The horse meat turmoil did not gradually pass until half a month after Chen Xian returned to Tangjiazhuang.

Chen Xian distributed some of these horse meat as trophies to his soldiers and soldiers, and sold some of them cheaply to his own farmers, but the more than 200,000 catties of horse meat, it is difficult to quickly consume the tens of thousands of farmers under his hands, people in this era eat meat is not like the people of later generations, and they can't be separated from it, and the poor households of this era often can't eat a meal of meat in a month, although Chen Xian sells horse meat cheaply, it will not be too outrageous, otherwise the value of the loot he distributes to his subordinates will be discounted.

In the end, more than 100,000 catties of horse meat were smashed in Chen Xian's hands, and he had to urgently mobilize the people of the three Zhuangzi to build a large number of simple drying rooms, hang all the horse meat into the drying room, and smoke it on fire, so he was relieved.

In this era of food scarcity, Chen Xian felt that it would be a great sin to let tens of thousands of catties of meat rot and spoil in his hands.

Of course, in the past ten days, Chen Xian has not only stared at this batch of horse meat, in fact, he just asked every day after arranging things.

In the past ten days, Chen Xian's most concerned thing was undoubtedly the market he arranged outside the west gate of Tangjiazhuang.

This bazaar is small in size and was completely designed by Chen Xian himself.

Unlike the chaotic bazaars of the era, this bazaar consists of two brick corridors and a long street sandwiched between two opposite brick corridors.

The brick corridor on both sides can accommodate shops, and the wide street in the middle is naturally a place for customers to walk, and the ground behind the brick corridor is also leveled and can also be used as a street surface.

There is also a small school yard on the north side of the brick corridor, which is a shooting range.

After the bazaar was built, Chen Xian began to have people arrange shops under the promenade.

There are not many shops, there are only six in total, which are an armor shop that sells armor, a musket shop that sells three-eyed muskets and a small amount of gunpowder, a Tang knife shop that sells Tang knives and various high-quality blades, a soap shop that sells soap and soap, an iron shop that sells all kinds of iron kettles, iron pots, shovels, iron basins, scissors, machetes and other daily ironware, and of course, a bacon shop that resells horse meat.

Among these shops, armor, muskets, Tang knives, and soap are Chen Xian's main products, iron and horse meat are just incidental, and the profit of ordinary iron is not high, although Chen Xian uses a large number of hydraulic forging hammers and improved tools, the cost of his iron production is much lower than others, but compared with several other products, the profit is too low, and Laiwu is originally an iron production place, these iron tools will not have much market, but once Chen Xian starts to make iron by himself in the future, then he will definitely enter these ordinary iron market, Although the individual profit of ordinary ironware is not high, the market is very large, and the total profit is actually very high.

When you open a bacon shop, you naturally have to deal with too much horse meat in your hands.

When the county seat was bombarded that day, the shopkeeper Li visited the county magistrate and asked the county magistrate to send someone to help Chen Xian send letters to the heroes of the Zhuangzi, and those letters were all ultimatums and lists of goods issued by Chen Xian.

In these letters, Chen Xian asked these Haoqiang to send the list of goods he requested to Tangjiazhuang within a month to sell to him, and if he didn't come out of date, he would go and pick it up himself!

According to the different production of each Zhuangzi, his requirements for each Zhuangzi are also different, some Zhuangzi he asks for a certain amount of grain and iron, some Zhuangzi he asks for iron and coal, and some he only asks for grain......

In addition to these Zhuangzi, Chen Xian also sent people to some large households and shops in Laiwu County.

In short, in the eastern part of Laiwu County, all people with some status basically received Chen Xian's blackmail letter.

Based on Chen Xian's record of this armed march and the defeat of 2,000 generals and cavalry, basically no one dared to refuse Zhuangzi who received his extortion letter.

No, it was only seven or eight days after Chen Xian withdrew to Tangjiazhuang, and one after another, people drove big trucks to deliver the goods demanded in Chen Xian's extortion letter.

Chen Xian personally met with the first delivery steward, and when he asked, Chen Xian knew that this person turned out to be the housekeeper of Hejiazhuang where he had been stationed.

That Hejiazhuang is the closest Zhuangzi to Yiyuan, and it was once broken by Chen Xian, so he naturally did not dare to slack off on Chen Xian's blackmail.

Because when he came back, he collected a lot of grain from Hejiazhuang's warehouse and took away all the big carts in other people's homes, so Chen Xian's requirements for Hejiazhuang were relatively low, as long as the other party sent a few carts of charcoal over.

Chen Xian first said some words to the steward of Hejiazhuang, and then asked people to pull the carriage stolen from Hejiazhuang, and asked people to bring the account book, and calculated how much grain was taken from the He family's warehouse at that time.

In the end, he told the housekeeper, "The soldiers were in danger that day, so I had to take your cart and grain, and it can be regarded as my Chen Er who can't live with your family, since He Er is the first to send the goods, I Chen Er can't treat your master badly, you can send these carts of livestock back for me, and I will buy the grain at the price of a pound of wheat and twenty-four Wen, and I will settle it with the coal." ”

He was so embarrassed by Chen Xian's posture that he didn't dare to ask for it.

Chen Xian took care of him, got up and said to He Guanshi: "Come with me." ”

He took the bewildered Steward He around the five shops with goods in the first half of the bazaar, and then pointed to the shops and said: "Steward He, there are not many copper coins in your hands, so you can only use these goods to offset the price, and you can choose some goods that can lower the price of those carts of coal and grain." ”

He Guan Shi didn't even say no, Chen Xian suddenly turned his face and said angrily: "Why Guan Shi is so prevaricated, is he looking down on me Chen Er, thinking that I Chen Er is a character like a thief?" ”

He Guan Shi was suddenly frightened and couldn't speak, so he had to agree to it.

Seeing that Steward He agreed, Chen Xian showed a smile and introduced him to the prices of various goods.

Under Chen Xian's persecution, Steward He pointed to something indiscriminately, and Chen Xian waved his hand and asked his subordinates to match these goods with goods of equal value to the batch of charcoal and wheat, and let the He family load it into the cart.

After loading the car, Chen Xian told Steward He: "The housekeeper will go back and tell He Yuanwai that this transaction is not a one-shot deal, let your master prepare another twenty stones of wheat next month, and ten carts of charcoal will be sent over, and the price will be calculated according to today." ”

Steward He cried and nodded with a sad face.

Seeing the He family's convoy open out of the shop, Chen Xian couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, these days, it's so difficult to even do business.