Chapter 34: Outside the Mouth
"I'll talk to everyone in a moment."
Liang Hong promised to go out, and Zhang Han looked at Li Yujing.
Li Yujing's account is also an old man in the shop, but at this time, he was a little afraid when he looked at Zhang Han, and when he saw Zhang Han looking at him, he hurriedly said: "What did the young proprietor call me to do?" ”
"Is the Longmen tent still proficient?"
"I've been doing it for a few months, and I'm already proficient."
Zhang Han smiled and said: "The accounts of this fort and the accounts of each branch will all be set up, and General Ma and Deputy Envoy Li will send people to see, I have promised them thirty percent of their shares, of course I am coaxing them, and I naturally have the final say on how much silver to give, but it is troublesome to look at the accounts after all......
Li Yujing had already understood, and hurriedly got up and said: "Please rest assured, as long as the proprietor tells me how much it should be every month, no one will be able to see anything on the books." ”
"Okay, Lao Li, your son seems to be quite young, if he is free, he will also call him to the store, and find a few clever boys to learn to make accounts with you, so that he can take over your hands in the future."
Li Yujing bowed lower and lower, and replied, "Yes, everything will be done according to what the proprietor says." ”
Zhang Han smiled with satisfaction, people in this era really don't have too many legal concepts, and things like making false accounts are quite troublesome in later generations, but here it is just a matter of one sentence, which is really much more convenient.
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Zhang Han got up early in the morning of the second day, but he didn't believe in boxing and exercising this day, and went to the store after breakfast, Zhang Chun still followed him, and after a few months, this little guy was much more stable, and he was much more capable of speaking and doing things than before.
Zhang Han walked all the way along North Street, paying special attention to the grain prices of the day released by the grain stores on both sides, and seeing that the grain prices had really risen a lot compared with last winter, he nodded secretly.
Not a single grain of grain he collected has been sold so far, and when Zhang Han passed by, there were already many grain shopkeepers or proprietors who came over, and they were also curious, when did Zhang Han's grain plan to sell?
It's March now, this time is also commonly known as the time of green and yellow, wild vegetables have not yet grown, the old grain is exhausted, and the new grain will have to be harvested in two months.
When Zhang Han walked, he didn't think that there were people watching him.
Li Mingda shrank behind the counter, his eyes were a little gloomy.
Last autumn and winter, everyone was looking forward to a good year this year, after all, it is rare for bad weather for many years in a row...... Who would have thought that this year's weather will still be bad!
This rain is very small, not transparent, many places are very dry, those dry fields without water harvest is very limited, Datong here dry fields, normal annual harvest is only between one and a half to two stones, paddy fields can receive three or four stones, such weather, at least three or four percent per mu of yield, for many farmers will live a very tormented life, for grain merchants, hoarding a large amount of grain in this spring famine to raise the price for sale, this is the right way to make a fortune.
Now the price of grain has risen from four yuan to six yuan with one stone, and it will rise again in the future, and the Fan family began to continue to transport a large amount of grain from the south, but the price of grain in the south also rose in the spring, and the profit was limited.
The Fan family still has a large amount of grain in various places, and only Xinpingbao has sold out the grain in Xinpingbao here, Li Mingda is very faceless because of this matter, and he is also very dissatisfied with Zhang Han in his heart.
"Look, this is Zhang Shaodong."
Zhang Han has grown a lot more in the past year, he has enough meat every day, and he also raises milk cows in the house and drinks some milk every day, which is rare among the Han people, and it is also a joke in the castle. In the eyes of Li Mingda and the people around him, Zhang Han, who is more than sixteen years old, is much taller than an ordinary adult, and he is not thin, and his body is very well-proportioned.
"Is that him?" The man next to Li Mingda said in a deep voice: "It's really a half-grown baby." ”
Li Mingda said with a smile: "Lao Zhou, this half-grown baby is not easy to deal with, you and I have suffered losses in his hands." ”
"My store is equivalent to being robbed by him."
"Lao Zhou" is Zhou Bin, the original proprietor of Dongyi Store, of course he is not a good man and a woman, the location of this shop is important, and the caravan of the Fan family often fights there or replaces tired mules, horses and donkeys, and Zhou Bin has another relationship, so Fan Yongdou knows this person, called Li Mingda to envelop some, I never thought that Zhang Han's fledgling offspring, Leng used a group of green skin tigers to rob this old Zhou's shop.
Li Mingda smiled and said: "I really can't imagine this, you have been walking the rivers and lakes all your life, and there are a few people around you who can fight, so you can endure it like this." ”
"Liang Xing and Yang Qiu's two dogs, at a glance, I know that I have been doing a lot of work recently, Lao Tzu has been rolling in the rivers and lakes for half a life, that gang knows at a glance that they will do it, here Lai Staff General and the Qing Army Hall have been bought by the Zhang family, Lao Tzu is beaten in vain, the hero does not suffer the loss in front of him, is it really a good beating, so where do I put my face?"
Li Mingda smiled: "You won't forget this matter, right?" ”
"That's nature, let's ride a donkey and look at the account book, and we'll see. When the time comes, brother, you have to help me too. ”
"What else is there to say?" Li Mingda gritted his teeth and said: "My nephew was sent to other places by him, and he never came back for a year, and my grain stock was bought out by him. I had to bring in food from elsewhere. ”
"One tune is more than 100,000 stones, and you Fan proprietor are the real wealthy businessmen."
"The Fan family has been in business for many years, and the family property is 100 times and Yusheng, what is this kid Zhang Han!"
Speaking of this, Li Mingda is also proud, the grain he sold to Zhang Han is only a small number, the loss is not much, but he can't get up and down, now the spring famine together, it is estimated that the Mongolians are not comfortable, the price of grain will continue to rise, the thickness of the Fan family's family is unimaginable to outsiders, the recent month of continuous grain transfer to the north, all the horse market forts, Xinping Fort is the largest horse market in Datong, the most grain transferred, rice beans and wheat together have 150,000 stones, all the shots have tens of thousands of net profits, Along the nine sides to Gansu in the west and Jizhen in the east, there are branches everywhere, so you can imagine how much the Fan family earns in a year.
"Don't talk too much." Lao Zhou said coldly: "Fan Dong has made a fortune, and we will also drink soup, and when I think about dealing with the kid surnamed Zhang for a while, don't say a word when I ask you Lao Li to help." ”
Li Mingda actually didn't want to get involved in this matter, Zhang Han just told him to suffer a loss, but he was also willing, his nephew was also working with Yusheng, and it was not easy to do things too much, but he knew that this Lao Zhou was not easy to get along with, so after thinking about it at the moment, he gritted his teeth and agreed.
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Guarding the mouth was a thousand-household sentry officer, with more than a dozen families and dozens of battalions of soldiers, patrolling along the border, Zhang Han and the others did not move, only Liang Hongce immediately stepped forward and handed a small bag to the thousand households, which contained dozens of taels of broken silver, and the thousand households checked it, and immediately smiled, and arched his hand to Zhang Han from afar, and then waved his hand to let him go.
In addition to Zhang Han and others, small merchants with some goods also came out of the Great Wall from everywhere, as long as they gave those patrol soldiers a little benefit, they naturally turned a blind eye.
Last year, General Lai Shen killed many people, in fact, the thunder was heavy and the rain was small, and what should be done after that, there is no small fort on the east side of Datong Road, and if there is a small horse market on the west and middle roads, in fact, the smuggling is even more serious.
Outside the mouth is the grassland, in the later generations outside the Xinpingbao is already a farming area, need to go a long way is the traditional pastoral area, at this time, the Great Wall is the farming area, the Great Wall outside the pastoral area, a Great Wall is separated by two obviously different areas, the regional changes are very obvious.
There are some Mongols and Han Chinese who are cultivating in Banshengdi, but they do not know how to plow the land at all, and use horse-drawn plows to pull shallow grooves on the surface, sow seeds and do nothing, and the low harvest is better than grazing.
There are no roads on the grassland, but there are some sheep intestine paths stepped out by some people near the Great Wall, which are not obvious.
The weather in March is still very cold, the grass only has withered yellow grass roots, a little green shoots emerge from the tip, looking far away, there seems to be a light green blanket on the endless open earth, but the background color is still withered yellow.
If it is summer, the grass not only grows more than half a person high, it is all green at a glance, the sky is also blue, plus a wild Fei flower from the beginning, the scenery is very beautiful, there are large groups of wild wolves, yellow sheep, hares and foxes in the grass, the Mongolians keep shooting and hunting in the summer, and they can not shoot all the food, and trade a large number of leather goods to the Ming Dynasty.
"The proprietor, Shoukouyi is here."
Because it was a time and place agreed in advance, and there was only such a place at the exit from Xinpingbao, Shoukouyi Silver Ingot Taiji had already rushed over with people.
In addition to the Ming side will have the mouth guard generals and border troops, according to the agreement between the Ming and the Mongolian side, the Mongolian side also has a person in charge of the mouth in important places outside the mouth, this set of methods has been practiced for many years, effectively protecting the interests of both sides, but also reducing a lot of friction.
The Mongolian Taiji in this year is not so valuable, there are many tribes, and now the Shunyi king of Tumut is Bu Shitu, and he is also the great-grandson of Altan Khan, and the strange woman Sanniangzi, who married three generations of Shunyi kings, also died a few years ago, and she left a legend.
"Han boy, you're finally here."
Silver Ingot smiled and groaned on his face, followed by more than a dozen soldiers in cotton armor, maybe this is all the strength of his Taiji in the tribe, but with so many guards by his side, plus Taiji's identity, the quality of Silver Ingot Taiji is still satisfied.
Zhang Han also had a smile on his face, and rode up to meet him.