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Text 1040. Datang in the eyes of foreigners (1)

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    Soon, foreign businessmen in Chang'an City also began to spread the news that the Tang government was recruiting some foreign employees.  The work of these senior foreign employees will help Datang translate foreign books and materials, and then they will be responsible for translating Datang materials into foreign languages.  This job immediately attracted many foreigners in China, because the salary is also very good, and it is quite attractive to ordinary foreigners.  Because these senior employees are paid according to the treatment of sixth-rank officials to ninth-rank officials, and those who can accept the employment can get all the treatment of sixth-rank officials to ninth-rank officials of the Tang Dynasty.  Of course, this is calculated by converting everything into wages. As for the Tang Dynasty officials who originally had various farm incomes, this is also converted into wages.  After all, if land is directly given to foreigners, this will definitely cause great controversy.  But compared to those wages, it is not simple.  Because even the income of the lowest ninth-grade official is more than 100,000 yuan a year when converted to future generations.  Such a high income is certainly not too high for some people.  But for those foreigners who have traveled all the way to the East, it can be said to be very high.  In ancient times, foreigners who were able to travel thousands of miles to do business in the East were actually polarized.  Either they are very rich or they are very poor.  Those who are very wealthy want to obtain higher profits, while the other type of poor people want to get rich overnight.  If you can earn the salary of a ninth-grade official in the Tang Dynasty, you can work for the Tang government for a few years, and use this income to purchase various materials from the Tang Dynasty in five or six years, and then transport them to the West.  I must have made money that I will never make in my lifetime!  Many porcelain teas and other things in the East are not expensive. In fact, many people in the East can afford these things.  But in the West, these things are very advanced, so they can accept government employment in the East, and the wages they receive are much more than those hired by businessmen.  The income from these wages is at least much higher than the wages paid by ordinary businessmen. As long as you work for a few years and return a batch of goods to the country, you can live a life that others cannot enjoy in their lifetime.  So this opportunity to get rich overnight made everyone red-eyed, so they all found the Caesar who released the news and wanted to find out what was going on.  "Mr. Caesar, do you have any relations with the Chinese government?" someone asked.  Caesar said of course: "Of course, I not only have friendship with important officials in China, but also met the king of China." "The king of China received you?" Someone asked in surprise.  "Yes, they still gave me a lot of things! And the Chinese official also told me that they can provide me with a quota of 10,000 kilograms of tea every year." Caesar said.  Now Jingwen has established tea gardens in Jiangnan Road, which is also the Fujian area in later generations, so the production of tea has greatly increased, so now tea has begun to be produced in large quantities.  And now the tea market is in short supply, and more and more people are drinking tea.  Originally, these teas were exported to the Turks and traded to the Turks in exchange for cattle and sheep. Ashinayun's people also helped sell tea in the Turks, and then exchanged them for beef, mutton and dairy products to be sold back to the Central Plains. In fact,  This is just a family's internal business.  " Tea drinking has gradually become popular in the Tang Dynasty, especially fried tea, which is very popular.  In the palace, Li Shimin would go to Jingwen's tea workshop every month to select some of the highest quality tea as tribute, and when court officials were working, they were accustomed to casually asking their servants to bring them a cup of tea.  Of course, the reason why this happened was because Jingwen was promoting tea.  Under this circumstance, tea drinking became popular throughout the Tang Dynasty, and tea was in short supply.  However, at this time, the West also needed a lot of tea.  Originally, there was not much tea in the West, but since Jing Wen brought a large amount of tea a year or two ago, the upper class in the West began to drink tea.  Chinese tea is loved by the world in later generations, and tea is one of the three major beverages in the world.  Drinking too much alcohol and coffee can harm the body, but tea is not only relatively safe, but also good for health.  Even in the United States, a big coffee country, half of the population is tea drinker.  So these are enough to show that tea can be said to be something that is loved all over the world.  But the most tragic thing is that the land in the West is not suitable for growing tea, so all tea must be imported from China.  Those Western nobles did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy tea in order to drink it, and tea has become one of the important pillars of the Tang Dynasty's foreign trade.  But Jing Wen, this guy, was so cunning that he started preparing to monopolize tea a few years ago.  At that time, drinking tea was not popular yet, and there was no technology to fry tea, so the price of tea was low.?It¡¯s not high, and no one even specializes in the tea business.  But now Jingwen has figured out the tea-frying technology and found a suitable market.  Those who like to drink tea are the literati and the Turkic nomads whose food is seriously lacking in vitamins.  Westerners are also like this, attaching great importance to the nutrition in tea.  Although they don't know anything about nutrition, they know that they will feel uncomfortable if they don't drink tea.  If I could barely tolerate it before drinking tea, but now I can¡¯t bear it without drinking tea.  Therefore, tea has become the best-selling item in the Western Roman Frank area. As long as there is stock, it will be sold without losing money.  However, Eastern tea is almost monopolized by Jingwen and is not so easy to obtain.  If it's a small amount, you might still be able to get it.  But if it is a large amount, it would be very difficult without Jing Wen¡¯s approval.  Therefore, if Westerners want to purchase tea, quota is a problem first.  Without the quota given by Jingwen, they would not be able to purchase tea.  Because tea drinking has become popular within the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to sell all the tea abroad.  This tea quota has become the most important thing for foreign businessmen, and now that Caesar can obtain a quota of 10,000 kilograms of tea per year, this is really the envy of countless people.  Just relying on this, you can travel back and forth between the East and the West several times in just a few years, which is enough money that most people will never make in a lifetime.  r1152?¡­
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