The second floor of the Youzhou branch.

Shopkeeper Zhao was checking the profits and sales of cotton cloth, when a guard from Cheng's Mansion came to the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce to find Shopkeeper Zhao.

The guards of the Cheng Mansion saw that the shopkeeper Zhao was checking the accounts, so they directly handed over Cheng Yu's letter to the shopkeeper Zhao, and then left directly.

After sending away the Cheng Mansion guard, Shopkeeper Zhao returned to the second floor of the Chamber of Commerce and opened the letter sent by Cheng Yu with some curiosity.

"It turns out that the root of Budu, Xianbei and Dawei have also started to trade with each other!"

Shopkeeper Zhao now understood why Cheng Yu sent him a letter.

As the most powerful chamber of commerce in Youzhou, the Youzhou branch naturally cannot avoid the Youzhou branch for the commodities needed by the mutual market.

Cheng Yu's letter to Zhao's shopkeeper explained that the Youzhou branch needed to mobilize a batch of commodities for mutual trading.

Shopkeeper Zhao told Cheng Yu's request to the Youzhou production base.

Because of the promotion of the mutual market with the Kebi Energy Department, there are now three production bases under the Youzhou Branch.

After explaining the three production bases and starting to mainly produce iron farm tools and cotton cloth, the shopkeeper Zhao began to send letters to Hanzhong, and then mobilized a batch of cotton cloth and iron farm tools to the Youzhou branch.

After Shopkeeper Zhao arranged everything, he personally came to Cheng Mansion and Cheng Yu to report on the preparations of the Youzhou Branch.

Cheng Yu, who had cooperated with the Youzhou branch before, was very satisfied with the arrangement and efficiency of Zhao's shopkeeper.

Hanzhong County.

After Liu Ba presided over the cotton promotion of the Yecheng branch, he returned directly to Hanzhong.

When the branches of other counties encountered the problem of cotton cloth promotion and publicity that could not be solved, they all wrote letters to Liu Ba hoping that Liu Ba could come to the branch for on-site guidance, just like the opening ceremony of each branch.

However, Liu Ba did not go to any branch except Yecheng, and only helped each branch to deal with the problems encountered through letters.

After receiving a letter from the shopkeeper Zhao of the Youzhou branch, Liu Ba began to adjust the production of products in the Hanzhong production base.

Priority was given to the production of iron farming tools and cotton cloth, and a part of the grain began to be mobilized to be transported to the Youzhou branch together.

After arranging the work of the production base, Liu Ba came to the Hanzhong Marquis Mansion and went straight to Lin Chuan's study.

At this time, the government affairs of Hanzhong County had basically been handed over to Deng Ai, and Deng Ai's performance in governing Hanzhong County also made Lin Chuan very satisfied.

As for Sima Yi, he has now lost his role as a tool man for Lin Chuan, and was transferred by Cao Cao to Yunnan to track down the whereabouts of Liu Bei and others who fled after the Battle of Chibi.

"At the beginning of the year, the sales of cotton cloth in various branches have been counted?"

When Lin Chuan saw Liu Ba coming to the door, he asked about the sales of cotton cloth.

"Back to Hanzhonghou, the cotton sales data of the local branches have been summarized, please take a look!"

Liu Ba replied as he put the thick stack of reports in his hand on Lin Chuan's bookcase.

Lin Chuan began to look through the sales reports of these cotton fabrics, and after a while, Lin Chuan raised his head with satisfaction and praised Liu Ba:

"Zichu, the sales of cotton cloth this time are really beyond my expectations!"

"I thought that at the price of one or two silver, there would not be too many people buying cotton cloth at present, but I didn't expect that now the people also have some savings in their hands."

Liu Ba said modestly:

"It's all the credit of Lord Hanzhong. If the people have no money to spare, no matter how good the quality of this cotton cloth is, no matter how cheap it is, no one will buy it! ”

Then the hearty laughter of Liu Ba and Lin Chuan sounded in the study at the same time.

"Zichu promoted it through cotton cloth this time, but he taught a good lesson to the branch managers around the country, which is good."

In Lin Chuan's eyes, Liu Ba is not only a business-minded business genius, but also an all-round talent who can be used as a manager and trainer!

Liu Ba smiled modestly again, but he didn't say anything again, and accepted Lin Chuan's praise for him.

Liu Ba then highlighted several chapters with outstanding sales performance and profits:

"Lord Hou of Hanzhong, the best sales performance in each state this time is the Yecheng Branch, followed by the Luoyang Branch, and then the Youzhou Branch......"

After Lin Chuan listened, he asked Liu Ba:

"The Youzhou branch can rank third in the profit of cotton cloth sales in each state, it should be the relationship with the Xianbei Kebi Energy Department, right?"

"Yes, it is precisely because of the mutual market that the products of the Youzhou branch have always sold very well."

Liu Ba affirmed Lin Chuan's speculation, and then continued to tell Lin Chuan that the starting degree root and the Great Wei had also begun to trade with each other.

"Lord Hou of Hanzhong, the shopkeeper Zhao sent a letter saying that the root of Xianbei Budu also requested to exchange markets with Great Wei, and the king of Wei also agreed to the request of the root of Budu, and the shopkeeper Zhao also asked the Hanzhong production base to transfer goods in this letter."

Liu Ba said this, and Lin Chuan was also interested, so Lin Chuan said to Liu Ba:

"The roots of Xianbei Budu are also in the market with Dawei? Yes, in this way, the threat of the Xianbei people in the north of Great Wei can be temporarily alleviated. It would be even better if the root of the step and the Kebi energy department were infighting again! ”

Liu Ba also had the same idea as Lin Chuan, as long as the Xianbei tribes kept their own peace for another three or five years, then the Great Wei could destroy Xianbei without much effort.

Lin Chuan no longer takes Xianbei in his eyes now.

In addition to food and weapons, the most important thing in this era is the population.

Even if Xianbei could really arm a cavalry force of more than 200,000 people through the mutual market, I am afraid that the Youzhou Iron Cavalry would have already reached 400,000 at that time!

This is not Lin Chuan's imagination, at this time, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry has been successively replenished with two thousand war horses.

Salt, iron, and cloth are very scarce in the grassland, and these daily necessities must be purchased in the mutual market, and the number of other secret transactions is simply not enough to meet the living needs of a Xianbei tribe of more than 10,000 people.

Therefore, even if you pay war horses, you have to exchange these materials in the mutual market.

Kebi can lead the tribal leaders under his command, relying on the word fairness, and each tribe has to send a part of the war horses to exchange with the Great Wei market for the necessary materials for life.

Therefore, in just a few months, Kebineng's subordinates paid more than 2,000 war horses.

Of course, the living materials exchanged for it are enough for them this year, but a new mutual market has started at the root of the step.

In this way, Dawei can get more than 4,000 war horses from Xianbei every year!

It is still mass-produced by the Hanzhong Chamber of Commerce, mainly supplying the basic products of the people of Dawei.

After Cheng Yu obtained the Xianbei war horse, he began to increase the training of Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

Although it is said that the Youzhou Iron Cavalry has not had large-scale operations in the past two years, the training has not fallen at all, and now there are new channels for replenishing war horses.

The contrast between the strength of Great Wei and Xianbei is changing all the time.

In Lin Chuan's words, the mutual market is a win-win situation for Da Wei and Xianbei, but Da Wei wins twice!