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"When will you do it?"

"After September, when the autumn is high and the climate is cool, it is a good time to use soldiers. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The breeze was blowing, and in the manor, Li Chao played chess with Li Simo.

It's checkers.

In fact, checkers also consider intelligence, not only to protect their nest from the opponent to occupy it too early, but also to occupy the opponent's nest as soon as possible. Moreover, you have to fully seize the opportunity and jump with chess.

It's best to borrow the opponent's pawn jump, rather than blindly building a springboard for yourself, and you have to always guard against letting the opponent borrow your own chess pieces as a springboard.

This is the same as chess and Go, although the rules are different, but the core is still the same, fighting wits and courage.

In the afternoon, many clouds blew in the sky, casting a shadow on the manor and bringing a bit of coolness to the manor.

There was a noisy shout outside, which was the shouting of merchants in the city of Toyosu. Across the river is the border town of the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of commercial goods have just been transported into the city, and now the Tang Dynasty Li Dashuai and the Turkic Yu Sheshe have reached an agreement to allow merchants from both sides to freely enter and exit each other's territory for trade.

As a result, many Han merchants also crossed the Tungen River and came directly to Fengzhou City to sell goods or buy goods, which made Fengzhou City more and more lively.

"I lost again, Xiangguo is very good at chess." Li Simo saw that he still had three chess pieces just out of the nest, Li Chao had already finished them, and he didn't have to admit defeat with a smile.

"You're a novice, but you're already a novice."

"Xiangguo left Fengzhou this time, will he go back to Chang'an directly?"

"Well, my wife and concubine are about to give birth, and I always have to welcome a few little ones to be born. Besides, what we are planning here must be explained to His Majesty in person. ”

Li Simo smiled, "I really want to go back to Chang'an with Xiangguo." ”

"Next time, if this plan is successful, then you will be able to enter Beijing next year."

Listening to the shouts of the merchants outside, Li Simo sighed, "There is a war in autumn, and I am afraid that such a lively scene will no longer exist." ”

"No, that's only temporary. If it is not broken, it may be interrupted for a while, but it will soon be restored, even better than before. ”

"Sangkook is so confident that he can settle down soon? I'm just afraid that as soon as the war starts, there will be no more peace in the grasslands. ”

What Li Simo said naturally makes sense.

On the surface, the Tang Dynasty wanted to support Yu Jie to set up an anti-Jieli, but it also wanted to secretly support Tuli, to put it bluntly, it was actually to disturb the grassland. Defeat the strongest Jieli first, and then there will be another battle between Tuli and Yu Shishi.

At that time, no matter who wins Yu Shot and Tu Li, I am afraid that it will not settle down.

With Li Simo's understanding of Li Chao during this time, he will definitely secretly instigate the Khitan and Tiele tribes to take the opportunity to stand on their own. At that time, I am afraid that there are still few people in the steppe who are called Khan, and maybe they will establish the Khitan Khanate, the Kumoxi Khanate, the Xueyantuo Khanate, the Khibi Khanate, the Servant Bone Khanate, etc., and then there will really be no one dominant.

If there are really so many khanates, the Great Khan, naturally no one will dare to shout with the Tang Dynasty, and it will return to the situation when Emperor Kai of Sui was in power.

Of course, Li Chao was very happy to see many khanates established on the steppe, and there were many great khanates. In this way, the Central Plains will be more advantageous, so that the weak can be separated from the weak, divided and co-opted, and leveraged to fight.

Regarding the grassland, Li Chao's view is that directly using strong is not the best policy.

According to Li Shimin's thoughts, of course, they want to hold back their big moves at home. After saving enough money and food, training the soldiers, and building the ordnance, it is necessary to go north to find the Turks to regain the field.

It is necessary to let the Turks escape far away from the desert north, and then cross the Yin Mountain in the south, let them call their grandfather when they see the Tang Dynasty, and even let them pay tribute every year to relieve their previous grievances.

However, Li Chao felt that this kind of move was still the routine of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he was forced to fight.

It's too difficult and too expensive to fight like this. To deal with the grassland, it is still the routine of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian that is easy to use, dividing and pulling together, merging the weak and separating the strong, fighting one into two, and two into four, so that the grassland does not have a strong overlord, does not let them unify, and keeps them fighting in the nest, powerless to the outside world.

If Datang wants to do it, he will be the referee, and he doesn't have to work hard to fight at all.

Let the Turks fight themselves, let Tiele, Khitan and others rise up to create a rebellion against the Turks, and let them fight into a pot of porridge. The Tang Dynasty can continue to trade with them, let them exchange prisoners, cattle and horses for tea and cloth.

In exchange for the captives, it is just used for mining, road repair, salt drying, etc.

It's not easy to do that, but it's a good idea, and it's always right to set the direction and then work towards it.

At present, the focus is to continue to burn the fire, let Yu Shooter and Jieli do it, and let Tuli join in, the more people there are, the more lively it is, and this scene will be good.

Of course, after Li Chao went back, he planned to have a good talk with Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling, and he also hurried to cheer up the Khitan and Tiele tribes, so that they could resist and overturn the Turkic mountains that were pressing on their heads.

If there is a real war, the grassland may be completely chaotic, and it may not be able to be calmed down for several years. Although the border market that has just been sunburned will not be closed, it will indeed be very affected.

Now it is at least a few million yuan a year in taxes, and the profits of merchants are even greater.

With so much loss, it's hard to say what the guilds in the court think.

But we can't ignore the long-term overall situation for the sake of a little immediate benefit.

"Xiangguo remember to get me a batch of tea, not more, just a few thousand catties."

Li Simo is now in Cao Ying, and his heart is in Han, or he is a spy. On the one hand, he is the secret service of the Turks, and on the other hand, he is the county king of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the identity of the Tang Dynasty is not yet visible.

Li Simo also has a clan, since he can't go to the Tang Dynasty for the time being, of course he also wants to make some money.

"Thousands of catties of tea are not worth my mouth, so let's get you 10,000 catties." Li Chao said very boldly, "If you want wine, I can also get you a hundred thousand catties, and if you need it in the future, you can directly find Li Ji Commercial Bank." ”

The tea given to the Turks is the most inferior brick tea, this kind of tea, if according to the status of the Li family's current tea industry, the Li family's new tea classification, brick tea should actually be regarded as black tea.

It turns out that the tea of the Tang people belongs to black tea.

This tea is fermented, but it is not a fully fermented tea like black tea. The biggest feature of black tea is that it is picked with branches and leaves, and finally pressed into tea bricks after finishing, steaming, kneading, stacking, fermentation and other processes. This kind of tea turns black after it is matured, and it is considered a post-fermented tea. Of course, the production process is not exactly the same, for example, some teas are smoked, and some teas are mainly based on young buds.

The Li family has now made fried tea, which is a new champion in the tea industry.

As a result, the Li family has also launched many new tea varieties and even introduced new tea classifications.

Traditional black tea, followed by white tea, which remains more natural, and slightly fermented yellow tea, semi-fermented oolong tea, which is green tea, and fully fermented black tea, unfermented green tea, etc.

The main process of black tea should be steaming, and the tea-making process launched by the Li family is stir-frying.

The five kinds of green, red, yellow, white, and green teas launched by the Li family are all roasted teas, and they are mainly young buds and tender tea leaves. After picking the young shoots and young leaves, the thick branches and old leaves left behind, the Li family did not waste them, and directly took a knife to pick them down with branches and leaves, and then steamed, kneaded, piled, dried, and pressed to make black tea, also commonly known as knife tea.

Therefore, these tea bricks, which are now the hottest ones sold in foreign trade, are actually the scraps of tea.

Other green, red, yellow, white and green, although there are also pressed into round cake shapes, are high-grade teas, and the production method is also different.

Black tea is very cheap, and even the very old leaves and tea branches are cut and steamed.

Other teas may also say that the production is limited, but this black tea is really how much there is.

Especially the traditional black tea is the most labor-intensive kneading because it is with branches and leaves, and now Li Chao has directly made a hydraulic kneading machine, which greatly improves the efficiency and greatly increases the output of black tea.

Although black tea is relatively coarse, nomads drink tea not to drink taste.

They are more because of their unbalanced diet, so they need to drink tea and need tea to balance. Therefore, whether the tea is good or bad is not actually the most important thing.

Only those nobles will care about the Tao, the good and the bad, but they can buy expensive group tea, loose tea.

Getting 10,000 catties of black tea is really a trivial matter.

Only the Turks do not understand the types of tea and the grade of tea, they do not know that black tea is actually made entirely of old leaves of tea leaves.

"If you really want to make some money, I can give you more tea. If you have a way to sell it, I can directly ask the firm to pull out 100,000 catties of tea bricks for you. ”

Black tea is almost not limited to the origin of tea trees, and tea trees in any place can be made into black tea.

There is no limit to the place of origin, there is no limit, the only limit is the processing and transportation capacity. But 100,000 catties is not much, a load of 100 catties, but only a thousand catties. Li Ji's caravan was able to organize and transport these teas from Guanzhong to Lingzhou at one time, and then ship them over.

"100,000 pieces of tea? There are so many freshly made teas. ”

A piece of tea brick in Ningyuan is a catty, in exchange for a piece of sheepskin. 100,000 catties is equal to 100,000 sheepskins, or 10,000 sheep, or 2,000 horses, or 2,000 cattle, or 1,000 camels.

After calculation, with Li Simo's status and strength as a special service, he will definitely be able to eat it.

"Of course there are so many, if you want, after the first batch of transactions, the second batch can be shipped to you immediately. I can even ask the firm to give you a ninety-eight discount, 100,000 catties of tea, as long as 9,800 sheepskins. ”

"Where's the wine?"

"It's all the same, whether it's wine or sugar or iron pot and other commercial goods, if you want it, I'll ask the firm to give you a ninety-eighty discount, it's easy to talk."

For Li Simo, a nephew, or Neiying, Li Chao doesn't mind giving him some benefits so that he can also make a lot of money. (To be continued.) )