Chapter 2426: The Abundance of Resources Still Remembers the Rule of the Weak

The yacht returned with ten tons of green and ripe bananas, called plantains.

In addition, there were two tons of peppercorns, a full two tons!

"Owner, the first batch we picked when we went there was from nearby. We can't wait for those far away, so we have sent someone to send a message. We will bring them back together next time."

The farmer brought people to carry things and reported the situation after seeing Li Yi.

Li Longji and others were looking at the peppercorns next to him, grabbing a handful to look at and smell.

This thing is sold by gram, and pure pepper powder is about five coins per gram.

One ton is five million coins, and two tons is ten thousand coins.

Ten thousand coins is too little to build a railway, but it is too much for ordinary people.

The annual income of the Tang Dynasty was more than seven million coins, and a county actually did not reach a few thousand coins.

The farmer of Lijiazhuang said that he left too hastily, so he collected some nearby, two tons.

Wait until next time, will there be twenty tons?

How much is planted on the entire island where Qiongzhou is located? Can we harvest a thousand tons this year?

If possible, five million strings of cash, that's scary, right?

"Xiao Yi, these peppercorns look festive."

Bi Gou came to Li Yi with dozens of peppercorns in his palm.

"Pepper is medicine, we can't sell it so expensively to our own people, we are in the court."

Li Yi was also looking at the peppercorns, there were black peppercorns and a small amount of white peppercorns, and the price of white peppercorns was high.

When the peppercorns are immature, they are black peppercorns, and when they are mature, they are white peppercorns. White pepper powder is the peppercorns that are shelled and ground after they are mature.

Just like edamame and soybeans, green corn can be boiled and eaten, and the same is true for mature corn to make cornmeal.

Li Longji put down the pepper and looked at the farmer: "Is the yield high?"

"It can just be picked this year, about 50 kilograms per mu of land, it will increase next year, and more the year after.

Finally, it reaches the peak growth period, and continues to decline, and the new pepper trees reach the peak growth period again.

At the peak period, one mu of pepper can even pick more than 450 kilograms.

We planted a lot of them over there. In two years, everyone can eat pepper that is almost the same price as Sichuan pepper."

The farmer reported the situation. The first year of picking was small, and it will be better in the future.

"Good thing." Zhang Jiuling said: "The foreign merchants took away a lot of good things from the Tang Dynasty through the pepper trade. In the future, pepper and other crops that can be planted in the Tang Dynasty will not make money for the foreign merchants, and they need to exchange them for other commodities that the Tang Dynasty wants."

He knew what the customs, oh, called the foreign merchants from the Maritime Customs, sold.

The price of pepper was high, and the Tang Dynasty had to exchange it. The farmer said that one mu of this thing produced 50 kilograms, and more in the future, so it was calculated as 50 kilograms.

One kilogram in the Tang Dynasty was 640 grams, and 50 kilograms was exchanged for 5 coins per gram, 160 strings! All of them were earned by foreign merchants.

Even if the wholesale price is not so high, with taxes, foreign merchants can still take away 70 or 80 strings of cash for one mu of pepper.

Of course, the price of what the Tang Dynasty sold to them was several times higher.

Li Yi nodded: "Jiuling is right. In the future, we will not give foreign merchants a chance in terms of spices."

Bi Gou smacked his lips twice, slightly regretful.

He calculated that one mu is 400 jin, 10,000 mu is 4 million jin, 5 coins per gram, nearly 13 million strings of cash, so...

"Longze, wake up, if the yield per mu is really that much, why sell it at a high price?"

Li Longji guessed what Bi Gou was thinking about, and forgot about market economics?

Bi Gou lowered his head and muttered aggrievedly: "Chili, chili."

He said that Li's manor had planted a lot of chili peppers, in large patches, as far as the eye could see, and the army was guarding them.

What was sold was either chili powder that could not be planted, or chili oil that was made directly.

Why didn't anyone mention the market economy? Eh? That's right! Chili powder is taxed, and the export tax is even higher.

Thinking of this, Bi Gou looked up again and instantly recovered to full health.

Everyone looked at the pepper and was very happy. In the future, the Tang Dynasty would have more pepper powder for the people.

Besides, this thing is medicine, which can treat many diseases. The people need it and it is very cheap.

Then everyone looked at the bananas. Li Dan had only eaten banana slices, which were dry, and had never eaten real "fresh" bananas.

Li Yi broke off a banana that he picked at a deliberately controlled time and was just ready to eat when he came back, peeled it and gave it to Li Dan.

"Mu Laozhang, try it." After saying that, Li Yi suddenly ate it in a few seconds and broke another one for Li Dan.

"Why do you need bananas to poison me?"

Li Dan understood that the bananas had just arrived, and Xiao Yi ate them first to show that they were not poisonous.

Zhang Jiuling, Song Jing and other people who had been to Guangzhou picked ripe bananas for others to eat.

The other bananas were transported to the gas reservoir for storage. Everyone tasted 20,000 kilograms of bananas, and then hundreds of thousands of kilograms of bananas arrived.

The yacht refueled, turned around and left again, continuing to transport things, mainly pepper, bananas are not urgent.

Two tons of pepper, the village kept 200 kilograms, ready to eat mutton soup and let everyone put more pepper.

The rest was sent to Jingzhao Prefecture and the state capital over there by train, one and a half tons, the people who stayed in Chang'an City and the village of Bashui should have some, and the rest was put in the clinic and medicine shop.

The rest was sent to the clinic and medicine shop in Henan Prefecture, and the two places were told that when they got pepper medicine, the price would be reduced by twenty times.

At the same time, it was agreed that the subsequent pepper would be given free of charge, which would be considered a subsidy. The pepper before the subsidy was expensive at that time, and the price would be reduced later. Who would take care of the cost of the previous purchase?

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The village began to kill sheep and prepare for mutton soup. On weekdays, they were reluctant to eat a lot of pepper.

When eating, they dared not waste it. If it was put in the soup, all the soup would be drunk.

Starting today, I can finally eat freely.

"The south is indeed a good place, but I usually don't pay attention to it."

We didn't eat at noon. We drank mutton soup at three o'clock in the afternoon and set up a tent outside, not in the restaurant.

Yao Chong looked at the newly ground pepper with a slight remorse.

When he was Prime Minister, he did not promote the planting of tropical crops in Qiongzhou, Guangzhou and other places.

It’s okay not to grow bananas, but it can’t keep up with transportation, and it’s unreasonable that peppers aren’t heavy.

"No one is going to plant it." Li Yi said with relief.

"Why are there people now? Alas!" Yao Chong continued to blame himself.

"There are trains now!" Li Yi said to Yao Chong this time.

"Oh!" Yao Chong felt comfortable instantly. Yes, he couldn't compare with Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yi had the means to solve the problems of the mountain people. He had no money at the time, so the mountain people would not work unless he gave them benefits.

"I'll drink less today. After dinner, I'll go see the vegetable fields and dry fields nearby where no river flows."

Li Yi told others, he couldn't ask others.

He planned to drink three ounces of hot white wine, but not too much soup, fearing that his stomach would slosh when he walked.

The staple food is Hanamaki, some farmers eat pies, and some eat back.

The sheep intestines are processed separately and can be used as industrial raw materials to make many things and can also be stuffed with sausages.

For medical purposes, do not choose adult sheep that are currently being slaughtered to avoid poor absorption.

"The lamb chops are still delicious." Princess Yongmu grabbed the lamb chops with her hands and gnawed them, putting the gnawed bones aside.

This bone cannot be thrown away. After washing it, blanch it in boiling water and put it on the roadside outside Zhuangzi to make soup for others to drink.