Chapter 40 Procurement
After walking for almost an hour, Qian Rujun finally walked to Dongshi. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The East Market is adjacent to the West Market, and the shops are not located on the street, but inside the market.
The fang wall is not as high as the city wall, but with Qian Rujun's height, he can't see the situation in the fang market. Even an adult can't climb the wall.
The guards at the entrance of the Fang City are the same official errand servants, but ordinary people who buy things do not have to pay money to enter the Fang City. The people they manage are the merchants in the market.
Obviously, the Han Dynasty had a commercial tax, and the transactions in the fang market were to pay taxes to the imperial court. Relatively speaking, the market is still relatively orderly. Since the East City is also divided into three professional districts, Qian Rujun had the courage to ask the official guarding the fangmen, where is the fang market that sells seeds, and the official in charge of the market is good, and replied to Qian Rujun very kindly, and after thanking the kind official, Qian Rujun went straight to the fang market.
After a narrow market entrance, Qian Rujun entered a lively place, compared with other places in Chang'an City, the so-called crowds here, large and small shops lined up along the street, and countless small vendors, gathered on the street, Qian Rujun noticed that the vendors and shops selling the same goods were almost gathered together, but at the door of each house, it seemed that there were a lot of people gathered. Qian Rujun thought to himself that although the competition in the industry is very fierce, the agglomeration effect of the fang market is still very obvious, which can bring them a lot of people and money.
The gathering of peers has also brought a lot of convenience to Qian Rujun. Relying on the Dafa of asking for directions, Qian Rujun quickly found a store specializing in selling seeds in the crop area, and felt that the specialization of these shops was already very obvious. They don't sell extra stuff, and most of them only sell one or two kinds of stuff. For example, although a merchant who sells seeds only sells seeds, there are many types of seeds. And between different businesses, there will be similarities and differences, which is almost fun.
Seeing that the seeds were so rich, Qian Rujun was not in a hurry to buy them, and walked around every stall, even the shops next to them. Although she brought a lot of money, it was impossible to buy all the seeds here. This market is really big, comparable to the wholesale market of later generations.
Qian Rujun found that the types of seeds of the Han Dynasty were not less than those of later generations, and even much richer, and in the commercialized world, the types of commodities tended to be the same, so some things with unique characteristics but small demand gradually disappeared from people's field of vision.
Seeds, after proper handling, can be preserved for a year or two, and some can remain active for up to ten years, so it's no wonder that so many seeds can be found on the market. According to Qian Rujun's calculations, this time he made a total of 152 guan 4 baht from selling adult sheep, poultry and easy-to-mature vegetables such as cabbage, which is about 2 guan 4 baht to buy seeds, which is relatively similar. Two yuan of money, Qian Rujun has it, she took out 300 wen to buy some common vegetable seeds, but these vegetable seeds are all she has not exchanged in the space, after buying back, she is going to soak the seeds in the empty spring water for a few days, and then take them out to raise seedlings.
In fact, the number of seeds bought by Sanbaiwen is already very large, and Qian Rujun can't walk at all with this pile of seeds. At this time, she was glad that Bo Qing had sent someone to follow her.
Qian Rujun beckoned to the rear, and the accompanying warriors of the Bo family in the rear immediately ran forward and asked Qian Rujun what he wanted. Qian Rujun pointed to the big bag and small bag in his hand. He said to the accompanying warriors of the Bo family, "Can you help me carry these things?"
For Qian Rujun, the very large package was not so obvious on the body of the accompanying warrior, he just carried it on his back, and Qian Rujun couldn't see the package.
So Qian Rujun no longer objected to him following him, and Qian Rujun finally experienced the fun of a handbag.
Next, Qian Rujun began to look for special seeds, especially the seeds of agarwood, sandalwood, ginseng, and huanghuali, Qian Rujun really bought the seeds of agarwood and huanghuali from a merchant from the South China Sea, and the seeds of ginseng were not obtained from a merchant in Weiman Joseon, but from a merchant who often followed the party and county transactions.
Only then did Qian Rujun know that there were also ginseng in the party. Through this merchant, Qian Rujun found the Shangdang merchant who sold ginseng.
In fact, Qian Rujun doesn't have to look for this Shangdang businessman, there are several stalls near him that are selling ginseng, and these ginsengs are even Wuhuan, Xianbei, and North Korean ginseng. It can be seen how far the Han merchants have done business.
Although these ginseng came from a distant place and were many times more expensive than ordinary fruits and vegetables, they were much cheaper than ginseng of the same year in later generations. After inquiry, Qian Rujun learned that the people of the Han Dynasty only used ginseng as a general tonic, even expensive vegetables from afar, and most of them were just for tasting.
It will take more than a hundred years for the function of ginseng to be known to the people of the Han Dynasty. However, to the envy of future generations, ginseng is now very rarely cultivated, and most of it is wild. So I don't know how long the ginseng seeds have been backlogged in the hands of businessmen, can they be planted or not?
Qian Rujun walked around several stalls, looked around, and secretly used an electric paper book to determine the year of ginseng. She found that even now, there are not many people who can dig up thousand-year-old ginseng. Since the value of ginseng is not too expensive, merchants will not secretly hide it in a box.
If the ginseng is fresh now, Qian Rujun would probably rather borrow money from Bo Qing than buy it. But these people have been transported long distances, and all of them are dried products. Therefore, Qian Rujun only found thousand-year-old ginseng and bought all the thousand-year-old ginseng on the market.
Qian Rujun found that the merchant who sold ginseng didn't know whether he wanted to deceive her as a child, or if he really didn't understand, and they couldn't tell the difference between ginseng that was more than a hundred years old.
Perhaps Qian Rujun's behavior of purchasing is too conspicuous, even if Qian Rujun has been walking with the Bo family warriors at this time, and most of the ginseng is sent to the Bo family, and the Bo family will settle the bill, when Qian Rujun left the ginseng market with empty pockets, there are still many people behind.
Their tracking behavior was too unprofessional, Qian Rujun found the person who was tailing, and naturally the Bo family warriors also found out. These people are clearly not all one and the same.
"What are they doing after me?" asked the warrior. "I've run out of money!"
The warriors of the Bo family didn't know how to answer. He looked at the people, and perhaps their purpose was complicated.
"Maybe they want to see if you lied to him! ”