Seeing Zhang Han on the horse, the silver ingot's face was a little ugly, the other party was just a civilian, he was a Taiji, and the general was on an equal footing, many people of the Ming Kingdom saw him and quickly dismounted, if it wasn't for Zhang Han painting him a very satisfactory painting, and the silver ingot was going to ask him to paint a few more, now he was going to turn his face.

Regarding what Zhang Han said about doing business, the silver ingot is not very attentive, what big business can a hairy child proprietor talk to him?

"Han boy, I'm going to wear armor, hold a Sulu ingot, and ride on a white horse and ask you to draw a picture, how about it?"

Zhang Han remembered that Qianlong also had similar paintings, but the painting style was a little soft and slender, which did not match the image of the heroic old man whom Qianlong had always been proud of.

"Silver ingot Taiji, painting is a trivial matter." Zhang Han said with a smile: "If you have time, you can paint, and the important thing is business." ”

"The ambition of the Han kid is not small." Silver Ingot got the promise, his heart was very happy, his long face was full of smiles, he looked at Zhang Han, and said with a smile: "How much grain cloth do you have?" A few thousand stones of grain is a trivial matter, I asked someone to carry it, and the price of grain is also easy to say, and now there is a shortage of grain everywhere. ”

"I have 50,000 stones in my hand now, and I can supply more than 10,000 stones every month in the future, and more in half a year, and I can supply more than 1 million stones of grain for the whole year next year.

Silver Ingot was taken aback and looked at Zhang Han and his companion behind him. After half a ring, the face of the silver ingot became serious, and after muttering for a long time, this Mongolian Taiji said: "I can eat tens of thousands of stones, and I have to find other Taiji to cooperate with more than 10,000 stones per month. ”

"Let's do the easy ones first." Zhang Han said: "You also know that there are many places to use grain in the future, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely tighten the horse market, and it is difficult to obtain a lot of grain, cloth, and medicinal materials in the horse market." ”

"Han boy, how do you know?"

The silver ingot's eyes were as big as cow's eggs, and he looked at Zhang Han and said: "Houjin Khan, the lord of the waterfront, has called Khan the founding of the country, and promulgated the Seven Great Hatreds to raise troops against the Ming, and few people in the Ming Kingdom know about this, can you actually know this news?" ”

Zhang Han was also taken aback, it turned out that he had a clear memory of the matter of Nuerhachi's Seven Hatreds to raise troops, there was no news here in Datong, and the civil and military officials did not know about it at all, but these Taiji on the grassland already knew it very clearly, and they could fully understand the meaning.

"This Ming intelligence system and civilian and military generals should really be hanged."

Zhang Han sighed in his heart, don't ask, you know, although Nuer Hachi raised troops, but now there is no large-scale action, the border is quite stable, the officials in Liaodong are naturally more than one thing, and the Houjin is well organized, the eight banners are clearly distinguished, Nuer Hachi also pays special attention to intelligence work, sent as far as Shandong and Henan, the Titang officer of the military department was also bought by Houjin, the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty is constantly summarized to Houjin, on the contrary, the Jinyi Wei of the Ming Dynasty has been old, Dongchang is also useless, and the surveillance officials are unusable, not to mention fighting an intelligence war with Houjin.

No one reported it, and the imperial court had no way of knowing, of course there would be no news of Houjin in the newspaper, and naturally no one on the Datong side knew about it at all.

Thinking about it, Zhang Han naturally wouldn't tell the silver ingot the reason, and just smiled mysteriously at the moment.

In the eyes of the silver ingot, this Han boy from being able to paint to a big tyrant, and now he is covered with a layer of mystery, he hesitated for a moment, and finally responded: "You try to transport 50,000 stone grain, I will send someone to pick it up, if there is more grain in the future, I am afraid that you will have to solve the transportation yourself, or do not trade here, go directly to Xuanfu or even Jizhen." ”

Zhang Han laughed and said, "Then you have to have a good relationship on both sides, otherwise it is better to settle here in Xinpingbao." ”

The silver ingot nodded and said, "If you really have this ability, I will take you to various departments for a walk, let everyone get to know each other, and divide the profits in advance." ”

Zhang Han said: "I only care about your upper Khan and Jinong, they cover me, and I don't care about others." Of course, I won't offend people in vain, and I will take care of what I should do. ”

In the future, if there is really more than one million stone of grain, as well as cloth, medicinal materials and even pig iron and other forbidden items entering the country, then it will not only involve one or two Mongolian tribes, but now there are dozens of large and small tribes in Karaqin alone, as well as the Tumut Department, the Inner Khalkha Five Tribes, Ordos, the Chahar Headquarters and the Eight Etuoke Departments, the Horqin Tribe, and the Outer Khalkha Three Tribes, and hundreds of tribes, large and small, have more than a dozen Khans, countless Jinong and Taiji, and if you peel off the skin layer by layer, how much profit is not enough.

And according to Zhang Han's memory, the Mongolian side is not monolithic, at the beginning of the Mongolian tribes were generally a little hostile to the Jurchens, and Horqin because of Nurhachi's bloody marriage, plus Horqin could not beat the Jurchens, the two sides had to make friends, other Mongolian tribes did not like the Jurchens, especially Lin Dan Khan, who had always been vigilant against the Jurchens, and was so stubborn that the enemy and the Jurchens were enemies, and the smuggling routes to the Jurchens were definitely avoided by the Chahar Department, and the risk increased a lot.

Besides, there are a lot of points to be dealt with here in Daming, that is, the smuggling profits are high, otherwise it really won't be fun.

Zhang Han said it reasonably, and the silver ingot knew that he was shrewd, and his judgment in his heart couldn't help but be a little higher.

At that moment, the Mongolian Taiji nodded and said, "Since this is the case, it is decided, but it is better for you to put someone here here to facilitate mutual contact." ”

Speaking of business, the shrewdness of the silver ingot is also fully displayed, no wonder it is a city supervisor and a squeeze official, and sure enough, there are still two shabu-shabu.

The so-called liaison is a hostage, and of course you can't stuff people over at will.

Zhang Han thought for a while and said with a smile: "There is a concubine below, who has always been pampered, whether she is born or not, and she also helps me in the inner house, I will send her if I think so." ”

"It's too early for a Han boy to get married." The silver ingot muttered, of course the concubine is not as good as the brothers and nephews, but Zhang Han has no way to do it, the concubine is not bad, doing such a big business, the silver ingot should not be put in his own felt bag, it is really a little reassuring.

"As for the price of grain," Zhang Han said in an easy-going tone, "one stone and eight dollars." ”

The silver ingot glared at Zhang Han, and after half a ring, he said, "If I don't pay you back, that's it." ”

Now the grassland is also a time when there is no green and yellow, and it will take a while for the small market to open, and the people at the level of silver ingots also know that the price of grain has also risen on the Han side, and the price of grain will have to fall until after May.

When Yin Ingot and the others left, Liang Hong couldn't hold back his laughter, and almost fell to the ground laughing on the horse.

"Young proprietor, it's good this time, the inner house is much quieter, and our eldest and grandma also recite a few words of Buddha."

Since Jin Lian entered the door, Zhang's house is really not peaceful, and now Chang's has begun to chant Buddha, Zhang Han is worried that his mother will have to eat fast if he goes on like this, and this time he will stuff out this hot charcoal ball, and his heart is also very appropriate.

In fact, it is normal to have hostages in such cooperation in recent years, the last time Ma Chengen, the chief soldier, asked him to join the guard as a soldier, in fact, it is also a disguised jurisdiction, Zhang Han is a civilian body, he is not easy to start when the general soldier encounters trouble, if the battlement is set as an army, even if he is the palm print commander Ma Chengen wants to take it, it is also a matter of words, Zhang Han did not agree to this matter, but after a long time, when the scale of Yusheng's account bureau expands, it will be a trouble sooner or later.

Deputy Envoy Zheng is okay there, and he has the favor of the Zhang family in Puzhou, but he doesn't know how long he can last it.

Liang Hong smiled again: "This time all the grain is sold, even if you remove some miscellaneous expenses, the profit will be more than doubled." Young proprietor, I really admire it. ”

Hoarding grain and other high prices such things are generally done by grain stores, and when collecting grain, they are waiting for the government to levy taxes in summer and autumn, and the government has changed the collection of grain to cashier after the whip law, and the people need to sell the grain into cash and then take it to pay taxes, and the grain merchants are all at this time to reduce the price, and then weigh the grain with the weighing, pressing less than two, one more layer of exploitation, when paying silver, and then use inferior silver, or even fake silver, inferior money, fake, money, all kinds of means, usually there are pawnshops to exploit, put usury money, and the government officials exploit again, Even in good years, the common people are still having a hard time, and the homesteaders can't get a little money all year round, and in disaster years and when there is a sick person at home, selling grain at a low price or even selling houses and land is the only choice.

There is not much technical content in this matter, and Zhang Han is not the only one doing it, but the stores will not be as risky and radical as him...... Those with strong capital don't need to be so radical at all, and in addition, Zhang Han has opened up the road of smuggling to Mongolia, which is still before everyone, and it is natural to make huge profits.

"It's nothing," Zhang Han said with a smile: "It's not easy to take a handful of people from other people's hands and eat what they have leftovers, the important thing is that they have to have a land for collecting grain, millions of stones or more every year, and there are no hundreds of thousands of acres of land to collect fixedly, so it's not easy to say." It was too far to transfer grain from the south, and the cost was also quite large. ”

Zhang Han knew that the rise in grain prices was only the beginning, and the demand for grain from the Mongols and Jurchens was only the beginning, and that after the official trade ban of the Ming Dynasty, the price of grain and the profits from smuggling were even more abundant.

Two or three years later, the price of grain in the Jurchen rule area of Liaodong rose from the normal five or six yuan a stone to four taels, and later rose to eight taels, and the most expensive time was more than ten or twenty taels and one stone, and countless people died of starvation.

Liang Hong and the others didn't know this time, but even Liang Xing and the Jiang family brothers, the eyes that looked at Zhang Han at this time could only be described as admiration.

As soon as it changed hands, more than 10,000 taels of silver had been earned, and all the grain that had been pressed before was taken off, if it was ordinary grain, the 50,000 stone grain would have to go through several small markets and a long time before it could be sold, and if it was pressed to May or June, the price of grain would be lowered, and it would be impossible to cry.

There are not many people with accurate vision, there are few people who dare to make up their minds, and even fewer people who have many conditions in one, but this Shaodong in front of him is a character with many obvious advantages, and it is difficult for such a person not to become a big man.

Zhang Han's purpose with Liang Xing and others is also this, and the Lahu will slowly differentiate, and those who can keep up with him and gradually get rid of their bad habits will be retained, and after a year or two, those who can't keep up will be gradually eliminated.