Montenegro City is a big city in the northeast at this time, but it is only a fortress level in the pass, although due to the population of which general called Nalan in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the city was burned and looted the wealth, so that now Lu Hanqiang is most worried about the problem of the loss of his reputation caused by forced demolition, which has become the easiest problem to solve, but there is no civilian population, but close to 30,000 horses to move in, deducting the reserved school field, it still seems a little crowded.
So, the businessmen who came with him found Lu Hanqiang and resolutely asked them to draw a commercial area in the city.
It has become a habit for the daimyo merchants to follow Lu Hanqiang's army to fight in the south and the north, not only can they buy the material wealth looted by Lu Hanqiang's army, and obtain a huge profit difference during the period, but also can supply Lu Hanqiang's logistics supplies in a timely manner, and they will make a lot of money here.
Now Lu Hanqiang, for the logistics supply, is not to worry about himself, still hand them over to those businessmen behind him, with a price two percent higher than the market price, at any time to purchase the materials he needs, as for the ordnance and equipment, of course, it is still carried by his own soldiers, this does not dare to really let go of others, therefore, every time Lu Hanqiang marches, he will follow behind the ass of the army, the mighty merchant team.
Buying grain and grass from merchants, including some vegetables and non-staple foods, is much more convenient than transporting grain and grass and buying by yourself, in this era, Lu Hanqiang thoroughly felt the huge potential of merchants, as long as you give him a certain profit, then he will do things for you that you can't imagine, such as this logistics supply, if according to the practice of the Ming court, the grain and grass of the 45,000 army of win-win, said that the people need to be requisitioned, at least in 90,000 nearly 100,000 horses, and the conscription of these people, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, During this period, they also had to bring their own rations and fight for many years, and the result was that hundreds of people's families were ruined, especially the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in various places, and those officials and villains, but also through this method of recruiting and supplying, from which the people were fished and fleshed, there was a record in history, Shandong will escort the grain and grass to Zhangjiakou is only 2,000 stones, and the people are 100,000 people, is this reality not realistic at all, in fact, it is enough to have two or three thousand people, But there is a huge room for maneuver, that is, the local officials and gentry actually apportioned to the people without restrictions, well, you can not go, then you have to pay two taels of silver as a substitute for labor money, so on the first time, the transportation of only two thousand quintals of grain provoked a riot among the people of Shandong, and this time in order to quell the riot, the Ming court spent nearly one million taels of silver.
And the cost of transportation along the way according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the cost of the road is borne by the people themselves, so that is to say, from Shandong to Zhangjiakou to transport two thousand quintals of grain, transported to Zhangjiakou should be two thousand stones, the result is very funny, the people with food and drink along the way, transported to Zhangjiakou grain, but only a hundred stone, therefore, the border army is still hungry and cold, but the people are hungry along the way.
Now Lu Hanqiang's method is different from the original, that is, everything is purchased from merchants, I will designate a place for you, and then you will deliver grain, and I will give you a preferential policy that exceeds the market price, okay, all the expenses in the middle are yours, you can do it yourself As a result, things are so strange, the same stone of grain, transported by the government, transported to the barracks is not more than ten catties and twenty catties, but through the transportation of merchants, there will never be a shortage of catties and two catties, and the businessmen will also be grateful to Lu Hanqiang, because it is Lu Hanqiang who makes them make enough profits.
Food is one thing, and the more important Lu Hanqiang provides a huge business opportunity for businessmen, such as a simple needle and thread brain, the soldiers' clothes must wear out quickly, and Lu Hanqiang strictly requires the military to be neat, so these men have to learn to sew their own clothes, and as a result, the needles and threads brought by the businessmen have three to four times the profit, you don't see, this thing, very little, a needle and a ball of thread, but five to seven cents, but you know that this thing is in ordinary people, What is the price is only 1 to 2 cents, and you must know how much the 45,000 army will consume in a day With the arrival of the merchant army, there is also the royal post house with a keen sense of smell, the first is that Lu Hanqiang asked them to do it, the most important thing is the business sensitivity of the business of the firm's sense of smell, and what kind of business the firm does.
Tens of thousands of soldiers have a large number of letters every day, to report to the family safety, every day there are a large number of letters and mails to the soldiers in the barracks, tell him the situation at home, in this way, the small stamps, not only contact the front and rear feelings, stabilize the military and people's hearts, inform the victory of the Liao army war situation, the most important thing is that the business bank simplified too many contacts.
There is another comptoir that is following the army, and that is the bank.
Lu Hanqiang himself is the largest shareholder of the bank, and at the same time, the female Hanqiang knows that it is the bank's operating norms and experience, so that the bank can follow his own and move forward with the army, which is a huge achievement in absorbing savings.
Lu Hanqiang's army is different from other Ming Dynasty troops, Lu Hanqiang's army is a full monthly salary must be paid to soldiers, and these soldiers are recruited from Shanxi homeless people, in Shanxi, they have a family and a mouth, Chinese men are responsible, filial piety and responsibility are the biggest burden on the shoulders of Chinese men, Chinese men have a common psychology, outside, no matter how hard they suffer, but they must mail the money they earn home, honor their parents, support their wives and children, As a result, Lu Hanqiang paid a soldier five taels of silver a month, and these soldiers and men would mail back to their hometown without spending a penny, which was simply a huge savings and exchange business, and at the same time Lu Hanqiang also engaged in the military training incentive policy, although the things he gave were not silver money but meat, but as long as he trained hard, the meat he got every day could not be eaten by himself, and these soldiers would sell it to, and those who waited outside the barracks, Shangjia Restaurant, exchanged for silver again, so they would also save gold and silver, Mailing to one's parents and wives is the most simple concept of the Chinese, the concept of home.
However, the business of the bank precisely grasped this concept, so behind Lu Hanqiang's army, there were all kinds of merchant banks and commercial banks, which followed everyone to make a fortune.
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