Chapter 215 Pies fall from the sky
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Qingni City, southern Liaoning.
Several banners with Li characters were flying on the top of the city, and arrows stood on the tall and sturdy city walls, and soldiers kept patrolling with long edges.
In broad daylight, the four gates of Qingni City were closed, and there were few pedestrians on the middle street. From time to time, teams of soldiers patrolled by. In the center of Qingni City, there was a five hundred steps in the city lord's mansion, which was comparable to a small city. The city lord's mansion was strong and high, and it was a fortress that could not be urged. Duli Town once broke through the outer city under the inner support of the son of the predecessor of the city lord, but it was not until the current city lord Li Lingfu rushed back to rescue, and he could not take down the inner castle for several days.
In front of the lord's mansion, a huge Li flag fluttered in the wind, and a whole guard gate lined up in front of the gate. In the inner castle, there were more than a dozen large charcoal basins, and the firewood and charcoal transported from the Shiluo State were burning inside. In the warm spring-like convention hall, Li Lingfu, the owner of this city, was celebrating his birthday at the age of 45. The Tang people are already fifty years old, sixty is considered a long life, forty-five years old, and forty-five years old is already the golden age for a man. Although several forts in the north are outside the Beisha City.
Nearly 20,000 troops were stationed. Although the Duli Town fleet on the southern sea stopped attacking the outer islands, the huge fleet was still cruising in the harbor. However, the man who left Qingni City at the age of fifteen, came back with a powerful team of horse thieves to save Qingnipu and served as the city lord for ten consecutive years. The man who protected Qingni City was not very confident in his eyes. This forty-five birthday was not only still, but also very grand.
Li Lingfu was wearing an extremely precious white bear-skin robe. He sat upright on the seat of the iron-casting city lord with white tiger skin. He held a glass of fine wine in his hand. On the left were his generals, among which the group of people living in front were obviously much more powerful and burly. They were the old horse thief leaders who followed Li Lingfu and the current generals of the Crane Control Cavalry. Some behind them were old and weak, including military generals and civil servants. These were the old subordinates of Qingni City and the literary servants who later joined in recent years.
On the right, there are all kinds of people, namely warriors wearing armor, civil servants wearing round neck robes, and rich merchants with silk and silk. There are also Hu people wearing leather robes and hair-drawings. There are even tall monks with bare heads. These are not people in Qingni City, but guests of Li Lingfu's birthday. Among them are envoys from other Tang forces in southern Liaoning who have always maintained good relations with Qingnipu. There are also representatives of caravans from various countries in the sea and land who have always maintained commercial relations with Qingnipu, and there are even some uninvited guests.
The last monk was an uninvited guest, an envoy from the Shamen Town, Daxie Fort, Ziqing Town.
The messenger was a big monk, and many of the gifts brought by the monk were quite rare. Wuliangye wine, which was as clear as spring water, but as strong as fire. It was as crystal clear as ice, but extremely sweet as rock sugar. It was packed in a small porcelain bottle. Apply a few drops to exude a charming fragrance. Each one was a precious gift that Li Lingfu had never heard of or seen before, but he liked at one glance.
One hundred jars of Wuliangye wine is filled with thirty-six charming perfumes of different fragrances, and ten bottles of that kind of rock sugar.
What a generous gift, although he had never seen or heard of these things before. He guessed that it might be a self-produced item from Shamen Town, but he understood that such a daughter-in-law was definitely a valuable item. This gift was very expensive, and it took both thought and cost to give such a birthday gift to someone who had never been dating.
At today's birthday party, he specially took out Wuliangye wine and rock sugar to serve guests, which immediately surprised these people. After paying Wuliangye, the old brothers of the Crane Army were both surprised and happy. It was cold and cold in Liaodong, especially these brothers who were once horse thieves were all generous men, and they all had the most powerful wine to drink and women to play with the most beautiful concepts. However, even if the strongest Sanleju and Jiannan Shaochun were compared with this wine, it would be nothing. It was neither clear and transparent than Wuliangye, nor as fierce as fire.
Unlike the brothers who immediately fell in love with this fine wine, other people, especially those merchants, were even more surprised by the wine and rock sugar. They saw the many business opportunities behind these two daughters-in-law's things. Seeing everyone's surprised eyes, Li Lingfu felt very proud. When he was happy, he took out two bottles of perfume in the treasured mansion and presented them to dozens of important guests on the spot.
He immediately gave this perfume to his wife for trial after receiving it. His wife was devoted to Buddha and didn't love these makeup items very much, but after smelling one of the perfumes with sandalwood, he was very happy. When he heard that it was actually brought by a monk, he was even more surprised and asked him to call the monk over and say a few words. At the end, he also gave him many gifts.
I have seen two daughter-in-law products, and now I have seen thirty-six fragrances of perfumes, and these merchants are almost numb.
An old man with gorgeous clothes couldn't help but stand up and said, "Dear City Lord, I don't know where the Wuliangye and rock candy you displayed today, and where did this perfume come from? Why have I never heard of some products? Could it be a new product from the Western Regions?" Perfumes were available in the Tang Dynasty, and most of them were brought in by merchants from the Western Regions, but the perfume was completely different from this perfume, and they were just two kinds of things.
His eyes shone with light and looked at Li Lingfu and said, "Dear City Lord, if you can introduce the source of goods to us, no, as long as you can pull out some of the flocs in your hands to us. I can guarantee now that our business group will transport grain to Qingni City without restrictions this year. We will get you as much as you want."
Another man with extremely barbaric fur robe hair recognition immediately stood up and said to the old man: "Old Man Cui, don't be so greedy. These things are obviously a daughter-in-law's property. How many can you have? You even want to take it alone." He turned to Li Lingfu, "General Li, as long as you can pick up a bunch of catkins for us, don't have too many. I promise that our business group will lobby you in Bohai Middle School and get a batch of war horses, cattle and sheep for you, and that they are all top-notch war horses."
Suddenly, the other group of merchants couldn't sit still and stood up. They said it was like I said it could be exchanged for the celadon, rice, and female slaves from Silla, and those who could be exchanged for the sulfur and brass of Japan, and war horses and slaves from Bohai. There were also some Khitan, Wei, Turkic, and various specialty products popped up all of a sudden. Many representatives of the business groups from the Tang Dynasty and the Northeast vassal states were fighting to make a group, and no one would want to let go of such new products that would definitely make a fortune by just a look.
Li Lingfu drank the clear Wuliangye in the glass cup in his hand in one mouthful, feeling a little regretful. If this thing was his own, he could make countless money by sitting every year. Why worry about recruiting more soldiers and buying more weapons without money? He sighed slightly, and looked at the monk who was sitting safely at the last seat, the envoy of Shamen Town from Dengzhou.
"Everyone, in fact, these daughter-in-law are not from my Qingni City. In fact, he is a birthday gift given to me by a VIP. If you are interested in this product, you can talk to this bald monk later. The gift was given by him."
As soon as these words were said, a group of merchants turned their eyes to Xuancheng. Xuancheng immediately stood up and shouted: "Mr. Li was right. These gifts were indeed birthday gifts for General Li. Here are the envoys under General Li Guan, the general of Shamen Town, Daxizhai, Dengzhou, Ziqing Town, Zibo. This time, I came to celebrate Lord Li's birthday. Today, I will not be overwhelmed. If you are interested in this product, then I can tell you one thing. That is, everyone here can go to Shamen Town in person to discuss this matter with my general. Of course, there is no need to be so troublesome."
He smiled, "Before coming, my general told me that he would hand over the distribution rights of these three products in southern Liaoning to Qingnicheng."
The merchants were stunned for a moment, and even Li Lingfu had the same expression of confusion, not knowing what the distribution rights meant.
“What is a distribution right?”
Xuan Cheng explained: "The so-called distribution rights are that we divide the world into many distribution areas, such as Ziqing District, Liaodong District, Xinluo District, Bohai District, etc. The products in our hands will be directly handed over to a dealer to fully distribute in each distribution area. For example, Liaodong District, including only occupying southern Liaodong and even western Liaoning, our products will only be handed over to Qingnicheng for distribution. We will provide the goods at an agreed price, and then the three products in the entire Liaodong District will only be sold to Qingnicheng. Other merchants and customers in Liaodong want to buy them from Qingnicheng."
"So, if you want this Wuliangye, rock candy and perfume, you either go directly to Shamen Town to buy it, or you can only buy it from Lord Li, Qingni City."
This novel sales method surprised everyone, but Li Lingfu was even more surprised. Not only was he surprised that his Qingnicheng suddenly became a dealer in Liaodong, but he was even more surprised why the other party did this? This is such a thing, and he would definitely sell as much as he could, and he would not have to worry about selling it at all. Now, the first time I heard about Li Guan wanted to hand over such a hot business to him, which was simply a large amount of money for free. And as long as the supply of goods is stable in the future, the money would be endless, just like giving him a coin furnace.
Chapter completed!