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“When should I do it?”

"I always get after September, when autumn is high and horses are fat and the climate is cool, which is a good time to use troops."

The cool breeze was blowing, and in the manor, Li Chao and Li Simo played chess.

The checkers are played.

In fact, checkers also consider intelligence. You have to protect your nest from taking it too early, and you have to occupy it as soon as possible. And you have to seize the opportunity and jump through the checkers.

It is best to borrow the other party’s puppet instead of blindly building a springboard for yourself. You have to be careful not to let the other party borrow his own chess pieces as a springboard.

This is the same as chess and go. Although the rules are different, the core is still the same, fighting wits and courage.

In the afternoon, many clouds blew into the sky, casting a shadow on the manor and bringing some coolness to the manor.

There were noisy calls from outside, which were the calls of merchants in Fengzhou City. A river was separated by the border town of the Tang Dynasty. A large number of merchants and goods had just been transported into the city. Now, the Tang Dynasty, Li Dashui, reached an agreement with the Turkic Yusheshi, allowing merchants from both sides to enter and exit the other party's domestic trade freely.

As a result, many Han merchants also crossed the Tungenshui and came directly to Fengzhou City to buy goods, which made Fengzhou City more lively.

"I lost again, the prime minister is good at chess." Li Simo saw that he had three more chess pieces just out of the nest. Li Chao had already completed it, and he gave in without any need to smile.

"You are a novice, but you are already very powerful among novices."

"Will the Prime Minister leave Fengzhou this time and go back to Chang'an directly?"

"Well, my wife and concubines are about to give birth, and I always have to welcome a few little guys to the birth. Besides, we have to explain to His Majesty what we plan here in person."

Li Simo smiled, "I really want to go back to Chang'an with the Prime Minister."

"Next time, if this plan is successful, you will be able to enter Beijing next year."

Listening to the shouts of the businessmen outside, Li Simo sighed, "There is a war in autumn, and such a lively scene is probably no longer there."

"No, that's only temporary. If you don't break or build, maybe this prosperous trade scene will be interrupted for a while, but it will soon recover, or even better than the past."

"The Prime Minister is so confident that he can settle down quickly? I am afraid that once the war begins, there will be no peace in the grassland."

What Li Simo said naturally makes sense.

The Tang Dynasty had to support Yu Shishi against Jie Li on the surface, but also secretly supported Tuli. To put it bluntly, it was to disrupt the grassland. First defeat Jie Li, the strongest, and then there would be another battle between Tuli and Yu Shishi.

No matter who wins Yu She or Tuli, I am afraid that it will not be stable.

With Li Simo's understanding of Li Chao during this period, he would definitely secretly provoke the Khitan and the Tiel tribes took the opportunity to become independent. At that time, I am afraid that there will be no one on the grassland to call it Khan, and maybe they will also establish the Khitan Khanate, the Kumoxi Khanate, the Xueyantu Khanate, the Khibi Khanate, the Pugu Khanate, etc., and then there will be no other one to dominate.

If there were so many Khanate countries and Khans, naturally no one would dare to clamor with the Tang Dynasty, and would return to the situation during the Kaihuang period of the Sui Dynasty.

Of course, Li Chao was very happy to see many khanate establishments on the grassland, with many great khans. In this way, the Central Plains will be more beneficial, so that they can be separated from the weak, differentiated and won, and leveraged to fight against the strength.

Regarding the grassland, Li Chao's view is that using strong directly is not the best way.

According to Li Shimin and others' ideas, of course, they had to hold their ultimate moves at home. After saving enough money, training soldiers, and building weapons, they had to go north to find the Turks to make a comeback.

To let the Turks escape from the north of the Mo, they would cross the Yinshan Mountains south, and call them grandpa when they saw the Tang Dynasty, and even ask them to pay tribute every year to relieve their previous aggrievances.

However, Li Chao felt that this move was the routine of Emperor Wu of Han, who fought for force.

This kind of strong fight is too difficult and the cost is too high. In dealing with the grassland, it is still the routine of Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian. It is easy to use, differentiate and win over, combine the weak and get strong, fight one into two, and two into four, so that there will be no strong overlord on the grassland, and they will not be unified, so that they will always fight in the crowd and be powerless to the outside world.

If the Tang Dynasty wants to do it, it will be the referee, and there is no need to work hard to fight.

Let the Turks beat themselves, let Tiel, Khitan and others rise up to fight against the Turks, and let them make a pot of porridge. The Tang Dynasty could continue to trade with them, let them exchange captives, cattle and horses for tea and cloth.

It is just for the prisoners to be used to mine and build roads and dry salt.

However, it is not easy to do these things, but this idea is correct. It is always correct to set the direction first and then work towards the direction.

The focus is to continue burning the fire, let Yu Sheshe and Jie Li work together, and let Tu Li join in. The more people there are, the more lively it will be, and the more beautiful the show will be.

Of course, after Li Chao returned, he planned to have a good talk with Li Shimin and Fang Xuanling and the others, and also followed the Khitan and Tiel tribes to encourage them to rise up and overturn the Turkic mountains that were pressing on their heads.

If a war really happens, the grassland may be completely in chaos, and it may not be settled in several years. Although the border market that has just started to rise will not be closed, it will indeed be very affected.

Now there are at least a few million chunks of taxes a year, and businessmen have greater profits.

With so much loss, what do the guilds in the court think about it? It’s hard to say.

But we cannot ignore the longer-term overall situation for the sake of immediate benefits.

"The Prime Minister remember to get me a batch of tea, don't have more, just a few thousand pounds."

Li Simo is now in Cao's camp and in the heart of Han, or a spy. On the one hand, he is the special agent of the Turks, and on the other hand, he is the prince of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the identity of the Tang Dynasty is still invisible for the time being.

Li Simo also has a clan member. Since he can't go to the Tang Dynasty for the time being, of course he also wants to make some money.

"Not a few thousand kilograms of tea is worth a moment. Let's do this, I'll get you ten thousand kilograms." Li Chao said generously, "If you want wine, I can get you ten thousand kilograms. If you need it in the future, you can directly find Li Ji Trading Company."

The tea given to the Turks is the second most important brick tea. If this kind of tea is based on the current status of the Li family in the tea industry, the Li family’s newly launched tea classification should actually be considered black tea.

It turns out that all the teas from Tang people belong to black tea.

This kind of tea is fermented, but it is not a fully fermented tea like black tea. The biggest feature of black tea is that it is picked up along with branches and leaves, and after finishing, steaming, kneading, stacking, fermenting and other processes, it is finally pressed into tea bricks. After this tea becomes black, it is considered to be post-fermented tea. Of course, the process is not exactly the same. For example, some teas have to be smoked, and some teas are mainly tender buds.

The Li family has created fried tea now, which is a new leader in the tea industry.

The Li family has also launched many new tea varieties, and even launched new tea categories.

Traditional black tea, followed by white tea that is kept relatively natural, as well as slightly fermented yellow tea, semi-fermented oolong tea, also known as green tea, and fully fermented black tea and non-fermented green tea.

The main process of black tea should be steaming, while the tea making process introduced by the Li family is fried.

The five types of teas launched by the Li family are all fried teas, and they are mainly tender buds and tender tea leaves. After picking the tender buds and tender leaves, the thick branches and old leaves left behind were not wasted by the Li family. They directly used a knife to pick them with branches and leaves, and then steamed, kneaded, piled, dried, and pressed to make black tea, also commonly known as knife tea.

Therefore, the most popular tea bricks in foreign trade are actually the ingredients in tea.

Other green, red, yellow, white and green, although some are pressed into round cake shapes, but they are high-end teas and the methods are different.

Black tea is very cheap, and a little ruthless businessman, even the extremely old leaves and tea branches are cut and steamed.

Other teas may also say that the yield is limited, but this black tea really needs as much as it needs.

Especially traditional black tea is the most laborious because it is connected with branches and leaves. Now Li Chao directly makes a hydraulic rolling machine, which greatly improves efficiency and greatly increases the yield of black tea.

Although black tea is relatively rough, nomads do not drink tea.

They need to drink tea and balance it because of their unbalanced diet. Therefore, whether tea is good or bad is actually not the most important thing.

Only those nobles care about the meaning, whether it is good or bad, but they can buy expensive round tea and loose tea.

Getting 10,000 kilograms of black tea is really a trivial matter.

Only the Turks did not understand the types of tea and the grade of tea. They did not know that black tea was actually made of old tea leaves in tea branches.

"If you really want to make some money, I can give you more tea. If you have a way to sell it, I can directly ask the business to pull out 100,000 kilograms of tea bricks."

Black tea is almost not limited to the origin of tea trees, and tea trees in any place can be made into black tea.

There is no limit on the place of production or quantity. The only thing that is limited is the transportation capacity. It is not much for only 100,000 kilograms, but only a hundred kilograms per kilogram, but only a thousand kilograms. Li Ji's caravan can organize the transport of these tea from Guanzhong to Lingzhou at one time and then ship it over.

"One hundred thousand pieces of tea? There are so many fresh teas."

A piece of tea brick in Ningyuan is one pound, and if you change it to a piece of sheepskin. One hundred thousand pounds is equivalent to one hundred thousand sheepskin, or ten thousand sheeps, or two thousand horses, two thousand cows, or one thousand camels.

After all, with Li Simo's status and strength as a stamina, he will definitely be able to eat it.

"Of course there are so many. If you want, after the first batch of transactions, the second batch can be shipped to you immediately. I can even ask the store to give you a 100,000 kilograms of tea, only 9,800 sheepskins."

"Where is the wine?"

"It's the same. Whether it's wine, candy, iron pots, etc., if you want it, I'll ask the business to give you a 10% discount, which is easy to talk to."

Regarding Li Simo's nephew, or an insider, Li Chao doesn't mind giving him some benefits so that he can make a lot of money. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!