Anguo is well-known at home and abroad as the "Medicine Capital" and "the No. 1 Pharmaceutical Market in the World". It enjoys the reputation of "the herbs are used to prepare medicines from Anguo, and the medicines become fragrant after passing through Qizhou". It has a history of 1,000 years.
In the Qing Dynasty, it was the main gathering place for medicinal materials in the north. The annual transaction volume of Chinese medicinal materials reached more than 30 million taels of silver.
The Qing government set up a pharmacy office here to manage it specifically.
Looking at the two huge golden characters "Medicine Capital" on the archway, Baoyu (Ran Xiaoshi) said to Saohong beside him with high spirits: "We have a total of one hundred and eighty-one shops, and I will use it to expand the Peony Society."
A full-scale attack was launched, and the price of precious Chinese medicinal materials such as ginseng, deer antler, and Tianqi was increased by 30%. One hundred and eighty-one stores were divided into three groups, and the prices of precious Chinese medicinal materials were increased one by one... I want to drag the Peony Society into the real world.
The price war is in the quagmire..."
"Second Master, is this a replica of the donkey glue price war we had in Dong'e? After that donkey glue price war, I am afraid that Peony Society is cunning this time and will not be easily fooled."
"You're wrong. Often the simplest method is the most effective. In Dong'a, we fooled the Peony Society, and here, I also have a way to fool them again. They would never have thought of the same method.
, I would use it again.”
"Second Master is brilliant."
"Hahaha... Collect at a low price and sell at a high price. I like this model the best. This change of hands means a lot of money... You know, you know, making money is addictive... I have a lot of money.
, I don’t care about these coins... I just play..."
It's so weird. Normally, the second master never seems to say this. He is very particular about "making a fortune in silence". What happened today?
In the Qing Dynasty, the price of medicinal materials was implemented in the form of "price-singing".
On the high platform in the center of the market, a price seller sang out the prices of various bulk medicinal materials every quarter of an hour.
This is the last moment, when buying and selling is at its most prosperous.
"The No. 5 store of Yangshengtang collected 181 old ginseng plants from Changbai Mountain in Northeast China for one hundred and thirty-three thousand taels of silver; the No. 2 store of Yangshengtang collected nine old ginseng plants from Changbai Mountain in Northeast China and received one hundred and eighteen thousand seven hundred taels of silver; Renhetang
The No. 1 store received one hundred catties of good deer antlers and two hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver..."
It reached a fever pitch at the end of the third quarter.
Due to the popularity of Mudan Society's "Da Yang Sheng Tang" and "Da Ren He Tang", the prices of precious medicinal materials such as ginseng, deer antlers, and tiger bones have skyrocketed, more than tripling.
In the end, it was simply a big competition between "Yangshengtang" and "Big Yangshengtang". As soon as you finished singing and I came on the stage, the prices of ginseng, deer antlers, tiger bones, cordyceps, saffron, etc. started to rise.
However, common Chinese medicinal materials such as tangerine peel, barley, yam, rose, fennel, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, jujube, longan... did not follow the trend and went up, but instead experienced a slight decline...
In the evening, with the weak voice of the "price seller": "Xiao Bupleurum, Yangshengtang five thousand catties, the price is fifty taels...", the day's "big deal" was over.
Bupleurum is a large quantity of ordinary Chinese medicinal materials. According to the past business, it should be traded in hundreds of thousands of kilograms now... and there are more ordinary Chinese medicinal materials... this year, the transaction volume is only a few thousand kilograms.
It seems that all the money has been "sucked away" by the precious Chinese medicinal materials, while not many people buy the ordinary medicinal materials...
Instead, there are a large number of common medicinal materials on the market that no one cares about...
Looking at the deserted street, "Liu Rushi No. 2" and "Liu Rushi No. 3" stood on a small wooden building facing the street, both of them silent.
After a while, "Liu Rushi No. 2" said: "The medicinal materials market is so weird this year. It stands to reason that bulk ordinary Chinese medicinal materials are the main force, but, you see, ginseng, antler, cordyceps, etc. are very popular now...
It's soaring to the sky...the money is all spinning on it...I can't understand it, I really can't understand it..."
"What does Yangshengtang want to do by letting so much money go into precious Chinese herbal medicines? He wants to drag us into a price war again... There is no reason to use the same method again?"
"I'm afraid he will really succeed this time, because there is a new order from above, which requires 80,000 kilograms of the best old wild ginseng, and it must be taken within three days... Looking at this stance, the other party knows
Our details."
"There is no reason. We just received the order from Yangzhou the day before yesterday. Did the other party respond so quickly?"
"What's even weirder is that when I went to pick up three tourists from the Northeast yesterday, when I arrived at the hotel, I found that the dead Baoyu had been with them early, and they were chatting very happily. Do you think it's strange?
"
"Liu Rushi No. 3" was shocked when she heard this, because "Second Sister" only told her about what happened yesterday, and she said it an hour before departure.
However, I did not betray my "second sister", which is really strange.
Looking at "Second Sister"'s half-smiling eyes, "Liu Rushi No. 3" said, "You're not doubting me, are you?"
"That's not true...if I really suspected it, I wouldn't stand here talking to you."
"It must be that damn Baoyu who is playing some conspiracy again!"
"When he was in Dong'a, the one-armed general Mingyan beside him was poisoned to death by him."
"..."
"Were you really in contact with Mingyan during those two days?"
"Yes. He came to the door on his own initiative... He said that he had been following his second master for so many years, but until now, he has gained nothing and even lost an arm..."
"His condition is..."
"Two million taels of silver...plus...me, he will use this silver to elope with me and find a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters to live in seclusion."
"There is news from Yangzhou. According to the information Mingyan passed to us, there were indeed twenty people who wanted to rush into the branch of the Peony Society in the east city of Yangzhou... These twenty people were all cleaned up by our security team...
However, subsequent investigation found that these twenty people were all ruffians on the streets of Yangzhou who committed evil crimes, and they all deserved to die..."
"Second sister, do you suspect that Ming Yan's death is also a plot?"
"It's very suspicious."
"Didn't you arrange for the internal line in the Yangsheng Hall to send back the news that Ming Yan is indeed dead?"
"It's still weird...According to Baoyu's petty character, Mingyan, who has followed him for more than ten years, will definitely be angry with us because you betrayed him, and he will definitely take revenge crazily, but now he is really too calm
.It’s so calm that it makes no sense at all…”
"Perhaps he thinks Mingyan betrayed him. What should he do?"
"Let me think about it..."
"Second sister, we have spent all our money on Laoshan Ginseng. Is our other plan really going to be implemented?"
Hearing this, "Liu Rushi No. 2" was shocked, "Baoyu, Baoyu, it turns out your situation is here..."
