In November, the weather quickly became dry and cold, and there was not much rain falling in the gravel fort for most of the year, and there were more and more military and artisan households going out to work.

As a result, the laborers who went to the Houshan Workshop District of Shiguantun became more and more popular, and the yellow plaster pulled out by truckloads was continuously sent to Gansu Town, and then scattered to various places.

More than 500 people in Lijia Village, excluding peasant households who were unwilling to leave their hometowns and landlords who guarded their property, more than 300 men, women, and children were escorted to the Laoyangkou Fire Pier in batches a few days ago along with the caravan of the Tian family.

In addition to Wang Dali's craftsman team, as long as the hunters and farmers who can have a little strength can help work on the construction site, they can earn two liters of wheat every day with their hands, and there is a free half catty of beef and mutton every five days; Of course, there are many different wages, and they have their own special personnel who are responsible for statistics, and they are issued every ten years.

The yellow plaster transported from Shiguantun was delivered by horse-drawn cart every day, and was made into large and regular stones by craftsmen on the spot, and the outer wall of the stone fort began to be built; Even, there are horse-drawn carriages in the Tianjia workshop area that send a lot of yellow plaster.

With the authorization of 100 households, the first thing Li Xunwu did was to assist in repairing the old sheep's mouth fire pier, but the yellow plaster produced by the quarry was simply not enough to build the stone fort.

So, Li Xunwu went to Shiguantun, found the hundred households that were training, and after negotiation, he turned around and came to the Houshan Workshop District, and found Huang Deshan and Tian Fangjun, two deacons, as the housekeeper of the hundred households in Ximen.

"Each family will pay 50,000 catties of yellow plaster, transport it to Lao Yangkou, and then produce 2,000 stone of new grain, or 3,000 stone of old grain, and 100 households will transfer a stone mill," Li Xunwu's price can not help but make people excited, knowing that the stone mill is a golden hen that can lay eggs, Huang Deshan and Tian Fangjun don't even need to ask the family, and after a little calculation, they happily agreed to Li Xunwu's conditions.

And the stone fort of Shiguantun Quarry, there is only one B-shaped stone mill left in the future, Xiao Ye plans to use it enough for his own use, and by the way, he can't let the merchant use an excuse to cut off the supply of charcoal.

With the C-brand stone mill, there is not enough space in the quarry stone castle mill, so it is better to take it out and let the merchants accumulate raw materials for themselves.

The current yellow plaster has opened up the situation in the northwest market, and it has also been privately divided into three grades by craftsmen, which are all sequelae of people with intentions.

Xiao Ye took out the plaster ingredient list, and some of the three merchants just wanted to cut corners, either the coal was reduced in quantity, or the lead material was unruly, saltpeter and sulfur were reduced casually, and the abacus beads crackled.

As a result, the yellow plaster produced by the B-shaped stone mill is also lazy, and the plaster of the good product is slow to condense and the solidity is average, which is the kind they used in Xiao Ye before.

The more auxiliary materials are fed into the grinding hole with the low iron ore, the better the quality of the plaster produced by the stone mill, the faster the coagulation rate, and the degree of solidity is comparable to that of steel.

Good products, high-quality, and high-quality stucco have been marked with different prices by shrewd merchants, and they have also adapted to the needs of all classes, and Xiao Ye secretly got more benefits. Otherwise, the projectiles of his rear-loading gun would be useless.

Therefore, the Tian family supplied plaster very quickly, and did not hesitate to push down a few orders, and even the old grain was shipped over one after another. Only the Huang family, after discussing with Li Xunwu, replaced the supply of plaster with grain, and the plasters produced in their workshops were all of the highest grade or above.

Shang Shetian's prospecting team has not harvested, but the vine grass and fruits they picked back were transported to Shiguantun one by one, the abandoned small copper mine not far away, buried in a remote ravine by vine grass, the terrain is unfamiliar, no one dares to go there to find guilt.

Hu Shibiao also returned to Shiguantun at the beginning of the month, passing through the team of Madao Shibao, and the wounded accounted for more than half; Fortunately, although Qin Shishi, Hao Yongliang and the sunspot team were almost all injured, they only lost one person, and the ashes tied to the horse's back were transported back, which was already very lucky.

It's just that among Hu Shibiao's personal guards, more than a dozen people died in the grassland, and on the way to Haixi Village, they encountered a large group of Tartar rangers, if it wasn't for the thunder jumping, it is estimated that the loss would be greater.

The guards who had no experience in killing, compared with Qin Shi, not only couldn't help, but actually slowed down the speed of the team, otherwise the guards would not be injured by all the sunspots.

The most unlucky is Hu Shibiao, who was targeted by a marksman in the Tartar Ranger, who made him stand out like a crowd, and knew that he was an officer at a glance.

A fierce eagle arrow pierced Hu Shibiao's eye socket, and the archer who wanted to shoot an arrow through the head was too far away and did not get his wish; If it weren't for the desperate guards of the guards, Hu Shibiao would have been dead in the grassland.

Hu Shibiao, who lost one eye, was still dizzy when he arrived in Haixi Village, and although the anti-inflammatory effect of the medicine powder in the medicine belt was not bad, he still had a high fever.

The head of Haixi Village, Ola, was quite familiar with Hu Shibiao's symptoms, and sent someone to bring spirits and asked the guards to wipe Hu Baihu's body non-stop, until his body temperature dropped, which saved Hu Baihu's life.

The weapon that Qin Shi brought, the village chief of Aura was very satisfied, and he also paid a large amount of gold, but most of it was exchanged for copper coins by Qin Shishi's suggestion, which made him incomprehensible.

On the way back, after discussing with Lei Xiaoqing and Hao Yongliang, Qin Shishi followed the map given by the village chief of Ola and drilled west into the two adjacent beaches, detoured an additional 500 miles, and rushed back to Madao Stone Fort; In the team of pack horses, there was a sleeping Hu Baihu lying on the carriage, and he never woke up.

The sergeants of the three squads set out from Madao Stone Fort, took a large number of minerals transported by mules and horses, and rushed back to Shiguantun overnight, not only bringing back ten heavy bags of copper coins, but also containing two hundred taels of gold in Hao Yongliang's backpack.

The copper coin was sent to the stone mill of the quarry, Xiao Ye looked at the three black and thin flag officers, and pulled out the revolver/gun on his body, "Here, look at this is our new gun, I will use it for you, but there are not many bullets,"

As for the division of the three people, he doesn't care, whether he uses his fists or seniority, it is a matter of three people, and the competition cannot be stopped in the Shiguantun Banner Team.

The wounded were sent to the hospital, the dead were buried, and everything went through in an orderly manner.

The next day, Xiao Ye hired a convoy of the Tian family to rush to Gansu Town with more than a dozen carriages, escorting the guards with short fires/guns and crossbows along the way; Wang Qing's escort team immediately set off to support the Laoyangkou construction site, and they became a veritable second craftsman team.

Zuo Shi personally led the carriage escorted to the Madao Stone Fort; The flatbed cart of three strong horses is tightly wrapped in a large piece of oilcloth on the bare van, the bulging bag rope is tied firmly, and the wheels are turning, and the creaking vehicle indicates that the weight of the items pulled is not light.

According to the express indication in the stone mill pattern, the C-shaped stone mill is far from the Shiguantun A-brand mill, which can reach fifty miles, which is exactly the distance between the old Yangkou fire pier and Shiguantun, and it is also within the straight-line distance from Shiguantun to Madao Shibao.

In the enclosure of Laoyangkou, farmers and military households need a stable livelihood to make a living, and it is just right to place a C-shaped stone mill.

The other two C-shaped stone mills were escorted by Zuoshi to the Madao Stone Fort, and the difficulties on the road did not need to be mentioned, and the escorted guards carried shovels and pickaxes to widen and repair the road, and more than 30 geotechnical bullets were used, and the wheels of the upside-down carriage were replaced several times.

The Huang family and the Tian family used plaster and grain, and each exchanged for a B-shaped stone mill, and the Wang family deacon in the workshop area immediately found Wang Dali, and also proposed to exchange it for food, but Wang Dali refused.

Seeing that the deacon of the Wang family had a gloomy face, Wang Dali smiled and revealed to him a number of news, Hu Baihu, who came back from the grassland this time, brought back three stone mills, and the rich building was going to be auctioned out, so he had to hurry up and find a way.

This time, the three stone mills were more sophisticated, and they could find rough and inferior iron ore farther away, and produce yellow plaster; The farther away from Shiguantun, isn't it safer.

Deacon Wang, who was overjoyed, immediately had a good impression of Wang Dali, who liked to take advantage of a small advantage, and after stuffing a small silver ticket, he hurriedly returned to the workshop to write a pigeon letter.

Wang Dali looked at the deacon of the Wang family who was far away, and looked at the silver ticket in his hand with a smile, the five taels of silver, which were returned to the account room today, and turned around on Mrs. Mei's account book, I am afraid that it will be rewarded immediately.

No one could have imagined that the lady of the hundred households, who was recuperating in the old sheep's mouth fire pier, was in charge of the money of the two hundred households, and Xiao Ye basically did not carry any silver money.

Soon, Fuguilou, which had been silent for a long time, issued a notice to hold an auction on the day the Tian family's motorcade arrived.

Gansu Town, Fugui Building, in the luxuriously decorated hall on the third floor, Baodes, who began to get rich, once again convened the merchants of various chambers of commerce and started a round of auctions; Yes, in the future, the operation of Fuguilou will be mainly auctioned, and the goods will be wholesaled to large buyers, and sporadic sales will no longer be carried out.

What Baodes didn't know was that Xiao Ye would not leave the wholesale power in his hands for a long time. In the future, the Fugui Building will only be used as an ordinary restaurant and as Xiao Ye's intelligence point.

The second floor is a private room, the first floor is a tea house, the scene that used to be chaotic, now it is orderly, to the third floor, the invited merchants have to speak in a tone of three points.

Since the next Yuan Festival, the three tax collectors and their families suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the forces of all parties who tried to fight the idea of Fuguilou suddenly discovered that Fuguilou was not a good stubble, and it was simply going to harm the family.

Don't talk about the rules, don't say hello, the whole family of men, women and children don't let go, kill and bury even the place can't be found, such a ruthless means, completely scared off some people with a heart, the Confucian tradition of the literary struggle and martial arts, the disaster is not to the family, where can compare to the ruthlessness of destroying the whole family, the slightest chance is not given.

Even the spies under Fang Shanshui have not found the entire family of the three tax collectors so far, not to mention the head of the official government.

However, Baudez, who feasted guests all day long in the Xia Yuan Festival, has a lot of witnesses, he is innocent, and even Xiao Ye is shopping with his wife and concubine on the street, so the person who did it is unknown.

The danger hidden in the dark is the greatest threat.

On the third floor, Baodes, who was sitting at the round table, drank tea and chatted with the people of the three major merchants, and waited until the other merchants also came, then he slowly put down the teacup, took out a piece of rice paper, and glanced at more than a dozen business partners in Gansu Town with a smile.

"Ahem, everyone, everyone," Badez's voice fell, and the hum of the hall fell silent, and everyone's eyes were fixed on his chubby hand, on the rice paper.

Dressed in a dark red satin robe, Bowdes nodded with a smile, "The second auction of goods in Fuguilou starts now,"

The Huang family came forward with a middle-aged deacon, and Huang Changzu went to Taiyuan a month ago; The Tian family and the Wang family are their own second stewards, and even the other merchants are basically deacons and stewards.

The merchants who have seen the tough side of Fuguilou will naturally not be remembered because of the goods, and the goods will be eye-catching, but they have to fight for their lives; What's more, I heard that the source of goods is in the far north of the grassland, and the business of Fuguilou has been cut off, and everyone has nothing to earn.

"The first batch of goods, black silk cotton short coats, eighty pieces, the reserve price is eight hundred taels of silver, and the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce have priority quotations," Baodes read out the first commodity on the list, and the three major merchants looked at each other and did not speak.

Seeing them like this, the other merchants immediately came to their senses, and raised their hands to quote the price in their hearts, "Nine hundred taels," "One thousand taels," "One thousand one hundred and fifty taels,"

In the end, a merchant who came from the capital got this batch of coats at a price of two thousand eight hundred taels, and his face was full of excitement; You must know that this rare short coat can be bought for more than fifty taels each in the capital, and it is rare and expensive, so if you want to sell it, you can sell it to rich officials.

When the red-haired man beside Baudez handed over a stamped note/child to the merchant, he returned behind Bauddes with the silver ticket, and the deacon on his side identified and counted; After receiving the deacon's nod, Bauders stroked his pen and ticked off the short coat.

The merchants in the capital who were holding the strips/children, under the contemptuous gaze of the merchants, hurried downstairs and found a guy to go to the backyard warehouse to transfer their goods, but they also wasted the opportunity to buy later.

"The second batch of black silk short coats, eighty pieces, the reserve price is eight hundred taels of silver, and the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce have priority quotations,"

"The third batch of goods, 30 bottles of light perfume, the reserve price of 50 taels of silver per bottle, the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce give priority to the quotation," "The fourth batch of goods, 30 bottles of rich perfume, the reserve price of 50 taels of silver per bottle, the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce give priority to the quotation,"

The right of priority for the shareholders of the Chamber of Commerce is the biggest face that Baodes gives to the three major merchants, as long as they do not let go, no matter how high the bid of other merchants is, they will not be able to bid for any materials. The three major merchants can buy the bidding materials at a price of ninety percent, which is the advantage of major shareholders.

Dressing mirrors and barracks tents were divided into small portions by the shrewd Bauddes and wholesaled to the merchants at a fairly cheap price; Of course, pocket watches have to be sold piece by piece, which is too rare.

The three major merchants did not intervene in the purchase and sale of a full 100,000 taels, but squinted at Baodes happily crossed out a sum of goods and got a silver ticket.

Of the 100,000 taels of silver tickets, Baodes was able to share 10,000 taels in dividends, as well as 120,000 allowed favors to spend, but this guy was so happy that he forgot the troubles of the previous while. Of course, after spending hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, he couldn't send back quite a lot of information, and then Baudes knew the consequences.

It seems that the business of buying and selling is booming, but the bi-monthly auction of Fuguilou has to be postponed in case of accidents, and the military households, artisan households, and farmers who have to feed behind Xiao Ye have a large amount of food consumption every month, not to mention that there is a lot of food, and the purchase of medicinal materials and raw materials has to be carefully calculated for 80,000 taels of silver.

The front of the auction ended quickly, and under the send-off of several big men, the other merchants were unwilling to go down to the second floor, where they waited for the news of the second half of the auction, the most confidential auction of the Chamber of Commerce, they were not qualified to participate, maybe the three major merchants leaked a little between their fingers, and it was enough for them to laugh for half a year.

In the hall on the third floor, the second housekeeper of the Wang family looked at the representatives of the Tian and Huang families, and raised his teacup with a smile, "Hehe, congratulations to the two of you, I heard that you have all got a stone mill, and the business is prosperous, but you can't forget my Wang family, do you say it is Mr. Baodes?" ”

"Uh, haha, yes, yes, it was given to Shiguantun by our tribe earlier, how people deal with it, it has nothing to do with Fuguilou, I heard that they are used to exchange for plaster and grain, it's really visionless," Baodes snorted, throwing himself out without a trace.

"But no, there is a big drought near Gansu Town this year, and a group of displaced people have gone there, and the hundred households in Ximen are soft-hearted, how can he help those people if there is no food, Yonghetun has let the horse thieves burn it clean," the second housekeeper of the Tian family echoed with emotion, and gave the Wang family some eye medicine.

The Huang family of the Tian family is suspected of taking advantage of the fire to rob, but your Wang family does not vomit any oil and water, so Wang Chongli is still a thousand households in the gravel fort.

Only the deacon of the Huang family, because of Jiang Jie's relationship, did not help each other, and coldly watched the two sides secretly quarrel.

The silver ticket issued by Tianjia Qianzhuang is the kind of anti-counterfeiting white flute paper, not to mention that no one in the whole country can imitate it in the Ming Dynasty, but the red-haired Waiyi in Guangzhou was also shocked when he saw it, trying to buy it in large quantities; At present, in the major money banks, the weight of Tianjia money is increasing day by day.

"Alright, three, let's get down to business," Seeing the change in the atmosphere, Bades hurriedly changed the subject, and took out a list from his sleeve pocket, which contained two new items, of course, to ventilate the three merchants first.

"This time, the goods brought back, there is a kind of goods in it, which has not been sold, and naturally you need to look at it," said Bauds, and with a slap of the face, a lean work, carrying an object wrapped in coarse cloth, walked into the hall, and carefully placed it on the round table.

"Open it," the job untied the coarse cloth, revealing a square transparent "glass" inside, but such a neat and beautiful glass was evenly spread, so that the old fritters of the three merchants gathered around to take a closer look.

"Hey, I've never seen such glass," the deacon of the Tian family touched the edge of the glass, and accidentally, the sharp stubble directly pulled his finger out of the bloody hole.

The housekeepers of the two families of the Yellow King also looked at this beautiful thing with novelty, and they couldn't see much use for a while.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is called glass, which I make in Post, and use it to decorate the window frames," Bauddes took two steps back, and removed a piece of white cloth from the window frame behind him.

Starting tomorrow, Fuguilou will all be replaced with glass windows, the first in Daming.

Walking to the window frame, touching the glass with the palm of his hand, and then looking at the bustling flow of people on the street downstairs, the three people suddenly realized that the business opportunity seemed to be in front of them.

"Mr. Bardes, how much does this glass and glass cost?" The deacon of the Tian family suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked in a deep voice, if this thing is expensive, it can only be sold in small quantities.

"This thing is fragile, it is extremely difficult to transport, a foot of a hundred dollars, the right to give you a favor," Baodes looked like a pain, and said fiercely, such a good thing, a hundred households only need a hundred dollars, and they are too bad at doing business.

The glass, which is one foot wide and two feet long, is the specification given by the stone mill, and Xiao Ye is helpless, but the sand and gravel all over the ground is the cost of labor.

"Of course, cutting this thing requires special means," Baodes took out a knife from his bosom, "Ten taels of silver each, and three people are limited to one," Xiao Ye only has five glass knives, and he sent four to Baodes.

"Okay, Mr. Fortez, my Wang family wants all these glasses, and I also want all the cutters," the second housekeeper of the Wang family, who reacted quickly, wanted to swallow this batch of goods in one gulp after cheering.

"What do you want, Wang Er, there are still two of us here, the old rules, the three new goods are divided equally, isn't it Mr. Baodes?" The second housekeeper of the Huang family rolled his eyes and sat on the chair with a sneer.

"Yes, the three families will be divided equally, but the selling price should be carefully discussed, at least it will not be consumed in the town, and it will be transported to other places depending on the means," the words of the deacon of the Tian family can be regarded as agreeing with the second housekeeper of the Huang family, if there is a benefit, your Wang family will occupy it, how can there be such a thing.

So, after some arguments, the deacon of the Wang family no longer insisted on it, and the 600-foot glass was divided equally among the three families, and the cutter was exactly one for each family. This kind of cutting knife, after the merchants go back to let the craftsmen study it, there will be more production, and the diamond diamond is available in the porcelain kiln worker.

Next, it is the main event, this time Xiao Ye took out three C-shaped stone mills, and through the mouth of Baodes, the location of the stone mills was demarcated, that is, it could not be far away from the fifty miles of Shiguantun. More than 50 miles of stone is not applicable, and the C-shaped stone mill cannot be turned.

If nothing else, the three stone mills were placed not far south of the Laoyangkou Fire Pier, which is close to the avenue, and the rattan grass is easy to clean and easy to transport.

In addition to the Wang family, who are willing to exchange grain and iron, the Huang family and the Tian family have insufficient food in their hands, so they can only use other goods to buy.

"This time, Hu Baihu in Shiguantun was seriously injured, and more than half of the guards were injured, and the tribe gave them a stone mill, which should be a reward, so if you want to sell more yellow plaster, you can go and discuss with Hu Baihu," Bao Des said nonchalantly after selling the stone mill at a friendly price of five thousand taels of silver.

But then, he added, "Hu Baihu's personal guards have too many injuries, and it is difficult to get a pension, I heard that he sold the stone mill to Ximen Baihu at a discount, you can also send someone to investigate,"

"No, let that Ximen Xiao Ye take advantage of it again," the second housekeeper of the Wang family was immediately angry, and even the housekeeper of the Huang family had a bad face; I just got a stone mill from Shiguantun, and I have one more, I don't know how much silver Ximen Xiaoye spent.

"It was bought by people with their lives, and your Wang family has the ability to send their own people there to be a hundred households, and maybe they can also get cheap," the deacon of the Tian family said unhurriedly as he drank his tea.

Although Xiao Ye's military household is like a fish bone, the three major merchants have to endure it again and again, no matter how good the yellow plaster is, it has to be that the Tartars don't come, and if they don't stand in front for the dead ghosts, they can't save anything. I can't say next time, the Tartar pulled the stone mill away as a trophy, and he couldn't find a place to cry.

Naturally, the two big buyers did not take out all the silver tickets, but exchanged them for cloth, tea, and tobacco, and by the way, they sold the old goods accumulated in the shops, and everyone was happy. This year's autumn wheat harvest failed, the price of grain rose by more than 10%, and the price of mineral materials also rose.

When the deacon of the Tian family was leaving, he and Baodes secretly exchanged eyes, and the transaction of tickets and papers in private continued.

In the evening, Bowdes welcomed the third wave of guests in the backyard, commanding the officers from the envoy to enter the Fugui Building through the back door, and exchanged five thousand pounds of sulfur, three hundred pounds of lead, and twenty pounds of mercury for a hundred rear-loading guns/guns and three thousand rounds of projectiles; Of course, the five short fires/guns given by Baodes also became favors.

The Wang family came to replace the rear-loading fire/gun, and the two sides agreed to continue the transaction in the future, which was the real reason why the Wang family deacon let Baudes go.

In a carriage that accompanied the officer, there was a dying scholar, although his legs were bandaged and wounded, they were obviously broken, and Yin Hong's blood was oozing from the white cloth wrapped in his heels.

Jin Yiwei Hundred Households, Fang Shanshui looked at the information on the table, and whispered to himself under the candlelight, "Ximen Xiaoye, the combat power is so sharp, the means are ruthless, not bad, not bad, he is a good seedling,"

"Then why did the Persians give you such benefits? Escorting cargo? I'm afraid it's more than that, so you have to be careful," Under the cold moonlight of the small courtyard, the lights and shadows in the window lattice were cold and cold.