Smuggling Daming

In Chungcheong City, North Chungcheong Province, there has been a war some time ago, and now there are still traces of war everywhere in the city, but with Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming entering the city, they quickly quelled the riots in the city, and then sent soldiers to patrol the city, And the granary was released to help the poor, which quickly restored the original order in the city.

This alone is enough to see the difference between Zhang Rui and other North Korean rebels. Most of the other rebels are composed of poor people who can't survive. The officers and soldiers are even more vicious, so those rebels are simply demons in the hearts of ordinary North Koreans. Naturally, it is impossible to get the support of the people, and their future development will be extremely limited. However, Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming have made enough gestures to make Zhongqing The people of Beidao soon had a sense of belonging to them.

However, Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming's life is not easy now. Although North Chungcheong Province is the land of grain production in North Korea, it has been raided by Li Long in recent years. As a result, there is not much grain in the granary in the city, and the same is true in the warehouse. They don't have much property, but they occupy such a large place, so there are more people to support. Expansion of the army requires money and food, war needs money and food production, and governance of the place also needs money and food!

Qi Yanming used to be just a thieves leader who didn't know anything except fighting, so all government affairs fell on Zhang Rui's head, but Zhang Rui had only managed a small Dongchang before, and had never had any experience in politics. As a result, he was in a hurry for a while, and even lost a few pounds because of it. In the end, he finally relied on his own clever mind and boldly used some former North Korean officials.This allowed Chungcheongbuk-do to settle down.

However, although North Chungcheong Province has temporarily stabilized, the food crisis has not been resolved. Several surrounding provinces are fighting, and it is impossible to get food from them. In addition, the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce blocked their trade at sea. Zhang Rui was almost desperate for a while.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of greedy people at all times. Although Zhou Zhong's influence in the sea is great, he can't stop everyone. At least some businessmen secretly contacted Zhang Rui and his Zhongqing Army.Agreeing to provide them with some food, but the price is two to three times that of other North Koreans.

Zhang Rui and Qi Yanming hated these Ming businessmen who took advantage of the fire, but no matter how expensive the food was, they would still buy it. After all, the food in their hands was too little. If they didn't prepare enough food.I am afraid that the territory that has been hard-won will eventually be scattered, so now they are willing to spend no matter how much money they spend.

After the first few tentative transactions, those Daming merchants who secretly sent ships to trade were very honest. As long as they paid the money, the other party would ship grain at the price. These grains finally solved the urgent need of the Zhongqing Army.At the same time, Zhang Rui let go of his guard against those businessmen, and began to trade with them boldly.

Tonight is the biggest deal between the Zhongqing Army and the Ming businessman.A dozen large ships were all filled with food, and Zhang Rui also sent all the gold and silver treasures that could be found in North Chungcheong Province, as well as some young women, to the original Chungcheong Port, where the original port was burned down by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce in retaliation. Yes, but now it is still usable after a simple repair.

The huge amount of this transaction is related to whether the entire Zhongqing Army can survive this year, so Zhang Rui dare not be careless.I personally ran from Cheongju to Chungcheong Port, and ambushed the army around the port just in case.It can be said that they are fully prepared.

When it was getting dark, Zhang Rui finally arrived at Chungcheong Port. Looking at the scorched port in front of him, he couldn't help sighing. If he hadn't been so impulsive at the beginning, he wouldn't have had a bad relationship with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. The port will not be burned by the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. If there is such a prosperous port, then I can get a steady stream of food from the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, and the price is definitely not very expensive. grain.

But it's too late to regret it now, not to mention that Zhang Rui was not a sentimental person at first, so he quickly stopped the regret in his heart, and began to command the Zhongqing Army he brought to unload the goods by the sea, and communicated with the surrounding The ambushing army had greeted them and told them to be careful, and if something happened, they would rush out to rescue immediately.

When the moon was in the middle of the sky, some lights finally appeared on the dark sea, and then tall ships appeared on the sea, and then slowly approached the port. When the ship stopped near the sea, there was a small boat immediately Row along the waves, and then a fat businessman jumped onto the beach, waiting for Zhang Rui's men to come forward to connect.

Seeing the fat businessman standing on the beach, Zhang Rui also felt relieved. He didn't know the name of this businessman, but the other party had a nickname "Fat Three". Line three, hence the nickname.

Fat San is the most powerful Ming businessman in the transaction with Zhang Rui, and this person is very courageous. He dares to sell goods that others dare not sell to the Zhongqing Chamber of Commerce, such as weapons and armor. Although these things are all Ming Many of the replacements from the frontier army were dilapidated, but for Zhang Rui and the others, they were urgently needed.

Seeing Fat San coming in person, a North Korean named Cui Cai under Zhang Rui immediately ran forward and greeted him with a smile: "The third shopkeeper has worked hard, this time we can prepare a lot of property and women, Don’t you know that all the food we need has arrived?”

"Hey, don't worry, I'm Fat San doing business. The fourteen big ships are all loaded with food, and to show my sincerity, besides food, I also specially obtained a batch of weapons made of fine steel from Daming Chi. I wonder if you need it?" Fat San asked with a treacherous smile on his oily face.

"Weapons? Don't you want to use those tattered weapons to lie to us again? Let me tell you, last time we were almost defeated by officers and soldiers because of your weapons!" Regarding Fat San's words, Cui Cai who came forward to negotiate Said in disbelief.Although Zhang Rui came here in person this time, Cui Cai was a representative sent by the Zhongqing Army. In the past, he was the one who supervised the transactions with Fat San, so he knew Fat San very well.

"Hehe, we are all sensible people. No matter how bad the weapons that Fat San sells are, they are better than your wooden sticks. Moreover, the weapons I used this time are not rags, but really good weapons!" Fat San said He waved to the small boat behind him, and saw a tall man standing up on the boat immediately, and then walked to the beach with a big bag in the sea, and threw the student's bag on the beach.

"Wow~" With the sound of metal collisions, the heavy burden was immediately thrown away, revealing the steel knives inside. Under the light of the moon, they radiated a cool light. That Cui Cai saw When these weapons were used, his eyes lit up.

Fat San bent down with difficulty and picked up a long knife, then pointed to Cui Cai's waist, motioning for him to take out the knife from his waist, Cui Cai let out a "choke~" without thinking. Pull out the waist knife.Immediately afterwards, Fat San raised the long knife in his hand, and slashed down at the waist knife in Cui Cai's hand, only to hear a "choke~", the waist knife in Cui Cai's hand broke in response, and half of the tip fell to the ground. on the beach.

"Good knife!" Cui Cai looked at the half-cut waist knife in his hand and shouted in shock. Although the waist knife on his body was not a good knife, it was also a high-grade weapon picked from the Ming Dynasty weapons traded last time, but now It was cut into two pieces by the knife chosen by Fat San at random. Such a good knife can be called a magic knife.

"Hey, these knives are all standard military knives prepared by our imperial court for the frontier army. It is said that they are steel knives made with a new method. In addition, there are few other weapons that can compare with this kind of steel knife!" Fat San laughed again at this time, and Cui Cai heard that the other party could even get the standard weapons that Da Ming equipped for the frontier army, so he couldn't help feeling sorry for this fat man. San looked up again.

In order to verify whether these steel knives are as sharp as what Fat San said, Cui Cai boarded Fat San's big boat, saw those boxes containing steel knives in the cabin, picked a few at random and tried it, the result Cui Cai was overjoyed to find that these steel knives were as sharp as the one Fat San tried. He immediately counted the quantity of food and weapons, and found that there was no problem with the food, but there were two thousand more steel knives. He couldn't be the master of the knife deal, so he immediately took a steel knife as a sample and got off the boat to report to Zhang Rui.

Zhang Rui also received the news that Fat San had brought a batch of weapons, and he couldn't help being a little surprised, but when Cui Cai came to hand him the steel knife, Zhang Rui was also overjoyed, and immediately came to the beach in person Discuss the steel knife business with Fat San.

"Third shopkeeper, thank you for bringing us life-saving food when we were in crisis. All the gold, silver, treasures and women have been prepared. As for the two thousand steel knives, I also want them. You can set a price!" Zhang Rui strode over and said to Fat San with a smile, food and weapons are what they urgently need. Among the [-] troops of the Zhongqing Army, less than half of them actually have weapons, and the rest are all agricultural tools and wood. Sticks etc. as weapons.

Fat San saw Zhang Rui for the first time, and he looked him up and down a few times. Judging from Cui Cai's respectful performance and the information they collected before, this person in front of him should be two members of the Zhongqing Army. One of the leaders.

Thinking of this, Fat San showed a happy smile, and said slowly: "Hey, these weapons are not expensive, you only need to use your head!" (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome You come to vote for recommendation votes, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation.)