Daming Military Empire

Chapter 588 Developing New Strategies

Zhang Yue led Luo Zongshan to the bustling street. He did not bring two of his subordinates, because what they were going to talk about next was related to Daming’s new strategy for developing Siberia. .

There are not many shops on the street outside the railway station, because the so-called city surrounded by the bastion is not big, the entire southern half is the railway station, and there are horse farms, weapon warehouses, grain and grass in the north near the bastion. As for the luggage warehouse, the rest that can be used to build shops is only a small area facing the street, and there are only five or six shops in total.

Despite the fact that there are few shops here, there are quite a lot of customers coming and going, because on a land with a radius of hundreds of miles, or thousands of miles in length, this is the only place where you can buy and sell things. In the past, there were not many shops on the Siberian Plateau. , The tribes basically barter, and there are not many things that can be exchanged. It’s not like you can buy everything here, and you can also exchange livestock and prey for money.

Of course, the longitudinal thousands of miles mentioned here refers to the thousands of miles perpendicular to the railway. If you walk along the railway horizontally, there will be such a bastion every hundred miles or so, and there will be such a small city. There is no mandatory requirement for the nomadic herdsmen here to go to the city under the bastion Daming, but the Weisuo or Qianhusuo under the Fifth Capital Division can only buy and sell things here. The important thing is for ease of management.

Luo Zongshan didn't know this yet, he was following Zhang Yue to a shop in a daze at the moment.

When he came to this shop and looked up, he was very happy, because he was familiar with this shop, the Daming Royal Xinglong Company also existed in their small county town, even the brand was the same, and he had even bought things in it.

As soon as Zhang Yue led him in, an old man who looked like a shopkeeper came up to him and said enthusiastically: "Oh, Mr. Zhang, rare customers, who is this lord?"

Zhang Yue arched his hands and introduced: "Master Li, this is Qianhu from our guard, Mr. Luo Zongshan, Mr. Luo, Mr. Ma specifically asked me to bring him here to familiarize himself with the way."

Shopkeeper Li became more enthusiastic when he heard the words. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, okay, please come with me, let's go inside and talk."

After finishing speaking, he respectfully made some tidying up, and then led the two of them inside.

Luo Zongshan cupped his hands with Zhang Yue, and followed Li's shopkeeper into the shop. This shop is not big, similar to the one in the small county where he used to be, and there are not many goods in it, just some pots and pans. Basin, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other daily necessities, but he knew that if he wanted other things, he could also buy them. He just had to tell the shopkeeper and pay a deposit to pick them up in a few days.

Shopkeeper Li didn't take them around the store, but took them to a room behind the store.

Luo Zongshan followed into the room and took a look. He was surprised again. The furnishings inside were too simple. There was a big kang inside, and a desk in front of the kang. A table for eating and then gone.

In his opinion, the treasurers of the royal firm are all rich people who do big business, and the place they live should be magnificent, but he never thought it would look like this.

Shopkeeper Li didn't really care. He was just a cashier in a branch of the Royal Xinglong Company. I was really chosen, and even became the shopkeeper of the semicolon.

He knows that the development here has just started, and the conditions are almost normal. In the future, the business here will definitely become more and more prosperous, and it will be prosperous at that time. Making a lot of money depends on these scary thousands of households with large territories.

Therefore, he enthusiastically invited Luo Zongshan and Zhang Yue into his room, asked them to sit down at the big table, took out the good tea leaves from his collection, made them a pot of hot tea with his own hands, and then dug out two more Respectfully handing the book to Luo Zongshan, he sat down beside them.

It was another book, and there were still two books. Luo Zongshan was a little confused. He took a look in his hand and found that there was one book he had seen before. Most of the above items are not in stock in the small colon, but they can be ordered. What you want, just order it, and they will naturally go to the big colon to transfer it to you.

He hadn't seen the other one before, and it turned out to be a list of the purchased goods. He opened it up and found that it was the things introduced in the book given to him by Commander Ma Kai. As expected, the sable skins were five taels a piece, and the flowered mink skins Sure enough, it was a piece of two or three, and the mink skin was really a piece of two or two.

The more he looked, the more excited he became, he got rich, he got rich, there were so many things in it, he had never heard of many of them, since it was in this brochure, there must be some in his land, but he hadn't looked carefully at the horses. The books the adults gave him were nothing more than that.

After flipping through it roughly, he pushed the two books back to shopkeeper Li contentedly, and asked excitedly, "Treasurer Li, can I just bring these things in the book to you?"

Shopkeeper Li smiled while pouring them tea, "Of course, as long as Mr. Qianhu delivers the things, the small ones will pay for you, such as noodles, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Mr. Qianhu can also do it if you need it." Take it first, and then settle with the goods."

Luo Zongshan asked in disbelief: "Master Li, what do you mean, you can pay on credit?"

Shopkeeper Li still smiled and said: "Yes, you can pay on credit."

Luo Zongshan couldn't believe his ears, he confirmed again: "Really?"

Shopkeeper Li smiled and nodded, "Really."

Luo Zongshan asked suspiciously, "Aren't you afraid that I won't be able to pay back the debt?"

Shopkeeper Li shook his head with a smile and said: "That's impossible. The products here are very rich. As long as you are willing to do it, the living expenses are nothing at all. How can you not pay the bill?"

Hearing this, Luo Zongshan asked in amazement: "You know this? I don't even know it yet!"

Shopkeeper Li said confidently: "Of course I know. Our Daming Royal Xinglong Company was the first to start the development here. It's just that we really don't have enough manpower, so shopkeeper Xu suggested to the emperor to send more people here. developing."

To be able to talk to the emperor, in Luo Zongshan's opinion, it was simply a legendary thing. He asked again in disbelief: "Shopkeeper Li, are you serious? Your shopkeeper Xu can actually speak in front of the emperor?"

Shopkeeper Li said proudly after hearing the words: "Of course it is true. We are a Daming royal firm, which was originally the property of the emperor. Our shopkeeper Xu is also the chief assistant of the cabinet, the Minister of Rites, and the grandson of Lord Zhu Guogong. Can speak in front of the emperor."

Luo Zongshan, who came from a small place, had never heard of these rumors. When he heard the rumors, he couldn't help but respectfully said: "You mean that the great development of Xibo is the emperor's intention?"

Shopkeeper Li nodded solemnly and said: "Of course, when I was training at the head office, the shopkeeper Xu personally said that the emperor wanted us to fully cooperate with the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry to carry out the development of Siberia."

(End of this chapter)