In the month before the Spring Festival, among well-informed people in Jinshan City, the news about Liu Yifeng was spread all over the sky. The content is basically about a small business house that discovered a gold mine, and Xia Jie of Dongshan Qianzhuang wanted to kill people and was killed by the counter-killing, of course, the details will be added according to the personality of the communicator.

Sun Jiankui knew very well that the news he heard was definitely watery, but he spent a lot of money to deal with the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau when he discovered the gold mine, and he was basically able to confirm it. And it was also at that time that he knew about Liu Yifeng's existence, and knew that he was the shopkeeper of the gold mining firm.

At that time, countless people who also inquired about Liu Yifeng's existence began to look for him, Li Hongji and they were excavated, and Liu Yifeng was taken to Yushan City by the Maritime Safety Bureau.

The clue was broken here, and when Sun Jiankui was still hesitating to go to Yushan City, Liu Yifeng came back and opened a Jinshan Sweet Village, so there was this invitation.

"Shopkeeper Liu, how big is the scale of the gold mine?"

Liu Yifeng did not answer this question directly, but asked: "Shopkeeper Sun, do you buy a lot of land in the Fifty City District?" ”

Sun Jiankui was stunned, but immediately thought of a possibility, and his face was full of excitement. And Sun Li, who had been standing behind Sun Jiankui, was full of confusion when he listened, and he didn't know how Liu Yifeng answered the question.

"There are some, but I bought them early and didn't cost too much."

"That's okay, if it's a high price to enter the market, you have to get rid of it quickly."

"yes, I don't know if it's okay to buy the land in Jinshan City after I get rid of it."

"The land in Jinshan City will definitely appreciate in value, but outside the city, I suggest not to move it yet."

"Why?"

"Hehe, naturally it's outside the city, there are some things."

"Oh, I see."

Sun Li didn't understand it, he was completely stunned by the conversation between the two, and finally couldn't help but speak: "Then Shopkeeper Liu, how big is the scale of the gold mine?" ”

Sun Jian Kui angrily wanted to turn his head and beat his nephew, he had no son, he had always raised Sun Li as a son, Sun Li was not a businessman, and his management ability was also very poor, so he entered the Sun family's armed forces and became a team leader.

In his opinion, Liu Yifeng had clearly told him a lot of information, but in the eyes of Sun Li, who was relatively simple-minded, Liu Yifeng was talking about him left and right.

"Sun Li, the tea is cold, go and ask someone to change the pot!"

After Sun Li was gone, Sun Jiankui no longer asked about the scale of the gold mine, and he knew that Liu Yifeng could not tell him directly. It is enough to imply that the scale of the gold mine in Jinshan City is large enough to replace the status of Jinshan City. However, he was still a little curious about why Liu Yifeng also hinted that he should not buy land outside Jinshan City.

The river valley plains outside Jinshan City are very good arable land for him, and some areas that are not so suitable for cultivation can also be used as pasture. Raising cattle, horses, and sheep is not as good as the plains at the foot of the mountain, but raising some poultry and pigs is not a big problem.

If you really want to shift the focus of the commercial bank from Jinshan City to Jinshan City, then buying a house and land in Jinshan City is secondary, and it is imperative to go to Jinshan City to occupy the best territory outside Jinshan City.

"Shopkeeper Liu, can't you touch the land outside the city at all?"

"It's best not to touch it for the time being, in case you work hard to reclaim it, and the Maritime Safety Bureau receives a notice for you, who do you go to reason?"

"Okay, then the old man will listen to you, brother."

As soon as he changed his name, Liu Yifeng knew that he had won Sun Jiankui's trust, and he also asked Sun Jiankui to accept the invitation.

"Brother Sun, I have something I hope you can help me with."

"What?"

"Do you know a horse dealer?"

When he first arrived in Yushan City, Liu Yifeng found it difficult to buy a horse in Dongshan Prefecture. If it weren't for Feng Shuo's pit and Sun Li's subordinates who took away a few horses, he could only ride a donkey when panning for gold.

When Sun Jiankui heard this, his originally cautious face instantly relaxed: "How many horses does Brother Liu want?" ”

"There are about 30 of them, and they all need war horses." Liu Yifeng thought for a while and added: "In addition, I may not be able to pay it all at once, I wonder if the horse dealer Brother Sun knows can pay in installments?" ”

"No problem." After speaking, Sun Jiankui pointed to Sun Li, who had just entered the room with a teapot, and said: "After a while, Brother Liu will communicate directly with Li'er, and definitely give Brother Liu the best price." ”

Only then did Liu Yifeng know that Sun Jiankui was actually in the horse trading business. He had the impression that Sun Jiankui had opened up countless plantations at the foot of the mountain, mainly engaged in grain business, and today he learned that the countless pastures at the foot of the mountain were also built by his grandson, and there were many large livestock, cattle, sheep and horses.

Thinking about it this way, when he first met Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Li and his group had so many horses.

After Sun Li figured out what was going on, he immediately patted his chest and said, "Okay, no problem, it just so happened that Yushan sent a batch of new horses, and I will take Shopkeeper Liu to see it in a while." ”

These horses are Liu Yifeng is ready to use for people who go south, and he is not so anxious, but it is too difficult to buy horses in Dongshan Prefecture before, and he thinks that it may take some time to buy horses, so he consulted in advance, but he did not expect to find the top horse dealers in Dongshan Prefecture, which is really an unexpected move.

Because Liu Yifeng didn't understand horses, Feng Shuo would definitely have to come to buy horses, so he and Sun Li had another time to watch the horses.

Then I chatted with Sun Jiankui about growing fruits.

"Grapes? Brother Liu, this grape can't afford to sell for a price. ”

"Oh, that's all there to talk about?"

Liu Yifeng always thought that grapes would be aristocratic fruits in ancient times, after all, he often saw grapes in palace banquets in costume TV series, which could only be enjoyed by emperors, queens and concubines.

As a result, I didn't expect that the grapes in Daming have been completely civilian.

The grapes of the Ming Dynasty are divided into two categories, one is a kind of grape from the Western Regions that was left over from the Han and Tang dynasties and planted in the north: milk grapes, which the Ming Dynasty called mare's milk grapes.

The best of this kind of grape was a tribute in the Han and Tang dynasties, and ordinary varieties were also luxuries, which is indeed the kind of impression that Liu Yifeng established from costume dramas. However, the four dynasties of Liao, Jin, Song and Yuan dynasties made this kind of grape slowly change from a luxury to an ordinary fruit, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, grapes became a fruit that could be planted in the backyard of the people.

Sun Jiankui, who is engaged in the grain business full-time, will not grow any crops that cannot be sold at a price except for staple grains, and grapes, like pears, cannot be sold at a price in Daming. Not to mention Dongshan Prefecture, the local people should find a yard in the city, and if they don't get it right, they can see the vines.

Moreover, there is no chemical fertilizer in this era, and precious human fertilizer will not be used, that is, manure fertilizer is used on grapes, and all fertilizers in Daming during the Xiaoice River period must be used to ensure the yield of staple grains. So most grapes are small and very sour, not only grapes, but also many other fruits.

In this era, it is also difficult to keep fruits fresh, and if you don't sell them as soon as possible, it will cost you more if you delay it for one more day. This also leads to the fact that in the minds of the people of the Ming Dynasty, the status of grapes is very low, and no one will be willing to accept a high price to buy grapes.

After listening to Sun Jiankui's explanation, Liu Yifeng was silent for a while and asked, "That handful of grapes are made into raisins?" ”

Sun Li's face was full of confusion, and it was obvious that he didn't know what raisins were.

And Sun Jiankui was stunned for a moment and said, "Brother Liu is really knowledgeable, and he actually knows raisins in the Western Regions." ”

Ha?

Liu Yifeng was stunned.

Could it be that raisins were not popular in ancient times?

Yes and no.

With a dynasty in the Western Regions, raisins are not popular among the people, but the wealthy and powerful elites in the capital have definitely been in contact with them. And the Ming Dynasty has never owned the Western Regions, at least now that they have started their Western Expeditions, they only own half of the Western Regions. Therefore, only the ordinary people in the Hexi Corridor and the wealthy class of the Central Plains have seen raisins.

Before the industrialization of the Central Plains, there were no conditions for large-scale production of raisins, and many people really did not know that grapes were more delicious when dried. Sun Jiankui only knew about raisins because he was the backbone of the family and was the core backbone of the Western Army.

"Brother Liu, no one in the Central Plains knows how to make raisins, and there are no conditions to make them."

"What about wine?"

This time, there was no need for Sun Jiankui to explain, Sun Li directly shouted loudly: "Shopkeeper Liu, if we had mastered the method of making wine, we would have started selling it a long time ago." ”

Since the Han Dynasty flowed into the Central Plains, wine has always been a very important part of Chinese wine culture and wine history, but it was broken in the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is very simple, most of the land in the pre-industrial Central Plains was not suitable for large-scale grape cultivation, and the land suitable for planting was also taken to grow staple grains, so wine could only be traded with the Western Regions. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Great Khan of the Mongol Khanate, who ruled the Western Regions, believed in the Green Religion, and the Green Religion did not allow drinking alcohol, so wine disappeared in the Western Regions. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty also banned alcohol, which directly led to the discontinuation of the craftsmen who knew how to brew because they had no livelihood.

However, during this period in the Central Plains, shochu, that is, distilled spirits, appeared, and the Chinese liquor system officially began to sprout in later generations. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.

Wine reappeared in the Ming Dynasty, which was brought by the Francois and the Dutch after the opening of the sea ban in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. They originally prepared it for themselves, but they didn't expect the Ming merchants to be willing to accept it, so wine became one of the main products of the Ming and their trade.

For the wealthy families in the coastal area, drinking rice wine and soju can no longer satisfy their superiority mentality. After all, you can buy these two kinds of wine if you have money, and those daughters who are ten or twenty years old are hard to find. Therefore, some commercial houses hyped up wine, saying that it was the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties.

Not to mention, the effect is surprisingly good.

After all, there is no shortage of scholars in wealthy families, and everyone who reads has read about the status of wine in the Han and Tang Dynasties. As a dynasty that reopened the world for the Han people, the scholars among the Han people have always taken it as their responsibility to reproduce the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, so the concept that the hype of the trading houses and wine is equal to the reproduction of the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties can be called the most successful marketing in this era.

Wine became a luxury.

The wine sales of the sea trade have not been high, because whether it is the Francois or the Dutch people, the wine production of their colonies in Asia is not high, and there is still loss on the sea trade road. This loss cannot be avoided by technical means, because the sea trade route is too close to the equator, and the high temperature and water vapor in the cabin can cause the wine to deteriorate quickly.

All this leads to the fact that wine is an absolute luxury in the minds of the Ming people, not to mention Dongshan Prefecture, which brings very little from the Central Plains, and it is estimated that only people like Song Yingxing and Wang Qi can afford to drink it.

After listening to Sun Li's explanation, Liu Yifeng noticed that the two of them looked at him a little strangely, and when he thought about it, he realized that he had indeed asked a very naïve question just now, which was inconsistent with his usual personality, so the two of them looked at him with strange eyes.

"Oh, I don't drink much, I don't really understand."

This excuse is not very tenable, but Sun Jiankui and Sun Li will not dismantle his platform, and they changed the topic according to his words.

After Liu Yifeng was sent away, Sun Li returned to Sun Jiankui and asked, "Uncle, are you sure this kid can see Lord Song?" ”

"Of course."

"No, uncle, don't be deceived, those bastards from the Maritime Safety Bureau shouldn't be able to reach Lord Song."

Sun Li meant that the few maritime bureau officials who Sun Jiankui had bought for a long time to provide them with information were not of sufficient rank, and they might have used fake news to cheat money.

Sun Jiankui got up and said as he walked towards the inner room: "It's not the information of those people, it's the information of the young master." ”

Sun Li was relieved, but soon thought of a question: Young Master Sun Xin has always looked down on their subordinates, how could he take the initiative to tell him this information?