Chapter 9: The first pawnshop in Luoyang
After Liu Braided heard Lu Zhi finish speaking, he was also a little shocked in his heart, there were less than 10,000 people in Luoyang City, but the number of large-scale bandit organizations near Luoyang alone was over. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info. Not to mention the small bandit groups;
"I heard Uncle Zhou say that the bandit of 10,000 people that Mr. Zigan said, the bandit leader is called Hu Yan, and he was a deserter from the Dong Thief Flying Bear Army in the past, I didn't expect that the current power has developed so much, and we have also fought with a small group of stragglers, and the combat effectiveness is indeed very weak, but the news that Zhou Bo knew at that time was that Zhou Yan's bandits totaled more than 500 people, but I didn't expect that there are no less than 10,000 people now, it seems that the ancient bandits are really developing rapidly."
"Your Highness is right, although the combat effectiveness of this kind of bandits who coerce the homeless people is extremely weak, but there are many people, and they do not have a fixed source of money like several other bandits, so the harm is the greatest, the villages and counties near Luoyang have been looted by them for more than half of them, and those villages that have been looted have no food and property, and they have no choice but to continue to loot in other villages."
Liu Braided thought to himself, the Three Kingdoms period was really chaotic, it seems that if you want to live, you still have to raise soldiers to protect yourself, or wait for Dong Taishi to find out that the fake young emperor is still alive and send someone to kill him, just the nearby bandits who have no food to eat one day may come over and wrap themselves up;
Liu Braids suddenly thought of the purpose of his coming to Luoyang City and asked:
"That Mr. Zigan still has a family guard in Luoyang City, and the food is still enough?"
"Don't hide it from His Royal Highness, the minister received the favor of the first emperor, there was a lot of money and grain in the family, but the Dong thief swept away most of it when he left, although there was a lot of money and grain left at home, but because of the troubled times in Luoyang now, the ministers raised more than 300 guards, and the daily consumption is also a large amount, and now in Luoyang City, there is no grain merchant to dare to come, after more than ten days, I am afraid that the micro-minister will be difficult to continue, once there is no food to dismiss the family, it will definitely be looted by several large bandits, it is really difficult to say."
Liu Braid's heart already counted, it turned out that in this Luoyang City, it has reached the point where rice is more expensive than gold, because of the war and banditry, and Luoyang has not much market, grain merchants from other places are reluctant to come in danger
"I see, Mr. Zigan, there is a way to solve your predicament, maybe Luoyang's predicament, I wonder if Mr. can give up his property in exchange for food?"
"Your Highness laughed, of course you are willing, now your life is in danger at any time, what do you want to do with those things outside your body, I don't know what Your Highness can do?"
"Don't ask about the specific way, Mr. Zigan, in short, I have a way to get food, maybe there won't be a lot of it at the beginning, but then I have a way to get food and materials, and I have to trouble Mr. Zigan with two things; One is to help me find a storefront, which should be bigger and in a good location, so that I can buy his shop with grain;
The second is to inform the Wang and Liang families, and let them bring their goods to my shop at noon the day after tomorrow to trade, and inform them:
"What bronze mirrors, candlesticks, jewelry, ancient coins and other things can be exchanged for food, remember that I don't want Qin half two and Han five baht money, if there are opposite-sex cloths and knife coins at home, you can come to my place to exchange food, and it is best to take Wang Mang's new dynasty as the best."
Lu Zhi was puzzled in his heart, why did this prince not want five baht money but wanted to usurp Han's new money?
Later, I thought that it might be because Luoyang was issued a large number of Dong thief's trimmed five baht after the occupation of Dong Thief, which was much lighter than before, and the coins in Wang Mang's period were full of weight, Lu Zhi didn't have to think about it, anyway, it is always a good thing to have food to settle, so he said to Liu Braid:
"Your Highness, rest assured, such a trivial matter is wrapped up in Weichen, now the shops in Luoyang City have long been closed and left, and most of them have even been kidnapped by Dong thieves, and now they are all borderless land, I will send my subordinates to help His Royal Highness clean up out of the west of the city, there is a shop size of more than 2,000 zhang (Han Dynasty 1 zhang is about 2.3 meters in modern times, 2,000 zhang is equivalent to 4,600 meters; for the convenience of explanation, and then in saying that the unit of measurement is used in modern units of measurement meters or square meters) The front hall is more than 200 square meters, and there is a large courtyard behind it to live in people, just Your Highness can settle here first; after His Royal Highness settles down, the day after tomorrow at noon, Weichen will take the Wang and Liang families to meet His Highness"
"Okay, then it's troublesome Mr. Zigan"
"Why should Your Highness be so polite, Your Highness helped us find food, Weichen is very grateful, such a small matter, how dare you not do your best"
After speaking, Lu Zhi shouted outside: "Lu Ting, you go and call dozens of family members to help His Royal Highness King Hongnong clean up the old shop of the Xu family in the west of the city." ”
At this time, a middle-aged man dressed as a subordinate ran in, which should be Lu Ting in Lu Zhi's mouth, and it seems that he should be the housekeeper of Lu Mansion;
After Liu Braided and Lu Zhi said goodbye, they walked to the west of the city with Lu Ting and dozens of families in Lu Mansion and their own Sanshi people, and the pedestrians on the road couldn't avoid it, it seems that these families in Lu Mansion are not good men and women, and these people who did not run in Luoyang City are probably not less bullied by them;
But this is not something that Liu Braids can manage, this trip can go so smoothly, and soon he has his own house in Luoyang, which has a lot to do with the fact that he looks like the dead ghost King Hongnong, and it can be regarded as sticking to the wealth of the King Hongnong;
After Liu Braiding led a group of people to the old shop of the Xu family in the past, he saw that this shop was quite large, much larger than the nearby storefront, and it should have been a prominent family before, it seemed that it was a big merchant who operated grain in the past, and it seemed that there was no food to make money in the Han Dynasty.
After Liu Braided walked into the inner courtyard from the outside façade, he found that it was really not ordinarily big, although it was not like the previous deep house compound, but in the eyes of a person who is often called a mansion of two or three hundred square meters in the modern population, this courtyard is already quite large, there is no garden, it is a courtyard with one entry and one entry, except for the main courtyard, which is about two or three hundred square meters;
There are also a lot of utility rooms and small bedrooms, which should be the place where the next person lives, and there is also a warehouse used to stack grain, about 2000 square meters in size, which is really big, it seems that there was a pile of grain here before, and when the family of those Lu Mansion cleaned up the room, Liu Braid had already called three chiefs and told them how to arrange the accommodation;
Let the three chiefs live in one room for each of them, and the other 18 people, one room for each of the three people; The last remaining largest courtyard is, of course, Liu Braid's own residence; and informed the three chiefs that no one will be allowed to enter the big warehouse without their own orders in the future" The three of them all replied in unison, and after Zhou Bo knew Liu Braid's identity, he didn't dare to call Liu Braid's brother and brother, and his tone of voice became very respectful.
At noon, after Liu Braid had finished arranging all the things that should be arranged, and the family members of the Lu Mansion had also withdrawn, Liu Braid was finally able to get busy with serious things; Liu Braided entered his room and took out his mobile phone, opened WeChat, found the avatar of the little fat man, and sent WeChat: "Are you there?" Fatty, come out"
"I'm writing papers.,It's almost time for the exam.,My dad said.,If you don't finish writing these 10 sets of papers today.,Don't think about going anywhere.。。。
"Come on, just like you, you were admitted to a seventh-rate university, and after graduation, you also worked for a small business, earning thousands of yuan a month, and there is wool; Now I'm messing with my brother, I'll take you to pretend to be forced and take you to fly."
"I'll rub, I'll think then, but you just look at spending money, not making money, and now you give me that money is 13,000 yuan, which is not enough for you."
"You don't care about this, my brother uses the road to make money, now immediately go and buy me grain, buy rice, buy 4,000 catties, hire a car to transport it to the warehouse in J County."
"You're really good at settling accounts, and now your money is enough to buy 4,000 pounds, estimated to be about 12,000, and the rest of the money is not much left to call a big car to J County, you can think about it if you don't have to play, I'm still waiting to make a fortune with you."
"Don't talk nonsense, you will doubt your life if you have a lot of money in the future, go quickly"
"Okay, you, I'm also out of the way, regardless of my father's ban,, I won't go to school, I'll be admitted to woolen college, I'll be mixed with you in the future, I'll buy you food now, you wait, I'll be there before 8 o'clock in the evening"
"Hey, that's my good brother."
"How do I feel like I'm on a pirate ship?"
"Hurry up and have fun, others want to play with me."
"Okay, now that we're on the boat, let's get a first mate, let's go, buy food for the big warlord."
After the two of them finished arguing, Liu Braided thought again, now that he is also a propertied class, and his future is very good, now dozens of young brothers are following him, and he also has his own big shop, no, he has to give his shop a name;
Liu Braided thought for a long time, and didn't know if there was a concept of pawn in the Han Dynasty (in real history, the Northern and Southern Dynasties had just begun to have the prototype of a pawnshop, and there was no pawnshop at the end of the Han Dynasty, but the folk actually appeared with this kind of behavior) After thinking about it, it was called "Luoyang Pawnshop"
Liu Braided didn't know that his little butterfly had quietly rewritten the historical process of the Han Dynasty。。。。。