"Don't touch them into the water," shouted Li Zhen as she stood on the shore.

Under his command, the workers carried bundles of white or yellow bamboo paper6 onto the ship. This is another advantage of the original choice in Hangzhou, that is, the water transportation is reached, the cost of water transportation in this era is the lowest, if properly organized, a bucket of grain from Hangzhou to the capital through the guò waterway, only a dozen dollars is enough. But what about the road to guò6?

That's lucky, just let the people move to the south.

Wang Wei also stood on the shore and said happily: "I finally waited for this day." ”

After almost two and a half years, I finally saw the income.

Li Zhen said: "Second uncle, I'll go to Hangzhou City, and when I'm away, you will take care of it for me." ”

"Okay."

Li Zhen got on the boat, went down the river, and soon came to the city of Hangzhou, inquired about people, found the largest bookstore in the city, and then said to the uncle in the shop: "I want to see your owner and talk about a big deal." ”

"May I ask if Lang Jun is ......?"

"I'm the manager of that paper workshop in Fuyang."

Uncle immediately put on a smiling face, the current paper workshop, in Hangzhou is almost a household name, and with their book workshop is more closely connected, want to make more money in books, must save costs in all aspects, of which the cost of paper is the majority.

He immediately went in to make a report, and in a moment an old man came out of it.

"Li Langjun, what a deal."

"Let's go in and talk."

"Okay, let's come with the old man." The old man took Li Zhen to the back room, asked everyone to pour tea, and then said, "Li Langjun, let's talk about it now." ”

"I want to join hands with Weng Weng to print the Diamond Sutra, the Yuanjue Sutra, these common Buddhist scriptures, not necessarily that one, but you must have a carved plate."

This involves the issue of printing costs, and movable type printing is not necessarily cheaper than engraving printing. It depends on the fact that some common books, such as the Thirteen Schools of Confucianism, some Buddhist books, and large bookstores have ready-made carved plates.

But this carved plate is preserved to occupy a place, and the second has to be moth-proof, and it will be deformed after a long time, and there is no way to print it once it is deformed. Therefore, the unpopular and unpopular books will be destroyed after one-time engraving printing. However, because common books are available in major bookstores and bookstores, the profits are very light.

It is precisely because of this situation that Bi Sheng delved into movable type printing so that the bookstore could print books to reduce costs. Just for a book with movable type, it is definitely not cost-effective, but the bookstore will print many books a year, one book is not cost-effective, ten books are not cost-effective, so what about twenty books, fifty books?

Naturally, the cost of books went down.

However, the materials used by Bi Sheng may have been affected by engraving printing, and he first chose wooden movable type, but it was unsuccessful. Then choose clay movable type, which is easy to engrave. Although metal movable type is good, how difficult is it to cast a character mold in this era? Moreover, movable metal type has stricter requirements for adhesives.

He wanted to be cheap and labor-saving, but he ignored the metal type, so the movable type was printed, but because of the disadvantages of wooden type and clay type, it could not be popularized.

It's not about that, it's about the cost.

With ready-made engravings, the printing cost will be smaller, and with this year's gold paper, the price of the book may be less than half of the original.

"Li Langjun, it's not that I'm spoiling your interest, although your workshop has that kind of new paper, which is cheap, but everyone is using it, and the book will be cheaper. These sutras are not owned by a bookstore, and there is not much profit in reality. ”

"Weng Weng, you're wrong, these books are not going to be sold in the Central Plains, nor will they be sold in the Song Dynasty, but will be shipped to Western Xia."

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"The cicada is poignant, the long pavilion is late, and the showers are at the beginning of the break. The capital tent has no clue, nostalgia, and Lan Zhou urges. Holding hands and looking at each other's teary eyes, they were speechless and choked......" The song sang Liu Yong's "Yulin Bell" softly.

One of the anxious middle-aged men asked, "Steward Zhu, let's say, why did you call us together?" ”

This is also forced.

Liyuan Fort checked the smuggled goods, and robbed three private goods in disguise in a row, and everyone was helpless.

Of course, they are also trying to find a way, but Sun Wei is greedy, violent and tough, and these heroes also dare not exonerate. But sooner or later, there will be a way, after all, they are the head snakes of the land, and the private goods are widely implicated, and it is not something that Sun Wei can handle.

Therefore, Zhu Qing came into everyone's field of vision, and it was this person who brought a large number of pigs and sheep and gave them to the officers and soldiers of various battalions in Huachi County.

The Zhu family is the head snake of Yanzhou, and its influence cannot reach Gyeongju.

However, they also wanted to get through Huachi Road, so Zhu Qing invited, so they came together.

Zhu Qing clapped his hands, let the song go down, and said: "Everyone, I came to discuss one thing with you, let's join hands to deal in private goods and go from Huachi Road." ”

"Oh." Everyone was surprised together, but after thinking about it, it was very likely that according to some news they heard, that Yao Patrol was deeply influenced by the Xiaozhi County in Huachi County, and that Xiaozhi County was inextricably linked to the Zhu family.

"Steward Zhu, you can tell me, how to jointly operate the law." One asked.

Another person said in a strange manner: "Steward Zhu, Huachi County is the territory of Gyeongju, not the territory of your Yanzhou people. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, listen to what I have said, firstly, we may have a few households in Yanzhou, and we will only get one-tenth of the income, and you will share the rest, but I promise that there will be no more cases of private goods being confiscated."

This requirement was not high, so everyone remained silent, and only one person asked, "What about two, three?" ”

"The second is not to deal in private salt, and the rest of the private goods are not asked, but there is one thing, a large number of war horses must be exchanged from the hands of the Western Xia people."

"Horses? I understand, it turned out to be for the new army that fell," one of them suddenly realized: "But Zhu is in charge, this is not what it used to be, when Renzong, the imperial court bought a horse club, although it was later closed, but the government occasionally bought horses from us." But at that time, the price of horses was relatively fair, and a good horse could often give nearly sixty yuan. However, this year, the imperial court issued an edict, and a horse was given thirty times. You can't buy it on the other side of the mountain, and it's in the Song Dynasty. ”

"This benevolent brother is right, not only in Gyeongju, this money cannot buy private horses, but also the security army can't buy horses anywhere in the market. The imperial court ......" Zhu Qing shook his head.

Of course, it turned out that the imperial court bought horses from merchants, and there were indeed some bad phenomena, such as the collusion of officials and the use of inferior horses to pretend to be good horses to defraud the state of money. A bad horse that can't be regarded as a war horse and a good war horse can have a price difference of forty or fifty times.

That situation is not good, but you can buy a horse at that price.

That's the case, the two cavalry Guangrui Army and the Fanluo Army of the imperial court in Shaanxi are still strictly short of horses, and the Fanluo Army is a little better because they can lead horses, and the number of horses can be more than half, but less than six or seven percent. The Guangrui army can only achieve two or three talents and allocate one war horse.

The cavalry has the cavalry style of play, and the infantry has the style of infantry.

Without horses, how could cavalry go to war? It is equivalent to self-abandonment of martial arts.

However, now the imperial court is even more confused, I heard that Han Xianggong has been in Shaanxi for a long time, don't you even understand this?

Zhu Qing couldn't figure it out, Han Qi was okay, and Xiao Song directly threw out the old sow method of raising horses.

"You don't have to worry about this, as long as you get the horse, we will take it back at the real market price."

"New Fall?" All of a sudden, everyone understood.

It turned out that the so-called investigation of smuggled goods was all a trick made by that little magistrate.

Only by strictly inspecting the smuggled goods can Huachi Road be sealed, the merchants in Yanzhou can have the opportunity to coerce and enter, and the new Fan Luo can have the opportunity to buy horses. As for that Liu Commander, not only because of the revenge of that little magistrate, but more importantly, for this article, plus revenge, he lay down and was shot.

"We can promise, but the salt can't stop." Another said.

Others echoed that salt was only a part of the private goods, but it made a large profit in it, and Gyeongju was very close to Yanju, so everyone was unwilling to let go.

Zhu Qing was not angry, and said calmly: "The formation of the Fanluo Army is to defend Gyeongju, not our Yanzhou." ”

They didn't know Wang Ju's plan, and they didn't know how many merchants in Yanzhou participated, maybe it was to tie up that Xiaozhi County, so it was still possible to buy pigs and sheep with a little money, improve the food of soldiers, and fund war horses.

This account is easy to calculate, and that food is enough for 8,000 a year.

This horse is simpler. It seems that a battalion of four or five hundred horses will cost a lot of money, but don't forget that this horse was bought from the other side of the mountain, and one forty or so is enough. The imperial court took out another thirty strokes. One horse is only a deficit of ten dollars.

But there is also a few companies that participate in private goods, and they will also make a profit, maybe not only will they not lose, but they will be able to earn back all the food expenses, and they will win a big reputation.

The man sneered again: "Can a battalion be able to defend Gyeongju? ”

"You are?"

"In Xia Wu Cha."

"One battalion will not work, but there are so many battalions of officers and soldiers in Gyeongju, and the nature of one more battalion and one less battalion will be different when it is critical."

"Steward Zhu, it's not that I'm laughing at you, how many officers and soldiers does Ge Huaimin have in his hands?"

Zhu Qing was slightly displeased: "When Wang Zhixian first arrived in Huachi, a private goods arrived in Huachi on the same day, I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if I wanted to demonstrate." This is because Wang Zhixian does not want to make a bigger storm. If you don't cooperate, it's not a big problem, it's a big deal, we act on our own. ”

"Steward Zhu, open the skylight and say something bright, this is Gyeongju, including the officials and officials of Huachi County, there are our people, can Wang Zhixian alone support Huachi County?"

"Yes, he can't support Huachi County alone, but what about the Fan Army? After that, they were stationed in Huachi Town for training. Maybe you have a wide range of people, but we are private goods, don't touch private salt, let's go to the capital to sue, or go to Sun Gong to sue. ”

That's the hell out of it.

As long as you can say a reason, the court will allow it.

But as long as the imperial court allows it, this camp falls to Huachi Town, and they are clearly sponsored by Yanzhou merchants, but in fact, Wang Ju is behind, so no matter what everyone does in Liyuan Fort, this private business road in Huachi County is also broken.

One of the elders immediately persuaded: "Let's say a word, Manager Zhu, why don't you buy a horse from the security army?" ”

"If you buy a horse from the security army, you have to barter the goods, and you have to pay the field tax."

Everyone understands that as long as a few businessmen in Yanzhou buy horses from the security army, the government will welcome it, but it is hard and easy, and it is impossible to produce a huge price difference to make up for this loss. But they didn't know that Wang Ju was not planning to buy four or five hundred horses, but more than a thousand. Not only the Fan cavalry who was picking up troops, Wang Ju even made up the war horses of the Fan army in Liyuan Fort.

And this horse is only a small part of its cost.

The cost of the whole plan is very staggering, and it cannot be completely subsidized, so I use the power in my hand to make up for this cost through the channel of guò private goods. Otherwise, the Zhu and Li families can come up with 20,000 yuan, but can they come up with 100,000 yuan?

Zhu Qing continued: "This is the first, and the second is that there is also a shortage of horses in Yanzhou, once we buy horses on a large scale, the officers and soldiers will inevitably come to detain them, how many horses can we bring to Gyeongju?" As for the matter of private salt, I also opened the skylight and said that Wang Zhixian was grinding in Huachi County, and he would inevitably be transferred away after three years according to the system. If you make a contribution, it won't take three years to be transferred. He was transferred away in front, and we also withdrew later, what should you do at that time, regardless of our affairs or Wang Zhixian's affairs. Remember, with each additional strength, you will be able to better defend your homeland. By doing this, Wang Zhixian is defending your homeland, not the homeland of Yanzhou. ”

"Alright, let's make a pact." Wu Cha said again.

Whether it can be justified or not, it is a gray area, can the contract be established?

This person is really troublesome, Zhu Qing said in his heart.

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