nanming man

Chapter 51 Find a Helper and Hit Bozhou

The Chuang army was active in the north, taking down big cities like Luoyang, and confiscating countless gold and silver, but with only gold and silver without food and other supplies, the gold and silver are no different from stones.

It is precisely because of this that in Daying, Kaifeng, the price of grain on the black market has reached more than ten taels per shi, but in the Jiangnan area, it is only about three taels at most.

Chuangjun has money, and Jiangnan has food, but there is a lack of a bridge for trading between the two.

Of course, with such a large price difference and lucrative profit attraction, there must be people who Gao Erge doesn’t know, who trade with Chuangjun through certain channels, and what Gao Erge wants to do is to expand this channel, or build a channel by himself, To earn a huge price difference between the two, so as to quickly accumulate money and food.

If the second brother gets the grain from the south at a price of three taels and one stone, and then sells it to Zhou Ronghua's group at a price of about ten taels, and earns six or seven taels in the middle, then he can not only meet the expenses of his own troops, but also Make the business bigger and bigger, and the wealth will roll in more and more.

Of course, if the scale of reselling becomes larger, the price of food in Chuangjun will inevitably drop, while the price of food in Jiangnan will rise, which will gradually reduce profits, but this is a problem that needs to be considered in the future, right now Compared with the grain production in the south of Daming and the speed of food consumption by the Chuangjun, the second brother's reselling for less than a thousand shi is unlikely to have an impact on grain prices in a short period of time.

Calculating the time, Gao Xinghao and Gao Yicheng have been away for half a month and should be back soon.

The second brother gave them 500 taels, even if he only sold it to Zhou Huarong at three times the price, he would still earn 1000 taels.

The reason why Gao Yihuan dared to pay the soldiers was to count on this way of making money, or the way of getting rich quickly.

"I'll take care of this matter. Before August, I will allocate a batch of money and grain to you!" Brother Gao thought of this, and said to Sun Yucheng: "Wen Zhan, we must pay more attention to the dam now. Complete the water storage."

In this matter, Gao Yihuan did not intend to involve the two scholars. Although they helped the second brother deal with many things, they were not his own after all.

Given their closeness to the Ming Dynasty, if they knew that the second brother was going to resell supplies between the Ming Dynasty and Chuangjun, they might find out who was trading with the second brother, and then send a secret letter to Ming Dynasty. Over there, the profiteers and evil gentry who sold food to the Chuang army were directly taken away, cutting off the second brother's money.

Although Sun Yucheng was in charge of money and food, what he was in charge of was only what Luyi County had on the surface, and what Gao Erge allocated to him.

Second Brother Gao didn't know how much food he actually had, and how much food he received from Chuangying, and he didn't understand.

After Sun Yucheng reported, seeing what Gao Yihuan said, he thought he could still get money and food from Chuangying, so he didn't say any more, and then he bowed and left.

As soon as the others left, Second Brother Gao became a little anxious. He told Gao Xinghao and Gao Yicheng to be careful in their actions, and don't hear nothing like Gao Yicheng.

After listening to his words, no matter whether it is successful or not, there should be news back.

Just as he was thinking, there was a commotion outside, Second Brother Gao looked up and saw a few soldiers outside the hall surrounded by a group, exclaiming a few times.

Gao Yihuan frowned, walked out of the lobby, and couldn't help shouting: "What's going on, why are you making so much noise?"

"Second Brother!" Zhao Zhuzi turned around and said anxiously, "Come and see Yicheng!"

Yi Cheng!Gao Yihuan was taken aback, and strode out quickly. He pushed away the soldiers and saw Gao Yicheng, with disheveled hair and tattered clothes, who looked like a flower, lying on Zhao Daxian's lap with a pale face, drinking water gurglingly.

"What's going on here?" Gao Yihuan shuddered, squatted down, and asked anxiously, "Yicheng, why did this happen?"

After drinking the water, Gao Yicheng breathed a sigh of relief, struggled to sit up, his eyes were red and swollen, and cried, "Second brother, we got caught by someone else in Bozhou, brother Xinghao and other brothers were arrested~ woo woo~"

These words made Gao Yihuan's face change. It would be ugly if he didn't cry. He was counting on them to exchange the food. Now it seems that the food is gone, and people and money are probably gone.

"Yicheng, you're fine, just come back!" Gao Yihuan felt bitter, but at this moment, he still had to comfort Gao Yicheng to find out what happened.

Brother Gao put his hands on his shoulders and shook him, saying something to comfort him. When Gao Yicheng raised his head, he stared at Gao Yicheng and said in a low voice, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Gao Yicheng was encouraged, calmed down a little, and then he said: "Second Brother, after Brother Xinghao and I arrived in Bozhou, Brother Xinghao stayed outside the city. I went to the city to find Mihang to buy food, but Mihang heard that we If you want to trade outside the city, you doubt our identity, so you don’t want to sell it to us. I can only stay in the city to search around, but I still can’t find the way. That day I decided to look for it one last time, but I met a person in the restaurant who said yes What big family in Bozhou has food in hand, ask us how much silver we have, and I will tell the truth."

"It's all my fault that I believed in that person, which caused everyone to be harmed." Gao Yicheng said, with regret on his face, "I found no one willing to sell grain after searching in the city for many days, so I was anxious. When I saw that person said yes, So I believed him. At that time, the man asked me to give him a deposit of 200 taels first, and then he would transport the grain out of the city. I thought 200 taels was too much, so I only agreed to pay 50 taels, and then agreed to pay the money with one hand and the grain with the other. Who Knowing that on the day of the transaction, when we went to pick up the food, that turtle ambushed dozens of people, not only robbed the money, but also captured Brother Xinghao and the others and sent them to the government~"

After listening to Gao Yihuan, he understood that it was a local tyrant in Bozhou who not only robbed him of his money, but also arrested his brother and sent him to the government.

It's not worth mentioning that he robbed the money, but he still sent someone to see the official. It's really fucking unreasonable, unruly, and unqualified.

Brother Gao couldn't help being furious in his heart, he really couldn't swallow this breath.

This is not only a problem of Gao Xinghao and others being arrested, but also broke the capital chain of Brother Gao, leaving him without money and going bankrupt soon, and his team will collapse next month, making him possible to become Jia Yueting of the Ming Dynasty , Entrepreneurship to failure.

"Yicheng, when you were buying grain in Bozhou, did you notice the situation of the officers and soldiers in Bozhou?" Second Brother Gao asked in a deep voice.

Gao Yicheng was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, thought for a while and said: "There seem to be four hundred households in the city, and there should be four bureaus of troops, about 400 people."

Bozhou is called Zhou, but it is actually a county in Fengyang Prefecture. Tongluyi is an administrative level. When the second brother heard that there were more than 400 officers and soldiers, he couldn't help shrinking his neck.

He was very annoyed just now, and he planned to let the small city of Bozhou know the consequences of angering him, but when he heard that there were four hundred officers and troops, the second brother immediately became a little timid.

Although he has more than 700 people, but after all, there are only more than 300 soldiers, which makes the second brother unsure.However, the second brother had to take back the money and people, otherwise his money and food would be cut off next month.

At this moment, the second elder brother was silent for a while, then stood up suddenly, and said to Zhao Daxian: "Daxian, you should go to Yongcheng immediately, find Liu Heizi, and say that you have a business to do. He has many connections in the army, you let him He looked for several other captains, gathered at least [-] elite soldiers, and we met at the confluence of Guoshui and Mashang River on August [-]st, and then we fought together in Bozhou, and captured six or four points in the city, you ask him if he will come~"

(End of this chapter)