Yang Jin Enters Beijing

He carried Mei Duo on his shoulder, Dawa in his hand, and a basket on his back.Following Tsering and Gyatso who opened the way ahead, we yelled to Jamba and Danzhu not to get lost, and our family walked through the crowded market.

Except for me, our family was all entering the city for the first time, so they were naturally very excited, and everything they saw was novel.Every stall has to go around, and the two children want everything they see.

It’s hard for the children to come out once. As long as I can afford it, I try to buy them as much as possible. In addition, I also need to buy food and drink. The five baskets we brought were full of things in no time.

This time I went out to buy things with silver, and I found that this is different from exchanging items, it is very different.

I never knew that a little one tael of silver could buy so many things.Master Basang said that ten yaks can be exchanged for one tael of silver, but in fact he still said less.

I first went to the money shop opened by the Han people and exchanged the silver for copper coins. One tael of silver can be exchanged for a thousand copper coins, but the money shop requires some handling fees. In this way, I can get about [-] Wen for one tael of silver. .

Use these copper coins to buy things.A herdsman can only exchange a pinch of salt with a piece of skin, but I can exchange [-] copper coins for a bag.

In this way, how many things can I buy with the two thousand and hundreds of Wen copper coins I exchanged for three taels of silver?

No wonder Shan Zengtou's housekeeper said that the old men here are all rich. No matter how many cattle Shan Zengtou has, he can't exchange much here. On the contrary, the old men with silver and copper coins here can easily You can buy a lot of things, and you can exchange as many cattle and sheep as you want in the 'backcountry'.

why is it like this?I think it's very strange, but these are not things that I should think about. What I want to think about is a happy family holiday.

We bought tea, salt, a stack of porcelain bowls, a copper pot, a few pieces of floral cloth, an ox horn bow, and many other things, and only spent a few hundred copper coins.On the contrary, a red silk handkerchief that Mei Duo likes is the most expensive, costing about a tael of silver, but the beautiful silk handkerchief embroidered with flowers looks really good on the tip of Mei Duo's black braid, so I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet to buy it. down.

I'm almost done shopping, and I'm about to squeeze out of the market, but I see a crowd of people crowded in one place, I don't know what it is.

"Father, let's go and have a look." Children love to be lively and curious, Dawa broke free from my hand and squeezed past.

We can only follow.

Squeezing inside, a boy in his teens was holding a girl who was about the same age as Mei Duo. The boy pointed at a Han businessman and yelled, "You sold a piece of skin to Central Plains, how much silver can you sell?"

The Han businessman said: "Although there are more sales, there is nothing left for trafficking, horses, manpower, and capital turnover."

"You don't need horses and horses to traffic, you just need to send the skins to the shops of the Han merchants over there, and the purchase price is two copper coins." Of course, not all Han merchants set up stalls on the street here, and there are many shops in the area. , these shops have a relatively large business, and they don't collect fur goods scattered on the street. They usually do large-scale transactions from leaders and noble families. Many of them directly took the various goods they received to them and sold them nearby.

In fact, if the herdsmen take fur goods and mountain goods to the store to sell, it is also possible, and they will not refuse to accept them. However, the chabas in Tubo, wherever they dare to enter such shops, they are all exchanged on the street.

If I hadn't worked in the Yamen for two months, I wouldn't know about this.Even today I exchanged the silver in my hand for copper coins and then spent it again, because I occasionally heard other people talking about it in the yamen, so I knew it was possible to do so.

The boy and the girl he was holding were all luxuriously dressed. They should be the young masters and young ladies of a respectable family. It is not surprising to know this.

"A catty of salt is twenty renminbi, and a piece of skin is two renminbi, which means you can buy ten renminbi of salt. You don’t even have ten renminbi for salt, you black-hearted profiteer.” The boy pointed to a herdsman who was hunched in a corner, turned to the Han merchant, and cursed angrily.

The Han merchant blushed, and said angrily, "What do you know, kid?" If it was an ordinary child, the Han merchant would probably drive him away long ago, but this child's clothes and conversation are not vulgar, and behind him He also followed a few big men who looked like domestic servants, so he didn't dare to chase them away for a while.

The surrounding people started whispering, and some people stomped their feet and spit and scolded the Han businessman, "profiteer, profiteer..." The reputation of Han businessman in Tubo is quite bad, and everyone said it was a profiteer Yelling, but this is the first time I've seen someone yelling face to face.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the crowd, the Han businessman filled up the salt bar for the herdsman, rolled his things and left.

The onlookers didn't leave, and they all praised the boy's cleverness loudly, and the boy became more and more proud, and sighed like an adult: "If you are like such a profiteer, my people can't afford salt." There was applause all around.

At this moment, the girl that the boy had been holding pulled at his skirt, pointed at the crowd with her small hand, "Brother, the kerchief on that chaba's head is the same as the one you gave me. "The girl held a hand with a red veil and pointed right at Mei Duo who was sitting on my shoulder in the crowd.

Following the girl's hand, the boy also saw the kerchief on Mei Duo's head. He raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily: "You humble chaba, how dare you wear silk! Somebody, take it off for me. "

Behind the boy several servants rushed towards us.

"Wait!" I yelled.I shouted with anger.Mei Duo is my precious lump, in my eyes she is more noble than any princess, not humble at all.

Perhaps no one thought that I, a humble chaba, dared to shout this to the son of a noble family in rich clothes, and was stunned for a moment, even the few servants who rushed up were stunned there.

I handed Mei Duo into Danzhu's arms, bowed to the boy, and said, "My little master, what is expensive and what is cheap."

The boy came back to his senses at this moment, pointed at me, "How dare you..."

"Young master, please tell the ignorant Chaba what is expensive and what is cheap." I asked again.

The boy raised his eyebrows and shook the brocade robe on his body, "The robe on me is expensive, and the robe on yours is cheap."

I turned to look at Mei Duo who was trembling in Danzhu's arms, "Mei Duo, do you think this gentleman's robe is expensive?"

"I, I don't know." Danzhu replied in a low voice, "We don't buy this robe."

"Mei Duo is right, we don't buy such robes, what difference does this robe have for us?"

"This..." The boy obviously didn't think about this question, and he was a little stunned when asked. He rolled his eyes, and suddenly saw the herdsman who had just exchanged his skin for salt, and said, "You have to buy salt. My family's salt pile Chengshan, I can use salt to pile sand to play with, but you can’t even afford to eat it, that’s the difference between expensive and cheap.”

"Then, my lord, how much salt does Chaba's family eat in a month? What kind of price can Chaba's family afford?" I asked him.

"This?" The boy was stunned again.

I turned to Mei Duo again, "Mei Duo, how much salt does our family eat a month?"

"It's about this much." Mei Duo stretched out her small hand and gestured in the palm of her hand. She didn't know how much one tael was, and how much one yuan was, so she could only compare it with her hands. "Aunt said that every month There are two oxen in exchange for salt."

The boy didn't know how to answer at all, and he looked at a restaurant not far from the street with pleading eyes.

"Jeb, come back." A voice came from the restaurant.

The boy gave me a hard look, then pulled his sister and his entourage and ran towards the restaurant.