Youzhou, Dong Anyang County, Tuntian School Weifu Yamen.
After Jian Yong met Liu Bei, he explained to Liu Bei what he saw and heard in Mayi!
Finally, Jian Yong said: "Lei Gong accumulated grain and built high walls. If he is allowed to lay down his foundation in Mayi, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the court to eradicate Lei Gong in the future!"
Hearing this, Liu Bei smiled bitterly and took a bamboo scroll to Jian Yong and said: "But now the imperial court has no strength to deal with Thunder Lord. The chariot general Zhang Wen was defeated in Xiliang and lost 40,000 troops. Now the army has retreated."
When we get to the Sanfu front line, Your Majesty urgently orders General Huangfu to stabilize the front line. The war in Xiliang will not end until next year!"
"How is this possible!" Jian Yong couldn't believe it. Although the imperial court had fought frequently in recent years, it had also won many battles. Such a defeat had never happened before.
But after reading the content on the bamboo scroll, I discovered that the invincible Han Dynasty would also be defeated, and the defeat was very miserable. The 100,000-strong army lost less than half, and now it is beaten by the Xiliang rebels and can only defend!
Liu Bei said helplessly: "Compared with the Xiliang rebels and the Yellow Turban thieves in Jizhou, the Lei Gong tribe is nothing. As long as they don't attack Taiyuan County, they will not harm the Han Dynasty. The Xiliang rebels and Jizhou have not been eliminated by the court."
Before the Yellow Turban Army, they had no ability to deal with Thunder Lord!"
Guan Yu on the side said: "Brother, what this Lei Gong did seems to be completely different from other bandits. He did not harass the people. Can't the court appease Lei Gong? Master Liu Yu always likes to appease barbarians, and this Lei Gong is still Han."
, recruiting him will be of great benefit to the court without any harm!"
Zhang Fei said nervously: "Second brother, you didn't say this outside, did you?"
Guan Yu said strangely: "No!"
Zhang Fei said in a relaxed tone: "That's good. Second brother, don't say such things anymore, otherwise it will bring us big trouble!"
"Lei Gong and the Yellow Turban thieves destroyed the entire Jizhou noble family. Everyone in the court hated them. How could they possibly appease Lei Gong? You didn't see that even though Lei Gong is less than a hundred miles away from us, Liu Youzhou, who always likes to appease Lei Gong, doesn't care about Lei Gong.
He was ignored because he couldn't appease him. Whoever dared to appease Lei Gong and the others would be the mortal enemies of the entire Jizhou family. Twenty percent of the officials in the world came from Jizhou. Who dared to offend so many officials! Look, the imperial court can't take action now. Wait until the west
Once the Liang bandits are wiped out, it will be the end of the Yellow Turban bandits and the Thunder Lords in Jizhou! Maybe we will also lead troops to surround and suppress the Thunder Lords!"
Liu Bei and the others suddenly felt palpitated. They had never thought of this! At the same time, they also felt sorry for Lei Gong!
Jian Yong was greatly surprised and said: "Yide, you are usually reckless, but I didn't expect you to have such a careful side."
Even they did not expect Lei Gong's situation, but Zhang Fei saw through it at a glance, which even surprised Liu Bei and Guan Yu.
Zhang Fei said disapprovingly: "There are several relatives from Jizhou in my father's family. They curse the Yellow Turban thieves like Lei Gong and Zhang Yan every day. Such things are not done by one or two families in Youzhou. Almost every family has several Jizhou.
The relatives who fled are here. They are now quarreling with the officials in Jizhou every day. They want to take back their relatives' fields and mansions, but they are all suppressed by the Jizhou shepherds. Just looking at this situation, we know that Lei Gong and the others massacred in Jizhou.
No matter how many noble families have been killed, it is impossible for the surviving noble families to let Lei Gong and the others go."
Liu Bei said regretfully: "Forget it, let's not get too close to Lei Gong and the others, and just have normal transactions!"
He originally had the intention of appeasing Lei Gong, but according to Zhang Fei, Lei Gong and others have become the enemies of all officials, so it is better not to get close!
"I bought the sweater. Let's try to see if we can sell it. If we can really make money, it will also be a big subsidy to the Tuntian Mansion!"
"Let me give it a try!" Jian Yong has never done business, and his experience is not even as rich as Liu Bei's. After all, Liu Bei also sold straw sandals!
But the sales of sweaters exceeded Liu Bei's imagination, and the price doubled. Even if a sweater sold for 1,000 yuan, all 200 sweaters were sold out before they left Donganyang County, making him a direct profit of 100,000 yuan.
Liu Bei and the others were dumbfounded by the money they had made.
When did it become so easy to make money? Then why have they been poor for half their lives!
Obviously it's not that Jian Yong is a business genius, but that this sweater is more popular than they imagined!
So Liu Bei spent 5 million yuan to let Jian Yong continue to purchase goods in Mayi. At the same time, he also figured out that it was obviously difficult to maintain the farmland with the support of the court alone. He could only rely on his own efforts to form a caravan to sell goods.
Mayi's specialty products are obviously a way to make money.
However, this meant that a scholar like Jian Yong was not suitable for running this trade route. After thinking for a long time, he thought of his old friends Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang. With their help, the caravan of the Tuntian Xiaowei Mansion should be established.
stand up.
Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang were both horse dealers from Youzhou. Liu Bei was the ranger leader of Zhuo County back then. If they wanted to do business in Zhuo County, they naturally had to make friends with local snakes like Liu Bei. After the two of them dated Liu Bei
, believed that Liu Bei was not an idle person, and would surely rise to great heights in the future, so they had the intention of making good friends. After the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, they even spent thousands of gold to help Liu Bei form volunteers!
Their funding soon paid off. In less than 3 years, Liu Bei had managed to get a job as a military commander worth 2,000 shi. With this relationship, their business in Youzhou was smooth.
Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang soon arrived at the Tuntian Colonel's Mansion.
Liu Bei told them his thoughts and gave them a sweater!
Their eyes shone brightly and they said, "This is a sweater. It's really good. If the price is exactly what Xuande said, 100,000 pieces can be sold in Youzhou as a whole. If we add Jizhou's millions, it won't be a problem!"
Liu Bei continued: "If you two are willing to help, I will appoint you as a military officer, and I can leave all the money and food for the military commander's office to you!"
Who would want to be a businessman if he could be an official? Isn't that why they invested in Liu Bei in the first place? (Officials in this era were very powerful. With less than 2,000 shi, they could appoint their own subordinates. That's why we have the saying "Lord Ming Gong", which is similar to the Second World War in the Middle Ages.
The monarchy system of the Yuan Dynasty was similar.) So the two of them saluted and said, "Greetings to Duke Ming!"
Liu Bei smiled and said: "Okay, with the two of you, the Tuntian Colonel's Mansion will be even more powerful. When Jian Yong comes back, I will leave it to you to deal with Mayi in the future!"
Zhang Shiping, Su Shuang: "My subordinates will definitely not disappoint Duke Ming!"
When Jian Yong shipped 10,000 sweaters again, Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang took over the sweaters. With their strong business network, they quickly sold out the sweaters.
Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang mobilized Liu Bei and asked him to build a dock on the Sanggan River outside Dong Anyang County. They used the Sanggan River that ran across the entire Youzhou to sell goods from Mayi throughout Youzhou.
Helped Liu Bei earn tens of millions of dollars in half a month