A huge problem was placed in front of Li Shouhan.

Lu Mahong and Wu Xing in the north killed chickens and dogs between Jianghuai, and the cries and howls of the officials and gentry who entered Beijing to complain about their grievances were kept day and night inside and outside Nanjing.

Li Zicheng in the west, the vanguard of the army has gradually entered the four mansions of Chengtian and De'an. Moreover, Wu Ruyi, the trade representative, lives in the Nanzhong Guild Hall, and I have the strength to not leave if you don't agree to my terms of trade.

"Your sister's!" Li Shouhan was furious in the signing room, but he couldn't find a suitable way to solve the problem in front of him for a while.

"Daddy! Dad! ”

In front of the moon gate in the courtyard of the signing room, the seventh lady Ao Lei Yilan was holding Li Shouhan's one-year-old son Li Huahong standing in front of the door, and Li Huahong called his father vaguely. For this son, Li Shouhan has a kind of love. Other children usually call their mother first, but this son will call him father first. In this way, Li Shouhan naturally has some preference for this son.

Looking at his little son in his mother's arms, Li Shouhan felt a lot more comfortable, and swept away the depression in his chest. He waved his hand to the guard in front of the door to let the mother and son in.

"Xianggong, what's the matter?" Although Ao Lei Yilan has given birth to a son, her eyes are still as sharp as a falcon, and there is no situation where she has been pregnant for three years. She could see at a glance that Li Shouhan had something in his heart, and it was a big thing that was quite troublesome.

"You see, that's right."

As a husband and wife, naturally Li Shouhan would not hide anything from Ao Lei Yilan, and immediately introduced the situation of the West Road and North Road to Ao Lei Yilan. Then he carried Li Huahong on his shoulders and listened to the laughter of his youngest son echoing in the signing room.

After teasing his son for a while, a maid led the little master to the courtyard outside to see the plum blossoms, and the husband and wife had the kung fu to speak.

Actually, these two things are also simple at this time. The matter of the West Road, you don't know how to deal with it, then call Mr. Li Jiaer. Trading with Li Chuang and others at the beginning was also a precedent for Long's prevailing merchants, and he should know how to deal with it. Even if you don't know, then, you are the lord, he is a minister, and it is right for him to come up with ideas for you to decide. ”

"As for the matter of the North Road, whether it is Wu Xing or those officials and gentry who have come to Beijing to complain, let them continue to make trouble if they are willing to make trouble. Anyway, no matter how much Wu Xing tosses, he also has to use the banner of our Nanyue Army, just right, let him open the way in front, let's sort out the good life between Jianghuai and Huai, and avoid the supplies and reinforcements for the young grandmother can only go by water. ”

"However, the various means implemented by Wu Xing between the Jianghuai and the Huai River...

"Xianggong, are you confused?" Ao Lei Yilan's beautiful eyes glanced at Li Shouhan, "Does he Wu Xing have the financial and material resources to carry out these things?" What green seedlings loan, what three times the market price to buy wheat, what to build water conservancy to give food, pay wages. When he escaped from the camp, how much money could he have around him, and he could make up for it like this? He doesn't have his troops anymore? After all, he dared to play such a banner, isn't it because of the banner of our Nanyue Army? He is doing what you want to do and have been doing under our banner, so you will have to endorse him and provide him with these money and things in the end. This is how he Wu Xing is wishful thinking! ”

"Humph! Now that my Nanyue Army has borne the reputation, I will finally have to pay this money and food. Then, I simply made a big promise to the people between Jianghuai and Jianghuai. Harness the Huai River, rectify the Yellow River, and dredge the canal. Anyway, Lao Tzu is rich, if you promise a Tongbao, Lao Tzu will give ten. You promise a foot of cloth, and Lao Tzu will give you a set of clothes. See how much power you can use to fight Lao Tzu! ”

Li Shouhan's approach is purely the means of a local tyrant RMB player. Simple, brutal, but absolutely effective. And the effect is obvious.

Aren't you Wu Xing planning to learn from Liu Bei and use my capital to make a fortune and become well-off? Okay, then I'll tell the whole market, what kind of benefits you can get by doing business with me, how I am cheap, endure the pain, shed blood and tears, and clear the sale. It's really not good, that is, the boss of Jiangnan Tannery Huang He ran away with his sister-in-law, I can't let you fight with me! When the time comes, I'll see who the people go with! What you have promised is all empty cakes, and what I have given to the people is a real benefit.

The matter of the North Road found a solution between the words of Li Shouhan and Ao Lei Yilan. As for the West Road, Li Zicheng Dashun Army asked for the resumption of trade and trade and continued implementation of the bailout agreement, and Li Shouhan kicked the ball to Li Peiting.

That night, at the Nanzhong Hall, Li Peiting, Chen Guoxi and Wu Ruyi met in a secret room.

"Mr. Er, I haven't seen you for many years, but your demeanor is still the same." As Li Zicheng's commander of the Chinese army, the ability to casually wear a few high hats is commonplace for Wu Ruyi. Without this ability, it is not easy for him to deal with Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong, who have rolled over in countless conspiracies and tricks.

"Mr. Two hasn't changed much. However, General Wu, you have changed too much. I remember that when we had the first meeting in Shangluo Mountain Middle School, it was the time when Guibao's business was at its worst. Now it has achieved such a state. Chen Guoxi took over the topic and began to make friends with Wu Ruyipan.

"That's also due to the strong help of the two and your owner. Without the material assistance provided by both of you, we would not have progressed so quickly. However, Mr. Er, the shopkeeper of Chen, although Mr. Li is no longer here, the contract he signed with my family is still there. When a person dies, the account cannot be rotten. Wu came today, just to invite the two to transfer to your host, and the business between the two of us still has to be done. ”

As long as the trade can continue, the Dashun army is willing to send 5,000 war horses and 10,000 horses! This is the condition set by Wu Ruyi, and this condition makes Li Peiting and Chen Guoxi, who are accustomed to seeing large amounts of big deals, also can't help but gasp.

The Nanyue army lacked military horses in the interior. This is an indisputable fact. Although Li Shouhan and the deceased Li Huayu tried their best to build horse farms, improve horse breeding techniques, and even snatched Tamna Island from the hands of the Lee court of North Korea in order to raise horses. Not only in Tamna Island, but also in the horse raising island off the coast of Dengzhou, on the territory of the Sauron people, and even in the ten states thousands of miles overseas, in Tianzhu, and in the hometown of Yin Shang, the Nanyue army tried every means to breed and purchase horses. However, far water does not quench the thirst of the near.

However, now Li Zicheng's Dashun army, in order to be able to open up commerce, as soon as he made a move, he sent 5,000 war horses and 10,000 pack horses to each other. What's even more tempting is that in the trade activities between the two sides, the Dashun side can pay for the goods with horses, cotton, wheat, population, silver dollars issued by Nanzhong, Tongbao, and all other payment methods that the Nanyue army is willing to accept!

The premise is that the Nanyue Army must supply the trade list on time in full according to the trade list proposed by the Dashun Army!

With these 5,000 war horses and 10,000 pack horses, the Nanyue Army in various parts of the Central Plains, at least, the Nanyue Army in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River can train at least 3,000 cavalry, and the mobility of the troops will also reach a new level because of the large increase in pack horses and horses! Those artillery and vehicles will suddenly increase from 30 and 50 miles a day to 60 miles or even 100 miles!

Even according to the establishment of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army in the north, 300 men and horses are a basic unit of cavalry, and these 5,000 war horses can be organized into at least more than ten battalions or the Niu Lu of the Qing army! Moreover, please don't forget that the Qing army's Niu Lu had an establishment of 300 people, but there was often a shortage, usually more than 200 people.

Therefore, the goodwill thrown by the Dashun army, or the bait or pie, cannot be described as untempting, sincere, and full of performance.

This attitude, if it is reported to Li Shouhan, our lord will have to jump up happily, right? Li Peiting knows that Li Shouhan does not worry about money or food, if there is something in this world that worries him, it is that the factories, mines, and granges in Nanzhong have an almost endless demand for labor and the market.

Factories, mines, granges, fishing boats, and merchant ships all require a large number of people to work, and then, all kinds of products produced, from rice, edible oil, refined salt, tea, tobacco, to all kinds of iron, porcelain, cloth, and ships, must find a way out and find buyers.

Therefore, the Nanzhong faction, led by the deceased Li Huayu, proceeded from their own hearts and did not want the Central Plains to be pacified. Because, once the Central Plains is peaceful and production is gradually restored, then who will sell the grain, cloth, oil, salt, iron, porcelain and other things produced in the South Central Plains? Where will the large number of laborers needed everywhere come from?

You don't see, every day the wharf is bustling, a boatload of Nanzhong goods are unloaded by overhead cranes and gantry cranes, and a team of hungry people are full of hope and longing for a better life to board the empty cargo ship.

In addition to trying by all means to resolve these contradictions, what Li Shouhan had to do was how the combat methods of the Southern Guangdong Army adapted to the Central Plains and the geographical environment of Jiangbei. The shortage of horses was a big problem in front of him.

When it comes to the dilemma of lack of horses, Li Shouhan is even more embarrassed than the famous and short of war horses in the Song and Song dynasties. Although the Northern Song Dynasty was famous for its lack of horses, at least there were horse farms in the land of Hehuang that could be supplemented. Although it is not as good as the Han and Tang dynasties, there are large national horse farms in the northwest and north, but it can also make up for the shortcomings caused by the geographical environment.

After Song Zhenzong, he gradually changed to buying horses on the grounds that the horse farm was laborious and money-saving, and then horses began to be shortage. Until the reign of Emperor Xining of the Song Dynasty, the prince Anshi presided over the government and carried out reforms, in order to save the cost of raising horses and reduce financial expenditures, the horse protection law was implemented. It is stipulated that Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Jingxi Wulu and Kaifeng Prefecture counties shall protect armor and raise horses, one horse per household, and two horses for those who are willing to do so with high material resources, and give official horses, or officials give money to buy them. Horse breeders are exempt from part of their taxes. Ten households above the third class are one guarantee, and ten households below the fourth class are one cooperative. If the insured horse dies of illness, the horse breeder shall compensate alone; The horse of the social household died of illness, and the horse farmer and the other nine households jointly compensated half of it.

As a result, the effect is obvious. The government's expenditure on raising horses has been reduced a lot, "the official raises a horse, at the median rate, for 27,000 yuan." Recruiting people for shepherding can save more than 80,000 yuan in miscellaneous expenses. "However, a large number of horse farmers went bankrupt, and the quality and size of the horses they raised were far from meeting the requirements of war horses.

So much so that later Han Shizhong once got a good horse 1.7 meters high, and he marveled that it was too high, "not a human minister can ride it", and dedicated to the allusion of Emperor Zhao Gou.

This is probably the difference between large-scale agricultural production and small-scale farmer production contracted by co-production, right? You can look at the price and cost of production of soybeans in our country compared to the price and cost of production of soybeans produced by the agricultural capitalists in the lighthouse countries. If there were no state subsidies and import quota control, I am afraid that our soybean planting industry would have been beaten to the ground by the red-necked capitalists in the central and western regions of the United States.

Forcefully pressed the coal-like heart in his chest, Li Peiting tried his best to keep his mood calm: "General Wu, for your kindness, Li would like to express his gratitude on behalf of the host. However, for the business and trade matters proposed by you, the matter is serious, and Li must also explain the situation to the contempt owner before he can make a decision. However, before that, Li wanted to know what goods you want to purchase, so that the people below could check the goods and see if there were these in the warehouse. If it is insufficient, we must find a way to raise one or two. ”

"Hey! Mr. Li Er laughed. If there are not even enough Guibao in this world, it is the pearl under the neck of the Dragon King, the elixir in the furnace of Taishang Laojun, and the peach in the garden of the Queen Mother! Wu Ruyi said a few words, took out a list from the leather protection book he carried, and handed it to Li Peiting with both hands.

As soon as he unfolded this list, Li Peiting gasped, although Chen Guoxi on the side could not see the contents of the list, but from Li Peiting's frowns from time to time, he could be sure that the number of this procurement list would never be less.

Sure enough, Li Peiting stuffed the list in front of Chen Guoxi: "You take a look first." Ask the people below to take inventory. Chen Guoxi glanced at it hastily, and suddenly the Venus in front of him burst out: "Nanzhong makes 100,000 barrels of gunpowder, and allocates 10,000 barrels in advance." 200,000 life-saving kits, 50,000 yuan in advance. ”

"Your army is really bold and generous!" Chen Guoxi couldn't take care of the needs of other miscellaneous items, and the demand for gunpowder, life-saving kits, and other knife wound medicine and gold sore medicine alone was enough for him to clean the warehouses of Nanzhong firms in Nanjing, Songjiang Mansion, Hangzhou Mansion and other places. He smiled wryly and bowed his hand to Wu Ruyi.

"But I can't complain! I can only complain that the things of the Guibao are really easy to use. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers told in unison that they must go back. Otherwise, not only will I have no face to see my Dashun Yongchang Emperor, but I am an ordinary soldier in my Dashun army, and I will not have the face to meet them below! ”

Seeing that Li Peiting and Chen Guoxi, the two negotiation opponents, had eased their tone a lot, and began to complain that the amount he had purchased was too huge, Wu Ruyi, who was familiar with the world, knew that the matter of purchasing munitions was about six or seven points over. At the moment, he teased a few words in a relaxed tone.

However, Li Peiting, who was also crawling out of the crowd, keenly smelled some extremely sensitive information from his words.

"General Wu, please be wronged in the guild hall for a few days, and after the two of us have asked my lord, I will report the situation to you."

Li Peiting gave a whistle and left.

"Alas! It's better to buy it again! In the mansion of Liang Guogong, after listening to Li Peiting's report on trade negotiations with the Dashun army, Li Shouhan couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh. In this regard, Li Peiting was a little confused, why did the lord say "another one" and "it's better to buy it"?

(Li Shouhan: You kid don't speculate about what Lao Tzu thinks there!) It's better to buy than to build, it's better to buy than to build! Lao Tzu has not said that "it is better to buy than to rent", "use the market for technology", "this government does not consider it", "buy these, there must be corruption in the process, I understand the international rules!" "This kind of behavior of refusing to even buy! ）

However, when Li Shouhan heard that in order to allow the Nanyue army to resume trade activities with him, the Dashun army did not hesitate to give a large number of horses as soon as he came up, which immediately made him itch. To say that he was not moved by such a huge fortune would be an absolute lie. These war horses, pack horses, and pull horses are all scarce materials that may not be able to be bought with hard currency on weekdays, but now, the Dashun army is willing to give them away. How can this keep him unmoved?

In addition, his subordinates learned from Wu Ruyi, the trade representative of the Dashun Army, that the Dashun Army was in urgent need of gunpowder, military medicines and other materials. Otherwise, Wu Ruyi would not have said anything like seeing Jiangdong's father without a face. ”

"Is that true?" Li Shouhan raised his eyebrows, and the situation reflected by Li Peiting obviously attracted his attention.

"Really. He said that the things of our army were easy to use, so hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Dashun army asked him to buy them back. Li Peiting tried his best to recall Wu Ruyi's original words.

"That's right!" Li Shouhan's facial features stretched, and he let out a long breath in his mouth. He is very confident in the performance of Nanzhong's gunpowder, life-saving kits, knife wound medicines, gold sore medicines and other materials. It must be that the soldiers who broke into the camp have bottomed out in several major wars, so they have to purchase a large number of them at all costs.

For the Dashun army, Nanzhong gunpowder can ensure that the guns in their hands can exert their power, and life-saving gold sore medicine knife wound medicine can allow the wounded soldiers in the battalion to be treated and return to the battlefield. With all this, what are the horses that were stolen from Qinghai, Gansu and other places?

"You tell Wu Ruyi, let's do this business! However, we have to let him send the horses, and after counting the numbers, our ships will naturally go to Wuchang! ”

Li Shouhan looked at a black circle on the map, "By the way, let the Dashun Army get rid of this person for me!" He tapped his finger on the map, "Otherwise, their horses, wheat, and people will not be able to go smoothly if they exchange goods!" It's not steady! ”