When she arrived at the door of Guo Jia's mansion, Diao Chan took the lead in beckoning more than a dozen maidservants who came with her to enter the mansion, and immediately integrated into the role of the housekeeper again.

At the same time, Zhang Xu also ordered the subordinates who came with him to get busy.

Seeing the Zhang family carrying the Eight Immortals table, back chairs, screens, rockery potted plants, etc., to the house, Guo Jia couldn't cry or laugh.

"Brother Zhang, what is this?"

Zhang Xu smiled indifferently and said, "Some vulgar things, don't shirk it." I also want to thank you for your care over the years, and I don't dare to say that I will repay the favor, so I can count it as a little heart. ”

Guo Jia led the army to attack Chang'an, and his life was natural and simple, but Zhen Yu and Zhang Xu came to Chang'an, but they brought a lot of home furnishings.

has already understood Guo Jia's preferences thoroughly, and Zhang Xu, these Yizhou wealthy families, want to curry favor with Guo Jia, and they must have a chance.

Sending a beautiful woman? They couldn't find a more beautiful woman than Guo Jia's wife and concubine.

Sending gold and silver? Too cliché will fall into inferiority.

However, this trip to Chang'an, by the way, brought Guo Jia some furniture and utensils that can be more comfortable in daily life, which is just right.

As Zhang Xu said, these are all insignificant gifts, which are a drop in the bucket for the wealthy family in Yizhou, but they can express their intentions, such a gift is really a thorough figure out for Guo Jia.

Businessmen have a much better sense of smell than ordinary people to capture business opportunities, Guo Jia just laid down the Guanzhong, the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce was alive, and couldn't wait to let Zhang Xu and Zhen Yu come to Chang'an as representatives to explore Guo Jia's tone, Diao Chan is also nominally a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, but in fact Zhen Jiang and Cai Yan were sent to serve Guo Jia's life.

The three of them came to the main hall of the house, the host and guest were seated, Diao Chan went to the backyard to arrange trivial matters and did not show up again, with Guo Jia here, she naturally did not need to come forward.

"The two of you came to Chang'an must not be for a tour of the mountains and rivers, right? It's important to get down to business, so let's get straight to the point. ”

Guo Jia is busy with official business, the three of them are people with a clear heart, they have dealt with each other in the past, and they know each other's style of acting.

Zhen Yu and Zhang Xu glanced at each other, with a smile in their eyes, and Zhang Xu really spoke bluntly without scruples.

"To tell you the truth, the Chamber of Commerce, please ask Brother Zhen as a representative to ask the envoy, can they buy the land in Guanzhong from the government?"

Land is a long-term benefit, no matter how many handicraft workshops a merchant has, or how large a silk weaving production point is, land is the most secure family business, and the more land there is, the more secure the livelihood of future generations.

The wealthy family in Yizhou is not short of money and grain now, and if Guo Jia says that he will exchange money and grain for land, even if the price is higher, they are willing.

Private ownership of land has been recognized, and the purchase and sale of land is also allowed by the government, and the small and medium-sized landlords in the late Eastern Han Dynasty have wantonly annexed land, mostly because of the collusion between officials and businessmen, and the wealthy clans of the scholars and clans have squeezed the people together, Yizhou under the rule of Guo Jia, in the early days of the implementation of Tuntian, said that he would never increase the tax, and later lowered the tax of one into a field, although it is not as good as the fifteen taxes in the early Han Dynasty and almost no burden, but compared with other places, the people have been very satisfied and enjoy such a policy, The people, who regard land as their lifeblood, will naturally not sell land to wealthy families.

The land resources of Yizhou, the wealthy families dare not make up their minds, there is a way to make money, there is no need to kill themselves, now Guanzhong is in the pocket of Guo Jia, and the wealthy families of Yizhou want to come to get a piece of the pie, which is caused by human nature and greed.

"Guanzhong was initially decided, a hundred wastes to be rebuilt, about the abandoned thousands of miles of fertile land here, I have discussed with the officials, first of all, to commend the Taiping soldiers, and secondly, to recall those Guanzhong people who have fled to other countries to return to their homeland, in the first few years of stability, I do not plan to sell these lands, but if the Guanzhong people who fled to Yizhou migrate back to Guanzhong, the land they left in Yizhou can be sold according to the situation, and the specific matters, the Chamber of Commerce and the officials of the Yizhou government have to negotiate in detail."

Guo Jiakou is mild, although he and the Yizhou Hao clan used to be on the same page, but now it is different from the past, even if they have the idea of fighting the land in Guanzhong, Zhang Xu and Zhen Yu are just representatives, Guo Jia and them do not need to fight-for-tat, sabre-rattling.

Interests are interests, and who doesn't want to share a piece of the cake in front of them?

Zhang Xu and Zhen Yu did not change their faces as if they had already foreseen, the land in Guanzhong is mouth-watering, but from the overall strategy, they still have to serve Guo Jia, and speed up the people to move back to Guanzhong to resume production, which is to lay the foundation for Guo Jia's next strategy.

To win the hearts of the people and attract more people to Guo Jia's territory to live and work in peace and contentment, Guo Jia's first consideration is actually his own interests, so the Yizhou wealthy family still has to be ranked behind.

Fight with whomever you want, and don't fight with a ruler who rules life and death.

However, in addition to the land resources in Guanzhong, the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce was still profitable, and Guo Jia expanded his territory and opened up a business route for them.

"Envoy, dare to ask, if the Chamber of Commerce wants to go to Liangzhou, Hebei and the Central Plains to do business, can Envoy Jun provide a guarantee?"

Zhang Xu then asked.

Yizhou's brocade industry is very developed, the name of Chengdu Jincheng also comes from this, plus silk reeling, silk weaving, boiling salt, iron smelting, weapons, gold and silverware, lacquerware and other handicrafts are prosperous, Yizhou Chamber of Commerce wants to sell stronger and bigger, there is no shortage of goods, but the lack of sales channels.

When Chang'an and Luoyang were no longer prosperous, Lintao was poisoned by the war in the western part of the country, Handan was decayed in the war in the Central Plains, and Wancheng was cut off by Zhang Xiu and cut off contacts, and only Chengdu was left in the six metropolises.

During this period, the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce was proud of the capital, even if Chengdu was located in a remote corner, the prosperity was difficult to match with other cities.

"Recently, there was news from Liangzhou, after Ma Teng and Han Sui returned to their territories, many leaders of the Qianghu tribe launched a rebellion, and the boundary west of Fufeng was still not going to the Chamber of Commerce for the time being, and even if Ma Teng and Han Sui survived this difficult period, they would have to rapidly expand their troops and horses, and Liangzhou would have little benefit."

Guo Jia, who was in a very stable state of mind, did not gloat, he had already foreseen this situation, the Qianghu tribe was not terrible, each of their leaders had hundreds of soldiers and horses, and there were thousands of people, only when they were all condensed, there was a real threat.

It is normal for someone to rebel, Ma Teng and Han Sui returned to Liangzhou with poor soldiers and horses, and if the unruly Qianghu people still obey them, there will be problems.

However, these are just small setbacks, Guo Jia firmly believes that Han Sui, who has rebelled all his life, and Ma Teng, who has many fierce generals, can tide over the difficulties.

This news was unexpected by Zhang Xu and Zhen Yu, they only knew that Guo Jia and Ma Teng Han Sui formed an alliance to exterminate Li Dao and Guo Yan, as for Guo Jia's military deployment and strategic planning, they didn't know or understand.

In the past, the Chamber of Commerce went to Liangzhou to buy war horses for Guo Jia and buy some novel handicrafts to resell to others, but now it seems that the business route in Liangzhou is not only broken, but it is more likely to go there to do business and have a life.

"Fengxiao, can we only wait for Liangzhou to stabilize before the Chamber of Commerce can go to Liangzhou again?" Zhen Yu frowned slightly, cutting off his financial route, which was very painful for the businessman.

In this regard, Guo Jia shook his head solemnly, looked back and forth at the two, and asked: "Even if Han Sui and Ma Teng suppressed the rebellion and the situation west of Fufeng was peaceful, what did Han Sui and Ma Teng need at that time?" ”

Zhen Yu blurted out: "Grain and grass, weapons, war horses, as long as it is war materials, they all need them." ”

Guo Jia asked rhetorically: "Can the grain and weapons in Yizhou be sold to them?" ”

Zhen Yu and Zhang Xu were shocked, and some understood.

In the past, Guo Jia asked the Chamber of Commerce to go to Liangzhou, because Guo Jia wanted war horses, so he allowed the Chamber of Commerce to sell the grain purchased from the people to Liangzhou, and now, let alone Liangzhou, even Guo Jia has to make careful calculations and accumulate grain.

Not to mention weapons, the developed iron-smelting industry does not mean that merchants can buy and sell weapons at will, these are controlled by Yizhou Mansion.

As for goods such as silk weaving, gold and silver, Yizhou merchants may not want them to take them to Liangzhou, and they don't want to buy war horses from Liangzhou.

Han Sui and Ma Teng's Xiliang Iron Cavalry suffered heavy losses, and their numbers dropped sharply, and this return to the northwest will definitely strictly control the outflow of war horses.

Commercial trading is about revenue and expenditure, Yizhou Chamber of Commerce wants to sell goods in Liangzhou, except for food and weapons, nothing else can be sold, want to buy goods in Liangzhou, the most wanted war horses can not get, so Guo Jia said that Liangzhou can make little profit.

The trade routes to the west were cut off, and there was also the east.

Zhen Yu asked tentatively: "Fengxiao, Hebei and Central Plains, do you think the Chamber of Commerce can deal with them?" ”

Zhang Xu also looked at Guo Jia nervously, from the overall situation, the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce belongs to Guo Jia, and Hebei and the Central Plains are the territory of Yuan Shao and Cao Ying, whether the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce can open the financial road in the east, in fact, it depends on the relationship between Guo Jia and Yuan Shao and Cao Ying.

"Although the Son of Heaven has moved the capital to Xuchang, he can not hide it from the two, the Central Plains is still Cao Ying's master, and the decrees of various places are all from him. Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Central Plains, the war has been torn apart, and now Cao Ying has unified Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and in the past two years, he has implemented Tuntian, recuperation, but Yanzhou Yuzhou is not wide, coupled with occasional foreign enemies to harass, Cao Ying's territory, can not afford to raise more than 100,000 troops, but he still has 100,000 armor, which is also because he stands in the Central Plains, under the confrontation of strong enemies, forced to last resort. In order to feed these soldiers and horses, Cao Ying did everything he could to loot military supplies, gold and silver, and the Yizhou caravan went to the Central Plains at this time, I am afraid that it would be a sheep into the mouth of a tiger. ”

Guo Jia did not officially state whether his relationship with the Kwantung princes was friend or foe, but the viable surname of the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce for commercial dealings with the Central Plains was determined by the Central Plains environment.

Cao Ying lived a hard life in the early stage, so Cao Ying desperately wanted to conquer Xuzhou.

In such an environment, the Central Plains is actually like a slum, and if the Yizhou caravan goes, I am afraid that it will be used by Cao Ying to rob the rich and help the poor.

Zhang Xu looked embarrassed, and asked bitterly: "Envoy, if this is the case, Yuan Shao north of the Yellow River may not have any dealings with the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce. ”

On the surface, this is indeed the case, but Guo Jia smiled slightly: "This is wrong. ”

(To be continued)