Three hundred and fiftieth chapters left to buy road money
Only rich people can afford Tang Dynasty pepper. It may be an exaggeration to say that one tael of pepper costs one tael of gold, but half a tael of pepper is definitely more than that.
At this time, pepper was all imported, and the money of the Tang Dynasty people was actually not as profitable as that of the Europeans (the aristocrats in Europe were stupid and easy to fool with their money).
Seventy percent of the recipes of Europe's wealthy classes require pepper, and the amount required can be imagined.
Therefore, those merchants from the Western Regions preferred to sell the pepper bought from Southeast Asia to European countries, and very few of them could enter the Datang market.
Things are more valuable when they are scarce, so it is no wonder that pepper was not more expensive in the Tang Dynasty.
Lin Wanwan spent 39,000 yuan to buy a ton of pepper in modern times, which was nearly a ton of gold in the Tang Dynasty.
She wanted to stop moving pepper secretly in the future and give her own pepper a clear path.
As for revealing your money? There is no need to worry about it at all!
Originally, she, the Lord of Le'an Township, was famous as a local tycoon in Luan County. The poor old nobles despised her lack of rules when she came from a poor family (the number of slaves in the house alone was enough for them to despise), and at the same time they secretly envied her.
Dunton gold (pepper is about equal to gold).
Lin Wanwan has the dual identity of the township monarch and Xiao Chong's cousin. As long as Xiao Chong is in Luan County for a day, basically no one dares to mess with her without a discerning eye.
When Xiao Chong was promoted and left, Lin Wanwan believed that she had definitely promoted Linjiazhuang and the villages surrounding Linjiazhuang.
At that time, everyone will become a new force of country gentry. If the new county magistrate comes and does not have enough background, he may not dare to offend them.
When picking up the ship, Huanong told the other party that they would pay it in pepper, and Lu Ping naturally agreed.
Pepper is not easy to come by these days. Every time businessmen from the Western Regions come here, they can only bring a small quantity. It is one of the items that is difficult to buy even if you have money.
Even in the Song Dynasty, Guangzhou only had to pay an annual tribute of fifty kilograms of pepper to the court. Later, the emperor felt that this burden was too heavy and reduced it to twenty kilograms.
The Prime Minister Yuan Zai of the Tang Dynasty embezzled 800 stone pepper (equivalent to 64 tons), which directly shattered the emperor's view of wealth. The emperor himself could not get so much pepper!
The emperor was so angry that he dug up all the Yuan family's ancestral graves and killed all his descendants.
It can be seen that to everyone in the Tang Dynasty, pepper is equivalent to the meaning of today's soft sister currency to modern people. It is impossible for anyone not to love it!
By giving this batch of pepper to his master, Lu Ping would definitely get praise. Why would he not be happy about it?
Lin Wanwan exchanged thirty-five kilograms of pepper for a big ship, and she was in a very good mood.
Both the buyer and the seller feel that they have made a profit, and the transaction is successful.
When everything went smoothly, he encountered obstacles when he asked Lifu to move the cargo to the ship.
A group of bullies blocked the door of the warehouse and extorted 20 bolts of silk and 20 kilograms of pepper from Lin Wanwan for delivery fees.
The bully at the head is Fu Ergou from the East Pier, known as Fu Erye in the world.
Not to mention that Lin Wanwan is a fifth-grade country prince, so they don't dare to offend her, she doesn't exist.
Lin Wanwan only took a Kunlun and a Huanong with her when she went out, which was nothing fancy.
Although Kunlun learned a few martial arts moves from the bearded man of Xiao Yixun's family, and his big size could at least intimidate many people, Huanong was completely a match.
Among the noble ladies of the Tang Dynasty, there was no one with a smaller appearance than Lin Wanwan, the lady of Le'an Township.
Without the support of your servants, who would take you seriously as a country king with no real power?
An official without strength is just a mascot. Not to mention a township monarch who is in vain, a county magistrate who cannot compete with the local gentry can only be used as a puppet.
What's more, Lin Wanwan, the Lord of Le'an Township, is not a local, just a passing Bodhisattva.
Although there were delinquents on the dock to keep order, Huanong quietly told Lin Wanwan that in the lobby of the hotel a few days ago, she saw with her own eyes the delinquents who managed the dock and the bullies blocking the door in front of her, drinking like brothers.
Have fun.
This kind of thing is actually quite normal. It has happened since ancient times. Lin Wanwan is not surprised.
In fact, with Lin Wanwan's financial resources, she doesn't care about the extortion money. It's just twenty bolts of silk and twenty pounds of pepper, and she has plenty in her warehouse.
Although a piece of silk from the Tang Dynasty is slightly different from a modern piece, it is not very big. Twenty pieces of silk are approximately equal to twenty pieces of modern silk and satin. There is a difference in weight. The Tang Dynasty uses hexadecimal system, and one pound is sixteen
Two, which means that twenty kilograms of pepper is equivalent to thirty-two kilograms of modern pepper.
In the Tang Dynasty, this was a huge sum of money, more than half the value of a new ship, but Lin Wanwan bought it from Hyundai, and it only cost this much.
But why?
She has already reached the fifth level, how can she still be manipulated by a dock bully?
The laborers were all trying to persuade me, saying that this was the rule of the dock here. There were no excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes from the government, and there were no fees from the local people. It was nothing to just pay some fees to the local snakes.
Spend money to buy safety, the most important thing is to move the goods from the warehouse to the ship smoothly.
What's more, everyone vaguely hinted that this was actually the port fee paid to the dock by passing ships. Although the charges were a bit harsh this time, it was also because Lin Wanwan's wealth was exposed.
Huanong, through Yaren, had acquired a new ship from the Lu family's fleet at a price far higher than the market price. It had already spread throughout the black and white circles in the past two days.
"Madam, go and tell your master not to go against Fu Er. If you don't give him this money, it will be difficult for your cargo to return to Luan County smoothly." A Lifu whispered to Huanong.
Two sentences.
Huanong actually had the same idea in his mind. The situation was stronger than the people. People who live near the sea are generally not good people, because the sea can really bury all sins.
Her wife is such a noble person, it is not worth getting into a conflict with the bullies at the dock and putting herself in danger over such a thing.
"Madam, why don't we give it to them first, and then when we return to Linjiazhuang, we can sue them severely to the government?"
Lin Wanwan shook her head, she was unwilling to give in.
The main reason is that she is bullied because of her kindness. With the financial resources she has shown now, if she is soft, it will be impossible for her to return to Luan County safely.
How could sharks that smell blood not gather together?
Lin Wanwan whispered a few words to Huanong, and then asked her to take her jade token and quietly withdraw.
Huanong can only be a burden to Lin Wanwan here, so it is better to let her go out and shake people off during the chaos.
Lin Wanwan gave orders to Huanong and then made a gesture towards Kunlun.
As expected, Kunlun rushed into the gang and killed everyone without saying a word.
He was already a tall man with amazing strength. After learning a few martial arts moves from Xiao Yixun's bearded man, his attack power became even more ferocious, far beyond that of the slender dock gangster.
However, there are many people on the other side. It is said that two fists are difficult to defeat with four legs. Kunlun rushed into the group of gangsters alone and wanted to make the gangsters retreat in the face of difficulties, but it was impossible. The most he could do was create a melee.
Huanong took advantage of a group of people to get into a fierce fight, got on his horse, and dashed off with his horse.