Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 689
The jewel in the palm of those who can save King Xi is really called Pearl.

In Rao Le City by the Rushui River, Luo Cheng and Kedu came to Dudu Mansion together. This Dudu Mansion occupies one-third of the northern part of Rao Le City. The mansion is the Kumo Xihan Palace, and it is also the Marquis Raole Mansion.

Luo Cheng is a guest, but now the person named Yang Guoqing, who can be saved, completely regards himself as a vassal. He introduces him all the way, and then asks Pearl to come to see Luo Cheng.

That pearl didn't even know her identity, even though she met Luo Cheng for the first time, she was also very generous. What's even more rare was that after she heard from the person who could save her that she had betrothed her to Luo Cheng, she didn't feel angry or dissatisfied at all. He looked at Luo Cheng with interest.Looking at that posture, she even wished to sit next to Luo Cheng and open his mouth to see his teeth.

For such a bold girl, Luo Cheng was really a little surprised.

In fact, Luo Cheng is not the kind of person who is particularly beautiful, and the idea of ​​marrying Miss Pearl was not a whim, it was a itinerary plan that he had negotiated with Wei Zheng and others before he came.

After all, those who can save King Xi are close to Andong Road, especially they are just north of Yanshan Mountain, no matter which side they stand on, their role cannot be underestimated.That's why Wei Zheng and the others suggested that Luo Cheng simply take this pearl girl as his concubine. In this way, the relationship with Xi Ren will be further strengthened, and Xi Ren will be completely tied to the chariot of the loyal army.

Although the alliance relationship cannot be established by women, sometimes, marriage is indeed a good bond.

Now Kumoxi and Andong Dao are in a hot business relationship, and Luo Cheng first adopted Kedu's son Su Zhi as his adopted son, and now he accepts his daughter Pearl as his concubine. Of course, the relationship has gone a step further.Luo Cheng immediately began to talk about some deeper cooperation with Kedu Zhe. For example, Luo Cheng proposed to further strengthen the trade between the two sides and jointly fight against some horse thieves and small tribes who robbed the business roads.

In order to allow Xi Ren to fully devote himself to the chariot of the Zhongwu Army, Luo Cheng proposed a rare good condition this time, that is, Luo Cheng is willing to buy unlimited war horses from Ku Moxi.

And Luo Cheng offered a far more attractive price than before, getting eight grates of tea for a horse, six grates for a middle horse, and four grates for a dismounted horse.There are ten tea bricks for one grate of tea, and each tea brick weighs one catty.

A high-quality war horse can be exchanged for [-] catties of tea. This transaction price is extremely attractive to Keduzhi.In particular, Luo Cheng also told him, no matter who Xi Ren comes to buy tea and sell horses, but I will only trade with you and sell tea to you.

So in this way, if the Xi people of other tribes want to sell horses to buy tea, they must first sell the horses to those who can be saved, and then those who can be saved will trade with Luo Cheng. As middlemen, the people who can be saved will definitely make money for a sum.

Similarly, in fact, Luo Cheng also wants to make a fortune.

He has already begun to implement a special tax system for salt, iron, tea, and wine in Andong Road. For ordinary goods, customs tax for passing through, city tax for merchants, and transaction tax for import and export are all subject to different taxation. It's high, it's twenty tax one.

However, for the four items of salt, iron, tea and wine, Luo Cheng stipulated that an additional tax of one tenth of the tax should be levied. The yamen declares, and then obtains the ticket. The ticket is to pay one-tenth of the special tax in advance according to the quantity of the goods, and then take the ticket and sell it legally.

Otherwise, it is illicit salt, wine, tea, and iron. Once investigated and dealt with, the punishment will be severe. The light ones will be confiscated, and the severe ones will be punished ten times or twenty times, or even directly executed.

Therefore, under this new exclusive tax on salt, iron, tea and wine, Luo Cheng can make a profit by expanding the horse business.

And let Keduzhi also take advantage of it, naturally in order to buy him off.

"We can collect as many horses as there are, even cattle that can plow the land." Luo Chengdao said that war horses are necessary in the army, and there is a huge market for riding them.High-grade horses can be used as war horses, medium-grade horses can also be used as riding horses, and low-grade horses can also be used as draft horses and plow horses. This market is huge.

Even though Luo Cheng got a lot of Turkic horses last time, he has sea routes and can transport horses directly to Shandong, Hebei, Henan, or even to Jianghuai, Lingnan and other places where horses are not produced.

"We can trade tea for horses first, salt for horses, iron for horses, and wine for horses."

To buy a large number of horses, whether it is bought with copper coins or silk cloth, Luo Cheng can't pay. Silk is a huge number, but the Central Plains has always been short of money, so only money and silk can be used, but the quantity of silk is also limited.

In addition, the exchange of silk and horses is the most likely to cause a large amount of silk to flow out. Silk can not only be used as currency, but also a practical silk fabric.

But salt, iron, tea and wine are different. They are also commercial goods. Luo Cheng trades them with Xi Ren, and he can make a fortune by reselling them, and he can turn a deficit into a surplus.

Therefore, for Luo Cheng, the larger the scale of the tea horse, the salt horse, the wine horse, and the iron horse mutual market, the better, and the larger the number, the better, but Kedu doesn't think about those things, he only thinks that he can earn money from it. How much, after monopolizing the transaction, even if he increases the price a little casually, he will be able to prosper as a result.

Salt and iron tea horses are the most in-demand and best-selling goods on the grasslands. If they can be purchased in large quantities, even if a horse is only exchanged for [-] catties of tea, they only need to send the tea to farther places. Le people, Shiwei people, or Mohe people, Mo people, etc., would definitely be willing to give two horses or even three or four horses in exchange for a grate of tea.

Money can turn ghosts around, and even those who can save have long understood the power of money.

On the grassland, holding salt, tea, iron, wine and silk cloth in your hands is more real than cows and horses all over the mountains and valleys. If you pile them in your hands, you will not be frozen to death in the snow, and you will not starve to death without grass. , there is no need to change between spring and autumn, and there is no need to worry about getting sick.

With these good things in hand, he can attract many loyal warriors to serve him at any time.

"How many horses are you really willing to accept, and all of them are traded with salt, iron, tea and wine, and the price remains the same?" Kedu asked again.

Luo Cheng smiled slightly.

"I, Luo Cheng, always keep my word. If you bring [-] horses, I will take them all. If you bring [-] horses, I will take them. If you bring [-] horses, I will take them."

"What if it's [-] horses or [-] horses?" Ke Duzhi asked tremblingly.

"If you can really get so many horses, I will still accept them."

If there is not enough tea, there will be wine, if there is not enough wine, there will be salt, if there is not enough salt, there will be iron, if there is not enough iron, there will be silk, and if there is not enough silk, there will be all kinds of cloth, pottery, etc. That point of shipments?

Kedu took a long breath, and it could be seen that he was trying his best to suppress the excitement and excitement in his heart.

"The commander-in-chief will send troops to the North Korean Yuan clan this time, and I, Kumoxi, would like to send five thousand sons to serve in the conscript!"

Luo Cheng nodded with a smile.

(End of this chapter)