Um? ? ?
Is this guy talking to me about conditions?
Should I grab him and beat him up now?
Li Shimin was very confused.
But when he finally saw Li Chengqian's appearance, Li Shimin ordered another bowl of goat's milk.
After Li Chengqian took a big sip with a look of enjoyment on his face, Li Shimin asked patiently: "Now tell me, what is the safest way?"
When he finished speaking, he did not forget to threaten: "If you let me know that you lied to me, I will let you know what it means to be slapped in the face, even if you don't know it."
Hearing the threat, Li Chengqian shrank.
Baring his teeth at Li Shimin, Li Chengqian said, "Don't worry, this is definitely a good idea."
"Don't be so pretentious, just say it quickly."
Changsun Wuji was also very curious.
Li Chengqian looked at a few people: "Tell me, why does the Northern Desert covet the Central Plains?"
Why does the Northern Desert covet the Central Plains?
Do you still need to ask this question?
Of course it's because the south is more suitable for farming.
To put it bluntly, it’s just to eat.
The three of them looked at Li Chengqian as if they were a fool.
Li Chengqian didn't take it seriously and continued to ask: "Then tell me, there is no way to farm in the Northern Desert. What do they eat every day and where does it come from?"
Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji looked at each other.
Both of them had the same idea in mind.
Does this guy deserve a beating?
Are you asking such idiotic questions?
Is it an insult to their intelligence?
Of course the Hu people on the grassland eat cattle, sheep and rice.
As for where they came from, they raised their own cattle and sheep, and bought rice from the Central Plains...
etc……
Changsun Wuji was the first to react and said: "Qian'er, what do you mean..."
Seeing this, Li Chengqian knew that his smart uncle had figured out the key to the problem.
"That's right."
Li Chengqian nodded and then asked: "We are buying their cattle and sheepskin goods at all costs now, what will they do then?"
Cheng Yaojin said directly: "Of course I used the money from selling cattle and sheep to buy rice."
“How much does a sheep cost?”
Li Chengqian said slowly: "How much does a pound of rice cost?"
As soon as these words came out, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji looked at each other.
Now, even a fool can understand it, let alone these two human beings?
Li Shimin looked at Cheng Yaojin and said, "Zhijie, ride a fast horse and go quickly to deliver my letter to the governor of Jinyang."
"Let him buy Northern Desert cattle, sheep, horses, and animal skins and sheepskins at all costs."
And obviously, Cheng Yaojin is that fool.
He still didn't understand, what does the cattle, sheep and rice have to do with whether troops can be sent out in the Northern Desert?
Li Chengqian rolled his eyes and said, "Uncle Cheng, are you stupid?"
"You are stupid!"
Cheng Yaojin was not happy.
Li Chengqian continued: "Then let me ask you, Uncle Cheng, now a sheep on the grassland costs 100 yuan, and if we give them 150 yuan, will they sell it?"
"Isn't this nonsense?"
Cheng Yaojin said with a look of displeasure on his face: "The Turks have been seriously affected by the Central Plains in recent years. Many people have the concept of money. They know that money can also be exchanged for food."
"If you spend so much money to buy sheep, of course they will sell them. Only fools will not sell them."
"And this is obviously a loss-making business, but you still do it?"
Cheng Yaojin looked at Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji: "Why are you still laughing at this guy's bad idea?"
Unexpectedly, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji also looked at him as if they were a fool.
Li Chengqian shook his head and said, "How else can we say that Uncle Cheng is brave enough but lacking in intelligence?"
"Do you think this is a bad business?"
"Nonsense, of course it's a loss."
Cheng Yaojin retorted directly: "You have to spend 150 yuan to collect a sheep that obviously costs 100 yuan. Isn't this a loss?"
"It's not a loss."
Li Chengqian said firmly: "If you don't believe me, let's make a bet."
"If you make a profit, Uncle Cheng will pay for the sheep collection, and the money earned will belong to me."
"If you lose money, I will make up for the loss, and I will also give Uncle Cheng a hundred sheep."
"What do you think, Uncle Cheng?"
Seeing Li Chengqian's determination, Cheng Yaojin was also a little confused.
Isn’t it still a loss to do this kind of business?
Cheng Yaojin really didn't understand, and finally gritted his teeth and said simply: "Okay, I, Cheng, will bet with you."
"Well, I'll just wait for Uncle Cheng to send the money to the treasury."
Li Chengqian looked back at his father, the emperor, and asked, "Dad, what do you think?"
"I think it's pretty good."
Li Shimin, the stingy emperor, felt for the first time that his son made a good bet.
Although Cheng Yaojin is not as wealthy as Changsun Wuji, his wife is from the Cui family of Qinghe.
Apart from his salary, this guy has accumulated a lot of money over the years.
No matter what happens this time, he will have to bleed.
Changsun Wuji shook his head and sighed: "Old Cheng, Old Cheng, you dare to make this kind of bet, don't lose your pants when the time comes."
"I, Old Cheng, will never lose."
Cheng Yaojin said unconvinced: "If you don't believe me, let's just wait and see. He will definitely lose in the end."
He didn't believe that Li Chengqian could make money from this obviously losing business.
…
That night, Cheng Yaojin took the letter written by Li Shimin and rushed to Jinyang. When he arrived in Jinyang, he handed the letter to Zheng Gaojie, the governor of Jinyang.
Knowing that Li Shimin personally ordered the order, Zheng Gaojie did not dare to neglect it, and the next day he found merchants in the city to discuss it together.
Also starting from this day, all border towns of the Tang Dynasty were opened to Turkic people, and large quantities of cattle, sheep, horses, and sheepskins and animal skins from the Northern Desert were purchased.
At first, the people in the Northern Desert thought that this was another move by the Tang Dynasty, and no one dared to go.
Unexpectedly, some time later, some brave people in the Northern Desert came back after selling their cattle and sheep.
Citizen A in the Northern Desert said with pride: "One of my sheep was sold for a high price of 120 yuan, which is equivalent to four buckets of rice."
Taking a household of ten people in the Northern Desert, one sheep can feed a household for two to three days.
One bucket of rice weighs ten kilograms, and four buckets of rice weighs forty kilograms.
An adult man can only get up to one kilogram of rice per day, and forty kilograms of rice is enough for a family for five or six days.
If you calculate it this way, they are a good deal no matter how you calculate it.
And this person also said: "And I also heard that the south is currently conducting a south-to-north grain transfer."
"Food prices in the north will continue to drop. Maybe one of our sheep can exchange for sixty or seventy kilograms of rice."
"so much?"
Someone immediately said: "I will drive the sheep to the border town now to have a look."
Therefore, under such circumstances, many herdsmen went to border towns to sell sheep in exchange for food, hoping to try their luck.
As more and more people successfully sell their sheep in exchange for food, more and more herdsmen drive their sheep to border towns.
As a result, not only did the price of sheep not fall, but it went higher and higher, from one hundred yuan at the beginning to one hundred and fifty yuan later.
The prices of sheepskins and animal skins were ridiculously higher, starting from twenty or thirty yuan to fifty yuan.
Later, all the food on the entire border was bought up by the Turks.
But this still did not stop the Turks from selling sheep and animal skins...
As Cheng Yaojin said, Turks have been seriously affected by sinicization in recent years and know that money can also be exchanged for food.
Sheep will die if they are not raised well, but money will not.
Furthermore, they were also afraid that the Tang Dynasty would not accept their sheep after a while, and then it would be too late.
Watching others eating rice, they also feel envious.
This also caused the sheep selling controversy to become more intense...
