Chungcheong-bum-do, Chungcheong North Province, has experienced the war some time ago, and traces of war can still be seen everywhere in the city, but with the entry of Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming, they quickly quelled the riots in the city, and then sent soldiers to patrol the city, and let go of the granary to help the poor, which made the city quickly restore the original order.

Based on this alone, it is enough to see that Zhang Rui and the two are different from other Korean rebels, most of the other rebels are composed of some poor people who can't survive, and they only know how to loot blindly after entering the town, and they are even more fierce than the previous officers and soldiers, so those rebels are simply demons in the hearts of ordinary Koreans, and naturally it is impossible to get the support of the people, and their future development is extremely limited, but Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming have made enough gestures, so that the people of Chungcheongbuk-do Province soon have a sense of belonging to them.

However, now Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming's life is not easy, although Chungcheongbuk-do is the grain production place of North Korea, but it has been looted by Li Long too much over the years, resulting in not much grain in the granary in the city at all, and there is also not much property in the warehouse, but they occupy such a large place, there are more people to feed, and money and grain are needed to expand the army, money and grain are needed to fight wars, and money and grain are also needed to govern the locality!

Qi Yanming used to be just a ringing horse leader, and he didn't know anything except fighting, so all the affairs of government affairs fell on Zhang Rui's head, but Zhang Rui had only managed a small Dongchang before, and he had never had any experience in politics, and he was in a hurry for a while, and even lost several pounds for this.

However, Chungcheongbuk-do Province has settled down for the time being. But the food crisis has not been resolved. Several of the surrounding tracts are fighting. It was impossible to get food from them, and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce blocked them at sea, which made Zhang Rui almost desperate for a while.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of greedy people at any time, and although Zhou Chong's power on the sea was great, it could not stop everyone, at least some merchants secretly contacted Zhang Rui and his Chungqing army, and agreed to provide them with some grain, but this price was two or three times that of selling it to other Koreans.

For these Ming merchants who took advantage of the fire to rob. Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming are itching with hatred, but no matter how expensive the food is, they have to buy it, after all, the food in their hands is too little, if they don't prepare enough food, I'm afraid that the territory that they have won with great difficulty will be dispersed at the most, so now they are willing to spend no matter how much money they spend.

After the first few tentative transactions, those Ming merchants who secretly sent ships to trade were very honest, as long as they paid for themselves, the other party would transport grain at the price, and these grains finally solved the urgent needs of the Chungcheong army. At the same time, Zhang Rui let down his guard against those businessmen and began to trade boldly with each other.

Tonight was the biggest deal between the Chungcheong Army and the Ming merchants. More than a dozen large ships were all loaded with grain, and Zhang Rui also sent all the gold and silver treasures that could be found in Chungcheongbuk-do, as well as some young women, to the location of the original Chungcheong Port, where the original port was burned down by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in retaliation, but it was still usable after a simple repair.

The amount of this transaction is huge, and it is related to whether the entire Chungcheong army can resist this year, so Zhang Rui did not dare to be careless, and personally ran from Cheongju Mansion to Chungcheong Port, and ambushed a large army around the port just in case, which can be said to be fully prepared.

When it was about to get dark, Zhang Rui finally rushed to Chungcheong Port, looking at the scorched black port in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh, if he wasn't so impulsive at the beginning, then he wouldn't have had a bad relationship with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and this port would not have been burned down by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce.

But it's too late to regret it now, not to mention that Zhang Rui was not a sentimental person in the first place, so he quickly stopped the remorse in his heart, and began to command the Zhongqing army he brought to unload the goods on the beach, and greeted the troops in ambush around him, telling them to be careful and vigilant, and if anything happened, they would rush out to rescue immediately.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, some lights finally appeared on the dark sea, and then a tall sea ship appeared on the sea, and then slowly approached the port, when the boat stopped in the near sea, there was immediately a small boat rowing along the waves, and then a fat businessman jumped on the beach, waiting for Zhang Rui's people to come forward to connect.

Seeing the fat businessman standing on the beach, Zhang Rui was also relieved, he didn't know the name of this businessman, but the other party had a nickname called "Fat Three", it is said that it is because he is obese, and he is Xingsan at home, so he has this nickname.

Fat San is the most powerful Ming businessman in the transaction with Zhang Rui, and this person is very bold, others dare not sell goods to the Chungcheong Chamber of Commerce, such as weapons and armor, etc., although these things are replaced by the Ming border army, many of them are in tatters, but for Zhang Rui, they are urgently needed.

Seeing Fat San coming in person, a North Korean named Cui Cai under Zhang Rui also immediately ran forward, greeted the other party with a smile: "The third shopkeeper has worked hard, this time we can prepare a lot of property and women, I don't know if all the food we need has been transported?" ”

"Hehe, don't worry, I am fat three, the fourteen big ships are all loaded with grain, and in order to show my sincerity, this time in addition to food, I also specially got a batch of weapons made of stainless steel from Da Ming Zhi, I don't know if you need it?" Fat San asked with a treacherous smile on his oily face.

"Weapons? Don't you want to use those broken weapons to deceive us again, tell you that we were almost defeated by the officers and soldiers last time because of the use of your weapons! Regarding Fat San's words, Cui Cai, who came forward to negotiate, said with a look of disbelief. Although Zhang Rui came in person this time, Cui Cai was a representative sent by the Zhongqing Army, and he came forward to supervise the transaction with Fat San in the past, so he also knew Fat San very well.

"Hehe, we are all understanding people, no matter how bad the weapons I sell are good, they are better than your wooden sticks, and the weapons of this Yunye are not those rags, but they are really good weapons!" Fat San said and beckoned to the boat behind him, only to see a tall man standing up on the boat immediately, and then carrying a big bag to step on the sea water to the beach, and throw the burden of the student in his hand onto the beach.

"Wow~" With a sound of metal colliding, the heavy burden was immediately knocked out, revealing the steel knives inside, under the light of the moon, emitting a cold light, and Cui Cai's eyes lit up when he saw these weapons.

I saw Fat San bend down and pick up a long knife casually, then pointed to Cui Cai's waist, and motioned him to pull out the knife on his waist, Cui Cai didn't think about it, and pulled out the waist knife with a "choking~" sound. Immediately afterwards, I saw Fat San raise the long knife in his hand and cut down according to the waist knife in Cui Cai's hand, but only heard the sound of "choking~", the waist knife in Cui Cai's hand broke in response, and half of the tip of the knife fell to the beach.

"Good knives!" Cui Cai looked at the half-cut waist knife in his hand, and shouted with a shocked face, although the waist knife on his body was not a good knife, but it was also a high-grade product picked out from the Daming weapon from the last transaction, but now it was cut in two by the knife randomly selected by Fat San, such a good knife can be called a magic knife weapon.

"Hehe, these knives are all standard sabers prepared by our imperial court for the border army, it is said that they are steel knives refined by the new method, which are not only extremely sharp, but also can be produced in large quantities, I have tried them on the ship, except for the Japanese knives of the Japanese country, there are few other weapons that can be compared with this kind of steel knife!" Fat San laughed again at this time, and Cui Cai heard that the other party could even get the standard weapons that Daming equipped for the border army, and he couldn't help but look up at this fat San again.

In order to verify whether these steel knives are as sharp as Fat San said, Cui Cai boarded Fat San's big ship by boat, saw those boxes containing steel knives in the cabin, and randomly picked a few and tried them, and found that these steel knives were as sharp as the one Fat San tried, which made Cui Cai overjoyed, and counted the number of food and weapons at the moment, and found that there was no problem with the food, but there were two thousand more steel knives, and he couldn't be the master of the transaction of these steel knives, so he immediately took a steel knife as a sample, Get off the boat and report to Zhang Rui.

Zhang Rui also received the news that Fat San had brought a batch of weapons in the back, and he couldn't help but be a little surprised, but when Cui Cai came to hand over the steel knife to him, Zhang Rui was also overjoyed, and he personally came to the beach to discuss the steel knife business with Fat San.

"Three shopkeepers, thank you for bringing us life-saving food when we were in danger, all the gold and silver treasures and women are ready, as for the two thousand steel knives, I also want them, you can set a price!" Zhang Rui strode over and said to Fat San with a smile, food and weapons are what they urgently need, and among the 100,000 troops of the Zhongqing Army, less than half of them really have weapons, and the rest are all used as farm tools and wooden sticks.

Fat San saw Zhang Rui for the first time, only to see him look the other party up and down a few times, judging from Cui Cai's respectful performance, coupled with the information they collected before, this person in front of him should be one of the two leaders of the Zhongqing Army.

Thinking of this, I saw that Fat San showed a happy smile and said slowly: "Hehe, these weapons are not expensive, just use your head brother!" (To be continued......)