Yu Wenwen was in a good mood when he disposed of the fake gold products without knowing it, so when he met Li Hui and the others, he used spices for the first time to cover up the gradually obvious smell of corpses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, Yuwen Wen is not a zombie, and his body does not emit the smell of corpses, these smells are emitted by the corpses everywhere in Dianchong City, which can be regarded as his deliberate doing.

After the Zhou army broke through the Dianchong and plundered the army, the city was full of dead people, because no one restrained it, so the corpses decomposed very quickly in the hot weather, and they could not be detected by the quiet wind, but as long as the wind blew, the smell could be smelled.

Yuwen Wen has been in the army for many years, and like the soldiers, he has immunity to the smell of corpses that is not very concentrated, but Li Hui and the others are not good, and when they enter the city, they come all the way, and they only feel sick to their stomachs when they smell the smell.

Thanks to the smell of the room at this time, the disgusting smell has been covered up without a trace, so Li Hui and the others can calmly talk to the King of Xiyang.

"Everyone says that Lingbiao is a place of smoke and miasma, especially in the summer when the miasma is a place for people to stay, as a result, Jiaozhou is even worse than Guangzhou, and Linyi is a little hotter than Jiaozhou, and the officers and soldiers are more unaccustomed to the water and soil, can you still withstand it?"

"Back to the king, the grass people and others can withstand it."

"Don't be reckless, everyone in this place is not used to drinking water, and there are not a few people in the army who have stomach troubles, and you are afraid that you can't get used to drinking it, otherwise why do you drink coconut water all day long?"

Yu Wenwen smiled, and motioned for the guards to bring the coconut water that had already been prepared, which was one of the few liquids he dared to drink with an open stomach in Dianchong, even if the local river water and well water were boiled and drunk, he felt that the taste was a little strange.

Seeing that Yu Wenwen was in a good mood, Li Hui and a few other young people gradually became less restrained, after all, the status of the King of Xiyang is noble, and he has the support of the King of Qi, and he can walk sideways in Shannan, and it is as easy as leveling a family and crushing an ant to death.

Even if his Aya didn't dare to pant loudly when he saw each other, let alone them, but now in the eyes of Li Hui and others, King Xiyang is like a peer with a good relationship, and everyone drinks tea and chats together.

"I don't know what the water here tastes like when the tea is brewed, but fortunately I don't have to stay long, otherwise I will really fall ill and I'll be done, and you're done with all the things in your hands?"

"Back to the king, everything has been done, there are many merchants in Linyi Port, and the goods brought by the grass people are very easy to sell."

"Oh, did Kunlun Nu buy a few?"

"Naturally, I bought some, and I want to bring them back to Xiyang, which will attract everyone to watch."

"This is natural, to be trained well, take it with you as a relative, visit relatives and friends or travel with friends, that is to be more eye-catching and eye-catching, walking on the streets of Xiyang, how many little ladies have to come to watch!"

Yu Wenwen joked, the atmosphere gradually relaxed, his status was noble but he had no intention of putting on a show, so he didn't pay so much attention to the conversation, and when everyone drank the coconut water in their hands, he turned to the topic.

"Everyone followed the official army through the Great Yuling, and arrived at Shixing, Qujiang, Panyu, Xu Wen, Song Shou, Long Bian, and the Dianchong of this Linyi country, what do you think about what you have seen and heard? Do you think the merchants of Huangzhou can do business in this vast land? ”

Yu Wenwen asked a wide range of questions, and did not specify what kind of business "doing business" refers to, the implicit meaning is to let everyone express their opinions, and the few young people present are no longer restrained and begin to speak freely.

The merchants who do business are middlemen who buy low and sell high and make profits by reselling goods, and the other is manufacturers who set up workshops and make all kinds of goods for sale, and more than half of the merchants in Huangzhou are the latter.

Many Huangzhou merchants started by opening workshops, and after making a fortune, they slowly began to organize caravans on their own, or entrusted dart companies to escort their people and goods to distant places, and to produce and sell their own goods to maximize profits.

Among the goods produced by the Huangzhou workshop, the sales of cloth are the largest, and at first everyone thought that they could make a profit by selling cloth to Lingbiao, but in fact, after arriving at Lingbiao, they found that this idea was too naïve.

The textile industry of Lingbiao is not as bad as they imagined, although it is handmade but the overall scale is very large, and because it is produced locally, the price is not high, and the price of water woven fabrics in Huangzhou is low, after thousands of miles of long journey, its freight has offset the price advantage.

The "selling point" of Huangzhou water spun cloth is that it is good quality and low price, and now there is no "low price", and there is no advantage in talking about "good quality", because there are many places in Lingbiao that can weave high-quality cloth.

With kudzu as raw material, it can weave a kind of fine kudzu cloth, this cloth is as thin as cicada wings, a piece of cloth weighs only a few baht, and a piece of fine kudzu cloth up to ten zhang can be rolled up and put into a bamboo tube, so it is named "into the tube of fine cloth".

And with hemp as raw material, it can also be woven into fine linen, a fine linen cloth about four zhang long, weighing only dozens of dollars, can also be rolled up and put into a bamboo tube.

The fine arrowroot cloth and fine linen cloth of the ridge table are made into clothes and worn on the body, which absorbs sweat and is not close to the body and breathable, it is the top grade in the "summer cloth", and it is listed as a tribute as early as the Han Dynasty, and is called "Yue cloth".

Of course, such good cloth is carefully woven by manpower, and the price is not cheap, and the cloth mill in Huangzhou has been able to weave slightly inferior fine cloth with a water-powered loom, but considering the freight, the Huangzhou fine cloth transported to Lingbiao has no price advantage at all.

The price is about the same, but the quality is slightly worse, so that the fine cloth in Huangzhou cannot compete with the local fine kudzu cloth and fine linen cloth in Lingbiao.

One of the reasons why the cloth produced in Huangzhou can sell well in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is that the freight is negligibly low due to the convenience of waterways.

The sales prospects for cloth are bleak, but what about the rest?

Another best-selling "specialty" in Huangzhou is books and paper, but the problem is that most of the counties in Lingbiaozhou are semi-civilized or even uncivilized areas, and the style of writing is not smooth because of the lack of education, and there are not so many readers who need books, so the sales of books and paper are probably not optimistic.

Neither of these can work, so what about down? Because there are many chicken, duck and goose farms in Huangzhou, down is also a large trade, but Lingbiao does not need it because it is very hot here.

Down-filled clothing and bedding can keep out the cold, but most areas around Lingbiao do not snow in winter, and since the cold is not much, the need for cold protection is greatly reduced.

This is only one of the reasons, and the other reason is that Lingbiao has something comparable to down - Jibei.

Yuwenwen knew that Jibei was the name of cotton in this era, and it was rare to plant it on a large scale in the Central Plains, but at this time, Jibei was a common thing, and it was divided into two categories.

"King, the grass people have investigated, and there are two kinds of Jibei in the mountains and the surface..."

Li Hui talked eloquently, but he put a lot of effort into understanding Jibei, so he could say that he was ugly: "One is called Jibeimu, and the other is called Jibeicao..."

Li Hui is the first time to see this kind of plant, the so-called Jibei wood is the tree-like Jibei (kapok), its tree is as tall as an ordinary tree, and after flowering and fruiting, its tidbits are like silk, the locals collect its seeds and use it as a flocculent, which can be used to fill clothes for cold protection.

There is also gibe grass (cotton), the plant is dwarf like flowers and shrubs, its tidbits can be used to remove seeds, the use of both jibei is the same, its tidbits are used as filling, but also can be used to weave cloth, is for jibei cloth.

There are Jibei cloth produced in all parts of Lingbiao, especially the Jibei cloth of Yazhou is the most famous, it is said that the Han Dynasty used the "wide cloth" of Jibei textile to be famous in the Central Plains, and the characteristics of Jibei cloth are somewhat different from linen cloth and Ge cloth, if the quality is concerned, it is better.

Therefore, the sales of Huangzhou cloth has been good, it is very difficult to sell well in Lingbiao, it can be said that Huangzhou cloth in Lingbiao encountered "water and soil adaptation", I am afraid that it can not be as expected in advance, to bring huge profits to the businessmen.

Hearing this, Yu Wenwen nodded, and asked Li Hui: "Water and soil are not adaptable, these four words are used well, do you think that the workshop in Huangzhou, in addition to glass and white porcelain, should produce what kind of goods in order to make a lot of money in Lingbiao?" ”