After all, he is one of the best businessmen in the world, Wu Shilu was not surprised by the "tens of thousands of big deals" mentioned by Heifu, but just smiled faintly, noncommittal, and invited him home for a banquet after the big competition, it was obvious that Wu Shilu didn't want to talk about it outside.

Hefu only threw out an introduction, and if he couldn't wait to continue, it would seem that he had something to ask for.

So the two tacitly avoided talking about it, but chatted all the way, walked in the same car, and arrived at the foot of Jitou Mountain.

Wu Shilu enthusiastically introduced to Heifu: "Because the rocks of the mountain are dark red, like a group of burning flames, it is called flint, and it is like a crown on the top of a chicken's head, so it is called Jitou Mountain." “

His home, located in the field at the foot of Jitou Mountain, was a wall made of fiery red stone, a high brick wall crawling with vines, and surrounded by heavily armed horsemen patrolling, who should have been attached to Wu Shilu.

After returning to his residence, Wu Shilu did not have to follow the law of "silk embroidery for those who are not allowed to be merchant" as he did outside, and he went into the inner room, and when he came out, he had changed into a loose fiery red silk coat, which made his figure even more bloated, in stark contrast to his capable and lean brother.

Moreover, Heifu found that every finger of Wu Shi Lu had a glitter of precious stones, and even the servants of the family, without exception, wore a silver collar around their necks, which was rumored to be made of gold.

Wu Shi Lu noticed Heifu's gaze and said with a smile: "The border land is not as good as the Central Plains, and the wealth is not exposed, in Wu Shi, if you don't take out the wealth to show the visiting guests, I am afraid that you will be looked down upon." “

"Yes, yes."

Heifu bowed: "Before I traveled, my colleagues in the county advised me to bring as many people as possible to act as a guard of honor. “

The feast soon began, and the air was filled with the aroma of spices such as peppercorns, ginger, dogwood, fuliu vine, and cinnamon branches, and the lamp oil burned endlessly, all kinds of delicious meat were carried up in an endless stream, and most exaggeratedly, there was a whole roasted camel......

"This tuó camel is also a land of the Xiongnu and the Yueshi, and it is often found near the desert." Wu Shiyan, who was sitting with him on the side, was afraid that Heifu and Chen Ping would not know, so he specially introduced it.

Chen Ping looked strange, but Heifu didn't look out of the ordinary, just took a closer look, is this a dromedary camel or a bactrian camel?

After talking about food and what Heifu had seen and heard in the Northland recently, the topic froze again, and Heifu glanced at Chen Ping and signaled that he could start.

So Chen Ping got up solemnly and said to Wu Shilu, who was cutting meat with a knife slowly: "Ping is a native of Dangjun, the land of Dangjun, Sanchuan, and Yingchuan, and its vulgar industry, industry and commerce, and Duojia people. Ping has heard the name of the wealthy merchants in the Central Plains for 300 years since he was a child. Such as Zigong, Tao Zhu, and Bai Gui, but the most memorable is none other than Yidun, who is said to have made a fortune from animal husbandry, like Wujun......"

"Oh?"

I heard that there were people who, like myself, were engaged in animal husbandry to get rich, so Wu Shilu became interested.

Their brother Nairong people, although they have seen a lot of foreign lands, but they don't know much about the culture of Zhongxia, more than 200 years ago, although he was very rich, but his wealth and fame have long been gone with the wind, so the Wu brothers don't know, so let Chen Ping talk about it.

"That Yidun was originally a Lu country, that is, today's Xue County people, poor, often hungry when farming, and often cold when mulberry."

Wu Shilu nodded as he touched the sparkling gemstone ring on his finger, which was very similar to that of their brother when he was younger.

"But Yidun was not willing to be poor, I heard that Tao Zhu Gong was doing business in Dingtao, managing property and accumulating residence, competing with the times, and three thousand gold in 19 years, he was envious, so he took the opportunity of Tao Zhu Gong to recruit customers, and went to ask for advice."

Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li is too famous, Wu Shi Lu has heard of it, but the most enviable thing is that Tao Zhu's family enjoys a huge wealth, but they have always been able to keep their family wealth for a hundred years.

For businessmen, it is not difficult to get rich, but it is rare for a long time.

Chen Ping continued: "After Tao Zhugong talked with Yidun, he thought about the price of goods at that time and taught him a shortcut, saying, 'If you want to get rich quickly, you should be a livestock'!" “

Hearing this, Wu Shilu couldn't help laughing: "This method is exactly the same as my brother's method of saving animals in his early years!" “

Peony for male, female for female, domesticated cow mares, let them mate with breeding cattle and stallions, give birth to cubs in Zhejiang gradually multiply and grow, over time can become rich, this is the accumulation of experience in the early years of Wu's Liu, I suddenly heard that Tao Zhu Gong also thought so, so he had a sense of confidant.

Heifu clapped his hands and praised: "The wise men of the world see the same thing. “

"However, it's a pity that I can't be born three hundred years early, and I can see Tao Zhugong."

Wu Shilu regretted: "I really envy Na Yidun, he has a famous teacher to guide him, but I have to figure everything out by myself, I don't know how he will do in the future?" ”

Chen Ping said: "Yidun listened to Tao Zhugong's words, traveled thousands of miles to Jindi, settled in Yishi County, where water and grass are abundant, big cattle and sheep, ten years later, has become a thousand gold, because of the start in Yi, then called Yidun, in Jin, Lu Xiaofame. But ......"

Wu Shilu was still sighing that the world was magical, it turned out that before him, there was already a giant who took the animal husbandry route, but because he was in the land of Rong Di on the border, he didn't know, and he heard Chen Ping's unfinished meaning, so he asked: "But what?" ”

Chen Ping stretched out his hand, picked up the salt shaker on the table, and sprinkled white green salt on the camel meat in front of him: "However, after ten years of animal husbandry, Yidun said that merchants cannot get rich forever by one industry, so in addition to animal husbandry, they started to buy and sell 盬 (gǔ) salt, and when selling cattle and sheep, by the way, they used livestock to transport some pond salt, and sold them together with livestock......

"Sure enough, Yidun's worries are not superfluous, within a few years, Zhao Wuxian, the head of the Zhao family, designed to destroy the dynasty and open the land, the Zhao family has more cattle and horses, and Yidun's livestock is not easy to sell."

Wu Shi was silent, but secretly said in his heart: "Yidun and I are really too similar......

Their Wu clan also started from livestock, and Wu Shi Yan was satisfied with a hundred gold and a small fortune. However, Wu Shilu believed that the market was as fickle as the weather, and that business was easy to do at the moment, but it might not work tomorrow, so he began to do transit again, and engaged in silk and horse trade between the interior and the Rong tribe, and later successively increased grain, brown sugar, salt, and other materials. In the words of later generations, only by increasing the diversity of commodities can we avoid risks.

But even so, as the emperor decided to implement the strategy of westward expansion, aiming directly at the Xiongnu and Yueshi, the trading partners of Wushi, he also understood that his business was about to enter a cold winter.

Qin seized Hexi, Henan, and Hetao, and there will be three more large pastures, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses will pour into the interior, and the price of his Wu's livestock will definitely plunge. Moreover, after the Qin Dynasty's strong men took it all and eliminated all the independent regimes in the surrounding areas, the transit trade that their families also operated was also completed......

Wu Shilu himself was thinking hard, and he also wanted to know how Yidun, who was in a similar situation to himself, solved this problem.

For the first time, Wu Shilu took the initiative to ask, and after Chen Ping and Heifu glanced at each other, they coughed lightly and said:

"Yidun took advantage of the separation of the four kings, the decline of the office, and the gap of the ownerless pool, and spent a lot of money to buy off the ruling Zhibo of the Jin State, and got the right to operate the salt in the east of the river......"

"Relying on the Rao of the Salt Pond, Yi Dun 赀 (zī) was a prince and became famous all over the world, and it was not until after his death that the Wei State took back the salt pond."

"Getting rich by running a salt pond?"

Wu Shilu's eyes dimmed, because of Yidun's method, he couldn't learn it, without him, the national situation was different.

The government does not directly operate the development of the benefits of the forests, rivers and rivers of the Sanjin Dynasty, but allows "wealthy people" like Yidun to operate and develop, and extract a certain amount of heavy taxes.

However, unlike the six countries that engaged in a market economy, Qin followed the line of a large country and a large government and a planned economy. Hugh said that the great interests of the country such as salt and iron even longed for wine, meat, and cloth to be monopolized by the government, but the "official mountains and seas" proposed by Guan Zhong were thoroughly implemented by Qin, who was the farthest away from him.

Therefore, although Wu Shilu is more powerful than the feudal monarch, he is only a dog of the government and is not qualified to meddle in the inland salt industry.

If you can't do it in the mainland, what about the salt outside the plug? In fact, Wu Shi Lu has been operating in secret.

The salt of Beidi County mainly depends on the "Huamachi" located two hundred miles outside the Great Wall (between Yanchi County, Ningxia and Dingbian County, Shaanxi), Huamachi has many salt brine, the water taste is bitter, the lake surface is crystal clear like a mirror, the whole pond is white and boundless, and a lot of salt can be produced every year.

Every year, Wu's caravan would take two routes, the western route was to Yueshi Huangzhong. On the eastern route, it was to first go to the Xiongnu garrison at the eastern foot of Helan Mountain, exchange the goods of the Central Plains for cattle and horses, and then drive the cattle and horses to the east to Huamachi. Horses on the back of cattle are full of local green salt, and then go east to Shangjun, and then go south to Xianyang, Xianyang is not short of salt, after the cattle and horses are processed, the remaining horses, they will pull the salt back to the north, and make a lot of profits.

This is also one of the reasons why Wu Shilu did not want Qin to use troops against the Xiongnu and Yan Yan, he had been a dog to Qin Shi Huang for so many years, and he still didn't know the urine sex of the Qin Dynasty government? At that time, officials will definitely be sent directly into Huamachi to engage in the imperial court franchise.

Wu Shi said secretly: "The Ba widow Qing family originally had the right to develop the salt of the Bashu well, but since the widow Qing was moved to Xianyang, this right has also been taken back by His Majesty, and the salt of Bashu is all owned by the county and county mining franchise. ”

Peers were unlucky, and Wu Shilu gloated, but did not feel the sadness of the rabbit and the fox.

What he could feel was different from when he swept away the Six Kingdoms, when he needed to rely on the financial resources of the Wu clan and the Ba clan, after dominating the world, Qin Shi Huang was rich in the sea, and there was no longer a need for wealthy merchants like them.

The policy is tightening, the government has not yet stepped in, and there is not much left for the two profitable industries. After the loss of the salt industry, Ba Zhong, the son of the Ba widow Qing, could only increase the human trafficking of the servants, using the slaves bought from Yunnan and the Yan to grow sugarcane in Jiangyang, Fuguan and other places in Shuzhong, trying to follow the example of Nanjun Anlu to make and sell brown sugar.

"But where is the way out for my family?"

Thinking of this, Wu Shi glanced at Heifu, brown sugar was made up by this son's family, and the name of "Sugar Lady" has been known in the south and Xianyang, plus the "Heifu paper" he supervised has also been circulated in many counties and counties, becoming a new source of wealth for the government.

"No wonder my brother said that if Heifu came to do business, his wealth would be no less than that of the Wu clan."

He also understands that Chen Ping's big talk about Yidun today is just throwing a brick, in the final analysis, it is still necessary to let him know his situation, and then lead to the "jade" in Heifu's hand.

At this point, Wu Shilu can't wait to know what the "big deal of tens of thousands of dollars" is what Heifu said! Perhaps, there really is some novel idea that can bring his family back to life!

Wu Shilu also lost face, so he got up and moved to the front of Heifu to bow to him.

"The old man is stupid, and he still wants the county lieutenant to advise!"

Heifu knew that Chen Ping's performance was over, and it was his turn to go on the finale.

He swallowed the hot meat and said with a smile: "The huge profit business I am talking about, there is a far and a near, I don't know which one Wujun wants to hear first?" ”

"Far away." Wu Shi Lu does not play cards according to the routine.

In this case, Heff starts with a distance:

"There is a saying in the Central Plains, a leaf is blind, and Mount Tai is not seen. Wujun, for so many years, aren't you curious, those silk silks sold to the Yueshi and the Huns, did they keep and wear them for themselves? Or do you want to continue west, sell it to an exotic state on the other side of the quicksand for ten times the price? ”

On the 28th day of the 28th month of the 28th year of the reign of Qin Shi Huang (the first month of the lunar calendar), in Heifu's muttering narration, a trade route called the "Silk Sugar Road" appeared in Wu's mind......