To Rule in a Turbulent World

On the first day of arriving in Yanbian, the caravan reported the customs clearance documents and went through the formalities. More than forty people entered the inn, unloaded the goods, and brought them to the market to sell. You Miao finally stopped and was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It's a good day at home, but it's hard to go out for a while. You Miao seldom goes out since she was a child. The only time she traveled a long distance was from Liuzhou to the capital. Needless to say, the scenery was beautiful at that time, how could she be in such a mess now?After bumping for thousands of miles, You Miao still couldn't help crying with Li Zhifeng waiting on her.

A group of people settled in the largest inn in the city, and the merchants went about their own business. You Miao took Li Zhifeng out for a stroll, and saw that the goods outside the Great Wall were mostly animal skins, rare medicinal materials, animal meat, antler, deer whip and deer tail. Local tiger skins, precious fox furs, wines from the Western Regions, ambergris, thousand-year-old ginseng, strange stones from mines, refined steel sheets from hundreds of years of refinement...anything can be sold at a high price in the capital, and it can be regarded as an imperial treasure. The rare things in the hall are like mountains and seas in Yanbian's market, just like bad streets.

On the contrary, candles, silk, salt, medicinal materials from the south, and even inferior pearls, coral scallops, and tea from the East China Sea brought by merchants from the Central Plains were looted as soon as they entered the market.

Even the New Year pictures of people from the Central Plains can be sold at sky-high prices. You Miao thought it was a loss. I knew that I would bring some things from the capital to sell. Hao Sanqian really set the price on the ground. The inferior tea leaves you drink cost five copper coins for half a catty, and you can exchange for a medium-sized fox fur in the market!

More than once, You Miao has seen dude boys buy this fox fur. Whenever a new product arrives in the Imperial Treasure Hall, Li Yan will take a group of people to see it.

Five copper coins were exchanged for five taels of silver. You Miao finally saw the profiteering profits of profiteers, and couldn't help being speechless for a while.I can't help but say that it's a loss, it's a loss, I knew it earlier!Casually bring a cart of goods to Yanbian to resell, and get thousands of taels of silver casually.It's really hard to buy, I knew it earlier.

The market was full of people, carrying piles of skins and bundles of ginseng, scrambling to come up and stuff the goods in front of the Central Plains merchants, and some people saw You Miao's identity and passed things to him in private, so that He takes his own goods.

"Slow down, slow down! Slow down! Don't grab! I'm not here to sell things!" You Miao said loudly.

Hao Sanqian shouted: "Be careful of crowding the young master! Come slowly! Come one by one!"

Many people in Yanbian could not understand the language, so they could only keep gesticulating, each speaking the Hu language, pointing to their own goods, and then pointing to the goods of the Central Plains merchants.Li Zhifeng was protecting You Miao, and the barbarian squeezed in front of You Miao, seeing that Li Zhifeng's appearance seemed to be from outside the Great Wall, he didn't dare to touch You Miao.

"Take her goods." You Miao took a small box and said to Hao Sanqian.

"Okay." Hao Sanqian replied with a smile.Although these traveling merchants are hired by various capital merchants, they have to listen to You Deyou's words - who can enter the caravan and who is not allowed to enter is up to You Deyou's decision, and no one dares to offend You Miao.

You Miao looked at the pile of leather over and over again, and a businessman joked: "The young master's family is a big business, and you still like these?"

You Miao picked up the furs with a smile, chose two fox furs, and said, "Take them back and send them to friends."

"Young master's house is really big business."

"Yes, yes, Biyu Tianqing Maojian..."

A group of businessmen happily sold goods, but couldn't help flattering You Miao.

"One tael of tea and one tael of gold."

You Miao hurriedly smiled and said, "Everything that doesn't happen is all praised by friends."

The business of You Miao's family is indeed very big - father You Dechuan is a tea merchant, with thousands of hectares of tea fields, half of the tea fields in the southeast of Liuzhou are owned by You's family, and the business is also government-owned.This tea has a lot of background, and its name is "Bi Yu Tian Qing Mao Jian". It is sent to the capital, Sichuan and other places in the spring. The tea was offered to Tianjia, and the rest was almost sold out as soon as it went on the market. The price of tea was constantly driven up, and the supply was in short supply.Even dignitaries have to go out of their way to buy them.

Hao Sanqian was too busy, so You Miao helped out, took a big wooden box, and couldn't help laughing when he opened it. It was filled with inferior fried tea - people in the capital drank the tea after brewing, and added some grass leaves to grind it. They are broken and fried dry, mixed together as fried tea and sold as fried tea, which is eaten by the foot, the driver, and the poor.On the tile-roofed houses in Gouwei Lane, these rotten teas are often drying.

You Miao handed out the wooden box, and two businessmen were on the sidelines. A group of barbarians gathered around and looked at the front sight, arguing endlessly over how much money and taels. In exchange for five catties of tea leaves, ten pairs of poorly embroidered shoes, one foot of auspicious cloud pattern cloth bleached blue and embroidered with gold thread.You Miao did a rough calculation in his head, and the goods were less than a string of money, and the exchange was worth four or fifty taels of silver.

In the end, the businessman still put away the box, and the group of barbarians asked him for the box again. Although You Miao knew the truth that there is no profiteering, she couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Forget it, forget it, give them the box too. Take it with you." What are you going back for?"

The wooden lacquer box is red and black, with pictures of ladies drawn on it. Hu people regard it as a treasure, but You Miao knows that the workmanship of this thing is rough, and it is not an antique. It is not used by ordinary officials.Seeing that the merchants were all amused, I realized that a few people had kept their hands. The wooden lacquer box was originally for sale, but no one said it, and waited for the barbarians to bring something out to exchange.

"Okay - I will obey the young master's orders." Hao Sanqian said with a smile, and bargained again, and exchanged the lacquered wooden box for three catties of tiger bones.

You Miao couldn't help but sigh. When the market was over that day, everyone went back with big bags and small bags. They got up early the next day and went to the market to set up stalls.In just one day, everything was replaced.At dusk, the people in the market are still there, lighting a fire and spending the night around the stove. This kind of market will be open until the Chinese New Year, Wuhu celebrates the Winter Festival, and people like Karma and Xiyu Selang celebrate the Food Festival.

Hao Sanqian came over to discuss with You Miao, and said, "Master, some barbarians going south are saying that another snowstorm is coming."

You Miao still didn't understand, so she said stupidly: "Then let's stay a few more days? Can this place stop the blizzard?"

Hao Sanqian looked embarrassed and said, "I'm just afraid I won't be able to stop it..."

Only then did You Miao come back to her senses, and said: "Then hurry up and get on the road, understand, everyone, go south early, go back a moment earlier, and you can go home earlier."

Hao Sanqian smiled and ordered to load the car. They only stayed in Yanbian for one day and then they were ready to go south.This time, instead of going back the same way, we turned east along the Yellow River and entered the boundary of Cangzhou and Liuzhou.

At dusk, the setting sun was like blood, hanging far away at the end of the sky, a flock of crows stood outside the city wall, and the porters yelled and drank six, and each went to load the car.You Miao sat outside the inn, took a sip of hot butter milk tea, and counted the goods she had exchanged.

Traveling between the Central Plains and Beyond the Great Wall, doing business is really lucrative. You Miao was itchy to see everyone bartering, so she couldn't help but also took out the things that accompanied her and replaced them with a piece of high-quality snow-precious tiger skin. , two bear paws, four bear skins, ready to take home to honor his father, and ask for some more money by the way.

You Miao made up her mind that in the coming year when the money is not enough, she will go out with the caravan twice a year, and she will definitely be able to earn back the cost - after all, paperwork is required to set up a stall in the market, and it is not easy to find someone to approve the paperwork. It's not easy, and not everyone can go out of the Great Wall with a caravan.

Li Zhifeng took the things and took the carriage, the shadow dragged long outside the Great Wall, the sky was full of rolling red fire clouds, and there was a faint, black haze in the north, which foreshadowed that the snowstorm was coming again.