permit?
Is it allowed to sell war horses, weapons, armor, and gunpowder?
You, the official, are trying to lure the snake out of its hole, right?
All the profiteers are all educated people, they have all gone to school, and they are all full of dark knowledge. How could they be fooled by Zhao Kai, a "second-level" official?
You can't just nod your head on this matter... If you nod your head, it'll be a big deal. Looking back, the officials will ask: How can you make weapons and armor? How do you know where to get war horses? How to refine gunpowder? You must often do this kind of illegal and forbidden things, right?
But you can’t shake your head... If you dare not do what the officials ask you to do, then you are disobeying the order!
If you disobey the order, you can be beheaded!
So everyone was as motionless as a mountain. They all looked like clay and stone sculptures, standing in the main hall with their heads hunched. It made people anxious just to look at them!
Zhao Kai is anxious! The capitalist road with the characteristics of the Song Dynasty, as well as the golden finger of the official family, all depend on profiteers like you! How can you shrink like that?
His eyes slowly swept over the faces of a group of shrinking businessmen, and somehow fell on Wu Haogu's face - he seemed to have seen this person somewhere, but he couldn't remember it.
"Um... who is he?" Zhao Kai pointed at Wu Haogu and asked.
"Guan family," Zhang Zeduan was also in the main hall at this time, so he immediately replied, "Guan family, his name is Wu Haogu, he used to be a member of the Imperial Academy of Painting and was waiting for an imperial edict. Now he is engaged in building and decorating houses for a living... He was responsible for the renovation and decoration of Hanyuan Hall, and he did a pretty good job."
Zhang Zeduan and Zhao Kai are old acquaintances, they are both artists!
So after he ran out of Kaifeng Mansion, he went directly to Hedong to seek refuge with Zhao Kai. Zhao Kai then gave him an assignment from the Imperial Academy of Painting. He was nominally in charge of the Academy, but in reality he was an official who handled imperial duties for himself.
"Wu Haogu... I remembered that you are also from the Art Academy." Zhao Kai looked at Wu Haogu and said, "I ask you, I have a special official business license here. With the license, you can open a business in Luoyang Prefecture. Weapons, armor, and gunpowder workshops, and you can also sell a certain number of horses to Ezhou... Do you want to do it?"
"Guan, Guan, are you serious?" Of course Wu Haogu wanted to do it!
But he won't be able to do the work of opening a weapons, armor, or gunpowder workshop for a while, and he doesn't know how to open it?
But selling horses to Ezhou is a huge profit that can be seen and touched... That is the territory of the Emperor of Jinling!
There are no horses in the territory of Emperor Jinling's Ten Routes and Two States!
And now that we are in troubled times, the Emperor of Jinling must also be organizing his army and practicing martial arts. Horses must be extremely expensive there!
"Of course I'm telling the truth!" Zhao Kai said with a smile, "But you don't have anywhere to buy horses, so I can supply you with 500 horses a year, and we'll split the money in half!
In addition, you must set up a workshop for refining gunpowder according to my request! Do it or not? "
"Do it!" Wu Haogu gritted his teeth and took over the heavy burden that Zhao Kai threw over him.
Five hundred horses... you can sell the horses to Ezhou! If you earn one hundred guan from one horse, that's 50,000 guan! Split in half and that’s twenty-five thousand! How much does it cost to open a gunpowder workshop? The big deal is that the sales profit in one year will be a net profit in the second year.
It turns out that Zhao Kaizhen is not trying to lure the snake out of its hole, he is cultivating the bourgeoisie of the Song Dynasty... More importantly, he is looking for a good helper for himself to open the golden finger.
He is a sophomore in high school who time travel...dressed early! He hasn't mastered the skill yet. If he is allowed to finish college, inherit the family business - a pancake stall, and work hard for a few years, then he will at least be able to make pancakes!
But where is he now? The pancakes can’t even be spread out well...it’s not as delicious as the ones made by your own royal chef! Can you also make guns, cannons and refine gunpowder?
However, he still knew the formula of gunpowder, the granulation of gunpowder, how to use recrystallization to extract nitrate from urine, the secret of tubular firearms, and of course the use of lever principles to make counterweight trebuchets - these But they are all golden fingers that break the current three-point triangle situation!
Without these golden fingers, Zhao Kai would have no problem holding on to three points of the world with 300,000 to 400,000 soldiers.
But it is indeed not easy to take the initiative to break this balance.
However, according to the methods in "Nobunaga's Ambition" and "Total War" in the "Four Art of War", you only need to use your golden finger to point out a 3-pound cannon, or even simpler, point out a cannon that looks like a black pot. The 24-pound mortar can break the balance immediately.
Goldfinger is the number one fighting force!
With the 3-pound cannon or the 24-pound black pot cannon, Zhao Kai can carry out dimensionality reduction strikes against the Jin soldiers. But to open these cheats, it is not enough to just know a general idea, or even just know some principles. In his previous life, Zhao Kai knew very well how to make pancakes, how to adjust the batter for pancakes, when to beat the eggs, what brand of ham to add, how to make the sauce... He knew it all! But the pancakes he served just didn’t taste good!
It’s hard to spread out pancakes, but you need to make a cannon and refine black powder. How can this be easy? Zhao Kai's family didn't run an arsenal, so how could he casually point out such a big golden finger?
Moreover, 3-pound cannon, black pot cannon, and black powder are black technologies, not works of art! Without asking for any extravagant industrialization, it must at least reach the production scale of a handicraft industry, right? Otherwise, with only one or two cannons and several hundred kilograms of black powder, it wouldn't be able to do anything!
In addition, it is impossible for Zhao Kai's army to evolve into the era of hot weapons in one step - the three golden fingers of 3-pound cannon, black pot cannon and black powder are relatively easy to shoot, but muskets are difficult. The barrel can be made of copper, but the barrel must be forged, and the barrel must be processed... Zhao Kai doesn't know what to do at all?
Therefore, his army will at best develop a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and will mainly use cold weapons.
Therefore, the Song army under Zhao Kai still needs a lot of armor, crossbows, arrowheads, swords, guns, and blunt weapons! In particular, you need to equip a large amount of high-quality armor!
This also requires a military industry on a factory scale to support it.
And to create a military industry with the scale of a handicraft industry, who can Zhao Kai count on?
Do you rely on the government-run weapons inspection? But Zhao Kai did not inherit the official family of the Song Dynasty. When he asked Zongze to regain Kaifeng Mansion, the dozens of workshops related to weapons production in Kaifeng Mansion City were already empty, and now there are no buildings left. Got it! Of course the craftsman to whom it belonged was also missing.
The craftsmen he collected in Hebei, Hedong, Shaanxi, Western Beijing and other places were not many, and they were simply not enough to support Zhao Kai's more than 300,000 soldiers. Among them, none of them knew how to refine gunpowder or know how to refine gunpowder. The craftsman who casts copperware!
In order for his soldiers to get enough equipment, Zhao Kai had to issue an edict to allow them to prepare their own. But in this way, the demand and production of weapons among the people have been liberalized. Those craftsmen with good skills can make a good living by relying on the needs of the soldiers. Why bother to work for Zhao Kai as a craftsman? ?
So now there are only two golden fingers in front of Zhao Kai. One is to issue an edict to implement the craftsman household system and send officers and soldiers to forcibly recruit craftsmen from various places to work as craftsmen households in Luoyang...
The second is to simply coax all the weapons craftsmen scattered around to come to Luoyang City to start business, and build Luoyang into a military industrial park... to help them start their own businesses! Or support some commercial workshops and hire them with high wages.
Luoyang was originally the gathering place for the four-pronged government soldiers. The government soldiers had to prepare their own weapons, which could be purchased in Luoyang. Moreover, Zhao Kai's court can also provide them with subsidies and let them go to the market in Luoyang to buy corresponding weapons and armor.
Based on the experience Zhao Kai learned from his family business in his previous life, he knew...it is not easy to start a business, especially when there is fierce competition! Once competition comes, someone will definitely ruin the business!
Even if you set up a pancake stall, it will go bankrupt... let alone opening a weapons workshop?
As long as a weapons workshop opens or closes, Zhao Kai doesn't have to worry about his "Golden Finger Arsenal" not being able to recruit the working class. Even if we don't consider the issue of bankruptcy, as long as outstanding craftsmen gather spontaneously in Luoyang Mansion, Zhao Kai can't afford to pay high salaries to poach people!
As for where the money for Zhao Kai to open the "Goldfinger Arsenal" came from? Of course, it was raised through this group of franchise profiteers selling horses to Zhao Huan.
Zhao Kai has received the report and knows that Zhao Huan is building a new army. In the first phase, he is planning to recruit 200,000 people, including 100,000 for the army! But they were in short supply of horses, and their hundred thousand troops were all infantry.
For this reason, Zhao Huan has ordered the governments along the border to find ways to buy horses... Money is no longer an issue! Horse quality doesn't matter much either. Because according to Zhao Huan's edict, as long as a local official can buy 500 Northern Horses (Northern Horses) and deliver them to Jinling, he can be transferred to an official position!
Let the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty buy poor horses from the north with the people's wealth and people's anointing, and they can be promoted after buying them. This business is really good, and Zhao Kai of course has to get involved. He now took over the entire Shaanxi. The soldiers and generals in Shaanxi were good at raising horses, and Zhao Kai could buy many cheap horses from them.
Moreover, through Shaanxi, Zhao Kai could also buy horses from the Qingtang tribe.
In addition, Yelu Yujian went to Xiazhou in Western Xia for a walk a while ago, and had secret meetings with Xiao Heda several times, so he was connected. With this line, it shouldn't be a problem to go back and get some prairie horses through Xiao Heda.
So Zhao Kai spent four to five thousand horses a year and sent people to "smuggle" them to Zhao Huan's officials so that they could be promoted. At the same time, he also exchanged hundreds of thousands of coppers for investment in "Golden Finger". It should be the same. Something that everyone is happy with.
Zhao Kai looked at the group of businessmen with shining eyes below and said with a smile: "I still have nine franchised official and commercial licenses here... Which of you wants them? There are only nine left!"
"The common people want to sell horses for the officials!"
"The common people are willing to make money for the officials!"
"Grass people..."
Businessmen are very active!
Zhao Kai was quite satisfied. He had already planned that the gunpowder workshop, iron workshop, armor workshop, bronze workshop, and crossbow workshop would all have double openings. There has to be competition!
