The night was cold and the bonfire was blazing.

A soldier hunted two black muntjacs nearby, disemboweled, skinned them, pierced them with a spear, and roasted them on the fire.

Fang Jun's eyelids jumped when he saw it......

This thing will be an internationally endangered animal in the future, and it is possible to kill both of them and be sentenced to life. The most important thing is that there is no oil, no sauce and so hot, isn't it tyrannical to roast like this?

Hurriedly struggled to stand up, carried a broken pine pole and beat the soldier far away, ordered someone to bring the iron pot for the march, set up a shelf and put it on the fire, and collected the snow in the shade of the mountain col and put it in the pot to melt into water, and let the soldier chop the black muntjac that had cleaned up the internal organs into squares with a horizontal knife, blanched it in warm water, and then poured out the water, collected a pot of snow water again, and put the muntjac meat in the pot under cold water, and cut the pine pole in his hand into a small section of about half a foot with a horizontal knife and threw it into the pot.

Watching the leader of the gang take out a small packet of salt from his arms, he pinched a small pinch with the tips of his fingers and put it into the pot. Fang Jun couldn't help it again, stepped forward and kicked the leader of the picky search, and reached out to turn out all the large and small bags in his arms.

I opened it and sniffed it one by one, poured salt, cinnamon powder, star anise powder, and pepper into the pot, clapped my hands, and limped back to the campfire to lie down......

The leader of the gang almost cried, rubbing his hands and looking at Dugu Mou pitifully......

The food in the army is very simple, just get some food and put it in a large pot and add water to cook it, anyway, everything is boiled, at most put a little coarse salt when the conditions allow. Dugumou is a child of the family who has always been pampered, and he is both a horse and a general, so he naturally has his own small stove.

As a result, the little private goods in the hands of the gang leader were all ruined by Fang Jun. There were a full three taels of pepper there, and the marching troops in the field pointed to this thing to season the general, but it was all gone......

Dugu Mou looked up at the sky and did not look at the sad expressions of his subordinates.

Not to mention a small bag of pepper, even if a bag of golden sand was given by Fang Jun to play with mud, Dugumou would not say a word......

One is that he doesn't dare, who doesn't know the temperament of Fang Er's mallet?

is also a shame, Fang Jun is one of the richest people in the world, naturally delicacies and delicacies, if he even has a small bag of pepper, wouldn't he be despised by Fang Jun?

But how could his expression hide from Fang Jun's eyes?

Fang Jun said angrily: "Look at that little bit of interest!" When you were still pepper as you were to be golden? Let me tell you, the last time I went to sea, I found countless islands in the South China Sea, and one of the islands was full of pepper trees, and the tallest one was three feet high! The fleet has sent soldiers to garrison on the island, and since then there has been a steady stream of pepper transported back to Datang by sea, at least one million catties a year! ”

"Really?"

Dugumou and Li Junxian's eyes were round!

Not only the two of them, but even the eldest grandson Wuji was shocked!

Don't brag about this kid, right?

A million pounds of pepper...... That must be worth more than 100,000 catties of gold!

In the Middle Ages, pepper was not only expensive in China, but also known as black gold in Europe. Since Roman times, spices have been synonymous with gold in many places, and pepper has long been used as currency in Western countries. That is to say, pepper can be used directly as money, for example, if you eat in a restaurant and don't bring money, give the boss a few peppers, and the boss will never beat you.

What's more, pepper has also triggered cannibalism among European countries......

In the 5th century, in order to demand gold and pepper, the Visigothic leader Alari led his troops to besiege the city of Rome, vowing to slaughter the city without pepper and gold, and finally the Romans had to pay 5,000 pounds of gold and 3,000 pounds of pepper, which made Arari withdraw his army.

In order to snatch more pepper, the Europeans opened new sea routes, eventually discovering and colonizing the Americas. Until the 17th century, Europeans were still killing pepper.

It can be said that the history of medieval Europe is simply a history of pepper......

For the eldest grandson Wuji, how could he not know the value of pepper?

Dugu Mou exclaimed: "Editian! That Erlang really deserves the saying that the rich are rivaling the country! ”

Fang Jun pouted: "The fart is rich and rivals the country!" Could that be one of your own? All the overseas income is from the 'Dongdatang Company', and there is not much left to divide it around. Besides, it is precisely because pepper is scarce that it is more expensive than gold, and if it is full of mountains, it is not worth much...... By the way, you Dugu family also have a share. ”

Dugumou's pupils had turned into a copper coin, and as for what Fang Jun said, he didn't listen to it at all. In the consciousness of people in this era, even if pepper is all over the mountain, it is still pepper! It's like gold is still gold even if it falls in price all the way!

The simple values make people in this era rarely aware of the subtle fluctuations in prices, and only when natural and man-made disasters come, do they suddenly wake up to the fact that the money at home can no longer buy a bucket of rice......

The eldest grandson Wuji was a little in a trance.

The benefits of a single pepper can be staggering, but what about glass? What about bamboo paper? What about silk? What about porcelain? The value of these things in the Central Plains is far less than that of pepper, but they have always been the highest luxury goods overseas, and how much profit will the entire "Dongdatang Firm" make in a year?

The eldest grandson's family has accumulated family business from generation to generation, and it took a hundred years to achieve the status of today's first-class scholar.

However, the eldest grandson Wuji suddenly discovered that perhaps just by virtue of the family's share in the "Dongdatang Firm", he could easily earn more than more than his ancestors for more than 100 years......

And the person in charge of the "Dongda Tang Firm" at home is the eldest grandson of the concubine who has never ignored its existence......

Thinking of this, the eldest grandson Wuji was suddenly taken aback.

!

Fang Jun, the little bastard, wouldn't he deliberately let the eldest grandson take charge of the "Eastern Tang Dynasty Firm", so as to enhance the status of the eldest grandson in the eldest grandson family, and then achieve the purpose of causing the eldest grandson family to have a crisis in the dispute between the eldest grandson?

Sun Wuji, the conspirator parent, has never been afraid to speculate on everyone and everything with the deepest malice, and will think about the worst first......

"So, don't use up your pepper and have to worry about it, maybe when the Ming Dynasty wakes up, you will find that pepper is cheaper than rice...... Take a long-term view, be more open-minded, don't always worry about the current acre and three points of land, the world is very big, there is a lot of wealth, some are places for you to conquer the city and expand the territory, and some are places for you to collect gold and copper to enrich the world! ”

Fang Jun kept bewitching.

Generals like Li Junxian and Dugumou who stay by His Majesty Li Er's side all day long are considered overkill, so they should be released to harm those barbarians. The older generation of commanders in the Tang Army, such as Li Xiaogong, Li Jing, Li Ji, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong, Li Daliang and other commanders and generals are gradually aging, the new generation of famous generals such as Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian and others are slowly rising, Xi Junmai, Cheng Wuting and others still need to be carved, Li Junxian, Dugumou and other generals are combat power once they are released, even if it is a century-old war like the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo, it can be the main force!

If you have the ability, don't call at home, you have to go out to capture the flag, attack the city and plunder the land!

As long as generation after generation of famous generals emerge in an endless stream, the martial arts of Datang will not be broken, and the crushing advantage of the surrounding alien races will be maintained for a long time.

The imperial examination is a good system, which can make the cold family gradually rise, the scholar clan gradually wither, and the talented people in the world can be simply promoted and reused, regardless of their background, which is the foundation of the empire's long-term prosperity.

However, the imperial examination also has drawbacks, once reading is elevated to a lofty status, "everything is inferior, only reading is high", then it is also a kind of sadness. The situation of the noble and the lowly will be formed, without the martial style, the waist of the Han people will be empty, the backbone will be gone, and the article will be prosperous and splendid for a hundred generations, or it should not be a sword!

Daming's sorrow, Fang Jun never wanted Datang to taste it in advance......

The mountain wind blew the aroma of meat far away, and Fang Jun personally forked a piece of meat from the pot with a soldier's horizontal knife and handed it to the eldest grandson Wuji.

The eldest grandson Wuji hesitated slightly, and the entourage around him was like a great enemy.

The eldest grandson Wuji is not afraid of what Fang Jun will do with meat, but eating meat like this is definitely not in line with the status of his family's son Gaojiazun......

It's just that the smell of this meat is really attractive, and I suddenly feel very hungry in my belly, and I don't have to pay so much attention to the march at the moment, didn't I follow His Majesty Li Er in the army at the beginning, how could I be so reserved and self-respecting?

After hesitating for a moment, he made up his mind to reach out, and the result was ......

Fang Jun retracted his hand with a smile, took the knife to his mouth and took a big bite of the meat, his mouth was full of oil, and he said vaguely: "Since Zhao Guogong is worried that the food in the wild is unclean, then he has to eat it himself...... Whew, so hot...... Huhu, you don't eat, I'll eat, it's so fragrant......"

The eldest grandson Wuji froze in place, his eyes were round and his face was red, and he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood!