Chapter 62: First meeting of Zhang Shijie
"Lord, this Liaodong County is really prosperous, there are so many people!"
"You see, everyone is queuing up to buy firewood, and the people in the city are just different."
Dian Wei was amazed, the first time he entered such a prosperous city, he felt very novel.
Liaodong City is an important city in Youzhou, and it is a giant city that belongs to the county town. In "Fengshen", there are mostly small cities, followed by middle cities, big cities, giant cities, and the only two imperial cities, Chang'an and Luoyang!
Youzhou has only one county seat in Liaodong County, and the map of the gods has been expanded several times, so you can imagine how prosperous it is. However, due to the bitter cold in eastern Liaodong, the permanent population is nearly 500,000, which is much more empty than other giant cities with a population of one million.
But the market of 500,000 people is enough for Su Yu to consume, and it is impossible to eat a big fat man in one go, so he will take his time from Liaodong County first.
"The people in the city are really fresh, why don't you go outside to fetch firewood, but also go to the firewood shop to buy it?" Dian Wei had a question mark on his face.
Su Yu smiled and said, "This is the charm of money." ”
"It's cold, and people will die without firewood, walk in, go in and have a look!"
As he spoke, Su Yu walked towards the shop with Dian Wei in his hand.
In a charcoal shop in Chongnanfang, East of the Chenglang of Liaodong County, Su Yu and Dian Wei were wandering around the charcoal shop casually.
"Childe, what charcoal do you need?"
The children in the store saw Su Yu dressed as a scholar, and he also stepped forward and asked enthusiastically, most of these scholars are rich, and they often need charcoal for heating when reading and writing.
It was freezing on this day, and without charcoal for heating, there was no way to write, because my hands would freeze, and even the ink would be frozen.
"I see that you have a complete range of charcoal in this store, can you tell me about it?"
Su Yu looked at the charcoal shop very casually, and found that this charcoal was also very different from charcoal, even if he was a layman, he could see it at a glance.
"Childe has good eyesight, the charcoal in this store is the most complete in the entire Liaodong county, whether it is ordinary miscellaneous firewood, or the best Northern Liao firewood, or black charcoal, white charcoal, long charcoal, etc., our store has it, and even the top long firewood used in the inner court has it."
The shopkeeper gave Su Yu a thumbs up, and then began to crackle and introduce all kinds of charcoal in his store.
This charcoal is divided into many varieties because of the different logs fired and the material is very different.
"The original name of this Northern Liao Chai is Shun Chai, because it is produced in the deep mountains around the North Liao Mouth, so it is called the North Liao Chai, the characteristics of the North Liao Chai is that it is pure white and has no black spots, the scholars use the most, of course, the price is also the most expensive, a load of North Liao Chai needs 800 Wen."
"The quality of this long-loaded charcoal is also very good, it is made of hardwood in the mountains around Yizhou, the air is warm and durable, gray and white but not explosive, and a load of long-loaded charcoal needs 600 Wen."
"Of course, if Gongzi doesn't have any special requirements, this miscellaneous charcoal is also very good, it is made of trees in the mountains and forests near us, it is very durable, and it only costs 550 wen per load."
The shopkeeper very patiently explained to Su Yu the origin, characteristics and price of their charcoal, which also opened Su Yu's eyes, it turned out that this small charcoal still has so much knowledge.
"This charcoal is really not cheap~ ordinary people can't afford to use it at all!"
After listening to the introduction, Su Yu couldn't help but sigh, the cheapest miscellaneous charcoal costs 550 wen a load, and this Beiliao charcoal costs 800 wen a load, this price is too expensive.
You must know that the price of a pound of lean meat in this era is only about 15 Wen, and this load of charcoal is sold for several hundred Wen, and ordinary people can't afford such expensive charcoal at all.
"It's really too expensive~"
A voice sounded next to him, the brocade clothes on his body were embroidered with exquisite patterns, and his face was smiling, very formulaic, and he had the feeling of a professional smile.
Merchant!
Su Yu felt a lot in his heart, he seemed to have seen this person somewhere. Where the hell is it?
By the way, the last time he was attacked, he suspected Liu Fan for the first time, but as a result, the news came from the Hidden Dragon Guard that Liu Fan was accompanying the two big shots.
One of the portraits given by Yinlongwei is this person, he seems to have made friends with Zhang Shiping, a big businessman.
That is, one of the two businessmen who provided Liu Bei with the first capital in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
"If you don't admit your mistake, you should be the general of the Kyushu Fortress, Su Yu!"
Zhang Shiping looked at Su Yu with a smile, and he investigated Su Yu in the past.
Su Yu was not surprised, the largest Wuhuan tribe around Liaodong County was destroyed, and the Yang father and son almost died.
If it weren't for the nominal allegiance of the Sui and Tang tribes to the Han Dynasty, he wouldn't be able to talk about the title of king and marquis for this battle, and how could he get a position as a general.
Although there was no reward, it also spread Su Yu's fame, so many people began to investigate his background.
Zhang Shiping knew him, and Su Yu was not surprised.
"It turned out to be Mr. Zhang!" Su Yu replied, stretched out his hand not to hit the smiling man, and Su Yu also wanted to win over Zhang Shiping, a rich man.
"I didn't expect to meet Su Gongzi here."
Seeing Su Yu, Zhang Shiping was also in a good mood and said with a smile.
Zhang Shizhuo is in the family of Hebei businessmen, and he has been the head of the Zhang family for generations, and his wrist and eyesight are naturally unique.
After hearing that the Sui and Tang tribes were disintegrated by a mysterious force, the Yang father and son worshiped under Dong Zhuo's sect, and Li Yuan and others mysteriously disappeared.
Without these two forces, Liaodong County will no longer be plagued by Wuhuan.
He saw a huge business opportunity in it, such as the chaos has become a mess today, and the war horses of the grassland have become a hot commodity, and a jar of coarse salt in the grassland can be exchanged for two war horses.
And the salt is only a jar of hundreds of copper coins, but the war horse costs dozens of gold coins, and the profit in it is enough to make anyone's heart move.
Zhang Shijie's main purpose in approaching Su Yu today is to fight horses, tens of thousands of war horses of the Sui and Tang tribes, if they can be bought, the huge profits will not be mentioned for the time being.
Just selling the war horse to those people from the family and so on, and getting connections and invisible benefits, is enough to raise the Zhang family to a higher level again.
After the defeat of the Sui and Tang tribes, the war horses, cattle and sheep stretched for dozens of miles into the Hidden Dragon Valley.
It happened that Zhang Shijie had something to go to Yunshan County, and happened to hear some useful information from Liu Fan's mouth.
He heard Liu Fan intentionally or unintentionally mention that the mountain bandit forces in the Hidden Dragon Valley were destroyed by an alien.
Zhang Shijie, the bandit of the Hidden Dragon Pavilion, also heard about it, so he asked a few more questions.
But there was an unexpected gain, he heard Liu Fan's defense, as well as the dissatisfaction in his words, and the hidden resentment.
At first, he didn't care, thinking that it was a struggle for power and profit, and there was a conflict between the two, after all, Su Yu poached Liu Fan's subordinate Zhang Ling.
As Zhang Shijie inquired, insiders revealed that Zhang Shijie was deeply impressed when he heard Su Yu's series of achievements.
At the same time, other thoughts arise. If you want to maintain the prosperity of the Zhang family, in this upcoming troubled world, you need to choose the master in order to protect them through the troubled times.
The well-known Xun family, because of its big family and big business, threw the outstanding children of the Xun family to different people in order to share the risk.
But the Zhang family does not have so many outstanding children like the Xun family, they only have money, but there is a gap between them and the top businessmen, so they can only choose one person, and Su Yu is one of his alternatives.