Thank you for your pleasure in League Leader Yang, and thank you for your red envelopes!

After finishing the memorial of 100,000 words and sent someone to Chang'an to send it to Li Chao temporarily left the matter behind. He knew that his memorial was at most a lid in the court.

There are still debates on how this matter goes.

Li Chao finally left Ningyuan. In mid-May, he set out for Zhenyuan City.

The Shuofang Town Navy dispatched more than 100 ships to carry Li Chao and a military soldier. Behind the troops, nearly 300 large and small merchant ships were followed by a large number of merchants, carrying large quantities of goods from merchants.

Zhenyuancheng is located on the south bank of Jizi Bay of the Yellow River, and is opposite to Jiuyuan City, Fengzhou, across the Tungen River in the Nanzhitungen River, and is backed by the sansal desert. Along the Yellow River, it is a fertile alluvial plain of the Yellow River. There are more than one million mu of plains that can be developed and cultivated along the river bank plains, and there are also many grasslands suitable for grazing.

Zhenbeicheng is also a newly built city, and it is also one of the trading ports between Shuofang Town and the Turks.

However, Shuofang Town is now small in population. After the Turks retreated to the north shore, the south shore was not large. Li Chao moved some troops to garrison the north shore and moved some immigrants, but the entire vast area of ​​hundreds of miles here still uses less than 10,000 total population.

Although it is close to Fengzhou City, it is also very close to the front cover.

However, the border market here is not as prosperous as Ningyuan. The main reason is that it is inconvenient for Han merchants to come.

Take land, from Chang'an to Xiazhou, and then from Xiazhou to Zhenbei.

From Chang'an to Xiazhou, it is nearly 900 miles. Xiazhou is almost so far to the north of Zhenbeicheng, and the more important thing is that the road is difficult to walk.

You have to pass many Gobi, desert, high slopes, and grasslands along the way. The road is sparsely populated and difficult to supply, especially when you have to pass through two deserts, you have to travel more than 100 miles. Once you miss the freshwater replenishment point, it is very dangerous.

Therefore, although Zhenbeicheng is closer to the Turkish Hetao and is across from Fengzhou, it is inconvenient for Han merchants to come here. It is much more convenient to go to Linzhou than Zhenbei.

But Linzhou is not as convenient as trading with the Turks in Zhenbei.

Ningyuan is the best, and transportation is convenient.

Zhenbeicheng has now almost become an extension of Ningyuancheng acquisition station. Many Ningyuan merchants have set up semicolons in Zhenbei, but their goods still have to be transported from the Yellow River through Ningyuan.

Basically, there are few businessmen who are willing to take the land route from Xiazhou to Zhenbei.

As the governor of Shuofang, Zhenbei City has been built for a long time, and Zhenbeibian City has been established for a long time, but this is the first time Li Chao has come to Zhenbei.

It was very easy to take a boat down the river from Ningyuan.

However, Li Chao felt that the ship was a bit too small and used hard sails. Generally speaking, inland boats have their advantages, but Li Chao always thought that soft sails were good, and the biggest advantage of sails was that they could make the ship very large. Hard sails were not good. The bigger the ship, the bigger the sails. If you want to pull a large ship, the hard sails had to be large and the masts were too large, so large that the boat could not bear it.

Of course, the unbearable ship is actually very large, and ordinary ships are fine. Moreover, not only sails can be used, but also pulp and wheels can be used in the Yellow River.

But from the perspective of the development direction of the ship, it is undoubtedly the kingly way to use sails.

Using sails can solve a large number of manpower, and it can also be faster.

In Li Chao's eyes, the Shuofang Navy's warships have many problems. The lack of functional grading is basically a ship type, but the size is different.

As for the navy, the biggest function of the navy warship is of course to be combat, not transportation. Therefore, this warship must highlight a combat function. Just decorating the eight-ox crossbow on the ship is far from enough.

It also needs to be classified, such as combat ships, gunboats, assault boats, escort boats, patrol boats, etc., and different forms are developed according to different functions and cannot be trained. Such a naval fleet is qualified.

Every day, Li Chao had to pick up some questions about the navy, and then at night, he would give lectures to the officers of these navy officers in his third-floor flagship cabin.

This can be regarded as Li Chao starting to teach the officers in advance.

These officers were basically all military soldiers, and they were considered army soldiers. A few grew up by the river and knew a little watery. Most of them didn’t even know how to swim before and could be selected to come to the navy. Their only assessment condition was that they would not be seasick when they got on the boat.

Therefore, this group of navy officers have very poor professional skills.

Li Chao had to talk to them about the mission of the navy, the different combat methods of water and land, and even talked to them about some advanced shipbuilding technologies such as sail utilization and watertight cabins.

Most naval officers said they couldn't understand what the commander was talking about at all. Few people seemed to understand, and only a few people understood a little.

Li Chao had no choice but to go back and choose some smart people from these people to teach them well, and also to start from the source. Let the shipyard build a batch of new warships from scratch, build ships with different functions, and then write some tutorials on naval tactics by himself, and teach them slowly.

Now these navy officers and soldiers only regard themselves as transport teams of land troops.

The boat is small, but the speed is not slow.

However, the fleet is large and there are many cargoes, so you can't sail at night. This is no more than just a boat. If it is just a boat, experienced old boatmen can also sail on this relatively gentle river. But if there are too many boats, they are afraid of hitting the boat.

At night, the boat built anchors on the shore, then lit a light, and some people were left on the boat to watch the boat, and most of the rest were going to camp on the shore. On the weather night, the sky was full of stars, so they simply didn't bother to set up a tent, set up a pile of fire, and then surrounded the fire.

Grilled fish, cook tea, and cook some rice.

The fish are fresh from the river. The ones that catch the most are always Yellow River carp, and there are also many crucian carp. The crew is generally good at making fish, and they are generally simple to make fish and do not have many tricks.

Either cook, or stew, or just eat it with sashimi.

Li Chao likes to make those white strips that the crew members dislike.

White strips usually don’t grow big, only one or two fingers wide, less than the length of a slap, very small, with white body and green back. This kind of fish seems to be seen everywhere, in rivers, ditches, and canals. People who fish are the most active, hate this kind of fish the most.

He was messing around when he was making a nest, and he was robbing him. It was big but not big, and his bones were not small.

But Li Chao likes it very much, and there are also ways to eat it.

After rinsing the stomach, hang on the powder and fry it in oil. The smaller the ones, the better it tastes. Or slowly burn it over low heat. The burnt is crispy and crispy. Sprinkle some pepper or thirteen fragrant aromas. Once you bite it, it will crunch and crisp, and even the bones will be completely crispy.

The most enjoyable thing is to drink.

It's very cool in May nights, surrounded by the fire, eating grilled fish and drinking wine, which is really good.

The merchants were very happy and followed the army and benefited greatly in terms of security. Especially Li Chao had good military discipline, and the navy or the fang soldiers in Shuofang Town did not have any blackmail.

The merchants also recommended several shopkeepers, wanting to send some merchant goods to thank the army, but Li Chao confiscated them. It is easy to carry materials on the water.

This time Li Chao went to Zhenbeicheng, and he mainly wanted to meet Yu Shexing.

The two sides had already made an appointment for this meeting. Li Chao estimated that Yu Shecheng was so popular in Ningyuan City and was anxious to take 20% of his tariffs.

It was originally said that it would be a season one, but Yu Sheshi was anxious, and Li Chao planned to send him the first half of the month first. He always had to compensate him for the sweetness before he could feel at ease.

The tariffs for the first half month were also quite large, more than 50,000 guan. This was only 20%. Yu Sheshe was very happy and satisfied after knowing this amount. However, he said he didn't have money, but wanted to purchase a batch of goods from Li Chao.

More than 50,000 guan was replaced with silk, tea, flour, salt, wine, perfume, porcelain, gold and silver jewelry, etc. This was also a money-spending. He ordered all the commercial goods for such a large profit of 50,000 guan.

Li Chao refused this request.

In fact, he wanted Yu Sheshi to change it to commercial goods. In this way, the money Li Chao paid him was actually much less. After all, commercial goods in Ningyuan City are not cheap.

However, this time Li Chao was willing to come to Zhenbeicheng to meet, but in fact he was not just for the sake of meeting.

A sensational device is not enough to make Li Chao pay so much attention.

Li Chao came to meet this time to discuss further strengthening cooperation between the two sides. Li Chao planned to propose that both sides not only open border cities, but also open borders, allowing merchants from both sides of Han and Hu to go to the Tang Dynasty to purchase, or let Han merchants go to the grassland to trade and trade.

On the surface, this is about business matters, but in fact, Li Chao planned to take this opportunity to send more spies to the grassland, go deep into the grassland, and collect detailed information on the Turkic grassland.

Mountains, rivers, geographical routes, where there are rivers and where there is water, are all very important. If these situations are refined in detail, then it will be quite helpful to launch an attack next time.

Of course, for capable merchants, if they go out of the border market and take goods directly into the grassland, they will of course make more profits.

The premise is safety and such strength.

"These businessmen are really not sure. In Ningyuan, they made a lot of money easily, but they were not satisfied. They insisted on going to the grassland and even going to Mobei to trade with Tiel people."

Cheng Chumo held a fried crispy white strip in one hand, shook his head and sighed.

"Businessmen are always seeking profit. In their eyes, they do not accept such words when they see good things. Instead, they have to pursue the maximization of profits. They change a sheepskin here for a pound of tea slices, but if they go to Monan, they can change a sheep. Maybe when they go to Mobei, they can change a sheep from the Tiel people. Even if the journey is longer and the risk is higher, the same benefits are greater."

"If these people are smarter, such as selling tea to Mobei people, then changing to Mobei people's calf, horse, and lamb, giving Mobei people some tea and helping them raise it. When the next year, when the calf, horse, and lamb grows up, they will take it back, and the profit will be even greater."

"This is OK?" Cheng Chumo was shocked.

After a long time, he slowly said, "Master, if you go to business, you will definitely become the richest man in the world!"
Chapter completed!