Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 477

Liu Mu hooked his fingers to a prisoner dressed in shabby clothes, who was held up in front of Liu Mu by two sergeants.

"This thing." While talking, Liu Mu threw the extra grass roots aside, leaving only the cluster of fresh grass fruit and said: "This thing costs thirty cents a basket."

The captive's eyes were dull and unresponsive.

"He doesn't understand." Feng An has been observing, and then called a person who understands the local language to come over and say Liu Mu's words, and that person is still dull.

Feng An's subordinates turned around and said, "I guess he doesn't understand what thirty cents means."

"Go get linen, silk, and grain." Feng An ordered.

Soon, the linen and other items were brought over. Feng An stepped forward and put the four baskets aside, followed by a bolt of linen.Fifteen more baskets were placed, and then a bolt of silk.

"You, take four baskets of such things. As long as there are no sundries in the baskets, you can exchange for this piece of cloth, fifteen baskets for a piece of silk."

After Feng An finished speaking, the prisoner nodded sharply, grabbed a basket and carried it on his back.

Feng An waved his hand, these thousands of captives, and many local civilians who were originally in Jiaozhou, went crazy and ran into the mountains and forests to the west with their baskets.

Liu Mu straightened up: "This piece of silk can't even be exchanged for two hundred Wen in Chang'an during the Chinese New Year."

"Really? I'm worth fifteen baskets of that fruit here." Feng An smiled at Liu Mu, and then pointed at those running wildly, which means that the price has already driven them crazy, so the price is fair.

Liu Mu looked at it from a distance for a while: "Brother, you will be responsible for the pricing in the future. My extravagance will save us a lot of money."

Feng An grabbed a bunch of willows and asked, "Can this thing make money?"

"Dried and transported to Chang'an, I estimate that one tael can be sold for three to five Wen."

Hearing what Liu Mu said, Feng An ordered people to fill a basket with grass fruits, and then felt the weight, which was about forty to fifty catties. more than double.

"Come here, make a wooden bucket according to the size of this basket. Now that the price is set, give them justice, and justice will last forever." Feng An is definitely not an ordinary person who can become the overlord of a party. He knows exactly what money should be stuck. What money should be loose.

Jiaozhou City belongs to the tropics, where a few pieces of land can be flattened to dry grass and fruits.

The local people are very grateful that Feng An harvests the grass fruits fairly, and all the settlements are made on the spot, which is definitely not bad for anyone.After the two sides, the grass and fruit on the edge of the city were emptied.

Something else was found.

For example, Dendrobium candidum, fat sea, nutmeg, etc., Feng An sent people to set the price one by one, as long as the local people went to the mountains and forests to pick them, they could exchange them for money in the city.

On the fourth day, someone brought back a pack of bright yellow resin.

This resin smells very nice.

"Come here, give him a piece of silk." Feng An's favorite is this kind of thing. He doesn't know if Cao Guo can really make money, but this thing can definitely, even if he doesn't know it.

Liu Mu also hurriedly sent someone to find the spice master in the palace from Ha Long Bay.

Back and forth, Dugu Lanruo came to Jiaozhou City four days later.

"I used to hear you say that we fled to Cochin. Many officials were frightened to death when they heard that they were sent to Cochin. But here is a picturesque scenery and simple folk customs." Dugu Lanruo praised a lot as soon as she arrived.

"I heard that there are rare spices, I want to have a look too." Dugu Lanruo explained the reason why she came here in person.

The last time Feng An saw the ceremony, he thought Dugu Lanruo was a titled princess.But Dugu Lanruo returned to Pingli: "Brother is too polite, you and my husband are sworn brothers, and that is also my elder brother."

"Princess Gao Yi." Feng An felt very comfortable with Dugu Lanruo's answer.

A lot of spices have been placed in a house, and they have been discovered from the mountains one after another in the past four days.

Four perfumers stepped forward and immediately found a piece of balm: "This is Xiaolongxiang, but it doesn't seem to be as good as Linyi's tribute to the former Sui Dynasty, but it won't be too bad if we refine it again."

"Don't worry, the king of Linyi was killed, and the new king seems to have changed the name of the country. Although it is a little messy now, within a year, we will be able to find high-quality Xiaolongxiang in that place." Feng An said confidently.

A perfumer picked up the piece of balm, which was the same bag that Feng Ang had rewarded with a piece of silk.

"I've seen this incense before. Persian merchants sell a small amount of it to Chang'an. But I don't know the name. This incense is also a high-quality incense. I didn't expect to encounter it here."

The perfumer explained in detail what he knew.

Liu Mu didn't understand these things, so he didn't interrupt.

There are as many as seven kinds of scented resins here, and dozens of kinds of grasses, all of which are known to the locals to have scents.

"Grandpa, we need to try to extract essential oils. These grasses and branches can only know their value when they are turned into essential oils. There is also these resins. If it is possible to cut one or two whole trees back, there may be more in the bark or in the trunk. High-value spices." The perfumer said respectfully to Feng An.

Feng An waved to the people around him: "Have you heard that, let's do it."

"Order."

It is inappropriate for the spice workshop to be built in Jiaozhou. It was moved to the port, which is the location of Haiphong City in the future.

There are mainly four spice masters. There are many merchants in Guangzhou who also have excellent spice craftsmen, and there are also many talented people among the six major clans.

With a lot of money and a lot of manpower, a new workshop was erected in a few days.

Liu Mu and Feng An moved southward, and moved to Changzhou with the main force. Several local minorities in Changzhou surrendered, and then the people who brought them also began to go into the mountains to collect medicinal materials, spices and other things.

Liu Mu hosted a banquet for the patriarchs of the two largest clans in Changzhou.

One surnamed Li and the other surnamed Wu.

Li is a local, and Wu is also a rich family who fled from the Central Plains to intermarry with the locals in the Han Dynasty.

"I will give you a mission to get your people close to Aizhou, and then go to the mountains west of Aizhou to collect medicinal materials and spices. If you can lure the civilians in Aizhou to go into the mountains with your people, I will make a decision for you. The title of Tang Dynasty. If the soldiers of Aizhou can also go to collect medicine and come here to ship goods, Aizhou will add two deputy city lords."

Willow is tempting the two patriarchs.

There was a gleam in the eyes of the two of them, they were more than moved, they could not refuse this temptation.

Sitting next to him, Feng An also added: "If things are done well, each family will be rewarded with a hundred sets of fine steel armor, do you understand?"

"Understood, even if a few people are killed in Aizhou City, as long as we can get things done for you, we are not afraid of anything."

Feng An nodded: "Very well, let's do it then."

The two of them didn't move a mouthful of the food on the table, and trotted away after saluting.

(End of this chapter)