Soon, Tang Kuan, the town guard of Khotan, arrived with his cronies, and saw that it was Cui Xiyi who personally led the team, so he was stunned, and quickly dismounted and said: "It turned out to be Cui Yingzheng, who has been gone for some days." ”

Cui Xiyi was ostensibly a small battalion of the logistics department, and Tang Kuan, as one of the four major town guards in the Western Regions, knew that this small battalion in front of him still had a mysterious identity, so he had the act of dismounting and talking.

The size of the status sometimes depends not only on the official position, but also on the distance from the emperor.

Cui Xiyi hurriedly returned the salute: "The last general has seen General Tang." ”

Tang Kuan personally helped him up and whispered: "Cui Yingzheng, what kind of materials are these materials, I actually asked you to transport them personally, hey, the team seems to have craftsmen." ”

asked Cui Xiyi, who had a dual identity, to escort him, and asked Tang Kuan to protect him secretly, and Tang Kuan's curiosity suddenly hung up.

Cui Xiyi lowered his voice and said: "Cement, those people are craftsmen who can use cement." ”

"It turned out to be it, I heard it, Cui Yingzheng, where is this batch of cement going to be transported?"

"This kind of divine weapon is naturally used in the most important place, and it is decided above, the Wolf Tooth Fort."

Tang Kuanlen paused for a moment, then quickly nodded and said, "It's okay, the location of the Wolf's Tooth Fort is the most important, and it is also the most vulnerable place. ”

Langya Fort is located in the south of Khotan town and the junction of Tubo a high place called Langya Peak, like a nail embedded into the Yangtong area of Tubo, the location is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, can monitor Yangtong and Khotan town junction of nearly one-third of the area, is an important bridgehead in Khotan Town, but also the thorn in the side of Tubo.

Cui Xiyi nodded and said, "General Tang, have another drink when you have time, let's go first." ”

"Good!"

Tubo and Da Shi tried to challenge the authority of the Tang Dynasty in Pakhan, but in the end they were defeated, lost their troops, and were forced to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty again, but everyone knew that this peace was only temporary, and once the Tang Dynasty found a way to conquer Tubo or Tubo licked its wounds, this balance would be broken.

Even a small natural disaster will cause the two sides to break out again, and now the Tang Dynasty and Tubo are peaceful on the surface, but in fact they are fighting fiercely.

The border of Datang is a false peace, but the territory of Datang is a real song and dance, especially Chang'an, which is as prosperous as smoke.

At this time, in a house in Xuanyangfang, there were strings of hearty and somewhat weird laughter, and Gao Lishi laughed from ear to ear in the small living room.

"It's really amazing, our family went out of the palace today to do something, and specially detoured to Chonghuafang to see, I wanted to see how the business was doing, but I didn't expect to see a queue of people in the West Market, and it turned out to be from the wine shop to the West Market, this business is too hot."

After tasting the sweetness from the Three Treasures, Gao Lishi also fell in love with the winery, and when he went out of the palace to do business, he wanted to see how the winery was doing, but he saw so many people lining up to give money, and he was in a good mood, and he came to Zheng Peng to drink tea again.

Gao Lishi is the most trusted and favored person around Li Longji, as long as he hints, others are vying to give him money, but this money is bribed and invested, it is completely two moods, and now he is smiling so that the wrinkles on his face are opened layer by layer, like a blooming chrysanthemum.

Zheng Peng understands this mood, like going to work in the company and starting his own business in later generations, it is completely two mentalities: when he goes to work in the company, he has fewer benefits, more overtime or the attitude of the boss is almost full of complaints, and he feels tired after working eight hours a day; Starting a business is different, it doesn't matter what you eat or where you live, you don't care about your working hours at all, and you may earn less than you go to work in a month.

Seeing that Colliers was so happy, Zheng Peng was relieved, and it was obvious that Colliers regarded the winery as his own industry.

If anyone dares to move or offend the interests of the winery, Colliers will immediately protect the calf.

Zheng Peng replied with a smile: "It's all thanks to my father-in-law, this business is so smooth, don't hide it from my father-in-law, many people want to get a piece of the pie when they see the wine shop buying and selling, fortunately, there is a plaque written by the father-in-law." ”

"Whoever dares to stretch out his claws, we will chop it up immediately" Gao Lishi said on the spot, and soon said: "But you use this trick to limit the purchase too well, you don't need to do publicity, you will know the goods when you see the situation." ”

"It's not deliberate, the main thing is that the scale can't go up yet, the production is limited, I have asked Wynn to find a suitable place, and it is estimated that the scale will be expanded soon."

Colliers put down the teacup in his hand: "Huh? Wynne? ”

"Father-in-law, Huai En is a house slave who came with the cheap, and he is a good hand at doing business, I will hand over the wine shop to him to take care of, if my father-in-law wants to see the accounts at any time, he can read them at any time."

Now that there is a shortage of talents under his command, he can't cultivate them for a while, Zheng Peng directly asked Lu Shu to ask for someone, anyway, the husband and wife don't have to be so clear.

In order to show that he would not make false accounts, Zheng Peng asked Gao Lishi to send someone to help take care of the accounts, but Gao Lishi refused, saying that he could trust Zheng Peng, which made Zheng Peng a little moved.

Gao Lishi's life has a deep intersection with Li Longji, and he has been able to stand for so many years, not only relying on Li Longji's favor, but also his work ability and personal charm are also important factors for success.

"Our family can trust you, and we don't bother to pay attention to these things, just have you to watch" Gao Lishi said casually: "This Ding is quite prosperous, what about wealth?" ”

When many businesses just started, in order to attract customers, they usually implemented concessions, and the phenomenon of "Wangding is not prosperous" is very common, and Colliers saw so many people, as a shareholder, he began to care about the profitability.

Zheng Peng didn't go straight back, but asked, "Father-in-law, do you know how much rice is on the market now?" ”

"The high-grade twelve or thirteen cents are a catty, and the ordinary ones only cost seven cents." Colliers said with some pride.

During the Kaiyuan period, the wind and rain were smooth, the grain was harvested every year, and the price was very stable, although it could not be compared with the four cents of the Zhenguan period, but considering the problem of population, in fact, the price was still very low, which was regarded as a prosperous and prosperous era for the monarch and the ministers.

During the Zhenguan period, the Tang Dynasty has not recovered from the war, the population has been greatly reduced, the output of the fields is more, the population is small, the digestion speed is slow, the price is naturally low, now it is the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the population has quadrupled compared with the early days of Zhenguan, there are still so many fields, the output can not keep up with the growth of the population, and it is reasonable that prices have risen.

"Does my father-in-law know about winemaking?"

"I understand it, if you want to make wine, you need grain, ordinary wine is two catties of grain and one catty of wine, and good wine has to be three catties of rice and grain to produce one catty of wine."

In the past, Colliers would not know about these problems, but after taking a stake in the winery he named, he consciously learned relevant knowledge, such as the probability of making wine, but now Colliers can blurt it out.

Zheng Peng smiled indifferently: "After the transformation of the winery, three catties of grain can produce two catties of good wine, which is the kind of liquor that is drunk, my father-in-law is not an outsider, just with my father-in-law through the bottom, we use ordinary grain, three catties is about twenty-one yuan, that is, the cost of each pound of wine is less than eleven yuan, plus lamp oil and wax, the top of the sky is only fifteen yuan a catty, does my father-in-law know how much our liquor sells for a catty?" ”

"How much?" Gao Lishi hurriedly asked.

Having said all that, that's the point.

"Fight a thousand wines." Zheng Peng said with some smugness.

(Note: The weights and measures of the Tang Dynasty are not completely unified, different regions and different eras are more or less different, here a bucket = ten liters, one liter = one catty)

Colliers said with satisfaction: "The profit of this wine is really good, it is simply a money grab." ”

The cost of fifteen wen, more than six times the profit, or queue up to send money over, a catty of net profit has eighty-five wen, as long as ten thousand jin is sold a day, then there is 850,000 wen, converted into 850,000 yuan, a month of net profit of more than 25,000 yuan, more than 250,000 yuan a year.

However, the more than 360 states in Datang will never sell only 10,000 catties a day, if it is promoted, as long as the sales increase tenfold, there will be 2.5 million catties.

At the thought that the goal would not be difficult to achieve, Colliers' eyes lit up.

Zheng Peng said with a straight face: "Father-in-law Gao, what you said is not right. ”

"Isn't that right? Where did we say it wrong? Gao Lishi was surprised by Zheng Peng's expression and said with some hesitation.

Zheng Peng said with a smile: "It should be said that it is good to rob in the past, because robbing is to violate Tang Law, we are all good ministers who abide by the law, and we don't have to do anything that violates the law." ”

"Hey, hey... Hey, hey, hey" Gao Lishi paused for a moment, and quickly leaned back and said with a smile: "Feiteng, you are too good at talking, that's right, it's good to go over and grab it, our family likes to listen to this." ”