This time, there were a large number of herders in Zhang Ziming's team...... The number of Han people on the grassland is scarce, and now a large number of Han people are directly removed by the military department, when the board was promoted, it was decided to disperse the original grassland Han people, and the Department of Agriculture of Hutchison has an overall plan for land reclamation, and there are unique features in the use of manpower, including how to farm the land is not something that the previous Han people can master, and it is easier to manage and use the scattered use, and although these Han people have been oppressed, more than ninety percent of them have run out of the Saiwai to the Mongolian territory, Some of them are outlaws, who have escaped from the mainland, most of them are Han people or descendants of Han people who were plundered back then, and some are perennial merchants who simply live in the territory of the Mongols, and some people are people from the White Lotus Sect and have considerable hostility towards the Ming Dynasty...... In fact, these followers were hostile to any regime, from Fang La in the Song Dynasty to Tang Sai'er in the Ming Dynasty and the White Lotus Rebellion during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhang Han doesn't want to expand around while there is a group of anti-thieves behind him who will cause trouble at any time, so while dispersing tens of thousands of Han people, it also eliminates the risk of backyard fires, and the people of the Internal Intelligence Department have been staring at those disciples to prevent them from reconnecting, as for the herdsmen, they will also flow at will after being released to the ministries, most of the herdsmen hired by Zhang Ziming are herdsmen who live near Banshengdi, and everyone knew each other originally, but it would be the herdsmen who were high and the Han people groveled, and now it is the other way around, he is the proprietor, These Mongols are buddies, watching them do things under their orders and bow to themselves, Zhang Ziming has an irrepressible pleasure in his heart...... This kind of psychology may not be very healthy, but for the Han businessmen who have lived in Banshengdi for a long time and have been bullied, this kind of psychology is normal, and no one will feel that Zhang Ziming is doing something wrong.

Even the hired Mongolians have a very respectful and grateful attitude towards Zhang Ziming, no one hires them, and they can only stay at home in this period when they don't need manpower, and after they come, it means that they can earn a lot more, and no one will get along with money.

In the drizzling rain, Zhang Ziming and a group of companions watched the guys cover the goods, the goods were mainly fruits and vegetables, and there were also a lot of dried mushrooms and other foods, as well as dried fruits and candied fruits and other Han snacks, Mongolians actually liked it very much.

It is quite a long distance from Banshengdi to here, but because it is the first time to deliver goods, everyone has quite doubts about the road and safety and the size of the trade volume, and there are not many Han merchants who come here under caution, and the goods are even less, and the Han merchants of the eleven Qingcheng Chamber of Commerce only brought more than 100 camels and more than 200 horses, which is equal to a previous medium-level camel teamThere is such a scale to drive the goods all the way over, and even larger, there are camel teams driving out of thousands of miles along the border of Monan, including the Ming Dynasty, to Zhangjiakou or Jingshi trade, Jingshi Deshengmen will have camel teams and horse teams in and out every day, and the merchants and people in the area of Beijing have long been accustomed to it.

For Zhang Ziming and others, driving such a camel team with a large number of bansheng land to produce, the investment is not large, even if the loss is a trivial matter for these proprietors, several of them have the identity of Hutchison directors, and there are preferential tax payments and safety including rental prices, which is also a kind of early investment in Hutchison in order to win the support of Han merchants and Han people in the grassland, and now it is time to return, with these preferential and the cost of goods is not high, this time the northbound trade is a simple test for the Han merchants in Qingcheng. But when they arrived here and saw a large number of goods trading houses and a large number of Russian merchants, including the Han merchants in Zhangjiakou, who invested more than the Han merchants in Qingcheng, Zhang Ziming and others regretted it incomparably.

"I met a Russian in the morning and communicated in Mongolian." Fu Qingming wiped the sweat on his face, there was obvious anxiety and regret in his eyebrows, and he said sullenly to Zhang Ziming: "We have these goods, this person wants to eat them all at once......"

"Just kidding." Zhang Ziming was a little surprised and said, "What did he exchange for?" Fur? What do we do with the fur back? Then find the gang in Zhangjiakou to pour their hands, so that they must not be laughed to death. ”

The motivation of Qingcheng Han merchants to trade here is insufficient, and the misalignment of goods is also an important reason.

Furs, Qingcheng Han merchants have always been in short supply, and the herdsmen on the grassland handed over the furs to the Han merchants for trade decades ago. Otherwise, every time they arrived at the horse market, the Mongols from far away would travel at least 2,000 miles to participate in trade, and the distance was too far.

The Han merchants on the steppe, Mongolians and Russians have many records as far as Mobei and Moxibei, and the Han people are like this, if they have business to do and make money, they are not afraid of long distances and hardships.

It's just that although the fur of the Russians is better than that of the Mongols, Zhang Ziming and they can't make a direct move in exchange, they used to give it to Zhangjiakou, but this time the Han merchants in Zhangjiakou came much more than the Han merchants in Qingcheng, and they were also much more active, and this road was not feasible.

In the past, all the ministries went to Zhangjiakou to trade, the Ming Dynasty's literature records are very clear, every time the red-clothed officials sit high, more than 100 Qingyi officials stand up and down on the high platform, more than 100 armor soldiers guard, Zhangjiakou Fort stretches for dozens of miles are tents, the so-called dome is endless.

At this time, Qingcheng Han merchants have a feeling that there is no way out, and if they can't do a first-hand business directly, they can only buy and sell second-hand, and the profits will be much smaller.

"Of course it's not fur!" Bo Qingming smiled very happily, and he said: "I found that they have a few goods, we don't have to pour them to others, just selling them on the grassland is very profitable." Of course, it was not sold to the Mongols, but the Han people on the steppe and the soldiers and people of Hutchison. ”

Zhang Ziming said: "What is it? ”

"Beeswax is the same, the herdsmen will also buy some, the people of those Tunzhuang are very rich, each Tunpu has a small school, the children of each family are studying, the enrollment rate has exceeded 70% in the words of Mr. Zhang, the little baby of each family goes home to read with a stinky oil lamp but hurts the eyes very much, recently the beeswax is very popular, many people ask me to buy it from the mouth, this thing in the mouth is few and expensive, are used by the rich, if it is not for the Hutchison Tunpu people life is really good, who is willing to buy this thing. Now that this line is opened, this Russian says that there is a steady supply of goods, isn't this a financial route? ”

"Indeed!" Zhang Ziming finally cheered up, this time everyone in the north is a joint stock, and they have long used the form of a chamber of commerce to do business together, and everyone will share the money according to the amount of money, like the form of the chamber of commerce that Zhang Han did in Tianchengwei back then.

In fact, Zhang Ziming also has shares in Hutchison, but Zhang Han did not prohibit them from doing their own business, but also took on an extra responsibility in Hutchison, which is a little different from Ma Chaoren Li Dayong and other full-time Hutchison shareholder directors.

"There are also pearls, unlike beeswax, pearls are only bought by the rich in the army and military divisions, and the Mongolians will also buy a part, if the supply is sufficient, they can be sold in Datong and Yansui, which is also somewhat a financial route."

"There's something you never thought of." Fu Qingming said with a smile: "The telescope and some silver products, I have seen them, they are very exquisite, and they should be sold." ”

"Telescopes?"

"yes." Fu Qingming couldn't help but laugh again, and he said: "The Russians began to want to sell binoculars to the military department, but the foreign trade people came up with better ...... They were dumbfounded. ”

"So what do we want it for?"

"Why are you sluggish?" Fu Qingming smiled: "The quality is poor, and the price is cheap." The production of telescopes in military departments is insufficient, and only those in the military are issued at a certain level, and the officers of military departments must be at or above the deputy bureau level, and even fewer are among the civilian departments. This thing is very interesting, and many people who have two dollars in their hands want to buy it, but the Miscellaneous Bureau has always only supplied the military department and the army, and rarely sells it to the people, and it can't be bought with money. Let's get these binoculars and silver jewelry, and take them back is a good way to make money. It's just that there are not many of them, and I told them that we would monopolize this thing, and they agreed. Just asked us to bring more cured meat and sauerkraut next time, their favorite pickled cucumber to try......"

"Okay, this is indeed a way to make money...... Zhang Ziming thought for a while, and his face showed joy.

Fu Qingming smiled bitterly: "But it's not large-scale, let's just do it a few people, Qingcheng wants to come over on a large scale to trade, I'm afraid it won't work, they have to find another source of goods." In addition, the goods we provide can only be easy to do in autumn at this time, and from winter to spring, what do we sell? Can't just sell kimchi? ”

"This is not a worry." Zhang Ziming thought for a while and said: "There are always more than 1,000 Han merchants in Monan, and there are all kinds of business and traders, and Hutchison has attracted Zhangjiakou and even the Han people in Beijing, and there will always be some consideration in this regard...... A few of us are not worried, those small and medium-sized businessmen can't all go to farming, people's hearts will be chaotic. ”

"You can't lie down and ask for food." Fu Qingming frowned.

"Of course not that." Zhang Ziming said: "The military department gives us an idea, and we will run for the future by ourselves." We have all begged for food in the hands of the Beiyu, are we still afraid of these in front of us? ”

"That's right."

The Qingcheng Han merchants present all laughed...... Zhang Ziming and others are reluctant to enjoy happiness comfortably in Hutchison, in addition to liking to do more things, it is also because of the inheritance tradition of Qingcheng Han merchants...... They are not valued and cared for like weeds, but they are also as strong as weeds, nothing can stump them, they can survive in a group of tigers and leopards, and they can make money in the wolves, this is the tenacity and strength of Qingcheng Han merchants.