Montenegro City is a big city in the northeast at this time, but it is only a fortress level in the pass, although due to the population of which general called Nalan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the city was burned and looted the wealth, so that now Lu Hanqiang is most worried about the problem of the loss of his reputation caused by forced demolition, which has become the easiest problem to solve, but there is no civilian population, but close to 30,000 horses to move in, deducting the reserved school field, it still seems a little crowded. 2. So, the merchants who came with him approached Lu Hanqiang and resolutely asked them to draw a commercial area in the city.

It has become a habit for the daimyo merchants to follow Lu Hanqiang's army to fight in the south and the north, not only can they buy the material wealth looted by Lu Hanqiang's army, and obtain a huge profit difference during the period, but also can supply Lu Hanqiang's logistics supplies in a timely manner, and they will make a lot of money here.

Now Lu Hanqiang, for the logistics supply, is not to worry about himself, still hand them over to those businessmen behind him, with a price two percent higher than the market price, at any time to purchase the materials he needs, as for the ordnance and equipment, of course, it is still carried by his own soldiers, this does not dare to really let go of others, therefore, every time Lu Hanqiang marches, he will follow behind the ass of the army, the mighty merchant team.

Buying grain and grass from merchants, including some vegetables and non-staple foods, is much more convenient than transporting grain and grass and buying by yourself, in this era, Lu Hanqiang thoroughly felt the incomparably huge potential of merchants, as long as you give him a certain profit, then he will do things for you that you can't imagine, such as this logistics supply, if according to the practice of the Ming court, the grain and grass of the 45ooo army are said to be conscripted, at least in 90,000 nearly 100,000 horses, and these people are recruited, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, During this period, they also have to bring their own rations and fight for many years, and the result is that hundreds of people's families are ruined, especially the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various places, and those officials and villains, but also through this method of recruiting and supplying, from which the people are fished and fleshed, there is a record in history, Shandong will escort to Zhangjiakou grain and grass is only 2,000 stones, and the people are actually 1o thousand, is this realistic? It's not realistic at all, in fact, it's enough to have two or three thousand people, but there is a huge room for maneuver, that is, the local officials and gentry actually apportioned to the people without restrictions, okay, you can not go, then you have to pay two taels of silver as a substitute for labor money, so on the one-time transportation of only two thousand loads of grain, it provoked a riot among the people of Shandong, and this time in order to quell the riot, the Ming court spent nearly one million taels of silver.

And what about the cost of transportation along the way? According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the expenses required along the way are borne by the people themselves, so that is to say, the two thousand quintals of grain transported from Shandong to Zhangjiakou should be two thousand stones when transported to Zhangjiakou, and the result is very funny, the people came with food and drink along the way, and the grain transported to Zhangjiakou was only one hundred stones, so the border army was still hungry and cold, and the people were starving to death along the way.

Now Lu Hanqiang's method is different from the original, that is, everything is purchased from merchants, I will designate a place for you, and then you will transport grain, and I will give you a preferential policy of market price, okay, all the expenses in the middle are yours, you can do it yourself!

As a result, things are so strange, the same stone of grain, transported by the government, transported to the barracks is not more than ten catties and twenty catties, but through the transportation of merchants, there will never be a shortage of catties and two catties, and the businessmen will also be grateful to Lu Hanqiang, because it is Lu Hanqiang who makes them make enough profits.

Food is one thing, the more important Lu Hanqiang provides a huge business opportunity for businessmen, such as a simple needle and thread brain, the soldiers' clothes must wear out quickly, and Lu Hanqiang strictly requires the army to be neat, so that these men have to learn to sew their own clothes, as a result, the needle and thread brains brought by the businessmen have three to four times the profit, you don't see, this thing, very little, a needle and a ball of thread, but five to seven dollars, but do you know what the price of this thing is in ordinary people? It's just 1 to 2 cents, and you must know how much the 45ooo army will consume in a day?

With the arrival of the merchant army, there is also the Royal Post Courier Firm with a keen sense of smell, the first is that Lu Hanqiang asked them to do it, the most important thing is the business sensitivity of the firm's sense of smell, what kind of business does the firm do? Postal.

Tens of thousands of soldiers have a large number of letters every day, to report to the family safety, every day there are a large number of letters and mails to the soldiers in the barracks, tell him the situation at home, in this way, the small stamps, not only contact the front and rear feelings, stabilize the military and people's hearts, inform the victory of the Liao army war situation, the most important thing is that the business bank simplified too many contacts.

There is another comptoir that is following the army, and that is the bank.

Lu Hanqiang himself is the largest shareholder of the bank, and at the same time, the female Hanqiang knows that it is the bank's operating norms and experience, so that the bank can follow his own and move forward with the army, which is a huge achievement in absorbing savings.

Lu Hanqiang's army is different from other Ming Dynasty troops, Lu Hanqiang's army is a full monthly must put the soldiers' salaries, and these soldiers are recruited from Shanxi homeless people, in Shanxi, they have a family and a mouth, Chinese men are responsible, filial piety and responsibility are the biggest burden on the shoulders of Chinese men, Chinese men have a common psychology, outside, no matter how hard they suffer, but they must mail the money they earn home, honor their parents, and support their wives and children, As a result, Lu Hanqiang paid a soldier five taels of silver a month, and these soldiers and men would mail back to their hometown without spending a penny, which was simply a huge savings and exchange business, and at the same time Lu Hanqiang also engaged in the military training incentive policy, although the things he gave were not silver money but meat, but as long as he trained hard, the meat he got every day could not be eaten by himself, and these soldiers would sell it to, and those who waited outside the barracks, Shangjia Restaurant, exchanged for silver again, so they would also save gold and silver, Mailing to one's parents and wives is the most simple concept of the Chinese, the concept of home.

However, the bank's business precisely grasped this concept, so behind Lu Hanqiang's army, there were all kinds of merchant banks and commercial banks, following everyone's wealth.