Lingzhou, once again detonated in the merchant circle, so directly opened up a trade route, although this trade route is limited, up to 20 million yuan, but the time is also short, all qualified to set foot in this trade route, not even qualified, only a carriage of small businessmen, have thrown themselves into it, and even some have no carriages, with ox carts, and even manpower.

Quantitative change becomes qualitative change, and in the end, it will change all this, and Han Qi, as the initiator, will not care at all, because his foundation has been completed, and Lingzhou, in Han Qi's heart, represents a meaning that is absolutely different.

Even Han Qi didn't expect that if Lingzhou completed the water conservancy construction, it would be so terrible, more than 5 million acres of cultivated land, plus the rest, a huge amount of grassland, arable land can harvest more than 10 million stone of grain, even if it is pasture, it is enough to accommodate more than 8 million head of livestock.

Even if it is mainly cattle and sheep, with an annual output of 1 million head of livestock, 800,000 sheep and 200,000 head of cattle, the total value of this is more than 3 million guan, not to mention, there is a large amount of grain, Lingzhou will become a small number of rich states and counties, according to the words of one draw, the annual income is at least 1 million stone of grain, and 300,000 guan tax.

This also simply refers to the two industries of agriculture and animal husbandry, other, commerce, accommodation, business, these will burst out more power under the premise of developed agriculture and animal husbandry, to put it bluntly, except for a small number of super states and counties, can be compared with Lingzhou, there are almost none.

Plugging the south of the Yangtze River, sure enough, such a rich land, the land of fish and rice, fell into the hands of the Western Xia, and could only become pasture, and even the number of grazing was insufficient, but it fell into the hands of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the huge investment produced the effect was very terrible.

Han Qi has this merit as a foundation, as long as he manages a little, in the next few years, the atmosphere of the Qingli New Deal will gradually dissipate, and he will inevitably return to the center.

In real history, Han Qi went through 12 years for this step, from the fourth year of Qingli to the first year of Jiayou, from 1044 to 1056, when he was still the third envoy, successively served as the third envoy, and the privy envoy was only in the third year of Jiayou, that is, in 1058, he became the prime minister, and he was a very popular minister.

But in this era, the merit of a Lingzhou peace conference, a merit of the destruction of the Western Xia, so that his grinding time has been greatly reduced, and now there is the Lingzhou project, a Lingzhou with an annual output of 10 million stones of grain, and millions of stones of various meats, will become the mainstay of the Northern Song Dynasty in the northwest, even the revival of the Western Xia can not shake the foundation of the northwest, not to mention that now, the Western Xia has been destroyed by the Liao State.

Everyone knows Han Qi's future, and this is also the fundamental reason why Han Qi obviously violated the rules in the development of Lingzhou, and even embezzled funds belonging to the Lingzhou Peace Conference, and no one said a word.

The head of the border pass, the power of control is very large, as long as it is not too public, or it is a large-scale accumulation of wealth, no one will say anything, Han Qi also knows that when he is young, he hopes to be able to enter the center earlier, give full play to his ambitions, and will not make mistakes in these small things, almost every point is used in the Lingzhou project, and even, in a sense, the benefits of bargaining with businessmen are also used in it.

A Weizhou cattle and horse conference, a Lingzhou barter, both of which are applicable to commercial operations, it can be said unceremoniously that a Weizhou conference alone has obtained at least 4 million yuan.

If you don't pass the Cattle and Horse Conference, let's not talk about whether you can sell so much, just a price suppression, will make the whole transaction in 90-100, or even lower.

With the help of his own channels and a lot of publicity, Han Qi has obtained enough personnel to arrive, and at the same time, he has reasonable use rules and uses bidding methods to complete the entire transaction faster and better.

As for this time, it is also the same, although it is not as much as the income of the Weizhou Conference, after all, there are still relatively few people who can come here to trade directly, and a large number of transactions have reduced the demand for horses, and the trading of cattle does not earn much, but inside and outside, you can still get at least about 10% of the income.

5 million guan, this is not a small amount, this is almost a quarter of the financial revenue of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also all the liquidity that Ye Qingchen was able to use, but this money is just Han Qi's profits, and these are invested in Lingzhou.

More abundant funds, more manpower, technicians from the Dinghai Navy, and manpower from the Western Xia side are about to converge here, and the combined power of the two can definitely change Lingzhou.

In Lingzhou, the merchants who completed the transaction began to choose to return, when they came, they quickly stepped up, and when they went back, they were a little helpless, Lingzhou here, there were no special products, they chose cattle, among them, 9 percent were live, the profits of live cattle were high, compared to killing and eating meat, used for farming, it was the best place for cattle to go.

But beef and mutton are also essential, as well as some furs, and some handicrafts suitable for Lingzhou.

The key to transportation is to make all the vehicles use, when they come, they are fully loaded, and when they go back, at the very least, they should not be empty.

There are no special products here in Lingzhou, that is, some cattle and sheep, sheep may pass through the cage, and can be placed on the carriage, but a carriage, at best, is the appearance of three or four sheep, it is not easy to place, but the cattle are not good, they must go by themselves.

The speed of the ox is not much slower than that of the horse, and in this case, the speed of the horse cannot be relied on, and the speed of the ox must be considered.

More than 2,000 cars, it is impossible to fill them all, almost 1,000 cattle and 8,000 sheep, as well as some furs, handicrafts, and some medicinal herbs from the grassland.

After killing, through simple pickling, it is the salt they brought with them is used, and in the winter northwest weather, not to mention, seven or eight days, even if it is really ten days and half a month, it is impossible to spoil.

This is also the result of helplessness, can not be empty, this is already the limit, an average car, will be loaded with 400 catties of meat, and about 600 catties of wool and the like, about let the load of the carriage reach seven or eighty percent, but relatively speaking, as long as these things in the northwest are cheaper, come to the big city, you must be able to buy a good price.

Meat is just a match, more of a counterweight, what really makes money, or fur and medicinal herbs, these things are really worthless in the northwest, not to mention slaughtered after the Lingzhou Peace Conference, even if it was seized before, the amount is extremely huge.

Under the premise that there are no various fibers and no clothes, the most important clothes in Xixia are fur, or the kind that has not been treated, and there is no suppression of the taste of hair at all, which can only be used as a raw material, and then through the skilled craftsmen of the Song people, concocted, and nitrated, and finally it can become a popular leather clothing in the upper class.

As long as it is transported to Jingzhao Mansion, it can have about 2 times the profit, and the profit of a car is about 10 times, which is slightly higher than when it is transported, and if the Chamber of Commerce has the ability to handle furs and sales, this profit can be doubled or tripled.

The medicinal materials are also similar, as long as they are processed and concocted, they can be doubled or tripled, which is also their unexpected gain.

However, in general, furs and medicines, in the northwest, are a minority, and after a few chambers of commerce arrive, they will gradually decrease, and the real bulk trade is still cattle and sheep.

In fact, after discovering the medicinal herbs and furs, this joint convoy wanted to exchange all the goods for this, but unfortunately, it was rejected by Han Qi, if they were all given to them, not to mention that they were consumed, they would consume four or five percent, if they wanted to attract a steady stream of caravans, then these materials were the key.

Even if he has never been a businessman, Han Qi knows how much value a caravan that has value back and forth and can do business continuously will create, and this value can give them a little, but it can't be all.

In the end, the merchants still took away thousands of cattle, nearly 8,000 stone of meat, and a lot of fur and medicinal herbs.

There are 6,000 cultivated cattle in the end, and these herds, of course, cannot keep up with the speed of the carriage, and the carriage must ensure efficiency, so they will go back in advance with meat and medicinal herbs, and transport them again within the scope of time to trade.

These cattle would walk together, driven by the caravan guards and Han Qi's generous support of dozens of herdsmen, slowly advancing towards the Central Plains, at least, before arriving at Jingzhao Mansion, they could stroll at will like this.

This is the most efficient, and the grass that is available everywhere is enough for them to eat, but when they get to the vicinity of Jingzhao Mansion, they have to prepare forage.

When there is more than anything, the final result is very terrible, for example, locusts, a locust, not to mention an adult, even a child of four or five years old, as long as he can catch him, with the strength of these children, it is enough to make this locust die.

Some peasant children, even in the summer, run into the field, looking for all kinds of locusts, roasted and eaten, this is a good delicacy, but it is only the interest of children, and it must be avoided from adults, because locusts are equal to the emperor, in the ancient feudal society, the era of divine authority of the monarch, this is very taboo.

The locusts alone are so terrible, when the locusts are plagued, it is different, the locusts that cover the earth, even the sun can shade them, and the flying locusts that keep flying can turn everything green into dry and dead, and eat everything.

One or two cows, that's a small meaning, the average farmer, can support the consumption of one cow, but when the number reaches 10,000, maybe in the northwest grassland, you can still find forage that can feed these cattle, but in the Central Plains, unless the cattle are sent to the farmland.

Even these merchants could not bear the consequences of this, and they had to make comprehensive preparations before the arrival of the herd, otherwise thousands of cattle would trample on the farmland when they could not get enough food, or in a place like Jingzhao Mansion, they would wait to be exterminated.