Chapter 1296 It is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, the ancients will not deceive Gu Mou
Chapter 1296 It’s easy to enjoy the shade under the big tree. The ancients never deceived Gu (please subscribe and vote)
Governor Gu couldn't help but feel happy when he saw Li Dabao pushing the wooden box in front of him with a smile.
"I said, brother Dabao, what are you doing? Maybe you have some difficulty, just speak up. Why did you and I have to be so pretentious before?"
Li Dabao laughed, patted the heavy wooden box and said.
"No, no, no, Grand Governor, this is not something else. This is the harvest of our pepper garden of the Han and Tang Dynasties. I specially sent you some for you to try."
"Is the pepper ready?" Governor Gu glanced at Li Dabao in front of him in astonishment, lowered his head and looked at the wooden box.
"Yes, after three years, we are finally seeing a harvest. However, this year's harvest is not very good. One acre of land can only produce about eighty kilograms of white pepper."
Gu Da slowly opened the wooden box, looked at the full amount of white pepper inside, and subconsciously closed the lid again.
I looked around nervously, but I had no choice but to come to Jiaozhou, a rough place like this, as a rough guy who was born into a rough old man in the military.
Bribery is a thing where you really don't get much, so you can easily get nervous.
Especially white pepper, a medicine and spice that is almost equivalent to gold in Chang'an.
Gu Da looked at the box full of white pepper again with some disbelief, and then murmured.
"Twenty kilograms... can you harvest eighty kilograms of white pepper from one acre of land?"
"That's right, by the way, your boss owns three shares in the Han-Tang Trading Company. This time, he can get about 4,616 kilograms of pepper."
"Li is here today. Firstly, he is going to give the Governor some home-grown pepper for you to taste. Why don't you come here?"
"Should the more than four thousand kilograms of pepper be sent directly to the Governor to Chang'an, or should it be stored here?"
Gu Da gritted his teeth, more than 4,600 kilograms of pepper, if it were in Chang'an, it would be tens of thousands of dollars in wealth.
Stay here? No, no, no, what are you doing with so much? You might as well send it back.
"Let's do this. I'll leave a small change, four thousand kilograms of pepper, and I'll ask you to help me send it back to Chang'an."
"My dear, your Han and Tang dynasties are really prosperous now..."
"What the Governor is saying is wrong. Don't forget that your boss is also a shareholder in the Han-Tang Commercial Bank. Therefore, it is our Han-Tang Commercial Bank that is right."
"Hahaha... Gu made a mistake, so Gu will punish himself with a drink."
Gu Da raised his neck and drained the wine in front of him in one gulp.
"Originally, I thought that those young people were making a fuss, that is, they were just fooling around, mainly because of the farm matter."
"I never expected that they actually grew pepper. Gu also knows a thing or two about the price of pepper in Chang'an.
Tens of thousands of acres of pepper are actually grown here. Even if I become an official in the future, I can still be a wealthy man safely."
"The Governor's words are wrong. We really hope that the Governor will stay in this position for a few more years."
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Hearing this, Gu Da couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"Sigh... Gu wants it too, but some people are not happy to let me stay here any longer."
Li Dabao smiled and stroked his long beard.
"Grand Governor, do you really think that those aristocratic families can really shake your position in Jiaozhou, Grand Governor?"
"Please just stay here safely, Grand Governor."
Gu Dajian raised his eyebrows, looked at Li Dabao, and asked seriously.
“Do you have any basis for what Brother Dabao said?”
"Grand Governor, please don't forget that behind the Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses are not only the martial arts families of the Tang Dynasty, but also His Majesty who has the final say."
"The Governor's memorial will be arriving in Chang'an soon, and the letters sent by the stewards to the princes of each family should be almost there..."
"Those aristocratic families only serve their own interests, but what the Governor considers is His Majesty's long-term strategic strategy for Jiaozhou, which can be seen at a glance."
"When I heard what you said, brother, Gu felt much more at ease."
"Nowadays, among the fields purchased by aristocratic families, several only plant a small amount of Sanjidan, while other fields are simply planted with nothing.
Alas... Gu and Deng Zhizhou discussed it many times, but there was nothing they could do."
"After all, as long as they can pay enough land taxes, I can't do anything to them."
"But there are also a few who have planted sugar cane..."
"Grand Governor, can't you see that? Most of the aristocratic families in Guanzhong and the Central Plains honestly follow your wishes, Grand Governor."
"The attitude of the Shandong aristocratic families is more ambiguous. Only those Jiangnan aristocratic families who are far away from the center..."
Even though there were only two of them in the room, the voices of the two talking became lower and lower.
Gu Da personally sent Li Dabao outside the house and watched as this old brother who had known each other for many years quickly left.
Then he wandered back into the room, picked up the wine bottle in front of him, shook it, and shouted unhappily.
He had someone bring a jug of fine wine, then he filled it up again and drank a glass happily.
He opened the heavy wooden box again, grabbed a handful of pepper, brought it to his nose and took a deep breath.
Gu Da somehow knew that no one in the Jiaozhou area had ever grown such a valuable spice as pepper.
At that time, I heard that these young people had set up some kind of Han and Tang Dynasty trading houses to engage in pepper cultivation, so I just thought it was just a bunch of young people fooling around.
The fundamental reason is that those powerful military officials of the Tang Dynasty took the opportunity to send people to Jiaozhou to purchase land on a large scale.
In addition, after the Han and Tang Dynasties Commercial Bank bought the 10,000 acres of forest, there had been no movement for several years. Gu Da was about to forget about it.
As a result, it was Li Dabao who sent the pepper today, and Governor Gu realized that growing pepper was really no joke.
My own son also owns three shares in this Han and Tang Dynasty trading company. Just three shares of 10% of the pepper production are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
When he thought about the future profits and dividends, Governor Gu couldn't help but drink another glass of wine.
With the Han and Tang dynasties, the martial arts families, and the strong backgrounds of the prince and princess involved.
As long as the Han and Tang dynasties were around, they could continue to make this money.
I heard that the Han and Tang dynasties were rewarded by His Majesty with hundreds of thousands of acres of wasteland in Liangzhou in the northwest to grow cotton to make white cloth.
Governor Gu was even more grateful, as he was somewhat unwilling to be assigned to serve in the Jiaozhou Governor's Mansion in the far south of the Tang Dynasty.
But fortunately, under Li Jing's persuasion, he gritted his teeth and traveled thousands of miles to get here.
I originally wanted to hang out here for a few years and then transfer to another place.
In the end, I didn't expect that just because I was in charge of the Jiaozhou Governor's Office, I would get the opportunity to join forces with the great martial arts masters of the Tang Dynasty to do big things.
He also became a shareholder of the Han-Tang Trading Company, which was bound to become the most wealthy businessman in the Tang Dynasty.
Thinking of this, Governor Gu grabbed a handful of peppers, let them fall back into the box from his fingers, and then sighed with satisfaction.
"It's good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. The ancients never deceived me."