The next day, Ye Ling and Sanniang slept until three poles in the morning before waking up, and then two personal maids came in to wash and dress them - at first, Ye Ling was a little unaccustomed to facing so many women naked, but Sanniang was used to it.

It turns out that the personal maids of large families in this era do not have any freedom at all, if the owner wants to pick, they will not resist at all, and some even take the initiative to seduce, hoping to be upgraded to concubines, so that their status and monthly money will increase a lot.

And as the main mother, she will never be jealous of these maids, to a certain extent, these maids are also Hu Sanniang's personal property, even if they become concubines, they have to listen to the housewife.

And to some extent, the atmosphere in this era is much more open than in later generations, for example, there has never been monogamy, and even if the husband and wife can have a maid to serve when they are intimate, sometimes they even use their bodies to help their masters warm up or vent excess energy, not to mention taking a bath and wearing clothes.

Ye Ling was not surprised when he saw Sanniang, if he refused, it would make people suspicious, so he had to enjoy the Yanfu of a few young girls helping him scrub his whole body and change clothes.

After celebrating for three or five days in Hujiazhuang, all the staff of Liangshan returned to the mountain again, including the main figures of Lijiazhuang and Hujiazhuang, and also brought a thousand strong villagers, while the rest stayed in the place to continue farming.

In this way, Liangshan has more Li Ying, a Qinghu Sanniang, four leaders of Du Xing and Hu Cheng, as well as a thousand people, plus a large amount of money and goods from Zhujiazhuang, this trip can be said to be a full return.

Then after returning to the mountain, Ye Ling immediately asked Li Ying to discuss how to make money with money, make the cottage very rich, and then buy more materials.

Li Ying was extremely happy to see that Ye Ling attached so much importance to him, and he was the first to come to negotiate with him when he went up the mountain, and the concept of the human class in this era was that he was a farmer and a businessman, and the status of a businessman was the lowest, so he had no business talent, but he could only be a farmer, and this status was even higher.

But of course Ye Ling doesn't think so, the experience of later generations has already proved that the role of merchants has been underestimated, in fact, their contributions are no worse than the first three, and the more developed the civilization, the more prosperous the business, and only the most backward places and times, people will only think about filling their stomachs.

The Northern Song Dynasty, as the richest dynasty in the entire history of China, naturally has nothing to do with backwardness, but people's concepts have not changed.

Seeing that Ye Ling attached so much importance to Li Ying, Wu Yonggong, Sun Sheng, Pei Xuan and other civil and official groups, as well as Lin Chongchao, Gai Yang Zhi and other high-level officials also came over, wanting to hear what Li Ying had to say.

Li Ying was even happier when he saw that everyone was surrounded by stars and moons, and he touched his short beard and smiled: "Lord of the village, leaders, I dare to ask you a question first, what is business?" ”

This question seems to be easy but difficult, everyone thinks it is difficult to say for a long time, if you say too much, you will lose it, and if you say too little, you can't summarize it, so you just keep silent.

In the end, Ye Ling broke the silence and asked tentatively: "Let me put it simply, could it be a transaction?" ”

Li Ying patted his thigh and praised: "Brother is really good, in a word, this business is now very developed, and the products circulating in the market have already reached as many as a thousand, just take the Song Huizong's favorite flower stone gang, according to the texture, fancy, shape, size, etc., it can be divided into perfect, excellent, excellent, excellent, ordinary five grades, and each big grade is divided into three small grades, which together are fifteen grades, so that thousands of more detailed varieties are derived. But it's all about trading. ”

Speaking of Huashigang, Yang Zhi couldn't help but complain: "What Master Li Zhuang said is extremely true, this bird emperor doesn't know what kind of wind to smoke, he has to like this kind of broken stone and wood, and he doesn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy it and transport it to the capital, it's really naughty!" ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, everyone knew that Yang Zhi was transporting Hua Shigang when the ship was capsized, which caused him to lose his official position later, so he was naturally full of hatred for this Hua Shigang.

Wu Yong said with a smile: "If it weren't for this Huashi Gang, I'm afraid that Yang Zhizhi would still be an official now, how could he gather here with us and do this rebellious act?" From this point of view, we have to thank this flower stone class. ”

Everyone laughed even more, and then Li Ying talked eloquently: "In fact, this transaction was very simple at the beginning, for example, two people, A and B, one planted millet and the other raised sheep, but although the person who planted millet had food but no clothes and meat to eat, and the sheep farmer was the opposite, he had meat and clothes to wear but no food, so the two of them exchanged sheep for millet, and the problems of both sides were solved, and they were all happy."

But with the development of the times, the people need more and more things, just bartering is more troublesome, you must be farming, need fertilizer, wool, hoes, ploughing cattle, houses and other things, it is not easy to exchange food, and the rest of the blacksmiths, carpenters, breeders, etc., so in the end there is an additional intermediate out, everyone exchanges their goods for this intermediate, and then uses this intermediate to buy what they need.

This intermediate thing is actually money, at the beginning of the stone to replace, and finally became metal, until we have today's gold and silver ingots and copper coins, in addition to Xichuan and other places It is said that the imperial court has been implementing a kind of paper money called "Jiaozi", which is jointly guaranteed by some big money banks, and then they can be exchanged for the corresponding money in those money banks, so that it is extremely convenient to carry, and it is believed that this must be a trend in the future, and everyone only needs to bring a 'Jiaozi' when they go out in the future, and there is no need to bring a lot of money. ”

Everyone was surprised when they heard this, Yang Zhi couldn't help but pat his thigh and sighed: "There is such a subtle thing, if that Liang Zhongshu knows, wouldn't it be extremely simple to let the Sprinkle family bring a copy of this kind of Jiaozi, even if you are smart, no matter how smart you are, you can't outwit the Sprinkle family's birthday outline, right?" Hahaha. ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "What Yang Zhienvoy said is, but although this 'Jiaozi' sounds convenient, the key is the credit problem, if you can take money and things at will as long as you have a piece of paper, then if someone is a fake, wouldn't those money banks have to accompany a bankrupt family?" ”

Li Ying nodded and said: "What the military advisor said is extremely true, although this Jiaozi is convenient to use, but there are indeed two big problems, first, it is this anti-counterfeiting, although there are special marks on the Jiaozi, ordinary people can't imitate it, but after all, it is necessary to prevent accidents; Second, its circulation is difficult to control, and more will inevitably lead to market chaos, so it is only used in a few places such as Sichuan. ”