Changle County is located in a remote place.
It does not have a rich labor force, water sources, or other resources.
Only the fact that it is on the commercial route of East-West trade can bring some vitality to this place.
However, this trade route is not always smooth.
There are so many small countries in the Western Region.
Whenever there is a war, the trade route will be blocked.
This is inevitable unless the Central Plains Dynasty can unify the Western Region and adopt a relatively loose foreign trade policy.
The Central Plains Dynasty has been exploring the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty, and now the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is also paying great attention to the Western Regions.
It's just that this area of the Western Region cannot be easily annexed by anyone.
The Turks have always regarded the Western Region as their sphere of influence, and now they have to add a big food country that is constantly encroaching on the surrounding areas.
In the following decades, the Tubo Dynasty will become increasingly powerful.
The big countries collide and restrain each other, and there are also various forces of small countries mixed in.
The Western Region is destined to be unstable.
In this case, Luo Yong should probably not complain about the obstruction of business.
He should thank the Hu businessmen of this era for being bold enough to come out to do business under such harsh conditions.
Although it is only a trickle at the moment, , and sometimes intermittently, but in the end it brought vitality to Changle County.
Whether it is a tofu workshop, a cement workshop, a bacon workshop, or a needle workshop, all Luo Yong is doing now is just to provide food and clothing for the people of Changle.
But if you really want this place to prosper, you may ultimately have to rely on the tea market.
Infinitely good literature, all in Jinjiang Literature City After tea is generally accepted, how can the market be concentrated in Changle County, not Dunhuang and Zhangye where there are many Hu people, nor Liangzhou, which has developed rapidly in recent years, but their small Changle County?
Le County.
If this problem can be solved, then Changle County will prosper and the local people will be rich.
Luo Yong has outstanding political achievements, and it is natural that he will be transferred back to Chang'an City not far away.
Although he has now become more accustomed to life here in Changle County, Si Niang and Wu Lang are all in Chang'an City, and Qiao Junlin should also want to go back.
As well as his disciples, their families are also in the Central Plains.
While Luo Yong was thinking about the tea business, tea merchants like Li Shi had just left Mengmen Pass a while ago and were walking on the cement road paved by Luo Yong's disciples in the past few days.
This year, due to the war in Gaochang State, their trip was postponed for some time.
After returning to their hometown in Lishi from Jiangnan, they have been waiting for news from Changle County.
Ma Silang and others from Changle County asked Tang Jian for help and wrote a letter to Lishi's hometown through the post station, asking them not to rush to transport the tea to Changle County this year.
They still have some on hand.
Besides, if this year is delayed by the war, 80% of the tea business will be ruined.
It is better to wait a little longer, stay away from Li Daozong and others, and don't come face to face with the tens of thousands of troops.
It's normal for a few scum to appear among tens of thousands of people.
Now that they are the victorious ones, they can't help but feel proud.
The status of merchants is very low these days, so it's always right to stay away.
So they stayed in Lishi's hometown until the merchants who came from the west told them that Li Daozong's troops had passed Liangzhou City and headed south, and then they gathered the team and set off.
Speaking of Mengmen Pass and Lishi County, there are merchants traveling from south to north, and the information is really well-informed.
Dingda Express, run by Wang Dang and others, has a close connection with Chang'an City.
When you come out of a place like Lishi County, you feel that everything is very inconvenient.
There is no good information, there are no express delivery, and there are no merchants traveling from north to south.
Even if you have money, you can't buy any good food.
Unlike in Lishi County, Those restaurants are all good at making Dongpo Pork and Tofu, which is delicious and not expensive.
"Your place is really that nice."
A young junior grinned happily.
His face was dark and his teeth were quite white.
The light in the room was dim and not very bright.
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With this grin, he could see a mouth full of white teeth. .
"Why not?
Don't choose the best restaurant on the street.
Just go in to an ordinary one.
It costs less than ten cents and I'll keep you eating until you have a round belly."
A middle-aged businessman said.
The autumn rain had fallen in the past two days, so they stayed in a small village on the roadside.
A group of people lived in several families.
In the family where they stayed, there was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, who was facing the outside world.
When the world is full of curiosity, there is nothing to do on this rainy day anyway, so a few people just sit in the house and gossip.
"Ten cents," the young man said, "I can't even spend ten cents a month."
"That's because you have no place to make money here."
A Lishi man in his twenties said with a smile: "In our place, for someone as old as you, the family should find a way out for him.
That requires courage.
If you are older, come out and follow us Work, this is a hard and dangerous job for us.
We go to Jiangnan in the spring, and we go to Longxi in the fall.
We are afraid of encountering bad people while walking outside.
But when we deliver this batch of goods to Changle County, we can earn a lot of money.
Money is gone.”
"How much can you earn?"
the young man asked.
"For someone like you, you won't be able to earn that amount for most of your life."
A little old man chuckled.
"For those of you who are more timid, if you don't have the capital and don't dare to run away, then go work for Boss Wang.
Boss Wang treats his brothers well and works diligently for ten or eight years. , As long as he is not a fool, he should be promising," the man just said again.
"Ten years and eight years."
When the young man heard ten years and eight years, he felt that it was very long.
Since he came to this world, even if he calculated everything, it would not be more than ten years plus eight years.
Infinitely good literature, all in Jinjiang Literature City "Then if you can't endure these ten or eight years and don't like running outside all day, then go work in a workshop.
We have a Yin's wheel shop and a Heng's car-making shop there.
If you are really smart and handy, you may earn more working with them than under Boss Wang."
"They like people who are crafty and like to think about things."
"The eldest son of my sister's family, my eldest nephew, entered the workshop at the age of thirteen, and now he can earn more than 100 yuan a month."
"So many" "What's this?
The craftsmen who make bearings at Yin's Wheel Shop make at least a lot of money every month.
If they make more money, I don't know how much they spend."
"The Yin family are all carpenters, and no one knows how to make iron.
I heard that these blacksmiths were specially invited from Taiyuan Prefecture."
"How did I hear that there was a Turk there?"
"Turks are great at blacksmithing."
"Whoever he is, he's just here to work and get paid.
We're not in Chang'an City, so there's nothing wrong with him."
"The bearing was difficult to get.
The Yin family had been thinking about it for so long, and they didn't know how much money they had spent on it.
Fortunately, they finally got it out."
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"Now they sell many bearings to Chang'an City every year."
"There are also people making it in Chang'an, but the workmanship is still inferior to the ones made by the Yin family."
"If a carriage uses bearings from the Yin family and springs from the Heng family, it will be extremely smooth and stable on the cement road, without any bumps at all."
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"We can still walk on the cement road now, but after we get to Liangzhou City, I don't know how much more suffering we will have to endure."
“It’s hard to live in Yanzhi Mountain.”
"I'm afraid we'll have to go out and push the cart by then." "" As these Lishi merchants talked, they talked about the next trip.
The young man who had just been talking to them was sitting in front of the kang hole in a daze.
A young man of thirteen or fourteen years old can earn more than 100 yuan in a workshop after a few years.
It would be great if he could go to Lishi County.
Otherwise, he would work with that boss Wang and deliver express delivery to people.
When he heard ten or eight years, he thought it was a bit long.
Looking back now, he would still be less than thirty after ten or eight years.
If that didn't work out, it would be a good idea to find a shop and work as a waiter.
From what they said, there were many shops on the streets in Lishi County.
He would go and work there for a while, and after he stabilized, he could bring his wife and children to work.
Take it too.
At that time, his wife would make oil-paper umbrellas at home and take care of the baby.
He would work outside every day.
If he made money, he would buy some delicious food to take home at night.
His wife was pregnant at the moment. , the old man in the village said that she looked like a girl when she was born, and that the girl was quite nice.
When the time came, he would buy colorful clothes with her, buy rouge with her when she was older, and help her buy a decent dowry.
They were only more than ten days away from Changle County.
They missed my mother very much, so they came back to visit and sent more money and silk to his brother's house, so that the old couple could enjoy the blessings of children and grandchildren.
"When will you be able to come back from Changle County?"
he asked the Lishi merchants.
"Coming back will have to wait until next summer at least."
"Why, you want to go to Lishi County?"
"It's not bad for young people to go out and visit, as long as they stay with the right people and don't imitate others."
"If you really want to go, don't wait for us.
Just go to the nearby city to see if there are any merchants going there.
You need to find a reliable local business house.
Don't be deceived by those shady people.
Go ahead and sell you to mine when the time comes.”
"First go find a big merchant to work as a porter.
If you can't find any work when you get to Lishi County, go to the papermaking workshops by the river outside the city.
Those workshops are recruiting people all year round.
You can earn two wages a day.
Sanwen, make some money there first, and then slowly find a way out.”
"It's hard to go out alone, so it's best to find one or two safe companions."
"Be careful when you go out and don't believe everything others say." "" The rain stopped that night, and early the next morning, these Lishi people got up early to load their cars.
After breakfast, they set off in their carriages.
The villagers in the village sent them all the way out of the village.
In their villages next to cement roads, caravans coming from Lishi will generally receive a warm reception.
When the road was first built, these villagers worked together with the Lishi people.
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After this road was opened, the number of caravans passing through them increased by an unknown amount throughout the year.
As long as caravans passed by, their villages would have income.
One autumn rain and another cold.
It is already late autumn now.
After the rain two days ago, there is a bit of chill in the air.
The leaves of the big and small trees on both sides of the road have almost all fallen off.
The fields have been harvested and are all bare at this time.
Only a few fields near the village have been planted with some radish and cabbage.
Cold-tolerant vegetables.
There were many difficulties on the road to transport goods.
The road was long and hard.
Fortunately, they were transporting tea, which was light.
In addition, they had accumulated some experience in doing business for many years, so this time their team was equipped with horse-drawn carriages.
The horse-drawn carriages ran faster than Ox carts and donkey carts are much faster.
"It's almost winter time" "It's time to put on some more clothes."
The two men were sitting on the carriage shaft talking, with some white breath coming out of their mouths.
October of the lunar calendar can indeed be regarded as winter.
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