Chapter 204 Li Yunna's Thoughts

"Brother Lu Fei, the sugar tax is back." Zhang Yutong put the money bag on the table, laughing: "You are not present, the old lady with us fight red in the face. He said he would never come to our island to sell sugar again."

"Didn't you tell her there's a tax on sugar on the Island of Brass?"

"Yes, I did." Zhang handed li Ding a glass of water and drank it himself before saying, "She didn't say anything. I guess she thought we couldn't control her there. I told her we would go to her house every month to collect taxes. And it's all this time. It scared the old lady to death. Then he said he would come back again. He was just kidding us."

"The old lady will come back and speak ill of us. But it's a good thing she volunteered to be a publicist for our tax system."

"Fly elder brother, when does agricultural tax collect? Send me to the Island of Brass." Li Ding volunteered.

I gave him a look. "When the dry season comes."

I won't send anyone to send him. If Li Ding goes, she must be selfish and she will gain a fortune secretly. Besides, I have so many commissioners in every kingdom and tribe, and so many envoys, that I need not send my own confidants in a matter so public.

Li Ding went back, Zhang Yutong also ran out to play.

In the evening the two savages came to the door again of their own accord. I followed them with two women. A dozen savages were divided into three houses, but they ate together. Probably because of the thinness of the group, they are very united with each other.

They cooked a dozen dishes, including both meat and vegetables, and the taste was not bad. After a few bites, a wild woman came out with a clay pot.

Another savage placed a bamboo cup in front of each adult. When the female savage holds the pottery pot to come over, a light wine fragrance spread quickly to open.

The three of us looked at each other. How can they make wine when so many kingdoms don't know how to make wine?

I was about to do something to stop lucie, and the wild woman realized something, and she just passed her by.

"They also know that women are pregnant and can't drink." "Said Lucie approvingly.

"If you can make wine, you must know." I take it for granted.

Wine was poured into each cup, and when the oldest savage raised it, the others did the same, and toasted me.

Touched the next cup, saw them are a big mouth a big mouth to drink. I raised the glass to my mouth and sniffed. It has wine and a hint of sweet potato.

"It tastes good, like beer, but much purer." Zhang Yutong is full of enjoyment.

Then I noticed that the savages, who had already drunk, were watching me together, and took a quick gulp. There is no sting in the throat, a distinct taste of sweet potato, and a touch of sweetness. It should be as strong as beer. It's more like a fruit wine.

I put down my glass and nodded at the wild people. They all laughed at once.

They know the etiquette of wine very well, from time to time to raise a toast together, will also toast in turn.

When one pot was finished, a second pot was brought out. I had seven or eight glasses, and none of them went to my head.

Popping a chopstick into her mouth, Lucie leaned over and said, "They're going to be rich now."

"But I don't think it's the right thing to do." I said, "If everybody monopolizes business, our economy as a whole will fail to develop, and a small number of people will become extremely rich. This is not good for the development of either of our islands."

"So you're going to let them transfer the patent to the old lady for free?"

"Certainly not." I said what I was going to do: "They can teach a few apprentices for a fee."

"That's good, too." Lucie looked around at the wild people. "But what to tell them?"

I turned my eyes directly to Zhang Yutong, whose cheeks were slightly red. I told her what was going on, and she even began to talk to them, and to communicate with them, and now and then to use a savage word or two.

After a while, Zhang said confidently, "They agreed, but they also knew it would be difficult to live in a group without copper coins. A hundred coppers is required to hand over the recipe for sweet potato wine."

A hundred coppers isn't that expensive to learn a trade, but I suddenly thought of a serious problem. Once the wine was promoted, the chiefs and Kings would not begrudge the hundred dollars. Ordinary people can't afford to pay so much. All kinds of skills will be learned by the nobles, and wine will be in their pockets. This will widen the gap between rich and poor.

As soon as I realized the problem, I changed my decision. Tell them not to teach their apprentices. Let them set up small workshops, specializing in sweet potato wine. And then they sell it wholesale to someone else. In this way, you can also make a store.

Candy paper clothes, can be taken to the store to sell. So there will be more people making money, but there will be less profit for each other, and the prices of things will align with the market values. It's the best of both worlds.

When I came up with this idea, Lucie said it was much better than the previous one.

For this, Zhang Yutong again with wild people launched communication, they also agreed.

"Done." She gestured OK, still a little tired.

"Are you sure you made yourself clear?" I feel like there's nothing special about her when she communicates.

Zhang Yutong strange looking at me: "what do you suspect me? When I said it was done, it was done. I don't know how we understood each other, but we did. Just like me and Hei can understand each other."

I said yes, yes, no, no.

After dinner, I let Zhang Yutong tell them, I will give them land as soon as possible, let them live completely independent.

Then we left. It was too difficult to communicate.

Went to the door, saw Li Yunna squatted in the door, saw us after the body.

Zhang Yutong very helplessly looked at me: "she every night to sleep with me, I feel she is not in love with me?"

"Alone, I suppose. She's scared at night."

"Where have you been? Li Yunna asked loudly.

"Gone to mossy's for dinner."

Zhang Yutong calls the wild people mossy.

"It's not enough not to call me." Li Yunna feigned anger.

Zhang Yutong ran over to appease, after entering the house, Luci pulled me into the house and said: "husband, anyway behind also built a house, or let yunna moved to live with us, save you and rain tong have no opportunity together."

"Whatever." I'm starting to think she's a little annoying. But she's all alone. We should take better care of her. Although she has been when cui Bin brother see, but Cui Bin that two daughter-in-law, all kinds of see her uncomfortable. The only people who can warm up are us and Li Ding. But she can't go and sleep with Eiori Harto and get rid of Ding li. In addition to pestering Zhang Yutong, she really had no other way.

I was asleep, but then I was woken up by a knock on the door. Open the door to see Zhang Yutong sneaky standing outside.

She whispered, "Brother Luffy, Yuna is asleep. Do you want to sleep in the back room? Is Sister Lucie asleep?"

"Well." I closed the door gently, picked her up by the waist and rushed back.

Two people are about to be in full swing of passion, she suddenly dead push my chest.

"What's the matter?

"Wait a minute. Something's wrong. I need to check."

I rolled aside in frustration. She turned on the light, grabbed her clothes and ran outside. I was dumbfounded when she suddenly reappeared at the door.

"There I am. Not tonight. In a week."

I fell down on the bed, confused. Too lazy to go back, directly turn off the light in bed fell asleep.

Early the next morning I urgently summoned my emissaries and explained the store plan to them. It specified that no salaried person was allowed to engage in business.

After they had sailed away, I ran to Cui Bin and asked him about the land. They were allotted five mu of land above the upland.

Generally speaking, the land area of our tribe is five mu per capita. That's all I gave them. Because they have a patent on winemaking. It was enough to give them land to grow vegetables and basic rations.