Chapter 243: It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish

Hearing Li Shen ask, Ash Nazhong didn't react for a while, but he was only stunned for a moment before speaking

"Alas, don't hide it from the prince, there are tens of thousands of people in our Ashina tribe, and the grain plus the purchase of cattle and sheep will cost almost 150,000 yuan, and I plan to sell the wealth is worth tens of thousands of yuan, and there should be a difference of 100,000 yuan."

"Is 150,000 enough?" Li Shen was surprised, he thought that tens of thousands of people would need at least hundreds of thousands of yuan.

"Just...??" Both of them were stunned, 150,000 is too little?

However, when he was surprised, he thought that it was Li Shen who said this, and he was quickly relieved. King Ji, who is known as the God of Wealth by the people of Chang'an, is not at all strange to say such tiger and wolf words.

"Eldest sister, Xue Guogong, since there are only 150,000 yuan, there is no need to sell the family property, and it can't be sold for a few dollars anyway.

I'm going to make a business to the grassland, I can lend you a batch of goods first, and when they are sold, I'll pay the money back.

I can let my caravan enter the steppe two months late. I think these two months are enough for all the things you want.

Remember Xue Guogong, you don't have to do it yourself, let the people in your tribe do it. Assemble a few more caravans and sell them in the various tribes.

There should be quite a few young men in your tribe, and you can tell them to form a few convoys.

When the time comes, my caravan will enter the steppe, and I can hire them as guards. In this way, your tribe will have a long-term source of income, and the life of the people will be better. "It is better to give a man a fish than to give him a fish.

After listening to Li Shen's words, Ashina Zhong rubbed his hands happily, he believed in Li Shen very much, and the gentlemen who cooperated with Li Shen in Quan Chang'an are now all rich.

I don't know how many powerful people want to get into Li Shen's car, but unfortunately, in addition to the scourge group in Chang'an, there is only one person who cooperates with Li Shen alone, and that is Princess Changle. Others don't even think about it.

After being happy, Ashina Zhong asked Li Shen:

"I don't know what kind of business the prince does?"

"Tea."

"Tea?" Ashina Zhong cooled down in an instant.

"Lord Wang, it's not that you are saying a discouraged word, the tea business of the royal palace may not be easy to sell when it reaches the grassland. The price is so expensive that only the nobility can afford it. ”

Li Shen's tea is indeed quite expensive, and now it is taking the high-end route.

"Hehe, rest assured, the tea of the grassland is not the tea of the boutique pavilion. And the price is not expensive. Li Shen said with a smile.

"That's good, that's good. Thank you for your kindness. Ashina Zhong bowed to Li Shenshen.

"It doesn't have to be like this, it's all for my eldest sister's sake, don't let my eldest sister be wronged. Otherwise, the consequences will be serious.

Wang Hongfu from my house will come to you to talk about the follow-up, and he will tell you how to sell it. After Li Shen finished speaking, he got up and said goodbye,

Ash Nazhong repeatedly stayed in the house for dinner, but Li Shen refused because he had something to do.

In ancient feudal societies, a prince rarely dined out. Unless you have prepared for it in advance, or when you have to do it as a last resort, you will eat out.

Standing at the gate, Ash Nazhong looked at Li Shenyuan's team, turned his head and said to the county lord of Dingyang beside him:

"God bless, fortunately I married a lady, if there is no lady, my Ashina tribe will not have it this time." He understands very well that there is no county lord of Dingyang, and the king of Ji knows who he is.

When the time comes, the herdsmen of his tribe will flee to other tribes because they have no food.

Grassland herders have always been like this, everyone is here to live. When the time comes, his tribe will have to be disbanded.

"Lang Jun, it should be thanks to the concubine. I don't have any feelings with King Ji, unlike Meng Jiang, who has a deep relationship with King Ji, and Meng Jiang's dowry can feed your tribe for decades. ”

After the county lord finished speaking, he didn't have any envy, they are sisters and brothers, of course, they can't compare.

"It's time to thank the concubine. Rest assured, this time, with King Ji's support, we will be fine. ”

Ashina Zhong didn't mention Li Mengjiang, although this was enough to surprise him, how much did it cost to be able to feed their tribe for decades?

However, he didn't want the county lord of Jeongyang to think too much.

"Well, I'll go to the palace tomorrow, you take out the good furs sent by the tribe some time ago, and I'll send them to the concubine. My mother is also worried about me. ”

The county lord of Jeongyang said gently.

Wang Hongfu's movements were very fast, and most of the autumn tea in the tea plantations near Chang'an fell into the hands of Ji Wangfu for more than half a month.

There are thousands of tea pickers, and the new tea in the palace only needs the two most tender leaves, and the rest is outsourced by Li Shen to the tea merchant's workshop to make tea cakes.

The tea cakes are also divided into several grades, and in the end, Li Shen felt that there was no need to be so troublesome on the grassland, so he set two grades.

Half a month ago, Wang Hongfu had already negotiated with Ashina Zhong, and Li Shen would add 30% to the cost and sell it to the Ashina tribe.

The Ashina tribe sold several times more at a price, because there was no currency on the grassland, so it could only be replaced by cattle and sheep.

The price given by Li Shen is very simple, and two catties of second-class tea cakes are exchanged for a sheep. Two catties of third-class tea cakes including transportation costs are less than 400 Wen, a sheep can be sold in Datang consistently, if it is more expensive in Chang'an.

The first-class tea cake is for the aristocratic lords to drink, and the cost of two catties of tea cake for a cow is not the same, and a cow is worth more than four times.

Wang Hongfu told Ashina Zhong that this price was set by Li Shen, and two months later, the caravan of the royal palace would enter the grassland at this price.

Ash Nazhong doesn't know much about business, but he trusts Li Shen very much, and he firmly believes that even if Li Shen lies to him, he will never deceive the county lord of Dingyang, otherwise Wei Guifei will not be able to say where Li Shen is.

Besides, he has nothing to deceive Li Shen.

So the first batch of tea bricks totaling 50,000 pieces was personally escorted by Ashina Zhong to the northern Ashina tribe.

Normally, Ashina Zhong has official duties, but his tribe was affected by the disaster, so he went to deliver food and took a look at the herdsmen in the tribe by the way, which is reasonable and reasonable.

Li Shimin also readily agreed, so that Ashina Zhong could appease the herdsmen. Otherwise, the tens of thousands of herdsmen who do not have enough to eat will be very destructive.

And he also heard about Li Shen's help to Ashinazhong, which must be because of the county lord of Dingyang, as long as Wei Guifei is worried, Li Shen will solve it as soon as possible regardless of the cost.

Li Shen didn't leave the mansion for half a month, he kept in mind Concubine Wei's words, and began to rectify the Ji Wang's Mansion to prepare for the big wedding in two months.

The first is to solve the problem of wintering, and now Li Shen has no way to solve the geothermal pipeline, but there is something called the earth dragon in Li Shen's hometown.

This kind of earth dragon is actually a flue, and the smoke and heat make the earth dragon heat. The northern countryside used to have this.

There is also the Northeast Kang, which is a must-have for winter. There are also stoves, etc.

The second is to renovate the paint and rebuild the furniture. The palace has also been built for several years, and some places are a little old and need to be repainted.

When Li Shimin heard that Li Shen was building a house at home and preparing to marry a daughter-in-law, he called Li Shen unproductive.

And Li Shen didn't care about Li Shimin's ridicule, and he was very disdainful, is it wrong to give your old Li family a succession?

Just as Li Shen was cleaning up the palace, another great thing happened for the royal family.

The eldest son of Li Zhi, the king of Jin, was born.