Chapter 287: Hu Shang is a big fat sheep
This lord takes a look at the tea of our Luo family, this is the best tea. ”
As soon as Hu Shang successfully traded with the salt merchants of Bashu, he was pulled by a young woman of about thirty. The Luo family is engaged in the tea business, and the Luo family has hundreds of thousands of acres of tea plantations alone. When it comes to this tea business, the Luo family is also the number one in Daqin.
Since the Great Qin occupied the Hetao region and established the Moon City, the trade between the Great Qin and the grassland peoples has become more and more frequent. And the Luo family has also changed from the high-end tea that focuses on the Daqin market to the lot tea that supplies foreign races. In their opinion, the grassland is full of foreign barbarians, and they can drink anything good or bad, let alone tea, or soak some grass in water, but they are afraid that they will not be able to drink it.
"Your tea is so white.
"No, this tea is so big."
Hu Shang said about the tea leaves, but his big furry hand was about to grab the young woman's chest. After all, this young woman has breastfed a child, and the heaviness of the huge thing on her chest is indeed a little tempting.
"Smack."
The young woman of the Luo family is also a spicy character, she slapped Hu Shang's hand, and scolded in her heart: "It is said that the barbarian grew up drinking goat's milk, and sure enough, he couldn't help it when he saw milk." ”
"The mother-in-law of the Luo family still has to go home to nurse the child, and the milk can't be given to you."
"If you can take down all her tea, it's not impossible to give you a bite to eat."
"That is, if you can take down all the tea leaves of their Luo family, we will let you eat a bite."
The surrounding businessmen were obviously familiar with the young women of the Luo family, and they began to coax.
"Cut, if he can take all the tea leaves from my family, let alone let him eat a bite, he wants to eat a few bites and eat a few bites." The mother-in-law of the Luo family didn't care about everyone's jokes, but said very disdainfully.
Tea is the same life necessity as salt for the grassland people, and there is even a saying that the grassland people would rather have no food for three days than no tea for a day, which shows the dependence of the grassland people on tea.
The grasslands are dry and rainless, and unusually cold. Moreover, the diet of the grassland people is much hot, greasy, and indigestible food such as beef and mutton, milk, etc., while the unique house in tea can dissolve fat well, reduce cholesterol, and strengthen the toughness of blood vessels. Due to the long-term consumption of mutton, nomads will have a smell of mutton on their bodies, and when they quote tea for a long time, the tea aroma will also neutralize part of the mutton smell.
When there is demand in the market, profits will be generated, and profitable businesses will naturally be done. A few years ago, when Daqin did not trade with the grassland, although there had always been bold businessmen smuggling tea to the grassland, during that time, even the most inferior tea in Daqin could be sold on the grassland at a sky-high price. And now, after the opening of the trade routes between Daqin and the grassland, a large number of inferior tea has been dumped on the grassland, and tea is not a luxury for the grassland aristocracy.
What the Luo family does is to plant tea, make tea, and sell tea, and there are tens of thousands of tons of tea sold to the grassland through the Luo family every year. You must know that the people on the grassland drink tea not like the Qin people drink tea, these people drink tea like a cow chewing peonies.
"How much tea do you have?" Hu Shang saw the young woman's contemptuous expression, and his heart suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. This Hu merchant is also a big merchant on the grassland, and this time he came to the trade fair in addition to the silver money, he also brought 3,000 good horses. You must know that this good horse is a sky-high price in Daqin, and he is very confident in his financial resources. Of course, it doesn't matter if you eat this little girl's ** or not, the main thing is that you can't be looked down upon by the Qin people.
"A thousand tons? Can you eat it? The little ladies of the Luo family shook the reunion on their chests and said nonchalantly.
Now is not the season for tea production, these teas are the inventory of the Luo family. Every year, the Luo family's own tea garden and the purchase of some retail tea, seven or eight thousand tons of tea will be sent to the Luo family's warehouses in various places every year, but the Luo family dumps tens of thousands of tons of tea on the grassland every year. The error of 2,000 tons is the hands and feet of the Luo family. What leaves, tea stalks are mixed into it, anyway, the barbarians on the grassland can't drink it. The adulteration of this batch of old goods is particularly serious, and the Luo family also wants to take advantage of the beginning of the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone to be able to fool the wronged leaders of this group of alien races.
"I want five hundred tons?"
Hu Shang briefly checked the sample and said, Hu Shang did not see any problem in this way, the tea leaves exported from the grassland by Daqin have always been like this, which is the unspoken rule of Daqin tea merchants. So although the Luo family's batch of tea was still a little second, Hu Shang didn't say anything?
"Can't eat?" The young woman of the Luo family asked with a frown.
"Five hundred tons is enough for our tribe to eat new tea?" Hu Shang thought for a while and said. If all his horses were sold, it would be more than enough to win this batch of tea. But he came here with his horses and was very important to the tribe, since a large number of merchants began to buy rabbit skins and goats. Wars between tribes and tribes over pastures on the steppe became more frequent, and these horses were the assets of their tribe in exchange for weapons and armor.
"That's not the price of new tea?" The mother-in-law of the Luo family said.
"That's it, how expensive is the new tea, I'm saying, you won't eat it." The surrounding businessmen have been coaxed.
"I only eat five hundred tons?" Hu Shang said solemnly.
Seeing Hu Shang's appearance, the young wife of the Luo family knew that I was afraid that this person had really reached the limit. So he hurriedly said: "Okay, 500 tons is 500 tons, let's trade." ”
The young woman of the Luo family didn't care, she was only afraid that she would have half of the profit from the 500 tons. Moreover, there are many Hu businessmen in the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone, and they don't have to worry about buying their own tea.
This Hu merchant is indeed a big dog, he bought the salt of Bashu, followed by the tea of the Luo family, and now he is still wandering around in the free trade zone, obviously there are still a lot of things to buy.
"These barbarians are really rich, but I'm afraid that they will be slaughtered."
"I've seen him drive thousands of horses in, and those horses are good horses, even if they are full, let's not pay attention to horses, this horse is a strategic material, and it will be a disaster in anyone's hands." ”
As soon as Hu Shang left, the merchants gathered around the young woman of the Luo family muttered.
The sky gradually darkened, and the first day of the opening of the Shimenshan Economic Development Zone also came to an end. "Master Hou, a total of 150,000 taels of tax silver have been collected today, and they have all been sealed in the warehouse." Liu Bang, the director of taxation, was busy in the middle of the night, and reported to Li Chen excitedly. Everyone under Li Chen's command glanced at each other, and they all fell silent. Looking at today's hot trading scene, everyone has guessed that it will be a bumper harvest, but no one expected that there would be so much tax silver.
"This is the first day, thank you very much, I'm afraid there won't be so many in the future." Li Chen said. On the first day, everyone's purse was bulging, and they naturally consumed impulsively, and when the silver in their hands was not spacious, these merchants would naturally shop around.
(End of chapter)