1040, Datang in the eyes of foreigners (1)
Soon, the foreign businessmen in Chang'an City also began to spread the news, that is, the Tang Dynasty government recruited some foreign employees. These senior foreign employees will help Datang translate foreign books and materials, and then be responsible for translating Datang's materials into foreign languages. And this job immediately made many foreigners in China a little tempted, because the treatment is also very good, and it is still more attractive to ordinary foreigners.
Because these senior employees are paid according to the treatment of the sixth rank official to the ninth rank official, and those who can accept the employment can get the same treatment as the sixth rank official to the ninth rank official of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, this is calculated by converting all of them into wages, and as for the original Datang officials and various field incomes, this is also converted into wages. After all, if land is directly given to foreigners, then this will definitely cause a lot of controversy. But compared to those wages, it's not easy.
Because even the lowest income of the ninth rank official is converted into more than 100,000 years for future generations. Such a high income, of course, is not too high for some people. But for those foreigners who have traveled thousands of miles to the East, it can be said to be very high. In ancient times, foreigners who could travel thousands of miles to the East to do business were actually polarized. Either very rich or very poor. Those who are very rich want to make more profits, while the other kind of poor people want to get rich overnight.
If you can get income in Datang according to the salary of the Jiupin official, then do things for the Datang government for a few years, and use this income to purchase various materials from Datang after five or six years, and then ship them to the West, then you must have earned money that you can't earn in a lifetime!
Many things such as porcelain and tea in the East are not expensive, in fact, many people can afford to use these things in the East. But in the West, these things were very much earlier, so they could be hired by the government in the East, and they were paid much more than they were to hire those merchants. These wages are at least much more than the wages paid by ordinary businessmen. As long as you work for a few years and then dump a batch of goods back to China, that is, you can live a life that others can't enjoy in a lifetime.
So this opportunity to get rich overnight made everyone red-eyed, so they all found Caesar, who released the news, and wanted to inquire about what was going on.
"Mr. Caesar, do you have a relationship with the Chinese government?" Someone asked.
Caesar, of course, said, "Of course, not only did I have friendships with important Chinese officials, but I also met the king of China. ”
"The king of China has received you?" Someone asked in surprise.
"Yes, they gave me a lot of things! Moreover, the Chinese official also told me that he could provide me with a quota of 10,000 catties of tea every year. Caesar said.
Now Jingwen has established a tea garden in Jiangnan Province, that is, in the area of Fujian in later generations. Therefore, the production of tea has increased greatly, so now tea has also begun to be produced in large quantities. And now the tea market is also in short supply, and more and more people drink tea. Originally, these teas were exported to the Turks and traded to the Turks in exchange for cattle and sheep, and Ashinayun's people helped sell tea in the Turks, and then exchanged for beef and mutton and dairy products to return to the Central Plains for sale, in fact, this is just a family's own internal business.
And tea drinking has gradually become popular within Datang, especially fried tea, which is very popular. In the court, Li Shimin had to go to Jingwen's tea workshop every month to select some of the best quality tea as tribute. And when the court officials were working, they were also used to casually asking the servants to bring a cup of tea. Of course, the reason why this happened was because Jingwen was promoting tea. In this case. The entire Tang Dynasty has also begun to drink tea, and tea is in short supply.
However, at this time, the West also needed a lot of tea. Originally, there wasn't much tea in the West, but since Jingwen got a lot of tea a year or two ago. As a result, Western high society also began to drink tea. Chinese tea is loved by the world in later generations, and tea is one of the world's three major beverages. Drinking too much alcohol and coffee can damage the body, while tea is relatively safe. And it can also be healthy. Even in the United States, half of the population of the coffee country drinks tea. So these are enough to show that tea can be said to be something that the whole world likes.
But the most tragic thing is that the land in the West is not suitable for growing tea, so every qiē tea has to be imported from China. In order to be able to drink tea, those Western aristocrats did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy it, and tea has become one of the important pillars of Datang's current foreign trade. But Jingwen is like a ghost, and he began to prepare to monopolize tea a few years ago. At that time, everyone did not have the popularity of drinking tea, and there was no technology to fry tea, so the price of tea was not high, and no one even specialized in the tea business. But now Jingwen has figured out the technology of roasting tea and found a suitable market. Those who like to drink tea are those literati and scholars, as well as those Turkic nomads who lack vitamins in their food. And Westerners are like this, and they attach great importance to the nutrition in tea. Although they don't know anything about nutrition, they know that they don't feel well without tea. If you don't drink tea, you can barely endure it, but now if you don't drink tea, you can't stand it.
Therefore, tea has become the best-selling thing in the western Roman Frankish area, as long as it is in stock, it will be sold without losing money. However, Oriental tea is almost monopolized by Jingwen, and it is not so easy to obtain. If it's a small amount, you might still be able to get it. But if it is a large amount, then if there is no Jingwen's approval, it may be very difficult. Therefore, if Westerners want to purchase tea, first of all, quota is also a problem. Without the quota given by Jingwen, they would not have been able to purchase tea at all. Because tea drinking has also become popular in Datang, it is impossible to sell all tea abroad. This tea quota has become the most important thing for foreign businessmen, and now Caesar can get a quota of 10,000 catties of tea per year, which is really the envy of countless people. With this, you can go back and forth between the East and the West several times in just a few years, that is, you can earn enough money that most people can't earn in a lifetime. (To be continued......)