Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 1237 You don't eat, I eat
The night was cold and windy, and the bonfire was raging.

A soldier hunted two black muntjacs nearby, disemboweled them in front of the col, skinned them, pierced them with a spear, and then roasted them on the fire.

Fang Jun's eyelids twitched...

This thing is an endangered animal at the international level in future generations, and it is possible to kill such two ends and be sentenced to life.The most important thing is that there is no oil, no sauce, and the fire is so prosperous. Wouldn't it be a waste of money to just bake it like this?
Struggling to stand up quickly, he beat the soldier far away with a broken pine pole. He ordered someone to bring an iron pot for marching, put the iron pot on a shelf and put it on the fire. Collect snow in the local area and melt it into water in a pot. Let the soldiers use a horizontal knife to chop the black deer with clean internal organs into cubes, blanch them in warm water, pour out the water, and collect a pot of snow water again. , put the suzi meat in a pot under cold water, cut the pine pole in your hand into small pieces of about half a foot with a horizontal knife, and throw it into the pot.

Watching the gang leader take out a small bag of salt from his arms, pinch a handful of it with his fingertips and put it into the pot.Fang Jun couldn't bear it anymore, stepped forward and kicked the picky guy, stretched out his hand and turned all the bags, big and small, out of his arms.

Open it and smell it one by one, pour salt, cinnamon powder, star anise powder, and pepper into the pot, clap your hands, and limping back to the campfire to lie down...

The gang leader almost burst into tears, rubbing his hands and looking pitifully at Dugumou...

The food in the army is very simple, just get some food and cook it in a big pot with water. Anyway, everything is boiled, at most, when conditions permit, add a little coarse salt.Dugu Mou is a child of the family who has always been pampered and pampered. He is also a son-in-law and a general, so he naturally has his own small stove.

Fortunately, Fang Jun ruined all of Dugu Mou's private goods in the hands of gang leader Bing.There are three taels of pepper in there. When marching in the field, I point to these things to season the general, but they are all gone...

Dugu Mou looked up at the sky, not looking at the distressed expressions of his subordinates.

Not to mention a small bag of pepper, even if Fang Jun played with a bag of golden sand, Dugu Mou would not say a word...

One is not daring, who doesn't know the nature of Fang Er's stick?

What's more shameful, Fang Jun is one of the richest people in the world, and he naturally has delicacies and delicacies, so if he feels pain in a small bag of pepper, wouldn't Fang Jun look down upon him?
But how could his expression be hidden from Fang Jun's eyes?

Fang Jun said angrily: "Look at that prospect! You still think that pepper can be used as gold like before? Let me tell you, the last time I went to sea, I found countless islands in the South China Sea, and one of the islands There are pepper trees all over the mountains, and the tallest one is as high as three feet! The fleet has sent soldiers to garrison the island, and since then, a steady stream of pepper has been transported back to Datang by sea, at least one million catties a year! "

"really?"

Dugu Mou and Li Junxian's eyes are all round!

Not only the two of them, even Changsun Wuji was terrified!

This kid is not bragging, is he?
100 catties of pepper...then the value must be 10,000+ catties of gold!

In the Middle Ages, pepper was not only expensive in China, but also called black gold in Europe.Since ancient Rome, spices have been synonymous with gold in many places, and pepper has long been used as currency in Western countries.In other words, pepper can be directly used as money. For example, if you eat in a restaurant without bringing any money, if you give the boss some pepper, the boss will never beat you.

What's more, pepper has also triggered mutual killing among European countries...

In the 5th century A.D., in order to obtain gold and pepper, the leader of the Visigoths, Alaris, led troops to surround the city of Rome, vowing to massacre the city without giving pepper and gold. In the end, the Romans had to pay [-] pounds of gold and [-] pounds of gold. Pepper, which made Alari withdraw his troops.

In order to snatch more pepper, Europeans opened up new sea routes, and finally discovered and colonized America.Until the 17th century, Europeans were still fighting for pepper.

It can be said that the history of medieval Europe is simply a history of pepper...

For Changsun Wuji, how could he not know the value of pepper?
Dugu Mou exclaimed: "Ah! That Erlang really deserves the saying that the rich can rival the country!"

Fang Jun curled his lips: "The fart is so rich! Could it be someone's own? All the overseas income is from the 'Dong Datang Company', and there is not much left after dividing it. Besides, rare things are expensive , it is precisely because pepper is rare that it is more expensive than gold, if it is all over the mountain, it is worthless... By the way, your Dugu family also has a share."

Dugu Mou's pupils had turned into the shape of copper coins, and he didn't listen to Fang Jun's saying that rare is the most precious thing.In the consciousness of people in this era, even if pepper is everywhere, it is still pepper!Even if the price of gold drops all the way, it is still gold!

The simple values ​​make people in this era seldom aware of the subtle price fluctuations. Only when natural disasters and man-made disasters strike do they suddenly realize that the money at home can no longer buy a bucket of rice...

Changsun Wuji was in a trance.

The benefits of a single pepper are staggering, but what about glass?What about bamboo paper?What about silk?What about porcelain?The value of these things in the Central Plains is far less than that of pepper, but they have always been the most high-end luxury goods overseas. How much profit will the entire "Eastern Datang Company" make in a year?
The ancestors of the eldest grandson's family accumulated their family business for generations, and it took a hundred years to achieve the status of the first-class gentry in the world today.

But Changsun Wuji suddenly discovered that perhaps just relying on his family's share in the "Eastern Datang Company", he could easily earn far more than his ancestors' accumulation of more than a hundred years...

And the person in charge of the "Eastern Datang Company" in the family is the eldest son of the bastard Sun Huan who himself has never ignored its existence...

Thinking of this, Changsun Wuji was suddenly startled.

motherfucker!

Could Fang Jun, this little bastard, intentionally let Changsun Huan take charge of the "Eastern Datang Company" in order to enhance Changsun Huan's status in the Changsun family, and then achieve the purpose of causing the Changsun family to have a crisis of conflict between the sons and daughters?

Sun Wuji, the conspiratorial patriarch, has never been afraid to speculate on everyone and everything with the deepest malice, and will think about everything from the worst angle first...

"So, don't worry about using up a little pepper. Maybe when you wake up tomorrow, you will find that pepper is already cheaper than rice... Take a long-term view and open your mind. Don't always worry about the present With this one-third-acre land, the world is huge, and there is a lot of wealth, some places allow you to conquer cities and expand territories, and some places allow you to gather gold and copper to become rich!"

Fang Jun kept bewitching.

Generals like Li Junxian and Dugu Mou who stay by His Majesty Li Er's side all day are considered overqualified and should be released to harm those barbarians.The older generation of the Tang Army, such as Li Xiaogong, Li Jing, Li Ji, Cheng Yaojin, Yu Chigong, Li Daliang and other commanders and generals are gradually aging, and the new generation of famous generals such as Su Dingfang, Xue Rengui, Pei Xingjian and others are slowly rising. Xi Junmai, Cheng Wuting and others still need to be refined. Once the generals such as Li Junxian and Dugu Mou are released, they will be able to fight immediately. Even a century-old war like the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo can be the main force!
If you have the ability, don't use it at home anymore, you have to go out to capture the flag, capture the city and plunder the land!
As long as generations of famous generals emerge one after another, Datang's admiration for martial arts will not be cut off, and its crushing advantage over the surrounding alien races will be maintained for a long time.

The imperial examination is a good system, which can make the poor families rise gradually, the gentry gradually wither, and the talented people in the world can be reused by Jianba regardless of their origin. This is the foundation of the long-term prosperity of the empire.

However, the imperial examination also has its disadvantages. Once reading is raised to a lofty status, "everything is inferior but reading is high", then it is also a kind of sadness.The situation of gentlemen being noble and martial being humble is bound to take shape. Without martial arts, the waists of the Han people will be weak and their bones will be gone.
Fang Jun never wanted Da Tang to taste Daming's sorrow in advance...

The mountain wind blew the smell of meat far away, Fang Jun personally used a soldier's horizontal knife to fork a piece of meat from the pot and handed it to Changsun Wuji.

Changsun Wuji hesitated for a moment, and the followers around him were all on the verge of a formidable enemy.

Changsun Wuji was not afraid of what Fang Jun would do to the meat, but eating meat like this was definitely not in line with his status as a descendant of a noble family...

It's just that the smell of meat is really attractive, and I feel very hungry in my stomach, besides, I don't need to pay so much attention when I am marching outside. Didn't I follow His Majesty Li Er in the army at the beginning, why have I been so reserved and self-respecting?
After hesitating for a while, I made up my mind to reach out, but...

Fang Jun withdrew his hand back with a smile, brought the meat to his mouth with a knife, and took a big bite. His mouth was full of oil, and he said vaguely: "Since Mr. Zhao is worried that the food in the wild is unclean, then next time I have to eat it by myself... Huhuhu, it's so hot... Huhu, if you don't eat it, I will eat it, it smells so good..."

Changsun Wuji froze in place, his eyes were round and his face was flushed, he almost spat out a mouthful of blood!

(End of this chapter)