Chapter 120: Living Water
Seeing this scene, Zhang Huansheng couldn't help but think happily: "Is this a successful opening of the port, there was no movement for more than a year before, but I didn't expect that after the county was changed, there was an improvement immediately, and it attracted so many maritime merchants, it is really strange, I am afraid that Sen Xuanji has used some means."
When there is an isolated island, no matter how big the number of people is or how big the pattern is, it is a pool of backwater after all.
Nowadays, as soon as foreign merchant ships arrive, it is equivalent to communicating with the continents and countries of the outside world, and this pool of water is equivalent to flowing in and out, and it has become living water.
Although there is only a trickle of this small 'fish village' now, it can not be turned into a big river in the future! ”
He was happily imagining the future, when he suddenly heard someone shouting at his feet: "Listen to the monk who is driving the wind above, there are fish in the important commercial and trade town of Yanhuang and Zhangguo, and you can't help but go away, but you are forbidden to fly.
If you know each other, come down now, otherwise, you will be injured and killed after the crossbow arrows are fired, and I blame us for being unpredictable. ”
Hearing this, Zhang Huansheng smiled secretly, and thought in his heart: "Sen Xuanji is really a clever person, and he has just set up order and rules for trade, so as not to cause chaos in the future." Following the direction of the sound, he saw that a team of armor soldiers on the ground had raised their crossbows and aimed at themselves.
Looking at the fires on the left and right, it turned out that there were huge crossbows that could be fed gunpowder on the roofs of the buildings on both sides of the city, and he was slightly startled and hurriedly fell to the ground.
Zhang County now has more than 250,000 Dingkou, and not everyone remembers the time when Zhang was still alive, plus looking at people by the light of the fire at night, no matter how bright the face is, there are some shadows, so a team of armor soldiers didn't even recognize the person in front of them, it was the monarch of Zhang Guo, their lord.
However, the next performance of the armor soldiers was also polite, and when they saw Zhang Huansheng obediently landing, they immediately put away their crossbows, and the head of the pawn said loudly: "I see that you should also violate the law for the first time, so you will not be fined."
You must know that I, Zhang Guo, am the emperor of Chu who is now in power by Meng Yanhuang, and the princes who are canonized seriously, are not as unruly as the earthen cities and wild states built by those isolated island barbarians, and please be careful in the future. After that, he no longer continued to pay attention to Zhang Huansheng, and continued to patrol with his subordinates.
Seeing this group of armor soldiers go away, Zhang Huansheng muttered to himself with a dumb smile: "This is really why the water washed the Dragon King Temple." ", looked around, found a flower house with 'Piaoxiang Pavilion', and strolled in.
This Piaoxiang Pavilion has a total of three floors, the first floor is furnished like an ordinary wine shop, there is a yellow wood counter to play wine, there are fragrant stews and pastries on the side, there is a small stage on the west side, there are a hundred opera performances, guests can spend a few dollars to be full of wine and food, and by the way, they have a pastime.
Therefore, it was late at night, so there were not many seats in the shop, but there were still a few sailors and boatmen-like people drinking and chatting noisily, listening to a gentleman of Baixi.
Although the intonation or some vocabulary of the four continents of the human race are different, the basic language is the same, so a black man who seems to be a lump of coal, drinking milky rice wine on the one hand, and listening to Yan Huang's "Legend of the Fengshen" with taste, is not strange from a logical point of view, but Zhang Huansheng feels strange and abnormal when he sees it.
"What do the guests need, we have rice wine made from high-quality Qingbo glutinous rice here, and if you don't want to drink soft Wuliang base spirits, there are also them..."
After talking for a while, seeing that Zhang Huansheng was silent, he quietly looked at Zhang Huansheng's dress, and felt that although it was not particularly luxurious, it was not shabby, so he pointed to the second floor and said: "If you don't want to listen to the commentary, watch a hundred operas, and there are beautiful girls selected by the housekeeper upstairs singing..."
"The beautiful lady selected by the official family, isn't that it..."Zhang Huansheng came back to his senses when he heard this, his face changed, but after thinking about it, "The great sage Guan Zhong in the Middle Ages, Guan Zi, was strong in the Xia Dynasty and tried to dominate the ancient Qi, and assisted the princes of Huan Gong Jiuhe, and was a pioneer in opening the law in the world.
For such figures, there is still a 'prostitution' in the policy of strengthening the country, not to mention now. I could only shake my head with a bitter smile in my heart, extinguished my anger, and said: "There's no need to listen to the music, it's getting late now, I just drink a bowl of rice wine, eat some food, fill my stomach and want to go to sleep." ”
"Then please come here." Hearing this, the young man led the way with Zhang Huansheng and shouted with a smile: "Uncle Tuesday, Uncle Tuesday has another guest here, come with a pot of good rice wine and two bowls of meat and vegetable stew." ”
The middle-aged shopkeeper on the cabinet did not have such a good spirit as him, nodded with droopy eyes when he heard the words, made good wine, finished serving the dishes, looked at Zhang Huansheng and said: "Chenghui, five hundred copper." ”
This price is so high that it is worse than those famous restaurants in the inner city of Xiongjing, and Zhang Huansheng was stunned when he heard it, but thinking about this isolated island, facing the rich maritime merchants doing exclusive business, he was sorry for his ancestors if he didn't sell such a high price, he smiled with relief, and took out a silver bead from his sleeve, "Don't look for it." ”
A silver bead can be exchanged for a thousand copper coins, and the account used to pay five hundred copper is equivalent to giving half and rewarding half, no matter where you are, you must be counted as a first-class heroic guest.
Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper who took Zhang Huansheng's silver beads changed color, looked him up and down, and said: "Sir, even if it is the first time to come to my Zhang Guo, when you get off the ship, you should listen to the 'propaganda officer' repeatedly say that foreign coins can only be used if they are exchanged for my Zhang Guo's silver coins in the government-run business, otherwise the merchants who trade with you will be a felony."
This late in the middle of the night came to test me, it was not a spy of the government, or he wanted to find a mistake, took my life, and took my place..."
"Shopkeeper, you think too much, I really don't understand the rules." Listening to the middle-aged shopkeeper's words, the more angry he became, Zhang Huansheng interrupted him decisively, turned his head to look at the young man who greeted him just now, and said, "Do you know where the merchant who exchanged money is?" ”
"Keep going west, and you will reach the end of the market." The young man said respectfully, and then began to comfort the middle-aged shopkeeper in a whisper, "Uncle Tuesday, I know that you were shocked by the fact that the shopkeeper of the Ma family on the street received foreign money privately and was beheaded.
But this evil fire can't be sent to the guests, businessmen, always be kind..."
Zhang Huansheng listened to it on the side, and suddenly smiled: "Although you are young, you are a businessman who is born with a lively heart, what is your name?" ”
"Ah, the little one's name is Zhang Sanshan, and I got it myself." The boy replied in a daze.
"Zhang Sanshan, although the name is not very elegant, but it has a bit of courage," Zhang Huansheng smiled again: "Tomorrow, I will go to Xiong Ni City to find the household yamen, and let the Shangshu official arrange an errand for you."
Let's just say that I Zhang Huansheng said it. He took out the storage beads from his neck and threw it on the counter, turned around and walked away.