Chapter 280: Thunder and Rain

Xingyang is east of Hugao Pass in Bishui, north of Fuxi Mountain in the eastern section of Songshan Mountain Range, and south of Guangwu Mountain at the boundary of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.

It has always been an important place for soldiers, there is a chasm in the east of Xingyang to connect the Huai River and Surabaya, the north is adjacent to the Yellow River in the north of the Pishan Mountain, the south is adjacent to the Songshan of the Suohe River, and the west is connected to Luoyang and Chang'an through the Tiger Prison, the terrain is dangerous, the transportation is convenient, and the successive dynasties are the important places of state governance. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xingyang County was placed in the North Henan Prefecture Department in the Tiger Prison, and after the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Qi, the Northern Yu Prefecture was changed to Xingzhou, and after the establishment of the Great Sui, Yang Jian, the Son of Heaven, changed Xingzhou to Zhengzhou again, under the jurisdiction of Xingyang and other counties, and the state capital was still located in Chenggao Tiger Prison. In this vast area, the land is fertile, the products are abundant, the people are outstanding, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and there are dangerous passes such as Xingyang Pass and Tiger Prison Pass, and there are famous mountains and valleys such as Guangwu Mountain and Gap.

Only in the future, when Li Shimin defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000 Xia army here, and won a decisive victory in the Central Plains in one fell swoop, Li Tang won a three-hundred-year foundation, the Tiger Prison Pass was renamed Wujiao because of the name of Li Yuan's grandfather Li Hu.

As the eastern gateway and important pass of Luoyang, it was named after King Mu of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is connected to Songyue in the south, the Yellow River in the north, and the mountains are staggered, which is a natural danger. There is a trend of "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are not open", and it is a place for soldiers of all dynasties.

When the tiger prison was closed, Yi Feng accompanied Yang Guang to climb high and look into the distance, and they all sighed for the danger of this Xiongguan.

Because of Yi Feng's statement when he was in Daihai Temple, coupled with the thousands of war horses that Yi Feng provided to Yangzhou, and the promise of a follow-up agreement to exchange tea for ordnance war horses, coupled with Yi Feng's current blatant turn against the King of Han, Yang Guang finally increased his power greatly. The bastard whose strength should not be underestimated is completely relieved. Although he was still a little wary in his heart, he was no longer as suspicious as before. He stood on the gate and looked at the mountains and rivers in front of the gate for a long time. When he turned his face again, the expression became more familiar and affectionate.

He stood on the castle tower, his hand caressing the battlements, and let Yi Feng continue to talk about cooperation.

Now, he seemed to have completely forgotten his previous suspicion of Yi Feng, showing his incomparable trust and closeness to this son. He kept interrupting Yi Feng and interjecting a sentence or two in between. From time to time, I nodded my head a few times and praised a few words. Finally, he casually took the piece of letter that Yi Feng had handed him earlier. After playing with it for a while, he smiled slightly: "These ideas of yours are really good, if you want to achieve great things, you have to win over more people." Only by allowing more people to follow us and share the benefits. That's when they really stand with us. Listening to what you did in Huaihuang really touched me a lot. The fact that you can build such a force in such a short period of time is greatly beyond my previous expectations. But when you listen carefully, you will know the hardships involved. You united Henan, Hebei and even Yanshan Green Forest, and even the old Qi Gao clan and Xi Fei Khitan Sanfan, plus those merchants from all over the country, with profit as a link, pulling everyone to make a fortune together, and finally got this force. It's not easy. The green tea you made earlier is really good, and this is the first year. But hundreds of thousands of dollars of profits have been made. If you can bring more Jianghuai businessmen over and work together to make the trade of this tea bigger, according to what you said, in addition to green tea, black tea, loose tea, but also group tea. In addition to tea, we also do business, such as grain, salt, wine, and even porcelain and medicinal materials, as well as maritime trade, so that everyone can get rich together, which is really good. ”

Yi Feng's plan is indeed good, he did not refuse Yang Guang's demand for war horses and ordnance, let alone disobey him. But he did not simply agree to Yang Guang's needs, but proposed a more complex cooperation plan. This plan is not only to trade tea and horses, but also to carry out wine, sugar, porcelain, grain, medicinal materials, silk and other aspects of cooperation, in a word, not only with Yang Guang, but also to cooperate with Yang Guang and the Huaihuang merchants represented by Yi Feng, all aspects of cooperation, everyone to make a fortune together. Yi Feng wrote in black and white on Yang Guang's plan that if the cooperation between the two sides is successful, Yang Guang will be able to get at least five million yuan in it every year. Five million guan is a lot of money even for the imperial court, let alone for Yang Guang, who is in urgent need of money at the moment. Of course, this cooperation is also very profitable for Yi Feng of Tiyì. Huaihuang's development is really good now, but Huaihuang also has a big constraint, that is, he lives outside the Saiwai. Although it is precisely because of the presence of various forces outside the Cypriot side that it has been able to obtain the status of a border market for commercial and trade between all parties in the complex situation in the whole north today, this border trade has almost reached a peak in this scale by now.

At this time, there are also many problems in Huaihuang, such as being outside the border, the population is very small, and now more than 400,000 people have reached the peak, and it is difficult to increase the population. Second, Huaihuang basically does not produce grain, and completely depends on the exchange of salt. Although Huaihuang has salt, but the grain transported from outside has been very difficult, and secondly, although Huaihuang is backed by Guannei, the open terrain on the dam makes Huaihuang also in a situation where there is no danger to defend.

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, take precautions, and Yi Feng must plan in advance.

Cooperation with Yang Guang, one can meet Yang Guang's hand stretched out to Huai Huang, and the other is to open a new market, Huai Huang does not cultivate or plant, all rely on commerce and trade, only by expanding the market, can we maintain this momentum. The market of Jianghuai is very large, and in particular, it can also use the power of Yang Guang to open up overseas ocean trade routes, which is also extremely important. Of course, the most important thing is that Yi Feng knows very well that his current strength is very limited, and investing in Yang Guang earlier at this time is also to obtain more benefits and returns after Yang Guang wins in the future.

"Judging from today's market, the total income of all the tea businesses in the world can reach tens of millions of yuan a year, and even if we unite with the tea merchants in the south, we can only account for 50% of the profits, which is 5 million. Each family shares profits, and the benefits are still very high. Most of the other businesses are also like this, Jianghuai grows sugarcane and then produces cane sugar, Huaihuang can refine snow sugar and rock sugar, and the grain produced by Jianghuai can also be brewed into a variety of liquor with higher returns, in addition to the various medicinal materials taken by Jiangnan, Huaihuang can also be processed into a variety of more precious medicines, such as the Turkic white that the official and private people of the Great Sui have to buy from the Turks at a high price every year. It is a kind of Turkic specialty white medicine, which is particularly effective for knife wounds such as Jin Chuang, but our Central Plains does not have such a unique recipe as the Hu people in this regard. It costs a lot of money every year. But in fact, do you know the king, Turkic white is just a kind of white medicine, and now the medicine shop with a wild heart has researched a new white medicine formula, which has a better effect than Turkic white. The main medicinal material of our white medicine is Tianqi produced in Lingnan, as long as the supply of medicinal materials is on, we can make a large number of white white products, and when the time comes. It can completely seize all the market share and profits of the original Turkic white in one fell swoop. ”

"Is this Huai Huang Bai really better than the Turkic Bai?" Yang Guang was also a person who led troops, so he naturally knew the magic of Turkic Bai, and this kind of white medicine seemed simple. However, the ingredients are complex and it is difficult to crack the formula, but the effect is excellent, especially for those knife wounds and arrow wounds. Every year, not only private medicine shops buy a large number of them. Even in the imperial army, it is also an important material that must be purchased in large quantities. But this medicine. The similar medicines in the Central Plains are not as good as the Turkic native medicines, so the Turks have to exchange Turkic white for a large amount of money and materials in the Great Sui every year, and the profits of this Turkic white are even more amazing. If Yi Feng had a better white medicine than Turkic Bai in his hands, it would not only be a matter of making money, with this better white medicine, the soldiers of the Great Sui would be able to die more less on the battlefield.

"Absolutely." Yi Feng said confidently, in the original Huaihuang market, Turkic white was also a specialty of the Hu people. Use this light yì to exchange a large amount of nostalgic materials. After Yi Feng found out, he specially found many doctors. In his memory, there was a national super-secret prescription Yunnan Baiyao in later generations, and the effect was very good. Although the recipe is a national top secret, the general type of medicinal materials is still known, but I don't know the specific preparation method and ratio here. According to what he knew, he pointed out the research direction to the doctors who were invited, and asked them to develop a white medicine with better efficacy than Turkic Bai, spending countless money and manpower, and under Yi Feng's great reward, it finally took more than half a year to finally have a new white medicine formula with more efficacy than Turkic Bai. Yi Feng estimated that the effect of this white medicine was definitely not as good as that of Yunnan Baiyao in later generations, but as long as it could beat Turkic Bai, it was already very good.

"Huaihuangbai requires dozens of medicinal materials to be compatible, which is quite complicated, the most important of which is ginseng, notoginseng, borneol, grass black and other medicinal materials. As long as the king provides a sufficient amount of notoginseng, then the finished medicine produced by the Huaihuang White Medicine Workshop every year can be given to the king by 20%! Yi Feng was not so generous and directly gave the prescription to Yang Guang.

Yang Guang really wanted to get this white medicine formula directly in his hands, but seeing Yi Feng's attitude, he couldn't go too far for a while, so he had to temporarily suppress the unhappiness in his heart. After thinking about it, listening to the supply of this medicinal herb, you can get 20% of the annual output of this precious medicine, and you can still accept it.

"I can provide more medicinal herbs and give me forty percent of the share."

"I don't own this pharmacy alone, but I actually have many shareholders. Baiyao needs a lot of medicinal materials, Panax notoginseng is just one of them, in addition to the extremely valuable ginseng and so on. Lingnan's notoginseng is excellent, but the ginseng is still the best from Goguryeo, and the king only needs to provide the notoginseng, and as for the share, I can take out 10% of the share in my hand and give it to the king. Yang Guang was asking for the price, and Yi Feng paid back the money, without blindly giving in because of Yang Guang's status.

Panax notoginseng is the first to replenish blood, and ginseng is the first to replenish qi, both of which are excellent medicines, and the price is naturally not cheap.

"Thirty percent." Yang Guang pinched the beard on his chin and nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, three achievements and three percent." But you have to get me another 3,000 war horses, and the Mobei Iron Hoof Horse you gave me earlier must be well-trained war horses. ”

"Yes, according to the old practice, it was exchanged for tea or cane sugar or grain and cloth." Yang Guang is sophisticated, and Yi Feng is not simple.

After some pleasant bargaining, the two of them suddenly fell silent, the atmosphere became no longer relaxed, and the guards all retreated with interest. After entering Beijing, it will be a battle of life and death. ”

"I will fully support the king and stand firmly on the king's side, there is no doubt about that." Yi Feng said seriously.

"Lone has memorized your words, I know that I have wronged you a lot before, but in the future, Lone will compensate you. Tell me what you want! Yang Guang looked directly at Yi Feng.

"Thunder, rain and dew, all are Jun'en." Yi Feng only replied with eight words. This answer made Yang Guang stunned for a moment, and then smiled happily, "Don't worry, I will never treat you badly then." ”

PS: I'm really busy these days.,There's no time at all.,Three people in the middle of the night are lonely code.,It's hard to code two chapters.,Let's pass it up together.。 I'm going to go to the banquet tomorrow.,And I have to go on a blind date.,Hey.,I'm too busy.,Wait for the end of the year.,Then work hard to update the codeword.,Please forgive me.。 (To be continued......)