The rogues don't produce, they want to get things, and the main way is to rob them.

But this is not absolute, at least some things that are obviously stolen goods, they are troublesome and want to exchange something useful, and trading with the Salvation Army is the best choice.

At the very least, the Salvation Army has a dedicated channel for selling stolen goods, which is known to all the rogues, and most importantly, the Salvation Army has what it needs.

Whether it is weapons or food, you can exchange those useless antiques and gold, silver and jewelry, of course, according to the original price, there is no way, but the price is also fairer than the average black-hearted merchant. What is rare is that the quality of the things that are exchanged for huàn is still quite good.

Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, once asked a special craftsman to evaluate that if the Salvation Army grade gun head was made, the cost would be enough to make three Ming standard gun heads. Even if it is manufactured according to that specification, I am afraid that the cost will not be comparable to the price sold by the Salvation Army.

Gao Yingxiang also extinguished his own manufacturing thoughts, since it is cheaper to buy than to make, and the price is fair, so why not buy?

This also includes other rebels, and now the Salvation Army is their main source of arms. However, they have never been able to figure out where these munitions are made and how they are transported to permanent warehouses.

As for the antiques, gold, silver and jewelry exchanged by the rebels, they were secretly transported to the Jiangnan area for sale through the channels of the Zhang Chamber of Commerce, which had not yet been cut off. The Zhang family can sit big, so naturally they will not have no means at all. Just thieves or something, they naturally still have a way to sell it. Of course, the price cannot be based on the original price. The popular practice is to open a pawnshop, and then issue the corresponding pawn ticket, so that the stolen goods become dead pawns and can be sold freely.

After deducting the part that Zhang Hongbin promised to the Zhang family, about 30% of the rest will be shipped back. This part deducts the cost of Zhang Hongbin's purchases in the supermarket, and in fact, there is a surplus of about 20% of the profit. It's not much, and it's a laborious process, but it's an income.

In just one year, relying on such a thief sale, Zhang Hongbin earned almost one million taels of silver. Jiangnan has not been affected by the war, and the people there still have a prosperous posture, all say 'the gold of the prosperous antique troubled times', and now the antique gold is sold together, even if it is sold at a discount, there are a lot of profits.

How much money he made, in fact, Zhang Hongbin invested in the construction of the territory.

Destroying private checkpoints and canals, building dams or developing canals in specific river basins, building basic roads, and building basic sanitation facilities. In this era when there is no concept of hygiene, there is no concept of disease prevention here, many facilities have almost no zài, and we have to start from scratch.

These are not small investments, one million taels is actually not enough under normal circumstances, that is, thanks to natural and man-made disasters, and now in the name of work, it is to reduce labor costs a lot, so that one million taels can meet the construction needs of the territory.

Zhang Hongbin may also care about the money he earns, but he is far less concerned about the amount of money he spends in the supermarket.

The most pitiful thing about the supermarket system is that the way it calculates upgrade points is not how much silver is absorbed, but how much silver is consumed in it. However, the items inside are of high quality and low price, which makes it difficult to increase the consumption amount quickly. It took more than half a year to spend a mere 10,500 taels (of which 500 taels were for second-level supermarkets and the five areas that were not open).

It wasn't until October of 1628, when the troops who had gone out to collect taxes came back one after another, that the amount of money needed to upgrade the system was reached.

This means that the system can be upgraded for the third time.

In the second level, there have been a lot of pre-processed goods, and cold weapons have even appeared to strong crossbows, if they reach the third level, what kind of surprises will there be?

Zhang Hongbin couldn't wait, and after receiving the notice, he pushed down the banquet that night and locked himself in the study.

In everyone's memory, such a situation has not never happened, it was more than half a year ago. And after that day, it seems that the young master can get more goods, especially weapons. If this time is the same as before, wouldn't it be ......

Many people began to get excited, and then rationally protected the 100 meters around the study, so that no one would disturb Zhang Hongbin. It was only after a while that someone asked again: "What if the young master wants to contact the mysterious force, and the other party can't come in?" ”

Well, so this scope was expanded to the outside of the entire mansion, and everyone in the entire mansion except for Zhang Hongbin went out temporarily.

"Shopping guide, I want to upgrade the supermarket!" After the brain consciousness entered the familiar supermarket interface, Zhang Hongbin immediately shouted at the shopping guide.

"Sir, your consumption has reached 10,000 taels of silver, and the conditions for system upgrade have been met, and the system will be upgraded for you now, please wait a moment!" The shopping guide seemed to be inquiring about something, and then seemed to come back to his senses and replied to him with a smile.

The whole supermarket began to change, or it seemed that the whole supermarket was shaking slightly. However, Zhang Hongbin is on the first floor, so it doesn't feel very obvious. He also understands that he is afraid that the supermarket on the third floor is beginning to be formed, so there will be such a situation.

Sure enough, after ten minutes, the shopping guide announced to him that the third floor was ready for use.

Zhang Hongbin immediately rushed to the stairs of the supermarket, first looked at the elevator that had to be upgraded to the fifth level to be able to use and was depressed, and then climbed the stairs.

After passing the second floor, he came to the long-awaited third floor.

As expected, the main product areas are food and daily chemicals. The products on the first floor are mainly rough processing or raw material grades; The products on the second floor are primary processed goods; On the third floor, there are finished products.

Men's care set, women's grooming set, laundry detergent ...... Of course, there are also plastic containers that are not available on the first and second floors, such as washbasins and buckets; Of course, these are actually nothing that attracts Zhang Hongbin, even if he is indeed a little disfigured at the moment and needs to be repaired or something...... Let's wait until level five.

The food is already very fine, from compressed dry food, canned food to puffed food, Zhang Hongbin even has a feeling of being in a modern supermarket. What's even more rare is the instant noodles with various flavors, all of which are familiar trademarks, such as 'Kang Shuaifu' and 'Gongyi', and there are even 'Red Afternoon' functional drinks .......

The first feeling is that it really doesn't matter if you drink this thing?

Zhang Hongbin has made up his mind, as long as it is something that is taken out of the supermarket, it is okay to fool those uneducated Ming people or Fanbang barbarians, and he and his relatives will definitely not be able to eat this thing. The only consolation is that the brand is a copycat, and the contents are not copycats, there is no cadmium rice, no flour mixed with talcum powder, and no canned food mixed with dead pork and gutter oil......

I don't know why, in a certain way, Zhang Hongbin has to admit that these commodities TMD are already rare conscience commodities!

As a result of canned food, military supplies can reduce a lot of burdens, and it would be best if there were production machines or blueprints, but it doesn't seem to be available at this stage, or can you hope for those five areas that are not open?

Like the second floor, the third floor has five unopened areas.

Unlike the second floor, each area here must cost five hundred taels of silver to open. It is conceivable that as the floors get higher and higher, the opening cost of such unopened areas will become higher and higher. Zhang Hongbin couldn't figure it out, was this a deliberate intention not to do business or what?

The shopping guide is very humane, humane to Zhang Hongbin at this time in doubt, the next moment she answered his question: "Each plane will have corresponding rules, the goods in the unopened area are affected by the power of the rules, and it costs a certain amount of money to open it smoothly." The higher the level of the area, the greater the corresponding opening cost, in fact, the concept of supermarket upgrading also comes from this principle. ”

Well, what about the right to privacy, so blatantly reading other people's minds is really a big husband?

"Customer, your brain is connected to the system, and even if we don't actively read your thoughts, your thoughts will be directly reflected. This is the reason for our lack of technology, and users can choose to uninstall the system if they do not want their thoughts to be read. The shopping guide quickly gave a solution.

However, it's still so cheating......

If you uninstall this system, what advantage do you have in this world? Without excellent weapons and sufficient goods in exchange for funds, it is as if the difficulty of the game has changed from heaven to difficulty, and Zhang Hongbin must admit that he is not a bull who likes to challenge the most difficult mode.

"If the user's balance has consumed 500 taels, one of the areas can be opened, is it possible to open a designated area?" The shopping guide also asks questions.

The reason why I reserved an extra five hundred taels was mainly to facilitate the opening of these unopened areas, but I didn't expect the price to increase.

There is no need to think much about the result, opening a new area is an inevitable outcome, but between the book and weapon areas, Zhang Hongbin hesitated.

Books represent knowledge and technology, the last planting and breeding technology has been taught, many villages have begun to set up large-scale poultry breeding bases according to their own wishes, and some villages that are not suitable for raising poultry or livestock are actively developing the cultivation of economic plants. Starting next year, I believe that we will be able to return to the cost year by year, and in the case of solving the local labor surplus, we will be able to return some funds. Not to mention the Xinhua dictionary and related enlightenment textbooks, so that those illiterate officers and children can read and write a lot.

Weapons represent combat effectiveness and self-protection ability, cold weapons have appeared before, this time there will be the extreme of cold weapons or the initial hot weapons, Zhang Hongbin is very much looking forward to it. If it is the former, it still has a certain advantage, at least until the end of the Qing Dynasty. And the latter also has an object of imitation. If the flintlock pistol and the Hongyi cannon appear directly, the Salvation Army's combat ability can be fully improved.

In contrast, there is not much demand for luxury goods in the three areas of more advanced tools, luxury goods, and medicines, and high-end tools and medicine are also difficult to give up, but they are far less important than books and weapons.

After some ideological struggle, Zhang Hongbin still resolutely chose weapons, and at present there are still too few active soldiers of the Salvation Army, and if the conditions for expansion cannot be met, at least the combat effectiveness of the current Salvation Army must be raised first, so as to ensure that there is sufficient self-protection ability.

Zhang Hongbin seems to have a hunch that in a year or two, or even early next year, the imperial court may have to use the border army to suppress the bandits. In the face of border soldiers who are stronger than the guards and newly recruited soldiers, and have strong combat effectiveness, if their fists are not hard, they will suffer a big loss.

As a result, the weapons area opened up along the way, and a large number of weapons came into view.

The legendary twenty-shot Zhuge strong crossbow is added because the product manual shows that the effective range of this crossbow is 200 steps; There is a sniper crossbow, which can shoot up to two miles away to hit the target, and can shoot through two layers of plate armor within 300 meters; Knives, guns, and clubs are also available, but the sharpness and sturdiness of the club have risen to another level. There was even the most rudimentary firearm, the grenade projectile, which at the time was called a thunderbolt, with an effective killing range of only three meters.

This is almost the era of cold weapons to the extreme, Zhang Hongbin no longer doubts, the fourth floor should really enter the era of firearms.

Looking at these weapons, Zhang Hongbin breathed a sigh of relief, the five hundred consumption amount was not in vain!