Now that the chief had agreed, Li Yunlong let go without saying a word.
In fact, given Li Yunlong's character, if he could take advantage of something like this and save his troops from starving, he should have done it as soon as Wang Xuexin mentioned it, and he should not care what the commander ordered or not.
But despite Li Yunlong's usual smacking and whirring, he is very good at these things.
When Wang Xuexin talked about it, he was thinking:
It's a good thing. In this way, the more than one hundred war horses can be considered useful. Not only do they not spend money, but they can also make money.
As for the chief, when did Li Yunlong not do it first and then talk about it?
The problem is that this is a long-term matter. It takes more than a month to go back and forth, and it is done under the nose of the chief all the way. When the salt is shipped back, it has to be sold nearby. Who can you hide it from?
This is different from a war. Once this war starts, even if the commander is not happy, he can only wait until it is over, and he will also have to provide supplies and reinforcements.
As long as the leader shouts "stop" during the transportation of salt, it will be over, and the whole thing will be lost! Even if Li Yunlong sells him, he will not be able to afford the compensation!
Thinking of this, Li Yunlong could only ask the chief first.
Now that the chief has agreed, Li Yunlong is completely relieved.
He returned to Wang Xuexin's side and hurriedly climbed on the "black donkey" while raising his head towards the maroon war horse left behind: "Xiao Dongbei, I accept the idea, this horse will be considered as your reward!"
Wang Xuexin despised Li Yunlong in his heart. Wasn't this horse a gift as promised? Why did it become a reward again?
However, Wang Xuexin didn't care about this with Li Yunlong. He always shouted to Li Yunlong who was about to leave: "Captain, wait a minute! We haven't finished talking yet!"
Li Yunlong reined in the horse's head and turned around with a smile: "Can we not be in a hurry? I haven't smelled the smell of wine for several days. You fucking don't know. Now a bottle of wine has increased to fifteen French coins a bottle."
Yes, it’s dozens of times more expensive!”
Wang Xuexin said "Ah", damn, this is why he was so anxious to do business.
"Then we have to wait a little longer!" Wang Xuexin said: "We can't act recklessly. It takes more than a month to go back and forth. You have to make enough money for one trip. Leader, you can also buy a few more bottles of wine!"
Li Yunlong got excited when he heard this. He jumped off his horse and asked, "If you have anything to say, tell me quickly. If someone takes away the benefits of this business, you won't be able to make any profit!"
Then he thought of the more than two hundred horses that the brigade commander had to take away, and he grinned in distress: "Damn it, if those two hundred horses hadn't been taken away, our entire independent regiment would have been drunk!"
Wang Xuexin felt funny when he heard this: "Commander, if you have the ability, just go to the brigade commander and ask for it! It's useless to say it!"
"Don't do this to me!" Li Yunlong looked at Wang Xuexin angrily: "Who is the brigade commander? If we go and ask for it, the remaining one hundred horses will be gone! Stop talking nonsense, I have something to say.
Say it quickly!"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin replied: "You see, the advantage of us transporting salt is that we have guns in our hands, and the bandits on the road have to go around each other!"
"That's right!" Li Yunlong raised his chin coaxingly: "They still dare to stop us? It's better to be tired of living!"
"I was just thinking..." Wang Xuexin continued: "We have this advantage and we have to make good use of it. We have already made this trip anyway, why not bring a group of fellow villagers with us? We have protected the safety of the fellow villagers, what about the fellow villagers?
You have to give me some benefits!"
Li Yunlong suddenly realized: "You mean... to be a bodyguard by the way?"
"It doesn't sound good to have too many bodyguards!" Wang Xuexin replied: "We call this mutual benefit!"
"Yes, yes, that makes sense! Mutual benefit!" Li Yunlong nodded heavily: "It doesn't look good if we charge money, so what should we charge? By the way, charging some salt for hard work is not excessive, right?
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Wang Xuexin gave a thumbs up: "It's not excessive at all!"
Then Wang Xuexin handed the reins of the bay-red horse to Li Yunlong and asked: "Captain, I am a shareholder in this horse, isn't it too much?"
"Not too much, not too much!" Li Yunlong smiled and patted Wang Xuexin on the shoulder: "Okay, Xiao Dongbei, your calculations are quite good!"
Of course Wang Xuexin has to think about it:
Even people are drinking sweet potato soup now. How can they raise horses? I definitely can’t afford to raise them!
If the good thing doesn't stick, it will be dragged to death by this horse, and it will have to be sold sooner or later.
In this case, it is better to throw this horse into the transportation team to transport salt.
What a great thing it is like this, one doesn’t need to support the other and the other has money to share!
At this time, the monk became jealous, and he added: "Captain, can my horse also be a shareholder?"
"Go, go, go!" Li Yunlong glared at the monk: "Is that your horse? Besides, if your horse becomes a shareholder, can you run with two legs behind my butt and follow me wherever I go?"
After saying this, the monk was speechless.
Li Yunlong did exactly what Wang Xuexin said after he returned.
He handed over the transportation to the Logistics Department, and then gave full play to the advantages of the army. He sent the Propaganda Department, the Enemy Industry Department, etc. to each village to make propaganda, saying that the independent regiment would go to Dingbian to transport salt in an organized way.
Fellow villagers who need it can go together without any charge. You only need to give some salt as compensation when you return.
When the fellow villagers heard this, they thought it was worth it.
In the past, the biggest risk when going to Dingbian to collect salt was bandits on the road.
For more than 800 miles, there were four or five bandit dens that we had to pass along the way, and there were also unpredictable bandits.
After all the hard work of transporting the salt back, the salt and livestock would fall into the hands of bandits if they were not careful.
If the salt and livestock are gone, they are gone, so we have to pay some money and work, but the bandits usually don't let people go, so the result is a loss of people and money.
Therefore, when it comes to fixing the edge, most people shake their heads like a rattle.
Although the shipping fee of 60 yuan is not low...the head of the Eighth Route Army's monthly military salary is only 5 yuan. After deducting the cost, the profit earned from one trip is as much as the chief's military salary for half a year.
But this is a life-threatening job, so the fellow villagers thought that not many people would dare to go.
Now that the Eighth Route Army is with us, safety is guaranteed. Isn't that a sure profit without loss?
So they organized themselves one after another. Those who had mules and horses at home began to prepare their luggage, and those who did not have mules and horses joined forces.
Li Yunlong was shocked as the names came up one by one. There were more than two hundred people.
"This can't be done!" Li Yunlong said: "With so many people, we won't be able to live in mule and horse shops or anything like that! The fodder for the livestock along the way is a problem!"
Li Yunlong thought that there were only fifty to a hundred people at most, which was normal, but he didn't expect there to be several times more.
Li Dachui, who was in charge of publicity, said: "The fellows have said that if we don't live in the mule and horse shop, each fellow will bring more dry food and fodder. The fellows will be responsible for what the soldiers eat, and we will be responsible for the safety!"
Li Yunlong smiled "hehe" and said: "It's... done! This business is getting better and better!"