Chapter 214 Transportation Expenses

A glass of wine in the stomach, Hou Junji was attracted by the wine, just about to take a sip, Jia Yi took a plate of cut salted duck eggs, the miserable white egg white is needless to say, the dark egg yolk is still oozing with dripping oil stains, just looking at it makes people's appetite increase, Hou Junji directly reached out and grabbed half of it and stuffed it into his mouth, the salty taste of the egg white, the fragrance of the egg yolk suddenly intertwined into a different kind of delicacy in his mouth, which made him want to stop, of course, this egg white would be better if it was a little lighter.

"Good eggs, just too salty."

"Hehe, the general doesn't know, this salted duck egg has great benefits to the body for a long time, and this salted duck egg should be enjoyed with a capsule cake or scallion pancake, the saltiness is just right, and it will indeed be too salty to eat directly."

"I see."

Then, Jia Yiyou brought up a small jar, which contained all kinds of fruits, which were canned food.

Hou Junji didn't know why, took the canned food and looked at it, the long-lost fruit fragrance suddenly made his eyes light up again, you must know that it is not a simple thing to eat a fruit in the northwest region, and only some grapes and cantaloupe and other things in the Western Regions can be eaten in the right season, like the peach and pear in this pass, but it has not been eaten for a long time, just a short period of effort, a can let him eat a small half.

Then it was normal meal time, Jia Yi and a few lieutenant generals and a few lieutenant generals in Hou Junji's army ate a large table of food cleanly, don't look at them rolling their eyes one by one, but their faces still look unfinished.

After the meal was finished, it should be tea, and before Jia Yi could give an order, someone had already brewed the tea and brought it to the generals.

The faint fragrance of tea suddenly lifted everyone's spirits, picked up the teacup and sniffed it twice, then drank it in a big gulp, the tea tasted bitter, but after a little stagnation, there will be a faint aroma that begins to drill into all corners of the mouth, when swallowing the tea, you will find that the mouth is full of the fragrance of tea.

"Good tea."

Jia Yi presented a thing, Hou Junji would praise it, and now the four things Jia Yi said were all presented in front of Hou Junji, without Jia Yi saying anything, Hou Junji had already realized the huge interests involved behind these four things.

"Boy, what you just said, I promised, as long as I am here in the northwest for a day, these four things of yours will be able to sell well in the northwest."

"Thank you, General, for that kid."

"It's all here, why are you still called a general like this, if you don't dislike it, just call me Uncle Hou."

"Uncle Hou."

"Okay, haha......"

The most important thing is that all the things that Jia Yi can sell in his hands are all under Hou Junji's words, which has opened up the situation in the entire northwest region, and I believe that the factory will be expanded again after going back, otherwise it will be difficult to meet the needs of the entire market.

When Hou Junji went back, Jia Yi prepared a whole cart of goods for him, and of course 5,000 burst arrows, and informed him of the precautions for use.

Hou Junji is gone, but the transaction in the trading market is still going on, but this transaction will not last long, regardless of whether it is grain or goods, the exchange was quickly completed at a speed that Jia Yi did not expect, the goods in the hands of Tang Shang were all replaced with cattle, sheep, horses and furs, and in the hands of Hu Shang there were countless grains and various daily necessities, and both buyers and sellers were very satisfied with this.

The trading in the market lasted for three days, and the goods in the hands of the Tang merchants had basically been exchanged, and some of the Hu merchants who came to the trading market did not get the goods they wanted, and immediately regretted why they didn't come a few days earlier.

When Jia Yi promised that there would be a trading market here in the near future, the Hu merchants slowly dispersed with anticipation, until the last Hu merchant pulled a lot of goods into the vast prairie surrounded by many servants, Jia Yi understood that this transaction had been a complete success, and they also changed to go home.

However, just when Jia Yi ordered the soldiers to prepare to return to Chang'an, a new problem arose, that is, the Tang merchants exchanged too many goods, furs were piled up, cattle, sheep and horses were driven into herds, even after Jia Yi levied one-tenth of the transaction tax on them, the goods in their hands still made them one head and two big.

If these things are pulled to Chang'an, they are all money, naturally no one will be willing to give up, and in desperation, several businessmen begged Jia Yi, hoping that Jia Yi could lend a helping hand.

Jia looked at the soldiers who were almost empty-handed, and then at the merchants with huge piles of goods behind him, and he felt that it seemed like a good thing to take this opportunity to benefit the soldiers.

Soon, such an order came from Jia Yi's tent.

"The soldiers can help the merchants to transport the goods, but only under the condition of ensuring normal defense, and the merchants will give the soldiers a certain transportation fee, and if anyone wants to, they can find the merchants themselves to consult."

With the delivery of Jia Yi's news, many soldiers flocked into the ranks of the merchants, after some bargaining, many merchants on the goods appeared on the soldiers and their cars, Jia Yi was happy to see it, did not say anything, waved his hand, and the army returned to the court.

Looking at the bulging soldiers, Jia Yi felt in a trance, where is this still an army, is it clearly a transportation company, a huge amount of materials are transported by them from this grassland to Guanzhong, and a certain transportation fee will be charged at that time, isn't it a logistics company in later generations?

Thinking of logistics, Jia Yi found that there was really no such high-end stuff in the Tang Dynasty, under normal circumstances, businessmen escorted materials from one place to another, if the road was smooth sailing, even if they were lucky, if they were robbers on the road, then they could only accept their fate, after all, the Tang Dynasty at this time can still see robbers everywhere.

Forming a logistics? This idea appeared in Jia Yi's mind, if there is a logistics company that can deliver 100% of the goods now, the popularity of the business can be imagined, but it is simple to set up a logistics team, and it is not very simple to completely transport the goods to the designated place, at least the number of people is small, and it will definitely suffer from the difficulties of the robbers, if there are too many people, then the logistics fee is not enough to pay wages to this group of people, since there is this idea, it must be implemented, As for how to turn it into reality, this still needs Jia Yi to ponder.

There is basically not much difference between going back and coming, it is nothing more than that the goods carried by the merchants have undergone some changes, when these goods appeared in Chang'an, it suddenly caused a great sensation, after all, the materials on the grassland are also scarce in the Central Plains, with this difference between buying low and selling high in the two places, as long as the merchants who have gone this way, they have basically made a lot of money.

Cattle from the grassland soon became an important labor in the farmer's family after passing through **, horses have always been an important strategic material, soon the official someone stood up to buy all the horses, although these horses look relatively thin, but the Central Plains is not lacking is forage, I believe that they will be raised for a period of time can always make them fat and strong, become a qualified war horse, as for sheep, there are too many sales channels, restaurants are in demand, farmers are in demand, and soon those sheep are also sold out, The rest is the furs, which have to be processed or made into leather goods or leather clothing, and it is a bit far-fetched to sell them directly.

The goods that Jia Yi exchanged were not much different from these merchants, if there was any difference, Jia Yi's exchange list also included the exchange of herbs, whether it was Ganoderma lucidum or Cordyceps, or some herbs unique to the grassland, all of which were in Jia Yi's exchange.

When a large number of herbs were sorted out by Jia, the cordyceps sinensis was selected and sent to the palace together with a large amount of income obtained from this trip to the grassland.

In a few months, the weather in Guanzhong has become a little cooler, since Jia Yi is the emperor's order as a general who goes out, then when he comes back, he will naturally have to wear armor when he comes back, fortunately the weather is cool now, otherwise Jia Yi's armor is on his body, and he must be covered to death.

"Chen Jia Yi, fortunately, did not disgrace his life, and brought back a total of 2,000 fine war horses, 10,000 cattle and sheep, tens of thousands of nitrated furs, countless herbs, and 100,000 copper coins."

This is what Jia Yi once promised Ruyang, and now he says it in the main hall, just to give Ruyang a long face, so that the ministers standing in the main hall know that Li Er's daughter brought so much money to his father just by hanging behind Jia Yi.

The eldest grandson Wuji, as the supreme official of the household department, immediately rubbed his hands excitedly after hearing the numbers that Jia Yi broke out, this is all money, since Jia Yi said it in the main hall, then these things will naturally belong to the treasury.