In September, a very ordinary caravan came to Lanzhou City. During the war, those smart merchants in the Qing Dynasty always wanted to try their luck. Although the war brought danger, it also brought business opportunities.

Needless to say, the prices of people's living materials such as salt, iron daily necessities, and cloth in the Central Plains have increased several times.

At this time, if anyone can smuggle a team in the past, the profit will be no more than ten times!

Not only is it making money from takeaway items, it is even more valuable to make some jade from southern Xinjiang!

Agubo blocked the trade route, causing the Central Plains people who love Hetian jade to lose their supply. There has been no new jade ore on the market for five years, forcing all jade workshops in the Qing Dynasty to use lower-quality Central Plains jade.

Chinese people have a long history of playing with jade, but in the minds of literati who know the most, there are actually two types of jade, one is Kunlun jade and the other is other jade.

Kunlun Mountain is the dragon vein of the Central Plains and the ancestor of all mountains! The highest-quality white jade in mutton fat is produced here, and the mythological color of thousands of years has made the jade in Kunlun Mountain have a miraculous effect of spiritual communication.

Regardless of whether it is true or not, anyway, literati have taken this set and have been taking it for thousands of years, even if it is a placebo, they are already addicted to it!

At this critical moment, who can smuggle white jade from southern Xinjiang? It will be a hundred times huge profits!

But this kind of business is not something that ordinary people can do. Without the ability to be well-known in black and white, don’t think about it!

Merchants are just a group of flies that chase odor, flying wherever there is profit. The Western Regions, where the trade routes are cut off, is dead in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of merchants, it is a place of opportunity.

Countless caravans came here under the name of sending military supplies to Zuo Zongtang, which might be a good opportunity to gain wealth with their lives.

When Europeans were sailing, they dared to even break into the deep blue ocean for money. Did they just put their heads on their belts? In fact, Chinese businessmen are not very brave, it depends on whether the policy allows it!

As the rebellion in Gansu and Shaanxi was gradually pacified by Zuo Zongtang's army, and as the regaining area gradually expanded, the merchants of the Qing Dynasty followed closely behind.

In addition to the countless military supplies, the caravan also brought everything needed to regain the regional people's reconstruction.

From needles and threads to cattle, sheep and livestock, to cook vegetables and sledges, to get wet sledges... After the wars and chaos, the people are penniless and lack anything, and the important responsibility of local officials is to resume production.

These Central Plains commodities quickly flooded, and a prosperous and prosperous business appeared in a short period of time.

With the complete pacification of Ganzhou and Shaanxi, all the thieves including Bai Yanhu fled to the west of Xingxing Gorge, and Zuo Zongtang's commander officially entered Jinzhou, which is Lanzhou on the edge of the Yellow River.

The caravans naturally would not miss the opportunity to do business. For a moment, this small town in the northwest suddenly gathered in large quantities, and the commercial taxes collected at the city gate every day had to be pulled by carriages.

The caravan with more than 50 people who came in September was one of them. However, I never expected that after only three days of staying in Jinzhou, the shopkeeper came to Liu Jintang and sent a large door bag and a handwritten letter from the red-topped businessman Hu Xueyan.

Hu Xueyan is the number one god of wealth under Zuo Zongtang. Although Hu Xueyan works for the Hunan Army, the Hunan Army is too powerful, and the great gods in it also have conflicts with each other. If they are better than this, they will naturally have a gap with another faction.

In the main room of the inn, King Shangtai was drinking and enjoying jade with the dusty King of Ghost Eyes. A piece of Hotan mutton fat white jade, which was as big as a fist, was placed in the middle of the wine and food.
Chapter completed!