With this additional decree, isn't Yue Fei afraid that the group that just happened in response to the Northern Expeditionary Merchant Legion?

is not afraid, Yue Fei is not afraid, because he has always had a military envoy and army division by his side who even Liu Xing respected. This military advisor is Huang Zong.

After rushing to the Governor's Mansion and knowing Yue Fei's worries, Huang Zong first analyzed the hearts of those merchant troops that might exist now, especially the composition of the merchant army, before helping Yue Fei make the decision of "the employer is actually sealed and the meritorious army is rewarded".

So how did Huang Zong do the analysis? First of all, Huang Zong analyzed the structure of the merchant army.

As we all know, the Great Song Dynasty has always had only Wang Shi. The merchant army is a product of the new era, which was created by Liu Xing's new law, and it can be said that the foundation of the merchant army is extremely weak today.

So why are so many people willing to join the business group? The answer is that the merchant group pays well.

Huang Zong didn't know very well how much cash could be paid by the mercenaries of other merchants' groups, and Yue Fei didn't know how much. But the two of them are well aware of the situation on this side of Suiyuan.

The eight major fields of Suiyuan have been opened one after another in just half a year, making it the richest place in the past few months since Jiagu Xie Nu threw himself into Bianjing in the south and was completely subsumed into the unified management of the Northern Song Dynasty by the king of the county.

The reopening of the border trade field was first of all to allow the surrounding tribes to transport their specialties to the field to exchange them for the items that the tribes wanted.

Especially on the grassland, Huang Zong knew very well that in the past few months, the Tatar tribe, which had been determined to be the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty, had exchanged at least 10 million stone grain for war horses, cattle and sheep in the Eight Great Fields of Suiyuan.

The Tatars exchanged tens of millions of stone grains. In Suiyuan, the direct benefits are as follows: First. Tatar went deep into Suiyuan. He was unfamiliar with his life, so he could only hire a large number of Suiyuan locals to serve as guides for his business group.

In this way, many locals first obtained a large amount of direct benefits from the Tatar merchant group, and in fact, it directly promoted the process of turning Liu Xing's plan of "opening a new border trade field and enriching millions of border people" into reality.

Second, when the Tatars came to Suiyuan in exchange for rice and grain from the Central Plains, they did not leave on the same day when they came to exchange for salt and iron. Since you can't return on the same day, you must stay in a hotel and eat.

Staying in the hotel and eating, the Tatar people of the inn can't bring it, right? Restaurants, restaurants, and Tatars can't bring it.

From inns to wine shops and teahouses, these were all opened by Suiyuan locals or Han people who came here from the north of the Central Plains during this time. As long as they eat and stay in the hotel. Then he left a large amount of money for the locals in Suiyuan.

The money on the food, drink, and housing stores is not just for the benefit of the Suiyuan aborigines.

It also benefited many businessmen from Shanxi, Henan, Shanxi and Hebei who came here, which directly promoted the accelerated development of Liu Xing's plan of "rejuvenating Xinjiang through border trade and recruiting merchants from all over the world to strengthen the border plug".

Third, rice, tea, and salt, which are the materials of the Central Plains that the Tatar people desperately need, are not produced in Suiyuan.

The largest source of rice grain in the Suiyuan border trade field is Henan, Shanxi, and Hebei provinces. Tea was trafficked from Shandong, Xikang, Dongchuan and from the Central Plains through trade and transshipment from the Southern Dynasties. Suiyuan uses salt, and now the main source is the reopened Yongli Jian and Yuncheng Lake salt in Shanxi.

As for the coal and iron, these are mainly produced locally in Suiyuan. Local salt and iron, 20% of the income to the household department, into the national treasury. And two percent. It belonged to the two great yamen of the governor and the governor.

These supplies were the main goods purchased by the Tatars, who sold their horses and exchanged them for them. Then what is left is both war horses and money. All of them directly allowed many provinces of the Great Song Dynasty and Northern Dynasties to obtain direct benefits.

Fourth, and most importantly, this is the point. According to Liu Xing's new law, only one-tenth of the low tax in the border trade fair is included in the state treasury and handed over to the household department.

It seems that the local government in Suiyuan does not directly receive any benefits in terms of taxation, but in fact? In terms of teahouses, restaurants, clothing, food, housing and transportation, as long as Tatar spends money in Suiyuan, those shopkeepers have to pay taxes to the imperial court. Those taxes were not court taxes, but local taxes, which were directly used by the Suiyuan Governor's Yamen and the Governor's Office.

In the past few months, the tax in the border trade has been converted into about seven or eight million dragon coins. But Huang Zong knows better than Yue Fei, but in terms of local taxes driven by border trade, the income of his governor's yamen has reached nearly 10 million, and the amount handed over to Yue Fei's governor yamen is also four or five million.

Therefore, Tatar is now an enemy of the Central Plains, and Huang Zong directly defined it as "a group of fools who killed themselves after donating gold and silver to my Great Song Dynasty".

In addition to these four points, there is another point that Yue Fei and Huang Zong did not expect before. That is, those people of the Tatar tribe not only like the tea, salt, silk, rice and utensils of the Central Plains, but they prefer the Liuhe gaming stations and horse farms that are open to the public in Suiyuan.

According to Liu Xing's policy tilt for the border areas after determining that Tzu Chi would be the largest beneficiary of Mark Six and the racecourse. As long as the Mark Six lottery in Suiyuan wins, the personal tax will be directly deducted and returned to the governor's yamen. It's the same with winning the lottery at the racecourse.

In the operation of Mark Six and horse farms, local state capitals directly invest in land, stores and licenses, accounting for at least 30% or even 40% of the equity.

It's just that in the past few months, the tribes from the Tatars and the steppes have spent a lot of money in the Mark Six and the racecourse, but they have not gained much. In the gambling hook, they actually left a total of 30 million dragon coins worth of money for the local area.

30 million is equivalent to an average of one dragon coin per capita in the Northern Song Dynasty, which is enough to feed all the soldiers and civilians of the Northern Dynasty for two days. This money is now the biggest confidence for Yue Fei to calmly prepare for war and receive orders without panic or chaos.

Because of the fun of seeing the horse farm, the good horses of many grassland tribes were sold to the horse farm first. When new horses enter the market, a large number of old horses will inevitably be eliminated.

Those war horses are the greatest confidence for Yue Fei to let the transfer envoys patrol the defense and ensure that the supply of the army is sufficient when he is preparing for war.

Because the horses that were eliminated from the horse farm, which could actually be called high-quality, were bought in large numbers by merchants and local people.

The horses are hidden in the merchants, and the horses are hidden in the people, which is the first step in Liu Xing's original plan to build a racecourse and let the Central Plains people regain their own production and self-improvement ability for the cavalry.

This first step is not just in Suiyuan. Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Xikang and Dongchuan, the seven provinces of the Great Song and Northern Dynasties are now only in a few months, and it is initially estimated that at least 300,000 or 400,000 high-grade horses that could be used as war horses were bought by the people at the beginning of the war.

And those bought by merchants, especially those bought by various transfer companies, are more, not to mention millions.

As Suiyuan, which is at the forefront of the horse trade, Yue Fei knows very well that there are at least 80,000 horses in Suiyuan and as many as 200,000 in the hands of merchants.

Yue Fei knows better, so he has to make use of these hidden in the people first, which will become the basic resources for Liu Xing to realize the "Great Song Dynasty cavalry sweeping the Quartet, and then becoming a feat of defending Huo" in the future......

Since it was the merchants who were rich, the merchants did not easily think about rebellion.

It is clear to a person that when the current situation is today, who dares to be an enemy of Liu Xing, and who dares to go against Liu Xing. It is inevitable that they will be defeated like the party members and the Jurchens, and in the end they will not be beheaded by the whole family, and at least the three generations of children and grandchildren can only live a hard life as "sinners".

The reason why merchants are merchants is that most of them want to accumulate a large amount of wealth for their children and grandchildren, and then let their children and grandchildren go to the house and glorify the lintel.

Merchants are businessmen because they are the best at analyzing the current situation, using the current situation to earn enough family property, and then finding the opportunity to make their family a famous family.

Liu Xing often said: "Where there is oppression, there must be resistance." ”

Merchants are not oppressed in any way now, but are one of the major groups of people who have benefited the most from Liu Xing's new laws and policies, which is the fundamental reason why merchants will not become mercenaries and rebel against the country.

If they want to take advantage of the good situation created by the new law and make more money, businessmen will not take the road of rebellion. Rebellion will be defeated, and merchants will not rebel.

For the interests of the family and for the sake of future generations is the idea that every family member will use as the basis for the first thought in their hearts, so Huang Zong thinks that Yue Fei's worries are not unreasonable, but they are a bit unfounded......

Since it was determined that the Shang Tuan soldiers were considering their own interests, they could only temporarily rely on the court of the Northern Song Dynasty headed by Liu Xing. Early the next morning after the order of "the employer is sealed, and the meritorious army is rewarded" was issued, Yue Fei officially issued the battle order for the vanguard to go out.

Pioneers? Why not the Great Army?

The vanguard that Yue Fei said was not any of his 240,000 regular army. These pioneers are the merchant soldiers who were hastily formed.

The merchant group soldiers who had not gone through much training, but Yue Fei directly asked them to be pioneers. After the news spread back to the Surabaya River, Hui Li, Lei Zhen, and Liang Xing were all confused.

Looking at Liu Xing, Liang Xing spoke first: "Brother Yue, what are you doing?" Dare to use a group of untrained stragglers and rangers as the vanguard army to be sent into the grassland. Isn't he afraid that he will suffer defeat and lose his morale before the army is dispatched? ”

"Yes! The steppe nomads may not be able to quickly gather a strong enough force, but those steppe peoples live on horses all year round. General Yue's hasty dispatch of troops is not a little too contemptuous of the enemy and too child's play? Lei Zhen asked Liang Xing's question, and also stared at Liu Xing and asked.

Hearing the questions of the two, Liu Xing looked at the north from afar and smiled meaningfully: "Yue Fei doesn't believe in the merchant soldiers!" He did this because he was worried about me. He is letting those merchant soldiers be pawns across the river, cannon fodder, and a trick for the grassland people to scare the snakes! (To be continued.) )