As expected, Deyuan opened an inn and restaurant in Youcheng as Qi Baoer said, and even arrogantly occupied half of the entire street.
When Twelve showed the token, the shopkeeper's face was like a palette. First there was doubt, then confirmation, then uncertainty, and finally a glimmer of ecstasy passed through his eyes.
That attitude was the same as when he saw Jin Yuanbao, personally leading Qi Baoer and the others to the yard behind.
Qi Bao'er didn't know that as soon as they settled down, a secret letter had already flown to the capital on a carrier pigeon from the shopkeeper's room.
However, even knowing that Qi Bao'er wouldn't care, she never had the idea of being 'incognito' when she came back here. She would have gone home all the way after resting.
Instead of setting off to go home immediately the next day, we stayed in Youcheng and did a lot of shopping first.
In the largest city along the coast, people coming and going are not only locals from the Qilin Kingdom, but also many businessmen from other countries, and even people from the Wai Kingdom with different hair colors and different eye colors.
It is said that this kind of crooked Chinese people who looked very different from Chinese people caused a sensation when they first came to Youcheng. It wasn't that everyone looked at them curiously, but they were thought to be monsters and the people ran away, and the government wanted to catch them.
The group was almost burned by a fire.
I heard that the Qi family army who happened to be on their way to suppress the bandits passed by here. The leading general came out to prove that they were humans and not monsters. This gave those crooked people the opportunity to prove themselves by producing documents with the seals of the two countries.
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[Speaking of this, I should also mention the Qi Family Army. The current Qi Family Army is already a member of the Guarding Army and is stationed in the northwest. 】
To say that it took more than five years to build Youcheng, it was only officially started to trade with overseas three years ago, and it took less than a year for it to really become popular.
It's just a matter of doing business. As long as it's profitable, the momentum will be like a storm, and nothing can stop it.
Qilin Country is rich in daily necessities such as porcelain, silk, cloth, etc., and is also rich in minerals. However, Qilin Country has a large population, but its crop yield is extremely low.
In the past, for countries that were far away and had abundant food, we had to take the overland route. The journey was far and dangerous, and we had to pass through several countries. We had to pay this tax and that tax. Even if we took risks, we might not be able to transport the food to Qilin Country.
Even if the shipment arrives, there will be no profit.
Let's take the sea route. If a big ship comes to transport it, there will be no place for them to dock in the Qilin Kingdom. If a small ship comes to transport it at sea, the risk is too high.
Now that there is a large terminal like Youcheng, these problems are no longer a problem.
The low-level people take the goods from the Qilin Kingdom, transport them to their own country, and sell them as treasures at high prices. The profits gained from this... are for merchants from other countries who own large ships and their own risks have been reduced a lot.
Even if there is still a lot of risk, it is still worth taking.
Therefore, there are many places in Youcheng that are worth visiting for Qi Baoer and the others.
Youcheng is divided into a market specifically for overseas people to set up stalls and a 'commercial street' where domestic merchants are located. For the people, if you want to buy domestic things, go to the 'commercial street', and if you want to hunt for novelties, go to the market.
It's intuitive.
About two hundred people went straight to the market without saying a word.
As for the commercial street, according to Comrade Yuan Zhuowen, the senior brother of the Zhuo generation who is in charge of money, the things that are available in China here are all sold to foreigners. The price can be the same as other places. We want to wear
We walked almost the entire south to reach Uncle Bao's hometown. You can't find anything you want to buy in the middle. Why do you have to buy something expensive here and have to go through all the trouble of carrying it with you?
It makes sense, doesn't it?
Although it is a market designed for Chinese people to trade, not only Chinese people are selling things here, there are also Chinese people setting up stalls there, or directly carrying or carrying goods to sell.
However, after walking around for a while, everyone was a little disappointed.
Originally we wanted to come here to hunt for novelties, but this time the people who came with us were all young people who were very curious about the land here. When they heard that this was a place specializing in rare items, their curiosity was heightened several times.
The results of it··
——Paper, mostly rice paper, which is slightly harder, is robbed by many merchants.
And their Linghua Sect has its own paper-making place, and the paper it makes is both soft and hard, and is whiter.
——Liu Li turned out to be a treasure. A piece of Liu Li that was only bigger than a palm was sold for a thousand taels of silver.
The Linghua Sect also has a glaze workshop, but they do not take out food and are self-sufficient. Even the lowest-ranking sweeper servant in the sect has several kinds of glaze products in the house.
——Jade, a ten-pound white jade of only moderate quality can be exchanged for a hundred pieces of silk.
This made these ‘bumpkins’ from Linghua Sect even more surprised.
In Qingshui Mountain, due to geographical reasons, it is not easy to raise silkworms. The spiritual energy and mysterious energy there are too strong, and it is difficult for small things like silkworms to survive. Therefore, the price of silk in Qingshui Mountain is extremely high, and most people cannot afford it.
Well, there are several jade veins in the mountains behind Qingshui Mountain. The currency used in transactions between their sects is not gold, silver, or copper, but jade.
That piece of middle-grade white jade at Qingshui Mountain is worth a hundred pieces of silk, and it hangs one meter high.
A group of people rush into the market with great interest, and then come out with little interest.
Gu Zhuoyou elbowed Yuan Zhuowen, who was next to him, and said, "Now you can rest assured, you didn't even spend ten taels."
Only a few female disciples bought candied haws on a stick, but all of them ended up in the stomachs of the male disciples because they didn't taste as good as the ones they made themselves.
Yuan Zhuowen picked up the banknotes in his sleeve pocket, with a sad look on his face as before, "Uncle Bao gave me five thousand taels of silver. Uncle Bao told me that was all her money; what was in it just now
You have also seen that a steamed bun costs ten cents. Even if the price here is high, the ones sold at half price outside cost five cents. We have two hundred mouths here."
It takes at least a month to get to Yong'an City from here. If you stop and go, it will take more time. Then the cost of this journey...
He was so worried that he was worried to death.
Yuan Zhuowen is in charge of the money bag, and Gu Zhuoyou is in charge of the accounts. Naturally, they understand their current embarrassment under the glamorous appearance.
After a moment of silence, he suggested: "How about we bring something to sell?"
There are no gold, silver or copper mines in Qingshui Mountain, so naturally they will not travel with silver, the common currency here; however, they bring a lot of other things. For them, the cheapest jade is of high quality, so they bring it with them.
Half of the ship's warehouse was occupied.
Yuan Zhuowen shook his head, "I mentioned it to Master Bao, but Master Bao wouldn't let me do it, saying it wasn't the right time, and told me not to worry, she would find a way if the money was gone."
But before they came out, their respective masters warned them again and again: If they don't protect and take good care of Uncle Bao after they go out, they will never go back again in this life and leave the master's door.
Besides, how could they have the nerve to let Uncle Bao take care of them all the time?
Although Uncle Bao is older, his age is not the same. There is one person among two hundred people, and the youngest ones are five or six years older than Uncle Bao.
