Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 63 Tea Horse Trading
Judging from the expressions, these ministers are not convinced.Quite a few of these people are tea lovers. Tasting tea is such an elegant thing. I can’t imagine what it would be like for a greasy, smelly fan to drink tea.

Li Buqi smiled and said: "I wonder if you officials will feel sad if you don't drink tea for ten days? So once you get used to drinking tea, it is very difficult to quit, not to mention that drinking tea can indeed relieve many afflictions of the people.

I heard that habits are actually easy to develop. For example, if you raise a pig, if you knock on the trough before each feeding, the pig will come running after ten or 20 days, regardless of whether there is food in the trough.So as long as the Fanren know that drinking tea is good for them, it won't take long for the Fanren to develop the habit of drinking tea. "

Associating feeding pigs with drinking tea made everyone, including Zhao Zhen, blush.Several generals lowered their heads deeply, trying not to laugh.

Ren Bu asked: "Since habits are so easy to form, why did it take ten years?"

"One is that the longer the habit is, the harder it is to get rid of it. The second is that only a few people drink tea at the beginning, and it will take time for the habit of drinking tea to spread. The boy estimates that it will take about ten years."

Zhao Zhen said: "I can wait ten years. Besides, it would be great if we could exchange tea for horses without spending money."

Adviser Wang Juzheng asked, "Do you want to let these soldiers get used to drinking tea first?"

"Yes. I ask His Majesty to send a medical officer to examine these Fan soldiers and recommend them to drink tea. I can also try to make Fan people like tea, so that Fan people like tea even more. When these Fan people leave Beijing, Your Majesty, please give them some more tea. Since they are Fan people, they must associate with other Fan people. They are used to drinking tea, and the benefits of drinking tea will be passed on to other Fan people from them."

Lu Yijian said: "Your Majesty, I think this matter can be tried." Wang Juzheng said: "This matter does not cost anything, and the minister seconded the discussion." Ren Bu also said: "The minister seconded the discussion."

Li Buqi also said: "The boy thinks that this matter cannot be accomplished overnight, it will take several years to be effective, and it is necessary to designate a special person to promote it, so that it will be easy to achieve results."

Zhao Zhen looked at Lu Yijian, and Lu Yijian said to Zhao Zhen: "I don't think you are in a hurry, so I will let Li Buqi handle this matter for the time being, and it will not be too late to appoint a special person to promote it after seeing the results."

Zhao Zhen said: "That's it." Then he turned to Wang Shouzhong, the servant who knew him: "You help Li Buqi do a good job of getting the soldiers used to drinking tea."

Wang Shouzhong hurriedly bowed and agreed, and when Zhao Zhen got up to drive back to the palace, he leaned over and asked, "General Cheng, I don't know what you are going to do with the soldiers?"

Ha ha, isn't it just selling health care products?When he was in college, he also took to the streets to post advertisements.Li Buqi immediately drew up a work schedule and asked Wang Shouzhong to arrange it according to the above requirements.Li Buqi only has two things to do personally, one is to train and sell skills to the imperial physicians who will be sent to check the health of the soldiers, and the other is to make milk tea.

Gathering more than a dozen eloquent imperial physicians, Li Buqi mainly explained to them the significance of selling tea to the Fan soldiers to the country, and said that the success of selling tea to the Fan people was due to their imperial physicians. When the light is released, they are sent to check up on the Fanren.For the sake of his own glorious image, he dare not talk about his salesmanship at all.If the imperial physicians knew that Li Buqi was full of such kind of stuff, he might have to bear the infamy of a black-hearted businessman in the future.

Then he made milk tea with the milk and butter that Wang Shouzhong found, taught people how to make milk tea and butter tea, and then went to cook it for the soldiers.

Tea is really a good thing. Otherwise, compatriots in Tibet and Mongolia will drink it every day.Li Buqi's promotion of drinking tea was more effective than he expected. When the soldiers left Bianliang, many soldiers sold their excess horses and replaced them with tea and other commodities.

Zhao Zhen, who has been paying attention to this matter, was very happy when he saw that Li Buqi immediately exchanged tea for horses, so he formally appointed Li Buqi to be a tea horse official, which became Li Buqi's first dispatch.But this is a later story. After teaching Wang Shouzhong's men to make milk tea, Li Buqi made every effort to prepare to meet the sea merchants.

This time the meeting was set at Wuweifang, and Uncle Qin reserved a private room for it.Cao, Gao, Shi, Wang, and Pan's honorable children in the capital all heard about this, and they all came to Wuweifang early this day to see what Li Buqi wanted to bring back from overseas.When Cao Yi arrived, he said, "You have kept it a secret for so many days, and today the mystery is revealed, how about letting everyone see it first?"

People always need some reward for running errands, Li Buqi asked Lu Xiaopang to bring out a bunch of scrolls, and opened them one by one in front of everyone.

"This is a loofah. It was born in the South China Sea. It is cooked when it is young, and when it is old, it will become tendons inside. It is best used for scrubbing."

"This thing is called cauliflower, and it is a vegetable that was born in the Great Qin."

"This thing is called cabbage, and it was born in the land of Great Qin."

"This thing is called saffron. It is a medicinal material. The pollen can be used as a spice. It grows in the west of the sky."

"This thing is called peas. It was born in the land east of Shendu Qin and Daqin. It can also be eaten as a vegetable."

"This thing is called an onion, and it probably grew near Dashi. It is best used with stewed meat and boiled fish."

"This thing seems to be called cranberry. It probably grew in the west of Daqin. It's very delicious."

"This thing is called lavender. It grows in a place called Frank. It is very good for drying clothes."

"This thing is called castor, and it is born poisonous. The seed oil can be used to anoint cars, and it can also be used as lamp oil. The best thing is that it can grow without good land,"

Cao Yu and the others clicked their tongues: "It's unimaginable how big the world is, and there are so many useful things?"

Li Buqi took the opportunity to give them science popularization: "Actually, there are many useful things. Even Jimi Prefecture in the Song Dynasty has a lot of good things, but they can't be shipped out, and they are not needed. If they can be shipped out, they will be exchanged for tens of thousands of good things." Copper coins are easy to get. How about it? Do you want to buy a share? These things are very profitable."

Cao Yi decided what he could do, and was the first to respond: "I want you to make money in whatever business you do, and you have to get involved in this stock. I don't know what the rules are?"

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Just as he was talking, the sea merchants brought by Cao's family arrived at Wuweifang and were brought in.The older one is called Yang Wanli, and the younger one is called Yang Baishun, but they are uncles and nephews.

Seeing that their faces were dark and red, and they looked like they had weathered the storm, Li Buqi asked, "I don't know where you two are from? Where did you set sail for the sea?"

Yang Wanli said: "We are from Mingzhou, and Hong Kong is in Mingzhou."

Oh, Ningbo. "Where have you been?"

“I’ve been to most of the western countries. I waited for the trade winds to rise and then took the wind to the Western countries (Indonesia, India, Pakistan, etc.), Dashi and Tianfang (Arab countries). The old man also went to Manbasa once. "

wait!Slow Barcelona?The name sounded familiar.Is it Mombasa?This guy has been to Africa?It seems to be Kenya, right?
(End of this chapter)