I am one year older than Chongzhen

Most of the big merchants have people above them, and they run amok and have no laws.

If Denglai dares to sell warships, they dare to take them. If Denglai dares to sell cannons and even Hongyi cannons, they dare to take them.

Because Dengzhou is close to the sea, there is no need to worry about being in public view.

With the governor not interfering, the supervisory army not taking care of it, and Governor Denglai acquiescing, the general cannon, Franji, and Hongyi cannon were directly shipped on board the ship, and they would die without any evidence from now on.

As for who to resell to, and whether it would be acquired by pirates, merchants who were all interested in profit didn't care at all. If they had a way, they would even dare to sell it to Buddhist slaves.

Anyway, artillery is a good thing. Equipped with more red barbarian cannons on purchased merchant ships and warships, most pirates can be frightened.

When you meet your peers when you go out to sea, as long as you successfully appear as a pirate once, you may be able to earn back ten or dozens of times the money you spent on buying cannons.

Not only the merchants were moved by the news, Denglai also ushered in a mighty convoy of horse-drawn carriages.

This carriage team is different.

The draft horses pulling the cart are all fat and strong, and the supporting carriages are all new products from the base, four-wheeled carriages using steel bearings and wheel hubs.

Of course, there are a thousand carriages.

This carriage convoy came from Xuanda, and it was loaded with wine, meat and food for the labor force sent by the Governor of Xuanda.

The leader of the team is Geng Da, the commander-in-chief of Xuanda Biao Barracks, and the actual person in charge is Geng Yueru, the daughter of the governor of Xuanda and the hostess of Xinghe City.

The 20,000 shi of grain delivered by Geng Yueru was a timely rain, and could keep at least hundreds of thousands of people alive during these nine cold winters.

Developing logistics is a plan that Huang Yi has made long ago.

It has been investing for more than a year, and so far it has not formed a transport capacity of 5,000 four-wheel carriages. The current number is close to 4,000.

The standardized production of bearings, wheel hubs, cardan shafts, frames, etc. has become increasingly mature, the number of skilled workers has doubled, and the output of freight wagons has increased day by day.

In November of the fifth year of Chongzhen, production reached a new high, reaching 500 aircraft.

Compared with the large car-type four-wheel carriage, the wagon-type four-wheel carriage omits the beautifully decorated carriage and some of the shock-absorbing springs, and the cost plummets to less than one hundred and fifty taels of silver.

The large cars are mainly exported to make huge profits, but none of the trucks are sold, and all are reserved for the carriage and horse company's own use.

The use of trucks with doubled efficiency has added more than 10,000 jobs in the base area, and each truck can achieve a net profit of six taels of silver every month.

Xinghe Truck and Horse's trucks are convenient, fast and economical, and their competitiveness is extremely strong. Next, they will definitely defeat the annexation of a large number of peers and strive to become the dominant company.

Hey! Hey! What does it mean to have strong transportation capabilities?

The combat effectiveness of the Xinghe Army is already unparalleled. With the bonus of being able to quickly deliver to the battlefield, who can stop the front?

Not only horse-drawn carriages are produced, but wheelbarrows that are convenient for driving on rugged mountain roads and fields are also mass-produced.

The wheelbarrow with steel wheels carries a load of seven to eight hundred kilograms. One person can push and one person pulls it, and it can travel nearly a hundred miles a day.

After being disassembled, the "Mother-and-Mother Cannon" and the three-pound cannon can be used to cross mountains and ridges in a wheelbarrow.

Nowadays, the era of carrying bows and arrows on one's back and traveling around the world on horseback has long passed.

In the future, wars will not only involve fighting between soldiers on both sides, but more importantly, the ability to provide logistical support.

The victory in the Huaihai Battle in the War of Liberation was achieved by the people in the old areas using wheelbarrows.

Before liberation, most of the wheelbarrows owned by people in the old areas still had wooden wheels. The servicemen of the Xinghe Army should be able to achieve greater success by using steel wheelbarrows produced in the base area.

Four-wheeled carriages were twice as efficient as two-wheeled carriages. Each carriage could carry twenty-five stones of wheat. Using the measurement units of later generations, the carrying capacity should be close to two tons.

One stone of wheat is lighter than one stone of rice, about one hundred and fifty kilograms.

Xinghe City Carriage and Horse Racing Co., Ltd. just concentrates on business and accepts any job that is profitable.

Even if it was to take over the work of traitorous Shanxi merchants such as Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, etc., transporting grain to Liaodong.

This is Huang Yi's instruction. Understand the enemy and break into the enemy in order to catch them all in one fell swoop.

The strategy formulated by the Ming Dynasty was to trap and starve the slaves to death.

This is simply like the martial arts of Gong Sun Zhi, the lord of the Heartless Valley in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" - difficult to practice and easy to break.

Besides, if we don’t sell food to the slaves, who will starve to death if there is a food panic?

The slave owners of the Eight Banners would definitely not starve to death, but the "Aha" could only starve to death. I am afraid that the vast majority of the "Aha" are Han Chinese.

Liaodong's sea and land borders are thousands of miles long, so it's not easy to block them all.

The Eight Imperial Merchants were transporting grain and steel to Liaodong. Did they give up when they couldn't get out of Zhangjiakou?

Da'ankou, Hongshankou, Qingshankou, Suction Gate, Dushikou, Longjing Pass, Shanhaiguan...

There are many passes on the Great Wall. The soldiers guarding the passes are short of food and pay. They are full of resentment towards the court and the civil servants and eunuchs. Mutinies and pay disputes occur from time to time.

How many border officers and soldiers can still perform their duties loyally?

Rather than letting the eight imperial merchants follow the path of other gatekeepers and losing control over them, why not let them do whatever they want under their noses?

If the chariot and horse dealer can go to Liaodong, Wang Jinbao can arrange for spies to go to Liaodong to investigate. Even if they can't get important information because they can't contact the upper levels, it doesn't hurt.

At least I became familiar with the road from Zhangjiakou to Liaodong and saw the local customs.

Anyway, since Huang Yi's forces actually took control of Zhangjiakou, the "Eight Imperial Merchants" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, including all the merchants in Zhangjiakou, have praised the Xinghe Army.

No one objected to the Xinghe Army charging one-thirtieth of the commercial tax.

And because Xinghe Carriage and Horse Racing was highly efficient and cost-effective, merchants gradually became accustomed to employing people and gradually gave up their own horse-drawn carriage fleet.

This is somewhat similar to later generations. Due to the development of logistics, many companies that originally maintained fleets for their own transportation have sold their trucks.

Huang Yi wanted to achieve this effect. He controlled the entire Xuanda and Shanxi freight transportation, which was equivalent to controlling the transactions of most Shanxi merchants.

When to fall out, and what charges to use to arrest the eight imperial merchants and confiscate their property, you must choose a time that maximizes efficiency.

The couple had been separated for nearly a year. When they met again, Geng Yueru was so excited that she cried and laughed, and finally seemed to be floating in the clouds...

A few months ago, Geng Yueru and Geng Yueling really went to Nanzhili and visited Nanjing, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, and Yangzhou Prefecture, and the results were great.

A total of two hundred and dozens of large car orders have been received, and together with the order from Beizhili, the total is as high as more than five hundred.

A total of more than 400 vehicles will be delivered before the end of this year, and the rest will not be shipped until the end of February next year at the latest.

There is another product that is also booming in production and sales. This thing is called "叆叇" in Jiangnan. Huang Yi named it "glasses" when he directed the production.

At present, there are only two major categories of "myopia glasses" and "presbyopia glasses", and no sunglasses are produced for the time being. (End of chapter)