Chapter 143: Kaifeng is doing well, Jincheng is busy recruiting soldiers. Daxia!

"Look at it, is it feasible to set up a semicolon in Kaifeng?" Yang Zaixing was really psychologically hindered by Li Qiong, who had been in Jincheng, but he was really unsure of his mind at the moment of a large amount of money.

"Brother, Gao thought this matter was feasible!" Gao Lin was the first to stand up to support the establishment of Kaifeng's semicolon: "As long as you don't sell iron tools to the Han army, wherever the semicolon goes, you can also find out the virtual and real cities, which will be helpful in restoring the big plan. The head of the semicolon can also take the opportunity to make friends with generals and commanders of the army, thinking that the future use of this matter was beyond the weight of wealth and goods. Since Wu Shu returned to the north, most of the thieves went north, and along the river were all guarded by the Han army. How could the thief chief in Shangjing be in charge of the life and death of the Han army? If they were widely exchanged with the Han army, they could achieve miraculous results."

Yang Zaixing's eyes lit up: Before, he considered business more, but rarely considered the military value of the semicolon. After all, Gao Lin had been in charge of the army for many years, and what he considered was the overall situation of the anti-Jin situation, which was much more clever. But Li Dongzhu also made sense. Most of the Han army's family members were from poor families. If the Han army dared to act rashly and had a small family in Yanyun, Hebei, he would be dragged down. It is easy to make friends with generals, but it is quite difficult to make them anyway. However, it is just that the time when a big game is played to the critical moment of layout, he can get several tricks in the heart of the enemy, and he will be able to get high returns in the future!

Luo Yan added: "Hebei has raised a lot of grain and grass from Yanyun area, and it is difficult to transfer, which means one stone of rice and two taels of silver. The grain produced in Jincheng is currently enough for two years. If we sell some goods to the Han army, the silver we get will be bought in Jiangnan, and the return will be three times the profit, which will not be as good as iron tools."

Yang Zaixing smiled and said, "This is nothing. The middle-aged treasury of Jincheng's food was only 20,000 shi. Now it is a little more than military rations. However, the Jincheng army will increase greatly in the day, so there will be not much at that time. Even if you sell half of the Han army, you will only earn 30,000 or 20,000 yuan, which is not as profitable as the two counties in Jiangnan. What's the point!"

Yue Lei did not want to participate in such business discussions, but he couldn't stop listening to this, "Uncle Yang, my nephew has an idea. If the business can have hundreds of people in Kaifeng City and are all elite soldiers, when the war begins in the future, he will not wait for the Han army to do anything, and he will be a surprise weapon!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Gao Lin pondered for a moment and said, "The second young master's plan is OK, but it must be useful when the army attacks. If the formation is clearly set to start a war, Li Qiong would kill or drive out the branch number early, how could this little manpower destroy the city defense?"

Yang Zaixing waved his hand to stop everyone: "It's not up to date. It's useful. Now, you have to select capable people to enter Kaifeng, as long as Li Qiong has a share. From now on, Jincheng merchants can go everywhere in the north and south of Henan. Isn't that taking care of our Jincheng to make a fortune? But you have to pay attention to the ground in the south of the Yangtze River. Starting next month, select some people to come to Jincheng. This year, the Jincheng army will be no less than 30,000 people, so that you can compete for Hebei. Brothers must work harder, don't let it go!"

Everyone was greatly inspired. If the Jincheng army had 30,000 troops, it could be compared with the Huaidong army. Han Shizhong had only 30,000 troops in the past, but Wu Shu led more than 200,000 troops to look at Huaidong. Although there were naval troops and the natural danger of the Yangtze River, the way to strengthen the troops was quite impressive, looking at Wang Sheng and others was quite impressive. The Jincheng army could make Li Qiong return with less than 4,000 elite troops without success. It already had the foundation for elite troops. The scale of training in the city was now reaching 12,000 soldiers. If the heroes of the Jiangnan Chivalrous Society were drawn within half a year, and the local Song people would recruit local Song people, it would be very difficult to reach 30,000 troops. However, if these soldiers and horses were to be enforced and all the soldiers were refined, it would not be possible for two years, but there was a scale of deterrence to the Central Plains. Compared with the situation of guarding Guxing in Taihang Village, it was more than a thousand miles away!

At this moment, everyone was secretly assigned. Gao Lin personally led more than a hundred men. He dressed up in various colors, escorted escorts, pulled carts, and carried flags to Kaifeng City with Li Dongzhu. Li Qiong did not break his promise. The gate of Kaifeng was wide open to welcome everyone in Jincheng merchants into the city. Most of the city were the yamen of various departments in the past, and they actually placed Kaifeng sections in the military and horse yamen of the past. Not only was the territory spacious, there were many houses, but there were also a large competition behind them, which allowed two thousand soldiers to be set up. Gao Lin was secretly happy and did not say much. He settled his subordinates to clean up and sorted them out. He opened the flag of the "Jincheng Merchant" and followed Li Dongzhu to Li Qiong to write a letter.

Li Qiong was quite careful and meticulous. Since Wu Shu returned to the north, he closed the palace and lived in the military camp in front of the Great Song Dynasty for a long time. He did not dare to easily violate the taboos and was very respectful to the Jurchen military supervisors. However, his life was a little more difficult, but he did not dare to ask Wu Shu for more food and wages, so he took his mind to Yang Zaixing. Kaifeng City was not comparable to other cities, and the financial owner was unwilling to open a venue here, just to prevent merchants from entering the south of the Yangtze River and causing changes. Only the Jincheng business, which belongs to the Dajin in name, could do this business.

After all, Li Qiong is not as cruel as the Jurchen generals. He is not too cruel to the old people in Kaifeng City. The life of the Song people is slightly better than before, but since ancient times, there has been no businessman. If no one is engaged in business, it is just a stagnant pool. When I saw Yang Zaixing's letter, I saw that there was a famous line "March in late spring, the grass in the south of the Yangtze River grows, peanut trees, and warblers fly around". It was used in the letter written by Qiu Chi of Liang Dynasty and Chen Bozhi of the Northern Wei Dynasty hundreds of years ago. I still don't know what Yang Zaixing's hidden order is. However, the killing of the Minister of War of the Song Dynasty in Huaixi had long made Li Qiong have a long time ago. Although he was implicitly mocked by Yang Zaixing, he had to endure it.

"Master Gao can reply to your master. The business names in Kaifeng City should not carry weapons. If there is a stagnant area, it will be controlled by a certain family. From then on, the goods in Jiangnan can be in and out of Jingxi Road, and goods in Hebei can also be traded here. However, other merchants in Jiangnan are not allowed to enter and exit Kaifeng City, but this season must not be forgotten." Li Qiong repeatedly reminded Gao Lin, and Gao Lin naturally agreed. In fact, some weapons were included in the first batch of local equipment for building commercial buildings, but they could not be forbidden? Of course, if someone comes to ask for trouble in the future, he will naturally ask Li Qiong to settle the situation, which is better than exposing the strength of the semicolon.

Facts have proved that Li Qiong has a good vision. As long as he introduces Jincheng business, the trading environment of Kaifeng is not comparable to other places! Needless to say, the tens of thousands of Song people in the city are just the old capital of Song, and they cannot be compared with the heyday of that year, but the remaining streets and alleys are far from comparable to other cities. In addition to the prosperous population of Lin'an Xindu, today, if the palaces are prosperous, even Shangjing, Yanjing is not as good as that of Shangjing. Various trading markets are available, but there are no merchants for a long time.

. It was already a bit too deserted. Now that Jincheng's business has settled in, the wealth and goods in Jiangnan suddenly surged. Not only did the capital resurrect, but even the merchants from Jin Kingdom and Xixia from Hebei came to hear the news. In a few months, it greatly exceeded the scale of the Jincheng market. By the end of the year, Li Qiong's monthly tax amount reached more than 40,000 yuan, and Jincheng even built a special treasury to pile up silver shipped from Kaifeng. Yang Zaixing made seven times that of Li Qiong, and he actually made all the compensation for the Song Dynasty to the Jin Kingdom!

However, when Kaifeng branch was first established, Yang Zaixing had no time to inquire about business. At the end of April, the wheat was ripe at the foot of Taihang Mountain, and tens of thousands of hectares of golden wheat fields were Yang Zaixing's favorite. At this time, Zezhou Prefecture had already restored its old views. In addition to the government office, nearly 70,000 Song people were placed in Jincheng, where the government office was located, the county seat was also under the control of the Jincheng army. Nearly 20,000 Song people were placed in each county, and the population of one government and four cities reached 120,000. Back then, the villages of the Chivalrous Society were all located.

The people of Song Dynasty naturally all went down the mountain. Only a thousand men were left to stay at the pass. Other Taihang rebels also came to hear the news. They were willing to merge into Jincheng and joined the army in Jincheng. They refused to subdue Yang Zaixing's jurisdiction but led their troops to occupy one of the three counties. As long as they did not violate the laws of the Yue Family Army in Ezhou in the past, no one would care about it. However, the city defense and tax revenue of each city were controlled by Wang Lan. The leaders of each village could only cultivate farms outside the city and had no other items of investment, but it was better than on the mountain.

Only with such a large population can large-scale farming be possible. Needless to say, the Jincheng army has grown 30% of the land wheat this year, and the rest are planted by the Song people in Jincheng. After harvesting in early May, the yield was more than two stones per mu. There was 36,000 stones of grain in the military grain warehouse alone. Yang Zaixing was sure that these grains were enough for the entire army to use for a year. It was not even considered the land grain last year. Although it had expanded to 12,000 troops on the basis of more than 4,000 last year, it was also full of food. If the food obtained by the people in the city was added, a war broke out, and Jincheng could be kept for a year without shortage of food!

But this year, we must not only care about defending the city, but also about expanding the army! If it is expanded to 30,000 troops, the current warehouse will be less than half a year of food and grass. This is not Yang Zaixing's goal! Luo Yan immediately got the order and led his army out of the city to farm and expand the summer grain planting to 20,000 hectares. Although there were more than 10,000 elite troops, the project still took more than a month to achieve a small success. The people in the city were shocked: the grain grown by the Jincheng army was actually planted more than the tens of thousands of Song people in the city! But the men in the army tsk.

There was a troublesome saying: "I am a soldier. I was fighting against the thieves and the people. How could I know that I still can't get rid of the duty of farming!" It was just that this foolish man said it, and everyone's faces changed drastically. Wang Lan happened to appear and gave him a thunder from behind: "Treat death! What do you know? Before the Yue-yeon led his army to the Northern Expedition, he planted grain in Ezhou for six years! Do you think it's a place to play? If the country has no food, it is unstable, and if the army has no food, it is unstable. Are you still waiting for the court to send you food and grass?"

The troops did not dare to talk about it anymore, and after Wang Lan left, they were all shocked.

Starting from May, all the Jincheng merchants in Jiangnan received an order from Yang Zaixing to select strong men to go north to Jincheng to join the army. Among them, the army is in Hebei, and the family is small and small. If the family is in Taihang, Jincheng is also allowed, and the rest of the Jiangnan family are not listed here. If there are Jiangnan people who are determined to join the Jincheng army, they must have brothers in the family and not accept any of their only sons. After this order, the Jiangnan sections are boiling, and the officials of each section are in a quarrel.

"Your Majesty, my family can't settle the score. I've just moved goods and escorted cars for more than a year. I'm really bored! I've also killed the Jin thieves under Grandpa Zongze, so I'll let our family go to Jincheng!" A bearded man blocked in front of the Ezhou branch gate and fought with Wang Hanyu. Wang Hanyu smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Qin is such a hurry to be righteous. Who doesn't know about the Ezhou branch? It's just that the battle has lasted for years. Although my brother was brave back then, now he's about to hold his grandson, so he's happy to be at home and pay for his blessings. Don't suffer that crime!"

The man surnamed Qin was obviously dissatisfied: "Holding a grandson is considered a bird! There are three unfilial things, and no descendants are the best. Our boy has married a wife and stayed in Jiangnan. If he dies, he will only have a mound of soil. What is worth it? Grandpa Yue was three years older than me back then. Didn't he still go to fight to kill the enemy? Prince Don't worry, Old Qin's bones are not loose yet. If you don't believe me, try!" While saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and showed his arm muscles, which made Wang Hanyu laugh and cry: "Brother Qin, this book explains clearly that you are over 40 years old. How can you make things difficult for your brothers?"

Wang Hanyu tried hard to persuade a veteran, but Mo Yu from Jianzhou was refusing a young man.

"Master Mo! Zhou Yu has knelt down for you! Please let us go to Jincheng! Our family is from Gaoping, Zezhou, and we have no family when we cross the river. If it weren't for the uncle and uncle who gave the river water, he would have died on Jingxi Road. Now he has no relatives here, why not let us go to Master Yang in Jincheng to learn some magic gun skills and avenge the elders in the future!" The young man knelt in front of Mo Yu and refused to get up. The eyes of the men around him all turned red. Mo Yu smiled bitterly: "Zhou Yu, get up quickly, it's not that I won't accept you. In this Jianzhou semi-colon, who has not regarded you as a nephew in these years? But Master Yang has an order and will not accept you at the age of seventeen. How can you go?"

This boy was still a baby under term wrapped in a mess when he crossed the river in Jingkang. Someone in the Jianzhou branch colum was indeed a ship with him. He saved his life when he saw movement in the mess. However, there was no news at home. He only knew that the ship was a group of refugees from Jincheng. Now he had just grown all the skeletons and planned to return to Jincheng to take revenge.

For a time, the Song people from Hebei who had crossed Henan and went to the south of the second chapter were originally an internal affairs in the business, but after hearing about it, the Song people in some places tried hard to participate. However, most of the Hebei people were originally from Hebei, but few people who were in Jiangnan responded. After all, they had no blood feud with the Jin people, and they had not even seen military disasters. Those who live in Jiangnan could not have such a painful pain!

Teams of strong men were escorting goods from Jiangnan to Zhenjiang, Jiankang, Ezhou and other places, but they never returned. They arrived at the Yellow River with the goods, and small teams came to greet them on the other side of Jincheng. After each ship of cargo crossed the river, there were big men who were far more than needed for transportation to go to Jincheng with the goods. They traveled back and forth in this way, trying to avoid the Jin army city along the way. The squad's cavalry did not dare to provoke the Jincheng business team, and they easily sent more than 10,000 men to Jincheng under Li Qiong's eyes!

Since then, the competition in Jincheng City has become very nervous. Yang Zaixing has to order a new field to train troops outside the city. What is most lacking at the moment is no longer weapons. Although the armor is still far from it, Yang Zaixing’s headache is still the horse.

After all, northern merchants can bring a few horses to trade in Jincheng. A large number of horses will be taboo in Shangjing. How can the scale of twenty or thirty horses a month help Yang Zaixing meet the needs of expanding his army?

But what Yang Zaixing didn't know was that the Daxia Kingdom was now envoys in the capital, asking Wanyan Dan to issue an order to allow trade with the Song Kingdom.
Chapter completed!