After this banquet, the northwest grassland suddenly calmed down a lot. No matter how big or small, the tribes have hidden their thoughts, and there is only one thing to do at the moment, which is to urge the tribesmen to graze more and breed more, so that they can get more livestock and furs in exchange for food and silver tickets, and then buy all kinds of daily necessities and luxury goods.

With food, the tribe can develop, and only when the tribe develops can there be other ideas.

While the other small tribes were still hesitating, the five major tribes had already taken the lead in buying large stores, many warehouses, and land in Shanhai City, and built a manor in Shanhai City. The five major tribes are all rich tribes, spending money, not distressed, soon, the manor was built, although not as luxurious, huge, and extravagant as Chen Wenhui's county lord's mansion, but it is also beautiful.

When the other small tribes saw it, they still hesitated, and hurriedly bought shops, warehouses, land, and houses in Shanhai City. Those who are less financially strong also have to rent a shop or warehouse. The development of Shanhai City immediately accelerated a lot.

This continued until the fall, and as winter approached, the volume of transactions in Shanhai City increased dramatically. Because, many tribes will choose to sell these animals in autumn and winter, when the livestock is fat and strong, so as to save winter fodder. so that the tribe can survive the winter at the lowest cost.

What reassures these tribes is that although all the major tribes sell their livestock in the autumn, the grain reserves in Shanhai City are indeed very rich, and they are stunned that the price of food has not risen, and. The things sold by various Dachu merchants are also in stable supply. There has been no price increase, let alone a stock-out.

At present, livestock is basically purchased by two canning workshops run by the county lord. Of course, in the autumn, such a large volume of trade, the canning workshop could not swallow it at all, and these tribes began to pay attention to where the county lord's subordinates put such a large amount of livestock.

Originally, this was supposed to be a secret. But. Lord Wen Hui's thoughts are different from everyone's. At a time when everyone is racking their brains to probe this trade secret. Lord Wen Hui invited everyone to visit her ice cellar.

In addition to the tribal leaders who lived in Shanhai City, many of the invited people were merchants who had settled in Tiebi Pass and Shanhai City. Originally, Chen Wenhui was going to preside over such a visit. However, her body has been in the Iron Wall since she came to the Iron Wall Pass. Always sick from time to time. This time there was a bit of a chill again. can only be entrusted to Yan Shupeng to preside.

Yan Shupeng first invited everyone to the official office, and the carriage of the official office led everyone to an open place in the suburbs. There are guards here. Yan Shupeng invited everyone into a warehouse-like house. Everyone found out that there was nothing in this house. But there is a wide staircase. This staircase is also different from the normal staircase. The steps make up only a quarter of the staircase. The other three-quarters are smooth cement floors.

Everyone carefully went down the steps to the ground, but they unexpectedly saw a scene.

At this time, although it was already autumn, some scorched, some cold, and even the north of the grassland had begun to have wind and snow falling, but there was no snow in either Shanhai City or Tiebi Pass. However, in this huge underground, those tribes and Shanhai City, some merchants in Tiebi Pass saw piles of square ice blocks, stacked, in the middle of the ice blocks, every two rows of ice blocks, frozen with some slaughtered livestock.

Seeing this, a local businessman from Tiebi Pass said: "Ah, I understand, last year, when the Northwest Gonghe County Lord first came to Tiebi Pass, he recruited people to work, and nothing else, one of which was to take ice. It is said that those people chose the able-bodied people to dig the ice and transport it to the designated place. We didn't care at the time. Because we have such a habit of Dachu people, generally wealthier families will make an ice cellar at home, and in winter, cellar some ice cubes, so that in the hot summer, these ice cubes can be taken out to cool the room. At that time, we were still thinking, why does the county lord have to take so many ice cubes, although the county lord's mansion is very large, but it can't use so many ice cubes? It turned out to be used in an ice cellar. ”

Hearing this, the leader of a tribe who had been to the county lord's banquet in the summer said: "Ah, I remember, no wonder in the summer, we went to the county lord's mansion to attend the banquet, it was difficult to be hot outside, but the county lord's mansion was not hot at all, it turned out that there was an ice basin." ”

Those merchants of Da Chu all laughed. This is already very common in Dachu, and slightly wealthier families will store ice cubes in the winter, so that they can cool down in the summer. There are also many businesses that store ice in the winter so that they can sell it in the summer.

But these tribes of the steppe did not have such habits. Because they are nomadic people, they live in tents, they have no fixed place to live, and it is naturally impossible to dig cellars to store ice, and of course, there are no effective cooling measures in summer. So, the chiefs of those tribes felt the heat in the summer.

However, there are not many merchants who joke about these tribal leaders, they are more concerned about their own interests, and they have already said quickly: "This is a good way, as long as you store more ice in winter, can't you have such an ice storehouse, which can store some out-of-season vegetables and fruits and the like?" How much more do you sell vegetables for summer and winter when you put them in and eat them? ”

Everyone immediately felt that this person's brain was turning fast, after this person finished speaking, he saw everyone's eyes looking at him, and immediately regretted it, such a good idea, it would be good if he knew it, go home and build an ice cellar, and sell vegetables in winter to make a fortune, how good? Why do you have to say it. As soon as you say this, naturally everyone knows about it, I'm afraid that there are many people who have this idea, how much money can you make in the future?

The merchant bit his tongue with regret. Other merchants began to talk to each other.

The tribal leaders were relieved and exchanged ears. Some people said that they were completely relieved at this time. With this ice cellar, the county lord must be able to buy as many livestock as he wants. Can you freeze the ones that can't be used up anyway? Some people say that the people who are still in Da Chu will enjoy it, but they are too stupid, they are half dead in the grassland in winter, and half dead in the summer when they are hot. Anyway, I bought a house in Shanhai City, and I will come here in winter and summer in the future, and I will suffer from the crime. It's just a matter of spending some charcoal fire in winter, making an ice cellar, storing some ice, and enjoying it in summer.

These people exchanged ears, and Yan Shupeng, who was in charge of entertaining everyone to visit, said: "Today, I invite everyone to visit this ice cellar, because a while ago, some people in the city doubted where did the county lord buy so many livestock go?" ”

"Second, there is also news to be announced, that is, the county owner has opened up the canning business. Interested businessmen can go to the patent office to have a look. ”

After speaking, Yan Shupeng politely invited these people out of the ice cellar, sent everyone away, and gave each of them a box of canned food as a souvenir.

This visit had a far-reaching impact, the leaders of those tribes did not know how to do business, but they were relieved, and when they turned around, they urged the tribesmen to graze and raise more livestock, so that they could exchange money with the merchants of Shanhai City.

The merchants of Dachu, especially those local businessmen in Tiebiguan, many people were interested in this, and they went to the patent office to ask about buying patents and making canned food.

Because it was still autumn and it was not yet time for the frozen soil, many merchants, who were quick to act, had already bought patents, built workshops, dug cellars or looked for caves, so that they could store ice in winter, and on the one hand, they had begun to buy livestock in small quantities and start making cans.

The canned food of Tiebiguan is very popular with the people in the hinterland. In this era, meat is scarce. There is such a convenient meat to eat, and the price is not expensive, so it is naturally very popular.

The imperial court knew about it and paid attention to it, and in the end, the Ministry of War signed a contract with Chen Wenhui to order canned food from Chen Wenhui every year. Such a convenient thing is really suitable for marching and fighting.

In addition to the canned food in Dachu, the specialty of Tiebiguan is also a new thing, which is also famous everywhere.

This is still in the spring, the winter in the capital is still a little cold, there was a palace banquet, the queen mother wore a gorgeous dress, that material is not seen by everyone. Very beautiful, looks very dignified, magnificent, under a question, it turned out to be made of wool made of wool from the factory in the northwest Tiebiguan.

For a time, there were noblewomen everywhere in the capital, and noblewomen inquired about this new type of fabric, wool. Of course, Cuijin Building has prepared all kinds of new woolen clothes. A woolen fever has formed in the capital. This trend soon swept across the country.

In this way, Chen Wenhui's woolen business suddenly became popular.

The Wen family was the happiest, and their family was the first local merchant to obtain the right to act as a merchant in wool. Not only are the woolen wool that their families have hoarded before selling in Huzhou Province and Heyang Province in Jiangnan, but people from nearby Suzhou Prefecture have specially sent people to Qingyang City to buy wool.

This item made the Wen family make a lot of money.

In the autumn of that year, the Wen family's woolen workshop in Tiebiguan also opened. Although the woolen wool produced is not as good as Chen Wenhui's workshop, it also has new ideas, after all, the Wen family has been in the fabric business for several lifetimes, and this creativity is still there.

The Wen family in Tiebi Pass and the Wen family in Qingyang City were originally a family. The Wen family in Qingyang City immediately signed a contract with the eleven wool spinning workshops of the Wen family in Tiebiguan to underwrite most of the goods every year.

In this way, the business of the Wenjia in Qingyang City is getting bigger and bigger, not only operating high-grade wool, but also providing a rich supply of low-grade wool. The Wen family of Tiebiguan also got this opportunity to develop. Business is getting more and more prosperous. (To be continued......)