Then amidst a burst of laughter and curses, everyone started to move.

Although both those who were playing around just now and those who were sitting quietly felt that they still had unfinished business, there was nothing they could do about it. It was their job and something they had to complete. Only when the work was done well would their loved ones at home have delicious food.

, easy to wear.

In fact, even though they are expressing their melancholy by laughing and scolding at this time, if you really let them give up their work and play to their heart's content for a year and a half, these men who grew up by the sea will actually

Even more unhappy.

Apart from the fact that the boss is a bit strict and you also need to undergo some additional training after work, which is much stricter than in the countryside, how many jobs can there be in these troubled times with good salary and good related benefits?

Compared with the life of working hard at home for most of their lives and still facing the earth with their backs to the sky, their current life can be called happy. Their big boss even promised that if any of the children are promising, he can recommend them.

Let's study with more knowledgeable people, and if we can get an official position in the future, it will be a huge change for the entire family.

This is a good treatment that only natives like them have. Those outsiders have no chance even if they drool with envy. They can only rely on the opportunity of marrying their daughters here to arrange outsiders into this area with a specific area as the core.

in the circle.

"Haha~ Xuan Gao, what if you don't listen to my advice? My profit from this trip can reach at least one million dollars."

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm studying at Shaozhongtai, don't lie to me. That's millions of dollars. What kind of product is so profitable?"

"Hehe, there are some treasures from the sea, special products shipped from the south, and very beautiful utensils obtained from I don't know where. Oh, by the way, there are also rare treasures and treasures that can only be obtained from Liaodong across the sea.

Precious medicinal materials.”

"It's not that the Gongsun clan of Liaodong County was defeated by Xianbei and massacred the whole city. There are even rumors that the Xianbei army killed tens of thousands of men and women by the Daliang River outside Xiangping City, so that the river stopped flowing and everything downstream was dyed red.

.”

"This statement is not wrong, but there is something you don't know, Brother Zang. Many powerful people and common people knew that the Xianbei army was coming, so they took refuge at sea with their families in advance. Although they suffered a lot of damage in the storm,

However, although the Xianbei army could cross mountains and walk on plains, they did not dare to go to the sea, and they could not stay in Liaodong for a long time, otherwise their Danhan Mountain would probably be captured by those in Bingzhou.

As soon as the Xianbei people retreated, the people who had hid at sea returned to the shore. Now Tashi in the southeast of Liaoning and Xi'anping in the east and their surrounding areas have become lively again, but few people are willing to migrate to the north on a large scale.

That's all, so we can only wait for a few warriors who have the courage to go deep into the north, or those who come from

Only the foreign tribes such as the Haoqiu in the northern mountains and forests can get the good things in the mountains. Occasionally, they can hire some Haoqiu's followers. I heard that the foreign tribes in the mountains also suffered heavy losses in the Xianbei attack. So this is

It’s an opportunity that comes once a year, Brother Zang, if you miss it, you’ll have to wait until next year if you want to participate.”

"That's fine, but it's such a big sum of money. Isn't that the eldest son of the Yuan family jealous?"

"Hey, what's the use of being jealous? Even though they only have over a thousand people in Le'an Country, I heard that they also have over a thousand people hiding in the islands in the north of Donglai, and in Liaodong.

With a strength of ten thousand people, they are not afraid of that nonsense young master at all. I think if they really make them angry, they might abandon the sea and kill the young master."

"Is the rumor true?"

"Who knows? Anyway, Liaodong is so far away from us, so it's really not easy to verify it."

"Sigh... There have been frequent atrocities between us and that Young Master Yuan. Even if we continue to exercise restraint, we can tell by just looking at the other party's increasingly fierce methods recently. I'm afraid that even though the Jizhou guy sees

The reason for getting up is to recuperate. But in fact, it is basically preparing the army there, and we in Qingzhou will definitely bear the brunt.

But at this time, there is suddenly such a lonely overseas but powerful force involved in this battle. Even I can't tell whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for us. It is really heartbreaking.

I feel uneasy."

"Hey, we can't control him on the sea. If he wants to do business, we will welcome him with both hands. But if he wants to be our enemy, as long as he dares to abandon the boat and land, I, Sun Zhongtai, can make sure he never comes back.

, regret being our enemy!”

"But if it's just harassment, it's still a big headache."

"It's just a scabies disease that can only be harassed at the beach. And we can make so much money by working with them, so why really break up with them? That's a business that can make millions of dollars. Millions of dollars.

Woolen cloth!"

"Okay, okay, don't act like a child who has never seen the world and has no future."

Although he smiled and criticized the money-obsessed look of his friends, Zang Ba was actually bleeding in his heart.

That's a million dollars, really Huang Chengcheng's million dollars!

A number like one million sounds very big to people. In fact, for a large family of seven, it is indeed a very large number. It is even possible to reach this number with a lifetime of hard work.

It's all a huge problem.

But if this number is placed at the level of a powerful family, let alone at the national level, it becomes somewhat insufficient.

In fact, according to the calculation method that was not used very frequently in the Han Dynasty, that is, the legendary consistent money that represents a thousand qian, a million yuan is just a thousand qian, which is quite high and low.

number.

The reason why I say this is because unlike ordinary people who only need to care about the most basic consumer goods such as oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar, wealthy people from aristocratic families need to pay attention to many more things.

For example, a high-quality war horse, known as the face of a powerful family, is a huge expense that cannot be ignored.

So how much was a war horse worth in the Han Dynasty?

Studying absolute prices does not seem to make much sense, just like the "chicken's fart" in China is always clouded, not to mention that prices can fluctuate for a thousand and one reasons, so we use relative purchasing power to get a glimpse

alright.

In the history of another dimension, a book written by a guy from the Sima family who liked to destroy public property once recorded that in the fifth year of Emperor Yongchu of the Eastern Han Dynasty (111 years), in order to deal with the rebels of the Western Qiang, Hanoi Huai

The county magistrate Yu Xu (this guy is very awesome) suggested that Zhonglang send Ren Shang (Deng Xun, the sixth son of Deng Yu mentioned earlier)

The deputy who put down the Xiqiang rebellion, and later succeeded Ban Chao as the Protector of the Western Regions. Although he was a good general, he unfortunately always made big principled mistakes.

Thousands of money (to relieve oneself from the corvee), so that with the money paid by twenty people, one horse can be purchased.

Well, this means that a war horse costs at least tens of thousands of copper coins. And this is still in the north. If you go to places like Jiangdong and Jingnan, even a decent war horse worth hundreds of thousands of dollars is very common.

Calculated in this way, although one million dollars may seem like a large figure, in fact it may not even be enough to get a few good horses, let alone form a cavalry team.

And a war horse is so expensive, so what about a war?

In the first year of Jianning (168) when Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, the famous general Duan Jiong, who was the captain of the Qiang Protector at that time, presented to the emperor his plan to suppress the rebellion of the Western Qiang: mobilizing 5,000 cavalry, 10,000 infantry, and chariots

Three thousand, using three winters and two summers (with Duan Yan’s fighting style, it definitely shouldn’t be a stalemate at other times but only launching a battle in a certain period of time)

, it is estimated that it should be a small-scale war of attrition at other times and a large-scale annihilation war at a certain moment, and then add a pursuit battle of incalculable length. This is in line with the description in the history book of Duan Jiong's "no day" when he conquered the Qiang people.

"No war" eventually brought down the Qiang people), and a war of this scale would cost approximately 4.5 billion copper coins!!!

Well, if you take a closer look, you will know how the country spent 24 billion on the war against the Qiang people during the Han Dynasty, which only lasted for more than ten years.

It is worth noting that one of the charges mentioned before that Ren Shang was beheaded and died by the imperial court was that Ren Shang had embezzled and accepted bribes exceeding 10 million yuan. Although the reason was actually related to the fact that he was in power at the time.

Empress Dowager Deng's cousin Du Liao General Deng Zun was competing for the credit, but it can also be seen that the million money was actually only an order of magnitude away from that line.

Therefore, in the face of such a huge fortune, Zang Ba can still laugh without losing his composure, which shows that after so many years of experience, his Qi-nurturing skills can be considered as a master.

Of course, for his brother who knew him very well, although Sun Guan was almost hurt internally, on the surface it was impossible to continue to stimulate him. Anyway, he had already sent this wealth to his brother, as long as he did not violate Cao Cao

For these small forces with strong independent tendencies, such a thing is really not a big deal.

Plan passes!

Of course Zang Ba would not know how ecstatic the two conspirators looked when Sun Guan told Yin Li and Wu Dun the news of his move.

After all, as General Zhendong appointed by Cao Cao to lead Qingxu's military affairs, Zang Ba had to think about issues that were fundamentally different from those of his former comrades.

"Who is standing behind such a powerful businessman?"

Pan Sen: The currency issue is actually very complicated, so I’ll try to talk about it tentatively, but it’s not rigorous enough, so I can only say it’s just for reference. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!