Kudryash and Ivanov were taken out by Zhao Wu.
"That Rakshasa man obviously had something to say, so how could we drive them away? We should at least find out what they were here for?" Li Shuheng frowned, somewhat puzzled by Liu Heng's actions.
Liu Heng sat back on the chair behind his desk, picked up the teapot and took a sip of water before saying, "Don't be in a hurry to talk to these Rakshasa people. Let's dry them out first."
"Didn't you say you wanted to do business with the Rakshasa people before?" Li Shuheng looked puzzled.
Liu Heng smiled and said: "The more we want to do business with them, the more we have to stretch our muscles to satisfy their appetite, so we are not in a hurry."
"I'm a little worried. I'm afraid that they will cooperate with other companies, which will also be a loss for us." Li Shuheng expressed his worries.
Liu Heng, who heard this, smiled and said, "Don't worry. There are only a handful of companies in the entire Ming Dynasty that are capable of doing business with them. Our Tiger Flag is the most suitable one."
"I feel relieved if you say this." Li Shuheng nodded slightly.
Liu Heng led them step by step to achieve Tiger Character Banner's current scale, so he believed that what Liu Heng decided must be the most correct thing.
Liu Heng stood up, picked up a slender wooden stick on the table, pointed to a place on the map on the wall, and said: "The Rakshasa Kingdom is probably at this location, or even a little further north. .”
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One end of the wooden stick is in the blank space at the edge of the map. This area represents the area that the Tiger Flag convoy has not yet reached.
"It's so far north, and everyone doesn't freeze to death in winter." Li Shuheng had no idea that the Rakshasa Kingdom was farther away than he thought.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "Because of the cold, the wool products there are better than what we received from the Mongols, and the price when sold to the south will be higher."
"Leather goods are a good thing. They are hard goods in the south, and demand has always been in short supply." Li Shuheng said.
Except for some of the fur goods of the Tiger Flag being sold to the south, most of them were sold to the red barbarians through maritime trade. Moreover, the red barbarians' demand for fur goods was as strong as tea, and the supply was always in short supply.
The wooden stick in Liu Heng's hand clicked on several places on the map and said: "If the Rakshasa people want to come to the Ming Dynasty, there are only these few roads to take. The Liaodong side has become a mess, and it is difficult for the Rakshasa people to come." It is said that the only way to reach Ming Dynasty is through grassland."
The wooden stick in his hand was tapped emphatically on the Mobei grassland.
"Almost all the Shanxi merchants in Xuanfu are our people, and the business roads on the grassland are also controlled by our Tiger Banner. If the Rakshasa people want to do business with other businesses through the grassland, they cannot avoid our Tiger Banner. "Li Shuheng reacted quickly.
Since Tiger Banner won the battle with the Fan family on the grassland, almost all the smuggling business with various Mongolian tribes fell into the hands of Tiger Banner.
At most, there are a few small caravans of small size that come to the grassland for small business. The only ones that can do large-scale business with various Mongolian ministries are the tiger-character flag caravans.
Except for the Tiger Flag, whenever a large-scale convoy appears on the grassland, it basically never comes back. After this happened several times, some companies that wanted to start smuggling business in the grassland gave up.
Liu Heng took away the wooden stick on the map and said: "These Rakshasa people don't need to stop them if they want to leave. As long as they want to get the Ming Dynasty's goods, they can't avoid our Tiger Flag."
Holding the tiger-character flag of the prairie trade route is his confidence.
The Tiger Character Banner was able to establish several combat divisions with more than 10,000 people in just a few years. This has a lot to do with the Tiger Character Banner's control of the business roads on the grassland.
The Tiger-Character Flag is just a piece of equipment for a soldier. It can't be bought without a dozen taels of silver, and the daily expenses consume a huge amount of money.
It is precisely because the Tiger Character Banner monopolized the smuggling business with the Mongols and made a lot of wealth from it that the Tiger Character Banner was able to support so many soldiers and horses.
After Kudryash and Ivanov were taken out of Liu Heng's office, they were taken directly to a separate house in the city.
This courtyard was arranged as a residence for these Rakshasa people.
There are only a few houses in the yard, and dozens of Rakshasa people live in these few rooms. It can be said that it is very crowded. They can only sleep shoulder to shoulder. If they turn over, they may crush other people.
Still, that's good enough for them.
After walking all the way from the Rakshasa Kingdom, I could only sleep in the ice and snow every day. Now that I have a house that can protect me from the wind and rain, it is much better than spending the night in the wilderness.
"Kudryash, what do you mean by that gentleman? He kicked us out without saying anything useful. Is he unwilling to do business with us?" Ivanov turned to look at Kudryash. Dryash said.
Kudryash frowned and said: "Maybe they just defeated the Tatars and can't take care of us for the time being. Wait a few days for you and I to meet with that adult again. I believe there will be a good result." "
"It would be great if this is true." Ivanov said with excitement, "This lord's men use the most advanced firecrackers in Europa, and I have also seen their cannons. Yes, each one is so exquisite and lovely, far better than the weapons we use."
Kudryash said with a gloomy face: "This is what I am most worried about."
"Worried? Why are you worried? You don't think they can use these weapons to attack Tsarist Russia!" Ivanov seemed to have heard a joke and laughed.
Kudryash shook his head slightly and said: "No, I am not worried that they will attack Tsarist Russia, and I heard that this rich country in the east is at war with another group of Tatars."
"Then what are you worried about?" Ivanov shrugged.
Kudryash said: "Before coming, I thought about using our Tsarist Russia's matchlock guns in exchange for more benefits, but now you have seen the firecrackers and cannons used by this company called Tiger Banner. They are stronger than our Tsarist Russia, and it is no longer possible to use our weapons to obtain more benefits from them."
"Then what do you want to do?" Ivanov asked.
Kudryash said: "We have just come here and don't know much about this Eastern civilized country. I am going to leave here and, if possible, go see the emperor of this Eastern civilized country. I heard that the emperor is He is the supreme ruler of this Eastern country, just like our Tsar."
"Well, since you want to leave, I can only go with you." Ivanov spread his hands and said, "When are you going to leave? To be honest, I don't want to stay here at all. Here, I am like a prey surrounded by wolves, and I must always be on guard against the wolves that may pounce on me at any time.”
Having seen the power of the tiger-character flag soldiers, this made him feel very insecure.
Kudryash said: "Have a day's rest and we will leave tomorrow. I heard the man who brought us here said that this was a Tatar place before. If we want to go to that eastern country, we have to keep going. "
"You have the final say." Ivanov shrugged.
