China is a fortunate country, at least for a long period of time.

Why do I say lucky, because many things have nothing to do with the personal efforts of Chinese, such as property.

The prestigious silk, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Tang and Song dynasties, brought a steady stream of silver to China and was a best-selling product in foreign trade, if the domestication of silkworm species is the result of the efforts of the Chinese, then the silkworm this creature produced in China can only be said to be lucky; Then porcelain played the role of a leading commodity in trade, and still played the role of a best-selling product in the world during the Song and Ming dynasties, and continued to absorb a huge amount of silver for China, resulting in a country with a small amount of silver in China, which could actually implement currency silver in the Ming Dynasty; By the Qing Dynasty, techniques such as mulberry planting and silkworm cultivation had already spread all over the world, and porcelain firing technology was no longer exclusive to China, but tea, a very climate-demanding plant, allowed China to continue to monopolize the best-selling beverage trade.

How can you say that you are not lucky!

It's a pity that such a heaven-sent country has fallen to the kind of big intellectuals who were bullied at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and they themselves felt that they were inferior races, and their culture was inferior culture, and they made a sound of mixing with whites to improve the race, abolishing Chinese characters, and introducing pinyin.

It's like the son of the richest man who inherited the family business, should have completed a few small goals and continued to grow, but he was sitting on huge resources and finally went bankrupt, which is simply extremely bad.

Zhou Lang is a businessman, he is accustomed to thinking from the perspective of business and economics, from a commercial and economic point of view, the decline of the Qing Dynasty is inseparable from his economic policy, such a huge empire, the total tax revenue is not at all advantageous compared with the small country of Britain, excluding the gap in industrial technology, the backward tax system is the key. Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty not only could not be compared with the British contemporaries, but even the Song Dynasty a few hundred years ago was not as good, the Southern Song Dynasty Chunxi period, the non-agricultural tax was close to 85%, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty's tax revenue still followed the Ming Dynasty, mainly agricultural tax.

Therefore, Zhou Lang particularly disagreed with the Manchu Qing Dynasty's possession of the golden mountain of Wuyi Mountain, and actually closed Fujian's foreign trade, so that Fujian had an excellent port, but it could only do domestic trade, and restricted the transportation of tea by sea and land, which is simply the most absurd thing, which is even more absurd than taking the canal for grain.

He doesn't feel sorry for the Manchus, what the Manchus can't see or don't care about, Zhou Lang cares, he thinks this is an opportunity for him.

He will open up this road of wealth, and then he will receive the most abundant returns on this road of wealth.

Zhou Lang is also very right.

Wei Lianli is suitable for this kind of thing.

He took real money, pretended to be a businessman, and cautiously walked into the interior of Fujian.

The wealth is not exposed, of course he can't pretend to be a big money like in Guangzhou, he dresses very plainly, hides the gold very well, no matter how you look at it, he is an ordinary businessman, there is not much oil and water to fish, he even refused the two donkeys provided by Zhou Lang, but took up the load of goods, because he is a Jianghu person, he knows the rules of the rivers and lakes, whether it is a bandit or a bandit, as long as he is not a novice who does not pay attention to the rules, he will follow some minimum rules, such as ten do not rob.

The first is not to rob the happy car and the funeral car, the second is not to rob the postman, the third is not to rob the ferry, the fourth is not to rob the backpack practitioner, the fifth is to play money and gamble, the sixth is not to grab the eight-strand rope, the seventh is not to rob the car shop, the eighth is the monks, Taoists, and nuns do not rob, the ninth is the widow and lonely do not rob, and the tenth is the single night walker does not rob.

But some people don't pay attention to these, there are those who don't go into the stream to pick the old, weak, sick and disabled, but under normal circumstances, there are three kinds of people, no one robs, one is a doctor Langzhong, one is a merchant who carries the burden, and the other is a monk who walks on his feet.

In the final analysis, these people are also beneficial to the bandits, and if they rob those who practice medicine, no one will treat them, and if they rob those who carry the burden, they will not be able to get supplies, and as for the monks, this belongs to the category of faith, and where are the ascetics having any oil and water.

Therefore, it is very safe to pretend to be a foot trader, and if he encounters a very unreasonable person, Wei Lianli feels that protecting his three elite soldiers is more effective than throwing money, and once he is exposed, he estimates that there is a high probability that he will die on the road.

Therefore, the money he brought was not to deal with the many bandits and bandits, but to open up the white road, that is, to give gifts to the Qing army masters in various flood ponds.

And this gift is also exquisite, when he went, he didn't give a penny, quietly passed through various levels, and some even smuggled over.

When he arrived in the area of Tiangong Mountain, he found ten thousand hectares of tea plantations, and it was close to the stream, and then rented a boat, purchased tea, and went down the river.

The money is not given in vain, but with the local defenders, and set the rules in the future, every time according to the rules to give money, to be honest, this first trip must be a loss, he transported back a boat of two hundred quintals of tea, each load of tea sold to foreigners in Guangzhou The price is only 20 taels, a boat down the price is less than four thousand taels, but the silver spent is as high as five thousand taels, of course, the account to Zhou Lang is that the 10,000 taels of gold are spent, no matter what, this ironclad loss money.

But what Zhou Lang cares about is not the profit and loss of this trip, what he cares about is the safety of this road.

Wei Lianli thought that he would be able to return to Guangzhou after this mission, but he didn't want Zhou Lang to let him stay here directly, and told him that he must be stationed in the tea producing area and be responsible for the supply of tea.

Of course, Zhou Lang gave Wei Lianli enough benefits, that is, to allow his Lian Li Bank to handle this transaction, that is to say, this is Wei Lianli's own business, of course, if there is a choice, Wei Lianli would rather not make this hard-earned money.

If it is to go on a road, Wei Lianli thinks that his task is completed, but if he is in charge of the tea channel for a long time, then the current road is not enough insurance.

He could not let his transportation lines be in the hands of the guards along the way, but to seek the protection of higher powers, he needed to get in touch with the various yamen.

But this is not easy, because Kui Lun is in Xingda Prison in Fujian, and he has arrested too many people, most of whom are guilty of corruption, and for a while Wei Lianli has a lot of real money in his hands, and he can't spend it.

The money can't be spent, but the goods are detained.

Wei Lianli reached an agreement with the defenders along the way, charging according to a single trip, and no one cared how many goods he transported to clear customs in one trip. Therefore, the greater the transportation volume, then the greater his income, and the less he transports, he can only lose money. Coupled with Zhou Lang's assurance, he was extremely flamboyant in marshalling hundreds of wooden rafts to transport tea at one time, and the momentum was too great, but when he arrived in Zhangzhou Mansion, he attracted the attention of the local government and was detained.

Wei Lianli, who was quick-eyed, escaped alone, knelt in front of Zhou Lang and cried, bluntly saying that he couldn't do this errand, and asked him to go back to Guangzhou, and he promised that he could get more tea in Guangzhou.

Zhou Lang was unmoved, but asked him to take him to Fuzhou to find Changlin's master, and he asked the master, did the governor stop his goods, did he want to start a war with him?

This gave Changlin a problem, because according to the private agreement he reached with Zhou Lang, the two sides would not invade each other, and Changlin also promised not to interfere with the merchants who went to Jinxia to trade, but he also did not support Zhou Lang to trade directly, and now Zhou Lang forcibly opened the tea trade route, and was too ostentatious and was stopped by Zhangzhou Mansion, which made Changlin also very tricky to deal with.

Because what was detained was a batch of tea, and tea could only be traded in Guangzhou according to the regulations, but Zhou Lang's people went straight to Jinxia from the waterway with great fanfare, and it was strange that they were not intercepted.

However, Zhou Lang insisted on not admitting Wei Lianli as his person, and only said that he was a merchant who was transporting supplies for himself, but he was stopped and asked if Changlin intended to block Zhou Lang's supplies and whether he planned to go to war.

At this time, the war in Taiwan has reached an extremely stalemate point, and both the government and the Tiandihui are striving for Zhou Lang's support.

So he asked the master to hold his secret letter and follow Zhou Lang's people to Zhangzhou Mansion.