Without waiting for others to ask, the guerrilla of the Shanxi Green Battalion confided in himself: "Since the end of the war came to Sichuan, I have hardly left Chongqing, and I am afraid that the Duke of Baoguo will come to attack us. The only time I went out of the city was the last time I went to Zhongxian, and I lost half of my life, and after fleeing back to Chongqing, I had another year of fear...... There is nothing around Chongqing, there is no tuntian to grow grain, there are no pigs, and even the meat is counted and eaten, that is, the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival have given two taels of wine...... "This Shanxi person remembered the hard days of moving to Chongqing, and he was really sad to the extreme. Obviously, it was close to the Yangtze River, but every day there were Ming ships passing by the edge of the city, and they didn't even dare to go fishing -- there was no Ming army on the Jialing River, but there was a lack of fishing boats. All the supplies were transported from Boryeong, so everything was simple, except for the basic ration of rice and beans, only wild vegetables could be dug around the city, and mushrooms should also be given priority to the Manchurian Taijun - the commander of the Eight Banners stationed in the city was also present today, and the people of Shanxi were aggrieved but did not dare to express their complaints.

The cry of the Shanxi people caused a resonance, that is, the Manchurian Taijun also felt that this meal was much more abundant than the rice in Chongqing.

"Then eat more." Deng Ming also had a big stone in his heart when he heard it, and what he was most worried about just now was that this person would say something bad about the scenery, which would lead to the hasty end of the dinner and leave him with no chance to sell the stone.

Although jadeite is beautiful, people in the southeastern provinces don't want it - they are willing to buy some precious stones; Li Dingguo did not want - the Ming army in Kunming only needed supplies except the gold of Burma; Feng Shuangli didn't want to—just politely took a few pieces to watch; Deng Ming made up his mind that he must make these illiterate people regret it so much that their intestines are blue.

There are still some things that the Shanxi general did not say. He thinks that this time is an eye-opener, as Gao Mingzhan said, Deng Ming's food here is good, if Deng Ming does have credit, then who is willing to fight with him in a crisis in the future. The last time Shanxi Green Camp escaped and came back from Zhongxian, the weak people filled in the ditches on the way, and the strong men lost half of them, but Wang Mingde and these guys came back one by one with red faces. Wang Mingde said that they had been holding out in Zhongxian until the retreat of the Ming army, and most of them had also paid for food, right?

"Come, have some Chengdu drinks." Deng Ming clapped his hands, and immediately someone brought up a few wooden barrels, and after tasting the frothy drink, Wang Mingde asked with some uncertainty: "Is this wine?" ”

"Wang Shuai is right, this is made of wheat, and I named it beer. This kind of wine is the most suitable for our martial artists to drink, the wine is not strong, and if you drink too much, you won't make a mistake, drink more, drink more. ”

There were two wells near the camp of the Ming army, and the Ming army soaked the beer barrels in the well water in advance, and the beer was cold to the bone when it was just taken out. The Qing generals found that this thing tasted good, and it really didn't have any energy, so they poured it into their stomachs while chatting. When the generals of the Qing army drank their tongues big, Deng Ming, who had not been dripping with wine, felt that the time was almost up, the so-called sharpening knives did not mistake the woodcutters, Deng Ming planned to take advantage of his time in Chongqing, to develop these northwest snakes into the trade line of western Sichuan, and after negotiating with Gao Mingzhan yesterday, Deng Ming felt that this matter was very promising.

Even if the Ming army took Chongqing in the future and sent this group of Qing soldiers back to Baoning, Hanzhong, or even Xi'an, as long as the Ming army did not control all of China for a day, it would need trade channels to sell goods to the Manchu control areas. With the actions of British imperialism in his previous life, Deng Ming fully understood that business dealings would not affect the fight of the face, and many times the fight was also to do business better.

The hardness of jadeite is very high, Deng Ming came back in a hurry, and there is also a lack of stonemasons, so there is no way to process some samples, but Deng Ming can draw, and there are a few pieces of drawing paper behind him, on which colorful patterns are painted, all of which are jade pen holders, pen holders or other desktop decorations designed by Deng Ming, as well as various teapots, dishes, jewelry, etc. In Deng Ming's view, jadeite, like jade, is essentially a stone, and the only factor that determines the price is the degree of popularity, so he designed some sketches of jadeite products, most of which are daily necessities, and Deng Ming estimated that jadeite with high hardness would have an advantage in this regard.

After listening to the Shanxi man's complaints, Deng Ming took the opportunity to take action, saying that as long as Chongqing was willing to pay, Sichuan West could sell them non-staple food and alcohol, as well as various other consumable luxury goods. Deng Ming said as he brought tobacco from Huguang for the officers of the Chongqing Green Battalion to taste.

"The king of Yanping County took Taiwan, which is a very big island." When the generals of the Green Battalion were busy smoking, Deng Ming revealed another inside information to them: "Taiwan is rich in sugarcane, and in the future, western Sichuan will buy back white sugar from Taiwan, which is as fine as sand and as white as clouds. ”

Hearing this, the eyes of many green battalion generals straightened again, although they belonged to generals, but in this era when the flow of materials was extremely underdeveloped, the material life of front-line generals was very monotonous. It's like the tobacco that Deng Ming just took out, Chongqing, an isolated island deep in the encirclement of the Ming army, has not received similar supplies for a long time, and occasionally a little is transported from Xi'an, and it will be robbed by everyone in the blink of an eye. Sugar, vinegar, and soy sauce are not necessities, and when there are not enough boats on the Jialing River and half of the supplies have to be carried on manual shoulders, Li Guoying will only transport more grain and beans.

The problem is that the generals in Chongqing now have no money in their hands, and there is only grain and straw transported by Li Guoying in the treasury, which will definitely not be sold at a high price in western Sichuan. And now that the two armies are still fighting, if they sell military rations to the enemy, will they not die fast enough? You must know that not everyone is Yuan Chonghuan's.

Thinking of this, the eyes of the officers of the green battalion dimmed, and with the help of alcohol, they complained loudly about the poor supplies in Chongqing, and many people blurted out, saying that Li Guoying's idea was good, and it was not interesting to stay in Chongqing, so it was better to go back to northern Sichuan or simply go back to Shaanxi, at least eat and be rich, and not have to worry about being beaten by the Ming army all day long.

"It turns out that Li Guoying also thinks that Chongqing is a chicken rib." Deng Ming's face was silent, and he had already given these people the simplest idea: "Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, do you still want to move Chongqing City back to Baoning?" It's better to sell some scrap. ”

"What do you mean by selling scrap?" Gao Mingzhan asked rhetorically.

"If you promise not to rob, I will go back to Chengdu and Xuzhou to make a list, and let the merchants of western Sichuan go to Jiangjin or other places to open a market. There is always some wood in the houses in Chongqing, and maybe there are some copper and iron corners, which can be sold to merchants in western Sichuan as scrap copper, scrap iron, and waste wood, so that you will not have money. Deng Ming said: "Anyway, you are going to withdraw from the army, and you can't take these things with you." I don't know if Governor Li will really retire from the army, Chengdu needs these things, you sell them, Chengdu can also use them first. ”

"Sounds good." While continuing to enjoy their beer, the generals of the Green Battalion discussed at the dinner table how to divide the city and then sell waste products - there were no more people in Chongqing, only the army, and the abandoned houses were useless things.

"What's bad about iron, it's too brittle to make weapons, and the scrap copper left over from casting cannons can be sold for scrap." The Qing generals promised not to rob the bazaar under Deng Ming's protection. Deng Ming pondered, when the time is ripe, he can let the merchants who collect waste products go directly to Futu Pass to set up stalls, if they can contact ordinary green battalion soldiers, it is estimated that sooner or later the flagpoles of the generals will have to be turned into waste products and recycled by merchants in western Sichuan.

"This ale wine is really good," several large bowls of wine were swallowed, and the voice of the Shanxi guerrillas also shook the sky, and he actually took the initiative to ask Deng Ming: "Admiral Deng, is there still this ale wine?" ”

"Yes, enough to drink." Deng Ming asked people to bring a few more barrels of wine from the well: "When the market opens in the future, if you like to drink, you should be able to buy it from the merchants in western Sichuan." -- After Deng Ming returned, he must tell the businessmen that the business of supplying beer to Chongqing can be determined to be a project to support the development of western Sichuan, and the businessmen can enjoy preferential tax treatment.

"The cannons cast by the Governor are also scrap." Someone finally mentioned the super cannon cast by Li Guoying, and Wang Mingde, who was still a little sober-minded, tried to divert the topic, but the others were drunk and unconvinced: "That cannon is useless, what are you afraid of if you tell Admiral Deng to know?" ”

After learning that Li Guoying actually had such an idea, Deng Ming laughed: "If I bombard my ship, then I have to attack Chongqing, which is no different from robbing the market in western Sichuan; But this kind of cannon is useless to me, you don't have a ship for us to fight, and if you don't want it, you can only sell it as scrap copper. ”

The Qing army in Chongqing was far more combative than the Qing army in Huguang and Liangjiang, and when Deng Ming and his officers discussed this issue, they thought that the important reason was that they had few scruples and poor quality of life; So Deng Ming was very willing to sell some luxury goods to the Qing army in Chongqing to improve their lives.

However, selling scrap is certainly not selling millionaires, and Deng Ming's recycling of scrap is not much cheaper, after mobilizing these people's desire for wealth, Deng Ming launched his long-planned jewelry business, and talked with the Green Camp generals about the future and appreciation potential of jadeite, as well as the health value of jadeite.

In the previous life, when traveling in Sichuan, Sichuan people talked about the medicinal value of crystal with Deng Ming, and also cited the "Compendium of Materia Medica" as evidence, Li Shizhen said in the book that crystal tastes cold, can brighten the eyes, remove dampness and heat, and eliminate tumors. At that time, Deng Ming wanted to refute in public: Li Shizhen is an ancient person who doesn't understand chemistry, even if the crystal is a silica crystal, a sand-like thing, it is just a good-looking crystal shape, and it is Li Shizhen, when did he say that the crystal can actually absorb computer radiation, and the main treatment is lumbar disc protrusion and cervical hyperplasia?

"Jadeite is a product of the southern country, which tastes hot, removes cold, and has a miraculous effect on rheumatism." In his previous life, the crystal sellers in Sichuan could fool people who had studied chemistry, and Deng Ming felt that it was even easier to fool these guys who didn't understand chemistry: "This is written in the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing". "I don't know if the Compendium of Materia Medica has written Deng Ming, but he knows that the people here must not have read the book "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing".

And Deng Ming also has a sales secret, what health care products and supplements are the best to sell in China? The answer is self-evident. And this is still a one-size-fits-all law, just look at the sales performance of viagra, if Deng Ming is a crystal seller in Sichuan, he definitely doesn't need to absorb computer radiation such an unconvincing marketing strategy: "Often contact jadeite, can aphrodisiac!" ”