Chapter 5 Seeds
Pingxingguo Temple has begun to decline since the rebellion, the royal temple is set on the head of the Great Xiangguo Temple, the Great Xiangguo Temple was built in the Northern Qi Dynasty, to Renzong has a history of five hundred years, with the decline of the Taiping Xingguo Temple, the imperial court spent a huge amount of money to spend seven years to expand the Great Xiangguo Temple immediately became a royal temple, the scale is vast and solemn and gorgeous. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.infoqΠ5γc0m
With the prosperity of the Great Xiangguo Temple, the trading market of the surname of the Great Xiangguo Temple has also risen, and now it has become the most prosperous commodity market in Bianjing, the goods from the Great Song Dynasty and Asian countries can be seen everywhere in the surname trading market, that is, the commodities of Europe and Africa, and it is not rare in the surname trading market, and it is worthy of the nickname of "the gathering of commodities from all countries".
Daxiangguo Temple opens five times a month the surname trading market, every time the surname trading market opens, the Daxiangguo Temple becomes like a sea of people, and the flow of tens of thousands of people makes the Daxiangguo Temple covering an area of more than 500 acres become crowded.
Today is the day when Daxiangguo Temple opens the Wan surname trading market, and early in the morning, Zhao Lei took several subordinates of Zhao Mansion from Xifu to Bianjing, ready to buy some good things in the Wan surname trading market.
The purpose of Zhao Lei coming to the Wan surname trading market is for the seeds of those vegetables, and the greenhouse in Qinghe Town has begun to be built, but the seeds of vegetables have become Zhao Lei's biggest headache.
There are not many edible vegetables in the Song Dynasty, the only vegetables that can be used in winter are cabbage, radish, bean sprouts, after frost and snow, most of the vegetables are no longer growing, and the greenhouse can meet the growth conditions of many vegetables, the construction of the greenhouse can not only meet Zhao Lei's winter diet, but more importantly, the price of vegetables in winter is expensive, which will definitely make Zhao Lei earn a lot of money.
In the past few days, Zhao Lei has been collecting vegetable seeds, but there are too few varieties. Cucumbers, eggplants, vegetables, spinach and celery, which are common vegetables in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Lei has collected enough seeds, but lacks many common vegetables in his previous life, such as garlic, tomatoes, peppers, cauliflower and onions, etc., so Zhao Lei took the opportunity of the beginning of the Wan surname trading market to prepare to carefully shop in the market to see if he could get some vegetable seeds from those foreign merchants.
The trading market of the great Xiangguo Temple is very neatly planned, and the animal and plant market is near the big three gates of the Great Xiangguo Temple, birds and animals, ancient cypress potted plants, and various animal and plant commodities at home and abroad. It can be seen at the third gate.
When the sun just rose, Zhao Lei had been shopping around the big three gates for a while, but the smell of the big three doors made Zhao Lei very unhappy, many animals gathered together to cry people were bored, and the feces excreted by these animals were even more annoying, after a while, Zhao Lei was already completely disgusted with this famous animal and plant trading market in Bianjing.
Zhao Lei walked briskly through the dog market, cat market, bird market and other animal markets, and went directly to the plant market at the third gate with his entourage.
There are many people who play with bonsai in the Great Song Dynasty, but they don't know much about ornamental plants, except for potted plants. There are only a variety of rare plum orchid chrysanthemums and other flowers that can attract the eyes of the elegant people of the Great Song Dynasty, so Zhao Lei went to the plant market. It can basically be said to be a sea of flowers.
Zhao Lei, who was frowning and examining the plant market, suddenly lit up, and in his sight, a stall set up by people from the Western Regions appeared, and on the stall, there were several pots of red fruit plants, if Zhao Lei was not mistaken, those pots of plants were the tomatoes that Zhao Lei had been looking for.
Zhao Lei, who was overjoyed, walked quickly to the front of the potted tomato plant, looked down at the potted tomato tree that was not tall, and asked the owner of the tomatoes: "Where did this thing come from?" β
"My lord! This plant is called mangrove, and the fruit is called red fruit. It has just been spread to the Western Regions from a far away, and the nobles of the Western Regions call this red fruit the fruit of love, what a bright red! It's as addictive as love. "The owner of the tomatoes is a big-nosed Westerner with a colored head, about thirty years old. is very sturdy, and speaks Chinese very correctly, at least Zhao Lei can hear what it means without difficulty.
The big-nosed words made Zhao Lei slightly stunned. You must know that the word "adult" in the Great Song Dynasty is not easy to call, except for the court officials, no one else dares to understand the title of "adult", but now this big nose is called Lord Zhao Lei, and this big nose doesn't look like a person who doesn't understand the rules of the Great Song Dynasty!
Zhao Lei looked down at himself in a green robe and civilian clothes, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't look like an "adult", and Zhao Lei smiled and asked the big nose: "How do you know that I am a court official?" β
"The golden goldfish bag on the waist of the adult, if the contemptible can't see it, there is a rush to the Great Song Dynasty to do business!" The big nose triumphantly pointed to the goldfish bag on Zhao Lei's waist and said proudly.
It turned out to be this one who showed his feet! Zhao Lei smiled bitterly and looked at the goldfish bag exposed from his waist, and reached out to pull the goldfish bag into his clothes.
"You know all the goldfish bags, don't you have a lot of knowledge!" The goldfish bag is the official Zhao Zhen's reward for the important ministers, there are less than fifty officials in Bianjing who have goldfish bags, and there are definitely not many people who have seen the goldfish bag, and a small businessman, and a foreign businessman, can actually recognize the goldfish bag, which makes Zhao Lei very curious.
"Of course! At the age of fourteen, he followed his father and began to run the Great Song Dynasty to do business, and later received private school education in the Great Song Dynasty, at the age of twenty-five, he had taken the township examination, but he did not pass, and then he had been running between the Great Song Dynasty and the Seljuk for business, and the contemptible people had participated in the Great Song Emperor's grand meeting of the envoys of all countries, and also knew many high-ranking officials of the imperial court, of course the goldfish bag had seen. The big nose said to Zhao Lei proudly.
Educated in the Great Song Dynasty, is it any wonder that he speaks Chinese so well, Seljuk State? Why haven't I heard of it, I guess it's not a big country. Zhao Lei looked at the big nose and thought to himself.
"What's your name? How do you sell this red fruit? Although Zhao Lei was more curious about the big nose, the most important thing in front of him was the seeds of tomatoes, so Zhao Lei interrupted the big nose
said with a boast.
"Contemptible Ben Alhari, adults can call contemptible Ben, as for this red fruit, a pot of one hundred taels of silver, no bargaining!" The big nose said to Zhao Lei categorically and firmly.
One hundred taels and one pot! The lion opens his mouth! Is there such a slaughter? Zhao Lei was startled when he heard the price of tomatoes in the big nose book, and then thought angrily in his heart.
The big nose saw the anger in Zhao Lei's eyes, but he didn't care and said: "My lord, do you know the difficulties of these pots of mangroves to get to Bianjing, but the contemptible people have been setting off for Bianjing since the mangroves have been hanging fruits, and they have to water and bask the mangroves every day." As an ancestor to serve, the mangrove tree was brought alive to the Great Song Dynasty, and the hard work of this trip was more than one hundred taels! There are eleven pots here, and adults will give adults a pot if they buy ten pots, which is a very cost-effective deal! This kind of red fruit is the fruit of love, as long as there is a red fruit at home, love will definitely come to the door, not to be missed! β
"Love! Who wants any love, Lao Tzu wants this thing to eat! Big Nose Ben's words finally angered Zhao Lei, Zhao Lei grabbed the collar of Big Nose Ben's clothes and shouted angrily, and several entourages who followed Zhao Lei came. also surrounded the stall of the big nose with a bad face, and the other people in the trading market, seeing that there was a lively scene to see, came to watch one after another.
"Eat! Adults need to think clearly! Although these red fruits are attractive in color, they are highly poisonous, and if you eat them, you will die! Although the big nose was pulled by Zhao Lei's clothes, after hearing Zhao Lei say that he wanted to eat tomatoes, he immediately persuaded Zhao Lei to give up this plan.
"Poisonous!" Zhao Lei heard the big nose Ben's words of concern, forgave him for killing people, and said with a smile. Pick a bright red fruit directly from the low fruit tree of the tomato and do not wash it. I took a bite of it.
Sour! Sweet! What delicious tomatoes! I haven't tasted it in ten years. Zhao Lei ate a fist tomato in a few bites with some nostalgia, and stretched out his hand to another ripe tomato.
The big nose was already stunned, Zhao Lei ate the land but it was a highly poisonous fruit, from the time he saw the red fruit field, the person who sold him the seeds told him that the red fruit was highly poisonous and could not be eaten, and could only be watched, but now it was eaten by a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty, if the high-ranking official in front of him was poisoned to death, he still had a way to live as a small businessman.
Thinking of this, the big nose saw Zhao Lei stretch his hand to the second fruit again. The big nose with a horizontal heart took the first step to pick the tomatoes that Zhao Lei saw, looked like he was dead, and bit at the tomatoes hard.
That's it, Zhao Lei and Big Nose Ben. Sweep a few ripe tomatoes in a pot into your stomach.
"Ben! Didn't you say that red fruit is highly poisonous! Why are you still eating! After Zhao Lei finished the tooth sacrifice, he looked up at the big nose with a little blue face and asked with a smile.
"Adults dare to eat it, which means that red fruit is not poisonous in the first place. Such a tempting fruit, of course, you have to take a sneak peek! "How can the big nose say that he is afraid of death, so he wants to commit suicide! had to find an excuse to deal with Zhao Lei, and casually waited for the moment of poison death.
"Alright, Ben! Look at the frightened purple green on your face, let me tell you, this red fruit is an edible fruit that is not poisonous, even if you eat 10,000, it will only survive to death, not be poisoned. Zhao Lei looked at the big nose's frightened face, and said to him with a laugh.
"It's really not poisonous?" The big nose asked Zhao Lei suspiciously.
"I haven't lived enough! I'm sure I won't eat poisonous stuff, I'm stupid! Zhao Lei said angrily to the big nose who didn't believe him.
Zhao Lei's words gave the big nose a lot of comfort, and the big nose was stunned for a while.
"One thousand taels of silver, I want these red fruits, but I have a request, I want these red fruit seeds, you won't say you don't have them!" Zhao Lei asked at the stupid big nose.
"Yes, of course, and many more! In the Seljuk estate, several acres of red fruits were planted, and of course there were seeds, as many as they wanted. "It's still the influence of silver, hearing Zhao Lei's words of a thousand taels, the big nose immediately reflected, and said with great joy.
"Do you have the seeds for ten acres of land?" Zhao Lei nervously asked the big nose, praying in his heart that there were so many seeds in the big nose in front of him, if not, this year's greenhouse was destined to be missing a bright red delicacy.
"Yes, a thousand taels of silver!" Big Nose said to Zhao Lei even more happily, the seeds of ten acres of land are easier to transport than ten pots of red fruits, and a thousand taels of silver is already too dark, but Big Nose has already smelled a fragrance of gold and silver from the edible red fruits, so he said again without hesitation.
"Deal, you send someone to send things to Zhao Mansion, but go to Zhao Mansion to get the silver." Zhao Lei didn't care about the price of one thousand taels, and said to the big nose book boldly.
The matter of tomato seeds was thus done, but Zhao Lei, who was about to leave, was pulled by Big Nose Ben, asked Zhao Lei why he wanted plant seeds, and carefully reminded Zhao Lei that he had a lot of connections and could get a lot of plant seeds.
A big pie fell on Zhao Lei's head, with the help of the big nose Ben, a merchant in the Western Regions, Zhao Lei began to collect vegetable seeds that had not yet appeared in the Great Song Dynasty banquet, and the economic benefits of the greenhouse had begun to recruit Zhao Lei, and Zhao Lei's desire for tongue in winter could finally be satisfied.
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