"Da Lang, Da Lang! You're back? The second uncle Zhang Jianzhong also rushed over.

"Second dad didn't go out?" Zhang Junping asked with a faint smile.

"I was eating with people in a restaurant, and I heard that Gao Yang Cao's three families sent hundreds of cars to our family, so I came back to take a look!

Or Da Lang has the ability! The storeroom at home is full! Zhang Jianzhong stretched out his hand and wanted to pat his nephew's shoulder, but he didn't dare to pat it when he stretched out, so he took it back and rubbed his hands excitedly.

"Huh!" Zhang Junping chuckled twice, "Uncle Lu, don't pile up those silks in the warehouse!"

Let people pack it up and send it to the backyard to make clothes for their aunts! ”

"This ...... This, Da Lang, how can your aunt use so much silk? Zhang Jianzhong was even more happy, rubbing his hands and postponing it a little falsely.

"A family doesn't talk to two families! What is it used to make money? Isn't it just to make your family's life more comfortable?

Don't shirk the second daddy! Besides, I'm not for my second father, I'm here to honor my aunt! ”

"Hahaha! Then I'll thank you on behalf of your aunt! Zhang Jianzhong didn't shirk, laughed happily.

"Second Daddy, how did I do with what I told you?"

"Don't worry, Dalang! I've been making friends with those Hu businessmen in the past few days, and I've already had a good relationship with them!

They promised that the next time they came, they would find a way to bring the strongest bullocks over! Zhang Jianzhong patted his chest and reassured.

Zhang Junping did not let Zhang Jianzhong come forward to organize the bullfighting competition, but asked him to take the opportunity of the bullfighting competition to go to those Hu merchants to buy the bulls!

In the past, Zhang Jianzhong's reputation in the capital quickly convinced those Hu merchants that as long as they could bring in strong bullocks, Zhang Jianzhong, a loser, would be willing to pay a high price for them.

"Collecting cattle at a high price is only one aspect, but also building a high-profile cattle farm!

Do you know that there are people who specialize in cockfighting, dog fighting?

I'll give you a farm, and you go and build a cattle farm, and you declare that you want to breed a special bullfight!

Hire people who are proficient in cattle raising at a high price, veterinarians, buy breeding cattle, breed bullfights! ”

"Dalang, this is going to cost a lot of money, right?" Zhang Jianzhong was actually a little distressed.

"Hehe, as long as you can do this well, it doesn't matter how much it costs!

If you can breed a champion cow, the prize money is yours! In addition, I ask the official family for a real vacant official position for you! ”

"Good! Don't worry! I've got experience in this area, and I won't let you down! As soon as Zhang Jianzhong heard that he could be an official, he was still lacking, and suddenly patted his chest vigorously as if he had been beaten with chicken blood.

If he does the right thing, Zhang Jianzhong may not be able to do it, but he is good at cockfighting and dog fighting, and he has even trained cockfighting himself, and bullfighting is similar to cockfighting, so Zhang Jianzhong is full of confidence.

In the following days, Zhang Jianzhong ran around, publicizing everywhere that he would spend a thousand dollars to buy champion cattle!

Even more let out the wind, he wanted to set up a cattle farm, breed bullfights by himself, and participate in bullfighting competitions.

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At this time, Liu Congjian's side was also vigorous, and the cattle breeders who were waiting for the registration in the long exhaust queue every day would immediately receive the full amount of consistent money as long as they passed the registration.

The full amount means that according to the official standard, one thousand dollars is equal to the consistent, and there is also a folk standard, that is, seven hundred and seven dollars is consistent, which is the consistent money of the province.

After a few days of publicity, not only cattle farmers near Kaifeng Prefecture came to sign up, but even cattle breeders from counties near Kaifeng Prefecture rushed to sign up.

After Zhang Jianzhong spent hundreds of dollars to buy a few bullocks that were obviously much larger than ordinary cattle to serve as breeding cattle, not only Hu Shang, but also many Song merchants were moved.

Of course, many people did not buy cattle for Zhang Jianzhong's promise of a thousand gold, they saw a golden road to fortune.

A cow, as long as it can pass the registration review, can get consistent money, ten times in the preliminary round, one hundred times in the semi-finals, one thousand times in the semi-finals, and ten thousand times in the championship.

In just a few days, the price of adult cattle has increased from 15 to 17, and if it is the kind of strong physique and developed limbs, it is as high as 20 guan, and there is still no market.

Previously, because of the Great Song Dynasty's protection policy for cultivated cattle, although it was profitable to transport the cultivated cattle to the Great Song Dynasty, it could not make them excited, and now the price of cultivated cattle in the Great Song Dynasty has risen by two cents at once, and those big businessmen are moved.

They bring cattle over, and they can either participate in the competition themselves or sell them at a high price.

When the imperial court issued a new decree, the old cultivated cattle could apply for cattle killing documents, and they could be freely sold and slaughtered, and the price of beef was no longer limited, and the traders could set the price freely.

As soon as this decree came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the world!

It turned out that the old cattle that no one wanted turned into hot dumplings, and they could be sold for twelve or thirteen yuan, and the enthusiasm of the cattle breeders was higher.

Buy a calf for only five or six yuan, raise it for a year, you can work, do more than ten years of work, and when you are old, you can sell more than a dozen yuan, for the common people, this business is very cost-effective.

It's not that the people are mean and unkind, it's really life persecution, if life is passable, naturally reluctant to kill the old cow who has contributed to the family for more than ten years.

However, a cow is old and unable to farm until it dies of old age, as short as two or three years, and as long as four or five years, such a long time of raising is really a heavy burden on the people.

The common people who can raise cattle are basically living a decent life, at least they are people who can eat well, and they also need old cattle as animal power, but the cattle can't work when they are old, and they have to be raised, so that cattle breeders can no longer afford to buy calves or bullocks as animal power.

Without animal power, it is not for nothing that they have to bear the heavy burden of raising old cattle, so they become poor.

Although the common people are illiterate, but they are the most realistic, the original government provided loans to them, to help them buy cattle, many people are unwilling to raise cattle, and now take the initiative to ask the official about borrowing to buy cattle.

The entire Great Song Dynasty was rejoicing at this decree, and of course not everyone said it was good.

For example, those who sell beef in the black market are secretly scolding Zhang Junping for smashing their rice bowls, and it turns out that no one wants black market beef for two or three hundred yuan a catty, so they all run to buy beef for only eighty or ninety yuan a catty.

After eating cheap beef, even some old pedants who were originally dissatisfied with cattle killing also closed their mouths.

Some anxious merchants have already set off, heading to the northwest, to the Khitan, and the Western Regions to sell cattle to the Central Plains.

Many Hu merchants also stepped up to sell their goods, and then bought some silk, tea, and porcelain indiscriminately, and began to set off to return to their countries.

There were two kinds of cultivated cattle at this time in the Song Dynasty, one was a buffalo and the other was a yellow cattle, both of which were not very large in size and belonged to medium-sized cattle breeds.

In the eyes of many merchants in the Western Regions, the cattle in their country are much larger than those in the Song Dynasty, and they must be more popular if they are transported over, and if they win the championship, they will not only be able to get a bonus of 10,000 yuan, sell to Zhang Jianzhong, but also get a thousand taels of gold.

The interests are moving, and now the merchants of the entire Kaifeng Mansion are moving for the cattle.

It's not just the merchants who move for profit, but also the artisans.