Chapter 259: Returning the Pearl
In fact, many people are worried that the construction of this kind of railway road will take a huge amount of time and manpower, and if a major war breaks out, or Li Xin is transferred to another place, their investment may be wasted, or even lost.
It is not a trivial matter to send out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, everyone has to be cautious, how can they play Meng Lang!
But Li Xin's words dispelled all the worries of the merchants, because in Li Xin's plan, they were not allowed to take money!
As for who the owner of the money is, many people laughed dumbly when they said it, it was actually the slave chief Taiji outside the Shanhai Pass.
This matter also starts from the war in the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the lack of materials outside the Guan, it is simply impossible to meet the expanding expansion ambitions, and it is not a long-term solution to rob the surrounding Mongolian tribes and Goryeo sticks, so they are extremely dependent on the merchants who pass through the north and south, especially the strategic materials such as salt, iron and leather, which are purchased in large quantities from the Guannai every year to support the Eight Banners Army on which they rely for dominance.
And the terrain of the border wall of the whole North Zhili is dangerous, and several mouth forts are dangerous passes, and no trade is allowed to pass through guò on weekdays, so this section of the side wall from the west of Wanquanwei to Datong Mansion has become an excellent place for merchants to get out of the jam. Thus the achievement of occupying the time and place of the Jin merchants, the Jin merchants who have some courage to transport a large number of eye stickers and leather and other materials to the Manchu Qing Dynasty every year, the main export place is one of the Zhangjiakou of Wanquanwei, and the other is the Xinpingbao of Zhenyuwei.
It has to be said that Huang Taiji is a monarch with great strategic vision and courage, in order to stimulate the enthusiasm of the Jin merchants to transport materials, he took the initiative to provide loans to the Jin merchants, and when the goods arrived, the money and goods were cleared, which was equivalent to giving the merchants the capital, let them be responsible for purchasing, transportation, and then leave enough profit margins for the merchants. This behavior reduces the risk to the traders at the maximum, and for them it is simply an empty glove white wolf.
Therefore, a large number of Jin merchants flocked to Shengjing and served as transport captains for Huang Taiji, so the Manchus used a large number of materials obtained from the Ming Dynasty to arm their own Eight Banner Army and the Han army, and then when necessary, they went out to grab a vote, and even took the money they spent back together.
Despite this, merchants are still eager for this kind of unfunded trading, and many people have become rich as a result, among which Fan Yongdou is the most prominent.
When Li Xin said that the owner of the money was Huang Taiji, everyone already understood that this general seemed to be rude, but in fact he was very shrewd, and it was really appropriate to let Huang Taiji pay this money.
went to the Manchurian Qing Dynasty to enter the Kou, lost his wife and soldiers, but caught up with the severe winter snow disaster, and Li Xin took the lead in the material blockade. When the Manchu Qing Dynasty reached this time when it was not in demand, it must have been eager to see through the Jin merchants. As long as these people went to Shengjing, Huang Taiji was allowed to lend them money.
"With this money, if you just want to borrow, the commander will make an IOU and stamp it in the name of the private person and the general military office. If you want to buy shares, you can use the money to flush the shares, and dividends will be distributed at the end of the year! How is it? ”
After a long time, whether it is borrowing money or forming a trading company to buy shares, the merchants do not need to pay a penny, this money is paid by Huang Taiji, and the merchants can use this money to buy shares and enjoy the ready-made benefits. Moreover, all the coal and iron mines are under the name of the General Military Administration, and in addition to making a full profit on the price difference, they will also get a share of the shares after joining the joint trading company, so that the profits will be doubled and it will be greatly profitable. Such a good deal, it's worth doing! A must do!
Businessmen, they all put profit first, they don't care about patriotism, they don't care if they are not patriotic, they are just mercenary!
Just when all the businessmen were happy, someone suddenly said out of place: "Let's resell coal and iron to go to Guanwai, isn't this a collaboration with the enemy?" The general said that the enemy was old, and the villain felt very reasonable, and he used my Ming materials to raise the wolves and thieves outside the pass, and in the end didn't he become Dongguo and wolves again? ”
Soon someone scolded him for being a fool, making a donkey kick stupid in his head, and not making good money, talking about what kind of capital enemy. Others simply bombarded him out, for fear that General Li would regret listening to that guy's demagogy.
Li Xin just smiled and said nothing, it was also a helpless move to do so, he had no money in his hands, and the imperial court would not give him the money to use the documents, and the provinces in Shanxi were even more impoverished after being looted by thieves. If the merchants really borrowed money, the money they could raise was very limited, and it would certainly not be enough to sustain the cost of such a huge project.
Let Huang Taiji pay money, and then lure the merchants with profits, so as not to worry that they will not rush to it, in fact, it is true. When Li Xin proposed this plan, most of the active-minded proprietors were already planning how to make enough money in the hands of Huang Taiji to use it as shares! And the gratitude and oath of allegiance to the Emperor Manchu Qing Taiji in Shengjing were all thrown away!
After the matter of forming a trading company was finalized, the businessmen left Taiyuan one after another to prepare to go out of the fortress to buy shares with the money of the Sunu chief Taiji. Huang Sheng and Huang Yu were left behind to participate in the reorganization of the iron mines in various places, and sent experienced deacons to manage them in a unified manner.
In addition to continuing to form a new army, Gao Shiming wrote to the emperor again, hoping to send troops to wipe out the remnants of the thieves entrenched in Pingyang Mansion. But it was refuted, one is that there are still remnants of thieves in the northern Daizhou area, that is, Wushan and other departments, if the Taiyuan army is dispatched, it is difficult to ensure that they do not take advantage of the situation. Of the two, Taiyuan has just been overcome and cannot withstand any risks.
Therefore, the opinions of the ministers of the court, including the emperor, are unprecedentedly unified, and it is better to be still, and wait for the war in Henan to calm down before making plans.
In fact, there is also a voice within the Three Guards, especially Master Guo, who returned from Hunyuan Prefecture, who believes that the thieves in Pingyang Mansion should not be eliminated immediately, as for why this is so, he only said four words.
"Raise your own respect!"
Master Guo felt that he had finally found his life's work, so he resigned as the manager of Chaoyang Fort and concentrated on following Li Xin to fight the country! And Li Xin also makes the best use of it, this product is like a fish in water in the system of the Three Guards, and it has done a good job, as if he has become a quasi-core figure in the Three Guards. After the imperial court rejected Gao Shiming's letter to suppress the thief, it was in line with his intention to raise his own respect, so he felt even more fluttering.
And the few people who came out of Chaoyang Fort together felt that they were not suitable for the days of following the army to fight and kill in the north and south, so they all returned to Chaoyang Fort.
Due to the southward shift of the focus of work, several institutions such as the Artillery Academy originally established in Yanghewei were all moved to Taiyuan, and Heisenberg once again unloaded his merits and fame and came to the academy to become a teacher.
He even fantasized that one day, he would return to his hometown with the artillery he had trained himself!
A few days later, news came from the south that King Shen's army was defeated by thieves at Bailangdu, and escaped the Yellow River to avoid the tragedy of the annihilation of the whole army. But a few days later, there was good news that King Shen's army actually won a few battles in Yiyang and Yongning in Henan, and beat Zhang Xianzhong to the ground.
One before and one after, one weak and one strong, one defeated and one victorious, the results of the two battles of King Shen's army were extremely nonsensical, and the mystery was soon revealed, it turned out that the commander of King Shen's army was none other than Zuo Liangyu, who had been defeated in Pingyang before.
After Zhang Xianzhong's fiasco, he didn't dare to stay in Henan anymore, and took the opportunity to flow into Shaanxi, while Zuo Liangyu chased and beat him fiercely, staring at him stubbornly. Hearing this news, Li Xinzhong was awe-struck for a while, Zhang Xianzhong was finally going to Sichuan, and it was more than half a year earlier than in the original history. Is it inevitable that the infamous Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan in history?
In March and April of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the shape was unpredictable, which made people tremble, and the court suddenly seemed to have reached a Jedi, and suddenly it suddenly opened up, and the thieves lost their previous overwhelming advantage!
On this day, Huang Yu finally returned to Taiyuan City, and Li Xin wanted to tell her several times that the emperor's appointment to marry the county lord was not what he wanted, and he would categorically refuse, even at the expense of resisting the decree. But Huang Yu never gave him a chance to speak.
kept telling the secret and interesting stories of how Datong went north to deal with more than a dozen trading companies, including the fact that a wealthy man like Fan Yongdou refused to go south to Taiyuan no matter what, and how she fought with it in the light and dark, and finally fell short.
Huang Yu said with relish, but Li Xin listened absent-mindedly, he felt that with Huang Yu's ability and Bing Xue Cleverness, he must have more or less known about the emperor's appointment to marry the county lord of Xinle, but looking at her expression and attitude, it seemed that he didn't know at all. With a smile and a smile, Li Confidence melted when he saw it!
For a while, a lot of words were stuck in my throat, and I didn't know where to start.
"It's been a hard time for my little sister, Li Xinde is so beautiful, it's really a blessing for three lives!"
Huang Yu glanced at him exaggeratedly and chuckled: "The dignified general also said these sour words!" ”
Li Xin also pretended to be on the situation and said: "Which rule is it, the general can't say sour words?" Ben Shuai said that if this life is a negative little sister, then God will punish ......"
Suddenly, Li Xin only felt that his mouth was cold, and it was Huang Yu's soft hand that covered it.
"Don't say such bad things, remember, Huang Yu doesn't allow you to have anything!"
Huang Yu unconsciously stuck to Li Xin, and the two of them could smell their breathing. Exhaled like silk, like an orchid like a musk, and his nasal cavity was filled with the smell of Huang Yu, Li Xinhu hugged Huang Yu hard and kissed her heavily on her moist lips.
In the courtyard, the moon is bright and the wind is clear, the evening breeze is light, the shadows of the trees are swaying, spilling a quiet and peaceful, only the two figures on the window are warmly intertwined, and they are not separated for a long time......
The sky was bright, Li Xin opened his eyes and stretched a long waist, only to find that he was the only one left in the room, and when he got down to the ground, he saw a bead hairpin on the table pressing a piece of paper, on which only four words were written.
"Return the pearl"!