In fact, the most popular goods on the border are not the beautifully made but extraordinarily expensive silk and porcelain, nor the brown sugar rock candy of Changsheng County, but cotton noodle bags.

Xu Jin, a hundred households stationed in Zhangjiabao, discovered the problem early on and reported to Lin Hu'er of the thousand households that the cotton flour bags they sold were seriously inconsistent with the amount of grain recovered.

This is a very interesting thing in itself, if the Westerners want to sell grain, they have to use cotton cloth bags to sell grain, so they need to buy cotton cloth bags from here, the bags are very cheap, 200 tongbao can buy ten, almost the only cheap thing sold on the border.

This kind of Seiko cotton from Daming is sewn cotton bags even if they are sold in Daming, which is durable, that is, twenty Tongbao, but that has to be bought with copper money.

Here, the cotton noodle bag is a one-time consumable, and the grain merchants in the west buy the cotton noodle bag, fill it with grain and sell it back, and the stone rice and flour are three hundred and sixty Tongbao.

However, hundreds of cotton noodle bags can be sold on the border line a day, but only less than half of them can be recovered, and sometimes even one-third of them cannot be recovered.

At first, Lin Huer also thought that it was because of the revenge activities of You Shuai Lin Manjue on the east side of the border, which made the plantation owner anxious to pay the protection fee, which caused the shortage of noodle bags, but later he found out that this was not the case.

On the other side of the official road, a tailor shop was opened in the westerner plantation, which was specially used to collect Tongbao and sew two straps on the cotton cloth bags given to people, and sew ten face pockets for twenty Tongbao and bring their own straps.

This operation makes Lin Huer can't understand, you are a Westerner plantation, what kind of treasure do you collect to join in the fun?

The most excessive thing is that this guy later crossed the border to Zhangjiabao to find Xu Jin, and asked Xu Jin if he could place an order for cotton cloth, and these words were not printed on it.

"He asked what Martin was printed on it, as if it was his surname, and he also wanted to print this crest, he was willing to buy 400 with 10,000 tongbao, and if Chang Sheng could make a strap, he was willing to pay 12,000 tongbao."

Lin Hu'er's first reaction was, 'This person is sick, right?' Paying 12,000 Tongbao to buy 400 cotton backpacks, what problems does this reflect?

It shows that he has twelve thousand treasures, and if he does not have them, he will say that he bought them with fifteen silver coins. But you're a Spaniard, what are you doing with so many treasures in your hands?

"There are quite a lot of these Westerners, a few days ago there was one who wanted to write his name on the porcelain, and now another one wants to write his surname on the cotton bag, will he have to carve a name for rock candy in the future?"

Lin Hu'er pouted and complained: "Forget about the porcelain, people want to burn the crest of King Philip's name, obviously to give gifts, the price of 500,000 Tongbao is also worth a trip for our riders, what is he, just a trivial matter of 10,000 Tongbao, and let us run?" ”

It's a thousand miles back and forth, and the money earned from running over is not enough to nail the horse, Lin Hu'er waved his hand and said: "Let him wait, there will be a rider back next month, or let him connect with the western merchants on the border, report the news, customize the goods, and buy 500,000 Tongbao." ”

The Ming army did make money in the middle.

According to the system set by the Oriental Military Government, the Western merchant silver coins on the border are worth one or two to exchange for Tongbao 800, although the exchange reason given by Zhangjiabao is that the value is not good-looking, in fact, it is full value, but it is not good-looking, as long as it is not counterfeit money, it is the same when it melts.

The flag army's usual Yulu and silver are directly registered in the army, and there are military camps in peacetime to use at any time, and they are also replaced by Tongbao after Changsheng uses Tongbao.

Some of the Tongbao on the border was specially transported, but the military government also formulated regulations, when the transportation was not enough for Western merchants but needed to be exchanged, the guerrilla general Fu Yuan could buy Tongbao from the 4,000 banner army under his command, register and sell them to Western merchants one by one, in exchange for silver coins to send to Changsheng, and then according to the registered amount, return more than 10% of the Tongbao to the banner army next month.

They can choose to spend money in Asia, or they can keep it and wait for the army to be exchanged for silver taels, or they can directly mail the silver taels back to China every six months and send them to their families through the post station.

Martin is not the only one who has the idea of customizing this kind of fucking up on the border, there are many people who like customization, porcelain to be customized, lacquer boxes to be customized, even the pattern of silk and satin to be customized, and now even cotton bags have to be customized.

Within a few days, he connected dozens of plantation owners around him and handed in a request for a custom cotton backpack, including text, crests, and even colors, and ordered 23,000 cotton backpacks for the price of 30 Tongbao each.

Lin Hu'er, who was holding the request, smiled from ear to ear...... General Fu's Tongbao is definitely not enough, and if he collects it from the flag army, all of them can make some money again.

In fact, Lin Manjue is even happier.

His rangers have been operating on the other side of the border, except for the occasional return to the villages along the border to resupply supplies, they haunt the various plantations of the Westerners, investigate the surrounding intelligence, and keep an eye on whether the Western army is moving to increase troops on the border.

The Westerners did not increase their troops, except for the demolition of five mountain forts and the acceleration of the construction of the other two checkpoints, there were hardly many government actions, and more of these plantation owners were endlessly reselling goods.

The most interesting thing is the slave laborers of the plantation owners, who carry backpacks with the inscription 'rice flour and half stones' and fill them with all kinds of things, regardless of whether they are carrying sugar cane or cotton, and even women who stuff their children in their backpacks while they work.

Cotton bags from Changsheng County are all the rage on the other side of the border.

When Chen Mu on the other side received the news from the front, he didn't even know what kind of expression he should make: "They actually asked me to buy cotton bags, and asked me to make them into backpacks, and also printed the crests and surnames of each plantation?" ”

"Cotton bags, I don't sell them, it's not a backpack for rice noodles, and it can't hold seventy-seven pounds as a backpack."

Chen Mu said so, but soon he personally drew a picture, and asked the weaving factory to make a special backpack according to the map, made of fine and thick cotton cloth, that is, canvas, the strap and the backpack cloth are seamlessly sewn with a piece of cloth, which is more strong, and the pocket is sealed with a drawstring, which can indeed carry a weight of seventy-seven catties after testing, and Chen Mu let people send the newly made backpack to the border line.

On this backpack, Martin's coat of arms is indeed printed, but the surname is written in Chinese, and there is the name of the Changsheng County Weaving Factory below, as well as the name of the backpack: seventy-seven catties.

Lin Hu'er, who received the backpack, sent someone across the border to find Martin with a smile, and asked him to gather the plantation owners who had placed orders and invited them to Zhangjiabao. ”

"My handsome man said that the cotton bag can only hold seventy-seven pounds when it is loaded with rice and noodles on the car, and the backpack is not good, it will leak, but this is not afraid."

"It can be printed with your crest and surname, but the text must be in Chinese, and you can also print the map of the location of your plantation, and even if your slave runs away with it, those who see it can send him back."

Lin Hu'er smiled and said, "The selling price of this is forty-four Tongbao." Of course, the ugly thing to say is ahead, if they cross the border with this backpack on their backs, we will send people back, you need to pay another 1,000 Tongbao return money, the marshal said, service first. ”