"Your Highness, this year's grape harvest has been good."

The Western Regions, between the Tianshan Mountains and Jinshan Mountains, Pulehai to the east, Shatuochi to the west, and Yiwu's 300-mile country is located between the two mountains, with a narrow terrain and arid climate.

Compared with the Dayuan Valley where Li Hui was first enfeoffed and the Suiyuan Hetao Grassland that was second enfeoffed, this place is simply a Gobi desert where birds can't shit.

The entire three hundred miles of fiefdom, which is the lakeside of the Pulehai in the east, is quite good, with many aquatic plants. But no matter how good it is, it is only relative to the vast Shatuo moraine in the west.

It is impossible to stay here to reclaim wasteland and grow grain. There is no harvest after planting. There is little rain or sand. Even the most drought-resistant potatoes and corn are not very harvested. The potatoes planted are small and small, and the corn is also very bald.

It is okay to raise cattle and sheep, but only the one by the lake can raise cattle and sheep. Besides, raising cattle and sheep is no longer promising these days. What Dahua lacks the most is livestock. There are excellent pastures everywhere, not to mention that they are not as good as the war horses raised in the military horse farms of the imperial court.

Even those pastures that specialize in raising horses and plowing oxen, he has no conditions to compare.

We can only raise cattle and sheep that can slaughter and get skin and meat, but this is the most unprofitable. Raising dairy cows and milk sheeps milk, or raising sheeps wool, requires good technology. Moreover, the purchase price of wool milk powder and other things is not high. There are too many people who raise it, especially in the prairie such as Longyou Qinghai, the south and north of the Mo. There is no war. The number of cattle and sheep is astonishingly large, so there is no wool and no milk powder.

Once there are too many things, it will be cheaper and less valuable.

His Royal Highness, the legitimate prince of the Great Hua Empire, relies on cattle and sheep to eat like a group of herders who have never seen on the grassland. They live in tents, cook water and cook rice, and use cow dung. How can we continue to live this life?

In this way, you can only achieve some results in the year of the monkey and the horse in the month of the month of the monkey and leave this ghost place.

Anyway, it is absolutely impossible to develop by raising cattle and sheep.

Compared to his unlucky, his brother, Prince, was very popular in Fusang. After destroying Silla and Baekje on the Korean Peninsula, he destroyed Japan. Now he owns the entire Fusang Islands as a fief, with a population of tens of millions and a territory of thousands of miles.

It’s really a matter of death that people compare to others, and a matter of goods that compare to others, and a matter of throwing away.

Fortunately, there is no way out.

Although there is no way out for growing grain in this broken place, there is no way out for raising cattle and sheep, fortunately there is a unique condition here, which is that the sun is very strong and the drought is low, making the grapes here very famous.

Yiwu and Gaochang, separated by a mountain, have now become the most famous raisins and wine production areas in Dahua.

Li Hui also likes to drink wine.

But at first he did not expect to grow grapes here. It was his mother, Queen Cui, who was worried about her son, wrote him a letter to give him advice, and invited many excellent grape growers and wine-making masters to him.

Growing grapes is not easy, but fortunately, those are the best masters.

Li Hui also believed in his mother's vision and fully supported him.

Yiwu Feng country planted a large number of grapes, and some local vineyards that were planted sporadically in the past were also better maintained.

This year, there is a bumper harvest of grapes.

Some fresh grapes are made into wine in the winery and some are sent to the drying room to make raisins.

The grapes were just harvested, and Queen Cui had contacted many businesses for Li Hun and came to order Li Hun's raisins and wine.

"Your Highness, this is the cake made from the recipe you provide. We chose walnut kernels, corn syrup, raisins, grape juice, and other ingredients based on the recipe. This pastry is indeed mellow and sweet, and has a moderate taste. It is fragrant but not greasy."

Li Hui took a piece and found that the cut cakes were hard and heavy.

"Your Highness, our cut cakes are mixed with a lot of sugar, and several varieties have been developed. The best ones are honey, and grape juice and sugar, and flour, corn flour, peanuts, etc., and after layer by layer, it makes it very hard. A piece of cake in your hand weighs two pounds. For this piece, we plan to price three hundred and twenty cents and one liang of ten cents."

One tael of ten ounces is indeed quite expensive.

"Is there anyone going to want it so expensive?"

"Your Highness, our cake cut is also very expensive. What's more, this cake cut is a recipe that flows out of the palace. Didn't Your Highness say that this is a delicacy invented by His Majesty the Emperor? There is no such thing outside yet."

"Besides, after our research, we found that this cake is really good."

"How is it a good way?" Li Hui asked. In his opinion, it was just a piece of pastry. He picked up the very hard and heavy piece of cake in his hand and took a bite, and found it was very sweet.

"Your Highness, first of all, you have to steam this cake when making it. Put it in a very strong wooden trough while it is hot, then cover it with a thick wooden board and press it on a heavy object. In this way, the cake will be pressed very tightly, and the moisture will flow out with the gap at the bottom of the wooden trough. After pressing for two days, a piece of cake will become strong and lack of moisture."

"The cut cakes made in this way can be preserved for a long time and will not deteriorate. Most importantly, we found that cut cakes are made of various nuts, so they are particularly suitable for long-distance merchants. Your Highness also knew that sailors sailing at sea are sometimes very likely to die of scurvy. According to imperial doctors, it is precisely because they lack the nutrition of fresh fruits and vegetables."

"So now when sailing in the sea, in addition to fresh water, there will be some onions, beans, etc. on the boat. When fresh fruits and vegetables are gone, the beans can also sprout beans."

Speaking of this, the man said proudly, "But although our cut cakes are dried pastries, they have the characteristics of supplementing the nutrition of these fruits and vegetables. Whether it is walking in the desert or sailing on the sea, even if we cannot supplement fresh fruits and vegetables, as long as we eat our cut cakes, we can supplement these nutrients and will not get septicemia."

Moreover, there is another feature of these cut cakes, which is high nutrition, which is not only easy to store and carry, but is compressed after all, and a small piece is very heavy.

It has high nutritional value. Eating a small piece can supplement a lot of nutrients and last for a long time.

"Is it so magical?" Li Hui was surprised.

After taking a few bites, he didn't think it was strange, it just felt it was very sweet, but as a prince, he had never eaten any delicious pastries.

"Your Highness, this is not an ordinary pastry. This is a pastry invented by His Majesty himself. It can even be called military rations. Merchants on the Silk Road and sailors of sailing trade, bring a piece of cake to cut, so you don't have to worry about food, don't have to worry about spoilage, or sepsis. This is amazing. If it weren't for the high cost, if the soldiers brought a bag of bags, they could march and fight for several months without worrying about food and grass nutrition."

"Is it so exaggerated that I'll take this thing for a month or two? Will I get constipated?"

The man was speechless.

"Okay, I'm just kidding you. If it's really so magical, then one or two ounces will not be expensive. How much does it cost to cut cakes for one or two ounces?"

"If the cost is, it will cost about two cents every two."

"It's only two cents. No, we only sell ten cents for two cents? We are the exclusive cake cut, this one is the magical dry food invented by the emperor. It is a must-have life-saving dry food for sea sailors and merchants on the Silk Road. How can we sell ten cents for one liang? That's not in line with its value."

Li Hui decided to raise the price.

"Before selling, I will promote it first. Then the reputation will be sold out, and the price will be easy. As for the price, well, I have to sell it for a thousand pounds per pound."

The manager was shocked. The second prince is really a person who does big things, and his heart is so cruel.

The cost is 50 cents per pound, and one pound is only 80 cents per pound. He just said that selling 10 cents per pound has already doubled the price. He thought he was ruthless enough, but who would have expected that His Highness would actually be 10 cents per pound when he spoke.

Eighty articles have become one thousand articles, and the increase has increased by more than ten times in the middle.

Where are you selling cut cakes? This is selling gold.

Cut a cake for a thousand pounds, and a thousand pounds of copper coins for a thousand pounds are several pounds. This is really more expensive than money.

"Your Highness, you can sell it so expensive? Is anyone willing to buy it?" the manager asked in a low voice.

"Why can't we sell it? There are many rich people. As long as we promote this cake, some people are willing to buy it. Besides, we don't want to sell it to those poor sailors and friends, we are selling those caravan shopkeepers and captains."

"Of course, it's not bad for sailors to sell to the guys. You can change the recipe. Keep the raisins and try to replace other ingredients with other cheap ones. We make some cheaper ones to sell to those people, and the price will naturally be appropriately lower."

The manager was very impressed. His Highness, the second prince, is really business-minded.

"By the way, since we have such good things now, we naturally have to make more. Now we don't have many grapes, so you can arrange for people to buy grapes from Yiwu, Xichang and other places, and you can collect as much as you can. We should try to harvest them in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and other places where grapes are grown. Let's stock up as much as possible first, and then wait for our name to cut cakes to be promoted, and then ship them in large quantities, and you will definitely make a profit."

The manager responded repeatedly and hurriedly went to make arrangements.

Li Hui sat under the grape trellis, holding the cut cake in his hand and continued to eat.

Although he seemed to be quite energetic to the manager just now, he actually disdained such small-scale quarrels.

If you can cut a cake, even if you can really make a pound of one pound, it will be the case no matter how much you sell it. Can you sell 100,000 pounds or 1 million pounds a year? If you sell 1 million pounds, you will not make a million pounds.

Alas, this broken place.

His dignified legitimate son actually fell to the point of growing grapes and cutting cakes and selling them for money.

"Come."

"Your Highness, what are your instructions?"

"Did the Turks from the Yue tribe in Shatuochi in the west still refuse to come and submit?"

"Your Highness, the Shatu people in Shatuo's moraine are used to being free. They are unwilling to follow His Highness's instructions to move here, and they are even more unwilling to be divided into pastures for regular grazing. Zhu Xie, the leader of the Shatuo people, said that they have lived like this for generations and are unwilling to change."

"Oh, these Shatuomans really want to give them a toast and don't eat them. Gu heard that Zhu Xie and the Shepherds had followed his father to Chang'an to see the Tang Emperor Li Shimin. Li Shimin did not invite him to worship him. Now Gu has invited them to meet again and again, but they refuse to refuse. This is because he looks down on Gu and does not take Gu seriously."

The chief guard was shocked, "Your Highness, the Shatu people have already joined Dahua, and the imperial court allowed them to travel nomadic in Shatuochi. If your highness wants to touch them, it is probably not suitable."

"What's wrong with it? A group of Turkic barbarians hid in Shatuochi and thought they could be lawless. You said, if we were passing by Shatuochi and robbed tens of thousands or even more goods, would you say that there was a reason to do it?"

"Our caravan never goes there?"

"You won't send someone to escort the goods there, right? Just escort some cake cuts."

"We pass by, they may not dare to rob, right?"

"Why are you so stupid? I tell you, you're like this...and then things are done!"

The chief guard was a little hesitant.

"What are you still hesitating about? If something happens, you will be alone."

"Your Highness, I am not worried about myself, but I am afraid that something will happen to you and your Highness will be blamed."

"I'm so blaming me. If I'm in this kind of grape every day, what's the difference between waiting for death? I've had enough of this day. These Shatu people can help me." 74
Chapter completed!