"Five thousand cars, you're not crazy, are you?"

Zuo Ling was frightened when she heard the number she said, she didn't know if she was crazy, anyway, she was going crazy.

"Crazy, I'm the most sensible person in Beijing, you know." Besides, he said suddenly.

Zuo Ling pursed her lips and laughed, if she was in Jiangnan, probably most people would believe this sentence, only she knew how scary it was to be crazy, and she dared to attack Fengyang with officers and soldiers, how could this be described as crazy?

But she likes the madness on her body, and it can even be said that she fell madly in love with him because of his madness, otherwise how could she be willing to be a concubine as a flower in Fengyang? This is also called one thing descending from one thing.

Besides, seeing that she was skeptical, he showed her the recital of the emperor's approval and the emperor's will, and then said: "See, this is not my own opinion, it was approved by the emperor." ”

Zuo Ling read it carefully and carefully. Then he said with a smile: "The emperor approved 3,000 people, and he didn't say the specific vehicles." ”

"To learn to comprehend the deep meaning of the will, you look at the next few sentences, the emperor made it clear that I can handle this matter with full authority, that is, I can do what I want."

Zuo Ling thought about it, it was really like this, the emperor did not limit the size of the caravan. However, she saw that this was taking advantage of a loophole, and the emperor didn't limit that you can't rise uncontrollably.

"You think about it, what you need most outside the plug, what is the most in demand there, you can sell it right away, and you can exchange it for what we need. In addition, you need to think about what we all need first. Besides, sitting on a chair, drinking tea, he said gracefully.

He was not interested in any items, the only thing he wanted was calligraphy and paintings, Song edition books, and of course there were particularly good antiques that could be acquired. Zhou Dingcheng is responsible for these things, Zhou Dingcheng is more knowledgeable than him in this area, and he turned out to be a royal connoisseur.

"Well, I'll have to think about it, but let's not talk about pulling something over, if you make it so large, will the Tartars let you go?"

Zuo Ling is still full of doubts, the emperor approved it, and it is a favor.

Besides, the emperor has admitted such an arrogant thing as occupying a street, and he is spoiled at home, but this is in Beijing City, and when you go to the outside of the Saiwai, who does the Tatar Iron Rider know you, will the king of Alta still spoil you?

"Think about it, don't you know a lot of people who specialize in stuffing fur and medicinal herbs, ask them, be skilled, don't let them feel that we have to go over to do business." Besides, he laughed.

"I know that."

Zuo Ling's head is big, she originally just wanted to exchange for some antiques, medicinal materials, at most some animal skins, just a few cars, she deliberately said that she wanted dozens of cars, but also to give the space to compress, and now it has risen to 5,000 cars all of a sudden, how many things do you have to pull over.

"You have to know that this business is not only done by our own family, but also by the emperor and the palace, and the things they need will be billed, and it is estimated that two hundred cars can meet the needs of the palace, of course we have to add ten times and twenty times." Besides, it stinks beautifully.

"In that case, we won't have enough money." Zuo Ling was worried.

She now has tens of thousands of taels of silver in her hand, and she is also a rich woman, and she shares half of the profits in all her business, her brothers and husband and wife, she has always been financially independent, and she has never given the profits that should be shared, saying that she has reinvested.

The shop on a street is indeed very profitable, not to mention the piece of Chinese patent medicine, but after all, the time is still short, and it is already a miracle that she can make so much money.

This money can't be taken out all at once, and each store must set aside a certain amount of capital for turnover, and the only money that can be taken out is 20,000 taels of silver.

"Don't worry about this, I'll give you 200,000 taels of silver tickets, it should be enough. You first make a list of the things you want to transport to the outside of the Saiwai, and then we will study which ones to buy in Beijing and those to buy along the way. "Besides, take out 200,000 taels of silver tickets and hand them to Zuo Ling.

Zuo Ling was overjoyed, she just knew that she had money, but she didn't know how much she had, she never asked, just like she never asked how much money she made in business.

"You're not going to use the Yamen's funds, are you?" Zuo Ling was a little worried, 200,000 taels of silver was not a small amount.

"Funding? Not only did I not use the funds for military training, but I also put in more than 10,000 taels of silver myself in the past six months. Otherwise, how could the emperor approve my business to make money, this is the reward. Besides.

"Paste it in for 10,000 taels? But it's worth it, if it really happens this time, it's enough money for us to earn in ten or even twenty years. It's enough to make no more money in this life. Zuo Ling kissed happily.

"Little family, you are satisfied with this, this time is just a hammer deal, next time I don't know when I will be able to do business with Saiwai again, so I made up my mind to be ruthless, and when I go to the coast, doing business with overseas is called making money." Besides.

He is indeed not as excited as Zuo Ling, this business can indeed make a lot of money, so what? His sixth guard was built with internal funds, and the emperor would not always use internal funds to support him and the sixth guard, and he would still have to find a way to support himself in the future.

Asking for funds from the military department and the household department is to seek skin with the tiger, unless the soldiers he trained are scattered and distributed to various official and military systems, he will never do this, and would rather finish the old book than do it.

20,000 elite soldiers, and in the future, they will continue to train and replenish personnel, and they can't be maintained without 600,000 taels of silver every year, not counting the various ordnance and artillery and other items allocated by the imperial court.

Moreover, since he guessed that the emperor might send him to lead troops to protect the open port, he also understood the emperor's far-reaching intention, that is, to extract silver from the tariffs of landed goods to support himself, so that he would not have to quarrel with the household military department. However, it is still unknown how much silver can be extracted from the tariff, and even how much tariff can be exceeded, he really needs to prepare early, reserve more silver taels, and survive the famine year in the future.

He now has more than one million taels of silver tickets in his hand, which is considered a rich man, but it is a joke to want to raise an army, and he will definitely go bankrupt in two years.

No matter how the situation changes in the future, he will not hand over this army, from the beginning he deliberately wants to build the 20,000 elite soldiers of the Jinyi Sixth Guard into his own private army, and in the future, he will go overseas to do business, this is the sword in his hand.

In the lawless world overseas, only strength is the last word, and without strength, you can only watch it be swallowed up.

Although he doesn't like Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai very much, he has learned a lot in military training, and he is willing to put money upside down, which is nothing more than buying the hearts of the army.

However, it is not easy to keep this team firmly in control, not counting other aspects, and raising funds is the biggest difficulty. He wants to do business, and to make a big deal, he is also preparing for a rainy day.

"By the way, the silk will enter the Zhou family, don't want the best in their family, just the second-class ones, too good Tartar can't afford them, give me a batch of good silk, ready to give away, and porcelain should also be more, inferior sales, and high-grade gifts." Besides, he said with his fingers crossed.

"Give gifts, you still want to give gifts to others?" Zuo Ling was puzzled.

"Of course, this time I will meet the king and princess of Alta and many princes and their concubines, gifts are inevitable, and we can't let people underestimate our Celestial Empire."

"Isn't there supposed to be a preparation from the imperial court, what are we going to prepare?" Zuo Ling felt that this was too much.

"Contact feelings, take people short, as long as they accept, they owe me a favor, but they will not owe this kind of favor, they will definitely return the gift, and it will be very heavy. I have heard Baturu say that the Tatar is such a character, you respect him a foot, he respects you, if you do not respect him, he will destroy you. Besides.

"Okay, listen to you." Zuo Ling didn't understand the twists and turns in this, and since he told him so, he agreed.

"By the way, don't you have a lot of fine porcelain in your warehouse, you can give it away." Zuo Ling suddenly remembered.

"How can I do it, those are all treasures from the emperor, and my own collection is too little, how can I give it away, just use the best I can buy on the market." Besides, he laughed.

The precious porcelain given to him by the emperor has been divided a lot by Zhou Dingcheng and Zhao Yang, and there is not much left, he is reluctant to use it himself, of course he will not take it out and give it away.

Besides, if you want to give gifts, you have another thought, so as to see if you can establish contact with some Tatar princes, since there are such people in the powerful families in the capital, it is difficult to say that there are no interest-oriented people in the Tatar kings, if you can find one as a breakthrough, there may be unexpected gains.

What is this called, this is called rebellion. Of course, it's just an idea, and even if it doesn't achieve its goal, there's nothing to lose.

Zuo Ling went out to discuss the purchase of goods with her housekeeper and housekeeper's wife, what kind of goods to buy, how many types and quantities, all of them had to be carefully calculated, but she still felt like she was in a dream, and she doubted whether she was fooled and dizzy, how could she believe such a ridiculous thing.

Such a huge scale of commerce has exceeded her imagination, if there is still some possibility in the mainland, but to go to the border of the enemy outside the country, how is this possible?

Whatever, since he said yes, then believe him once, it's a big deal to be intercepted by the Tatar cavalry in the pass, and these goods can be sold slowly by themselves.

She was ruthless and gambled.

Moreover, he found Zhou Dingcheng and gave him 200,000 taels of silver tickets, so that he could buy calligraphy and painting antiques outside the Saiwai.

"You don't need so much, you're going to buy all the treasures in other people's hands." Zhou Dingcheng was also taken aback.

Of course, ancient calligraphy, paintings, and antiques are sky-high prices, but they may not be able to buy much, after all, those Tatar princes will not have much inventory in their hands, let alone sell them all.

"Prepare more silver, buy as much as you can, if you come across rare calligraphy and paintings, there is no money in your hand, then it is called sadness." Besides.

"Okay, but let me tell you, I always feel unreliable about this, and we can't get out and close the door at all." Zhou Ding became enlightened.

"I have a way to get the emperor to approve this operation, and I have a way to get the king of Alta to let him go." Besides, he waved his hand very domineeringly.

Zhou Dingcheng was speechless, and said in his heart: Just be happy.