Chapter 723 Bohai Trades Yao Yigui

While Li Yi was studying how to increase the income of the court and make life more convenient for the people, Li Yin and others who led the team to Khitan and Bohai were exchanging things with people from Bohai.

There were 891 more people from the Tang Dynasty who were abducted by the Khitan in the team. They were not so thin now.

The food on the road was good, and the key was that they were in a good mood.

They helped with the work and prepared to go back to the Tang Dynasty and Chang'an together.

Right now in Bohai, the leader of Bohai was Dae Jo-yeong, and his official position was the governor of Hukhanzhou. The local area was called Bohai, which was actually a country, but it was not allowed to be called a country.

There were also nobles in the local area. They were looking at kerosene lamps and thermos bottles, as well as other soaps, scented soaps, floral water, glycerin, silk, preserved fruits, canned food, ceramics...

Other people from their tribe were peeling pine nuts, the nuts of red pine in the Northeast.

There are usually two kinds of pine trees in the Northeast, Pinus tabulaeformis and Pinus koraiensis.

The seeds of Pinus tabulaeformis are very small and not delicious. Eating too much will cause poisoning.

This is not the case with Pinus koraiensis. It is a big pine cone with big seeds inside.

Now some of them are yellow, and more are green.

The locals used various means to knock them down and began to take pine nuts.

They had no currency, so they bartered.

They exchanged ginseng, animal fur, and dried fruits. Li Yin did not want dried fruits, and only selected good animal skins, but ginseng was acceptable.

He asked for high prices for his goods, and allowed the other party to pay in installments when buying kerosene lamps and thermos, but other goods could only be paid in one lump sum.

He proposed to collect pine nuts and hazelnuts. The locals saw it and said, "Okay, wait for us, we will go to collect them now."

This delayed time. It would be troublesome to collect things now and return.

It was guaranteed to snow at that time, and everyone would need to spend more time.

The rescued Tang people helped to sort them out, so they did not peel them.

Pine nuts were peeled manually, and the hands were rubbed with pine oil, which was black and difficult to wash.

It was the same to peel hazelnuts from piles of hazelnut skins, by hand.

The locals liked to eat hazelnuts more, which were easy to open, and they could bite with teeth or smash with stones.

I don’t like to eat pine nuts. It’s hard to open them. It’s too small to bite a kernel.

As for tools to open them, they don’t have pliers.

“Look at it later. This is soap. After peeling pine nuts, there is oil on your hands. It’s hard to clean. How about using soap? Wash it, rub it, and then rub it with sand. Look, it’s clean.”

Li Yin introduced to the people who came one after another that soap is not very easy to use to wash pine oil. You have to rub it with sand.

The locals looked at it and tried it. There was no pine oil on their hands. They washed it with soap and quickly washed away a lot of dirty water.

Look at your hands again. They are cleaner than before. Wash it again and rub it hard. Dirty water still comes out. The hands are cleaner.

The locals recognized it. It’s a good thing.

Look at the soap again. It actually smells good after washing.

Don’t say anything. Hurry back to get things to exchange, and go pick pine nuts and hazelnuts.

Look at what the people of the Tang Dynasty need. Exchange it.

The nobles of Bohai have many valuable things. They exchanged them for kerosene lamps and thermos bottles and asked for installment payment.

They were afraid that if they didn't pay in installments, people from the Tang Dynasty would not come. What would they do with the kerosene?

"You can send people to bring other things back to the Tang Dynasty with us to see what the Tang Dynasty likes and what is available locally."

Li Yin continued to let the translator tell the people from Bohai.

If only Lijiazhuangzi ran this route, Lijiazhuangzi would become a monopoly and make a lot of money.

The owner did not allow it, and asked to increase trade exchanges. They could form groups to exchange, or people from both sides could send teams at will.

A market was set up in the area in the northern part of Hebei Road, which the Tang Dynasty now reoccupied, and all tribes could participate.

The more frequent the exchanges, the better, so that Bohai would not have the opportunity to develop alone, and the Tang Dynasty would be watching at any time.

...

The first snow fell, from Bohai to Tubo, the whole area was snowing.

On September 26, Yao Yi happily returned to Chang'an from the Chidao with his family. His official position was changed. He was no longer the governor there and the concurrent inspector of Shangzhou Liancao Wuguan Waifangcheng.

It was not clear what official he would be when he returned. He brought several carts of local specialties from Henan Prefecture.

"Dad, my son is back. Li Yi is really amazing. He can be given a part-time job in the Imperial Medical Bureau."

Yao Yi went to the house in Xingningfang and found Yao Chong, who knew he would be back today and was waiting for him at home.

After the greetings, he praised Li Yi and prepared to give Li Yi an official position, so that in the future, when he was sick, he could directly ask Li Yi from the Imperial Medical Bureau to see him.

"It's good that you're back, good! Li Yi is so kind that he won't let me send off my son." Yao Chong smiled at his son.

The daughter-in-law and grandson were also there, both good.

Yao Chong figured it out. He would go down by himself, and his eldest son would be idle for a year or two, and he could compile books and so on, and he wouldn't bother.

Li Yi's move was just an exchange, right? Exchange.

As for Zhao Hui, who was in jail and accepted bribes from the Hu people, it was useless for his family to beg him.

"Get ready and go to Tianshang Renjian for dinner." Yao Chong decided to spread the news of his son's return to show his attitude.

Yao Yi took a bath and happily went to Tianshang Renjian with his father. He had only heard of it but had no chance to see it.

Yao Chong's team was huge, and they arrived at Tianshang Renjian in a ostentatious manner. The father and son went in and were arranged to a single room.

"Dad, this place is really elegant. Looking down from above, it is still clear even in cold weather."

Yao Yi looked out through the glass window and saw pedestrians walking around below.

"The food is also good." Yao Chong compared Tianshang Renjian with Lijiazhuangzi, and Tianshang Renjian was not the best.

"In Dengzhou, some merchants have learned to do this. Let's try the local ones."

Yao Yi picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in his mouth. In the blink of an eye, he showed an intoxicated look.

Yao Chong had a smile on his face: "Pork ribs are Li Yi's favorite part. Many dishes can be made from it. They are sweet and sour. Don't waste the juice. Mix it with rice."

"Ah? You want to eat the juice? Just try it. How many dishes did we order?" Yao Yi didn't want to eat like that.

When he ate in Dengzhou, he always had a table of food. He would eat almost everything after taking two bites of each dish.

Yao Chong didn't eat it and said: "Two dishes, one is sweet and sour pork ribs, one is pig ears with cucumber, and the other is garlic sprout soup."

"Why is it so little?" Yao Yi was puzzled.

"My father eats here, and it has always been like this. People who eat together will eat up the food because it's free.

Li Yi has rules. You can throw away the food you bought with your own money. Li's manor and the store where he is the shopkeeper, you have to eat all the free food.

The food in the canteen of the manor is the best, and the farmers always take as much as they eat.

Even if Li's manor puts free soup outside, no one is allowed to take a bowl and drink half of it."

Yao Chong explained to his son patiently, fearing that his son would accidentally offend Li Yi because of this matter in the future.

"Can he set rules for us?" Yao Yi was still dissatisfied when he was puzzled.

"If you don't eat his food, you don't have to follow his rules. Otherwise, no matter who you are, you must follow it."

When Yao Chong said this, he thought of Li Longji and others.

"I originally wanted to give him a powerful official position, but now..." Yao Yi shook his head gently.

Yao Chong: "..."

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