Chapter 1232: New Trade on the Silk Road

The stars are moving, the cold winter of Jicheng has passed, and the smoke and wind are warm. The woman who loves beauty www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion couldn't wait to change into spring clothes, unloaded the fat winter clothes, called friends to show her figure.

In the morning of this day, Liu Ze said: "The spring breeze is green in the north, and I see that every day is warmer. In the imperial examination, all the Aiqing in high school had to stay away from Beijing and go to various places to serve. Early tomorrow morning, I will set up a ten-mile long pavilion outside the wine city to see off all of you. ”

Because it was the New Year immediately after the end of the imperial examination, these scholars who were admitted to the Jinshi did not leave Beijing, but stayed in the capital. However, the scholars who served in various departments of the imperial court, as well as the county magistrates, had already taken office early.

The Jinshi led by Fang Xuanling, Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng hurriedly went out of class and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

………………

Early the next morning, outside the Desheng Gate of the capital, the ten-mile long pavilion, the willows stretched, the grass was green, and a piece of green was full of green.

Li Yi sat in the pavilion accompanied by Dian Wei, Li Cunxiao and Gao Chong, the three dragon guards, leisurely looking at the distant sky, the swallows in the sky were singing, flying and playing, and the fresh air was filled with a fragrant smell, which was refreshing.

Li Yi came a little early, he was buried in the government on weekdays, and today he had a rare opportunity to come out and take a turn, so he didn't wait for hundreds of officials, so he came to wait outside the city early.

The morning sun rose, the golden light shone, and the team of hundred officials slowly approached.

Li Yi retracted his thoughts, and saw that Fang Xuanling, Wang Anshi, and Zhang Juzheng, the three incoming governors of Xinkezhou, stood at the head of the team with forty-seven new county governors, got up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Keri is about to go to various places to serve and guard the world for the Tang Dynasty. ”

When everyone heard this, they knelt on the ground together, took the wine glass, dried it in one breath, and thanked the emperor loudly.

Li Yi said: "In the late days, the rivers and mountains are beautiful, and the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and plants. Accompanied by mountains and rivers all the way, it must not be lonely, I all Aiqing have a smooth journey, after arriving at the place of work, while managing the place, cherish the body, and don't overwork. ”

When the fifty jinshi had gone far away, Li Yi reluctantly looked at the scenery outside the city, and said to the attendants beside him: "Summon, go back." ”

………………

Soon after sending away fifty scholars, Li Yi received a message from Zhang Ji, the assassin of Tiannan Prefecture.

According to Li Yi's instructions when he left Tiannan Prefecture, Zhang developed a characteristic planting industry in Tiannan Prefecture, planted opium poppies in the first year, and harvested quite a lot, and the juice of poppy husks was collected in tens of thousands of catties.

Li Yi got the news, and was overjoyed, thinking about how to sell these things.

If you want to make money quickly, you still have to go the way of government and business, but the aroma of wine must be able to shout, and you must pursue high and tall packaging to meet the aesthetic needs of exotic people.

The smoking of opium, on the films and television of later generations, is a person with a big smoking gun, facing the big smoke lamp, lit it, spewing clouds and spitting fog, and enjoying it infinitely.

According to his memory, Li Yi drew the appearance of the big smoking gun, lamp, and cigarette pick up in later generations, and asked the Ministry of Industry to send people to make dozens of sets. After finishing it, Li Yi tried it with leaves, and the effect was good, and it could spray clouds and mist. Immediately wrote two secret decrees, one to Tiannan Prefecture Assassin Shi Zhang Ji, and the other to the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Protector of the Western Regions Sima Yi.

Zhang Ji received the secret order and personally led the team to send tens of thousands of catties of poppy juice to Sima Yi in the Western Regions. The poppy husks were also filled with more than 100 carts.

When Sima Yi received the secret order, he also came with dozens of sets of smoking guns. Li Yi elaborated on the importance of packaging, how to pack things well, how to sell, how to expand the influence, and put forward a lot of opinions, Sima Yi has never seen it, never heard of it, and can't help but sigh with emotion, the emperor is really a god and a man.

The Western Regions brought together talents from all walks of life, and Sima Yi, as the Minister of the Tang Dynasty Military Aircraft and the Protector of the Western Regions, summoned the foreign merchants who traveled to and from the Western Regions.

These merchants from Persia, Kushan, Kangju, and Dayue, when they heard the summons of the Minister of Military Aircraft of the Tang Dynasty, came to the temporary residence of Shule Sima Yi.

Opium, when I first started smoking, I didn't feel good, I smoked a little too much, dizzy, dizzy, and palpitated, and only after the initial stage, I gradually became addicted, and the wonderful feeling could be reflected. Li Yi repeatedly warned Sima Yi that if he treated this thing as a drug, it would be sold much more smoothly.

Sima Yi saw that the invited businessmen had arrived, coughed, and said, "I invite you to come today, and I have something to discuss." Did any of you know? My emperor is proficient in medicine and is a master of Xinglin. ”

These businessmen, profit-seeking first, where do they know that Emperor Wude of the Tang Dynasty is still a doctor, but people want to save face, and they can't seem to be lonely and unheard, so many people nodded in agreement as soon as Sima Yi's words fell.

Sima Yi didn't break it, and continued: "My emperor gathered my famous doctors in the Tang Dynasty to jointly develop a pill called Qianjin Dragon Tiger Pill. This elixir treats all kinds of abdominal pain, miraculous, if you want to take it for a long time, you can race the gods day by day. ”

A businessman from Kangju said, "I don't know how to take the pill? ”

Sima Yi took a cigarette gun, lit the lamp, picked out some opium paste with a skewer, put it in the cigarette pouch pot, and roasted it on the lamp, the opium paste emitted a faint green smoke, Sima Yi inhaled hard, and then slowly spit it out.

When the merchant saw it, he took it, and he also tried to suck it, and said with a smile: "Taking the pill like this, it is really wonderful." ”

It just so happened that a businessman estimated that he had eaten too much, his stomach was uncomfortable, and he felt a faint pain, so he volunteered to be a guinea pig and informed Sima Yi through an interpreter.

Sima Yi smiled: "There is pain in the abdomen, and after sucking, the pain stops immediately." Please give this businessman a try. ”

This merchant came from the Roman Empire on the Mediterranean side, listened to the interpreter's words, took the cigarette gun, picked a large piece with a skelet, and inhaled a few times against the lamp, which was strange to say, and the pain in his stomach immediately stopped.

The merchant was overjoyed and said to Sima Yi: "Your country's Thousand Golden Dragon and Tiger Pill is really magical, I don't know where Lord Sima knows where to sell it?" ”

Sima Yi said: "This Dan was developed by the emperor, so it was sold by the Western Regions Protectorate. Since it is known as the Thousand Golden Dragon and Tiger Pill, the price is naturally expensive. ”

The merchant in Rome said with a grin: "Of course, the price of the medicine developed by the emperor of your country cannot be low, I don't know how much a pill costs?" ”

Sima Yi smiled and said: "It's easy to say in terms of price." Today, I invite you to come, I am here to say a minimum price, you are all big experts, naturally know the value of the pill, you can take turns to increase the price, the last price is higher. ”

A Persian merchant said in a loud voice, "Lord Sima, quickly tell me the reserve price." ”

Sima Yi stretched out a finger and said slowly: "A pill is a thousand yuan." ”

There were about fifty businessmen who came, and when they heard this, they couldn't help but talk to each other and discuss with acquaintances in low voices.

The Roman merchant had a lot of money and said in a loud voice: "I will pay one thousand and one hundred dollars." ”

When Kangju and the Western Regions were near, the merchant from Kangju said, "I am willing to pay 1,200 yuan." ”

The Persians were very good at business, so the Persian merchants were very wealthy, and one of the Persian merchants said loudly: "Lord Sima, I am willing to pay 1,400 yuan." ”

The Persian merchants raised the price by two hundred cents at once, and the rest of the merchants did not dare to raise it again. A thing that is less than the size of an egg is sold for 1,400 yuan, which can be said to have reached a sky-high price.

Seeing that the merchants were silent, Sima Yi asked the Persian merchants, "I wonder how many pills this great merchant needs?" ”

The Persian merchant said, "As much as you want." ”

Sima Yi said: "There are currently 300,000 pieces in stock. ”

Unexpectedly, the Persian merchant frowned, and said loudly: "Tomorrow I will bring people and cash to withdraw it." ”

As soon as these words came out, the shocked room was full of people who were speechless, and more than 400 million yuan turned out to be cash, which was really generous.

The room full of merchants was struck by the domineering spirit of the Persian merchants, and when they saw that the sale had been completed, they all took their leave.

The Roman merchant was reluctant to give up, walked up to Sima Yi and said, "Lord Sima, I don't know when the next batch of pills will be made?" ”

Sima Yi originally thought that 300,000 pills could allow these merchants to get some, but he didn't think that he would kill a dark horse in the air and wrap up all the goods, so he had to say to the Roman merchants: "I will write to the emperor as soon as possible to speed up the development of the elixir, and once it arrives in the Western Regions, I will inform you as soon as possible." ”

The Roman merchant gave Sima Yi a big salute and left unhappy.

After processing the opium paste, there are more than 100 carts of poppy husks, which are ordinary goods, and naturally they can't be sold at a high price, but the emperor has a way.

Sima Yi ordered people to mix poppy husks with more than a dozen spices, grind them into powder with stone grinding, name them Tang Thirteen Incense, put them in exquisite sheepskin bags, and threw them on the market.

Sima Yi wrote to Emperor Wude, described the process of selling, and suggested that the emperor increase the cultivation of opium poppies and make more golden dragon and tiger pills.

Li Yi didn't expect that he would be so sought-after to get a name for opium paste in a whim, and the harvest in one season reached more than 600 million yuan. Since the market demand is so large, Lao Tzu will expand the scale.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Wude, one after another secret decrees flew out of the capital, Yizhou, Nanban Prefecture, Tiannan, Jiaozhou, and the Western Regions...... In remote and sparsely populated places, a large number of troops, laborers, appeared. Laborers, under the watchful eye of the army, reclaimed wasteland and accumulated manure.

Zhang Ji was taken aback by Li Yi's reward, he nested in the ravine for a year, and the emperor rewarded 200 million yuan, and each soldier could get 10,000 yuan, which was enough for the family to enjoy a well-off life.

Later, Li Yi also had a will, ordering Zhang Ji to select 3,000 people and send them to various places to guide the cultivation of opium poppies. The specific address has been explained, and as for who to send, that is Zhang Ji's business.

With the guidance of mature experience, poppy is grown in large quantities. Li Yi looked at the notes reported everywhere, and his heart was full of pride.