Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 519 Income
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, although the imperial palace was forbidden to enter and the gates of the city were half closed, no serious news was released, and ordinary people still celebrated the festival happily.

Instead of going to the palace to entertain guests, it is rare for many families to have a reunion at their own home, but because of the death of a prince, they still dare not entertain guests, not to mention that the men would not sit for long before going to the study to close the door to discuss matters.

This made those female relatives who had been preparing for a long time lose their goal of showing off. They had to rely on chatting to divert their anger.

In the middle of the night, Che Ling brought a bunch of gossip back to the Su residence to report to Xie Jue.

Xie Jue didn't go out all day today. Except for staring at Kong Miao in the morning and evening to check on Su Yue, the rest of the time, even if Su Yue fell asleep after drinking the medicine, she mostly stayed with Su Yue, leaning against the head of the bed, Looking through the letters from all over the place and the account books of the shop, while warming her stomach with his hands.

Now his business has expanded to Shuzhou, Shaanxi, and Jingxi Road in addition to the farm workshops on Liangzhe Road, Lianghu, Liangjiang, Fujian, and Jingdong Road. He went to the north last year, and with Zhao Hao's support, now The industrial line in the north has also been pulled up.

This year is more than half, and the income of those old industries is growing steadily, and the income is within his estimation.

But the benefits of Shuzhou and Yanzhou and Jinzhou surprised him a little.

This year the tea garden has expanded several times, and the output of green tea has also increased several times. In addition, those big men have been able to independently lead a tea factory, and the amount of dark tea and brick tea produced has reached as many as 70 cakes.

For these black teas, Xie Jue asked [-] cakes to be shipped to Yanzhou Port by sea, and the rest were shipped to Shuzhou and given to Luowu Luolu.

The two of them have been operating in Shuzhou for several years. In addition to establishing an excellent relationship and channels with Tubo, Luo Lu also crossed the Shu Road and established a relationship with Xixia from Shaanxi Road.

After drinking tea for several years, no matter the princes and nobles in Tubo or the lords below, they all fell in love with this drink.

After receiving Xie Jue's instructions, Luo Wu told those Tubo people that not only gold, silver, fur, jewelry, etc. can be exchanged, but also cattle, sheep, horses, and cordyceps saffron. Livestock and collected medicinal materials are exchanged for a few cakes of black tea, and because of the high price, those herdsmen are reluctant to drink too much at one time, so they mix it with ghee and make a special taste of ghee tea that is very suitable for those plateau Tibetans.

In Tubo, black tea has become something that can be used as currency.

In Xixia, the trend of black tea has gradually spread. This year, in order to grab the [-] catties of black tea in Luo Wu's hands, a lord of Tubo and a nobleman of Xixia almost fought at the junction of the two countries. stand up.

In the end, Xixia snatched it with 2 good horses, [-] colts and [-] taels of gold.

The [-] horses were agreed to be delivered in autumn when the foals were older, about September.

Including the [-] horses that Luo Lu had already traded with the Xixia people, there are a total of [-] horses, which can be handed over after Zhao Hao finishes fighting.

As for the large amount of cattle and sheep that Luo Wu exchanged back, they bought a Zhuangzi and slaughtered them locally, and made them into dried meat that Xie Jue learned from the Arabs, and provided them directly to Zhao Hao along with the manufactured leather.

Luo Wu and Luo Lu expressed great admiration for their master's selfless behavior. His master is a gentleman, so Zhao Hao and Bian Jun must stand by Xie Jue's side. With the army as the backer, revenge and everything are easy to handle.

(Tang Bing: What a fool, the master is doing this to make Zhao Hao soft on him, and he has no face to rob Su Yue from him!)
But even if the 60 cakes of black tea that were given to Zhao Hao for free, 13 taels of gold, 160 million taels of silver, and a large amount of precious medicinal materials and jewelry worth 10,000+ guan were recovered.

And there is also an extremely precious nine-eyed dzi.

They sent back that day bead and some carefully selected jewels along with the letter and ledger. In the letter, they repeatedly stated that the nine-eyed dzi bead was blessed by the Living Buddha of Tubo and was very suitable for women.

But he decided not to mention it to Su Yue.

(Tang Bing: I know I dare not.)
Xie Jue didn't ask them to hand over the money they sold tea in the first few years in Shuzhou. Instead, they directly bought the industry to train their subordinates. Later, the production of tea increased and the sales volume also increased. Xie Jue also only let them They pay less than half of the gold and silver, and the rest continue to expand.

Chengdu Prefecture is known as the Land of Abundance. Its Chengdu Plain is extremely fertile, and there are few natural disasters. The output is high and stable. Shu brocade is a specialty of Shuzhou, and it is extremely profitable to sell it to the capital.

Over the past few years, the two of them have traveled all over Shuzhou, buying a total of [-] mu of land, three Shu brocade weaving workshops, and two salt wells.

This year, the salt well alone has a net profit of more than 20 guan.

Moreover, the salt wells in Shuzhou rely on strong men to go down to dig salt, so it is normal for a salt well to support hundreds of thousands of strong laborers.

In addition to the caravan that has been expanding year by year, there are more than 4000 people under Luo Wu and Luo Lu.

Luo Wu also mentioned at the end of the letter that Tubo has several tribes with very fierce fighting power, and their leaders proposed that as long as they are given enough black tea, they can send troops to help at any time, and they can fight anyone...

However, Shuzhou only surprised Xie Jue for a moment. After all, he still had a rough idea of ​​his previous background, while Yanzhou was an unexpected surprise.

Champa Cochin is another harvest year this year, and the grain output in spring and summer is huge. No matter how much Xie Jue buys, the price of grain has not risen much, so Xie Jue has been buying and giving away, and has been shipping since February. For food, even when there was a war at the border, the fleet has never stopped, and the total amount of food has far exceeded the million tons of food that Xie Jue promised Zhao Hao at first.

It was also because of this that Zhao Hao was able to resist not giving any news to the imperial court, not even issuing official documents urging the payment of food.

Xie Jue was really upset that so much food was sent out for nothing. It just so happened that the prices of silk and other goods in Hangzhou and Yangzhou plummeted again, and the quantity was still very sufficient. In addition to stocking up outside the show, there was still a lot of excess goods. Xie Jue let the ship The team came out with an empty boat, specially carrying silk and spices and other things.

Since May, the cargo of five ships has been delivered there.

He originally thought that those goods would not have a good market until the end of the war.

Unexpectedly, in the middle of June, Cheng Wuye arrived in Jinzhou and found the leader of the team he stayed in Jinzhou when he went to Aye City. He said that Qi Da had sent the message, and Hong Ye asked if there were any more. He paid a high price for good goods, and he would replenish them with what they lost last time.

As long as they can deliver the goods to the grassland.

At that time, Bei Rong and Zhao Hao were fighting in a mess. Although Jinzhou didn't know the details, he knew the urgency of the war. Master Cheng Wu couldn't evade Qi Da when he came to deliver the words.

If you want to trade, you have to wait until the battle is over.

The steward was also Xie Jue's old guard before, and he ran around with Xie Jue for a few years after he recovered from his injury.

At that time, he asked Cheng Wuye to contact Qi University. Now that the two sides are fighting, those horse bandits have run away. There are many gaps on the grassland. As long as the quantity is not large each time, they can bring goods over on horseback, and they can trade immediately. .

As long as the other party can really afford the price.

At that time, the steward listed more than a dozen items to Cheng Wuye, and asked Cheng Wuye to pass them on and ask the other party to quote.

Cheng Wuye took a few breaths when he saw the goods list. Now that the road tax in Song Dynasty has been adjusted, Jinzhou is in Zhao Hao's sphere of influence, and there are good officials like Wu County Magistrate. Road tax is not felt in Jinzhou. changes, but Jizhou is different.

The road tax in Jizhou has not only increased tenfold, but even if you want to get a road that a caravan can travel on, you have to send a sum of cash to the magistrate first.

Therefore, this time Qi Da personally came back to persuade him to lead the team, but he was not tempted.

Not to mention the huge loss last year, but now he can't even afford the cost of getting the goods out of Jizhou.

And the most important thing is that Hongye has the highest price and the most wanted silk gems, etc., he has no stock at all!

These things used to be shipped from Hangzhou and Yangzhou to Jizhou, and he took the goods and sent them to the north. Now the goods in the south are completely cut off. Even in the city of Jizhou, these things have increased many times. Where did he get them? goods to go.

Qi Dabai said, you can find Master Xie, Master Hong also specifically mentioned Master Xie, saying that he would definitely compensate him.

Cheng Wuye couldn't stand Qi Da's muttering, and then he thought about Xie Jue letting them escape first, and he was in the back, so that they had their lives to escape back. Since then, there has been no news of Xie Jue, let alone, let's go first Just ask Xie Jue if he is alive.

He was relieved to hear that Xie Jue was fine, and was surprised when he heard that the deal could be done. After seeing the list, he was stunned for a while, and said to the manager, although Master Hong was in Aye Cheng himself ran away first, but in business and business, under the circumstances at that time, Master Hong could not be blamed for his lack of loyalty. Since Master Hong said that the normal transactions in the grassland would be normal, there would be no such thing as tricking them secretly.

However, if you provide the list and the other party quotes the price, and then you don’t have the goods for them, then it’s breaking the rules, and it’s really dangerous in places like grasslands.

At that time, the manager said with a smile, since he dared to make a list, it must be in stock. However, he hoped that Master Hong would report the price and the required quantity, give them a little more time, and then deliver them in batches.

The steward was sure of what he said, even though Cheng Wuye was worried, he still passed on the words.

In mid-July, the other party received news that the quoted price was [-]% higher than the calculated price in Aye City. Half of the payment was paid in gold and silver, and the other half was paid in fur and medicinal materials.

As for the quantity, there are only two words: the more the better.

At that time, Zhao Hao had already captured Aye City, and the steward's letter to Xie Jue also got a cheap reply, so the steward didn't wait to report and reply to Xie Jue, and directly led the people, led by Qi Da, and led the way. Some silk spices and gems past.

The two parties trade directly on the grasslands that are hundreds of miles away from Aye City and Wu City.

Sure enough, Master Hong brought enough gold, silver and fur medicinal materials and waited on the grassland.

Silk, spices and precious stones are high in value and small in size, as are gold, silver, fur and medicinal materials. Before trading with Master Hong, Qi Da had exchanged two hundred horses of his daughter-in-law with the steward for some things, and the steward So he brought a hundred people, one person and two horses, and directly used horses to carry the goods, and the speed back and forth was very fast.

In half a month, they traded four and a half ships of goods with Lord Hong, and by the way, sold [-] cakes of black tea.

If the goods of these four and a half ships are calculated according to the selling price, the income will be twice as much as that sold in the capital.

What's more, those fur medicinal materials that are very cheap in terms of conversion prices can be shipped directly to Hangzhou, and the price can be more than double that of selling them in the capital.

This back and forth is a net profit of tens of millions.

(End of this chapter)