May 22nd finally arrived. Half a month later, it was half a month later.
Bo Xie was so anxious that he was about to fall ill. He was informed to go to the Li Family Zhuangzi to talk. He was the only one allowed to go.
When he arrived at Baqiao, he was searched and the knife on his body was taken away.
When he arrived at Zhuangzi, he was dragged to take a bath and change his clothes.
He changed into a new set of loose clothes and his fingernails were cut. Only then did he see the person in Li Yi's courtyard.
Li Yi sat at one end of a 30 Zhang long table. The other end was prepared for Bo Xie.
Four Yulin Flying Cavalry stood behind and to his left and right, while the other eight stood on both sides of the table.
Behind Li Yi, there were four Winged Knights. One of them was Guo Ziyi.
Bo Xie sat on a stone stool. The tea bowl that was served was made of wood.
When the tea was about 70 degrees Celsius, it was poured for him. It was said that it was convenient for him to drink.
With this protective measure, even if Bo Xie wanted to trade his life for his life, he could only think about it in his heart.
"Li Yi, I want to buy a large number of lighters to bring back. I want the people of Tubo to feel the warmth of the Tang dynasty." Bo Xie requested.
"One for 50 grams. How much do you want?" Li Yi was also straightforward. 50 thousand for a lighter.
It wasn't expensive. He had a good lighter, and the price was very high.
"Can it be cheaper if you buy more?" Bo Xie looked at the tea.
"Buy 1,000 for 20 grams. Buy 10,000 for 5 grams." Li Yi gave a wholesale price. It was a great discount.
"We want to buy 1,000, but we need a lot of alcohol."
Bo Xie calculated. 20 grams was less than 50 grams. He did not really need the lighters.
"If you buy one lighter, I can sell you at most 2 grams of alcohol. It can be filled about 50 times.
If you buy 1,000, it will be 2000 grams of alcohol. It can be filled 100,000 times.
Zhuangzi will give people 1000 grams of alcohol. 100,000 times 1,000 … "
Li Yi looked like he was calculating.
"Li Yi, I'm buying a lot. I want it cheap, and 2000 jin is not enough."
Boxie was shocked. Even if he sold his Tubo, he wouldn't be able to buy much.
"You can buy ten thousand of them, twenty thousand catties. You can fill them up one million times. How about this, I'll charge you three hundred yuan for each time.
For the sake of the good relationship between Tubo and the Tang dynasty, I gave you the capital, but you can't expect me to lose money, right?
With twenty thousand catties of alcohol, I can make a hundred hot air balloons fly for ten days. My hot air balloons are still being built, so I need alcohol. "
Li Yi was talking nonsense. He told the other party that 200 catties of alcohol could allow him to fly for ten days?
In fact, the hot-air balloons that were made today would require about 50 catties of alcohol to fly for two hours.
He looked at the wind, the load, and how high he wanted to fly …
The hot air balloon now carried four cans at a time. Each can weighed more than 60 catties and contained 50 catties of alcohol.
At the same time, he also brought an extra alcohol burner assembly part to prevent one of them from breaking.
His alcohol was not the 85% alcohol that was sold. Accidents could happen.
Now, he didn't have an altitude indicator that measured air pressure. He only had a thermometer. He used the thermometer to estimate the approximate altitude.
When the hot air balloon was on the ground, he used a separate alcohol burner.
When it was about to take off, he would change the one on the hot air balloon.
Boxie didn't know. He felt that he had discovered a secret. He was calculating how to use the twenty thousand catties of alcohol.
But this price …
"Li Yi, ten thousand lighters will be fifty thousand catties. I still have to spend three hundred thousand catties to buy the alcohol.
For the sake of the close relationship between the Tang dynasty and Tubo, you can lower it a little more. Otherwise, I can't afford it. "
Boxie was so anxious that he started sweating. He took a big gulp of tea.
"Two hundred and fifty yuan for each time. I'll lose money. For the sake of the friendship between brothers." Li Yi gritted his teeth.
"The Tang dynasty is the elder brother, Tubo is the younger brother. Give me a little more." Boxie didn't care about the country's reputation anymore.
"Two hundred yuan. I can't go any lower. You can buy a part of it first. When you raise some money, you can buy it again.
I'll treat it as you buying twenty thousand catties. But the money for ten thousand lighters has to be paid in one go.
After selling your alcohol, I, Zhuangzi, can't eat. I have a lot of people to feed. I can only sell some soap. "
Li Yi set the price at two hundred yuan per session instead of the fifty yuan that he had prepared.
He found that Boxie seemed to be rich. In that case …
"Okay, I'll raise the money. But the money to buy the newspaper is gone. There are so many newspapers now, and the rent is also included. The rent in Chang 'an is expensive."
Boxie decided not to buy the newspaper. He couldn't win against the Li Family Zhuangzi.
Li Yi frowned: "This newspaper symbolizes … your side can't afford it anymore. How about this? I'll buy it."
"How?" Boxie was interested when he saw that he could turn the newspaper into money.
"One copper coin per catty. I'll buy as much as you have." Li Yi gave the price.
There was only one newspaper per copy. There were sixty newspapers, which was about half a catty now. The paper was thicker.
Based on this price, the 300,000 newspapers he sold to Fan Bang every day can be exchanged for 5,000 yuan.
Fan Bang used to sell 20,000 newspapers per day for 12 days.
After that, it started on May 5th and sold 300,000 newspapers per day. Until today, it had been 18 days.
There was a total of 5.64 million newspapers. If he sold them, he could get back 94,000 yuan, which was 94 coins.
They spent sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Li Yi had lost more than 66,000 coins.
This was a bloodless battle. Both sides had suffered losses.
Li Yi spent 94 coins to buy the newspaper. He could still sell it for 16,920 coins.
But this was the initial investment in the market. Li Yi could afford it.
Boxie was about to cry. When he bought the newspaper, he sold it by catty. How could he give him so little money?
When he thought about the rent and the smell every day, he shuddered.
"Okay, I'll sell the newspaper to you. I'll raise the money." Boxie agreed.
He had to quickly buy the alcohol and transport it away. If the Li Family Zhuangzi found out that the blueprint was missing, the alcohol would not be transported away.
When Boxie left Zhuangzi and walked towards the city, he couldn't tell what kind of feeling he had.
He should be happy to buy the alcohol, but the price was equally happy.
"250,000 coins. We don't have enough money. Let's borrow from others and say that we're transporting it back to research weapons. We'll tell them when we're done."
Boxie said as he walked. He had thought it through.
When he rushed back to Honglu Temple, he happened to see a group of people walking towards a courtyard.
He followed them. When they saw him, they were slightly panicked.
It was the Tujue who stood out and said to him directly, "We've discussed it. On the 30th of this month, we'll send 25 people to the Li Family Zhuangzi."
This time, it was Boxie's turn to panic. Were they looking to die? 25 people. If one of them was discovered, it would be over.
If they were discovered and Zhuangzi investigated, would they still be able to transport the alcohol?
"No, it's too risky. It's better to plan further." Boxie stopped him. Don't go.
"We've already decided. Once we get the item, we'll give Tubo a share."
The Tujue's attitude was firm. The others nodded in agreement.
"That, I've discovered that the alcohol can be used to make weapons. I've already told Li Yi to buy a lot.
Help me raise the money. I'll buy it tomorrow and transport it away.
It's best if you do it a few days later. Let me transport the alcohol to the place. At the very least, you can't stop me.
On the 30th of next month, wait until we figure out how to use the alcohol and how to make it. I'll tell you then. "
Boxie could only tell them part of the plan.
"How much?" A tribesman asked.
"150,000 coins. I still have to organize people to transport it. That's not a small sum." Boxie looked at everyone and said.
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