Chapter 466: Invite someone to the banquet to show kindness

Sitting on the third floor of Changfeng Pavilion, Li Dong was in a very good mood. He smelled the smell of the wine in the glass, and felt an indescribable comfort.

If you make money, you will make a lot of money. What you earn is the Tang Dynasty paper money. If you own the Tang Dynasty paper money, you can buy many good things that Tang Dynasty merchants did not sell in the Tang Dynasty.

"Mr. Mu County Magistrate, are the people in the county living a good life this year?"

Li Dong took a sip of the wine in his glass, looked at Xiaoxue, who was still floating down outside through the open window, and said.

The county magistrate who he called Mu County was sitting opposite him for about 40 years. When he heard his voice, he let the cold wind blowing in through the window blow across his cheeks, revealing his two yellow teeth, and nodding repeatedly.

"Not just good, it's not just good. The above mentioned that I have promoted me, but I have turned it down. No matter how good elsewhere, it's better to be close to the junction. This year, a heavy snowfall has left, and no house in the county has collapsed.

If the Tang Dynasty is really powerful, I can sell my tools from Silla, and any steel mouth is extraordinary, especially the long saw used to saw trees. It was a few times, and the thick tree was broken in the blink of an eye. With wood, every family renovated their houses, and it was great."

As the Magistrate Mu said, he seemed to remember something good, and his eyes were almost narrowing together when he smiled. He also held a glass of wine and his head was slightly shaking.

Li Dong also smiled, and his hands without holding the cup picked up a fresh cucumber from the table, put it in front of him and looked left and right.

"This is technology, such as cucumbers. The Tang Dynasty can already be planted in winter. I, Silla, started to learn today. It is no better than in the past. At that time, the Tang Dynasty was blocked, but now almost everyone is planted in the places slightly north of the Tang Dynasty. If you want to keep it secret, you can't do it.

The only thing that makes people feel awkward is that it is easy to learn to grow cucumbers in winter, but the method of making steel cannot be found to be stolen. I heard that someone asked you last month to discuss building a smelting workshop in this county. You have to send someone to take a good look. If you can learn it, it will be a great achievement."

Speaking of technical matters, Li Dong once again felt the benefits of the Tang Dynasty banknotes.

Since the Tang Dynasty banknotes came out, I thought that when I bought good things in the Tang Dynasty, I had to use the Tang Dynasty coins. The copper coins I used to cast were useless. The medicinal materials for curing diseases, clothes with good materials, exquisite glass products, and delicate ceramics. If you want to buy them, you have to take out the Tang Dynasty money.

It is obvious that there is a exchange ratio between the money from the Tang Dynasty and the money from Silla, but if you want to directly exchange Silla's copper coins for the money from the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will not exchange it, and you can only sell the goods to get the money from the Tang Dynasty.

The problem is that Silla can sell only a few metals besides charcoal. Datang also tried hard to suppress the price. With the 20% tariff collected, it is not easy to make some money from Datang.

It was because I was familiar with the people of the Tang Dynasty at the border, so I knew what the Tang Dynasty liked, so I first discovered business opportunities and made a profit in advance, but it was not so easy for other businessmen.

Perhaps because of his understanding, County Magistrate Mu also thought of this, looked at the watermelon on the table, licked his lips and said, "Li Dongjia, cucumbers are easy to grow, but watermelons still have to be bought from the Tang Dynasty. People in Changfeng Pavilion said that this winter, it would cost a lot of money to buy watermelons from the Tang Dynasty.

You have to find a way to get glass, preferably glass manufacturing technology. Li Dongjia, what do you think we can find more merchants, join forces to gather money, and bribe the officials in charge of making glass in Datang? I don’t believe in things that can’t be bought without money.”

Li Dong fell into deep thought for a moment. Before he could speak, the Magistrate Mu continued: "If you want to say that the Tang Dynasty is indeed good to me, Silla, and sell food cheaper, it is cheaper than the local area of ​​the Tang Dynasty. This is the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty and cloth, but why don't they buy it with the Tang Dynasty money when buying charcoal?"

Li Dong nodded slightly. As the magistrate of Mu County said, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty came to cooperate with the land, cut down trees and burn charcoal, but did not give the Tang Dynasty money, but only gave a lot of charcoal to the people working.

Ordinary people, even merchants who do not do big business, have never seen them even if they use the Tang Dynasty banknotes.

"Li Dongjia, you said you had enough money to make up one million yuan. Can you buy the technology to make glass? Once you get it, then..." The scene of himself lying on the glass mountain appeared in the mind of Magistrate Mu and said to Li Dong.

Before he could finish speaking, Li Dong smiled, "Haha, Magistrate Mu, wake up, stop dreaming, glass, do you know where glass comes from? Luzhou, Luzhou, which is very far from the capital of the Tang Dynasty.

They would rather send them to various parts of the Tang Dynasty from afar to bear the losses caused by unstable ships and vehicles on the road than set up more places to build glass in the Tang Dynasty. Isn’t it to keep it confidential?

If you take a million yuan, you will probably catch it as soon as you take it out. If it is replaced by someone else's business, you may also be able to put pressure on the officials of the Tang Dynasty. For example, the Ministry of Works went to ask, and thus get a secret. Who dares to go to the business of the Zhang and Wang families? If you are not a spy, you will also be reviewed according to the spy. Moreover, the Ministry of Works is Zhang Zhong, the current member of the Zhang family."

"What should I do?" County Magistrate Mu asked in frustration after being said with a cold hot water.

"Let's behave and dress up, look at Japan. They know how to behave and dress up. They are farther away from the Tang Dynasty than me, Silla, but they can pretend to be grandsons and deliberately try to please the Tang Dynasty. They want the Tang Dynasty to be neglected and think that they have no threat and can defraud technology?"

Li Dong also considered such a problem. If you want to obtain good technology, you can only wait for the Tang Dynasty to give it, and you cannot show any ambition.

County Magistrate Mu exhaled heat from his nose, gritted his teeth, and said, "I understand. When the spring of next year, several factories in the Tang Dynasty will be built in this county. I will choose smart people to work, watch more, listen more, think more, and ask less, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty think we are stupid and relax their vigilance."

"Well, that's good. Eat more. In the future, you have to go to the water and clouds or the blue sea and silver sand not far from here to eat. There are many merchants in the Tang Dynasty there, and you may be able to hear useful news."

After saying that, Li Dong stopped mentioning this matter and lowered his head to eat and drink.

As the two said, the people in Silla have well built houses, and countless firewood has been cut down. There is no need to worry about being frozen when it is cold.

But the people who farmed were in a bad mood when they lived in a good house. The money they earned after selling food this year was not as good as last year. If it weren’t for the people from the Tang Dynasty who came to recruit workers and work, it would probably be impossible for the year to pass.

After the work is finished, will all the other farmers starve to death except those who have been requisitioned at home?

Supported by such ideas, the people who farmed felt that this winter was colder this year, and it was cold from the inside out, and I don’t know what next year will be.

A few days passed quietly. When someone was happy and some were worried in Silla, Zhang Tie took someone to find Li Dong and held a banquet at the Yinsha Restaurant in Bihai.

In order to make Li Dong eat well, I deliberately made a double pot, with clear soup on one side and spicy on the other. One part of the few peppers was taken out. Of course, they were all pepper skins and had no seeds, so the seeds were used to plant them.

Li Dong was surprised when he saw the red stuff. He had eaten the mandarin duck pot and used something from the mountain. It took more than a dozen processes to make enough spicy taste, but he had never seen the red stuff.

"This is..." Li Dong held up his chopsticks and wanted to taste it, but he didn't have the courage to ask Zhang Tie in confusion.

Zhang Tie answered Li Dong with practical actions, picked up a roll of thin mutton, gently rinsed it in a spicy pot, took it out and dipped it in a few breaths, and put it in your mouth and chewed it beautifully.

"Ah~! It's great, Li Dongjia tasted it. This is something I've learned from the Tang Dynasty Sinong Temple. It's very delicious, but the quantity is rare, like ginseng, it's rare."

Zhang Tie looked sincere, as if it was really made by Sinong Temple.

Seeing someone trying the poison and smelling it was really good, Li Dong also took a roll of mutton openly and fiddled with it for a few times, then he didn't dip the seasoning and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Hmm~huh~! Cough cough cough! It's so spicy." Li Dong had never eaten chili peppers. He accidentally choked into his nose after taking a bite. Tears immediately flowed down, complaining, but his hands kept opening his chopsticks, picking up three rolls of mutton at a time, and then putting them in to rinse. He couldn't wait to eat it in his mouth, and biting the mutton hard as an enemy while he was squirting, looking satisfying.

"Is it still possible?" Zhang Tie asked with concern.

"Cheng, Cheng, it's really better than ginseng, do you have seeds?" Li Dong was conquered by the chili peppers. The more spicy the more you want to eat it, he wished he could pick up the spicy side of the soup in the double pot and pour it into his mouth.

"No." Zhang Tie replied very simply. Seeing Li Dong showing a regretful look, he quickly changed the topic and introduced him to the person he brought.

"Li Dongjia, this is the Song Dongjia from Huainan cloth shop. He specializes in cloth business. He has a lot of money and sells goods all the way to Huainan. Some people travel thousands of miles to seek purchases. He is a great charity who even a three-year-old child knows."

"Happy to meet, it turns out that it is a great sage from Song." Li Dong had to stop eating hard and show his due etiquette.

The Song Dong family, introduced by Zhang Tie, is a little fat, with a round face and always has a smile. It seems that he doesn't smile, but he is like a Maitreya Buddha, with kind eyebrows and good eyes, and is very distinctive, and he looks kind and can be harmonious at first glance.

Before speaking, the flesh on his face moved first, and then the voice appeared, "Li Dongjia, I have long admired the name of the name. When I met today, I knew that it was better to meet than to meet, and meeting was even better than to be famous."

"It's easy to say, it's all about others' rumors and flattery. I wonder if the Song Dong family is here..." Li Dong was not so naive that he judged the level of reality when he looked at others' appearance.

"Of course, there is something to do. If it weren't for good deeds, it would be a thunderbolt or a fortune. I would like to find a few more places in Silla to plant white sacks, hire farmers to give them three times the wages they had earned, and someone would need help to build a bridge." Song Dongjia said very realistically.
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