During the period before the post-war material embargo order was issued, the peasant army used the funds obtained from land reform and war victory to do a lot of business with businessmen in surrounding areas and established many relatively reliable partnerships.
The main focus of the peasant military production movement was food, and there was still a large production gap in cloth, ordnance, etc. Although Zhao Yucheng also learned from Su Yonglin's policies and opened various textile factories, iron smelting factories, etc., the production efficiency was only half the time. I won’t be able to come up for a while.
Therefore, it is more necessary to do business with merchants in surrounding areas and purchase the supplies they need.
Not to mention, as long as there is money, there is a market. In addition to normal daily necessities such as cloth, the peasant army needs steel knives, spears, bows, crossbows, armor and other ordnance. Even if there is no material ban, they themselves are quite sensitive. exist.
But what they never expected was that those Southern Song Dynasty businessmen were really smart. As long as the price was right, they could also get you an absolute forbidden item like the Divine Arm Bow.
It just so happened that their identity was not that of a bureaucrat or military officer, but an "ordinary" businessman who ostensibly sold rice and cloth. Then when he lifted the cover of his car, there were all divine arm bows underneath.
Can a fucking ordinary businessman get the Divine Arm Bow?
ordinary?
Zhao Yucheng found this matter difficult to understand and didn't know how to express his inner tangled emotions. .
They are obviously white gloves released by officials, but they still claim to be ordinary businessmen!
Pooh!
But in the final analysis, when we are doing business, business still needs to be done, and money still needs to be earned. No one will mind having too much money, and the peasant army also needs goods.
So Zhao Yucheng used money to make transactions with them in exchange for all necessities except food.
At this stage, prices are relatively normal.
It was not until the material ban was issued that these Southern Song Dynasty businessmen began to show their true nature as businessmen.
They rubbed their hands and said to Zhao Yucheng - it used to be this price, but now that the material ban has been issued, we all have to risk our heads to deliver materials to you. Is this price going to be... Hehe, you know.
Some people within the Fuxinghui branch were very unhappy with this behavior of Southern Song merchants.
The price they paid for purchasing supplies was already very expensive, more than double the normal market price, and now they want to continue doubling it, which is simply too much.
And everyone knows in their hearts that those who can sell arms are white gloves released by the government, and they have a lot to do with the government itself. The thief-cry-catch-the-thief routine has been used for thousands of years, but we still think we don’t know the relationship here?
Many people feel that there is no need to continue doing business with them. Anyway, the military supplies of the Peasant Army are enough for now. If they really want to fight, it will not be a problem for four or five months. They do not think that the Song Army can fight with them for four or five months. months.
With the Song Army's organization and combat effectiveness, we can push back to Lin'an in four or five months!
But Zhao Yucheng doesn't think so.
"For us at this stage, materials are more important than money. Never underestimate the consumption of materials during war. It is more meaningful to exchange money for materials than to save money. As for the extra money spent, there is nothing to be angry about."
Zhao Yucheng smiled, took out a small notebook, and said: "At worst, write down the names of all these vendors. After the revolution is victorious, we can then settle the accounts and let them eat what they have eaten." Spit it all out!"
Su Yonglin is a very vengeful person, and he is also petty-minded. If he has a grudge, he must take revenge. No matter how long it takes, he will definitely take revenge. He also has a small notebook dedicated to holding grudges. He will not let go of anyone who has a dispute over the line.
As his direct disciple, Zhao Yucheng also learned Su Yonglin's character of holding grudges and seeking revenge.
He asked people to write down the list of all the Southern Song Dynasty businessmen who were sitting on the floor and raising prices. He made a list and wrote it down in a small notebook.
"They are all profiteers who take advantage of the situation. They often do evil things like hoarding. And most of them have official backgrounds. Otherwise, they would be so arrogant to do business with us? Humph! Let them be proud first. Sooner or later, we will have to deal with them. Calculate the general ledger!”
Zhao Yucheng has said this, and others have nothing to object to.
The peasant army continued to do business with profiteers at prices two or three times higher than the normal price, purchasing cloth tents, ordnance and other military supplies, filling their treasury and preparing for war.
And with profits of 200% to 300%, how could the profiteers in the Southern Song Dynasty still take into account the imperial ban?
Not to mention that the emperor is far away here, even in Lin'an City, under the emperor's nose, they dare to transport these things out and sell them to the peasant army for money.
They and the officials behind them counted the money until their hands cramped, and happily sold the high-quality military supplies in their jurisdiction to the peasant army.
Under such circumstances, the Peasant Army did not lack any materials at all. Through the continuous supply of materials, Zhao Yucheng reorganized the four divisions of the Peasant Army many times, eliminating the old and weak and adding young and strong, making the composition of the army more and more diverse. Rejuvenation.
Not only that, in terms of military training, the military instructors sent by Su Yonglin also worked hard.
The military instructors spent more than half a year using the methods used to train Ming army soldiers to train the peasant army soldiers in basic military literacy, so that a peasant army that had become a monk on the road gradually became a regular army.
From the middle of the fourth year of Hongwu to the beginning of the fifth year of Hongwu, the peasant army held many war exercises, including field exercises and city offensive and defensive exercises. Zhao Yucheng was very satisfied with the results of the exercises.
The peasant army has already made great strides across the border in the direction of the Ming army. Given time, Zhao Yucheng will be confident that he will not lose even in a face-to-face field battle with the elite Song army.
The Peasant Army is developing very well, but the Song Army in the Jinghu War Zone, which was also destroyed and rebuilt, is not developing so well.
Because the Peasant Army had stricter control over goods and caught several instances of fake goods in the Southern Song Dynasty, they became interested and stopped trying to pass off defective products as good ones. Instead, they honestly traded with the Peasant Army on good products.
It's not that they are unwilling to use good products, it can only be said that when they get them, there are few good products and many defective products, and others also want to make money.
But if they can earn so much, it's not like they can't tolerate this kind of thing.
The good products have been sold, what to do with the remaining defective products?
Of course it is for use by our own army.
The peasant army is a devil of a man, and they only want good products, but after all, they paid a high price, so it is not unacceptable. Thinking about it like this, how can your own army still want good products without giving you a penny?
Pooh!
The Eight Stinky Hills are only equipped with defective products!
If you dare to complain, I won’t even give you defective products!
After the last struggle with Wu Gong, the contradiction between the civil servants and military generals in the Jinghu Theater has become more and more serious, and the opposition between them has become more serious.
Although Wu Gong was driven back to his hometown for self-examination, several civil servants were also unlucky and were exiled to Lingnan.
The two sides were in a state of mutual victory, which made the civil servants increasingly dissatisfied.
Master Wenquxing in the sky actually still suffered losses from dealing with you bunch of stinky Qiuba?
The civil service system, which has always looked down on and despised generals and the army, decided to show some shame to generals and the army.
While making a lot of money, let these bad guys figure out their own position.
Therefore, in the areas occupied by the Song Army in the Jinghu War Zone adjacent to Jiangnan West Road, where the Song Army was stationed in Xiangyang, Hanyang, Ezhou, and Qizhou, the stationed Song Army generals and soldiers gradually discovered that the military supplies they obtained were often of very high quality. Difference.
It is not the state of the past where there were both good and defective products. Instead, when you occasionally encounter good products, they are basically in a state of defective products.
The bow can be broken when the bow is drawn.
The arrows vary in length, and some don't even have an arrowhead, just a wooden stick.
The tail feathers of the arrows were of very poor quality and shattered when touched, making them unusable.
Steel knives have many rusty areas. Many steel knives cannot even be used for the most basic purposes and break with just one swing.
The spear looked like this, but it was terrifyingly light in the hand and broke as soon as it was broken.
Not to mention the armor. Many pieces of armor are made of wood pieces pretending to be iron pieces, and are coated with a layer of black paint to pretend to be high-quality.
This made some local Song troops very dissatisfied.
