Runan Commercial Bank, listen to the name and know that it has a relationship with Zhao Zongsheng, the king of Runan County, in fact, it is true, the owner behind Runan Commercial Bank is Zhao Zongsheng, the nobles of the Great Song Dynasty are not shy about doing business, and even when some female relatives get together, the most common discussion is the business situation in various places, and even sometimes a few housekeepers and ladies get together to chatter, and they can negotiate a big business.

Zhao Bao is the big shopkeeper of Runan Commercial Bank in Quanzhou, Quanzhou is one of the most prosperous ports along the coast of the Great Song Dynasty, usually many maritime merchants will transport goods here to sell, Zhao Bao is responsible for collecting some goods from the sea for the commercial bank, and then transported to Tokyo and other places in the north to sell, the profit is huge, which also makes Zhao Bao also very valued by the above.

However, a few days ago, Zhao Bao received a strange news from Tokyo, because the king of Runan County personally ordered them to buy a thing called seaweed, which is said to grow on the rocks by the sea, and it is black after drying, but when soaked in hot water, it is as thin as light yarn, and it is very easy to recognize.

Although Zhao Bao has lived in Quanzhou for many years, he has never heard of such a thing as seaweed, and even took the money to the market to buy it, but he couldn't find anyone to sell it at all, which made Zhao Bao think that the news from Tokyo was wrong, until later a guy who grew up by the sea remembered that his family was poor when he was a child, and he often ate a seaweed called seaweed, but this thing will only be eaten when the poor have no food, and they are usually used to feed pigs, so he is not sure whether this seaweed is the seaweed that the king of Runan County is looking for?

When Zhao Bao heard the guy's words, he immediately asked him to go back to his hometown and find some seaweed back. The result is now exactly the same as the seaweed described by the king of Runan County, which made Zhao Bao overjoyed, and immediately asked people to prepare for the purchase of seaweed, but at this time, the guy told him that the collection time of seaweed is from April to November every year, and now November is about to pass, and the seaweed is no longer long, I am afraid that even if you buy it with all your might, it will be difficult to buy enough seaweed.

Hearing that the seaweed had passed the season of collection, Zhao Bao was also in a hurry. The king of Runan County was in a hurry this time. must let him transport a batch of seaweed back this year, if he can't even complete this simple task, he will definitely be blamed by the county king, and maybe he won't even be able to keep the position of the big treasurer at that time.

That's why. So Zhao Bao in the next few days. I've been inquiring about the news of seaweed. But there was still nothing, and in the end I could only organize a group of people to collect a batch of fresh seaweed from the seaside. The amount is not much, but it is better than nothing, and he plans to dry these seaweeds and send them to the capital for business.

However, what Zhao Bao didn't expect was that just before the seaweed he harvested had not been dried, there was news from the capital that he was asked to buy seaweed at a place called Yuwei Village, dozens of miles away from Quanzhou, where it is said that the villagers of several nearby villages collected a large amount of seaweed.

Although Zhao Bao couldn't understand why the capital knew about the situation here in Quanzhou, since he had been instructed by the above, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took people to Yuwei Village, but when he came here to inquire, sure enough, several villages here had collected a large amount of seaweed before, which made Zhao Bao overjoyed, and immediately scattered people to several villages to buy seaweed, and he himself personally came to the most populous Yuwei Village to buy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Zhao Bao, the big shopkeeper of the Lower Runan Commercial Bank, came to buy laver today, if you have laver in your hands, you can take it out, and our firm is willing to buy it at a price of two pennies and a catty!" Zhao Bao stood on a makeshift platform and shouted to the villagers gathered below, he had already bought a little fresh seaweed before, and he also knew that seaweed was not worth anything at all, so he felt that the price of two pennies and one pound was very fair.

"Two texts!" Hearing this price, the villagers below immediately seemed to have fried the pot, some of them were red with excitement, some people stomped their feet angrily, the excited people were naturally hiding a lot of dried seaweed at home, and the angry people were those who thought that the seaweed would not be bought, and they took up space, and they took it to feed the pigs.

"Fourth, you have made a fortune now, and your family has the most seaweed within a radius of 100 miles, and you don't have to worry about the dowry of the second girl anymore!" Zhang Bing in the crowd squeezed to Wu Laosi's side, and also congratulated excitedly, in fact, when he said these words, he was secretly glad in his heart, fortunately he didn't take the seaweed to feed the pigs like some people, and now he can make a lot of money with the seaweed, at least he can cut two knives of pork to eat during the Chinese New Year this year.

However, compared to the excitement of others, Wu Laosi said to himself in confusion: "The two texts are too low, but the empty master said at the beginning, if it is less than the five texts, it must not be sold, otherwise it will be a loss." ”

Zhang Bing heard Wu Laosi's words, but he couldn't laugh and cry: "My fourth brother, you are too dead-eyed, Master Likong just said casually at the beginning, and now someone is willing to pay for our seaweed, the price of two Wen is already very fair, how can anyone be willing to spend five Wen to collect a bunch of pig food back?" ”

Zhang Bing's words actually represented the thoughts of the vast majority of the villagers, although they all remembered the words of Master Kong at this time, but none of them dared to propose a purchase price of five wen and one catty to Zhao Bao, because they were afraid that this high price would anger the other party, so they didn't want their seaweed.

However, Wu Laosi was a dead eye, seeing that others did not mention the words of Master Kong, he was honest by nature, but he mustered up the courage to shout loudly: "Shopkeeper Zhao, our seaweed was collected under the guidance of Master Kong, and Master Kong has already said that the purchase price must not be lower than Wuwen, so do you think you should mention the price again?" ”

As soon as Wu Laosi's words came out, he immediately attracted the blaming eyes of many villagers, but Zhao Bao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "This big brother, you said Master Kong, but the Zen Master of Empty who came to our Quanzhou before last?" ”

Seeing everyone's blaming eyes, Wu Laosi's courage that he had finally accumulated was also frightened, and when he heard Zhao Bao's question, he could only say in a slur manner: "No...... That's right, it's ...... It was the Zen master of Likong, who lived with us for a long time the year before last, not only treated us, but also asked us to collect seaweed, saying that someone would come to buy it in the future, and we waited for more than a year before waiting for you to come to Zhao's shopkeeper. ”

Hearing that it was really the empty Zen master, Zhao Bao was also surprised and delighted, although the empty is not very old, but in the aristocratic circle in the capital is very famous, not only because he has a superb cooking skills, but also because of the profound and erudite Buddhism, many people want to make friends with him, the last time the empty came to Quanzhou, Zhao Bao saw the Lord Zhizhou personally went to the inn to invite the other party to the mansion to entertain, and he also knew that even his own county king saw the empty, but also to treat each other with courtesy.

Thinking of this, Zhao Bao couldn't help but hesitate, before he thought that the price of two cents per catty was already good, but he didn't expect that the empty Zen master had set a price of five cents per catty for the villagers before, which was not easy to do, if he forcibly bought it at the price of two cents, it would be nothing, anyway, looking at the reactions of the villagers below, most of them were willing to sell the seaweed to him, but the face of the empty Zen master could not be ignored, otherwise this matter would spread to the capital, maybe it would make people say that their own county king forcibly seized and lowered the purchase price of seaweed. At that time, it may attract the blame of the county king, after all, sometimes not all money can be earned.

"Good! Wuwen is Wuwen, our Runan Commercial Bank gave the empty Zen master this face, and the purchase price of laver in the future is set at Wuwen, but you will also press the handprint to ensure that the laver collected in the future will be sold to us first! Zhao Bao is worthy of being the big shopkeeper of the commercial bank, although he has more than doubled the purchase price, but he also put forward the request to monopolize the production of laver in several surrounding villages.

Seeing that this Zhao Da shopkeeper really agreed to buy laver at the price of Wuwen, the villagers below were also jubilant, as for the future laver will be sold to Runan Commercial Bank first, this is even more problematic, anyway, they sell it to whomever they sell, and there can be a stable purchase price, and there is no need to worry about Runan Commercial Bank will reduce the price privately in the future.

Then all the villagers ran back, and the whole family went into battle to transport the stored seaweed to the entrance of the village with a car, where Zhao Bao had a special person to buy it on the scale, and directly gave the cash, never in arrears.

There are thousands of catties of seaweed in Wu Laosi's house alone, which he collected with the Wu family before, but now that his son and nephews have gone to sea, his legs and feet are inconvenient, and there is no way to transport it out for a while. But it doesn't matter, anyway, Zhao Bao wants to take away all the seaweed, and it's not a matter of a day or two.

In the evening, the young men of the Wu family finally came back from fishing, but unfortunately there was no harvest, so they were all depressed, but when they heard that the people who collected the seaweed finally came, they were all excited, and dozens of people in the family worked together to move out the seaweed at home, and finally sold more than 20 yuan, which made Wu Laosi happy and couldn't keep his mouth shut, and the people around him also praised him for his vision, such a large sum of money, the old Wu family just didn't do anything, and it was enough to last until the New Year.

After Zhao Bao packed the purchased laver, he immediately transported the first batch of laver to the capital as quickly as possible, but it was not until more than a month later that the laver was finally delivered to the capital, but these laver had just been sent to Zhao Zongsheng's Runan County Palace, but he was immediately transferred to Zhao Yan's other courtyard outside the city, because Zhao Yan needed to use these laver to complete a difficult task. (To be continued!)

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