A small town called Yeonjin in the western part of Goguryeo.

"Are you all ready? The Special Envoy has agreed on this day. ”

The one who spoke was a man about thirty years old, dressed in a Tang suit, which was not gorgeous, and it was not something that a commoner could wear.

"Cai Gong rest assured, everything is ready." The man below resumed.

It turned out that this person's surname was Cai, and his name was Cai Rong. This is a translator in Honglu Temple, that is, a translator, the last time he followed Chen Dade to Goguryeo, Chen Dade felt that Cai Rong was shrewd and capable, so this time he sent Goguryeo with him, and gave him half a level, and now it is the seventh grade.

After Wang Xuance arrived, in order to implement the plan, Chen Dade released all his men, but fortunately, these people could speak some Goguryeo language after two missions to Goguryeo. It's really a problem to communicate with the people.

This period is actually very similar to later generations, and the nobles of Goguryeo basically knew Chinese. The language of the Tang Dynasty is spoken here as a status symbol.

High-level people are learning Datang culture, especially those who have returned from studying in Datang, and the classic line is, I am not an ordinary person, I have been in Datang for several years.

Therefore, there is no obstacle to communicating with the Goguryeo nobles, but the commoners need to know Goguryeo.

When the gate of Yanjin City was opened, people came in and out one after another, and there was a shop in the most prosperous area of Yanjin, and there was a sign written in Goguryeo in front of the door.

''Purchase all kinds of grain, Datang copper coins twenty wen a bucket. ‘’

Normally, Goguryeo's grain is more than 10 wen per bucket, and the price of three times is more than 30 wen per bucket. However, due to technical reasons, Goguryeo's coins have a relatively low copper content, so many people are willing to ask for Tang Dynasty coins, even if they are a little less, especially the nobles.

They could use these coins to buy their own goods in the Tang Dynasty and sell them back to Goguryeo.

But the merchants of the Tang Dynasty did not accept Goguryeo coins. Many people are curious to come over to watch when they see this brand, is it stupid to collect grain at three times the price at this time.

"Do you really pay three times the price of grain?"

At this time, a young Goguryeo man who looked to be in his twenties asked.

Cai Rong replied with a smile on his face and in fluent Goguryeo:

"Yes, as long as it is grain, chestnut rice, rice, we want it. Triple the price, one hand to pay, one hand to deliver. ”

"Okay, you wait."

The young man turned and ran, and soon returned with a bag on his back. Put it in front of Cai Rong,

Cai Rong opened it and looked at a bag of corn.

Nodding with satisfaction, he instructed his subordinates to give a count, nine and a half buckets and less than ten buckets.

"Do you want your coins, or Datang coins?" Cai Rong asked

"Nobleman, I want to use the money to see my mother's doctor, and I want Datang coins." He knew that Datang's coins were valuable, and sometimes they would exchange for a lot of things.

In order to earn Datang's coins, the doctor will also give his mother a good doctor.

"Okay, for the sake of your filial piety, I will count you as ten buckets and give you two hundred wen. Come. ”

The subordinate behind him handed over two strings of money, and Cai Rong took it and handed it to the young man.

"This is 200 Wen, you can take it, go and see your mother."

The young man was grateful to Dade and finally had the money to see his mother. As for whether you are hungry or not, you will have to harvest grain in a month, so how can you survive it.

"Really gave the money?"

"yes,"

"Triple the price, return the Datang copper coin, and I will sell it too."

Soon, someone in the crowd turned around and went back to get the grain, and they were about to harvest the grain anyway. This money can be exchanged for more Goguryeo money with the aristocratic lord.

"You're watching here, I'll go to the rice shop in the city."

After Cai Lun finished speaking, he took a few people to the rice shop in the city, and also bought all the grain in the rice shop at three times the price.

There are a total of four rice shops in Yanjin City, all of which were opened by the nobles in the city. There is no need to waste anything, once I hear about the triple price, all of them are sold.

The most important thing is the Datang coins given.

Truckloads of copper coins were transported to several rice shops, and truckloads of grain were delivered to the backyard of Cai Rong's shop.

There is a lot of grain in the four rice shops, and Cai Rong has no choice but to go to the yamen to open a customs clearance document and organize a group of people to transport it out of the border first.

For this reason, Cai Rong also gave the local defenders 500 yuan and transferred 500 soldiers to help escort them.

By the time Cai Rong had finished arranging everything, it was already evening.

"Cai Gong, today we have collected enough nearly 10,000 buckets of grain, which is almost one-tenth of the city."

"Well, tomorrow we will continue, tomorrow you will not all be in the city, scatter and go to the village to collect ten wagons each. Efforts should be made to harvest more than 50 percent of the grain as soon as possible.

There are some things that cannot be revealed to you, you just need to remember to hurry. It depends on this time to be promoted and rich. Cai Rong knew that Chen Dade would help the Treasure King attack this small city in the near future.

When the time comes, if they have a large amount of food in their hands, they will easily be attacked by the people. Therefore, before the Treasure King has no trouble, buy as much food as possible, and then fly away,

They were told that after the task was completed, they would go to the military camp on the border and wait.

"Yes," everyone agreed.

The next day, the envoys dispersed, and each of them took ten wagons to the villages to buy grain at a high price.

Cai Rong is not idle, Yanjin City belongs to the county seat, and there is a taishou, that is, the county order level.

He was also a member of the great family of Goguryeo, and Cai Rong, as a member of the Tang Dynasty envoys, was of course listed as a guest.

Cai Rong said that he was willing to buy grain at five times the price, and as for how much money Taishou came up with, they didn't care.

When asked the reason, Cai Rong told Yanjin Taishou very vaguely that he was doing things for a prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the rest was left to his own reverie.

Taishou did not give a clear answer in the end, only saying that if there was food, he would sell it to Cai Rong.

After that, Cai Rong went to four other rice shops, and was also willing to buy grain at five times the price, and they were all traded with Datang coins.

The shopkeepers of the four rice shops all expressed their willingness to trade and readily agreed.

After that, Cai Rong's shop had food delivered every day, Cai Rong didn't dare to store too much, and when he reached a certain amount, he would transport it to the border, and finally because of the lack of manpower, he could only hire local young people and promise 200 yuan a trip.

This is a high salary in Goguryeo, and many young people are scrambling to do it.

Yanjin City has horse-drawn carts and ox-carts to transport grain out every day, fortunately, Yanjin is relatively close to the western border, fast horses are a day's journey, and it will be there after three or four days of slow walking.

I don't know how much grain has been transported back and forth, and within a few days, there was a news in the city that His Majesty the Tang Emperor's birthday would be celebrated by the whole world, and it would not be long before millions of stone grain would be shipped, and the price would be lower than before.

After confirming that the news came from Pyongyang, many nobles began to sell large quantities of grain to Cai Rong. Moreover, it has increased the means of purchasing the people below.

If you don't take this opportunity to make more money, what if you wait until the food is cheap and people don't accept it.

The families of Yanjin City have studied together for a long time, Cai Rong is collecting grain for a prince of the Tang Dynasty, and they speculate that since this prince is not collecting grain in his country, he must not want the people of the Tang Dynasty to know.

I don't want the high-level of Datang to know about such a large-scale stockpiling of grain, and its purpose can be imagined.