"This road is really safe."
Wu Hua and Wu Shun in the carriage stuck their heads out and were amazed at the spacious and smooth road.
The road is really smooth, and the snow on the road has been cleared very cleanly. Even if the wooden wheels are pressed on it, it will be as stable as walking on flat ground.
They had traveled all the way back to Chang'an City from Lizhou, and the road was really difficult for them.
"It is said that this is the man who cultivated it from Lantian County." He gestured to his two daughters to get back into the car. It was cold outside. "It goes directly from Lijiazhuang to the outside of Chang'an City. Some people say it is smoother than Zhuque Street."
"Aye." Wu Hua suddenly flashed his eyes. "I heard that there are a lot of kerosene lamps on Zhuque Street. When they are lit at night, they are as bright as the stars in the sky. At the last party, Lu Guogong's sister said that they all have kerosene lamps at home. Got a kerosene lamp and lit it at night
Then the whole mansion looked like daytime. "
Of course, the warrior Yu understood his daughter's little thoughts, and she also wanted to use kerosene lamps in her home.
But the problem is, that thing is too expensive.
Because it was made of glass and fine iron, a kerosene lamp was directly priced at five hundred coins.
For nobles, five hundred coins is naturally not expensive.
But this is only the price of one kerosene lamp. If you want to light it in the entire mansion, you will have to have at least one hundred and eighty lamps to barely get enough.
You can get a hundred guan of money, but if you want to use this kerosene lamp, you have to buy oil to burn it.
He had already asked. Hundreds of oil lamps would burn hundreds of coins worth of kerosene in one night.
In one month, at least ten or twenty guan of money went out.
Although the Wu family was a noble family, it was heartbreaking and unbearable to spend so much just to light the lamps.
If you only buy a few, you will not only lose face but also lose face.
Wu Hua sensed his father's embarrassment and said, "Sister Lu said that their family bought seeds from a man in Lantian County for greenhouses and so on. In winter, they grew fruits and vegetables in the fields and made a lot of money." .”
"Um."
Warrior Xun nodded. He already knew this. The man from Lantian County was by no means an ordinary person.
This time I went to visit him, which would help me build relationships.
Looking at the loose cotton coat on his second daughter, Samurai Yu showed a smile on his face. It would be great if he could establish this relationship.
While thinking, the carriage suddenly stopped.
He opened the window in confusion and saw the two brothers Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang riding horses. They came over angrily and shouted, "Aye, someone stopped our carriage."
Samurai Yu, who got off the carriage, saw a group of people with red cloths tied on their arms not far ahead. They only stopped their own carriage, but ignored other people and vehicles on the road. This made The warrior Xun was very angry, "What do you mean by this? At the feet of the emperor
, could it be that you want to be a thief? "
"The noble man is joking." A man came out from the opposite side and saluted the warrior Xun and said, "We are from the Lijiazhuang road guard team. According to the village owner's rules, everyone must keep to the right when driving on the road. The noble man's carriage is walking on the road. In the middle of the road, it violates the owner’s rules.”
"it's so funny!"
Over there, Wu Yuanqing immediately shouted, "Everyone can follow the great road in the world. We can walk wherever we want, so can the manager of the village be able to do it? Maybe he can't build this road."
The faces of the people on the road protection team darkened, "This road was indeed built by the owner of my village. It was originally intended to facilitate the guests going to Lijiazhuang. If Mr. Lang is rude, please go back."
How could Wu Yuanqing, who was so arrogant in Lizhou, ever be so angry? How dare the head of Guizhou Province dare to talk to him like this!
Just when he was about to get angry, Samurai Yu glared at him and told him to shut up.
Just now, Samurai Yu had been watching the people and cars passing by on the road, and sure enough, they were all walking on the right side.
They are not making trouble unreasonably, but it is true.
Of course, nobles don't talk about this. What they can respect is only strength.
Besides, this road was built by others. If you want to disobey their rules, you can just stop walking.
"What a bother." Warrior Xun nodded and said, "We are from Duke Ying's residence, and we are here to pay a visit to Master Li."
I thought that after announcing the name of Duke Ying, the Guizhou leaders in front of me would be respectful, but the Wu family did not know that there were so many various Dukes, Marquises and Lords displayed in Lijiazhuang these days that they were too numerous to count. Come on, they've long been numb.
"We have been notified." Everyone in the road protection team moved out of the way. "Please keep your carriage to the right. Lijiazhuang is two miles ahead."
The warrior Yu was bored and had no choice but to return to the carriage gloomily and told the coachman to "keep to the right."
"Aye."
Wu Hua pushed Warrior Xun and pointed to the fields outside the window, "Look at the many houses over there."
The warrior Yu followed the sound and saw many neat greenhouses in the fields on one side of the road.
The samurai Yu had inquired about this matter before. He had even been to the farmland of a certain noble nobleman with whom he had a good friendship and had seen these greenhouses.
"This is a good thing." Warrior Xun sighed repeatedly. "Nowadays, the ability to eat fruits and vegetables in Chang'an City in winter depends on these. The vegetables in the rice porridge you drink in the morning are produced in this kind of greenhouse."
Wu Hua and Wu Shun had expressions of wonder on their pretty faces. Wu Hua asked, "Why didn't it happen before? Why didn't it happen in Lizhou?"
"This is because no one understood it before." Samurai Xun said with a smile, "It was the good thing that the man from Lantian County made. And he didn't hide anything. He took the initiative to give seeds and helped build a greenhouse. You know, if he is reluctant to sell, , selling these fruits and vegetables in just one winter
You can buy dozens of houses in Chang'an City just for food. Li Yunze should be called an outstanding person. "
Samurai Xun still doesn't know enough.
Also because Xungui, who took him to see the greenhouse in his field, hid a lot for the sake of face.
Previously, the nobles spent a lot of money to buy seeds and greenhouses from Li Yunze, and even paid a service fee to borrow skilled farmers from Lijiazhuang to teach them how to serve the crops.
In winter, a large number of fruits and vegetables were put on the market on a large scale. The nobles all expected to make a lot of money, but in the end, almost no one bought them.
The nobles were very surprised by this. They sent people to inquire about it and found out that they sold the vegetables and fruits in winter as gold. Who among ordinary people could afford it?
What's even more exaggerated is that the fruits and vegetables sold in Li Yunze's big market and Hedi Lao restaurants in various cities are still at the original price, which is ridiculously cheap.
In this case, it is certainly impossible for ordinary people to buy theirs.
At this time, if we were to operate with capital, we would first ask Li Er to come forward and let Li Yunze sit down and talk with the nobles.
At the same time, raising the price and reducing the supply volume will promote a market where rare products are more expensive, or it can be said to be hunger marketing or something like that.
Then everyone agrees on the share price, and if we have money, we can make money together, and we can make progress together.
If Li Er doesn't want to come forward, they can either use coercion or inducement, or simply kill him as a guy who affects their profits.
In a word, we tried our best to control costs and increase prices, so as to squeeze the last copper out of the Tang Dynasty people's pockets.
However, these methods cannot be used here.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was not money that had the final say, but the emperor.
Not only did Li Er not help Xungui, but he gave all the vegetables and fruits produced in the palace to Li Yunze and asked him to sell them on his behalf.
The price cannot go up, the supply is so large, and the honorable nobles themselves do not have specialized stores for large-scale sales.
The massive amounts of fruits and vegetables are put away, but they can only be piled up in your own home.
Those who thought they were unlucky had no choice but to go to Li Yunze to discuss whether they could sell them all to him at a low price, or negotiate a share and then sell them on behalf of others in large markets and restaurants.
If you are not willing to do so, then you can only carry it hard.
In the beginning, I took these things to give gifts to relatives and friends, and it seemed respectable to send them in carloads.
But later, there were too many, and so many people were giving gifts. It was too much to finish, and they simply couldn’t even give out the gifts.
As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer nobles who are still holding on to their lives, and most people choose to sell them to Li Yunze at a low price, so that they can make some money back.
The warrior Yu only knew that there was an abundant supply of fruits and vegetables in winter, but of course he didn't know the story behind it.
He has just boarded Li Er's boat now, and he is still a young newcomer. He will only be gradually accepted after being tested.
"Aye, that carriage is so beautiful."
Wu Shun, who was lying on another window, suddenly raised his hand and pointed at the gorgeous carriage coming from the opposite side and exclaimed.
Before Samurai Yu could say anything, Wu Hua responded with envy, "You didn't go to the last poetry gathering. You don't know. They were all riding in this beautiful four-wheeled carriage. Only I was riding in my family's two-wheeled carriage." .”
After hearing this, the warrior Yu also smiled bitterly.
Nowadays, the four-wheeled luxury carriages in Chang'an City have become the standard equipment for nobles. Anyone who does not ride in such a carriage will be looked down upon.
It is said that Wei Zheng has repeatedly criticized extravagance, but it is of no use.
This time when I come to Lijiazhuang, I have to order a carriage like this.
There is no way, the Xungui family's reputation must be maintained, otherwise they will be expelled from the ranks of Xungui.
The warrior Xun glanced at the insignia on the oncoming gorgeous carriage and recognized it at a glance. It was the carriage belonging to the mansion of Duke Junji of Lu State.
It looked like he was coming out of Lijiazhuang, and he didn't know what he was going to talk about.
While he was thinking about something, Wu Hua here shouted again, "Hey, look, there are so many cows."
Samurai Yu raised his eyes and looked over, and was immediately frightened.
The pastures in the distance were densely packed with cows. The sheer number of them was mind-numbing. At a glance, there were more than a thousand of them.
"This is really..."
Although he had heard that Lijiazhuang was rich in Guanzhong before he came here, the warrior Yu didn't really believe it.
After all, there are countless wealthy families in Guanzhong, so a mere Zhuangzi is nothing.
But now that I have seen the wealth along the way, and think about the many restaurants and markets in Chang'an City, I dare not say that it is comparable to those aristocratic families that have been passed down for hundreds of years, but it is much richer than most of the nobles. At least he is much richer than a poor guy like him.
Looking at his two daughters who were jumping for joy and pointing outside from time to time, an idea came to Samurai Yu's mind.
'The emperor attaches great importance to him, he has a bright future, he is still so young and has never been married, he has incredible wealth and great ability... If this man can become my good son-in-law...'
In fact, the reason why he brought his two daughters was because of this intention.
At the emperor's banquet, Li Yunze's special regard for Wu Hua made him quite moved.
Bringing the eldest daughter Wu Shun along is naturally a multi-layered insurance policy.
Now that he had met the wealthy people of Lijiazhuang along the way, Warrior Xun was already very excited.
The only problem is that since his daughter is still young, he still has to wait a few years. I wonder if Li Yunze can bear it.
While worrying about gains and losses, the carriage stopped and Lijiazhuang finally arrived.
