If Liu Wuzhou was still alive, he would feel aggrieved when he saw the guy who threatened to throw him into the toilet, and he would definitely be so angry that he died again.
Gao Jifu was speechless and didn't know what to say.
Imagine that the emperor led his troops to conquer Liaodong. Once he had some free time in the wind and snow, he would grab Cheng Zhijie's beard to relieve his boredom, but Cheng Zhijie's beard did not dare to move...
Gao Jifu couldn't imagine such a specific scene, but it didn't stop him from having a weird smile on his face.
Cheng Dabeard glanced sideways at Gao Jifu and said to himself that I told you the scandal. Just like that person said, we have become insects on a rope. If you can't give me a good idea, you, Gao Yushi, will fall. It's easy to go, otherwise Luo Sanlang will come to find you when the time comes.
Luo Sanlang was right next to me at that time, and his head was knocked countless times.
Gao Jifu pondered for a long time, obviously wanting to hear what this meant to him.
Cheng Dabeard urged impatiently: "You can tell me, is there a good place for me to escape? I've been thinking about it for two months, and the New Year's Eve hasn't gone well either.
If it still doesn't work, I will simply resign. I can talk to the people in Supi. When I left, the queen also said that the trade between Supi and the Tang Dynasty can be left to me.
If I don't become an official, I will become a businessman..."
Gao Jifu was also a general. He should think clearly that this matter had little impact on him. Didn't he just listen to Cheng Dabeard's few complaints? Cheng Dalang didn't dare to rebel, so it was no big deal.
So I had the leisure to amuse myself, "Brother, you are so open-minded, don't you even want to take the credit? Then it's not bad to be a rich man, haha, if you are short of capital, you can come to find me, I will definitely do my best. Help.”
Bearded Cheng was also happy. This is right. I, old Cheng, never associate with cowardless gangsters. After hearing this, he still joked with me. Gaoshiro is indeed a man.
"You look down on me, don't you? What I did back then was business without capital... I took the goods from the people of Supi and sold them to the Tang Dynasty. Then I collected the good things from the Tang Dynasty and took them to Supi. I didn't need any money. They are all from Supi people.
The loss is theirs, and we will be left behind if we gain. What they want is the trade route, and I just need to put in some effort. If Shiro is interested, those Supi people are in the capital, and it is easy for me to introduce them to you."
The bearded Cheng talked about his business details in a carefree manner, which made Gao Jifu a little excited.
Gao Jifu is not a businessman, but he is from a wealthy family and is not unfamiliar with business. Of course, a wealthy family does not live solely on salary and land.
The more conservative ones will buy and sell grain and land to support their families. Most families have various industries under their names. Otherwise, they would not be able to maintain their living standards just by relying on the rewards from the court.
There are clear regulations in all dynasties that officials are not allowed to engage in business, but in fact, officials themselves, or even their family members and relatives naturally do not engage in business, because business has been a standard low-level industry for a long time, and nobles will not do it themselves. knife.
But just because they don't do business doesn't mean that their disciples and slaves can't do business. It's inevitable that the family will buy the property and let outsiders manage it, and they will sit on the land and share the profits.
For example, during the war period at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when prices soared, aristocratic families intentionally or unintentionally controlled the sale of grain. How could those grain merchants compete with the government and the hungry people without the protection of their families?
Some grain merchants are disciples and slaves of noble families. The noble families control the land. It is normal for them to hoard grain during times of war and wait for prices to be sold.
Except for those places that were flooded by the rebels, how many nobles have you seen starving to death?
Back then, when Li Po was in power and merged the two states, he tried his best to stabilize food prices, but he still had many difficulties. In fact, it was because he couldn't behead everyone who was hoarding food like the rebels did, so he had to think of other ways...
In a word, although nobles always look down on merchants, they always have inextricable relationships with merchants.
Even for a person like Wen Yanbo, if you ask him if the Jinyang Wen family is running some industries, he will definitely not deny it.
It’s just that it has not yet developed to the stage of integrating government and business.
Nowadays, most of the industries that nobles are willing to get involved in are serious businesses such as food, calligraphy and painting, leather goods, timber, and curios.
They will not easily get involved in industries that are prone to disputes and affect reputation, such as brothels, fighting venues, human trafficking, house rentals, loans, and pawns. The face of nobles is still very valuable, and they will not give it to you easily.
Of course, when they get really shameless, there's nothing you can do about it...
Selling an official position is the most profitable business in the world. Look at the famous tycoons in the late Sui Dynasty. Isn't this how they were able to dominate the world?
Selling officials and conferring titles is a phenomenon that occurs at the end of every dynasty. Why? Because the treasury is empty, and the last thing in hand must be sold to survive.
Once this phenomenon occurs on a large scale, it will inevitably be a chaotic chaos, and no one can control the situation.
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This is what Gao Jifu's heart is excited about. A trade route leading to Supi has obvious appeal to the world, and he knows its value better than Cheng Dabeard.
With the opening of trade routes, it can gradually influence the other party's politics and even military affairs. When the time comes, will the Gao family have more say in the Tang Dynasty?
Is this kind of operation very familiar? Yes, if Li Po were here, he would first think of the scene when he saw the Jinyang Wang family's caravan when he was in Yunnei.
The only difference is who is more powerful. The Wang family of Jinyang secretly organized caravans to trade with the Turks. At that time, it was an act of communicating with foreign enemies.
As for the trade between Datang and Supi, Datang would undoubtedly be the stronger one, so caravans would become a good helper for Datang...
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"Brother, do you really want to go into business? That's a big deal..." Gao Jifu joked with Cheng Dabeard, but he had already made seventeen or eighty crooked ideas in his mind.
What he does as a censor is truly called Qucai.
Cheng Dabeard drank a glass of wine, "Isn't there no other way? If Shiro can show me a clear path so that I can live peacefully in Chang'an for a few years, then he will be willing to bargain with others."
Yes, Gao Jifu knew that he was overthinking. The man in front of him was a former Shandong gangster, and the business he was most willing to do was definitely the business of breaking the road.
"It's not that there is no way, but my brother has just made a great contribution, has he thought about this choice?
That was the achievement of destroying the country. In addition, the leader of the country was killed, and the elder brother was an envoy to Tibet. In terms of merit, even if the elder brother was not the first one, it was not much different.
The reward from the imperial court will definitely be very heavy. Your Majesty has heard personally that it is not an exaggeration to reward him from the palace, but my brother wants to avoid it, so why not?"