The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 51
As Tang Qing'an's most trusted person in Liaodong, although Liu Chengmin only took care of Donghai Fort, he was very clear about his elder brother's plan.

"We account for [-]% of the proceeds from this transaction, and we are responsible for managing the wharves at Youtunwei and Huoyaofang in Guangning.

Among them, [-]% is under the name of the eldest brother. In fact, it is the experience of Liaodong Dusi.

The Xue family accounted for [-]%, and they were responsible for the fleet to Donghaibao to receive supplies and horses, which would be transported to Penglai by land, including sales. "

"The Xue family is really nice to elder brother."

When Chen Deyan heard the share of the Xue family, he couldn't help being surprised and said that he didn't think the Xue family accounted for [-]% too much.

Liu Chengmin also nodded, grateful to the Xue family.

"At the beginning of my eldest brother's business, he needed money. The Xue family may have considered this, and the Xue family's wife let it go."

"What about [-]%?"

"The other [-]% is used to manage the post stations along the way, local big households, etc. After all, the benefits are touching, and if others don't get a little bit fishy, ​​who knows if they will get caught."

"It's still thoughtful."

Chen Deyan thinks this should be the case, only when the relevant people can make a profit, the business can be done in a long-term and stable manner.

Zhenyuan Fort belongs to Beizhen, and below Beizhen are post stations, etc. After passing through Guangning Zhongzuo Station, you will reach the range of Guangning Youtunwei.

[-]% of the income is enough to manage these places.

Looking at dozens of fishing boats of various sizes in front of me, as the waves kept swaying, the skyline in the distance glowed with silver and silver white light.

Raising his head and feeling the fishy smell in the sea breeze, Chen Deyan laughed.

Liu Chengmin heard the third brother's laughter and looked at him curiously.

"Brother is really amazing. After leaving Jinling for half a year, he has laid such a big foundation and formed a network of relationships from top to bottom. I really don't know how he did it."

It turned out that it was because of this, Liu Chengmin thought that in the past six months, the eldest brother has not had a moment of rest, even if the road is blocked by heavy snow for a few days at the end of the year, he is still teaching several children in the hundred households.

"Heaven rewards hard work, and my elder brother is capable. With his long-term vision, he can accurately predict the situation, which is indeed beyond the reach of ordinary people."

Thinking of the plan in the elder brother's heart, which has now slowly unfolded, Liu Chengmin's heart surged like the sea in front of him.

There will be silver, soldiers, and ships, and everything is in the plan.

"This business path is very important, and there are also great risks in it. Third brother, second brother doesn't want to say anything unnecessary, so I can only tell you, be careful."

"What is the expectation of the elder brother?"

Since the eldest brother has attracted so many influences, of course the plate must be bigger, and the money will not be enough if it is smaller.

Chen Deyan started as an apprentice in Xue's family when he was nine years old, and it has been more than seven years now, and he is very good at calculating accounts.

"Twice a year, there are three to five thousand horses, tens of thousands of sheep, tens of thousands of silk and cotton cloth from Jinling, and three to fifty thousand catties of tea..."

Chen Deyan was stunned.

"Does brother have so much capital?"

Liu Chengmin shook his head.

"Brother only has 500 taels, which was borrowed from Jia's house, and the rest of the places don't have much cash, so the total is only more than [-] taels."

"This principal is not even one-tenth of the cost of buying a horse."

"The 1000 taels of silver is to explore the road first this year, to smooth out the relationship outside the customs and inside the customs. It is also a run-in between several companies. According to the big brother's idea, the market will definitely open next year, and then is the time to take advantage of the situation and make it big."

The two brothers were at Baishitan, discussing business matters in detail, while Tang Qing'an went to the Wei Division, and was watched by his colleagues. Congratulations to him for taking the imperial guard.

A person's power is not determined only by his official position.

The status of Beiyu is indeed not small in Guangning Youtunwei, but more people value the convenience of Tang Qing'an stationed there.

After all, it's just money and food.

Guangning Youtunwei still has at least three or four thousand military households. It is still possible to gather a few thousand people, but so what.

what to eat?What to drink?
So don't look at Tang Qing'an's only a few hundred people, after the recruitment is over, the strength is not comparable to Guangning Youtunwei.

There is money, food, and soldiers.

The commander of the guards completely changed his attitude, and he could no longer treat the other party as if he didn't exist as before.

In terms of rank, he is lower than himself, but now that the other party has received the position of Beiyu, he can already sit on an equal footing with him.

The battalion system is different from the guard system.

For example, as an imposing guard commander, there are [-] military households and [-] regular men in the guard in name, but in fact, he can't recruit many people because he has no money and no food.

In the system of the guard army, all expenditures come from the military fields, such as salaries, food, and equipment, and the military fields of the guards... are mostly embezzled.

Half of the military land has been lost, while the number of military households has increased, and they can’t even eat enough. What’s the morale, everyone who can run away.

The more people run, the more military fields are occupied...

That's why the imperial court began to recruit battalion soldiers to replace guard soldiers, and began to distribute food and salaries.The generals in the battalion who serve as defense guards usually lead the seal of the guard, which is the grade of the book.

The people in front of me are promoted too fast, so they still maintain the rank of a hundred households, which is a low-level seniority, but anyone with a discerning eye knows that it is just seniority.

"The governor of Liaodong asked you to choose battalion soldiers from the three guards. Regardless of the attitude of Guangning Zhong and Zuo Tunwei, as my own family, I will definitely support it."

Hearing what the commander said, Tang Qing'an smiled.

Anyone can say beautiful words, but I never listen to words and only watch deeds.

I am here on a good job, no one would be unwilling to come, who can stop me?He is not afraid of the other party now, but there is no need to offend him.

In the officialdom, everyone carries the sedan chair.

Not long after, the three guards successively issued official letters for Donghai Fort to select soldiers, and soldiers and civilians from various households went to Donghai Fort one after another.

A few miles away from Gunpowder Workshop, the military camp that the engineering department has built, except for office buildings, warehouses and other public buildings, is very simple.

Tang Qing'an spent more than half of his time working in the barracks here.

Chen Kaiwu from his family's Thousand Households Institute had already taken up his post and became a team member in the battalion. Li Biao's son also came, also a team member.

Several hundreds of households also came to the other four thousand households. Now six of the ten management teams in the battalion have arrived, plus the banner soldiers brought by my family and them, there are more than 220 battalion soldiers.

Qiantun's selfish behavior has aroused the dissatisfaction of many people, but there are few monks and many monks, and they are all "dwarfs". Of course, they use the ones they are familiar with.

As long as Tang Qing'an did not deny it, the Qiantun Office would occupy six official positions at once.

He is an officer, not a warlord, and it is not something he can do to promote talents. The Liberty Court stipulates that he can only cooperate with it.

Liu Chengmin, Chen Kaiwu and others were in charge of selecting able-bodied men from the registered military households at the gate of the camp.

Qi Jiguang had taught his second brother the art of war a long time ago. Among them, he believed that his second brother could do a good job in how to choose people.

Governing the multitude is like governing the widowed, and the score is the same.Scores are also the key to governing the army;

The principle is the same whether to govern the army or the rest of the army, and they must rely on reasonable systems and military laws to manage.

Reasonable division of the army, relying on military regulations to manage and command the army.

As for how to organize and how to set up military regulations, I have already explained it in detail in the art of war I taught my second brother.

He has done a good job in training Donghai Fort military households, reflecting the art of war.

In the public room, he was writing official documents to be sent to Liaodong Capital, reporting on the camp, while his third brother Chen Deyan sat aside, quietly looking at the account books and the documents that Donghai Fort had received in the past.

"Brother, can there be so many horses supplied every year outside the customs?"

Hearing the third brother's question, Tang Qing'an put down his pen.

When the barbarians had not yet risen, the imperial court wooed various ministries in eastern Liaodong to open the market, and officially there were [-] horses a year.

In the left wing of Mongolia, the horses of each tribe will only be more than those of the Liaodong tribes, because one is a nomadic people and the other has a hunting people.

(End of this chapter)