Dajin royal family

Chapter 480
Wei Wei and Shen Zhe were old friends, and they often sold things to each other. After meeting in Dongshi, they immediately went to the private room of a restaurant inside.

He casually threw a small silver dollar of 'five cents' as a reward to Mr. Gui, who immediately expressed with a flattering smile that he must find the best girl to serve him.

"Brother Wei, that's [-] Wen, so grand." Shen Zhe sat down on his knees, laughing and teasing.

"Brother Shen is not burying people, whoever comes to this place is a poor ghost." Wei Wei chuckled.

The wine shop is just a name on the surface, but in private it is a flesh and blood business.It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a gold-selling cave, which of the merchants who can come here is the owner of the rare five hundred copper coins.

Not long after, a few women with exquisite figure and good looks, either holding the piano or holding the Xiao, came in style.

Wei Wei waved his hand and signaled them to go inside to play the qin and flute.

"Don't tell me, this silver dollar is really easy to use, and now it saves us a lot of effort. Yesterday I exchanged a lot of wild ginseng from Liaodong, and it is convenient to just ask the number of silver dollars under my hand when paying the bill." Shen Zhe was quite impressed. .

At that time, they were indeed skeptical about the silver dollars from the Northern Jin Dynasty, but recently, it seems that they are overly concerned.

Wei Wei took out the silver dollar, looked at the pattern on it over and over again, and said with emotion: "I heard that the four characters on it were written by Zhao Wang, Pei Gong, Wang Gong, Zheng Gong and others. It's really unexpected."

Shen Zhe also took out a silver dollar and said with a smile, "It's a good thing. When I return to the Central Plains, those colleagues will be envious of me."

The two chatted for a while, and after a while, several merchants came.

One of the burly men sat on the main seat without hesitation. He glanced at the merchants present and said, "I have something to say first, this transaction only needs silver dollars, not silver ingots."

One of the merchants frowned and said, "Brother Hong, why do we pay attention to this kind of transaction?"

Hong Ba said coldly: "It's not that I can't trust you, but you must be aware of the benefits of this silver dollar. In order to prevent someone from counterfeiting silver ingots, let's trade with silver dollars."

The previous merchants were dissatisfied: "Brother Hong, we have traded many times, why don't you still trust us?"

"It's not that you can't believe it, it's just to avoid unnecessary trouble." Hong Ba glanced at the merchant, "If you don't want to, quit now."

The merchant who spoke twitched his lips and said nothing more.

Wei Wei smoothed things over and said, "Brother Hong, don't be angry. It's fate that we can get together to make money. Let's listen to you. Isn't it okay to settle with silver dollars?"

"Yes, we all use silver dollars." Other merchants spoke up one after another.

Hong Ba nodded, "Okay, since that's the case, let's discuss it. This time, XX bought [-] war horses from the Tuoyue Department, and they are all good stuff."

"Brother Hong, are they all war horses that can be produced?" Shen Zhe couldn't help asking.

The most profitable business now is to smuggle war horses!
There is a shortage of horses in the Central Plains, there is a shortage of horses in Qingzhou, and there is even a shortage of horses in the south!
In other words, in the entire world, except for the Northern Jin Dynasty, there is no other separatist force that lacks war horses.

Hong Ba shook his head and said, "No, they are all war horses after root removal."

Hearing this, all the merchants showed disappointment on their faces.

The value of a war horse that has been rooted and a war horse that has not been rooted is completely different.

Seeing this, Hong Ba sneered and said: "Don't dream, now every pass and county town in the Northern Jin Dynasty is inspected very strictly. If there are more than five horses, the officials will definitely check whether the roots are removed. If these [-] horses can be obtained, I have spent a lot of time, and you still want unrooted ones, it’s just a dream.”

Wei Wei said with a smile: "Brother Hong, don't be angry, it's a pity for us. The value of the unrooted war horse will at least double when it is transported back!"

Hong Ba snorted softly, "Do you think that a certain person doesn't want to make more money? Now the Northern Jin Dynasty is getting stricter and stricter. Not long ago, someone ate [-] Turkic war horses in the grassland. As a result, he was arrested and chopped up as soon as he entered Yuyang. head off."

The merchants suddenly stopped breathing. Although they knew that the distribution of war horses was prohibited in the Northern Jin Dynasty, they did not expect that the inspection would be so strict.

"Okay, let's not gossip, three hundred silver dollars for a war horse, how much do you want?" Hong Ba took a sip of tea and asked everyone.

"Three hundred silver dollars? Why has the price increased again? Wasn't it still 250 taels last time?" Shen Zhe couldn't help but said.

Hong Ba said: "Hey, the last time the Northern Jin Dynasty went to Hebei, it was safer for us to smuggle war horses, but there is no war in the Northern Jin Dynasty now, and we spent money to clear up the relationship to bring them in. Do you think I should earn you 50 more?" Yuan and silver dollars."

Shen Zhe pursed his lips, unable to refute for a while.

Wei Wei said: "Brother Hong is right, you should earn, you should earn."

As he spoke, he quietly gave Shen Zhe a look, telling him not to be impulsive.

In this situation, it is not easy to have a channel to smuggle war horses, so you can't offend people.

Why bother with money!

Shen Zhe nodded, "Brother Hong, forgive me, I didn't mean it."

"It's easy to say." Hong Ba waved his hands indifferently.

"We want them all!" The merchant and his companion who spoke before directly opened their mouths to take them.

Wei Wei suddenly said angrily: "Old Yuan Xi, you have agreed to take a little each, your eating looks too ugly."

Now the Northern Jin Dynasty banned the circulation of war horses, and every war horse was worth a lot of money when it was shipped back. How could he sit back and watch others steal the profitable business.

Elder Yuan Xi snorted, looked at Hong Ba, cupped his hands and said, "We offer 10 silver dollars!"

Three hundred war horses, worth 9 yuan in silver dollars, but in order to win all the war horses, the elder Xi gave an extra 1 yuan.

The other merchants frowned, accusing Elder Xi of his inappropriate behavior.

Hong Ba was expressionless, quietly watching several merchants chatting with each other.

After arguing for a while, Yuan Laoxi let go and changed to a hundred horses. Then the rest of the merchants let him go and bought war horses from Hong Ba one after another.

In a short time, all three hundred war horses were divided up.

Hong Ba threw a few wooden cards on the case table, and said: "Tonight at three o'clock, take the cards and go to the Zhuangzi outside the city to pick them up."

Everyone accepted the signboards one after another, and immediately changed cups and cups, and then dispersed.

This kind of private war horse transaction was staged in the four commercial markets in Taiyuan.

Hong Ba didn't leave the restaurant, but instead went to the backyard, and went around into a secret room.

"Brother, it's all sold."

Behind the screen, a figure swayed, followed by a voice: "Take your time, don't worry."

Hong Ba nodded, puzzled and said, "Brother, didn't the Lord prohibit the sale of war horses?"

"It is impossible to completely ban the smuggling of war horses. What we need to do is to smuggle war horses and find those who are actually smuggled."

"That's it, I understand."

"Go, be careful not to startle the snake."

"Yes."

That night, Yuan Laoxi took silver dollars, bought a hundred war horses, left Taiyuan overnight, and headed for Guanzhong.

His ostensible identity is a merchant, but his real identity is a descendant of the Yuan family in Guanzhong, named Yuan Shangle.

Yuan Shangle looked at the horses following behind, and sighed: "The number is still too small."

The servant was puzzled and said: "Your Majesty, the distribution of war horses was banned in the Northern Jin Dynasty, why don't we go to the Western Regions, and have to come to the Northern Jin Dynasty to buy secretly."

Yuan Shangle shook his head and said: "You don't know, Su Dinghai in Wuwei County separates the communication between Longxi and the Western Regions, and our caravan cannot pass through. Moreover, the Tocharo Kingdom of the Western Regions is not willing to let us buy war horses now."

In fact, there is another place in Guanzhong where you can get war horses, and that is Hetao!
The Hetao area has been the breeding ground for war horses of the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, but now it is occupied by the puppet Zhou, and there are even Turkic people on the side. There is no way to obtain war horses, and they can only buy them from the black market in the Northern Jin Dynasty.

As a son of aristocrats, Yuan Shangle knows the importance of war horses and the power of cavalry better than anyone else.

Why the Northern Jin Dynasty was invincible in all battles, it was because they had nearly [-] cavalry!

This number is still a basic guess, and some people in the army even think that the Northern Jin Dynasty had [-] cavalry!

In order to meet the future war against the Northern Jin Dynasty and increase the number of cavalry in the army, he had to secretly buy war horses bit by bit.

At this thought, Yuan Shangle sighed helplessly.

The Northern Jin Dynasty has now become a trend. Sitting on the Liaodong Racecourse, they can continuously obtain war horses. They are in the middle of the pass, trapped in one side, and it is really difficult to obtain a large number of war horses.

Going back this time, he must persuade the second son to attack Lingwu County and snatch the racecourse, otherwise, once he leaves the customs in the future, he will be hard pressed against the Northern Jin Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)