If you want to catch up with Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Pingliao, it is too simple, and it is even beyond Li Tianyang's imagination.

The mansion of Lord Mao, the chief military officer of Pingliao, is on an island only a few dozen miles away from the coast, which is the first line of the Ming Dynasty's battle with the Houjin soldiers of Liaodong, no, it can even be said to be the rear of the Houjin front.

It is precisely because of Mao Wenlong's more than 100,000 soldiers and horses planted in the rear of the Houjin officers and soldiers that the Houjin people did not dare to enter the pass with great fanfare over the years.

It's not that the Houjin people haven't thought about ending this nail fixed behind their own position, but the Jurchen clan is a horse nation, let them ride and shoot on the horse, that is to be captured, but if you want to let them drive a big boat out to sea to attack the island, it is really a landlubber into the water, I am afraid that there will be no return!

It was precisely because of the weakness of the Jurchen clan that Governor Mao Wenlong operated on the island of Phi Dao, which was only a few tens of miles, for several years, arming more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians in Liaodong, and inserting it in the heart of the Jurchens, so that he could not go south wantonly.

But it is precisely because he lives between the islands and is far away from the support of the rear that in order to feed the hundreds of thousands of big mouths on the Phi Island, Mao Wenlong had to open the horse market privately, allowing merchants to trade on the island and transport a large amount of grain to the island for sale.

Therefore, compared with the attitude of other border soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, Mao Wenlong paid more attention to merchants from the inland, Dongwei and even the grasslands to trade.

When He Yong arrived at Phi Island, that is, Dongjiang Town, with several large cargo ships full of grain, He Yong did not need to take the initiative to visit, and this large amount of grain had already alarmed the governor of Mao Wenlong, who was guarding the town.

Then the matter is very simple, as a person who has the ability to transport and provide large quantities of grain to Dongjiang Town to sell, and this price is much lower than the price sold by other merchants to Mao Dudu, for Mao Dudu, who has always been in a state of food shortage, is there anything more important than this?

As for what He Yong asked for later, using Goryeo horses, Mongolian horses, and ploughing cattle as a way to buy grain, for Dongjiang Town, which is close to the grassland and Goryeo, isn't that just letting himself take the most worthless things to pay back what he needs most?

As long as they are not stupid, no one will refuse such good conditions.

Although horses are the most important weapons of the state, but in Phi Dao, an isolated island surrounded by the sea and the Jurchens of Liaodong, the more war horses and livestock, the greater the burden on them!

Originally, it was already very difficult for the imperial court to transport grain and grass to Dongjiang Town, and there was no other way than to ship it by sea. If the cattle, horses, and livestock that were harvested were to be raised, it would be at an unknown cost to be able to transport so much grain and grass.

However, on the Liaodong side, every time Mao Dudu went out to attack the rear of the Jurchens, in addition to a small amount of grain, the most were cattle and horses and other livestock, who made this Jurchen still a nomad!

It is not easy to transport the captured horses back, and it is not enough to raise the land on Dongjiang Island, where is there room to raise cattle and horses!

Of course, among the maritime merchants who come and go to Phi Island to do trade, there are inevitably people who take a fancy to the business of cattle, horses and livestock, but the merchants who are heavy on profits, and the merchants who take great risks to trade on Dongjiang Island are naturally all kinds of price reductions, and in the buyer's market of Dongjiang Island, Mao Wenlong really has enough prey for these merchants.

But you can't be angry if you don't have the patronage of these merchants, who bring trade to Dongjiang Island, transport grain, and let Mao Wenlong collect taxes, how can he, Mao Wenlong, run such a large force in Dongjiang Town today and in the future!

Therefore, in the end, Mao Wenlong Dudu also had a bitter stomach, knowing that he had suffered a big loss, he could only sell a large number of cattle and horses to these maritime merchants with a smile.

Until the arrival of He Yong and them, under the premise that Li Tianyang must open up the relationship with Mao Wenlong, an important town in eastern Liaodong, and establish the foundation for future cooperation, He Yong made great concessions on commercial issues such as replacing grain with cattle, horses and livestock.

There is a comparison to show the sincerity of the cooperation of the Bengang team, and Li Tianyang is now from the official position of the commander of the Sanpin Fujian Navy, and his identity as a minion of the eunuch party has also deepened Mao Wenlong's favor towards He Yong.

In order to stabilize his position, Mao Wenlong, like Li Tianyang, also threw himself into the eunuch party when Wei Zhongxian was in power, and built a shrine for Wei Zhongxian and became a member of the eunuch party.

The two sides almost hit it off, and it didn't take much effort for He Yong to purchase cattle, horses and livestock.

Even, the tens of thousands of stones of grain that He Yong transported to Dongjiang Town in the first batch, as well as the tens of thousands of taels of silver that he was going to bribe Mao Wenlong, were directly exchanged for more than 1,000 cattle and horses under Mao Wenlong's greeting, and they were directly and neatly delivered to He Yong's hands.

Of course, He Yong's intervention is really a bit unauthentic for other maritime merchants who do business on Dongjiang Island, which not only disrupts the market that tends to balance itself, but also robs the fat that everyone is staring at, and no one who is afraid will be able to swallow this breath.

But at this moment, the Bengang team has grown into a hegemon, especially at sea, since the death of Li Dan, the sea lord of the Japanese Kingdom, there are almost no people and forces in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty, and they can compete with the Bengang team at sea.

Not to mention that at this time, the Bengang people still have an official body as protection, and they rely on the strong eunuchs behind them, even if the big and small maritime merchants on Dongjiang Island hate the Bengang people so much, they don't dare to show the slightest bit of inadequacy, so they have to think that they are unlucky, and pick up the leftovers of the Bengang to digest.

Fortunately, although the ambitions of the Bengang people are not small, they still do not have enough background, and the scale of trade on Dongjiang Island is so huge, it is not something that his family can swallow, so in the end, many maritime merchants are actually a little less Sun, and there are no other major problems.

Thanks to the large enough cargo ships brought by He Yong, otherwise it would be really impossible to transport so many cattle and horses back to Dayuan Island at one time.

It is precisely with the arrival of this batch of cattle and horses that the reclamation operations in Bengang and Jilong Port have made great progress, and at the same time, the first batch of more than 600 war horses have settled in the ranch where Gan Dabiao has a look.

Dayuan Island has not forgotten to buy large livestock such as cattle and horses from the inland of the Ming Dynasty over the years, but the Jiangnan area itself is not rich in cattle, horses and livestock, and the control of cattle, horses and livestock in the Ming Dynasty has been very strict, even if Li Tianyang is already a Ming official at this time, but there is still no way to solve the livestock shortage in Dayuan Island.

It wasn't until this time that they got into a relationship with Mao Wenlong that Li Tianyang and them had a stable channel to purchase livestock, which would have a profound impact on the Bengang team in the future!

On the last day of February, for full attendance, today is a big change! Don't hide the tickets, everyone, shoot when it's time to shoot, dear!

Also, I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival in advance!!

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