In this way, from a deeper perspective, Lin Fengjin will gather an astonishing amount of power invisibly! You must know that the ones who really have the power to speak at the local level at this time are the wealthy gentry at the grassroots level.
If the county magistrate has any plans and ideas that he wants to implement, they must be conveyed through this level of people.
If Lin Fengjin does this, he is actually trying to win over the local gentry. It can be expected that his fleet will definitely grow bigger and bigger. In the end, Lin Fengjin's goal is to seize the land.
Money, and even plans to issue banknotes to compete with Xiangfan Bank!
Of course, the deeper reason why Lin Fengjin behaved so magnanimously was because it would be quite difficult for the fleets formed by other states, counties, and counties to really sail far.
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Because those maritime merchants didn't know the waterway of the Lin family's fleet at all. If they wanted to risk opening a waterway, it would cost lives and money.
Secondly, with the mediation of Ao Ye, and of course the threat of Hai Jun's powerful strength, we also reached a compromise with those deep sea bloodline monsters who like to come to the offshore sea and signed a verbal contract, that is, the caravan encountered them.
When the time comes, they pay tribute. What about them? When they get benefits, they raise their hands high. This also satisfies the arrogance of these arrogant and unruly deep sea monsters.
What, you said those caravans could also disguise themselves as the Lin family's fleet and then pay tribute and run away?
Hum, would Ao Ye, an old loach who could even calculate Lin Fengjin, sell such a big flaw? When signing the oral contract, Ao Lao pervert had already made it clear that without it
The fleets led by his descendants are all fake. You can do whatever you want... Even Lin Fengjin's fleet will be unable to move even without the demon python leading it!
Not to mention the rest of the fleet?
Next, Lin Fengjin naturally received a series of good news from Sanli Department, and the development momentum was even faster than he imagined!
The tribesmen of Sanlibu have begun to taste the benefits of the most basic commercial city. At this time, all kinds of scarce goods shipped from the south of the Yangtze River have completely piled up in Sanlibu, such as tea bricks, iron pots, silks and cloths that are scarce on the grassland.
, the tribesmen of Sanli tribe cannot digest it just by relying on it.
After hearing the news, the grassland tribes were like flies seeing blood, and they sent teams to check. According to the practice on the grassland, when they encountered wealth, they first thought of paying the bill with a knife. However, they considered their opponents.
Even the extremely powerful Sanlibu could only trade honestly in the market.
The sweetness that the Sanli tribe people experienced started from here. Many of them were surprised to find that the tea bricks and iron pots that they had exchanged for three pieces of cowhide were sold casually at the market held by their family.
You can exchange it for three cowhide and a sheep!
This means that a sheep is picked up in vain!
Although the simple minds of these tribesmen only know how many babies and sheep they have, they do not understand the complex principles of the transaction, nor do they understand why there will be an extra sheep after changing hands for three cowhide, but there is a saying
The saying goes: Even though I don’t know anything, I actually feel very powerful --- the whole family can have extra meals. When eating the fragrant hand-caught mutton, no matter how simple the herdsman is, he will never
You would think this is a bad thing.
At the same time, in this case, after Lin Fengjin’s fanatical believers propagandized and guided: Why couldn’t we live such a good life before, will this happen when the young master’s mountain-like ship comes? So,
Convinced by the facts, this group of people easily became Lin Fengjin's followers!
What's more important is that the ordinary tribesmen earn a lot of money with smiles on their face. The nobles in the tribe and the Sanli tribe themselves can even say that they make a lot of money!
Originally, they had migrated all the way, and an alarming number of animals died of disease and other diseases. It was also the consumption season in winter. Fortunately, there was not much snow this year and the white devil did not come. To the herdsmen, this situation was just like the good weather for farmers in the Central Plains.
Generally speaking, this is the case. If the millions of livestock in Sanli are consumed by the beginning of spring, the number will be reduced to at least 700,000.
But as soon as this trading market opened, it can be said that the strength of the Sanlibu clan expanded rapidly. With tea, bricks, iron pots, silk, spirits, flour and other very popular things on the grassland, what should they be afraid of? No livestock? Change it! No.
Shepherd slave? Change it. No fodder? Change it!
Sanlibu himself is a grassland person, and he knows how popular these things are on the grassland, and it is almost impossible to be satisfied. What's more, tea bricks, spirits, and flour are all consumables, and they cannot be separated from three meals a day.
It is very fast to cook. Although you can buy an iron pot and it can be used for several years, in fact, the iron pot has another very important use, which is to resmelt it to make arrowheads! It should not be consumed too quickly.
If the current momentum continues to expand, the power of each tribe will be weakened after winter, but the Sanli tribe will double in size!!
According to Lin Fengjin's plan, a series of semi-permanent trading markets will be set up with Wu Zuocheng as the center and units of one hundred miles, three hundred miles, and five hundred miles radiating to the interior of the grassland.
The market opens every three days, and elite armed cavalry take turns patrolling to ensure safety.
However, this plan is probably considered in the long term. For now, the tribes on the grassland have one advantage, that is, they are extremely mobile. It is not too easy for a tribe to move hundreds of miles every day. Under normal circumstances, for a tribe
It is not unusual for a market held on the grassland to travel five to six hundred miles to attend the market, which is only a journey of five or six days.
In other words, all the tribes with a radius of 500 miles around Wuzuo City (in modern terms, it is about more than 60,000 square kilometers, about one-third of Shandong Province and ten Shanghai cities) belong to the kind of people who have
Purchasing potential objects, although the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, there are at least 4 to 50 million herdsmen in this land with a radius of 500 miles. The amount of goods digested by these people is already extremely astonishing. In a long time
For a long time, Sanlibu didn't have to worry about not being able to sell anything.
Under this rapid momentum, many people have begun to seriously consider Lin Fengjin's words, that is, to enter a settled life in advance. In fact, if it is not forced by helplessness, who would want to live this kind of living without a fixed place, wandering around
days, but if calculated based on the current population, cattle and sheep in Sanlibu, it would be impossible to support the reproduction and growth of millions of livestock without grazing and settling.
However, some people in Sanlibu have also calculated that since such huge profits can be obtained through transactions at this time, in this case, even if the sheep that do not eat grass roots have not been widely promoted, the pastures around Wu Zuocheng will be in accordance with forest conditions.
Using Fengjin's method of rotational grazing, at least 200,000 cattle and sheep can be supported.
More importantly, Wu Zuocheng still had his back to the sea, and Lin Fengjin also told them how to fish for sea vegetables, which could also make up for part of the food gap. More importantly, there was a steady stream of blood transfusions from caravans.
.Everyone in the tribe can see the carrying capacity of the ship that is as huge as a hill, and everyone has also gone up to see the huge cabin inside. If such a ship is used to transport flour and grain, it will be combined with the 200,000 cattle and sheep.
It is not difficult to calculate the amount of milk and meat. Even if the tribe's population were ten times larger, it would still be more than enough.
Of course, this means that the Sanli tribe will be extremely dependent on shipping. Once the food transported by shipping is cut off, or the price is arbitrarily lowered, then the entire tribe is in danger of collapse. However, the leader of the merchant fleet is Lin Fengjin
, for Sanlibu, if the young master cannot trust him, then there will be no one who can trust him.
Therefore, Lin Fengjin, who read the letter, never expected that Sanlibu would decide to enter a settled life in advance before the sheep that did not eat grass roots were widely promoted!
Lin Fengjin was happy to see this happen, but he did not forget to reply and pointed out a few key points. The first was that since he had decided to settle down, Wu Zuocheng must be built first. Once there was a city, there would be a way to build it.
The city wall that was guarded could be regarded as the foundation. Lin Fengjin was not worried about this, because although he left, Wu Zuocheng's construction ideas were still followed.
What, you said that nomads are not good at building cities and defense? It doesn't matter, it would be nice to have a man who can do it.
Don't forget that Nanzheng's defense is the best in the world among the five countries today. Lin Fengjin wants to transfer a few professional craftsmen from Li Hu to build the city. It shouldn't be too simple. With these people
Guidance, as well as various equipment transported from Nanzheng, the defenders of the city are still nomadic people with extremely excellent archery skills. Can you imagine how many elites the siege team will need to fill this mountain of corpses and sea of blood? Therefore,
As long as Wu Zuocheng is built, it is inevitable that it will be impregnable.
Secondly, Lin Fengjin also began to give instructions to the fleet, asking the fleet to rather make less profits, but also to give priority to transporting grain, and to hoard at least one year's worth of grain in Wuzuo City! This sounds very shocking, but in fact it is
After all, it is just enough food for tens of thousands of people for a year.