"I'm so angry", Gu Liang is about to go crazy, and he can't wait to bite the old man in front of him to death, a profiteer! is ten or a hundred times more adulterous than himself, and when he compares with him, he is an ignorant and pure little white rabbit.

Gu Liang forcibly suppressed his anger, okay! The strong dragon didn't suppress the head snake, and endured it first.

"How much do these books cost!"

The old man opened his eyes and face again, flipped through the books on the counter, and fiddled a few times on the abacus next to him, Gujing Wubo said: "Two runs of six hundred and four texts, give you a discount, and charge you two runs of six hundred texts!" ”

It's just four less, is this special discount?

Gu Liang held back the anger that was about to explode, took out about three pieces of silver from his arms and threw it on the counter, picked up the book and wanted to leave, he couldn't stay here for a minute.

"Wait a minute, there's no cash here!"

If you don't collect money, do you collect copper money?

In this era, there is a copper standard, that is, copper coins are used as the transaction currency, and there is nothing wrong with that! The problem is that the old man just took two ingots of gold from himself, why didn't he say that he wouldn't accept the gold, this is to anger himself!

However, Gu Liang is a knowledgeable person after all, this situation is the same in Datang, shops usually only accept copper coins and silk silk, if you want to buy goods with gold and silver, you must go to the money village to exchange copper coins, otherwise the shops collect gold and silver, which is an illegal and criminal act, and bribery is naturally not included.

Of course, if it is a large-scale trade between merchants, such as Tang merchants trading in the Wa Kingdom, it is often tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, and it is naturally impossible to use cumbersome copper coins for trading, and it will naturally be settled with gold and silver.

Gu Liang will carry copper coins with him!

"This Lang Jun, there is a money bank on the left corner when you go out, where you can exchange the currency on the island?" The old man was kind and seductive.

"Good!"

Gu Liang didn't doubt him, turned around and asked the servants to exchange money, and asked, "Old man, is this shop yours?" ”

The old man immediately said with a depressed face: "How can there be such a blessing, this shop belongs to the owner of the island, and so-and-so is just a buddy......." ”

Gu Liang nodded, thinking in his heart: This old man is telling the truth, how can such a shop be the bad old man in front of him, and he won't know many secrets.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the old man continue: "But so-and-so signed a contract with the island owner, as long as so-and-so can come up with 2,000 yuan within ten years, this shop will belong to the old man!" ”

"Ugh! Hehe......", Gu Liang talked with the old man, and he didn't believe that he still took out some information from the mouth of an old immortal: "Old man, how many years have you save?" ”

Now the old man was a little unnatural, and he said, "It didn't take long, this is not ...... You are the first batch of outsiders, and I heard from the owner of the island that there will be more and more outsiders on the island in the future, and when the business is booming, you will make more money! Look, isn't this business just coming to the door? ”

Gu Liang knew that the fleet of the four major scholars in the southeast was the first to land on the island, so he continued to ask: "Your books here are good, the prices are cheap, the printing quality is exquisite, and the types of books are very complete, the business will be good in the future, and you will definitely be able to make a lot of money!" ”

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chen Qun adopted the nine-grade Zhongzheng system to elect officials, in addition to the ruler's goodwill to the wealthy families, but also because most of the books were in the hands of these people, resulting in most of the readers not from the poor family, and the right to speak was controlled by the wealthy families, and the dynasty wanted to rule the people, so it had to bow to the wealthy families.

However, with the war of a hundred years, the control of the wealthy families over books gradually weakened, and some poor families or fallen families scattered books, and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the imperial examination system began to appear, and there was an opportunity to serve Tian Shelang and ascend to Tianzitang at dusk.

However, the price of books has always restricted the spread of knowledge, and a book ranges from a few hundred to dozens of books, and even some small farmers who have no worries about food and clothing can not spare much money to buy books for their children to read.

Gu Liang bought a set of six "Book of Songs" this time (Nanyi, Bai Hua, Hua Huang, You Kang, Chongwu, You Yi) and the annotations of the great Confucian Kong Yingda, three sets of Yan Shigu's "Five Classics Definitive Edition", "Kuang Fallacy and Orthodoxy", "Han Book Notes", a total of ten copies, the number of words alone has reached more than 2 million words, if you find someone to copy it, it is impossible to do it in two years, but the price is only two runs and 600 texts, the price is so cheap that Gu Liang has the urge to buy all the books here, it is too cheap, it is almost the same as giving it away for nothing.

The old man said with a look of arrogance: "It's not much, it's been saved for more than 200 times, it shouldn't be a problem within ten years, and it can be regarded as a life-saving business for children and grandchildren!" ”

Gu Liang felt a little wrong when he heard it, it was only more than 200 guan, such a big bookstore, if it was placed in Datang, it would be a small ...... to earn thousands of guan a year.

Just as he was about to continue the topic of the old man, he saw the servant who went to exchange copper coins running over in a hurry, and said with an angry face: "Steward, the people here are so deceitful, they actually want to blackmail us and others, not only that, but they also use paper as copper coins to exchange, which is ...... This...... I'm angry! ”

His subordinates couldn't even do such a trivial thing as exchanging copper coins, Gu Liang was a little displeased, but after listening to the servant's words, he was sluggish, what kind of blackmail, what kind of paper as currency, what is this!

Gu Liang is also a person who has seen the world when he goes south and north, and he often encounters the exchange of copper coins, in the Tang Dynasty, the proportion of copper coins exchanged in various places is not the same, although it has always been equal to 1,000 Wen, the face value of copper coins is not 1,000 Wen, and the exchange ratio is also very different, in some places one or two silver can be exchanged for 1,200 Wen, and in some places it can be exchanged for 2,000 Wen, resulting in the exchange ratio between copper coins and copper coins.

"Useless thing, idiot, this little thing can't be done, can't you let someone go in person!"

The servant looked aggrieved, this is really not his own incompetence, it is really a little strange to exchange on this island, and he stammered and described the matter in detail: "One or two pieces of silver here can only be exchanged for two hundred Wen, it's not that the kid doesn't want to exchange, it's really that they deceive people too much, those few pieces of broken paper fool the boy!" ”

Gu Liang wanted to continue to get angry, but the matter was not done, so he still quibbled, did he really not get angry?

Just as he was about to go to the money village to see what was going on, the old man behind the counter suddenly opened his mouth and said: "This Lang Jun has just come to this island, you may not know something, your servant is right, the money village here is indeed one or two silver exchanged for two hundred wen, uh!" Wrong, it should be two hundred points, which is equivalent to two yuan, look at the memory of the little old man, he actually forgot to explain this matter to Lang Jun! ”

Saying that, the old man took out a few pieces of colorful paper from under the counter, put them in front of Gu Liang and said: "This is the currency of this island, there are no copper coins on the island, and there is no need for gold and silver to trade, and the purchase and sale of goods can only be paid with these banknotes, Lang Jun will understand when you take a look?" ”

(End of chapter)