The palace was mourning, Lu Yangge went to Dongyang County, and Li Guangming stood in the courtyard of Gaoyou County, a subordinate of Yangzhou, looking at the flowing clouds in the sky in a daze.

King Qin really ascended the throne as the emperor, and the physically strong Chen Quan first became seriously ill and became the empress of Taishang and then went to great luck, and a good generation of heroes went like this.

A few years ago, before the emperor's great trip, he also followed Lord Shen into the palace to meet the emperor.

In the restaurants, restaurants, teahouses, and shops in Beijing, Li Guangming told the emperor about the shops that have expanded over the years and the money he has earned.

He saw that the emperor was going to hand over the teahouses in the capital and various places, a total of nineteen shops, including the houses with the title deeds and the men.

The most convenient thing about these stores is that they are more convenient to grasp the flow of information in various places.

Obviously, these shops were all made by the county lord of Huaiping, but the county lord of Huaiping asked him to hand them over to the emperor himself.

Because of these shops, the emperor thanked him for his meritorious service to Sheji, and gave him the Qipin County Order and served in Yangzhou Gaoyou.

Before taking office, he deliberately brought his family back to his hometown to worship his ancestors.

No one thought that he, Li Guangming, would have the luck he had today.

When asked, Li Guangming only smiled and said nothing, and when he asked too much, he only vaguely said that he had a big opportunity to get to where he is today, and he didn't want to say more about the other half of the word.

Li Guangming felt that his life was complete, and he was the shopkeeper of a small restaurant who originally worked for the owner, and one day he was able to enter the palace and sit down with the emperor to drink tea and talk.

Xiao Si really didn't lie to him, even if he was doing business, as long as he did a good job, he would also be able to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix to the ancestors.

The luckiest thing he Li Guangming did in his life was to meet Lu Xiaosi and try to treat him as well as possible.

Now he has finally gotten rid of his identity as a merchant and has become an ordinary seven-grade sesame petty official in the Great Shang Dynasty.

Don't look at this seven-grade sesame petty official, it is not a big one, and it is not the kind that is not in the middle of the court. But all of a sudden, his Li family went from a ninth-rate merchant to an official eunuch.

Li Guangming stood in the courtyard for a long time before patting the non-existent dust on his body, and turned around to beckon Li Taoshan to follow him out.

The county lord of Huaiping said that Gaoyou is vast and sparsely populated, rich in water conservancy resources, and there are rivers and ravines everywhere. The most famous local is the local hemp duck, the pickled double yolk eggs are all oily, fresh and salty, rich in fragrance, and the taste is dense and sandy.

The county lord of Huaiping paid attention to him, if he wanted Gaoyou to develop and get more people's attention, he had to find a way to do it in the side business.

For example, Gaoyou's special double yolk eggs were sent to the palace as a tribute.

This time, Li Guangming traveled, and did not take the guards to hug him like ordinary officials.

He only rode a small donkey, led by Li Taoshan in front, and walked slowly on the country road.

Li Guangming's hometown is not far from here, and his accent has hardly changed.

When passing through the village, he used the excuse of drinking water to rest and struck up a conversation with the local old farmers.

After the father and son walked for most of the day and entered a village downstream from Gaoyou Lake, he found that the Great Shang Dynasty had changed to a new emperor, and the local people did not know about it.

If it weren't for the local officials who came to collect taxes and money every year, they might not even know that the dynasty they are in now has changed.

"You've never left the village?" Even if Li Guangming was well-informed, he couldn't help but be stunned by the conservatism of the locals.

"Even if you grow grain at home and have vegetables in the field, you still have to eat salt, right? And farm tools also need to be purchased and repaired, right? ”

"We eat very little salt, and the merchant will come several times a year to buy two taels of salt, and you can eat it for a long time."

As if he was afraid that Li Guangming would not believe what he said, this man actually asked the daughter-in-law of the family to take out the salt jar in the stove room and show it to Li Guangming.

The salt jar made of clay pottery is only a low jar with coarse salt grains.

After using it for a long time, the salt had already clumped, and a thin layer of pot ash fell on it.

"We don't have to cook at home, not to mention the lack of salt, we also lack oil. I rarely cook all year round. This salt is also used for pickled vegetables or pickled duck eggs. ”

Speaking of this, the old farmer scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "Even if the duck eggs are pickled, we are reluctant to eat them, so we still have to wait for the merchants who walk the streets and alleys to exchange them for something practical." ”

The person who spoke to Li Guangming was a loyal and honest old farmer, who looked like he was in his fifties.

It wasn't until a boy of five or six years old who was still wearing open crotch pants came over to call his father that Li Guangming knew when he asked that this man who looked like he was in his fifties a few years younger than him, and he was only in his early thirties this year!

Looking at the little brother with an old face, the expression on Li Guangming's face cannot be described as wonderful.

Although his family is not rich, because of the huge Li family in Yangzhou, he was able to enter the Li family to study when he was young.

Li Guangming always thought that he was already a kind of poor people, but he didn't expect that in this countryside, there would be poorer and more hopeless days than he imagined.

Li Guangming hurriedly changed the topic: "Then how much does your pickled salted duck egg sell to the merchant?" ”

"My daughter-in-law's pickled eggs are good, they are guaranteed to be yellow, the taste is good, a double yolk egg can be sold for a penny, if it is not a double yellow one, it will cost two to sell for a penny."

"A double yolk egg for a penny?" Li Taoshan looked at his father-in-law in disbelief, he often followed the purchase to the market to buy vegetables in the capital.

The salted duck eggs in the capital are sold for four cents a piece, and if they are double yellow, they will cost eight cents a piece.

Selling it in the store, of course, is more expensive, but the account can't be counted like this.

The purchase price of a double yolk egg is one penny, and the selling price in Beijing is one penny. The difference in the middle price reached seven cents! A double yolk egg is equivalent to being made by the businessman in the middle of the money.

The more Li Taoshan calculated, the hotter he became, he found that he used to be a frog at the bottom of the well, if he now collected salted duck eggs from Gaoyou, and then trafficked them to the capital to sell them......

Li Guangming glanced at Li Taoshan quietly, and then changed to a smiling face and said, "Fellow, do you still have pickled duck eggs to sell at home?" I want to buy some and give them back to my family to try. I'll give you a double yolk egg for two pennies, not a penny for double yellow, can you? ”

When the man heard this, he was excited: "Yes, yes, how much do you want?" ”

Li Guangming: "Two hundred of double yellows, not one hundred of double yellows." ”

"My family doesn't have so many, can someone else's family do it?"

The man rubbed his hands a little embarrassed, "Our village is in the lower reaches of Gaoyou Lake, there are more ditches and ditches, and there are many hemp ducks. Almost every household will pickle duck eggs, brother, you have to buy, I will introduce you to a few good craftsmanship, you must be satisfied. ”

Li Guangming nodded: "Yes, but you separate it for me, I want to see if there is a big difference between your crafts." ”

The man doesn't understand why he should be packed separately, aren't all salted duck eggs the same?

However, if it can be sold for twice the price, of course he will not ask more. He was busy finding out the duck eggs that he had pickled at home, and then went to his brother's house to make up for the shortcomings.

By the time Li Guangming and Li Taoshan left the village, the bamboo baskets on both sides of the donkey were already filled with pickled duck eggs.

He wants to send the best taste of this duck egg to Dongyang County, so that the county lord of Huaiping in Dongyang County can taste it.

If the county lord also said yes, then Gaoyou, the post booth, may really be famous all over the world.

(End of chapter)