Under the rule of the Great Yuan Kingdom, it is becoming more and more lively.

As a perennial businessman, he is accustomed to seeing the depression in the troubled times, and Zhao Yuan has the deepest feelings in this regard.

The local people are getting richer and richer, and as long as the goods sold are suitable, there is nothing that cannot be sold, which naturally attracts more caravans like him.

There are more than 30 unofficial guest houses in Luoyang City, but when you ask left and right, there is no one who is idle, and there are nearly 100 people in your caravan, and in the end you can only live separately.

The guest house where he lives has a total of three chase shops, more than ten single rooms, caravan guys, stewards, and two or three rangers, and it is full.

The business of the guest house is getting better and better, a few years ago when Zhao Yuan came and went to Henan County, the guest house here was only a good citizen to take care of, but now the owner of the guest house is almost all first-class meritorious people.

Zhao Yuan sat in the living room of the guest house and slowly enjoyed his own food, recalling the changes in this land, and occasionally talked to the three guards he had invited, or looked at the two sword-wielding rangers behind the door.

Everyone was eating, but only the guests in the private rooms were eating in the living room, and the guys had to squat in the yard.

"Ziting! Ziting! ”

Suddenly, there was a hurried cry from the courtyard outside the hall, and the voice was familiar.

Ziting was his word, Zhao Yuan's heart tightened, and he replied loudly: "Uncle, I'm here!" ”

Hearing the answer, the man immediately ran towards the hall door, and his footsteps were heavy.

The person who came was the steward of his caravan, a character that he had to use when his father was a generation, and he was very stable. In the past few days, I have led some of my fellow men to live in another guest house. Look at the way he panted and rushed when he appeared outside the hall door. Zhao Yuan was even more frightened, and hurriedly got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The chief steward also saw Zhao Yuan, his face was happy, and he hurriedly crossed the threshold and ran over.

I don't want him to be old, he has been trotting all the way, his mouth is panting roughly, and his feet are already weak, when he is a ranger. Sudden loss of strength and fall.

At this moment, his arm knocked over a bowl of soup on the table, and most of the soup in it was splashed on the ranger's robe, and the chief steward also got a lot of it on his body.

The ranger was immediately furious, picked up the sword that had been resting on the case before, got up and pressed the sword and scolded angrily: "Old goods! You want to die! ”

Zhao Yuan had already stepped forward, hurriedly picked up his housekeeper, and then did not fall down to apologize to the ranger: "Don't sin!" Don't sin! Settle the slurry and launder the money, and then please drink and eat! ”

"Can I be moved by such things?"

The ranger did not give up, and the three guards, who were usually treated very well, also raised their knives and stood up. Stand behind Zhao Yuan.

The tense atmosphere frightened the other merchants and guards in the hall who used food to get up and avoid the corners.

The ranger's companion was also there to persuade him. The ranger was still furious, glaring at the three guards, and was about to draw his sword.

"Stop!"

A female voice sounded at the right time, and everyone looked back, but it was the shopkeeper's wife who rushed over with her skirt and small steps, shouting loudly again as she walked: "Stop!" ”

How dare a woman get involved? Taking advantage of the fact that the ranger who was about to draw the sword was slightly stunned, the shopkeeper had already stopped in front of Zhao Yuan and the chief steward, and smiled at the ranger Yingying: "The honorable guest wants to come from the text of the persuasion of the hero, how can he draw the sword at will?" If so, how is it different from Gan Ning's generation? ”

After a word of persuasion, the shopkeeper's wife said again: "Luoyang is the capital of the Great Yuan, and Henan Yin and Luoyang Ling abandon such things as daylight?" Think twice! ”

Next to him, Zhao Yuan repeatedly apologized, promising to compensate for the slurry washing and food, and the ranger went back to the room to change his clothes under the pull of his companions.

Zhao Yuan thanked the owner's wife, and then told the other guests about the crime of disturbance, and then asked the chief steward: "Uncle, why is it so urgent?" ”

The chief steward looked at the people around him, and whispered in his ear: "I heard the announcement of the Luoyang Guansi that I want to find a merchant to sell for the Great Yuan Kingdom, and if the matter is successful, I can be awarded a first-class meritorious household, and I am anxious to tell Yu Ziting, I don't want to cause trouble."

"Really?" Hearing this, Zhao Yuan almost exploded.

Looking at the chief steward nodding, and then anxiously looking at Zuo Jinren and waiting, Zhao Yuan also lowered his voice and said: "I'll go to the official temple to listen carefully, Uncle will find that ranger to accuse himself, and it doesn't hurt to lose more money, just don't make trouble for this." ”

Letting three guards accompany the chief steward, he hurriedly took the mule out and went to the official temple.

Zhao Yuan was a native of the East China Sea in Xuzhou and led a caravan. Since the first salt sales to Henan six years ago, it has come every year since then, and in the last two years, it is a trip every three or four months, and the purchase and sale of goods have been based on local demand.

The more he learned, the more he felt that he liked this place more and more.

The world only knows that the price is several times higher than that of the place of origin, and the merchants naturally have a lot of profits, but they do not know the hardships -- the thieves and robbers, the extortion of the soldiers, and the customs duties of the government. If the price is not several times higher, how can the merchant survive? Not to mention, if you are not careful, the loss of property is only a trivial matter, and whether you have to save your life is the most important thing. When has it not been since the time I went out, my relatives and myself at home were worried?

After walking through the troubled times, I realized that it seemed that only by entering the rule of Deng Gong would I not encounter these troubles.

However, in addition to the joy, there is also another hatred for this place, that is, only first-class meritorious people can do business, and there is nothing else to do business at home, if they settle here, they can only be ordinary commoners!

These local merchants seem to have their nostrils facing upwards when they look at outsiders.

A rare place of tranquility in troubled times, the more he liked this land, the more he hated the law that only first-class meritorious people could do business, if it weren't for this restriction, he would undoubtedly move his family over!

Merchant Jia businessman, since ancient times, has acted as a businessman, sitting as Jia. Strictly speaking, there are actually no merchants under the household registration of the Great Yuan Kingdom, and these first-class meritorious households can only be called "Jia" when they open shops to sell goods, and they should not be called "merchants", but if they can be lucky enough to be given a first-class meritorious household registration like that Liu Xu, even if they give up their best business and change to Jia, what is it? Could it be that who is really willing to carry their heads year after year to pursue profits?

Stimulated by Liu Xu's matter, Zhao Yuan also thought about where to find some ship materials to sell to Dayuan, but unfortunately he had no way to purchase them. Second, the ship material is heavy. He used to travel by land. There are only a few dozen mules and horses, and even if they are bought, it is not easy to transport them over long distances.

What has been whispered over and over again, now Dayuan has actually given a chance!

But what is to be sold? Why do you use official temple announcements? At this moment, Zhao Yuan really wished that he was the only merchant who could enjoy this secret exclusively.

Thinking carefully about the goods unique to this Great Yuan Kingdom, it seems that there is nothing important enough to give a first-class meritorious person and the same treatment as a civil and military attache above the fifth rank.

Once this news spreads, how many merchants will be moved? Even if you lose money, you have to fight desperately?

Really. Halfway down the road, there were many people who rode mules and horses or hurried to the official temple on foot, and when he arrived at the official temple, there were many merchants outside crowded in front of the courtyard wall to watch the notice.

Most of the merchants were literate, and those who were illiterate also asked to have an account room, and everyone just gathered around to watch before the announcement, and some of them had already seen it and asked the officers, but several of the officers only shook their heads and said they didn't know.

Zhao Yuan didn't care about tying the mule to the tethered horse stake, so he jumped down and rushed over to read the notice first.

The notice did not clearly say what kind of goods were to be sold by the merchants, but only said that this thing was expensive, and those who spent more than 100,000 yuan on the stock could go to the Zhen's house in Luoyang on the first day of August to discuss in detail.

After you can see it clearly. Zhao Yuan squeezed out the crowd again and also went to ask the errand officer. He still didn't know, so he could only secretly calculate.

100,000 yuan is not a small number, but the notice says that there must be at least 100,000. Even if all the current goods are sold, there will probably be only this number, and now it is only the beginning of July, and there are still more than 20 days before the first day of August, and this notice will certainly not be hidden, and it is not known how many merchants will participate in the competition.

With so many people participating, even if Henan wants to sell a large amount of goods, 100,000 yuan is not safe!

When he was secretly thinking about it, he suddenly heard someone in the crowd behind him whispering: "Deng Muan wants to sell the household registration of first-class meritorious people?" 100,000 yuan per household, so expensive? ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yuan sneered at the corner of his mouth, and said secretly: "If it is really 100,000 yuan to buy the household registration of the meritorious people, I only think it is cheap!" ”

Thinking about the past actions of the master here, Zhao Yuan shook his head, left and right could not guess, recalling that his mule was still there, and it was not lost, so he went to take it and prepared to go back to the guest house to discuss with the stewards.

Riding on the mule, and then looking at the group of merchants under the notice, there are many familiar ones, and a few are also Xuzhou merchants, and their faces are a little suspicious and frightened at this time.

After all, since ancient times, it is not a small number of businessmen who have caused trouble because of their wealth, even if Deng Muan took advantage of his family to gather a huge amount of money and suddenly snatched it, it is really normal.

Zhao Yuan was stunned for a while, and only after a while did he understand why he was suspicious, remembering that many merchants were afraid of the notoriety of the owner of this place before, and the time of contact was still short, and he knew little about it.

If you don't believe it, maybe you have a chance to take advantage of it!

No matter how you have to fight, think about it carefully, Zhao Yuan raised his voice on the back of the mule: "I am Zhao Yuan of the East China Sea, living in Lanling County, with a slight property at home, and I am also a businessman. Now I want to buy Sizhou's things for sale, but I am suffering from insufficient funds, so I ask you to ask for help, and those who are willing to make a deed to borrow gold will be repaid twice! The borrower can go to my home with the deed to claim it back, or look for me again in Luoyang Gold Market in February next year! ”

Hearing him suddenly begging for money on this occasion, the merchants couldn't help but look at each other, Zhao Yuan said again loudly, one of them happened to go back to Xuzhou, knowing that Zhao Yuan was not a fool, and replied in the crowd: "I still have ten gold unused, stay in the guest house, Zhao Jun wants to use it, take it." ”

Most people won't go out with a few taels of gold, Zhao Yuan was overjoyed, first reported his residence and guest house, and then asked the other party's residence, telling him to come to get money and sign a deed in the evening.

Double the return, the profit of the hard runner is not more than this amount, and the other party is reputable, and the other two Xuzhou businessmen thought that as long as they had left enough money for their own 100,000 yuan, it would be good to give some to Zhao Yuanli, so they each borrowed six gold and ten gold to him.

The rest no one squeaked anymore.

In this era, gold and silver, although rarely used, were also the equivalent of easy to carry. The price of silver needs to look at the origin and the quality of silver fluctuates, but the gold for silver is generally one to five, the silver for copper is about one to one thousand, and the loan to 26 gold is about 130,000 yuan.

Zhao Yuantie wanted to succeed, and he could give an extra 130,000 capital, which was already an unexpected joy, so he hurriedly thanked him again and again, asked all about his address, and prepared to pick it up at night.

He hurried back to the guest house, and told the chief steward to sell the goods urgently tomorrow, and then find the government to exchange all the Han copper coins for the new dollar.

At this time, the other merchants in the same guest house had also been believed, and rushed to the official temple one by one.

Zhao Yuan gritted his teeth and called on the men to lead all their livestock to the official temple.

More than thirty of the caravan were loaded with livestock, which belonged to him, and the rest were leased to others.

The official price of the Great Yuan set the livestock too cheap, resulting in the price of livestock in the entire Henan County is low, but it is not sold out, no one runs this business, and the only way to sell it is to sell it.

It's just that he was in a hurry to get rid of it, so as not to be picked up cheaply, even if he sold it to his peers, the price was severely suppressed.

In the troubled times, even if you have money, it is difficult to buy so many large livestock at one time, more than 30 heads, but Zhao Yuan only sold them all for less than 190,000 yuan, and many people laughed at him for being crazy, and if he wanted to buy it all in the future, he didn't know how long it would take, not to mention, the price would be nearly 100,000 yuan more expensive.

Zhao Yuan didn't care about other people's jokes, he only secretly thought that the notice said that the money was more than 100,000 yuan, and he didn't say that he would prepare more livestock, and estimated that there were nearly fifty mules, horses and donkeys left, and if it was not enough, he would rent someone else's at a high price.

After all the livestock were sold, Zhao Yuan began to calculate his own capital -- every time he went out to trade, he had to secretly prepare 40 taels of gold to hide on a few close confidants, and the goods on this trip were estimated to be 1120,000 yuan, and he told the steward and his men that he would not distribute them for the time being, and the total amount of money borrowed was more than 600,000 yuan.

But things are afraid of what happens, thinking about it is not completely safe, Zhao Yuan made up his mind, in the next few days, he will not go anywhere, he will stay in front of the official temple every day, and find those colleagues who do not care about it to borrow some money.

His behavior in such a ruin is a joke and a frightening thing at the same time, and there are fewer and fewer people willing to lend him money.

On the other hand, there are more and more merchants who lead livestock and carry goods to the official temple to sell cheaply and beg to get rid of them, and they are all in a hurry to borrow money in the same county and state, and those who laugh at Zhao Yuan will soon stop laughing.

The congestion in front of the official temple was not good, and Luoyang Ling Yanpu was helpless, so in the end he could only make the messenger forcibly drive him and others to trade in the horse market.

Like a trend, the news spread quickly, and the large and small caravans that were selling goods in various parts of Henan began to rush to Luoyang, and many of them who did not have enough capital beat their chests and screamed.

This is also a business opportunity, those merchants who are not interested in the household registration of Dayuan, buy goods and livestock that are urgently sold at low prices, and some local wealthy and meritorious families have begun to lend money to small merchants who have dealings, roots and reputation.

This July, Luoyang City was almost boiling.

(I thought it could be updated before twelve o'clock, but I didn't expect the number of words to be more and delayed.) (To be continued.) )