Chapter 218: What's the Use of Asking for Money
"I know everything you say, but it's still the same sentence, bicycles, sell." Lin Bei cut the road categorically.
Zhen Ping's eyes swept over Lin Bei's face, naturally he couldn't see anything, and turned around Bian Ji's face again, the puzzled look in his eyes flashed, but he didn't say anything more, he was a businessman, he had already said it once, and the seller still wanted to sell, that was wishful thinking, and he couldn't complain about others.
"In that case, the villain doesn't say much, I don't know how much the adult wants to sell?" Zhen Ping had some doubts in his heart, but he was still very decisive when it was time to make a move.
Lin Bei looked at Bian Ji again, he really didn't know how much to sell, Bian Ji thought about it, didn't say the price, but said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Zhen came from afar, he must be tired, let's not talk about this matter first, how about talking about it tomorrow?" ”
Zhen Ping is as good as flowing: "Good." ”
Bian Ji set the tone, so the banquet did not talk about business, but talked about some folk interesting things, Zhen Ping this person is well-read and strong, and picked out some interesting things that the businessman has encountered for decades and said to Lin Bei and Bian Ji, although they have heard and forgotten, Lin Bei and Bian Ji still feel extremely interesting.
"Your Excellency, can you meet those natives in Wanghai City?" Zhen Ping asked, talking about the surroundings of Wanghai City.
"You mean the natives behind the Changshan Mountains?"
"However, those natives are not worthy of education, we call them the Pufeng tribe, the Pufeng people are extremely tyrannical, and it is common for each other to eat people, just a few years ago, these natives also went up the river, wanted to invade Yizhou, were defeated by the Yizhou official army, plundered several Yizhou villages, and left no people and animals, and I heard that the barbarians of Jiuzhen and Rinan counties also have a lot of contact with the Pufeng people, haven't you ever met these natives? If you encounter it. Adults should never leave their hands alone. ”
Lin Bei said lightly: "The barbarians of Jiuzhen and Rinan have been exterminated by us. ”
Zhen Ping's face changed, and he forced a smile: "I see." I waited for the boat to come, but I didn't know it. This move by adults can prevent future troubles, which is indeed the best policy. ”
The best policy is the best policy, but Zhen Ping said in his heart that this adult was ruthless enough, although there were not many barbarians in Jiuzhen County and Rinan County, there must be thirty or forty thousand, and if he said that he would kill him, he would kill him.
"As for the Pufeng people you mentioned, we have also met them." Bian Ji said with a smile: "Before the tenth month, we also captured a Pufeng tribe named Wabo. Have you ever heard of the name of this tribe? ”
Zhen Ping thought for a while and shook his head: "I haven't heard of it, there are many tribes of the Pufeng tribe, about dozens, along the water and mountains, some trade with my Han land, and some are called the king's side, even those natives themselves probably don't know the names of all the tribes." ”
"Does the treasurer of the Haka tribe know?" Lin Bei asked casually.
"The Haka tribe? Adults have met this tribe? Zhen Ping asked in surprise.
"Well, I was about to attack, what's wrong. Do you know this tribe too? ”
Zhen Ping said slowly: "I naturally know that among the ten major tribes of the Pufeng Clan, the Haka tribe is also one of them, if the adults want to attack this tribe." Then beware of the spirit witches of the tribe, as far as I know, there is a strange beast in this Haka tribe. Named Haka, it is cultivated by spirit witches. The Haka tribe took the name of this strange beast, and it was obvious that the strange beast was extremely powerful. ”
"Witches? Is it the sorcerer of the natives? ”
"Yes."
Lin Bei nodded. Understood.
Generally speaking, the scientific and technological level of the gathering places formed in the form of tribes is very low, but it has given birth to a strange profession, most of them are called wizards, a bit like alchemists, the kind of gods in the eyes of ordinary people, and the status of wizards in the tribe is generally very high, second only to the leader of the tribe.
So what does a wizard do? Generally speaking, this kind of shaman will have some medical skills, can mix some medicinal herbs, and at the same time, if there is a large festival in the tribe, the shaman will pray for blessings and sacrifices to the heavens on behalf of the people.
In addition, some of the wizard profession is quite magical, there are some strange abilities, as for what kind of strange ability it is difficult for others to know except for the wizard himself, the wizards of the Haka tribe should belong to this kind, and it is also a strange ability to be good at raising strange beasts, which is called animal tamers in modern times, but in ancient times, people tend to be in awe of this ability.
"What kind of strange beast is that haka?" Lin is still ready to find out.
Although Lin Bei looks down on the scientific and technological level of the natives, some of the strange abilities can't even be explained in modern times, so it's always right if you can understand it, maybe you can analyze it.
Zhen Ping looked at Lin Bei and said softly: "It is said that this Haka is a long worm, after being raised by that spirit witch, it can listen to the words of that spirit witch, such as the command of the arm, and because it is fed with human flesh and blood every day, it is very fond of cannibalism, and it is also huge, invulnerable, and hundreds of people are difficult to kill." ”
Lin Bei smiled dumbly, it turned out to be a long worm.
To put it bluntly, this Pufeng tribe is the starting nation of Burma, Thailand and other countries in later generations, and the area here is also the territory of Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in later generations, with a lot of forests, among which there are two kinds of more famous pythons, one is called Burmese python, and the other is reticulated python, so it is not strange if someone can raise snakes, and there are people in these countries in later generations who raise snakes to see their homes, but people in this era are more superstitious, if the snake breeder advertises that he is the reincarnation of the snake god, it is estimated that there will be a lot of people who believe it, It is estimated that the strange beasts of the Nahaka tribe were made by this kind of snake breeder.
As for invulnerability? Even Lin Bei himself can't do it, he doesn't believe that other snakes can be invulnerable.
If it was another strange beast, then Lin Bei would really be wary, but since it was also a long insect, Lin Bei didn't care at all, even if some of the snakes and insects in this era were indeed very large, but until now, Lin Bei had never encountered a snake larger than his own size, and he was wise, would he be afraid of other snakes?
On the bright side, the strange beast of the Haka tribe is a snake, maybe the god of this tribe is the snake god, and when Lin Bei appears, maybe there is no need to fight, and these natives will bow their heads, which won't save a lot of effort? That's a big deal.
"Except for the Haka tribe, what are the strange beasts of the other tribes of the Pufeng tribe? Zhen Ping, tell me everything you know. ”
Zhen Ping nodded, and said what he knew, many of the strange beasts in those tribes were different, but there were some of them that Lin Bei knew, for example, there was a tribe whose strange beast was a white proboscis beast, that is, a white elephant, and there were hundreds of war elephants in this tribe, which was an extremely powerful tribe, and there was a tribe that believed in the dinosaur, listening to Zhen Ping's description of the shape of the dinosaur, Lin Bei thought that it should be a crocodile, and there was also a tribe whose strange beast was a white rhinoceros, and then the strange beasts of other tribes were very strange, what a black dragon with three heads, a spider with nine hands, Lin Bei couldn't think of what kind of strange beast it was, and in the end, Lin Bei thought that this strange beast was either exaggerated by the people of that tribe, or it was.
When he heard the anecdotes, Lin Bei listened to them with relish, Zhen Ping also worked hard, as long as he knew, he told them one by one, after the last meal, just listening to Zhen Ping pulling the calf, Zhen Ping said that his mouth was dry, and he drank two jars of Moro fruit wine.
Zhen Ping's amount of alcohol is not very good, there is no successful businessman in later generations who can drink wine and drink with a perforated stomach, seeing that he is not strong enough to drink, Bian Ji ordered someone to take Zhen Ping out of the city lord's mansion and rest on his own, Zhen 13 also left, and the banquet dispersed.
Bian Ji followed Lin Bei to the backyard, asked the attendant to bring water to wash his face, and then asked, "My lord, how much is the bicycle going to cost?" ”
At the table, Bian Ji has been thinking about this matter, he feels that Zhen Ping attaches great importance to bicycles, so he is ready to slaughter it fiercely, anyway, Zhen's is so fat, the Central Plains is now crazy about food prices, many industries have been affected, but the impact on Zhen's is not big.
"What do you say?" Lin Bei asked someone to take the dough cake, broke it and threw it into the pond, and the three turtles swam over to eat it, not polite at all, he thought to himself, if the three turtles are big, he can also be regarded as a kind of spirit witch, because he is also good at raising strange beasts.
"Ten thousand gold??" Bian Ji reported a number.
"You said one?" Lin Bei was speechless, the cost is the cost price of two gold, you quote 10,000? Crazy, right?
"Of course not." Bian Ji is not crazy: "Didn't the adult say that he would sell the technology of how to make a bicycle to Zhen Ping?" Knowing how to make it, Zhen Ping will definitely not buy our bike, so I'm talking about technology. ”
"10,000 gold is too little, last time we attacked Hepu County, we looted it when we left, it was they who paid 50,000 gold, that is still the yellow scarf raging for a long time, otherwise it will only be more, 10,000 gold is too little, and didn't you listen to what Zhen Ping said? After Zhen built a bicycle, he should sell it to those who want to fight, is this kind of person still short of money? ”
Nowadays, the price of military horses is a little cheap, but it is also a dozen gold, how can the bicycle catch up with half of the military horse, half of the discount is hardware, Zhen is estimated to be ready to sell like this, those who want to fight at least to buy it in this unit, sell a few assassins or generals, Zhen can make a lot of money.
"What do you say?"
"100,000 gold, Zhen has money, this bicycle is a hammer deal, it is very easy to imitate, otherwise it will not be sold even if it is a million gold."
Hearing this number, Bian Ji looked happy, 100,000 gold, this is a lot of money, and then thought of the situation of Wanghai City, frowned and said: "My lord, now I Wanghai City is far away in the extreme south, self-sufficient, it seems useless to have money, right?" ”
Lin Bei thought about it, now Wanghai City is self-sufficient, and there is no business, everything the people want is to barter, 100,000 gold seems to be really useless, and it can't trade with the natives, could it be that the Tuo Zhen clan brought something from the Central Plains?
For a while, Bian Ji and Lin Bei stared, thinking about how to use this money, and not only bicycles, but also salt is sold to a large amount of input, can it be impossible to make the money moldy in the library? It's stupid.
It wasn't until the second day that Lin Bei took Zhen Ping to visit the manufacturing process of the bicycle, and Lin Bei had a flash of inspiration before he thought of how to use the money. (To be continued......)
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