After Zheng Hongda finished speaking, Chen Che quipped; "Although Brother Zheng can be called a righteous businessman, are all the war horses you sell in exchange for silver? Isn't it about bartering? But I don't know what my brother used to exchange with the Mongolian Tatar? That's where everyone wonders.

Zheng Hongda said with a smile; "So that my brother may know that it is true that I have bartered with the Mongols, but I will exchange all the tea and porcelain bowls and plates produced in my Central Plains, as well as the jewels, rouge, gouache and other things that I do not like, and I will never enter Mongolia with half an iron nail. Brother, you see, the leaves on the trees in Yunnan are all over the mountain, almost no cost, no matter how exquisite the porcelain is, it is just the soil of the south plus some charcoal firing, which is equivalent to no cost, and the silk is even more unscrupulous, it is just the feces of insects, and the jewelry is even more of a thing that cannot be used, hunger, hunger, cold, and clothing, it is a useless thing, I use these useless and useless things in exchange for the scarce strategic material war horse in the south of the Ming Dynasty, do you say I am a traitor? Besides, the sale of a war horse that the Tartars have worked so hard to raise is to weaken their own strength, and the attack on the Han people will be weakened by a point, don't you think that I am killing the enemy to serve the country? ”

Everyone was speechless for a while, it was really this truth, what Zheng Hongda said was really a harmless business for the people of the Central Plains and the Ming Dynasty, and then there was a thing that the southern people could still have income through his trafficking, and it was really a harmless thing, why was he so stupid? I always thought that as long as I traded with the Mongolian Jurchens, I would be an enemy, but I didn't want to have such a trick.

Lu Shi was surprised by Zheng Hongda's foresight, in fact, the Ming Dynasty fell to such a point where he had no food and no money, and he was also to blame, and it was all caused by the forbidden sea. I want to open the sea to trade in the Southern Song Dynasty, and use China's unfounded things - insect feces and silk, leaves and tea on the mountains, clay porcelain on the ground, and fiber paper of rotten hemp and bamboo to market Europe, once all rich countries in Europe had a gold and silver shortage, and had to launch sailing adventures in order to enjoy the Central Plains, plundering gold and silver everywhere to satisfy material desires, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, almost all the world's silver existed in China, and some countries in the world changed to issue paper money to use gold as a reserve, The Opium War launched by Western countries led by Britain is actually called the Silver War. China in this world is also exchanging daily consumables for a large number of durable goods, in exchange for a large amount of foreign exchange and national debt reserves, such as 200 million undershirts in exchange for a Boeing, 200 million undershirts in the whole of France is just a few months of consumption, but a Boeing is decades of operation, and it will take 15 years of maintenance-free, thousands of nearly a trillion U.S. Treasury bonds are a noose set in the United States, so that the United States, the boss, can not scold China, although it wants to meddle in the world, but there is China This threshold cannot be crossed. Because it provokes China to throw out the national debt, it is a nightmare of the dollar economy, not to mention fighting, that is, the food is not enough to eat, who said that the economy cannot kill, and the economy kills people more ruthlessly than the knife kills. Zheng Hongda is really a genius.

If the Ming Emperor opened the sea ban, how much would the customs tariff and silver income be? Why bother to go to the unpaid silver for the sergeant now, the seventh year of the apocalypse, the governor of Shaanxi, Hu Tingyan, said: "Lingong Bian's salary is short to five or six years, and the number is more than 200,000; Jinglu Border Fort is missing for two years and three years; From the 47th year of Wanli to the 6th year of the Apocalypse, Guzhen Jingyun owed a total of more than 159,000 taels of silver. At the beginning, the armies still sold arrows, and now they have wives; At first, he begged along the street, but now he has left the army and absconded; At first, it was an occasional whisper in the sand, and now it is openly shouting. During the Chongzhen period, when Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, he said in a report to the imperial court after inspecting the Shanxi frontier: "The more I pay today, the more hungry and cold I have. borrowed money to make bows, arrows, guns and knives, and still sold them. Many soldiers lined up in the martial arts, the golden wind was like an arrow, and the sick and stiff servants were told one after another. Every point of a soldier, there are single clothes, there are no hakama, there are few shoes and socks, the ministers see it and burst into tears. "Such an officer and army can only rely on a patriotic spirit to fight to the death against foreign and internal thieves, how can they not lose every battle?

Thinking of this, Lu Shi couldn't help but raise his glass again; "Brother Zheng is really a national scholar."

"So I begged my brother if he could increase the production of save? Equip the southern border army as much as possible, and wipe out that Tusi as soon as possible, so that this ruined Ming will have more ability to deal with the growing Tartars outside the Guan? If it's your spear, my brother also wants to buy it, this thing must be cheap, but the power is very powerful for the infantry army, for the sake of the same Han people, I also sell it to my brother? Lu Shi has been moved by Zheng Hongda's fist heart, in fact, it is still the sentence that weapons are not afraid of takeout, and the threat to themselves will not be great, a group of sheep equipped with AK is not the opponent of a group of well-trained strong soldiers, and the war is not in the weapon, at least not completely in the weapon. For the sake of weapons, it is necessary to kill people.

Seeing the teacher muttering and busy; "If there is no good fine iron, I will find a way, if I am worried about other things, my brother will guarantee with his personality that none of these things will be exported to the enemy country, and none of them will be sold in this province. In terms of price, ----"

Lu Shi saw that Zheng Hongda had misunderstood and said with a smile; "My brother misunderstood, and I thought of something else through my brother's words."

Wu Tao and Mengzi all knew this habit of the military advisor, and while he was saying something, the thoughts in his mind drifted there uncertainly, but it was definitely another idea that was beneficial to the cottage was about to appear. But Zheng Hongda didn't know Lu Shi's habits. thought that Lu Shi was worried about the price, and thought about it at the moment, anyway, he had to cooperate frankly with these people who understood him, and it didn't matter how much he earned, anyway, there were still hard things to earn, and he said at the moment; "Don't embarrass the brothers, how about this saber brother out of twenty or one, and one or two out of a gun?"

Lu Shi saw that Zheng Hongda was even more misunderstood; "Don't, I'm calculating my cost, in fact, we have a way to solve the fine iron that my brother said, and it must be of much higher quality and sufficient than what my brother risked to find. I'm not very worried about the output, I think next spring, it's not impossible to supply my brother with two thousand or more per month, thank you very much for my brother to take care of the brothers who don't sell brothers in this province, but even if there are a few people who have passed on, I'm not afraid, I believe that weapons are dead, people are alive, and good weapons need to be used by strong soldiers to maximize efficiency. These words made Zheng Hongda breathe cold air again, and he couldn't see that this little black tiger village had such energy, and it seemed that it was not wrong to make friends with these brothers. Looking at the brothers on the cottage around him, they all showed pride on their faces, affirming that what Brother Lu said was true.

"Brother Lu, what else do you need to be embarrassed to tell my brother, I will definitely do it."

"That's right, I think brother, our saber and spear brother give ----。 price." Lu Shi already had a plan in his heart, so he deliberately sold it when he said this.

Zheng Hongda frowned when he saw it, and thought about it; "Brother also knows that it is not easy to build a cottage, it must be time-consuming, laborious and money-consuming, anyway, my brother doesn't want to make more money here, just make a mess, so let's do it, twenty-five taels a hand, my brother earns one or two, and my brother earns half a point by piercing a gun."

The others opened their mouths widely, one was for Zheng Hongda's sincerity and generosity, and the other was for the dark heart of the military advisor.

Lu Shi smiled and waved his hand to let Mengzi calm down for a while; "My brother misunderstood, you love the country and I love the country of the Han nation from foreign invasion, so I decided that each saber is ten taels of silver, and the spear is seven cents of silver."

Zheng Hongda shook his head again and again when he heard this; Brother's heart brother received it, and the cottage also needs money to operate, so it is good to rescue and shelter more landless people, brother can still have a small surplus here, so I still insist that the original purchase price remains the same, but the amount should be relatively large, and I will win by quantity. “

In this way, a bargaining conversation began in the cottage hall, until Wu Tao stood up and played a round; "The two of you can be described as a good story in the business world today, Brother Zheng doesn't have to fight anymore, and the military advisor doesn't have to let it go, I think it's just what my military advisor said, Brother Zheng can also give the southern or Guanning official army a discount, first, we have made money, and secondly, we have also helped the official army to resist the abduction and pacification in disguise, so wouldn't it be the best of both worlds. In fact, we were forced to go up the mountain and fall into the grass and were helpless, but after all, we and the government are just a brotherly dispute, and the official army is still barbaric against the Tartars, but it is a war of the enemy country, and the bandits are also patriotic. ”

Zheng Hongda listened to the big praise of Wu Tao and other wind festivals and did not argue, Lu Shi also put down this topic, Lu Shi saluted Zheng Hongda after a glass of wine and then said his idea of small agricultural machinery, when Lu Shi drew a sketch of things and said the performance to Zheng Hongda. In fact, this thing is also very simple, a rope sleeve in the front, pulled by a person or a horse, and a Chinese carriage in the back, with a cocoon box for seeds, with holes, can sow 3 rows of seeds at the same time, and with a honeycomb hole-shaped cylinder and spring device to adjust the amount of seeding. There is also a hanging rake at the rear of the car, which can bury the seeds after planting.

It was invented by Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty (140-86 BC) when he was the commander of Zhao Guo, and it was also the world's earliest animal-powered seeder. It's just that Lu Shi created a lighter, more labor-saving, and more efficient according to the creation of later generations. At that time, Zheng Hongda applauded loudly, saying that this was a great invention and a big change in the matter, and patted his chest to underwrite, of course, the price was a concession, and everyone worked hard to make the profits thin so that the poor people could afford it.

Next, Lu Shi solemnly asked Zheng Hongda to buy corn and potato seeds for the cottage camp, originally thought that this would take Zheng Hongda a lot of time, but he didn't want Zheng Hongda to despise the extremely smart Lu Shi, but it turned out that this corn and potatoes had already been available in the south of the Ming Dynasty, but they had not been transmitted to the north.

When Lu Shi heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked Zheng Hongda to buy a large number of seeds in order to promote them in the old camp of the cottage and the influence of the cottage. Zheng Hongda also looked at the Black Tiger Village differently, the bandits do not make a living from looting but are committed to their own development and production, which is not comparable to other cottages, and it is the king to develop and expand production.

When a good meal of wine makes the guests happy. It was not until noon the next day that Zheng Hongda rushed to the south with 300 sabers and 500 spears.

Lu Shi sent Zheng Hongda away, and after giving some pointers on some defensive matters in the cottage, he began to be busy with the construction of the old camp again, at least to implement the small agricultural machinery, Zheng Hongda said that he would want it after the New Year. But is this how the officers and the army let that peace of mind develop? It's very uncertain. So everything has to be hurried.