Chapter 468: The Beginning of Civil and Commercial Rise (6)
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Is the Wei identity useful?
What does this mean?
Wen Shaobo couldn't understand.~,
It wasn't until he and Jie Zigui led the ten slaves as they walked on the streets of Luocheng, and from time to time some young and beautiful foreign girls made secret glances at him that he gradually came to his senses.
In Luocheng, although it has never been explicitly stated what privileges the Wei people enjoy here, it is undeniable that the local Yi people, Yi people, and Jie people are very polite to the Wei people. It is not an exaggeration to call this politeness respect.
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On that day, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu were not in a hurry to buy sheepskins and return to the Wei Kingdom. After all, in Wen Shaobo's view, after all the hard work they had to come to Luocheng, a prosperous foreign city, they had to rest for a few days and appreciate the scenery.
The scenery on the side.
But this time, Jie Ziyu did not object, because he was also very curious about how King Su made two people with different cultures live in harmony here.
"There is a shop selling food over there, why don't you go and have a look?"
Wen Shaobo suggested to Jie Ziyu.
The latter nodded, and the two of them walked into a shop with an obviously alien appearance.
Behind them, the ten slaves hesitated for a moment, and finally walked into the shop at the urging of Uncle Wen.
The shopkeeper saw this scene and came up to him with a smile, asking: "Are you two from Wei?"
Seeing that the other party was obviously dressed as a foreigner, Wen Shaobo asked curiously: "Are you from Sanchuan? How come you can also speak the language of my country, Wei?"
The store owner smiled and said: "There are three people in Luocheng, Qiang, Jie, and Huang, who can speak Wei Guo dialect. Those who could not speak Wei Guo dialect in the past are now trying their best to learn..." At this point
, he blinked and said jokingly: "How can you do business with Wei people if you don't understand Wei dialect? By the way, what do you two want?"
Uncle Wen nodded suddenly and asked, "What do you have here?"
The store owner heard this and introduced: "I have all the food from Sanchuan here, including sheep cakes, mutton, goat milk, goat milk wine, cheese, soufflé..."
I have never heard of them...
Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu looked at each other and said, "Let's all have a taste first."
After that, he called the ten slaves to find some low tables nearby and sit down.
On the other hand, Jie Ziu asked the store owner cautiously: "Slave store, you don't have a ban on slaves here, right?"
It has to be said that as a Chu native, the concept of class has been deeply ingrained in Jie Ziyu's mind, even though he hates this kind of thing very much.
The shopkeeper seemed to have seen Jie Ziu's thoughts, shook his head and said: "As long as the two distinguished guests are willing, I will not prohibit it."
After a while, the food was served. Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu were full of praise for the food in Sanchuan, but the ten slaves seemed less interested.
The Wen Yi in his mouth is the number among his slaves, which is convenient for memory.
Wen Yi shook his head and said in blunt Wei dialect: "Master, we have been eating sheep cakes for more than ten years. Even if it is sheep milk wine, for us, it is not as delicious as even the poorest Wei wine."
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"Really? I think it's pretty good..." Mr. Wen took a bite of the sheep cake and took another sip of the goat's milk wine. Then he patted his chest and said boldly: "As long as you are loyal, after returning to the Kingdom of Wei, I will invite you
You drink the strong wine of our Kingdom of Wei!"
After hearing this, the eyes of the ten slaves shone brightly. After all, they had never had the opportunity to drink Wei's strong wine in the past, they had only heard their original masters praise it.
"We will definitely be loyal to our master!" the slaves said one after another.
Wen Shaobo burst out laughing when he heard this, and was overjoyed. After all, the former slaves in his family did not actually belong to him, but to his Anlingwen family, and these people were truly his team.
He even couldn't help but start to imagine that he, with these people, would start from scratch and create more wealth than his An Lingwen family, creating wealth that would shock those relatives who secretly looked down on him.
"Store, sheep cakes, mutton, sheep milk wine, some more!"
"OK!"
About half an hour later, the group of people who had had enough wine and food walked out of this small shop.
Uncle Wen walked on the road stroking his bulging belly, looking at the foreign girls who occasionally glanced at him when passing by, and couldn't help but sigh: "Luocheng is such a good place."
Jie Ziyu heard this and said lightly: "Do you want to take a few more women back?"
Wen Shaobo couldn't help but feel excited when he heard this.
After all, when they were eating just now, they had already learned one thing from the shopkeeper, that is, the women in Luocheng, those girls from the Yi, Jie, and Yi tribes, all yearned for the Kingdom of Wei.
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Mr. Wen curls his fingers on the road, maybe a few foreign girls will come around and become his women.
Even better... no, what's worse is that there are also young and beautiful female slaves among the slaves. As long as Mr. Wen is willing to pay a sum of money, the original owner of those female slaves may not mind selling a few to Mr. Wen.
And those female slaves were probably very happy to be the Wei people's maids. After all, the Wei people's status in this city was indeed very high.
In fact, the Lun man who sold the ten slaves to Wen Shaobo and his family hinted to Wen Shaobo whether he wanted to buy a few young women, but he was rejected by Jie Ziyu.
"King Su conquered Sanchuan and pushed the Wei people's status to such a high level. He didn't ask you to do such a thing!"
At that time, Jie Ziyu warned Wen Shaobo like this, which made Wen Shaobo, who was a little ready to make a move at that time, full of shame and quickly rejected the temptation of the Lun man.
But at this moment, looking at the foreign girls passing by, a certain desire in Mr. Wen's heart gradually showed signs of rising again.
"How about we each buy one...just one? Jiezi, think about it, you live alone and there is someone to bring tea and water..."
"No need!" Jie Ziyu said lightly: "Our top priority now is to quickly accumulate money... Even King Su may not be able to stop the nobles and big nobles in the country for too long. Once King Su compromises, Luocheng will be open to those people.
, our losses will be very large... Right now, there is no need to waste money on luxury!"
"You actually say it's an extravagant thought..." Mr. Wen couldn't stand up to Jie Zizi, so he muttered in frustration.
Seeing this, Jie Ziyu rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Do you still want to become a wealthy businessman in the Wei Dynasty?!"
Hearing this, Wen Shaobo was startled. He immediately recalled what he saw when entering the city, the spectacular fleet of boats on the Luoshui River, and his eyes suddenly cleared.
"You are right, Jiezi, you and I just made a little money. Moreover, we did not earn it ourselves, but His Highness Prince Su gave it to us for free... I was too complacent." After that, he
After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "Let's go buy sheepskins now and then return to Wei!"
The meson owl nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.
Immediately, he looked around and saw some Wei people following one or several female slaves in ragged clothes, and sighed secretly.
Although it is good to teach people to fish, this is too counterproductive, King Su... As the saying goes, when people have money, they will think of luxury. Not many people can have strong willpower...
Jie Ziwei secretly shook his head.
Although the Wei people here took advantage of the opportunity and made a lot of money this time, from the fact that they used their spare money to buy female slaves, it is not difficult for Jie Ziyu to deduce that these Wei people will be annihilated and eliminated sooner or later.
However, he was unable to obtain the maximum benefit from King Su's support for private merchants, and thus became a wealthy businessman with a fortune of tens of millions.
After that, they visited the group of stone statues in the center of the city.
It was truly an incredible group of stone statues, including the Shangshui soldiers who controlled the crossbow chariots, the Yi and Yi cavalry as guards, and the Dangshan and Chenggao soldiers.
It seems that all those who contributed in the Battle of Sanchuan have stone statues, except for one person.
That was the governor of this war, the young Wei king, King Su Ji Run, who founded the Luoshui Alliance and drew the three tribes of the Yi, Jie, and Yi tribes to the Wei side!
And this made Jie Ziyu secretly dumbfounded. After all, in his opinion, this group of stone statues could obviously be famous for generations to come.
However, His Highness Prince Su gave up without a care.
"Brother Wen is a wise brother, a wise brother is Jiezi."
When Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu were visiting these stone statues, they suddenly heard someone calling them. Looking back, they were shocked to find that Tao Hong, who had come with them on the way, had bought more than a dozen slaves and five or six slaves.
A carriage loaded with goods seemed to be preparing to leave the city.
"Two worthy brothers, you haven't bought the sheepskin yet?" Tao Hong saw Wen Shaobo and Jie Zizi from a distance and shouted in surprise.
"Brother Tao, has all the money been spent?"
Jie Ziyu walked forward, raised his hands and asked.
Tao Hong looked very happy, and said with some satisfaction: "A cart of custom-made ceramics has now been replaced by... these." As he said that, he took out a commemorative copper coin from his arms and said with emotion: "
This is the only coin left, and I want to pass it on to future generations as a family heirloom."
After that, he waved to Mr. Wen and Jie Ziyu, and said with a smile: "Two worthy brothers. Brother Yu still wants to come again before the year, so he won't chat with these two worthy brothers for a long time." As he said,
He turned back to his slaves and shouted: "Let's go!"
"This is a person with great perseverance..."
Looking at the back of Tao Hong's caravan leaving, Jie Ziu couldn't help but sigh, then he turned back and glared at Mr. Wen.
"Look at people!"
"We are just a little behind..." Mr. Wen shrank his head.
"Aren't you going to buy a female slave?" Jie Ziyu asked with a hint of sarcasm.
"No." Uncle Wen shook his head, then looked at the back of Tao Hong's caravan as they left, and said seriously: "I also want to become a big merchant, but I don't want to be outdone by Brother Tao!"
"Very good!" Jie Ziyu nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Then go buy the sheepskins quickly."
"Um!"
On that day, Wen Shaobo and Jie Ziyu followed Tao Hong's example and each left a commemorative copper coin, but spent all the remaining money and exchanged it for sheepskins for five carriages.
And before dusk, the two brothers' caravan also left Luocheng.
Like them, there were many Wei merchants who exchanged the profits they earned for slaves and goods, and left Luocheng without stopping. However, it is undeniable that a large number of Wei people were attracted by Luocheng.
I was so proud that I used the money I earned this time to buy many female slaves and take them back home.
And these people, just as Jie Ziu predicted, will soon be wiped out by everyone. (To be continued.)