"Your Highness, please speak." Hu Zhi quickly adjusted his emotions.

"Is there a lot of maritime trade business in Guangzhou? What exactly are these people? Are there many businessmen like you? Or are most of them caravans controlled by the Gate Valve Family? Li Ke asked.

"Many, almost all of the people in Guangzhou are doing business, and there are many people from the small countries around Fanbang, but the number of local residents is not much, and there are many people who have been exiled here in the past dynasties, or fled here to escape the war. These people are more or less engaged in some business related to maritime trade. ”

"There are also a lot of businessmen like ministers who go alone, but they have more or less made friends with some gate valve families, because almost all of the big ones are targeted by the gate valve families."

"The minister is because he is unwilling to offer to these gate lord families, so the minister donated a lot of food to the local garrison, and was appreciated by the local captain, and it has been safe and sound over the years, but last year, the previous commander was transferred out of Guangzhou, and the new commander came from the Zhu family of Wu County, and the minister was powerless to compete."

"In Guangzhou, there are about one-third of the maritime merchants like Chen, but most of them are less powerful, and they can't afford to go to Persia and other places, and they are more engaged in trade with Champa, Zhenwax and other countries, oh, Cham is the country of Linyi."

"The rest of the maritime merchants are basically caravans from gate valve families, even if they are not from gate valve families, they also rely on some gate valve families to do things." Hu Zhi quickly answered Li Ke's question.

Li Ke nodded slightly, Wu County is the Jiangnan region of later generations, which belongs to Huainan Province. The Zhu family of Wujun is one of the wang clans of Wujun, and it is the four surnames of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

The four major families of Wu Jun, Lu, Gu, Zhang, and Zhu are all local noble families, and they are also relatively large gate valve families, such as the Lu family of Wu County, which also produced six prime ministers throughout the Tang Dynasty.

"What do you think of Lin Yi, what is the strength of the real wax?" Li Ke thought for a while and asked.

"What does Your Highness mean?" Hu Zhi was stunned for a moment, I don't know how to answer your question for a while.

"Military, of course."

"It's naturally not comparable to my Datang, but Linyi, the local jungle is dense, there are savages in many jungles, and even some deep mountains and old forests have poisonous miasma, it is very difficult to completely eradicate them, and if my Datang mainland government soldiers go to the local area, they should be trained to adapt around the purple city of Lingnan Road." Hu Zhi said quickly.

Purple City, as Li Ke knows, is the county seat of Songping, where the Tang Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion is located, and the locals call it Purple City, which is the Hanoi of Vietnam in later generations.

Li Ke glanced at Hu Zhi, this person's attitude changed quite quickly, it seemed that he could see Li Ke's character, and his speech began to become crisp and neat, and he didn't hide what he said directly, and said everything he knew.

"Well, yes, do you think there is a lot of trade between the local and my Datang?" Li Ke asked.

"Many. They have a lot of Chinese medicinal materials in the local area, and if they cultivate food and other aspects carefully, there is no shortage of food for a year. If the people of Zhenwax and Linyi had the diligence of the people of my Tang Dynasty, the minister felt that their annual grain output would be at least tens of millions of stones. Hu Zhi said seriously.

Li Ke nodded silently, although the information in his hand showed that it was like this, but when he heard this number, Li Ke still felt a little inexplicable, if he didn't take these things back, he always felt that something was missing.

With the local population, tens of millions of stone grains can't be eaten at all, that is to say, if he wants, Li Ke can even buy back 10 million or 20 million stone grains, what is this concept?

Not to mention the current Zhenguan year, in Li Longji's era, the total annual income of the Tang Dynasty was only about 20 million stones.

"In other words, they don't have a shortage of food in the local area, but if we go to buy it, we may not be able to buy a lot of food?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.

"At present, yes, because many of their locals are very lazy, because their seeds can grow food when they are thrown into the ground, so they can't starve to death, and it's hot all year round, and there is no shortage of clothes, because even if they are naked, they can't freeze to death, and there are many places in the city over there, and even women don't wear shirts." Hu Zhi smiled bitterly.

The unique conditions were given like this, and Hu Zhi was also a little speechless.

Hey, Li Ke is a little helpless, this thing is similar to the third brother next door, the third brother is not to mention this period, even if it is the Ming Dynasty, many people in the third brother are making some holes in the ground, scattering some seeds, what kind of cultivation and the like, I don't know.

It's not like all of us, but there are a lot of them.

"I understand, but for us, this is still a huge source of food, they are not short of food, but Datang lacks food, and the nobility and ruling class of these two countries still have a high demand for materials in Datang, right?" Li Ke asked.

"Yes, the porcelain, tea, silk, etc. of the Tang Dynasty can be sold at a very high price among the local aristocracy." Hu Zhi said very simply.

"The cost is not low." Li Ke nodded.

"Yes!" Hu Zhi didn't say much, he found that although His Royal Highness King Qin had never been to Guangzhou, he knew a lot about their maritime trade, at least more than he thought.

"I see, then, if you will, I have an errand here, how much cash do you have in hand now?" Li Ke looked at him and asked.

"Back to His Royal Highness, in addition to the money used to buy land, the minister still has less than 100,000 yuan." Hu Zhi hurriedly saluted.

Li Ke nodded, no wonder this person directly took out most of the money to stud, if he just bought it normally, it is estimated that he would indeed not be able to arouse Li Ke's idea.

"After you go back to Guangzhou, donate money to build a school locally, the school doesn't need to be built too luxurious, I will let people hire some teachers in the local area, and then teach the children around who are willing to send them to the school for free to read and write, the name of the school is Datang Royal Welfare Primary School and middle school, middle school can be set up in Guangzhou, and the primary school will be built in the surrounding counties."

"These schools teach children to read and write for free, and I will provide them with free banknotes and books, I promised this school before, since you have read the Datang Weekly, then you should understand."

"Although the name of the school is Datang Royal Welfare Primary School, the school's history and donor, the maker will have your name on it." Li Ke said with a smile.

Hu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then the whole person was ecstatic, Rao is that he has been in the mall for a long time, and he has not hidden this joy.