'I want to buy it, I haven't made it. Li Chen suddenly wanted to mix some spices by himself, and asked Dr. De in the store if he had ever made any spices. With a sneering look on his face, the doctor pointed to various places, 'No, it's okay next to it.' Guest officers can go and have a look. Li Chen asked, and he knew that he was stupid when he asked, how could someone sell unprepared spices.

Along the way, they saw many shops selling salt, sugar, tea, wood, leather goods, copperware, spices, wine, and many other places that they had not seen, such as selling precious stones, cloth, porcelain, and cabinets for people to send money. Except for salt and sugar, how can you sell raw materials?

The salt merchant has a lot of money and doesn't care about renting a shop here, and the sugar merchant is not afraid. However, of these two things, salt is a daily commodity with huge profits, and so is sugar. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, he learned the most basic technology of squeezing sucrose from Tianzhu, and after the improvement of the Tang people, white sugar was refined. Its quality, "the color and taste are more than those of the Western Regions." On the contrary, it became an important export product of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chen said that the harvest was huge, in addition to the two just now, he also thought that it seemed that he could use white sugar to make some processed products, such as rock candy with higher sweetness, and some candy products that were not available in the Tang Dynasty. It's just that these things just don't have any raw materials.

Probably because the land rent in Hushi is too expensive, some raw materials are sold, and they have to look for shops in a farther place. And by the way, where to put the goods. So, all the way over, I didn't see those shops that sold raw materials.

'Side? "There are two next to it, and then there is one that sells gems, and the guest officer can also ask if there are any unfinished gems for sale." Li Chen didn't care about the doctor of this store, the kind of mockery on his face, and he took Wei Xuan and went out.

If we talk about the spice industry, there are still some Tang people, then the gemstones are all Hu people in the world, or those maritime merchants in the world, and the two industries are close together.

Even the Tang Dynasty people have some legends, novels, and stories about mysterious gems, and there are many Hu people appearing, such as being bought by Hu merchants, or getting gems to be sold by Hu merchants in Yangzhou. The book conveys the awareness that the jewelers are from the Western Regions and that most of the Hu shops are located in Yangzhou.

"Master, if you want to buy incense cakes or incense pills, let's buy them from another store." Li Chen didn't care that the doctor had to be contemptuous, but Wei Xuan couldn't. He felt that it was completely a dog who looked down on people, and the owner didn't use spices, not that he couldn't afford them, but the owner invited everyone to take a bath every day, and there was no such smell on their bodies, and of course they didn't need spices.

'What? Is it bad to buy raw materials? Li Chen said strangely, "If we buy it, we won't make it." Wei Xuan smiled bitterly, "Some of the ingredients of the spices can be used directly, but more of them have to be modulated." It's all unique to those stores. ’

Some spices, of course, can be used directly, but many more need to be concocted. I introduced to Dr. Gang that kind of lily phase, not lily floral fragrance, but a variety of spices have been concocted, hundred is the quantity, and the combination is soft and meaningful.

Now there is just that spice shop, selling fragrant cakes and incense balls. Among them, there are dozens of seasonings. Shen water incense, nail incense, frankincense, cloves, Lingling incense, Huoxiang, green cinnamon, white incense, the first few are strong in taste, and the latter are relatively light medium incense. Finally, there are several spices such as bird's head, Suhe, rest, and musk.

Li Chen has heard that modern perfume will have a head fragrance and a middle fragrance. Depending on the time of wear, the perfume will slowly change. It's just that I didn't expect that the incense in the Tang Dynasty was already like this.

Of course, there are also more ordinary, simple and single scents, such as sandalwood. But the same thing is that they have all been carefully concocted by the store with their own secret recipes, so even if you know what kind of incense he uses, you don't want to imitate it.

'Don't worry, don't worry about your master. It's just spices. Li Chen didn't know what Wei Xuan was thinking, thinking that Wei Xuan was just worried that he was spending money indiscriminately, but he still had a little grasp of spices.

But Li Chen was right, Wei Xuan was partly left out in the cold for his master, on the one hand, he was really worried that Li Chen would spend money on this, you wouldn't adjust, even if you bought spices, when the time came, you would be severely bargained by others, not to mention the waste of it.

In just one sentence, Wei Xuan's doubts could not be dispelled, he was full of doubts, and followed Li Chen to the two spice shops next door. This spice shop really sells all the ingredients. This made Li Chen very surprised, picked it up and sniffed it.

'What does the guest want?' The doctor here is not arrogant, very attentive, but there seems to be a deep apprehension in this hospitality.

"You guys sell raw materials here, I see that the next few rooms are selling finished products." ''Hehe, do you have different sales methods for each store?'' The doctor replied with a smile, looking at Li Chen for a while. After asking the price again, Li Chen didn't say anything and took Wei Xuan away.

Next door to the spice shop is to sell gemstones, only to see that there are pearls on display, two-foot-high coral, as well as tortoiseshell, jade and other items. Li Chen saw a burst of envy, and he really wanted to grab it, he believed that there would be more in the store.

Eventually, they left the city from Silla Fang. In Silla Fang, all the people who live in Silla are Silla people, and the Silla people not only occupy the water transportation, but also open shops, such as Silla paper, which is a high-end product. In addition to paper, they also sold charcoal and umbrellas, and there were ordinary and very high-end ones. Like smokeless charcoal, it has no peculiar smell and will not produce smoke when burned, which is superior. The artwork is generally a paper umbrella, and the high-end and delicate paper is ... Wait. All of them are high-priced, high-quality and excellent goods.

After seeing Silla Fang, Li Chen had a general impression of the chaos of Yangzhou's forces, in addition to local forces, there are more foreign forces. These Silla people can swell to this extent, which makes Li Chen a little surprised.

Mastering shipping is not a problem, from Yangzhou to the north to the Silla Sea, the Tang Dynasty has never paid much attention to it, and the Grand Canal, if the Silla people see the decline of the Tang Dynasty and want to stir up the wind and rain, it is the old birthday star to eat arsenic.

There are enough of these Silla people. In these years, the Tang Dynasty has been greatly transformed not only by the Japanese people, but also by Silla. Not only are there many people coming, but all aspects of the country are also trying to imitate the Tang people, but just like Ah Yong said, Mu Monkey is crowned. However, it is not enough to completely belittle the hard work of the Silla people, many of whom have passed the imperial examination and obtained the qualification to be officials, although the official position may not be too high.

It's almost time for them to move. After leaving the city, Li Chen hesitated, in order to collect more information and confirm his doubts, Li Chen had to think about letting Ergou and them go out for activities. (To be continued.) )