After Sun Kewang was defeated and surrendered to the Jin State last year, he stayed in Xi'an for less than a month before being squeezed out to the west of the river.

Counting the time, it is now November, and Sun Kewang has been in Guazhou for a year.

At this time, through his efforts, he strengthened the management of the Hexi tribes, and strictly forbade inter-tribal private fights and robbery of caravans along the way, so that the Hexi trade route was unobstructed, the place was peaceful, and the materials in Guanzhong could be transported to Hexi, and the surrounding tribes were also willing to come to the market in exchange for goods.

The Western Regions in the west, Mongolia in the north, and Wusizang in the south are all relatively backward regions compared to the Central Plains, and many necessities of life need to be obtained from the Central Plains.

Herdsmen need tea, salt, iron pots, clay pots, these things are not produced in the grassland, they will grab when the Central Plains are weak, and when the Central Plains is strong, they can only buy them honestly.

Sun Kewang's bazaar in Guazhou, strictly speaking, was not aimed at the Mongols and Tibetans, Guazhou was the Hexi Corridor, the center west of Jiayuguan, and the Mongols and Tibetans rarely entered. Guazhou is like a base for the distribution of materials, the merchants in Guanzhong will transport the materials here, and then the merchants of Hami and Dunhuang will purchase here, and then transport them back to Mongolia or Tibet to barter with the locals, and the furs, cattle, sheep, and horses they exchange for will be transported back to Guazhou, looking for merchants in Guanzhong in exchange for more Central Plains materials.

At this time, Guazhou inside and outside is particularly lively, since the opening of the bazaar, there are camel caravans to come to Guazhou every day, so that a large number of materials gather here, business is extremely prosperous, the population of Guazhou City has grown to 100,000 people, the city is the largest commercial city west of Jiayuguan.

There are two large markets in the city, called the East Market and the West Market respectively according to their location, the Middle Market is mainly the merchants from Guanzhong who set up shops and stalls here, and the West Market is a mixed market, mainly merchants from Hexi, as well as caravans of Mongols, Tibetans and Hui.

Since it is already winter, the roads will become difficult to walk due to heavy snowfall, so in mid-November, the east and west markets will be closed for more than two months, and they will reopen when spring begins.

Hesitation is the last few days, so the city of Guazhou is bustling with people, and caravans of various ethnic groups and people nearby have rushed to purchase a batch of goods for the winter before the market closes.

At noon that day, Sun Kewang put on a little makeup, wore a dark blue robe, wore a scarf on his head, and accompanied a Confucian scholar, so he came out of the palace of Guiyi County and came to the market for a visit.

In this era, the identity of the reader is always higher, everyone hopes that he is a master who reads poetry and books, Sun Kewang is no exception, he dresses up, the first one wants to be a reader, but he is tall and big, and the long-term conquest makes his skin darker, and it is very rough, he is not a scholar at all, his dress, it actually looks a little nondescript, but he is unaware.

Sun Kewang led his subordinate Zhang Sheng in front, and more than a dozen guards followed behind them, walking down the street.

This time, he mainly looked at the sales of the goods shipped from Guanzhong in Guazhou.

The failure of the Great Western Kingdom made Sun Kewang also reflect on whether there was a big problem with his fierce attitude towards the gentry and landlords. This time he ran Hexi, although he still suppressed many big forces in Hexi by force, and then continued to give cheap to ordinary people and buy people's hearts, but he also paid attention to trying to have a good relationship with the gentry in Guanzhong.

Jin Guo's control of Hexi was originally only nominal, but after he came, he strengthened his control over Hexi, so that Jin Guo really controlled Hexi, and made it possible for Guanzhong's materials to be sold here.

If the materials in Guanzhong can be sold, then the gentry and merchants in Guanzhong will have a better impression of him, and he will be able to gain a firm foothold in the Jin Kingdom.

When he came to the street, Sun Kewang walked and looked, and the shops along the street were crowded with merchants of all ethnic groups who came to buy goods.

He stood in front of a stall selling clay pots, and saw that the stall owner was negotiating with a Mongol, and there was a special person in charge of interpreting, as if to say that a sheep for fifteen pottery bowls, the Mongols would exchange a total of 200 pottery bowls and ten pottery pots.

Sun Kewang was a little shocked when he heard this, a pottery bowl is only forty or fifty yuan in the Central Plains, and fifteen can be exchanged for a sheep here.

He was surprised, and secretly said in his heart that no wonder Wang Yan's gang wanted to advocate commerce, and the benefits brought by this trade were really much stronger than farming and plowing the land.

Sun Kewang continued to walk forward, and in front of him was a tea shop, which was the family property of Meng Qiaofang, the king of Yongping, and the door of the store was much larger than the others, occupying four shops.

Tea is a must for Mongolians and Tibet, it can be said that it is a profiteering industry, the coarse tea and tea residue in the south, pressed into cakes and sold on the grassland, more than 100 catties of tea can be exchanged for a war horse.

At this time, the front of the tea shop is particularly lively, there are more than 10 wooden barrels in the store, and there are wooden signs hanging on them, on which the names of various tea leaves are written with charcoal, the origin is different, the quality is different, and the price will be different.

As soon as Sun Kewang walked to the front of the shop, there was a sound from inside.

"This guest, this paper money, we can't accept it in the tea shop!"

"We all use this over there, it's easy to carry, you don't accept it here?"

"This is the silver ticket in the south, and it is not easy to exchange the ticket if we take it, you see if you can settle it with cash."

Sun Kewang heard the sound and Zhang Sheng squeezed in to see, and saw a big man taking the five virtue votes of the Ming Dynasty and negotiating with the same shopkeeper.

Listening to the words of the big man, he should be a Han man, but looking at his outfit, he is completely dressed as a Tibetan, and he should be a Huhua Han from Qinghai.

The Ming Dynasty's Wude ticket is really easy to use, but this is the Jin country, even if the reputation of the Wude number is good, the merchants here will not accept it, because after all, it is a piece of paper, and the merchants of the Jin Dynasty have no channel to go to the Ming Dynasty to exchange it for cash, so the shops will not accept it.

Sun Kewang was a little strange, and at the same time there was a trace of vigilance, how did the silver ticket of the Ming Dynasty come to Guazhou? And it sounds like there are already a lot of people in Qinghai who have accepted the Five Virtues vote.

"This brother, how did you get this paper money from the south?" Sun Kewang walked up to the two and suddenly asked.

Seeing that someone suddenly came to ask, the man turned his head to look at Sun Kewang, but a trace of vigilance rose on his face, and he was unwilling to explain.

Sun Kewang smiled slightly when he saw this, and then said: "Brother doesn't know, my family also has such a silver ticket, but it can't be used in Dajin." I just heard from you that you all use this kind of paper money over there, so I wanted to ask if I could find someone to exchange it for silver. ”

Hearing Sun Kewang say this, the man's eyes showed a hint of cunning, and his eyes rolled for a moment before he spoke: "The merchants of the Ming Dynasty used this kind of silver ticket to trade with us in Wusizang and the south of Qinghai Lake, and we only need to take this kind of silver ticket and go to the border market set up by the Ming Dynasty on the border of Sichuan, and we can directly buy the goods of the Ming Dynasty, which is much more convenient than bringing iron money and silver, so we accept this kind of paper money over there." ”

He said that Zhe paused for a moment, and then smiled slyly: "If you have this kind of silver ticket, it will be troublesome to run to us, why don't you give me the silver ticket, and I will exchange it for silver for you." Saying that, the big man glanced at Sun Kewang and continued: "However, if I exchange it for you, I can't exchange it for the actual amount." ”

Hearing this, Sun Kewang already understood that it was estimated that He Tengjiao also opened a border market in Sichuan and began to trade with Qinghai and Wusizang, so that his border market in Hexi might be affected.

"I'm sorry, I also want to exchange this paper money, but I didn't stay with me, but at home in Guanzhong, I'm afraid I won't be able to get it this year." ??? When the big man heard this, he seemed to be a little disappointed, nodded silently, and no longer talked to Sun Kewang, but untied a small wooden box from his waist, then opened it, took out a handful of silver coins, and then clicked it, put a few more money boxes, and said to the shopkeeper: "The paper money in the south is not accepted, and there should be no problem with this silver coin!" ”

Sun Kewang was originally going to leave, but when he saw that he took out a handful of silver coins, as well as a few copper coins and copper coins, he couldn't help but stop again, and asked Zhang Sheng to exchange a set of silver coins and copper coins from the Ming Dynasty to the Han Dynasty with broken silver.

Sun Kewang held the money as he walked and looked at it, and like Western coins, they were all very beautiful, with patterns and words printed on them. These coins are all authorized by the imperial court to issue the Wude number, minted with a water conservancy stamping machine, and are currently divided into one tael of silver coins, as well as large copper coins equivalent to one hundred Wen, and small copper coins equivalent to ten Wen.

Sun Kewang picked up the silver coin with a sun and moon pattern printed on the front, two big characters printed on the back, and "one or two" on the back, as well as "minted for three years of co-governance", looked at it, suddenly his face changed, handed it to Zhang Sheng beside him, and asked, "How much silver do you think?" ”

Zhang Sheng looked at it and replied: "I'm afraid it's only seven or eight percent!" ”

Sun Kewang felt for a while in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh, "Wang Yan's house is really amazing!" ”

He operated in Hexi, which can be said to have learned from Wang Yan's experience in developing business, but Wang Yan went to the sea, and he transferred Wang Yan's experience to the land, but he had not yet learned it properly, and the Ming Dynasty came up with something new.

Sun Kewang's heart was a little shaken, and at this moment, he had already arrived at a mule and horse shop in the West Market, and as soon as he walked to the door, a strong smell came to his face.

Sun Kewang was smoky by the smell, and was about to speed up his steps to leave, but at this moment, a faint sound of horses neighing came out of the mule and horse shop.