Chapter 269: The Tea and Horse Trade (1)
About half a month passed again, and on this day, Cui Xiuxiu actually came to find Chen Fei in a hurry, obviously there was something very important.
"Miss Xiuxiu, how are you doing now? You're not busy solving the Cui family's affairs now, why did you come to me? Chen Fei asked.
Cui Xiuxiu immediately said: "The situation is very good for us now, since you solved the important assistants of the two uncles and the second uncle, we have taken advantage of the situation to bring them over, so that the power of our side has risen sharply, and it is almost a three-legged stand." And we are now going to make one last effort, which is to make money through this tea and horse trade with the Turks, and then get huge benefits to buy those family members. More than a month ago, I had already sent people to transport tea to the Turks on fast horses, hoping to make huge profits. ”
As a result, as you said, once the Turks tasted the tea, they immediately became addicted. He immediately exchanged about 800 horses for about 80,000 catties of tea for us, and then the people I sent came back soon. “
Chen Fei was a little surprised, the power that Cui Xiuxiu could call was really not small, and it was only less than half a month, and he had made forty tons of dried tea. This is almost equivalent to the output of an ordinary tea factory in later generations, but this is in ancient times, so the meaning is different. It seems that Cui Xiuxiu mobilized a lot of strength to do it, but this time the tea and horse trade was a success, and he was able to exchange for 800 war horses at a time, which can be said to be very profitable. These 800 war horses can be exchanged for more than 40 million yuan in Datang now, which is almost equal to the financial revenue of the central government of Datang for a year.
However, this is because the tea and horse trade has not yet formed a long-term trading market, and only Cui Xiuxiu does this business, and no one else has been able to do this business. That's why Cui Xiuxiu can make so much money, if more and more people join in the future, and the Turks also have a choice. Naturally, it must not be so profitable. This is also the monopoly advantage, which the Turks can only accept, and their own side can also get a lot of profits.
After Chen Fei heard this, he immediately said, "This is a good thing!" Just this time, if the business can be done, then we can get a lot of benefits, then this time the head of the family, it should be successful, right? After all, with more than 40 million yuan, you can't buy Cui's family inside and outside once! ”
However, that person actually lost contact more than ten days ago. This worries me a lot! I made an appointment with him to send me a letter every six days by pigeon, but now I haven't sent it back. At first, I thought it was a temporary loss of contact, but then the second time I agreed to send a message back, I immediately knew that something was wrong, so I came to you, hoping that you could contact the emperor and ask the emperor to help me search for these situations. That's 800 high-quality horses. Each horse can be sold for 50,000 yuan, and this is the top war horse. Almost all of them can be used as a general's mount, and even as a species. Malay breeding war horses is invaluable! Cui Xiuxiu said.
Chen Fei began to think. Then he said: "Could it be that there was some accident, could it be that that person offended someone from the Turks, something happened?" ”
"No, this guy is very experienced. is a veteran of business. He didn't have any problems in the Turkic territory, how could he have problems in the country? So there are generally no problems in the country. And, the last time he delivered the message. It has already reached the border between our Tang Dynasty and the Turks, so it is unlikely that foreign tribes are looting. It should be from within our Datang, maybe someone within our Datang has taken a fancy to these war horses and wants to keep them for themselves. These war horses are priceless, and anyone will be tempted. Cui Xiuxiu said.
Chen Fei immediately said: "It's against him, and he even dares to move the Cui family's things?" ”
Chen Fei was really surprised, because someone dared to touch the Cui family's things, this courage was too fat, Chen Fei had to admire. Are the Cui family's things so active? If it moves, then you must be prepared to be retaliated against by the Cui family. But now someone is so bold, which makes Chen Fei extremely surprised.
"That's not the case, I told that person, don't say it's the Cui family's thing. After all, the Cui family has a lot of people in the officialdom, and if this tea and horse trade is exposed to the eldest and second uncles, then I am afraid that they will be targeted by the eldest and second uncles. Therefore, others may not know that this is the Cui family's thing. Cui Xiuxiu said.
Chen Fei said helplessly: "That's trouble, and he can't expose the situation that it is the Cui family, so he can only use his own wit to dodge." But we don't know what the situation is yet, so we can't judge it! ”
"That's why I need you to help me contact the emperor so that he can come forward to help investigate. This is the key to the success or failure of our seizure of the position of the head of the Cui family this time, so we must not lose it! Once lost, then I am afraid we will not have so much time and materials to prepare tea for the next transaction. Last time, our Cui family bought all the tea in Shandong, and there will be no second batch of tea that can be traded in a short period of time, so we must not lose! Cui Xiuxiu said.
Chen Fei also knows the importance of these war horses, whether Cui Fu can seize the position of the head of the Cui family depends on how much money these war horses can exchange for. This is a high-quality war horse, which can be used as a species. Malay is used by military horse farms in China, and even Taifu Temple will definitely be tempted. So Chen Fei thinks that they will definitely buy it, even if it is to smash the pot and sell iron.
Since Chen Fei knew the seriousness of the matter, he took the initiative to find the leader of the masked man, and then asked him to send the news to Chang'an as quickly as possible, and asked Li Shimin to send someone to investigate. And Chen Fei later found out that the leader of the masked people actually used a pigeon to transmit a message, but an eagle to transmit a message, which was indeed a bull fork. Using an eagle to send a message is not only safer and prevents some birds of prey from catching pigeons, but it also flies faster. However, the cost and difficulty of training eagles are also very high, and only the Turks will use this kind of eagle, and no one else will use it. It seems that this Lijingmen and bad people are also full of talents, and even this kind of talent is available. (To be continued......)