Chapter 17 Xiao Siwu worships Gongziyu
After resting and rectifying, Gongziyu called yesterday's junior two to inquire about local matters. "Little brother, you still know about the situation in this area, and the two of us want to make a living here."
"My name is Xiao Siwu, I was an orphan, I grew up eating hundreds of meals here, except for the dignitaries and nobles around me who don't know much, ordinary people eat and drink Lazar can be regarded as omniscient." Xiao Siwu looked at Gongzi Yu, saw that he didn't mean to interrupt, and then said: "Gongzi came from afar, his temperament is extraordinary, he is generous, and he wants to do great things." Although the younger brother doesn't know martial arts, he is quite clever, and he is willing to join Gongzi's door and eat together", Xiao Siwu looked up at Gongziyu again.
"It doesn't matter how big or small, the two of us are just here to do some business, since you have this intention, we have made a friend like you" Gongzi Yu did not hesitate.
Seeing this, Xiao Si hurriedly saluted and bowed to the two elder brothers. Xiao Siwu was born humble, doing some rough work all day long, and was instructed by passing customers, and the owner of the store just saw that he was lonely, so he took him in to eat and be a free laborer. Fortunately, Xiao Si is diligent, and the rewards he receives on weekdays are used to buy some old books, or to collect the books left by the customers in the store, as long as he can read them, he basically reads them all over and over again.
After reading some books, Xiao Siwu became more active in doing things, and he was more enthusiastic about treating guests. Seeing Gongziyu and others on this day, I vaguely felt that Gongziyu was extraordinary, although he was dressed ordinarily, he had a sense of nobility. I just thought that I could make friends, and maybe I could make a career.
What Xiao Si didn't know was that this so-called extravagance was the "three-point extravagance necessary for the best people" circulated by the Jiang Xiang faction. Extravagance comes from wisdom, from the bits and pieces of life, wise people not only have profound knowledge, pretentious arrogance, rich life experience, but also social and cultural thinking, unique insights into the world, wisdom if foolish, Gongzi Yu's wisdom lies in conforming to objective laws, this is the essence of "Dao".
Gongziyu asked again: "How many merchants do you have to receive every day in this inn, what are the main commodities they sell, and what are the transportation routes?"
Xiao Siwu hurriedly replied: "Childe, although our inn is small, we receive a lot of guests every day, mainly some small business travelers bring their own goods to trade, because they are worried about being robbed, so they generally do not spend the night here, they are all in the store to buy food and drink and bring on the road", Xiao Siwu looked at Gongzi Yu, seeing that he was still satisfied, and continued: "So the inn receives nearly 70 shippers every day, and these small merchants are selling silk and tea"
"Fragile goods such as porcelain are generally transported by medium and large merchants, transported by camel caravans, and will hire a dart master to escort them. Small traders have no extra money to keep safe, so they can only rely on their own goods. Xiao Siwu added.
After listening to this, Gongzi Yu thought about it a little and asked Xiao Siwu to find a few young and clever beggars in the city. Gongzi Yu still gave them a few dollars, and handed over the same question to them again to go to the city to investigate.
At night, the little beggars came back to tell the news. After listening to it and integrating the news, Gongziyu called Tie Niu, only saying that he was going to the city to have fun. Tie Niu was overjoyed when he heard this, just to see if there was a singer of the Qinglou here.
The two walked into the old streets and alleys, and in an area of about 2 square kilometers, 23,000 residents lived in clusters, and two or three hundred lanes were intertwined. The roadway with dirt and stone pavement is wider enough to walk on a donkey cart, and the narrow one is difficult for two people to walk side by side; The streets and alleys are more than 600 meters long, and the short 50 meters will come to an end.
The smell of fragrant lamb skewers, beautiful wool carpets, tapestries, all kinds of ethnic hats, "there is a lot of fruit here." There are TLF's cantaloupe, gasgua, Korla's fragrant pear, Ingisha's sweet apricot, as well as crispy almonds, sweet figs," Gongziyu casually said what he saw in the book.
"Another example is Yagbazar, which means the oil market; Koziqi Yabeshi, a clay potter; Zaiglai Lane was originally meant to be a goldsmith's settlement. Childe Yu introduced as he walked.
Then after asking passers-by for the direction, Gongzi Yu took the iron ox straight to the silk wholesale market, only to see a huge market, gathered a large number of stalls, not only silk cloth, wool carpets, tapestries, but also with the sale of exotic swords, some sell Buddhist scriptures. Among them, there are not only Fan stall owners, but also Ming stall owners, but they all speak a standard Ming official dialect.
Gongzi Yu didn't buy it, but just walked leisurely all the way, watching while walking, and Tie Niu bought bags of fruit on the side of the road, nibbling on it as he walked, calling it really sweet, and his eyes looked at the exotic woman wearing a headscarf from time to time who only showed her eyes. Although he only saw two eyes, it was enough to attract all of Iron Bull's eyes.