The next few days.

Xu Yuan first rented a warehouse in the industrial park where he crossed the alliance company.

With an area of about 2,000 square meters and a monthly rent of 200,000 yuan, Xu Yuan paid half a year's rent + deposit, and borrowed 500,000 yuan from Song Jiayun because the balance in the card was insufficient.

This warehouse was named "No. 2 warehouse" by him, and its main role was to store the specialties and materials brought from the late Ming Dynasty, and with the area of No. 2 warehouse, there was no problem in hoarding tens of thousands of tons of materials at most.

The reason why it is different from the No. 1 warehouse is mainly to avoid confusion and facilitate management.

As for the partners, Xu Yuan also has a corresponding plan in his heart.

For example, copper, this important industrial raw material, let the general manager Zhu Yuntian, find a few factories that need to use copper, as long as the quality of copper is not bad, the price is slightly discounted, and there is no fear of not being able to sell it.

If you want to dry seafood, let Zhu Yuntian be responsible for contacting and looking for relevant agents and distributors, the Chinese people consume millions of tons of dried seafood every year, and the monthly supply of thousands of tons by Xu Yuan is just a drizzle for some dry goods dealers, and one can swallow it.

The same is true for ancient medicinal materials, and Zhu Yuntian can also be asked to find dealers who contact the medicinal materials market and negotiate cooperation with them, as long as the quality of medicinal materials is good, dealers who know the goods will definitely be willing to buy them.

And the extremely valuable wild ginseng, which belongs to the top luxury goods, has a special auction market, Xu Yuan plans to hand over the wild ginseng to Song Jiayun to operate, and she also has some ways there.

Including the future yellow rosewood furniture, and the gold and silver jewelry made by ancient old craftsmen, they were also handed over to Song Jiayun and her family to operate, selling at a good price, bringing a steady stream of profits.

Wait a minute!

You must know that in Song Jiayun's place, Xu Yuan's character is a mine boss who pans for gold abroad, why is this a wild ginseng, and he got Huanghuali wood furniture, gold and silver jewelry, and the business scope has become so wide, how to explain it.

Don't make a panic in order to round up, and finally have to make up countless panics.

If Song Jiayun asked, he might say that on the mountain next to his gold mine, there are a lot of wild ginseng, not to mention, there are still large Huanghuali forests, and there are silver, jade, jade, jade and other associated mines in the gold mine, and in order to maximize the commercial value, he opened a jewelry factory next to the gold mine and hired a lot of powerful masters.

Whether Song Jiayun will believe this set of explanations, Xu Yuan doesn't know very well, but as her husband and the father of the child in her womb, Xu Yuan believes that she should not break the casserole and ask in the end, she must get the truth or something, Song Jiayun is not the kind of woman who nagging and verbose.

Of course, if Xu Yuan makes a mistake, out of strong curiosity, Song Jiayun must find that answer, and it doesn't hurt to tell her the identity of the traveler, after all, with the intimacy of the two, Song Jiayun will not do anything unfavorable to him - it's just that Xu Yuan will try to delay the moment of telling the truth, and the longer it drags on, the better, because no matter what the secret, the difficulty of the two of them to keep it must be much greater than that of one person.

……

The perspective returns to the world of the late Ming Dynasty.

Chongzhen five years, the tenth day of the first month.

In the capital, the palace of the Forbidden City is much cleaner and bleaker than in previous years, and the sound of the troupe blowing and beating is inaudible, reducing the amount of charcoal and honeycomb coal, so that the smoke and fire have weakened a lot, not to mention the rich smell of meat, and the imperial dining room does not necessarily float out once in three days.

What's going on?

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, last year, he borrowed a full 2 million silver dollars from Xujiazhuang, plus salt tax, field tax, Ding Fu and the like, all of which add up to a value of nearly 3 million taels, enough for him to have a fat year this year, and there is no problem with big fish and meat every day.

Why didn't he have a fat year, and even a little worse than last year.

Why is this happening?

Defeated.

The battle of the Daling River outside the gate was a fiasco!

Dalinghe City held on for three months, the seven thousand soldiers and horses in the city were exhausted, and the soldiers who built the city and starved to death were also eaten thousands, and the bones were dissected, unheard of in ancient times, but still unable to hold on, Zu Dashou had to order the deputy general He Kegang, who was unwilling to surrender, to be beheaded at the head of the city, and then led the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to surrender to Huang Taiji.

As for the Ming reinforcements who went to support Dalinghe City, under the stimulation of Chongzhen's million silver dollars + 100,000 stone grain, the fourth wave of reinforcements did set off, as many as 50,000 people, under the leadership of Zhang Chun, the supervisor of the army, he was very brave, and the Houjin army was defeated and retreated, causing it large casualties, but Zhang Chun's chariot array, after encountering the forty red-coated cannons placed by the Houjin army, the chariot array was quickly blasted, and the whole army retreated. Zhang Chun, the superintendent of the army, and more than 30 generals were captured alive, and only the chief soldiers Wu Xiang and Song Wei only led dozens of people to escape.

This Ming reinforcement army of more than 50,000 people was almost wiped out.

At the same time, it was also announced that the Ming Dynasty had the most combat effectiveness outside the Guan, the "Guanning Iron Cavalry", was completely destroyed and incorporated by the Houjin, although there were also a few "Guanning Iron Cavalry" seeds escaped, and a new "Guanning Iron Cavalry" was formed later, which was still invincible in the world in the Guannei, but it had already been beaten again and again by Jiannu without a soul, and the fight lost its blood bravery, and it was less than half a deterrent and diversion effect on the Houjin army, and even finally chose to surrender.

The hardest bone of the Ming Dynasty was broken and crushed.

Of course, the losses of the Jiannu army were not small, much heavier than in the normal historical timeline, and they lost the ability to continue the offensive in the short term, and they had to recuperate for at least a year or two.

It's just that the result has not changed, the Ming Dynasty was defeated, Jiannu won a big victory, and Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, who invested almost all the money and food for this war, fell into a state of self-isolation again, and couldn't accept this fact at all.

"I am obviously rich, and nearly three million dollars and grain in the internal treasury have all been allocated to the soldiers outside the Guan, and they are well paid and fed, why are they still so miserable?"

Zhu Youzhen couldn't figure it out, and he was also very angry, and dealt with a large number of officials who were ineffective, and there were dozens of people who were imprisoned.

"Great victory, great victory, Your Majesty!"

At this time, the eunuch Wang Chengen quickly entered the inner hall, knelt down with a happy face, and said: "Your Majesty, Shandong is a great victory!" Tongzhou General Soldier Yang Yufan, Tianjin General Soldier Wang Hong, Jimen General Soldier Deng Yu was ashamed and brave, using the strategy of attacking and harassing the enemy, in the Battle of Shahe, beheaded 20,000 Dongjiang rebels, relieved the siege of Laizhou City, and then ignored the cold, chased after it, smashed the rebels' lair, captured Dengzhou on the seventh day of the first month, annihilated the rebels, and the thief Kong Youde died of self-immolation! Your Majesty, the three commanders lived up to the emperor's grace, and in just two months, they made Shandong stable, and they should be rewarded heavily, as an example of the world's generals! ”

"Really?"

Zhu Youzhen's spirits were lifted, his face was surprised, and he asked, "How did you know about such a big victory?" Why wasn't it told by the Ministry of War? ”

"Your Majesty, it was the Qi representative of Xujiazhuang who told our family that Xujiazhuang sent the news by telegram, and it was possible to arrive in an instant, and the victory in Shandong was true, and the slave maid was willing to use a head guarantee, at most three or five days, the military department would also get good news to confirm what the slave said!"

Wang Chengen said, he sees His Majesty's distress these days, and it hurts in his heart, and the news given by Representative Xujiazhuang is too timely, so even if there are courtiers who attack him and befriend Xujiazhuang, he has to make His Majesty happy in advance.

Zhu Youzhen immediately asked him about the specific situation of the battle of Shandong, Wang Chengen answered one by one, painted and painted, not like a fake, so he stood up happily, walked around the hall excitedly, said several times in a row, and swept away the depressed mood, and sent someone to the imperial dining room to instruct that tonight should make a few more good dishes and meat dishes, and celebrate well!

But at this time.

Ministers such as Bi Ziyan, the right attendant of the household department, Liu Chongqing, and the Sichuan Provincial Imperial History Wang Wanxiang came together and asked to meet the saint.

Chongzhen had to restrain his joy a little and met them in the East Warm Pavilion.

As soon as these ministers saw the emperor, they fell to their knees and began to complain and beg:

"Your Majesty, the miners in Shandong are in turmoil, destroying houses and slaughtering people everywhere, and harming the good people, and the gentry and people of Shandong have been miserable by these miners!"

"Xu Jiazhuang is supporting the miners' rebellion behind his back, plotting to land mines in Shandong, and plotting is also the Ming Dynasty!"

"The Dongjiang rebels are not worried, and the Shandong miners are even more harmful, so they should be the first to exterminate the miners and the Xujiazhuang behind them! If you can suppress the rebels again, you can also appease them, but only the miners and Xujiazhuang will never tolerate it! ”