"Why are you looking for me in this matter?" Gao Jifu looked at Li Tai and said slowly, "The King of Yan has a foundation in Youzhou!"
To be honest, how long has Li Tai been to Youzhou for a long time to build a salt field first, and then induce Youzhou Family to invest in the Grass Plan. Now it has begun to build Tianjin City, which can accommodate 100,000 people.
These things are not like those without foundations that can be done.
Obviously, Li Tai has good connections in Youzhou, or has laid a lot of initiatives.
Such connections may not be able to help you in time, but you definitely don’t mind adding icing on the cake.
Therefore, it is quite unreasonable for Li Tai to come to him, because it is more appropriate to find the wealthy people in Youzhou in such a matter of selling food.
"I just came to Youzhou and had no savings, so I could only buy food with money!" Li Tai looked at Gao Jifu and said,
"If you go directly to the public to collect grain, it will lead to a passive increase in Youzhou's grain prices.
This is not a good thing. It is just a guarantee from Gao Changshi, or notify the Youzhou family, or look for other food, and serve as an intermediary to help buy and sell food."
"It seems that the King of Yan can do it well without me!" Gao Jifu said slowly when he heard Li Tai's words.
"But only can we show public enthusiasm if the court participates in this matter and Gao Changshi gives this testimony, right?"
Li Tai looked directly at Gao Jifu, but he didn't see Li Tai dodging at all, but instead replied,
"After all, we have only been in this Youzhou for a hundred days, so I hope to get along well with Gao Changshi.
So if I can do something, try to be in the presence of Gao Changshi to show my innocence, so that Gao Changshi can see it clearly!”
When Gao Jifu heard Li Tai's words, his face did not change at all, but his heart was thrilled.
Gao Jifu himself is responsible for monitoring Li Tai, and even the prince’s subordinates who are conferred the title whenever they go out are all people monitoring the royal palace.
However, Li Tai is the governor of Youzhou and Gao Jifu is the governor of Youzhou. Although his responsibilities are different from those of the governor of the royal palace, his actual tasks are still similar.
Gao Jifu narrowed his eyes and said, "How much food does the Yan King need about it? I'll contact the Youzhou family."
"At least 100,000 people are enough to eat the food for the past year. I wonder how many trucks of brocade I have left, and whether it is enough to eat it!" Li Tai said.
"Do you need so much?" Gao Jifu said in surprise, "The Tianjin town of King Yan has a population of nearly 10,000.
Although some of them were brought by the King of Yan, more of them were alien races.
King Yan, you also understand that if there are too many alien races, they will be in a state of being too big.
If you want Tianjin to have a population of more than 100,000, it will take ten or even twenty years!"
"Any plan is established, and no plan is abandoned!" Li Tai shook his head and said,
"Since you build this city with a population of 100,000, there will naturally be a way for people to come.
In comparison, I just hope you can come forward and help me contact the Youzhou family to do this business, are you willing or not?"
Gao Jifu frowned slightly, but couldn't figure out what Li Tai wanted to do.
But Gao Jifu understood that Li Tai asked him to come forward to invite those Youzhou families to do this business. As long as the business can be successfully completed, it will definitely increase his influence in Youzhou. This pair of high-ranking officials who have been airborne over
It's really important.
For Gao Jifu, he naturally wants to achieve something, and if he wants to achieve something, he needs the support of the wealthy families in Gaoling.
The airborne officials wanted to drive local wealthy families to do things, but what is more conscientious is to support a group of people to attack another group of wealthy families.
Those who are not more righteous will directly make the people into dishes, making the local wealthy families feel full of oil.
Of course, there are also powerful officials like Zhidu who can kill Hai Qinghe Yan, but this kind of person is basically unseen after the Western Han Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Tai asked Gao Jifu to be the intermediary, so that Gao Jifu gained a lot of reputation and facilitated his future work in Youzhou.
"I agree to this matter. After the autumnal equinox, I will invite the Youzhou family in Youzhou City to see if they are interested in this transaction. Don't break the trust of the King of Yan at that time!"
Gao Jifu thought about it over and over again, but felt that he was just an intermediary, so there was no problem here.
So Gao Jifu agreed to this matter.
"This is what people say, no one can stand without trust, not to mention that this matter is related to the foundation of Tianjin City. How can I break my trust?" Li Tai replied.
Gao Jifu still trusts Li Tai's reputation. After all, he has worked with so many aristocratic families in Chang'an, so how could he suddenly change his mind now?
Compared to this, Gao Jifu is more curious about whether he accepts the kindness Li Tai gave him? Or accepts it? Or accepts it!
After the two sides had finished talking about this, Bai He looked at Li Tai with a little confusion and said,
"Gao Changshi clearly means monitoring the king. Why should the king be so friendly to him and help him gain a foothold in Youzhou?"
"I have no grudges and grudges with him. What's the problem with helping him gain a foothold in Youzhou!" Li Tai smiled and said,
"As for his surveillance of me, this is both a duty to the court and a restraining force on me.
Although I feel a little annoying, I understand this behavior.
Otherwise, I, the King of Yan, will be lawless in the border areas, and who will stop me?"
"The king is wise!" Bai He heard Li Tai's words and saluted to Li Tai.
"Part these things out, write a memorial, and after reading them, send them to Aye.
After all, when purchasing so much food, I would like to inform Aye about it." Li Tai said calmly.
Bai He nodded, although he was also puzzled why Li Tai insisted on transferring through Gao Jifu.
But after following Li Tai for a long time, Bai He would not ask about these things again.
Because Bai He believes that Li Tai’s choice must be correct.
Just as Li Tai and Gao Jifu were discussing purchasing grain, Japanese envoys sent to Tang also saw the Jinkou where Gaoling was being built.
"Like Gaoling, the people here, even if they are not Tang people, appear very energetic under the rule of the King of Yan!"
Inugumi Mida-sei looked at the busy people in front of him and immediately expressed his opinion.
As far as you look, some people commanded and shouted on the dock, some people carried wooden boards to bind on the dock, and many people were holding bamboo poles in their hands measuring the depth of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. Some blocked areas immediately called people to clear the
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All of this was arranged in an orderly manner, as if a commander was placing troops and everything was under control.
"This is the charm of King Yan!" Pharmacist Huiri sighed as he looked at this scene.
"It's a pity that we didn't have the opportunity to enter the agricultural institution during the Tang Dynasty. If the Emperor sends a Tang envoy next time, some students should be allowed to enter the agricultural institution. Although the principles of sages are very wise, the proposals of the agricultural institution are very practical."
Inuka Mita Nod nodded. This time he came to Datang, he felt a sense of broadness and cheerfulness.
Only then did I realize that the world has such a powerful country and such a brilliant civilization. Compared with this, Japan is really too backward.
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Compared with the Japanese envoy sent the Tang Dynasty with a complicated mood and watching Tianjin City develop at a rapid pace, Gao Biaoren wrote the whole story of Li Tai's suggestion and sent it to Li Shimin.
I stayed in Youzhou for a while, waiting anxiously for the saint's reply.
However, when this reply came, the entire Tianjin-to-Toukou was completed by the corvee workers led by Wang Zhenru.
Although there are still some details that need to be arranged slowly, as long as the boats entering this section of the waterway will clearly feel that the waterway will not be blocked, and there will be no messy water plants on the waterway.
As for their stay in Tianjin City, they can enjoy a night in front of Youzhou City.
After Gao Biaoren received the imperial edict sent by Kuaima, Li Shimin agreed to the suggestion of visiting Goguryeo on the way, and at the same time, he sent the envoy Changsun Shi, who had been sent to Goguryeo for the last time, to ask Changsun Shi to negotiate with Goguryeo.
Although Goguryeo and the Tang Dynasty were not considered friendly countries, they would not kill the envoy and give the Tang Dynasty any excuses to send troops.
After all, Goguryeo was really scared by the speed of the Tang Dynasty's extermination of the Eastern Turks. Now they are gathering the power of the entire country to build the Great Wall on the border with the Tang Dynasty. At least they will not cause trouble before the Great Wall is built.
At the same time, Li Shimin asked Li Dejian, who was in Laizhou, to lead the navy to Youzhou to pick up Gao Biaoren on a mission to Japan.
At the same time, it also means to intimidate Goguryeo and explore the waterways along the way to prepare for possible future wars.
Speaking of which, Li Dejian originally took over Wei Xiaojie's arrangement, so the water camp of the Navy was in Youzhou at the beginning.
But later, in the process of cracking down on the pirates of the Bohai Sea, it was discovered that Dengzhou and Laizhou were more suitable for garrisons as naval bases, especially Jiaozhou Bay at the mouth of Gushui, which was almost a natural port. Li Dejian chose to relocate the naval tent on the spot.
However, this led to relatively weak defenses on the Bohai Sea, so Li Dejian wrote to the court to hope that the court could open a canal to communicate with the Yellow Sea. Li Dejian thought of taking water as the foundation, as long as the navy passed through Laizhou and directly arrived at the Bohai Sea from the Yellow Sea.
However, this report was not even discussed by the court, and Li Jing beaten back by himself.
This kind of brainless proposal has no value at all.
Although the distance is not as wide as the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, it is really not worth building such a canal for the convenience of naval driving.
The most important thing is that as a camp, your current camp is in Jiaozhou Bay, and as a naval camp, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
If Gushui can directly connect to the Bohai Sea, then the water army camp may not be safe.
So Li Dejian was severely scolded by Li Jing.
No matter what, Li Dejian was far away in Dengzhou, not Youzhou at this moment, so it would take some time to let him directly mobilize troops, so that Gao Biaoren and the Japanese envoys sent to Tang had to wait.
Waiting for Mid-Autumn Festival, Gao Jifu made an appointment with Li Tai for the families of all sizes in Youzhou and told them that Li Tai would buy a huge amount of food. If you are interested, you can come to the residence of the Youzhou Changshi to discuss the matter.
Faced with the invitation from Gao Jifu and Li Tai, all the invited families dared not come.
It is still the leader of the Lu family, Zu family and Wei family, and other small families in Youzhou follow these major families.
However, when Li Tai came in, he could clearly see that several local families in Youzhou had a small circle between each other, but the Wei family in Hedong could not get in the same circle with them.
However, they did not dare to offend the Wei family in Hedong too much, because Wei Xiaojie was the governor of Youzhou and the number one in the military.
With Li Tai's arrival, everyone's faces showed some solemnity.
Because everyone knows that this fight is about to begin, after all, everyone has invested a lot in the Grass Plan, either money or manpower.
Now, the autumn harvest is trying to exchange the grain in the warehouse for coins, which is the main thing for everyone.
As for what is still coins in this era, it is naturally cloth.
So Li Tai came to buy food this time, and for the noble families in Youzhou, they knew that selling it to Li Tai would be a little bit of a loss during this period.
But now, Li Tai is the only one who can carry out such a big business in Youzhou, and others cannot eat their food.
Li Tai said, "You have entrusted Gao Changshi to gather everyone together today because Youzhou is a bumper year and you have purchased a lot of food, so I plan to buy food directly from you.
The current market price is about four cents per dou. I don’t take advantage of you, so I will buy it forty-five cents per stone.
Whether it is corn, wheat or other grains, I will buy them as long as they can fill their stomachs or store them.
So those who are interested in staying for business can stay. If you think the price is a bit low, just leave.
By the way, the starting share is one thousand stones. If the number is too small, you can find someone to make up for it.
Otherwise, I will have to make change, which will feel very troublesome!"
Of course, since Li Tai said so, the small family present did not leave.
After all, no matter how small the aristocratic family is here, it is not difficult to take out 500 stones of food and find someone to get it together.
However, everyone was a little hesitant about the price. If it was said to be high, it would naturally not be considered high, but at least it was a little higher than the aristocratic families on the market today.
But earning so five cents more than one stone is also very unmotivated for these aristocratic families!
"Can the King of Yan raise the price to 60 cents per stone? My Lu family can provide 100,000 stones of grain!" Lu Chengji spoke.
"You are quite brave!" Li Tai glanced at Lu Chengji, and the others also looked at Li Tai with a little expectation.
Because at this time, they only had food left and other assets were invested in the "Seed Plan", so it would be good to be able to get a little more blood back now.
"Let me do this, with ten thousand stones as the boundary. For every ten thousand stones, I will pay an extra penny for each stone until fifty-five cents.
In other words, if you can provide me with 100,000 stones of food at one time, I will pay it at a price of fifty-five cents per stone.”
Li Tai looked at everyone and said,
"As for how you piece together, I don't care about how to share the money afterwards. I will only pay to those who deliver the food to Tianjin City in the end. What do you think!"
When everyone present heard Li Tai's words, excited expressions appeared on their faces.
The local Youzhou family praised Li Tai's wisdom and then began to form cliques and find ways to equalize the risks.
Although Li Tai also had a lot of premium, Li Tai wanted to take the food into his hands as soon as possible.
After all, insufficient grain reserves make Li Tai feel insecure.