Da Tang: Father, can I resign?

Chapter 10 Is the information gap a way for you to show off?

Fang Yize: "Brother Ming, what is this? It feels a bit dangerous."

Li Ming: "It's okay, just breathe freely. Can your brother Ming still harm you?"

Fang Yize: "But this tastes weird, won't it make me sick?"

Li Ming: "No, no, you'll be addicted after just one puff."

Fang Yize: "Ahem! Brother Ming, what's that smell? It's so weird!"

Li Ming: "It's like this for the first puff, but you'll get used to it after taking a few more puffs."

Fang Yize: "Hmm~Oh! It seems to be like that!"

Li Ming: "Right? I guarantee you will never forget this feeling. If you don't smoke it for a day, you will feel uncomfortable all over."

Fang Yize: "I didn't expect that oysters, which look ugly, have such tender and delicious meat. I sucked them in right away!"

Chang'an, West Market.

Merchants from the Western Regions used to open markets here to do business. Over time, rare treasures from all over the world gathered here.

Li Ming and his friends were eating oysters in front of a seafood stall.

As we all know, Guanzhong is a little distance from the sea, so the friends were all impressed by this noble way of eating.

Di Renjie asked curiously, "Shopkeeper, where is this produced?"

"My dear, this thing comes from the coast of Laizhou, attached to the reef. Fishermen knock off the whole reef, put it in a tank, fill it with seawater, and transport it all the way here."

A group of ignorant money-spending kids came, and the boss's jaw dropped with laughter. Their service attitude was simply too good.

“It has been transported thousands of miles to Guanzhong, and you can enjoy the freshness of the ocean for only a few hundred coins.”

The children had no concept of money and donated generously.

You sell oysters for one dollar each for 100 wen, why don’t you go and grab some... Li Ming resisted the urge to complain.

The differences in life...

Some children are still being taken advantage of by unscrupulous businessmen, while some children are already thinking about how to take advantage of them for free.

Li Ming’s top priority now is to quickly earn back the money his mother lost.

As a liberal arts youth of the 21st century, Li Ming fully grasps the historical status of major inventions and is proficient in using the information retrieval function of the Internet.

Spinning Jenny, the curved plow, and the steam engine of the Industrial Revolution.

He can explain the principles behind these time-travel artifacts in great detail.

But if you ask him to build one himself, sorry, he can't do it.

It is even more impossible to make money just by relying on a novel idea.

After all, it is not popular in Datang to use PPT to raise funds.

But there is one idea that can make money.

In order to verify this idea, he came to this seafood stall today.

The boss was making a lot of money and was smiling happily. He opened an oyster and handed it to Li Ming:

"Come on, Brother Ming, I'll treat you."

Li Ming took it without hesitation and started chatting with him familiarly:
"Zhi Shi Bu Zhen, why don't you do the silk business and start selling seafood instead?"

Zhishi Buzhen is the name of this seafood boss. As the name suggests, he is a Turk.

Boss Zhishi did not dare to underestimate this arrogant young man at all, and said politely with a wry smile:
"Well, business is hard."

The children were a little surprised: "Brother Ming, do you know this boss?"

The boss glanced at Li Ming who winked at him and said vaguely:

"Thanks to Brother Ming for taking care of my business several times."

This is not false.

Specifically, Zhishibu was one of Li Ming's channels for reselling palace items outside the palace.

The currency economy was not well developed in the Tang Dynasty, and cloth could be used as money. Many of the rewards Li Ming received were silk and satin.

But silk is heavy and takes up space, making it inconvenient to carry the bucket when running around.

The result is that the swallows that used to fly before the mansions of the wealthy and powerful now fly into the homes of ordinary people.

Free trade is so great.

In order to prevent the news of speculation from spreading back to the palace, he deliberately selected foreigners who had no roots in the local area as sales channels.

Li Ming asked casually:
"Why is business so difficult? Have the people of the Western Regions returned to the wilderness and stopped wearing silk and started wearing leaves instead?"

"Brother Ming, you don't know that the silk cannot be shipped out." Zhi Shibu was really worried:
"There is a Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions. Do you know about it?"

"I know, I know! Being... " Fang Yizhe spoke enthusiastically but was interrupted by a look from Li Ming.

The boss of Zhishi said dejectedly: "I don't know what the Gaochang Kingdom did wrong. It cut off the trade route between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions. Now the silk is piled up and can't be sold at a high price.

"To be honest, the last batch of goods you sold to me was almost completely eaten by insects, and I had to sell it at a loss."

I am worthy of being the one who can make the unscrupulous businessman suffer a setback... Li Ming felt very happy.

But when he thought about the savings being packed up and given to the two old men, he couldn't help feeling sad.

"The Turks also sell seafood?" Di Renjie was amazed.

This gave him a feeling of confusion in time and space, no less than the Shanyue people grazing on the grassland.

Zhi Shibuzhen explained with a wry smile:

"After the trade route was cut off by Gaochang, the only way to go to the Western Regions is by sea. There are many people sailing now. I heard that the docks in Laizhou are blocked. I exchanged some seafood for a meal."

After saying goodbye to his boss, the impatient Yuchi Xunyu couldn't help asking:

"Brother Ming, where are we going?"

Li Ming glanced at the sturdy little black charcoal head, then glanced at the noble children who had nowhere to vent their energy, and smiled with satisfaction:
"A place where you can make full use of your remaining energy."

The innocent children did not suspect anything and followed the child king through the streets and alleys, skipping and jumping.

Li Ming has been thinking about it in his mind.

Zhi Shi Buzhen's intelligence confirmed his guess: the news that Gaochang had been destroyed and the Silk Road was reopened had not yet spread in Chang'an City.

But Li Ming knew this news - after all, Hou Junji, who conquered Gaochang, was the grandfather of the slug Hou Baolin.

Here comes the opportunity to make money!
What was the most important thing in the seventh century? Information!

Fang Yi, like a sparrow, chirped with pride:
"Hahaha, that Turk is so stupid that he didn't even know Gaochang was destroyed! I thought the world of adults was very complicated, but it turns out they are so ignorant..."

After being glared at by Li Ming, he immediately dared not say a word.

Ever since he was hit hard yesterday, Fang Yize has been full of awe for this little brat who is a head shorter than him.

Li Ming reprimanded the dandy boy with great righteousness.

"You only know this information because your father is the prime minister. Is this what allows you to act so pretentious?"

"That... shouldn't work."

"If you were born in an ordinary family, do you think you would be more knowledgeable than that boss?"

"Well... probably not."

"Remember, it is not a skill to be supported by your parents, but to be self-reliant."

Fang Yize was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily: "I'll remember it."

Seeing the other party finish the bowl of poisonous chicken soup, Li Ming's mouth curled up.

"Come with me. Today I will show you what it means to be self-reliant."

With the previous preparation, the children suddenly became full of energy.

"it is good!"

The children walked through the busy streets and came to a deserted corner.

The area was deserted except for one shop whose door was half-open, with the silk piled up inside covered with cobwebs. It was obvious that the shop had not had any business for a long time.

A few people from the Western Regions with high eyebrows and serious eyes were squatting at the door, chatting in a gibberish.

In Chang'an, where every inch of land is valuable, this store is burning money if it remains open for one more day.

Li Ming stopped.

"arrive."

Fang Yi was shocked: "Brother Ming, do you know those Western Region merchants too?"

"do not know."

"? Then what are you doing here?"

"Buy silk."

"???"

The kids’ brains are all overloaded, and it’s a little hard for Ming Ge to keep up with the pace.

Didn’t the Turkic merchant just say that silk couldn’t be sold?
Then why buy it? To raise insects?
Di Renjie suddenly realized something and looked up abruptly, just in time to see Li Ming glaring at him fiercely.

Xiao Di immediately swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

After resolving the biggest destabilizing factor, Li Ming walked straight towards the people from the Western Regions.

Is the information gap a way for you to show off?
Look carefully, this is how information gap is used.

(End of this chapter)