Looking at Old Man Sun's confident appearance, Li Xuan felt a little funny, this Old Man Sun was really careful enough, he was really afraid that he would give him a black food black, and he wouldn't give money if he took something.

However, it is no wonder that Old Man Sun has this defensive mentality, after all, the Tang Dynasty who deals with him is a bandit, and even now it has a strong bandit atmosphere.

Among the group of civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty, half of them were born as bandit leaders, Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Cai Erhu were famous bandit leaders in the hundreds of miles of mountains in the past, even Qian Mengjiu, a civil official, was also born as bandits.

The existence of so many bandit leaders in the Tang Dynasty, coupled with the fact that the Tang Dynasty had done so many things to 'collect grain' in the past, really made Old Man Sun unable to have any sense of security.

Therefore, Old Man Sun is defensive, and Li Xuan is understandable.

But what Li Xuan couldn't understand was that Old Man Sun said that the goods would only take three days to be transported, which meant that it was very likely that these goods had been transported to Zhengtai County, but now the entire Zhengtai County was under the control of the Tang Dynasty.

If you really want to eat black, these goods are not very good to hide, send people to find, you can always find some clues, after all, to transport so many goods, it must require a large number of people and carriages, such a large caravan appeared in Zhengtai County, it is impossible not to leave traces.

With a little thought, don't worry about not being able to find it.

Maybe he saw Li Xuan's playful expression, but the old man Sun smiled slightly, and then added: "Those goods are now on the east bank of the Lanjiang River, if you can take out a piece of silver today, then the villain will immediately send someone back to let them start transporting the goods across the river!" ”

Damn, hearing this, Li Xuan also had to admire this old man Sun, not only cautious, but also bold!

Today's Lanjiang River is a military confrontation zone between the Ming army and the Tang New Army, and several ferries suitable for large-scale river crossing are already under the strict supervision of the Ming army and the Tang New Army.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty was afraid that the Ming army would sneak across the river from other places, and the Ming army was also afraid that the new army of the Tang Dynasty would cross the river and attack Fucheng.

However, as soon as Old Man Sun said this, he became even more curious, where did this Old Man Sun cross the river from? It is definitely not the ferries that the public is familiar with, because in this case, it is impossible for the people in the Datang New Army to monitor these ferries not to know.

So did he cross the river from somewhere else?

This news immediately made Li Xuan realize the military strategic value of Old Man Sun's words.

If you want to cross the river and advance eastward in the future, in the case that the Lanjiang ferry is heavily guarded by the Ming army, and several other big ferries are also monitored by the Ming army, if you can have a ferry that the Ming army does not know can be used to cross the river, send a partial division to secretly cross the river to attack the rear of the Ming army, or even sneak attack the Ming army from behind, and cooperate with the main force to cross the river, then crossing the river can be expected!

Although the current Tang New Army, or Li Xuan, has no intention of crossing the river to attack Fucheng, this does not mean that he will always stay in Zhengtai County, and after he expands his army and completes his training, and has three or four thousand troops, he will definitely not be satisfied with the remote place of Zhengtai County, whether it is Li Xuan himself or the Tang Dynasty, he will need a broader space for development at that time.

And it was not only Li Xuan who thought of this, but several other generals also thought of it, and immediately Zeng Ziwen said: "Lanjiang? Now that the main crossings of the Lanjiang River are under the supervision of our army, where did you cross the river from? ”

However, at this time, Old Man Sun was smiling and silent!

Seeing this, Li Xuan didn't plan to continue asking, even if this old man Sun didn't say it, but he spent some time and sent more people to find it, couldn't he still find it?

And it's the same sentence, his old man Sun came with so many goods, it is absolutely impossible to achieve complete secrecy along the way, think of more ways, and you can always find some clues.

Immediately, Li Xuan said: "Such a great goodness, since Old Man Sun has already transported the materials needed by our army, then without further ado, complete the transaction as soon as possible!" ”

After speaking, he turned his head and looked at Xie Waqian: "Xie Shangshu, you and Sun Yuanwai do a good handover, there must be no mistakes!" ”

Xie Waqi immediately came out and said: "The minister obeys the order!" ”

Immediately, Xie Waqian calculated the value and quantity of the goods with Old Man Sun on the spot.

This time, Old Man Sun brought a lot of goods, but at the same time that the goods were sufficient, the price was also ridiculously high, whether it was iron or copper, sulfur, saltpeter, etc., the price was all double or even several times the normal market price.

Among them, the most expensive is sulfur, because most of this thing is not produced in China, most of it needs to be imported from Japan, and it crosses the sea and mountains to Zhengtai County in the southwest inland, and the high price makes Li Xuan tremble when he sees it, which is more than three times the market price.

The rest of the saltpeter is not cheap, and it is twice the market price.

In contrast, the price of iron, as the most important and strictly monitored strategic material of the imperial court, is not so high, only twice as high as the market price.

Maybe it's because the transaction is relatively smooth, Old Man Sun doesn't know if he accidentally said that he leaked his mouth or deliberately revealed it, saying that his iron is all private iron purchased from private mines, and the reason why the number this time is not much, it is because of the first transaction, and the transportation channel is not usual, this transaction is just a tentative transaction, if the Tang Dynasty needs more iron, as long as the money can be obtained, then not to mention more, tens of thousands of catties are casual.

Hearing this, Li Xuan was stunned!

What kind of person is this, when he is an emperor and is still worried about thousands of catties of iron, this smuggler opens his mouth casually for tens of thousands of catties of iron, and it is still private iron.

You're so awesome, does the court know?

If you let the Ming court know that you are so awesome, it is estimated that they will give you a big gift of raiding your family and exterminating your family!

However, it is also a good thing that this person has many channels, at least for the Tang Dynasty in the short term, there is a stable channel to obtain enough various strategic materials.

When Xie Waqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Old Man Sun calculated the value of the goods, Li Xuan found that this batch of goods, this Old Man Sun actually collected more than 3,000 taels of silver from himself.

Hearing this number, whether it was Fang Dongquan or Chen Butcher, or Liu Bagou and Zeng Ziwen, or Xie Waqian, who personally calculated the price of goods, they were speechless for half a day!

Nima, your surname Sun is really dark!

A few hundred taels of things were sold for more than three thousand taels of silver!

The cost of his acquisition of these goods is at most a few hundred taels of silver, even if you count the transportation costs and other unconventional expenses, well, bribes and so on, the cost will definitely not exceed eight hundred taels.

If these things are sold normally on the market, it is estimated that they are worth about 1,000 taels of silver, that is to say, if these things are sold normally, their profit margin is estimated to be about 20 or 30 percent, which is not low, but it is definitely not high.

However, this old man Sun took more than 3,000 taels of silver from the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, his profit is at least four times more than fourfold!

He is worthy of being a mercenary capitalist, with 100 percent profits, he dares to trample on the Ming Law, and with 300 percent profits, he dares to put the rope hanging on the beam of the house into his neck, and now he has more than 400 percent of the moisture, no wonder he dares to take the risk of raiding his family and exterminating his family and trading with himself.

After Butcher Chen and the others saw this price, they all looked at Old Man Sun with eyes eager to eat him, although they were prepared to be hacked, but they didn't expect it to be so black, they couldn't see their fingers.

Butcher Chen waited for a pair of giant eyes, and the look in his eyes was clear: What a bold man, he dared to pit our Datang, believe it or not, Lao Tzu slashed you with a knife!

However, this is just the thoughts of the people below, but Li Xuan did not show the slightest anger, and even Li Xuan's eyes became more and more cordial when he looked at Old Man Sun.

If it weren't for the inconvenience of his identity, Li Xuan would have stepped forward to shake hands with Old Man Su: Sun Yuanwai deserves to be a good businessman in the new era!

This good businessman, if his price is low, Li Xuan is honestly still a little worried about whether he will come again next time, but this time he opened the price so black, Li Xuan knew that this person definitely dared to be a traitor in order to make money, and he was not even afraid of raiding his family and exterminating his family, and it was estimated that there was nothing else in his eyes except money.

Compared with making money, the risk of traveling to and from Zhengtai County is a fart!

And such a businessman is what the Tang Dynasty needs most at present, Li Xuan is not afraid of your price black, he is afraid that you dare not come, as long as you dare to take the goods through the blockade of the Ming army to Zhengtai County, double the price will still be given!

Anyway, the gold and silver hoarded in the hands of the Tang Dynasty now are useless except for looking at the hair, if they are not used to buy materials, they can only be put away with mold.

With these gold and silver that can only be seen and cannot be eaten in exchange for strategic materials that can be used to fight, no matter what the proportion is, Li Xuan feels that he has earned it.

The Tang Dynasty needed grain, salt, cloth, iron, copper, sulfur, saltpeter, lead and other strategic materials, and it was a large need, and it was urgently needed.

With a businessman like Old Man Sun, who wants money and doesn't want to die, the Tang Dynasty was able to get so many materials from the outside world in a short period of time.

Therefore, Li Xuan suppressed the angry eyes of the others, and then said with a smile on his face: "Outside Sun Yuan, the cooperation is pleasant, if you can, the next time your caravan comes, be sure to bring 10,000 catties of iron, and the price will be doubled as usual!" ”

When Old Man Sun heard this, the smile on his face became even bigger, and he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty's order, the villain must do his best, if nothing happens, the next batch of goods will be delivered in half a month!" ”