Chapter 526: Population for War Horses
"How many? I want them all! As soon as Shang Ji's words fell, Han Fu couldn't wait to yell out.
Seeing this, Yuan Shao next to him flashed with a cold glint in his eyes, and then quickly restrained his emotions and pretended to be indifferent.
Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yuan family of the Fourth and Third Princes was one of the strongest political forces in the dynasty. In this case, there is naturally no shortage of disciples of the Yuan family.
And Han Fu is one of the more famous disciples of the Yuan family. Han Fu relied on the Yuan family as a backer to start his family, and after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he also mixed the identity of a prince of one side, and he was still a rich Jizhou assassin, envious of others.
And Yuan Shao, as one of the leaders of the younger generation of the Yuan family, is only a Bohai county guard, and legally speaking, he is still Han Fu's subordinate.
After Yuan Shao took office as the county guard of Bohai, he hinted several times that Han Fu provided grain, grass and funds, but the world changed, and Han Fu obviously had a heart of self-reliance, and he didn't care much about the old master of the Yuan family, and pretended to be crazy and stupid or ignored Yuan Shao's hints!
From Yuan Shao's point of view, Han Fu is a naked betrayal and absolutely cannot be tolerated.
And Han Fu's shouting just now aroused the resentment in Yuan Shao's heart, if it wasn't for the inappropriate place and the fact that he didn't want the scandal of the Yuan family to be made public, the two would have torn up a long time ago.
"Heh, you are not afraid of the wind flashing your tongue on the Korean Festival, why are so many people here giving it to you?"
Yuan Shao was afraid of influence, and it was not good to refute Han Fu's face in public, but some people didn't care about these at all, and it was Sun Zhan, the Shougong of Yuyang County, who spoke!
"Gongsun Bogui! You ......" Han Fu looked at Gongsun Zhan, but before he could finish speaking, he heard Zhang Yang next to him say loudly: "Han Jizhou, Brother Bogui's words are not coarse, General Shang intends to transfer some war horses for the sake of everyone." You want to eat alone, what do you think? ”
"That's it, it's all for you, and you're not afraid of eating too much at once!"
"General Shang, for the sake of the past, be sure to ask General Shang to leave a copy for Xuande, Xuande is grateful!"
"What? The starting price of your Hangul Festival, am I Yuan Highway a poor ghost? ”
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In the face of everyone's cynicism, Han Fu suddenly blushed, but he didn't leave as usual!
Without him, the price given by Shang Ji was too cheap, so cheap that the princes would have to get a piece of the pie even if they gave up their demeanor.
When the beacon fire was just opened, the price of a low-grade war horse in Liaodong was about eight gold, and later as the player's wallet bulged, the price of the war horse rose slightly, around ten gold.
Then, with the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the beacon fire entered a period of war in an all-round way, the price of war horses soared, and the fifteen gold of inferior war horses started.
If you put it in the southern region, don't even think about it if you have less than 20 gold!
And the price offered by Shang Ji is only ten gold, even if you don't use such a cheap price, you can make a lot of money by selling it, and everyone will naturally rob it regardless of face.
Seeing that the princes were so enthusiastic, Shang Jijun smiled slightly, waved his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet: "Don't worry, there are two million high-quality war horses for sale in Pingzhou, everyone has a share, don't worry!" ”
"Shangpingzhou, Bohai wants 300,000 horses, and please ask the general for permission!"
"Taishan County wants 100,000 horses......"
"Chen Liu, 200,000 horses......"
"Changsha wants 200,000 horses ......"
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When they heard that there were more than 2 million horses and the supply was sufficient, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then they couldn't wait to report the expected number.
"Everyone, don't be impatient, don't be impatient, there will be a small condition that has not been said!"
When everyone heard this, they suddenly sobered up a lot, and sure enough, there was no good thing about pie falling from the sky, and Shang Ji made the price so low, there must be other conditions.
"Shangpingzhou, please speak up!"
"Pingzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and the general is often anxious about the safety of Pingzhou, and there is not enough population, how can he resist foreign invaders? Immigration is imminent. I would like to hope that if you buy a war horse, you will send a family of immigrants to Pingzhou! ”
In the end, Shang Ji shifted the key to the basic issue of population.
"A household?"
The princes were stunned when they heard this, and then quickly calculated the gains and losses in their hearts.
In the Han Dynasty, a standard household was a family of five, which meant that the purchase of a war horse required an additional five people to Pingzhou. To put it simply, one person is worth two gold coins!
According to the normal rules of human trafficking, of course, an ordinary person is more than two gold, but the merchant wants the people, not the slaves. In other words, these migrated people are still free people, but they have changed their place of residence and changed their tax objects.
Packing a family of five free people as slaves and getting them to Pingzhou and persuading a family of five to immigrate to Pingzhou are two completely different concepts.
Taking Jizhou as an example, the population is 100 times denser than that of Pingzhou. With few lands and many people, and sharp contradictions, it is still very difficult to persuade the people under his rule to move to Pingzhou under this circumstance.
Moreover, this is also very conducive to alleviating contradictions, stabilizing the rule,
If the local princes are a little darker, they can completely force the lower-class people to go bankrupt through political means and artificially create displaced people. While completing the migration of the population, it can also scrape a layer of people's fat and ointment.
Although everyone knows that population is the foundation of everything, but now that the troubled times have not appeared, without the baptism of war, the population is still very rich, and they do not realize the preciousness of the population at all! Exchange the population for war horses, and the princes feel that they are very profitable!
However, Shangji's conditions were very unfriendly to Yan Huang and Lu Bu, who were also lacking in population, and Lu Bu's lips twitched several times, but he still couldn't speak.
After some thought, the princes began to quote new orders.
Yuan Shao is still 300,000 horses, and Han Fu is very domineering to ask for 500,000 horses and win the sales championship. Liu Bei asked for 100,000, Cao Cao asked for 150,000, Sun Jian asked for 150,000, and Yuan Shu asked for 300,000.
Kong Rong asked for 200,000, Ma Teng asked for 100,000, and Jia Xu took the remaining 200,000 on behalf of Dong Zhuo.
As for Zhang Yang, Gongsun Zhan, Yan Huang, and Lu Bu, although they are also extremely hot-eyed, their own territory is still vast and sparsely populated, and forced immigration will jeopardize their ruling foundation, and the gains outweigh the losses.
The princes who got the war horses were very happy, and the merchants were also very happy.
Not to mention the 20 million funds in the account, and at the same time, another 10 million people will continue to resist Pingzhou in the next two months, which is exciting good news for Pingzhou.
The details of the transaction method and transaction time were determined, and the princes from all walks of life began to say goodbye.
It has been half a month since the execution of Pingzhou, and in this half a month, the princes from all walks of life can be stimulated a lot, and I don't know how many people are holding their breath in their hearts, and they plan to go back to make every effort to reorganize the army. Not to mention reaching the level of Pingzhou, at least it can't be too bad. Under the existential crisis, the princes broke out with 200% action, and for a time the Huaxia District actually had two points of prosperity. Shang Ji's move can be regarded as a disguised improvement of the comprehensive national strength of the Huaxia District!
However, not all the princes left, Yan Huang Sharp Blade and Lu Bu stayed for the time being, obviously the two still had something to say.
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