At this time, the Northeast is still a real poor mountain and bad water. www.biquge.info Historically, the development of the Northeast region has gone through an extremely long period of time and multi-level development before it can reach the national average level.

With the rise of the Jurchens, the Northeast as an ancestral land, was developed for the first time.

It was not until hundreds of years later that the Jurchen people rose again and established the Qing Dynasty for more than 300 years, and the Northeast developed again with Shengjing as the core.

The third development is the people? At that time, there was a word called "breaking through the eastern part of the country", coupled with the continuous experience of Zhang Zuolin and the management of the Japanese, the Northeast region really established the foundation for development.

The last large-scale development was the development of the Great Northern Wilderness of the Construction Corps, coupled with the construction of the Northeast Heavy Industry Base, that completed the entire development.

However, in today's time and space, most of the Northeast has only hundreds of thousands of Jurchen tribes who are similar to savages, drinking blood, and struggling to maintain their survival and tribal inheritance.

It is very likely that a heavy snowfall will disappear forever in this land if it does not fall.

The Liao people were only the nominal controllers of this area, and even the Huanglong Mansion, the core seat of governance in the northeast, was thousands of miles away from the seaside where Li Ling and Li Shishi had landed. Although there are Yingzhou and Fuzhou along the coast, there is not much population and garrison, which is set up to distribute the unlucky eggs in the political arena of Liao, similar to Jiaozhou and Qiongzhou in the Song Dynasty, and belongs to the category of the ends of the earth.

This is the middle of the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea and the Jurchen tribe of Changbai Mountain, and it is still thousands of miles away from the core area of Changbai Mountain.

The reason why this place was chosen instead of Changbai Mountain is because it is more far away from the core of the Liao State than Changbai Mountain, and at the same time to the north is the Jurchen of the East China Sea and to the south is the Jurchen of Changbai Mountain. There is also a natural harbor, the future Vladivostok, with an extremely advantageous geographical location.

Yingzhou, a coastal border city, is also one of the trading centers in the Outer Northeast. The surrounding tribes traded precious medicinal herbs such as fur, dongzhu and ginseng for the most scarce salt, iron, tea and silk with merchants from afar.

Li Ling is now dressed as a short outfit of a running businessman, and she also has long hair (wig) on her head, which has become a normal outfit in this era.

All foreign merchants are welcome here, and not only do they not check their identities, but they do not even collect taxes at the city gates, as long as they can bring much-needed goods.

Master Li is also dressed like a bearded girl, and his face is tightly wrapped, revealing only a pair of eyes, which can avoid a lot of trouble.

Li Ling hired three carriages to move her goods this time.

A cart was filled with coarse grains of salt, five tons, all untreated grains of salt that had been brought in from the coast. One was filled with three hundred iron pots. They are all defective products of the worst quality, and it is estimated that no one wants them to give them away for free in the main world.

As for the last carriage, of course, it was used for riding.

"Official, where are you going?" A money-tailed car boss asked respectfully, looking at it a mature woman who had been naturalized for a long time.

"Help me find a shop for rent, with a backyard, the kind that can live!" Li Ling knew that this was the head snake of the land, and it was able to solve most of the needs of merchants from afar. On the way, he specifically asked a boat boss who had been running on this route for more than ten years. Many of the shops in England are rented out temporarily, and it is only during these two months of summer that boat dealers arrive.

As long as you find a car boss who does business at the port, renting a shop is very easy.

"Okay! Officials, please sit down, and you will be here soon! The car boss shouted.

The port was not far from the city, and in less than half an hour, the carriage stopped in front of a shop.

As you can see along the way, most of the shops on this street are now empty, but all the shops that are open, the business is basically very good, and there are many raw and mature women who come to trade with various specialties such as furs on the street, and the money tail is very eye-catching.

Stopping the carriage in front of this shop, a middle-aged Han man who looked like a steward greeted him and said enthusiastically: "What is your surname? ”

"Don't be surnamed Li, the official doesn't dare to be it, just do some small business to make a living!" Li Ling waved his hand.

The middle-aged steward smiled and said, "Li Guanren, please, do you think this shop is good?" If you are not satisfied, I still have dozens of shops in my hands, and you will definitely be satisfied. ”

Li Ling and the middle-aged housekeeper walked into the store and took a look, it was about more than 100 square meters, and there was a whole set of small courtyards similar to courtyard houses in the backyard, which was enough to use.

It seems that the car boss is very good at being a person, and directly selected a suitable shop according to Li Ling's goods and requirements.

After reading it, Li Ling followed the crowd and, like those businessmen who often did reselling, rented a shop for two months.

It's just that when paying the remuneration, whether it is the steward or the ship boss, they don't want Li Ling to deliberately exchange his goods for copper money and gold on the ship, but choose Li Ling's goods.

For this reason, Li Ling paid a total of about 80 catties of coarse salt and three iron pots, which made Li Ling recognize the economic rules here.

Directly hang the flag, Li Ling is even open, he spoofed his shop called Aduteng (ABT), next to a wooden board written: sell salt, iron pots, collect Dongzhu and ginseng and other precious medicinal materials.

The reason why these two acquisitions were chosen was to make it easier to get rid of them in the Overworld.

Especially Dongzhu, compared with medicinal materials, this is more cherished, more valuable and easy to get rid of, and even now the market is in short supply, which Li Ling has already investigated.

Dongzhu is a wild pearl produced in the Songhua River, Heilongjiang, Ussuri River, Yalu River and other river basins in Northeast China, with a round and huge texture and crystal clear color. Because it is naturally formed, there is no cultivation process such as plant nucleus. It's hard to get, but it's precious.

The Han Dynasty began to distinguish pearling areas, dividing pearl production areas into north and south. The northern land is represented by the freshwater pearls of Mudanjiang, Mingtong River, Jingpo Lake and other places in the northeast, which is known as the North Pearl in history, also known as the East Pearl; Nandi is represented by the seawater beads produced in the waters of the Beibu Gulf in Hepu District, Guangxi, and is known as Nanzhu in history.

The price of pearls varies widely, with saltwater pearls being worth more than freshwater pearls and natural pearls being worth more than cultured pearls. In the Liaodong region, the recognized size of Dongzhu should be above 6mm, and merchants below this size do not accept it at all. Of course, pearls also have requirements for luster, color, cleanliness, roundness, and so on.

The so-called "seven points of pearls, eight points of treasure", generally less than 6 mm of pearls are not included in the category of jewelry-grade pearls, 7-9 mm for consumers are generally loved, 10 mm of pearls have been rare, more than 11 mm is a treasure. The higher you go, the scarcity of quantities, and the price tends to increase exponentially.

It's a pity that Dongzhu is basically extinct in the Northeast now, so it is difficult to play the name of Dongzhu, but the value will not be reduced too much. Because Dongzhu will show a natural pale golden color. In other words, the eastern pearl produced by the Dongzhu pearl mussel is easier to be larger and round than the ordinary freshwater pearl, and it will generally show a pale gold color similar to seawater gold beads.

As a result, the East Pearl is extremely high quality and belongs to one of the rarest types of freshwater pearls.

Historically, in the last years of the Liao Dynasty, Emperor Tianzuo of Liao lived a luxurious life and hunted excessively, in order to satisfy his greedy desires to the greatest extent, (Khitan nobles) endlessly asked the Jurchen tribes for Dongzhu, Haidongqing, sable and other precious products. What's more, when the Liao Emperor was hunting in winter and spring, he forced the Jurchens to brave the cold, chisel ice into the water, and collect mussels and pearls, so that many Jurchens died tragically in the river.

The greed and brutality of the rulers of the Liao Dynasty aroused the bitter hatred of the Jurchens, and in 1114 AD, the leader of the Jurchen Wanyan tribe Wanyan? After 11 years of warfare, the Liao Empire, which had dominated East Asia and shocked Central Asia, completely collapsed, and a new military power in East Asia, the Jin State, was established.

It can be seen that if Li Ling acquires Dongzhu more vigorously, he can even promote the Jurchens' desire to rebel, which can be counted in one fell swoop.

As for ginseng and other wild and precious Chinese herbs, in this era of universal health care, the value is not to mention much.