Chapter 177 Daming Shanxi Merchants
"Good tea...!" Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea and shouted good tea loudly. This good tea also made everyone happy, and everyone shouted good tea.
Zhu Lang, Zhu Biao... and others all showed happy smiles.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Let's go watch the fireworks. My mother said that today's fireworks were prepared by Lang'er. Let's see if the fireworks are beautiful or not."
"Yes..." Zhu Lang bowed and hurried out to prepare.
In just about a cup of tea, Zhu Lang prepared the fireworks. At this time, the Ming Dynasty fireworks had developed in the Song Dynasty, and there were more than one hundred large ones, and there were many large ones.
Tonight, Zhu Lang spent a lot of money to buy these fireworks. He watched the bouquets of fireworks lit up the night sky, and then all kinds of beautiful colors burst out.
"Wow...so beautiful." When I got married, I would have set off fireworks too. Wang Xue stared at the sky with a daze.
"Hehe..." Yan Shihua smiled and said, "It's not easy. Just say it to the young master. You can do anything for you."
"Xiaohua...If you get married to me, I will go to find my elder brother. My elder brother loves me so much, and he will definitely buy fireworks for us." The big dog came to Yan Shihua's side, and the two of them have now confirmed their relationship.
Ergou on the side smiled: "Brother... do you know how much did the elder brother spend on fireworks sent to the sky?"
"How many..." Big Dog looked at Er Dog.
"I spent a total of five hundred taels of silver."
After Ergou finished speaking, everyone was shocked.
"My...500 taels." Zhou Pang was shocked: "Why are these fireworks so expensive?"
"The fireworks are of course expensive." Xia Xier said: "It's not only expensive, but also consuming. There will be nothing left when you release it. In an instant, you will have nothing left afterwards...!"
"Look, don't blink, five hundred taels..." Zhou Jingtong looked at the fireworks in the sky with his eyes curled up.
"Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..." "Bang..."
Fireworks are flying in the sky, and good people are in pairs on the ground, which is a warm and beautiful scenery.
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Finally, Zhu Erbao, Zhu Erhu's marriage ended, and a total of three days of recreational meals were held. Three days later, Narcissus Village returned to peace again. However, Narcissus Village was calm, but the Ming Dynasty court was already in full swing.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang proposed his own idea in the Ming Dynasty court, the tea-horse trade... At first, people in the court deliberately pretended to be stupid, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not give these opportunities to pretend to be stupid.
Instead, he directly told all the records of tea and horse trade in the past dynasties and nomadic peoples that he found overnight. Zhu Yuanzhang told the ministers that tea and horse trade first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, but it was not until the Song Dynasty that it became a custom-made one.
Due to the natural environment, Tibetans are very dependent on tea. Tea can detoxify and eliminate diseases, relieve greasiness, and aid digestion. Therefore, controlling the supply of tea is equivalent to controlling the lives of Tibetans. Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, tea has not only become a large-scale economic and trade product between the Central Plains dynasty and the Tibetans in the northwest and southwest regions, but also a material means to maintain friendly relations with Tibetans.
"Tea and horse trading" played an important role in maintaining the security and stability of the Song Dynasty in the southwest region. After the establishment of the policy of tea and horse trading, the Song Dynasty opened horse markets in today's Jin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan and other places, and exchanged a large number of excellent horses from the Tubo, Uighurs, Dangxiang and other tribes to defend the dynasty's borders.
By the Southern Song Dynasty, the institutions that traded tea and horses were relatively fixed in Sichuan Five Tournaments and Gansu Three Tournaments and Eight Places. Sichuan Five Tournaments were mainly used to trade with ethnic minorities in the southwest, and Gansu Three Tournaments were used to trade with ethnic minorities in the northwest.
There was no shortage of horses in the Yuan Dynasty, so border tea was mainly traded with silver and local goods.
But now the Ming Dynasty needs horses, so Zhu Yuanzhang is preparing to fully promote the tea-horse trade. Zhu Yuanzhang asked Li Shanchang to take the lead and come up with a strategy that can be implemented in the tea-horse trade. Li Shanchang took the order. Soon Zhu Yuanzhang was about to start the tea-horse trade and soon the Shanchang merchants began to worry.
Shanxi merchants were an important group of the merchants in the Ming Dynasty. These Shanxi merchants picked tea and made tea in Anhua, Hunan, and transported and sold the processed tea to the northwest tea market, realizing an integrated business method. Tea helped Shanxi merchants earn countless money.
And it was not just a single profit, but two profits. They exchanged tea for horses, and then exchanged horses for silver from the Ming Dynasty. These Shanxi merchants had always been eating, and they could make a fortune. Now suddenly Zhu Yuanzhang was going to intervene in the tea and horse trade, so that the Shanxi merchants would not have a good life.
These Shanxi merchants were looking for people in Yingtian to find out why the tea-horse trade came so suddenly. If you don’t know, you will be so angry when you inquire about it, it turns out that this time the harming spirit was a man named Zhu Lang. This guy made a self-made tea from somewhere, and his possession had something to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, so he instigated Zhu Yuanzhang to target the tea-horse trade.
The large amount of gold and silver in the tea-horse trade also blinded Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, so Zhu Yuanzhang began to prepare to take action on the tea-horse trade. This matter was already done, and the Shanxi merchants were almost fainted at once, but these Shanxi merchants dared not deal with Zhu Yuanzhang. Their targets were Zhu Lang, and they wanted Zhu Lang to pay the price they deserved.
Zhu Lang didn't know anything at this time, because a big happy thing was happening in the Zhu family at this time, that is, the chicken, duck, goose breeding sprouts finally emerged on the 21-day period, and a large number of chicken, duck, goose breeding sprouts emerged on the shell.
Zhu Yuanzhang was originally listening to Li Shanchang, Hu Weiyong, Liu Bowen and others in his Jinshen Hall to talk about the tea and horse trade. Zhu Erhu hurriedly entered the hall. Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Erhu, is there anything wrong?"
Zhu Erhu hurriedly bowed and said, "Your Majesty... Lang'er just sent Deng Shou to report that the chicken, duck, and goose have already emerged...!"
"Really..." Zhu Biao was excited first: "Is there too much?"
"Many... Deng Shou said that Langer said that the mortality rate this time was not very high, the shell rate was very high, and almost 90% of the chicks came out..." Zhu Erhu smiled happily.
"Oh...it's really great. We just know that Lang'er, a child, can do big things, go, go... Dear officials, today we will take you to see a foundation for the future of our Ming Dynasty..."
Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy and immediately greeted everyone around him and followed him to the Narcissus Village. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was really impatient to see the chicks, ducklings, and goslings.
Because in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, these are really the foundation for improving the lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty in the future. Zhu Yuanzhang suffered hardships, so he knew the lives of the people too much and wanted to do something for the people in the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!