In late March, Jiangnan has begun to gradually become hotter.

However, in Liaoning in March, the snow has just melted, and the spring season has not yet arrived.

Dakang's Liaoning province is different from another world.

It's just the Liaodong Corridor on the map.

If you have to have the same boundary as Shiwei, then Dakang uses Linghe as the boundary, while Shiwei on the opposite side uses Liaohe as the boundary.

There is a large area in the middle, which is usually unmanaged. Many times there are towns after town. There are people from Dakang and Shiwei people in the town. They treat these towns as transit stations by selling their own things.

Most of the goods from Dakang and Shiwei are transmitted through this intermediate point.

At the same time, this place is a rare plain, so many people of all ethnic groups who fled to famine before farming and living here.

Over time, there is a different kind of "prosperity" within a radius of hundreds of miles. More than a dozen towns of different sizes have been established one after another, and dozens of villages around it have a population of at least 200,000.

Last year, there was no major disaster on the Liaodong Peninsula, so after spring came, everyone was ready to go, hoping to do some business this year and make a lot of money.

Fei E is a businessman who distributes tea in Yuanzhen Town, but he is not the kind of high-end tea merchant in the mainland.

He mainly sells some broken tea powder from Jiangxi and Sichuan.

In the mainland, such tea can only be used by ordinary people in the fields to quench their thirst when doing farm work. They can buy several kilograms in just ten cents, and people with a little status will not drink it.

But after getting this remote north, not only from all over Shiwei, but also from the merchants from the Baekje Peninsula like this kind of tea.

After all, it is cheap, and it can relieve greasiness and thirst, eliminate fatigue, and be arty, which is much better than ordinary wine.

Of course, there are many tea merchants like Fei'e, but because the demand is too large, everyone can basically get good returns.

For example, Fei E has been in the tea business for more than 20 years. He has already bought thousands of acres of land in his hometown of Binzhou, Shandong, and built a large manor, married several wives, and gave birth to a bunch of children. Now he has even grandchildren.

He is preparing to work for another three to five years to earn more land for his descendants, so that he can enjoy a happy landlord life in his hometown.

In the past few days, tea has been transported from Jinzhou Port. Feiye bought a full 500,000 kilograms, and the first batch arrived was 200,000 kilograms.

My long-term business partners have arrived in the town and are about to drag them back to sell after the delivery is completed!

After several months of frozen roads, the wealthy families stayed at home, consuming reserves all day long, and had already been almost exhausted.

Now the snow has melted. According to the customs of previous years, these nobles and wealthy men must have sent their own slave caravans to purchase various supplies as soon as possible.

At this time, the things are the best to sell and the prices are also very high.

The only thing that can be compared with this season is when storing supplies in late autumn, when the prices were equally high and the sales were equally good.

However, strangely, the weather was good these days and the road surface was dry, so there should have been many close buyers coming to buy things one after another.

But after waiting, there was no buyer in the entire town.

Fei E felt very strange. When he went out to chat with several nearby shops, he found that they had no customers either.

This is a bit strange!

Boss Wang, who was in the oil shop next to him, Boss Wu, who was in the silk shop, and Boss Zhu, who was in the carriage and horse business, began to discuss it when he got together with Fei E to drink a small wine.

"What's wrong this year?" Boss Gu said with a little frowning: "The silk I just bought has been suppressed by tens of thousands of taels of silver! If they don't come to buy it, how can I get my money back?"

Boss Wang immediately said contemptuously: "Come on, you! It's okay to keep silk for several years. My oil is very troublesome. In summer, you have to put it in the cellar. If you don't pay attention, you will have a smell!"

"Don't yell around there." Boss Zhu, who had a big drink, slapped the table, "You don't do business, there will be no loss! I am a carriage and horse. If there are no merchants who come and go, how much does the horse feed cost every day? I have to take care of them! I have to keep a coachman. Am I more difficult than you?"

When Boss Zhu said that, the few people shut up.

Indeed, this carriage must be moved to make a deal.

Even if Boss Zhu only does business for six months a year, he will have to cry if he doesn't open this month.

Fei E was eating peanuts next to him and frowned and said, "You guys are just complaining about their business. Didn't you find something wrong? There was no movement over there, which was a bit panicking!"

Several bosses were shocked when they heard this.

They are not idiots who don't know anything.

Everyone who can survive and develop in this three-regional area has their own background and a smart mind.

Otherwise, even if Da Kang and Shi Wei don’t care about them, are there still fewer scammers, bandits, robbers, etc. here?

I don’t know how many newcomers are suffering from losses every year.

Every year, many businessmen leave the market in disgrace.

However, the profit here is much higher than that in the mainland, so people flock to enter.

Of course, it is basically impossible for large-scale horse bandits to rob a town.

The recent group of horse bandits came from the grassland seven years ago. After looting a town, they were blocked by Dakang's Hu Ben Army and Shi Wei's border troops before they could run a hundred miles. They killed a river of blood, but none of them escaped, and all the bodies were hung on both sides of the road.

The big guys on the other side of the Linghe River and Liaohe River can allow petty theft, fraud, or kidnapping and extortion against a certain business.

But it is absolutely not allowed to rob the town.

If I do it a few more times, will anyone still do business here?

If no one does business, where does the prosperity here come from?

Who will provide the materials needed by both parties?

Shiwei needs countless luxury goods and daily necessities from Dakang. Why doesn’t Dakang need Shiwei’s ginseng, deer antler, tiger skin, marten hair, etc.?

There are also the century-old trees of Shiwei. Every year, tens of thousands of them are cut down and transported from nearby ports to Dakang, made into various furniture or used by ships.

With this alone, Dakang must protect this area.

Otherwise, where did such professional and familiar businessmen come from, who are so professional and familiar with Shiwei buy so much good wood?

What the navy needs most is this wood!

Speaking of which, Shi Wei is also quite interesting.

Even though they knew that selling towering trees was to increase the strength of the Dakang Navy and increase the hegemony of the Dakang Navy, it made it impossible for Shi Wei to attack Dakang from the water, but they still sold them in large quantities every year.

In fact, the reason is relatively simple.

If you don’t sell some things that are scarce in Dakang, and rely solely on delicacies such as ginseng and deer antlers, how much can you sell? How much can you consume?

Only when this large-scale consumption is needed by Dakang in large quantities and can it be counteracted by the price.

Speaking of which, they still suffer.

No matter how expensive a big tree is, it is not as expensive as silk or porcelain...

But I can't produce it myself, and what I make is like shit, so I naturally have to buy Dakang's ones!

In this atmosphere, there are hundreds of towns and villages of all sizes in a radius of hundreds of miles, with a population of more than 100,000. They live a good life, but it makes many poor people envious.

Every year, many people from Dakang, Shiwei and grassland come here to make money and live.

This is a deformed prosperity.

People are in this kind of prosperity and always have a sense of tension.

Their most fear is that one day the two sides fought a war. Not only did their own business end, they would be burned, killed and looted by Shi Wei's cavalry. This was how they did the wars several decades ago.

But the people have no other way to live, and new people keep filling in, so that they will not be cut off.

Most of the business people today have not experienced the war decades ago, but it does not mean that they are not nervous or care.

Listening to Fei E’s concern, they looked at each other and were unwilling to admit that they had actually thought about it.

"Wait a minute!"

Boss Gu sweated heavily, "Lao Fei, where did you get the news? I really want to... fight?"

"I don't know." Fei E shook his head, "But something abnormal is wrong, so I have been thinking about the past two days whether to transport my tea leaves in batches and transport them back to Shandong from Jinzhou Port to store them first?"

"You are coming and going, how much does this transportation cost? Are you still making money?" Boss Gu said in confusion.

"Who said no?"

Fei E nodded and said, "I was hesitant because I was thinking about this! Alas, why did this happen suddenly this year? It made people feel completely unsure!"

"Don't worry, there has been no war in many years? The Shiwei people are not stupid! When have they ever been defeated in Jinzhou City, Ningyuan City, and Shanhaiguan Defense Line in the past century? They won't be so stupid, holding eggs to touch stones!"

"hope……"

Before Boss Zhu could finish his words, suddenly a few people heard the noise outside.

They were drinking and eating at a familiar restaurant. The restaurant was on the main traffic road, so suddenly there were noises outside, and a few people could feel it immediately.

"What's wrong!?"

The four people stood up together.

The boss at the counter was also startled. As soon as he turned around, he saw the waiter at the door running in with panic on his face.

"Oh no, oh no, oh! Boss!!" The waiter shouted directly: "The fight has started in the north! The Qiyan people attacked the Datong Great Wall defense line on a large scale, and tens of thousands of people have been killed or injured!"

"ah!?"

The four people were shocked when they heard this. Fei E left a piece of silver and ran out without saying a word.

The remaining three also reacted.
To be continued...