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Chapter 51: A Good Deal

Everyone has instinct.

For example, if an arrow is suddenly shot in the face or a knife is struck, turning one's head to avoid it or waving one's arms to block it are all instinctive reactions.

Huang Yi's anti-stab jacket is too soft. No matter what he blocks with his arms, it will be very painful. He may also break his bones if he encounters a heavy blow.

Equipped with an iron arm, you can maximize your instincts.

Huang Yi also wore cotton armor. This cotton armor was not ripped from a corpse. It was a brand new pair of cotton armor that Xiaohong and Xiaocui found in the Kachagute yurt.

The weather is getting colder and colder.

Although Huang Yi is now strong and relatively cold-resistant.

However, stab-proof underwear, jackets, sheepskin plackets, and bulletproof vests are not enough to withstand the severe cold of more than ten degrees below zero.

After putting on the cotton armor on the outside, not only was he no longer cold, but no one could tell that Huang Yi did not belong to this era.

Because Huang Yi's hair has grown long enough to be pulled into a bun.

Of course, Huang Yi doesn't know how to pull his hair into a bun at all, so Xiao Hong and Xiao Cui will take care of him.

The outside world is a barbaric place, and it is necessary to be well-equipped and not easy to mess with at a glance.

Anyway, Huang Yi was walking around with a few people, and no one came to provoke him.

Any Han Chinese who are able to do business in places other than their own are not ordinary people.

Huang Yi, one of the eight traitorous Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, does not remember all of them. He only remembers Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and Jin Liangyu. If he wants to understand clearly, he has to read the information downloaded on his mobile phone.

So when he saw that none of the shops owned by the Fan family, Wang family, and Jin family went in to discuss business, he only went in after seeing the Li family's shop sign, because none of the eight traitor Shanxi merchants in his memory were surnamed Li.

The whole tribe's cattle, sheep, horses, and leather goods were all negotiated and bartered by Hedanbaat'er, and it was not Huang Yi's turn to worry about them.

Huang Yi's plan was to spend gold and silver to buy some firearms and grain, and find buyers for seven slave heads and more than forty Tatar heads.

He sighed inwardly that he did not have the status of a high-ranking official or a low-level military officer.

Otherwise, these heads can be upgraded to three levels in a row, and actual positions can definitely be upgraded to two levels.

The feudal dynasty is not comparable to later generations.

If you want to develop without official background, it will be difficult to make progress.

"The magistrate who confiscates the family, the magistrate who exterminates the family." is by no means sensational.

Having money, territory, and population, no official background, and no force as a guarantee is the way to death.

Therefore, while Huang Yi was seeking force, he was also thinking about how to obtain an official position in the Ming Dynasty.

Selling the heads of slaves was an attempt.

In the future, we will definitely have to fight for territory, people, and food. If we encounter slaves, we will definitely fight against them.

There will be many more heads of Tatars and slaves.

With Huang Yi's proficiency in ancient Chinese writing, it was absolutely impossible for him to pass the imperial examination and become an official. He could only seek a military position by relying on beheading skills.

Even if it is a guard station and a hundred households, a thousand households can accept it.

In the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants were noble and the military officials were low-ranking. When military generals saw civil servants of the same grade or even lower grades, they had to kneel down and call themselves subordinates.

However, things must be reversed when extremes occur. By the end of the Chongzhen Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty, military generals killing civil servants were like killing chickens.

Therefore, as long as Huang Yi has an official position, he doesn't mind whether he is a civil servant or a military commander. If he can avoid castration, he can consider giving him a eunuch.

Alas! Huang Yi needs force, power, financial resources, material resources, and manpower to gain a foothold. It would be inconvenient not to have an official position.

As long as there is a relatively safe site that can establish a foothold, Huang Yi can start a golden finger steelmaking operation.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Han people's smelting technology led the world, but due to the furnace temperature, the molten steel could not be completely melted. It was all semi-crystalline, so the quality of the steel could not be greatly improved.

Huang Yi knows the air temperature technology, and this golden finger can break through the bottleneck of the maximum temperature of the steel furnace as soon as it is opened.

Then coke smelting was used to reduce the sulfur content in pig iron, and the quality of steel was improved immediately. A relatively advanced flintlock gun was produced, and the cast steel gun took the first step.

If you become an official in the Ming Dynasty, should you be loyal?

It’s a joke, Huang Yi is a modern man, he is truly like “the prince of thousands of households in the age of shit”.

Loyalty to the country and nation is possible, but how can it be possible to be loyal to one’s family and one surname?

The world is under heaven! The virtuous will live there.

Uh! This is just teasing you.

Otherwise, how can we explain that the cruel, barbaric and ignorant Manchu Qing Dynasty gained thousands of miles of land of the Han people at their fingertips?

Could it be that the "virtue" of the Manchu chiefs inspired people all over the world?

Huang Yi's understanding is that those with big fists will win the world! Those who can kill and dare to kill will win the world!

The world is created by killing, not by blowing!

Therefore, he must find ways to have the strongest force.

In his previous life, Huang Yi had negotiated a lot of business, but when he came to Ming Dynasty, he really didn't know how to open his mouth.

If you don’t understand, just don’t do it cleverly and just go straight!

As soon as he entered the door of Li's shop, he loudly shouted that he wanted to see the manager, saying that he had a huge deal to discuss.

The six people in Huang Yi's group had all killed or beheaded people before. They were so murderous that the man didn't dare to neglect them and ran to the back room in a hurry.

After a while, a steward about forty years old with a few long beards came out and asked: "This strong man has invited me. My surname is Li. I wonder what kind of big business this is?"

Huang Yi took out a gold-backed white flag and armored man's waist badge and handed it to the steward who claimed to be surnamed Li, and asked:

"Does your family dare to take the head of a slave?"

Collusion between officials and businessmen has existed throughout the history of civilization, and the same is true in 2021. The collusion between officials and businessmen in the last Ming Dynasty was even more extreme!

Too many merchants are actually the spokespersons of officials, nobles, relatives of the emperor, and eunuchs.

How can any businessman outside the country these days not know what it means to have the head of a slave?

Huang Yi already knew that it was the second year of Chongzhen. In his memory, the first time the Jiannu invaded the invaders was at the end of the year. He guessed that the Jurchens, who were in short supply of food, should be dispatching troops after finishing the autumn harvest.

At this time, Jiannu had not yet entered the customs. Perhaps he had, but the news had not yet reached Guihua City.

Hu Duntu, that is, Lin Dan Khan is not dead yet, Guihua City is completely within his sphere of influence.

Lin Dan Khan originally exchanged the heads of his slaves for rewards from the Ming Dynasty, and blackmailed the Ming Dynasty for a lot of cloth and grain every year.

Merchants were only interested in profit, and all the big merchants in the feudal dynasty had a protective umbrella. Nine out of ten merchants who were able to do business outside the country had an interest relationship with the border army generals.

The heads of the Tatars could not only be exchanged for silver rewards, but also served as a promotion ladder for civil servants and generals.

How could a merchant not buy it when he found a source of goods?

If this company is too timid to do the head business, then try the next one.

Facts have proved that people who do business outside the Great Wall are not timid. Manager Li took the copper waist badge and looked at it carefully.

He knew that the military discipline of establishing slaves was strict, and he knew that the badges of Eight Banners soldiers must be carried at all times, and losing them is a serious crime.

Since the well-armed man in front of him has the reputation of being a slave, his head should not be faked.

He immediately put on a smile and invited Huang Yi to talk inside.

(It has been more than 100,000 words in fifty days. Many book friends have expressed their opinion that there are too few updates. I apologize today. It’s not that I don’t want to update more, but that I really can’t do it.

As I get older, my eyesight is dazzled, and I have problems with my cervical vertebrae, I try my best to keep reading once a day. If book friends are too slow, they can save it and read it.
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