Yu Wenwen looked at the Hu man in front of him, there were many merchants in the Western Regions of Yecheng, and there were many wealthy businessmen among them, so he was not surprised that a Hu man came to the door, he smiled and asked, "Antuluo, the son of Anjia?" Is Ling Zun okay now? ”

"Back to the county, my father has been dead for more than four years." Anturo replied.

"My father vaguely remembers that Ansabao was buried in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, right?" Yuwenwen said suddenly, Anturo was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then nodded: "My father is buried in the cemetery of Qili in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an. ”

"Sit."

"Xie Jungong." An Tuluo saluted again, and then sat down, he smiled and said to Yu Wenwen: "It is an honor for the father to be known to the county prince. ”

"In the past years in Chang'an, my father often went to the East City to walk around, Ansa Bao's name is naturally known, I never expected that An's shopkeeper was in Yecheng, and now Yang is usurping the country, and I don't know when I will be able to go back to see, but I can't help An Langjun if I want to come here."

"The county prince laughed, An made a living in business, and he was used to taking risks to shuttle around the country, but he didn't dare to collude with the enemy country." Anturo not only wants to show his ability, but also to avoid the other party suspecting that he is a Sui State detail.

Yuwenwen smiled, this Sogdian Anturo, really is a material for business, he speaks smoothly and tightly, he can come to the door to talk about big deals at such a young age, and his status in the family is not low.

Anjia, a Sogdian, a Sogdian, died four years ago, that is, in the first year of the elephant, but was not buried in the same state, but was buried in the cemetery on the outskirts of Chang'an City, which is thought to be the treatment given by the imperial court.

The Sogdians, also known as Zhaowu Jiu, Jiu Hu, and Sogdian Hu in the Central Plains, were a commercial people active on the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

Sogdia itself is located between the Amu Darya River and the Syr Darya River in Central Asia (the Central Plains is called Wuhu Water and Yaozhi Water, which is the middle of the river), and its main range is Uzbekistan in later generations, and some areas are in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

In the large and small oases of the Sogdian region, there are various states of different sizes, among which Kang is the largest with Samarkand as the center, and it is usually the representative of the Sogdian city-states.

Samarkand, which means "fertile land", is a famous city in Central Asia and an important hub on the Silk Road.

There is also the country of An with Bukhara as the center, the country of Eastern Cao located in Susushana, the country of Cao in Butana, the country of Western Cao in Sedichen, the country of rice in Mohe, the country of He in Qushan Youjia, the country of history in Kashana, and the country of Shi in ochre.

The Central Plains is collectively referred to as the "Zhaowu Nine Surnames" with its number of countries, namely Kang, An, Cao, Mi, He, Shi, Shi, Huoxun, and Wudi, of course, there are more than nine Sogdian city-states, and the nine surnames are not necessarily Sogdians.

The Sogdians never formed a unified empire, with their talent for business, serving one conqueror empire after another, with the chaos of the situation in the Western Regions, a large number of Sogdians traveled eastward along the Silk Road, doing business and trade, and many Sogdians moved to the Central Plains, where their children and grandchildren lived.

Each Sogdian caravan numbered from a few dozen to hundreds of men, and they settled all the way east, starting from Samarkand and following the Silk Road into the Central Plains, where there were Sogdian settlements in Shuyule, Qiuzi, Shazhou, Liangzhou, Bingzhou, Chang'an, Luoyang, Xiangzhou, and even Youzhou.

After hundreds of years of continuous operation, from Samarkand to Chang'an, and even to Youzhou in the northeast corner of the Central Plains, a complete Sogdian trade chain was formed, and the Sogdians in the Central Plains bought silk or raw silk and sold it to the Sogdians in the Western Regions, and the Sogdians in the Western Regions also brought treasures from the Western Regions and sold them to the Sogdian compatriots in the Central Plains.

The Sogdian settlements in the steppe were called tribes, and the settlements in the Central Plains were called settlements, and the Sogdian caravans also absorbed many other ethnic groups in the Western Regions, such as the Tocharians and the Turks, so the Sogdian settlements were also called Hu settlements.

The leader of the Sogdian caravan was called Sabao, and by extension, he was also the ruler of the Sogdian settlement, and the Sogdians believed in Zoroastrianism, so most of the settlements had shrines, and Sabao was also a priest who presided over religious ceremonies, which was regarded as the leader of the unity of politics and religion.

In order to strengthen management and effectively control these Sogdian settlements, the imperial courts of the Central Plains incorporated Sabao into the traditional bureaucratic system, and set up Sabao at the state level in various places, which were specially granted to the heads of Sogdian settlements.

Antuluo's father, Anjia, was the leader of the Sogdians in Tongzhou, and the same state was adjacent to Chang'an, and the Sogdians in Tongzhou had a great deal of business in Chang'an, and they were also very famous, so Yuwenwen, who grew up in Chang'an, also heard of it.

The Sogdians are mostly surnamed Kang and Shi, and of course there are many people with the surname An, and when introducing themselves, they like to use the format of "the son of so-and-so", with deep eyes and high noses and a preference for white clothes, and the basic characteristics are obvious.

Just now Anturo introduced himself as "Antuluo, the son of Anjia", Yuwenwen knew that Anjia had died, and in order to prevent the other party from impersonating him, he deliberately asked "Ling Zun is well", if the other party said "My father is well", then there is no need to talk about it.

"Jun Gong, An came this time, and he did have the sincerity to buy the glass mirror." Anturo got straight to the point, he knew that all the wealthy merchants in Yecheng were grabbing the supply of glass mirrors, but if he didn't get the nod from the person in front of him, it would be useless to go to Bazhou in the south to grind it.

"What does Shopkeeper Ann have to make payment for the goods?"

"I don't know what kind of treasures the county lord needs?"

"What did Shopkeeper Ann say?"

"When it comes to horses, An is indeed not as good as the first few, but the horses and output of the Western Regions, An can provide them." Anturo came prepared, he knew that Yuwen Wen, who had spent a lot of money in Yecheng recently, needed horses the most, but he really couldn't compare to the merchants who had the local gate lord clan as their backers.

But it is only slightly inferior, the horses on the grassland, the horses from Liangzhou, they can also be transported, but the number is worse, after all, these horses have to pass through the territory of the Turks and the Sui State, and the number is too conspicuous.

"The horses of the Western Regions are not bad, but the output of the Western Regions may not be too attractive to my father, and if I really want to buy it, the Western Regions are separated from the Central Plains by thousands of mountains and rivers, I am afraid that the order placed this year will not be shipped until three or four years later."

"I don't know where the county prince refers to the Western Regions?" An Tuluo asked, in this era, the Western Regions, the usual concept has been determined, but he knows that the Western Regions that Yu Wenwen refers to are afraid that it is west of the Western Regions, thousands of miles away from the Central Plains.

"There is Persia in the far west, and there is Fu La, that is, Daqin, I don't know if the shopkeeper knows it?"

"Persia and Whirlpool naturally know, An is not talented, Whisk has not arrived, but he has been to Persia." Anturo replied, and then untied a bag from his waist, opened the bag and respectfully presented it, and several yellow and white things in the bag jumped into Yu Wenwen's eyes.

"The white one is a Persian silver coin, and the yellow one is a gold coin of whisk." Anturo introduced that his intention was obvious, if Yuwen Wen didn't need any treasures from the Western Regions to offset the price, then they could buy it directly with gold and silver.

Copper coins are circulating in the market, gold and silver are extremely rare, but the value of gold and silver is resounding, and the gold coin is also a common currency in the Silk Road, the Sogdians bought raw silk from the Central Plains and transported it to Persia and even further away, and the other party paid the bill with gold coins.

The Sogdian trade routes had a large number of gold coins in circulation, so Antura was willing to use gold to buy glass mirrors, and Yuwenwen looked at these gold coins with interest.

The gold coin is irregularly round, with a bust of a figure on the obverse, a slightly helmet and feathered head, two floating ribbons at the back of the head, wearing battle armor, holding a javelin in his right hand and carrying it on his right shoulder, the tip of the spear is exposed on the upper side of his left ear, and his left hand seems to hold a shield to protect his left shoulder.

THE CROWN AND ARMOR ARE DEPICTED WITH BEADS, AND THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE DISTRIBUTED IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION, WHICH IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS BY THE FEATHERS OF THE HEAD, IN ORDER "DNTHBODOSIVSPPAVG".

On the back is a standing sideways winged woman, who seems to be standing on a flat tablet, holding a long-handled cross in her right hand, her left hand hanging down naturally, and her clothes slightly floating above her left hand.

THE INSCRIPTION ON THE PERIMETER IS SOMEWHAT BLURRED, IT SEEMS TO BE "VOYXXMVLTXXX", AND THE INSCRIPTION AT THE BOTTOM IS "CONOB".

Yuwen Wen checked this gold coin, the weight was full of gold, and he thought that the gold content was good, and looked at the rest of the gold coins, some of which were similar to this coin, but some were slightly different, thinking that they were made in different periods.

With Huang Chengcheng's gold coins, Yu Wenwen didn't have much interest in Persian silver coins, of course, this does not mean that he dislikes silver, if one tael of gold is about equal to ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is about equal to the usual copper coins, it is much more convenient to carry gold and silver than to carry copper coins.

But even so, a 'wholesale price' of 5,000 yuan of glass mirror, about 5,000 taels of silver, or 500 taels of gold, according to one catty of sixteen taels converted into about 31 catties, is already more than half a stone (dendrobium) of rice, to buy a mirror to say that it will cost thousands of gold coins.

He wanted to ask the other party if he had a lot of gold coins, but he still didn't say it, if the deal was really settled, he didn't care how the other party would raise the gold, anyway, he would pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other.

The turnover of wealthy businessmen and magnates is measured in tens of thousands, and Chen Guohaoshang has an exaggerated example, an ordinary cargo ship selling goods on the Yangtze River can be fully loaded with all kinds of rare treasures that are claimed to be worth more than 100,000 yuan.

And the glass mirror is a big profit as soon as it changes hands, which is not a problem for the commercial nation Sogdia, and transporting this thing to Persia and Whisk can earn back more gold coins.

Compared with a large number of gold coins, the glass mirror is lightweight, easy to carry, and the most important thing is that the selling price is extremely high, and it is simply the best commodity prepared for ultra-long-distance business, from the far east to the far west, this thing is the most cost-effective.

"The county prince is in Bazhou, and he has to deal with Chen Jun in Jiangnan, so he thinks he will worry about food, right?" An Tuluo asked, Yuwen Wen's heart moved when he heard this, but his face was silent, he looked at the other party, and then smiled: "An Shopkeeper's business has been done in Jiangnan?" ”

The range of activities of the Sogdian caravan is probably in the Yellow River valley and north of it, that is, the Northern Dynasties region, but there are also Jingxiang in Shannan, presumably because of the Wuguan Road, but Yuwen Wen listened to Antuluo's meaning, and it seems that the other party also has a way in the Yangtze River Valley.

"If the county prince doesn't dislike it, An can also sell food."

"Isn't it by sea?"

"Just go downstream."

Yuwen Wen raised his eyebrows when he heard this, the other party's meaning was obvious, they could sell food, not from the north, but from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River by boat, saving time and effort.

In the upper reaches of Bazhou, on the south side of the Yangtze River is Bazhou, Xiangzhou and other places in the Chen State, which can also be regarded as a grain-producing area, and the Liang State in the north of the Yangtze River is exempted, so in the upper reaches, it is the Shu land, which is the territory of the Sui State.

Not to mention whether the grain in Shu is bumper enough to be exported, just selling grain to the enemy country, the energy behind this shopkeeper is really not small.

Dare to sell grain, this is no different from selling state-owned enemies! (To be continued.) )