After many ups and downs, in late February, Xu Yue's family finally crossed Bohai County and came to its easternmost port, Yijing, on the premise of taking the wrong road three times.

The people here speak in a very fast manner, and sometimes even Xu Yue can't hear what the other party says.

Fortunately, the family's learning ability is good, and basic communication is still no problem.

There is a fake household registration book made by Xu Erniang, and the family has successfully passed several levels one after another, and when others ask what they want to do, they all reply to each other in a unified voice: We are going to the funeral.

It is a good deed to go to the funeral for thousands of miles in the past year, and the guards will basically not continue to interrogate.

Yijing is a bustling seaside city with a port and few ships parked on it.

What you can see at a glance is not an official ship, but a private ship, most of which are cargo ships used by local families to transport goods.

The largest ship, 60 steps long (one step on two feet, one meter three, about 78 meters) and ten steps (13 meters) wide, with a total of three floors, stands a bright red flag with the word "Gongsun" written on it.

Xu Yue remembered that during the Three Kingdoms period, the warships of the Wu Kingdom were the largest, and there were thousands of small boats alone, among which the largest warship had five floors, was 120 steps long, opened four doors, and could carry more than 2,000 people on the ship.

This scale is comparable to the capacity of modern small warships, which shows the wisdom of the ancients.

The group found an official post station in Yijing to stay, and the troops took action in three ways.

Xu Da took Xu Erniang out to inquire about the big ship, and the Wang family stayed at the inn to clean up, watching the Wang family sisters and brothers, while listening to the situation at sea with the merchants in the post house.

And Xu Dalang and Xu Yue, the brothers and sisters, followed Wang Dayou together, led the ox cart that was not yet hot, and went to Dongshi to prepare for sale.

Yijing is close to the sea, animal husbandry is a short board, cattle and horses are very popular in the market, before the Wang family spent nearly 9,000 dollars to buy the ox cart, in the Yijing market, any person offers a price of 10,000 yuan.

In particular, the big green cow of the Xu family is cleaned up and clean, looks strong, and has a good appearance, which is particularly prominent in front of a lot of crooked melons and cracked dates.

A large housekeeper who came to buy it bid eight horses of silk cloth to exchange for cattle and carts.

Silk is a finer and more colorful cloth than silk, better than silk, a silk cloth is about 1,500 yuan, eight silk is equivalent to 12,000 yuan, so Xu Yue sold it.

Along the way, Xu Erniang fed some forage to the big green cow, which was not worth a few dollars, so if you don't say that you have been sitting in the ox cart for so long, you can make another 3,000 yuan, which is not too cost-effective.

Wang Dayou's intestines were all green, and he only hated that he hadn't followed the Wang family before, so he gritted his teeth and bought one.

It's a pity that it's hard to buy a thousand dollars, and it's too late to say anything now.

Xu Yue finally understood why the ancient merchants would venture to do business in various places with the fresh and hot eight horses of silk cloth.

Because it's a huge profit!

However, the premise of profiteering is to avoid the exploitation of the government, to beat the robbers, and to avoid unlucky events such as heavy rains and landslides, in order to get the profits.

Speaking of which, no line is easy.

"Shall we go shopping again?" Xu Yue consulted Wang Dayou's opinion.

She didn't want to go back like this, so she finally came to Yijing, where businessmen gathered, and she also wanted to see more.

Wang Dayou knew that the people of the Xu family were a little different, so he nodded and motioned for her to go around casually, and it would be no problem to go shopping for a day.

Xu Yue handed the silk cloth in her hand to her brother and took it, and walked along the most lively place, looking at it as she walked, and saw a lot of things that she had not seen in the inland before.

From this, I peeked into the current business situation.

The more popular goods in the market are divided into two categories, one is the daily necessities of the general public, such as rice, flour, oil and grain, cloth, needlework, pigs, cattle and sheep.

There is also a very low cost performance of high-luxury items, such as spices, fine porcelain, jewelry, jade, sugar, paper and other items with high industrial demand.

In particular, sugar and paper are needed by many people, but few can afford them.

Because of the high price, the purchasers are basically local wealthy or wealthy.

Real businessmen have always known that only by making money from the rich is real money, and the small profits squeezed out by the common people are not worth mentioning at all.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Xu Yue secretly wrote down sugar, paper, porcelain, glass and other objects in her heart, thinking that if she made a fortune in the future, she would start with these aspects first.

As long as she settles down and gives her a private space, she can make lower cost, higher quality sugar and paper, as well as glass porcelain.

However, without a background, these things that will touch the interests of the top can only be carried out secretly.

So, it's time to spur Daddy to the next level!

Not to mention the big ones, it's better to get a small official to be a pawn than a commoner.

Looking at the bustling street in front of her, Xu Yue had already made up her mind in her heart to work hard to make money and buy an official for Daddy.

After all, selling officials and lords is also the main theme of this era!

Seeing that he had almost shopped around and there were no new things, Xu Yue was ready to go home.

But at this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the crowd.

Xu Dalang was afraid that Xu Yue would be squeezed by pedestrians, so he stuffed the cloth in his hand to Wang Dayou, and immediately put Xu Yue on his neck and retreated to the side.

Sitting high, Xu Yue saw at a glance the center of the riot, the ox carts that were rushing in.

The ox cart was different from the usual one, with a wooden cage sandwiched on it, and in the cage, there were people in rags, both adults and children.

More than a dozen of them were crammed into an ox cart, unable to sit on the board, so they stood tied to the outside of the cage, their eyes numb, as if they had succumbed to the arrangement of fate.

It's a large convoy of slave traders!

They collected these desperate homeless people who had no choice but to sell themselves into slavery at low prices or even without spending a penny from all over the country, and then sent them to the hands of wealthy families all over the country for huge profits.

This is the first time since Xu Yue crossed over to see so many slaves, connected to dozens of ox carts, in addition to the slaves on the carts, there are countless slaves behind the convoy.

The peddlers tied their hands with hemp rope and strung them in long strings, and sent guards to keep watch at all times, and those who were slow to move were whipped with a whip.

The cruel scene made pedestrians on both sides of the street frown.

Xu Yue heard the middle-aged man beside her say in a Yijing accent: "These slaves don't know how many hands they have passed through to get to these traders. ”

"See, those who can ride in a car are to be sold to big families as slaves, and those who walk will be sent to the salt mines to do hard labor in salt drying."

"In this world, people live worse than animals......"

Listening to the muttering of others, Xu Yue suddenly saw a familiar face.

"Oh my God! Isn't that the food of Wang Dahai's family?! Wang Dayou took a step ahead of Xu Yue and exclaimed.

After all, he and Wang Dahai's father and son escaped from the same village, they grew up together since childhood, and they are very familiar with each other, so their reaction is naturally faster than Xu Yue's later.