"The land of Chu has indeed been unstable in recent years, and merchants have become the target of many people's eyes. Although Lingnan is remote, it should be much more stable than other places. With Boss Gao's connections and family capital, why not settle down in Lingnan? "Liu Jixing seemed to be thinking, looking at Gao Ke and feeling slightly puzzled.
Because before Liu Jixing ascended the throne, he had considered a plan to increase the number of people. Therefore, while Liu Sheng is still here, we will start planning for the future. In fact, it proved that the original decision was correct, because many actions allowed Liu Jixing to be one step ahead of others.
Just like one of the decisions, many people were sent to various places to collect refugees and immigrate to the Han Dynasty, which has now greatly enriched the population of Lingnan. Even capable subordinates like Guo Jing were originally recruited from refugees. People like Gao Ke who do business in Prince Xing's Mansion all year round not only have a much stronger foundation and survival ability than ordinary people. Even he himself should be able to understand that today's Prince Xing's Mansion is much better than elsewhere.
What's more, although merchants are not taken seriously in this era, and even have a vague status similar to civilians, that is only limited to those small merchants. A person like Gao Ke, who has thousands of business rules, is much better than ordinary officials. A businessman who travels around all year round will naturally enjoy it more than ordinary people. He will definitely have concubines and children in Prince Xing's Mansion.
Even if he has family and children in Chu, it would not be difficult if he could gradually move to Prince Xing's Mansion.
Since Liu Jixing came to power, he has greatly relaxed the preferential treatment for businessmen, and even did not hesitate to recruit businessmen from all over the world to come to Lingnan to drive the economy. Therefore, when large-scale celebrations were held in the palace in the past, Liu Jixing would uncharacteristically invite merchants whose business in Prince Xing's Mansion and the court exceeded a certain amount.
Gao Ke was obviously one of the people who benefited, because tea is a specialty of the Chu region and one of the main sources of external income for the Chu region. Although tea has been produced in Lingnan since ancient times, the quality is far inferior to that of Chu tea. Gao Ke transported the tea from Chu region to Lingnan, and then brought the sea salt from Lingnan back to Chu region. The transportation and reselling of this kind of materials, without the support of the court, can only be regarded as reselling private salt.
And people like Gao Ke will naturally try every means to get involved with the two courts. At a very low purchase price, he purchased tea leaves in large quantities in the Chu region, and then traveled thousands of miles to Lingnan. Of course, what Liu Jixing is interested in is who Gao Ke contacted to acquire Haiyan online. Because sea salt is also a strategic material in Lingnan, although the court will wholesale it in limited quantities, Liu Jixing basically knows all the merchants who get sea salt.
Nowadays, tea from Chudi can not only be sold in Lingnan, but also sold overseas through Liu Jixing's cheap brother-in-law Abbas, a large merchant in the imperial court. With the acquisition by the imperial court and wholesale distribution at the station, Gaoke's profits can naturally be imagined.
Of course, in addition to the huge profits from sea salt, Gao Ke can purchase extremely low-priced seafood and various dried fruits from Lingnan and bring them to Chudi for sale.
This kind of thing can make huge profits for both sides. Where can Gao Ke not make a fortune? Nowadays, Liu Jixing in Lingnan has increased the management of coastal seafields, especially Xiangshanying under the jurisdiction of Baoan County, which has gradually become the largest sea salt field in Lingnan. However, Liu Jixing had extremely strict control over the sea salt under his name, because it was not only one of the main sources of the Lingnan treasury, but also one of the power supplies that ordinary people could create the greatest value for.
For more than ten years, with the disintegration of Ma Chu, the Chu region has been experiencing constant wars and disputes.
Even if the Gao family has some roots in Chu, they may not live a comfortable life. Based on Liu Jixing's feelings after passing through Chu Di during these times and entering Lingnan. I'm afraid that compared with Shaozhou, the area around Tanzhou is much worse in terms of stability.
With Gaoke's intelligence, it was impossible to think of this.
But it's completely different here in Lingnan, because although the Liu Dynasty has some bad habits, for at least thirty or forty years, the people have been living and working in peace and contentment. Although Liu Jixing could not turn around at once, the great ancestor Liu Yan and the cheap old man Liu Sheng gave everyone a strong feeling. Even in order to frighten Xiao Xiao, Liu Jixing also killed several people ruthlessly. But in the end Liu Jixing gave him a few more candies, so the people gradually got to know him as a little emperor.
In the eyes of the Central Plains people, today's Chu land is a desolate land. Although it was once a land of plenty, the destruction of the descendants of the Ma family also completely destroyed the prosperity of the Chu region. Lingnan is even more of a remote and barbaric place, but it is because of this misunderstanding that Lingnan has developed rapidly in recent decades. Many people don't know the reason, but people like Gao Ke should know the difference!
What's more, what Liu Jixing is most proud of is that he has planned and built many high-end residential areas near Prince Xing's Mansion. They were all sold at very high prices, and it can be said that they made a lot of money. However, this strategy implemented by Liu Jixing has won the support of wealthy businessmen everywhere. Because the prosperity of Xingwang Mansion is visible, owning a manor near Xingwang Mansion is the dream of many wealthy people.
"How can a certain family not think about it?" At this time, Gao Ke smiled bitterly and said lightly: "A certain family has a cousin in Jinling, but he has received some news in the past two years. It is said that it is Guo Rong, the current co-owner of the Central Plains. , was originally a young and promising man. He was ambitious and wanted to go south and north to unify the Central Plains. In the past two years, he had beaten the Tang State to the point where he even lost his honorary title. I’m afraid Lingnan will not be spared by then!”
Liu Jixing was stunned for a moment after hearing this. This was the first time he heard someone talk about this kind of prophecy since he came here, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost for a moment. To say that the Southern Tang Dynasty was beaten by the Later Zhou Dynasty and the title was removed, this is the case in history. However, the later Zhou Dynasty's expedition to Chu and Lingnan was only after Zhao Kuangyin came to power. At this time, someone thought of this issue. It seems that many people in the world have clearly seen the problem and the current situation.
"Brother Gao, are you serious about what you said?" The person who spoke this time was actually Chen Geng, who had rarely spoken during the whole journey. After all, he had to keep a moderate low profile in front of Ouyang Tong, and because of Xia Qinghou, he couldn't be too public in front of Liu Jixing. When Gaoke said these words, the man who seemed calm on the surface became serious for the first time.
The Chen family has not taken any action in these years. That is because the disintegration of the Ma family in Chuland led to the Chen family's annexation to Lingnan. As a new big family in Lingnan, although the Ma family has no talents since Ma Yin, at least the Chen family has decades of roots in Chu. What's more, after hundreds of years of reproduction, there are so many talents in the family that they naturally have their own opinions.
Although the Liu family in Lingnan had made great achievements since the time of Emperor Gaozu, the transfer of father and son to Liu Sheng was rumored to be intolerable by the outside world. There are also rumors that the Liu family and his son are cruel and selfish, which has made everyone even more uneasy since the Chen family entered Lingnan. In addition, the imperial court was recruiting talents on a large scale, but there was no special recruitment of direct descendants of the Chen family, which made the Chen family even more suspicious.
So when I heard that the Central Plains was finally going to take over Lingnan, Chen Geng, as the head of the Chen family, naturally had a lot of worries in his heart. War means life and death, and war means the need for soldiers. Although there are many children of the Chen family, when the court actually recruits men, even if the Chen family has status and money, there will inevitably be many children who cannot be avoided.
"It's absolutely true! A certain cousin has a good relationship with the general and supervisor of the Tang Dynasty, but I heard that the Tang Dynasty Yi Lao was worried about it in private. It is said that that gentleman is living in a gay and drunken life, just like the head of the Tang Dynasty. I hope I die drunk in that gentle countryside!" Gao Ke sighed slightly and said: "Everyone can see the national strength of the Tang State. That was where they once occupied the Chu Territory, and even they were vulnerable. So what should we do with the Chu Territory and Lingnan? "
Liu Jixing actually didn't say anything, because what Gao Ke said was the superficial truth. When he was about to tilt his head and talk to Ouyang Tong, he suddenly heard Ouyang Tong let out a slight sigh, and then saw him chatting softly about the side. car curtains.
On the edge of the woods, the man who was so arrogant at first was knocked to the ground by Yuan Shihou's bamboo sheath sword! Yuan Shihou's sword was not unsheathed, but he seemed to be a completely different person. Standing there, no one has time, kanq
