"Master, tell me a story, the last time I talked about Zhu Xianzhen's victory of 500 Beiwei Army breaking 100,000 gold soldiers, I haven't finished talking about it, what about later?" Li Qi did Xiao Quai's side, and found a topic to say.

Li Qi thought about it, since the master didn't want to play those card games, and he was not in the mood to practice, then tell the story, this story will take at least half an hour, and it is easy to pull out the master's thoughts.

The surrounding sailors, employees of the Four Seas Trading Company, and sergeant Tiance heard that Xiao Qu was sick and wanted to tell a story, so they all put down the cards in their hands and gathered around, they loved to listen to the story of King Lanling.

"Ah, ...... later" Xiao Qu came back to his senses and opened his mouth flatly: "Later, the eunuch emperor named Zhao Gou was bent on a corner of peace, maybe he was afraid that Prince Yue would take his brother back, or maybe he and Qin Hui were afraid that Prince Yue would make too much contribution, so they recalled Prince Yue with twelve gold medals, and ten years of success were wasted, and the good situation was ruined!"

If you don't fight, then you have to negotiate peace, that Jin Wushu child was repeatedly defeated by the hands of Yue Wangye on the battlefield, so he proposed to kill Fei, Shi Kehe, that Zhao Gou and Qin Hui combined, anyway, the Jin soldiers were disabled, and they could no longer threaten them for more than ten years, so let's kill it, so Zhao Gou instructed Qin Hui to frame Yue Wangye on trumped-up charges and died in Fengbo Pavilion. ”

originally thought that he could tell the story for half an hour, but it was finished in less than two minutes, Xiao Quai's interest was not high, as an apprentice and subordinate, he naturally didn't dare to force him to continue talking, but when he heard Yue Fei ending like this, everyone was also angry, and their teeth itched with hatred.

Especially the two junior officers of the former Tiance Mansion, they also listened to the previous story and heard that Yue Fei was brave and good at fighting. Serve one’s country with true allegiance. has always substituted him for Wang Zhonghe. Since ancient times, heroes cherish heroes. Wang Zhongsi was killed by traitors and villains, and now Yue Feiyue in the story was also killed by Qin Hui, both of them were depressed and angry.

One of them clenched his fists and slammed it on the deck: "Why, why is this, is it possible that our soldiers on the bloody battlefield can only end up like this?" ”

There was no one on deck for a moment. Everyone was thinking about their own thoughts, Xiao Quzhi glanced at Li Qi, Li Qi clenched his fists, and thought to himself, if he was Yue Fei, what should the emperor's grandfather do to him like this?

In several cabins of the Captain, more than a dozen representatives of various families were playing cards around three tables, and two of them had just finished playing, sitting in hammocks and talking. One of them was a representative of the Li clan of Zhao County, named Li Wenfeng. He let out a sigh and said, "Brother Cui, it's been here for four days, do those spice islands that King Lanling said exist?"

I heard the sailors say, in fact, the day before yesterday I found a spice island, the island is densely wooded, nearly half of it is spice trees, in fact, after picking the spices on the island there is enough for us to earn!

But King Lanling has to continue to look for it, don't brag about it, if you don't find it, you can't get off the stage, maybe the spice island that he said is all spice trees doesn't exist at all. ”

Known as Brother Cui is Cui Guoyi, the representative of the Cui clan in Qinghe, this time Xiao Quai's illness set off to find Spice Island, and the ships of the Four Seas Trading Company were all gone, but every family magnate and wealthy merchant who came to the South China Sea were allowed to send a family representative and three henchmen to accompany the ship, naturally, most of the time, they could only stay in the cabin.

Cui Guoyi smiled faintly: "How come?" The king of Lanling bragged a little, he said that there was a treasure island, but we found three gold and silver mountains here, all of which were rich mines that could not be found in the Tang Dynasty; He said that there is mahogany, agarwood, and there is really the most mahogany, agarwood;

Let's talk about Spice Island, the island the day before yesterday, if King Lanling insists that it is the Spice Island he is talking about, we have nothing to say. If he said so surely, it meant that he did know that there was an island full of spice trees!

You are too much of that heart, what to spend, not to mention anything else, even if you don't come to Spice Island, none of our families have made a lot of money, just the gold you brought back, roughly estimated, is almost close to my Datang's income for two years! All the families and businessmen who came with him will be grateful to him, and the emperor will be happy, so why can't he get off the stage? ”

Li Wenfeng sneered: "Although the words are good, but I still think this matter is too mysterious, this vast sea, the small island like King Lanling said, if not a thousand, there are eight hundred, if you want to find a dozen such islands, how difficult is it to find a needle in a haystack, not to mention, how can that kind of small island overgrown with spice trees really exist?" According to me, King Lanling is just too greedy, and the island the day before yesterday is not very good, so it's a big deal to spend more time......"

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a loud shout and cheer from the deck in front of him, and the sound quickly swept through the whole ship from far and near, and almost everyone shouted together, almost mad.

"Spice Island, there really is a spice island, all the mountains are all over the wilderness, all the trees are spice trees, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and the most is nutmeg, nutmeg!"

"It's gone, it's really making a lot of money now! Fifty ships of the sea! ”

King Lanling said that there is, there really is, and he said that if he can find it, he really found it!

is worthy of being a disciple of the gods, and he simply follows his words. He said that this is already the land of the Tang Dynasty, and the sea of the Tang Dynasty has really become the land of the Tang Dynasty, the sea of the Tang Dynasty; He said that if there is a mountain of gold, there will really be a mountain of gold, and he said that if there is a spice island, there will really be, as long as he wants to, he will definitely be able to do it! All the enemies bowed their heads in front of the Lanling King, and now even the heavens are like this!

The darling of heaven is simply the darling of heaven, following the law, and the favor of God, Cui Guoyi looked at Li Wenfeng, who was a little stunned, and said with a faint smile: "Brother Li, what else do you have to say now, fairy disciple, darling of heaven, if you don't accept it, you can't accept it!" ”

Excluding the people who stayed on the ship, when more than 700 people from five warships and fifty merchant ships went ashore on a small boat, and saw that it was really a spice tree all over the mountains, the scene immediately got a little out of control!

Everyone's eyes turned red in an instant, staring at the countless cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg on the island, and they went crazy at once, trembling with excitement This is the most reserved, and more is shouting like crazy, dancing, laughing as much madness, as crazy as mad.

This is a spice, the most expensive in Datang. The best-selling goods! And the demand is huge. No matter how many spices. Datang's vast market can be digested.

In Datang, whether it is the mutton eaten by the rich or the pork eaten by the poor, the smell is extremely strong, and it is impossible to eat it without spices. If you don't have money, you can only use the cheapest pepper to cover up the smell, and if you have money, you naturally have to use more advanced spices, cinnamon, cloves, etc.

But even the richest of the powerful families. Nutmeg is definitely not something that can be used if you want to, because of its super ability to remove the smell and bring a spicy fragrance to the dishes, coupled with the scarcity of quantity, now the nutmeg has been sold in Chang'an for a silver coin for a tael!

Therefore, a thick layer of nutmeg fell on the ground on the island, which is actually a thick layer of silver coins, rushing to pick up nutmeg, it is equivalent to picking up money, and no matter how you pick it up, how can people not be crazy!

"Do you want to die? The island is full of poisonous snakes. Everyone carries a piece of sulfur on their bodies, and when we startle the snakes, we light the sulfur and smoke it. You go up again. There are so many spices, we can't take half of the ship full, what's the hurry! ”

Xiao Quzhi let out a loud shout, and Li Qi and other Tiance Mansion soldiers pulled those who were desperate and wanted to rush up to pick up the nutmeg on the ground.

When everyone heard this, they could only endure it for a while, but all of them still stared at the spices that were full of wilderness, and their eyes lit up. An hour later, the employees of the Four Seas Trading Company cleared a relatively safe area, and everyone immediately screamed, and each rushed over with a large bag, picking up the nutmeg on the ground with trembling hands.

There are two people with poor willpower, and they are chanting while picking them up: "One silver coin, two silver coins, three silver coins......"

Looking at the people who had entered a state of forgetfulness, forgetting to sleep and eat and picking up spices, Xiao Qu returned to the Captain in a boring manner, it seemed that the big cannibal ship had not come here, they had reached the island a few days ago at most.

Therefore, he has to arrange for himself to be on guard and find other nearby spice islands, and this secret of the location of the spice islands must be kept!

Also, if such spices are shipped back to Datang, the price must not be reduced, and it can even be mentioned, because there are more and more gold and silver in Datang, and with the rapid development of the economy, Datang is getting richer and richer, and there will be more and more people who can afford to eat spices, and the market for spices will only get bigger and bigger.

At least ten years later, he will be able to become rich and rival the country by mining spices and gold and silver mines, and quickly expand the scale of the Four Seas Trading Company to a very large extent.

The problem of capital has been basically solved, and now the headache is talent, the selection and training of management personnel, the improvement of the quality of ordinary employees, and the supporting and popularization of science and technology are all troublesome things.

After Li Qi accompanied Xiao to arrange various matters, the two of them wandered around the neighborhood in a small boat, on a small island far away from the hustle and bustle, full of picturesque scenery. The water is crystal clear, and in a leeward cove, the sea is like a mirror, and people swim in the painting.

Thinking that he would be able to return soon, Xiao Quai's mood also became happy, and he said with a smile: "Xiao Qi, what do you think of the scenery here?" ”

"It's beautiful, the clouds are white, the sky is blue, the water is clear, it's beautiful, it's refreshing, quiet and relaxing."

"Yes, it's really beautiful, it's a pity that your master is not around, otherwise it would be a pleasure for us to sail together in this beautiful scenery of blue sky and white clouds and water waves like mirrors.

I know that not far from here, there is a place called Bali, which is also very beautiful, and on the other side of the Lion City Strait, there is a string of small islands called the Maldives, which is also a paradise for vacation.

In fact, there are many such beautiful scenery in the world, but the most important thing is the mood of looking at the scenery, with the mood of seeing the scenery, whether it is a noisy street market or a quiet island, it can be used as a landscape.

But the beautiful scenery is the beautiful scenery, I have decided, after retirement, I must take your sister and mother, all over the world, whether it is the ice and snow in the north, or the warm islands in the south, or the endless prairie, the majestic mountains and rivers, the gorgeous flowers, the beauty of this world, we have to see it again. ”

Li Qi thought for a while and said, "Master and Master will first tour the local scenery of Datang, and wait for Xiao Qi to go together!" ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "But what if the world is in chaos one day, or the place with beautiful scenery is too chaotic?" ”

"Is Master worried that An Lushan's dead fat man is going to rebel? Didn't we plan it a long time ago? When our fleet returns to Datang, He An Lushan, as well as those rebellious grassland Hu people, will be finished. ”

The plan of the Sihai Trading Company is very simple, that is, to make all the money of Hebei An Lushan Group, and there are also rich people in these grassland Hu people in Hebei, and they are not used to eating fishy mutton, so they naturally need to use spices, and selling spices can make them a lot of money.

Secondly, it is to crack down on the industry of Hebei Group, what is there in Hebei, it is nothing more than cattle and sheep, Dongzhu and local jade gems. Cattle and sheep are not rare, can there be fewer cattle and sheep on the Hetao grassland? Dongzhu and jade can not be compared with the four seas trading company, the pearls produced in Nanyang in terms of size, quality and quantity, are far more than the Dongzhu in Hebei Province, and the same is true for jade gemstones.

In short, it is to make the good things in their hands not sell, or the price is very low, but the price of other things must be increased accordingly, because there is more money.

The most ruthless tricks are also in liquor and tea.

When Xiao Quzhi left Luoyang, he spent a relatively high price to buy a large amount of grain from all over the country, in order to make a large amount of wine, and then lowered the price of liquor to 500 wen per bucket and dumped it in Hebei.

Generally, the worst on the market, the turbid liquor that can not be drunk after drinking two or three buckets with a good amount of alcohol will be sold for 300 wen a bucket, and the liquor brewed by the Four Seas Trading Company can drunk four strong men in one bucket, and the wine taste is fragrant and mellow, so it will naturally sell crazy in Hebei.

When the time comes, when these Hu people in Hebei, especially the Hu soldiers in Hebei under An Lushan, are used to drinking this kind of liquor, the Sihai Trading Company will slowly raise the price of the liquor, and then their money will slowly flow to the Sihai Trading Company.

When the money is gone, and the addiction to alcohol comes back, what should I do? You can exchange things for horses, weapons, and even collect all their cattle, sheep, and grain, so that they have nothing to eat.

These methods may not be able to eliminate Hebei's An Lushan Shi Siming group, but they can suppress and weaken them, and they are boiled frogs in warm water, and when they find out the problem, it will be too late.

Of course, the An Lushan group is not without a way out, and in the end they can still solve everything by violent means, but Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi do not think that these only fierce, poorly organized and disciplined Hebei Hu soldiers will be the opponents of hundreds of thousands of elites in the Tang Dynasty, especially the Tiance Army.

These plans, at present, only Xiao Quai, He Keer, Li Qi, Li Mi, Li Xian, Li Sheng and several other core personnel know, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi have deduced this many times, speaking of this, both of them laughed, aren't the Sogdians of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms good at doing business and making money, look at how he An Lushan breaks the game.

At this moment, a medium-sized ship ran over, as if to report a strange situation to Xiao Quai, saying that another spice island had been discovered not far away, and a small boat was sent to the island to check, but the boat was caught in a current and could not row.

"And such a thing?" Xiao Qu was interested: "Take us to see." ”

The two of them soon followed the ship to the side of the island, Xiao Qubing checked the terrain and current, it turned out that the island was in the middle of an ocean current, and it was naturally a little difficult for the two people in the boat to return the same way, but it was no problem to circle the island half a circle. (To be continued.) )