North and South groceries

Luo Yong's disciples have recently set up a cement workshop outside, and the business is also very good.

It is not necessary to set up a cement workshop in every village. It is enough to set up one in several villages. Villagers in nearby villages can come here to buy cement or work in cement workshops.

Most of the villagers in these villages use lime gypsum or labor to offset the cement money. In this way, a lot of cement will be burned in the end.

Most of these cements were sold by Luo Yong to the wealthy households in the surrounding area. If the wealthy households in some places have poor purchasing power, then they have to transport the cement to other places, or simply transport it to Lishi County went to sell it.

After such a period of time, many villages around Lishi County have now built irrigation systems and paved many cement roads. The villagers don't need to spend much money, and Luo can earn some money with them. As a result, it can be regarded as mutual benefit.

If the road from Lishi County to Liangzhou City can also be built in this way, Luo Yong himself will not need to spend any extra money, and more people will participate, and the road will be repaired. will be faster.

At present, Hu merchants who come from the west usually go southeast after passing Liangzhou City, all the way to Chang'an City. If they want to go to Luoyang, Suzhou, Yangzhou and other Jiangnan areas, they basically pass through Chang'an. .

Now if they can build another road horizontally from Liangzhou City to Lishi, which is roughly parallel to the road on the Chang'an side, it will bring convenience to many merchants in the north. After all, the whole north is also very large. That road is very inconvenient.

Go straight from Liangzhou City to the east, cross the Yellow River and pass Mengmen Pass. After passing Mengmen Pass, it will be the cement road that His Majesty said to be built. When the time comes, go to Chang'an City from their side and go to Jiangnan. The area is also more convenient.

So if Luo Yong and the others can build the road from Liangzhou City to Mengmenguan, that is to say, this cement road can go from Liangzhou City to Chang'an City.

"Tsk, in this way, there will be fewer and fewer people going on the south road in the future." What a crime...Luo Yong sighed.

"Building roads is always a good thing." Zhao Chen said with a smile: "At that time, if the merchants on both sides of this road and outside the Great Wall want to go to Jiangnan, this road will be the most convenient."

Luo Yong said that he wanted to build roads, and Zhao Chen was the happiest. Their Zhao family has already set their sights on the canned food business. The canned pears from Lishi County are far from enough to satisfy the appetite of the Zhao family. Various canned fruits from the south.

Speaking of which, in this season, the oranges in the south should be ripe long ago. I don't know how the canned oranges at Wang Jinhuai's side are doing.

At this time, Wang Jinhuai was in trouble.

Previously, the Wang family bought silk and silk cloth in a place on Huainan Road. Because the price they offered was relatively good, many local weavers and merchants were willing to sell silk and silk to them. The relationship between the two parties was relatively harmonious.

Then this summer, Wang Jinhuai took the eucommia gums he took from Luo Yong's place, led some people, and ran all the way to the south to burn porcelain pots and collect fruits for canning. Before the end of summer, he made a batch of canned peach meat. , It was originally planned to divide these cans into two batches, one batch will be shipped to Luoyang and other places for sale, and the other batch will be sent to Xipo Village for Luo Yong.

As a result, none of their batch of canned peach meat was shipped out. The local tyrants deliberately made it difficult for them to buy those canned goods by force. It’s okay not to sell the canned food. .

Fortunately, the Wang family's business in the south has been pretty good these years, and they have some prestige anyway. Those people didn't dare to do too much, and they didn't rob or hurt people.

Wang Jinhuai sent people back to Lishi's house to ask for help, but Lishi's arrangement for the people there was not effective. They communicated and communicated, but in the end they couldn't get things done. This year's oranges were also out of season. Well, they've produced a lot of canned oranges recently, but none of them can be shipped out.

Finally, after thinking about it, there was no other way. If they didn't ship the cans out, Luo Yong might think they had broken their promise.There was a disagreement between them once, and if there is another mistake this time, it is afraid that there will be no possibility of cooperation in the future.

So Wang Jinhuai asked someone to bring a letter to Ma Silang, asking him to help.Apart from Chang'an, the Ma family is now mainly developing in the area of ​​Shannan Road. Wang Jinhuai is in Huainan Road.

The Ma family really made the right bet this time, and focused all their work this year on the promotion of Champa rice.

At the beginning of the spring, I just came to the south to develop, and it was not easy for the newcomers, but the current situation is already different.The Champa rice they promote in the local area not only matures quickly, is resistant to drought and barrenness, and can be planted on slopes, but also has a high yield. In Shannan Road, it can be planted twice a year.

When Wang Jinhuai sent someone to deliver the letter, it was the time when the second season of rice was harvested by the Ma family. Ma Silang was in a good mood. Thinking about it, the Ma Wang family both came from Lishi County, and they will also be in the south in the future. It is better to develop here and support each other than to fight alone.

So he invited some famous people from the local area to catch up with a few luxurious and stylish carriages, and while having fun along the way, he went to Huainan Road.

As soon as these people came forward, they had a tough attitude and decided to embarrass Wang Jinhuai to the end, but their attitude immediately softened. The group of people ate and drank happily, and they never mentioned the canned food again.

A few days later, Wang Jinhuai ordered people to transport canned peach meat and canned oranges to the north, but he did not encounter any obstacles.

"Thanks to Shiro's help." The matter was finally resolved, and Wang Jinhuai finally breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

"Brother Jin Huai, why do you need to see others, you and I are from the same town, we should help each other when we go out." Ma Silang said with a smile.

"Alas..." Wang Jinhuai waved his hand and sighed, "I'm afraid I won't be able to help you at the moment. If there's anything you need in the future, just ask."

The Ma family really made the right bet this time. They have just developed in Shannan Road for less than a year, and they are not high-ranking families, but just ordinary merchants, and they were able to invite those people to come forward.

Don't look at them eating, drinking, drinking and playing all the way, they seem to be very happy, but in fact it is not easy to eat, drink and play with them. Wang Jinhuai remembered Ma Silang's favor.

After the matter was settled, Ma Silang didn't stay in Huainan Road any longer. After this year's rice harvest, their Ma family will immediately enter the next year's strategic deployment. As the saying goes, every inch of time is worth every inch of gold. When wandering wasted time.

Ma Silang went back to his Shannan Road, and Wang Jinhuai also shipped out all the canned food made this year in batches, and then he shipped all the silk that he had hoarded before.

He originally wanted to pack up all his family, servants, and other odds and ends, and never return to this place again. He really wanted to move out of this place and develop elsewhere.

He, Wang Jinhuai, has been operating and developing here for several years. Although he is not a Bodhisattva-like figure, he at least operates with integrity, and has brought a lot of convenience to the local silk trading.

Unexpectedly, when encountering such a thing this time, no one in their local area stood up and said a word of justice for him. To him, Wang Jinhuai, this incident was like being slapped face to face. Both ashamed and ashamed.

However, he did not move in the end.

It was not Wang Jinhuai's style to run away with his tail between his legs.

In fact, in the past few months, Wang Jinhuai often reflected in his heart, why those people were so indifferent to what happened to him.

In the past few years, was he equally indifferent to the encounters and sufferings of the local people...