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Chapter 91 Smuggling is profiteering

Cangtou Army!
Both Wang Mahan and Tanzong expressed dissatisfaction with the name and felt that it was not powerful enough, but Li Chongjiu didn't care about them so much.

The establishment of 450 people, according to the establishment of the Sui Army at that time, a group of ten people, set up a group leader, a team of 50 people, a team leader and a team deputy,
A brigade consists of 200 people, with a brigade leader and a brigade deputy, and a regiment of [-] people, with a school lieutenant.

The current Cangtou army has two regiments. Among the soldiers of the government, there are 1000 or [-] people in the upper government, that is, six regiments, five regiments in the middle government, and four regiments in the lower government.

Li Chongjiu's current military strength can't even meet the standard of the government.Therefore, Li Chongjiu proclaimed himself a general for the time being, and commanded the whole army.

Wang Mahan is the lieutenant of Yueqi, with a regiment of 200 people, including 150 cavalry in the main army, accompanied by two cavalry, and 50 auxiliary soldiers without horses.

Tan Zong was a lieutenant of the infantry, with a regiment of 250 people under his command.

However, Li Chongjiu is just putting on airs at the moment. According to the Yingyang Mansion of the Sui Army, there is one general Yingyanglang, several lieutenants below the rank, and Sima, as well as soldiers.

The brigade leader, brigade deputy, team leader, team deputy, and team leader in the two regiments are all selected from Shaolin Temple disciples and bodyguards of the bodyguard bureau, so as to strengthen the control over the grassroots.

Li Chongjiu has great confidence in the Shaolin lay disciples he brought from Shaoshi Mountain all the way.As the chief coach of Shaolin Temple back then, the monks and soldiers of Shaolin Temple were all trained by Li Chongjiu.

Among other things, in the past two and a half years in Shaolin Temple, Shaolin monks and soldiers not only defeated the bandits who attacked many times, but also assisted the government in fighting and wiped out many stubborn bandits.These 70 Shaolin lay disciples are elites who have survived more than a dozen fights on the battlefield.

The fighting strength of Shaolin disciples is even better than that of the bodyguards of the Li family's bodyguards who have traveled inside and outside the Great Wall for many years, let alone ordinary fighters.

Therefore, the backbone formed by Shaolin disciples is also the guarantee of the combat effectiveness of the two regiments at the moment, and they can form combat effectiveness over time.

The personnel are ready, and the following is the equipment. Li Chongjiu is equipped according to the standard configuration of the soldiers of this era.

Each infantry regiment has a bow of one and a half to two stones, and bows of more than one and a half stones are used as regular soldiers, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers. The infantry use longbows, and the cavalry use horn bows.As for the armor, the government soldiers don't need to prepare it themselves, it is usually provided by the imperial court, and Li Chongjiu's current financial resources are temporarily unable to buy it.

As for the crossbow, this is a sharp weapon used by farming peoples to fight against grassland peoples. It is certainly useful, but it is also a controlled weapon of this era. Li Chongjiu is temporarily unable to get it, and there is no blacksmith to imitate it. Borrow the crossbow and use it first. As for the crossbow that is kicked and stretched, I can only think about it temporarily.

As for the weapons, Li Chongjiu will be Wang Mahan after the establishment is complete, and Tanzong will lead the army to train.

Mansion training, farming on weekdays, practicing archery at home, and in winter, General Lang will lead the army to hunt in winter, or go to the top.

The main occupation of the grassland tribes is nomadic herding, and the sideline is hunting.

Li Chongjiu also used the method of hunting to train his troops, and asked Wang Mahan and Tanzong to lead their men to hunt in all directions on the grassland.

The place where Huaihuang Town is located is today's Bashang, which has a very wide area, and the Mulan Paddock of later generations is also on the Bashang.

Bashang is a vast grassland with dense forests. Although it is a plateau, there are many shallow lakes.

Therefore, there is absolutely no shortage of prey in the land on the dam.

Li Chongjiu is also planning for food. More than 2000 people eat horse chews every day, which costs a lot. Now it seems that at least until the harvest in autumn, there will be a harvest. The current period belongs to business, and there is no The investment period of return, life is not easy.

After the early spring, the grassland has another scene.The formerly abandoned Huaihuang Town has taken on a new look.

A large area of ​​waste bricks and rubble within the city wall of Huaihuang Town has been cleared out, and now it has been replaced with various tents to cover it.The city wall is still so dilapidated, but the surrounding sheep and horse walls are already working overtime.

All young and strong people who can use their strength build sheep and horse walls here.The sheep and horse wall is half a foot high and six feet thick. It is ten steps away from the city and built with rammed earth as the first layer of defense for the three-foot-high outer wall of Huaihuang Town.

The sheep and horse wall, which is also the first obstacle to the lack of water in the north and the lack of a moat.

For Li Chongjiu right now, it can be regarded as the first line of defense in Huaihuang Town, Jiancheng City in the future.

At the same time, on the north side of the city, a grass market has been built.

This grass market is the market used by the special convenience room to learn about the transactions with Huaihuang Town.The shepherds put the fur and hunting income here to trade with the Han people.

Before Li Chongjiu left Mobei, he exchanged the start-up capital and 300% of the shares of the merchants for [-] million yuan, and Li Hu's belongings. In addition to buying a lot of food, seeds, and tents, he also bought a lot of money. Tea bricks from Shaoshu land and high-quality Lu salt are exchanged here with people who know about the tribe in the form of barter.

Grassland people cannot live without tea, otherwise they will not be able to touch the greasy taste of food, let alone salt, so these two things are in high demand.

For trading, what Li Chongjiu needed most was the hard currency on the grassland, the horns of cattle and sheep.No matter what kind of fur, Li Chongjiu will buy it.

The price of fur is definitely the lowest in autumn, because herdsmen want to kill those cattle and sheep that are not fat enough to survive the winter, so fur can be said to be everywhere.

But herdsmen don't know how to tan leather, so the peeled sheepskin and cowhide will only be covered with insect eyes after a year.

Therefore, the profiteers from the Han region would go to the grasslands in late autumn to buy a large amount of cheap furs. After returning to the Han region, they would use lime to remove hair and alum to tan the leather, and the price could easily be doubled.

Therefore, when Li Chongjiu opened a grass market on the grassland, he turned the grassland merchants, such mobile purchases, into a fixed purchase point.The biggest and greatest benefit is that it can avoid the customs duties imposed by the border county. Otherwise, in Mayi, Yanmen, and Shanggu, as soon as they enter the customs, they will be stripped away by local officials. Not much.

Therefore, smuggling is definitely a huge profit.

Now in Caoshi outside the sheep and horse wall, the Xibu herdsman who just came back from hunting is riding his own good horse, leading his own big mastiff, and is holding the yellow sheepskin, water moss skin, and fox skin he hunted with Li Chongjiu. Vendors in the Grass Market haggled over prices.

Since private traders have not yet set up a store in the grass market, the purchase of sheepskins is the behavior of Li Chongjiu's family.

The few troopers currently working for the Li Family Escort are not good at martial arts, but they are good at business. They use the bright colors of their fur and the gaps under the skin to lower prices from various aspects, and those who do not understand the market Xi Ren quarreled and blushed.But in the end, these scoffers are often able to do everything, and they return satisfied with a piece of tea brick or a little bit of salt.

Huge profits, this is definitely huge profits.

Similarly, for the current Xi clan, there is a considerable shortage of ironware. Many of the arrowheads used by the Xi tribe are made of stone, animal teeth, and copper arrowheads.

As for the shoes used to nail the horseshoes, Xi Bu didn't even have to think about it.

However, things like ironware are also strictly controlled by the imperial court. Li Chongjiu obtained a lot of money through the Li Family Escort Bureau.

Li Chongjiu ordered the craftsmen among the refugees to build a blacksmith's shop in the city first.

Li Chongjiu is not prepared, he can forge weapons in one go, let alone armor, but some simple things such as chisels, chisels, pipes, axes, and saws should be able to be forged.

If it doesn’t work, at least some farm tools, such as hoes, shovels, and rakes, can be repaired.

(End of this chapter)