After a sugarcane forest, Sangou felt that it was not very good to cut off Lao Li's words, and people took the initiative to come to me to talk, and they couldn't be so white (robbing white, interrupting others' words), so they turned to Lao Li Tou and asked:

"Old Uncle Li, where is this tea? Where is it going? ”

It seems that this old Li Tou really likes to chat with people, maybe it is also a long way, talking and laughing along the way, you can reduce the burden of the burden, and the days will pass faster.

As soon as he talked about this goods, tea, or something, he said:

"This tea is exquisite, it's called Wufeng Yunwu Tea, it looks like a green lotus seed core, unlike our other handmade teas in Guangfeng, which are thick and leafy."

"Yes, I know this, the tea made by our family is not as beautiful as this tea."

"This tea is not only beautiful, but also delicious and delicious, fragrant, and it is not light to brew a few dishes; In the past, it was paid as a tribute to the imperial court."

"That's amazing."

"But it's not, let me tell you, back then, our Jiangyou Merchants Gang (Gan Merchants Gang, mainly in eastern and northern Jiangxi, similar to Jin Merchants and Hui Merchants) mainly started with tea and porcelain....Jiangyou Merchants Do you know?"

"I've heard of it, and I heard our history teacher say that during the Qing Dynasty, the goods from our provinces went to Poyang Lake, went south to Guangdong along the Ganjiang River, and then went to Guangzhou to go abroad.

At that time, our Jiangyou merchant gang was very developed; Later, during the Opium War, the five ports were traded, and Shanghai also became a place for shipments to foreign countries.

We don't have to go through Poyang Lake, and even we have to transport goods to Zhejiang to Shanghai. Therefore, this Jiangyou merchant gang is slowly failing. ”

Everyone chatted energetically, and Sangou was also rarely interested in dropping the bookbag and selling it, which made Lao Li Tou sigh, saying that people with knowledge are different.

But knowledge belongs to knowledge, life belongs to life, Sangou still doesn't understand, why should this goods be picked by people, and there are not many people who are tired, why not use a horse gang? Not waterways? There is also a railway, I heard the teacher say that at the beginning of this year (1934) the railway from Hangzhou to Yushan has been opened.

This old Li Tou has the right to speak, saying, the goods shipped out by our side are all small profits, and it is true that you can pull a lot at a time with a horse gang, but it is too eye-catching, and it is easy to be robbed by bandits and road rage, and even the horse and the goods are grabbed together, and the cost of raising horses is also very risky.

The second is a large group of horse gangs, can not take the ravine and ditch road, this evasion of the centijin (tax) is very difficult, people pick, in the deep mountains three turns or two turns to escape the centika (tax collection point), you don't know, this way the centika is like a cow's hair, collect the centigold to kill you.

The waterway generally transports timber and bamboo, etc., tied into wooden rows and bamboo rows, when the water rises during the Dragon Boat Festival, it is discharged from the mountain, from the Fengxi River to the Xinjiang River, and is generally delivered in the Hekou Town of the Lead Mountain, and then along the waterway to Poyang Lake. Although the waterway is not effortless, but it is not fast, and you can't escape the centigold, people are on the water with a card, you have to pass, obediently have to pay the centigold.

I don't know much about the railway train, I heard that people can't finish pulling, they must not pull the goods, and pulling people must be more profitable, and this is transported by train, how can you evade the money?

Especially in the past three years (1931-1934), the prices of the goods we make here have been reduced, and I don't know what is going on.

You see my age, I was farming well at home, but I worked hard for a year, and in the end I stuck it myself, so I might as well come out and Danpu City, but I know that I can't make anything in Danpu City in the past few years, and I want to make a living, alas! ……

Sangou thoughtfully: "The goods have fallen so much, so the owner of the goods can only find our cheap labor to pick and save money."

"I said, people who read are different, and they can understand it at one point."

"Then why did the price of our tea, rice, cocoons, etc. drop so much?" , Sangou is still puzzled.

"I don't know about this, these years have not been a bumper harvest year, and they are all years of great drought and disaster, you see, this year is guaranteed to be another year of great drought, this day is scorching...... It stands to reason that if the harvest is less, it should be rising? ”

"I don't understand this yet, foreign goods are too cheap, everyone buys foreign goods, no one wants our local goods, they must fall in price", Xiucai next to him couldn't help but interject.

Of course, Xiucai is a nickname, but he looks like a Xiucai, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a little bookish aroma, I heard everyone say that Xiucai's family was good when he was a child, and he also studied in a private school, but unfortunately a good family business was lost by his father's gambling.

If you want to live, you have to come out and find work; Fortunately, Xiucai, who has been pampered since childhood, after a period of training, does not complain that he is tired, just rushing at this, others are also impressed, and sometimes when he jokes, he will be merciful.

"Yes, I forgot that our Xiucai is also a scholar, Xiucai, you will be with Sangou everywhere in the future, Sangou is a big Xiucai, what about the talent of Xishan School", Lao Li Tou is good-hearted, afraid that Sangou will not adapt or be bullied when he just comes, so he will give Sangou popularity.

"Old Uncle Li, don't laugh at me, I'm just a student, I don't know anything else, if you offend anything in the future, I hope you will forgive me in the future."

Seeing that Sangou said politely, everyone also felt that this posterity was quite sensible, and they were willing to talk and chat together.

The horned flea (flea) dragged at the end, because it is not very old (only thirteen or fourteen years old), small and small, carrying a basket with a small trumpet, walking and walking, generally dragged at the end, heard that there was a joke in front of him, and quickly chased after him, and said coldly:

"I like the burden of the return trip the most, only some socks, foreign cloth, and foreign fire, which is easy and profitable."

"The radish is happy, and you can bring some alabaster and foreign mirrors, and foreign shorts to Luo Nu's house (to find a woman)," said the bamboo pole jokingly with the radish.

The surname of radish is white, because of the heart of the flower, seeing a woman is like a male dog in estrus, flowing with gluttonous water and constantly offering hospitality, so everyone calls him a big radish, white radish, big radish, and finally because it is smooth, it is directly called radish.

The bamboo pole man is tall and thin, like a bamboo pole for drying clothes, carrying it away, like stepping on stilts; Needless to say, this nickname is very appropriate, he has a good personality, and he doesn't care what others call him, so everyone called him the nickname of the bamboo pole.

"Can I buy my own goods and sell them on the return trip?" Sangou is not clear, ask everyone.

"Buying and selling, we are poor bastards, we don't even have capital, and we still do business?" The big potato copper in front of him scolded angrily, of course, he didn't specifically want to point to the three dogs to scold, but he himself usually did this.