Chapter 102

Liu Yuanqiao listened to song's advice and sent a sum of money to Beijing to let Zhang Fengyi come out to resolve the contradiction between him and Liu Zeqing.

Liu Yuanqiao knows that it can't be changed. The other party has an eye on the wealth of their Liu family, which is equivalent to a wolf staring at a piece of fat meat. How can they let go easily? Now they do so, that is, they can temporarily alleviate the aggressive trend of the other party and strive for time for them.

Liu Yuanqiao also saw that the situation in Linqing is not good now. The biggest problem is that there are a large number of refugees pouring into Linqing, which worsens the public security here. Everyone has a headache. He knows that it is deteriorating here. Therefore, he heard that Liu Bu is doing quite well at home, so he decided to send his mother and some of his family members back to Fushan's hometown.

Liu Yuanqiao could not help but sigh that the Liu family was in Linqing. Such a huge force felt that it could not protect the integrity of their family. On the contrary, the piece at home was made into an iron bucket, so he wanted to send his mother and daughters back to his hometown.

The excuse was to offer sacrifices to the ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival. He decided to let my mother go home. After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, he let her stay in Fushan and don't come out again for the time being.

At least wait until things get better here.

Liu Yuanqiao was also afraid of any problems on the road, so he asked 50 armed servants to escort them. At the same time, he also sent an express letter to his family and asked Liu Bu to send someone to pick them up.

Liu Bu now actually controls Fushan and Jimo camp city. As long as they get to Jimo camp city, they are safe.

Although Liu Yuanshan is the commander of aoshanwei, everyone knows that aoshanwei is empty. Even Jimo camp is empty. Only hundreds of Liu family members can really fight. They have these family members, which means they actually control this area.

The Liu family has food and materials to and from Linqing and Fushan every day, so Liu Bu received the information early in the morning. He knew that his father was going to send his grandmother back to the countryside. He also thought it was a good choice, so he sent Liu Zhongyong to escort him with cavalry and guards.

Liu Bu is staying at Fushan now. Originally, he just wanted to come back for vacation, but he found that he had more problems to deal with.

However, he has also dealt with many problems, such as upgrading their private salt business. More importantly, he has found three artifacts: corn, potato and sweet potato. Now he has forcibly ordered them to cultivate in Fushan, hoping to plant something before the heavy snow.

And now there is a problem, that is, the environment and climate are extremely poor. If it is not so cold in previous years, they can start planting in mid August and get a good harvest before the heavy snow in December. However, if it snows only in September and October, their efforts are estimated to be in vain.

So now Liu Bu is also lamenting that although they have worked hard to cultivate the land, whether there is a harvest depends on the meaning of the Lord. If the snow comes late, they can get some harvest. If the snow comes early, it is estimated that their seedlings have just grown and will be frozen to death.

This is the situation that they see the day to eat, which makes Liu Bu feel very helpless.

It's not easy for people to survive between heaven and earth. Especially now it's the little ice age. The current climate is very extreme. It's either drought or flood, drought, odd heat or odd cold. It's especially cold in winter and hot in summer. The important thing is that summer is short and winter is long, which has a great impact on their farming.

Farmers' farming has been greatly affected, but the tax collected by the imperial court will not be relaxed at all.

After Liu Bu ordered the people of the Weisuo around Fushan to cultivate three things with all their strength, he supervised their transformation of the salt plant. They would buy a large number of distillation and purification equipment (in short, tile jar and filter cloth) to purify the crude salt and sell it after finishing. This would improve their salt to a higher quality level and sell it at a good price.

Liu Bu didn't know. He was shocked. He knew that their Liu family had their own caravan. Their own caravan would transfer some goods to Mongolia. They would transport salt, tea, leaves, wine, iron pot, silk, cloth and needles to the grassland, and then transport cattle, sheep, horses and leather goods back from the grassland to make a profit, It can be said that the business of their Liu family is diversified, and they do not put their eggs in one basket. If they are modern, they are a diversified group company.

Liu Yuanqiao is the top leader of this diversified large family enterprise. With his position as deputy head of Linqing customs, he got a lot of goods. After sorting out the benefit distribution of the checkpoints all the way, he let their caravans in and out unimpeded and walked between the northern provinces.

Their caravan has made a lot of money for the Liu family, which is the reputation of Linqing Liu family.

Instead of other people's naive thinking, the Liu family just became the deputy head of tax, and then embezzled so much money by corruption.

Liu Bu found that there was also a winery in his home. Their wineries were among the best in Laizhou Prefecture, but the wine they made was just ordinary wine. Therefore, Liu Bu made great prestige again and put forward the concept of distilled wine.

After they boiled the wine, they distilled and purified it again to make higher purity wine.

Like the wine they made in the past, it is generally only about 20 degrees. If the product is good, it can be raised to 30 degrees and 40 degrees. This is even a strong wine. It is a very good wine. However, through the idea of Liu Bu, they can purify and distill the wine with a new method, which can raise the wine to 50 degrees and 60 degrees. Only a wine of 50 degrees and 60 degrees can be called a strong wine, and its aroma, purity The taste is also better than before, which is an upgrade of the product.

Liu Fuqi is in charge of all the family businesses around here. He is very impressed that the Liu family can produce such good wine. In the past, the Liu family did all kinds of business, but they didn't do well. For example, their wine, their own winery, although it is the largest winery, produced wine, that is, ordinary drinks, General goods.

They have no ability to compete with Shanxi Fen Liquor in terms of quality for the high-end market, but they have an advantage that they have a large output and can use the advantage of quantity over each other's quality. However, now they improve the purity of the liquor through distillation and purification, and they can also produce high-purity spirits, which means that they can also compete for the high-end market.

The imperial court also specializes in liquor, and the liquor industry is also a profiteering industry. They can produce such good quality spirits, so they don't have to worry about the market. This is also a good way of income.

In the cold winter in the north, wine is the best thing. If you can drink one mouthful of wine and warm up your body when it is cold, there is nothing better than this, especially the Mongols in the grassland. It is said that the Mongols have special good wine. How good is their good wine? They can directly exchange their wife for a jar of wine.

Liu's caravans also secretly do such shady trade and activities. They sell salt, tea, wine, small pots, cloth, silk and other things to Mongolia, and then exchange them for things to make huge profits.

Liu Bu was a little startled when he saw this. He began to understand why the Liu family had to train servants. These businesses they did were basically gray and crossed the line. If the imperial court knew, it would be the end of copying the family.

Liu Bu said, "we dare to do everything in our family, but isn't it illegal to do business with the Mongols?"

Liu Fuqi said, "is it illegal? Everyone is doing this. Not only do we do this, but the eight major commercial firms in Shanxi are bigger. They can only earn money by trafficking things to Mongolia or further foreign League.

Liu Buhe said: "Mongolia is weak now. We can still transport things, but there is a bottom line. Our goods must not be transported to JianNu outside the pass. JianNu is our great enemy of life and death. We can't earn this black money."

Liu Fuqi said, "JianNu's market is not what you want to do. It has already been covered by the eight major commercial firms in Shanxi. Now they are operating an iron lock across the river and can't splash water. We can't get in if we want to intervene. Now they are real Jinshan and Yinshan, which is richer than our Liu family."

Liu Bu thought that the so-called eight families should be the tortoise bastards who sold materials to JianNu from the eight emperors and merchants in history. They sent the materials needed by JianNu to JianNu when Daming was in danger, helped each other's strength and made great contributions to the destruction of Daming.

Liu Bu asked him, "the eight major commercial firms sent their materials to JianNu. Isn't this the crime of Tongfan? He won't interfere with the imperial court?"

Liu Fuqi said to him, "this is the most profitable way to make money now. People have opened up the relationship with the imperial court. Otherwise, how can they do this business."

Liu Bu said, "I don't care how profitable this road is. Anyway, there is a dead rule, that is, you can't do business with JianNu, that is, you can't do business in any form, that is, the other party can't exchange gold and silver for sand, otherwise you'll be sorry for your ancestors and the dead soldiers and civilians in Liao town."

Liu Fuqi thought for a moment. He said, "it's OK!"

Liu Bu asked him, "what does that mean?"

Liu Fuqi: "originally, we were also preparing to open up the market of Liaozhen town. Since our salt and wine upgrading can make a larger market, we won't do the market of Liaozhen town."