North and South groceries

In mid-July, Wang Dang and others arrived in Chang'an City together with a caravan.

They started from Liangzhou City, did not pass through Lishi County, but took the old road to the south directly.

The road here is currently being resurfaced. After walking out of Liangzhou City for less than seven or eight days, we arrived at the section of the road that was being rested. After that section of the road, there was a spacious concrete road. It won't be long before this concrete road will lead directly to Liangzhou City.

Merchants coming from the Western Regions have always taken this road in the past. There is a post station every few tens of miles on this road. There are also many privately run reverse travel houses around the post station. Basically, they can buy everything they want. Living is not a problem either.

Before they arrived in Chang'an City, Wang Dang and others ate fried snails at a post station. Hearing that this way of eating fried snails was created by Li Shi Luo Sanlang, they also felt very proud.

Wang Dang and the others went to Chang'an City this time, firstly because a familiar caravan invited them to go with them, and secondly, they happened to have a batch of goods to be transported to Chang'an City. The owner of the goods was Luo Erniang, and the main goods were cashmere sweaters. Trousers and suet soap.

After entering the city, he said goodbye to the caravan that was traveling with him, and Wang Dang and his party went directly to Fenglefang to transport the goods to North and South groceries. Xue went to send a message to Luo Yong, and when the class was over at Taixue, Luo Yong came here.

"But we've eaten, and it looks like you haven't woken up yet." Luo Yong said with a smile as soon as he entered the backyard of the grocery store, and saw a group of men sitting in the yard in a daze, yawning.

"I ate some when I first arrived in the morning, and I fell asleep until this point. Let's go for a walk, let's go out to eat together." After a single transaction, Wang Dang inevitably rewarded his brothers, and they planned to go out tonight Eat something good.

How can Luo Yong invite him to invite him to a wine shop he knows well, and let the shopkeeper count all the expenses on him.

This restaurant can be regarded as a mid-to-high-end restaurant in Chang'an City. The entertainment life in Chang'an City is not comparable to other places. Just the few big ice cubes piled up in the hall can make these men from poor families look very different. I was stunned for a moment.

"Just find an ordinary shop, why spend so much money." Wang Dang's current income is pretty good, but after all, they have earned hard money. In such an occasion, if they are asked to spend their own money, they are still a little bit reluctant.

"I'm also very happy that you can come to Chang'an City. My elder sister is alone in Liangzhou City. I can't take care of such a long distance. I have to rely on you to take care of me." Luo Yong picked up the wine glass, After taking a sip, he bowed his hands to Wang Dang and others.

When Wang Dang and the others heard this, they all laughed: "She doesn't need us to take care of her now."

"That's wrong." Luo Yongyan said: "Although she is showing some appearance in the cashmere business, she is a girl after all. If there is no one to help, I am afraid that some villains will have evil thoughts."

"This is, what kind of place is Liangzhou City? I heard that there are still some villains who are wanted by the imperial court fleeing there."

"Sanlang doesn't need to worry. We all know that your elder sister has a close relationship with the Zhao family in Nashuo Prefecture. The Zhao family now has a lot of face in Liangzhou City. There are so many people in their family, how can ordinary people dare to provoke them?"

The group ate and drank, and then talked about the purpose of their trip to and from Chang'an City.

Wang Dang and others came here this time not only to help Luo Erniang deliver goods, they also planned to sell some goods from here.

"What kind of goods are you going to sell to Liangzhou City this time?" Luo Yong asked them.

"I just want to sell some cloth." Wang Dang said: "Recently, the price of cloth in Liangzhou and other places is high, and some tribes on the grassland even proposed not to trade with non-cloth and copper coins. In the past, many merchants used grains such as beans, wheat, and corn. Exchange cashmere with them, and now there are not many who are willing to accept food."

It is not surprising that the population on the grassland is actually not large. After getting enough food and ensuring sufficient food, they will definitely ask merchants to use cloth and copper coins that are more durable and can be traded with. .

The copper coins at this time in the Tang Dynasty were simply cast with conscience. A copper coin weighed a penny. Even if it was not used as a coin, but just as a piece of copper lump, it was worth so much money, so there is no need to worry about depreciation.

Cloth is not only resistant to storage and circulation, but also an indispensable necessity in people's daily life. After the grassland people are full, they will naturally start to pursue the quality of life. The demand for cloth is only the first stage.

It is not easy to produce cloth and other things. Although there are local products in Liangzhou City, they cannot be compared with the Central Plains and the South.

In this era, the production of cloth is as important as the production of food. People call the farmland passed down from their ancestors mulberry fields, which shows how important it is for ordinary farmers to grow mulberry and raise silkworms.

So even though the textile technology is relatively backward in this era, there are some relevant materials in the space used by Luo, but he has no plans to take them out for a while.

After the spinning jenny came out, the inventor was once attacked by handicraftsmen for collective revenge, because the appearance of this spinning machine ruined the jobs of many people.

Looking at the current era, most of the people who are responsible for spinning and weaving are women. The so-called men farm and women weave. While women depend on men for survival, they are also indispensable labor force in many families. Have a place in your own family.

In addition to ordinary farmers, there are still many weavers and silkworm farmers nowadays. They do not produce food and rely entirely on the textile industry to support their families.

Under such circumstances, Luo Yong never dared to start the textile industry lightly. Silk cloth is expensive, so it should be more expensive. Purely handmade things are hard to come by, so it is normal for them to be more expensive.

The common fabrics nowadays are far more than silk and cloth, silk and satin, silk and linen. There are all kinds of fabrics on the market, especially in Chang'an City. Many fabrics have not even been heard of in later generations. I also know that eight achievements are lost. Although this kind of thing is inevitable in the development of the times, it is still very regrettable to think about it.

If you want to talk about linen, it is mainly produced in the Central Plains, and if you talk about silk cloth, it has to be in the Jiangnan area.

Wang Dang and the others mainly wanted to sell some silk fabrics this time, so Luo Yong decided to help them connect and find the Wang family.The Lishi Wang family also has a shop in Chang'an City, and the main products they sell are the silk cloth they sell from the south, as well as various canned fruits.

Wang Jinhuai found a source of eucommia gum in the south this year, so he no longer takes eucommia gum from Luo Yong, but because of his previous agreement with Luo Yong, when the batch of canned yellow peaches came out in early summer this year, it was still a surprise to Luo Yong. Used to send a batch.

Luo Yong didn't sell any of the batch of canned yellow peaches. Apart from keeping some for home use, the rest were sent to Liangzhou City.

Chang'an City also produces peaches, and Mrs. Luo also makes canned peach meat every year. Although it is not as sweet and delicious as the canned yellow peaches Wang Jinhuai sent, it is still peaches, unlike Liangzhou City, which does not even produce peaches at all.

Two days later, Luo Yongxiu and his group went to the Wang family's shop, but this time the Wang family got into trouble again.

The thing is like this, Wang Jinhuai recently sent a batch of canned yellow peaches from the south to Chang'an, but before entering the city, those canned goods were seized by the porters. They process money, or they'll be eating those cans out of town.

On the one hand, the Wang family felt that the amount proposed by the other party was too large, and on the other hand, they did not want to compromise at this juncture, so as not to be threatened by these porters in the future, and refused to agree, so the two sides were at a stalemate.

"Where did you hire the porters? Why are you so bad?" Wang Dang and the others also delivered goods to others, and when they heard this, they all frowned.

"Hey, it's a porter invited from over there." The elder of the Wang family waved his hand, and didn't know what to say for a moment, but had a helpless expression on his face.

To be honest, the atmosphere in the south of this era is still relatively brutal and fierce, and the rules of etiquette and Tang laws are not very feasible in many southern regions.

Sue the officer?They are not afraid, there is a part of these people who dare to break with the government at any time, and ordinary officials don't dare to provoke them. No one can bear the burden of what happens.

"Why do you hire porters from the south?" It is well known that southerners in this era are very difficult to deal with.

"I just shipped a batch of goods over there, and all the available people over there are used up. Huai Jin has built a new school in the south for more than half a year. He provides care for the old and the young. He gets along well with the local people. He should use the people there once. It's all right, I never thought that something went wrong in the end." The Wang family said.

After Luo Yong heard this, he was speechless. Wang Huaijin was treated like this by them. These people really have no conscience when they say it.

However, the reason why such a situation happened is that someone deliberately instigated it. In such a hot day, the transportation is so hard, and everyone wants to get more money. If someone incites it, it will be easier. succeed.

The so-called granary knows etiquette from the facts. After several dynasties, the Central Plains area is much ahead of some wild places in the south in terms of economic development and cultural accumulation.

At this time, many Central Plains people looked down on the Southern Manzis. On the one hand, it was because of their own sense of superiority;

Luo Yong, Wang Dang and others went out of the city together with the Wang family, and managed to get the batch of canned food back with great difficulty, without much commotion.

If there is trouble in this area of ​​Chang'an City, it doesn't matter who is right or who is wrong, in the end they all have to suffer.

After working all day, when he returned to the Fenglefang shop, Luo Yong said to Wang Dang and others: "According to today's friendship, it should be no problem for you to find the Wang family to sell some silk cloth in the future." .”

"It's just that in my opinion, no matter if you sell silk or cashmere, once you sell one item, you only earn the money for that item, and you don't have much savings for the rest."

"Aside from money and silk, what else do you need to save?" A young man from Dinghu asked puzzledly, and the others also looked at Luo Yong.

Luo Yong said to them: "If you go out under the banner and deliver goods to others, in addition to merchants' bulk goods, private bulk goods will also be accepted. With what you people have done, within a few years, you will definitely become famous. There is no need to travel across the sea and north, just set up a shop to receive and deliver goods at a certain distance, and the people in each shop can only take care of their own piece of land, wouldn't it be much easier?"

After today's incident with Wang's family, Luo Yong couldn't help but miss the convenient logistics conditions of later generations.

From Wang Huaijin and the others to Chang'an City, if there is also a logistics company, how can such a thing happen today? It would be even better if there are several logistics companies competing in a healthy manner.

Right now, there is not even a professional logistics company in the whole country. If Wang Dang and others make a move at this time, there is indeed a lot to do.