Chapter fifty-six big profits
"Hurry, stop them!" Zhang Degui, who had a pale face, was so shocked that he almost fell down, and his words were trembling.
The horse's hooves rumbled, and the snow and mud flew straight from the tip of the forest, flashing with a cold blue light, and rushed towards him in an instant!
What made Zhang Degui almost furious was that the group of swordsmen who had spent a lot of money had finally formed a formation. Facing the wedge-shaped battle formations formed by the Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry, who was still more than 100 steps away from him, someone shouted, and the group of swordsmen immediately collapsed.
They threw away their swords and cried and ran around to escape, and when the people who transported goods saw this, they immediately knelt down and begged for mercy.
Zhang Degui stopped screaming and ordered the swordsmen to continue to resist. He watched the cavalry rushing away in a daze, his eyes full of fear and confusion.
Seeing that the enemy troops on the opposite side had disintegrated, the cavalry team that rushed over quickly divided into two parts.
The Xuanhu heavy rider in front lined up in a straight line, heading straight to the shore of the lucky ship, heading up the board, and then rushed to the deck, and immediately slashed and killed the sailors who were panicked and wanted to pull the anchor to escape.
The flying kite light cavalry behind them made loud whistles, and everyone waved their sharp knights in their hands, chasing the swordsmen running around the beach.
It was not a battle at all, but a massacre.
More than thirty swordsmen and seven or eight sailors were killed quickly.
Seeing the remaining swordsmen who were hopeless to escape, and the sailors who screamed and wailed on the boat, they knelt down and begged for their lives almost at the same time.
Li Xiao waved his right hand and made a gesture to signal the end of the battle and accept their surrender.
Li Xiao's order made the infantry that finally rushed over, helpless and annoyed, but he didn't expect that he had worked so hard to come over, but the battle was over, just giving the cavalry a soy sauce.
Amid the cavalry's laughter, the resentful infantry began to get angry with the captives. They begged without caring for the surrendered swordsmen, forcibly stripped off all the new and thick cotton armor on their bodies, and tied them up like rice dumplings.
At this time, Wu Liang, the front army, took his men and ordered the people to move all the items from twenty large trucks to the ship while counting the items.
Soon, Wu Liang ran over with excitement and reported to Li Xiao about the statistics of the goods.
"In this battle, our army obtained a total of 4,000 taels of gold, 70,000 taels of gold and 80,000 taels of gold, 60,000 taels of silver, and 50,000 taels of silver, and both were 50,000 taels of official silver, and all had the official ingots of the government. The dispersion silver was about 80,000 taels of silver, and the quality was 70,000, which was quite good. In addition, the cloth silk obtained included Lu silk, lake silk, fine red yarn, black blue thread, red wool cotton, sky blue silk, cotton silk, red purple silk, red green silk, yellow flat silk, hang yarn, yellow cooked large silk, big red thread, indigo cloth, etc., and all of them were valuable goods, ahem..."
Wu Liang spoke anxiously, and suddenly the cold wind blew and coughed continuously.
"Mr. Wu, don't worry." Li Xiao still smiled calmly, but he was extremely happy.
Li Xiao knew that these things were mainly goods in the south, and transported from the south to the north, and the logistics costs were extremely high. Although there were not many official banknotes in the Ming Dynasty, they could not hold back all the way to set up tax cards for the powerful and local governments, and they were all the way to the north. The freight and manpower plus private banknotes were very expensive. If you really want to sell them to the Houjin side, the cheapest yellow thread yarn would cost more than eight taels per piece. The other high-end silks, lake silk and other high-end silks would cost more than five or six taels per piece in the Suzhou and Hangzhou area of the production area. If you ship to Liaodong, you can sell them for thirteen taels per piece. If you sell them to the Houjin side, the price would reach twenty-five or six taels per piece, which could be considered huge profits!
This kind of precious fabric is only a few wealthy families who are willing to buy it and wear it in Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places. It is good to have one or two pieces for ordinary middle-class families.
According to historical records, because silk is so precious in the Later Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji's guards actually secretly stole his silk shirt, which is a strange story for all ages!
"Next, the cargo on the ship." Wu Liang stopped coughing and said hurriedly: "In the cargo hold of the Fu Ship, a total of 120 bear skins, 80 tiger skins, 110 leopard skins, 350 deer skins, 200 wolf skins, 100 fox skins, 80 mink skins, 500 rabbit skins, 100 musk skins, 400 deer antlers, 500 Dadongzhu, 500 old mountain ginseng, 150 ordinary wild ginseng, and 500 scattered small ginseng."
Wu Liang spoke with excitement on his face, and Li Xiao's eyes were lit up when he heard it.
There seems to be not much of these goods transported from the Donglu, but they are real luxury goods in the mainland of Ming Dynasty and are extremely valuable.
I thought that for the ginseng weighed by pounds in the Later Jin area, a most common ginseng can be sold for a few taels of silver in the Jiangnan area. The whole ginseng of one or more ounces is almost the equivalent of gold. And those nearly ten taels of old wild ginseng can be sold for thousands of taels of silver in the Jiangnan area!
The fur was originally an accessory for the Jurchens after hunting and feeding, and was not worth much in the local area, but when transported to the Ming Dynasty, the price doubled. The most expensive mink fur could receive nearly a thousand taels of silver. Only noble ladies at the level of marquis and rich merchants were willing to buy it.
Others, each pound of deer antler can be sold for more than 30 taels in the Ming Dynasty, the most common Dadongzhu can also be worth more than 20 taels per, while each wild Northeast musk deer and musk can be worth 200 taels per silver!
Li Xiao thoughtfully and thoughtfully, this battle to seize wealth, conservatively estimated that he had obtained a total of about 400,000 taels of silver.
This battle to seize wealth made a lot of money.
Li Xiao smiled brightly, and the famous generals next to him all smiled on his face.
"Damn it, we have finally developed. Now our army will no longer have to worry about spending money." Tian Wei rubbed his hands with excitement.
"It is still Lord Li who is smart enough to capture Zhang Manager Zhang and all the wealth and goods who were smuggling in the enemy, without missing a single net. Now our soldiers can finally live a good life." Wang Yishou next to him also smiled so hard.
"Hmph, our army is rich now, and it will be serious if we vigorously expand our recruitment in the future! When we arrived in Shandong, the stingy Liu Zeqing saw that our soldiers were so strong, and he would never dare to underestimate us anymore!" Mo Changrong curled his lips and added.
While everyone was chatting and laughing, Zhang Degui, who was tied up in large numbers, was snatched by Duan Shiqi and several spearmen and snatchers to Li Xiaoma in front of him.
Li Xiao saw that the shopkeeper Zhang looked very embarrassed at this time. His hat fell off, his hair was scattered, and the fox fur on his body was torn apart, revealing the brocade underwear inside.
But his eyes were still the same as before, full of fear and confusion.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, don't be fine." A contemptuous sneer appeared on Li Xiao's face.
"Li Xiao! You thief dare to rob people's wealth in broad daylight. Do you know that these wealth is owned by many Liaodong generals, you are a small boss..."
"Bang!"
Li Xiao raised the whip in his hand and thrust hard on Zhang Degui's face. Zhang Degui screamed in pain, covering his face immediately, but blood seeped out of his fingers.
"Zhang Degui, don't be quibbling! You guy ignore the court's laws and orders and are brave enough to dare to smuggle trade with the Tartars. As an official in the Ming Dynasty, how can I ignore it? Look at yourself, the fur of this whole blessing boat, Dongzhu and ginseng, aren't traded with the Tartars, but where did you come from? You guy have already gained all the stolen goods, so what else can you say! Zhang Degui, you fell into the hands of my official today, and you have committed many unjust deaths!"
After Li Xiao finished this passage coldly, Zhang Degui was speechless, suddenly his legs and feet became weak and he collapsed to the ground.
"Li Xiao, do you want to kill me?" Zhang Degui's voice was soft.
"Kill you?" Li Xiao sneered again: "No, if I don't kill you, if I kill you, I'm afraid I'll dirty my hands."
Zhang Degui's eyes lit up suddenly. He raised his head and looked at Li Xiao in a daze, then kowtowed like pounding garlic, while shouting: "Li Xiao, as long as you are willing to let me go, as long as you are willing to leave my life. Then today's incident will be revealed. All my wealth will be given to Lord Li, and I will give it to him..."
"Shopkeeper Zhang, don't say much." Li Xiao interrupted him coldly, then pointed at the back of the whip in his hand and said lightly: "Look back, the person who killed you is coming from there."
Chapter completed!