"My lord, the summer tea is about to be picked, and there is still no progress in tea planting? What to do? Duan Qian came back to report on his work, and he miraculously lost weight, and even turned black.

"There's no hurry, just wait." In fact, Li Dongsheng was the most anxious in his heart, but everyone was watching him, and he couldn't mess up.

"No one has bought that license for several days, and everyone is waiting." Duan Qian said: "Wang Xie Yuan Gu Si and everyone joined forces to send out a message, and merchants are not allowed to buy licenses. Although everyone has opinions, these four are all sitting tigers, and although they have complaints in their hearts, they dare not resist. "No wonder the businessmen who blocked the door a few days ago can't see it.

"Oh yes! Is this still the world of Datang? Li Dongsheng scolded a foul word, the government's edict is not as good as the words of the local tyrants in the countryside. I didn't want to use Mu Zhonghai, but now I can't use it, it seems that there is still a catfish.

An astonishing news spread in Hangzhou, and a Hu man spent 20,000 yuan to buy the first license of the tea division. That is to say, if you want to buy tea in other places in the future, you can only find this Hu person, and if the inspection department or Tang Jun finds that the tea team is not this Hu person, it will be punished as smuggling and tax evasion.

"Hateful! We wanted to wait a little longer and put down the money for this license, but a Hu businessman ruined the plan. Gu Qi patted the table hatefully.

"Don't talk about that, what now?" Wang Wang was also anxious: "Many small merchants have gone to the tea division to buy licenses, and their prices are different in each place according to the size and distance of the region. The small ones are hundreds, and the big ones are tens of thousands. What kind of one do we buy? ”

"Of course we're going to buy the Gangnam area, it's our home turf. Did the person who came out of it be elected? How many days? Can you still do things? Xie Cong was also anxious. It was so unpleasant to see a large amount of money flying in front of me.

"What did Lord Yuan say? Isn't it okay to let the officials below do something when they are measuring? Besides, there isn't much land? Most of them are tea hills. What if you give Li Dong a boost? How much land does it take to produce tens of thousands! "It's Wang Wang who speaks, his family is also weakened now, the land is not too much, there are many people in the family, and he urgently needs new financial resources to subsidize the huge expenses of the family.

"I know, Li Dongsheng also knows that it is not a problem if you have a few hectares of land in the north, where you have been fighting for many years, there are few people and many lands, all of them are borderless land, as long as you reclaim it, it is yours, and there are more landlords with thousands of acres of land, and even tens of thousands of acres are not uncommon. And here in Jiangnan, we are the opposite, if we have a few hundred acres of land, it can be regarded as a hero, if there are a few thousand acres, then only we families have the treatment. Therefore, the land is our lifeblood, and we must be careful to guard against it. Which of you doesn't have a few runaways, and the land is all out, how can they raise it? All taxes were paid on the grain. Gu Qi said: "It's better to do that, find someone to buy a license, and everyone will share it." ”

"My lord, I sold eleven licenses today. This Wu family should pay special attention. Cheng Chuliang hurriedly walked over: "They finally made a move!" ”

"How do you know it's his house?" Li Dongsheng asked lazily.

"Because as long as the people who buy our license, we will register them in detail, and we also have to clarify the location and route of the sale, and let them sign to inform them that cross-regional sales are not allowed. Then the Wu family went to Wanghailou to meet the people of the Wang family and the Xie family. ”

"Signed?"

"Signed! If you don't sign it, you can't do it, otherwise we won't sell it to them! ”

"Okay, where to post a notice in Wulinmen, inform the world, tea is an official business, authorized licensed merchants to sell in a fixed area, if there is a violation, it will be punished as tax evasion and military evasion, and the whole family will be exiled. The proclamation is out, and we are waiting for them to make a mistake now. ”

The Wu family is not from Qiantang, but from Wuxi. It is also a famous family in the south of the Yangtze River, there are records from the Zhou Dynasty, how much land there is, everyone is not clear, anyway, it is the largest household in Wuxi, this time I don't know how to get the news to take a boat to buy a license.

There are all kinds of connections between the families. Wang Xie and his family immediately contacted the Wu family when they got the news, and everyone hit it off. A total of 30,000 yuan was spent to buy a tea monopoly around Wuxi.

The head of the Wu family is called Wu Cheng, who is more than fifty years old, powerful and wealthy, and his actions are also decisive, and the villagers affectionately call him "Master Wu!" "It's also a great presence around Wuxi.

Today, Master Wu is in a good mood, drinking tea alone in the tall hall, humming a small tune from time to time, at this time the eldest son came back, and saw that his father was in a good mood, so he asked funny: "I don't know why my father is so happy today?" ”

Master Wu glanced at his son, it seemed that he had just been to Wuxi City, his shoes were full of dust, he nodded, no matter what, he was doing things: "Where did Qiantang send the news back, we got the license to sell tea." The people of the Tea Division will follow back when the time comes, and measure the land and tea mountains. ”

"Huh? The government came to measure the land, and my father was still so happy? After all, there is no land in this trade, and sometimes food is more useful than silver! ”

"Confused!" Master Wu started the training mode: "You only have land in your head, just like them." Now it's not the past, the emperor's control over the world is getting stronger and stronger, how can he tolerate Jiangnan to hide the land and population here, he couldn't free up his hands before, but now he is pacifying the Turks, passing through the Western Regions, and the north is stable, so he is ready to clean up Jiangnan. ”

"Won't it?" Wu Dagongzi is still a bit lucky.

"Then why do you think Li Dongsheng came back to measure the land, this is a temptation, if Jiangnan agrees here, then everything will be pulled down, if Li Dongsheng can't advance here, maybe the Twelve Guards Army will go south. When you rely on what is on the throne today, you will not forget. Some people are just dizzy and cowardly, but they gave me a wealth for nothing, haha! ”

"Father, do you mean the license of the tea division?"

"Yes, they pushed my Wu family out to buy, and let my family offer to measure the field in exchange for trust, and I agreed to push the boat, I didn't pay a penny for this license, but the name is mine. Ha ha. ”

"But the shopkeepers who buy and sell goods are all their people, and they still have to be distributed to them after making money."

"We're definitely going to get a share of the money we make. But it's hard to say whether the money they make will be distributed to us! ”。

"Isn't tea with us? How do they earn? What does the father mean? ”

"Yes, after they see the profits of this tea, they will definitely not be able to hold back, and when the time comes, they will be greedy together, hehe, the consequences...