Chapter 17 Yangzhou City

After Yang Guang and the silver ingots at his feet were all enveloped in white light, a powerful suction force came to him, quickly sucking the two into the white arched door, and then the entire warehouse returned to its previous undisturbed state. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Staggering, Yang Guang reached out and leaned against the swarthy wall opposite, stabilizing his figure. He looked around curiously, followed by the dim light of the sky above him, and found himself in a small alley.

He thought he would shuttle to the outskirts of the uninhabited wilderness, but he didn't expect to appear in a densely populated city.

There was a loud rooster crowing from next door, and with the faint light above his head at the moment, Yang Guang felt that it should be five or six o'clock in the morning, he identified the direction and quickly came to the mouth of the alley, and quietly looked outside.

At this time, there were already a succession of pedestrians walking around on the street outside, Yang Guang observed for a while, heard a few words of passers-by when they were talking, he retreated into the alley in a few steps, and softly recited the spell of "knowing the language".

The slight swelling and dizziness of the head appeared again, Yang Guang raised his hand and rubbed his head, and returned to the mouth of the alley, just at this time a richly decorated carriage drove by, taking advantage of the attention of others to be attracted by it, Yang Guang rushed to the street outside in a few steps, and then moved forward at a normal speed, as if nothing happened.

Walking along the street for more than half an hour, Yang Guang passed by a ready-to-wear store, and he walked in without hesitation.

Although a beggar's outfit can easily fit into the city of this era, everyone hates that there is no way to communicate and do business, so in Yang Guang's plan, he will buy new clothes and change his identity as soon as possible.

When the owner of the ready-to-wear store saw a beggar walk in, his face changed and he was about to scold, Yang Guang touched a piece of silver horn weighing about half a penny from his arms and threw it on the counter, and the corners of the boss's mouth turned up and quickly turned into a smile, and the speed was comparable to that of a professional actor.

In modern time and space, Yang Guang considered that he would definitely have some sporadic expenses, so he broke a silver ingot and turned it into dozens of pieces of loose silver of various sizes, and put it in a storage pocket for later use.

The purity of industrial silver is not 100%, but in this era, it is also the same grade as official silver, and it is definitely a currency that can be circulated.

Dressed in sixty percent new old clothes, it only cost Yang Guang 4 yuan, he put the beggar wrapped together under his armpit, took the dozens of copper coins that the boss found and returned to him, and walked out slowly.

After finding an inconspicuous corner, Yang Guang disposed of the beggar clothes he had brought over in modern time and space, and re-entered another ready-to-wear store.

When Yang Guang came out again, he was wearing eighty percent of the new staff clothes, and even if he met people who had seen him before, Yang Guang believed that they would no longer associate him with the image of the beggar when he first came.

Yang Guang wandered leisurely and low-key through the bustling streets, looking at this strange city with curious eyes. At noon, he found a lively restaurant and walked in, sat down and ordered some food and drinks, and listened to the chatter around him while enjoying it slowly.

Where there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, which one makes a lot of money in business, who wins the talent show, and who spends thousands of dollars in the Slender West Lake and the top card of the drunken moon building for several months......

Yang Guang collected information bit by bit through this environment, and soon knew what he needed most, and the historical plane he shuttled through was during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and the city where he was located was Yangzhou, where the world's first-class prosperity was located, and now it was the 31st year of Jiajing, that is, 1552 AD.

This meal lasted for two hours, Yang Guang not only collected what he needed, but also thought about the next step, he took out five cents and threw it to the shopkeeper and asked him to run errands for himself, while Yang Guang comfortably drank hot tea and continued to listen to the gossip of diners.

When a cup of hot tea was drunk, the sweaty shopkeeper came to Yang Guang with a man around fifty years old.

The man bowed to Yang Guang and said, "This outsider, student Fang Shan, a local person in Yangzhou. I know all the ways of buying and selling in this city, and it takes half a penny a day to hire students, and I don't have to worry about food. ”

This is what Yang Guang asked the shopkeeper to do for himself, after all, he is a newcomer, if he rushes to do business, he may suffer a loss and be deceived, and it is much more convenient to have a Chinese person who is familiar with the doorway to help.

It's just that this half a penny of silver seems to be a little less, Yang Guang believes in the phrase "you get what you pay for", and the silver horns he took out when he bought ready-to-wear clothes not long ago were almost so heavy, which made him very suspicious of the level of this Fang Shan.

But the person had already been called, so Yang Guang simply gave him a try, gave the errand boy two or five cents, sent him away, and then invited this Chinese man named Fang Shan to sit down, and slowly started talking.

said that it was a chat, but in fact, it was basically Yang Guang who asked questions, and Fang Shan replied. The ten-minute interview made Yang Guang very satisfied with Fang Shan, this person is familiar with the situation in Yangzhou City, and the sellers of many goods can say the purchase price in one mouth, which meets Yang Guang's recruitment conditions.

During the conversation, Yang Guang asked about the prices in Yangzhou City, and then he realized that he underestimated the purchasing power of silver in the Ming Dynasty, and it was still the rhythm brought by those TV series that bought steamed buns with a few taels of silver.

For example, if you go to the market to buy a pound of pork, it will cost about 18 yuan, and a whole pig will only cost 1500 yuan, which is 1.5 taels of silver. If one steamed bun can be exchanged for two pigs, it is estimated that the poor can wake up laughing when they fall asleep, and they can eat meat at once by making a few steamed buns and selling them.

Yang Guang paid a deposit on the spot and hired Fang Shan, and then he told Fang Shan that he had come to Yangzhou to buy goods, and asked Fang Shan to take him to the rental warehouse first.

It is impossible for Yang Guang to really use boats and horses to transport the goods he bought, so when choosing a warehouse, he must consider the location near the traffic arteries and choose a more remote place.

The former can explain why the goods in the warehouse disappeared overnight, and the latter can ensure that their behavior on weekdays does not attract the attention of others. The same principle is the warehouse he rented in the Songhe Development Zone in modern time and space.

I picked and chosen, and finally found a half-new yard on the side of the canal. Along a sidewalk where you can walk the carriage to the front door, push open the back door of the yard to see the rolling canal water, in line with Yang Guang's intention.

Although Yang Guang will leave in less than a month, he still signed a six-month lease. Originally, I was still a little worried about my identity, but no one cared about it in the process of going through the formalities, and everything was done smoothly.