The pearl of the palm of the king of Xi can be measured, and the name is really called pearl.

In the Raole City on the bank of the Weishui River, Luo Cheng came to the Governor's Mansion with Kedu, which occupies one-third of the size of the north of Raole City, which is the Governor's Mansion of Raole County, and also has the Taishou Mansion of Raole County, and it is also the palace of Kumo Xi Khan, and it is also the Marquis of Raole's Mansion.

Luo Cheng is a guest, but now the person who is named Yang Guoqing is completely regarded as a vassal, he introduced all the way, and asked people to summon Pearl to see Luo Cheng.

That pearl didn't see any life, although it was the first time she saw Luo Cheng, she was also generous, and what was even more rare was that after she heard that she had promised her to Luo Cheng, she was not the slightest bit annoyed and dissatisfied, but looked at Luo Cheng with interest. Looking at that frame, I couldn't even wait to sit directly next to Luo Cheng and open his mouth to see his teeth.

For such a bold girl, Luo Cheng was really a little surprised.

In fact, Luo Cheng is not the kind of person who is particularly beautiful, and his proposal to marry the pearl girl is not a whim, it is a travel plan that he has agreed with Wei Zheng and others before he came.

After all, the Xi Wang Kedu people are close to Andong Road, especially since they are just north of Yanshan, no matter which side they are on, their role should not be underestimated. That's why Wei Zheng suggested that Luo Cheng simply take this pearl girl as a concubine, so as to further strengthen the relationship with the Xi people and completely tie the Xi people to the chariot of the loyal army.

Although alliances are not established by women, sometimes marriage is indeed a good bond.

Now that Ku Moxi and Andong Dao are in a hot market, and Luo Cheng first accepted Su Zhi, the son of Kedu, as his righteous son, and now he accepts his daughter Pearl as a concubine, of course, the relationship is further. Luo Cheng immediately began to talk to Kedu about some deeper cooperation, such as Luo Cheng's proposal to further strengthen trade between the two sides and jointly fight against some horse thieves and small tribes who plundered the trade routes.

In order to allow Xi people to fully devote themselves to the chariot of the loyal army, Luo Cheng put forward a rare good condition this time, that is, Luo Cheng was willing to buy war horses from Kumo Xi in unlimited quantities.

And Luo Cheng offered a price that was far more attractive than before, changing eight grates for tea on the horse, six grates for tea in the middle horse, and four grates for tea on the horse. There are ten tea bricks for one grate of tea, and each tea brick weighs one pound according to the standard.

A high-grade war horse can be exchanged for eighty catties of tea, and this transaction price is extremely attractive for Keduzhi. Especially Luo Cheng also said to him, no matter who comes to buy tea and sell horses, I will only trade with you and sell tea to you.

So in this way, if the Xi people of other tribes want to sell horses to buy tea, they must first sell the horses to the Kedu, and then the Kedu will trade with Luo Cheng, as a middleman, the Kedu will definitely be able to make a profit.

Similarly, in fact, Luo Cheng also wants to make a profit.

He had already begun to implement a special tax system for salt, iron, tea, and wine in Andong Province, and ordinary goods had to pay the tax of customs and jin on the passage, the city tax on merchants, and the tax on the loss and valuation of transactions, all of which were not high, and were twenty taxes and one.

However, the four items of salt, iron, tea and wine, Luo Cheng stipulates that a special tax of ten taxes and one is levied, whether it is local tea, wine, salt and iron or foreign, businessmen who want to operate these kinds of goods must first declare in the Andong Yamen, and then obtain a ticket citation, which is to pay one-tenth of the special tax in advance according to the number of goods, and then take this quotation to sell legally.

Otherwise, it is illegal salt, illicit wine, illicit tea, and illegal iron, and once investigated, it will be severely punished, and the goods will be confiscated in the lightest, and the punishment will be ten or twenty times that in the heavy, or even direct death.

Therefore, under this new salt, iron, tea and wine tax, Luo Cheng made the horse trade bigger, and he was profitable.

And let Kedu also take a share of the benefits, naturally in order to buy him.

"We harvest as many horses as we can, even cattle that can plough the land." Luo Chengdao, war horses are a must in the army, and the riding market is also very large. The best horses can be used as war horses, medium horses can also be used as riding horses, and lower horses can also be used as pulling horses and ploughing horses, and this market is huge.

Even if Luo Cheng got a lot of Turkic horses last time, he had a sea route and could directly transport horses to Shandong, Hebei, Henan, or even to Jianghuai, Lingnan and other places where horses were not produced.

"We can give priority to tea for horses, or salt for horses, iron for horses, and wine for horses."

A large number of horses to buy, whether it is copper money to buy, or silk cloth to buy, Luo Cheng can not pay, a first-class horse at least 20 yuan, now the price of silk, silk also needs more than 500 yuan, so if you use copper or silk, it is a massive number, and the Central Plains has always been a shortage of money, so you can only do both money and silk, but the number of silk is also limited.

In addition, silk and horses are exchanged, and a large amount of silk is most likely to flow out, and silk can not only be used as currency, but also can be used as a silk fabric.

But salt, iron, tea and wine are different, this itself is also a commercial product, Luo Cheng used these to trade with Xi people, and he could make a profit when he changed hands, and he could also turn a deficit into a surplus.

Therefore, for Luo Cheng, the tea horse, salt horse, wine horse, and iron horse are in the market, the larger the scale, the better, and the more the quantity, the better, but the person who can do it will not think about that, he only thinks about how much he can earn from the middle, and after the monopoly transaction, even if he increases the price casually, he can develop because of this.

Salt and iron tea horses, this is the most sought-after and hot-selling good things on the grassland, if you can buy a large number of horses, even if a horse is only eighty catties of tea, but as long as they send the tea to a farther place, those Tiele people, Murowei people or the Yan people, the Fei people, etc., will definitely be willing to give two horses or even three or four horses for a grate tea.

Money can make ghosts grind, and even those who can do it have long understood the power of this money.

On the grassland, there are salt, tea, iron, wine, silk cloth in hand, which is more than the cattle and horses full of mountains and valleys, piled in the hand, and will not freeze to death in the snow, and will not starve to death without grass to eat, do not need to change in spring and autumn, and do not have to worry about getting sick.

With these good things in hand, he can always recruit many loyal warriors to serve him.

"How many horses are you really willing to take, and they all use salt, iron, tea and wine, and the price remains the same?" The one who can do it asks again.

Luo Cheng smiled slightly.

"I, Luo Cheng, have always been good at talking, if you drive 3,000 horses to I'll take them all, if you drive 5,000 horses to I'll take them too, if you can bring 10,000 horses, I'll take them the same."

"What if it's 20,000 or 30,000?" Keduzhi asked tremblingly.

"If you can get so many horses, I'll still take them."

There is not enough tea and wine, there is not enough wine and salt, there is not enough salt and iron, there is not enough iron and silk, and there are not enough silk and all kinds of cloth, ceramics, etc., with the breadth of the Central Plains, I am afraid that I can't eat the shipments of Xi people?

The Kedu exhaled a long breath, and it could be seen that he was trying his best to suppress the excitement and excitement in his heart.

"The marshal will use troops in the Korean Yuan clan this time, and I, Kumo Xi, am willing to send five thousand sons to serve in the conscription!"

Luo Cheng nodded with a smile.

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