Chapter 30 Commercial Practices in Feudal Society

The convoy walked into the territory of Yangneung-eup in the afternoon of the next day.

This is already the most densely populated place in the Han Dynasty, since Emperor Taizu established the Han Dynasty in Bishui 76 years ago, Guanzhong as the capital of Taizu's dream has never stopped construction.

The reason why Chang'an was chosen, the biggest reason is that Qin is rich, when the initial emperor unified the six countries, migrated to the six countries of the rich households in Guanzhong, Shuzhong, although experienced a cruel war, caused the destruction of wealth, the exile of the people.

However, after the war, he was one of the first places to awaken and revivelate, and it was wise and the most civilized place compared to the rest of the place.

There is not much difference between a farmer working in the fields and a palace slave, and the only difference may be the clothes on his body.

At least, in Yangneung-eup, people are clothed.

Don't look at the difference as just a piece of clothing, but don't know that it separates people from slaves.

When the slaves saw the nobles, they either hid themselves or knelt on the ground and did not dare to let the nobles see their faces.

The farmers are different, they walk on the road with the nobles, although they still maintain respect for the nobles, however, for the big businessmen like Zhuo's, the attitude is very indifferent, and when they see Zhuo's convoy coming, they only retreat to the side of the road, which is obviously a kind of courtesy for convenient travel, rather than respect.

The houses on the Loess Plateau are naturally made of rammed loess with earth walls, coupled with roofs, doors and windows, and the peculiar half-side houses are not uncommon even in later generations, and they are a popular trend in this era.

The officers and soldiers defending the city in Yanglingyi also seemed to lack enough respect for the Zhuo family, at least, they were not exempted from the city entry tax because of the Zhuo family's chariots and horses, and from the ugly face of the accompanying housekeeper, they knew that after his negotiation, they may have paid more city entry tax.

The city wall of Yanglingyi is not very tall, it is estimated that it is more than four meters high, the outside is the city wall, the inside is the main city, the standard three-mile city and the seven-mile Guo.

The Han Emperor not only had to rely on these cities to defend against foreign enemies, but also to prevent his own subordinates from using these cities against him, so the height of the city walls is a matter worth studying.

After experiencing the metropolis of tens of millions of people in later generations, the city of this era is more like a movie location, but the extras are more simple and more realistic.

The shops on the street look gray, but they are relatively new, after all, the city is still developing.

The goods on both sides, Yun Lang glanced at it, and was very disappointed, whether it was the pork crawling with flies, or the silk and satin placed on the container, there was nothing to look at.

As for bamboo dragonflies, spinning tops, bamboo horses and other things, he sighed again and again.

The only thing that attracts Yun Lang in the market is the vendors who sell blank slips.

He bought a lot of them in one go, and when he was in the mountains, he made his own slips, and the process was so complicated that it was a kind of torture for people.

The pine smoke ink is still loose, that is, the kind that will fall apart as long as it is accidentally dropped into the water, and there is no comparison with the ink strips that were thrown into the water for ten days and a half months in later generations without any change.

As for the pottery, Yun Lang shook his head when he saw it, the black pottery and gray pottery here were not as good as the ones he made himself.

Yun Lang's various performances fell into Pingsuo's eyes without leaking.

It's just that after accompanying Yun Lang to turn the street, he found that there was no way to make this young man work hard for the Zhuo clan just by buying him.

Whether it was the treasures of the treasure shop or the beautiful women in the Goolan courtyard upstairs, they couldn't keep Yun Lang's attention.

Even when he saw extremely outstanding beauties and treasures, Yun Lang only had admiration in his eyes, but there was no greed.

Pingsu didn't understand why a broken family who had been expelled by the division and excluded by the clan would have such a high vision.

It is a person who has weaknesses, some are greedy for money, some are greedy for sex, some have a good name, some have good power, some have good wine, some are greedy for food, and even a little perverted and have a good killing.

Yun Lang seems to be very good at money, but he spends it like flowing water, and the five taels of silver that he picked up from the ground yesterday have only walked half a street, and he has spent it all.

Among them, the purchase of simple bamboo slips and pen and ink, Pingsuo is very understanding, buying a lot of ingredients, Pingsuo can also understand, after all, it is from the Jinyun family, this family is known for gluttony, delicious, greedy and famous all over the world.

As for throwing the remaining three taels of silver at will to a man who was kneeling beside a corpse with three children and was about to sell himself to the burying man, is it okay for the ugly woman who buried her father to be the same as the dirty child?

"We don't need money to eat in the ironsmith workshop, right?"

Yun Lang, who had turned into a poor bastard again, turned his head sideways and asked Pingsuo.

Pingsu sighed and said, "I don't need money, there are servants who bring food every day." ”

Yun Lang smiled: "The treatment is good, but let them send a set of kitchen utensils, and I am ready to make it myself." ”

"Why is that?"

Yun Lang glanced at the dishes in the roadside restaurant with disdain, and said, "I can't believe it." ”

Pingsu patted his forehead and said, "No one will poison anyone." ”

Yun Lang pointed to the hot food and said to Pingsuo: "What's the difference with poisoning? ”

"This thing is the first name of the eight treasures - the cannon dolphin, take the fat pig with a straight steel mane and wash and peel it clean, the belly is a jujube, wrapped in wet mud, and roasted and dried.

Then peel the mud and take out the fat pig, then paste the pig body with rice flour, fry it thoroughly with Juding burning oil, cut it into slices, prepare fruits and vegetables, and then put it in the small ding, put the small ding in the big wok ding, and stew it for three days and three nights in a row.

It is said that when the lid is lifted, the gods will gather left and right, so can't such a delicacy enter the eyes of Xiao Langjun? ”

Yun Lang tried to take his eyes off a man who was digging fat and eating with a wooden spoon.

It's not surprising that people eat differently in different eras.

Fat is the best delicacy in the world for the Han people, and it is the most important source of calories.

A pig arrives in the kitchen, and the cooks think about how to make the most of all the fat on it, not what it tastes like.

Just like in the difficult times that Yunlang went through, people preferred fatty meat to delicious ribs and lean meat.

The original purpose of food was to replenish calories, not to satisfy the appetite.

The ironsmith workshop is located in the best part of the city, and the smoke is billowing inside, and the sound of striking iron is endless...... This is characteristic of this era, they prefer to be lively.

Yun Lang was assigned an ear room, the room was not big, at least half smaller than Pingsuo's room, there was only a bed, a low table, two futons, and a suitcase.

A maid who looked like a cannon dolphin brought an oil lamp, lit an incense burner and left in a hurry, not daring to stay in Yun Lang's room for a moment, as if as long as she stayed for a while, Yun Lang would press her on the bed.

The maid in Pingsuo is very popular, and Yun Lang has seen the maid sneaking away from Pingsuo's room half-naked with her clothes in her arms more than once.

For three days, Yun Lang was very happy, and every day he either wandered around Yanglingyi, or stood under the windows of some academies and listened to the lectures of the people inside.

If you don't worry about it for a day or two, after a long time, some servants ask Yun Lang to bring two pieces of pork, if you don't mention pork, you can't continue to stand outside people's classrooms.

As a result, Yun Lang was not used to other people's bad problems, and he no longer went to any study to listen to classes.

It's not that he can't afford two pieces of pork, but because he doesn't understand what people say, and he doesn't dare to understand it.

Encouraging his son to cut meat and cook soup for his mother to drink sounds anti-human.

I don't have money, it's very boring to go out, I met on the street that I sold my body to bury my husband that day, and the family of four who buried my father continued to sell their bodies, and the bodies under the reed mat were already stinking, and the family of four continued to wait persistently, wanting to meet a fool like Yun Lang again.

The iron pot, the shovel, and the iron stove are the things that Yunlang has been waiting for for three days.

Pingsuo, who had disappeared for three days, appeared after these three things were delivered.

This thing is just amazing.

Put a little lard in the iron pot, and then stir the chopped green onion and eggs together, and when the grease in the pot began to smoke, I poured the salted egg liquid into it, and after a stinging sound,

A small amount of egg liquid quickly expanded, and Yun Lang grabbed the handle of the iron pot and flipped it twice, and a dark yellow egg cake with a strange fragrance appeared.

In order to satisfy Pingsuo's curiosity, Yun Lang had to repeat the process three times, the last time said to be for Zhuo Ji.

Pingsuo said that the people who went to Qinling to look for Ye Sanqi had returned, and in three days, someone had already found this kind of thing in Lantianyu according to the appearance drawn by Yunlang.

This is very good news, and it also brought back bad news, that is, the slave of Princess Changping's family also found Ye Sanqi in that area......

Yun Lang was glad that there were enough wild notoginseng that could be used to make soup, and he never had too many good things anyway.

In front of the powerful, the businessman is basically a scumbag.

A small official came to the General's Mansion and visited Zhuo Ji, and then Zhuo Ji repeatedly assured people with a smile on his face that Zhuo's search for Ye Sanqi was only for his family's consumption, and he had no intention of concocting medicinal materials.

Yun Lang originally thought that Zhuo Ji and Pingsuo would be very disappointed, but as a result, after the little official left, the two were still smiling, and they did not mean to be depressed.

It was obvious that there was a deal between them, and this deal was very beneficial to Zhuo's.

Today's weather is not good at all, the heavy rain is upsetting, seeing that there is a large piece of pork belly and yam in the ingredients, he decided to eat braised pork stewed yam tonight.

He has star anise and Sichuan pepper, but he lacks soy sauce or icing.

Yun Lang looked at the bowl of soy sauce in front of him with the smell of rotten meat very unhappily, and he thought about what kind of process it was to make soy sauce with fresh meat!

Fish sauce is made by salting small fish and shrimp and then fermenting them and boiling them.

Could it be that fresh meat can also achieve the same effect?

Just when Yun Lang was worried about soy sauce and frosting, Zhuo's ironware workshop became an industry under the name of Princess Changping.

The family property was taken away, but Zhuo Ji smiled and rewarded the servants with a large amount of money, and people like Yun Lang who were floating in things also got a reward of a pound of good silver.