Chapter 5: Matches Are a Weapon of Death (Part II)

Liu Yu, who returned to modern times, stood on the side of the road, looking at the speeding cars, and felt jet lag.

The delivery date agreed with Ding Yingwen was three days later, the time was tight and the task was heavy, Liu Yu beckoned to stop a taxi, looked out the window and sorted out his thoughts in his mind.

First of all, we have to find a warehouse in Tongzhou, and the location should be as biased as possible, preferably the rural fields that were previously requisitioned. Most of the time you go over there is wasteland, and if you can buy it, build a large shed to cover it. Farmland is fine, as long as it can be handled.

Secondly, I want to get a means of transportation, 10,000 boxes of matches are not heavy, 120 pounds, but the volume is a bit large, and one person is estimated to be unable to get it. The car is a bit mysterious, and the agricultural three-wheelers are too against the sky to explain.

After thinking about it, Liu Yu suddenly thought of the board car, which is the kind used by migrant workers near the train station to pull goods, which should not attract attention.

"Master, do you know where there is a match factory in Tongzhou?" The supply of goods is also a problem, in case there is no local problem, it is very troublesome, and I don't know how long it will take to transport it from other places.

Fortunately, the taxi driver told Liu Yu that there was a local craft match factory in Tongzhou, which could order matches for various gifts, and Liu Yu hurriedly asked the driver to pull directly to the factory.

This match factory is located in the economic development zone, which was still rural five years ago, 10,000 boxes of matches without any label, the manufacturer only needs 900 yuan, completed in three days, and sent to the local area.

Liu Yu paid a deposit of 100 yuan, there was no money, the rest of the card was remitted to his parents, Liu Yu had less than 300 cash in total, of course, there were 2 and a half catties of gold in the bag, which had to be exchanged for money to use.

With the last money, he took a taxi back to the imperial capital, and Liu Yu found a big gold store and sold the gold in his hand, 1220 grams, 312 grams sold for a total of more than 380,000 points. This point of goods was not even alarmed by the store manager.

"With the start-up capital, this is our first pot of gold." Liu Yu, who walked out of the store, looked at the imperial capital under the sunset and muttered to himself.

The fat man is going to say hello, this friend is not bad, and both of them can make friends.

After working in the company for several years, the big and small leaders are not bad to themselves, even if they want to leave, they have to write a letter of resignation to someone, from beginning to end.

"Yuzi, I know you have a new way, let's not ask, that is, don't forget your buddy when you get rich, and contact more often!" When the station broke up, the fat man stared at the distance and came with such a sentence.

A table of wine of more than 2,000 yuan is actually not as comfortable as the barbecue restaurant I used to go to, and I don't feel like I have eaten anything.

The fat man didn't talk much and seemed very silent, but his girlfriend's statement was full of interest and asked questions, Liu Yu told them that they had gone to Africa to sell matches, half-truths, no one believed them.

"Damn." Liu Yu punched him funny.

"Don't pretend to be deep, it's not your style, it's a way, it's still going, when you have eyebrows, when you want to ask you for help, don't ignore buddy."

Liu Yu has some ideas, but he is not mature yet, and it is not time to take them out.

"What's the way, reveal one!" Next to the statement gossip fire burning.

"Didn't I sue you guys, selling matches to Africa, we can also support the people of the Third World to overthrow the three mountains and run towards a better new life." Liu Yu said with a straight face.

"Cut!" The two of them gave him a middle finger in unison. After the three broke up, Liu Yu returned to his rental house, washed briefly and fell asleep, tired.

At the end of September in the 13th century, it was already a bit autumnal, and Liu Yu, who was dragging a cart, looked similar to the buddies of the Ding family's horse team, and if he ignored his complexion, he still looked a little white.

Seeing that the city gate of Luxian County was already in sight in the distance, Liu Yu stopped, picked up the white towel on his body, and wiped the sweat on his head, "It's really hard to work hard!" ”

A tall man in front of the city gate was looking forward with his hands folded, and suddenly rubbed his eyes with his hands in disbelief, and then got up and ran over.

"Childe, Childe, it's Gongzi Liu in front!" The man yelled as he ran.

"You are" Liu Yu looked at the person running over suspiciously.

"The little one is Lao Zhang under Ding Tou, and he has been in the same car with you, don't you remember?" The man ran to Liu Yu's side and looked up and down.

"Lao Zhang, I remember, are you waiting for me here?" Liu Yu remembered this man, yes, he was in Lao Zhang's car to enter the capital.

"As soon as the sky is bright, I will be waiting for you, not only me, Ding Tou, but also the owner has already arrived in the county. How can you pull the cart yourself! ”

Lao Zhang couldn't help but say that he took over Liu Yu's cart belt, and Liu Yu didn't refuse, and turned to the back of the car to prepare to push.

"You sit on it, it's good to come to the small one, this car is good, it's easy to pull, it's really light!" Seeing Lao Zhang easily pull the cart and run in front, Liu Yu smiled bitterly and followed.

Lu County is connected to the capital city on the top and Zhigu (modern Tianjin) on the bottom, with a lot of people, which is a prosperous territory.

Lao Zhang pulled quickly, and Liu Yu almost had to run with all his strength to keep up. After a while, I arrived at a large courtyard, and when I entered through the open courtyard gate, Lao Zhang's loud door rang.

"The owner, the owner, Liu Gongzi has arrived!"

A person hurriedly walked out of the middle hall, and was greeted by a fist-hugging fist, "Brother Liu, can you count it as coming, how can you go all the way?" "It's Ding Yingwen.

"The blessing of the Tuodong family is quite smooth." Liu Yu moved his somewhat sore arm and returned the salute with a wry smile.

The cart pulled by Liu Yu was covered with a large canvas, and when the cloth was opened, it was ten neatly stacked cardboard boxes. Each box contains 20 small packets, 50 boxes in a pack, a total of 1000 boxes. Ten boxes is 10,000, which is a good number.

The guys counted the number, and Ding Yingwen directly asked Liu Yu to borrow the car, put on the horse and send it to the capital. He invited Liu Yu into the hall and threw him a heavy bag.

"This 10,000 boxes, plus the 20 mirrors put down by the elder brother before, 20 fragrant pancreas, 50 boxes of tap fire, a total of 190 taels of pure gold, have been redeemed, and the elder brother said that it is right."

"No need, you can't trust the owner, it seems that this tap fire is still selling well?" Liu Yu glanced at a small scale placed on a few points,

In fact, he won't use it at all, if the balance is estimated to be okay.

"It's not just a good sale, a certain one introduced to a few acquaintances, 50 boxes were snatched up by him, and those who didn't grab it asked when they would be in stock.

I was tired of asking, so I ran here to hide, thinking that my brother should also arrive. Ding Yingwen looked excited. The price he offered was 200 wen a box.

"Oh, then rest assured." This is the beginning, and the real sales depend on the 10,000 boxes. Ding Yingwen didn't mention anything else, Liu Yu estimated that it wasn't sold out, so he was not interested in knowing how much else was sold, so take his time.

Like last time, Liu Yu exchanged more than 30,000 yuan for silver ingots, which were used for consumption in this time and space. Anyway, the excess can be exchanged for gold, which can be regarded as profit. After sitting and drinking tea, Liu Yu and Ding Yingwen rushed to Dadu together.

On the way, Ding Yingwen saw that he didn't have many people, so he went to the market to buy a few. This is the universal rule of this time and space, and Liu Yu has been able to accept it. In any case, it is better to fall into your own hands than to be enslaved by the Mongols or the Semu people, who have no life guarantee at all.

was different from what Liu Yu thought, Ding Yingwen took him not to pick people in the kind of bazaar he saw last time, but to find a restaurant box.

I saw Ding Yingwen say a few words to Xiao Er, and the two of them ate and drank, and Liu Yu was indeed a little hungry. After a while, I saw a person brought in by Xiao Er, and after listening to the answer, it turned out to be a man, equivalent to a broker in later generations.

After a while, Ding Yingwen saw that Liu Yu had almost eaten, so he beckoned and instructed the man, "Since you are here, let's take a look." ”

didn't wait for Liu Yu to ask, "What are you looking at?" The man opened the curtain and shouted, and a group of mermaids rushed in, a man and two women, both with their heads bowed. Ding Yingwen told them to raise their heads.

Liu Yu looked over one by one, the man looked old, and he couldn't say how big it was, his hand joints were thick, and he should be used to doing coolies. The eldest woman is estimated to be the wife, and the smaller one should be the daughter. He is still young and childish.

Is this a family? Liu Yu didn't know why he looked at Ding Yingwen.

Ding Yingwen looked at it for a while, and asked a few more words, it seemed that it was his hometown, what had he done before, and so on. Then he waved them down.

"Brother, how is it, I think this is good, the man has the strength, the woman is a rough mother-in-law, the female baby, be a girl.

I asked if it was a southerner, and he was caught and sold by the army, if he could follow his brother, it would be regarded as his creation. Ding Yingwen turned his head and explained carefully to Liu Yu.

In fact, Liu Yu really wanted to buy a few strong ones as guards, Ding Yingwen smiled when he heard his thoughts,

"Don't do that, the most important thing for such a person is faithfulness, and the guards around him are either sons of the family or are gracious. It can only be used if you know the roots. How can those who buy it be used, in case they have evil intentions, and they can't regret it. ”

In the end, Liu Yu bought two families according to Ding Yingwen's Jianyì, one was the three who came in at the right time, and the other was a couple of two, with no children and no daughters.

Liu Yu took a fancy to the man and had some strength, and it was okay to come to be a nurse or a coachman.

"Brother, now you can't live in an inn anymore, it's better to rent a house in the city, so that you can accommodate these many people." Ding Yingwen's eyes were inquiring.

"That's what I mean, the owner can have an introduction." Renting a small courtyard, it is convenient to do whatever you want, Liu Yu originally thought so.

"Yes, come with me." Ding Yingwen smiled and went out first.

After walking for more than an hour, the group came to a house in front of a large camphor tree at the door, with deep roots and many leaves, which seemed to be quite old.

"It's here, Sanjin, the owner of the house is an old friend, some small, the elder brother will be placed first, if it is not satisfactory, then visit carefully." Ding Yingwen turned his head and said to Liu Yu.

"I'm already grateful, how dare I bother anymore." Liu Yu looked at it with some satisfaction.

Pushing the door in, the ground is still clean except for some fallen leaves, there are four wings on each side, there is a small garden at the end, and there is a well in the front yard and the back yard. There is a lot of taste of the courtyard house of the old imperial capital.

Liu Yu sent someone to the Sunrise Inn to settle the bill and check out, and then signed a contract with the landlord for half a year, which is considered to have a nest in this time and space.

Sending Ding Yingwen away, Liu Yu moved a reclining chair and sat under the tree, watching a few people busy and feeling refreshed, no wonder they all want to be capitalists, this feeling of exploiting people is different.

Squinting and looking up at the sky, it was bluer than the emperors of later generations, but it was still like a layer of fog, could it be that there was already a sandstorm at this time?

Most of the pork is 20 wen a catty, and beef and mutton are cheaper, 15 wen. Listening to Liu, who bought vegetables, he said that the Song people in the south were not allowed to kill cattle, and beef could not be eaten. It is estimated that because of the Mongols, the price is cheap and sufficient.

Liu is the mother-in-law of the three people, her man's name is Wang Zhong, and her daughter's name is Niu'er, which is probably a nickname.

Liu can make pasta dishes such as cakes and buns, and his skills are not bad. It's not good to cook, a large piece of beef is directly cooked and sliced, and then a bowl of soy sauce, vinegar, salt, pepper or something is done.

Although there are no fancy, the taste is okay, Liu Yu broke a bun and sandwiched a few slices of beef and sprinkled the seasoning, and ate endlessly.

The five newly bought people saw that the new owner was not in a bad temper and was good to serve, and he was generous and had meat to eat, so they were originally a little nervous and uneasy, but they slowly settled down.

The next day, Liu Yu was eating lunch, and as soon as he put down the bowl, he heard Li San, who was guarding the door, come in to report that Ding Yingwen was coming.

Li San is the man in the two families who have no children and no daughters, and he is the third in the family, so he is named Li San. Her mother-in-law, Zhang, is responsible for laundry and cleaning, and she is also a diligent person.

Liu Yu hurriedly welcomed Ding Yingwen into the inner hall, and Yahuan, that is, the little girl Niu'er, came in with a plate and served tea, and went down with her head down.

Ding Yingwen glanced at her and said with a smile:

"Brother, are you still used to it, and how well you serve?"

"Hehe, the owner said it was funny, you might as well say it directly." Liu Yu really doesn't like to be polite.

"Brother, can you send some more goods as much as you can? From yesterday to now, half of the stores have been sold, and I am afraid that in a day or two, there will be no goods to sell. ”

Although he was already optimistic, it was still a bit unexpected for Ding Yingwen to sell so hot.

For this reason, he specially changed the original ironware shop into a match specialty. There are rumors that the Yuan people already have the intention of banning iron, and the profits are not high, so they simply changed it directly.

"That's no problem, I'll leave today, and the goods will arrive in three days at most." is similar to what Liu Yu thought, 10,000 boxes in three days, 100,000 in a month.

There are more than 100,000 households in the capital, more than 500,000 people. How can this amount be reached. A box of 50 matches was used for almost half a month before it was gone.

Based on 100,000 boxes, 1,250 taels of gold, 50,000 grams. 15.6 million yuan, the cost of 9,000 yuan is directly negligible.

This is a big killer! Liu Yu was stunned by the results he calculated. In fact, he didn't know that compared with those big cows, his appearance was really discrediting the traverser.