Chapter 2788 The ripples gradually become fragrant, and its hard to reach each other when they are separated from each other
Jiangdong.
Wujun.
Today is neither the fifth day nor the tenth day, but the Wujun market is still very lively, especially some prime areas, which are full of people, and it is difficult to squeeze in.
In Wu County, perhaps there was no special planning from the beginning, or it was restricted by mountains, rivers and rivers, so except for some main streets that are straight, many side streets and alleys are winding, and then the surrounding houses are
It seems that there are layers upon layers, with eaves next to eaves, corridors after corridors. Especially in the market, the signboards are almost touching each other.
Not only are these signboards quarreling with each other, but even the waitresses in various shops are also quarreling with each other. In Wu Yue's soft words, they are either teasing, sarcastic, criticizing, or making insinuations, all of them are very eloquent.
The lips and tongue each showed unique skills, which attracted many idle people to look left and right, just to have fun...
And the place where these idle men gather the most is not the place where these female recruiters are recruited, but the gambling house that is full of sweat, foot odor, and all kinds of odors. There are shouts and screams one after another, and the people inside are almost
Everyone was red-eyed, cheering or lamenting. Every time a treasure was opened, it was like a huge magnet, attracting crowds of people around it.
As the most prosperous city in Jiangdong, Wu County looks more or less like the feasting and feasting of later generations.
Before Qiusi Feiqian, no one in the Han Dynasty was actually aware of the impact of commodities, or trade, on the political system.
The emphasis on agriculture, or some paranoid emphasis on agriculture, undoubtedly influenced many people in the Han Dynasty. Therefore, China has long had theoretical research on agricultural and grain trade, but the development of a wider range of trade has not
It has always been lagging behind.
The concept of foreign trade actually has different scopes in different eras, but there are similarities and similarities. For example, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, foreign trade refers to trade between countries, which is often used to create a trap between vassal states.
After the Qin Dynasty, the scope of foreign trade expanded and became trade between China and foreign nations. However, it also became a means of restriction or a condition of negotiation.
In ancient Chinese feudal society, due to the dominant position of the natural economy, foreign trade accounted for a very small share of social products, so that rulers generally paid little attention to foreign trade. Especially after the establishment of a centralized feudal state, China prided itself on being a great nation.
As a large country, it thinks that it has everything, and then a Chinese concept of "abundant products, everything is available" was born. The rulers also naturally developed a detached sense of superiority, and regarded foreign trade as an insignificant matter.
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Therefore, in the concept of the rulers of the Chinese feudal dynasty, foreign trade was often an additional product produced for a certain strategic purpose. The focus was on strategy, not foreign trade, not commodities, not economy, and the economy could even be temporarily sacrificed for the sake of strategy.
This inevitably leads to the impossibility of maintaining this type of foreign trade for a long time.
A typical example is "Guanzi".
Guan Zhong was undoubtedly an ancient sage who attached great importance to trade. Under his guidance, Qi State rose from a wandering king to a hegemon in the Spring and Autumn Period. This shows how powerful Guan Zhong is. However, the biggest problem with Guan Zhong is that he places too much emphasis on "skills."
, and forgetting the "original", whether it is in the Land Chapter or the Sea King Chapter, they all describe a method of suppressing other countries through trade, and they use all possible means. It is no wonder that later Confucian disciples have so many concerns about Guanzi.
There is criticism.
The Eastern Han Dynasty is basically a dynasty that is somewhat out of touch with business theory. The Western Han Dynasty is more or less OK. After all, the Western Han Dynasty is open to the outside world. The earliest Northwest Silk Road, the southwest business road leading to Shendu, and the mutual trade in the Northern Desert,
They are all the development of foreign trade, but after the Eastern Han Dynasty...
The emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of commerce made commerce become an accessory to agriculture. The status of natural merchants was repeatedly reduced. In this process, there were a large number of official merchants. Local gentry played the role of these merchants, making the business system move toward a bureaucratic merchant structure.
This makes the exploitation endured by the people even more severe.
Foreign trade was restored in the Tang Dynasty, but there was not much progress in theory. It was not until Shen Kuo of the Northern Song Dynasty that the theoretical development of examining foreign trade issues from the perspective of the feudal state economy combined with production, monopoly, currency circulation, etc.
We used trade relations to analyze the problem of copper coin outflow at that time, and then deduced and predicted through trade relations, and put forward suggested solutions.
And under the influence of the current Husband, the causal development of commerce makes even Jiangdong seem to still feel the cold wind of winter as spring approaches.
The price of goods from the Western Regions was so high that the cold wind blew to the east of the Yangtze River.
For most Jiangdong people, everything that happens in the Central Plains seems very far away. The closest things to Jiangdong people are their own rice bowls and the clothes they wear.
This year, Jiangdong was hit by a disaster.
According to the concept of the Jiangdong gentry, isn't it normal to make up for the losses? Back then, Lao Sang was able to pacify the Huaihe River, so there is no reason why the ruling class of the Jiangdong gentry doesn't understand now? So after the two Zhang Gongs took the lead in internal affairs, they mobilized a huge amount of money.
Driven by the power of the epidemic, food from outside the disaster area was gathered and transported to the disaster area where food prices soared.
Is there any problem with doing this?
Normally, there is no problem. After all, when one party is in trouble, all parties support it, which is also a virtue of Chinese simplicity.
But the problem is that among this simple virtue are those who are not so simple...
If it is purely disaster relief, there will naturally be no problem, but at the same time as disaster relief, are there still people who want to make a little fortune?
Anyway, there is not much difference if the victims have more or less food, but can they have more opportunities with their small money? At the same time, the price of food is driven up in the disaster area, and they take the opportunity to stock up on everything, not only food, but also other things.
Supplies, such as those who stock up on salt, vinegar, sauce, and medicine...
Anyway, it seems that whatever the disaster area needs can be stocked.
To get rich, what kind of conscience do you need?
Small coins are the cutest.
Anyway, Jiangdong is so big, something will happen every once in a while, either famine here or typhoon over there. There is no peaceful time. Disasters come and disasters go. Those in Guizhou are just like weeds.
Will the clumps continue to grow randomly?
dead?
When will no one die?
Wouldn't it mean that if more untouchables die, there will be less untouchables causing trouble?
As a result, problems broke out. On the one hand, the victims were not well resettled and did not receive the materials that were supposed to be distributed to them. On the other hand, the victims were unscrupulously recruited from other areas in the name of disaster relief.
For those people who are slightly dissatisfied, they are arrested, arrested, detained, and even sentenced.
However, the distant disaster area and the chaotic Wuling did not affect the life in Wujun, a large city in Jiangdong, especially the gentry children in Wujun.
Just like Zhang Hong.
Carefree and nourishing.
Since Sun Quan "retired to the second line", as the second-in-command in internal affairs, besides assisting Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong's life is undoubtedly very comfortable...
Zhang Hong is now sitting in an elegant room of a restaurant facing the street in Wujun.
Zhang Hong likes to keep a low profile.
This restaurant is also very low-key.
But low-key does not mean simplicity, nor can it be said that low-key means being close to the people.
During this period of time, he always felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of anything. Feeling depressed, he came to this restaurant, drank some wine, ate some fish and meat, and had a brief meal.
Relax.
This restaurant is famous for its fish dumplings, but it doesn't have a famous name. Even the signboard only depicts a fish.
Regular customers call this restaurant Happy Fish.
Zhang Hong came. Although he was wearing casual clothes, the shopkeepers still recognized him and greeted him hurriedly. They asked the chef to come and cook for Zhang Hong, put hot towels on the washbasin, and arranged the decorations.
Some dried fruit snacks were served, and there were even two kinds of wine, one was iced peach wine, and the other was rice wine warmed in a clay oven.
Amidst the attentive service of the store clerk, the master chef in the store got the news and came with carefully selected live fish. Since the Han Dynasty did not have the preservation technology of later generations, the fish and meat were eaten freshly, basically.
There is nothing frozen on the table, just fresh.
As for why Zhang Hong likes to eat fish and dumplings, we have to look at where Zhang Hong is originally from...
As a "high-end" fish dumpling for Zhang Hong, not only the fish must be big and lively, but also the dining utensils are specially customized. Although it is only the fish dumpling, there are more than a dozen kinds of tableware to match it.
, Linlin laid out a table full of various pickled ingredients.
There were ivory chopsticks, a silver dinner plate, a gold wine flask, and two female actors beside them, ready to serve Zhang Hong at any time.
The waiter brought a copper basin filled with ice water.
The master's hands were quick and he first put the live fish into the ice water. When the fish became slightly stiff, he took the live fish and started working in the ice water on the spot, removing the scales and fishy film, and then quickly cleaned it again.
There was not too much blood, and the belly of the fish was not cut open. Instead, while the fish was unconscious, he placed the fish on a piece of ice and used a knife as thin as a cicada to cut off two strips from the fish.
fish meat, and then cut two pieces of fish meat into fish breasts.
After picking one side of the fish, he picked the other side again. Then the master threw the fish with the meat on both sides back into the basin again, only to see that the fish was originally turned belly up.
But after a while, the tail moved, turned over, and started swimming in the water with its whole body.
The fish meat is almost transparent, spread flat on the black clay plate, and the slightly pink fish meat shows a unique pattern.
In this meal, the fish meat is the most essential part of the fish. The head, tail, intestines, etc. are not eaten.
"Wonderful." Zhang Hong nodded, "It's pleasing to the eye, nothing more than that! The happy fish's skills are almost as good as art!"
The master smiled honestly, bowed to Zhang Hong, and retreated. It seemed to be very simple, just taking the fish meat and cutting the fish fillets, but in order to ensure that when the fish skin was taken alive, it would not cause any problems.
The fish struggled, or the temperature increased, causing the texture or taste of the fish breasts to be destroyed. The entire process was carried out in ice water or on ice. His hands were red from the cold, and the calluses on his fingers were even worse.
Chen Hou, I don’t know how many years he has been doing this and how many fish he has slaughtered before he has mastered the skills he has now.
Zhang Hong picked up a piece of crystal fish meat, looked at it first, then put it into his mouth and tasted it carefully.
The female actor on the side quickly stepped forward and poured some peach wine for Zhang Hong.
Zhang Hong obviously thought the taste was very good, shaking his head and feeling happy. Perhaps the only drawback is that the wine glass of peach wine is not made of white jade...
After finishing the fish dumplings and eating some other delicacies, Zhang Hong was full of wine and food. Some of the worries and messy thoughts that were originally in his heart were temporarily put aside.
"Mr. Zhang," the shopkeeper laughed with him, and said beside him as he sent Zhang Hong out, "Is Mr. Zhang satisfied with his use? There is something that I dare not hide. The cost of the meal has gone up a bit now... It's a small business."
It’s not easy, this... small one has no choice but to follow the market... I hope Zhang Gong Haihan..."
The shopkeeper laughed along with him, fearing that Zhang Hong would be angry.
Generally speaking, if it is a general price fluctuation, the shopkeeper will not specifically tell Zhang Hong, but the question now is whether it is a general price fluctuation...
Zhang Hong doesn't pay for his meals. Well, of course it doesn't mean that Zhang Hong eats the King's meal, but it is customary to settle the bill at the end of the month. How much you eat will be put on the account, and then at the end of the month, the store will send someone to Zhang Hong
I went to the house to ask the steward to reconcile the accounts and withdraw money.
This is also the settlement method for most nobles. Even when the servants in their mansions need to purchase some common things in the mansion, they mostly have to settle the accounts. On the one hand, ordinary people are not good at arithmetic at all, and they may not be able to use ten fingers.
Being able to pull and pull clearly, on the other hand, it also shows that the nobles have dignity and do not worry about some stupid things every day.
Zhang Hong naturally had to pay for this meal. The shopkeeper came forward to explain that it was just because the price of Pu Tao wine had increased too much during this period, so the price was much more expensive than before, so he had to discuss it with Zhang Hong.
Please explain it so that it will not be unclear when the reconciliation comes.
"The price of peach wine has increased? You know..." Zhang Hong didn't pay much attention at first, but after walking out for a few steps, the worries that had been accumulated due to the delicious food suddenly started to rise again!
Zhang Hong suddenly felt something bad.
After Zhang Hong left the fish and meat shop, he visited some markets and discovered this problem.
Up!
But the problem is that after it rises...
No matter how much the price of peach wine has increased, no matter how high the price of Parsley spices is, no matter how much goods come in, they are sold out almost immediately!
Are the Jiangdong nobles really so rich?
Is rose peach wine a necessity? Can’t we live without it? Is there no substitute?
Obviously not.
So obviously these Jiangdong gentry children are so rich, why do the victims never get good resettlement?
Zhang Hong even had some not-so-good associations.
After thinking about it, Zhang Hong found Zhang Zhao.
Zhang Zhao welcomed Zhang Hong and sat down in the hall.
In terms of age, Zhang Hong is older than Zhang Zhao.
Although both of them have the surname Zhang, they are not closely related, just like Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao.
Zhang Hong said straight to the point: "The east of the Yangtze River was affected by the disaster, but the prices of goods in the western regions were high, but they were still sold out! Does Zibu know about this?"
Zhang Zhao nodded, and then said with some reference: "Not only is the price of peach wine in the Western Regions high, but the price of Jiangbei war horses is also high..."
As for wine, of course it was drunk by scribes, and of course warriors also drank it, but as for war horses, the demand among scribes was not much...
Zhang Hong's main job is strategic planning, while Zhang Zhao prefers practical matters arrangement. The two of them cooperate seamlessly, without any disputes or conflicts.
Zhang Hong really didn't notice the price increase of commodities in the Western Regions at the first time. Not everyone is very sensitive to external affairs. In addition, some areas in Jiangdong were hit by disasters during this period, and then there was the rebellion in Wuling area.
This caused Zhang Hong to focus most of his attention on Jiangdong's internal affairs...
In the Jiangdong disaster area, the nobles scolded Wuling, who was not affected by the disaster but was better off than the disaster, for being ignorant, inhumane, and devoid of compassion, for resisting the increase in taxes, and at the same time taking the opportunity to hoard all kinds of food and supplies in exchange for all kinds of money.
resources, and even human lives.
Gentlemen, if you don't take advantage of disasters to make a fortune, how can you get rich? This is called taking someone's life while he is sick!
If they can't get rich suddenly, how can the nobles buy the increasingly expensive Western Rose Peach Wine and Parthian spices?
Zhang Hong frowned and was silent for a long time before saying, "Nowadays, there are many victims in Jiangdong, and the people in Jiangdong are very extravagant... This is a sign of deviation from the upper and lower levels..."
At this moment, Zhang Hong didn't know whether he really didn't think about it or whether he didn't care at all. Anyway, he didn't think there was anything wrong with him just eating some expensive fish and drinking some rose peach wine. Instead, he felt that the Jiangdong gentry's children were too
It's outrageous...
Normally, if something becomes more and more expensive and is not a necessity, then various cheap substitutes will inevitably appear. Even if the effect is not as good as the original product, it is acceptable as long as the price is low. For example, peach wine is expensive
Okay, so other gold wine, corn wine, etc., is it possible that I can no longer drink it?
So if the market is normal, then the price should have gone up, but if no one buys it, there will be no sales, and then the price of this type of item will slowly drop again...
But now the prices of apple wine, Parthian spices and other items continue to rise, but there are still sales, and the sales volume is not small. What does this mean?
Zhang Zhao glanced at Zhang Hong slightly, then stroked his beard and said: "Qin's school affairs have gone to Wuling..."
"Who? Ah!" Zhang Hong's eyes suddenly tightened, "Zi Bu means..."
If Zhang Zhao hadn't told Zhang Hong, Zhang Hong would not have known about this matter at all. This shows that Qin Bo did not go through the normal document dispatch channel when he went to Wuling, which means that he went through another line, that is, a direct military order.
Zhang Zhao pondered for a moment, then sighed softly, "The Governor...it seems like he is arranging funeral arrangements..."
