The sky was dark, and the officials left the palace

As soon as he returned to the study, Zhao Jun asked Wang Huaien to bring the financial statements of the tea and horse trade to himself.

After carefully reading the financial statements under the candlelight, Zhao Jun was moved!

He had only heard about it before, but he had never carefully understood the details of the tea and horse trade, but after listening to Fan Zheng's report today, he suddenly realized this and had some guesses.

Now when I look at the financial statements, it is exactly what I guessed!

The profits of this tea and horse trade are really amazing!

So big that he couldn't believe it!

Some people may say, how big can it be? No matter how big it is, is there a big arms deal?

At most, it's only a few times the profit.

This is the speculation that most people have seen in the history books about the staggering profit margin of the trade after smuggling tea and horses across the border, and Zhao Jun was originally one of them.

But when Yunzhou County actually participated, he knew how big the trade profits were!

Let's take food as an example.

In the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, the price of grain in normal times is about ten Wen.

And three catties of the most ordinary tea can be exchanged for one hundred and twenty catties of rice, that is, one thousand two hundred wen three catties.

A pound of tea costs 400 yuan.

The tea brick is made of the worst tea residue, that is, the residue left over from ordinary tea, which is much cheaper than ordinary tea in price, at 100 wen a catty.

But even the tea shops on the roadside stalls will not sell it, for fear of smashing the signboard.

But!

Pay attention but!

Tea bricks of this quality are deeply loved by herdsmen if they are transported to the grassland!

How much do you like it?

Drink every day, every meal!

Because of the herdsmen's eating habits, a large intake of meat will cause abdominal distension and pain, and a light one can pass it, but the serious one will be life-threatening.

They don't know why, but they find that drinking tea helps them relieve the pain and make them no longer have abdominal pain.

What they don't know is that this is because they can't stand eating meat all year round because their bodies can't stand it, and tea can dissolve fat and replenish some vitamins that they can't get because they can't eat green vegetables.

Although they don't know this, they know that it is a good thing, so whenever they have the opportunity, they will be willing to pay a huge price to obtain tea, even if it is just tea bricks made from tea residue that the Central Plains don't even want from roadside stalls.

And for this, they are willing to pay a hundred catties of tea bricks in exchange for a war horse!

And if a war horse is transported back to the Central Plains, it can be exchanged for a full thousand taels of silver!

One thousand taels!

What is this concept?

If you buy enough grain, you can buy a full 100,000 catties of grain.

However, the merchants only paid ten catties of tea bricks on the grassland, and how much silver did they spend in the customs to buy these tea bricks?

The answer is 10,000 Wen, which is only ten taels of silver!

How much grain can I exchange for ten taels of silver?

The answer is a thousand pounds!

How much grain can you exchange for a thousand taels?

100,000 catties!

It took 100 catties of tea bricks to buy a horse, that is, 1,000 catties of grain.

1,000 catties of grain became 100,000 catties!

A hundredfold profit!

That's a hundredfold profit!

Marx once said that the capitalist is bold as soon as he has a proper profit, and if there is a profit of ten percent, it is guaranteed to be used everywhere.

With a twenty percent profit, it comes alive.

With a 50 percent profit, it takes a risk.

For the sake of 100% profit, it dares to trample on all human laws.

If it has a profit of 300 percent, it will dare to commit any crime, and even risk hanging its head!

So what if it's 10,000 percent?

Zhao Jun was shocked, and suddenly understood why those Shanxi Jin merchants dared to do anything in the Ming Dynasty in the previous life.

What they did with Guanwai was not only the tea and horse trade, but also more other trades, which meant more profits.

The staggering profits are terrifying!

It is enough for them to have unlimited courage to do anything, even to the point of betraying the country!

"Wang Companion!"

Zhao Jun's voice trembled a little!

Wang Huaien, who had been waiting on the sidelines, hurriedly said, "Lord Wang! ”

After taking several deep breaths, Zhao Jun calmed down.

"Inform the secret guards to closely monitor all caravans in Yunzhou County, if anyone dares to conduct any trade with the Tatars without the permission of the Yunzhou County Guard!

After the revenge check, kill!

Kill it all!

Not a single one to stay! ”

"Lord Wang, what are you?"

Wang Huaien was very puzzled, and didn't understand how the prince could suddenly be so murderous.

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "Do you know how profitable the border trade is?" ”

Wang Huaien shook his head honestly.

Zhao Jun said coldly:

"A hundredfold! Not double! Not tenfold! It's a whole hundredfold!

If those businessmen taste the sweetness once they are made, then they will dare to do anything for the sake of this hundredfold profit!

It's not impossible to even shake everything out of my Yunzhou County! ”

Wang Huaien was also frightened, with such a high profit!

Thinking about the virtues of those businessmen, he had to admit that what his prince said was right.

In the eyes of those businessmen, except for a few exceptions, most of them are not different from countries, they only have interests in their eyes, as long as the interests are enough, there is nothing they dare not do!

Immediately, he agreed: "The slave understands! ”

Zhao Jun nodded, and then said: "After this war horse exchange, the trade behavior of Yunzhou County can be suspended, and the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce will take over!"

We don't change horses, we can exchange for ordinary horses and cattle and sheep, although there is a shortage of materials on the grassland, there are still many things that are lacking in my Yunzhou County.

Now that the three counties are planting grain on a large scale, and the number of cattle is in short supply, we can arrange for the people of the Chamber of Commerce to make a deal with those tribes, so that they can help us raise cattle, and we can exchange them with salt, tea and wine.

It's not impossible to use food when necessary, but there is a little iron that you can't!

Not a pound of iron is allowed to trade with these Tatar tribes, understand? ”

Wang Huaien nodded in understanding, and soon went to inform him.

When Wang Huaien left, Zhao Jun sat alone in his study and looked up at a map on the wall, which was a map of the surrounding forces in Yunzhou County.

There is the most detailed information on the distribution of forces around Yunzhou County, and this map will be updated every once in a while, and the updated map is a new map that has changed the forces of each department after the secret guard has been detected, so that Zhao Jun can always understand the changes in the surrounding forces.

Today, on the map, the Tatar steppes show that a large number of Tatars are converging from different directions of the Tatar steppes towards the southern steppes.

They are gathering for the beginning of the autumn offensive, and there is really not much time left for Yunzhou County!

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(End of chapter)