Xianyu Infrastructure, I have a lot of troops in my hands

"That's right, your shepherd's purse is not a rare vegetable, how can it be sold at such a high price!"

A group of people were blocking the entrance of a newly opened store. The floor planks of the store smelled of fresh tung oil. Four pieces had just been removed, and the entire store had not yet been fully opened. Some people were blocking the door and shouting.

Just now, someone saw the shop door open and came over to ask the price, but was shocked by the high price of the dried vegetables.

Tongguan City is not big, and the commercial street is on the main road in the city. It is rare for people to open new stores, and this shows it.

As soon as Shopkeeper Yu shouted, a crowd gathered in front of the store, discussing why the dried vegetables were so expensive.

But the man who was dismantling the planks at the door of the new store didn't say a word. Jiang Wu leaned over to look and saw a familiar figure.

Siji held the bed board with one hand and looked coldly at the group of people in front of him who were shouting, and he was too lazy to even open his mouth.

"Hey! Isn't that the captain of the guard?" The guard following behind recognized the man. It was Si Ji who was injured and retired last year.

Seeing their brothers in the guard, the eyes of the Black Stone Guards sparkled. They heard that the supplies sent to them by the guard were not allowed into the military camp, so they opened a shop on the street.

They didn't believe it at first, so they came over to take a look today during their day off. Unexpectedly, they actually saw it.

The things in that shop were given by the owner to improve their food. Thinking of this, the old soldiers pushed the crowd away and said, "Make way, make way. What dried vegetables are you looking for? Come and have a look!"

"What are you soldiers doing here?" Shopkeeper Yu took two steps back, not disguising his contempt. What are you poor fellows doing here, they don't even have a penny on them, why are you crowding here?

"What? This land belongs to you. Only a profiteer like you are allowed to come here. I, a general, cannot come here." Jiang Wu glared back without showing any weakness.

Some curious people saw the two sides confronting each other and looked like they were waiting for a good show.

The shopkeeper Yu of Yipinxiang has a close relationship with the high-ranking military officials, and this ragged soldier is not a good person either. Because of the issue of food and wages, several of his subordinates are not doing well in the guard camp. They cry and ask for food and wages everywhere every day, trampling on the face of the Governor's Office.

I heard last month that some soldiers from the Guard Camp had a conflict with the retainers of the Governor's Mansion over some matter in the city. Then, this group of dozens of ragged soldiers beat more than a hundred people from the Governor's Mansion so hard that they could not get out of bed.

Such a mob fight made the people in the Governor's Office lose all face and dignity, but they could not do anything about these soldiers because they did not cause trouble in the barracks. Even if they were caught and put in jail, they would only be locked up for three to five days and would be provided with food.

But if nothing is done about it, where will we save our face and it will end up in nothing.

In Tongguan, the grudges between the Governor's Office and the Guard Camp had existed for a long time, and even the stray dogs on the roadside knew about it.

Now, the owner of a newly opened shop on the street, Yipinxiang, which is backed by the Governor's Mansion, has come into conflict with the Wei camp over a handful of dried vegetables.

"Haha! The new shop has just opened, I came to support you. Be sensible, this dried vegetable is five cents a pound, we at Yipinxiang will take care of it all." Shopkeeper Yu ordered the servants behind him to come up and move the vegetables in an arrogant tone.

Siji glanced at Jiang Wu and signaled him to deal with the matter himself.

Then he walked leisurely into the store. There were so many people looking for trouble so early in the morning and he hadn't even had his meal.

Jiang Wu took advantage of the situation and stood in the place where Si Ji had just made way, blocking the servant who was approaching, and said with a smile: "What are you dreaming about so early in the morning, Manager Yu? It's a different season now, and you can't even think about buying these dried vegetables for less than twenty cents."

Seeing their boss speaking like a shopkeeper, the people of Black Stone Guard suddenly came to their senses. This was their own business, and they could not let this unscrupulous businessman succeed.

He immediately agreed: "That's right, what season is it now? Only the grass outside is green. If you want to eat it, go outside the city and pull it!"

"If you can afford it, buy it. If you can't afford it, get out of the way."

"Go, go, go!" he said, and urged the person to go out the door.

When the people standing outside the store heard this, they thought, yes, all the rapeseeds have just sprouted, even the wild vegetables outside the city have just sprouted. Scarcity makes things valuable, and people make money from this.

They were greedy for the taste, so they had no choice but to pay for it.

When Manager Yu saw that his words had no effect, he became angry.

He said angrily: "How much money do you soldiers have? Can you afford this pound of vegetables?"

Jiang Wu chuckled and said, "Shopkeeper Yu, you don't have to worry about that."

While he was talking, Siji brought a large bowl of mixed vegetables, put it on the table, and called his brothers to come and eat.

The shepherd's purse soaked in water in the salad was curled up and oily, and the air was filled with the tempting aroma of meat.

Everyone swallowed their saliva and watched Siji open another oversized wooden barrel at hand. Steam was rising and some sharp-eyed people couldn't help but shout out.

"It's cooked rice!"

This kind of food was not much worse than those of wealthy families. Then, under everyone's eager eyes, Siji took out two plates from the back kitchen and went to the shelf to take out a full plate of dried fruits.

He turned around and fished out golden chunks of meat from another jar.

Seeing such a sumptuous meal on the table, Shopkeeper Yu was dumbfounded.

"You guys, you actually have dried fruits?" He was a well-informed man. He looked at the yellow dried fruits with white sugar stains on the surface. He opened and closed his mouth and didn't utter a word for a long time.

"Hey? What's in that jar? It smells fishy!"

Jiang Wu had sat at the table straight without knowing when. He picked up a piece of dried meat with chopsticks in his hand, took a bite, and found a few bones. He looked surprised and asked, "Is this fish meat?"

He looked carefully at the dried fish on the plate. Except for the head and tail, the rest of the fish was in pieces. He had never seen this kind of fish before.

Siji served the food to everyone and took the time to reply: "This is sea fish, caught in the South China Sea. It is preserved and dried using the method used there. It can be preserved for three months."

"It's actually sea fish, dried sea fish." Everyone was shocked. They were located at the intersection of three counties and thought they had seen all kinds of goods traveling from north to south.

However, seafood is really hard to come by.

At this time, a Hu merchant came up and asked, "Friend, besides sea fish, what else do you have?" He noticed that there were many jars and cans on the shelves by the wall. If this store really had the ability to ship goods from the sea, it would definitely not be able to sell just one kind.

After swallowing two mouthfuls of food, Siji was in a good mood. He glanced at him and said, "There are a lot of things in the sea, sea cucumbers, seaweed, kelp, and dried clams." You can grab a handful of these things at the beach. They were all given to Xie Xian by the fishermen from Southeast Asia when she was leaving.

She felt that stewed soup and kelp were a perfect match and could also replenish nutrition, so she brought a large bag of it when she delivered supplies last time.

"Oh! I wonder what these seafood cost?" The turbaned merchant was obviously very interested.