Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 550 Feng Zhidai Arrives in Chang'an
"Oh. This is an important matter." Liu Mu took the letter, flipped through it, but smiled: "Good thing, this is a very good thing."

Baoqin didn't read the letter, but only knew that the corners of Feng Zhidai's mouth were bubbling in anxiety, and it only took nine days to come all the way from Lingnan on a flying horse, which can be said to be running here desperately.

From Lingnan to Chang'an, the journey is more than [-] miles, and it takes more than [-] miles a day to run for nine days.

According to Datang relying on horses to travel, this speed is already extremely fast.

Feng Zhidai didn't go to Sanyuan in person because he was overworked and he would rest in Chang'an.

Liu Mu took out two pages from the letter and handed them to Zheng Yuanxuan: "Old Zheng, you have to thank me for this matter."

The way Feng An wrote the letter adopted the willow method. The two things will never be written on one page. If this letter needs to be read by other relevant people, then other irrelevant things will never be seen by others. .

In this way, there is no need to fold up the parts that do not need to be known, and the direct letter also gives people a sense of trust.

Feng Zhidai came to Chang'an day and night to ask for help, but Liu Mu asked the head of the Zheng family to thank him.With doubts, Zheng Yuanxuan took the letter

Feng An will use a seal after the paper duty of each event.

Zheng Yuanxuan saw Feng An's seal first, and then he saw the content of the letter.

This was Feng An's headache. In short, in the end, the people in Lingnan had earned money, but they had nowhere to spend it.

"Hahaha." Zheng Yuanxuan laughed a few times: "I really want to thank Concubine Liu for this matter, so I ordered someone to prepare the goods. I want to come to my Zheng family and Xingyang, Hedong, Xu, Chen, Song, Bian and other states, within ten days. Gather forty boatloads of cloth and small household items to meet the urgent needs of Duke Yue."

Liu Mu also laughed a few times: "Forty boats are not enough, at least two hundred boats are needed."

"Why so many?" Zheng Yuanxuan was shocked.

You must know that the ship he is talking about is Feng An's new sea-going ship. One ship is [-] materials, and [-] materials can hold [-] cubic feet of cargo.

Converting this amount into modern data is about 160 five cubic meters, and if it is pure water, it is 150 tons, and the actual loading on the ship is about 250 tons.

How can this huge amount of cargo not surprise Zheng Yuanxuan.

"It's actually not much. Think about the amount of daily necessities that Chang'an needs for a year. These [-] ships are the beginning, but only the beginning." After Liu Mu told Zheng Yuanzhen, he turned sideways and said to Baoqin: "Go to Chang'an and ask Chang'an to report to the university. There is a message posted on the banner that Donggang Shipbuilding Division invites bids for procurement, and workshops with a scale of more than [-] seats in Chang'an City are invited to sign up for the selection."

"En. Do you want to tell Mr. Feng?"

"Let him do the job of selection. Only the ones he likes and the ones he picks are qualified to supply for Donggang Shipping."

"Yes." After Baoqin answered, she turned and left. She would find someone to arrange for this matter.

Before the arrival of Liumu in the Tang Dynasty, the workshops of the wealthy families, to be precise, should be workshops, and the items they produced were all for their own use, and the surplus was exchanged with other aristocratic families for barter.

It was the willow wood that made the family's workshop truly a workshop.

The Wang family, the Lu family, etc. all got some share of Lingnan purchases, and Liumu didn't give them a long-term contract, just the supplies for the Lingnan New Year this time.

The willow materials for the coming year are prepared to adopt the method of bidding.

Compared with price, compared with quality, compared with output.

The next day, not to mention the people of Chang'an, even the Tai Chi Palace stopped for a day.

Originally, the third batch of convoys full of coins to be shipped to Lingnan stopped at the newly built Weiba Wharf, which will be Guangyuntan, the main wharf of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty decades later.

Outage is not a big deal, but the bidding information in Chang'an Newspaper is a big deal.

There are hundreds of thousands of wooden combs alone, of which 15 are the cheapest miscellaneous wood combs, and the number of better peach wood, jujube wood, and more noble rosewood is astonishing.

Then, small things like needles and thimbles are used to discuss boxes and boxes.

A box of needles is almost a thousand, which is not a big box for retail at all.

Then there is the hoe, which costs hundreds of thousands!

Sitting behind the throne, Li Shimin flipped through the Chang'an newspaper in his hand, and asked very puzzled: "I heard that there is high-quality wood in the southwest of Lingnan. Last time, Lingnan cargo ships brought a lot of it. I thought it was rich in wood. And the quality is good, but you want to buy a wooden comb in Chang'an?"

"Sage, I have checked the relevant documents. Many kinds of wood in Lingnan do not float in water. Every time I go north, I will bring some as ballast. It is indeed high-quality wood, but it is definitely not cost-effective to make combs with such wood. This is The wood used to make high-quality furniture." An official from the Ministry of Industry told what he knew.

Another person stepped forward: "Saint, I think this is the act of Concubine Liu feeding back Chang'an workshop."

After many chattering people finished talking, Ma Zhou came out unhurriedly: "Sage, all the ministers have said a lot, but in fact there is no technology for processing combs in Lingnan, and they are processed one by one by hand. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost is very high. It is far worse than transporting the wood to Chang'an, and then buying combs back, the selling price is half cheaper than the local handmade."

"Is there such a thing?" Li Shimin was very curious.

"Back to the saint, it only refers to combing and polishing. There are only one or two combs per day. Chang'an uses animal-powered machinery, and one station can polish more than [-] combs a day. Of course, this refers to ordinary combs, such as Precious woods such as green dragon wood (red sandalwood) and thuja are still made by hand, and most of them are worth a few pennies."

Ma Zhou gave a detailed account of knowledge about effective productivity.

At this time, a eunuch reported: "Saint, Concubine Liu is seeking an audience outside the palace."

"Let him in." Li Shimin knew very well that what Ma Zhou knew was all from Liu Mu, since the rightful lord came, let Liu Mu explain it himself.

Soon Liumu entered the palace.

After saluting, Liu Mu took out a seal: "Saints, ministers have watches."

"Just tell me what's the matter." Li Shimin asked Liu Mu to speak.

Liu Mu said: "I want to ask the sage to arrange three official positions. They are Tanzhou Economic Envoy, Hangzhou Economic Envoy, and Fuzhou Economic Envoy. For next year, I also want to arrange Qingzhou after July next year. Jinglue envoy, Zhengzhou Jinglue envoy."

"Just tell me, what are these people going to do?"

"Yes!"

Liu Mu took off his bag, then took out a thick stack of paper and began to read: "Sage, let's talk about Tanzhou's economic envoy first. I think Tanzhou is the center, and the surrounding seven prefectures don't know how many prefectures and counties."

Liu Mu's words elicited bursts of laughter from the court hall.

On the contrary, an official from the Ministry of Officials came forward and told Liu Mu how many prefectures and counties there were in this area, how many upper, middle and lower prefectures, how many upper, middle and lower counties there were, how many officials there were in total, and so on.

(End of this chapter)