Chapter 287: Rising to the Top
"I think that Lin Chong has been selling his reputation and saying what to save the world, and he is not going to be an official until now...... And you might as well promise that he is ......," Cai Jing muttered.
Chen Zongshan cautiously told the story of the Liangshan Army's military parade.
"Enxiang couldn't see it with his own eyes, and Lin Chong didn't know what means he used, and 40,000 Liangshan sergeants stood on the exercise ground, really not moving; They acted, and it was truly the same!
Can you imagine Eun Xiang? More than 10,000 people raised their legs at the same time and put them down at the same time, all the movements were exactly the same, even the length of the kicks.
It was a straight line before walking, and it was still a straight line after walking, and the scene was really shocking......
Other petty officials don't dare to say it, just say that the military discipline is strict, the order is forbidden, the ten thousand people are the same, the army is slaughtered, and the Liangshan Army can be described as the extreme! ”
Zhang Ganban recalled the few days in Liangshan, and he also had palpitations.
"Taishi, this gang of anti-thieves and grass cowards is really a big trouble for the court! The court is not going to expropriate them now, and it is becoming more and more unscrupulous.
Now they have built four castle markets outside Shuibo, and they are full of guests every day, which is even more lively than the Wan surname trading market in Daxiangguo Temple in Bianjing City.
Our people have seen it, and there are Liangshan money houses, pawnshops, trading houses, department stores, restaurants, hotels, delicatessens, dessert shops, wine shops, perfume shops, silk shops, ready-to-wear shops, carriage and horse shops, farm tool shops, etc., and Liangshanjun's business is almost all over all walks of life in the two states.
Moreover, Liang Shanjun also built a lot of workshops, such as brick kilns, cement factories, textile workshops, leather goods processing workshops, four-wheeled carriage workshops, waterwheels and other agricultural tool workshops, wine workshops, etc.
They also used prisoners of war from the Dumen Forbidden Army to set up a Liangshan construction team, which was dedicated to building dredging canals and drainage ditches, building biogas digesters, installing water wheels, overturning cars, and windmills for carrying water for the nearby people;
They also provided loans to all the common people and wealthy merchants in the two states, with a monthly interest rate of only one cent (1%), and poor families could borrow less than 10 yuan without collateral, as long as there were three people as guarantees;
Moreover, there is also interest on the money deposited in their bank, which is 5% (5‰) per month for a regular year, and 1% for current accounts......
There are also merchants from all over the world, private businessmen all come to do business with Liangshanjun, and after hearing the news of Liangshanjun's recruitment, there are even many people who have opened their shops in the four castles......
According to the villain's estimate, Liang Shanjun does not count their own industry, and Liang Shanjun has at least 500,000 yuan of income every month just by collecting taxes, shop rent, and management fees!
In addition, they also set up their own workshops and shops, which is simply a daily income...... The fleet also formed by this gang of thieves directly traded with the Liao, Jurchen, Goryeo, and Wa countries, and it is even more incalculable whether there is any benefit in it!
…… Now the Liangshan army is really making a big deal in the two states...... Water conservancy projects were built, roads were built, wasteland was reclaimed, wasteland was reclaimed, seeds for new crops were sold cheaply, and fertilizer for planting land was ......
Now the people of Jeju and Yunju have benefited from the Yangsan army. Especially those mud-legged croppers are even more desperate for the Liangshan Army, rushing to join the Liangshan Army or go to the Liangshan Workshop to do things.
I'm afraid that it won't be long before these people only know about Liang Shanjun and don't know about the imperial court! ”
Cai Jing listened to it pensively, and also felt a little incredible, Liang Shanjun was so big, was he really not worried at all? Do you really regard Jeju and Yunju as your own territory?
At this time, Chen Zongshan added: "What Zhang Ganban said is extremely true, Lin Chong is used to bewitching the public and demagoguery.
In this military parade, Lin Chong also made a speech in front of the 40,000 army and countless merchants of Jingdong, saying that this time Zhao'an, the imperial court could not defeat the western thieves, and he asked for the Liangshan army, isn't it shameless? Obviously, this guy took the initiative to ask the court for peace......"
I don't know why, but at this time, Cai Jing's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked: "Then Lin Chong really said in front of the people of the two states that he would lead the troops to go on the expedition, go out on the expedition, step through the Helan Mountain, kill all the western thieves, and capture Li Qianshun alive?" ”
The two nodded hurriedly, Cai Jing's eyes shrank, and he secretly said in his heart: "All this guy has done is to buy people's hearts and fight for righteousness." It seems that what this guy is trying to do is not just a Juye Festival Envoy, but a hereditary Festival Envoy.
But that's fine, if you say it, splash out the water, since this guy said in front of so many Jingdong people and merchants that he would lead troops to recruit the Western thieves, if he doesn't go when the time comes, won't he slap himself in the face and lose people's hearts?
And as long as this guy really brings troops to Kansai, then there is no way to deal with them on his side? For example, the weight of grain and grass is a little later; For example, the Liangshan army was surrounded and did not go to the rescue; You can even sell the intelligence of the Liangshan Army to the Western Thieves......"
Thinking of this, Cai Jing couldn't help laughing, feeling that Lin Chong's fight with him was still too tender.
"Come on, go and invite the two lieutenants, Gao and Yang, to come to the Prime Minister's Mansion to discuss important military matters......"
In Liangshan Bonan City, Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng leisurely drank the cold beer brewed by Liangshanjun, while looking at the bustling crowd outside the window.
"Lin Jun's lord is really a god, and he has actually run this place so prosperously, I have estimated that in this southern city alone, Liang Shanjun's daily income is forty or fifty thousand, or even more."
Zhao Mingcheng couldn't help but sigh, in the past two days, he and Li Qingzhao have traveled all over the twenty or thirty miles around Nancheng, and they were really surprised.
"How can there be so many?"
Li Qingzhao is not sensitive to numbers, although he knew that Liang Shanjun was very profitable in many transactions, but he didn't expect to make so much money.
Zhao Mingcheng shook his head and said, "I'm still a conservative estimate, but it's actually going to be more." If nothing else, let's just say that Liang Shanjun has a few big deals.
The first is wine, sugar, salt, toiletries, condiments, Liangshan cooked food, desserts, Chinese patent medicines, these other places have no goods, and the traffic is busy every day.
I asked Xiao Si to count at the gate of the Liangshan Commercial Bank, and in just one morning, he pulled away more than 80 four-wheeled carriages, and you must know that the price of these goods is not low.
Take the cheapest refined salt as an example, each bag is fifty wen, each catty is sixty-four wen, and a four-wheeled carriage can pull at least two thousand catties (one catty in the Song Dynasty is almost 640 grams), which is one hundred and twenty-eight pounds of copper.
Take soap and soap as an example, a piece of soap weighing four taels is 600 wen a piece, that is, 2,400 wen a pound of copper, and a car of soap is 4,800 pounds of copper.
A piece of soap of three taels sells for five pounds of copper, that is, twenty-six pounds more, and a car of soap is more than 53,000 pounds of copper.
White sugar has always been a pound, and a car is two thousand pounds of copper; The price of monosodium glutamate and chicken essence is 1,280 wen a catty, and a car is 2,560 pounds of copper.
One bottle of Wuliang Spring 30 runs, one bottle of beer 200 Wen; There are also glass mirrors, glass wine sets, and tea sets that are sold more expensive; All kinds of Chinese patent medicines, Liangshan cooked food is also sold very expensive.
I don't know how much these things cost, but since they are the only ones of the Liangshan Army, it is at least half of the money, that is, the Liangshan Army can earn eighty truckloads of goods a day in one city.
If eighty wagons were to carry salt, that would be 10,000 yuan! But it can't be all salt, there must be other more valuable goods, so I estimate it to be at least 30,000 kan.
Then Liang Shanjun still has to collect taxes, collect the rent of the store, and buy other things such as four-wheeled carriages, which is a thousand times, how many have been sold. ”