Chapter 122 Exchange
Mengzhou City, close to Ping'an Street near the outer harbor wharf, has always been the most popular place in the city, although this place is not as flowery as the East City in the city, all the powerful people come and go, but it is the most rich maritime merchant in the city to gather, because close to the wharf, the gold and silver wealth gathered by the wharf is distributed to this kind of place for the first time, which can be seen the liveliness of this place.
Among them, Ping'an Street starts from the 64th shop in the east, but it is the essence of the whole street, but the wealth gathered here can leverage a fraction of the wealth flow of the entire Great Song Dynasty, which can be described as indescribably expensive.
What kind of place are you talking about, hey! Just look at the plaque on the door, the Great Song Dynasty Mengzhou City Bosi Exchange, the only official commodity exchange in the entire Anwang Domain of the Great Song Dynasty, the entire Manchurian Jiaxi, from Tianzhu to Nanyanzhou, from Dingyuan Prefecture to Ma Dao, across thousands of miles of sea territory, all the merchants under the rule of the Anwang Domain are trading here, you can imagine the wealth flowing here. That's really a sea of gold and silver.
Of course, the commodity trading here can not be as modern as all the computers are connected, the network flows, when Li Zhe walked into this exchange, he only saw a large wall on the wall here, and there was a sign hanging on it, and the sign was written on the real-time price of goods.
The whole exchange, the territory of Nuoda, is extremely simple, there is not even a chair for people to sit on, and everyone is standing directly to look at the sign. Then take a small notebook and write and scratch it by yourself, and read the words in your mouth.
On the other side of the venue, there were more than a dozen windows, and in front of each window, a large number of people gathered, waving various pieces of paper in their hands and shouting hysterically! From time to time, some people pushed each other, and some people were accidentally pushed to the ground, and they quickly rolled up, and they didn't have time to care who pushed them just now, and immediately tried to squeeze into the crowd.
This scene reminded Li Zhe of when he was a child crowded in the station to buy train tickets, and this scene was so similar to that time. It's just that later advocated queuing, and such a scene is rare.
Although it was already a harsh winter, it was like summer in this exchange, and all kinds of smells on everyone's bodies were mixed together, evaporating and fermenting in the air - as you can imagine, this smell is not a good feeling.
This is the commodity exchange of this era, the simplicity can almost make people laugh off their big teeth, almost any restaurant on Ping'an Street is much more elegant and meticulous than here, but this is the center of the whole street.
When Li Zhe came here, someone had already gone up to the second floor, and the second floor could also see the real-time price on the indication wall, but the people on the second floor did not have to queue up to buy in person, and there was a special servant to help go to the counter to bid for the purchase.
A big slave merchant like Huang Lixing, who is still the upper echelon even in this exchange, is willing to mingle with the speculators on the first floor, which is specially prepared for their big customers.
Sitting in the box on the second floor, looking at the scene in front of him, Huang Lixing took a sip of tea and asked:
"Sir, you have also seen it, the situation around here is shabby, and the hospitality is not good, I'm really sorry! But I don't know what the lord is looking for me today? ”
Li Zhe felt that compared to the previous time Li Zhe and Huang Lixing met, this guy felt more proud, and people who didn't know thought that this guy had done another proud business, but Li Zhe, who knew the inside story, knew that it was not because of this, it was obviously because of the smooth cooperation between this guy and the princes.
Although Mengzhou City has been full of complaints and undercurrents these days, no matter what, the maritime merchants have finally taken advantage of this to leap over the dragon gate and intervene in the struggle between the upper and highest levels, and, as far as it seems now, have occupied the orthodoxy, haven't they? In short, these people are now complacent, and they feel quite proud of the spring breeze.
The words are a little fluttery.
Li Zhe didn't bend around, and asked directly at first sight:
"Outside! Because that's all there is to it? ”
Huang Yuan was a little surprised when he went out, and he didn't know what Li Zhe was referring to?
Li Zhe smacked his lips and said:
"Don't hide it outside, real people don't do dark things now, you dare to say that those privateers under your command are not in the city now, you and the princes reached an agreement to help the second prince ascend to the throne, and now no one in the city knows?"
Huang Yuanwai's reaction:
"Ahh Don't scare me, sir! ”
Hurriedly made a gesture to signal Li Zhe not to say any more, pointed left and right, and said with a bitter face:
"Sir, now that you know, on this occasion, let's not be so loud, okay!"
Li Zhe is funny,
"Outside the staff, even dare to do such a big thing as seeking the country, are you still afraid of being said by me?"
"Oops! Sir, don't you know, this is all about catching ducks on the shelves, and I can't help it! The princes want to borrow our people, where can we rush to say a word in front of the prince? Now it's okay, until now, we are cautious, we can't sleep every night, for fear of being known, do you know, this kind of thing princes can do okay, where is there room for people like us to interfere at will, if you let the adults above know that we are also involved, I don't know how many people want to rush to offer our head, don't dare to be careless! ”
After a pause, he added:
"I also know that those rabbit cubs have done a lot of evil things in the city, but there is no way, these rabbit cubs are not very controlled by us outside, and they are all called by silver, where can I control them."
He also thought that Li Zhe came to him because of the tragic things that happened to those private soldiers in the city.
Li Zhe snorted twice,
"Not necessarily!"
I don't believe the words that come out of the mouth of such a person.
Whether it is in the previous life or in this life, there is a saying that is absolutely true, no businessman is not a traitor, no traitor is not a businessman, businessmen will rush to do anything that hurts nature and reason for the sake of profit, not to mention that even among all the businessmen, they are the most black-hearted and unconscionable traffickers.
Think about the fact that these people slaughter villages and exterminate the tribes at every turn in order to capture slaves in those primitive tribes, orphans and children, such people dare to say that they are pure and good?
Joke!
So Li Zhe skipped impatiently and said directly:
"Outside, you don't have to defend yourself so much, I don't care about that, I just ask you, since you are a businessman, do you know the truth of selling goods."
Huang Lixing was stunned for a moment, saving himself from guessing Li Zhe's intention to come here, selling the goods? What is Li Zhe's intention in saying this?