(Cat pounce Chinese "I completely agree with the opening of the Yuyang border trade market, but I said well, all strategic materials that can make the enemy stronger, such as fine iron, must not enter the grassland with a pound or two, if found, I will be punished for collaborating with the enemy, and there will be no forgiveness." ”

Zheng Dalick nodded: "Of course, but something like an iron pot can be within this range?" ”

Lu Peng smiled and said: "Cast iron (pig iron) is not among them, anyway, that thing flows into the grassland, and with the forging skills of their barbarian people, it can't be made into a sharp sword at all." ”

Zheng Da clapped his hands: "That's very good." ”

"And what about the second point?"

"Please give it an express order, and allow us to have our own armament."

Lu Peng's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

What he fears most now is that each family has its own armament. After the last family rebellion in Luxian, he explicitly ordered each family to cancel their own family arms, and took advantage of the major families in Youzhou, in order to support Liu Yu, to make up 100,000 family armed coalition troops for him, and was annihilated by Gongsun Zan in one fell swoop, taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Peng, who was appointed by the imperial court, immediately announced that the whole Youzhou family must not recruit family arms again, so I don't know how many wealthy nobles have been offended. How can the social cancer that he has worked so hard and barely pressed can easily be allowed to rise again?

Zheng Da saw that Lu Peng's face suddenly sank, and hurriedly explained: "Of course, we will absolutely control these weapons within the scope of the grassland, and will never participate in the affairs of our major families in the mainland. ”

"On the grasslands, it is understandable that you will develop your own armed strength to protect your homeland." But the conversation changed: "But how can you assure me that these family forces will not cross the border, enter the Central Plains, and participate in the power struggle in the Central Plains?" I need guarantees. ”

As soon as this question was raised, Zheng Da also felt a little embarrassed, because he really couldn't come up with an effective way to prove his sincerity.

Lu Peng looked at everyone's embarrassed and anxious expressions, and suddenly thought of a way: "I am going to set up an academy in Youzhou, and hire the world's great Confucians to teach, if you are interested, you can let the descendants of each family enter the academy for further study, not only can the knowledge treasured by each family communicate with other families, so that the descendants of each family can get benefits, at the same time, these children will succeed in their studies in the future, after the assessment, I can also appoint and remove them to participate in my local management and become lower-level officials at all levels of government." What do you think of this? ”

Such a proposal, although it made everyone feel unhappy, because in this era, all kinds of knowledge are in the hands of the major families, and all of them are kept secret, if they follow Lu Peng's method, it is equivalent to letting their family make their treasures public and share them with others.

And here, the most disgusting thing in the heart is that this is a clear hostage-taking.

However, after these two efforts, there are also several benefits, the first is that it can solve the current crisis of reorganizing the family armament, and the second advantage is that the children of their own family can enter the officialdom without having to go through the way of conquest.

At this time, when he entered the officialdom as an official, there was no imperial examination that appeared later in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it was all dependent on officials from all over the country to recruit Mao and be filial and honest.

And those generations of big families, often all the children of their own families, those small families, small families, have no chance to step into the officialdom at all, let alone the children of poor families, even if they are excellent, they can only be unattainable for entering the officialdom.

In fact, such interests are placed in front of your eyes, far more huge than the fact that they dedicate their own family's knowledge and culture, and their children are taken hostage, and after weighing the pros and cons, everyone nodded in agreement.

"What about the third condition?"

Zheng Da said again: "Since we have armed forces on the grassland to protect our own land and property, we need to have sophisticated equipment, therefore, we have a reluctant request, that is, please let go of your weapon restrictions in the Savage Valley and sell us some." ”

Hearing such a request, Li Peng smiled and smiled genuinely happily.

The steel mill in his savage valley, after several years of development, especially the use of coke as raw material, is no longer a small fight, but has become a real steel mill with a high scale.

In this era, the demand for steel is very small, and at the same time, with the liberalization of steel control in Youzhou, small steel workshops around the country have also developed and constructed, and in the entire Youzhou, the production capacity of iron is also very huge.

But fortunately, the world is in turmoil, the warlords are divided, the beacon smoke is everywhere, and the princes and warlords around the country, even if it is a small force, are also frantically expanding their arms, hoping that in the troubled times, they can either protect themselves, or they can develop and grow, so the demand for iron materials continues to expand, and for a time, the high-quality iron materials in Youzhou directly smelted by coke have become sought-after goods in the world, and even reached short supply.

However, the most iron material in Youzhou is still the steel factory of Lu Peng in the Savage Valley, and the steel that is now directly smelted is the real gold that is hard to find, and in order to limit the development of the enemy and improve the quality of their own equipment, these smelted steel, the indestructible weapons created are strictly not sold to the outside world.

What is the most profitable business in the world? Big three, banks, drugs, arms.

Now the banks in the city are not realistic, selling drugs, and they don't even know where the poppies are! What else do you say about drugs? Even if you know it, you can't do it, not only can't you do it, but you must be resolutely strangled.

Then there is the munitions, now the knives and guns produced in Youzhou have been sold all over the world, bringing huge unimaginable profits to various wealthy families in Youzhou every year, and of course, it has also brought huge benefits to Youzhou's finances.

But those are all knives and guns forged from ordinary iron, where can they be compared to the swords produced in Lu Peng's Savage Valley? But based on his own refined weapons, he can't sell the ninjas of his opponents, which in Lu Peng's opinion, is definitely holding a golden rice bowl and begging along the street.

But this time is different, now it is these, the merchants who are ready to enter the grassland are armed, and they buy from themselves, not their future enemies, this matter can be discussed, as long as they control it well, there should be no serious problem of capital enemies.

"This is negotiable." After some thought, Lu Peng cautiously replied to Zheng Da.

Hearing such an answer, Zheng Da's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

"If we have the master's sophisticated weapons in hand, we can form a cavalry team of two thousand people, and we can completely face the attack of four or five thousand men and horses of the barbarian people, and if we unite and form a team of thirty or forty thousand horses, when the time comes, the Xianbei people should not think about how to rob us, they should tremble and think, how to prevent us from robbing them?"

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