Seeing that it has entered the wax moon, it is not a few days before the New Year, the New Year is the most solemn festival of the Han people, whether you have money or not, you have to find a way to make a few catties of meat for the New Year.

Originally, the Ming army's northern expedition to Karaqin won a complete victory, and the small people living in the capital did not feel anything, but the story that happened next made them feel the benefits of victory.

That was because the "Red Banner Army" plundered the Karaqin grassland, slaughtered more than 300,000 fat sheep, and seized 20,000 cattle, most of which were beef cattle that had not been domesticated.

At present, more than 100,000 slaughtered fat sheep are urgently dispatched by the Sifang Express to be transported to Beijing for sale, and four or five thousand beef cattle are brought to Beijing for slaughter.

With so much beef and mutton impacting the Beijing market, it directly led to a drop in prices, causing more Shengdou small people to be willing to take out the copper coins they kept to purchase New Year's goods to cut a few catties of beef and mutton to improve their lives.

At this moment, the streets and alleys of Jingshi are full of small people who talk about the "Qingcheng Victory".

"Sister-in-law of the Zhang family, have you bought the New Year's goods? What good things did you buy? Wow, so much meat? I'm afraid it's not four or five pounds. ”

"Sister of the Li family, our Daming defeated the Tartars and got a lot of cattle and sheep, and this year's beef and mutton are more than half cheaper than last year. The price of the previous year was only half of the price of the previous year, so I bought two catties more. ”

"Is there such a good thing? Then my family has to cut the meat quickly, in case I go late, the price will rise again. ”

"No, no, the 'Red Banner Army' young man said, mutton 14 wen yuan, beef 22 wen yuan a pound Tong Yu is not bullying, this price will be maintained until the Chinese New Year's Eve."

"It's good that the Ming army has won! In previous years, how could people like us afford to eat beef! ”

The Ming Dynasty has a law, and the people are not allowed to slaughter the cultivated cattle, and the small amount of beef entering the market should be transported back from the customs with salt, iron, and tea in exchange for long-distance trafficking, or the government approves the slaughter of a small number of eliminated cultivated cattle, so beef is a scarce resource.

Huang Han took the "Red Flag Army" to the grassland to do a business with no capital, so many beef cattle and mutton remained unchanged in his hands, and there was no way to save them when the spring begins.

Therefore, he sold half of the price of Jingshi beef and mutton at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, so that everyone in Jingshi could buy beef and mutton equivalent to half discount.

Shengdou Xiaomin had half the price of beef and mutton for the New Year, felt the benefits, and shared the benefits of a little victory, and they chatted about "Qingcheng Victory".

Two or three fat sheep throw away the costs of slaughter, transportation, sales, etc., and it is estimated that there will be a net income of one or two silver, which means that Huang Han is about to get more than 100,000 taels of snowflake silver for the sale of captured cattle and sheep.

Coupled with the precious metals obtained from the direct plundering of the yurt, minus the benefits of giving Liu Zhilun 30,000 taels of silver, and minus the bribes given to Liang Tingdong and some senior officials, Huang Han's surprise attack on the grassland should have a net income of no less than 350,000 taels of silver, not counting the materials, horses, and grain and grass seized.

Why do the Han people always emphasize that the redemption of the army will inevitably destroy the country? Huang Han was extremely incomprehensible. Conquest and plunder should make the country stronger and stronger, and the territory bigger and bigger.

Historically, those small European countries had a large territory and a large population? It was by plundering the colonies that they became one of the great powers. Jiannu, who had a population of only a few hundred thousand, continued to attack the Ming Dynasty, and finally killed tens of millions of Han people and seized the world of flowers.

Fighting a war is very expensive, that means always losing the war, such as the last Ming Dynasty. People build slaves to make a fortune by fighting!

Huang Han believes that in the future, he will also embark on a journey of continuous conquest and plunder, perhaps under the harsh climate of the Xiaoice River, the food produced on the earth is not enough to feed the current population, rather than making the Han people cry, it is better to let the barbarians suffer.

The "Red Banner Army" can fight any battle in the future, and it doesn't matter at all whether it is just or not. However, there is one kind of battle that must not be fought, and that is the defeat of the war.

Fortunately, Huang Han has the huge golden finger of the prophet, and he can basically predict the strength of the enemy he is going to face? It is possible to judge whether the timing and battlefield choice are beneficial to the "Red Banner Army".

When Huang Han had just been married for two days, Huang Yizhou, who hurried to preside over his son's wedding, was ready to go to the "Tiger's Den" city to invite all the "Red Flag Army" to eat and drink.

I may not be able to return to the base camp before the Chinese New Year, and it is better to have my father go to the "Tiger's Den" City to train with the "Red Flag Army" for the New Year.

Huang Han asked his father to arrange welfare for every soldier of the "Red Banner Army", including workers who had worked in military labor and in arsenals, steel mills, and kilns for half a year, and each of them was given eight catties of mutton, four catties of beef, and five buckets of wheat, plus one month's salary.

There are more people in the team, the industry has expanded, Huang Han's arrangement means that there are no fifty or sixty thousand taels of snowflake silver, and Huang Yizhou thinks that the treatment of the "Red Flag Army" is higher than the standard of the Guanning Army, and the main general never drinks the blood of the soldiers, so there is no need to pay benefits like this.

He persuaded: "Han'er, Shengmi Endou Mi Qiu, you are generous in your hands today and willing to give the benefits to your subordinates, if he has difficulties in the future, it will backfire, and no one will be worried about the benefits of this year at that time, and they will hold grudges that are not as good as in previous years." ”

Human nature is like this, after all, Huang Yizhou is about to be forty years old and has a lot of insights.

But Huang Han is full of self-confidence, he thinks that the "Red Flag Army" system will only be better under his leadership, not the best, if it is reduced to a year is not as good as a year, wouldn't it be in vain to nearly 400 years of knowledge?

"Father, you go to Kaiping first and spend two days arranging, and the people and horses of the garrison camp under your command will also pay benefits according to this standard.

Yang Hanwei is old and serious, and there will be no chaos with him, a thousand-household official. The 'Tiger's Den' City will settle twenty or thirty thousand people at once, and before the end of the year, Huang Yong, Song Pengfei, and Zhao Kun will have the backbone. ”

"I know all this, but I just think that you spend too much money, and now that the family business is big, I am afraid it will be difficult to continue in the future if you don't calculate carefully."

"Father, rest assured, we have made hundreds of thousands of taels of silver this time, and the workshops and factories we have invested in can make money every year, and even roasted sweet potatoes and potato chips can return hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and my son assures you that the Huang family will have endless silver in the future."

"I only need three meals of food and clothing, and a hundred taels of silver a year is enough, and the money given by the court can't be spent, so who cares if you can earn endless silver?"

"Yes! I also have a court fortune, so what do our father and son want to save money for? Spend it all, increase production input, improve the treatment of subordinates, expand the army, and expand the territory. ”

After three rounds and two rounds, the simple Huang Yizhou was stunned by his son and muttered: "Yes! Our father and son both have money, and your wife and mother also have the grace of the court, so why do we keep the silver? ”