After eating, sit down and rest to digest your food.

Staff member Zhang Huayu went to the front desk to settle the account, such a seafood meal only cost 5 silver dollars, which cannot be said to be very cheap, but it is really not expensive.

In the afternoon, according to Lu Xiangsheng's plan, he wanted to go straight to the place where he could buy a bicycle and achieve the purpose of buying a bicycle as soon as possible.

My Healing Game

But Lu Xiangsheng suddenly became not particularly urgent, but wanted to take a walk and learn more about Xujiazhuang in this harbor city, because knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can survive a hundred battles.

Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Huayu and other staff members expressed their support, or rather, they were also curious about Xu Jiazhuang and wanted to know more about this potential opponent.

"I'll take you to the wholesale market in the south of the city, if you come here to do business, you will find business opportunities in the market." Guide Liu Sanbao suggested.

"Can I buy bicycles at the trade fair?" Lu Xiangsheng asked in his heart.

"There are bike shops there, and there should be channels to buy them." Liu Sanbao said.

"Okay, let's go to the trade fair!" Lu Xiangsheng nodded.

It's just that the scale of the harbor city is very large, and the trade market is more than ten miles away from here, and it takes half an hour to walk past.

"Is the taxi expensive or not?" Zhang Huayu asked, he had already noticed the coming and going on the road, the kind of bicycle with three wheels, there is a seat with a canopy in the back, squeezed to squeeze three people to sit, three or four times faster than an adult walking.

"It's not expensive, the six of us take two cars, and it only costs about 300 yuan." Liu Sanbao said.

"Isn't that expensive? This price is somewhere else, and you can ask someone to carry the slide rod all day. Zhang Huayu shook his head again and again.

"Sir, this kind of customized passenger tricycle costs thousands of silver dollars a piece, and it will be scrapped in ten years at most, and the annual depreciation cost will be hundreds of taels, and there will be no bumps, shelter from the wind and rain, and you can better visit the scenery in the city, is the price of fifty yuan per person really expensive?"

Liu Sanbao analyzed.

"Okay, let's take a taxi." Lu Xiangsheng nodded and clapped.

Soon, the six of them squeezed into two rickshaws and headed straight for the wholesale market in the south of the city.

Lu Xiangsheng and others were curious to find that the tricycle they were riding in not only strictly abided by the traffic rules of driving on the right, but also passed through some intersections with large flow of people and vehicles, there would be special traffic police, by holding traffic lights, regulating pedestrians and vehicles through the road, if there are more people and fewer vehicles, they will allocate more time to pedestrians, and if there are fewer people and more cars, they will allocate more time to vehicles, so as to improve the efficiency of people and vehicles and avoid congestion.

If there is a violator who does not comply with the traffic rules and runs the red light, he will be punished and responsible for lifting the traffic light, unless he finds the next violator to replace, otherwise the traffic light sign weighing more than 20 pounds, I don't know how long to lift, so that the violator will remember this lesson.

"Wonderful, wonderful."

Sun Yuanhua sighed again and again, the most exquisite management method in the world is to make the lawbreaker become a supervisor, and be forced to catch the next lawbreaker to relieve himself, without imposing severe punishment, it has a very good restraining effect.

……

The commercial wholesale market in the south of the city covers an area of millions of square meters, with tens of thousands of stalls and countless types of goods.

Lu Xiangsheng and others, as soon as they entered the commercial market that was full of people and rubbed shoulders like a maze, they had a feeling of dizziness and couldn't distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, and it was very easy to get lost unless they were led by acquaintances.

After barely getting used to the lively environment inside.

Then in the face of the goods on the storefront stalls, they let out uncontrollable exclamations.

"This snow salt is too cheap, retail eight wen a catty, buy more than 100 catties as long as five wen a catty, buy more and there are discounts, I remember the snow salt in the Daimyo Mansion, the price is 100 wen a catty, buy no price reduction, here as long as five wen, the price difference is as much as 20 times, I knew that it was so profitable, we should form a caravan and come to Harbour City to buy salt."

Sun Yuanhua exclaimed, in addition to serving as a staff member in the Tianxiong Army, he will also be responsible for some logistics procurement affairs, and he has a lot of dealings with merchants, and now he has seen the wholesale price of snow salt in Harbor City, and only then did he know how seriously he was slaughtered by those merchants in the snow salt alone.

"The quality of snow salt is so high, the wholesale price is as cheap as five wen a catty, and the stall owners are profitable. Lu Xiangsheng pinched a pinch of snow salt in his fingers, but thought of another thing.

And in the trade market.

The price is so cheap that they exclaim, far more than the commercial product of snow salt.

The iron and steel products in the ironware shop are also very cheap, and the quality is excellent, such as a kitchen knife as long as 100 Wen, a hoe 150 Wen, a sickle 80 Wen, a hammer axe and a firewood knife are not more than 500 Wen, and the average price is generally more than half of the price of other places (the price of iron tools in ancient times is very high, and it is a valuable item that even breaks the relationship between brothers and sisters when dividing the family property).

The coarse grains such as cornmeal, potato flour, and sweet potato vermicelli in the grain store are very cheap, the wholesale price is 3 Wen to 5 Wen per catty, and a silver dollar (= 1000 Wen) can buy two or three stones, but the taste, taste, nutrition, etc., are not much worse than rice and wheat and other fine grains, but the price is only less than half.

In addition, there are dried kelp, dried seaweed, canned sea fish, etc., the price can be described as cheap and large, not only has umami, but also contains a lot of salt, it is a very good military food side dish, and it is easy to carry, with the value of buying in large quantities.

Of course, there are also prohibitively expensive goods, but they have great practical value.

For example, mechanical watches, the cheapest models cost hundreds of silver dollars a piece, but the current time can be accurately known, which is conducive to unified action in military terms.

For example, telescopes, which only have a ten-fold magnification function, have a wholesale price of 300 silver dollars each, which can detect distant enemies in advance.

For example, the most popular record player at the moment has a wholesale price of 3,000 silver dollars, but it can be used to play some music or comment on stories, which greatly relieves the mental pressure of the soldiers.

It's just that these things are too expensive and too expensive, although Lu Xiangsheng and the others all want to buy them, but the five of them carried a total of more than 500 silver dollars, and they couldn't buy a few pieces after they were all spent.

Besides, they came here to buy bicycles, not to buy anything else, so they should not be distracted by these irrelevant things.

So they no longer wandered around, but went straight to the bicycle shop, and in the trade market, there happened to be a bicycle display shop for maritime trade merchants, which displayed a variety of bicycle samples, but was not responsible for selling, just let potential customers see and try, if there is any intention to buy, and then further negotiate.

Lu Xiangsheng and the others entered the bicycle shop to see.

There are five models in total.

The wholesale prices are: 5,000 silver dollars, 3,500 silver dollars, 2,000 silver dollars, 1,800 silver dollars, 500 silver dollars.

Only the latest Golden Dragon brand bicycle is the cheapest, but it also costs a full 500 silver dollars.

The group of them took out the bits and pieces of their bodies, and together they could only buy one.

"If I'm going to buy 10,000 units, how much cheaper can the wholesale price of this car be?" Lu Xiangsheng asked the shopkeeper.

"10,000 units, the sales volume of the whole Ming Dynasty in a year is not so much, if you can really pay this money, it doesn't hurt to be cheaper, if you can't pay it, you also deliberately report such a large order, forgive me for the inconvenience of accompaniment."

A few days ago, the boss received a Tianzhu merchant with a turban, and also reported a scary list, but only took out enough to buy a deposit for ten bicycles, and then asked him to send a thousand goods, and the payment will be made up in a few days, the boss almost did it for the sake of performance, but after the owner learned about it, he stopped it in time, which avoided major losses, and all Tianzhu merchants in the future were blacked out and forbidden to enter the harbor city.

So now for these potential customers who quote large orders at every turn, the boss is not only subconsciously vigilant, but also very disgusted.

"I don't have money now, but I will think of a way to pay for the goods, please let the big boss behind you talk to me in detail, I am the prefect of the Daimyo Lu Xiangsheng, and I am also the inspector of the Tianxiong Army, as long as your big boss is willing to talk to me in detail, I will be able to discuss a way to buy 10,000 bicycles." Lu Xiangsheng reported his way to the door.

But the boss sneered and immediately kicked Lu Xiangsheng and the others out of the store, because the boss had decided that this was a group of liars who wanted to empty their gloves and white wolves.

Fail.

Lu Xiangsheng, who only had 500 silver dollars in his pocket but planned to buy 10,000 bicycles, was naturally rejected and failed.

But!

Lu Xiangsheng will not choose to give up so easily, and he will continue to try other methods, unless every major road is impassable, unless there is no possibility in sight.

There is no way, even if he is a thirty-three-year-old middle-aged man this year, he is still a stubborn character who does not hit the south wall and does not look back.

It was already evening, and it was not early.

Lu Xiangsheng and the others left the trade market, planning to find a place to eat first, and then find a hotel where they could stay, settle down, and then think about it in the long run.

However, the import and export of the trade market has just come out.

Smack.

Thousands of street lamp poles in Harbour City have been lit up one after another, and the light released by the 50-watt LED light-emitting tubes can still make a small area look like daylight.

And all the street lamps are lit together, and it is a scene like a sea of lights and a fairy city in the world.

Plus the green laser that swept around at the top of the White Castle.

The harbor city, which is in the state of a city that never sleeps, is extremely shocking and beautiful, which makes Lu Xiangsheng and the others stunned again.

Fortunately, they already had immunity and quickly returned to normal, and then under the recommendation of Liu Sanbao, they found a special beef hot pot restaurant, what beef bone soup base, covered with chili oil, thinly sliced beef cooled with crushed ice, as well as tripe, yellow throat, beef liver, beef kidney, beef hoof tendon and other beef offal, all into the hot pot, beef slices and plate after plate, enjoy a beef feast, everyone sweats profusely, and the whole body is transparent.

But beef is expensive, this meal is a full 22 silver dollars, but compared to the price of beef elsewhere, it is still very affordable.

After eating and drinking, not far from the hot pot restaurant, I found a three-star hotel, booked two triple rooms, and paid the room fee for five days - a total of ten silver dollars.

By this time.

Including Lu Xiangsheng, everyone was very tired, and just wanted to take a hot bath and then lie down and sleep well.

However, at 7 o'clock in the evening, the news broadcast resounded throughout the city, and two announcers, a man and a woman, used magnetic and crisp voices to broadcast some news about today's 14 March.

This temporarily dispelled the drowsiness of Lu Xiangsheng and the others, pricked up their ears, and listened to the broadcast that lasted for half an hour.

Staff members Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Huayu took stock of the content on the radio and found that there were a total of 28 news items: 16 were related to Xujiazhuang, 10 were related to various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and 2 were related to overseas, and they highlighted the recent massacre of Chinese people by Spanish colonists in Luzon.

Then I felt extremely surprised and shocked.

"With such an artifact as broadcasting, if you don't leave home, you will know what is happening everywhere in the world."

"Even all over the Ming Dynasty, the affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Jiazhuang knows it clearly, as if it is transparent, it can be seen that Xu Jiazhuang has penetrated deeply, but I know very little about Xu Jiazhuang in the Ming Dynasty."

"In this broadcast, it was said that His Majesty poured all his internal money and ordered every effort to exterminate the Liukou, but the personal assets of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, have swelled from less than 300,000 taels last year to 880,000 taels today, is this true or false? Or did Xu Jiazhuang deliberately fabricate this matter in order to smear and slander the court and divide the people's hearts? The entourage said in a thunderous voice.

"Why is it that thousands of miles away in Luzon, when the Huaxia people were killed, Xu Jiazhuang would be so angry, with such harsh words, and he would kill millions of Hongyi people to pay for it?"

"Xujiazhuang is unfathomable, different from my Ming Dynasty everywhere, and there are so many artifacts and sharp weapons, plus the daily broadcast to induce the domestication of the people, over time, how can I be the enemy of the Ming Dynasty?"

Sun Yuanhua's sigh made everyone fall into a long silence.