Chapter 23 Salt and Iron Monopoly
"Little man Zhang Jincheng, pay homage to the general!"
Zhang Jincheng is a middle-aged man with dark skin and a strong figure. He has a thorny beard. He is not an ordinary rich and elegant businessman. He looks like he often walks on the road.
"I heard that you have a way to buy war horses from the Xianbei in the Eastern region?" Qin Mo asked.
"Uh, hehe..." Zhang Jincheng showed the cunning side of the businessman.
Qin Mo smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm not an official, there are not so many taboos."
Zhang Jincheng thought about it, and patted his chest and said, "It's not me bragging. As long as the price is in place, I can get you as much war horses as you want, General."
"I have no money." Qin Mo said.
Zhang Jincheng's face was a little displeased, "Are you the general who is enjoying me?" A big businessman like him not only has the support of local families, but also has a horse team.
It's not a good person.
"I don't have money, but I have salt." Qin Mo pointed to the bamboo basket placed in the corner.
"Salt?" Zhang Jincheng looked puzzled and stepped forward to open the black cloth covered in the bamboo basket. His eyes were illuminated. It was salt, like snowflakes, with an attractive light.
Zhang Jincheng's breathing was heavy, and he dipped his fingers in his mouth. "Salty, the purest salty, without any bitterness, is actually the best salt among salt."
My body was trembling with excitement.
Looking up, seeing Qin Mo's eyes that looked like a smile, Zhang Jincheng realized that he had lost his composure and said awkwardly: "General, how many salt do you have like this?"
"That depends on how many war horses you can get." Qin Mo said.
From beginning to end, Qin Mo was the one who controlled the rhythm. It was not how powerful he was, but what he took out. No Three Kingdoms businessman could resist the temptation.
"At least one thousand, no, five thousand horses." Zhang Jincheng boasted about Haikou.
This is of course unrealistic unless it is joined with other border merchants.
Qin Mo didn't expose it and smiled and said, "I want as much as you want except for war horses, cattle and sheep, fur, and even dairy products. And you want as much as you want, and I have as much as you want."
"Trade!" Zhang Jincheng couldn't wait.
This business is too cost-effective. He only needs to sell salt to the Xianbei nobles, and then purchase war horses, cattle and sheep from the Xianbei. One by one, one can make a fortune by just a few moves.
"Then I'll wait for good news for you." Qin Mo was also very excited.
During this period, Qin Mo did not take any time and was planning to enhance the strength of the personal guard camp. In addition to exchanging salt for war horses, cattle and sheep, there were other plans.
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After seeing off Zhang Jincheng, Qin Mo followed him out of the mansion and came to Xu Ji, the largest blacksmith shop in Yuyang County.
Compared to half a month ago, this place has changed a lot.
Qin Mo not only bought Xu Ji, but also bought all the yards around the blacksmith shop. After the renovation, he recruited more than a hundred blacksmiths in the city to build the first military workshop under his name, Qin Bing Pavilion.
The Eastern Han Dynasty was scarce, and the main reason was that blacksmiths were not lacking, and pig iron was lacking.
But in reality, pig iron is already a commodity with overcapacity. A ton of pig iron is only about 3,000 yuan. Just as the dimension space is expanded, Qin Mo once again became a porter in both worlds.
And his appetite has increased greatly.
In order to facilitate the transfer of salt, pig iron and other materials, Qin Mo secretly sold three pieces of ancient jade, making a profit of 800,000 yuan, rented a warehouse in a remote area of Jiangcheng, and paid a year's rent.
Then, Qin Mo purchased 100 tons of pig iron and transported it to Qin Bing Pavilion.
With sufficient pig iron supply, the originally deserted military workshop suddenly became lively, and they kept creating weapons, armor, arrows and other military supplies for the personal guard camp day and night.
Although the soldiers of the personal guard camp were equipped with armor, most of them were leather armor, and many were even tattered.
In this way, the Yellow Turban Army is an elite.
In addition to armor, the weapons used by soldiers are not only roughly crafted, but also have limited quantities. Once damaged, they are not even replaced.
As a consumable arrow, let alone.
In order to improve the weapons and equipment level of the personal guard camp, Qin Mo planned to build the Qin Bing Pavilion. This is something that other Yellow Turban Army cannot match.
The Yellow Turban only knows destruction and does not know construction, so it is destined to be unable to last.
As soon as Qin Mo occupied a base, he was thinking about building a logistics support system, and he had already tended to move from a rebel army to a local prince.
Of course, this is mainly due to the convenience of traveling between the two worlds.
With the support of real businesses, no family in the Three Kingdoms can compare with Qin Mo. Scarce materials like salt and iron are like rotten cabbage in reality.
The advantages of the aristocratic family were gone in front of Qin Mo.
As for the talent reserves of the aristocratic families, Qin Mo also used players to hedge, which was no worse than the natives at all.
With these two benefits, it would be strange if Qin Mo did not rise.
"General!"
As soon as Qin Mo entered the workshop, the blacksmith Xu Daqiang immediately came up. He was originally the owner of Xu Ji's Blacksmith Shop, and is now appointed by Qin Mo to preside over the Qin Bing Pavilion.
"How is the horse head hammer forging?" Qin Mo asked with concern.
"Don't worry, General, thirty of them have been forged so far, and they are still forging day and night." Xu Daqiang said.
"That's good."
This is a secret weapon that Qin Mo prepared for the next battle.
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July is coming in a blink of an eye.
The storm of Yuyang County by Qinweiying Camp has come to an end. A large amount of food and grass has gathered in Yuyang County, and the troops who went to the expedition have also returned to the camp one after another.
There is also a small episode in the middle.
When Zhao Liuyun led his troops south to sweep the storm, he met Zhang Ju, a famous local tyrant in Yuyang County. He had a conflict with him intentionally or unintentionally. In anger, he blatantly confiscated Zhang Ju's home.
In the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Ju was also considered a figure.
In 187, Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun, Wuhuan Qiu Liju and others rebelled, killing the Wuhuan commander Gong Qi Chou, Youbeiping prefect Liu Zheng, Liaodong prefect Yang Zhong and others, gathering more than 100,000 people, stationed troops in Feiru, and plundered You and Ji prefect, which was very glorious for several years.
Now Zhao Liuyun has been extinguished in advance.
After a month of training, the personal guard camp has completed the old and new work.
The merchant Zhang Jincheng kept his promise and sent the first batch of goods, including one hundred war horses and five hundred sheep; the first batch of weapons and armor produced by the Qin Bing Pavilion, including five hundred horse-headed hammers, were also equipped.
Everything is ready!
Qin Mo no longer hesitated and immediately led the personal guard camp to fight, with the troops heading straight to Youbeiping County.
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Tuyin County.
This place is the capital of Youbeiping County and is also the base camp of Gongsun Zan, the Duting Hou.
When Gongsun Zan learned that the Yellow Turbans were attacking and entered Youbeiping County, he was worried that he would be attacked by the Yellow Turbans and Wuhuan, which was awful.
But then the spy came to report that there were only three thousand Yellow Turbans coming.
"If there are three thousand Yellow Turbans, dare to attack Youbeiping County? Is it the enemy's vanguard force?" Gongsun Zan was very puzzled. After all, in the eyes of the world, the Yellow Turbans started at least tens of thousands of people.
What can the Three Thousand Yellow Turbans do?
"It's not a vanguard. Cheng Yuanzhi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army in Youzhou, was still stationed in Ji County, and there was no sign of being mobilized. In the past month, these three thousand Yellow Turbans have been plundering in Yuyang County. It is estimated that they were the vanguard troops responsible for plundering food and grass. But I don't know why they dared to cross the border and enter Youbeiping County." The spy replied.
The inside story of Qin Mo and Cheng Yuanzhi's parting ways is naturally unknown to outsiders.
This is where a beautiful misunderstanding comes.
Gongsun Zan's expression was a little slow and he said coldly: "What a courageous one."
"General, there is another news." The spy said, "It is reported that the deputy general of the Yellow Turban Army of Youzhou, a strange man named Qin Mo, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were all defeated by him."
"That book will be held for a while." Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei were classmates.
After thinking about it, Gongsun Zan immediately decided to lead a thousand elite cavalry to take the initiative to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, strive for a quick battle and eliminate it in the shortest time.
In this way, the situation in western Liaoning will not affect the situation.
Chapter completed!