Late Tang

Southern Liaoning, Qingni City.

There are several large flags with Li characters flying on the top of the city, and there are many arrow towers on the tall and strong city walls, and soldiers holding long swords are patrolling endlessly.

In broad daylight, the four gates of Qingni City were closed tightly, and there were few pedestrians on the middle streets, and groups of soldiers patrolled past from time to time.In the center of Qingni City, there is also a city lord's mansion with a hundred paces every five steps, which is comparable in size to a small city.The city lord's mansion has a high wall and is an impregnable fortress. Back then, Duli Town had breached the outer city with the help of the previous city lord's son, but it didn't take a few days until the current city lord Li Lingfu came back to rescue him. Can take this inner fort.

In front of the City Lord's Mansion, a huge Li character flag fluttered in the wind, and a whole team of guards lined up in front of the gate.In the city lord's meeting hall of the inner castle, there were more than a dozen large charcoal basins, and the charcoal transported from the sea of ​​Silla was burning inside.In the warm spring-like meeting hall, Li Lingfu, the owner of the city, is celebrating his 45th birthday.In the Tang Dynasty, fifty is considered old, sixty is considered a long life, and 45 years old is already the most golden age for a man.Although nearly 15 soldiers and horses were stationed in Beisha City outside several strongholds in the north, and although the Duli Town Fleet in the sea to the south stopped attacking the outer islands, that huge fleet was still cruising in the harbor.However, this man who left Qingni City by himself at the age of 35, brought back a powerful team of horse thieves to save Qingnipu at the age of 45, and served as the city lord for ten consecutive years. I don't take these things seriously, this [-]-year-old birthday is not only celebrated, but also very grand.

Li Lingfu was wearing an extremely precious white bearskin robe at this time, and was sitting on a cast iron cast iron seat of white tiger skin.Holding a glass of fine wine in his hand, under his seat, on the left are his generals, among them the group of people in the front is obviously much bigger and bigger, they are the old horse bandit leaders who followed Li Lingfu, and now the Crane Cavalry General of the army.Those behind them are both old and weak, including generals and bureaucrats. These are the old subordinates of Qingni City and the bureaucrats who joined in recent years.

On the right, there are all kinds of characters, including warriors in armor, civil servants in round-neck robes, and rich businessmen with silk and satin.There are also bearded men in fur robes and knotted hair, and there is even a tall monk with a bare head among them.These are not from Qingni City, but guests of Li Lingfu's birthday.Among them were envoys from other Tang forces in southern Liaoning who had maintained good relations with Qingnipu, representatives of caravans from land and sea countries who had always maintained commercial relations with Qingnipu, and even some uninvited guests.

The last great monk was an uninvited guest, an envoy who was said to be from Xia Shamen Township General in Daxie Village, Ziqing Town.

It is strange that the envoy is a great monk, and many gifts brought by this great monk are also quite rare.Clear as spring water, but strong as fire Wuliangye fine wine.Crystal clear as ice, but extremely sweet rock candy.Packed in a small porcelain bottle, just a few drops of it will give off a charming and fragrant perfume.Each of them was a precious gift that Li Lingfu had never heard of or seen before, but he liked it just by looking at it.

There are one hundred altars and one bucket of Wuliangye fine wine, ten bottles of 36 kinds of charming perfumes with different fragrances, and one hundred catties of that kind of rock sugar.

Such a generous gift, although he had never seen or heard of these things before, he guessed that they might be produced in Shamen Town, but he knew that such a rare thing was definitely a precious thing.This gift is very expensive, and it really took a lot of thought and money to give such a birthday gift to someone who has never been in a relationship.

At today's birthday banquet, he specially served Wuliangye wine and rock sugar to the guests, which immediately surprised these people.The old brothers of the Crane Control Army were both surprised and happy after paying off Wuliangye. The weather in Liaodong is cold and cold, especially these brothers who were former horse thieves are all bold men, and they all have the strongest wine to drink. Women want to play with the prettiest concept.But even the strongest Sanlejiang and Jiannan Shaochun, compared with this wine, it is nothing, not as clear and transparent as Wuliangye, nor as fierce as fire.

Unlike the brothers who immediately fell in love with the wine, the other guests, especially the merchants, were even more surprised by the wine and rock sugar. What they saw were the many business opportunities behind these two rare items.Seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Li Lingfu also felt that he had a lot of face, so happy, he took out two bottles of each of the 360 ​​bottles of perfume in the treasure house, and presented them to dozens of important guests on the spot.

He gave this perfume to his wife as soon as he received it for trial. His wife was dedicated to Buddha and didn't like these cosmetics at first, but after smelling one of the sandalwood-scented perfumes, she was very happy.When he heard that it was actually sent by a monk, he was even more surprised, and asked him to call the great monk over to say a few words, and at the end he gave a lot of gifts in return.

After seeing two rare commodities, and now seeing a perfume with 36 kinds of fragrances, these merchants are almost a little numb.

A very old man with gorgeous clothes couldn't help standing up and said: "Dear City Master, I don't know where the Wuliangye and rock sugar you showed today, and where this perfume comes from? Why has the old man never heard of some products? , Is it a new product from the Western Regions?" Perfume has long existed in the Tang Dynasty, most of which were brought in by merchants from the Western Regions, but that perfume is completely different from this perfume, they are basically two things.

With light in his eyes, he looked at Li Lingfu and said, "Dear City Master, if you can introduce the source of goods to us, no, as long as you can pull out some of these goods in your hands to us. I can guarantee now that this year we will trade The regiment will transport and sell grain to Qingni City without restriction, and we will get you as much as you want."

Another man with an incomparably savage leather robe stood up immediately, and said to the old man: "Old man Cui, don't be so greedy, these few things are rare at first glance, how many are there, how many do you have?" I still want to eat it all by myself." He turned to Li Lingfu, "General Li, as long as you can distribute some goods for us, not too much, I guarantee that our business group will lobby for you in the Bohai Kingdom, and get a batch of war horses, cattle and sheep for you. You guys are guaranteed to be all high-quality war horses."

All of a sudden, the other group of businessmen couldn't sit still anymore, and they all stood up, talking to each other. One said that they could exchange celadon, rice, and female slaves from Silla, while the other said that they could exchange Japanese sulfur and yellow gold. Copper is exchanged, and war horses and slaves from Bohai Sea are also exchanged.There are also some Khitan, Shiwei, and Turkic products. All kinds of special products popped up all at once. Representatives of many business groups from the Tang Dynasty and the Northeast vassal states are all vying to be a group, and no one is willing. Let go of this new product that is sure to be very profitable at first glance.

Li Lingfu drank the clear Wuliangye in the glass cup in one gulp, feeling a little regretful, if this thing was his own, he could earn countless money every year just sitting there, why worry about recruiting more troops and buying more food without money ordnance.Sighing slightly, he turned his gaze to the great monk sitting safely in the last seat, the envoy of Shamen Town from Dengzhou.

"Everyone, in fact, these few rare items are not from my Qingni City. In fact, they are a birthday gift from a distinguished guest to the old man. If you are interested in this product, you can talk to this bald monk later. , the gift was from him."

As soon as the words came out, a group of businessmen immediately turned their eyes to Xuan Cheng. Before they could speak, Xuan Cheng stood up and said loudly: "City Lord Li is right, these gifts are indeed for General Li's birthday. The following is the envoy of General Li Jing, the town general of Shamen Town, Daxiezhai Village, Dengzhou, Ziqing Town. One thing for everyone. That is, everyone here can go to Shamen Town to discuss this matter with my general in person, of course, it doesn’t need to be so troublesome.”

He smiled, "Before I came, my general confessed that he was willing to hand over the distribution rights of these three products in southern Liaoning to Qingni City."

The businessmen were stunned for a moment, and even Li Lingfu had the same puzzled expression, not knowing what the distribution rights meant.

"What is a dealership?"

Xuancheng explained: "The so-called distribution rights mean that we divide all parts of the world into many distribution areas, such as Ziqing District, Liaodong District, Xinluo District, Bohai District, etc., and these commodities in our hands are sold in each distribution area. , will be directly handed over to a distributor for full distribution. For example, in Liaodong District, including Liaodong and even Western Liaoning, our goods will only be handed over to Qingni City for distribution. We will provide goods at an agreed price, and then These three items in the entire Liaodong District are only sold to Qingni City, and other merchants and customers in Liaodong want to buy them from Qingni City."

"So, if you want Wuliangye, rock sugar and perfume, you can either go directly to Shamen Town to buy them, or you can only buy them from Qingni City City Lord Li."

This novel sales method surprised everyone, but Li Lingfu was even more surprised. Not only was he surprised that his Qingni City suddenly became a dealer in Liaodong, but he was even more surprised why the other party did this?This thing is so rare, it must be able to sell as many as there are, and there is no need to worry about selling it.Now Li Jing, who heard about it for the first time, wants to give himself a share of such a hot business. This is simply giving him a large amount of income for nothing. He is like a coin furnace.

Li Jing sent someone to celebrate his birthday with a big gift, and now he gave him such a big gift, what does he need in return?If you are polite to others, you must ask for something.Li Lingfu has been in Liaodong for decades, but he will never believe that there will be such a good thing in the sky.However, he and Li Jing are separated by a whole Liaohai, what kind of return does he want from himself?

(To be continued)