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Chapter 74: Highland Barley Wine

Li Jing led a large army and left Tuyuhun and came to Songzhou. The army did not stop for a long time and continued to move forward. He wanted to rush back to Chang'an as soon as possible.

In the carriage, Li Jing drank dozens of cups of wine poured by the servant.

I think the taste of the wine is a little different from the one he used to drink, and it doesn’t matter at all if he drinks so much!

"What kind of wine is this? Why does it taste different from the fine wine in Zhongyuan!"

Li Jing asked the servants around him that this wine was not as sweet and mellow as rice wine, nor was it as sweet and sour as fruit wine, mellow and pure and without any odor.

The wine he drinks now has a refreshing and mellow fragrance, sweet and refreshing, no pain in his head and no thirst after drinking, and a unique flavor!

"Regent, this is the barley wine presented by the Tubo envoy!"

The attendant said respectfully.

"Oh! This is barley wine? No wonder it is different from my sweet wine in Central Plains!"

Li Jing smiled and said that a plan began to emerge in his mind. If it could be implemented successfully, it would be beneficial to controlling Tubo.

Barley is a plateau people and its main grain. The local output in Tubo was not very high. If it weren’t for the global warming, the yield of barley in Tubo would only be lower.

In addition to Tubo, Qinghai, Nanzhao, Shu, Ganzhou and Suzhou are rich in barley.

During Emperor Gaozong's reign, Tubo occupied the entire Qinghai and vigorously reclaimed fields in Qinghai to plant barley, which caused Tubo's barley income to increase several times.

The food problem of Tubo was completely solved, and Tubo also ushered in a prosperous population. Under the governance of Tubo, the territory controlled by Tubo, plus the Tubo local area, had a population of tens of millions, and the Tubo army even led one million.

However, the entire Qinghai is now in the Tang Dynasty, and the fields that Tubo has worked hard to reclaim will naturally belong to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing decided to buy a large amount of barley wine from Tubo and give a price higher than that of ordinary people. If he doesn't believe that the Tubo people will not be moved.

Greed is the original sin of man. As long as Tubo brews barley wine on a large scale, Tubo will collapse in less than a few years, and the Tang Dynasty can completely subdue Tubo without any force.

"You go and invite the Tubo envoy!"

Li Jing said to his attendant.

"Here!"

The attendant bowed and left the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, walked to the team of Tubo envoys, and asked the Tubo envoys to meet Li Jing.

A moment later, the attendant brought the Tubo envoy to Li Jing's carriage.

"Regent, Tubo envoy brought here!"

The attendant shouted inside.

"Come in!"

Li Jing's voice came from the carriage.

"Please, messenger! Don't forget to tell you what I told you. I'll see the Regent's rules, do you understand?"

The attendant turned around and instructed.

"I understand! I'm working hard!"

The Tubo envoy bowed slightly and said, "He understood that he had been with the Tang people these days. The Tang Dynasty used to have two emperors, one was the emperor in the court, and the other was the regent Li Jing.

"Tubo envoy Halu, pay homage to the Regent!"

After entering the carriage, the Tubo envoy immediately saluted Li Jing!

"The Tubo envoys do not need to be too polite, please sit down!"

Li Jing showed a kind expression and asked Haru to sit down politely.

"Thank you Regent!"

Haru thanked him and sat aside.

"I wonder what instructions the Regent asked for foreign ministers?"

"Is this the wine you offered?"

Li Jing pointed to the wine jar beside him and asked.

"That's right, this is a fine wine made from the high barley produced in Tubo. I don't know how it tastes like the Regent!"

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Seeing that Li Jing's face was a little unhappy, Haru hurriedly explained.

"So that's it. I'll let you go back to Tubo now and make it clear to your Zamp. The Tang Dynasty is willing to sell 800 citrus one bucket of barley wine and buy 100,000 buckets from Tubo every year!"

Li Jing smiled and asked Haru to go home, and immediately set off to greet the Tubo king.

"Yes, the foreign minister will go back to Tubo now, and will persuade Zanpu to sell the barley wine to the Tang Dynasty, and never invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the foreign minister will retreat!"

Haru hurriedly bowed and left, left the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, jogged back to his own team, and called his own people to return to Tubo to report this matter to the Tubo king.

The Tubo king was also very excited when he learned that the Tang Dynasty was willing to pay a high price and bought their barley wine!

Immediately summoned all the ministers to discuss whether to do business with the Tang Dynasty. When everyone heard a bucket of wine sold for 500 cigars, their breathing became much faster.

They didn't know that Li Jing's bid was 800 ci, but Haru had embezzled three hundred cigars with his conscience!

No matter where you are, there will be middlemen who make the difference.

Under Haru's strong persuasion, the Tubo king and ministers planned to do this deal with the Tang Dynasty, but Lun Qinling opposed it. Now Lun Qinling is thinking about preparing for war and fighting with the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the conflict between Lunqinling and everyone deepened. Everyone felt that if Lunqinling was killed, Tubo would not have a good life, and the Tubo king wanted to get rid of Lunqinling and get there!

These are all later stories, let’s go back to Li Jing.

Li Jing lifted up the curtains and looked at the back of the running Tubo envoy Haru, Li Jing's eyes were filled with joy!

I believe everyone knows that Li Jing is a pacifist and spares no effort to get along with his neighbors. He believes that Tubo will sooner or later understand his good intentions!

Li Jing’s purchase of Tubo’s barley wine at high prices can promote the development of Tubo’s wine industry and will be deeply trapped in Tubo… Oh no, it is a great benefit to moving towards a happy life!

The large-scale sale of barley wine in Tubo can make the Tubo wine industry prosperous and become a pillar industry in Tubo. In this way, the Tubo people will have a lot of funds, especially the Tubo nobles, who will become rich and rich!

With money in hand, naturally, buying and selling is indispensable and improving one's own living standards. Given the shortage of Tubo's supplies, Li Jing planned to sell the supplies from the Tang Dynasty to Tubo.

For example, high-end consumables such as glass, soap, and perfume can make money back from Tubo, and then, too high the food price to control the lifeline of Tubo.

Most people cannot understand such a way to enrich the fun of life for Tubo people!

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for achieving the achievement [No Bilian], a large gift box for the reward system."

Yoro!

Is there any serious illness in this system?

Since you dare to say that I don’t want Bilian?

For the sake of the big gift box, I won’t be able to tell you about breaking the system for the time being.

Li Jing decisively opened the big gift box.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 10,000 physical enhancement pills."

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 30,000 bullets and fifty boxes of grenades."

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining 30,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry."

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for obtaining general Mu Ying."

Yoyo!

Is this big gift box so powerful?
Chapter completed!
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