Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2070 Food and grass first, please

  Chang'an.

  The strategic concept of "Great Northern Territory" proposed by Fei Qian immediately spread around Chang'an.

In the past few days, in Chang'an, most of the people were talking about Jingzhou, discussing what kind of results Feiqian could achieve after sending troops in two directions, but what he didn't expect was that it seemed that Feiqian did not I didn't take Jingzhou too seriously...

   This is very interesting.

  In Pinglefang in Chang'an, after entering the square gate, walk along the street, turn left to the first large yard, which is the office of "Dahan Chamber of Commerce".

The gate of the courtyard was wide open, several guards stood on both sides, and a man in charge stood on the steps, who was constantly greeting this shopkeeper and that owner, and then chatting with each other according to the size of their business and financial resources. , very busy.

   As soon as you enter the courtyard, the huge patio and corridors are basically full of merchants, large and small, and there are discussions in groups. These large and small merchants who can enter the chamber of commerce are more or less related, or they have reached a certain scale. After hearing about General Hussar's northern border strategy, these guys with keen senses gathered spontaneously to discuss the future of the city. of business opportunities.

In the process of these people talking and discussing, they would glance at the gate of the second entrance from time to time. When they saw someone walking into the second entrance, even their demeanor and speech did not change, but in their eyes, it was inevitable that There will also be some envy, jealousy and hatred revealed...

   Those who can enter the courtyard twice are not ordinary merchants.

  In the hall of the second entrance courtyard, separated by a wall, the courtyard seemed much quieter. In the hall, the fragrance of tea mixed with sandalwood is lingering and refreshing.

  The person sitting in the chamber of commerce today is Pei Jun.

Generally speaking, Cui Hou belongs to the central position, but during this period Cui Hou left Chang'an and went to the north, while other people went to Sichuan and Sichuan, and those who went to Longxi went to Longxi. Generally speaking, Zhen Mi doesn't show up, so Pei Jun is the one who is holding up the scene in the chamber of commerce for a while.

Pei Jun looked around slowly, "Hussars want to build the Northern Territory Guard, food, equipment, halberd shields, spears, salt and iron, glue paint, cloth, felt blankets, etc. need to be stored, transported, and deployed... This is an unprecedented opportunity…”

  The shopkeepers who were sitting with me all responded one after another.

"Later, someone will draw up a list of items... You can choose your own quotation..." Pei Jun continued, "In business, the benefits of profit are naturally indispensable... But... if you are greedy, or delay things ...Hehe, the ugly words are said first, don't wonder how wronged you will be when the time comes, and you will be punished if you don't teach! 』

  『Yes, I understand…』

  『This is natural! 』

  The shopkeepers of all kinds of items smiled and patted their chests to guarantee.

Pei Jun was not stupid either. He looked at these shopkeepers, smiled again, and said: "Hoarding for strange things, hiding goods and selling them reluctantly. If it's ordinary supplies, it's gone by turning a blind eye. But now it's a big issue for the Hussars. If there are people So short of eyes... Well, hehe, the grass on Guan Zhongtian's grave is already three feet long...』

  If the previous so-called "punishment without teaching" was more or less exaggerated, now that Pei Jun cited specific examples, these guys really felt the seriousness of the matter.

  『This... I'm afraid, it's a bit embarrassing, a little difficult...』

  『Prices, follow the market as you go, if... this, if there is a shortage of goods, the price will inevitably be higher...』

  『A large army needs a large number, and it needs to be widely collected and transported. If it is cheaper, it really can’t be done...』

  『It’s just...don’t say anything else, just talk about Sichuan and Sichuan well salt. If you want to transport it to the northern border, the mountains and rivers are far away, the mules and horses are damaged, and this...』

There was a lot of noise, everyone seemed to be crying about how difficult and miserable their business was, how meager the profit was, and how much they thought about the nation, the people, for the hussars, for the The country has made so many sacrifices and made so many contributions.

When it comes to emotion, even blushing and thick neck, everyone looks like a future generation shouting "everyday, strong Chinese people" every day, and then turned around and hurriedly said "Okay, let's speak first, first to satisfy overseas Chinese and foreign friends When seeing foreigners, I can't wait to pounce on them and lick the back of the ditch, and when I look back, I lower the national standards with a full face of righteousness, add various compounds, and even carcinogens, and then take them out for Huaxia's own family to drink, and even flaunt them It means that this is a high-end product, and it will be sold at a high price. If it is discovered, it will say that it has never been sold to the market...

As a businessman, in the market all day long, intrigues and fights, there are certainly generous and passionate people among them, but if you believe that all the businessmen in this world are full of pride, money and dirt, worry about the country, and loyal For the country, they are all good representatives of the big man...

hehe.

  Pei Jun didn't speak, drank tea slowly, even took a few dried fruits, squeezed them one by one, put them in his mouth and chewed slowly, as if he didn't hear the complaints of these people at all.

  Seeing that Pei Jun didn't care at all, the noise in the hall slowly stopped.

  Yeah, why is Pei Jun in a hurry? Not only Pei Jun, but even Hussar General Fei Qian is not in a hurry, and he didn't say that this year or next year, the Northern Territory Protectorate will be established, but that it will be completed within five or ten years, so now Hussar general Fei Qian is now, immediately, immediately, is there an urgent need to transfer a large amount of supplies to northern Xinjiang?

No.

  The demand is not strong, so the trick of raising prices on the ground is of course useless...

Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Pei Juncai stood up slowly, and then said: "I'm tired today, I have already said what I should say... How to do it, you all have to judge by yourself... Each of you, umm, By the way, shopkeeper Li, stay on your feet, there is something good for you...』

Pei Jun took out a small bamboo tube from his sleeve, sealed with wax paint, and printed with a logo that everyone was not familiar with. After handing it to shopkeeper Li, he added with a smile that it was best to go back and look at it, and then left up.

   Shopkeeper Li rolled his eyes, and was about to put the small bamboo tube back into his arms, but was held back by another person beside him. "Brother Li, brother Li...hehe, what is there that brothers can't know? 』

  『Yeah, yeah, what good thing is it? 』

  『Open it, take a look...』

   Shopkeeper Li said haha, he wanted to leave as he broke free.

  『Brother Li, the last time I drank, didn’t you like my singer... If you share it with my brother right now, how about giving that singer to Brother Li? 』Last time I didn’t play enough, so of course I was reluctant. Now that I'm tired of playing with it, I won't feel any distress when I take it out as a gift.

  『There are good things, let’s share them together... I don’t have any wonderful people on hand, but I have a pair of gilded and carved white jade bowls. If Brother Li...huh? Ha ha…"

  『It is, it is...』

  In the shopping mall, it is not an exaggeration to say that a piece of good news is worth tens of thousands of dollars, let alone it was brought out by Pei Jun. If only the shopkeeper Li knows it, but others don't, then wouldn't it be an invisible loss? What's even more frightening is that if shopkeeper Li hides his secrets, he won't even know where his losses are!

As for the plaything, when I still like it, it is a plaything, when I don’t like it, it is a waste, the kind that is an eyesore, just like some girls’ wardrobes in later generations, they can’t fit when they are full. Well, after a while, when you get tired of playing, you just stuff it in a corner, and you don’t even bother to look at it. Taking it out and giving it away is also recycling, isn’t it?

Shopkeeper Li saw that there were so many benefits, so he gritted his teeth, opened the sealant on the spot, and took out the silk cloth from the bamboo tube to have a look. As a result, his face, which was flushed with excitement because he got a lot of good things, suddenly turned pale. The station was a little unsteady, it shook twice, and almost fell to the ground...

   There is not much written on the silk cloth, but it should have been a secret.

   Shopkeeper Li kept a secret from Li’s family during the last grain increase, and borrowed the owner’s capital to set up a small warehouse... Probably the type of mouse warehouse, and now it is exposed by such a piece of silk...

  The person standing next to shopkeeper Li suddenly took a step aside, and then covered his head, "Ah, suddenly I have a terrible headache and feel dizzy...Ah, I can't bear it anymore, I have to take a step ahead, let me say goodbye..."

  『How is it so dark in this hall that you can’t see anything! Do you really need to add some candles...」

  『Brother Zhang, be careful, I’ll help you...』

  『…』

   Not long after, the people in the hall scattered like birds and beasts, and they left in a short while, leaving only shopkeeper Li holding the silk cloth in a daze, wanting to cry without tears.

  In the backyard, Pei Jun sat on the side seat and respectfully reported back to Sima Yi: "It's all done..."

  Sima Yi nodded, and said: "The news of the Northern Territory Protectorate of the Great Han Dynasty has spread, and there will definitely be hoarders. This is an opportunity for the Great Han Chamber of Commerce to establish its prestige. Mr. Pei should be more careful..."

  『Only. ”Pei Jun cupped his hands and said, “Thank you, Sima, for your suggestions. 』 Comparing people to others is always irritating to death. Logically speaking, Pei Jun defected to Feiqian much earlier than Sima Yi, but now Sima Yi is obviously closer to the center regardless of his low official position. Let alone Pei Jun, even Cui Hou wants to see Sima Yi. Give a respectful salute.

  Sima Yi stood up, said goodbye to Pei Jun, went out the back door, got into the car, and Sima Fu, who was sitting on the right side of the car, couldn't help but look back.

  Si Mayi rolled his eyelids, pretending not to see it.

   After arriving at Sima's house, getting out of the car, and taking a seat in the hall, Sima Yi said: "Chaos is born, and words are the order." If the monarch does not keep secrets, he will lose his ministers, if his ministers do not keep secrets, he will lose his status, and if he does not keep few things secret, he will suffer. Therefore, a gentleman is careful and does not come out... I thought you were in the mansion of the Hussars, and you knew more or less the truth, and never thought about it..."

  Si Mafu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My brother is convicted...just for a while..."

  Sima Yi glanced at Sima Fu, "Have any experience? 』

  Sima Fu nodded repeatedly.

  『Try to say. 』

  Sima Fu suddenly became excited, and was about to stand up and speak impassionedly, but when he saw Sima Yi's staring eyes, he immediately shrunk his figure a bit, and his voice still couldn't conceal the excitement.

  『The hussars played a great game of chess! According to my younger brother...」

  …ヽ(^o^)…

  Go north, thousands of miles, Hetao area.

  Li Dian stood at the top of Yinshan City, looking out, filled with emotion in his heart, how many chapters...cough, how many years, never thought that he would have a day to re-understand and study...

  The horse caravan in the distance outside the city, shouting and the sound of bells rang lively, and another caravan entered the outer market of Yinshan City. This caravan is not small, with a lineup of nearly 200 people and dozens of cars of goods, it is not a small caravan. It is precisely because of this that the Southern Huns also heard about it, and many people came to buy immediately. When the purchase was exchanged, the entire Yinshan City Outer Market became noisy.

  The children cheered, because every time the caravan came, they always brought something new and interesting, while the adults wondered what they had in their hands and what they needed at home...

The original market in Yinshan City is no longer enough due to the increase in population. Therefore, from the outside of Yinshan City, the newly built market can be seen everywhere with shelves and traces of construction. Some places have been dug and just filled , The traces of the new soil also carry a different atmosphere from the past. Due to the unified planning, the new buildings built in conjunction with Yinshan City appear neat and orderly. Although there are not many, the overall scale is relatively large. Once it is finally completed, it will definitely become the largest market in this area.

  Chaos and order, contradictory yet unified in the market.

  It’s like the Han people and Hu people here in Yinshan.

  People from Hanoi, Heluo, and Yuzhou.

  Southern Xiongnu, Qiang people, Xianbei people.

   Various accents, but obey the same rules. Sometimes, the established rules will bring about a stable force, and this force is subtly transforming these people from different places.

  Li Dian came to Yinshan and took over here. I also found and felt some different changes and changes from Cao Cao's side from Yinshan. Of course, Li Dian couldn't figure out how these subtle things work, as if they were supposed to be like this, or were they born like this?

   For example, construction efficiency.

In Li Dian's impression, under Cao Cao's rule, the construction site was always full of supervisors, and there were supervisors shouting all the time, and some lazy and slow laborers were beaten all the time. The ground was dripping with blood and rolling everywhere, even so, the project still couldn't get up quickly, so we could only blindly increase the number of laborers, and then there were distressed small officials and chaotic labor camps everywhere.

  Here in Yinshan, Li Dian knew for the first time that in fact, the project does not necessarily have to be done by those laborers rolling around with blood dripping on the ground. Every labor service has its own quota. If you can’t finish it, you can work from morning to night without a moment’s rest. If you finish it ahead of schedule, the excess can be used in exchange for remuneration…

Of course, there are some lazy ones, but there are also hardworking ones, and generally speaking, the labor force who is willing to exchange strength for more rewards accounts for the majority, so the overall project progress will even be faster than if a large number of supervisors keep beating and scolding. Even faster.

  The key is that at that time in Xu County, they worked day and night, and they had to light torches at night, but here, when it gets dark, they basically call it a day...

When the palace was being built in Xu County, those supervisors kept shouting that they were building the palace for the great man, for the country, and for the emperor, but most of the time the labor was still silent, as if it was almost numb to work , There is no excitement at all why the emperor built a residence.

However, the one in front of us is just an outside market, and the expansion was carried out only because the original market was not enough. To make these working people feel happy? When Li Dian was on patrol, he once heard a civilian husband and other people pointing to a certain section of building, saying that he built the beam on a certain day...

   This is interesting.

Although it is said that some extra remuneration is required, Li Dian has calculated that this way, there is no need to frequently replenish the lost labor, and secondly, there is no need to pay the expenses of the supervisor, and the soldiers stationed to maintain the scene and ensure that a large number of labor will not be disturbed. cost…

   It seems that there are some other benefits, but Li Dian still can't fully understand it. Under the hussars, there are many such things. Compared with the bright side, it seems that the expenses are too much, but in fact, the overall income in the end is better than that of Cao Cao.

  But why can't those people in Xu County know how to use it?

  Is it because Cao Cao doesn’t understand?

  While Li Dian was thinking about it, suddenly a soldier came to report from a distance, saying that it was Yu Fuluo who came to visit...

Because of Yu Fuluo's long-term settlement and the increase of age, the years have gradually accumulated between his waist and abdomen, like annual rings, circles and circles, and his clothes are not the same as those of the Han people. What's the difference, if it wasn't for the smell of mutton on his body, he wouldn't be able to tell whether he was a Hu or a Han at a glance.

  『General Li! Stay safe! 』Yu Fuluo laughed loudly, and greeted each other when they met, and he spoke Chinese perfectly.

  『I have seen Shan Yu. 』Li Dian nodded, also stepped forward to salute.

  After Yu Fuluo sat down, he drank tea, ate two pieces of jerky, and chatted for a while before he got down to business: "This...to tell you the truth about General Li, I have something to ask..."

  Li Dian chuckled, "It's okay for Shan Yu to speak bluntly. 』After all, whether you can agree or not is another matter.

Yu Fuluo laughed so hard that he could see his teeth but couldn't see his eyes, "My third son, on weekdays, also likes to wield knives and guns, running around, and really can't calm down to study, so... I have an unsympathetic feeling." Please, can you... come to General Li and learn some military skills? 』

  Li Dian was originally smiling and listening, but then he put away his smile little by little, and looked at Yu Fuluo seriously, "Shan Yu, do you know what you're talking about?" 』

  (end of this chapter)