Chapter 1087 Shangtun
On March 26, Yu Bin left Luoyang with more than ten guests and headed south to Jingzhou.
After leaving the Pyeongchang Gate, vehicles gathered one after another.
Yu Bin sent his guests to negotiate with them, but he didn't show up, but rode a yellow horse and watched while walking.
Years of war have cost a lot of money. The emperor once planned to build Luocheng outside the inner city of Luoyang, that is, to form a three-story city wall system of outer city, inner city and palace. Now it seems that the progress is slow due to insufficient cost.
But this is all a trivial matter. In the future, the world will be unified and there is still time to practice it.
While walking, Yu Bin was also observing that many of the people brought by the merchants!
The smaller merchants brought dozens of families, while the older ones brought one or two hundred families. When they asked, they all asked their own slaves, and then they asked where the slaves came from. They looked at you with clear eyes.
If you don’t talk about anything else, have you forgotten the days of storm for three consecutive years?
I forgot the storm, and I forgot the storm. Is it difficult to collect some slaves when the epidemic can cause a family to fall into an abyss of terror? The children born by slaves are still slaves. As long as they can afford them, the number will generally increase. This is how local tyrants and tyrants come from. Now that they are traveling everywhere, many people cannot save these slaves and land, so they can only find another way out.
From this perspective, the people who asked for help may not be all businessmen, but in fact there are many little tyrants.
They are actually quite difficult, and even more sad.
It is almost cost-effective to be servants and servants for generations, living with the master's family and obeying the master's orders. Even the newcomers who have been gathered in the year of a disaster, they actually accept such a set of orders, and instinctively take this for granted.
But maybe they can't be blamed.
From the end of the Han Dynasty to the present, it was really not very peaceful. Even when the Three Kingdoms stabilized, there were many thieves in the area, including ox-haired forts, earthen enclosures, and manors. The greater function of the manor was not to defend against the court, but to defend against thieves and bandits most of the time.
Many people laughed at the prosperous era of Taikang, but that ten years were really the most stable, with the fewest bandits and the fastest development since the end of the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, with the ten thousand years of chaos in Guanzhong Qi, everything was gone and the world changed again.
Can you blame them? No.
If you are a slave and a servant for the manor, you can survive in a good year, or even have a wife, and you can pass on the family line. To truly break this vicious circle, you can only produce a talented and powerful person, unify the world and lay the foundation for order again.
Only with truly stable order can people find that self-cultivated farmers are better than being farmers, otherwise it will be the opposite.
Thinking of this, Yu Bin also felt a little self-deprecating. He was really nervous. He was also a gentry and was developing on the road to a top wealthy family. What did he think about this? Then he looked at the scenery with peace of mind.
On the 28th, their huge team stopped at Yiquekou.
They met another group of mixed Hu soldiers and horses, about 3,000 people.
The Hu people look mixed.
Those who did not take their horses to fight were rewarded and survived, smiling happily.
Those who brought horses to war and also brought horses back were also very happy, but if the horse died, they would not be so happy.
In addition, there are people whose relatives and friends died, but they remain silent, as if they contain displeasure.
It's very complicated anyway, but this is war.
Some Hu people even targeted the rich boy servants who were resting on the roadside. However, these boy servants had weapons in their hands and were not those who were about to break out at once, so they had been on guard against them.
Yique was also the residence of a military palace of the Right Cavalry Guard. They dispatched thousands of cavalrymen, with large spears per capita, and were carefully staring at these gangs of Hu Hu to guard against their trouble.
In the end, there was no danger.
Zahu is ignorant, and the leader is sensible. How many heads do you have enough to cut off and dare to cause trouble near Luoyang?
Yu Bin looked at Zahu's back as he was gone and sighed, "Where is Zahu? If you don't do it well, you will cause trouble after you go back."
"It should be a Xiongnu in Beidi County." A guest replied.
"Shi Jing, it turns out that it is not a miscellaneous Hu, but a righteous Hu." Yu Bin said with a smile.
The guest also laughed and said, "There were many Huns in the north, but later they were separated by Jin Jun's brothers and went to the west. There were only three or five thousand entries left. Kim Jong also always ordered them. This time he went south again, and I don't think there were many people. If a rebellion was launched, the ending might be terrible. Kim Jong is not a kind person. There are many Hu people who have died at his hands over the years."
Yu Bin smiled without saying a word.
Although Kim Jong is cruel, such a cruel person is firmly in charge of General Xi. He has been in Chang'an for many years. Isn't it strange? That is the trust of the emperor, and he trusts it very much.
The second cavalry in Shiqiu, Yongzhou, was allocated to the fields, mainly distributed near Chang'an and Tianshui.
There was a Tianshui rich man, and the chieftain was dissatisfied with the occupation of the fields, so Jin Zheng rushed over and killed him. Is it useful to report to the emperor? It is useless.
In the end, the governor Wen Jiao ran around with the toothache, reconciled in the middle, and barely suppressed it.
Some people saw Kim Jong’s “arrogance”, and Yu Bin only saw the “holy family”.
Besides, Jin Zheng is really good at fighting. Since the second half of last year, he mobilized troops to attack Yang Nan and defeated him again.
It is hard to defeat him and ask for surrender. Jin Zheng did not allow him, and Yao Yizhong did not allow him. The two of them tried their best to fuck him, but they were really disgusted by this guy.
This month, I heard that Jin and Yao gathered more than 30,000 troops to attack Yang Dandi. The chiefs of Qiu Chi Qiang all complained, saying that they wanted to kill Yang Dandi and surrender. They were desperate and were about to perish.
If this thief is eliminated, Kim Jong-sen's family will become more prosperous.
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After resting in Yique for one night, this team of 6,000 people drove a large cart and a small cart and headed south again, passing Liang County, Xiangcheng, and Nanyang, and arrived in Xiangyang in early April.
At that time, Shao Xun was about to lead the crowd to leave, and when he heard that Yu Bin had arrived, he met in Caizhou.
"Dao Xie, if you hadn't gotten married very early, I would have wanted you to be Princess Shang." In the warm sun in spring, Shao Xun joked: "Your strategy is very consistent with my wishes. This matter is correct. 6,000 new people can go to Shangtun, two counties of Huarong and Jingling. How much grain and rice sold is required? How about the court buys it with cloth?"
"They are afraid they can't get it." Yu Bin replied.
The matter of settlement has been happening since ancient times.
Those who immigrate to the border are called Mintun, and those who farm in the military are called Juntun. However, the word Shangtun is the first time I heard it.
Yu Bin thought it was very fresh and appropriate.
Shao Xun looked at the people who were cooking on the other side of Caizhou Island and asked, "Is the food I carry enough to eat?"
"The autumn harvest should not last. Moreover, it is a bit late. We have to clean up the fields and open up dirt. This year we can only plant some miscellaneous grains, and most of them have to buy grains." Yu Bin said.
"This is not easy to buy." Shao Xun shook his head and said, "Well, I always give some benefits to the first batch of commercial households. Tong Qianjin!"
"The last one is here." Tong Qianjin replied loudly.
"How much food does Caizhou have?"
"There are more than 39,000 hu."
"Carry and ship to Yangkou and give it to the people of Shangtun."
"Affect the order." Tong Qianjin immediately went to pass the order.
Shao Xun looked at Yu Bin and said, "Dao Xie, you must explain it to them clearly. These more than 39,000 hu of millet can be sent to you, but one of them, if a thief goes to Yangkou or Huarong, you can avoid the city block, but you cannot run away. If you can stand until the reinforcements arrive, I will give you another reward."
Yu Bin nodded with a serious expression.
This grain is not easy to get. However, you have come to do business, so you should have predicted this risk, right?
"The book "Treat Disease" is very important, so let the masters of the tun come over to copy one." Shao Xun said again: "If you continue to do the method taught in the book, it may not be possible to die, but there will be a lot of people."
"I obey the order." Yu Bin responded.
Shao Xun walked around with his hands behind his back, as if he was very happy, and was happy to see the prosperous development of Shangtun.
He had planned to fool a group of businessmen to build a manor, but now it seems that Shangtun is better.
Business is business, and it is much better to bear the profits and losses than to force others to develop wasteland.
Of course, as far as the people brought by Yu Bin came, the rich people probably didn’t want to make any money in grain trading, right?
It would be nice to open up a place like this for three years to support yourself. In other words, you can only sell surplus grains in three years and start making money. This has not yet been counted as the losses of the dead in the middle. One by one, there will definitely be people who die from the land renovation, it is nothing more than a little.
These merchants and town owners must be in Jiangxia, Nanjun for more than seven or eight years before they can make a profit.
The risk of this transaction is quite considerable. If there is no supporting measures such as giving back land and evaluating family members, I am afraid no one will come.
In addition, the general background of the northern Dutian cannot be ignored.
It is precisely because of the need to save the land and population that these rich people with no background cannot protect the land and population they obtained while taking advantage of the chaos, so they think about making a try.
Without the strong squeeze from the other end of the north, there would be no such adventurous people going south. Everything is complementary.
Shao Xun hopes that more people will join Shangtun Daye.
He is willing to pay the consideration, not only to buy grain at three times the market price, but also to pay for land, official positions and the possibility of the family of the Tunzhu family becoming an official in the future.
These are not "money", but in the eyes of the host, this is probably the real "money".
"Caizhouyuan, please watch the business." Shao Xun pointed to Caizhou Island and said, "Cai's mansion is regularly cleaned, and you can choose some of the houses to be converted into yamen offices, granaries, and arsenals."
"yes."
"Don't drink raw water. Try to fill the stagnant pond." Shao Xun patted Yu Bin's shoulder and said, "I have lived on the island for a while. The wind on the river is not small, and it may not be so humid in summer. Take care of yourself one by one. If there is a big or two, how can I explain it to your aunt?"
Yu Bin felt a little excited when he heard this. This was the feeling of being regarded as his own person, and he enjoyed it very much.
Cai Zhouyuan will be good at operating business, and Shangtun will take the initiative to pay attention and find ways to use the power of the Yu family to provide certain convenience and help to the hosts.
The uncle's great cause cannot go wrong.
Shao Xun didn't pay attention to what the young man was thinking. He only saw Tong Qianjin walking quickly and reported in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the fight between Badong has started."
He nodded and signaled that he knew.
Li Cheng has a big appetite and the time to choose is very appropriate. Li Xiong has some skills.
Chapter completed!