Surrounded by mountains.

Huaiyang Road is mountainous and watery, and the climate is humid, which is not suitable for raising cavalry, so the Huai army stationed in Chuzhou City is basically infantry. There was only one cavalry numbering about 3,000, and the light cavalry was more symbolic than practical, and it was very noble, and most of it was used for reconnaissance, and it was rarely concentrated in drills.

Once Brother Xiao Xie couldn't help but gasp after reading the training and marching documents of the cavalry, saying that the cavalry burns money, and it is the courage that only predators dare to have, not only burning money, but also a bottomless pit! A standard war horse, the price ranges from ten to twenty taels of silver, this is just an ordinary cavalry war horse, if it is a fine horse or a heavy horse horse, it is more than twice as expensive! A set of standard armor for cavalry, plus sabers, harness and other equipment, the average cost of a light cavalry is around thirty taels of silver. Moreover, the annual maintenance and wear and tear of the cavalry, including training consumption and horse replacement, etc., require more money and materials. In a year, the military expenditure of 3,000 cavalry is around 50,000 taels of silver! This is almost forty percent of the total annual military expenditure of the Huai Army except for the Modao Army! What is this concept? That is to say, if there are 100,000 cavalry, then the annual military expenditure will be around 1.5 million taels of silver!

That's almost 20% of Dajin's annual tax revenue!

And once the cavalry is going to be put into the battlefield, it means that there must be several times more war horses as a backup. In wartime, the consumption of horses was far greater than the loss of soldiers. Based on the war against Western Qin in the Great Jin Dynasty, it can be seen that the cavalry lost about 15,000 people in the entire Hangu Pass Battle, but the loss of war horses was nearly 30,000! And that's not counting the 4,000 mules and horses lost in auxiliaries and logistics!

According to a confidential information obtained by Xie Shence through Wang Ding, the four major horse farms in the Great Jin Dynasty can produce 50,000 horses every year, of which 30,000 mature horses can be used as war horses provided to the military, that is to say, nearly 400,000 taels of war horses raised by horse raising fees every year will be exhausted in just one big war!

As a result, the horses produced by the Jin State were basically stretched. As a result, in the border pass field and tributary trade, war horses have always been an extremely important bargaining chip for the Hu people to the Great Jin.

Now in the four countries of the Central Plains, no country can afford a large-scale cavalry competition! First, there is a scarcity of war horses, and second, the investment in cavalry construction is too large. If the combat effectiveness of cavalry infantry is less than 1,000 people and the proportion is one step five (under the standard case, that is, without any external influence, completely head-on), then the money for raising 1,000 cavalry can definitely support more than 7,000 elite infantry. Therefore, in the four countries of the Central Plains, a large-scale pure cavalry battle was still unrealistic.

And in the northern nomads, it is not uncommon for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people to fight in large wars. Correcting the reason, Xie Shence boiled down to the fact that cavalry is his only type of troops, and cavalry is the class that spends the least money. There is never a shortage of horses in the grassland, and the grassland conquest does not mean large-scale expenditure, on the contrary, it means large-scale income. Therefore, the powerful Xianbei cavalry is generally equipped with three or even five horses for long-distance raids! The resistance of the Central Plains countries to the nomads was basically to wait for work, with heavy infantry and sniper cavalry. This is how the Modao Army came about.

Unrestricted armaments place an extremely heavy financial burden on all countries. In order to increase finances, various countries have carried out different degrees of reforms and implemented various measures, and the Great Jin Kingdom has a very effective measure during the tenure of Wang Laoshangshu as the head of the household department, that is, to encourage commercial development.

The encouragement of commercial development here is not as mercantile to a certain extent as in the Song Dynasty in Chinese history, and the fundamental purpose of encouraging merchants to buy and sell in the Great Jin Dynasty and even other countries is to impose heavy taxes, and then fill the treasury to expand armaments and wars.

Even though the exploitation of merchants has reached the level of terror, the commerce of the Great Jin Dynasty is still several times more prosperous than in previous years, and the existence of the two major merchant gangs also pays a huge amount of taxes and silver to the treasury every year.

These two major merchant gangs are the Jin Shang Gang and the Huai Shang Gang. The world's six major business gangs, Dajin three take one of them.

And the Wang family is the initiator and helmsman of the Huaishang Gang. The current principal of the Wang family and Huaishang is Lao Shangshu's second son, Wang Qingyan's father - Wang Dai

Well, what does this have to do with Xie Shence?

Of course it is!

And the relationship is definitely not small! This is related to Xie Shence's personal little coffer.

Let's start at the beginning.

When he was grilling fish by the lake in the back garden of the Wang family, Xiao Xie Ge had the idea of doing business, but there were too many constraints to implement it, so he put it down. But as he grew older, Xiao Brother Xie showed a talent that did not match his age, and everyone gradually accepted his novel imagination, and finally at the age of twelve, Xiao Brother Xie's road to fortune was on the right path.

When he was twelve years old, one day after he went over the wall to solve two little girls in two consecutive nights, he met a person when he avoided Wang Qingyan and accompanied Wang Jiehua to the street to relax. A poor scholar.

At that time, the two were about to go to Xicheng Shangma River to play, and when they passed by a mansion, they saw someone being beaten on the street, in order to reflect the sense of justice in front of Xiao Lori and maintain their own majestic image, so Xiao Xie Brother stepped forward and stopped a certain family who continued to commit violence, and wanted to ask the reason for the incident. The Wang family's guards intervened, who would dare not buy it? So the chief steward hurriedly came forward to clarify the reason.

It turned out that a poor scholar from the Southern Song Dynasty who was down-and-out took his pregnant wife to Chuzhou City, and in order to beg for a bite to eat, the scholar gave this family a teaching gentleman.

Not surprisingly, the ladies of this family are very bad, often take Mr. to open the brush, every time the scholar is so angry that the scholar walks away, the scholar sends people under the fence, and has always dared to be angry but dare not speak. As a result, the naughty children became more and more ignorant of teachers.

Today, the naughty boys "accidentally" splashed the ink on Mr. It was the only set of decent clothes that the scholar's wife bought for the scholar as the last dowry, that is, it was specially designed to be a gentleman at the door, and he had to wear it decently, so he carried the scholar on his back as a hairpin. The scholar cried alone for a long time after knowing this.

So, the cliché came.

The scholar had been grudging for a long time, and finally got angry, and in a fit of anger he was about to fight, but when he was led to a remote place, he didn't want to bump into a woman, and the scholar was about to apologize, but he was extremely sarcastic by this lady, and beat the shrew in a fit of anger. This time caused a lot of trouble, and that lady turned out to be the most beloved concubine of the owner.

The scholar was immediately yelled at by the woman and beaten by the housekeeper in the courtyard, and was thrown into the street because the voice of the defense was too loud and was heard by the housekeeper who turned around and closed the door, and then came out and beat him violently.

Then I met Brother Xie and Little Lori.

The steward said it tactfully, but Brother Xiao Xie understood the moisture very well. It shouldn't be a naughty child design who accidentally bumped into a woman, and he didn't have that scheming, and he didn't dare to work with his elders, and it didn't hurt to tease Mr. Once the elders knew about it, they would inevitably scold.

Brother Xie was almost certain that the young scholar had indeed been unlucky and had bumped into an unreasonable shrew. Listening to the scholar crying about the hardships of him and his wife-to-be, he intended to resolve the incident immediately. Especially after the little Lori Wang Jiehua was moved by the scholar's love story of "thousands of miles away, hardships and hardships, never abandoning, and getting along", she cried and cried, and she decisively moved out of the Wang's mountain and asked the steward to stop.

The steward saw that the Wang family was intervening, and how dare he go too far, so he settled the wages of five taels of silver on the spot and lost two taels of silver and the medical money. Brother Xiao Xie also took a few taels of silver from Xie Laosan and gave it to the scholar to settle his wife.

Later, because I heard that scholars can talk and calculate, I responded to the idea of doing business. So they took action.

First complained to Uncle Xie that he was living a hard life and was short of money, he squeezed two thousand taels of snowflake silver from Uncle Xie, and then bought a store with a better location thanks to the relationship between Wang Qingyan's father Wang Dai, and then hired two Hu people with a little training as cooks, and then invited Wang Qingyan's father to "join the shares" and set up the first barbecue-themed restaurant. Of course, in the early stage of publicity, Brother Xie adopted the techniques of later generations, so that Xie Laosan broke his leg, hired a large number of idle splashes to do publicity, and made enough momentum, and then opened again, which was an instant hit. The business is getting better and better, and I plan to promote it.

Wang Qingyan's father, Wang Dai, saw that he was making money, so he found Brother Xiao Xie, and after wanting to use the strength of Huaishang to make the barbecue industry bigger and stronger, Brother Xiao Xie groaned for a long time and finally agreed after satisfying Wang Dai's appetite: After all, Brother borrowed your convenience and is still soaking your daughter, and it is not kind to hang you for too long.

Then Brother Xiao Xie realized what it means to be shrewd, and the proposal given by Wang Dai Brother Xiao Xie had to work hard to ensure that every word was not unfavorable to him and would not be exploited before signing the agreement, but when he paid dividends in the first year, he knew that he was still severely pitted by Wang Dai.

At that time, he got a year's share, Xiao Xie's face was blue, 10,000 taels of silver, and Xiao Xie got 10,000 taels of silver a year! The whole red, I actually got 10,000 taels! How much did that bastard Wang Dai take? The dividend ratio of 136, Xiao Xie took 10,000 taels, and Wang Dai took 30,000 taels! The entire Huaishang Group took 60,000 taels!

The trademark is Lao Tzu's! Creativity is also Lao Tzu! The technology is still Lao Tzu! As a result, Lao Tzu took the least! One hundred thousand taels of white flowers! Lao Tzu only took 10,000 taels! The exploitation of the red fruit!

Needless to say, Wang Dai signed a contract with Brother Xiao Xie and had an agreement with the senior management of Huaishang, so Wang Dai can get 30% of the profit every year, which is three times that of Brother Xiao Xie! And it's still the first year. With the ability of Huai Shang, the entire Huaiyang Road will have a branch in the first year, and it will not be long before there will be a shadow of barbecue in the entire Dajin and even the world! At that time, the annual profit will not be as simple as two or three times. And it is also attached to many of Xiao Xie's small products, such as massage, health care, daily necessities, etc.

However, Xiao Xie then got a privilege as compensation, that is, he could use Huaishang's intelligence manpower at any time.

This is definitely a huge achievement! This means that the entire system of Huaishang can be controlled by Brother Xiao Xie at will! Of course, this arbitrary disposal will not be as simple as taking how much money you can take at will, but the entire intelligence, information, manpower and material resources and so on that Huaishang has can be shared! This is tantamount to confirming that Brother Xiao Xie is the most trusted partner, and even has the same status in the Huaishang Group as the Wang family.

Of course, Brother Xie would not take such a privilege for idle. In fact, this privilege was precisely what he proposed.

At that time, I just had the mentality of trying, and I didn't want the Huaishang Gang represented by Wang Dai to agree, and I quickly agreed. This surprised Brother Xiao Xie at how quickly the other party reacted.

Brother is very attractive?

But then it became clear. The Wang family's statement so quickly has little to do with Brother Xie's charm value or even business ability. The real reason is still in the Xie family.

In the eyes of the Wang family, what is really relevant is that the intention revealed by Brother Xiao Xie through this matter to dominate the Huaishang system controlled by the Wang family means that the two Wang Xie families are a real, inseparable, and cold-hearted alliance. If the marriage between Xie Shence and Wang Jiehua is the cornerstone of Wang Xie's alliance, then sharing resources is the building on the cornerstone. This also means the complete binding of the two families.

came up with such an unreasonable move, but it was Brother Xie's temporary decision. It is absolutely impossible for him to directly enter business as a son-in-law in the Xie family like Wang Dai in the Wang family, after all, the Wang family started as a businessman. He also said to his grandfather: I am not in business for money, I am also lowering my status for the interests of my family, so I worked hard, don't beat me when I turn around.

Little Brother Xie was a little crying when he saw the Xie family's housekeeper, I was just on a whim, who knew that you all took it seriously......

The real negotiations will end soon, and for this kind of possible happening, the two families will have a plan, and they will handle it just right, and they will not ask for a sky-high price. Truly decisive decisions are always made in the shortest possible time.

Brother Xiao Xie regards Zhang Xiang as his spokesperson, not only for the prime minister's business, but also directly responsible for himself. Although Zhang Shusheng is full of sage books, he is not pedantic, on the contrary, his brain is good and flexible, but he lacks a few points of experience in dealing with the world.

Before and after pushing Zhang Xiang to the two stages, Brother Xiao Xie became the shopkeeper. After all, I don't have time to take care of it myself.

Zhang Xiang is very realistic, and he will not uphold the principle that a gentleman is poor and does not do anything. After experiencing the ordeal of going all the way north, especially when the street was humiliated, he saw the reality clearly, so he learned very quickly under the professional guidance of the Wang family. After several shallow conversations with Xie Shence, he decided to show his skills, and after a meeting with the Xie family's housekeeper, he planted this decision deeply in his heart.

(PS: The verbose part ends.)

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