The Tower Hill camp has become very lively!

Boatload by boat, under the guidance of each battalion and outpost, were taken to the garrisons of each battalion, and suddenly a wave of heat was set off in the camp.

Yesterday was still fighting with Jiannu flesh and blood, life and death were only between a line, and suddenly his wife and children appeared in front of him, which suddenly made people feel like a world away, like in a dream.

When the officers of the governor's line, who had escorted the families to the battalions, announced that this was the grace of the uncle and the lord of the county, all the officers and soldiers immediately exclaimed in exclamation.

In the past, it was forbidden to bring family members in the Ming army, but the accumulated physiological needs and pressures of everyone needed to find a channel to cast. Therefore, the soldiers and horses who have been fighting for a long time will inevitably have rape and plunder, and now the county lord has sent everyone's family to visit relatives, how can it not be amazing?

More amazing things one after the other.

As soon as he held his wife and children in his arms, the adults of the governor's army announced one thing with a smile: "The county lord forgives everyone for fighting hard for days. In the past few days, the families of the Japanese army have come to visit their relatives, and the whole army has added vegetables to improve their food. In addition, the grand shopkeeper of Long was ordered by the county lord to open a store in Tashan Daying. All goods are sold at a 20% discount price in previous years. It's a reward from the county lord for everyone! ”

With a bang, the cheers above the camps of Dayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain resounded in the sky, startling the Qing troops in Baitai Mountain, Tashan and other places as if they were facing a great enemy.

Dong E, who was under the white flag, rode his horse back and forth on the position, pressing the soldiers and minions who were a little panicked, "Don't panic, don't panic!" Wait until the Nikans come out of the camp! ”

In the camp of the Ming army, the cheers gradually subsided, and people's faces turned red. Full of excitement and happiness.

At present, there is a shortage of grain and goods in the Ming Dynasty, and the prices are expensive, although the Guanning military system will not be like other military towns because of the relationship of Liaoning, and it is often in arrears for more than ten months, but because of the relationship between the silver in this area (not only the silver of the Guanning Army, but also the silver of the thieves in Liaodong). If the price of grain, cloth, oil, and salt is even higher, the general soldiers, deputy generals, and guerrilla generals naturally don't have to worry, but the petty officers such as the general commander of the garrison below will not have a good time.

Now, after several major wars, these middle- and lower-level officers and ordinary battalion soldiers, not to mention that they have made a fortune, but they also have bulging pockets, and they can't help but feel itchy in their hearts every day when they touch the hard silver dollars on their waists in the camp tent but can't find a place to spend their money.

If the war was fought elsewhere, there were few merchant gangs such as Jin merchants, Hui merchants, and Zhejiang merchants doing business around the army. A bustling market is formed near the camp.

In addition to all kinds of supplies, there are even all kinds of shady trades, casinos, brothels, and even darker places with enemy troops.

At this time, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were powerful, and most of the border army grain and grass in the border towns of the Ming Dynasty were supplied and transported by merchants, and their shadows could be seen in every war.

The same is true of the West at this time. The Holy Roman Empire marched with an army of 30,000 men. The entourage amounted to 140,000, most of them caravans, as well as a large number of hooligans, beggars, thieves, prostitutes, and so on.

Hundreds of thousands of people fought for their lives, and the result became a huge business opportunity between various merchant caravans. No matter how times change, businessmen will never lose.

Waves are constantly rolling up on the beach, blown by the sea breeze and slapping on the reef, splashing up columns of water that soar to the sky. On the beach, the market is far more noisy than the waves.

After enjoying a sumptuous lunch, the wives and children of those officers and soldiers went to the market with bamboo chips and waist cards to buy all kinds of things they needed.

A group of women who knew each other all the way, and they couldn't stop savoring the meal just now.

This meal, in addition to the absence of wine, was very rich in the eyes of the Liaodong Army. Large pieces of pork, beef and mutton, large plates of all kinds of fresh fish, kelp fresh fish soup, all kinds of pickled and air-dried meat from Nanzhong, meat porcelain jars, and even some rarer melons and fruits from the South Road, etc. The whole barrel of japonica rice in the wooden barrel that can make a half-sized child bathe in it is so shaking that people's eyes can't open it. In contrast, the strong tea brewed in the large copper kettle on the table seemed a little less noticeable, and it was not as good as the white sugar that made the children scramble for food, and attracted the women to scold them more than once.

At present, a large number of fresh fish are transported to the barracks every day to serve as meat for the army, most of these fish and shrimp are caught by the sailors who patrol the sentry, and many fishermen in Liaodong Bay go out to sea to catch them. Money can make ghosts grind, as long as the army is willing to spend money, some merchants and fishermen are willing to serve it, and Li Huamei is a boy who spends money casually.

The land of Liaodong is bitterly cold, and there are many smokers among the military households, and women are no exception. The women reprimanded the children for their uneducated and unsightly behavior, but they put the tobacco on the table into their pockets without any ambiguity.

All the way, everyone came to the market where Long prevailed.

As far as the eye can see, on the road leading to the wharf of the seaside market, there are many heavy wagons and horses coming and going, and in the market fenced by wooden fences, many merchants have set up huge tents, and the accents of the south and the north are intermingling, and it is very lively, like a market.

"Daddy, kid, hurry up! Otherwise, things will be gone?! ”

"Dead ghosts! Still full of corpses there?! It's about to be the New Year! I and a few little ghosts have never had a good New Year's clothes material, if you can't buy the right one, be careful of your skin! ”

"Master, I heard that Nan Zhongchu pearls and gemstones, I want a good set of jewelry." ……

The world is bustling, all for profit. The world is bustling, all for profit, especially businessmen, it is their nature to pursue profits, in the prevailing market, but also formed a huge peripheral market.

The market is mainly composed of merchants who are not in the Nanzhong system, including Jin merchants, Hui merchants, and Zhejiang merchants. Because Li Huamei had never allowed merchants to arrive here before, and there were sailors patrolling nearby, and a large number of supplies were shipped from all over the sea, so that these merchants stared dryly but there was no way. Now the eldest lady has opened the grace of heaven and is allowed to come in to trade, although her own goods may not be able to compete with the merchants of Nanzhong. However, it is also good to pick up the missing and pick up the leaks.

Among the crowds in the bazaar, there were also many local military households, mainly the many nearby military households affected by the war.

Because the army fought with the two white flags of Jiannu here, the rear was very calm. Seeing this, the military families who fled returned to their hometowns one after another, after all, the people and places here are suitable. The situation is familiar, and it is easier to make a living.

After seeing a business opportunity, they also took the opportunity to come and sell their various local products, and each time they were sold out. If you bring some fresh meat and Chinese cabbage, it is more popular, and all kinds of seafood, such as dried kelp, are also popular. In addition to selling the goods in their hands, these people come here to meet acquaintances or ask for good words. Or follow in, and turn the money in your hand into grain, rice, cloth, oil, and salt!

As we said just now, Liaodong is a place where there are frequent wars, plus there is more silver and less grain. Therefore, inflation is strict, and prices are not much lower than Su Songtai in Jiangnan. Nowadays, there is an opportunity to buy cheap goods at hand, how can it not be tempting?

Among the crowd who had competed in the Spring Festival, they finally crowded to the door of the market, and after checking the bamboo chip waist card. The soldiers of the Guards Brigade, who guarded the door, let the officers, soldiers and their families inside.

Once inside, the officers were fine. Almost all the dependents and soldiers let out an exclamation from their hearts, "Wow! ”

Rows of tents are lined up in the store, and you can see everything you need, from the wives of the general soldiers to the wives of ordinary battalion soldiers. In addition to cheap and unbelievable white japonica rice (five taels of silver and one stone), snow-white refined salt, snow-white sugar, fine cotton cloth, and beautiful silk, there are glass mirrors and various "steel" farm tools, as well as well-guarded jewelry and jewelry.

Of course. Tea leaves and tea bricks are also indispensable.

"Shopkeeper, is this japonica rice really five silver dollars and one stone?" A family member touched the silver dollar in his waist, rushed to the rice shop, grabbed a handful from the mouth of the rice bag to see the color, and the intoxicating aroma of rice filled his nose in an instant. The rice grains are clean. Nothing like sand, gravel, grass clippings.

"This master, you see, there is a genuine guise of no bullying at our door! Don't say that you are now fighting under our uncle's command, we are a family; It's just a passerby, we can't cheat people, right? We can't do that kind of immoral thing of mixing sand and gravel into rice! To say that it is five silver dollars and one stone is five silver dollars and one stone. Moreover, we have a kind of japonica rice here, and there is really no other millet, wheat, sorghum and the like. ”

The rice is good rice, and the price is right. However, the family was a little hesitant. If you buy japonica rice, I am afraid that my silver will not be enough. It is said that this price is already very fair, and it is said that such a good japonica rice is mixed with two or three percent of sand and stones, and it will take six or seven taels to buy one stone in Ningyuan.

Gritted his teeth, anyway, this money was also exchanged for the war, so he simply let his wife and children live a comfortable life for a few days!

"Shopkeeper, do I want six stones, do you want to sell them?"

The guy was a little worried that he would buy too much, and he was rejected by the big guy.

"Master, look at what you said! Since ancient times, businessmen are not afraid of big customers. Let's open the door to do business, as long as you give real money, we are not afraid that you will buy more. We are not as petty as some people, others buy your goods out and don't know how to replenish the stock, but say that the customer is not! That's not doing business, that's cutting off your own financial route! I lost my patron, but I couldn't find it! ”

The big guy greeted his fellow family members, sent his young men and apprentices, and quickly issued tickets to collect the money.

"Six stones of good japonica rice, thanks to your kindness, twenty-five silver dollars!"

"Wait! Didn't you say five silver dollars and one stone? How did it become twenty-seven silver dollars? ”

"Master, don't you know, the sign hanging outside is five silver dollars and one stone, but our shopkeeper also said, twenty percent off is the grace of the eldest lady to the chief master, and our businessmen have to be a little careful, right? If you buy more than three stones, you have to give a discount, and if you buy six stones, the discount will naturally be more. If you don't want to ask for a discount, see if you can't," the big guy said, holding out a handful of bamboo skewers painted with colorful paint, "Take this, any store in this store can be used as silver." ”

And such a good thing? The family looked at his wife with joy in his eyes, and then he wanted to hand over the money with the big man and receive his own rice grain. The big guy glanced at his wife and children beside him, revealing a look of embarrassment.

"Master, didn't I say you, you let characters like Mrs. and Young Master go back to Ningyuan with thousands of catties of food? What's going on? I'm afraid that the food will not reach home. Man has fallen. Besides, I think my wife is afraid that she will have to buy some things in the store. If not, there are two ways to do this, and you can choose one of them. One, you leave the address of the house, and the trumpet will send someone to deliver the food to the house. The other is that you got a rice ticket here at the trumpet, and you can take as much as you eat when you go to the rice number in Ningyuan City. So. It saves you from having to get thousands of catties of food over the mountains and seas. ”

"It's good! Just take the rice ticket to us! "Jia Ding has already heard the governor of the capital say that the officials in the capital come and go with each other, and many people are quietly handed over a rice ticket with the name post. Those dignitaries and nobles can be trusted, what am I afraid of as a big-headed soldier?

With six stones of rice in their arms and a handful of bamboo skewers in their hands, the family was enthusiastic about purchasing various items in the store.

The Liaodong Army was different from the rest of the towns on the nine sides, and most of the soldiers and battalions in each fort were tenants and domestic slaves under the names of the generals everywhere, and it was needless to say that they were loyal to the main generals. This is also the reason why the Liao army is more outstanding in combat power when defending the territory. Of course, they have outstanding combat power, but they only listen to the main general, which is also the reason for the formation of the warlords of Liaodong Jiangmen.

Because of this status, many petty officers and family members who had some fields in their homes crowded in front of several shops selling farm tools.

Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and there are military towns everywhere. From generals to generals, there are hardly any landlords who are not large and small landowners who own a lot of land. Wu Sangui's father, Wu Xiang, once said. Almost every one of his 3,000 families owned at least a few hundred acres of land.

As a landlord, it is natural to be concerned about how to produce more grain on your land. In these shops, the shelves are full of hoes, plowshares and other things made of fine wrought iron, and in front of the door, there are several walking plows hanging high.

These are a kind of step plough that can be used by one person to cultivate. The whole body is made of nine turns of steel, and it is illuminated by the winter sun, giving off a lovely turquoise blue glow. It was as if the fat lamb was in front of the hungry wolves, attracting the greedy eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Guanning army.

Guan Ningjun, who was present, was no stranger to such a good plow stick made of pure steel.

A kind of infantry plow, as a reward for those who chose the front of the Guanning army, has long been familiar to the officers and men of the Guanning army. On that day, heavy rewards were promised to the drafters of each town. If you rush into the trench and kill one slave, you will have thirty silver dollars, and if you kill two, you will have a good steel plow! At that time, the plough stick was displayed in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, and I don't know how many people drooled.

The news soon spread on the Tashan battlefield, and both the Dolgon brothers and Wu Sangui privately scolded Li Shouhan in Shandong and Li Huamei, who was close at hand, for being the sons and daughters of the ruined family who had destroyed the heavens, and actually used good steel as a plow.

However, the concept that this plough stick is a good thing is deeply engraved in everyone's minds.

In front of several shops selling farm tools, there were guys who loudly explained the benefits of this kind of foot plow to the onlookers of the Liaodong Army.

A (pronounced "many", meaning a plough that can be used by one person for farming) step plough If there is no horse, one person can pull it! ”

"If the fields in your military lord's house are large, this plough stick has another advantage, that is, you can combine several plow sticks into a larger plow stick, and you can plough more fields at one time! Isn't it amazing? ”

"Buy a walking plow first, and go back to use! If it's really easy to use, just wait for the autumn to beat the grain, the land is bigger, and there are more livestock, buy a few more, and then put a few of a kind of foot plough into a big plow! ”

Many soldiers with a lot of fields at home secretly thought about it in their hearts. This kind of walking plough does not look complicated, the same wooden plough frame is not complicated to build, and the rare thing is that the plowshare head and wheels are made of the same color steel. It's the most valuable part.

Such a plough stick naturally cannot be made of "steel" at the same price, Liaodong has a lot of wood, and wood is not valuable. Therefore, the price of this kind of plough stick is not high.

"Forty silver dollars!"

A guy from a shop pù quoted the price loudly.

After the 20% discount, there is the so-called group purchase discount, you can also use a variety of chips to pay here, 7% off and 8 deductions, a good kind of foot plow, only need more than 20 silver dollars to win!

Although it is still not cheap, it is also a very good price in the minds of Liaodong soldiers.

At present, some people have sought out familiar relatives and friends with each other, and they have gone together to purchase agricultural tools according to the so-called group buying standards, from a foot plow to an iron hoe, with which everyone's fields can be plowed a lot deeper, and more grain can be harvested. According to the price of grain in Liaodong, the price of only a few stones of grain is needed, and the cost of the plough stick and hoe will come back!

Some generals secretly calculated in their hearts that after this battle, there would be such farm tool shops in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, and they could buy them in large quantities and sell them to merchants, so that they could sell them to Liaodong thieves to make huge profits.

In addition to planning to make huge profits for the Liaodong thieves, there are even more people who secretly engage in business with the merchants who are prevalent in Long, and they cannot be exposed to the sun. (To be continued......)