Fanning only stayed in Nandao for one day, and the next day he returned to Wucheng County by boat, and it was already afternoon when he went ashore, Fanning smiled at Mingren: "I haven't had a good visit to the county, I just have time today, I'll go shopping together, and have dinner by the way." ”

Akihito smiled: "If you are interested, of course I will accompany you!" ”

The two brothers didn't need an entourage, and the two walked into the county seat, and the lively commercial atmosphere rushed to them.

Fanning suddenly remembered something and said with a smile: "I didn't bring any money!" ”

Akihito took out a leather money bag from his arms and said with a smile: "I have it here!" ”

"Show me."

Fanning took the money bag and looked at it, there were some silver horns and a few ingots of silver in it, and some copper coins, the copper coins were the same as those of the Great Song Dynasty, but the silver horns and silver ingots were all cast by Beidao himself, he took out a silver ingot, it was one or two silver, and then looked at the bottom, the west side was printed with the words Beidao official.

"Our silver slots are more refined than the Great Song Dynasty, and the silver content is also sufficient, the white copper accounts for only three centimeters, and the white copper of the Great Song Dynasty silver slots accounts for five centimeters, and the South Island will also use the silver ingots and silver horns we cast in the future."

"It's just one tael of silver ingots, and there are no bigger silver ingots to deal with the bulk trade in goods."

"We have ten taels of silver and ten taels of gold ingots, which are enough."

The two walked into the street, Fan Ning saw a tea shop at a glance, the shopkeeper was a middle-aged man, and followed two Japanese girls as buddies, the shopkeeper recognized Fan Ning, looked a little nervous, Akihito gave him a look, everything was normal.

The store is about fifty square meters, in the middle is two tea tables, around the shelves are placed a variety of tea cakes, there are signs on them, mainly to Jianzhou tea, such as Jing collar, stone milk, milk, white milk, Longtuan Shengxue, white tea, etc., these are tea cakes, as well as grass tea, mainly loose tea and tea powder, mainly produced in Dongting Lake and Jiangnan,

In the loose tea, Fan Ning suddenly saw Biluochun, he was immediately interested, and asked with a smile: "Shopkeeper, how is this Biluochun?" ”

The shopkeeper stepped forward and said with a smile: "This is this year's Ming Qian tea, it is loose tea, mainly used for sencha, because I am afraid of mildew, so I don't buy much, and one or two teas are sold for one or two silver." ”

Fan Ning smiled, "Your tea is just ordinary Biluochun, in Wu County, it costs one or two yuan, but you are ten times more expensive here." ”

The shopkeeper explained unhurriedly: "Back to the big officials, scarcity is expensive, there is only a small shop selling Biluochun in the entire North Island, and the inventory of the small shop is only three catties, it is worth this price, and it is not a counteroffer." ”

"What a thing is rare and expensive!"

Fan Ning couldn't talk about him a little, but he missed the tea in his hometown a little, so he smiled and said, "Weigh me half a catty!" ”

The shopkeeper immediately took out a wooden box and said with a smile: "Here is half a catty, eight taels of silver!" ”

Fan Ning suddenly remembered that Mingren didn't have eight taels of silver in his money bag, so he said, "Just put it here!" I'll have someone pick it up and pay for it when the time comes. ”

"No problem, do you want to see anything else?"

Fan Ning looked around and asked, "Is there dragon and phoenix tea?" ”

The shopkeeper's head immediately shook like a rattle, "Dragon tea is just a legendary tea, although the Fengcha villain has seen it, but there is nowhere to buy it, and the best tea in the small shop is only Jing Ting." ”

Fan Ning estimated that he didn't have any goods, but he still had thirty catties of phoenix tea in stock, he looked at the tea set again, the best tea set was the rabbit jar of the kiln, he couldn't look at it, so he turned around and walked out of the tea shop.

Akihito followed up and said with a smile: "Otherwise, if we make phoenix tea and sell it to the Great Song Dynasty, the profit will be very high." ”

Fan Ning glared at him, "Feng tea is not something that can be made with money, it takes a long time to boil out, if it is so easy to make, Da Song would have been rotten on the street a long time ago." ”

Fanning visited rice shops, butcher shops, fruit and vegetable shops again, and the prices were two percent more expensive than those of the Great Song Dynasty, even if the North Island was rich in meat, the price was still not cheap, in the final analysis, the North Island people were generally rich.

At this time, Fanning saw a restaurant with a drunken real building written on it, so he said to Akihito: "Go to dinner, and then go home!" ”

The two walked into the restaurant, the business of the restaurant was not bad, most of the tables on the first floor were full, and basically the family came out to eat.

A Japanese lady stepped forward to give a blessing gift, "Can the two officials have reservations?" ”

Akihito said: "There is no reservation, is there a seat by the window on the second floor?" ”

"There's a table by the window, but it's a little smaller."

"It's okay to be smaller, take us up."

The Japanese little lady saluted and took the two of them up to the second floor, and the seats on the second floor were only half sitting, Fan Ning was puzzled, obviously the second floor was more comfortable, why did she have to squeeze the first floor?

Akihito said in a low voice: "The rule of the North Island is that you have to pay another two hundred wen for dinner on the second floor, and most people are reluctant to do so, so they all concentrate on the first floor." ”

So Fanning and the two came to a small table by the window and sat down, Fanning smiled and asked, "What kind of wine is here?" ”

"The small shop serves citrus liquor, wine, sake and shochu."

The Japanese lady handed Fan Ning a menu and charcoal, and Fan Ning was surprised, just like later generations, just tick the box at the back.

Akihito explained with a smile: "The main reason is that their Chinese is not very good, and they can't handle the complicated ordering, so they thought of this method, which is also very convenient." ”

Fanning thought for a moment and said, "Then have a pot of sake, five or six side dishes, and finally give me the menu again, I want to see the price." ”

Next to him, Akihito added, "Their shop has shredded lamb with green onions and braised bream, and you can also have a pot of beef stew." ”

"Yes!"

The little lady took the menu and hurried away.

After a while, the little lady brought the wine first, and at the same time served three plates of cold dishes with wine, sauced duck, roast chicken, sauced beef and cold kelp.

Akihito poured Fan Ning a full glass of wine, Fan Ning drank a little, and nodded, "Yes, it's sake, a bit like Zhu Lou's passion jade liquid." ”

Akihito handed the menu to Fanning, Fanning drank while looking at the menu, there are a lot of dishes here, there are more than 100 kinds of dishes, including white meat cakes, lotus meatloaf, hibiscus cakes, mutton buns, shrimp dumplings and other staple foods, as well as various drinks, coconut water, lychee water, citrus water, sugarcane juice, mung bean soup, sugar thirst water, etc., basically no different from the restaurants in Beijing.

However, the price is expensive and cheap, beef and mutton are cheaper, the capital can't eat beef at all, pork is more expensive, the price of chicken and duck is about the same, and the price of seafood is only two percent of the capital.

Coconut water is the cheapest among the drinks, a big glass of five cents, a coconut in the capital costs three hundred yuan, and other drinks are more expensive than the capital, but the sake is very cheap, only half of the capital, but the wine is very expensive, at least three times that of the capital.

Generally speaking, as long as you don't deliberately order expensive dishes, the wine and food here are very affordable, and they can almost be compared with the small county towns of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fanning suddenly noticed a feature, there was no game in the menu, and he asked a little strangely: "Why is there no game in the menu?" ”

Akihito smiled bitterly and said: "If you want to eat kangaroo meat, there are koalas, and no one eats ostrich meat and eggs, they are all things from the Southern Continent, if you want to eat them, I will get them for you." ”

Fanning patted his forehead, he was confused, how could there be rabbit meat and venison here?

Akihito said: "Don't say it, I ate whale meat once last year, it's really not delicious, but the fat can be used to make soap, and there is some game in the sea, I'll get you some to taste it later." ”

Fanning took another sip of wine and asked, "How much do locals earn in a month?" ”

"It depends on the industry, such as mining, smelting, and precision forging to earn more, you can earn more than a dozen taels of silver a month, about 100 taels of silver a year for farming, a little lower in other workshops, but there are also seven or eight taels of silver, the lowest is textile, only three taels of silver a month, if you work hard, you can earn five taels of silver, this is because the workers are all Japanese ladies, but this income is very satisfying for them, and the workshop also includes food and accommodation, and the food is not bad."

"How much do they earn?" Fanning asked, pointing to the Japanese girl running away.

"They are counting money according to the day, 100 yuan a day, you can take a rest for two days a month, if you want to rest more, then there is no money, of course, except for illness, including food, accommodation and treatment, we call it three packs, almost every store is like this."

Fanning nodded and smiled: "The treatment is not bad!" ”

"Of course, there are many single men in the North Island who are willing to migrate because they have no family drag in the Great Song Dynasty, resulting in more men and fewer women in the North Island, so these four thousand Japanese ladies will eventually marry into the North Island, of course they should be treated preferentially, and the same is true for the South Island."

Fanning nodded secretly, gender imbalance is actually a common problem in overseas territories, there were in Kunzhou back then, and they were all family migrations and single men went out to wander, and I didn't hear of single women going to sea.

The final solution was to bring in young women from Japan or Goryeo, and there were at least tens of thousands of Japanese girls who had married the Song people over the years, many of whom came to the Great Song Dynasty through recruitment, and in the end almost never went back, but stayed and married the Song people.