On the eighth day of Zhang Juzheng's return to Beijing, a carriage was being escorted to Tianjin by four people dressed as family members on the official road. Seeing that the car and people are dusty, they should have traveled a long way to come.

At this moment, the curtain of the carriage opened, revealing a round face! This person is the big shopkeeper under Hu Zhiyu, who is in charge of commercial affairs. There are dozens of large and small shopkeepers under him, and his power is extremely great!

This time, the Hu family and the Zhang family have just completed a small cooperation, and then sought a little industry in Shanxi, and this Hu shopkeeper is to deal with this matter. As soon as he returned to Beijing from Shanxi, he was sent by Hu Zhiyu to Tianjin to see the situation of opening the sea.

The shopkeeper said to the family next to the car, "It's almost noon, isn't it? How far ahead is there a post station where I can rest? I'm dying of exhaustion, and I'm going to get out on the ground!"

"I've walked this road before, and there's a tea shed about a mile and a half away, where you can drink some water and eat some snacks."

Shopkeeper Hu nodded and said, "Okay, then go there!" It's exhausting to ride all the way!"

With that, several people had already caught up with the tails of a pair of caravans. The caravan was not large, and the four carts were covered with thick tarpaulins, and it was impossible to see what was carried. The coachman said loudly, "Master Hu, sit tight, let's get past them!"

Then the coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage quickened, and only resumed its normal speed after passing the caravan briskly. When the car stabilized, Shopkeeper Hu stretched out his head and glanced at the caravan behind him and said, "It's also a strange thing, how many caravans have you encountered along the way? Have you walked this road before, and there are so many caravans?"

The guy scratched his head and said, "Definitely not! I don't know why, but suddenly there are so many caravans!"

Shopkeeper Hu nodded and said, "Then I know, maybe it has something to do with Tianjin."

Jia Ding agreed and said, "That's really possible! It is said that Tianjin has opened the sea, and the goods there are piled up, and there are also overseas treasures! I just don't know if it's true or not."

Shopkeeper Hu said, "This must be an exaggeration. However, since the sea is open there, there is only a limit to what you want to expand! No matter, we will know it when we get to Tianjin!"

The inconvenience of this era is that the traffic is too poor, coupled with the deliberate suppression of the government, sometimes a person will never go out of a city or even a village in his life! This leads to a lack of liquidity of any information! A lot of the news is either becoming more and more exaggerated in circulation, or it just disappears silently!

The carriage slowed up a little, and soon arrived at the tea shed that the family had mentioned. As a result, when I arrived here, people who had never been here were overjoyed, but the family who had come was very surprised!

Because in his impression, this location is a real tea shed, which should be a small shed woven with bamboo and wood outside a farmer's straw house, which is very simple and dilapidated. But the scene that appeared in front of his eyes was different from before!

The grass house is still the same grass house, but the thatch on the roof is new. The wooden shed outside has become three, and it is not the original one with only four columns and one roof, but a thick tea shed that is enclosed on three sides and opens only to the side towards the intersection.

Shopkeeper Hu had never been here before, and he thought that this was the tea shed that the family had said, and said happily: "These farmers have worked hard, and the tea shed is well repaired!" And it looks like we can get some food, maybe we don't have to rush to the post station to eat at noon."

Hearing this, the other family members echoed it, so everyone quickly came to the front of the tea shed. As soon as the shopkeeper got out of the carriage, a man came forward. This person is in his thirties, wearing a short shirt used by farmers to go to the field, but he has a towel on his shoulder, and he is also imitating the shopkeeper, but he looks a little different, and he laughs a little in his heart!

I heard this man say, "Here you are, this nobleman! Sit inside! There is tea and food in the small shop, do you think you should sit and rest and leave, or have a meal and leave? We've got some ingredients here, so you don't need to add some to your big animal, and the price is absolutely fair!"

Shopkeeper Hu moved his body and said, "Go and tell the coachman about the matter, you tell me about you first."

What's in there?"

When the villagers saw that they might get a business, they said happily, "This nobleman, if you drink tea, we have serious tea here, but it is definitely not a good tea, just to quench your thirst!" If you want to eat, we also have stir-fried vegetables, but they are only vegetarian, but they are absolutely fresh, they are all home-grown, and there are wild vegetables picked nearby! As for the staple food, there are cakes and rice, by the way, rice is the rice of Jiangnan!"

These words can surprise the shopkeeper Hu! He'd never seen anything like that in a tea shed! However, he glanced directly at the table where he was eating, and saw that the dishes on the table were very fresh, especially the dishes were not served on plates, but on the large sea bowls commonly used by farmers, which were very large! He just sat down and said, "Just the six of us, you can watch it!" I've eaten enough bread on the way, serve rice!"

The villagers agreed to leave quickly, and then the coachman and the family members were seated. The villagers rushed back at this time to bring them tea bowls and a pot of tea. The housekeeper opened the lid of the pot and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, it's really tea leaves, not soil foam!"

Tumoer is a local language often spoken by the common people, which means that after the tea merchant sells the tea, there will always be a lot of broken residues left in the tea basket, and they will wrap these broken residues and sell them at a very low price! This kind of thing is called Tumoer! And the people who buy the most soil are the poor villagers!

Everyone is going east and north, and naturally knows that those tea sheds are often full of soil foam, and only at a high price will there be serious tea. It's very surprising that a pot of tea is given without any money! Look at the book

Waiting for the tea to be poured into the bowl, the shopkeeper Hu took it and said with a slight taste: "The tea is really tea, and it is also new tea, but it is still the lowest, and it is difficult to drink!"

The people around him had obviously followed him for a long time, and they weren't afraid of him, and they couldn't help but laugh when they heard the words! One of them said, "Shopkeeper, it's good to have serious tea in this shop, it's better than tea foam stuffed between your teeth!"

Shopkeeper Hu nodded and said, "That's right, it's just that this tea shed is willing to use tea, I'm afraid I have to give a few more pennies!"