[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

"Tailong, why don't we plant sugar cane together?" Boss Wu grabbed Tielong's hand.

Elder Tang raised his eyebrows, planting sugar cane?It's a pretty good job.The daily diet of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty is fat and fat. The translation is: they like to eat meat and all kinds of strong flavors. Even the simplest dessert should be poured with a layer of sugarcane juice or honey to make it fat and delicious.

No wonder so many Tang people are overweight.

Having said that, although bees are not easy to raise, sugarcane is still very easy to grow. You only need to cut off the buds of the sugarcane and plant them in the ground after the buds germinate. You don’t need too much maintenance, as long as you give enough With water and fertilizers, sugar cane can grow well.

However, in the Tang Dynasty at this time, there were not many common people who planted sugarcane on a large scale. After the troubled times of the end of the Sui Dynasty, the common people were really frightened by hunger, and almost put all their enthusiasm on planting various sugar cane on food.This is another reason why Tang Xuanzang wanted to bring back a batch of rare crop seedlings from the Western Regions: no one else had them, but if he had the seeds in his village, he would surely be able to seize the opportunity and sell them at a good price.

Wu Kun's thinking is actually similar to that of Tang Xuanzang, but he specifically reminded Qilong: If we want to grow sugarcane, we should only plant it on the land of the Western Regions, and don't open up land in the Tang Dynasty.

You know, as purchasing agents, they are most afraid that the hard-earned sources of goods will be cut off, commonly known as "picking fruit".He has encountered this kind of thing before. At that time, he just started to work as a purchasing agent. Once he accidentally discovered a small blue flower that can grow on the ground. The potted flower market of the Star Alliance has always been very popular. He dug a gold mine by himself. He took out all the savings he saved during that time and rented a large area on that planet to plant this kind of potted plants. He thought that he would be able to pay back the money immediately after harvesting, but he did not expect that the planet The aborigines were jealous and deliberately colluded with the local government, using "endangered rare plants" as an excuse to set a high tax point for his potted botanical garden that he could not bear at all.

In other words, he has worked hard for a year, and 60.00% of the money he earns has to be used to pay various taxes and fees. After deducting various costs and the cost of renting farm robots, it is almost worthless.

Wu Cong could only endure the pain to stop the loss in time, and "tactfully" sold the plantation at a low price to the locals who had long been eyeing it.In one breath, I lost all the money I earned as a purchasing agent for two years.The key point is that he hasn't explained it yet. That planet is not directly under the jurisdiction of the Star Alliance. The relevant laws, regulations and tax policies are formulated by themselves, and there is no need for permission from the Star Alliance.After suffering such a big loss, even if Wu Hong found some good sources of goods, he would not dare to mention large-scale planting and breeding any more.

Because he understood a truth: doing business depends not only on capital, but also on background.

Although his parents are well-known scholars of the Star Alliance, they have no way to touch the core of power in this society, let alone go beyond the Star Alliance to uphold justice for him on another planet.

Wu Kong didn't want to embarrass her parents, it used to be, and it still is now.

Now that parents are so close to King Zhao's Mansion, he can't bring the profitable business of sucrose back to Datang, and it's much safer to put it in the Western Regions.At the very least, with a stingy dragon like Naolong watching, he wanted to see who in the entire western region dared to touch the private money of the little prince Naolong.

Tang Xuanzang moved his mouth, but said nothing.Wu Kong is not Wukong, he has always known how to avoid danger as much as possible. Compared with the Tang Dynasty with many aristocratic families, the Western Regions are indeed more suitable as their base camp.

At the very least, in the Western Regions, they can use forces like the dragon to achieve their goals, instead of being constrained by aristocratic dignitaries everywhere like they were in Chang'an City.

He didn't know if Wu Hong had thought of this. If he hadn't, it could only be said that Boss Wu's intuition was quite accurate.

"Ah! But now there are not enough manpower." Hearing Wu Hong's talk, he found another way to make money for him. After a while, Qi Long was happy, and then began to worry.

What he didn't dare to tell Wu Kong was that now, the common people on both sides of the Heishui River, tens of miles north and south, have been coaxed, coaxed, coerced, and lured into joining the army of melons with him. If he wanted to expand the planting varieties, he would You can only go further afield to buy people.

Don't get me wrong, the little prince Nilong doesn't have any immoral thoughts about buying and selling slaves, he just cares about buying people's money.It is said that gold and silver are used for buying and selling in the big cities outside. He would definitely be reluctant to take out gold or something, and there is not much silver. It really gives me a headache just thinking about it.

"Cousin, why don't you and I do this business together?" Ao Lie listened for a while, and felt that it is not difficult to do business in the mortal world. It is nothing more than investing some costs and manpower in the early stage. Selling it to the big brother, not to mention [-] gold coins in a year, even if it's only [-] gold coins, it's a good deal.

Like his cousin Ni Long, Ao Lie is also reluctant to take out the gold coins in his private money, but after all these years of being the prince of the Dragon Clan, besides his favorite gold coins and gems, there are also many sea pearls in his private money. , Coral, silver, etc., can be used for investment.

In fact, Qilong doesn't really want to do business with his third cousin, Ao Lie. It's not that Ao Lie has bullied him like other dragons. He just doesn't want to distribute the gold coins he is about to get to other people, and neither can his cousin. !

However, the problem is that he is really short of money now.

Not accepting Ao Lie's capital injection = can't do sugar cane business = loses a year's harvest of several gold coins.

Accept Ao Lie's capital injection = start buying sugar cane immediately = earn a large amount of gold coins next year.

Huo Suo silently calculated an account in his heart, and Qi Long decided to let go of his prejudice against his cousin's family and accept Ao Lie's capital injection!

How can hatred be as important as gold?

The two cousins ​​immediately took out all the scattered silver from their respective private houses, and asked someone to take a scale to weigh it on the spot. The silver that Ao Lie took out was about 290 taels, and it was even worse for Tielong. That small pile of silver weighed less than 300 taels!

But he can't be blamed for this. These days, he hires people to open up wasteland and grow melons for him, and spends money on farm infrastructure construction. When his father died back then, he didn't leave him much foundation. Now Well, I originally wanted to each take half of the shares, let alone half now, there is simply not even half of the shares!

Seeing that Qilong wanted to tear up the agreement, Boss Wu immediately coughed and smoothed things over for the two brothers——

"The shares can't be counted in this way. After all, both sides of the Heishui River are the territory of the little prince, and this land is also a part of the shares. Also, the third prince will go to Chang'an City with us, where sugar cane is planted, harvested, and processed. It is inevitable that you will have to worry about the trivial business of sugar. We call this a professional manager. One hundred acres of land, plus all the people involved in planting, harvesting, and making sugar cane, also account for 4000% of the shares, and the remaining 2000% ​​will be paid by Master and I for [-] taels of silver, how about it?"

"I'll listen to the elder brother." Ao Lie immediately agreed when he heard that 4000 taels of silver would give him 4000% of the shares.The main reason is that he knows that his master Tang Elder is also a local tyrant, and he is afraid that if he does not agree, Elder Tang will immediately cover his position on the spot... It is useless to put the [-] taels of silver in his storage ring, but he can take it out. A steady stream of gold coins is brought to oneself, a fool knows how to choose, right?

"Then... I also listen to Brother Wukong." Although it didn't account for half of it, [-]% was enough.Qilong is not stupid, he knows that Brother Wukong is taking advantage of himself by doing this. After all, he is said to let him get [-] acres of fertile land on both sides of the Heishui River, and those [-] acres of fertile land are still barren now, he is almost empty gloves White wolf.

As for letting him manage the planting, harvesting and sugar refining of sugarcane every year?As long as he buys the right technicians and promotes a steward like Immortal Yang Li, how can he do these trivial things by himself?

The three parties discussed the matter of cooperation and investment, and then Wu Xuan told Qi Long: "There is no rush to buy people."

"Why are you not in a hurry? One day later, you will earn a lot less gold coins!" Chu Long was in a hurry.

Wu Kong and Tang Xuanzang looked at each other and smiled, since they were surrounded by their own people anyway, Tang Xuanzang vaguely revealed what he had guessed.

Hearing Elder Tang said that there might be a war between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions, and that there might be no need to go to the big city to buy people in the future, there would be a steady stream of refugees fleeing here.

The two countries are at war = there will be refugees = a large number of strong laborers who can help him work just by giving him something to eat!

This saved him a lot of money!

Although the vast majority of the initial investment belonged to his cousin, Ao Lie, but if the money went into his pocket, he would automatically be surnamed, and it would be great if he could spend a penny less.

"Let's talk about it first, work is work, since you have recruited those refugees, you must protect them well, and don't allow your little monsters to bully mortals!" Boss Wu exhorted worriedly.

"Don't worry, Brother Wukong, how dare those little demons under my command bully mortals now? They can't wait to hold them in their palms and protect them." At this point, Boss Ni couldn't help but feel complacent.

It turned out that he was inspired by Wu Kong. In order to motivate the people under him to be more motivated, he first promoted Daxian Luli to be an external steward, and then asked him to select 24 small stewards from among the little demons under him. In charge of [-] acres of land and ten nearby farmers hired to do work, how much benefits the little demon stewards can get every month is directly related to how fast the farmers do their work.

It is said that there are already little demons under him who are very flexible and have started to take care of the children for the farmers. I hope they can care less about the family and do more work for him. How can they be willing to abuse them?

Wu Kun: "..." Look, he already said that Tuolong is a business genius.

There are not many sugarcane planters in the Western Regions, and for the time being, there are really not so many people under Qilong who can spare to grow sugarcane. Wu Yu can only comfort the boss who is eager to make money, and ask him to serve this season's watermelon first, and wait for the watermelon to grow. After harvesting everything, we will reorganize the land and use it to plant a stubble of sugar cane to test the water.

People in the Tang Dynasty liked to eat sweets. When Taizong Li Shimin was in power, the traditional sugar production method continued from the Western Han Dynasty because the output was too low, and it was completely unable to meet the nobles' demand for sweets. In the 21st year of Zhenguan, Tang Taizong sent an envoy to "Mo Jieta Kingdom learned advanced sugar-making technology, and the envoys brought back the sugar-making method of hand-cooking brown sugar, which greatly increased the yield of brown sugar. People's desire to eat sweets made the common people use all the fertile land to grow sugar cane, otherwise, that old man Wei Zheng would have been thrown into a pillar long ago.

The common people can't get enough to eat, and you still encourage them to use the precious fertile land to grow sugar cane?Is this to make the people of Datang starve to death?

This is another reason why Tang Xuanzang supported Wu Jing and Yulong in planting sugar cane in the Western Regions: it was one thing to worry about the aristocrats of the Tang Dynasty seizing the industry. crop.