Chapter 47 Ranch
The land in this place is fertile and suitable for agriculture and herdsmanship. Since Master Wen Da ordered such places to be grazed on a large scale, and not to be reclaimed.
Many businessmen from Hedong have the vision to enter here to open large ranches. Just like the original Zheng Youmeng, he also does business in the Hetao area.
However, their Zheng family is not very strong. They did not open a large ranch, but instead operated a canned meat business.
This time, Zheng Youmeng represented these great merchants, who went out for thousands of miles and almost ran to the later generations of Ulaanbaatar to work hard on the army. As expected, he was deeply favored by the great master Wen, and the various fur treasures he gave were far more than their spend on the army.
These people have to work hard to repay the grace of the Heavenly Master. When they heard that the army came to this Yunneizhou, they brought a large number of supplies to work hard.
Countless flocks of sheep and groups of war horses were all produced by these ranches and were sent to the army of Wenda Tianshi.
Those who were able to operate pastures and breed war horses here were all in the Song Dynasty, with deep-rooted relationships and huge forces. Even many royal relatives had them.
After all, things like war horses are a perfect strategic material in any era of cold weapons.
However, no matter how powerful these people are, they are the most impressed in front of Master Wen! Who doesn’t know who the most powerful person in the Song Dynasty is now?
But even these people complained when they saw Master Wen. The severe drought in the north had already affected the Hetao area. Even the water flow of the Yellow River had become so much less, so the pastures in the Hetao area were also greatly affected.
"My pasture has turned yellow, and thousands of animals have been starved to death. How can it be done if this continues? It's cheaper for Zheng Youmeng to make cans of meat..."
"My family is even more miserable, and the war horses are constantly losing weight. These are all war horses decided by the court, and are used by Shangfu's army. No matter how difficult the villains are, even if they are hungry, they have to work hard to raise war horses. They also have to buy food from the mainland to feed the horses. They have not made any money, but they have lost a lot..."
This guy is very proud, and those who don’t know think that this guy is clearly boasting and complaining.
Master Wen Dazhe listened and nodded constantly, which made these merchants even more encouraged and spoke one after another.
They had already vaguely heard that the Zheng family seemed to be favored by Master Wen and wanted to do something together.
Who is Shangfu? He was the Taoist king from heaven who came to the earth to reopen peace to this world. What business he values is not profitable?
If you take a step back, even if you really don’t make money, you will always lose money. That’s nothing. As long as you can get in touch with Master Wen and become the family that Shangfu values, it doesn’t matter if you lose hundreds of thousands or millions.
I didn't see the southern city. This guy was appreciated by Shangfu and sat firmly on the Maritime Office's promotion.
You should know that those southerners are really generous. The ones who sent troops to Shangfu will be rewarded with tens of millions of dollars. Although the wealthy merchants in the entire south contributed together, they were extremely shameful to the northern merchants.
Although they sent a lot of supplies to the Forbidden City Army, they did not exceed hundreds of thousands of jin of jin. The main reason was that the journey was long and the consumption was much along the way.
That's how it came to the various precious skin, fur, medicinal materials and other items that Shang Father gave him were already worth the price.
It seems that Shangfu really looks down on them, these northern merchants!
Those southern merchants spent tens of millions, but only let Qingbancheng be their representatives as their representatives to become the promotion of the Maritime Bureau. And they also have to ensure that the taxes paid by the Maritime Bureau cannot be less than tens of millions of yuan each year.
Just from these numbers, we can calculate how much money these merchants can make in a year.
The world is like a crow, and the world is like a businessman. He also cannot get up early without profit. If he cannot make money back, who would foolishly agree to such conditions?
So no matter what it is, you have to join the army with Master Wen. There are enough Northland merchants, and they can also work together to earn tens of millions of yuan. They will not be worse than the Southerners.
In this era, although the economy in the south began to emerge, the gap between the north and the south has not yet been completely opened.
It was not until after the Southern Song Dynasty that two ripened in this year and three ripened in a year, the Chameng rice that was fully popularized and became rich in the south of the Yangtze River, which completely left the north far behind, and even could not even see the dust tail.
However, at this time, the ecology in the north has not been completely destroyed, and the cultivation of Chameng rice in the south has not been completely popularized. Although the economic proportion in the south has exceeded that in the north, the difference is not too far.
In particular, there is a Tokyo city, which is the center of wealth and material resources in the world, which has further increased the proportion of the northern economy.
Furthermore, after the demise of the Western Xia, the Silk Road quietly opened. Although it could not reach the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties and connected the East and West, it had already reached a scale and could trade with the Turkic Khanate.
The treasures and wonders of the Great Food Land can be continuously traveled to and from the Song Dynasty by land. However, in the two years since the demise of Western Xia, we could see Chang'an and Kaifeng, and there were suddenly more Hu people coming and going.
This gave the northern merchants even more confidence that they could do what the southerners could do.
That can monopolize the maritime trade of the Maritime Trade Department and pay tens of millions of yuan to the court every year. These merchants can naturally also launch spokespersons and monopolize the trade of the entire Silk Road.
Master Wen Datian nodded with a smile on his face, as if he was very grateful for the "loyalty and courage" of these merchants.
After listening for half an hour, he smiled and said, "From the perspective of this Tianshi, I am waiting for the pasture to be incorrect."
These words suddenly made everyone quiet. I don’t understand why Master Wen, who was still very kind just now, suddenly said this.
But more people were upset in their hearts and forgot what kind of person Master Wen was. After giving them some smiles, these people began to be arrogant. They actually said so many complaints to Master Wen, and they were simply so proud.
However, when Master Wen saw these people suddenly calm down, he knew that they had misunderstood their meaning. However, Master Wen was not in a hurry, and slowly picked up the tea bowl and started drinking tea with great pleasure.
Although Master Wen Datian used to promote tea ceremony from the Northern Song Dynasty in modern time and space, he himself was not very accustomed to drinking broken tea from the Song Dynasty.
In addition, he monopolized all famous teas such as Longjing early, so he naturally started to drink fried tea. If the superiors like him, the subordinates will definitely be even more so. What's more, a god-like man like Master Wen Da?
As soon as Master Wen Da drank the tea, it quickly became popular among the royal nobles. The civil and military officials, even promoted the civil and civilians, were even more popular, and now it has spread all over the country and on both sides of the Yellow River.
The most popular one is Jiangnan. These methods of drinking tea have their roots in Jiangnan. In history, they were first spread in temples and finally spread throughout the world.
It’s interesting to say that Eastern tea and Western coffee are both popularized from religion, probably these things have the effect of refreshing the mind.
The tea in the East is considered by those monks who practice Zen to be a divine thing that keeps awake and defeats the Sandman.
After the coffee flow was introduced into the Great Food Land, it quickly became popular in the Crescent Church, and was often drunk as a refreshing drink. After it was introduced to Europe again, it was first accepted in the church and then it became popular in the secular world.
Master Wen was slowly savoring the fragrant tea here, but the merchants were sweating profusely, scaring themselves, and some of them could no longer sit still, and were shaking, their faces were pale as if they were about to faint at any time.
"Actually, there is no need to learn how to raise those beards outside the border." Master Wen seemed to have tasted enough fragrant tea, so he slowly said this sentence, almost causing these tense guys to mess with each other.
"Why is my Han family richer and richer than those Hu people? Are they nomadic, we are farming land? If those Hu people want to make a living, they need at least 500 sheep. One sheep needs at least two or three acres of grassland area to support it."
"Shangfu is indeed as if he is a torch," the merchants witnessed Master Wen's words, but did not make any sense of their intentions. They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Although they didn't know what the use of Master Wen's words were, they did not dare to speak randomly, but just took the opportunity to flatter them crazy.
"Don't look at those sluts, they raise a lot of horses. When we Han people think of it, they think they are very happy when eating mutton every day. How is it possible? It's like the butchers of our Song Dynasty can't afford pork, and those sluts can't afford lamb several times a year."
"That's right, that's it. The livestock on the grassland are thinner in spring, strong in summer, fat in autumn, and dead in winter. There are black disasters and white disasters, but they are far worse than the ability of our people in the Song Dynasty to resist disasters. Once disasters occur, a large number of animals may die.
And the exploitation and bullying of those clan leaders, to be honest, these sluts live much more miserable than the farmers in our Song Dynasty!”
Master Wen Datian listened to these guys talking quietly, and then smiled and said, "No, not bad. Those nomadic Hu people eat the most but various dairy products, and they can't afford meat. But since you know, why do you still learn the way of the Hu people to run the ranch?"
Everyone was looking at each other in front of this. What else can we do if the ranch is not managed like this?
It’s just that he is quick-witted and willing to think, carefully understand the meaning of Shang’s father’s words, and deeply understand the spirit.
Chapter completed!