Zhang Xiaowu asked the shopkeeper named Zhang Cai to come for questioning, and told everyone to take the opportunity to take a break, eat and drink some water. Seeing this, the people of the caravan immediately flattered and offered snacks and water, and Ruan Qingwen hurriedly excused himself and said that the ghost guards did not accept food from outsiders. The guys of those caravans immediately sighed: "This is the Heavenly Army, this is the Shenghan Army." ”

Ruan Qingwen Qi said: "What do you say? ”

The guy said: "When we passed by the Two Wolves Pass, we almost got stripped of a layer of skin, those damn **." It is in the Central Plains that the most feared thing is the official army, they are even more bandits than bandits, alas......"

Zhang Xiaowu drank wine, served bread and salted jerky, and waited for Zhang Cai to come over. After a while, a slightly short, dark, and fat man walked over in a cute manner, and said solemnly: "The villain Gu family's business name Zhang Cai, the general manager of Saibei, has seen General Saibei. ”

Zhang Xiaowu nodded, beckoned him closer, and asked, "Your Gu family's business name, but the business name of the military advisor Gu Yong's family?" ”

That Zhang said: "Exactly." ”

Zhang Xiaowu quipped: "Your Gu family is quite interesting, the first to run if there is danger, and the first to come when there is no danger, but I don't know whether to say that your courage is commendable or you see the wind and rudder." ”

Zhang Cai blushed and said: "Back to the general's words, we are most afraid of danger when we do business, but there is no danger, so we naturally rush to do business." ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked: "Now that the whereabouts of Gu Junshi are unknown, who is in charge of the Gu family?" ”

Zhang Cai said: "The head of the Gu family's business is still there, and the military master is the third young master of my family, the business of the Gu family has always been taken care of by the eldest young master, and the eldest young master of my family is named Gu Zhao, although he is not as famous as the third young master, but in Longdu City, the reputation of my eldest young master is much greater than that of the third young master." ”

Zhang Xiaowu was surprised: "It turns out that Gu Junshi is not the head of the Gu family, I thought it was ......"

Zhang Cai smiled slightly, and said politely: "The head of the Gu family is the old lord, and the old lord is still physically strong now, where is the turn of the third young master to be the head of the family." The third young master is a member of the clan, and the Gu family has both the third young master and other sons. Although the Gu family suffered a catastrophe the year before last, the Gu family still did not fall, and the Gu family business can now go to Saibei to do business. ”

Zhang Xiaowu suddenly realized, it seems that the scholar family is indeed different from ordinary people, the family has a big business, even without Gu Yong as a backer, the Gu family is still a wealthy family in Longdu City. Looking at today's Gu family caravan, more than 60 horses pulling a cart of goods, I have to say that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the reason why the Shi clan is a Shi clan is because they have big trees and deep roots, and they will never fall down easily because of something.

That Zhang Cai said again: "The head of the family said that the ghost will be famous in the north, and the dog will not dare to go south, but today it is so big, but the plague is rampant everywhere in the thief, but it is the beginning of the north and it is safe." My Gu family might as well shift the focus of business to Saibei, with the general as the Dinghai Shen Needle, there will definitely be no war in Saibei in the next few years. Therefore, our caravans dare to go out of the customs to sell. He turned around and introduced, and said, "General, please come with me, I think this cart of goods must be extremely needed by the military and civilian people of Mucheng." ”

Zhang Xiaowu followed behind Zhang Cai and watched him introduce him.

This time, the caravan sent by the Gu family firm to Saibei had a total of fifty carriages, and the silk alone was enough to load ten carts, as well as ten carts of porcelain, ten carts of ironware, ten carts of spices, and the other ten carts were other miscellaneous carts. Among them, the most strange thing for Zhang Xiaowu is the ironware, it has always been said that the two wolves are not allowed to sell ironware without permission, but Zhang Cai smiled: "This statement has long been outdated, now as long as there is silver, the wolf guard will never stop it, and even help us transport iron." He opened a random box, which was full of scissors of different sizes, and opened another box, which was actually a box of needles.

Most of the ironware sold by the Gu family firm is household utensils, including iron pots, scissors, needle shuttles, iron saws, door locks, iron chains, iron nails, shovels, kitchen knives, bone chopping knives, knives, hammers, etc., and there is no contraband. However, iron tools can be made into weapons after forging, so a certain amount of iron will still bring safety hazards to Shenghan.

Nowadays, what Mucheng needs most is actually spices, and the people have tried to plant various spice plants around Mucheng, including dogwood, cardamom, cloves, peppercorns, etc., but the yield is low, and the survival rate is not high. Zhang Xiaowu looked at the cart of spices, his heart was happy, and then he saw another cargo, salt, and was stunned, pulled Zhang Cai over and said, "This ......"

Zhang Cai said: "General, if I don't want to bring more salt, we brought ten carts of salt, but when the two wolves passed, eight carts were intercepted by the wolf guards. If it weren't for the eight carts of salt being forcibly bought, we wouldn't have been able to get out, sorry, sorry. But I can guarantee that next month, there will be a car salt delivered to Mucheng. ”

Zhang Xiaowu shook his head, took him directly to his convoy, lifted the tarpaulin, pointed to the salt on his convoy and said, "Look at our salt." ”

Zhang Cai was also dumbfounded, counted them one by one, and said in amazement: "My lord, you ...... you"

"We have salt wells, we don't lack salt, you look at the salt in Mucheng." Zhang Xiaowu casually opened a packet, Zhang Cai took a look, and saw that this Mucheng salt was so white and clean, far better than his own coarse salt, and immediately exclaimed: "This is refined salt, the essence of salt, only the palace and dignitaries can afford to eat." ”

Wang Yijin said: "We, the people of Mucheng, generally use it to pickle meat and vegetables. ”

"Waste! What a waste! Zhang Cai shouted, he paced back and forth, and then said: "General, it is better to send this cart of salt to the Gu family business in Longdu, and I am willing to buy it at three times the price." ”

Zhang Xiaowu was about to agree, but suddenly smiled and said: "We really want to send it to Longdu to sell, but the one with the highest price will get it, and if someone pays three times the price, we are also willing to sell." ”

Zhang Cai was anxious, and hurriedly said: "General, the Gu family firm will definitely not bully you on the price again, and this experience will be sold at three times the price, and it will never take advantage of you." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "That's it, there are a lot of refined salt wood cities, you can exchange goods for refined salt, as for these refined salts in my car, they will be given to the Gu family as a meeting gift." ”

"How can it be done, our Gu family's business is based on fairness and integrity, and the generals do not take advantage of it, nor do they take advantage of the people." Zhang Cai said, "In this way, I will write a letter, and the adults can transport these truckloads of refined salt to the Gu family's business, and they will definitely know the reason for it." In the future, the ghost guard and the Gu family can have more contacts, and we complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. ”

Zhang Xiaowu laughed: "You, the chief shopkeeper, are very skillful." ”