People were inspected and lined up to enter the city.
The sound of drums could still be vaguely heard, and Li Sanniang said to him: "The drums in Dongshi haven't stopped yet, we came just in time."
"What drum?"
Si Qi explained to him on the side: "All the shops in Chang'an City are concentrated in the east and west cities. Every day, three hundred drums are played in the middle market before each shop starts to open. Seven quarters before sunset, another three hundred gongs are played.
The shops are closed and the two markets are closed, don’t you know this, Erlang?”
"I have been in the Zhongnan Mountains before, so I didn't know this." Huaiyu came up with this snake oil reason, but he was confident and not afraid of suspicion.
Chunming Gate is in the east of Chang'an City. After entering and passing Zhengdaofang, you will reach the East Market.
The guards at the Chang'an City Gate are much more elite than the old, young and disabled people in Miyuan. They are wearing iron armor, holding spears, and are equipped with bows and knives. There are quite a few, and there are also city gate officials. They have to check when entering and leaving the city, especially
at the moment.
Mrs. Li Sanniang directly reported the name of Yongkang Gongfu and took out a sign. The gatekeepers politely let her go. Huaiyu was still wearing a crimson official uniform and a black turban and was also a member of the Gongmen. This was a pass. No need.
After all, he was still with the Li family, so no one checked him.
When we arrived at Dongshi Fangmen, we went through another inspection. The main thing here was to inspect goods. It seemed that taxes were levied on commercial goods. The city officials seemed to recognize Li Sanniang. They saw her from a distance and came up to greet her.
"There are medicine shops in the east and west cities of Chang'an, and they are all centralized. The medicine shops in the east city are called medicine shops, and the medicine shops in the west city are called medicine markets. The medicine shops in the medicine shops in the east city have many precious medicinal materials, while the medicine shops in the west city have ordinary medicines.
There are many medicinal materials.”
There are basically no shops in the square. They are all concentrated in the two cities. You can imagine how lively these two cities are.
"Hello Sanniang, we have recently prepared a new facial medicine, which is made of precious spices such as agarwood, antler glue, musk, etc. Use it every day to wash your face and hands, it will make your face white and smooth and have a unique fragrance that lasts for a long time...
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Seeing the attitude of the shopkeeper, Si Qi also knew that Huaiyu's words must be powerful, so he supported him, "Shopkeeper, this person has practiced with the masters in Zhongnan Mountain for many years. He is proficient in elixir medicine and is a real expert.
Don't act recklessly, otherwise you will offend our Duke Pingkang."
The probability of producing a bezoar is very low, about one in a thousand, and only one in a thousand cows may produce a bezoar. Its location, size, and quality are also not fixed. A large bezoar weighs one or two kilograms, and a small one only weighs a few taels.
"Don't use pig grits to pass off bezoar, and don't use crushed yellow rice mixed with sugar to pass off slow yellow or round yellow."
The better the quality of the medicinal materials, the better the efficacy.
Hearing the price, Huaiyu was not too calm. Three hundred guan, which is only ten pairs of bezoar. A pair of bezoars weighing only a few taels costs 50,000 yuan, which is more expensive than gold. After all, one tael of gold is only worth 8,000 yuan now.
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There are even those who get it from the heart called heart yellow, and those who get it from the horns are called horn yellow.
Siqi had been following Huaiyu, acting as his guide. He knew that he had just come down from Zhongnan Mountain, so he kept introducing him.
"There are three largest medicine shops in the entire Dongshi medicine shop. The first one is Song Qing Medicine Shop. The medicinal materials here are the best, but they are also the most expensive. The other two are A Rongshi Medicine Shop and Kang A Lu Shan Medicine Shop. These two are
They are all medicine shops opened by Hu people, all opened by Sogdians from the Western Regions. There are many medicines and spices in their medicine shops. If you want to buy spices and spices, come to these two shops. There are many kinds and complete varieties."
Some drug dealers even make fake products in order to make money. Not only do they use tube huang liver huang to fill the gallbladder, they even mix the loose huang with other things to make it into round huang or even slow huang.
Heart yellow and horn yellow are both top-quality, while bile yellow is the most commonly used type.
Li Sanniang took them directly to the Dongshi Pharmacy. There are one to two hundred pharmacies here, one next to the other. They are basically called pharmacies. They sell all kinds of raw and cooked medicines, and they also provide consultations and medical consultations.
The Dianhoufang model integrates the acquisition, processing, diagnosis and treatment of medicinal materials.
"Young man, take your wife with you."
If the heart is yellow, the horns are yellow, raw yellow is naturally the best. It does not matter whether it is slow yellow, round yellow or loose yellow."
I didn’t pick much, but the price was amazing.
He looked at Li Sanniang, but Li Sanniang just said, "Is it enough? If it's not enough, buy more. If you want raw yellow, I can just ask the shopkeeper to call my boss Song Qing."
This kind of large-scale market is crowded with people. It is as big as Chang'an City. There are more than 100 squares outside the two cities, all surrounded by square walls. There are no shops or stalls on the streets outside the squares. Even ordinary people except nobles and high-ranking officials can't
Doors and windows facing the street in the square wall.
As soon as they entered Song Qing Medicine Store, a waiter immediately came to greet them.
"If Erlang needs any medicinal materials, just tell them to pick the best and buy more. I will pay for the medicine." Li Sanniang spoke domineeringly.
There are also those who directly use pig gizzard, that is, pig gall gall, to pass it off as bezoar.
However, it has sedative, analgesic, antipyretic, anticonvulsant effects, clears away heat and detoxifies, activates blood circulation and dissipates stagnation, and can also strengthen the heart and fight inflammation.
Although Li Sanniang was not short of money, the shopkeeper also said that the magic yellow was just for viewing and not for sale.
The entire East Market is different from those square districts, occupying two squares of land, so there are not big cross streets and small cross streets, but four streets in a tic-tac-toe shape divided into nine squares, and each square has a tic-tac-toe street and then a small nine-square grid.
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She introduced Wu Huaiyu to the shopkeeper.
There are a large number of royal relatives, nobles and high-ranking officials living around Dongshi, so the consumption in Dongshi also tends to be mid-to-high-end, especially luxury goods that are unique to Dongshi.
Ordinary people don't understand this. They only know that bezoar is obtained from cows, but the bezoar produced in the gallbladder is called bile yellow, the bile duct produced is called duct yellow, and the bezoar produced in the liver duct is called liver yellow.
Yellow tubes, but no yellow liver.
These are not only produced in different places, but also in shape and size, including scattered pieces, round yellows of different sizes, and slow yellows with complete appearance like chicken eggs.
A pair of high-quality bile gallbladders costs tens of thousands depending on the size. Although the horn gallbladder and heart gallbladder are loose yellow, they are more expensive than good gallbladder gallbladders.
Huaiyu breathed a sigh of relief and shocked the shopkeeper.
The best quality ones are worth a hundred oxen, and even the raw yellow ones of inferior quality are worth 100 or 20 oxen.
It was Huaiyu's first time to visit Chang'an, and it was also his first time to visit the market in Datang. There was also a market in Sanyuan County, but it was too small. Except for some people in the morning, there were not many people at other times, and there were not many products.
"Don't dare." The shopkeeper said quickly.
“It’s best to have a bile-yellow bezoar, an egg-shaped, complete and slow-yellow bezoar, preferably a black-gold-colored bezoar, not a loose, round-yellow bezoar, or one that has been prepared and powdered.
"Two sets of horns, two sets of heart, and six sets of bile, a total of three hundred thousand dollars."
"The 220 stores in the East Market are all run by branches. Let's go directly to the medicine store."
The old shopkeeper directly took out the bezoar from the medicine shop and let Huaiyu choose it. There was even a pair of the legendary divine yellow, which was their treasure and priceless.
When the shopkeeper at the counter heard this, he came out to greet her personally. He also recognized Li Sanniang. This young lady from the Yongkang Palace loved to visit the market and often bought some fragrant medicine, algae beans, ginseng and deer bark from them.
Yes, spend generously.
The east is rich and the west is rich.
The medicine store is in the southeast corner.
Finally, Huaiyu picked some precious horn yellows and heart yellows, and then mainly picked some bile yellows. The horn yellows and heart yellows were all loose yellows, while the bile yellows were slow yellows with good quality.
As soon as Huaiyu came up and spoke, he let the old shopkeeper know that he had met an expert. Although he looked young, he did not dare to be careless again.
"Let's buy medicinal materials."
"Shopkeeper, I want to buy bezoar, musk, ginseng, bear bile, snake bile, toad gall, and pearls." Huaiyu listed more than a dozen medicinal materials in one breath.
What's more, Chang'an and Chang'an are also the largest commodity wholesale trading centers in the Gyeonggi region.
An absolutely rare good thing, more expensive than gold.
"No, we'll go to the medicine store ourselves."
The water here is too deep.
"I'm not here to buy these."
A small drug store is only about ten square meters, a medium one is about twenty square meters, and a large one is about thirty square meters. Some shops have workshops behind them, and some workshops have warehouses and residences behind them.
Relatively speaking, West Market is more inclined towards daily necessities, especially affordable wholesale.
Bath beans and noodles are the most popular thing among noble ladies. The profit of this thing is very high. Major pharmacies will continue to develop some new recipes and actively promote them. In those drug stores, doctors are very interested in the popular noodles and noodles.
Doufangzi is also kept secret. Although it is not a cure-all, it can make money.
Bezoar is the most expensive type of Chinese medicinal materials. It is very rare and has high medicinal value, so it is very precious. Even a cheap pair costs thousands, and the expensive ones cost tens of thousands. The best ones are made from live cows.
When taken out from the body, it is as if divine help was obtained without killing, so it is also called divine yellow. The shape is round and smooth, with blood streaks on the outside. The more tender yellow layers inside, the more precious it is.
They took Huaiyu directly to the largest pharmacy, Song Qing Pharmacy. The store was very large and consisted of several large shops. It looked like it was powerful.
"The store is the largest pharmacy in Chang'an. It is most famous for its good medicinal materials and honest management. Pharmacists from all over the country have good medicinal materials. Which one is not the first to sell them to us? And when we sell medicines and provide consultation, we will never use inferior medicines.
It's good. This husband wants top-quality bezoars, and our shop can choose from them."
"Don't bargain when seeking medical advice. Good medicine must be expensive." Li Sanniang didn't mind that it was expensive at all. She directly told the shopkeeper, "As usual, come back to the house to find me to pay."
Three hundred dollars is a lot of money. It can buy a large house in Chang'an. But for Li Qing, this is life-saving medicine for her father and brother. The key is that she can afford it.
"Don't be afraid of spending money, buy more."
"That's enough. Bezoar is just for dispensing medicine. One pill won't take much."
