to fight, they must have horses, not to mention one person, two horses or three horses, as long as it is the eight banners of Manchuria and the eight banners of Mongolia that are a little passable, they must have at least one horse, right?

If these hundreds of thousands of horses were to be fed by the fodder provided by the pastures, it would be difficult for them to be dead food officials. If you have the seeds of this corn straw, you just need to arrange for someone to water them and harvest them on time.

He has already begun to calculate, whether to ask the big proprietor to apply to Huang Taiji to buy some land in Liaodong, and then plant these forages in Liaodong?

"Even if you spend all the money you brought, you have to get all three of these things! At least two, too! ”

Slowly stopped running quickly, the shopkeeper Huang Da made up his mind, turned around and looked, Xiao Qiao was still standing aside.

"Little Joe, what is your current size?"

"The big shopkeeper is really a noble person who forgets a lot of things, I am the body stock that was adjusted in the account period last year, from the number of students to the current top business, my body stock is now five percent."

"I'll write to the big boss right away! Tell the big owner about your table in Nanzhong, and give you a rise in stocks! ”

"Thank you for the promotion!"

Little Joe couldn't help but be overjoyed.

This is not surprising either. In Pingyao, Taigu, Qi County, Shanxi Province, there is a popular proverb that says: "If the official enters the cabinet, it is better to be a guest in the tea ticket village." It can be seen how attractive the top stock was at that time!

"I will protect you from the big boss! Give you a two-percent rise in body stocks, promote you to be the third shopkeeper, and in the future, you will be the banker! ”

When the golden rooster sang and a round of red sun erupted in the east, the guys who slept sweetly all night last night were surprised to learn that when they were discussing the true meaning of life with Zhou Gong, the great benefactor of the Jin Kingdom, Xiao Qiao had quickly completed the big leap from a guy to a third shopkeeper. Not only has his position been promoted, but his stock and silver have also been greatly improved.

And the reason for this promotion turned out to be a corn straw that could reach a height of nearly a foot everywhere in the city and outside the city, in front of the house and behind the house, and this thing was thought to be sugar cane when everyone first saw it!

Because of such a corn straw, Xiao Qiao quietly became everyone's boss, and everyone couldn't help but feel a little angry, envious, jealous, and hateful.

"Why wasn't I the one who got promoted?!"

"Don't be unconvinced!"

The shopkeeper Huang Da held a big bowl of beef rice noodles, which were red and full of chili peppers, and he poured a spoonful of vinegar on the rice noodles, and Xili snorted and ate them.

After a few mouthfuls of rice, he turned his head to face the group of men standing in the courtyard.

"When you came back from drinking and taking a hot bath yesterday, Little Joe was thinking about business; When you slept like thunder, Little Joe was pondering business; When you wake up and wake up at night, Little Joe is still thinking about business! Such a person, such a guy does not promote, does not add shares, then God is really blind! ”

The power of example is endless.

Stimulated by the great stimulus, the business guys have been like hunting dogs, camping around all corners of Hue City, trying to find a business that can make them promoted.

However, the shopkeeper Huang also gave these people a new errand.

"After going out, no matter what you see, what you hear, whether it's the system or the story! As long as you think this thing is a little interesting, write it into a document after you come back, and write your views on it, each article, I will write two hundred Nanzhong Tongbao's moisturizing pen! ”

These things collected and sorted out by Huang Da's shopkeeper were originally written by him in the form of letters to the big proprietors in Beijing. After that, it was copied by the big proprietor to the other seven ministers.

Soon, this booklet, known as "Excerpts from Nanzhong's Business Information", became the most original material for mainland businessmen and officials to understand the various systems and social customs of Nanzhong.

"There are two things here, and I think I can ask the buyers in Liaodong. One is cowpox, which can prevent the spread of smallpox, and there are countless living people. Widespread planting has already begun here. The second is corn grass, patented cattle and horses. For Li to find it from overseas. Tens of thousands of catties of forage can be obtained per mu, and cattle, horses, pigs and sheep can be eaten. The proprietor can reveal a thing or two to the Liaodong Prime Minister to find out what his tone is. ”

In the letter, the shopkeeper of Huang Da told the biggest harvest of this trip to Nanzhong in the secret language agreed with the big owner. Ask the big boss to contact Huang Taiji, who is currently in Liaodong with the fortune teller Zhou Blind who was sent by the Ming army to test his tone, and at the same time is ready to enter the customs again to loot, to see if Huang Taiji is interested in these two commodities that are not weapons, but are also of strategic significance? How much can I pay?

"You must know that when Li Shouhan purchased this seed from overseas, he had a bucket of seeds and a bucket of gold!"

Definitely a big profit! (To be continued......)