Datang romantic little landlord

"Mainly silk brocades, porcelain, bronze wares, etc."

Hearing what he said, Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing: "I have something good to introduce to you. If you sell it to the Western Regions, you can make a lot of money. Are you interested, Lao Bai?"

Bai Mobi naturally nodded again and again: "I also ask Hu County Uncle to give me some advice."

"Are there burning knives in the wine shop?" Li Wangyou asked Hu Ji who was serving in the elegant room.

Hu Ji nodded quickly: "Of course there are distinguished guests."

"Then fetch an altar." Li Wangyou ordered, and Hu Ji immediately trotted to fetch the Shaodaozijiu.

What Li Wangyou wanted to introduce to Bai Mobi was this high-quality baijiu.

Shaodaozi wine, since its launch, has been in short supply almost all the time, and there is no need to worry about selling it.

But now the wineries in the Qinling Mountains are getting bigger and bigger, Li Wangyou thinks, with the harvest of grain at the end of autumn this year, the production of this wine will inevitably have to go up to a higher level.

So much wine should naturally be "exported" to the Western Regions through the Silk Road, so as to earn more gold for Datang.

After Hu Ji brought the wine, Bai Mobi hurriedly got up to take the wine jar, poured wine for Li Wangyou respectfully, and then poured a full bowl for himself.

"Uncle Huxian, what kind of wine is this? I've never smelled such a strong aroma of wine. It's a good wine." Bai Mobi praised the aroma of the wine in the wine bowl.

"Old Bai, come, come, let's taste it." Li Wangyou smiled and looked at Bai Mobi expectantly...

661 Impeached Again

It is also one of Li Wangyou's bad tastes to see people who have never drank spirits before drinking spirits in a mess for the first time.

And Bai Mobi satisfies his bad taste very well... He habitually raised his head and poured the whole bowl of wine into his mouth.Then, there was an uncontrollable severe cough.

Bai Mobi's face turned red and he kept coughing. It was obviously the first time he had tasted such a strong drink, which caught him off guard and almost spit out the drink from his mouth.

After a while, Bai Mobi let out a long mouthful of alcohol: "What a strong drink, what a good wine! This is the first time I have had such a strong wine! May I ask Uncle Hu County, what is the name of this wine? Chang'an City, but you have never tasted it?"

"Haha, the name of this wine is Burning Knife, which means that when you drink it, it feels like a hot knife is being scraped. It is the most potent. It is normal that you have never drunk this wine, Lao Bai. This Burning Knife Wine is sold in Chang'an City. It's only been half a year. How about it, do you think this wine will be popular if it is sold to the Western Regions?" Li Wangyou clapped his hands and laughed.

Bai Mobi's eyes lit up: "That's natural! Uncle Huxian doesn't know that the winter in the Western Regions is the most bitter and cold. If you have this kind of strong wine, you will probably be robbed crazy. If you can sell it to the countries in the Western Regions, at least it will be a hundred times better." But I don’t know where this Shaodaozi wine is sold, and what is the price?”

Li Wangyou smiled and pointed to himself: "In the whole Tang Dynasty, I am the only one who has Shaodaozi wine. This is the wine I brew. If you want to sell this wine, Lao Bai, you will naturally need to find me, haha."

In fact, since Shaodaozi wine started to be sold in Chang'an City, there have been discerning businessmen who began to traffic it to the Western Regions.It's just that the number is not large, and the scale effect cannot be formed.

If the production of this wine cannot increase, it will be difficult to satisfy the many alcoholics in Chang'an City, let alone "export" to the outside world.

Li Wangyou is also planning for a rainy day. Considering that the production of Shaodaozi wine will inevitably increase significantly, it is natural to find a good market in advance.And he didn't intend to simply sell these drinks to Hu merchants in Chang'an City, such a profit would not satisfy Li Wangyou.

I met Bai Mobi by chance today, and the reason why I invited him for a drink was firstly because I thought this person was interesting and eye-catching, and secondly, I wanted to test whether his new idea was feasible.

"Uncle Huxian, then I want to buy some of this Shaodaozi wine this time and sell it to the Western Regions. Is it possible?" Bai Mobi asked.

"It's not urgent, I'll ask you something first."

Li Wangyou dipped his fingers in some wine, and drew a schematic diagram on several cases: "Old Bai, look, if this is Chang'an, go west from here until you reach Dunhuang County, Shazhou, on the Longyou Road of the Tang Dynasty. , all have the official way, right?"

Bai Mobi didn't quite understand what Li Wangyou meant, he just nodded his head to show his approval.

"Your caravans in the Western Regions usually repair in Dunhuang County, then enter the desert, and then go westward in three directions: the North Road, the Middle Road, and the South Road, and head to different countries in the Western Regions, is that true?"

"Exactly." Bai Mobi continued to nod.

Li Wangyou said with a smile: "It's a long way from Chang'an City to Dunhuang County, about four thousand miles. Lao Bai, let me ask you, if you can buy enough goods in Dunhuang County, but the price is more expensive than in Chang'an City Five or six times more, would you like it? Of course, the goods from the Western Regions you trafficked can also be sold in Dunhuang County, and the price will satisfy you."

What he said immediately made Bai Mobi's eyes widen excitedly: "Uncle Huxian, how is this possible? Is this really true? If it is true, we are naturally willing to do so. Even if we trade in Dunhuang County, the profit will be reduced a little, but the journey However, it has been shortened by half. If this is the case, instead of going back and forth once a year, starting from Dunhuang County, you can go back and forth twice, and the benefits of this will increase a lot.”

Li Wangyou nodded: "I think so too. Whether this is feasible or not, I still need to play a saint. But in my opinion, this is beneficial to the court, beneficial to merchants, and can promote trade even more. Why not do it?"

"Uncle Huxian, if this matter can be accomplished, I will be grateful to the merchants!" Bai Mobi stood up and bowed respectfully to Li Wangyou.

Regarding this, Li Wangyou just smiled and waved his hands. This matter is just a concept of his. Whether it can be implemented depends on how Li Er and the big brothers in court and China think about it.

What he said to Bai Mobi didn't come on a whim, but had been considered for a long time.

Now that Datang has a carriage such as a four-wheeled carriage, it is not difficult to transport goods from Chang'an to Dunhuang County, and there are official roads to pass along the way.After all, the four-wheeled carriage is like the camel caravan and horse caravan of the caravan in the Western Regions, and its transportation capacity is simply not the same.

The four-wheeled carriage can carry a load of two thousand catties, and it can easily travel two hundred miles a day.And a camel can only carry four hundred catties of goods, and it can travel less than a hundred miles a day.

Of course, camels also have uses for camels.

From Dunhuang County to the west, it is all desert Gobi, and the four-wheeled carriage is useless at all.That's why Li Wangyou proposed to transport the goods to Dunhuang County for trading.

The benefits of relocating the foreign trade centers originally located in Chang'an and Luoyang to Dunhuang County are self-evident.

First of all, Chaotang can make a lot of money from this.

The cost of transporting goods by four-wheeled carriages is low. Even based on the usual calculation of the daily copper coins consumed by each carriage, a round trip to Dunhuang County takes [-] to [-] days, which is only [-] to [-] copper coins.

But even taking the high-quality knives as an example, the price of Doujiu in Chang'an City is ten thousand, which is ten guan.And when it is shipped to Dunhuang County and sold for fifty guan, that is the difference in price of forty guan.However, a four-wheeled carriage can transport nearly a hundred buckets of wine in one trip, and the benefits can be imagined.

What's more, the carriage can also transport goods on the return journey, which is another huge profit.

As long as the government of the imperial court monopolizes the transportation channel of carriages, the profits that can be earned from it every year are too huge, so big that Li Wangyou can't figure it out.

Another benefit is the transfer of the foreign trade center from Chang'an City to Dunhuang County. Through the fetters of huge interests, Li Er and the court chiefs can devote their attention and strength to it.

Once Dunhuang County prospers due to trade, Datang will inevitably invest huge military power to firmly control the Western Regions, thereby continuing to increase the development of the Silk Road.

Li Wangyou felt that the Tang Dynasty should not be as closed as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and communicate with countries in the Western Regions, and even more distant European countries, so that the Chinese civilization can absorb more nutrients and thrive.

With today's technological conditions, it is unrealistic to trade by sea, so it is even more important to make good use of the Silk Road on the road.

Li Wangyou didn't notice it himself, and without opinion, the longer he integrated into Datang, the subtle changes in his thoughts.

Originally, he only wanted to be a small landlord with a group of beautiful wives and beautiful concubines, thousands of hectares of fertile land, countless cattle, horses, pigs and sheep, and a cloud of servants, but now he began to unconsciously think about how to benefit the Tang Dynasty and the people...

After asking Bai Mobi about his attitude towards this matter, Li Wangyou was more confident to persuade Li Er.

He and Bai Mobi chatted happily until the sound of the evening drum, and Li Wangyou left Bai Mobi's contact information, and then they each left.

It was getting late, Li Wangyou and the beautiful boss didn't bother to go back to Dingzhou Village, and they still lived in the mansion in Huihuafang.

But early the next morning, there was a knock on the door of Li's mansion, and the servants in the palace came to Tongbing, and the sage summoned Huxian Bo to go to the Taiji Palace, and he was impeached again...

662 Insanity

Li Wangyou didn't find it surprising that someone would be impeached.

After all, yesterday in the West Market, he had beaten Zheng Kangbo severely, and the beating was quite brutal.It would be strange if the Zheng family of Xingyang did not retaliate against him.