Zhizhang Datang

Chapter 417
This time the caravan brought a lot of goods. For the sake of stability and the safety of the goods, they also chose to go down the river by boat.

Because the goods that were transported this time were mainly all kinds of spirits, all of which were produced in Lin Sen's winery.

After all, Nagada in the Northeast is cold enough. Spirits may be a pastime for other people, but it can be regarded as a necessity for life in the Northeast, and it is the kind that can save lives. It is used as the focus of this trade. Definitely be able to easily open business routes.

Before, I even heard that spirits sold on the grassland were resold to the northeast to make a difference.

For such a good thing that you can feel warm when you drink it, people like Heishui Mohe over there can't put it down.

It's not uncommon to sell wives in exchange for wine. Anyway, for the people of Heishuimohe, women are just ordinary property.

In recent years, because Lin Sen has produced a variety of high-yielding grains, the overall weather of the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as good, and the harvest has been bumper year after year, which makes everyone hoard a lot of grain.

Especially in the vicinity of Chang'an City, food prices have dropped to a certain level, and policies have to be introduced to ensure that food prices remain above a certain level, so as not to hurt farmers due to cheap food.

Under such circumstances, the attitude towards winemaking has changed from being suppressed to encouraging. People with winemaking skills also want to make more profits. Compared with food that can no longer be sold, it is obviously better to brew wine Earn money.

As for the spirits shop jointly run by the Lin family and a group of Wu Xun, they also got a larger quota and could produce more spirits.

Not only can it meet the needs in this area around Chang'an, but also dump a large number of them on the grasslands. This is also one of the top products of several caravans.

Now it is used to open up the Northeast market, and it is also the best stepping stone to ensure that the Lin family caravan can be a hit.

It's just that under Lin Sen's suggestion, the products traded by the Lin family are no longer the traditional Northeast specialties.

Well, the scale of transactions between Datang and Silla and Baekje is actually not small. It once surpassed the transactions between Cantonese and Fan merchants. Even now, the scale of transactions with Northeast , and still accounted for a large share of foreign trade.

Datang imported a lot of goods from Silla and other places, and even surpassed the scale of export commodities. The main imports were Silla gold ornaments, cloth, music people, and of course the famous Silla Bi and so on.

Of course, the strong products of Datang, mainly silk and ceramics, are exported, especially ceramics, because there are several famous kilns around Dengzhou.

The Lin family must not be able to compete with the local caravans in Dengzhou in these aspects, and it is not so easy to even get enough supplies. The market share has long been divided by local forces.

Even if Lin Sen is now the head of the military in Dengzhou, it will be difficult to get in. The power in this place is deeply entrenched, and he is not afraid of a new general at all.

Therefore, using spirits as a flagship product not only meets the needs of the Northeast, but also is a helpless move.

And the products to be exchanged are no longer gold ornaments, but those things that are more famous in later generations, such as deer antler, mink fur, and ginseng, which was not well-known in Datang at this time.

After a little packaging, these things can be used as luxury goods and appear in top stores like Lancome, so they don't have to worry about the price or market.

In this way, it is not easy to have any conflicts with the local forces in Dengzhou, and there is no direct competition between them.

In terms of the popularity of spirits, Lin Sen believed that it was enough to empty out those people's fortunes.

For the Lin family, the cost of spirits is really low, and the biggest cost is still the shipping fee, but this round-trip is still a lucrative business.

At the same time, this is also the fastest way to weaken these guys. Spirits can not only empty out their money, but also empty out their bodies.

In addition, Lin Sen also thought of a desperate plan, that is, to exchange spirits for a woman from the Heishui Mohe clan.

Women are just property to them, but if there are fewer women, the size of their race will naturally continue to decrease.

Without the addition of new forces, their combat power cannot be maintained, and it may not take too long before they will face the situation of being swallowed up by others.

As for why Lin Sen was so cruel to this race, it goes without saying that it naturally stemmed from his disgust towards a certain dynasty in later generations.

This is called the sins committed by the descendants, and the ancestors will pay back.

Besides, for Datang, they will inevitably become an important obstacle. Although they are a bit ignorant, the more barbaric they are, the stronger their fighting power will be.

When Datang really started to focus on Goguryeo and the others, he had to face these barbarians.

Rather than wasting more combat power on them by then, it is better to start weakening them now.

Since he has the idea of ​​operating this route for a long time, and secretly plans to use this route as another escape route, Lin Sen must have ordered a few sea-going ships here early, so that he can serve his family in the future.

For the time being, there is not much need for secrecy, and there is no need to have too much loyalty. The crew can be recruited from the local area.

Of course, this ship type will not be as eye-catching as auspicious Ruyi, but it is just a large cargo ship that is common in the local area.

However, if the Lin family caravan wants to complete this first transaction, they will definitely not be able to count on those merchant ships that have not yet left the shipyard.

Fortunately, Li Shimin had already made arrangements. A fleet that apparently had nothing to do with the royal family but was actually a loyal team under Li Shimin's hands would be responsible for sending the Lin family's caravan to a suitable distance from Heishui Mohe.

Then they diverted to Wa country to complete their real mission.

On the return trip, can the Lin family caravan go overland and come back through Youzhou?

Lin Sen's father-in-law, Cheng Yaojin, is now in charge of the five states including Youzhou, and he can still deal with the Lin family's caravan.

Spirits are all packed in bottles and cans. It is really inconvenient to transport them by land. If they are bumped, they will be lost. Naturally, it is no problem to go by sea.

And when they came back, most of the goods they brought with them were not so delicate, and the land transportation was completely sufficient.

Through these two routes, the people in the caravan can completely compare which method is more suitable, and by the way, it can also be regarded as helping to collect information along the route.

How are the movements of those countries and how the defenses are arranged in each city, these will be the focus of their observations after trading, and they are also preparing for attacking these places in the future.

Here, Lin Sen had just arranged for the caravan and the heavy-duty fleet to send them away, and then a group of people came to the door.

　I'm going to be really busy today, because the closed training will start tomorrow, and I have to finish all the work at hand in advance.It is also for this reason that the updates in the past few days may not be very stable. I try my best to use my mobile phone to code words, and I will try my best to keep the two updates, but there is no guarantee. I hope everyone will forgive me!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)