Qian Duoduo had always wanted to go home when his wife and children didn't come, but now he has concerns about going back.

One is that he himself has not been heard from for a long time, and he needs a good explanation. But this matter is very easy, as long as it is Quan Zhihuan of the river meander, they provide Qian Duoduo with an insurance, it doesn't matter much, and they don't have to compensate for the losses they suffer.

Those who used to follow Qian Duoduo to drive sheep, or the poor people who couldn't eat, now have food to eat, and follow Li Guo with all their hearts. Or bent on running, Li killed them too early. Therefore, the news of Qian Duoduo's defection to Li Guo was not leaked. Now that you have insurance, that's not a problem.

But second, the sheep with a lot of money were robbed, and now they are blankly holding 100,000 taels of silver to open a store to do business, which can't help but make people suspicious.

Li Guo thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I also want to go on a business route with you, if I can't come forward, be a proprietor, and you will be the big shopkeeper, won't I pretend to hire you when the time comes?" ”

But the third point seems to be a bit difficult to do, and the money is a bit of a stumbling one.

"Oh, I said old money, if there is something to say directly, everyone will come up with a solution." Li Guo complained.

Qian Duoduo scratched his head, "I mean, we may not be able to make money at first?" ”

"Tell me, why can't you make money?" Li Guomeng heard that he couldn't make money, so he couldn't wait to kick Qian Duoduo away.

"It's not that you can't earn it, it's that you earn very little."

"Oh? How so? Li Guo then asked

Qian Duoduo explained that the transactions inside and outside the Great Wall in the late Ming Dynasty were mainly in Zhangjiakou. Zhangjiakou's business is controlled by those big merchants, that is, the so-called Jin merchants and Shanxi eight families.

The Eight Great Families of Shanxi were the largest merchants in the north at that time, and they controlled most of the trade with the Manchurian army, as well as the vast majority of the trade with Mongolia in Chahar, or Zhangjiakou.

The "Eight Great Families" of the Jin merchants manipulated the trade activities in Zhangjiakou. These "eight masters" are Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Ying, Huang Yunlong, and Fan Yongdong. Among them, Fan Yongdong's strength is the largest.

Their pouting is not accidental, it has some historical origins.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongol tribes plundered the Ming Dynasty in order to obtain more wealth and daily necessities. Since the Longqing period, the Ming Dynasty reached a peace agreement with the Saiwai tribes, and the Ming Dynasty began to trade with the Saiwai tribes. Of course, there are naturally small-scale conflicts.

With their shrewd business acumen, the eight families in Shanxi seized business opportunities, and in the Chongzhen period, they actually had a huge amount of money.

Because of the money, they have been monopolizing almost most of the business.

First of all, in terms of supply, all kinds of materials transported by the southern merchants, such as cloth, grain, porcelain for daily use, etc., as well as horses outside the Saiwai, timber, ginseng, etc., were mostly received by the eight major families in Shanxi. Traders with poor strength can only buy goods in the hands of the eight families, earn some price difference, and the profit will be lower. Not only are the scattered small traders hard, but their gains are even more meager.

Then there was the trade route, each of the eight families had its own caravan, and the caravan depended on the amount of property, and although the number of guards was different, it was not particularly large. Because they had the support of the most powerful Houjin, the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, outside the Saiwai, the caravan of the Eight Great Families was safe.

But what about old money? Although it is said that the business road is quite peaceful, there is no shortage of guards. It's not as good as the eight families who have the support of the Houjin, and when the time comes, it will be bad to meet a fierce person like Li Guo, or a business opponent who is intent on snatching.

There are many other things such as renting a shop, selling and so on, but you can get it with a lot of money. Therefore, Qian Duoduo is well-connected, but at the beginning, the difficulties of setting up his own door can be imagined.

After listening to Qian Duoduo's introduction, Li Guo understood that business was not so easy to do. Money is hard to earn, is hard to eat, that's the truth.

"Haha, old money, are you worried about making less money, I'll kick you, right?" Li Guo smiled. "I sue you for your old money, as long as you do your best, don't say you make less money, even if you lose everything! Big deal, start all over again! ”

Qian Duoduo also smiled, "Master Hu, you look down on my ability too much, although I may not make a lot of money in business now, but I think it is okay to earn twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver a year." ”

"Can you earn 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year? Isn't that a lot? Li Guo is still very happy.

"But I'm still far from you?" Qian Duoduo lowered his head and said modestly.

"Compare me?" Li Guo was confused.

"Yes! Haven't you gained a lot every time you go to grab these days? Qian Duoduo secretly glanced at Li Guo.

This shit, then I'm looking for fun, Li Guo was about to be angry, and suddenly thought of something.

Li Guo glared at Qian Duoduo, "Don't talk nonsense, just now you said about the eight families in Shanxi, how are they?" Didn't you say that they hooked up with the Manchurians of Houjin? ”

"Not bad! The eight families colluded with Hou Jin, especially Liang Yongdong. "Lao Qian said to Li Guo, "Actually, to say a word of conscience, I am not low in Liang Yongdong, if I didn't know that Liang Yongdong revealed the military information to Houjin Manren, I would have been working for him." Qian Duoduo talked about a few things, all of which were about Liang Yongdong revealing important military information to Houjin.

Li Guo nodded, no wonder, later generations evaluated Liang Yongdong and the eight of them, most of them had a derogatory connotation, it turned out that they were really like this.

Think about it, the Later Jin Qingbing entered the customs and robbed several times, why didn't they rob the wealthy Zhangjiakou? It's not far away. In addition, later, the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, why did he appoint these people as imperial merchants, especially Fan Yongdou to preside over trade affairs, and "give Zhangjiakou as the world's industry". This is not for nothing.

Therefore, although merchants are profitable, it is not appropriate to do business with enemy countries. If the United States bombs one Lac, but the businessmen of the United States do business with One Rak and sell hundreds of air defense systems for one Rak, then what will it do? It was originally wrong for the eight families to sell the pig iron to Houjin to make weapons, or to sell their other military supplies, or to lend them military salaries to Houjin, but there is still a trace of truth in the pursuit of profit by merchants. But if you betray the country's intelligence, it will be an unforgivable sin.

"I see." Li Guo said absentmindedly.

I just heard that Qian Duoduo can have an annual income of 20,000 yuan, and Li Guo can maintain the current situation for the time being. Now Li Guo's elite soldiers are three dollars of silver a month, and if the soldiers' salary expenses are calculated alone, they can raise about 6,000 soldiers a year. The rest didn't cost much, the food was now plentiful, and the soldiers had enough to eat, which was good. In the future, when the business is on the right track, it will definitely earn more.

But Li Guo still needs to develop, this money alone is not enough, or slow! In the future, there will be no chance of robbery, and there will be no more large quantities of silver, so will it be slowly boiled like this?

Although it is now the fourth year of Chongzhen, there are still more than ten years of effort before the Qing army entered the customs in history, but it cannot develop by leaps and bounds, and when the time comes, the two counties of Hequfu Valley can defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Can you compete in the Central Plains? Li Guo himself didn't believe it.

Therefore, Li Guo asked Qian Duoduo "How much money is Liang Yongdong"

"Why not much? That's the leader of the Eight Families! Old Qian pouted.

Li Guo disagreed, "Okay, we robbed the bandits this year, there are no more bandits in Fugu and Hequ, and we want to cross the border to occupy the territory?" No, it's too risky. But we can rob the bandit after we finish robbing him! ”

"Robbing whom?"

"Liang Yongdong!"

"However, this is impossible, Liang Yongdong's strength, do you know Master Tiger? It's so far away from Zhangjiakou, and our people can't reach it! Let's talk ・・・・・・ again. ”

Li Guo waved his hand, signaling the excited Qian Duoduo not to speak, and then opened his mouth and said with a smile, "For such a big prey, we are not in a hurry, we have to grab it slowly!" ”

The grinning mouth shows white tiger teeth, like a man-eating tiger!