Chapter 32: First Arrival in Luoyang
"Sell wine, your own home-brewed mellow rice wine!" A young man in his 20s shouted
"Eggs, eggs, 20 yuan a pound," a middle-aged woman shouted
"What a fragrant bull's head, guest officer, come to two or two? It is guaranteed to be the meat of a freshly slaughtered calf, and it is very tender! It's definitely not the kind of meat on the body of an old cow who is sick and tired" A **** man with a big upper body, holding a kitchen knife for cutting meat in one hand, holding the beef in his hand with the other, and asking Cai Yong and others on his mouth
"This gentleman, at first glance, you are a scholar, our stall has all kinds of four books and five classics, Confucian classics, the art of war, gods and ghosts, whether it is paper, bamboo slips, silk scrolls, do you see if you have a fancy it?" The shopkeeper looked at Cai Yong and the people around him with a surprised expression, and said: "Hehe, several gentlemen are from other places, we have all the good things in Luoyang, if you don't buy it now, it's too late to regret it when you get out of Luoyang" The shopkeeper also looked around, and then quietly stepped forward and said: "Even if Mr. You want the picture of the Spring Palace, the villain can get it, but the price is more expensive" Cai Yong has always boasted of being a humble gentleman, a generation of Confucianism, and suddenly heard these **** words, I was really a little uncomfortable, snorted, and walked away;
The book-selling vendor also snorted at Cai Yong's back, "What are you pretending, it's not serious?"
Although Cai Yong righteously rejected the hawkers, but the Luoyang City he was familiar with in the past has indeed become unknown to him now, everywhere is like a construction site with all kinds of houses, every street has a hot market, and the market on each street is equivalent to the scale of the annual market in Chang'an City, and what shocked our Lord Cai even more was that the salt and iron trade, which had always been the monopoly of the government, was actually sold directly along the street by these dignified hawkers on the street; And there is still wine for sale? It's not one or two that sell wine, of course, the high-ranking officials in Chang'an can still drink wine, but the people have long been forbidden to use grain to make wine, and those who find out the wine-making utensils have to be convicted, and there are beef sales, you must know that it is illegal to kill cattle in the Han Dynasty, but it seems that the business of the beef stall in Luoyang is not generally good; Moreover, things such as bamboo slips and books are luxury goods that can only be accessed by the scholar class, but they are actually sold along the streets, what kind of system;
What is different from our Cai's perspective is that one of the people in their group is Fan Chou's cousin Fan Xing, who was ordered by Fan Chou to sneak into Luoyang City with Cai Yong, and Fan Xing's imagination is different, he thought that Luoyang's city gate would be heavily guarded, but as far as his observation after entering the city, only the west gate was heavily guarded, and the other three gates were all open directly, and there was not even a gate, what is this going to do? What he saw and heard after entering the city also surprised this Fan Xiao general, although the eyes were still dominated by dilapidated houses and burned buildings, but the whole Luoyang City was unusually lively, and there was a thriving atmosphere everywhere, as if everyone was full of motivation, what motivation, he couldn't say it, maybe it was the motivation to make money, what Fan Xing didn't know was that just two days before they entered the city, Liu Braid had already issued a list notice all over the city, and the general content was as follows
'The world is withering, a hundred ruins are waiting to be revived, Luoyang is especially very much, for the Luoyang Cangsheng Ji, King Hongnong issued the following decree in June of the first year of the first peace: first, private property is protected by the law, and neither the government nor private individuals can deprive legitimate private property for any purpose; Second, commercial contracts are protected by legal rites, and any voluntary signing by two or more parties should truthfully fulfill their contractual responsibilities, and no government personnel or private individuals can violate them; Third, any goods that are not prohibited by order of the Luoyang government can be sold in Luoyang, and no government or private person may stop it for any reason; Anyone who fails to comply with the above three articles shall be fined or imprisoned."
Our little general Fan Xing actually saw a small street full of all kinds of weapons, ring head long knives, short knives, daggers, long ge, short ge, trident, mace, two-handed hammers, bows, crossbows, armor; If you are willing to spend money, you can even buy the kind of knife used to slaughter bears and dead soldiers, and there are even people who sell horses; The shocked Fan Xing's eyes fell (why is our General Xiao Fan so shocked, here is to explain the background of the times at that time, don't look at Dong Zhuo in Xiliang at every turn, there are tens of thousands of Xiliang iron horses, and Gongsun Zan in Youzhou has tens of thousands of white horse righteous servants at every turn, those are extremely individual warlords, because they are stationed in local horses or have easy access to horse-producing minorities can do it; At this time, the vast majority of horses are in the hands of large scholars, the price of horses can be so high that you doubt life, or give you the example of Emperor Han Ling in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Han Ling is an emperor who likes to give himself money, and he has been committed to making money for himself all his life, he thinks that the most loss-making business he has done in his life is that a minister of Jiuqing wants to be promoted to the third prince of the city, and the nurse of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty went to persuade Emperor Ling of Han to give an internal preferential price and a discount, sold the position of the third duke of the Han Dynasty to the minister at a sky-high price of 5 million yuan; Maybe the officials are shocked by our Emperor Han Ling's generosity, but soon you will know that there is a bigger stroke than this, our Emperor Han Ling likes horses very much, so he found someone to buy horses for himself, and later learned that the horses are controlled by the scholars from all over the country, and a batch of good horses will be sold for 2 million yuan. Pen, fun, pavilion www.biquge.info... That is to say, if you can travel to the end of the Han Dynasty with 3 horses, you can become a cadre of the Three Dukes< which is equivalent to ******> and you can also become a wealthy man in Luoyang... And what about our Emperor Han Ling? Did you end up buying a horse? The answer is no, the helpless local tyrant Han Ling Emperor can only change to play donkey in the end, and because Emperor Han Ling plays donkey is too high the price of donkeys, once the price of donkeys is close to the price of horses, so that the people can't afford to buy big animals to work, it seems that the ancient tyrants already liked LV)
At this time, Pershing couldn't believe it, he felt that what he saw was the largest arms trading market in the Central Plains...
Surprised, their jaws were about to fall to the ground, but the group of people did not forget the purpose of their trip, and after asking around, they actually got the news that if they wanted to find King Hongnong, they would go to the "Luoyang Pawnshop" in the west of the city; People don't know what this pawnshop is? But I still walked towards the west of the city with a nervous heart...
(To be continued。。。。。。 )