"I understand." Huang Hua said.

At least in this mess, Han Jiang is not very easy to show up.

"Then get this done quickly."

"Okay."

In fact, it is very important to deal with this matter quickly, but this Huang Hua is not very clear.

He answered, and the two walked out.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Wang Zhizhou's guest Huanghua Huang Alcohol, of course, although I have the same word as Pang Gong, I am far from it." Huang Hua looked at the businessmen, first introduced himself, and made a little joke by the way. But he does have the same character as Pang Ji, which is also normal, just like the words of Zhang Zai and Zhang Dun, both of which are Zihou. It's not the words that matter, it's the person.

The guest is the doorman, a little more expensive than the doorman, equivalent to the scholar of the Spring and Autumn Period.

But as a disciple under Wang Ju, Huang Hua is also a little proud, not proud of himself, but proud of this identity.

Since Wang Ju entered the officialdom, a total of ten guests have been accepted, Ge Shaohua, Huang Liang, Tao Qing, Zhao Du, Han Yun, Zhang Quanzhi, Liu Shaoxian, Lu Pingzhi, Lu Herang, Huang Hua, Zhao Dajing and Wang Xiaoma are not counted, they can only be regarded as apprentices now.

Ge Shaohua made contributions to the Song Dynasty in the south and "turned positive". Zhao Du is about to turn positive.

Then to Han Yun, if he won a big victory this time, he only relied on him to hear the information that Western Xia sent troops to Gyeongju in advance, and it was not far from turning positive.

But in fact, a few other people, Huang Hua vaguely felt that what Wang Ju asked them to do was not trivial, if it weren't for the fact that they were just from a raised background, they might all be able to go down in history, at least in the future.

This conversion is a dream for readers. Not only is the official-based political system, there are many benefits to being a civil official in the Song Dynasty, of course, they basically can't be greedy for ink and Huanghua, but they all like to be respected, and with Wang Ju's ascension, they will be guests of Wang Ju in the future. Even if you serve as a real magistrate, you can at least make up for one child in the future. And that's not all!

So Huang Hua saw them go down one by one, and he was a little anxious. However, now the opportunity has come, not only to do things for Wang Ju. It also saves the embarrassment of Zhang Ji and Han Jiang. Moreover, if this matter is done well, there may be controversy in the court, but everyone knows in their hearts that it will be of great help to the Song Dynasty. Several people joined forces to push it, and they might be able to turn it positive.

"I've seen Mr. Huang." All the merchants immediately gave their respects.

The prime minister's concierge is a seven-grade official, and he is Wang Ju's doorman.

Zhao Dajing also introduced himself: "Fellow villagers, I am Zhao Jing, a servant brought by Wang Zhizhou from the security guard Wangjiazhai. ”

"I've seen Zhao Dalang," the businessmen saluted again. Zhao Dajing was too young, so Mr. couldn't shout.

After introducing himself, Huang Hua said: "There is a fierce battle ahead, but the enemy has fallen into Wang Zhizhou's trap, and soon the main army buried by Liang Yi will also be destroyed, so in the next battle, Wang Zhizhou will divide his troops into two places." One will pursue the enemy's deserters, and the other will divide the troops to Yonghe Village. Do you understand when I say that? That is, from the very beginning, Wang Zhizhou wanted to eat the 300,000 Xia troops together. Now it is not far from this goal, not counting today, the successive battles a few days ago have annihilated and captured 100,000 Xia troops. ”

These people didn't see the other battles, but the 20,000 Xia troops under Gyeongju City broke Song Ji, and these people got up in the middle of the night one by one and stood at the head of the city to watch.

But when I heard this number, I was still amazed. 100,000 people. I think that Cao Wei only killed 10,000 Tubo people in Sandu Valley, and he was shocked by the entire northwest.

However, how can this be compared, in that battle, Cao Wei wanted to be deterred, not annihilated. Therefore, the final result of the battle was to behead more than 1,000 people, the enemy ravaged each other and fell into the valley, the dead were no less than 10,000, and the Song army captured more than 33,000 livestock, clothes, and utensils, but only captured seven people. What are you doing with captives? In the end, it was not for the sake of the stability of the Northwest that it was released free of charge. Hence the nature is different. And in that battle, only sixty-seven people were killed under Cao Wei's account.

The Battle of Gyeongju was more brilliantly won, but how many soldiers have been killed so far? It's about to catch up with the number of casualties in the good water river.

However, Huang Hua only said the number of enemy casualties, so it sounds the same after all.

"The enemy only has 200,000 soldiers left?" A businessman asked.

This is really not very clear, even if Song Bing is sitting on the balloon, he can't count it. But it can be roughly estimated, Huang Hua said: "Because of the Ming Gong's design, the enemy was divided into two, and the design caused them to delay for a few days, the grain and grass were insufficient, and nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses were sent to the rear to transport grain and grass, and now the enemy's two forces together will not exceed 200,000, and where is Rouyuan Village, including Liang Yongneng's defeated army, less than 100,000." However, the strength of our army is close to 80,000 soldiers and horses. ”

"That's going to be a big win." The merchants said one after another.

The strength of the Song army is still small, but is the morale the same?

As for the past, one was a night attack, one was not a large number of cavalry, one was a deliberate selection of terrain, and the other was a local battle, and today these advantages are all gone, but these merchants have ignored them, or they simply can't think of them.

Of course, Huang Hua wouldn't say it, although he was still a little worried in his heart.

The battlefield is ever-changing, and anything can happen.

He continued: "Everyone, please look at this map, the enemy has been defeated and fled, and in fact, Western Xia has not drawn many reserve troops to rescue it, so our army will keep chasing and chase to where it goes." ”

Huang Hua pointed with his hand.

"Yanzhou."

"We want to chase to Lingzhou."

"We want to take the opportunity to annihilate Western Xia."

These people babbled.

"If you annihilate Western Xia, then you still have business to do in the future?"

"We'd rather not make this money, and we want to annihilate Western Xia." Many businessmen have taken a stand.

"That's wrong, even if you annihilate Western Xia, you can still earn this money, and you can earn this money in a bright way. But Ming Gong didn't have this idea, he just wanted to pursue to Yanzhou, so he stopped. Then build several villages in the rear, so that Gyeongju will become a real rear. ”

Huang Hua pointed on the map as he spoke, but every time he pointed it, the faces of these merchants changed. Because the future location of these forts is almost stuck with the Tsusai River and the Guide River, even the mountain roads in the other Hengshan areas are also blocked. Here's the problem......

"Do you feel that it will be difficult for private salt to enter Gyeongju in the future? But that's okay, now give everyone a chance. As you know, we captured a large number of prisoners of war in this battle, but not only prisoners of war, but also many livestock and vehicles. This time, since the Ming Duke planned to build more than a dozen forts in Hengshan, of course, he also used prisoners of war to build forts, so the people of Hengshan will become the people of the Song Dynasty in the future. But the people in this area live in poverty, and they can ignore it in the Western Xia court. But it belongs to the Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty can't ignore it. However, direct relief, on the contrary, becomes a second Murong, and in the end it is difficult to fill and difficult to control. If not relieved. They may also cause trouble because of poverty. Therefore, the Ming Guild mobilized these people to go to Yanzhou...... Transporting salt! ”

These merchants immediately understood that after Wang Juju's victory, he would chase all the way to Yanzhou, Yanzhou was not too far from the Song Dynasty, whether it was from Gyeongju or from Yanzhou, grain and grass could be transported to Yanzhou, and there were so many prisoners of war, when they went to transport grain and grass, and when they came back, they would transport salt and salt, so the supply would be perfectly solved, and the risk would not be very great.

As for the Song army, it stopped in Yanzhou. One is to give the rear time to build a fort, and the weather is gradually warmer, the difficulty of building a fort has decreased, and the other is to give the rear time to transport salt.

With so many prisoners of war, plus the people who came to the rescue, the Song army itself had many baggage trucks, plus captured livestock vehicles, how much green salt did they have to transport back this day?

Then here comes the bigger problem......

Huang Hua continued: "First of all, after these forts are built, it will be very difficult to transport smuggled salt in the future, and secondly, Ming Gong may transport back millions of stone blue salt this time. You merchants. Pursuing profits, Ming Gong also understands. If you say that you are not patriotic, then it is not, just like this time Rindo Lingding sent some scouts to Gyeongju City. You all report it. It's also patriotic. Therefore, after weighing it, Ming Gong thought of a solution. In the future, the green salt will be transported to five locations, Huai'an Town, Baibao City, Dashun City, Jintang City, and Shunning Village. ”

Hearing this, everyone didn't know whether it was joy or worry, White Leopard City and Jintang City were important fortresses in Western Xia, but now Huang Hua stroked his hand. Later, it became the territory of the Song Dynasty and was used as a place to store green salt.

Of course, it also means that from then on, it will be more difficult and difficult for Western Xia to threaten Gyeongju. But in this way, is there still a way to survive with private salt?

Huang Hua continued: "Therefore, Ming Gong plans to hand it over to you for sale first, and after handing over the money and silk in Yeonju, Gyeongju, and then you will hire someone to transport it back from the five forts, because you are buying official salt, so you will be allowed to sell it on Shaanxi Road." Don't worry, Ming Gong is Huanqing Road to appease the Jingluo envoy. ”

After saying this, everyone was stunned and laughed together.

The ones in Yanzhou have nothing to do with them, what they care about is Huanqing Road, the five state armies of Huanqing Road, Huanzhou, Qingzhou, Pizhou, Ningzhou, and Qianzhou. If the green salt can be openly transported to Pizhou and Qianzhou, then it can be sold to the entire Shaanxi Road.

Although the profit may be less, this can be sold publicly, and it may be more profitable to bribe officials and soldiers as a thief like before.

In fact, this is the reason why Han Jiang and Zhang Qi did not show up.

Strictly speaking, the sale of salt is under the jurisdiction of the three divisions. If Qingyan was the salt of the Song Dynasty, Wang Ju would do so, and the impeachment could cover the entire palace. But green salt is not, this is clearly the stolen Xixia salt, and the government does not sell it, and the private salt will not be suspended, and even the sales scope of green salt is not related to the salt solution, it may be because of the large-scale trafficking and trafficking, it will lose part of the profit of the salt solution, but the damage will not be great. If you say that because of this salt grab, if you grab a lot, there will be a large number of green salt sold by the government on Shaanxi Road in the next few years, rather than green salt from private traders. This will make the economy of Western Xia even worse. Unless the Western Xia lowers the price of green salt to ten cents per catty. But then after deducting the cost of trafficking, the Tanguts would not make much money.

Wang Ju played a sideline ball, and the benefits to the Song Dynasty far outweighed the disadvantages, and the money was used to reward and compensate the soldiers of the three armies, Wang Ju used the soldiers extravagantly, that is also famous, not the first time.

However, because of this war exploit, there will inevitably be people who are jealous and even disgusted with the war's ministers who hate it, and they will use it to make a fuss when the time comes.

But this can really get a lot of money. So Wang Ju did it.

Huang Hua said this, these businessmen will understand, and the next thing is to negotiate the price of salt, as well as the quantity.

Of course, not only these businessmen, but more businessmen will soon join this feast, but the businessmen of Gyeongju are close to the water and benefit first.

The merchants discussed each other for a while, and one of them stood up and said, "If this is the case, we are willing to pay twenty-one cents per catty." ”

Originally, I was going to come up with twenty articles, but I was embarrassed to think about it, so I added another article.

Huang Hua sneered: "The salt was transported to Huai'an Town, White Leopard City, and Dashun City, and there was no extortion from the officers and soldiers, and the freight was almost negligible, and it was sold publicly. ”

In the past, the average price of green salt obtained by private merchants from the border was far less than 21 wen, but they still had to pay the cost of carrying mules, and the cost of taking care of the officials and officials of each battalion, so that the seven deductions and eight deductions were almost close to 20 wen.

But it is private salt in the end, and it cannot be sold in a bright way, so it can only be sold secretly, so the "wholesale price" per catty is only about 30 yuan. But in the hands of the people, it must be more than that. That is, it seems that the profits are high, but many profits are taken away by various links, and the actual profit of private salt merchants is only a few pennies per catty. It's just that its sales volume is large, so there are many businessmen who deal in private salt.

Now it is not private salt, but official salt, which can be sold publicly. Think about the market price of a pound of bitter salt. If it is sold publicly, how much will a pound of delicious green salt be sold for in the market? Thirty-five, forty or forty-five or fifty-five?

As for the reward and pension soldiers, everyone automatically ignored it.

In fact, low or not? The sincerity is not low, the laws of the Song Dynasty are sometimes inappropriate, and judging cases according to the "story" is an absolute official standard, the officials say that it is counted, and if it is not counted, the credit of the court is not high.

But now the government is anxiously waiting for money, and the salt may be backlogged for several years. Moreover, these small rich businessmen in Gyeongju are not the Gao family after all, they are still a "vulnerable group".

At the same time, there is a backlog of funds, especially those businessmen who have dark hearts and have the way to lend usury, maybe they will buy some green salt, but they will not buy much at all.

If it weren't for Wang Ju's knowledge of Qingzhou, and the official position of Huanqing Road to appease the envoys, Wang Ju had cooperated with them once before, then the price offered by these merchants might not even be twenty wen.

This is also the reason why Wang Ju has set the price now, going forward, where else, there are three states behind Huanqing Road, as well as several states on Yanyan Road, and even merchants from the Yongxing Army will participate in this feast. But those people, not many people may trust Wang Ju, or buy Wang Ju's face.

But now that it's settled, there is a reason that Huang Hua doesn't know.

But Wang Ju and Huang Hua also discussed the price of salt in advance, and Huang Hua said: "That's it, twenty-three wen per catty, no deposit for the time being, and then pay after getting the salt." ”

Twenty-three articles obviously made everyone a little embarrassed, so they bargained for a while, and it became twenty-two articles.

And built a preliminary amount, 630,000 stones!

"It's really rich," Huang Hua said after waiting for the businessmen to leave.

Six hundred and thirty thousand stones, which is millions of yuan, he will not even calculate. Moreover, this is only Gyeongju.

"Well done!" Zhang Qi praised.

He immediately informed the soldiers on the balloon with a flag.

The soldiers on the balloon immediately spread the news to Rouyuan Village.

After a while, this news let Wang Ju see, at this time he was not far from Rouyuan Village, and saw the flag waving on the balloon, he raised his telescope to look, and waved it twice in a row, twenty-two, a flag painted with broken stone grains, and then waved it six times, one three times.

He immediately translated it, and each catty of salt was twenty-two wen, and he ordered six hundred and thirty thousand stones. The price is the same thing, but this amount surprised Wang Ju, and he couldn't help but think in his heart, it can't be said that the Song Dynasty has no money, and there are so many rich people in one Gyeongju. But the more rich people there are, the better.

"Good news, it came at the right time." Wang Ju waved his fist and said. (To be continued.) )xh118R1052