Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1360 Nancha Disturbance ([-]) "Goods"

The worst plan Burhatu made was that he would not be able to defeat the Ming army and could only run away, so he prepared a backhand in advance and left some goods for Cao Yu in Yehexi City.

This "goods" did not secretly plant gunpowder in the city, and Buri Hatu would not regard Cao Yu as a thorn in his side, and insisted on eradicating him at all costs—if it was Gao Yushi himself who came this time, Bu Rihatu Rihatu might have thought this way, but it was only Cao Yu who came, so there was no need to be like this.

The Ming army entered the city very smoothly. The hundreds of defenders in the city walked quickly and hurriedly. As soon as they left the city gate on the west, the people of Yehe tribe opened the gate on the east to release the Ming army. When they came in, some people even suggested to Cao Yu to hunt down the Mongolian army.

Cao Yu obviously didn't have this idea. When Ma Chengxun left, Buzhai and Nalin Bulu also followed. Now that the Ming army has almost no cavalry, it is impossible to catch up with this group of Mongols.

Marshal Cao just randomly arranged for Pu Yuanyi and Cao Jian to guard the city gate separately, and then went to the "Baile Mansion" in Buzhai.The Baylor Mansion in the west city was not damaged. According to the people of Yehe in the city, Tumen Dahan lived in it some time ago.

But something happened when Cao Yu went there. When his soldiers were cleaning the Baylor Mansion, they found several letters in Buzhai’s bedroom. Two of them were signed by Tong Weixun, and the other letter was signed by Nurhachi. .

It is not surprising that Nurhachi's letter appeared in the Buzhai Mansion, but after Cao Yan checked it, he found that it was not as he imagined. It was the connection between the Jurchen leaders. This letter from Nurhachi was not at all Written to Yehena Labzhai, the real addressee of this letter is "His Royal Highness Burhatu Huangtaiji, the ruler of the Mongolian Kingdom, who is as noble as gold."

The letter was written in Mongolian, and Cao Yu didn't know Mongolian, so he asked his cronies to translate.As soon as Cao Yu heard the headline, he immediately knew that the situation was wrong, and he immediately asked the interpreter to read it to himself alone.

In the letter, Nurhachi first complimented Tumen and Burihatu, and then asked, "Mongolia will go east and I will go north, and I can destroy Yehe, but the Ming court will definitely intervene. At that time, Mongolia may want to fight the Ming army in the north." close?"

He also said, "I'm afraid that my ministry will be hindered by Meng Gebulu and others. Although this generation is incapable, Hada is a powerful country after all. It may take time to win. I hope His Royal Highness Huang Taiji will know."

Hey guys, what's this letter?It is the evidence that Nurhachi hooked up with the Mongols!

Cao Yu immediately wanted to arrest Shuerhaqi, who came with the army, for questioning, but he remembered that he only had less than 600 people with him anyway, so it was very easy to arrest him, so he was not in a hurry, so he might as well look at other places first. two letters.

The other two letters were not written in Mongolian, but in Chinese characters. Cao Yan didn't need to translate this time, he took them and read them by himself.

The headers of the two letters were still "Burihatu Huangtaiji", but there was no extra compliment, but the content of the letter still surprised Cao Yan so much that his eyes almost popped out.

In the first letter, the guy signed "Tong Weixun" said that the three thousand catties of gunpowder sold to Buri Hatu last time had already made it difficult for the "Master", and this time Buri Hatu proposed to buy another five thousand catties , the master is not easy to deal with for a while, this matter will be discussed later.

The second letter is more like a list, or price list.Among them, "Tong Weixun" listed a total of [-] kinds of goods including pig iron, wrought iron, coarse cloth, fine cloth, tussah silk, cotton, salt, etc., with prices attached, and there are even classifications here.The wrought iron, agricultural tools and salt produced in Jinghua are listed separately, which is different from ordinary wrought iron, agricultural tools and salt, and the price is also [-]% higher.

In addition to submitting the supply form, Tong Weixun also submitted the receipt form, specifying the requirement to purchase "fine horses, [-] males and [-] females", "no matter the number" of castrated war horses, and "bad horses". Six hundred, one thousand strong cattle, and any sheep."

Apart from the list, Tong Weixun even threatened, saying, "Since he bartered with me, you should know that the imperial court ordered me to do it, and the price cannot be changed."

Since you want to do business with me, you should know that the imperial court strictly prohibits it, and it is difficult for me to do business, so the above prices must not be changed.

What is trade power?That's probably fine.

Of course, this is not what Cao Yu cares about. Daming has been a trading power since he knew it since he was sensible.Regardless of the Mongols, the Jurchens, or even the Koreans, they do not have much bargaining power when doing business with Ming.

It is impossible to give birth by yourself. If you can give birth by yourself, do you still need to ask your grandpa to sue your grandma to buy things from Daming?
What Cao Yu really cares about is who this "Tong Weixun" is, who dared to supply such a large amount of supplies to the Mongols despite the strict order of the court, and even his "master" had sold a full three thousand catties of gunpowder to Bu Rihatu!
Three thousand catties of gunpowder may not be too much for the Ming Dynasty, probably hundreds of No. [-] guns would be consumed in a few salvos, but selling this amount to the Mongols is exaggerated. .

Moreover, how many people can be found in Liaodong who can sell three thousand catties of gunpowder at once?
From the perspective of sufficient supply, Jinghua must be the number one gunpowder manufacturer in the world, and Gao Pragmatism is the number one master of gunpowder supply.But Cao Yu naturally would not doubt that Gao Yushi sold gunpowder to the Chahar Ministry, and it was too late for Gao Yushi to control it, so how could he sell gunpowder.

Then there are only the high-level military and political leaders in Liaodong.First of all, Zhitai can be excluded here. Although Zhou Zatai has worked in Liaodong for a long time, he has rarely come to Liaodong since he was promoted to governor of Jiliao, and he does not often take care of Liaodong affairs.

Futai?possible.Cao Yu still knew about Li Song, not because Li Song was promoted to Governor of Liao before Cao Yu got to know him, but because Li Song had worked in the Ningqian army for nearly ten years before, during such a long time, The style of dealing with people will naturally spread the news. Cao Yu was already the deputy general of Liaodong at that time, so how could he not have heard of it?

Li Song is regarded as a mature and prudent person by the outside world, which is also the main reason why he has served as Ning Qian's military equipment for a long time, but as far as Cao Yu understands, the biggest characteristic of this person is that he is tied to Li Chengliang.He was in charge of helping Li Chengliang expand his industry in the area under the jurisdiction of the former Bingbei Dao in Liaoning Province. Li Chengliang made sure that every time Ningqian or even Liaoning West made military exploits, he would get a part of the profit.

Since the two people have the same interests, the relationship is naturally close. It is probably not wrong to say that he is Li Chengliang's ally.And since Shen Shixing took over as the chief assistant, these two people have accepted the solicitation of the Heart School out of various considerations and devoted themselves to it, so they are even more comrades and brothers.

What's more, the governor of Ming Dynasty is not only in charge of government affairs, but also in charge of military affairs. If Li Song wants to sell gunpowder, it will only cost three thousand catties, which is not difficult.

However, Cao Yu felt that compared to Li Song, Li Chengliang was more likely to be the "master" mentioned in Tong Weixun's letter.

Li Chengliang wants to sell gunpowder, and his motivation is even worse than that of Li Song, because he is much short of money than Li Song.

So many servants Jingqi had to be supported, but they couldn't just rely on the imperial court's military salary.Even though the military salary paid by the imperial court to the guards is much higher than that of ordinary guard soldiers, the root cause is that the military pay of the guards is too low. The amount paid by the guards can only support a family of four to five people to eat. You don't have to think about it.

If you want to live a better life, such as buying some clothes for your family during the holidays, showing filial piety to your parents, collecting some jewelry for your wife, etc., then you have to have another income.Basically, this income can only be counted on the reward from the Patriarch, which is the money that Li Chengliang gave them.

This money is a steady income that does not count as "steady income."The reason why it doesn't count is because there is no hard and fast rule, and Li Chengliang will only post if he wants to.The reason why it can be counted is because Li Chengliang will basically distribute it on time, which seems to have "rules" in it, and it will not be missing unless it is absolutely necessary, and there is even very little delay.

So many people are counting on Li Chengliang to send money, of course Li Chengliang is also under pressure, so he has been making money non-stop over the years, trying every possible method.For example, Cao Yu also knew about secretly manipulating the private market.

Not only Cao Yu knew, but before Gao Yushi came to Liaodong and became the governor of Liaodong, especially before the Ma family was placed in Kaiyuan, the private market trade in Liaodong had always been "developed", and many generals participated in it—— Including him Cao Yu himself also participated.

As for why the situation changed after Gao Wushi came, Cao Yu didn't know the deep-seated reasons, but he knew that Gao Wushi had always had his own principles in this regard, and he didn't simply force it.

The highly pragmatic approach is to crack down on the private market but expand the transactions in the formal horse market, which not only removes many restricted categories in the past, but also does not limit them too much.

Another aspect is that Gao Pragmatism directly allows generals to participate in the formal horse market trade, but generals can also participate in the goods that other merchants allow to buy and sell.As long as you don't sell restricted goods in violation of the regulations, such as guns and artillery, if you sell cloth and rice, it doesn't matter if you are pragmatic.

Cao Yu himself is very satisfied with this. The so-called water is clear and there will be no fish. Originally, the imperial court did not allow Liaodong officials and generals to participate in the horse market trade privately. The result was that these officials and generals tacitly concealed the existence of the private market.

Why do you do this?Of course it is to make money in the private market.After all, Liaodong is a magical place that has been controlled by the military for more than 200 years. No matter which private market you are in, don't expect that the military and political circles of Liaodong really don't know your existence.Since they knew it but didn't clean it up, of course it was because they had interests in it.

That being the case, as a private market, do you dare to manage these people in place?There has always been such a thing as a protective umbrella, and it is nothing new.

Some of them took the initiative to manage, and some generals with slightly lower status even took the initiative to ask for bribes, or forced the private market to share their profits. That is another matter, of course, the nature is not much different.

The highly pragmatic way is actually to beat a stick and then give a sweet date, which not only gives people a way to continue to make profits, but also cuts off the previous illegal income.

But here is a point to point out that not all private markets are illegal. In fact, the vast majority of private markets are legal, because the so-called private markets are civilian markets, which refer to private markets other than the official horse market.Only things such as the sale of arms are illegal.

Jinghua has many private markets in northern Xinjiang, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places, ranging in size. As long as it has been reported to the government and clearly approved, it is a legal private market.

The difference is that Jinghua's private market is relatively clean, it does not and does not need to do illegal transactions, while some private markets are not.For example, many private markets controlled by Li Chengliang, relying on the fact that no one would dare to investigate anyway, they dared to do many transactions that violated the imperial ban, Li Chengliang did not care about them.

Because of this, in fact, many court bans in Liaodong have been ostentatious, and some even simply acquiesced.

For example, although the official horse market is still strictly managed by the imperial court, every time the market opens, the local government will send officials to the market to supervise and send officers and troops to strengthen protection.It is strictly forbidden to bring weapons into the market, and it is strictly forbidden to enter the market without goods, and they will be ordered to leave the country after the market is completed.

However, there are many types of goods that enter the horse market for trading, including goods that were banned from trading in the early years.According to the "Complete Liao Zhi", the Mongolian and Jurchen ministries entered the market with various livestock horses, mules, donkeys, cattle, and sheep.In terms of skins, there are mink skins, tiger skins, leopard skins, bear skins, deer skins, forged skins, fox skins, otter skins and so on.In terms of mountain products, there are ginseng, fungus, pine nuts, honey and so on.

The goods that entered the market in Liaodong were mainly textiles such as satin, silk, and cloth, ironware such as pots, shovels, etc., and grain.According to a "horse market draw booklet" from July 11th to March 12th in Wanli, during these eight months, Haixi Jurchen traded 26 times in the Kaiyuan horse market, and sold 580 pounds of ginseng , 330 460 catties of mushrooms, 88 catties of honey, 170 buckets of loose sticks, 23 nine horses, 780 beads, and three wood shovels [-].

And they bought 87 pieces of silk and satin, 650 and six coats, 210 five pairs of water boots, 250 two iron pots, 540 six cattle, and 840 and eight iron shareholdings.

It is not difficult to see the large scale of horse market transactions and the relaxation of certain restrictions: iron farm tools are obviously allowed to be traded, and farm cattle are also allowed to be traded.

Now that iron farm tools are allowed, the equivalent of steel exports has been opened.Although agricultural tools have added value, especially the agricultural tools produced by Jinghua have always been "expensive", but if we look at it from another perspective: no matter how expensive agricultural tools are, they cannot be more expensive than weapons. weapon?
It's just that Tong Weixun's list is more powerful. He or his master not only sells farm tools, but also directly sells wrought iron and even gunpowder.

If it is said that if Li Song sells gunpowder, he still has to find a way to make false accounts, and after the high pragmatism in his early years sent personnel from the Ministry of Households to help inspect and inspect the accounts, has it become more and more difficult to make false accounts? In contrast, it is much easier for Li Chengliang to sell gunpowder.

He said battlefield consumption, can you check it out?
Even if you haven't fought a war for a while, can you find out what he said about training consumption?

Don't forget, his subordinates are all his "own people".

Cao Yu's hand holding the letter paper clenched a little more unconsciously, and his palms began to sweat.
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PS: Good guy, in order to elicit these three letters, I insisted on writing a battle... If my memory is poor, I will have to forget it myself.

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