For a thousand years of ginseng, I will give a hundred taels of gold. ”

Most of the ginseng on the market is five-year-old, ten-year and hundred-year-old ones are rare, and thousand-year-old ones are very rare.

If the average pharmacy has a thousand-year-old ginseng plant, it is the existence of the treasure of the town.

Five-year-old ginseng, one foot tall, fat, fleshy, yellowish-white, cylindrical or spindle-shaped, slightly branched underneath; The rhizome is short and erect, and the top of the stem of the plant has five whorls of compound leaves, called "five leaves".

Millennial ginseng is cylindrical, three feet high, long human body, born limbs, long whiskers, old and tough, sparse and long, it is decorated with millet granular small pimples called "pearl points", the color is white and brittle, the reed is long, the old skin, yellow-brown, the texture is tight and shiny, at the upper end of the hair root, the shoulder head, there are fine and deep screw-like horizontal lines.

The shopkeeper Sun, who sold grain, looked carefully and again, and he decided to make a move.

Because his old mother in the family had a stubborn disease, which can only be cured by a thousand years of ginseng.

Although he also knows that ginseng does not have the role of flesh and bones in the rumored life, it can indeed hang their lives and prolong their life for a few years for some stubborn diseases or some frail people.

"I heard that this thing can aphrodisiac." A merchant in the crowd glanced down, slapped his thigh, and followed the offer.

"I'll give you five hundred taels of gold."

Five hundred taels of gold is equal to five thousand taels of silver, and you can buy artillery.

It seems that both ancient and modern people are quite concerned about that aspect of things.

Shopkeeper Sun glanced back at him, and after realizing that he didn't know the person, he turned his head and was about to increase the price.

"I gave 1,000 taels of gold, and the thousand-year-old ginseng given to you is a tyrannical thing, and it will be useful to give us medicine." Boss Cao, a pharmacist, is rumored to be a branch of the Taigu Cao family.

As soon as he spoke, all the merchants hesitated.

The Taigu Cao family was a prominent wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty, and it also had a certain influence in Nanzhili.

Shopkeeper Sun naturally knew it, he frowned, and Shi Li explained.

"My mother's heart is weak, the spleen and stomach are difficult to adjust, and it has become a stubborn disease around the body for many years, and now only a thousand years of ginseng can be cured, and I hope that Cao's shopkeeper will be convenient."

Ginseng is suitable for adjusting blood pressure, restoring heart function, neurasthenia and physical weakness, and also has the effects of expectorant, stomach, diuretic, and exciting.

It is just useful for the stubborn illness of Sun's shopkeeper's mother.

"It's not that I'm not convenient, President Wang said, the one with the highest price wins, let's rely on our abilities." Shopkeeper Cao replied lightly.

Shopkeeper Sun pondered for a while, his face was unhappy, he flicked his sleeves, snorted coldly, and bought Goryeo's century-old ginseng, as for the thousand-year-old ginseng, he was bought by Shopkeeper Cao at the price of 1,000 taels of gold.

Shopkeeper Sun bought hundred-year-old Korean ginseng, and his face became gloomy as soon as he opened his mouth.

As soon as he bid for the merchant who wanted to aphrodisiac, he added ten taels, and he was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

When the hundred-year-old Korean ginseng touched his bottom line, he still reluctantly gave up.

Shopkeeper Sun no longer had the slightest interest in the other treasures that Wang Xian had shown, he was more concerned about his mother's body.

If his mother's health fails, no amount of money he makes.

The treasures that Wang Xian auctioned were carefully selected by him from the spoils of Amin Belle.

Basically, one of each treasure was chosen, and the auction ended quickly.

"As you can see, these treasures are all obtained from outside the customs, and their value is clear to you.

Ming people don't talk darkly, let's open the skylight and say bright things.

If you want to get these treasures, you have to go out, and you have to join the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and everyone who joins the Chamber of Commerce can get the qualification to go out.

For the specific matters of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, you should ask the president of the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce. Wang first stretched out his hand to lead Wang Shen and retreated.

"Let's be restless, let's first understand what the Chamber of Commerce is, what is the use of the Chamber of Commerce, why do you want to join the Chamber of Commerce, come here, and send the "Chamber of Commerce Regulations" to everyone to see."

This "Chamber of Commerce Regulations" is a general version produced by Wang Zezhi, which is applicable to any chamber of commerce.

"To do business, you have to have connections, and connections are the greatest wealth, this sentence is good..."

"It is difficult to fight alone, and it is difficult to fight alone, only through the chamber of commerce, strong and strong join forces, resources complement each other, and the strong lead the weak, in order to develop together..."

"Join this chamber of commerce, you can obtain the right to go out of the customs to do business, and the members of this chamber of commerce who go to the naturalized city to do business before killing the tiger have the right to trade in rated prohibited items, and the rated prohibited items include ironware, salt, grain and other goods, hiss~"

The merchants all gasped when they saw this, and they could take forbidden items out of the customs and trade, which meant huge profits.

"Why doesn't there be a rated trade right for customs clearance from Xinpingbao?" The shopkeeper of the medicine store Cao asked puzzled.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall had nine important towns, namely Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Taiyuan Town, Yulin Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, and Gansu Town.

If you want to get out of the customs, there are only these nine openings, and there is no other exit.

Why is that?

In addition to the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty, it was caused by the external terrain.

There are nine passages in the nine openings of the business trip, and these passages are in the cracks of the mountains.

If you go somewhere else, let alone no road, even if you do, you will die of thirst because there is no water on the road.

For the merchants who have passed through the customs, Zhangjiabao is located in Xuanfu Town, which is the east exit in the east.

Kill the tiger's mouth is located in Datong Town, and in the west is the west entrance.

In the Ming Dynasty, the poor and miserable people in the mountains and Shaanxi intermittently "went to the west exit".

They crossed the Great Wall and came to the meadows, herded sheep, cultivated the land, and struggled to make ends meet.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the population of the interior increased sharply, and the ratio of people to land was out of balance, and a large number of people joined the team to go to the west.

There was no shortage of nimble minds among the people who walked through the West Exit, and they became merchants.

The merchants of Shanxi and Shaanxi poured out, passing through Shuozhou and Youyu, and went out to kill the tiger's mouth, to the naturalization, Suiyuan, and Kulun that took over the business world.

The people of northern Shaanxi went out of Yusai, passed through Wushen and Etuoke, went to Hangjin Houqi, and went to Houtao.

Whether it is killing the tiger's mouth or Yusai, they are all in the west of the Great Wall, collectively referred to as the west entrance.

In the Chongzhen period, Chongzhen ordered a ban on border trade.

Now there are only two passages in Wang Zezhi's hands, one is to go to Guihua City and Ordos's Killing Tiger Pass, and the other is to detour through the old land of Mongolian Lindan Khan Chahar to Xinpingbao in Houjin.

As for the other exits, they are mostly closed.

Liaodong Town and Jizhou Town, under the management of Yuan Chonghuan, banned border trade to prevent funding Huang Taiji.

Xuanfu Town is in the hands of Geng Ruqi and Wei Yunzhong, both of whom are masters of oil and salt, and they will not open the border market privately without the order of Emperor Chongzhen.

Taiyuan Town is in the hands of Song Tongyin, he is busy suppressing bandits, not to mention that he can't spare time to switch the mutual market, even if he can't pull out, he won't open the border without the order of Emperor Chongzhen.

Yulin Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, Gansu Town, the whole town is under martial law, they are busy resisting the rebellious hungry people, and they have no time to take care of the affairs of going out of the customs and doing business.

The reason why Wang Zezhi did not allow Xinpingbao to take forbidden objects out of the customs was because Xinpingbao, like Zhangjiabao, had a passage to reach Houjin.

The Mongol tribes around Naturalization City have been truly controlled by him, and he is allowed to have the right to trade prohibited items within the prescribed limits.

Liaodong Huang Taiji will not be subdued by him, and Huang Taiji will not only not be subdued by him, but also his confidant.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi is not allowed to leave the customs with prohibited objects from Xinpingbao, even if he joins the Chamber of Commerce, he does not have this power.

The Cao family came to Kanto to start by growing vegetables, raising pigs, and grinding tofu, and slowly prospered.

After the business improved, it began to get involved in more industries, the most important of which was the brewing industry.

Slowly the Cao family became a big merchant outside the Guan, and the Cao family began to develop in the Guannai during the Chongzhen period, and the business projects included silver money, silk, cloth, wool, pigments, medicinal materials, fur, groceries, foreign goods, wine, grain stores and so on.

The Cao family's business started from outside the customs, so naturally they would inevitably bring some forbidden items out of the customs and sell them to Houjin.

When the shopkeeper Cao saw that the "Regulations of the Chamber of Commerce" stipulated that there was no right to trade prohibited items from Xinpingbao, he was a little unhappy.