When the shop of Baodes officially moved to Gansu Town, Xiao Ye was sitting in the hall reading a book, and there were two crossbows hanging on the wall behind him; The first batch of crossbows, except for these two, were all put into the eye-grinding.

The two arrow boxes are filled with short arrows, which is a thought that Xiao Ye left for himself, maybe in the future, there will never be a military crossbow produced by the A-brand stone mill. For the changes in the stone mill, although Xiao Ye has some regrets, he is most grateful, he is not a person who is not content.

Today's Wang Ziliang, dressed in a round-necked green shirt, wearing a square scarf, and holding a paper fan with a solemn face, he has just returned from the Houshan Workshop District.

"Hundred households, three merchants in the back mountain, except for some craftsmen and guards, the deacon shopkeeper left, all followed Baodes and them to Gansu Town, and the shops there were left with a grocery store of the Tian family,"

"Perhaps, Baodes left in a hurry, and the price of food here here may rise in the future, after all, they will not give us a discount for the sake of Baodes's face like before,"

Food is an unavoidable hurdle for Shiguantun, and the stakes are very high, but Xiao Ye didn't look nervous, just raised his eyes to look at Wang Ziliang.

"The problem is not here, the grain on our mountain, half a month's stock is there, and after the next month, the autumn grain will come down, and the price of grain will not fluctuate much at that time, and most of the food that Baodes trades back is grain, be careful not to let the merchants see the strange is,"

"Liu Ren, what you need to worry about now is how long it will take for the news from Fuguilou to get to Tunli in the future," Xiao Ye lightly put down the book in his hand, and when his eyes wandered, most of the greenness on his face had faded; As he spoke, he pulled out a map with a frown.

This simple topographic map of Gansu Town, which was roughly drawn by my father-in-law from memory, plus the news from the merchants in the past year, was all drawn on the map, and Xiao Ye was regarded as a treasure.

The map was placed on the table, and Xiao Ye pointed to the beacon pier on it, "Let's Shiguantun to Gansu Town, four hundred miles in a straight line along the way, nearly six hundred miles along the avenue, and two thousand households have to pass through the boundary of two thousand households, plus the gravel fort, it is three, one fire pier every ten miles, I don't know what you think?" ”

"What do you mean?" Wang Ziliang looked at the map suspiciously, and his brain suddenly lit up, "The idea of the lighter?" ”

"Yes, no," Xiao Ye shook his head helplessly, "The military households in the tun, in addition to the craftsmen from Uncle Wang, there are only the elderly, women and children, and there are more than a dozen children, who are too young to send manpower,"

"However, those sergeants guarding the fire pier estimate that life is not very satisfactory," Xiao Ye took out a silver ingot from his bosom and gently placed it on the table, "Find their flag officer, give half of the salary, what we want is just the news of the hand,"

"For the stubborn, hehe, you know what to do, it's best to let those sergeants make a fuss and just transfer out," for fear that Wang Ziliang would get used to it, Xiao Ye specially instructed, "They are all military families, and they all have family members to take care of, so don't be stiff with tact,"

"My subordinates understand," Wang Ziliang nodded, took the slip from Xiao Ye, and went to find Mei'er to pay the money.

The seven fire piers under the jurisdiction of the Thousand Households of the Gravel Fort are Wang Ziliang's primary target, and those old military households who have nothing to do in the tun will have time to exert their residual heat, and it is not a problem to spend some copper coins and talk to the sergeants guarding the fire piers with their respective roundabouts.

Wang Ziliang went out, and before Xiao Ye could pick up the teacup, Xiao Liuzi hurriedly ran in, his face was very ugly.

"What's the matter, it's just a matter of harvesting flowers now, and it's not time to harvest the kernels, Hanjuan and their girls won't be so difficult," Xiao Ye looked at Xiao Liuzi with a smile, and now those women and girls on the mountain, almost everyone uses perfume, and that's not Hanjuan's credit.

Of course, as the little sixth son who came out to buy flowers, Han Juan, who was entangled to raise the price, was so frightened that she sometimes hid in hundreds of households.

"This, Baihu, it's not this thing," Seeing Xiao Ye's kind appearance, Xiao Liuzi didn't know what to say, hesitated for a moment, and stretched out his clenched fist, "Baihu, look,"

"Well, this, it's dice?" Xiao Ye suddenly saw the two dice, his eyes immediately turned cold, and he slapped the table, "Where did you find it?" ”

"It's those guys from the earth dog, hiding in the military house to make money, let me catch it, tie it up outside, and wait for the hundred households to deal with it," Xiao Liuzi lowered his head and said embarrassedly, the earth dog They are the sergeants of the pro-guard team, and now they have lost their faces.

As stipulated by other thousand households, gambling is prohibited in Shiguan Tunli, and non-commissioned officers are not allowed to drink alcohol during their duties; However, in other hundred households, when the sergeants still go home to rest, they can also go to the field to help the family do some farm work, but Shiguantun does not have such good things.

The sergeants in Shiguan Tunli are very similar to the standing army in Jingshi, there is no other livelihood at all, and the fields are here, which is a luxury dream.

The well-fed and warmly clothed sergeants, especially most of the sergeants who have not started a family, cannot vent their energy even if they train a lot of exercise; And became a sergeant of the family, Wang Dali's five small flags, basically arranged by Xiao Ye to Bailong Lake.

Xiao Ye, whose face changed, tilted his head and thought about it, took a piece of yellow straw paper on the table casually, and picked up the brush; Xiao Liuzi stepped forward with interest and grinded for 100 households.

Brush brush, Xiao Ye wrote in a decent manner, and wrote down eight military orders in a row, and then put down the brush; The little six sons beside him stared at it carefully, and were stunned for a while.

"Shiguantun Sergeant Dabi Reward Regulations,"

"One, Dabi once every two months, with the small flag team as a group, the winner will have priority in the supply of projectiles within two months, and the food and salary will be doubled for one month,"

"Second, the matchup exercise, regardless of the weapon, the terrain draw, the offensive and defensive exchanges, the winner of the three rounds, the loser apportions a number of silver to the winner, or the pulp laundry for ten years,"

"Three, a single soldier drill, a hundred steps of fire/gun shooting copper coins, a reward of 500, two rewards consistent, three rewards of 1,000, three times in the first half of the promotion, three times in the first priority to promote the acting flag officer, no longer participate in this exercise."

"Fourth, in a single soldier drill, those who hit the copper coin with a 50-step revolver fire/gun will be rewarded with 500 money once, rewarded with consistent money twice, rewarded 1,005 money three times, and those who are hit three times in a row will be given priority to be promoted to acting flag officer and will no longer participate in this exercise."

"Fifth, a single soldier drill, 50 steps of earth-shaking thunder throwing, 150 rifle grenade shooting, the target winner will be rewarded with 500 at a time, the reward will be consistent twice, and the reward will be 1500 for three times, and those who are hit three times in a row will be given priority to be promoted to acting flag officers and will no longer participate in this exercise."

"Sixth, those who have made significant contributions will be rewarded separately and given priority to the promotion of acting flag officers,"

"Seventh, within the specified time, use geotechnical bullets and military shovels to dig trench bunkers, and the flag team will negotiate on their own, and those who are excellent will be rewarded with five hundred dollars, and those who lose will be fined five hundred dollars."

"Eight, 100 households judge the above items."

Since you want to win money, then win on the bright side, let others be convinced, Xiao Ye doesn't care about paying more money, what kind of ability is it to play dice.

The military orders are permeated with Xiao Ye's experience of studying during this time, and it is also a path for his sergeants to be promoted more fairly.

"First of all, the individual drill is conducted once every two months, and each flag team selects at most two people to participate, and the small flags are notified to keep it strictly confidential," Xiao Ye blew the ink on the paper, and solemnly instructed that although these eight military orders can increase the combat readiness of the sergeants, they are beyond the top.

Drill Dabi, this kind of rhetoric can only be issued by the health center, or the kind of autumn exercise once a year, and the local officials and brocade guards are supervising; A hundred households, unexpectedly made a big competition once every two months, what do you want to do? If someone with a heart sues him, it may not be impossible for Xiao Ye to lose his head.

"Then, the Huang Dynasty General Banner can also send people to participate?" Xiao Liuzi began to jump up, constantly thinking in his heart.

"Of course, according to the flag team, as long as it is the official's subordinates, they are eligible to participate," Xiao Ye's affirmative tone made Xiao Liuzi excitedly grab the military order, turn around and run out; Before his feet stepped out of the door, Hyakhe leisurely caught up with a sentence that made him almost trip over the threshold.

"Those boys of the earth dog, go to the quarry and mill to help for a month, and the salary will be deducted for one month," Xiao Ye still doesn't want to use corporal punishment for his own sergeant, so he just treats it as a free laborer.

When Shiguantun and Bailonghu set off a boom in military training, in the town of Gansu, at the corner of the street in the southeast market, a three-story restaurant with a plaque became the foothold of Baodes.

The restaurant on the street was originally an industry of the Huang family, in order to cater to the Baodes shops stationed in Gansu Town, the Huang family has invested a lot of money, of course, other merchants who want to insert a foot in the restaurant have to discuss with the Huang family.

The three-storey wooden building with the plaque of Fuguilou is hung, and the lower floor is used as a tea house for guests and merchants who come to shop to rest and communicate, and also provide meals and are open to the public every day.

The second floor is the shop trading point, some like the wholesaler's office area, the Huang family divided it into four pieces, they occupied one, the other three, after selling to Tian and Wang, the remaining one, it depends on the price between Fan, Wang, Jin, Wang, Liang and Zhai.

The network forces of the five merchants of Fan, Wang, Jin, Wang, Liang, and Zhai are in the northeast, southwest, and the interior, which is the master of the stomping earthquake, but here there is no way to compete with the three local snakes.

On the whole, in fact, the Huang family not only did not lose, but gained considerable returns from it, the most important thing is to strengthen the alliance between the Hotan and Wang families, and by the way, they befriended Baodes, who was not familiar with life.

The third floor, where the Persian shops are located, hangs high, and cannot be connected to the ground, and other merchants of all sizes cannot go here at all, and the wisdom of the merchants of the family is really cunning.

In the empty pavilion on the third floor, surrounded by calligraphy and paintings, there is a circle of mahogany chairs in the middle, and a huge round wooden table is around, which is explained by Bao Deste.

The chrysanthemum bonsai placed in the four corners is a rare thing sent by the merchant, but there is no wooden cabinet and wooden frame used to place the goods.

The three merchants have already discussed, Baodes is here, that is a general wholesaler, the trouble of retail, it is better to avoid the trouble, their shops here are enough in the city. They still have a way to control upstream prices.

If Bauders insists on starting his own retail business, then everyone should not do the unique business in Gansu Town, and the ending is basically a one-shot affair, and the merchants who can't eat meat will launch a ruthless attack, and the bloody disaster will not fall on anyone.

One hot afternoon, Baudes rode in a carriage and his relatives to the town of Gansu, and the twenty red-haired sergeants with short guns and thunderbolts also arrived with the team.

Gansu Town is an important military town, with county officials and guards commanding envoys. In the Ming Dynasty, the "guard system" was implemented, with many prefectures (counties) set up guards (5,600 people), 1,000 households (1,200 people) under the guard, and 100 households (100 people) under the 1,000 households.

After settling down those relatives who spoke Latin, Baodes didn't care about resting, and under the guidance of Huang Changzu and Tian Guangwen, he visited the magistrate and the county with heavy gifts, and the master also gave a red envelope.

If you take care of the yamen, the merchant roster will be easy to handle, and with a temporary household registration, Baodes can gain a foothold in Gansu Town; After this necessary scene has passed, Huang Changzu, who has a license plate and paperwork, will send someone to deal with it.

Next, I went to the Wei Command Envoy to meet the Commander Huang Bingbiao, a red envelope of thousands of silver tickets, plus a new pocket watch, which was enough to make Commander Huang smile, not to mention, there was also a guide made by his own juniors. As for the other officers, with Huang Changzu's hint, Baodes ignored them very blindly.

Of course, Jinyi Wei Baihu, Baodes also went to send the same heavy gift, and there was no way to feel distressed; In exchange, it was just a greeting from Gou Liangchen, who was smiling and not smiling, and the main party and hundreds of households did not show up at all.

In the afternoon, in a restaurant on the south street of the city, Huang Changzu set up a banquet and invited Baodes who came from afar.

At the banquet, there was an expressionless sergeant in the corner of his eyes, Badus didn't dare to drink more, he now knew that he was suffering, but his relatives were in captivity, if he made a mistake, he couldn't keep the scholar to threaten again.

Next time, next time I must go to the village chief, I will go back to be a pure officer, at least I can sleep peacefully, Bowdes spoke in a strange tone, entertaining these merchants in silk and jade, while secretly thinking about his thoughts.

Originally, Buldes, who was assigned to Lena as a guard officer by the village chief of Ola, was actually just used to decorate the façade, but now Lena and Mei'er have been messing around all day, and even the knives and forks for eating have been given up, and they have learned to use chopsticks instead.

After the banquet, on the second floor of the Fugui Building, Baodes took out a piece of paper to the merchants who were sitting in a circle, which was marked with the amount of goods in his "shop" in the second half of the year, which was discussed by Xiao Ye and Mei'er, Wang Ziliang, and Wang Dali, and of course there was also the suggestion of his father-in-law.

In the list in his hand, the yellow plaster is not among them, it is the bag of the three merchants in the northwest, and the other merchants want to get a piece of the pie, so they have to wait for the next opportunity to buy the B stone mill.

Of course, the first commodity on the catalogue is the dominant B-shaped stone mill, and the selling price of Baodes is 100,000 taels of silver, which is twice as expensive as before.

100,000 taels of silver is enough for a year's tax in Gansu Town, and ordinary merchants don't have the courage to buy a stone mill.

Naturally, the recipe and the advice of the stone are still in the hands of the seller.

For the next twelve commodities, Baodes only proposed a first-hand selling price, the quantity was limited, and the quota in it was basically divided by the merchants present, and the handshake exchange after the period was a matter between merchants.

In this kind of scene, the big businessmen did not speak, and the others naturally remained silent in tacit understanding, but it made Bauddes secretly frightened, and the bearing of the Ming people was too steady.

In addition to the three major merchants, what made other merchants the most tempted was the large amount of purchase intentions that Bauders subsequently came up with, grain, green salt, tea, wine, iron pots and shovels, silk cloth, etc., and even needles and threads, all of which were ordinary materials, basically the amount of goods traded in thousands of taels per month, which suddenly made the attic chaotic.

With such a safe trade route, where do you have to go to the grassland to take risks to ask for profits, I don't see that people's bids are a little higher than the market price, the road fee is calculated separately, plus the settlement of inspection and payment, there is basically no risk.

In fact, Xiao Ye's establishment of the Fugui Building in Gansu Town is also the idea of opening up the business road in Haixi Village, of course, there must be goods that can be sold, and the key is not to be too eye-catching; Other businessmen think that Lu Yuan is risky, and if he pulls out two hundred-person escorts, it shouldn't be a big problem to protect himself.

Huang Changzu, Tian Guangcheng, and Wang Xiliang, the three businessmen, saw that the chaos in the hall was a little out of control, and couldn't help frowning, and after looking at each other a few times, Tian Guangcheng got up and coughed a few times under the nod of the two, and saw that no one paid attention to him, so he had to say loudly.

"Everyone, everyone, everyone is quiet, what kind of noisy and noisy Cheng," the voices around gradually became smaller, and Tian Guangcheng snorted at this time, "Don't let the guests see our jokes,"

Seeing that the Baodes sitting at the round table had no different colors, Tian Guangcheng eased his expression, "The purchase of Fuguilou in the town is a great thing for our merchants, so my brother and I discussed with Huang and Wang to set up a chamber of commerce, and each family will share in dividends and supply goods to Fuguilou in a unified manner."

Gansu town has a county, but it is a military place, known as one of the important towns on the nine sides, and the people are still commonly known as the town, and it is also a large commodity distribution center.

The white stunned paper transaction between the Tian family and Xiao Ye is still carried out in secret, otherwise the Tian family's shop in Shiguantun and the grocery store in the back mountain would have been removed.

Although Tian Guangcheng was happy, the Persians obviously trusted a hundred households, which still stimulated the second principal of this family.

Therefore, today he is strongly advocating that the supply of goods must be done well, and the price must not be too high, otherwise it will be difficult to do the rest of the matter.

In fact, the establishment of a chamber of commerce similar to that of the southern maritime merchants has been discussed several times in the three families of Huang, Wang, and Tian, and they are waiting for the opportunity to announce it.

As a result, a chamber of commerce model that had a great influence on the northwest region was premeditated before the opening of Fuguilou, with stable profits and a good thing for the government to pay taxes in the future.

How these merchants set up a chamber of commerce, Bauddes doesn't care, what he cares about is the materials he buys back, the price should not be high, the quality must not be bad, otherwise he will suffer a loss.

Before leaving, Xiao Ye sent Wang Dali to see him off, and when he saw him off, he specially explained that the goods sold in Fuguilou in the future would give him one percent of the water to support him and his family's life, and the remaining one percent would let him make contacts; And if there is something similar to bad grain in the goods he bought, he will have to pay for it.

I don't know how much profit there is, so I accepted the task with a bitter face, and sold a stone mill for 100,000 taels, so I was crazy.

In particular, it was even more bitter for him to let him communicate with all parties, from officials and officers, down to the common people, and tell the intelligence information he had collected to the flag officer who guarded him, because he knew that the fate of spies in any country at any time was definitely not good.

However, the purchase list that Huang Changzu handed over to Baodes made this Haixi officer, who was a little drowsy and began to get rich, suddenly widened his eyes, seven kinds of civilian goods, simply as many as he wanted, and the number was not limited.

And the other list in Bauders's arms, he didn't have time to take it out in a hurry, this is a sensitive goods to be negotiated with the three major merchants alone, and must be sold to merchants with strong backgrounds/scenes.

"Baodes, our Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce will do our best to help you purchase the goods you need, although the price is assured, there will be no defective products," Huang Changzu, who was unexpectedly promoted to the president of the Chamber of Commerce, shook a silk fan with a sincere look.

The two vice presidents next to him, Wang Xiliang and Tian Guangcheng, also had frank looks; Other merchants sat on the side and waited to take their share.

"Well, the Chamber of Commerce is with us, and it has a long history, but it is the Olive Oil Chamber of Commerce," Baudes, who was dressed in a long robe, said with a smile, "Since you also have a Chamber of Commerce, then the matter of large transactions in the future, please, but it saves me a lot of trouble,"

Badus, who was anxiously calculating how much oil and water he could get, roughly calculated, and his spirit also rose, "However, our goods cannot be owed on credit, after all, there are still many clansmen waiting to eat,"

"That's, that's," Huang Changzu and the three responded with smiles, and the other merchants were also fake faces that life was not easy, and the atmosphere in the attic was peaceful.

After resting for a night, the next day, Baodes sent someone to invite Huang Changzu, and after a moment of greeting between the two sides, he took out the list of only a few lines, "Young Master Huang, this is the firearm we can provide, place an order in a hurry, in the afternoon I will send a messenger to Shiguantun, and go there to the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, our tribe is two months from here, and we can't afford to delay it,"

On the one hand, he confuses these merchants and prevents them from going down the vine, and on the other hand, he gives hundreds of households a certain amount of time to maneuver.

Huang Changzu, who was wearing an eight-petal melon skin hat inlaid with jade, took the list with a smile, glanced at it casually, folded it and put it in his sleeve pocket; Today, Baodes was the first to invite him, and the face was enough, and it seemed that the people of this foreign country could still see the situation clearly.

"Brother Boudus, little brother, since I am valued by you, then there is no ambiguity, a hundred binoculars, fire/guns, and revolver fires/guns each, and the rest of the chambers of commerce will be determined," between words, he still didn't pay much attention to these things.

Seeing that Baodes looked at him suspiciously, Huang Changzu laughed, "Actually, my Ming firearms are not worse than yours, and the revolver fire/gun Huang Family Workshop can build it, but the range is a little worse, so it's okay,"

The difference between the firing range of 50 steps and 30 steps, Huang Changzu, who is not familiar with military affairs, does not care very much, and the rear-loading gun that can shoot quickly, there are still two acquaintances who trust him, and he only asked for a hundred, the price is really expensive, and a large amount of trafficking may be smashed in his own hands.

For Ximen Xiao Ye, who is far away in Shiguantun, the third brother who temporarily wants to worship, Huang Changzu is very busy, how can he have time to go to the wilderness.

After laughing and finishing his business, Huang Changzu invited Baodes to go to the hook bar on the side of the lotus pond to have fun, watch the scenery, listen to music and drink, and by the way, enjoy the so-called top brand posture, which will become part of Baodes's work in the future.

His relatives performed their duties in the rich building, and gradually got involved with some merchants, and they got acquainted with each other first. Before the quiet opening of Fuguilou, a large amount of business has been finalized, and it is waiting for the delivery fleet.

With the guarantee of the newly established Chamber of Commerce, a team of red-haired sergeants escorted more than a dozen wagons of grain and green salt, and soon hit the road two days later, and some books and vegetable seeds sent by Tian Guangcheng were also taken away.