"Hey, the wine you sent today is not quite right, it is too fragrant, it is not rich enough, and the taste is a little worse. Don't engage in all these bells and whistles, wine, it's for drinking, not for smelling, it still has to be delicious. ”

Chang'an, Waidry.

In the flower hall of Lu Guogong's Mansion, Cheng bit the sandalwood fragrance in his mouth, and the words he said were very smoky with the sandalwood fragrance.

Li Xiao's eyebrows were tangled, he came to visit Cheng Yanjin today, in fact, he wanted to talk about the purchase of cattle on behalf of the Cheng family.

China is a country of etiquette, so you can't come to the door empty-handed.

Recently, he was trying to make perfume, so he brought a bottle with him. This bottle of perfume uses sandalwood oil extracted from sandalwood, extracted from sandalwood chips and branches. Sandalwood is a precious spice and is loved by the aristocracy.

It is relatively convenient to use sandalwood to refine sandalwood oil and add distilled alcohol to prepare sandalwood perfume. Although there are perfumes in this era, the craftsmanship is still very backward, and the best perfumes in Chang'an are still brought from the West by the big cannibals, and more are mainly spices, and liquid perfumes are very few and extremely expensive.

The perfume that Li Xiao gave to Cheng Yanjin was in a small jade bottle, which was not big, but it was much more than the perfume bought and sold by ordinary cannibals, so Cheng Yanjin didn't expect it to be a perfume at all, and thought it was a certain medicinal wine developed by Li Xiao.

As a result, the old boy poured it directly into his mouth, and after drinking, he said in front of the guests that the amount of wine sent by them was too small, and it was too fancy, and the taste was not right.

"Lu Gong, actually, that's not wine." Li Xiao endured it for a long time, and finally said it.

"It's not wine, what is it? I can't fool the old man, although the taste of this wine is not right, but it still smells of wine. Cheng Yanjin wiped his mouth, "It's just too fragrant, you actually add sandalwood to the wine, you kid don't know what to think, and your mouth is full of aroma when you drink wine." ”

Cheng Boxian on the side didn't dare to say a word, lowered his head, and his shoulders were shaking uncontrollably. He already knew that Li Xiao was sending perfume, which was a new deal they were working on. It's a pity that I didn't have time to tell my grandfather, but the old man drank it, drank it, drank it.

"Lu Gong, that's a new product developed by the kid, called Perfume. This perfume is a saliferous type, with sandalwood oil as the main ingredient, the fragrance is striking, and the soju is the medium, so that compared with traditional spices, this perfume can exude a great fragrance after being applied to the body. ”

Cheng Yanjin was stunned for a moment, and his old face began to redden.

Then he showed a ruthless expression to Li Xiao.

"Perfume? It's impossible, I'm biting Jintangtang Guogong, is it the country farmer who hasn't used perfume? Whether it is Persia or Fulin, or the precious perfumes sold by big food merchants to Chang'an, I have seen many of them. Perfume where is this! ”

"This is clearly wine, you kid is so daring, you dare to tease the old man!"

Although Cheng Yanjin said ruthlessly, he was a little panicked in his heart.

This thing is indeed a bit like perfume, I didn't think of going there at all, but now that I think about it, this thing is very fragrant, and it is watery, not a perfume.

Although the perfume he had used and seen before was a small bottle of a few drops, and it was expensive to die, but it was not similar to the one he drank just now.

Impossible, how can I drink perfume, spread it, my life is famous, where will my old face go.

"This is wine, sandalwood!" Lao Cheng raised his voice.

Li Xiao was helpless.

This is a successful perfume he just developed, sandalwood-type, and he hasn't even thought of a name yet, so Cheng Yanjin insists on calling it sandalwood.

"Hey, the kid just remembered that he was really going to bring the newly developed perfume to Lu Gong today. But when I came out, I thought I had taken it wrong. Just now Lu Gong drank wine, sandalwood wine, and my newly developed sandalwood perfume used sandalwood, so I remembered it wrong for a while, sorry. "Whoever has the big fist is justified, Cheng Biting Jin is obviously a scoundrel, and Li Xiao can't help it.

"Hey, hey." Cheng Yanjin smiled with satisfaction, Confucianism can be taught, this kid is smart.

"Next time, don't bring the wrong one, that is, when you meet Lao Cheng and me, if you mess around like this in another family, it's very rude."

"Lu Gong taught me a lesson." Li Xiao looked respectful.

"Well, next time, remember to send a few bottles of your sandalwood perfume to the old man to see."

"Lu Gong, it's not easy to make sandalwood perfume."

"What's the matter, reluctant to give it to the old man?" Cheng Yanjin glared.

"Whereever, the kid will send it tomorrow." Li Xiao wiped his sweat.

Cheng Yanjin nodded proudly, wiped his mouth again, and sighed, "You kid hasn't come to the door for a long time, come here today, and send this sandalwood perfume No, send this sandalwood wine, I'm afraid that there is nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, say, what's the matter." Did you figure it out at home these days, and planned to accept the job of joining the army, and wanted to go to Liaodong with the old man to earn some fame? ”

"Duke Lu spare me, the kid is not that material, and going to Liaodong with Duke Lu is also a drag. The kid came today, and he really missed Gong Lu very much after a long time. ”

"Tell the truth!" Cheng Yanjin was unmoved, his ability to tell nonsense is Li Xiao's ancestor, how could he be fooled by this kid.

"The kid really came to visit Lu Gong, and by the way, there are some trivial things I want to ask Wulang for help."

"How can he help you? When you arrive at Cheng's house, you can tell the old man if you have something, for the sake of your sandalwood wine, the old man will help you solve it if he says a word. ”

Cheng Biting Jin likes Li Xiao a lot, not because of the fragrant sandalwood perfume he sent, nor because he pulled Wulang to run a medicine wine shop. He values Li Xiao, a rural landlord, mainly because he thinks that this person is a capable person.

A peaceful strategy, but even people like Li Ji can't think of it.

Such a capable young man who has no background, Cheng Yanjin is willing to help. Young people who have the ability will always come out. Just like Ma Zhou back then, he devoted himself to Chang He's door as an accountant, but in the end, he was appreciated by Taizong and became the prime minister. And Chang He, although he has the merit of Xuanwumen, he is just a middle-class general all his life.

Get a good relationship today, maybe you can take care of the children and grandchildren of the next Cheng family in the future.

"Here's the thing, the kid wants to buy cattle, and I heard that the Cheng family has a way in this regard."

"Such a trivial matter, you still need to mention it to the old man, you mention it to the old man's porter, and he can do it for you." Cheng Yanjin snorted. Lao Cheng has fought a lot of battles in Longyou, and there are many old departments that are still guarding there, over the years, the livestock fur trade in Longyou has entered the customs, and the Cheng family is indeed very influential.

"Gong Lu, the kid wants to buy a bit more cows."

"Many? How much can there be? Ten or twenty? Cheng Yanjin sneezed, it was too fragrant.

"Well, a thousand ploughing oxen."

"How much?" Cheng Yanjin plucked out his ears, thinking that he had heard it wrong.

"Back to Lu Gong, the kid wants to buy a thousand ploughing cattle, so I want to ask Lu Gong to send a message for convenience."

A thousand, it's not easy. Ploughing cattle is not just a cow, this is also an important material, and even under the strict supervision of the imperial court, it is a big crime to kill ploughing cattle privately, and ordinary people can't eat beef.

Buying thousands of cultivated cattle is not a trivial matter, such a big transaction even has to alarm many people, and it must be filed layer by layer.

The Li family is not a big landlord, and it seems that the family only has a thousand acres of land, what do they do when they buy thousands of cultivated cattle?

"Don't you want to be a cattle dealer? Boy, since you don't want to be an official, you don't need to be a cattle dealer, a cattle dealer is not good. Cheng Yanjin said.

Li Xiao smiled.

Cattle dealers are naturally not easy to be, every trade, no matter what the trade, actually has unspoken rules, and even has long been divided into spheres of influence, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter all at once.

Of course, more importantly, a landlord, no matter how much money he makes, is not a cost-effective thing.

"Lu Gong, the kid buys cattle to plough the land."

"Hmph, nonsense, how much land is there in your house? A thousand acres of land, with a thousand oxen to plow? ”

Li Xiao told the truth that although the Li family does not have much land, the princess has a lot of land in 800 households, at least tens of thousands of acres.

Tens of thousands of acres of land, 3,000 seals, but there are few cattle.

Buying a thousand cows is not enough.

After listening to Li Xiao's details, Cheng Yanjin frowned and pondered for a long time.

He pinched his chin and looked at Li Xiao with some surprise.

"It's exactly what you say, that's exactly what you intended?"

"Don't dare to deceive Lu Gong for half a sentence."

"Is it really free to lend to the people?"

"Yes."

Cheng Biting Jin shook his head.

"And what are you trying to do?"

"Gong Lu, I won't lose anything, there will always be something to earn. You can not only raise cattle to make money, but also earn a good reputation, why not. Li Xiao spread his hands.

"The old man sometimes can't see through you kid, really. There are officials, you are not deserved. There is money, you don't earn. ”

"Lu Gong, of course you want to earn money, but it's just to earn more and earn less, you don't have to earn more to make money, and you can be happy when you earn something."

Cheng Yanjin turned his head to Cheng Boxian and said, "Old Five, have you seen it, have you heard it, although you have been praised as a young hero, I think you are far worse than this kid." If you lose this mind, you have this willingness, and if you lose some atmosphere, you have to be generous. If you can learn more from this kid, after a hundred years, the old man will not be afraid that there will be no successor to the Cheng family. ”

He turned to Li Xiao and said, "This busy old man helped, isn't it just a thousand ploughing cattle?" For others, this may be difficult. But for the old man, it's just a matter of lip service. The old man will explain it for a while, but there is a sentence that the old man said ahead, I hope you can be consistent, but don't say one thing and do another. ”

"Thank you Lu Gong for the lesson, the kid doesn't dare to come nonsense."

"Okay, the old man still has something to do, so I won't leave you to say more, you and Gorou go to find the housekeeper, and the next thing, someone will help you get it right, you prepare the money, and wait to receive the cow."

"Thank you Lu Gong!" Li Xiao thanked him and retired!