Chapter Forty-Eight: Zhang Dou's Hole Cards

Zhang Dou laughed and said: "Changsheng Island is just an isolated island, if you want to defend this island from being robbed by Jiannu, it is really difficult for me to rely on Zhang alone. Therefore, Zhang needs everyone's help to transport the goods that Zhang urgently needs, and the person who can transport the goods that Zhang urgently needs is Zhang's friend. ”

After listening to Zhang Dou's words, Zheng Yiguan and the others fell into deep thought. Although the force of this surnamed Zhang is relatively strong, their number is really not worth mentioning compared to tens of thousands of Jiannu.

If you send him something, if you win, you will be considered to have invested in this surnamed Zhang, what if you fail? After all, compared with tens of thousands of Jiannu and Jiannu, these people on Changsheng Island are still not worth mentioning.

Looking at the uncertain expressions on the faces of several businessmen, Zhang Dou said again: "Sending goods to Zhang will definitely not make you suffer." What price it should be, Zhang will pay as much silver as he wants, and he will not ask for your things in vain. ”

Hearing this, the faces of several people immediately burst into laughter, businessmen are all profit-seeking, and Zhang Dou wants to buy their things as their customers, so he naturally greets them with a smile.

"I wonder what kind of goods General Zhang needs?" The middle-aged man surnamed Zhao asked, which was also the question that several people were most concerned about.

"Grain, iron ore, sulfur, saltpeter, coal (coal), ......, everything that is useful." Zhang Dou said calmly.

Hearing Zhang Dou's words, several people in the tent opened their mouths wide. The heart said: This lord has such a big appetite, he wants so many things in one breath, is it not possible that he has a mountain of gold in his hand?

Zheng Yiguan smiled awkwardly: "What General Zhang needs are ordinary things, and it is not difficult to get them." But the sea is high and rough, and it is really inconvenient to transport goods, and this is the price......" He paused.

Zhang Dou understood as soon as he heard it, he was afraid that he would not have the money to pay the bill! Immediately said: "Zhang left in a hurry, and he really didn't bring much silver." ”

When he had finished speaking, the faces of all the people in the tent fell suddenly. I thought it was a big business, but in the end, it turned out to be a white wolf with empty gloves from their hands! Immediately, they smiled bitterly and shook their heads gently, it seemed that this Immortal Island was afraid that they would not be able to stay.

Their expressions were seen by Zhang Dou, and he smiled. "Zhang doesn't have any money, but he has this!" As he spoke, he pulled out a bamboo basket from behind the table, and he lifted the rag covering it in the puzzled eyes of several people.

Immediately, a rancid smell filled the entire tent, and when several people saw the contents of the basket clearly, they involuntarily took a few steps back. They looked at Zhang Dou with bad faces and angry expressions.

Zhang Dou ignored the anger of several people, he reached out and took out something from the basket, and held it in his hand, as if it was a hideous and terrifying human head.

"A few shopkeepers are optimistic, this is the head of the authentic Jiannu, the price is fair, and the child is not bullied, isn't it worth the silver?" After Zhang Dou finished speaking, he threw the head in his hand to Zheng Yiguan.

Several other people dodged and retreated sharply, for fear that they would be contaminated with the bad luck of a dead man. Although they often do some unprofitable business at sea, it is the first time to talk about the price like today, and I can't help but feel hairy.

Zheng Yiguan only hesitated slightly, and then caught the head. He took the tail of the money rat and looked at it carefully, only to see that the head had been treated with lime. Although the taste is not small, it can still be left for a while.

And looking at the facial contours of this head, it is obvious that it is not a Han person, but an authentic Jiannu, and it is not impersonated with a Han head at all.

At this moment, Zheng Yiguan's heart set off a storm, what is the origin of this group of people? was able to kill Jiannu, and there were more than 30 heads in that basket, to say the least.

If so many heads are all the heads of real slaves, it will be a proper victory to report to the court. Now that the Ming Dynasty has lost the entire Liaodong, the generals at all levels in Liaodong are all in danger. are trying their best to get the head of the real slave, so as to get through the trick.

Those who can't get the first rank have no choice but to kill the good and take the risk, hoping to deceive the officials who come to the first level to test the head. But what is fake is fake, and if you carefully inspect it, you can still distinguish the real from the fake, which requires a lot of silver to open the way.

Anyway, in a word, the head of a real slave in Liaodong is priceless, and the head that could have been sold for a hundred taels can now be bought for two hundred taels.

Zheng Yiguan took the head and began to calculate in his heart, with the head of a real slave, he could make friends with the generals at all levels in Liaodong. It will be much more convenient to do business in the future, and now the first level is a good thing, as long as you take it out, you will be robbed like crazy, and you will not suffer a loss no matter how much you buy.

As soon as he figured it out, the rich man spoke up. "General Zhang! A head can go to the court to receive 50 taels of silver, and the old decay will suffer a loss of 50 taels and ask for one, so he should run errands for the general. ”

His words made the other three people disdainful for a while, and this old thing was too greedy. 50 taels is the official price, and the current market price is 200 taels. The old thing wants to take advantage of it, and it is as shameless as how much he has suffered.

The businessman surnamed Zhao also reacted and said, "Sun Youcai! You are not afraid of dying, now the market price of the real slave's head is 200 taels, and I Zhao Sihai will pay 120 taels to buy all the heads. ”

"Lao Zhao, don't go too far! Can't I, Liu Zhenhai, eat these heads? ”

"Let's stop arguing, let's figure out how many heads General Zhang has in his hands first!" Zheng Yiguan said.

Only then did everyone react, Zhang Dou took out a basket of heads, not necessarily all, maybe there were more! It's a bit of a shame that they're arguing over a few heads here.

"Not much, that's all!" After Zhang Dou finished speaking, he raised three fingers.

"300?" Zheng Yiguan asked unconfidently. A hundred heads is already a great merit, as long as it is reported to the imperial court to add officials to the knighthood, it is certain.

As soon as he finished asking, he saw Zhang Dou shake his head, and suddenly Zheng Yiguan's heart jumped uncontrollably. Is it ~Is it ~?

The others also stared at Zhang Dou in disbelief. They would never have expected that the invincible Jiannu would have so many heads in Zhang Dou's hands.

Zhang Dou nodded affirmatively and said, "That's right! To be precise, there are 382 of them, and these heads are just obtained by Zhang passing by Yangguan Fort. Zhang Dou said lightly.

In the Battle of the Hunhe River, the white pole soldiers finally withdrew, throwing all the heads to Zhang Dou. In the Thousand Mountains War, there were hundreds of heads in the account, and Yangguanbao was completely annihilated in that period. Zhang Dou originally had a lot more Jiannu heads in his hand, but some of the heads had been stored for a long time, and they had rotted and deteriorated and could not be identified.

Only Dai Shan's head is properly preserved, this is Zhang Dou's biggest hole card, he will not release it until the last resort. And it was the harvest in Yangguan Fort that was taken out and sold to the merchants.

Zheng Yiguan and the others got together to discuss it, and said to Zhang Dou: "General! The small ones are willing to pay 50,000 taels of silver to buy these heads, and as for the goods needed by the adults, the small ones will be delivered as soon as possible. ”

The first thing Zhang Dou did when he got the silver was to buy pigs and sheep, so that the soldiers who had worked hard for many days could have a good meal. Then a military camp was built in Laotougou on Changsheng Island, and this place was renamed Changxinggou.

From this day on, the inhabitants of the island could see the soldiers in the barracks coming out for a run every morning. These soldiers set out from the barracks before dawn, ran around Beishan and then returned to the barracks for training. Because these soldiers were disciplined and always bought and sold fairly, the people also started small businesses around Beishan.

In the morning, the shouting of the sale is non-stop, and it is like a market.

In just half a month, Changsheng Island has undergone earth-shaking changes. First of all, there was a strangely shaped fortress being built in the north and south of Xinkou, and the merchants were concentrated in the Dragon King Temple, allowing them to trade and operate here. The Immortals have special personnel patrolling here to maintain order, and once someone buys and sells them, only firecrackers and spears await them.

At the dock in Golden State, Zhou Dunji stood on his dock hatefully. He hated the group of people called the Immortals to death, and it was this group of people who attacked his ship first. They attacked his barracks and made him a lost dog.

If it weren't for the fact that he had an inside line to help on the island, he would have been buried on Immortal Island. He must avenge this revenge, but he can't ask the Jurchens for help.

If the Jurchens knew about it, he would take all his men and horses to attack an island. Not only did he not fight down, but he was also wiped out, and he, the general of Jinzhou, was about to come to an end.

Zhou Dunji, who had his teeth knocked out, could only swallow it by himself, but fortunately, he had gotten a lot of silver from Changsheng Island before, which should allow him to pull the team up again.

Depressed, he had to silently swear in his heart that when his soldiers were trained, it would be the day he slaughtered the island.