Chapter 268 Trading
"Not good." Ashina Ayi looked at Leng Feng playfully, looking forward to what other reasons he had to excuse himself.
"You......... Lao Li! Set up a banquet, I want to entertain Princess Ashina! ”
Leng Feng was very helpless, he really had no way to take Ashina Ayi now, so he could only ask Lao Li to set a table for her.
Ashina Ayi, who got the victory, picked up the ice cream again, and looked at the sulking Leng Feng with a smile while eating, she liked this helpless feeling very much.
Leng Feng took a few deep breaths, suddenly remembered something, and said to Ashina Ayi: "Is Princess Ashina interested in doing a business with you?" ”
Ashina Ayi was slightly stunned, why did the Duke of Yiguo, who was still afraid of her like a tiger just now, take the initiative to talk to her about business?
"Tell me about it."
Leng Feng patted Liu Shuwen, Liu Shuwen understood, and left the living room with Liu Shuya, leaving only Ashina Ayi and Leng Feng alone.
"Princess Ashina," Leng Feng walked up to her and smiled slightly, "I wonder if Princess Ashina is interested in trading tea, salt, ironware, and silk cloth?" ”
Hearing these three names, Ashina Ayi gently put the ice cream bowl on the table and nodded: "I'm interested, but if it's not a big business, I don't need to mention it." ”
She is a Turkic princess, so naturally there is no shortage of these things, only ordinary herdsmen need these, but how many herdsmen are there? If it's not a big business, it's really useless.
Leng Feng pulled his chair over and sat down opposite Ashina Ayi: "Naturally, it is a large business, although weapons are not included in the iron tools, but the items I said can provide at least a thousand times more than the goods of those smuggled merchants!" ”
"What?"
Ashina Ayi stood up, moving so much that she almost knocked over the chair.
Smuggled a thousand times more than the goods of merchants! What's that concept?
The "smuggling" work has been around for a long time, and the grassland people's demand for salt, ironware, silk cloth, and tea is endless, but these things are not precious things in the Central Plains, as long as they are transported to the grassland, they are silver-level prices.
However, salt and iron tools are all things that the imperial court grasps, and it is strictly forbidden to appear on camera. As the saying goes, "birds die for food, and people die for money", many merchants noticed this way of making money, and took the risk of violating the ban of the imperial court to transport goods to the grassland to seek huge profits. But fortunately, they are still a little patriotic and do not become "arms dealers".
There were very few people who dared to violate the ban of the imperial court, so the goods transported to the steppe by a few merchants could not even meet the needs of the nobles, let alone the commoners. If the cold front can really provide those goods in large quantities, it will be a good thing for the grassland.
Ashina Ayi thought about it for a long time and sat back down: "Gong Xiguo, I have to admit that your goods are very tempting, say it, what do you want!" ”
There is no pie falling from the sky, and if the Duke of Xi Guo releases such an attractive thing, he must ask for a lot.
"This~" Leng Feng looked at Ashina Ayi, who showed an inquiring look, and smiled slightly: "I just want cattle and sheep!" ”
"Huh?"
Ashina Ayi didn't expect that what Leng Feng wanted was only cattle and sheep, which were the most worthless things on the grassland.
Looking at the silent Leng Feng, Ashina Ayi clenched his fists and stared at his eyes tightly: "Are you sure you're not playing with me?" ”
Leng Feng nodded.
"Whew~"
Ashina Ayi breathed a sigh of relief, she didn't see the deception in Leng Feng's eyes, so it seemed that he didn't deceive her.
"Tell me, how are you going to trade?"
Leng Feng thought for a while and said, "I will form a caravan to transport ......... to your Western Turks."
"Turkic! There is only one Turk in this world. Ashina Ayi suddenly interrupted Leng Feng's words.
"Okay, Turk, I'll organize a caravan to rush to you! Faint! Transporting these things, allowing the herdsmen to trade freely with them, you just need to make sure that the other Turkic nobles don't interfere, and that my caravan members don't get harmed. As a reward for taking advantage of your position, every time you transport goods, one percent belongs to you, how about that? ”
Ashina Ayi nodded, this method is good, and as the facilitator of this transaction, she can also give priority to the herdsmen under her command. In this case, it should actually be overpaid on her side. The "reward" is simply earned by her.
It seems that this Gong Guo is not very good at doing business.
Leng Feng looked at the thoughtful Ashina Ayi and asked, "Is there any more questions about Princess Ashina?" ”
"No, it's better to make an agreement on this."
Ashina Ayi stood up and stretched out her slender right hand with five fingers.
Leng Feng also stretched out his right hand and high-fived her three times.
This is the simplest ceremony to make a contract, but at their status, they don't need to be bound by paper handprints or anything, and even high-fives are a bit redundant.
Lao Li knocked on the living room door: "Master, princess, the banquet is ready." ”
After saying that, he avoided it from afar, and as a qualified housekeeper, he should learn to discern what should be known and what should not be known. In the past, it was his duty to tell the lord that the banquet was ready, and it was also his duty to leave immediately after speaking.
"The banquet is ready, are you sure Princess Ashina won't call your brother Helu to come too?" To be honest, Leng Feng was very interested in Ashina Helu, and when he called out the name "Helu" from Ashina Ayi, he felt that this name was very familiar.
It wasn't until he mentioned the deal with the steppe that he remembered this man.
In 646, Ashina Helu led 3,000 people to flee to the Tang Dynasty in fear of crime. At that time, the Tang army was conquering Qiuci, so Li Shimin appointed He Lu as the head of the Kunqiu Road march and marched to Qiuci. Later, Helu was named the governor of Yaochi.
As a result, after Li Zhi ascended the throne, he betrayed the Tang Dynasty and established himself as a khan, and it was not until 658 that Su Dingfang led his army to pacify and surrender Zhaoling.
And the same defection to the Tang Dynasty Qi Qi He Li, but has always been loyal to his duties, even if Li Shimin hiccuped, he also swore allegiance to Li Zhi, still fighting on the battlefield, and after his death, Li Zhi posthumously presented him with the general of the auxiliary country, the governor of the state, and the burial of Zhaoling, and the name of martyr.
This is a treatment that ordinary Datang officials and generals can't enjoy!
Both of them surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, but they ended up with different results, which is a vivid portrayal of the word "wall grass".
Ashina Ayi heard Leng Feng mention her brother, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "Why does Duke Xi Guo care so much about my brother?" He is the deputy envoy, and even in the Honglu Temple, he will be well entertained, so you don't have to care about him. ”
Leng Feng said helplessly: "Then why do you have to eat at my house?" You must know that there are many styles of food in my house, but they may not taste your taste. ”
Well, it's even more difficult to add more, after all, the results of this book are very average, and there is no motivation, but I can only do it when people go to tea and cool their mouths~.
In addition, tomorrow is my father's birthday, the day after tomorrow is my birthday, and my younger brother......... At the end of the month, I'll blow it up again.,Well.,Break up.。
(End of chapter)