Chapter 92: Smuggling is Profiteering

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The Grey Head Army!

Wang Mahan and Tanzong both said that they were dissatisfied with this name and felt that it was not powerful enough, but Li Chongjiu didn't care about them so much.

The establishment of 450 people, according to the establishment of the Sui army at that time, a group of 10 people, a team of 50 people, a team of 50 people, a team leader, and a deputy team,

100 people are a brigade, the brigade rate, the brigade deputy is one each, and the 200 people are a regiment, with a captain.

At present, there are two regiments in the Cangtou Army, and you must know that among the soldiers of the government, there are 1,200 people in the upper government, that is, six regiments, five regiments in the middle government, and four regiments in the lower government.

Li Chongjiu's current military strength can't even meet the standards of the lower government. Therefore, Li Chongjiu temporarily proclaimed himself a general and commanded the whole army.

Wang Mahan was a captain of the Yue cavalry, with a regiment of 200 people, including 150 cavalry members of the main army, with double cavalry, and 50 horse auxiliaries.

Tan Zong was an infantry lieutenant with a regiment of 250 men.

However, Li Chongjiu is currently just building a shelf, according to the Sui Army's Yingyang Mansion, Yingyanglang will have one person, several lieutenants below, in addition to Sima, as well as Bing, Si Ercang is still vacant.

Among the two regiments, the brigade rate, brigade deputy, team leader, team deputy, and gang commander are all selected from the disciples of Shaolin Temple and the dart master of the dart bureau, so as to strengthen the control of the grassroots level.

Li Chongjiu is very confident in the Shaolin lay disciples he has brought from Shaomu Mountain. At the beginning, as the chief head of Shaolin Temple, these monks and soldiers of Shaolin Temple were all trained by Li Chongjiu.

Not to mention anything else, in the past two and a half years in the Shaolin Temple, the Shaolin monks and soldiers have not only destroyed the incoming thieves many times, but also assisted the government in the war and exterminated many stubborn bandits. These seventy Shaolin lay disciples are all elites who have survived more than a dozen battles on the battlefield.

The combat power of the Shaolin disciples is better than that of the Li family dart director who walks outside the Sennese for many years, not to mention ordinary executioners, and the young and strong among the homeless people are even more unable to get on the stage.

Therefore, the backbone formed by the Shaolin disciples is also the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the two regiments at present, and the combat effectiveness can be formed in time.

The personnel are ready, and the following is the equipment, and Li Chongjiu is configured according to the standard of the government soldiers in this era.

Each person in the infantry regiment has a bow of one and a half to two stones, and more than one and a half stones can be used for the main soldiers, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers, with longbows for foot soldiers and horn bows for cavalry. As for the armor, the government soldiers do not need to prepare their own, and they are generally supplied by the imperial court, and Li Chongjiu's current financial resources cannot be purchased for the time being.

And the crossbow, this is a sharp weapon for the farming people to fight against the grassland people, although it is easy to use, but it also belongs to the control weapon of this era, Li Chongjiu can not get it for the time being, and there is no blacksmith in his hand to imitate it, only a dozen crossbows in the dart game can be borrowed first, as for the crossbow, I can only think about it for the time being.

As for the weapons, after the establishment was complete, Li Chongjiu, that is, Wang Mahan, and Tanzong led the army to train.

The government soldiers trained, farmed on weekdays, practiced archery at home, and in winter, General Lang led the army to conduct winter hunting, or Shangfan.

The main business of the steppe tribe is nomadism, and the sideline is hunting, which has always been the method of training the steppe people.

Li Chongjiu also used the method of hunting to train his troops, and let Wang Mahan and Tanzong each lead their people to hunt in all directions of the grassland.

Huaihuang Town, where it is located, is today's dam, the dam area is very wide, and the Mulan paddock of later generations is also on the dam.

The grassland on the dam is vast, the forest is thick, although it is a plateau terrain, but there are many shallow lakes, the grassland people are called Nao, and many rivers also originate on the dam.

Therefore, there is absolutely no shortage of prey in the land above the dam.

Li Chongjiu is also planning for food, more than 2,000 people eat horses and chew every day, and the cost of one day is very large, and now it seems that at least the harvest will not be harvested until there is a harvest in the autumn.

After the early spring, the grassland is full of weather. The original abandoned town of Huaihuang has become a new scene.

A large area of waste bricks and rubble within the city walls of Huaihuang Town has been cleared and has now been replaced with various tents to build in it. The city wall is still so dilapidated, but the sheep and horse walls around the perimeter are already working overtime.

A qiē can make the strength of the young and strong, and all the sheep and horse walls are built here. The sheep and horse wall is half a zhang high, six feet thick, ten steps to the city, and is built with rammed earth, as the first layer of defense of the three-zhang high outer wall of Huaihuang Town.

The sheep and horse wall, which is also the first obstacle to the lack of water in the north and the absence of moats.

At present, for Li Chongjiu, it can be regarded as the first defense force of the future Jiancheng Huaihuang Town.

At the same time, to the north of the city, a grass market has been built.

This grass market is a market for the exchange between the Ministry of Convenience Room and Huaihuang Town. The shepherds put their furs, the fruits of hunting, here to trade with the Han people for huàn.

Before Li Chongjiu left Mobei, he used the start-up capital, as well as the merchant's shares in exchange for three million yuan, as well as Li Hu's belongings, in addition to buying a large amount of food, seeds, and tents, he also bought a lot of tea bricks from Shu and high-quality Lu salt, and exchanged them with the people of the tribe in the way of bartering here.

Prairie people can't do without tea, otherwise they can't get in touch with the greasy smell of food, let alone without salt, so these two are hot goods.

For trading, what Li Chongjiu urgently needs most is the hard currency fur on the grassland, cattle and sheep horns. No matter what fur it is, Li Chongjiu is an acquisition.

The price of fur is definitely the lowest in autumn, because the herdsmen have to kill those cattle and sheep who are not fat enough to survive the winter, so fur can be said to be everywhere.

But the herdsmen don't know how to make nitrate leather, so these stripped sheepskin cowhides, after a year, can only be covered with insect eyes.

Therefore, the profiteers from the Han region all took advantage of the late autumn to go to the grassland to buy a large number of low-priced furs, and after returning to the Han land, they used lime to remove hair and tan the leather with alum, and the price was several times more light.

Therefore, when Li Chongjiu opened a grass market on the grassland, he turned the grassland merchants, such a mobile purchase, into a fixed purchase stall. One of the biggest and greatest benefits is to evade this tariff in the border county, otherwise in Mayi, Yanmen, and Shanggu, as soon as you enter the customs, you will be stripped of a layer of skin by the local officials, but there are not many merchants who really get their hands.

Therefore, smuggling is definitely a windfall of profiteering.

Now in the grass market outside the sheep and horse wall, the herdsmen of Xibu, who had just returned from hunting, were riding their good horses, leading their big mastiffs, and were bargaining with Li Chongjiu's traders in the grass market with the yellow sheepskins, water seze skins, and fox skins they had hunted.

Since private traders have not yet set up a presence in the grass market, the purchase of sheepskins is the behavior of Li Chongjiu's family.

Now working for the Li family dart bureau of several executioners, not good in martial arts, but in business is clear, with the bright color of the fur, as well as the cracks under the skin, to reduce the price from all aspects, and the ridicule who does not understand the market is red-faced. But in the end, these ridicule people are often able to carry a tea brick or a little bit of salt, and they are satisfied.

Profiteering, this is definitely profiteering.

Similarly, for the current Xi people, iron tools are also quite lacking, and many of the arrows used by the Xi are made of stone, animal teeth, and copper arrowheads.

As for the farrier used to nail the horseshoe, Xi Bu doesn't even have to think about it.

However, things like iron are also strictly controlled by the imperial court, and Li Chongjiu Tong Guò Li Family Dart Bureau, and the price obtained from changing hands is also very expensive.

Li Chongjiu, one of the homeless people, first built a blacksmith shop in the city.

Li Chongjiu is not prepared, and he can create weapons in one go, not to mention armor, but some simple things such as shovels, chisels, pipes, axes, and saws should be able to be built.

If you can't do it, at least repair a farm implement, such as a hoe, shovel, plow, etc., and it must be able to be completed.