Farewell Gu Zheng came out, and Gao Feng did not return to Gu's house. The affairs of the Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Education Society were worried about by Gu Yuan and a few people, and he was idle.

After thinking about it, Gao Feng came to Dongjia Restaurant. Gao Hai has been working for a few days, and he should go and see it. Walking into the restaurant, Dong Nancheng was not there, only Gao Hai was busy working.

Seeing Gao Feng come in, Gao Hai put down the work in his hand and greeted him. He told Gao Feng that Dong Nancheng had just left, and asked if he wanted to call him. Looking for Dong Nancheng to be okay for the time being, Gao Feng signaled and said no.

Gao Hai then told Gao Feng about the progress of the work. Gao Feng nodded after hearing this, according to this progress, he would definitely be able to finish the conversation two days before the opening. After pointing out a few of these points, Gao Feng left the restaurant. There is Gao Hai here, and he is very relieved.

Walking down the street, Gao Feng realized that everyone was busy, and he had nothing to do. Of course, it's not that there is really nothing to do, but that the new project has not yet been launched, and it is rare for him to have half a day to spare.

Since he has been idle for a long time, Gao Feng is interested in visiting the county.

The county seat is naturally more prosperous than the country market, and even this peak has never been shopping, and he came to the county seat in a hurry, and he didn't know what things were in the county and the distribution of these things.

Before I knew it, I turned to the East Market, and I heard a noise from the far peak, which turned out to be a large livestock trading market.

Walking into the market, it is very wide, and the main livestock traded are cattle, horses, donkeys, sheep, etc., these livestock are placed in different areas, and the trading scene is a lively scene.

Gao Feng knew that the animal trade in the Song Dynasty had become large-scale, and the classification was extremely clear. Poultry, meat and fish are sold in the market for daily use, while large livestock are kept in fixed places.

Moreover, although cattle and horses could not be slaughtered arbitrarily in the Song Dynasty, they were not untradeable, and they could still be traded freely as long as they were registered.

The main reason why some people secretly kill cattle is because beef is too expensive. Someone once calculated that the transaction of a cow was only five or six taels of silver, but the income from killing and selling meat could reach twenty-five taels, and the income of four or five times that made people take risks, and would rather think of killing the cow than selling the live cow.

It can be seen that the Song Dynasty's strategy of prohibiting the killing of cattle was originally to protect cattle, but in another case, it harmed the cattle, so that those cattle that should not have died were killed because of it, which also shows from another perspective that the introduction of a policy will bring some negative effects while reflecting its rationality, just look at how your overall effect is.

Not interested in cattle and sheep for a while, he came to the category of donkeys and horses.

Gao Feng knows that the donkey has a docile temperament and good endurance, but because of its small size, it has a poor weight-bearing capacity. Horses, on the contrary, have a strong load-bearing capacity but lack of stamina, so people will combine the two to produce mules, which can carry both weight and strong endurance, which is very effective in promoting regional trade, and is also a good choice for transporting supplies on the battlefield. Unfortunately, it has not yet been officially promoted.

However, others do not promote, the peak can be promoted, if a large number of mules can be purchased in large quantities, in addition to their own business in the future, they can also be sold, and it is definitely a business for money.

Gradually, Gao Feng had an idea, he decided to enclose the 300 acres of land that Gu Zheng gave him as a livestock farm, specifically for breeding mules, as for the breeding of begonias and apple saplings, it would be handed over to Zhang Bairen, anyway, he had a lot of land, and he didn't care about pulling out hundreds of acres more.

With this thought, Gao Feng took a serious look.

The donkeys here are all small North China gray donkeys, and there are no surprising characteristics of the same, and Gao Feng paid attention to the horse again.

It's just that when he saw these horses, Gao Feng couldn't help but be disappointed, they were not much bigger than donkeys, and even the coat color was not particularly conspicuous, not to mention that compared with Feng Xiaomo's red horse, even with the ordinary horses in Gao Feng's imagination.

The ancients divided horses into three categories, Rong horses, field horses and horses, these horses are obviously not Rong horses, the best can be field horses, most of them should be the level of horses.

After looking at the peak for a long time, he didn't see a pleasant horse, and when he was about to turn away, he inadvertently saw a thin horse, this horse was inconspicuous among the other horses, but it showed some expressions that were obviously stronger than the other horses.

Gao Feng walked over, and a man came up, this man was dressed like everyone else, but as soon as he talked to Gao Feng, he heard that he was not a local: "Do you want to buy this horse, give you a cheaper." ”

"How much?" Gao Feng asked.

"Twenty taels." The other party replied.

Nowadays, the price of the horse ranges from more than a dozen taels to dozens of taels, mainly depending on the color and type of the horse.

"This kind of dwarf horse costs twenty taels, I don't think it's worth much!" Gao Feng said disdainfully.

In fact, he didn't really say this to the price of the horse, but wanted to know where the horse came from, but this kind of thing could not be asked directly, and only in this way could he probe the other party's mouth.

The other party was also alert, he looked around and then whispered: "Friend doesn't know, this is not a local horse, this is a local horse, this is me from other places, don't underestimate it, its endurance is very great, ordinary horses can't compare." ”

Although the smuggling of horses is expressly prohibited, there are still people who take risks under the huge profits, and more importantly, the court also lacks horses, and most of its horse sources rely on smuggling, so the government turns a blind eye to this area, and no one really catches it.

Of course, if others don't catch you, it doesn't mean that there is no risk, and those who often run the rivers and lakes naturally understand these truths, and will be careful, saying that it is okay to sell horses, but it cannot be said that they are smuggling horses, which are two completely different concepts.

However, from his demeanor, Gao Feng could already see that the horse was definitely smuggling, and it was smuggled from abroad. Thin and small, smuggled from abroad, the origin of this horse is already coming out.

Looking at the horses again, Gao Feng had a rough idea in his heart, and he asked again, "Are there any other horses like this?" If so, I will take ten more. ”

opened his mouth to ask for ten horses, obviously a big customer, and the horse seller's eyes immediately showed luster: "Yes, yes, but there is no stock, I don't know if my friends can wait?" ”

"How long to wait?"

"A month."

"Okay, in a month, you will send the horse to the Gao family manor in the south of the city, and there is no problem with the price."

The two negotiated, Gao Feng bought the horse for another twenty taels, and then led the horse away, and he didn't ask the other party who his surname was, where he came from and where the horse came from, he wanted to leave the impression that the other party really wanted to buy the horse, and nothing else.