Zhang Baiqi knew from their looks that they were unwilling, so he continued: "It's not that Lei Gongqushuai is unwilling to reuse everyone, it's just that he hasn't figured out how to reuse everyone.
"Lei Gong came to me two days ago and said that he wanted us to become supervisors to supervise the managers in Mayi to prevent them from embarking on the path of corruption. This is a good way to join Mayi. I think everyone can try it.
Give it a try?”
"Moreover, there are very few scholars here in Mayi, and there are also very few people who handle government affairs. However, Mayi needs a lot of officials and managers. Even if everyone in their hometown has read the Six Classics, they are still literate. It is better than Mayi.
These people who have only studied official script for half a year are much better. Now Lei Gong and others occupy more than a dozen counties. Don't these places need county magistrates and assistants? Everyone has offered to help Tengjia Army handle government affairs. Isn't this
The opportunity lies for everyone.”
Zhang Baiqi's proposal made their eyes light up, and they felt that this was a good opportunity.
These commander-in-chief Qu had been in the army for a long time, and they really considered themselves generals. When Zhang Baiqi said this, they suddenly realized that they could be regarded as cultural people. They were strong and strong, and had studied since childhood, and they were higher than the learned ones.
These people are on several floors!
After finding a future, the scene finally became lively. They asked Zhang Baiqi one by one about the supervisors. In their opinion, they were not equivalent to the imperial censors and governors. They were sitting alone. If Xu Wei
It’s not like you can reach heaven in one step.
Mayi government office!
Today another old friend came to see Xu Wei.
When the visitor saw Xu Wei coming, he immediately raised his hands and saluted, saying: "Long time no see, Mr. Lei Gongqu!"
Xu Wei also smiled when he saw the visitor: "Shopkeeper Zhen An, I didn't expect you to come to a remote place like Mayi."
"Any place with a canal, even a remote rural area, will soon become a prosperous city. Isn't that what Mayi is like now? It was just a small county town with a few thousand people at the beginning, but now it has turned into a city with hundreds of thousands of people."
Judging from the prosperity of Mayi, there are few cities in Jizhou that can compare with it."
Xu Wei smiled and said: "The shopkeeper praises my ability too much. This is the credit of everyone's joint efforts!"
Of course, there is another point that Xu Wei did not mention. Without the help of Jizhou's powerful nobles, he would not have had the primitive accumulation to build such a big city.
Afterwards, the two of them exchanged pleasantries, and Xu Wei was shocked and asked: "I wonder why the shopkeeper came this time?"
Zhen An said: "The family wants to open up a trade route to Bingzhou, and I happened to hear that Xu Shuai has produced goods like sweaters here! And they are selling well throughout northern Xinjiang, so let me come over and see if I can get a batch.
sweater!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "We are all old friends, so I still need to help you. Later I will ask someone to prepare 10,000 sweaters for you to take away. I just don't know if it will be enough?"
Zhen An immediately nodded and said: "Enough, enough!"
The Zhen family just wanted to test the waters with the little connections they had at the beginning. They didn't expect Xu Wei to be so generous and directly approved them 10,000 sweaters.
"But I also have something to ask the shopkeeper for help!"
Zhen An said: "Please tell me!"
Xu Weidao: "The shopkeeper also knows that Mayi is a remote and remote place with not much farmland at all. We have always relied on transporting food from within the customs to maintain stability.
I brought 200,000 tribesmen to Mayi. Although I built new water conservancy projects and cultivated fields, the water from far away could not quench my thirst. Although I still had some food in stock, I was afraid that it would be empty. And isn't Jizhou's food harvest this year a bumper harvest?
The price of grain has almost dropped to 100 yuan per stone. I would like to ask the shopkeeper to sell some grain from Jizhou to Mayi. With your relationship with the Zhen family, this should not be difficult, right?"
Xu Wei found that more and more people were working for him, especially during this period, more and more people were marrying wives, and they often married one and brought the whole family to Mayi to make a living. Now Xu Wei's
The tribe is truly and steadily moving towards the number of 300,000!
However, the food he brought was constantly decreasing, which made Xu Wei's sense of worry increase. He wanted to find a channel to replenish food, and the Zhen family was not the best candidate, so Xu Wei was really very excited about Zhen An's arrival.
Happy.
Zhen An smiled bitterly and said: "As the saying goes, grain cannot be sold for a thousand miles, and firewood cannot be sold for a hundred miles. Jizhou is more than a thousand miles away from Yanmen Pass, and the grain has to be transported several times to get here. Not to mention that Yanmen Pass is now strictly guarded, how can the grain get out of Yanmen Pass?
Send it to Mayi!"
Xu Weidao: "Snakes have their own ways, rats have their own ways. How can you businessmen be blocked by a small Yanmen Pass? I don't believe that the iron tools on the grassland were made by the Xianbei people themselves. You can transport all the iron tools there."
It doesn't matter if I have to transport a little grain to the grassland. I won't treat the shopkeeper badly. As long as the grain can reach Mayi, I will buy it at 300 yuan per stone, and I guarantee that you will not suffer any loss!"
Xu Wei didn't believe that they would really go to Jizhou to transport grain. It was amazing that the grain was transported here in Taiyuan County, and some grain was transported from Taiyuan County, which was only a few hundred miles away! Not to mention the caliber.
Guan is Jizhou, and a land of thousands of miles is just an exaggeration.
Zhen An said helplessly: "I still have a way to transport small batches of grain. The amount of grain Qu Shuai needs must be quite a lot. I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. How about I give you money?"
Xu Weidao said: "Mayi is surrounded by grasslands. There is nothing except livestock. You can't find a place to spend money. Things that cannot be exchanged for money are of no use. I am short of food now. It is useless for you to bring money here."
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"Shopkeeper, as long as you can transport the grain, I will ensure that Mayi's goods are supplied to you first. We have known each other for more than a year. The shopkeeper should know that my best skill is ironmaking. I need the shopkeeper's help to solve the food problem. Mayi's
The ironware will be given priority to you for sale."
Zhen An immediately made a calculation in his mind. Directly using money to buy and sell such a single route is of course the lowest level approach. If he transports grain and sells it in Mayi, it is still profitable. At least there is no need to empty the truck, and Mayi also provides ironware.
Sweaters and various iron tools are the most popular goods on the grasslands. They don't have to worry about the ban of the Han Dynasty and can get the goods directly from Mayi.
As long as the ironware is resold in the grassland, the profit can be increased tenfold, and then the barbarians can buy some war horses, transport the cattle and sheep from the grassland to Jizhou, sell the warhorses, cattle and sheep, which will be several times the profit, and then buy grain in Jizhou and transport it.
To Mayi, this is a perfect closed loop.
Zhen An discovered for the first time that Mayi was such a good place. It happened to be beyond the reach of the imperial court. No one cared about what they sold to the barbarians, and there were enough workshops in Mayi to create a large number of products for them to sell.
To the barbarians! Also because Lei Gong is a traitor to the imperial court, he naturally does not need to care about the imperial court's ban.
If this trade route is successfully established, the profit will be about 20 times as long as the money rolls on this trade route. This business can be done! Since Zhen An has understood the triangular trade method without any teacher.