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Liu Zhibang nodded and said, "What's the matter?" You say! ”

Xia Zhuangzhuang said with some embarrassment: "Since the capture of Xia Yuan City, although we have taken over this city, but Li Jun and Lu Yang have only left a mess, almost all the empty treasury can run tigers, except for getting some food from Dao Yan Zhixin and the big families in the city, the financial use is not enough, there are many disabled soldiers who need to be compensated, and the population who moved from several surrounding counties needs a large number of houses, although the people of the whole city have been mobilized to build by themselves, but the original people of Xia Yuan City have little assistance, All the materials need to be purchased with real money, and the City Lord's Mansion can't come up with any money......"

Liu Zhibang continued: "Didn't Mu Tong still owe us more than 20,000 gold coins?" ”

Xia Zhuangzhuang said a little helplessly: "Didn't you promise that Shopkeeper Mu only needs to pay a part of the deposit and pay after the goods are sold?" ”

Liu Zhibang smiled awkwardly and said, "It seems that we are going to get money, these trophies alone are not enough to compensate for the consumption and pension of the war, I will talk to Mu Tong tomorrow......"

The next day, after receiving a message from Liu Zhibang, Mu Tong dropped the matter in his hand and immediately rushed to the City Lord's Mansion.

Before Mu Tong entered the door, he shouted, "Patriarch, you're back!" ”

Liu Zhibang and Mu Tong shook hands tightly, the two sides sat down, and Liu Zhibang said: "Brother Mu, the business of Dongfang Company is doing well!" ”

Hearing this, Mu Tong suddenly said with some discouragement: "Alas, don't mention it, although our white paper sells well, there are too few people who can afford it, and the sales volume is very limited, and the speed of capital return is a big problem......

Liu Zhibang listened and said: "Also, white paper is not something that ordinary people can afford, so we have to find a way to let ordinary people buy it...... By the way, what is the situation of the business in the Golden Light Empire? ”

Mu Tong said: "It turns out that the Hengchang firm also has a business name in Dushan City in the past Hukou Pass, and after the establishment of the Oriental Company, the original Hengchang firm has more than doubled, and the name of the Oriental Company has been hung up, and all kinds of iron tools, porcelain, and white paper of the Han nationality are sold, patriarch, I have a suggestion that I don't know if to talk about or not?" ”

Liu Zhibang took a sip of tea, nodded and said, "Brother Mu, please speak!" ”

Mu Tong hesitated for a moment, but still said: "The things made by the Han people can be sold at a high price outside, but do you know what is the best and most profitable goods?" ”

Liu Zhibang thought for a while and said with a smile: "Brother Mu, don't you want me to take out the weapon and sell it!" ”

Mu Tong patted his seat and said, "That's right, do you remember the batch of long knives you sold me at the beginning?" At that time, as soon as I handed over this batch of goods, after the headquarters of the Hengchang Chamber of Commerce learned the news, they immediately froze all the goods, and only sold a few dozen handles to the princes and nobles, and each handle sold dozens of gold coins. At present, because of the natural disasters in the Shenqi Continent for many years, there are people everywhere who can't survive the rebellion, the imperial courts of various countries need a large number of weapons, and those rebels also need weapons, but weapons are not ordinary tools, the technical requirements for building are extremely high, bronze is rare, in addition to the tools that the people need to use daily, the imperial courts of various countries will almost never have any remaining bronze reserves, even if there are rich mineral deposits, mining and smelting are extremely difficult things. If the Han people can sell the weapons they have created, it will not only make money quickly, but also make a lot of profits! ”

Liu Zhibang thought for a while and said: "As long as it is a war era, weapons are the most sought-after commodities, and they are the same in any world, I don't understand this truth, but if I let the weapons of the Han people be sold, it will weaken the combat power advantage of our Han army and other armies." The biggest advantage of the Han nationality is the abundance of bronze and iron ore, and we also have relatively advanced smelting technology, which are strategic resources of our Han nationality and cannot be obtained by others......"

Mu Tong continued: "You don't need to sell good things, just sell some of the roughest weapons, after all, good weapons are too expensive, and many forces can't afford them, even if they are the worst knives of the Han people, they will be treasures for all parties to compete for!" ”

Liu Zhibang nodded and said: "If you just sell the worst iron knives, the smelting workshop in the Han base camp can produce more than two thousand long knives per day, it is because the mining and transportation capacity of the mine is limited, if I invest twice the manpower to mine, the output can be doubled, then the problem of money will be easy to handle." But it's not a good thing that there are too many weapons flowing out, so let's do it, I will start to make the base camp produce a thousand iron knives a day, and some other weapons and equipment will also be produced, and the road from Xia Yuan City to the Han base camp is about to be repaired, so that the speed of goods will be transported several times faster, you are responsible for selling these weapons, there is no money, how can we feed hundreds of thousands of people. ”

After thinking about it, Liu Zhibang said again: "Our other goods must also be able to quickly turn into money, after we opened Hukou Pass, although we increased a lot of taxes, but it is still not fast enough, not enough, I will go to Hukou Pass these days, and by the way, I will go to the Jinguang Empire to see, I heard that there has been a smooth weather over the years, compared to other places in the Jinguang Empire, it is much richer, and the Gu Song General over there has also written many times to invite me to come over as a guest, the Qingyun Empire has blocked us, and we can only open the sales channels over there......"

Mu Tong frowned when he heard Gu Song's name, and said: "I have also dealt with Gu Song, he is extremely greedy, he is a wolf that can't be fed, if the patriarch wants to deal with him, you have to be careful!" ”

Liu Zhibang and Mu Tongshen talked about dispersing in the middle of the night, maybe he drank too much tea, he didn't feel sleepy until the middle of the night, dressed in a coat, Liu Zhibang walked to the terrace, tonight the stars are shining, looking at the starry sky, a sense of nostalgia suddenly came to his heart, countless pieces of the past floated through his mind, and a smiling figure emerged.

"Reed, are you okay? Is the war between the Federation and the Stans over, are you thinking about me? ”

"Bang, let's get married when you come back, I don't want you to be rich and expensive, it doesn't matter if you can't afford to buy a house, as long as I can be with you......"

"Marriage ......"

Thinking of this word, another beautiful face suddenly appeared in Liu Zhibang's mind.

"Husband, I heard you say in the presbyterian meeting that you will marry someone after conquering Usang City, you have to count when you speak......"

Two beautiful figures kept appearing alternately in Liu Zhibang's mind, one made him hurt and the other made him love, Liu Zhibang took a deep breath, let out a long sigh, lowered his head and turned into the room.

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