Chapter Thirty-Six: Eliminate All Diseases
Envoy Di, Yu Wenwen is listening to the shopkeeper Liu's report on the progress of 'business', this time he came to Yecheng to make a big purchase, capital is a very important issue, not only to bring enough money, but also to facilitate transportation, so the glass mirror worth thousands of dollars and easy to carry has become the first choice.
The glass mirror was brought to Yecheng safely, and the next problem was how to get rid of it smoothly, and the accompanying shopkeeper Liu was the person in charge of the operation, he was promoted by Yu Wenwen, as Wang Yue's deputy, so he was quite sure how to sell the glass mirror at a good price.
"Envoy, a glass mirror has been successfully sold, and the transaction price is 9,200 yuan." Shopkeeper Liu said, "It's just that the other party doesn't have so many copper coins in his hand, and he paid 4,300 yuan in advance, and the shortfall is intended to be made up in this way."
There are a lot of wealthy merchants in Yecheng, so the glass mirror does not worry about finding a seller, but the copper coins in circulation in the hands of Yecheng wealthy merchants are relatively small, after all, most of the transactions in Beidi Prefecture and County are mainly based on physical exchange, and the circulation of copper coins on the market cannot be compared with that of Jiangnan.
Yuwenwen wants to make a big purchase here, and he must have cash or equivalents, and the buyer is bound to get the glass mirror, based on the consideration of working capital, he doesn't want to take out so much cash in full, so the other party proposed a compromise solution:
Yuwen envoy Jun here in Yecheng all the procurement activities, they sent people to "pay" the whole process, the accounts are recorded on their side, after a period of accumulation, the final settlement of the cost from the shortfall of 4,900 yuan, if there is any left, then all with copper coins to make up.
"Envoy, the other party has a good reputation in Yecheng, and has a lot of cooperation with other firms, so I think this matter is feasible, and Leader Zhang has been to see the horse market, and each of the good horses is not less than 100 yuan, and you can write off the account if you buy more than 30 horses."
"Baiguan? It's a waste to go all the way and only buy those hundreds of horses to bring back! Yu Wenwen touched his smooth and beardless chin and smiled, "No matter what, you have to run two hundred!" ”
"In this way, the shortfall of 4,900 guan is not enough." Shopkeeper Liu said with a smile, "There are no less than fifty good horses that Leader Zhang initially fancies. ”
"Fifty good horses, no less than 10,000 yuan, then continue to sell glass mirrors, remember to block the price, don't let the other party think that we are in a hurry to use the money."
"Envoy, the other party estimated that we should still have a glass mirror, so I tried my best to facilitate the transaction again, I don't know what the envoy wants?"
"Of course you have to do the business, you have to grasp the quantity yourself, don't finish the goods, leave a few guarantees."
Buying a horse is a top priority, of course, the more adult good horses the better, you can immediately ride to make a war horse naturally to buy, but there is no gelding good horses can not be less, although breeding horses far from quenching thirst, but the situation is confusing who knows how long it will take to conquer the Sui State.
This is the difference between fish and fishing, there is no horse production land in Shannan, and as long as there is a war, war horses are needed, horses are damaged in the war, if you win the battle, it is good to say, the loss of war horses can be made up by capture, if you are not careful, you will be consumed.
Therefore, Yuwenwen must do his best to ensure that he has the ability to breed horses, even if the ability is small, he must have a piece of the horses allocated to Shannan by the imperial court, but there are more monks and less porridge, and if the fish is not enough, he must ensure that there is "fishing".
A strong cavalry can not be just one person and one horse, if you want to ensure effective assault ability, you have to have one person and two horses or even one person and three horses, considering the battle damage and birth, old age, sickness and death, Yuwenwen wants to maintain a cavalry with a thousand troops, and the war horses must be at least two thousand.
Bazhou's war horses have saved nearly a thousand so they have to buy horses, a usable war horse is calculated according to at least 20 guan, a thousand war horses cost 20,000 guan, and a usable pack horse has to be four or five guan, in order to replace manpower to enhance animal power to transport baggage, pack horses not only have to buy, but also have to reproduce, and spend a lot of money.
Money is not a problem for Yu Wenwen, he is the only manufacturer of 'glass mirrors', this time he came to Yecheng suddenly, but he still brought twenty mirrors, deducting the number of gifts to be given, there is no pressure to buy more than 1,000 war horses and pack horses.
The negotiations between the deputy envoy Zheng Wanqing and the imperial court have begun to bear fruit, and through the transaction of the secret recipe of the thunder, the horses allocated by the imperial court this time are at least not less than 10,000, and Zheng Wanqing will return to Shannan after completing the mission, and the things that Yuwenwen bought and the horses will go back together.
Horses are in demand, and I don't know how many people are staring at them when they return to Bazhou from Yecheng, and Yuwenwen wants to stay in Yecheng to 'accompany the chat' and can't escort him personally, in order to prevent geese from plucking, Yuwenwen and his father Yuwenliang made an agreement that no one is allowed to move the horses he bought with his own money.
Whoever moves him will be furious, not even a brother!
Thinking of this, Yu Wenwen only sighed that the money was really not spent, even if it was to prepare for the war, he would have to spend a lot of money just to buy a horse, and he also lost that he had the 'plug-in' of the glass mirror, otherwise he could only be forced to ride in steps, and there was no way at all.
Speaking of mirrors, Shopkeeper Liu asked Yu Wenwen if he intended to expand the trade route in Yecheng, the glass mirror is very in demand here, if it can be directly transported here to sell, it will also save people from sharing a lot of profits from the middle.
"It's good to be able to sell directly, but there is no one to cover it here, just by virtue of the name of Shannan Daxingtai, you can top it once or twice, and you may not be able to top it many times. Yu Wenwen was a little helpless.
"Isn't Daxingtai willing to do this deal?" Shopkeeper Liu asked.
"The goose has plucked its feathers, and if you want to transport the mirror to the capital for sale safe and sound, you have to deal with all the forces, where is there so much energy to maneuver, even if you talk to Wei Chicheng, you will also benefit from many benefits, it is better to let the middlemen make money, which can save a lot of trouble."
"It's just that they made a lot of money for nothing, and they are really unwilling." Shopkeeper Liu sighed.
"The merchants of Chen Guo buy glass mirrors, and they have to take risks if they want to sell them, they control the channels, so these are the channel fees, and we have no channels, so we can only accept our fate."
Everyone wants to make a lot of money, but they have to have a life to make money, since ancient times, businessmen who do big business must have a strong backer, that is, "collusion between officials and businessmen" to make a fortune, out of the southern boundary of Shannan, Yu Wenliang's reputation is a little weak, as long as there are people in the states and counties along the way, there is no way to intercept people and rob money halfway.
There is no evidence, you have nothing to do with the suspect, and the boundaries of other people's territories are not under your control, and there is no one who wants to send someone to solve the case and chase the murderer.
If it weren't for this, there would be no need for anyone to intercept the caravan, as long as the backer behind him came to ask for the production method of the glass mirror, Yuwenwen would either "kill and not say", and then he would really be killed, or he would give in, and then the golden rooster that made money was snatched away, and he still had nothing.
Therefore, how far Yu Wenwen's 'road to selling mirrors' can go is closely related to how long his father's big tree can last, so Yu Wenwen is also working hard, trying to make himself able to face the storm independently.
After talking for a while, the time for the imperial doctor's 'ward round' came, and the 'wounded' Yu Wenwen lay down on the couch to accept the other party's 'follow-up', there was nothing wrong with his body, so it was impossible for the imperial doctor to find anything famous when he touched it.
Yu Wenwen has been recuperating in the embassy for two days due to injury, and the scene he made in the main hall before was a bit big, and everyone knew that he was almost 'brain-dead' when he kowtowed excessively, so even if the bruise on his forehead had disappeared, he still had to sigh and pretend to be a few days, so as not to let anyone question his injury.
The Son of Heaven was very concerned about his injury, and specially sent the imperial doctor to be on duty in the embassy in case of emergency, and at this time, the 'follow-up' was the imperial doctor who diagnosed him that day, Yuwenwen felt that if the other party was not a fool, he could guess that he was fine, so now the two sides are fake and real, fooling each other in order to make a difference.
"Envoy, what else is uncomfortable?" The Imperial Doctor asked with concern, he felt that this Yuwen Envoy should be 'cured', but he had to confirm it in person.
"I don't seem to be in trouble, and I don't think the headache will happen again." Yu Wenwen said excitedly, like a patient who has just recovered from a serious illness, waiting for the doctor to diagnose his recovery.
"In this way, then the lower official will prescribe a few pairs of tonics, so that you will definitely be cured after taking it for a few days."
Yu Wenwen looked at the imperial doctor writing the prescription on the side of the case, and couldn't help complaining in his heart, he had eaten a lot of tonic medicine in the past few days, what ginseng, deer antler velvet and the like, which made his blood and qi surging hot and dry.
Thinking of his wife and concubine who were far away in Shannan, and thinking of the different customs of the three beauties, Yu Wenwen tossed and turned for several nights in a row, and he couldn't find someone to 'vent', and he didn't plan to find the five girls to solve it, so he could only endure hard and do push-ups in the room every night to divert his attention.
Because of the issue of the Son of Heaven's unauthorized 'postponement', Zheng Wanqing negotiated with the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the final confirmed result was that "this matter was indeed an accident", of course, in order to avoid irritating the little emperor, the question of the time for Yu Wenwen to stay in Yecheng will be mentioned later.
He reluctantly accepted the reality, after all, he was too eager to adjust the stay period and seemed too insincere, although the little emperor is now a puppet, but Yu Wenwen should be considerate as a relative, after all, it would be better to talk about it after the little emperor was over.
"I don't know what medicine to prescribe this time, if I make up for it too much, it will really be a sperm worm in my brain" Yu Wenwen thought, seeing the imperial doctor's pen walking the dragon and snake, and writing a bunch of content on the list, he opened his mouth to ask for details.
"Please rest assured, they are all tonic pills that you have taken in the past few days." The imperial doctor replied that the reason why he wrote the prescription was to save the bottom, so that it would not be good for him to be beaten and relied on afterwards.
"I've eaten it" Yuwen Wen was much more relieved when he heard this, there were many strange prescriptions in ancient times, and he was afraid that he would eat something that he shouldn't eat, either die young, or become neurotic with excessive heavy metals.
Having said that, in addition to ginseng and deer antler velvet that I've eaten in the past few days, I still don't seem to know what it is, but I have to see it clearly. Yuwen Wen thought so, and saw that the imperial doctor had finished writing the medicine, so he took it and looked at it.
Just like the prescriptions prescribed by doctors in later generations, the handwriting is basically incomprehensible, Yu Wenwen barely recognized a few nouns, which are considered herbs he had heard of, and pointed to those who couldn't understand and asked the imperial doctor what it was.
"This is a tiger bone, this is He Shou Wu"
Yuwen Wen was a little speechless when he heard this, these things are all tonics, no wonder he will "burn his body with fire" if he eats it, but he remembered that he had drunk a decoction with a strange taste, so he asked the imperial doctor what it was.
"What the envoy is talking about is Diyejia, this miracle medicine is a tribute to the Western Regions, good at removing all diseases, calming the nerves and nourishing the brain, its taste is slightly bitter, so it tastes a little strange after boiling the soup."
"Di Ye's family?" Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this, the name reminded him of the Yoshinoya fast food restaurant in the East, and remembered the bits and pieces of that era, "The strange medicine of the Western Regions, think about the extraordinary power of medicine"
Wait a minute, could it be Diyaga?!!! (To be continued.) )