This young man surnamed Yang is named Yang Jiyuan, the son of Yang Kui, the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple, who is only sixteen years old this year.

Yang Jiyuan was taken to the backyard shopkeeper's room by the guy, and the shopkeeper Zheng Hongyuan was busy settling accounts in the room, and the guy probed and said: "Shopkeeper, Xiao Yang Gongzi is here!" ”

"Let him in!"

Zheng Hongyuan hurriedly recorded the calculated results, put down the pen and smiled and said to Yang Jiyuan: "Your father asked you to deliver the letter again?" ”

Yang Jiyuan hugged his fists and saluted, took out a letter from his arms and put it on the table, "For Uncle Zheng!" ”

Zheng Hongyuan glanced at the letter cover, which had a black signature pasted on it, indicating that the intelligence was important, but not in a hurry, if it was a white signature, it was ordinary intelligence, and if it was a red signature, it meant that the intelligence was important, and it was urgent.

He looked at Yang Jiyuan's figure again, and saw that he was still dressed relatively thinly, so he turned around and took out a cotton robe from the cabinet, and said with a smile: "This is a sample sent by Taiyuan, with good cotton cloth, and cotton as the core inside, it is very warm to wear, and the virtuous nephew will try it." ”

"I can't ask for this!" Yang Jiyuan hurriedly shook his head.

"You just put it on, if you don't wear it, I'll wear it for others, you just need to tell me what is lacking in this cotton robe after ten days."

Yang Jiyuan was embarrassed to put on the cotton robe, it felt very fitting and warm, he hurriedly saluted: "Thank you, Uncle Zheng, it is very warm and comfortable!" ”

Zheng Hongyuan stepped forward and pointed to a row of lines on the side and said: "The cotton inside can't be washed in the slurry, remove this side of the thread when washing, take out the cotton core inside and dry it in the sun, put it back after washing the fabric, and sew the edge up." ”

"Juniors get it!"

Yang Jiyuan gave a salute and left, Zheng Hongyuan opened the letter to take a closer look, the content of the letter was that Zhu Zhu was about to move south from Shangluo Road to Luoyang in the name of his southern tour, and he had secretly notified the court officials to pack up their valuables and prepare to follow the relocation.

At the end of the letter, it was mentioned that Zhu Jun sent Zhang Yan to Taiyuan to negotiate, mainly involving the transit of personnel and materials from Yuzhou, and Zhu Jun's bottom line was to move away 150,000 rich households in Chang'an and all the materials in Zuozangku.

These two pieces of information are very important, Zheng Hongyuan immediately used a special fine pen to write the information into a pigeon letter, and ordered the men to go to the pigeon village outside the city to release the pigeon.

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Approaching the New Year, Taiyuan City is also very lively, Taiyuan's West Market is also mainly based on clothing, food, housing and other livelihood goods, known as the gold market by the people of Taiyuan, the West City is crowded, and there are people who come to buy New Year's goods everywhere.

Guo Song changed into regular clothes and brought Du Siye and Wen Miao to Weifu for a private visit to check the people's livelihood on the spot.

Wen Miao is a local and is very familiar with Xishi, and he is responsible for leading the way along the way.

"Envoy, this is an important dividing place."

Wen Miao took Guo Song to a crossroads and said to Guo Song: "On the right hand side is the rice line, on the left hand side is the sheep line, and on the south side is the cloth and silk line, where do you want to go first?" ”

Guo Song thought for a while and asked with a smile: "Is the sheep shop specialized in selling sheep?" ”

"Exactly! Every New Year's Eve from the northern grassland to come in a large number of fat sheep, of course, is also rolling silver money to the grassland, Taiyuan middle people will basically buy a sheep back to slaughter, poor people can only buy some cheap parts of mutton, such as sheep's hooves and sheep's heads, etc., it is cheaper, buy back to stew a pot of mutton soup is also good. ”

"Let's take a look!"

Guo Song was full of interest and took the two of them to the sheep market, which was full of smell, but Taiyuan people eat sheep all year round and are also used to this smell.

The market is full of people, there is a sheepfold in front of each shop, there are more than 100 sheep in it, the people are crowded around to select the sheep, the merchants are very smart, hang a number plate on the sheep, so that it is easy to identify.

"I want the Seven! No. 7 sheep is fatter, how much is a catty? ”

The merchant knocked on the sign on the sheepfold with a bamboo pole, "Here is the price, thirty wen a catty, and your No. 7 sheep has at least fifty catties, and prepare one thousand five hundred yuan or one or a half of silver." ”

"Yo! How is it the same as usual, there is no price increase, I remember this time last year, the price of sheep was sold for fifty wen a catty! The proprietor's conscience has been discovered? ”

Another person next to him pouted and said, "Conscience bullshit, there are 300,000 Hexi sheep on the market this year, so the sheep are cheap." ”

"I see, I thought the conscience of these merchants had found out!"

The selected sheep were dragged away by the guys, and the four hooves were tied directly with hemp rope and sent to the guests' trolleys, and the money had been paid, basically the previous Kaiyuan Tongbao, and the new money made by Zhu Jun and the small money made in other places were not accepted, unless it was Hexi money, but it was not seen in the Hexi money market, and it was collected.

Guo Song walked all the way and saw that there were constantly sheep being carried out, basically Hexi sheep, this was the first batch of sheep sent from Yulin, a total of 500,000, of which 200,000 were given to the army, and the other 300,000 were put on the market, of course, not only Taiyuan, including the entire Hedong, Taiyuan was divided into 80,000 sheep.

Merchants also bought hundreds of thousands of sheep from the Sijie Department to supply the New Year's markets in Hedong states, and this year there was a cheap impact of Hexi sheep, and the price was cheaper.

Coming out of the sheep market, they came to the cloth shop again, there is a yellow crane cloth shop, which is newly opened this year, and the big money swallowed three cloth shops at once, and became one, the proprietor of the yellow crane cloth shop is Li Wenyu, this is the shop she opened, and her husband Zhang Lei has nothing to do with it, so she named it when she became a monk in Kongtong Mountain.

Of course, in addition to the cloth shop, the Meishou liquor shop has also opened in Taiyuan, specializing in high-end soju and high-end wine, and business is also particularly prosperous during the New Year.

Yellow Crane Cloth Shop is the name of Guo Song's store, Guo Song walked into the store, very coincidentally, met Li Wenyu, Li Wenyu recognized Guo Song at a glance, stunned, Guo Song hurriedly explained: "I'll go shopping, by the way to see my sister's shop." ”

Li Wenyu suddenly understood, and said with a smile: "Welcome to the junior brother to visit, I happen to be fine, take the junior brother to visit the store." ”

Li Wenyu pointed to a row of cotton robes, cotton skirts, bijia and other clothes hanging on the wall and said: "This is a good look of goods, the biggest feature of my store is to sell cotton tires, made of cotton garments, clothing tires, quilt tires, thick and thin, buy back and sew cotton cloth, if you want to buy cotton or buy cloth directly, these are all random." ”

"What about the price?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"The key is the price, are on two buys, rich people buy cotton and cashmere, one or two cotton two money, one or two cashmere ten money, ordinary people can't afford it, now you can buy cotton, one or two cotton as long as 100 yuan, much cheaper! And the quality of cotton and cotton is the same, I believe that as soon as cotton comes out, no one wants cotton, although the rich and noble families are rich, but they are not stupid. ”

"Are there many people buying?" Guo Song asked again.

Li Wenyu pointed outside and said, "Look at the people queuing outside." ”

Guo Song had already seen it, and there was a long queue outside, and there were at least two or three hundred people.

"They're all here to buy cotton tires?"

"Half and half! Either come to buy cloth or buy cotton tires, ordinary people like to buy cotton tires for robes, but don't buy cotton tires for quilts, guess why? ”

Guo Song shook his head, "I can't think of it." ”

Later, Du Siye said: "I bought a cotton robe because I can wear it during the day and seal it on the quilt at night, which is actually a quilt." ”

Li Wenyu pursed his lips and smiled: "Xiao Du is right, that's the reason." ”

Du Siye scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "Actually, my family is like this, my father has a cotton robe, he wears it during the day, and it is used as a quilt for me and my brother at night." ”

Guo Song smiled: "Then why don't you hurry up and buy two quilts and send them to your parents?" ”

"It's been sent a long time ago, and they have cotton robes and quilts."

At this time, a personal soldier stepped forward quickly and whispered a few words in Guo Song's ear, Guo Song nodded, and said to Li Wenyu: "It's a little urgent, senior sister, I'll go back first." ”

"Senior brother is going to be busy, and when the dead fat man comes back in two days, let's have a drink together."

Guo Song nodded, then turned around and left, and more than a dozen personal soldiers quickly followed Guo Song.

At this time, the short and fat shopkeeper walked up to Li Wenyu and said with a smile: "The proprietor, your junior brother is very young!" ”

"Where is he young, is he in his early thirties?"

Li Wenyu suddenly turned around and glared at the shopkeeper fiercely, "What do you mean, you mean to say that the old lady is very old now?" ”

The guys all covered their mouths and snickered, and the shopkeeper looked embarrassed.

Li Wenyu snorted, and said to the shopkeeper again: "My junior brother will come next time, don't snub him, beware of your head, do you know who he is?" ”

"Proprietor, I don't know."

Li Wenyu pointed to the sign, "This sign is the word inscribed by my junior brother, do you think who he is?" ”

"Ahh The big shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, his legs were weak for a while, and he knew who the young man was just now.