Economic and Trade Song Dynasty

"Have a good rest, follow me to the village over there to inquire." Qin Juan ordered in a deep voice.

He rode first, and the others followed.

The village is not big, there are not many people walking around in the market, and there is no caravan at all.

Someone came and told Qin Juan: "A villager told me that three months ago, a caravan from the north went door-to-door to collect their flour. Now the villagers have no surplus flour to sell and have to save for the winter. "

Qin Juan nodded: "Look at what else you can buy in the market, and leave if you don't have any."

If the Tata people have figured it out, Husi Ordu will face food shortage within three months, so it is completely possible to do so.

It seems that they let the merchants buy up the food in the nearby city and it will not cause anything, but in fact it will affect the whole body.

If this premeditated plan hadn't affected Ordu, Liangzhou and other places, then the food for the reinforcements wouldn't have never arrived.

This shows that food in other places has also been affected.

In other words, the food delivered by the reinforcements had been cut off on the road.

Thinking of this, Qin Juan paused for a while.

Because he stopped suddenly, the people behind him also stopped.

"About a few days before arriving in Yili City." He asked suddenly.

Someone told him: "About four or five days at the earliest."

Qin Juan didn't ask many questions along the way, but this person answered quickly and frequently, and Qin Juan is not a person with a bad memory, so it is easy to remember this person.

"What's your name?" Qin Juan asked him.

This person should not be very old, at most one or two years older than him, and looks as old as Riri.

"Back to the general, don't be Luwen for the humble job." He introduced this, and everyone else looked at him.

Obviously, they were all wondering, Nabie?Could it be that the nobleman of the Bie family, at least he is a lieutenant general or a guard of some prince, why did he go to the kitchen camp and the grain and grass camp to become a husband?

Lu Wen also understood what everyone was thinking, and smiled awkwardly: "We're just ordinary people with a good surname, brothers, don't look at me like that."

Luwen Nineteen, one year older than Qin Juan, is cheerful, but not too careless.

Qin Juan knew that this person was sensitive and clear-headed.

"It's definitely not easy for Jinyi to leave the city at this juncture. Now I will divide you into two groups, one group will follow me, and the other group will follow Wen Renying."

When Qin Juan said this, someone even asked, "Who is Wen Renying?"

Qin Juan asked Daying to stand up by himself.

Then he looked at Daying and ordered: "These five people will be handed over to you, and the other six people will follow me. After five days, we will gather at the Chengxi Inn in Yili City. If there is any delay, we will deal with it according to the military law."

After Qin Juan finished speaking, he brought that Bie Luwen and waited for no one to go ahead.

Wen Renying had a serious face, he knew in his heart that Qin Juan trusted him, but no one here listened to him.

He took a deep breath and got on his horse. He was not Sangbagan. Sangbagan still had excellent martial arts skills to stand out, but apart from his shrewdness and planning skills, he was difficult to convince the public in terms of martial arts.

"I don't want to waste time. Master Qin said that we will see you in Yili City in five days. Chengguan is sad. In order to prevent the time from being too long, we will show up at Yili City within three days." He finished speaking calmly and rode away.

The remaining five people were dissatisfied in their hearts, why should they be this celebrity.

Why should he take them with him?

Just because he came out of Heyan camp?

Of the five powers, only the Heyan family should not be underestimated, and because of this, although the five were dissatisfied, they still kept up.

Walking on a wild road, Daying led his people to the city of Yili three days later

In fact, he chose to take the wild road one day earlier than Qin Juan, because Qin Juan and others took a long way and went directly to the west of Yili City.

There is also a reason why Qin Juan chose to divide into two teams on the way.

One is that he needs to disperse people to investigate the specific situation of each gate of Yili City.

The second is that there are very few people walking along this road, and he feels that something is wrong. If he walks separately, he will not be caught up in trouble.

Qin Juan and the others arrived four days later, and there was only one day left before the day he and Daying agreed upon.

It is impossible to enter the city within a day and a night without some means.

"They checked very strictly."

Several people looked at Qin Juan worriedly.

In fact, Qin Juan felt that it would not be difficult at all to enter the city. The problem was how to complete the task after entering, and still escape unscathed.

Lu Wen suggested that they go for a break at night, to see if they could climb over the wall.

At this time, Qin Juan had dinner and was sleeping in the tent that he had set up. Those people came to ask him what he meant, but he didn't agree or object. Don’t report the details even if you stay here.”

Seeing what he said, Lu Wenzhen took the two of them there, and came back in the middle of the night, showing that they returned without success.

"I was afraid of being caught, so I came back." Those who went said to those who didn't

The few people spent the night in a daze until Qin Juan woke up the next day and said to them, "Pack up and follow me to the city."

Someone didn't sleep all night and was in a trance. Hearing what Qin Juan said, he couldn't believe it.

Qin Juan got on the horse: "Pretend to be smart, don't say a word if you can't speak for a while, understand?"

The few people nodded like pounding garlic.

Qin Juan rode towards the gate of the city, and several people followed.

From a distance, Qin Juan didn't know what Qin Juan said to the soldiers guarding the city, and immediately the general guarding the city came over.

Lu Wen and the others were dumbfounded, what kind of operation is this?

General Qin is not going to sell them, is he?

"..." Several people opened their mouths wide.

Until the general who defended the city let them enter the city, they couldn't react.

There are also soldiers who show them the way and lead them to a place.

After stopping at that place, Lu Wen looked up, and it looked like a big market.

It should be the largest official gathering in Yili City.

The soldiers went in for a while, and several people came out again.

There are officials and people, and the officials in charge of the market brought Qin Juan in.

It was also Lu Wen who vaguely understood, and said stupidly: "As expected of an adult."

Those who didn't understand came over to ask him what was going on, Lu Wen whispered: "Don't ask first, the adults will explain it naturally." When Qin Juan came out from the market office, they couldn't understand what he was talking to those people. If it is, these six people worship Qin Juan even more.

Even those officials asked Qin Juan if he wanted to go to the post house to settle down.

However, Qin Juan refused on the grounds that he wanted to understand the local conditions and customs of Yili City.

Then wait for Qin Juan to come again.

Leaving here, Qin Juan made a detour to the east of the city, bought them new clothes at the market in the east of the city, put on new clothes, and went from the east of the city to the south of the city again.

I asked about the prices of several inns in the south of the city.

At this time, Lu Wen said to Qin Juan: "My lord, the tails have been thrown away, and now there is no one to follow."

"If they want to check our residence, they will also tea in the south of the city and the east of the city."

Qin Juan: "OK, turn back to the west of the city."

So Qin Juan and his party turned back to the west of the city to find an inn.

After staying in the inn, Qin Juan told them the ins and outs of the matter.

Qin Juan first told the soldiers guarding the city that he was a businessman from afar, and he had big deals.

When the soldiers saw this, they went to the guard.

Qin Juan showed the guard one thing, of course he would not tell Lu Wen and the others about it.

After the guard met, he asked the soldiers to take him to find the adults in the official collection of Yili City.

It was only after seeing the adults in the official collection that Qin Juan was able to confirm one thing.

A matter that has been on his mind for some years.

The Buddhist and Taoist Chamber of Commerce has contacts with Yili City, and the Buddhist and Taoist Chamber of Commerce should have a lot to do with the State of Song.

The people under Guo You may only be a branch of the Buddhist and Taoist Chamber of Commerce in the north.

Yes, he used the brand of the chamber of commerce that Guo You gave him in the early years.

The influence of this brand is not small.

He originally thought that the Buddhist and Taoist Chamber of Commerce traveled between the west and Dadu, and was active in Pamir and Taklamakan, but now it seems that his thinking was too simple.

Now he has also confirmed that the officials under King Kuandan captured Guo You, maybe not just for money.

Maybe there are clues about Guo You, and what kind of position he holds, Guo You himself doesn't know.

Returning to the topic, Qin Juan said that he was a big merchant from the south, and he had a large amount of grain in his hands, so the city guards sent him directly to the official market.

Yili City just wanted to buy food, how could it let go of the big merchants who brought it to its door.

So the people in the official collection received him warmly.

Qin Juan told the people in Guanji that his grain was thirty carts of rice, and the adults in Guanji were even more excited when they heard that it was rice.

At the current market price, two bags of flour are exchanged for one bag of rice.Because the labor and cost of growing rice in the north are very high.

"Then how much money do you want?" the officials of Yili City asked him cautiously.

"I don't want money, I want you to exchange flour."

Seeing him say this, several people immediately lost their faces. Obviously, some disagreed and some agreed.

"Then how much flour do you want?"

"I'm not greedy either. Thirty carts of rice will be exchanged for thirty carts of flour." Qin Juan replied, "We'll exchange the quantity."

The officials got excited again when they heard this, and the deal is sure to make a profit.

The people of the Sirius tribe are simple in nature, without so many twists and turns, and even their greed is very straightforward.

Qin Juan knew that they said they would consider it for three days, and they would agree to him after three days.

Sending someone to follow him is just to determine how many people he brought and where they live.

Qin Juan smiled: "Don't be surprised, there are still tasks for you."

Lu Wen: "My lord orders."

"Wen Renying and the others probably didn't enter the city. You go out of the city immediately, find Wen Renying, and gather [-] carts within three days. Fill each bag with hay, and put the money we brought to buy food in the hay."

The silver that should be given is given.

"Just mess with them with hay..." someone suggested.

Lu Wen smiled to smooth things over: "It's not that we don't have money, buying with money is called forced buying, and directly buying with hay is called cheating!"