May 5th.ggaa

The annual Dragon Boat Festival.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival was one of the most important holidays of the year. Not only did the folk have traditional activities, such as dragon boats, rice dumplings, mugwort leaves, drinking realgar wine, etc., the government also had special Dragon Boat Festival holidays and officials took vacations.

When Li Chao celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival in Chang'an, he ate rice, not only japonica rice, but also glutinous rice, as well as millet and jujube ingredients. People in Chang'an like to eat Baisuo rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Wrap many colorful silk threads around the rice dumplings and weave patterns of grass ropes, which are called Baisuo Zongzi.

Even on this day, the palace maids would make many powdered rice dumplings, allowing people to shoot with small horn bows, and give them to whoever shoots.

Ningyuan City, which opened on the first day of May, has been lively since the first day of opening, far exceeding everyone's expectations. The Turks were very interested in trading with Han merchants.

They drove camels and horses, carrying many fur and medicinal materials, and drove herds of cattle and sheep south to Ningyuan.

The Han merchants in Ningyuan City were waiting for the arrival of this day early. Various Central Plains commodities had already piled up in warehouses. In order to prepare more goods, some merchants with average strength also borrowed a lot of money from Liji Money House to prepare.

The fleet formed by the Li family is now extremely busy, with 300 merchant ships of all sizes and sizes sailing day and night on the Yellow River. It mainly transports goods from Lingzhou to Lecheng to Ningyuan. This 400-mile waterway has a wide river surface and a gentle water flow, so it is quite suitable for navigation and can sail day and night.

The Li family fleet hired all the old sailors on the Yellow River, four hundred miles away, and they were on the way downstream. They could arrive day and night. They returned to Lecheng from Lingzhou in the early morning and left the dock with full cargo. The next morning, they arrived at the dock in Ningyuan West City, unloaded the goods, and could have a delicious breakfast on the dock.

There are too many commercial goods, and the Li family's fleet cannot take care of all shipping cargo. There are many other merchants who also organize merchant ships to carry shipping. Some fishermen come to Li Ji Money House to get loans, buy new ships from the Li family's Lingzhou Shipyard, and then attach the ship to Li Ji's fleet, and then take business cargo together, pay some management fees, and then pay dividends.

The crew transported ships of commercial freight to Ningyuan.

Silk, cloth, tea, medicinal materials, cane sugar, wine, rice, flour, pottery, porcelain, iron pots, salt, etc. There are many varieties. Except for iron, copper blocks, ordnance materials, the materials of military ordnance are prohibited from trading with the Turks, basically anything in Ningyuanbian city can be traded with the Turks.

Even some powerful families such as the Li family have bought land and built workshops in Ningyuan, preparing to start the industry. They make cooked leather, felt, leather shoes and leather jackets, wine, sauce, and handmade goods such as tents, jewelry, saddles, and magic tools.

In addition, livestock slaughtering, milk, wool textile and other industries have also begun to settle in Ningyuan.

Ningyuanbian City has become a fatty meat in the eyes of countless people, and everyone wants to pounce on it and take a bite.

According to Li Chao's prediction, the Tang and the Turks opened up trade. With Ningyuan's favorable geographical location and water transportation advantages, at least millions of sheep can be sold here in a year, and the transaction volume of camel horses can reach at least one hundred thousand. There can be at least one million sheepskins, and other skins, mushrooms, medicinal materials, etc. will naturally not be missing.

So many Turkic goods can naturally be exchanged for countless Central Plains commodities. Tea, wine, salt, sugar, rice, wheat, cloth, silk, porcelain, ceramic pot, iron pot, etc., are beneficial to both sides.

The most profitable ones were of course the Tang government that opened the market, and the Yusheshi, which enjoyed tariff dividends. In addition, the Turks and Tang Dynasty merchants who came to trade.

The people of both countries can also benefit a lot. With more cattle, horse and fur, these things will naturally be cheaper. With the addition of such a large export market as the Turks, various handmade goods from the Tang Dynasty, and even various salt, tea, sugar, wine, silk cloth, etc., can also increase sales. For the Tang Dynasty people, their income will also increase.

The Turks do not need to rob them, and they can exchange them for countless things they want by trading directly, and they will be satisfied.

After all, cattle and horses are valuable items for the people of the Central Plains, while for the Turkic herders, they are all grazing in groups. When winter comes, there is not enough hay and they have to kill the bulls and rams, which is not worth much.

In the eyes of Turkic herdsmen, an iron pot is a valuable item. A tea brick is an indispensable and important material.

From the first day of May to the fifth day of May, the border market never stopped as soon as it opened.

A big fat sheep changed to ten pieces of tea bricks, each piece weighing a pound. A piece of tea changed to another piece of sheepskin.

An ordinary mare or cow is a big sheep, and a camel is a ten sheep.

This is the basic price of a transaction, one stone of corn is used to exchange for two sheep.

Ningyuanbian City basically adopts this barter trading method. Of course, you can also entrust your goods to Li Ji Trading Store for auction, or directly contact the goods you want from Li Ji Trading Store.

When entering Ningyuan Border City for transactions, no matter Hanhu merchants, they have to pay a tariff of 20 taxes, and in addition, they have to pay a transaction tax of 20 taxes. In addition, those who open shops in Ningyuan City have to pay a residence tax and have to pay a certain amount of public security management, sanitation and other fees.

Although the taxes and fees to be paid are not less, Hanhu merchants are still in constant flow.

It is because this kind of trade actually has the greatest profit.

The ordinary tea bricks traded by Han merchants are basically the secondiest tea. After picking fresh tea leaves into raw tea, finishing the rice, kneading, drying, stir-frying, kneading, piled, and drying. The raw tea is then sieved, pressed, dried, and packaged, and becomes brick tea.

The main thing is autoclave molding.

Brick tea that is like bricks is actually very rough, whether it is used for tea or craftsmanship, it will never be like picking tender buds and tender leaves. Almost all fresh tea leaves are used, and even tea stems are used.

Even if the imperial court now begins to impose tea taxes, just like salt, it will be levied at the price of eleven taxes. However, the increased tax is really nothing to these traders.

If you change a pound of tea bricks to a good piece of sheepskin, you can change a living fat sheep with ten pieces of tea bricks. If you change a pound of tea, you can change a horse or a big cow. If you get to the Central Plains, you can at least run ten pieces.

The price of tea also came in various prices in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the most expensive tea now is the loose tea made by the Li family. Among them, the black tea that Li Shimin drank is limited because it received the gold letters given by the imperial court. One pound is worth two taels of gold, and one ounce of gold is worth eight ounces now. This pound of tea is worth ten thousand six thousand yuan, which is extremely expensive, but most people can’t drink it if they want to drink it.

Of course, ordinary loose tea does not have this price.

Nowadays, there are also many categories of loose tea. The cheapest one is only twenty yuan per catty, while the more expensive one is about two hundred yuan per catty.

The same is true for brick tea, which is twenty yuan cheaper per piece, and one thousand yuan expensive per piece.

Of course, those merchants would not transport a piece of tea that costs 1,000 yuan per piece, most of which were the lowest tea slices of tea that cost 20 yuan per kilogram. The Central Plains 20 yuan per kilogram, transported to Ningyuan, and exchanged for a piece of sheepskin for one kilogram.

If you change a ox for fifty kilograms, the cost of transportation is only 1,000 yuan. If you transfer a ox back to the Central Plains, you can get 10,000 to 15,000 yuan.

At least ten times the profit is not ordinary profit, but huge profits.

Good tea these businessmen are also.

For example, there are all kinds of good teas and loose tea tundra tea in the Li family's business. But the price is not usually expensive. The black tea that Li Shimin drank is the restaurant-town tea. In the Central Plains, it costs 2 taels of gold per pound. Here, the price is directly priced at 10 taels of gold per pound, and you have to advance, and it is limited.

Ordinary Wuyishan Tieguanyin black tea is also one pound of gold. Hangzhou Longjing green tea is eight pounds per pound, but actually one pound of gold per pound.

Ordinary ones can be ordered at least three to five jin per pound. They are not a high-ranking nobleman who is a Turkish special agent or a high-ranking nobleman who is not a Turkish special agent or a Lifa, so he will definitely not be able to afford it.

Li Ji's brick tea is not called brick tea, but it changes the brick shape to a round cake shape, and then the price goes from one piece of sheepskin to one piece of sheep, which directly increases ten times.

Of course, those Turkic Hu people are not fools either.

They came to drive the cows and sheep, not to be slaughtered.

They exchanged a piece of sheepskin for a piece of tea brick, and a sheep for ten pieces of tea bricks. Then they returned to the grassland and could increase the price by ten times. He exchanged a piece of tea brick with the herdsmen for a piece of sheep, and ten pieces of tea bricks, and he could directly exchange a camel.

This is trade.

Communication between existence and non-existence, and then make a big profit.

For the herdsmen, it is hard to say whether he lost money by changing his sheep with a pound of tea bricks.

Of course, tea is very popular, and many other products are also popular.

White wine and sugar are all very popular. But the most popular one should be iron pots.

All kinds of iron pots include hanging iron pots and barrel-shaped stewing pots, which are great. Every Turkic merchant almost went crazy with the same iron pots, which were very exciting for later generations to go to Japan's toilet seats and go to Hong Kong to grab milk powder.

Some merchants rush to fry pans, which are generally not popular among the Hu people because the herdsmen definitely think that the pot without stew is useful. But the Turkic nobles must also want to compensate for the stir-fry dishes that are popular in the Central Plains. Buy this wok and give it to the nobles, and you can make a lot of money.

Anyway, all merchants have been trying hard to ship goods these days, and have prepared many days of inventory, which has been rapidly decreasing. The goods from ships and warehouses are quickly turning into cattle, sheep, horses, camels, fur and medicinal materials.

Everyone was so busy that they had no time to eat, and they fell asleep at night, but they were still excited and selfless.

The business is so good, the profit is so great, and the money is so easy to make.

Many businesses write letters to their homes.

"There are stupid people here and there are so many money, come quickly!"

ps: Today, several league leaders sent red envelopes in the group, and sent more than a thousand yuan. I didn’t get any of them. I felt so distressed that I couldn’t sleep until now. I updated a chapter in the early morning. If you want to join the group, please remember to read the group introduction! (To be continued.)
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