With the fierce fire oil provided by the West Wedge He tribe, Xiao Ye's civilian directory can already extract two assault vehicles, these two vehicles are handed over to the knife, three cars that circulate around the valley every day, and the batteries consumed make Wang Gui feel distressed to death; Fortunately, four days later, I finally found the black vine grass kernel in the depths of a large ditch in the west.

Looking along the perimeter of the gully, the black pits appeared near a low hill in the middle of the mountains, where the ravines were crisscrossed on all sides, and no one had come in before.

Soon, Xiao Ye, who got the news, got on the assault car and came to the left side of the hill, and after looking around at the terrain, he couldn't help frowning depressedly.

Looking at the kernel obtained, there seems to be a large coal mine below, hidden under this dense vine grass; If it weren't for the high cost of building roads here, Xiao Ye would have to clean up the vines and grass here no matter how much labor he spends.

A day later, when Shang Shetian, who was transporting phosphate ore with people in Eagle Claw Fort, rushed back, Wang Gui had already contacted the knife, and asked the three cars to pull the neat craftsman and go to Dagou early.

The assault vehicle, which can hover above the rattan grass, unloads the wooden planks carried on the roof of the vehicle onto the flat rattan grass surface, and a craftsman goes down to step on the planks and stands firm before the assault vehicle turns around and leaves.

Craftsmen with harvesting experience hold a long pole in their hands, tie a small bag made of wire at the end, and wrap the clusters of fruits between the vine and grass branches, pull them quickly, and the fruits fall into the pockets, take them back and put them in the basket.

The craftsmen who squatted on the wooden planks, as if they were fishing, soon piled up two large bamboo baskets full of fruit from the branches.

When the craftsmen with the baskets are almost done picking the fruit, the assault vehicles will come back and bring the empty baskets to load the baskets of fruit.

Two assault trucks carry the fruit back and forth, and the remaining one hovers near the craftsmen, ready to pick up the craftsmen for a change of place.

Eventually, the knife simply brought a few more craftsmen and opened an open space with a scythe at the top of the hill to temporarily store the baskets full of fruit, and the other two assault vehicles could go back to rest.

If these three cars run back and forth all day, the fruit picked by the craftsmen will not be enough for the three cars to consume, and the knife will not bother to work hard.

Despite this, an assault vehicle that was busy up and down from time to time had trained more than a dozen guards and personal guards, fiddling with the veteran posture of the assault vehicle, which made Wang Meng, who was standing on the wall of the stone fort, all of them red with envy.

Shang Shetian trembled in the assault car and went to the hill that was suspected of being a carboniferous mine, and after a day's hard work, he could basically determine that there was a section of a carboniferous mine under the layers of vines and grasses, and some of the carbonaceous ore even leaked on the ground, mixed with sand and shrubs, and was covered by vine grass, otherwise, he would not have affirmed the mine so quickly.

It has been a month since the closure of the Madao checkpoint, and in the warm spring season at the end of March, the wheat seedlings in the field began to be jointed, and the Madao Stone Fort, which has not resumed trading with Gansu Town, has finally reached the bottom of the grain stockpile, and those canned fried noodles began to be distributed by households a few days earlier.

The big boss's house, Xiao Ye sat in the hall, looking at the map on the table, holding a purple clay pot and sipping tea from time to time, he is now in the three large warehouses in the fort, which are already full of all kinds of goods, even three kinds of long and short iron nails have also accumulated nearly a thousand boxes, but the business is not passable, those things cannot be eaten as food.

If it weren't for Xin Rulin's proposal to let the shops sell canned beef and mutton, I'm afraid that those Gujia Village pharmacists in Shibao would already be panicking.

The Huangjia Mill in the hilly workshop area controlled by Huang Fugui, although it was possible to transport some grain and pour it into the stone mill in the middle of the night to grind the eyes, but a little canned fried noodles was not enough for the Galen tribe, whose population was gradually growing.

In this month, the only thing that made Xiao Ye happy was that Huang Fugui was quite careful, and he made some pickles, apples, chestnuts, and even ten catties of raisins, and sent them into the stone mill in one go, and as a result, Xiao Ye got some canned pickles and canned fruits, but Xiao Ye was very happy.

Half of these rare canned food was taken out and put on the shelves in the Shijia shop, and it was immediately bought by the families of several thousand households and centurions, and the dull atmosphere in the stone castle suddenly disappeared.

Wang Dongliang, the commander of the Gansu Town Guard and the supervising army, finally arrived, but he suddenly found that the notice issued a month in advance turned out to be that the merchants in Gansu Town and the business of Namadao Stone Fort were suddenly interrupted.

After a few days of reception, after resting and recuperating, and after a few more days of patience, Wang Dongliang was annoyed to death by the merchants who came to visit, although he noticed the complaints of those merchants, he was not aggrieved.

He didn't come here just to be a prisoner, Zhang Yong not only dedicated rare and good things to the young emperor, but also paid a lot of silver into the inner treasury, and the royal store that collected taxes was targeted by Gu Dayong, if he messed things up, maybe his fate would be no worse than Zhang Zhonglai.

In order to transfer Zhang Yong's henchman Zhang Zhong away, Gu Dayong spent a lot of favors, and even the emperor secretly made a lot of effort, and the cost must be found out, and Wang Dongliang knows better than anyone else.

As a result, the news of the assassination of Zhang Zhong and Huang Wenli was soon wanted by the government, and Huang Xiankao, who had been shouting for revenge, was no longer silent.

At the same time, there was a kind of vehicle that could travel on the rattan grass in Madao Stone Fort, and the news was found by the government, Jinyi Wei, merchants, and three spies, and the news soon spread to the Wei Command and Envoy Office.

Wang Dongliang, who couldn't hold back, quickly sent his henchmen and eunuchs to gather the major merchants in Gansu Town to sit together to discuss trade with Madao Stone Fort.

This kind of small mutual market set up by the local government is not the kind of mutual market designated by the imperial court, to put it bluntly, it is reasonable and illegal smuggling, and it is just based on the government's mouth, saying that you can do it, and if you can't do it, you can close it at any time, and the great tomorrow dynasty will not lack that little benefit.

The guard is hidden in the shadows to support, the local government is united, and there is an imperial store standing, even if it is the Jinyi Wei Yamen, they dare not go against the interests of the people, at most extract some benefits.

Compete with the people for profit, and if you are not afraid of being scolded to death by the family, do not hinder the normal transaction of the Chamber of Commerce. The problem that has been raised to this height is that the bigwigs in the court can only notify the relevant merchants and hurry up to get a piece of the pie, instead of blocking everyone's rations.

According to his proposal, the chamber of commerce in Gansu town still has to play a role, and other small businesses that have not joined the chamber of commerce must not trade privately with the Tartars, which is smuggling and must be punished for serious crimes.

This guy has a calculation in his heart, and he is more ruthless than Zhang Yonglai.

The most important thing is that the transaction between the Chamber of Commerce and Madao Stone Fort must be taxed according to the chapter, and the imperial tax must be paid in a lot of money, otherwise he will not be able to pay to the Jingshili at the end of the year.

Of course, he doesn't care about the shares in the Chamber of Commerce, but his personal share of dry shares can only be more than Zhang Zhong's, and it can't be less.

The official stores of the Gansu town officials and families, he didn't even pay attention to it, and the people below would reach a consensus on eating meat and drinking soup.

In other words, a successful businessman must have a few low-key official hats behind him, and this successful experience has been around since ancient times, far from the big speculator Lu Buwei, to the eight major businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, and the red-topped Hu Xueyan of later generations, the real estate developers who crisscross the officialdom.

It didn't take a few days for the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce, an almost forgotten invisible trading house, to start acting secretly, with a large number of carriages coming from all directions, carrying all kinds of goods, bustling and crowded into the warehouse compounds of various merchants in the town.

Merchants of all sizes all know that the Madao Stone Fort far away on the edge of the grassland, from jewelry, brocade, furniture, down to the needle and thread, the honest and shrewd Wang Dali, there is no one who does not accept it; There is only iron material, which is strictly supervised by the government, and the Madao Stone Fort is to reduce the price and then the price, which is simply unsightly, which makes those merchants feel a lot more relieved.

So, on a warm day in April, the tax collector Zhao Wuliang once again came to the foot of Shiguan Tun Mountain, this time, he came with a notice from the government, informing Madao Shibao, this inconspicuous mutual market, can be opened as usual.

However, the criss-crossing vines and grasses on the road were so dense that people did not dare to put their feet, and this scene made a group of tax collectors dumbfounded, and they stood beside the rubble at the entrance of the road, staring in amazement at the large vine and grass stingers in front of them.

If it weren't for the ring of coptis trees planted at the entrance of the road, I'm afraid that the vine grass would have spread a long time ago.

Now someone has discovered the stinger of the vine grass, which used to just make people unconscious, lying on the ground for two hours and then doing nothing, but now there are some people who can directly put people to death, and if the treatment is not timely, they will die in the vine grass and become a dry corpse.

Fortunately, the new young leaves of the vine grass are boiled into juice, which is the antidote to the treatment of stingers, and this experience that I don't know where it came from, has saved the lives of many passers-by, otherwise the craftsmen in the old Yangkou Tunbao will also lose most of them, where to go to make a living, and there is no danger here.

Just when Zhao Wuliang and the others were worried that they couldn't contact the stone fort of the road, they saw a big yellow-green guy driving on the road from a distance, and they couldn't hear the sound at all until they were almost there, and they couldn't hear a low buzzing sound until they were almost there.

The sudden appearance of the assault car made these tax collectors who had never seen the world run back with a strange scream, and in the crowd that dispersed, some people rushed into the rattan grass pile on the side of the road in a panic, and the mournful cry for help resounded under the stone mountain.

"Phew, a bun of dirt buns," in the assault car, Sun Xiaoming secretly spat out, after tapping the steering wheel, his feet loosened, and he steadily let the car hover above the rattan grass, glanced at the dashboard, and then rolled down the window in a hurry.

"Who are you? This is the territory of the Galen tribe, if there is something to say, there is nothing to do," Sun Xiaoming, who was leaning on the seat, shouted with a grin, and the two sergeants with pigtails in the back also stuck their heads out, looking at these officials who were still running backwards unkindly.

However, the tax collectors who frightened the assault car had already run away, and Sun Xiaoming did not have the military order of the big leader, so he did not dare to get off the road easily, so he could only stop there and wait helplessly.

Zhang Zichang, who accompanied Zhao Wuliang, after receiving the news of the Gravel Fort yesterday, had already sent the news back to the Madao Stone Fort, and today with two general flags, he rushed down the mountain to see the excitement, and followed behind the tax collectors.

A large group of people in front of them hula ran away, and Zhang Zichang and the three of them appeared under Sun Xiaoming's nose.

Although he knew that this was Xiao Ye's assault car, Zhang Zichang was also bluffed, and when he saw Zhao Wuliang and them running away, he could only step forward; Fortunately, Sun Xiaoming's voice made him calm down.

Sun Xiaoming has seen it a few times, but he can control this kind of suspended car, Zhang Zichang's eyes were hot for a while, and he leaned forward cautiously with two general flags with white faces and tendons in his legs.

"Captain Sun, Zhang Zichang, a subordinate of Shiguantun Hundred Households, has seen an adult," Zhang Zichang's respectful greeting made Sun Xiaoming's face change, and he shouted out directly, "Brother Zhang, don't you dare to talk nonsense, what are you shouting adults, only our big leader is an adult, you kid shouted wrong, isn't it?"

In the past two days, he has been leading the team to operate this kind of vehicle, and he doesn't want to be caught, so he goes back to do his night patrol.

"Yes, yes, my subordinates are confused," Zhang Zichang was not a muddy person, seeing Sun Xiaoming's unhappy face, he hurriedly slapped his mouth lightly twice, and said good things to Sun Xiaoming again and again; It's just that he thinks in his heart, Sun Xiaoming doesn't know.

"You go and find their leader, the big leader is still waiting for a reply," Sun Xiaoming, who knew the situation of the grain in the fort, didn't talk nonsense, and waved his hand to let Zhang Zichang work.

Soon, the two general flags sent by Zhang Zichang brought back Zhao Wuliang, who had run out of almost a mile, and threw them on the ground.

Zhao Wuliang, who collapsed on the ground, found that there were people sitting in the car, so he gradually came to his senses, held up a stack of notices in his hand, and stammered to tell Sun Xiaoming that the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce would come to trade with Madao Shibao in the near future, and this Madao would be able to trade normally in the future.

The assault car drove straight in front of Zhao Wuliang, Sun Xiaoming took the notice with a frown, and his mouth pursed, "Ao, you can say it's okay, what do you think of my big leader, wait,"

After speaking, he threw the notice behind him, ignored Zhang Zichang on the side, retracted his head, turned the steering wheel and drove the car back to the road, and walked away in a buzzing manner.

Not to mention Zhao Wuliang, they were waiting dryly at the entrance of the road, the caravan from the town of Gansu, but they hurried up and drove over in a row, and the four long caravans, before leaving the town, each bought the tax stamps of the imperial store from the Chamber of Commerce, but they were not in a hurry to trade.

A tax stamp stamped with Wang Dongliang's private seal will cost 300 taels of silver, and he will have to pay a tax of 1 out of 15 when he goes back, which is collected by Wang Dongliang on behalf of the imperial treasury, and his own share can only be obtained after the chamber of commerce evaluates the goods traded.

After discussing with the merchants, the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce counted the goods sent, except for the salt and iron control, the others were not deliberately restricted, and the merchants who had originally resumed trading with the Mongolian Tatars in private focused on Madao Stone Fort for a while.

Of course, what kind of goods each merchant can exchange for from Madao Stone Fort depends on their own ability.

Ma Dao Stone Castle, when Xiao Ye got the notice that Sun Xiaoming brought back, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, although he felt very uncomfortable, and the people sent out to find other grain roads did not come back, he still decided to endure this breath first.

At Xiao Ye's feet, there were two black wolf cubs with tiger heads and tiger brains, this was the scout of Eagle Claw Fort, who dug out a nest of wild wolves on the grassland, the big wolf was beaten and skinned, and the cubs were brought back to Xiao Ye.

Six wolf cubs, let Xiao Ye feed them primary potions on a whim, but four died in one night, and the remaining two are still lazy and half-dead, and they drank some broth in the morning.

However, the spirituality in the eyes of these two cubs made Xin Rulin, who came to discuss the matter, quite important, if he hadn't learned that this was a wolf cub, he might have taken one away and kept it.

In the hall, Wang Dali was not in the stone castle, so Wang Gui took his errand, waiting for Xiao Ye to make an idea, when to send someone to clean up the vines and grass on the horse road.

More than 30 miles of horse road, if there is no carriage and ox cart to pull the goods, Wang Gui does not know how the goods from Gansu Town should enter the warehouse.

"Brother Liu Ren, let's go from Gujia Village," Xiao Ye waved his hand to let Wang Gui sit down and drink water first, and looked sideways at Wang Ziliang.

"Two groups of people, the second group left yesterday, a total of nine hundred and thirty-seven people, the rest are in the hospital, and there are also those who are studying in private schools, but most of their families are gone," Wang Ziliang replied without blinking, staring at the things moving up and down Gujia Village, which he held with one hand.

Gujiabao has already started construction there, and a large number of people are needed, Gu Yanwu didn't say anything, so Xiao Ye not only transferred a hundred logistics team craftsmen, and pulled away all the plaster in Madao Stone Fort and Eagle Claw Fort, and even Wang Hu's thousand-man team was also opened, and it was necessary to strictly prevent Mongolian Tatar harassment until autumn.

The most important thing is that the mineral materials from Bailong Lake, as well as the fierce fire oil and livestock of the West Wedge He tribe, the cattle and sheep of the Galen tribe, and even the mineral materials of the phosphate mine can be digested on the spot there.

Therefore, the construction of the high-walled fort was not supervised by Wang Dali there, so Xiao Ye could rest assured.

Now Gujiabao is just a round stone fort, and the area inside is not large, but as long as it can gain a foothold, it is imperative to expand the perimeter of the stone fort, and the garrison inside will not only put a hundred-man team, but eventually there will be no less than a thousand-man team stationed in it.

When the time comes, it will be a foregone conclusion, Gu Yanwu just has an opinion, Xiao Ye will not let go of his hands and claws, at most he will raise the price of 10% when purchasing medicinal materials, and he will be able to make those medicine farmers grateful.

Xiao Ye nodded, and said to Xin Rulin at the head of the head, "Brother Sansheng, you arrange for the deacon of the shop to post a notice, and after three days, the shop will distribute food according to the household and the book, and will not sell it separately,"

"As for Madao Stone Fort, those merchants must raise the price to sell goods, and we are not so easy to handle, send sergeants to inspect the Madao, and merchants are not allowed to clean up the vine grass, so we will use our assault vehicles to deliver goods to Shiguantun, and the freight is good,"

Xiao Ye thought for a while, "One or two taels of silver per car," the battery consumed by the back and forth assault vehicle, the purchase of the kernel will be close to the same money, and he will lose money if he adds labor.

The assault truck weighs 600 catties, if you remove the act of the back seat, it can carry up to 700 catties, back and forth, I don't know how much battery it will consume, Xiao Ye can't afford to be early, he has another purpose for doing this.

First, it allows those merchants to adapt to the usefulness of the assault vehicle and prepare for future sales, and second, there are too few people who are good at driving the assault vehicle, even if it is a training guard.

As for the third point, it is the vine grass kernel, if those merchants know that the battery that drives the assault vehicle is the black kernel, the rattan grass is bound to bloom and bear fruit everywhere, and other color kernels will also appear in large numbers, what he wants is a steady stream of various color kernels.

With the ore sent by the Tartars, as well as a large amount of fierce fire oil, assault vehicles will appear in large quantities in the primary civilian catalog, and if this kind of goods is not sold for a large price at a high price, he will be killed headlong.

The sand table that was strictly guarded in the communication team, with the ever-expanding area of rattan grass, was bound to be able to take out the parts from the cave again and install them, this sand table has become Wang Ziliang's sharp eyes, and no one except Xiao Ye is allowed to approach the communication team.

Therefore, as a roadblock, the rattan grass is also Xiao Ye's talisman, he wishes that the rattan grass can close the Madao Stone Fort to death, and the Ming army in Gansu Town will not act rashly.

"Wang Gui, you arrange a craftsman to prepare to clean up the vine grass," Xiao Ye turned his head to look at Wang Gui, this sentence made Wang Gui's face happy, thinking that the big boss had changed his mind, but then he was disappointed.

"The carboniferous mine in that big ditch, using assault trucks to transport fruits back and forth, is not a long-term solution, start opening the road now, you need geotechnical bombs, find Mei'er to pay the account, before autumn comes, you must pull the carboniferous mine back to the stone fort,"

Xiao Ye got up to go to the private school, where more than sixty boys and girls, twenty of whom were older, were already familiar with firearms and horseback riding, and even though he sent a sergeant to guide him, he had to go there often.

"Big black, little black, let's go," With Xiao Ye's call, the two little wolf cubs got up and followed the military boots, and staggered out of the hall.