Originally, the grain route destroyed by the Mongols was the grain transported by the Jin merchants from Zhangjiakou and Jizhen to the Horqin grassland and Liaodong, and the eight major Jin merchants cooperated with each other to desperately supply grain and military supplies in the most difficult years of the Later Jin Dynasty, and they made a fortune from this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the difference from history is that the owner of the grain road has changed from eight Jin merchants to one Zhang Han, and the convoy exported from Zhangjiakou has been replaced by the export from Xinpingbao, and the scale of the grain convoy has become larger and the number has increased.

Houjin did not have much of a food shortage because of sufficient reserves, and although the trade with Zhang Han did not stop, it also shrank badly, but after the winter, the reserves were rapidly depleted, and the supply began to be difficult, and after November, the supply volume of the Jurchen side and Yusheng suddenly more than doubled, and in December, it increased three times compared with the summer.

At the same time, a large number of purchases at the same time, the Jurchens also drove the grain route all the way to the vicinity of Guangning, before and Yusheng's materials were taken from Korqin, in recent years, Lin Dan Khan increased the oppression of the Inner Khalkha and Horqin tribes, many Mongolian tribes have therefore alienated themselves from the relationship with the Jurchens, only the place controlled by Obataiji is stable, and Yusheng's convoy is until the place where Obataiji arrived, and the Jurchens have established a new grain route in Guangning, all the way to Liaodong, and the Mongols are now harassing, It is the thousand-mile-long grain route established by the Jurchens and the Horqin Obadaiji tribe!

Nurhachi agreed with Huang Taiji's words, and it was very obvious.

The old slave is now very displeased with Dai Shan, originally after Chu Ying's death, Dai Shan is already the de facto eldest son, in addition to his own palm of the red flag, the red flag is actually Dai Shan's territory, the two flags of Niu Lu have a lot of direct hands in the hands of Dai Shan, sitting on nearly two flags of Niu Lu, Dai Shan's strength was originally the strongest one, and with the old Khan fought for decades, he jumped on the horse and raised the whip when he was a teenager, and made great contributions in the conquest of Ye He and other wars, and his strength and prestige were the highest. However, there was an adultery with the eldest concubine, and Dai Shan was speechless, and Nuer Hachi was furious about it, and he was already estranged from Dai Shan a lot.

Seeing this, Dai Shan simply said: "Since this is the case, I will go to Guangning and Jinzhou, and if I can, I will conquer the Thirteen Mountains and completely ensure the safety of the grain road." ”

Nuer Hachi snorted, didn't look at Dai Shan, and said to Huang Taiji: "The eighth may wish to communicate with Zhang Han, the grain road is also related to his interests, and it is best that he can not help the Ming Kingdom transport grain to the Thirteen Mountains." ”

Huang Taiji knew that this was unlikely, for Zhang Han, his feeling was that it was becoming more and more difficult to grasp, originally Zhang Han was still a teenager when he first arrived in Liaodong, when Houjin had not won the battle against Salhu, nor did he capture Liao and Shen, he welcomed any forces that came over, and because of the war with the Ming State, the materials were indeed extremely scarce, Zhang Han claimed that he could cooperate with the Houjin High-level Jin did not believe much, and even Nuer Hachi's oath was only mostly for Huang Taiji's sake, and there was also the feeling of a dead horse being a live horse doctor.

Unexpectedly, it was only a few years, the situation changed abruptly, that young Han merchant really had such strength, not only established the grain road, but also obviously extended his power all the way to Liaodong, and attracted the attention of the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, Liaoyang here attaches great importance to the intelligence of the Ming Kingdom, Zhang Han was summoned by the apocalypse to know it every few days, and later knew that Zhang Han opened up territory in the north, from an ordinary merchant to the second-grade military attache of the Ming State, during these changes, Huang Taiji has been paying attention, I also kept sighing in my heart.

Such a person should have been forced to stay and use it for it!

But now it's too late to regret it, Zhang Han has grown up, it was originally not a thing in the pool, and now it is even more difficult to control, he and Houjin are only cooperating, not subordinate, telling Zhang Han to give up his foundation in the Ming Kingdom, not driven by the Ming court, and he knows that it is impossible to think about it at will.

However, in front of Dai Shan here, Huang Taiji didn't say anything to be afraid of difficulties, but agreed with a smile.

"Let's talk about Wenlong," Nurha Equator said: "No matter how much silver is deposited, it will be difficult to deal with natural disasters for many years, and if you use troops against Mongolia in these two years, the cost will not be small." Since Wenlong is willing to trade fairly, of course he can do business with him, but this matter must be kept secret, and the Eight Banners cannot be known, and the place must also be limited, so that the people of Dongjiang Town cannot be mixed into our hinterland. ”

"Khan Ama is absolutely right." Huang Taiji said with a look of respect: "There is no last resort." ”

Nurhachi sighed, he didn't know the price of firewood and rice, he was only in Hetuara before, there were only more than 200,000 people in total, the place was large, and each tribe could survive just by fishing and hunting, and he did not enter the Fushun Pass, and the Jurchens' vision was also small, even if they didn't have clothes to wear, there were no complaints, and they were everywhere wearing animal skins all year round.

After entering the Fushun Pass, the man had to join the army, and he had to hand over the grain to serve in the Gongzhong, farm for the Gongzhong, raise horses, prepare swords, armor, and good horses, although the battle could be looted, but the loss was also large, and in recent years it has become a large country with millions of people, which is a headache for Nurha.

Natural disasters, war, for the big country is the most fatal two things, for the Houjin such a small country with an unstable foundation and many internal troubles, if it were not for the war to make up for the loopholes, this small country would have collapsed long ago, even so, it is also difficult, not only the Han people are poor, even if there is no lack of people in the Eight Banners who live in great difficulty, if you don't use a large number of materials to tilt to the Eight Banners, so that the people can still maintain a fairly strong fighting spirit, not to mention attacking Mongolia again, and then attacking Ming, I'm afraid that even the current situation can't be maintained, if it weren't for that, how could Nurhachi agree to trade privately with Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town!

The trade with Zhang Han is mainly gold and silver, and only a small amount of physical goods are taken out for trade, but Mao Wenlong mainly sells physical goods and recovers gold and silver, which is not without a small supplement!

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Seeing that the first lunar month is approaching, Li Zhuang and its surrounding places have gradually resumed their original life trajectory.

There is still not much to do in the fields, and the people only need a little time to get things done in the fields.

The workshop area was completely restored, and many workers were on holiday during the Chinese New Year, only a small number of people were on duty, and many places stopped working, and after the fifteenth day, the workshop began to work one after another, and the area around the Firearms Bureau was burned again, and from time to time there was a loud sound of cannons and firearms.

Zhang Han teased in the inner house for a while, the villain has already opened his eyes to see the world, and occasionally smiles, every time he asks Zhang Han to see it, he will be happy.

The birth of Zhang Han's eldest son also seems to have given this group a stronger centripetal force, and even Kong Minxing already regards Zhang Han as the main prince, remembering the difficulty of recruiting this agricultural expert, which also makes Zhang Han sigh with emotion.

Accompanied by the attendant division, Zhang Han did not take the car, everyone rode horses and went to the direction of the north and south canals together.

There were all the personnel of the military department who accompanied him, and the most of them were of course people from the military and political departments, and Tian Jitang, who had a sad face and seemed to be preoccupied, was the most eye-catching, which caused Li Shenming to tease the financial director with jokes from time to time.

Li Dongxue is not there, he, Sun Jingting, Cai Jiu and others are still in the copper mines in the north, and the affairs there are too important.

Most of the strength of the military and political department is still in the north of the border wall of the Great Wall, a large amount of land to be cleared, tens of thousands of people have been out of the fortress in the early stage, the military department has prepared thousands of cattle, more than 10,000 horses, a large number of high-quality iron-cast farm tools have been transported to the outside of the fortress, but the reclamation has not yet been carried out, so far, a large number of people and strong labor groups mainly do one thing: burn bricks.

Not only to build a large number of bricks and tiles, but also to build a military fort in several important places at the beginning of spring, and then build a military platform and side piers along the way, by the point and line, and Yusheng drew a few big circles, and expanded a large circle around their core area, repair the fort and the pier platform to a large number of bricks and stones, build the house also need bricks and stones, plus the cold and frozen, the snow falls on the grassland from time to time, the weather is much colder than Datong here, the land is still put aside first, The military secretary devoted the main energy to the construction of buildings and the preparation of various supplies.

Of course, the silver is also used a lot, at the end of the year, the military department rushed back a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, in addition to the war horses left most of the for their own use, the grasslands in the north also left some, and most of the rest were sold to the area of the Beijing Division, the return of more than 300,000 silver began to be used in large quantities after the year, every day Tian Jitang's brows are wrinkled into Sichuan characters, very simple, if you continue to use it like this, you will have to run a deficit in two months.

Although Liaodong's shipments have increased greatly, profits have exploded, and it is a very considerable profit point, but because of the relationship between the New Year, the cash income of the logistics and account bureau of the mule and horse bank has been greatly reduced, and the two are discounted, and the overall profit of Yusheng is still about 300,000 taels per month, which is still the premise of monopolizing the huge profits of the iron industry and smuggling trade in the entire north, and the trade at sea cannot be calculated on a monthly basis, and it is not stable, and the income is almost used by Taiwan. In addition, the recruitment of new soldiers on Phi Island, the cutting down of large trees, and the expenses of the Sailor School and the shipyard under preparation are not small, and Li Dongxue, Tian Jitang, and others are worried that in a few months, Taiwan will not be able to support it with the income from maritime trade alone, and they will have to rely on Li Zhuang's side to allocate funds.

If that's the case, it really won't be able to hold it up.

At present, the expenses of the grassland are extremely high, with nearly 40,000 garrisons, 50,000 or 60,000 people and people who have reclaimed the wasteland, and more than 100,000 people get more than 100,000 taels a month just to transport grain, salt, vegetables, and meat. In addition to military salaries and many other expenditures, the material consumption of the Firearms Bureau is also a large amount, and the expenses of the workshop on Li Zhuang's side are converted into costs, but the expenses of military personnel are also tens of thousands a month, as well as various schools, military hospitals, and Tian Jitang have found that under the auspices of Zhang Han, the foundation of Heyusheng has swelled to the extent that the monthly expenses are close to about 400,000 taels!

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