In the Tang Dynasty, the rise of the grass market was an important economic symbol of the Tang Dynasty. With the gradual prosperity of the economy and the increase in the volume of commodity transactions, many of which were previously only important places on land and water, forming grass markets outside the cities.

At first, the grass market only provided the vast number of rural trading needs, allowing farmers to exchange some products, and then gradually formed a scale, and many distant merchants would come here to sell their goods, or to sell, or exchange. In the end, a new city was formed. Barrel Bridge Town is also one of the grass markets.

This kind of town, it is conceivable that the business must be more prosperous, and there will be more travelers. It is very suitable for the establishment of a Paradise Score Store, and the town where commerce and trade are prosperous, it is conceivable that there will be more people with spare money. Besides, this barrel bridge town is not quite ordinary.

The economy of the grass market is prosperous, but the problem is also very dangerous, because there is no city wall to protect it, it is easy to be attacked by bandits, and there are often rumors that the grass market has been robbed and killed.

Du Mu and Du Ziwei all said, "Where the Jianghuai Grass City, as close to the water, the rich and large households live in the period, since the fifteenth year, the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, all the famous grass markets, robbed and killed, only three years of robbery, no five years of peace." Only if you have heard that you have been robbed twice in three years, but you have not heard that you have not been robbed and killed in five years, you can see the danger of this place.

However, what makes Barrel Bridge Town unusual is that it is protected by a city wall and is relatively safe. Strictly speaking, Barrel Bridge Town can't be regarded as a grass market, he is a regular town, with city walls and garrison protection, and thieves don't dare to be too arrogant.

However, this does not mean that the town of Barrel Bridge is special. The special thing about Barrel Bridge Town is that there is a salt and iron branch in Barrel Bridge Town. Because it is located at the place where the Grand Canal is transferred.

As mentioned earlier, Wukong was not so annoyed that he landed because the tribute ship was changing ships, and came to Pengcheng along the way. Because of the Grand Canal in the Tang Dynasty, because the water conditions are different in various places, there are wide, narrow, deep and shallow. If a boat is in the end, people don't care, the goods will not work, and the ship must be changed, and the town of Barrel Bridge happens to be in such an excellent place.

If you want to change ships for business trips, you will have to stop. Who is a business traveler? Basically, they should all be relatively rich, and it just so happens that they have leisure here...

In addition, it is located in the middle of the Grand Canal, which is just enough to expand the access to the drunken red dust. To tell the truth, drunk Hongchen is too strong and expensive, and sales have declined a lot long before the opening of Elysium. The opening of Paradise has helped increase sales a lot. So, it wouldn't be too nice if Paradise opened a branch in Barrel Bridge Town.

Before Li Chen came here, he had already planned to build this branch with Wang Tong. The distribution ratio is easy to negotiate and can be discussed.

would think so, mainly because he lacked skills, and there was still a little distance from Pengcheng to Tongqiao Town, and it was difficult for him to take care of two stores by himself, so someone would have to help keep an eye on it. The problem is that he can't find anyone he can trust now.

Looking for Wang Tong, can he be trusted? Of course it can't be, but Li Chen thought about it, he can provide a lot of experience, and the profit can also be less, he doesn't change his original intention, one makes wine money, the other earns peripheral money, and the other is to open a restaurant, and strive to carry forward his own exclusive stir-frying. With these three points alone, you can make a lot of money when you think about it.

If there is a problem, they will all be thrown to Wang Tong. Some people make trouble, looking for Wang Tong, some people steal chickens and dogs, look for Wang Tong, some people get drunk and go crazy and smash the store, looking for Wang Tong. How good, you make a lot of money, I silently earn what I'm good at.

However, people are not as good as heaven, who would have thought that this Wang Tong would not play cards according to the card, and he didn't want any benefits, so Li Chen hurriedly made up, and finally got the result he wanted.

Li Chen was in a relaxed mood, ready to go back, the goal was achieved, he was really not interested in this kind of preaching, but when he swept his eyes, he suddenly found that a certain figure was very familiar.

Li Chen looked at the past carefully, he didn't notice when he first came, these people were all dressed in white and had long hair, and he didn't find anything, but now he found out, as if he saw a woman. When I looked closer, I realized that it was really a woman, and in this era, everyone has long hair, and you can't just judge men and women by having short hair. Only then did Li Chen neglect it.

'At the end of the wings, twelve by ten years long, seventy days wide,...... The merit is full of them,...... Abundant and stable,...... The times are peaceful, there is no danger of thieves and thieves, there are no people who are closed in the city settlements, there is no decay, there is no poison caused by water, fire, swords, and all kinds of famine, people are always kind, respectful and obedient... The land is ripe and the people are prosperous,...... The four seasons are good, and there is no one hundred and eight troubles in the human body,...... People's hearts are equal, they all have the same meaning, they are happy to see each other, they are kind to each other, and there is no difference in words. ’

Li Chen leaned over and heard them talking about the scriptures, to be honest, he couldn't understand them at all, but he began to explain the scriptures... The more Li Chen listened, the more she felt that she knew this person, and if she looked closely, wasn't this Wang Erniang? Why is she here?

Li Chen was surprised and delighted, waved hello to her, Wang Erniang didn't care, Bacheng said too seriously, didn't see it, Li Chen simply didn't leave, got off the donkey, and sat up to listen.

‘…… I tasted the dream of the monk and said: The world is chaotic, and the Buddha of Dingguang is born again. If the son is in difficulty, he can recite a thousand times a day, and he can be exempted. I am a ,......。 Li Chen's left ear goes in and out of his right ear, look at it casually and listen to it, this sentence seems to say, if you have nothing to do, recite the Buddha's name, recite it a thousand times a day, you can eliminate disasters and solve misfortunes. A thousand times a day, do you still want to do things?

'Erniang, Erniang, Wang Erniang, do you still recognize me? Seeing that the lecture was over, Li Chen hurriedly waved his hand, Erniang looked up, seemed to be confused for a while, and then showed a suddenly realized expression, "You are not... That..., that.... ’

Yes, I still didn't remember who I was, so Li Chen had to say to himself, 'I'm Li Chen, you saved that one in Chang'an.' ''Oh, yes, yes, Li Chen, Li Jun. Wang Erniang remembered, "Have you left the Longevity Temple?" ’

'That's... Yes. It turned out that Wang Erniang had not been to the Longevity Temple during this period, and he just thought about how to answer if Wang Erniang asked.

How to answer? It's good to say it straight, anyway, I took a little bit of the plate at the beginning, and now I double it back, well, this sentence is really familiar. What you took at the beginning, now you will pay it back. There is also the matter of account books, I wrote a letter by myself, asked someone to bring it back, and told them how to read the account book. As a result, it is not needed now, and Wang Er doesn't know about it at all.

'Why are you here?' I didn't even know you were religious. The two walked to the side and chatted happily, "I was also found today, what about you, how long have you been in the faith?" I've believed in it for a long time, but I'm the head of this society. ’

Then Wang Erniang introduced this association. It was Maitreya Buddha, Li Chen frowned when he heard it, Maitreya Buddha, this is not a good Buddha.

It's not about Maitreya, Li Chen likes Maitreya Buddha very much, the big belly can tolerate things that are difficult to tolerate, he always smiles, and he laughs at the world. Maitreya Buddha is fine, but he said that believers are not good. What do you talk about the past, present, and future Buddha?

I probably know a little bit about history, since the Ming Sect in the Heaven and Dragon Slayer was against the Yuan, there were always people in the Ming Dynasty who rebelled against it, and in the Qing Dynasty, there were also many servants who rose up to the White Lotus Sect, and once shook the Qing court. These are all Maitreya believers, always using Maitreya to deceive people by saving the world, so that Li Chen will wake up as soon as he hears that Maitreya is believed.

'This religion can be traced back to the time of the Great Holy Empress of Zetian, and it is also the Great Cloud Sutra. Hearing Wang Er say this, Li Chen was a little surprised, "Then the Great Sage Empress, is it the Empress of Martial Arts?" Empress Gaozongde? ''Or else that Empress Wu?'' ', yes, this is Wu Zetian's creation? Maybe it's not some evil religion, whatever you say, well... Wu Zetian also represents the imperial court.

In fact, Li Chen really didn't learn history well, if he had studied better, he would have already stepped into the den of thieves.

When Wu Zetian was in power, in order to be the emperor, she pretended to entrust the Great Cloud Sutra, and Maitreya Buddha turned to the female body, and she was Maitreya Buddha who came into the world. Seriously, that's also a usurpation.

'The general leader of my sect is called Luo Ping, and there are local community owners, scripture masters, incense masters, and fasting masters. ''Is it those white-clad and long-haired?'' ''Right.'' ''So how do you divide it?'' How do you distinguish between different statuses? Li Chen looked at those people with long hair in white clothes, since there was a difference in status, there must be a way to distinguish >

'Look at the collar and cuffs sewn, and the gold thread will be the Lord.' Wang Erniang showed off his cuffs. Every place has a society, and the head has to be the owner, and the cuffs are red lines. Under the head of the society, the lord of the scriptures, the golden thread. The incense master is the green line, and the one without the line is the fasting master. Above the head of the society was the chief chief, called Luo Ping.

Luo Ping bird, four-eyed and three-legged lord more misfortune, the more refers to the ancient Yue country, probably in today's Zhejiang. Jiangyi, a little farther away, north to Jiangsu, south to Minzhong.

Li Chen listened to Wang Erniang's account of how their sect helped the world, and if they joined the sect, they would first send a few buckets of rice. On weekdays, there are also people who help with medical treatment and soup kitchens.

People say that it is difficult to buy money, and if Li Chen had known that he would travel through the Tang Dynasty, he would definitely study Tang history hard. If he learns Tang history well, he will know that these white-clothed and long-haired people are anti-thieves, and they are all deceitful people under the pretense of the Great Cloud Sutra.

As early as the third year of Kaiyuan, Xuanzong issued an edict banning the **** of white-clothed long hair, and then it has continued until now, and it has not been broken, prohibiting the white-clothed long-haired meeting.

If he learns history a little better, he will know that the Maitreya religion in history has rebelled a long time ago, not as he thought, and it did not appear until the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

The professional rebels, Maitreya, combined with Zoroastrianism in the Song Dynasty and the West, became Mingjiao, and continued to do their promising rebellion.

Then everyone knows that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, it became Mingjiao. It was their most successful rebellion.

And stupidly hehe, I don't know that Li Chen is afraid, because the history is not good, I haven't noticed that I have stepped into the den of thieves, and because Wang Er is also in this sect, although she often travels far away, she has a good impression of this sect, and plans to increase donations.