Jining is the hub of the north-south transport, and its prosperous scene is not much inferior to Jinan. It is not an exaggeration to say that even the economic center of the whole of Shandong is not an exaggeration. The large and small grain ships on the canal transported the grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the Beijing Division, and even transferred it to the major military towns through the Beijing Division. And the endless stream of merchant ships, coming from the south to the north, full of goods, do not rest for a moment.

Such a situation is clearly a scene of peace and prosperity. No matter who sees this situation, who can connect the neighboring Henan and Shanxi displaced people with the present, even the other state capitals of Shandong Province are also far behind here.

Yu Feng was in the manor of the Bu family in Yanzhou, and after handing over the silver, he came towards Jining. At this time, he and his subordinates, wearing the clothes of those soldiers, were more conspicuous. After thinking about it for a while, Yu Feng asked his subordinates to change into ordinary outfits, weapons and other things, and put them directly on the cart. And he himself dressed up as a businessman.

In this way, this group of people seems to be businessmen who are away from home, with the appearance of escort men. Unfortunately, with him, there is also Xu Yuanliang, this brother is a talented person, if he doesn't speak, he stands by this person's side, uninformed people, at least nine out of ten think that he is Xu Yuanliang's master and other staff.

This made Yu Feng a little depressed, but he also understood that this kind of temperament on Xu Yuanliang could not be cultivated in a day or two, Westerners said: "Three generations can produce a nobleman!" "That's what I'm talking about, it's not a person who has been clothed and fed since childhood, and who serves others, no matter how much he tosses, he also has a bit of nouveau riche atmosphere. He would rather look like a master than look like an upstart, in fact, he is really a nouveau riche now.

Along the way, although these two groups of people feel distinct, others, they will always think that they are together, and they are still led by Xu Yuanliang, Yu Feng doesn't care, but his subordinates have a lot of complaints, but, in general, everyone gets along well, and even during the meal, the salters and Xu Yuanliang's guards can still chat a few words.

Although Qiu Shi's horse team was sent back, there were still more than thirty people around Yu Feng, if it weren't for Xu Yuanliang and them, these dozens of people would really not be very conspicuous. However, Qiu Shi still has his own little abacus, that is, after Xiaohuan became Yu Feng's room, he didn't know how Yu Feng would settle him in the future, he had offended Xiaohuan at the beginning, if Xiaohuan had a small amount of energy, what would blow the pillow wind to Yu Feng, he would be dangling in front of these two people all day long, wouldn't he be able to find it himself?

Of course, there are countless maids in the world who are included in the room by their own masters, and they don't necessarily all have a name, and there are those who are promoted as concubines, but it is not absolute, he also means to prevent trouble before it happens, after a long time, maybe this matter will be slowly forgotten by Xiaohuan, of course, maybe it is possible that Xiaohuan will be slowly forgotten by adults.

On the day he arrived in Jining, he returned to Burun in Jining in advance and picked them up outside the city. According to Yu Feng's meaning, rent an inn in the city or something, and talk about it later, but the people of the Bu family didn't agree. The guests of the Bu family, where is the reason for staying in the guest house, they simply took Yu Feng and his party to a garden in the city and settled down, and said very sorry, please wait a few days, Mrs. Bu has been riddled with trivial matters these days, and as soon as she has free time, she will immediately meet Lord Yu.

Yu Feng really didn't care, what the Bu family was busy with, he could roughly guess that since the other party didn't lack any courtesy, and he said it to the point, if he cared about it, he would really lack a mind.

Then let's get around for a few days! Yu Feng said to himself: I was distracted at that time!

Under the guidance of the people sent by the Bu family, Yu Feng went out for a few days, but soon became bored. However, what made him curious was that Xu Yuanliang, who came with him, was much more secretive. Since the first day he lived in the garden, he was with each other, and in the next few days, he also took advantage of his leisure time to go to the other party's yard to find each other, and was told by the other party's family that Young Master Xu went to socialize, he wondered, and when he chatted with Xu Yuanliang, he also heard him say that there is not much old knowledge in Jining City, where is there so much entertainment.

In this way, he became more and more interested in the identity of Xu Yuanliang, thinking that Xiaohuan had been the other party's maid ring for so long, these should be clear! Unexpectedly, he asked Xiaohuan, but Xiaohuan smiled and didn't answer, forcing him to be anxious, Xiaohuan insisted that knowing this now would not be of much benefit to Yu Feng, and besides, the young master (who should be called Xu Gongzi now) said that sooner or later he would give Yu Feng a surprise, but now that he says it, it will be very boring.

Isn't he just some kind of noble child? Play what mystery. The aftermath is very silly. Maybe there is a title in the other party's family, but in any case, this one is not simple. Since Xiaohuan has become his own person, these little things must not be hidden from him, and he feels that he has talked with Xu Yuanliang quite speculatively along the way, and there is no conflict of interest, and the other party does not seem to have much malice when he hides it, so hide it! See what you do!

Yu Feng went shopping, of course, not to look at the scenery on the side of the road, and then all the shops were messed around. He went shopping, first to see the salt stack, and then to see the blacksmith shop.

Looking at the salt stack, he wanted to know what kind of salt he ate here, what kind of salt, and what price he ate, and he was very surprised by the results he saw: even among the salt sold in Jining's large and small salt stacks, the local salt accounted for only a minority, but Huai salt accounted for the majority. Of course, there are also Shaanxi salt and Sichuan salt, but it is well salt, so I won't talk about it.

Shandong is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it is considered a large salt-producing province, and it actually eats more salt from other places than local salt. In his opinion, the share of foreign salt to occupy the Shandong market is not a bad thing, at least he still has the possibility of competing for the market with these foreign salts, if the salt in this province is controlled, he wants to insert a lever and take a share of this market, it will be much more difficult.

Now the three prefectures in eastern Shandong, Qingzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou, all have his family's private salt for sale, and because of his sales, the salt goods of the Lingshan Salt Farm, which originally supplied these three prefectures, have basically withdrawn from this market and are resold elsewhere to make a big profit. According to the division of the entire administrative region, he has actually occupied the vast majority of the salt market in these three prefectures, and he is still exclusive, and he accounts for almost one-third of the market in the six prefectures of Shandong.

As for going to the blacksmith shop to have a look, it was a move he had no choice, he wanted to take a look at the arsenal of Jining City, but, did people allow it? However, although most of the weapons and equipment in this arsenal are made by the government, there are also a lot of them purchased from private workshops, looking at the level of these blacksmith shops, at least he can understand the current level of the military industry of some of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, he is destined to be disappointed, in this blacksmith shop, can you still see that you can't make any magic weapons, it's nothing more than beating farm tools, repairing household goods, and occasionally building a few short knives for the yamen, etc., then it is considered to be the top of the sky, which is also the reason why he is not interested in shopping for a few days.

However, although he is not interested, it does not mean that others are not interested. The little ring of this maid he newly acquired was bought by the Xu family since he was a child, and he used to be a maid for the Xu family, how much personal freedom can he have? Even if I was fortunate enough to follow Xu Yuanliang out this time, it was the first time in the world, and I would not be able to say how many markets I had seen. When she came to such a prosperous place, she couldn't help but feel envious and wanted to walk around, plus the contact in the past few days, he also found that Yu Feng was actually a very good talker, so she couldn't help but beg Yu Feng several times.

Yu Feng's subordinates are those salt sticks, which are serious country sticks, come to Jining, naturally see everything fresh, their own adults don't go out, they naturally can't walk around the city, although they don't say it, but the disappointment in their eyes can't be hidden, in this case, no matter how uninterested Yu Feng is, he has to meet the requirements of the masses, otherwise, if the hearts of the masses are cold, the team will not be easy to bring. Of course, as for comforting your pretty maids by the way, you don't have to say it to the salters.

So, today Yu Feng is out again!

Today's destination is Kushui Street, the origin of the name is needless to say, it is roughly that there was a bitter well or something here before, anyway, the state and county of Daming, there are many such names. However, Jining's Kushui Street is different from other places, because most of the trading shops here are embroidery villages, rouge shops, silk shops and the like, most of which are consumed by daughters' families.

Saying that there are so many, people who really rely on their own identities will naturally not come to this street to buy by themselves, these new goods for business, naturally have already been sent to each other into the house, but, such people, after all, are a minority, if someone accompanies them, many middle-sized women's dependents, or willing to have something to do here to go around, even if they don't buy things, and a few handkerchiefs often come to relax.

"Sir! You see! Xiaohuan pointed to the front of the guise and exclaimed in surprise: "There is also gouache in the capital Jufangzhai here!" ”

Yu Feng nodded, looking at Xiaohuan helplessly, he didn't know what was the difference between the gouache of Jufangzhai in the capital and the local gouache, he had the feeling of accompanying his girlfriend to the cosmetics store in his previous life, the difference is that this time, his pocket is not only bulging, but also with a large group of roots, at least he no longer has to feel the disdainful gaze under the mechanical smile of those salesmen.