"Sir, I'm afraid it's a bad listen!" Liu Cheng slowed down his speech and said word by word: "What I just said is that one copper plate is used as two copper plates, not one copper plate becomes two copper plates." ”

"So what's the difference?"

"There's a big difference here." Liu Cheng smiled slightly: "Merchants do business, and the money is just a copy, buying and spending money in place A, and selling it in place B to get it back." If we can make the boat lighter and carry it on our backs when we cross the river, why should we have a boat on every river? “

Hearing this, Yu He had already heard a little meaning, and the wine glass in his hand couldn't help but put down, and asked in a low voice: "Then how can I make that boat lighter?" ”

"For example, your business needs to be repaid in a year, and in this year, the capital will be occupied, and you can't do anything else. Then you will sell the goods of this business a year in advance, and get back the money? ”

"How do you sell it? I don't know where this cargo is? How can someone pay for it? ”

"Why can't you sell it?" Liu Cheng smiled and picked up the sheepskin next to him: "It's like this sheepskin, if you buy ready-made goods, it will cost one or two silver; If it's a year from now, you can pay eight cents now. There are many people in the world who take their lives to sacrifice the six-sided dice in the casino, why is no one willing to pay money to earn these two percent interest? ”

"Then what if something happens to this caravan halfway and the skin is gone?" Speaking of this, Yu He only felt that the room was damp and stuffy, and it was obviously a cold day in early spring, but a layer of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he vaguely realized in his heart that what the other party said was a very commercial first-class secret, and if it was done, it would be a great event.

"It can be agreed in advance, and if the caravan loses it, this agreement will be gone; It is also possible to divide the caravan into several teams and supplement each other, but this will cost you a few more points at the beginning; There are many specific methods, but it is necessary to establish credit in advance, as long as this credit is established, a piece of paper can also be used as a silver flower. ”

"A piece of paper can be used as silver, and a piece of paper can be used as silver!" Yu He muttered a few times in his mouth, suddenly stood up, made a deep bow to Liu Cheng, and said in a deep voice: "My lord mentions, I really can't afford it, the villain will go back to the master, he will be rewarded one day, and he will leave!" With that, he ran out of the door, but tripped over the threshold as he crossed the door, and almost fell on the heel.

Looking at the back of Yu He leaving, Liu Cheng poured the residual wine in the cup into his mouth, savored it carefully, and showed a meaningful smile on his face. In the late Ming Dynasty, if you want to make further progress in business, the most important thing is to muddy the water and improve the turnover speed of funds. Otherwise, in a world where precious metals are the currency, deflation is almost inevitable, and it is better to dig a big hole in the backyard and hide the silver in it, and there is zero risk in doing so, and as long as the rate of external silver imports is lower than the rate of silver precipitation and the increase in commodities (which is almost inevitable, the European monetary revolution is one of the very few counter-examples in human history), the wealth of these silver collectors will continue to increase.

Just as Liu Cheng was reflecting on what he had just said to He, the pro-soldier who brought Yang He to summon the news ruined his good mood. Unlike the vast majority of traversers, Liu Cheng doesn't like to take risks, especially when he has just gotten out of an adventure and has not yet fully enjoyed the fruits of adventure success.

But it's a pity that this book is not a game guide for the protagonist's aura explosion, but a historical novel. Therefore, when the torrent of Chongzhen's four-year era was surging, even the protagonist who was a traverser could not be on the shore, and could only struggle to survive in the torrent like everyone else.

"Lord Liu, summoned by Lord Zhangtai!"

Compared with a few days ago, the general attitude has been much better, but it is still quite cold, after all, although Liu Cheng was promoted quickly, as an outsider, he did not have time to find his allies through marriage, robes and other means, so it is natural to be in a state of isolation.

"Yes, the next official will go right away!" Liu Cheng hurriedly stood up, his right leg touched the sheepskin, and his heart couldn't help but move. He leaned over and picked up the sheepskin, walked to the side of the general manager with a smile, and said with a smile: "This big brother, I bothered you a lot of things a few days ago, and I didn't want to go away in my heart. “

"How can this be worthy?" The general mouth on the resignation, but the hand has already taken the sheepskin, only feel that the sheepskin in his hand is light and warm abnormal, he is also a person who knows the goods, knowing that if the sheepskin jacket made of this beach of sheepskin is in Xi'an City, it will cost seven or eight taels of silver, that is, he will not eat or drink for more than a year to afford it, it is really a great favor from Liu Cheng.

"Deserved, deserved!" Liu Chengjiang saw that the other party took the sheepskin, and he had a bottom in his heart: "I can have today all rely on the cultivation of the master of Taiwan, and I want to repay the favor all day but there is no way, and the brother walks beside the master of the platform on weekdays. ”

"Lord Liu is really a popular person, no wonder the official is promoted so quickly." The general thumbs up, he walked beside Yang He all day, how could he not understand the meaning of Liu Chengcai's words, he patted his chest: "I Wang Shunping is also a good friend, don't worry, if you learn the news in the future, you will be the first to tell you!" “

"Then thank you, Brother Wang!" Liu Cheng was secretly happy in his heart, he was not a merit of killing with a knife and a shot, his official position was based on Yang He's promotion, and he had an indissoluble enmity with He Renlong, if there was no one around Yang He to report the news, he was afraid that he would not know how he died in the direction of the wind. Although this Wang Shunping's official position is not big, he is also a person around Yang He, since ancient times, the yamen has been guarding against the outside but not the inside, as long as you pay attention to a master, you can already know a lot of things.

Liu Cheng came to Xingyuan, took Yang He's messenger, and settled down. Judging from what he saw and heard during the period when he was undercover in the peasant army, the vast majority of the peasant army from top to bottom still lacked the consciousness of a rebel, and lacked the necessary understanding of the weaknesses and situation of the Ming Dynasty, so it was not difficult to recruit such a group of people. As a result of years of political education, the vast majority of readers believe that the more rebels come from below, the more determined they are to rebel against the existing order. The more affluent the person is, the more easily he will waver in his determination to resist. But the interesting thing about history is its complexity, and in many cases it is difficult to summarize all the facts in terms of a simple dogma or two. It is true that people from the bottom are the most politically and economically oppressed, and when they wake up, they will be more determined to fight against the existing order, but due to the factor of vision, most of the time people from the bottom of the class are unable to connect their painful lives with the social system at that time, or they attribute it to fate and hope for the afterlife; Or attribute it to a specific corrupt official, pinning their hopes on the Lord Qingtian or the Son of Heaven. Therefore, their resistance is usually blind, instinctive, and spontaneous, and its specific manifestation is confusion and vacillation about the future, so it is easy to choose to surrender when encountering setbacks. And those rebels who came from relatively high backgrounds, even the top of the ruling class and even the royal family, because of their education and knowledge, they are well aware of the weaknesses of the imperial court, and they are also very aware of their own goals and the consequences of defeat, so once they start an incident, they will resolutely fight to the end, and will not give up until they achieve their goal. The fact that the dynasties of the past dynasties regarded the scholars as thieves was very serious, because once a scholar joined the peasant army, the tactics and resoluteness of the peasant army's struggle would be greatly improved, which would bring great trouble to the imperial court.

Shaanxi Qingyang Mansion Dingbianying cattle pen, located in the northwest of Qingyang Mansion more than 300 miles, around more than 100 miles are not an inch of grass of the rocky beach and Tongshan wet hills, only here there is a radius of sixty or seventy meters size of the blister, the business travelers and herdsmen who pass through this place have to give people and livestock drinking water here. As early as the Song Dynasty, the Western Xia soldiers entered the Kou, and the local guards poisoned here, and many of the Western Xia soldiers died here. In the Ming Dynasty, it was no longer a first-line frontier defense, so only a small fort was set up here, and there was a general with seven or eight old and weak soldiers guarding here.

A thirteen or fourteen-year-old soldier stood at the top of the fort, looking around with great interest. As a young man, he was not as thoroughly numb as the many robes of his age, and he was still trying to find something interesting in his tawny field of vision: a yellow sheep, a wild ass, a rolling tornaise, a strangely shaped cloud in the sky, and exclamations from time to time. The rest of the veterans lay in the corner basking in the sun, unbuttoning their torn padded jackets and exposing their washboard-like breasts to catch fleas, one of the few pastimes that could pass their boring life as soldiers. At the same time, there was a humming sound in the hall on the ground floor.

"Scorched, scorched!" The creep suddenly ran down from the top of the fort, and his hurried steps caused the wooden staircase to shake violently, and a lot of dust fell, forcing the veteran soldier at the bottom of the staircase to move out of his place, causing a burst of laughter and curses.

"What's the matter?" A head poked out of the window on the ground floor, and at the same time the snorting stopped, and with the help of the midday sun, it was clear that this man was in his early thirties, with three or four scars on his naked upper body, a beard, and an impatient light in his eyes.

"Jiaotou, someone is coming from the west!"

"What are the centaurs at noon, is it that you kid has a bad eyesight and sees the sheep as a horse?"

"Why!" The little soldier was anxious and shouted, "There are more than a hundred people, all on horseback, why don't you come up and have a look?" ”

"Damn!" The man cursed, his head retracted, and the snorting in the room began again, and became more rapid, and after a dozen breaths, a cheerful shout came from the room. Then the door was pushed, and the man walked out while lifting his trousers, picked up the wooden spoon by the door, scooped two spoonfuls of corn in a cloth bag, weighed it twice, and reluctantly added half a spoonful, tied a knot in his pocket, and shouted inside: "Lady Tartar, I gave you an extra half liter of millet this time, but don't say outside that I am Jiao Haoyun Master Jiao is stingy!" ”

As soon as the words fell, another woman came out of the house, this woman did not tie her head like a Han woman, but tied a knot randomly, wearing only a bare sheepskin jacket, the lower edge of the leather jacket exposed two black legs, barefoot, picked up the pocket without saying a word, weighed it twice, and opened the pocket and reached out and grabbed two handfuls, confirming that it contained corn and not bran or moldy rice, and finally re-knotted the bag and stuffed it into his arms, and nodded to Jiao Haoyun, Turning around and walking towards a corner house near the door, Jiao Haoyun looked at the woman's swaying waist with some fascination, and the corners of his mouth subconsciously drooled.

"Jiaotou, come up quickly, the people are getting closer and closer!"

The voice of the little soldier came from the top of the fort again, and Jiao Haoyun woke up from the aftertaste, he wiped his saliva violently, and ran up the stairs, scolding loudly as he ran: "Damn, if I see it wrong, I have to discount your two tendons!" ”

"Head, look!" The young man pointed to a group of figures about two or three miles away: "This doesn't look like the guards of the Dingbian Village!" ”

"Damn!" The expression on Jiao Haoyun's face disappeared suddenly, as a military household who had eaten military rations in the northwest, he could see at a glance that this was definitely not the personal soldier of the garrison lord of the Dingbian village, the reason was very simple, with the stinginess of the garrison master, how could he afford to raise more than a hundred cavalry with such excellent riding skills and neat formation? It seems that the name "good luck" given to his son by this Jiao general father has not been able to prevent the arrival of bad luck.

Jiao Haoyun immediately turned around and rushed to the inside of the wall, shouting to the veteran who was basking in the sun below: "Damn, get out of here, block the door, put on armor, open the bow, and move the gunpowder and guns to the wall!" The thieves are coming! “

There was chaos inside the fortress, and the ragged veterans jumped up, many of them didn't even have time to fasten their belts, and their pants fell down at once, revealing their bare buttocks, and a few of them crashed into a ball. Jiao Haoyun scolded, and was about to go down to teach these bastards a lesson, but there was an extra object in his palm, and when he looked back, he was the youngest pawn, who had already wound the horn bow and handed it to Jiao Haoyun.