Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Upton felt that the mysterious East was full of wealth.

People from the East are also very smart, and there are endless things to make money from. He must come here more often in the future.

If you make a few trips back to the west, you will have everything.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

Li Yi'an laughed and said, "When the envoys go to the East and West Market and ask, they will understand, let's drink tea first!"

Changsun Chong's tea art has already been passed down by Fang Cheng, and he quickly made a cup of tea and sent it to Upton.

Upton didn't have much feeling for these teas, but they were all delivered, so he couldn't be rude. After a little cold, he took a sip curiously. At first, he didn't think there was anything wrong.

But when the tea entered his stomach, he could feel the aroma of the tea in his mouth, and his eyes lit up, it was really delicious.

They Orientals know how to enjoy themselves!

"Uncle Li, this tea is delicious."

Upton praised.

"Of course, the Upton envoy may not know that ten catties of tea leaves are enough to buy two blue and white porcelains!"

Chang Sun Chong obviously got Li Yi'an's instruction to say this.

"So expensive!"

Upton wanted to drink it down, but suddenly found that this small cup of tea became extremely heavy.

"To entertain friends, no matter how expensive it is, it's worth it!"

Li Yi'an said with a smile: "You don't have to be polite with me, I have plenty of tea, you can drink whatever you want."

Upton laughed, but his mind turned quickly, thinking that tea is so delicious, and taking it back to their country is also a way to make a lot of money.

"Uncle Li, can you sell these tea leaves to me?"

Upton asked expectantly.

"The envoy wants it too?"

"I'm thinking that there should be many nobles in our country who need it, just like blue and white porcelain."

He didn't hide his thoughts, and said directly: "If I take it back, I think I can make a lot of money. I don't know how Li Xianbo plans to sell it to me?"

Li Yi'an pretended to think for a while: "Then based on ten catties of tea leaves, how about the price of two blue and white porcelains?"

"Then it's decided!"

Upton clapped his hands directly.

He was also worried that Li Yi'an would intentionally raise the price like last year when he traded blue and white porcelain. It would be best if he didn't.

This time, besides so many books, he also brought a lot of gold coins and various valuable things, just to exchange with Li Yi'an and the others.

"Apton's envoy still remembers Shopkeeper Fang, right? You can go to him with the money. As for the blue and white porcelain, I will tell Shopkeeper Fang after I have counted all the books and murexes. He will take care of them."

Li Yian said again.

"Li Xianbo is generous!"

Upton laughed.

They drank some tea and ate something.

Satisfied, Upton took the people away.

"Sir, we want so many of these books, and the words on them are all crooked, what's the use?"

Cheng Chumo asked incomprehensibly.

"It's very useful, brother-in-law, all these will be yours from now on."

Li Yi'an flipped through the pages, and then said.

This morning, he also deliberately asked someone to bring Ah Shui to Chang'an, just to give him all these, coupled with the knowledge of Mohism, he will be the hope of Datang in the future, the greatest scientist, philosopher, Mathematicians and more.

"I can't understand these books either!"

Ah Shui said in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, I will let the people from Honglu Temple translate it so that I can understand it in the future."

Li Yi'an looked at the Honglu Temple official, and asked again: "How long will it take you to write all these books into our own language?"

"It's enough for Li Shilang to give us half a month."

said the man.

"no problem!"

Li Yi'an is not in a hurry, let them take the things back first, then count the quantity, and finally summarize it for himself.

Then his eyes fell on those bone snails, and let Chen Shuozhen pick out the snail meat, he has other uses.

If nothing else, the murex is also very useful.

"Is Li Shilang here?"

Just then, someone knocked on the door.

Li Dejian opened the door and saw that it was Chen Guangrui who came in. He hurriedly said: "Li Shilang, Dai Shangshu asked me to invite you back, saying that the Ministry of Civil Affairs has something urgent to do."

"What happened to the Ministry of Civil Affairs?"

Li Yi'an rushed back immediately, but unexpectedly saw several old acquaintances.

Both Lu Yulin and Lu Xiuran were in the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and there were carriages beside them, so they didn't know what to do.

Seeing Li Yi'an coming back, the eyes of their father and son changed for a while, and then revealed a trace of disgust.

"Sir, you are finally back, look!"

Dai Zhou handed a list to Li Yi'an, and briefly looked at it for a while, but saw that all the records on it were the taxes that the Lu family planned to pay to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, or the part of the new tax law.

Li Yi'an also stared at them, looking at them in disbelief. It is reasonable to say that the Wang family was the first to support the new tax law, but if it is the Lu family, it is almost impossible!

"Patriarch Lu, you don't have a fever, do you?"

Li Yi'an said: "If you don't go to Wannian County to see Zhenren Sun, you will burn your brain very seriously."

Lu Yulin's face darkened. He had to send money to the Ministry of Civil Affairs when he came back from Sun Simiao. He immediately snorted coldly and said, "Mr. Dai, I'll pay the tax. Don't you want it? You just said you'd have to wait for him." Come back, now the person is here, hurry up and accept it!"

Lu Xiuran echoed: "Our Lu family feels that there is no country, how can we have a home? The tax law in Hangzhou is beneficial to the country and the people. Aye and I have thought about it for a long time, and we think that we should support the imperial court and Datang to do so and protect the country. We are the responsibility of the Tang people, we voluntarily pay this tax."

He also wanted to say that we were really not forced.

But after saying these words, Lu Xiuran's cheeks felt a little hot, it was too shameless, it wasn't like that at all.

Dai Zhou was worried that he was dreaming, so he pinched his arm hard, and it hurt very much. Does this seem to be true?

"Patriarch Lu, you really don't have a fever?"

"Stop talking nonsense, do you accept it?"

Lu Yulin waved his hand and said, "Forget it, we'll keep the money here. As for whether to take it or not, you decide for yourself, Xiuran, let's go!"

And then they really went like that, leaving without looking back.

But the moment he turned around, Lu Xiuran felt a sharp pain in his heart, and he could predict how serious the consequences would be.

"Sir, look at this..."

Dai Zhou couldn't make up his mind either.

"Of course it is put away!"

Li Yi'an immediately said: "Someone doesn't accept money when they send it. Isn't that a cheap thing? There is still a need to publicize it. Mr. Dai immediately contacted Uncle Changsun Guo and asked him to urgently print a batch of newspapers at Chang'an Bookstore, called Chang'an Evening News. To promote the Lu family's philosophy of putting the country first, I want everyone in Chang'an to know how noble and great the Lu family is."

"I will trouble Duke Dai to arrange these matters, and I will go to His Majesty to clarify this matter."

After that he left.

Of course Dai Zhou was unwilling and was about to refuse, but when he heard the word "Your Majesty", he held back abruptly.

His Majesty would be delighted.

I told His Majesty that everything will be a foregone conclusion and cannot be reversed.

"It's over now, this opening has finally been enlarged, and the next one to follow suit will probably be the Wang family!"

Dai Zhou looked at the roster in his hand and found that his hands were trembling slightly.