"Stonegrease?" Lu Wen's face changed slightly and said, "This place is forbidden to sell. ”

Lu Xiaoning said abruptly: "The ghost market is not for sale? Not to mention that there is no ghost market in Khotan. ”

Lu Wen said: "You can indeed buy stone grease in the ghost market, but the price is expensive and not cost-effective. ”

"If the price is expensive, it will be more expensive, and money will not matter if it is fate." Lu Xiaoning said, "The most painful thing in the world is that the money is still in the people but it is gone, so don't worry about the money, you still have to spend it." ”

"Whoa." Lu Wen forked his hand and said, "It's just that the price of stone grease in the ghost market is too high, I'm afraid I can't buy a few barrels." ”

Lu Xiaoning said: "Let's go to Fang City first, you don't have to worry about money, this immortal knows astronomy and geography, it's not easy to make money?" Just go. ”

"Whoa." Lu Wen didn't dare to disobey, and immediately led the horse to Khotanese Horse City.

Before the Song Dynasty, the Chinese city adopted the fang market system, so there were no street shops, all the shops were either hidden in the fang, or concentrated in the market, Chang'an has a concentrated industry in the east and west market, and there are scattered shops in each square, Chang'an is like this, other cities are also like this, and Khotan is also such a pattern.

The largest goods in Khotan are horses, so the fang market in Khotan is also called the horse market.

However, the horse market is just a name, in fact, there are all kinds of goods in the market.

There are only two gates in Khotan's horse market, north and south, and when Lu Wen led the horse into the north gate, Lu Xiaoning had already taken the first step to pull the camera to the sky above the horse market and looked down from a high place.

But I saw that Khotanese was a square city, surrounded by two people-high adobe walls, and inside were two streets that were vertical and horizontal.

The entire market is divided into nine districts by four main streets, each with different functions.

In the middle of the area is the Horse Market Bureau, which is equivalent to the current Market Management Office and Market Police Station, which is guarded by officials and bad people of the Horse Market Department, and sometimes also auctions off slaves.

The eight surrounding districts are the real markets where you sell your goods.

There are also small alleys in each large area, and these small alleys divide the large area into a number of small areas, each small area is an independent industry, and it is said that there are more than 200 industries in Chang'an West City.

There are certainly not so many horse markets in Khotan, but there are certainly dozens of industries.

Lu Xiaoning looked down for a while, then lowered the camera, hovered over one of the streets, and then slowly advanced, intending to take a full shot of Khotanese first.

But I saw that there were many shops from all walks of life, selling everything.

The streets and alleys are also crowded with people.

Among the pedestrians were Han Chinese wearing round-necked robes and heads, but more were Sogdian Hu with blue-eyed and red-haired noses and eagles, and there were also many snow-skinned orchids with brightly colored turbans as they weaved through the crowd.

The sound of camel bells, the shouts of merchants, the sound of bargaining, and the sound of scolding all came together.

Lu Xiaoning even heard a kind of thick and desolate music, which made people's livers tremble when they heard it.

Following the sound of the song, the camera advanced to one of the rooms, and saw more than a dozen Anxi girls inside.

Most of these Anxi girls are young and beautiful, and most of them are Sogdian orchids with high noses and big eyes.

One of the orchids was playing a recorder-like music, and the kind of thick and desolate music that Lu Xiaoning heard just now was emitted by this instrument, which was really good.

……

The Khotanese horse market is mainly for horse trading.

Lu Wen on the other side was not idle, and soon came to the northwest corner of the horse market, this whole area is dedicated to buying and selling horses, and there are hundreds of businesses in it.

Lu Wen found one of the businesses and said, "The shopkeeper sells horses." ”

The shopkeeper of this business was a Sogdian man, and when the business came to the door, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face.

Lu Wen divided seven of the horses, and the Sogdian Hu Shang carefully examined them, and said with satisfaction: "They are all prime horses between the ages of five and ten, fat, strong, and thick, and they are the best Turkic horses. ”

Lu Wen said: "The shopkeeper is knowledgeable, this is the Tubo military horse captured on the battlefield." ”

"Military horses?" Sogdian Hu Shang's face changed, "Guest, do you have any documents for the military town?" ”

Lu Wen's face fell, and he said helplessly: "I am from the Quren Army, go back and make up for it." ”

"That's not going to happen." Sogdian Hu Shang shook his head and said, "The Tang law clearly stipulates that it is strictly forbidden to privately buy and sell the weapons, armor and military horses of the Tang Dynasty. ”

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there was a shortage of military resources, and it was indeed forbidden to buy and sell weapons, armor and military horses, and violators were punished with heavy punishments.

But by the time of Tianbao, this regulation had long been in vain, and no one had complied with it at all.

After Li Linfu came to power, the Tang Dynasty was like a runaway train sliding into the abyss at high speed.

When the Sogdian merchants said this, they just wanted to lower the price, not that they really didn't want to buy these military horses.

Lu Wen was a little impatient: "Shopkeeper, let's not play with these fictitious things, you can give me a real price, and sell it if it's okay, if not, I'll go to another house, so as not to waste everyone's time." ”

The Sogdian Hushang thought for a moment, stretched out three fingers and said, "Three thousand dollars!" ”

Lu Wen was too lazy to talk nonsense, and was about to leave with his horse, but the Sogdian Hu merchant hurriedly increased the price: "Three thousand five!" ”

Lu Wen turned around and said, "A Turkic military horse in Chang'an West City can be worth at least nine thousand yuan, so you will give three thousand five hundred?" You're robbing money! Six thousand dollars per horse, if it is less, it will not be sold. ”

"Guest, you are just unreasonable, how can the price of Khotan be compared with Chang'an?" The Sogdian Hu merchant retorted, "A high-grade orchid can be sold for a million yuan in Chang'an, but it can be worth a thousand yuan in Anxi!" ”

Lu Wen said helplessly: "That's five thousand yuan, it can't be less, this is a first-class Turkic horse." ”

"Four thousand, no more." Sogdian Hu Shang said, "The guest also knows that the road from Anxi to Chang'an is not easy to walk, and there will always be business trips robbed every year, which can cause the loss of goods and horses, and even the loss of life, so those of us who do business must consider the loss, and the four thousand yuan really can't be more." ”

Lu Wen said with a dark face: "Four thousand five hundred dollars." ”

"Deal." The Sogdian Hu Shang did not continue to lower the price this time, but readily agreed, because he could see that this price was already Lu Wen's bottom line, and if he lowered the price again, the order would be yellow.

"Guest, this is thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars, you have taken it."

A total of 31 half-Kaiyuan Tongbao, a full two hundred and two pounds of weight.

Then it was to buy grain, Lu Wen bought 21 stone of wheat, and spent 10,000 yuan.

It's not that he doesn't want to buy more grain, but he can't transport it back to Cyruburg, because he now has only eight horses left, and in addition to the horse he rides, there are seven horses left that carry a maximum of three stone of grain each.

At this time, Lu Xiaoning returned to Lu Wen after filming the full shot of Ma Shi.

"That's not enough food." Lu Xiaoning said to Lu Wen's ear, "You said that there are more than 500 people in Cyruburg, and this bit of food can only be distributed to four catties per person, and no matter how much you save, it will only be enough to eat for four days." ”

"There's no way around that, you can't bring it back if you buy more." Lu Wen smiled bitterly.

"Hire a caravan to transport it back." Lu Xiaoning said, "You have to buy at least five hundred stone of grain." ”

"Five hundred stones?" Lu Wen smiled bitterly again, "Immortal Venerable, 30,000 yuan is only enough to buy sixty stones, and selling the remaining eight military horses can't buy five hundred stones, only enough to buy one hundred and twenty stones." ”

"I said, you don't have to worry about money, I'll figure it out."

Lu Xiaoning said: "You just have to go to the grain store now and settle the grain and camel caravan." ”

Although Lu Wen was very suspicious, he still went to the grain store out of respect for the immortal venerable.

On the other side, Lu Xiaoning opened Baidu and entered how to make money quickly in the Tang Dynasty?

The search page quickly popped up with many methods, two of which caught Lu Xiaoning's attention.

One is to make frosting, and the other is to make refined salt, and the profit of frosting is much higher than that of refined salt.

Frosting is actually rock sugar, which was originally discovered by a monk surnamed Zou during the reign of Zong Guangde in the Tang Dynasty.

Sugar was a luxury in ancient times, especially in the West, and Western aristocrats in the Middle Ages would write the amount of sugar in their wills before they died.

So if you make the frosting now, it's a unique business.

A single business is a monopoly, and monopoly often means profiteering.

One can imagine how much the magnates in Chang'an City would like when the crystal clear rock candy was trafficked to Chang'an?

Maybe Du Mu's "A ride on the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is a lychee" will become "A ride on the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows that it is frosting", and Li Bai may also write a poem for frosting.

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