When the two arrived at the house, Lu Shi asked Zhao Xing, what is the matter with him? Zhao Xing replied respectfully; "Just sat in the front village (now everyone calls the original Black Tiger Village as the front village, and Huluyu as the back village or the old camp.) Chen Che sent the sergeant brother to report that there was a guest in the cottage, and he asked the military advisor to go to the front village to meet the person. ”

There are regulations in the cottage, in order not to divulge the internal secrets of the base area, to ensure that the spies of the government do not mix in, all the outsiders are received in the Black Tiger Village, and the base Huluyu only arranges to receive dependent displaced people, even if it is a large group of displaced people, it is also scattered and split arrangement, at the beginning, it is also monitored by the militia of each village, until it is thought that it is really a displaced person to rest assured.

There are also one or two small poles to join the defection, Lu Shi and the others also scattered the able-bodied minions that were selected and selected, and organized them to train in the recruit team, and other old and weak women and children and incompetent people were all arranged to cultivate in Huluyuli Village.

Everyone is a good citizen who was forced to go to Liangshan, which one really likes to fight and kill, and live that day of licking blood with a knife? Now that they have a stable and peaceful life, as well as the distribution of fields, they all happily start their farming life, and there is no chaos and dissatisfaction.

Lu Shi waited for Zhao Xing to sit down and asked; "I don't know what kind of guests I need to take care of, can't Geng Kui and you decide?" Lu Shi asked with a smile while pouring water for Zhao Xing.

Geng Kui is calm and capable, as the commander of the spearmen, he sits in the Black Tiger Village and becomes the first line of defense in the base area.

"There is also Chen Che, although he is responsible for part of the work of the sergeant, but the main thing is to travel to and from the base area, contact the merchants for purchase, and he should also be responsible for the reception of those merchants, what kind of businessman is so big?" Lu Shi sat back in his chair with a smile, and continued to bow his head to do what he had not yet done, saying as he did it.

"King Huichuang, this time a merchant from another place has brought a hundred war horses to sell to the cottage." Zhao Xing took the water bowl handed over by Lu Shi, took a sip of it, and began to report.

Now that the base area is expanding, some materials are accumulated by the cottages, and they are sold and bought in the hands of some businessmen who have made friends, and those merchants have become accustomed to communicating between this base and the Ming Dynasty, and earn a rich price difference here.

Out-of-town merchants? Or a hundred war horses? It's a big deal indeed.

Lu Shi put down the work at hand, solemnly raised his head and asked Zhao Xingdao: "Foreign merchants?" This is a good thing, is it because the other party's asking price is too high, and Chen Che and Geng Kui brothers can't call the shots? Still want to alarm you Zhao Xing? Buy and sell, let's talk slowly, since it is a foreign businessman, we should be more kind, not to mention that our cottage lacks horses, even if the price is high, it is acceptable. ”

"The price is not high, usually a horse, more than 20 taels on the market is less than 30 taels, and this merchant only asks for 30 taels, which is fair."

Seeing that Lu Shi was very confused, Zhao Xing hurriedly continued; "It was the merchant who accidentally saw the saber of our Black Tiger Army, and was very interested in this good knife, so he asked to buy it, saying that if the cottage can sell some with them, or tell them the place of origin, then a war horse only costs twenty taels of silver, and what other goods are needed on the cottage in the future, especially the tea emphasized by King Chuang, must also be sold for the cottage and will never increase the price. The stakes were so high that Commander Geng Kui and I didn't dare to make our own decisions, so we sent a sergeant to inquire about the military advisor, hoping that the advisor would come and make a decision. ”

Lu Shi stopped talking. Zhao Xing saw that Lu Shi was silent and didn't speak, so he drank water and waited for Lu Shi to ask after thinking about it.

Tea, for the Black Tiger Army is not a luxury enjoyment, but a rare vitamin and medicine for the treatment of night blindness, now there are a lot of newcomers, tea has become a sought-after thing in the Black Tiger Army, which can not help but attract Lu Shi's attention, especially when Lu Shi heard that the merchant was interested in the saber he invented, it was much more than he expected, which also gave Lu Shi a hint.

The source of savings and money in the cottage is to rely solely on plunder, and the protection fee is only some grain, cattle and sheep, but the real development of the cottage requires a large amount of money to purchase a lot of money, and it is not possible to rely on looting alone.

I also wanted to sell something for money, but after counting it, I really didn't have anything in my hand to sell.

In my previous life, I was just a student, that was exam-oriented education, and I basically didn't have the ability to do it, a windmill, a gunpowder, and crossbow arrows, which I saw in the forum, and the steel-making furnace, which was simply a masterpiece of watching drunkards, plausibly not plagiarized, and relying on the craftsmen of this era to improve and build in their own ideas, for what to make glass, cement, this and that, that is not good at all, what I know is also half-understood, and I can't use it at all. Not to mention taking it out for money.

Now this merchant proposed to buy his own cottage on the saber, the road is not to lose a way, the future generations will know the most profitable business in the world, the first number of arms, that is more than one or even ten times the profit, now born in troubled times, it is the time when arms and equipment are popular, whether it is a bandit or a landlord armed force, dart line guard, are very needed. A good weapon in hand is the only way to save your life.

But the Ming Dynasty weapons management is very strict, are made by the central weapons supervision, not a piece of private holding, those homeless poles and landlord arms, etc., are secretly built privately, but limited to the iron monopoly of the government lack of raw materials, and the number is not much, but they are also very rough and unusable.

Even if it is resold by the official military guard, it is still a little rain and a great drought, not to mention, the Ming Dynasty ordnance prison is also made of defective products, and there is a larger customer base that needs such good weapons, that is, the official army.

The system of supporting family members and soldiers prevails in the official army, although the number of family members is small, but it occupies the vast majority of the resources of a unit, these family members are not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but loyal to their own generals and masters, these people are also the generals' life-saving capital, so they do not hesitate to spend on equipment, but the weapons made by the Ming Dynasty Weapons Supervisor are unbearable, so they have to spend a huge amount of money to build in the people, not to mention the time and effort, often the good and the bad are uneven, and the quality and quantity are not guaranteed.

So this weapon has definitely become a sought-after commodity, like this Black Tiger Army, all of them are equipped with high-grade swords, how can it not make the merchant's eyes red and his heart beat? If you want to dig out the source of goods, then the rolling silver profits.

And since the iron-making furnace has been improved on the cottage, this time-consuming and laborious hundred refining treasure knife is indeed much easier to forge. And in the near future, the real steelmaking furnace will be up, and then the mine and smelting will be opened and smelted by itself, so this treasure knife, which seems time-consuming and laborious to outsiders, can be mass-produced by pouring molten steel abrasive method, and the craftsman will only be responsible for fine repair and then sharpening, then the cost and labor will plummet, and the corresponding profits will be more lucrative.

How big is the market in the whole Ming Dynasty? What a profit margin is implied during the period, isn't it stupid to go home with a golden job but still starving?

Of course, it is also possible that due to the large export of their own high-grade sabers, they have also increased the combat effectiveness of the official army and the landlord armed forces, and will become a resistance to their own development in the future, but the quality of weapons may not necessarily determine the outcome of a war, Mao Taizu led a group of troops that are not even as good as beggars, and with miscellaneous weapons from the Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, he has laid down an equal and powerful world, and Jiang damned the army armed to the teeth with dollars, but he has become a veritable transport captain, This just illustrates Mao Taizu's classic saying - talent is everything.

But we must grasp one principle, that is, to control the flow of this delicate saber, we must not flow out of the country, and sell it into the hands of the Mongolian Tatars and the wild boar skin of Nurhachi, with my saber, coupled with their infinite war horses and fierce soldiers, it will be a nightmare for the Han people.

First of all, control the output of production, and secondly, we must trust the honest businessman, tell him that each buyer has a control over the quantity, and disperse it to sell; It is best to sell to the south of China. If you can't cause the eternal regret of raising tigers for your own temporary interests, then you will become a sinner for the ages.

By the way, you must ask if this merchant is a Shanxi businessman, these Shanxi Ming merchants are traitors who disregard the interests of the country, Nurhachi's wild boar skin, and his later successors, are all developed by relying on the grain cloth they smuggled and the iron tools that the Manchu Mongolia will not have at all, it can be said that half of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty is due to their mercenary villains and profiteers, and when I reach them one day, I must cut them first.

And he has steel and iron, so isn't it just selling sabers? I still have a windmill, and I can also tell the craftsman battalion about the small agricultural machinery that can be knocked out by the small workshops in later generations, so that they can start large-scale manufacturing? Although I still don't know much about it, the technical requirements of that thing are simple, and it is not difficult for these smart craftsmen to do it.

When these things are made, find an agent to sell them to various parts of China? This kind of does not rely on large livestock, as long as one or two people can be cultivated small agricultural machinery, for those poor people who can not afford to sell livestock in the Ming Dynasty, it is quite suitable, this time-saving and labor-saving and efficient sowing equipment, may be able to bring unpredictable changes to the entire Ming Dynasty's agriculture.

The Ming Dynasty has come to an end, not only due to natural disasters, but also the main system and the huge rentier class have destroyed the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is unable to keep it, but at least because of its own small agricultural machinery that seems small, but can change the output of the land, reduce the cost of farming and improve efficiency, or how many people of the Ming Dynasty can starve to death? How much vitality can be saved for Daming? Is this more than those who make glass and what wine, and what many flashy things that have to be passed through to be meritorious for eternity? There is also whether this windmill can also be sold, that is, some people do not come to buy it, and they are also a strong help to the agriculture of Daming.

Looking back, we have to think about what can be simply imitated in the present in the future, in order to make money for ourselves and for the people of the Ming Dynasty to survive more, I also have the responsibility to imitate it.

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