Chapter 2355: New Items at the Port and Prices

Bang, whoosh, boom! Crack! As the fleet approached, both sides began to signal with flags.

Someone on the shore asked Lan Bao if anyone was in trouble, and Lan Bao replied that everyone had returned, not one was missing.

The good news spread, and fireworks were set off at the dock to celebrate.

The people selling snacks moved their stalls over, set up tables and stools, and those who made wontons made wontons, those who made dumplings made dumplings, and those who made noodles made noodles...

Everyone waited for the people who came back to eat after getting off the boat, and they could eat whatever they wanted.

On the dock extending from the dock, someone was ready to connect the rope to fix the boat at any time, and the people who carried the work checked the wheels of the rail car.

The first boat came close, and the people on it threw down the rope, and the people below quickly wrapped it around the mooring pole.

As soon as the boat stopped, a row of gangplanks were put up.

The people on the boat got off the boat one after another, leaving their things behind, and asked others to go on board to check and then carry them down.

The child appeared with a basin of water, and the children next to him provided soap and towels.

"Let's go eat first." The people on the shore called out, and the crew members went to find stools to sit on.

Someone brought Lan Bao a telephone with a telephone line: "Lan Bao, call Luoyang, I'll call your number."

"What is this?" Lan Bao had never seen it before.

"It's used to talk to Luoyang, look at me!" The person who handed the phone shook it, and it was connected!

Soon the other side answered: "Haizhou Dongdong, answer..."

"Got it, connected, let's talk!" The other party didn't need him to call the number, and directly transferred it.

"I'm Li Yi, Lan Bao came ashore?" Li Yi's voice came out, and there was a lot of noise.

Lan Bao was startled, and after confirming that it was Li Yi's voice, he looked with wide eyes.

"I came up, just sat down, I'll give it to him." The person handed the phone to Lan Bao.

Lan Bao imitated the other person's behavior, putting one end next to his ear and the other end next to his mouth.

"Master Li, I'm Lan Bao, how are my mother and sister-in-law?" Lan Bao's voice trembled.

"Everything is fine. We are in Luoyang. They will come together. You can talk to them alone later. We are flying kites now. Oh! Remember to ask your majesty how he is next time."

Li Yi made a joke. When others miss their families, they will naturally ask about the situation at home first.

"Yes, is your majesty well?" Lan Bao asked hurriedly.

"I am fine. I am next to you. I am talking to you. Third brother, I am looking for you." This sentence came from the phone.

"Lan Bao, are there any injuries to the crew?" Li Longji's voice appeared.

"No one died. The injuries were minor, such as scratches and small cuts.

Your majesty, we brought back a lot of gold ingots, silver ingots, copper ingots, spring deer antlers, pearls, corals, dried abalone, dried kelp, seaweed, fish maw..."

Lan Bao reported and told your majesty what we had gained.

Among them, there are many seafoods. All the selected parts are preserved, otherwise Datang can also catch them by itself.

Li Longji listened patiently. He did not have a phone and spoke to the little robot.

The little robot played the sound out loud, and a group of people around listened.

Bi Gou was the most excited. Money, all money!

He even forgot the name of this team: the Tang Dynasty Royal Overseas Enlightenment Group.

The money was not his, it belonged to Li Longji. The Li family farm had dividends, and Lan Bao could get a small part.

"Let's eat first. After dinner, take the train home in the evening. I will welcome you all."

Li Longji said calmly after listening to Lan Bao's report.

Lan Bao heard it, greeted again, and handed the phone to the person next to him.

The person next to him took it and listened. When there was no movement, he put it down, otherwise he had to wait for the other party to finish first.

The rules of officialdom and workplace, the leader does not hang up first, you hang up first? Then you hang up.

"What does Lan Bao want to eat?" asked the person next to him.

"He Zi, what do you want to eat?" Lan Bao asked his Japanese wife.

"Dumplings, I see dumplings." Nan Tian He Zi pointed to the place where dumplings were cooked.

"Okay, give He Zi a plate of dumplings, and I'll have a bowl of noodles. I want wide noodles and more sauce."

Lan Bao doesn't want to eat dumplings, noodles are best.

Others brought a bunch of side dishes and placed them on the table.

The people over there stretched the wide noodles and put them in the pot to cook. A large bowl with a diameter of more than 30 cm was prepared. First, scooped up the sauce, one spoonful after another.

Then scooped the bone soup from the soup pot next to it and poured it into the bowl. The noodles boiled and cooked, then scooped them out and put them in the bowl. Grabbed a handful of chopped green onions and coriander, and scooped up a few spoonfuls of the sauce.

Lan Bao stirred it with chopsticks, and his mouth leaned forward. Just as he was about to eat, he stopped.

He held the bowl in one hand and the chopsticks in the other, stood up from his seat, raised his foot and stepped on the stool, followed by the other foot, and squatted down. Hey! That's right!

As for why he didn't squat on the ground, it was because the side dishes were on the table.

Just like eating on the big kang in Northeast China, you need to sit cross-legged.

When the child finished the plate, his neck was at the edge of the table, too short, so he had to kneel to eat. Eating a meal made his knees hurt.

It would be a very happy thing if there was a small mat, and it wouldn't hurt to kneel on it.

Many people followed his attitude and didn't squat to eat dumplings.

"Xiao Yi, this time we make money again." Bi Gou was still eating slowly, finally taking a break.

"The money from the Japanese trade has nothing to do with the court. The Royal Overseas Grace is a team specially established by His Majesty to benefit the Japanese people."

Li Yi reminded Bi Gou not to think too much, otherwise he would lose a lot.

"Does Grace mean no money?" Bi Gou picked on the words.

"Yes, no money, they are all goods, if we don't sell them, how can we make money?" Li Yi gave another explanation.

"Don't sell seafood either?" Bi Gou wanted to find a breakthrough point.

"Zhuangzi eats seafood himself, fish maw and other things are used as medicine, pearls are also used as medicine, has Li's Zhuangzi ever sold medicine?"

Li Yi wants to protect his own rights and interests. If he doesn't pay taxes, you wait for other overseas trade teams to come back and collect their taxes.

When Lan Bao went out, I gave him a set of exchange vouchers with a full face value of one million strings of cash.

The money was used to buy things from Lan Bao's father-in-law's family, and the extra food he brought was not counted.

"Thirty ships, can the goods in one ship be worth ten thousand strings of cash?"

Bi Gou didn't want to take the money, he just wanted to know the trade income with Japan.

"How is it possible?" Li Yi shook his head.

"Oh! Alas!" Bi Gou couldn't tell whether he was happy or sad.

If he said he was happy, it was right. He didn't get it, and His Majesty and Li Yi got less, so he was in a good mood.

It's okay to say he was sad. Who cares who gets it? The more the better, anyway, the meat is rotten in the pot.

"I dispatched the Imperial Guards, the Tang Navy, and 30 large ships. If one ship does not bring me back 100,000 strings of cash, I will feel like I have lost out."

Li Yi continued, 30 large ships, and the goods from Japan are cheap.

At present, Japan lacks food, and many people eat grass roots. Fortunately, there are a lot of grasses and wild vegetables in normal days.

It would be cold in Hokkaido, and it snows heavily in places with high latitudes in winter.

Bi Gou: "..."

Is this what you mean? Three million strings of cash? How much fiscal revenue can there be this year?

Arrange some people and 30 ships to go out for more than a year, and come back with that much money?