Chapter 135

Wu Sheng went down and quickly brought Fan Yongdou to the front hall.

When Cheng Shijie came to the front hall, he saw a middle-aged man with long flowing sleeves drinking tea leisurely in the living room.

Hearing Cheng Shijie's footsteps, he hurriedly stood up and bowed to Cheng Shijie and saluted: "Fan Yongdou, a common man, pays homage to Mr. Cheng Jinglue!"

"You're welcome, Shopkeeper Fan, please take a seat!"

"In front of Master Cheng, there is no place for ordinary people!"

"Sit down if I ask you to, and stop talking nonsense!"

Fan Yongdou quickly thanked him and sat on the sofa. When he sat on the sofa for the first time, he felt the beauty of the sofa. Although he lowered his head and did not look at Cheng Shijie, he looked at Cheng Shijie with the corner of his eyes.

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Cheng Shijie's age is not a secret, he is now thirty-six years old, but in fact, Cheng Shijie looks extremely young, looking like he is only twenty-seven or eighty-years-old.

Although all adult men in the Ming Dynasty had beards, including Fan Wencheng himself. The problem was that before Cheng Shijie came to the Ming Dynasty, he did not have a beard and shaved frequently, so his beard looked hard, like steel needles.

Same.

More importantly, Cheng Shijie's skin does not look like that of a martial artist, and is even more delicate than that of most civil servants.

Fan Yongdou said with a smile: "Master Cheng put down Kong Youde's rebellion in one battle, saved the common people of Shandong from water and fire, conquered Jinzhou alone, fought in Haizhou three times, killed more than 4,000 slaves, and made the slave chief Hong Tai's liver and gallbladder split. General Cheng

His military exploits are outstanding, his reputation is far-reaching, and he is greatly admired by the common people! For such an achievement, throughout the ages, probably only Huo Qubing can rival Lord Cheng!"

"You are very good at talking. Even though I know you are flattering me, I am still very happy to listen to you!"

Cheng Shijie stared at Fan Yongdou and said, "Tell me, what do you have to do with me?"

Fan Yongdou cupped his hands and said: "The common people have admired Master Cheng for a long time. It is a real comfort to see you today. It's a small thing to express your respect. I hope you don't dislike General Cheng!"

As he said this, Fan Yongdou took out a gift list and handed it over.

Cheng Shijie took it and took a look.

Good guy, there are a hundred war horses, a hundred cattle, sixty camels, and six hundred cowhide. The total of these miscellaneous things is at least two to thirty thousand taels of silver. The most valuable thing is the demand deposit of Liaodong Bank.

One hundred thousand taels of silver.

Cheng Shijie would definitely not accept such a big gift from others. For such a generous gift, there must be something to ask for.

But for Fan Wencheng's sugar-coated bullets, Cheng Shijie's principle is to eat the sugar-coated bullets and hit them back.

Cheng Shijie accepted it unceremoniously and said: "Such a heavy gift is really frightening... Tell me, is there anything I can help you with?"

This was the first time Fan Yongdou met an official like Cheng Shijie. If other officials saw such a gift list, they would definitely scold him. No matter how nice he said, he would flatter him and he would accept the gift half-heartedly. Then, he would

Ask the other party to do something...

In fact, Cheng Shijie also knows this routine, and he is also very knowledgeable.

Cheng Shijie would not follow Fan Wencheng's routine.

Fan Yongdou felt something was wrong, but he had rich business experience. He knew that everyone had their own bottom price. Once the bid was higher than the other party's bottom price, the business would be easy to negotiate.

Fan Yongdou considered: "General Cheng, the grass-roots Fan family business started by grinding tofu, and now the business is all over Northern Zhili. Shanxi, Jizhou, Tianjin, and now Northern Zhili is suffering from drought, and food shortage is a foregone conclusion. Only Cheng

Your Excellency’s military field is growing well, so I would like to ask Master Cheng for permission to sell the remaining grain to the common people, and the common people will definitely give Master Cheng a fair price.”

Cheng Shijie was a little puzzled.

Shouldn't Fan Yongdou purchase Ning Haijun's standard equipment from Cheng Shijie? Why did he change his gender?

In fact, Cheng Shijie is not a real businessman, so he does not understand the nature of a businessman.

Fan Yongdou was not a fool. He did not dare to reveal his true feelings easily before he figured out Cheng Shijie's intentions.

However, what Fan Yongdou didn't know was that Cheng Shijie had already known about him.

In the late Ming Dynasty, many people did not understand Shanxi merchants very well. Who in later generations would not know that Shanxi merchants and Jiannu slaves wore the same pants?

Who doesn't know that the rise of the Shanxi merchants relied on collaboration with the enemy and the country? The armor and swords in the hands of the Jian slaves that were more sophisticated than those of the Ming army were all made of iron materials smuggled in by these bastards.

The copper materials and craftsmen used by the Jiannu slaves to make cannons were also brought over by these bastards.

When there was a severe drought in Liaodong and no crops were harvested, it was these bastards who secretly smuggled a large amount of grain to the Jian slaves, allowing the Jian slaves to survive the famine!

After the battle in Dalinghe, God slapped Huang Taiji twice. These bastards couldn't wait to jump out and share the worries of their master!

He knew that Cheng Shijie was short of cattle, war horses, and people.

Fan Wencheng said: "Mr. Cheng, please forgive me, the grassroots people do not have ready money, but they do have 6,000 cattle, more than 600 of which are cows with calves, because Mongolia owed the grassroots grain on credit a while ago.

To pay the debt, they used 6,000 war horses, more than 2,000 of which were fine iron-shod horses. Therefore, the common people only had 6,000 cattle and 6,000 war horses in their hands. These war horses were all two-year-old good horses. They were definitely

We won’t pass it off as a shoddy product.”

It can be said that Fan Yongdou almost knew Cheng Shijie's pulse. If Fan Yongdou used money to trade with Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie would rather not make the money than kill Fan Yongdou.

Fan Yongdou took 6,000 cattle and 6,000 war horses. These are not materials that can be easily bought with money. What's more, Cheng Shijie pieced together everything and finally got 4,000 war horses. Although these war horses have many

There are four thousand horses, which looks like a lot. In fact, more than half of them are inferior horses used to make up for the numbers. These horses are neither as tall nor as fast as Jiannu's horses. In the cavalry battle, they were eaten

Big loss.

Now, Cheng Shijie feels in a dilemma.

Cheng Shijie thought: "Now I am not sure how much surplus grain can be sold. We need to wait until after the autumn harvest. If you are willing, you can drive these cattle and horses to southern Liaoning. We will pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other. As for the price... you go

Let’s talk to the management committee!”

"The common people understand."

I have to admit that many times choices are really important.

If Fan Yongdou hadn't been stimulated by Bao Chengxian and changed his plan temporarily, otherwise he would have used money to trade with Cheng Shijie according to the original plan. At this moment, his head would have fallen to the ground.

Cheng Shijie was a little unsure whether he should trade with Fan Yongdou. Trading with Fan Yongdou was actually trading with Jiannu...

If it was a normal transaction, Cheng Shijie would definitely not be willing to do it, but if it was a trap to trick Fan Yongdou, Cheng Shijie would be very happy.

Driving cattle and horses to southern Liaoning means that the goods will die on the ground, and then Fan Yongdou will no longer be able to do it.

Cheng Shijie pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Shopkeeper Fan, you also know my identity. It is inconvenient for me to interfere in these merchant affairs. I will appoint someone to hand over the specific affairs to you. You can discuss the specific matters yourself. You must remember that you

It has nothing to do with me, I have never met you, and I don’t know what Jie Xiu Fan is!"

Fan Yongdou was secretly pleased with Cheng Shijie's attitude.

Almost all officials in the Ming Dynasty were urinary. They could speak grandly and do things as dirty as they wanted.

"Someone, go get Xie Jinglin!"

When Fan Yongdou heard this name, he suddenly realized.

Xie Jinglin is a recently rising businessman in southern Liaoning. He has many good things in his hands, but the selling price is very expensive. However, originally Xie Jinglin was just a small business and could not catch Fan Yongdou's attention. However, because of his purchasing

The goods were mainly cattle, sheep, and horses. Fan Yongdou had doubts about Xie Jinglin...

Now it can be proven that Xie Jinglin is Cheng Shijie's man.

After a short time, Xie Jinglin came in, bowed to Cheng Shijie and saluted: "My lord, let me pay my respects to the commander-in-chief!"

"No gift!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin and said with a smile: "Jing Lin, this is the shopkeeper of Fan's Company in Jiexiu, Shanxi. Please get to know him!"

"Shopkeeper Fan!"

"Thank you, shopkeeper!"

"Nice to meet you!"

Cheng Shijie looked at Xie Jinglin and said: "Jing Lin, shopkeeper Fan has come to Liaonan. You are responsible for entertaining him. You can talk about this business slowly, don't be in a hurry!"

"Save it for me!"

Fan Yongdou was also a human being. He knew that in this situation, Cheng Shijie would definitely hand over important matters to Xie Jinglin, so he said goodbye.

After Fan Yongdou left, Cheng Shijie told Xie Jinglin: "This time, the initiative is on our side. You sharpen the knife quickly and kill them hard!"

Xie Jinglin seemed to not understand what Cheng Shijie meant: "Commander, what should I do?"

Cheng Shijie said: "In about one and a half months, the corn will be harvested. At that time, you take Fan Yongdou to see our corn. According to my estimation, we should harvest about five or six stones per acre, maybe even more!"

This is of course Cheng Shijie's conservative estimate. If there is enough chemical fertilizer in later generations, corn can produce about 1,000 to 1,200 kilograms. If the fertility cannot keep up, then it is possible to produce a few hundred kilograms per mu.

The land in southern Liaoning has no chemical fertilizers and only a small amount of organic fertilizers. Cheng Shijie has no idea of ​​the yield. Of course, no matter how low the yield is, there should still be 600 to 700 kilograms.

Sell ​​the corn to Fan Yongdou as an improved seed and raise the price more than ten times. Fan Yongdou will definitely agree to buy it. After all, this new crop has high yield and corn stalks contain a lot of sugar, making it ideal for silage feed.

Jiannu would definitely be willing to pay a lot of money to buy the raw materials.

But later generations of seed companies have already genetically locked this kind of corn. According to Fan Yongdou's intelligence, he will definitely try planting it in the first year, and then sell it to Jiannu after a good harvest.

At this time, the genetic lock of corn seeds began to take effect. In later generations, farmers would hardly save their own seeds because of the existence of this genetic lock.

However, this kind of gene lock is not a genetic mutation that will be found in the second generation of seeds, but a genetic mutation in the third generation. If Fan Yongdou buys the seeds directly and sells them to Jiannu, Jiannu will indeed benefit one year and the next year's seeds.

They will also germinate, but they no longer have the genetically modified ability to produce high yields, resist drought, and resist pests and diseases.

In addition to corn, there are also potatoes and sweet potatoes. The yield of these crops is very high, and the wet weight is greater. The yield per mu can reach tens of thousands of kilograms. No matter how smart Fan Yongdou is, he will choose to plant them.

However, whether it is potatoes or sweet potatoes, once they are frozen, they will no longer germinate. In other words, the seeds Fan Yongdou bought at dozens of times the price are seeds that cannot grow normally.

Even if Cheng Shijie trades with Fan Yongdou normally, he will not provide transportation means or transportation services. This requires Fan Yongdou to transport it himself. Once he leaves the control area of ​​Liaonan, Cheng Shijie will order his subordinate Hu Erqi.
To be continued...