Ma Niangzi is a very particular person.

She came to visit with gifts, but the gifts were not liked by Li Kou.

Li Kou personally went outside the door to greet him, and saw Ma Niangzi carrying a gift box as if it was a bamboo steamer.

Xiao Long Bao?

Li Kou is not sure if there are xiaolongbao in this era, but there should still be one.

He was originally still a little happy, he also gave gifts, and received gifts during the New Year's holidays, but those bells and whistles were never in his heart, but in terms of practicality, he valued it the most.

Li Kou and Hu Yanzhuo shook each other, and greeted Ma Niangzi again, and said politely: "Come here, what kind of gift do you bring?!" ”

Ma Niangzi presented a gift and said: "The young gentleman has the nobility of the ancients, and he specially takes the 'five xin', and the young gentleman is not suspicious." ”

What is Wuxin?

At this time, Zhu Wen hurriedly came out of the side room, and when he heard that it was Wuxin, he respected this horse girl in his heart, and decided that she was a knowledgeable person.

Li Kou accepted the gift and invited the visitor in.

He asked Zhu Wen casually: "What is Wuxin?" ”

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "At the end of the Han Dynasty, the customs of the south of the Yangtze River at the beginning of the Wei and Jin dynasties, at the beginning of every year, people took the tender ones with onions, garlic, leeks, artemisia, and mustard, and mixed them with food. Up to now, people in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei also have the custom of eating Wuxin dishes, and Ma Niangzi is Xie Dalang Gaojie, and she will pick and make it by herself, which is her intention. ”

Li Kou said in his heart, can you eat it?

He handed the Wuxin dishes to Zhu Wen and said, "I don't understand these either, but there are old people and children, you can take them and invite them to eat, oh, just leave me some." ”

Zhu Wen did not shirk, and happily took the Wuxin vegetables back to the house.

Li Kou invited the two of them to enter the door, and said in hindsight: "Oh, the lights are not on, so it won't let people gossip, right?" ”

Ma Niangzi was slightly angry, but she looked Li Kou up and down with a smile, and said, "When will Shaojun be the horn?" When to crown? ”

Does that mean you have what it takes?

Li Kou was silent, and turned around and told the guy: "The little second brother will send some hot soup, there is work." ”

The three of them entered the door, and Ma Niangzi thanked him again: "Shaojun Gaojie ......"

"I'm just for profit, I don't have to be polite, I can't bear to go around if I have anything to say." Li Kou moved the chair and asked the two to sit down first, and he subconsciously wanted to make tea.

"Not much, and I don't have much tea." Li Kou had seen the innkeeper's tea, and he asked Zhu Wen to know that although today's tea does not put oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, it is also knocked into powder and made into soup with boiling water, and there are also milk and sugar in it, he doesn't like these, there are some tea leaves in the commissary, which is not a good tea, but it is enough for him to use usually.

Tea was brewed in the snow-white cup, Li Kou made another cup for himself, put it on the table, and sat down to look at Ma Yizhen.

Ma Yizhen noticed that the tea in the glass was bright, and clapped her hands and said: "Shaojun's glass cup is not afraid of hot water, why don't you hold a tea meeting then?" ”

Li Kou didn't understand this, so he said that it was all handled by Ma Niangzi.

Ma Niangzi asked Li Kou when he would go to investigate.

Li Kou said: "Professional things are handed over to professionals, what am I staring at?" At the time of the auction, there were no secrets that I didn't know, so I didn't have to look at them, and besides, I had things to do. ”

Ma Niangzi said strangely: "Shaojun is not afraid that I will negotiate with the buyer first, and sell it at a low price when the glass cup is held?" ”

Li Kou said: "Don't be afraid, if you dare to pit me, I will beat the glass cup into a cabbage price." ”

Hu Yanzhuo exclaimed: "What is the price of cabbage? ”

Li Kou said casually: "It's the price of the dish that no one wants for nothing." ”

Isn't there any cabbage at this time?

Of course, Li Kou didn't know that the cabbage in this era was called Song, and it was planted in the Yangtze River Basin.

It will take more than 100 years for cabbage to become all over the north and south of the river, and in the middle of winter, it will take more than 100 years, but the popularity of cabbage is not low in the Song and Song dynasties.

As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the aristocrats of the south liked to treat their guests with cabbage and abalone.

The writers of the Song and Song dynasties also had a lot of descriptions of Song, and Fan Chengda's "Autumn Pastoral Miscellaneous" said: "Stirring snow to pick up and step on the ground, the taste is like honey lotus root and fattening." ”

Su Shi, a great writer in the late Northern Song Dynasty, loved Song even more, and even thought that Song in the winter was comparable to lamb and even bear's paws.

On the occasion of the two Song Dynasty, the king of vegetables is still Kwai , from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Kwai has become the main vegetable in the north, "Book of Songs, Feng Feng, July" recorded "July cooking Kwai and Shu", Shu is a bean, Kwai is Kwai vegetables, not only okra, this thing can be planted all year round, until the arrival of the Ice Age, that is, the Yuan Dynasty, Song only replaced Kwai to become the king of vegetables in the northern region, and the Yuan Dynasty recorded that Song was in the first place in the northern vegetables.

Weizhou in the late Northern Song Dynasty was naturally Song, but the price was not cheap.

Li Kou vaguely remembered that he had found the cabbage gang in the meal last night, but he didn't know that it was expensive.

His explanation made Hu Yanzhuo suddenly realize, and couldn't help laughing: "I'm afraid that the glass cup can't enter the people, but there are more, and there is an annual output of 10,000 cups, which is also very valuable." If civilians can afford to use the glass cup, it is really worthless. ”

That's not necessary, our porcelain cups are no worse than glasses.

Li Kou said: "After that, since I have carte blanche to entrust Miss Ma to take care of it, I naturally will not interfere, how to sell this glass cup and how much it costs, I don't ask, just look at the final result." ”

This left Ma Niangzi with nothing to say.

She was going to ask Li Kou about the charter, but what if he didn't say anything?

"It's okay, Shaojun believes in me, I live up to Shaojun's good intentions." After Ma Niangzi finished speaking, she couldn't help but know what to say again.

Li Kou also felt that he had nothing to say, he was willing to discuss some martial arts with Hu Yanzhuo and ask for some art of war, but he was not familiar with this person, and the general family was not very willing to teach him.

The three of them sat relatively wordless for a moment, and Li Kou suddenly remembered to do something about a small business.

He asked Ma Niangzi where the shop was more cost-effective.

Ma Niangzi's heart was much more relaxed, and she hurriedly asked what to do.

Li Kou said: "The city wall will be repaired in February and March, and I can't sit and eat enough. I have some small cooking skills, I want to build a small car, sell noodles along the street, one is to make a living, not to let people idle, and the other is to inspect the market, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in hand, millions of dollars, otherwise where can I afford to raise hundreds of families in an inch. ”

Ma Niangzi asked, "What kind of business is Shaojun going to do?" ”

Li Kou thought for a while before saying: "I don't know for the time being, it's probably grain, maybe coal, or maybe there are some small handicrafts, does Miss Ma have anything to teach me?" ”

Hearing that he was going to sell noodles, Ma Niangzi was extremely stunned.

She didn't understand Li Kou's intention of sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars, and seeing that he had another million dollars to start a small business.

But she's so smart that she understands it with a little thought.

She smiled and clapped her hands in praise: "Shaojun is really an understanding person, first know the prices in Weizhou, and then decide what to do to make a living, this is a solid plan." It's just that Shaojun is afraid that he has forgotten that the dynasty has a 'time estimate' mechanism, if Shaojun wants to do a pasta business and look at the price of flour, as long as he looks at the list of states and counties, he will know the price of a state and a county and even all the way, why bother to inquire in person? ”

Li Kou listened confused, how did he know what the "time estimate" mechanism was.

Ma Niangzi couldn't help but laugh and said: "Shaojun doesn't know here, what kind of business is he doing?" During the Tang Dynasty, all transactions were carried out at the location designated by the government, and the market was opened by beating a drum of 300 at noon and struck by a cymbal of 300 at sunset to indicate the closing of the market. ”

Li Kou nodded and said: "This can be understood, the system used in the Tang Dynasty is the fang market system, and I have heard that it is not allowed to set up stalls along the street." ”

"That's the case, at that time, the government had the post of 'city order', in charge of the transactions of hundreds of ethnic groups, and all transactions between the markets were based on the government's pricing. In order to set the price, the government estimates the price of each commodity every ten years and then implements it in the market, usually based on the quality of the commodity, and determines the upper, middle and lower three products, which is the so-called 'Sanjia Jun City', which is the 'time evaluation' mechanism. "Ma Niangzi is a good teacher in business, and she earnestly teaches Li Kou about history.

After hearing this, Li Kou said with some disappointment: "Isn't this a planned economy?" Such a system is only afraid that it will not be able to keep up with the changes in the market, and the dynasty will not be perfected? ”

Ma Niangzi said with a smile: "Naturally, it is necessary to improve, after the late Tang Dynasty, the fang market system gradually disintegrated, and the 'time estimate' mechanism was inherited by the national dynasty." It's just that the previous city order has now been changed to the city affairs department, and most of the responsibilities have been merged into the promotion department, and the city affairs department is in charge of the procurement and valuation of the state government, as well as assisting the government in collecting taxes. On the last day of each decade, the business leaders of various industries in one county and one state and the county or state government shall assess the commodity prices for the next ten years according to the prices of the day at that time, register and report them level by level, and finally summarize them and keep them with the three divisions. ”

Li Kou exclaimed: "It's really a clever move, there is such a mechanism, and gradually establish control over the prices of the whole country, not only can stabilize prices, but also can allocate resources according to needs," but he believes that such a mechanism may not be implemented well, "but if the national law is not perfect, I am afraid that thousands of speculative businessmen will be established long ago." ”

He also asked Ma Niangzi about the steps of valuation, Ma Niangzi was the head of the Wang Grain Store at the head of the Weizhou grain merchants, and she should know.

Ma Niangzi shook her head and said: "It is useless for Shaojun to ask this, where it is beneficial, it has long been seized by speculative businessmen, they do not produce but only use the money in their hands to make more money, this is a vain business, except for creating some rich people, it is not beneficial to the country and the people." It's just that the goods in the market are abundant, and there must be a premium that people will plunder, and although these merchants make profits, it is also a good thing to promote widely circulated goods in the world. ”

Li Kou's admiration in his heart was beyond words.

Isn't this exactly the "industry" and "finance" of the Song Dynasty?

Li Kou praised Ma Niangzi again: "The girl is really a rare business talent. ”

He doesn't like finance, not at all.

But he also knows that finance is inevitable in the development of industry and commerce, and in ancient times, there were people who realized that finance could not produce value, and only industry and commerce could create value.

Even many of them may not be as soberly as this girl who realizes that industry and commerce are the foundation of the market, and finance can only produce inflated value.

Ma Yizhen looked directly at Li Kou with a smile and said, "I see that Shaojun has a large number of commodities in his hands, not at this time, and not necessarily in the future." Why don't we make a gentleman's agreement, whether you are studying, joining the army, or being a rich idler, then if you have a commodity, why not hand it over to me to sell, and sell it exclusively first, and then discuss the profits? ”

Li Kou said: "Let me stand on my feet first and spare me half a year, okay?" ”

Miss Ma stretched out her little white jade hand and said, "Then a gentleman's word?" ”

Li Kou sleeved his hands and said, "Don't worry. ”

Ma Niangzi's jade hand fell into the air, and she couldn't help but feel angry in her heart.

She got up and left in a huff.

Li Kou said in his heart: "You are a beauty, you shouldn't want to bully me, are you yes or no?" ”

It's the pole, it's the pole.