Boxes of glass are loaded with four-wheeled carriages, this new type of wagons are specially made in Huangzhou, there are so-called "leaf springs" to absorb shocks, and there are so-called "bearings" to reduce the friction between the axles and wheels, it is said that mules and horses will be more labor-saving. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the cost is more expensive, but it is suitable to transport fragile glass, from Xiyang to Yecheng, about 1,500 miles, except for a short section of crossing the river, the rest are by land, land transportation of bulk goods is very troublesome, so you need a suitable carriage.

How to make each carriage can be loaded as much as possible while ensuring reliability is the most worrying thing for the Sogdian merchant Anturo, and the new four-wheeled carriage in Huangzhou is a preliminary solution to this problem, and then today he personally counted the glass, and then watched the packing on the side, and saw that the loading was completed, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He bought enough glass to fit ten cars, and if it weren't for the restrictions on the number of purchases, it would be much more than that.

There were many uniformly dressed men, armed with bows and arrows and swords, leading their horses and waiting on their backs, carrying bulging bags on their backs, as if they were ready to go out of the country.

There were also several carriages, not loaded with cargo boxes, and the same men with bows and swords, with large bags and small bags on them, which seemed to be all kinds of bags.

"Shopkeeper An, the goods have been loaded, I don't know if I can start?"

A man stepped forward, saluted Anturo and asked, Anturo looked at the convoy and solemnly replied: "This is going to Yecheng, there is a Lao Li dart head on the way." ”

"Shopkeeper An, please rest assured, Li will definitely ensure that this dart arrives in Yecheng safely and farewell!"

"Have a safe journey!"

The man said goodbye to Anturo, mounted on the mount brought by his entourage, rode to the front of the convoy, picked up the horn pinned to his waist, and after blowing a few "woo-woo-woo", he shouted loudly:

"Dart!!"

The convoy set off under the escort of the dart master and marched along the road upstream to Ba Shui, where a stone bridge crossed Ba Shui a few miles away, where the convoy could drive onto the official road and head towards Yecheng, which was thousands of miles away.

Anturo looked at the distant convoy and always felt that something was missing, the Sogdians had been trading for hundreds of years, and wherever they went, they relied on their own caravans to transport goods, but this time he was transporting goods by fake outsiders.

The dart store in Huangzhou has successfully carried out the "bodyguard" business between Xiyang and Yecheng, but Anturo actually wants to use his own caravan to transport goods, but this transaction is not up to him.

The glass he bought in the glass workshop today has a quite favorable price, provided that he must entrust the dart store in Huangzhou to deliver the goods to Yecheng, since that one said so, An Tuluo will not be ignorant.

This is a decision he has made when he went south from Yecheng, Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen wants to do business for the dart company, but the price is very fair, Anturo calculated the account, even if the cost of buying "insurance" is added, the profit of his trip is also considerable.

Insurance, that is, if the dart is damaged or lost when the dart is charged, the dart will compensate for the relevant expenses according to the agreed amount of compensation, of course, the owner wants to "insurance" must buy insurance.

Anturo didn't want to take the risk, so he would rather spend money to buy Ping'an, he didn't want insurance compensation, he just wanted to do his best to get these glasses to Yecheng safely, after all, those buyers didn't lack money at all, they just wanted glass.

The palace and the prime minister's mansion are equipped with glass windows, so the new trick of the powerful family is to compare the number of glass windows, and Anturo has promised to supply the goods on time, if there is no glass at that time, those few buyers who are waiting for the rich will be furious.

When the time comes, there will be no smiling faces, and there will be money to eliminate the disaster, so if there is a choice, Anturo would rather use his own caravan to transport goods, so he knows what to do.

Antura put away his thoughts, turned around and walked towards the dock next to it, where the glass workshops were all located at the water's edge, so they all had their own docks for loading and unloading goods and picking up and dropping off merchants.

Leading his entourage to board the passenger ship, Anturo headed towards Bakou, not far downstream, not following the cargo to Yecheng, but to go ashore at Bakou and then to Xiyang City.

A fleet sailed in the middle of the river, and their direction was also downstream Bakou, but each boat was loaded with heavy stones, and it seemed that they were leaving Bakou and entering the Yangtze River to go somewhere.

The captain of the passenger ship of Anturo shouted to the people at the head of the fleet: "Old Chen, business is booming! Where is this going? ”

A middle-aged man on the boat laughed: "Accept your good words!" Go to Wuchang on the other side. ”

The two talked loudly, and Anturo looked at the boatload of stones a little fascinated, the Huangzhou Governor's Office has been building water conservancy in various prefectures under its jurisdiction for several years, so the business of the quarry has been very prosperous.

Do a roaring trade.... Alas...

Anturo was a little helpless, as Sogdians who had been in business for generations, they looked to outsiders very beautiful, not to mention their wealth, and they could eat anywhere, because all countries needed merchants like them.

His family, too, traded in various places, and had connections in many places, so that many small merchants saw him with envy as the poor saw the rich man.

Such a day would probably continue for the children and grandchildren of the Sogdians, and no one would have doubted it, and Anturo had thought so, but what had happened now had made him lose confidence.

Sogdian merchants have been selling goods to the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and one of the most profitable ones is about to lose its commercial value, because the craftsmen of the Central Plains can already make large-scale production.

Glazed utensils originating from Persia and Fula, have been sold in the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and the Central Plains is not unable to make similar things, such as glazed bowls, glazed plates, glazed bi, etc., in fact, the Central Plains countries have made them.

But compared with the glazed utensils in the Western Regions, it is always worse, such as the glazed bowls, the glazed bowls in the Western Regions can be safe and sound after being filled with hot water, while the glazed bowls in the Central Plains, many of which will crack after being filled with hot water.

Of course, there are also craftsmen from the Central Plains who can make works comparable to the glazed bowls of the Western Regions, but the number is too small, so the rich people prefer the glazed objects of the Western Regions, but now things have changed: the king of Xiyang has presented the colorful glazed formula to the court of the Zhou State.

The glass bowl trial-made by Yecheng official kiln, Anturo has experienced, and its quality is slightly better than that of the Western Regions glass bowl, and this is not a solitary piece, it is fired in large quantities, and there are various shapes.

This means that the official kilns have mastered the process of making glazed objects, and the Sogdians have to eliminate glazed objects from the goods that the Sogdians rely on to make money, and the profits from the sale of glazed objects by the Anturo family are not small.

According to the Central Plains, the foot of their An's wall had been dug up and loosened by Yuwenwen, although many Sogdians did not know the manufacturing process of glazed objects, and there was no problem of being poached by the other party.

Although it is not fatal, and it can also make money by selling incense medicine and jewelry in the Western Regions, the income of the caravan will inevitably be greatly affected.

At this moment, perhaps in Persia or Fula, many Sogdian merchants were already on their way with glazed wares, along the trade routes that had been fixed for hundreds of years, and headed thousands of miles to the east.

After enduring numerous hardships and dangers along the way, enduring extortion and exploitation by various forces, crossing the green mountains and crossing the vast desert, and finally arriving in the Central Plains, the hopeful Sogdian merchants began to sell glazed objects to their old customers, only to find that the goods in their hands were no longer nameless.

It's going to be a loss of money!

Is King Xiyang crazy? I know the secret of glass production, so I can make my own money, why do I want to enter the court!

Anturo thought of this question more than once, he didn't think Yuwenwen was crazy, this King of Xiyang was the most business-minded person among the powerful people he had ever seen, and there was no "one".

So, he vaguely smelled the smell of profiteering.

The world is so big, whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of fire, as long as there is a lucrative business to be done, then the Sogdians are indispensable!