Chapter 778: Cheap Horses on Fire
The trade of 10,000 cheap horses, everyone has no heart to eat.
At the third quarter of the first month, the handover of money and goods was completed.
Zhuangzi gave 5,000 horses, and the other 5,000 were responsible for transporting things, which were leased by the imperial court.
Now the formalities of those horses are in the hands of the imperial court, and there is no need to pay rent.
Song Jing was in a good mood and continued to eat in heaven and earth.
Li Yi breathed a sigh of relief: "Tomorrow I will send someone to learn bicycles, go to Chang'an City to ride, and show others." ”
"Proprietor, do you want to go now? I guess they're going to get there. Song De nodded to indicate that he knew about selling bicycles, and talked about another thing.
"I haven't eaten yet, let's go, I'll go too." Li Yi rode his bicycle to change clothes.
Putting on a military coat and sitting in an ambulance with a sleigh below, the brigade in Zhuangzi left Zhuangzi and circled westward.
1,000 sleds, 3,000 forest flyers and 200 households were dispatched.
As soon as the Li family Zhuangzi set out, the people were once again curious, what did they do?
"Li Yi left Li's Zhuangzi, and his ambulance was protected from the south of the city to detour, as if heading to the west of the city." There is a root class who went to heaven and earth to report information.
"It's almost the New Year, what is the purpose of his coming out? Is there a problem in the west of the city that needs to be dealt with by him personally? Song Jing had to pay attention.
Li Yi's every move is holding the hearts of many people, just now he bought 10,000 horses cheaply in his hands, he can't think about it, right?
Bi Gou didn't understand the situation, looking at Su Ying, Su Ying had not been the prime minister for a long time, and he didn't know Li Yi's thoughts.
Yao Chong glanced at it and sighed: "Alas! Twenty-five is not expensive to buy a horse, and a sleigh does not cost a lot of money, so ask the trade union to make it. ”
"yes, it's not expensive." Song Jing's head, that's right, twenty-five yuan, buy in large quantities, 10,000 horses, change hands and sell slowly, you can make the difference.
"Alas!" Wei Zhigu sighed: "Yu Huaide's are back, right?" I don't know if I'll go out next year. ”
Bi Gou patted his head: "That's right, the smuggling alliance hasn't returned so far this year, and they should want to come back for the New Year." Last year was to open the door, this year ...... Your Majesty will be pleased. ”
Bi Gou remembered that there was still a team, a team that made money for His Majesty.
That team pitted a lot of officials, the officials took the money, and His Majesty asked them to work, so they had to pay out of their own pockets.
Song Jing was not in Chang'an last year, and then no one told him, but now he heard everyone say it, and asked in a low voice: "That team is buying and selling things?" ”
"There will be a lot of horses sent back, I don't know if this time they are only trading on the Tibetan border, or if they have also run away to the Turks."
Bi Gou looked helpless and took the wine to drink.
"Twenty-five horses are not expensive." Yao Chong comforted Song Jing again.
Song Jing: "......"
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Li Yi's team kept running west, and when it was almost midnight, the scouts reported first, and the distance between the two sides was twenty miles.
"Quick, they must not be in a hurry, go over first, help them set up camp, let them rest." Li Yi could guess that Yu Huaide and the others were in a hurry.
The New Year is coming soon, and the closer you are to home, the more eager you are.
When Li Yi's team and Yu Huaide's team met, many people who came back with the smuggling team couldn't help but shed tears.
Along the way, they were scared, and only when they converged could they be completely reassured.
The people who came later helped set up camp, and those who came back drank the soup and lay down to sleep.
In the morning, it was already dawn, so I woke them up, had a simple meal, and everyone walked back.
The goods were loaded onto the sleigh last night, and the more than 40,000 horses that were brought back were also fed.
Sitting in Li Yi's car, Yu Huaide and the others began to introduce the transaction.
There were few horses bought in Tubo, but there were many pearls and furs, and the horses were used to prepare for war, and many were stolen by the Tang Dynasty.
The horses that were robbed were left in the border area, and there was a governor or jiedu envoy who was responsible for raising them.
The trade team heard about the Turkic civil strife and ran to the border of the Turks, in exchange for a lot of good horses.
In particular, some small tribes, thinking that the days of being oppressed by the Turks are over, celebrate.
"On the way back, the officials in various places stopped collecting the grain and grass that were exchanged for horses that were physically weak." Yu Huaide regretted it.
"They are mainly not stupid, they have been cheated once, and they have already understood who is behind you." Li Yi smiled.
"Proprietor Li, these horses are still yours, and the other things are enough for Your Majesty to share and leave for us, and we will earn more this year."
Yu Huaide: They don't want horses, and it's hard to raise them.
The area around Jingzhaofu is a plain, 800 miles of Qinchuan, growing grain for living, not suitable for raising horses.
To the west is the horse breeding land of the Tang Dynasty, and from Gyeonggi Province to the top is Kannai Province, and Guannai Road is the Loess Plateau.
Continuing to the north, after the Great Wall is the desert, the Mu Us Desert, the one that is repairing wells and roads.
To the east there is a small plain, which is actually a basin, the valley of the Fen River.
If you want to find the plains again, you have to go to the North China Plain further east, or the Heluo Plain in Luoyang.
It's too troublesome to raise horses, so it's better to give it to Li Yi, Li Zhuangzi has the ability to find a place to place horses.
"I just want these horses, don't want the others, you stay, you go outside to work hard, I don't know what the situation will be next year, it's better to stay at home and send someone to see."
Li Yi decided to ask for less this time, and the extra was given to the smugglers who ran so far.
"Li Dongzhu is benevolent and righteous." Yu Huaide agreed on behalf of everyone.
In fact, there are not many, about fifty or sixty thousand.
Of course, there are many more than last year, and this year's situation is better, and there are more goods to be carried.
With the sleigh, the speed of the procession was fast, and as soon as noon arrived, the city walls were seen.
The people passing by looked at this huge procession, there were many horses, and looked at the appearance of the horses, all of them were good.
The team continued to circle from the south, first to Lijia Zhuangzi for correction, mainly to rest.
Take a bath, eat well, sleep for a day and a night, don't think about anything, don't care about anything, and sell things when you're comfortable.
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"Seeing that there are forty-five or six thousand good horses, which can be used as military horses, there is no shortage of horses in Jingzhao Mansion."
The person who ran to inquire about the news returned to the political hall of Xingqing Palace and sighed with emotion.
Song Jing licked the two big bubbles in his lower lip with his tongue, his face full of bitterness.
He looked at Bi Gou, who shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands as he looked like a benefit: "The old man just said, things are too happy, there must be a problem." ”
"The bubble in my mouth should be punctured, smeared with watermelon cream, and go to the imperial doctor." Song Jing felt that the bubble hurt even more.
Yesterday, he was afraid of long nights and dreams, so he didn't eat, so he rushed to give the money to Li Yi, and the two sides signed the deed, pressed the handprint, and signed the seal.
Yesterday's horse was worth thirty horses, but today it is not.
More than 40,000 military horses are better than 10,000 horses bought for 250,000.
"Yes, find a doctor, watermelon cream is good, the preparation method of watermelon cream has been spread to all parts of Datang, and Li Yi has never kept it a secret. Otherwise, he could make a lot of money with just this medicine. ”
Bi Gou was embarrassed, he thought he had a little responsibility in it.
If he wasn't so active, how could he have spent 250,000 yuan on 10,000 horses today? 200,000 yuan is overgiven.