Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info "The caravan of the Feng family in Lingnan?"

Wu Yuanqing was surprised. The Feng family has done a lot of business in recent years, which he knows, because the business of the Wu family is bigger, and they all go to sea from Guangzhou to do maritime business, if the Wu family and the royal family monopolize more than half of the business at sea, how can the Feng family be ranked third as the head snake.

But the Feng family's business is mainly by sea, and now the Spice Island is all the territory of the Tang Dynasty, well, to be precise, starting from the coast of the Tang Dynasty and bypassing the Indochina Peninsula to the Malay Peninsula, in Sumatra and other islands that belong to Indonesia in later generations, this coastline has been cleaned up by the Tang people.

The contribution of the army here is not much, the things that the Tang Navy Division does are basically easy to take over, and the main battles are basically the private armed forces recruited by each family, don't look at the private armed forces convened by each family, but if you count the shipwrights, which one has at least a few hundred people.

There are more than a dozen military generals and nobles alone, not to mention other small joint cadres, as well as civil official families, and other large and small families.

The mountain of spices that Wu Yuanqing brought back from the sea directly mobilized the motivation of all the rich and powerful families, and the sea seemed to them to be a cornucopia to take at will, but no one who was qualified did not participate in the plundering and trade on the sea.

Except for a few countries in the Indochina Peninsula, such as Nanzhao and Funan, which are considered to be a little bigger and stronger, the rest are almost the same as the barbaric primitive society. On the islands of Malay and Indonesia, where Spice Island is located, it can be said that there are no people for hundreds of miles, and even if there are, they are all small primitive families or tribes composed of dozens of people, and a few hundred people are considered quite a large force.

Where can such a place compete with a country with such a level of civilization as Datang. Otherwise, there is a romance novel that Zhang Zhongjian, one of the three heroes of the wind and dust, went to the sea to establish an archipelago country after failing to fight for the world with Li Shimin, known as the lord of the seventy-two islands. Although it is a story, it has a factual basis, and it is not difficult for Zhang Zhongjian, the fierce man in the novel, to go out to sea and single-handedly establish a country and occupy dozens of islands.

A medium-strength military general family in the Tang Dynasty can occupy an island with not many people, not to mention that so many families in the Tang Dynasty have made a move together, and in the southeast sea, except for a few small foreign countries that have diplomatic relations with the Tang Dynasty and have tributary relations, almost all of the rest have fallen under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

The major families all made windfalls on the sea, but the most profitable spice islands were the royal and samurai families, and the other families could not intervene, but there were also spice productions on other islands, but not so much.

The Feng family occupies a favorable geographical position, and has cooperation with the Wu family, and is the first batch to go to the sea, so the Feng family can rank third at sea, but his family's business focus has always been on the sea, from Tianzhu to Persia farther away, there are Feng family's sea ship caravans to operate, but in addition to Lingnan, other places in China are basically not involved.

But how did the Feng family's caravan come to the plateau, and did the business scope expand so quickly?

Gao Biaoren nodded: "That's right, it's the Feng family's caravan, but they are actually not from Lingnan."

"Not from Lingnan? Where is that?" Wu Yuanqing is even more strange.

"Guess." Gao Biaoren said with a smile.

"How could I have guessed that?" Wu Yuanqing rolled his eyes.

"I don't think you can guess, let me tell you, Tianzhu, they are from Tianzhu." It was rare to see Wu Yuanqing being asked, and Gao Biaoren laughed and revealed the answer.

"Rub, they are in Tianzhu, why did they come here, do they think it is closer to Lingnan from the plateau, shouldn't they?" Wu Yuanqing felt that the choice of Nima's route was inexplicable.

"You think about it, they are actually forced to be helpless, several small countries in Tianzhu suddenly had a war, the retreat was blocked, the army was in chaos, they had to go all the way to the north to dodge, planning to make a detour back to Lingnan, but I didn't expect that when they arrived here, Tubo suddenly started a war with Datang, they were the caravan of Datang, and the Tubo people were not at ease and locked them up." Gao Biaoren explained.

This experience is really bizarre and tortuous, is it a mourning star, where do you go to fight, Wu Yuanqing thought speechlessly.

"What kind of goods did these caravans bring, and did they sell out? Is there anything we need right now?" Wu Yuanqing asked again.

"Don't look so poor here, when you can worship Buddha statues, you also like to use some good spices to make incense, the monks of the temple are big people who use incense, so most of the caravans to sell are spices, the caravan of the Feng family went to Tianzhu to sell spices, and there was a war before selling, Persia, the caravan from Tianzhu also sold spices, and the caravan of Nanzhao in addition to spices, there are some gems of average quality, only the caravan from Shu brought some silk brocade. We don't need anything." Gao Biaoren said helplessly.

"Rub, it's all here to sell luxury goods." Wu Yuanqing was a little smacked, he felt that this kind of place should sell some daily necessities, who knew that it was all these things.

"People here don't have much money." Wu Yuanqing sighed again.

"Hehe, there aren't many people here, but there are always good things to change in such a big place." Gao Biaoren said with a smile: "Like the Persian Nanzhao, they come here to sell gold and silver in exchange, don't look at the people here are very poor, I sue you, most of the families can take out some gold and silver jewelry."

"Can you be called poor if you have gold and silver?" Wu Yuanqing was speechless.

"Of course, the house is in tatters, but there is gold and silver, and it is said that it is dedicated to the temple, or it is said that the people who believe in Buddhism here are pious." Gao Biaoren shook his head and said.

"As for the caravans of the Tang Dynasty, they usually come here with horses and some precious medicinal herbs, oh, by the way, there is also musk. It's going up to a lot of money now because of your perfume." Gao Biaoren said again.

After Gao Biaoren's detailed explanation, Wu Yuanqing found that the products on this plateau are quite abundant, not to mention other places, just take the sphere of influence of the former Subi State around Kangyanchuan, and produce excellent horses, gold, brass, cinnabar, musk, and salt.

The salt here is the most demanded goods of the Tianzhu caravan, Tianzhu is quite short of salt, they take rare spices here to exchange for a large amount of salt, and then transport it back to the country and can earn more than ten times the profit, this time and again, almost dozens of times the profit.

This is quite scary, spices are luxury here, salt can also be regarded as a valuable commodity in Tianzhu, one buy and one sells on both sides, dozens of times the profit, windfall profit, proper windfall profit.

And Tianzhu and the plateau are really not far away, that is, the mountain road is difficult to walk, but such a trip down can be stronger than doing a year in Tianzhu, no wonder it is said that the plateau and Tianzhu contact is the most frequent at this time.