In fact, the most popular products on the border are not silk and porcelain with exquisite workmanship but extremely expensive, nor are they brown sugar rock candy from Changsheng County, but cotton cloth bags.

Xu Jin, a hundred households stationed in Zhangjiabao, discovered this problem very early and reported to Lin Huer, a thousand households, that the cotton noodle bags they sold were seriously incompatible with the amount of food they collected.

This is a very interesting thing in itself. If Westerners want to sell grain, they have to use cotton noodles to bags for sale. They need to buy cotton noodles bags from here. The bags are very cheap. If you buy ten of them in Erbaitong Baoneng, it is almost the only affordable thing sold on the border.

This sewn cotton bag from the Ming Dynasty, even if sold in the Ming Dynasty, is durable, only twenty Tongbao, but you need to buy it with copper coins.

Here, cotton noodle bags are originally a disposable consumable. Western grain merchants bought cotton noodle bags, filled them with grain and sold them back, and combined them with one stone of rice and flour, 360 Tongbao.

However, hundreds of cotton noodle bags can be sold on the border a day, but they can only recover less than half of them. Sometimes they can’t even collect one-third of them, and fewer and fewer people sell grain, but more and more bags are bought.

At first, Lin Hu'er thought it was because of the revenge activities of Youshuai Lin Manjue on the east side of the border that caused the planter to rush to pay the protection fee, which caused the dough bag to be short, but later he found out that this was not the case.

A tailor shop was opened in the Western Plantation on the other side of the border line, which specially collected Tongbao's cotton bags for sewing two straps on it. It was a charge of 20 Tongbao's slits for sewing ten face pockets, and brought their own straps.

Lin Hu'er couldn't understand this operation. What kind of Tongbao should you collect in the fun of the West Plantation?

The most outrageous thing is that this guy later crossed the border to Zhangjiabao to find Xu Jin and asked Xu Jin if he could place an order with cotton cloth, and these words were not printed on it.

"He asked Martin to print it, as if it was his surname, and he also had to print this seal. He was willing to buy four hundred of them with 10,000 Tongbao. If Changsheng could make a strap, he was willing to pay 12,000 Tongbao."

Lin Hu'er's first reaction was, "Is this person sick?", and he paid 12,000 Tongbao to buy 400 cotton backpacks. What is the problem?

It shows that he has 12,000 Tongbao. If he doesn't have it, he will say he bought it with fifteen silver coins. But what are you doing with so many Tongbaos in your hand?

"There are quite a lot of people in the West. A few days ago, someone wanted to write his name on the porcelain. Now another one wanted to write his surname on the cotton bag. Will he have to carve his name for the rock candy in the future?"

Lin Hu'er curled her lips and complained: "Even if the porcelain is forgot, the Zhangwen of King Philip's name is obviously to be given a gift. The price of 500,000 Tongbao is worth it. What is this? It's just a small matter of 10,000 Tongbao, and we have to go there?"

A thousand miles back and forth, the money you earned over was not enough to make a horse. Lin Hu'er waved and said, "Let him wait. A rider will go back next month, otherwise he would let him connect with the Western merchants on the border, inform the news, customize the goods, and buy the price starting from 500,000 Tongbao."

Ming Jun did make money in the middle.

The system established by the Eastern Military Palace is that the Western Shang silver coins on the border are worth one or two taels of Dui Tongbao. Although the exchange reason given by Zhangjiabao is not worth it or not, it is actually worth it, but it is not good-looking. As long as it is not fake, it will be the same if it is not a fake currency.

The usual salary of the flag army is directly registered in the army, and there are usually military camps to use them as they want. After using Tongbao forever, they also change it to Tongbao for use.

Some of the Tongbao on the border are specially transported, but the military government has also formulated regulations. When the transportation is not enough for Western merchants but needs to be exchanged, the guerrilla general Fu Yuanke purchased the Tongbao from his 4,000 flag troops under his command, and registered and sold it to the Western merchants one by one, in exchange for silver coins to be sent to Changsheng. Then, according to the registered amount, the Tongbao of the Flag Army will be returned by 10% of the Tongbao next month.

They can choose to spend money in Asia, or they can keep it for the exchange of silver when they are discharged from the army, and they can also mail the silver back to China every six months and deliver it to their families through the inn.

Martin is not only the only one who has the idea of ​​customization on the border, but many people who like to customize it are there. Porcelain needs to be customized, lacquer boxes need to be customized, and even satin patterns need to be customized. Now even cotton bags need to be customized.

Martin didn't disappoint Lin Hu'er. Within a few days, he connected dozens of plantation owners around him and submitted a request for custom-made cotton backpacks, including multiple needs including text, seal patterns, and even colors. He ordered 23,000 cotton backpacks at the price of 30 Tongbao.

Lin Hu'er smiled from ear to ear with the request... General Fu's Tongbao must not be enough. If you collect it from the flag army, they can all make some money.

In fact, Lin Manjue is happier.

His raiders have been moving on the other side of the border. In addition to occasionally returning to the villages on the border to replenish supplies, they appear around the various Western plantations, investigate the surrounding information, and pay attention to whether the Western Army has any movement to increase troops to the border.

The Westerners did not act as a means of increasing troops. In addition to demolishing five mountain bastions and accelerating the construction of the other two levels, there were almost no government actions. More of these planters were reselling goods endlessly.

The most interesting thing is the slave workers of the plantation owners. They carry backpacks with "half-stone rice and flour" printed on them and fill them with all kinds of things, regardless of whether they are sugar cane or cotton. Some women even stuff their children in their backpacks and put them into their busy work while working.

Cotton bags produced in Changsheng County are all the rage on the other side of the border.

When Chen Mu on the other side received the message from the front line, he didn't even know what expression he should have: "They actually bought a cotton bag for me, asked me to make it into a backpack, and printed the seals and surnames of each plantation?"

"I don't sell cotton bags. They are not a backpack for rice and flour. They can't hold up the weight of 77 pounds as a backpack."

Chen Mu said this, but soon he personally drew a picture and asked the weaving factory to make a special backpack made of fine and thick cotton cloth, that is, canvas. The strap and backpack are sewn with a piece of cloth, which is stronger. The pockets are like drawstrings. After testing, they can indeed carry a weight of 77 kilograms. Chen Mu then sent the newly made backpack to the border.

Martin's seal is indeed printed on this backpack, but the surname is written in Chinese. Below is the name of Changsheng County Weaving Factory and the name of the backpack: Seventy-seven Jin.

Lin Hu'er, who received the backpack, smiled and sent someone to cross the border to look for Martin, and asked him to summon various planters who placed orders and invited them to Zhangjiabao. The Qianhu master sat in the hall and introduced to the Western nobles with a small note sent by Chen Mu, saying, "This is the backpack that Changsheng made for you. It is strong and durable and can meet your needs for a large amount of use."

"My handsome man said that the cotton bag can only hold up to 77 kilograms when it is put into the car. If the backpack doesn't work, it will leak, but you are not afraid of this."

"Your seals and surnames can be printed, but the words must be written in Chinese, and the map location of your plantation can be printed. Even if your slave workers run away with it, the person you see can send him back."
Chapter completed!