After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 217 The new challenge ahead
The He Lingchuan brothers were an exception, and He Chunhua didn't give it to them.

Wu Shaoyi picked up the bamboo tube and shook it, there was something rustling inside, solid, a lot of quantity but not big. "This is?"

"Open it and take a look and you'll know?"

Everyone uncorked, and a strong smell of tobacco overflowed.

Wu Shaoyi said in surprise, "Chewing tobacco?"

He took out a piece, put it in his mouth and chewed slowly, while nodding: "Okay, okay, it's really top grade! Thank you, sir."

He Yue could only watch helplessly: "Father, where did this come from?"

"This is a special product of the Beja country, and it was sent all the way from the north." He Chunhua took a piece, didn't chew it, just played with it in his hand, "Dayuan has an agreement with the Beja country, and we buy a lot from there every year." Things, chewing tobacco is just one of them. Now the border line has been stuck in Xiazhou, and the task of sending people to the border market to pick up the goods will fall on me. In addition, I just learned today that the official post in Xiazhou is also It should be given priority to the Beja merchants; if the Beja caravan is robbed, the local officials must investigate and find out."

The main function of the official post is to serve as a courier. If they don't provide drinking water, food, lodging and horses, how can X hundred miles be expedited?However, the Yuan Country actually has an agreement with Beja, and the official post cannot refuse the Beja caravan to move in.

This kind of privilege cannot be enjoyed by the citizens of the country.

Zeng Feixiong didn't eat cigarettes, and frowned: "What's so difficult about chewing tobacco, why don't you produce it yourself?" It took time, effort and money to transport it all the way.

"The things produced in Bega are of the best quality and are the most popular. You see, this bamboo tube is made of green jade bamboo unique to the south of Bega. The color is like jade, and it is like gold when knocked. Some people even use it to make musical instruments; The outer skin is only a very thin layer, and the weight is light." He casually weighed the sapphire bamboo tube, "Look at the chewing tobacco produced in Yuan Country, what kind of packaging are they used, and what quality are they, huh?"

Zeng Feixiong was speechless.

"I have been in Shihuan for the past few days, and I have seen that nobles use Bega's chewing tobacco to communicate with each other, which shows how popular it is. The bamboo tubes they use are also painted and painted with gold for fun. Rich merchants also use Bega's chewing tobacco. Treat guests to show your financial strength." He Chunhua weighed the bamboo tube, "The price of such a small tube is one tael of silver, and the farther south you go, the more expensive it is. If it is chewing tobacco in a gold tube, the quality is higher, and the price doubles." times."

"This tobacco leaf has no impurities. It is first smoked, then roasted, and soaked in honey. The taste is really good!" Wu Shaoyi was very intoxicated, "I used to chew all the shit!"

He used to be a mud leg, what kind of good cigarettes should he chew?

He Lingchuan's heart skipped a beat.

This kind of sapphire and bamboo tube looks familiar, isn't it what he got when he received military rewards in Panlong Dreamland!

In Panlong City, there are people who collect this kind of bamboo tubes and sell them for secondary processing.

Yes, the color and shape of the chewing tobacco issued by the Panlong City Pengcheng Department are only slightly different from those in everyone's hands, but it was a product more than a hundred years ago, and it is reasonable that the craftsmanship has improved over such a long time.

In other words, the chewing tobacco distributed to the soldiers in Panlong City was also produced by Beja!

Cough, he seems to have heard Hu Min say that Panlong City also does business with the Beja Kingdom, and the annual trade volume is not small.

The foreign trade of this country is really very developed.

He Chunhua sighed again: "Of course the most important reason is that Yuan Country has to buy it. How much to buy every year and what price to buy are all written in the agreement. Like natural and man-made disasters in recent years, we buy from Beja Country. There are fewer things, and the money is not given in a timely manner, and the Beja Kingdom is very dissatisfied."

If it were the real Young Master He here, he might just ask "why do I have to buy it".

So He Lingchuan did the same.

He Chunhua didn't answer directly, and after a few breaths of silence, he said: "It accepts the Xunzhou New Year's praise, just to give us eye drops."

He coughed again: "After we arrive in Xiazhou, we will face a more complicated new situation. This is one of the troubles. I say this so that you can have a solid foundation in your mind. No matter how we fight against Nian Lizan, we are Beijia You can't offend easily. Well, now it's time to talk about business."

He nodded to the housekeeper Lao Mo who was next to him, and the latter went out immediately, and led someone in after a while: "Master, steward Qian is here."

Afterwards, Lao Mo closed the window and went out to guard the door for everyone.After all, this is a post house, so beware that the walls have ears.

He Chunhua pointed to the latecomer dressed as a businessman and said, "This is Guanshi Qian, the Zhu family sent to Dunyu to manage the business. He has been in Dunyu for 20 years, and he is more familiar with the capital of Xiazhou than the locals."

"Boss He is overrated." Steward Qian paid homage to his surroundings, smiling amiably, "I have met you, my lords."

"At my request, Mr. Zhu specially ordered him to come over from Dunyu and explain the situation in the city to us. In case we are not familiar with the place and place after I enter the city, we will not be able to develop."

After he returned Zhu Xiu'er to Zhu Xiyan, he established a pure friendship with the Zhu family.Zhu's family also has business in Xiazhou, and they also pointed out that the new general manager can be promoted, and naturally try to satisfy his reasonable requirements.

He nodded to Guanshi Qian: "Let's talk about the war on the northern front, and what happened in Dunyu City."

Guan Qian talked about it.

He Lingchuan knew that the war on Yuan Country's northern front was not going well, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.

The Nian Zanli, who was the former general of Zhengbei, took the whole Xunzhou to the northern demon country, so the northern front line moved from the south of Xunzhou to the east of Haozhou at once.You must know that Xunzhou has been the border line for many years, but the soldiers in Haozhou don't have much experience in fighting the enemy. As a result, the resistance here is not good, and they were broken by the New Year's Praise in less than a month.

As the New Year's celebration was in full swing, the battlefield unsurprisingly fell to the southern part of Haozhou.

It was already approaching the border between Haozhou and Xiazhou. As long as Nian Zanli took the last three cities in the south of Haozhou, the war would be brought to Xiazhou, which is He Chunhua's territory.

Nian Zanli should also know about the news of He Chunhua's transfer to the Northern Territory.The former border general was probably eager to avenge his son's murder, and launched wave after wave of offensives against the southern part of Haozhou.

Currently standing in the south of Haozhou is the general Zhao Pan sent by the royal court. I heard that there will be winners and losers with the Nian Zan Ceremony, so temporarily hold back the latter's southward invasion.

There is no doubt that Zhao Pan needs the full support of the rear.

Undoubtedly, he encountered the same trouble as Ke Jihai:
Logistics is weak and supplies are in short supply.

And Xiazhou was right behind the battlefield, and it was his duty to bear a large part of the military supplies. The royal court ordered Xiazhou to fully cooperate.

"My family is in the fabric business in Dunyu. Originally, our main business was silk, satin and fur. After opening up in the north, Dunyu asked the cloth shops in the city to coordinate the transportation of cotton and rush to make cotton clothes, and so did my family." Qian Guanshi sighed, "Before General Zhao enters the winter I was urging for 7000 winter clothes, but now that the spring snow is almost melting, there are only more than [-] cotton clothes to go to the front line, less than [-]%."

He Yue frowned: "Can't all the materials for the war be raised by Xia Zhou?"

"Xiazhou is the closest to the front line, and the assigned task is also the heaviest. More than 3000 pieces of cotton clothes were allocated. We spent a lot of effort to complete the task, and we still paid for the goods and manual money out of our own pockets, and the government has not yet reimbursed them. " Guanshi Qian continued, "The lack of clothes is nothing but the shortage of food. I heard that the front line has bombed the camp once, and some soldiers were so hungry that they defected to the opposing camp at night."

If the morale of the army is unstable, that battle cannot be fought well.

Mo Zhe Jingxuan asked him: "Didn't Xiazhou have good weather and good harvests in the past two years?"

"That's right, that's why Wang Ting asked Xiazhou to send grain to the front line as soon as possible to meet the urgent need. But after three deliveries like this, Dunyu's largest granary suddenly caught fire."

"I heard in Shihuan that hundreds of thousands of shi grains were burned." He Chunhua was expressionless, "After receiving the news, the king was so angry that he broke two cups and couldn't sleep all night."

Who wouldn't feel sorry for the food that could feed the front line for a year and a half, but it would be burned out in one fire?

There were a few frozen autumn pears soaking in the basin next to it. He Lingchuan took one casually, and then heard Steward Qian smile: "How can there be hundreds of thousands of stones? Ninety percent of them are empty. The villain has reliable news. Originally There are only [-] stones in it at most."

"At most!" He held up two fingers, "No one knows the exact amount, not even the food management. After this big fire, it will be leveled."

Zeng Feixiong couldn't help asking: "Where did the food go?"

"In recent years, the grain in the Dunyu granary has been rarely used, so every year after the harvest of autumn grain, I only go to the granary to pay an empty bill, and then sell it out privately, and even use the old grain to replace the new grain that has just entered the warehouse." Guanshi Qian said, " Last year, I didn't know that General Nian would betray the country, and I didn't know that Xiazhou suddenly turned around and became the front line, a lot of food was sold to Xunzhou, and the warehouse was very short."

Several generals were very annoyed: "That is to say, the person on the other side who eats our rice and kills us?"

"Who is the chief envoy?" He Lingchuan gnawed at the pear, "There must be someone who is the leader, and he has worked for more than one year or two, once or twice, right?"

"Dunyu is the ancestral home of Mr. Li Dushan, Minister of the Ministry of War. His family members are all here, and they make a living. The government dare not provoke them at will." Guanshi Qian swallowed, "Baoxiang, the largest food company in Xiazhou The owner’s family name is Liu, but the actual controller is the Li family.”

"They didn't dare to make a big show at the beginning, and it was a small matter to exchange accounts for food. But it has been safe and sound for many years. Others are envious and follow suit. Everyone comes to exchange, and the accounts become more and more chaotic. , the inventory in the warehouse is getting less and less."

"This food official should be killed." Wu Shaoyi said in a serious tone, "Hey, it's still a familiar trick, and it's still a familiar taste."

He used to be under Hong Xiangqian's command, didn't the rebels rise up to resist because of the floods and droughts in the south for several years, and the royal court's excessive expropriation?They have seen a lot of these chaos, these tricks, and these tricks in the south.

Now that he has turned into an official army, the corruption in reality remains the same.

He Chunhua nodded.

As the saying goes, it is said that you can know a little, not to mention that Dunyu's old bad debts have turned into a big hole.

(End of this chapter)