When Luo Yong had no money, he thought of selling goose feathers.
When the emperor had no money, he thought of selling cement.
The cement recipe in the emperor's hand was much more advanced than the recipe in Xipo Village.
He had previously been busy burning cement to pave the road, but now he really had no money, so he had to put the road paving work on hold.
Concentrate on burning cement, burn more and sell it for money.
A load of cement in Xipo Village costs only five or six cents, but a load of cement in Chang'an City costs fifteen cents.
Even though the price is so expensive, there are still many people buying it.
Not only people from Chang'an City buy cement, but also many people from other places come here to buy cement, and merchants are also very active.
I heard that this kind of cement is particularly popular in places with frequent rainfall in the south of the Yangtze River.
Many people had previously spent a lot of money to buy some soil and cement transported from Lishi County to repair manors and roads.
Although the cement here in Chang'an City costs fifteen cents per load, it is relatively south after all.
If it relies on water transportation all the way down the river, the transportation costs will be relatively small.
In addition, Chang'an The quality of cement produced in Chang'an City is also better, so overall, it is more cost-effective for them to buy cement produced in Chang'an City.
The emperor started selling cement, and Luo Yong immediately lost more than half of his cement business.
Even people from Taiyuan City no longer came to buy cement from him, and would rather go all the way to Chang'an City to buy cement.
As a result, many local porters in Lishi County had to change their profession and no longer carry cement.
Instead, they exchanged some soybean meal and soy sauce from Luo Sanlang and went to the villages outside to collect goose down.
On this day, when Zhao Chen rode to Xipo Village, he saw Luo Yong squatting on the dirt roadside bargaining with a merchant.
The merchant collected a cart of goose down from elsewhere and asked Luo Yong to exchange it for mugwort soap.
Luo Yong told him that ten taels of goose down would be exchanged for a piece of mugwort soap.
He insisted on saying nine taels, so the two squatted on the roadside and broke it.
Pulled up.
"I heard that one tael of goose down can be exchanged for three pounds of soybean meal here."
This vendor always felt that he would be at a disadvantage if he calculated it as ten taels of goose down for a piece of soap.
"It's about the same."
Luo Yong told him: "The soybean meal we have here is only sixteen or seventeen cents per load."
"A load of soybean meal is sixteen or seven cents."
So the guy started counting with his fingers, but he couldn't figure it out clearly.
"Once soybean meal can be exchanged for more than thirty taels of goose down, sixteen or seventeen cents is almost three pieces of wormwood soap.
Do you think ten taels of goose down is a piece of wormwood soap?
Logically speaking, it takes more than ten taels to exchange for one piece.
I have already I'll wipe out the change for you," Luo Yong explained to him.
"Then my carload of goose down can't be exchanged for a hundred pieces of soap."
This guy's previous expectations were obviously too high.
He was probably influenced by the cashmere and thought that this goose down would also be valuable.
"Why don't you bring more carts over next time?
The goose down over there shouldn't be expensive."
It's really not cost-effective to travel all the way to haul such a cart, so Luo Yong told him. : "Okay, I'll give you five more pieces of mugwort soap.
If I have goose down next time, you can come to me."
"Okay."
When the goose down seller heard this, he felt much happier.
His cart of goose down weighed about 900 taels, which could be exchanged for 90 pieces of mugwort soap.
Plus the extra five yuan given by Luo Sanlang, then That's ninety-five yuan.
Although the transaction process was not as beautiful as he had previously imagined, he could still make a profit by taking back the ninety-five pieces of mugwort soap.
But at present, it seems that the price of goose down is still far behind that of cashmere, but the price of cashmere is too high.
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Small traders like them have little capital and basically don't touch it much.
They are all collected by big merchants.
Although the profit of this goose down is lower, the cost is also low, and the risk is relatively smaller.
Moreover, Luo Sanlang seems to be a long-term acquisition, so there is no need to worry about sales.
I can exchange some mugwort soap from Luo Sanlang. , sell it elsewhere, and you can make a lot of money by flipping it.
"Sanlang stopped making cashmere now and started making goose down."
Zhao Chen held the horse and stood not far away with a smile.
After they finished talking, he said.
Luo Yong looked up and immediately laughed: "Why did Zhao Dalang come so late this year?
I thought you were trying to steal my cashmere."
"Hahaha, who dares to touch the cashmere of your coffin board?"
Zhao Chen joked.
"Don't tell me, it's true."
Luo Yongke remembered Yan Liu's stroke: "Why are you the only one here?
Where's the cashmere?"
"They are all behind.
The oxcart is moving slowly, so I rode here first."
Zhao Chen raised his finger and pointed behind him and said.
"Okay, let my disciples pick them up.
Let's go eat first."
Luo Yong patted his clothes and stood up from the roadside.
Then he took out a small notebook and a pen from his arms, took off the pen cover, and put it on the notebook.
He wrote a line of words and handed it to the goose down vendor: "Take this note and go to my yard, just as we just agreed, and you won't miss a piece of soap."
The vendor took the note and left happily, while Luo Yong and Zhao Chen walked slowly on the cement road.
We haven't seen each other for more than a year.
Luo Yong has obviously grown taller, and Zhao Chen looks more rugged than before, probably because he has been on the prairie for a long time.
"The entry into the customs this time was not as smooth as last year."
Zhao Chen said to Luo Yong.
"But he was stopped?"
Luo Yong asked.
"The number of officers and soldiers stationed at Mengmen Pass has more than doubled than last year, and the entry process is also extremely cumbersome.
We could have arrived a few days ago, but we were delayed there for three days."
Zhao Chen sighed.
"Is there any damage to the accompanying goods?"
Luo Yong asked.
"That's not true.
It's just the few barbarians who were accompanying me.
If I hadn't found a local person I knew well in Mengmen Pass as a guarantee, they might not have been able to get through."
Zhao Chen said.
"Hai Rigu and the others are here again."
Among those people, Luo Yong only remembered Hai Rigu because that girl Siniang always talked to him.
"Hai Rigu didn't come.
He was also at the Chengzhou market earlier and went back to the prairie after spring.
The people in his tribe raised more lambs this year than in any other year."
Zhao Chen told him He learned about the situation on Hai Rigu’s side.
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"Is there enough grass on the grassland to eat?"
Luo Yong asked.
"On the edge of the grassland, they can exchange a small amount of soap for a large amount of soybean meal.
I heard that most of the soybean oil is sold to Chang'an, Luoyang and other places.
The dishes in your Xu family guesthouse are now widely circulated."
Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"Exchange soap for soybean meal.
You can keep the cashmere and sell it for money.
What about the mutton?"
Luo Yong asked again.
"Mutton is cheap."
Zhao Chen said with a smile: "Nowadays, people in the grassland have no shortage of meat to eat."
The two of them talked and soon arrived at the Xu family guest house.
Luo Yong first asked Xu Weng and others to buy meals according to the number of people Zhao Chen said, and then asked Zhao Chen what he wanted to eat.
"Give me two plates of coins first."
Zhao Chen ordered the dumplings without saying anything.
I still remember that when I came back to Xipo Village for the first time, I ate the noodles made by Luo Sanlang.
From then on, he was craving for noodles.
Now that they can make noodles at home, he is craving for this one again.
You can't get this dime anywhere else except at Xu's guest house.
Two large plates of dumplings, a large bowl of dumpling soup, and a cold dish.
Zhao Dalang ate it heartily.
He didn't even bother to hold out his chopsticks for the dishes that came later.
He ate the two large plates of dumplings in the blink of an eye.
All clean.
Luo Yong watched from the side, his mind became a little more active.
After a while, everyone behind them arrived and everyone ate together.
Then Luo Yong observed and found that their dumplings were very popular among both Han and Hu people.
In the next few days, this group of people will rest in Xipo Village before turning around and heading north.
Luo Yong has been chatting with Zhao Chen a lot in the past few days.
The two mainly talked about the situation on the prairie and the current trade situation in the northwest.
Zhao Chen has been running outside, so he must be better informed than Luo Yong.
According to Zhao Chen, the imperial court seemed to intend to expand the trade market in the northwest.
They did not take any restrictive measures for the spontaneously formed market outside the city, but actively participated in and managed it.
Nowadays, more and more Hu merchants are coming from the west.
Wherever the business roads pass, many villages and towns are slowly prospering, especially Liangzhou.
At this time, Liangzhou, also known as Wuwei in later generations, was the most prosperous city in the northwest region where merchants gathered.
Wuwei City was an important node city on the Silk Road.
However, in the early Tang Dynasty, there was no such thing as the Silk Road.
The Silk Road was a name given by later generations.
Luo Yong knew that in the next ten years, some tribes in the west would He would ask Li Shimin to open a "Towering Khan Road" to facilitate the tribal leaders from the west to come to Chang'an City to meet the Heavenly Khan.
At the same time, this road is also of extremely important commercial significance.
"How much are the house prices in Liangzhou City?"
Luo Yong heard Zhao Chen talk about the development situation in the west.
He was so excited that he couldn't bear it.
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It was also because he really didn't have any money on hand now.
Otherwise, it would be a good idea to buy a few of his houses and wait for the value to increase. of.
"Sanlang wants to buy a property in Liangzhou."
Zhao Chen was a little surprised.
Liangzhou is not close to Shizhou, but he added: "If Sanlang is interested, I will ask my family to help you inquire about it.
It just so happens that I I'm going to run a guest house there."
"Your family wants to run a guesthouse in Liangzhou."
Luo Yong suddenly raised his head, his eyes were like a wolf seeing meat, he had sensed a business opportunity.
There is no way, they are all poor and have so much debt.
To say that I don’t feel any pressure at all would be a lie.
Recently, the emperor was selling cement in Chang'an City again, and his cement business was almost wiped out.
After all, he was the emperor, and Luo Yong couldn't compete with him, so he had to find another way.
This Liangzhou City was very good. gd1806102: