North and South groceries

In the days that followed, news continued to spread in Chang'an City, saying that Wang Dang and the others had a new store somewhere.

In fact, in addition to Chang'an City, Wang Dang and others planned to open shops in five cities in the early stage.

After leaving Chang'an, go east, pass Tongguan, and go north to Hedong Road. After entering Hedong Road, you will soon reach Puzhou, and then go up to Linfen and Xicheng.To the north of Xicheng is Taiyuan Mansion, and to the west of Xicheng is Lishi and Dinghu.

Lishi is very close to Dinghu, and there is no plan to set up a shop at present, but Lishi is not a big place, and they are very familiar with them, and there are even many brothers and their families living in Xipo Village, so even if there is no shop, Receiving and shipping is still not a problem.

There is a Mengmen Pass in Dinghu. As the cement road in Guannei Road is getting longer and longer, many merchants and hawkers from the northwest gradually gather at Mengmen Pass. They not only sell goods at Mengmen Pass, but also buy goods.

Going south from Mengmen Pass is the cement road built by the saint earlier.Mengmen Pass in Dinghu County is at the junction of these two roads, and it also undertakes the water transportation of the Yellow River. Every year, many merchants come down from the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

With such geographical advantages, coupled with the relatively loose economic policies at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was completely predictable that Dinghu County would develop into a commercial center where merchants gathered sooner or later.

Many people living in Mengmeng did not really realize until recently that they were in the midst of a once-in-a-century development boom, but Wang Dang and the others had already thrown off their arms and started working.

Every time Luo Yong goes out now, he can hear people talking about Dingda Express.

In the court, there was also a debate about this incident. The vast majority of people believed that at this moment, we should follow the public opinion and not go against the trend.

Some people say that the circulation of letters is convenient for careful communication with the enemy, but many people think that the appearance of this express delivery not only facilitates the common people, but also facilitates the supervision of the imperial court.

In the past, the common people asked people to bring letters and packages, and those merchants and hawkers who were selling goods in various places were loose and difficult to manage. Now they only need to manage this express delivery, which is equivalent to managing the vast distance between Chang'an City and Hedong Road. Most letters circulate.

Moreover, a person like Wang Dang can definitely become the little leader of a power in troubled times. If one is lucky, he might even be able to get an emperor Dangdang.

Now he is going to do express delivery and help people deliver letters and packages. Isn't that a great thing?

After he breaks up his team and arranges them to run a shop in different cities, everyone will do their own thing. Under the interests of each other, even if there is a disagreement, there may be a fight. After three to five years In the future, how many people will still be able to follow his lead?

In addition, the imperial court will definitely put eyeliner in his team.These latter words are not brought out in the open, and it is good for everyone to know this kind of thing.

At the beginning of August, the county magistrate of Chang'an issued a document to Dingda Express's store in Chang'an City, requiring them to carry out a detailed registration of each package and letter, and both the sender and the recipient must sign and draw a deposit .

After the news spread, many caravans began to move around. Most of them had previously carried letters for their neighbors, relatives and friends. They never thought that there was such a big business opportunity hidden behind it.

Now those Dinghu people have seized the opportunity. Everyone in Chang’an knows Dingda Express. It is obviously too late for them to make a move at this time, but the temptation is still great. After all, those Dinghu people are just Occupying the market on Hedong Road, the whole country is so big, no one else is running this business at the moment, and a large market is waiting for them to seize.

The reason why those Dinghu people were able to successfully settle down in several cities on Hedong Road was that on the one hand, they themselves were from Hedong, and they had accumulated reputation and connections over the years; on the other hand, it was because they got Luo Sanlang support.

The same is true for other caravans. If they want to occupy a market, it is best to have something to rely on. If they want to compete with others, the process must be very cruel.

The city of Chang'an was noisy and bustling, and the undercurrents were raging. Recently, the Luo family had closed their doors to live their own lives. Neither Luo Yong nor Hou Lin, Qiao Junlin, seldom went out.

Qiao Junlin is simply because there are too many homework. Ever since Luo Yong began to assign a large number of practice questions to the students of Taixue, the gentlemen of the other subjects saw that they were not good enough. The arithmetic homework took up their spare time. The courses they taught Don't you need to study and recite?

So they also began to increase their homework one after another, making Taixue these students, not high school dogs better than high school dogs, they either go to school or do homework all day long, and their social and entertainment activities have dropped sharply.

As for Hou Lin, he was hiding from people.

Ever since Luo Yong became active in Chang'an City, Hou Lin has become more popular in the workplace, which happened early in the morning.

Recently, Hou Lin was very troubled, because one of his bosses wanted to betroth one of his daughters to him, but Hou Lin refused several times in secret, and the other party just pretended that he didn't hear and didn't understand, so Hou Lin didn't go out much now. Yes, he ran home after class at Guozixue.

His boss Luo Yong has also heard that there are many wives and concubines in the family, the back house is not very quiet, and a lot of children have been born. Those daughters alone are enough to form a football team.

Such a family, even if it is purely for the benefit of marriage, is not a good choice, no wonder Hou Lin wants to hide.

In the current era, it is not uncommon for young people in the officialdom to use their marriage as a bargaining chip.

Some people even suggested to the emperor that Luo used this coffin board as a rare talent. It just so happened that he was never married and had no elders in his family. If the saint would marry him, he would take care of her like an elder. , presumably with Na Luoyong's character, he will definitely devote himself to the Li family, and will never give birth to two hearts.

When the emperor first heard this proposal, he felt a little repulsive in his heart. If Luo Yong really wanted to do his best, even if he was not his own daughter, he would have to give someone who was close to him. Otherwise, it would be the same as not giving it. It's cheap.

Princesses and Princesses, they are all girls with golden branches and jade leaves. If they are asked to marry Luo Yong, a small official from the seventh rank, it would be a bit condescending.

Then he thought again, if Yi Luo uses such a character and ability, if he is well cultivated and promoted, no matter how bad he is, he will be a material for a senior official in the Ministry of Industry, or it would be good to arrange to go to the Ministry of Households to let him find ways to develop the country's economy. .

That being the case, why don't we just give him a princess? Anyway, there are quite a few princesses born from concubines, but... who should mention this matter?

In the end, it was this question that stumped the old emperor. As far as that coffin board is concerned, if you say you give him a princess, he may not really want it. If he rejects it at that time, then he Where is the emperor's face going?

Forget it, the world is peaceful, the country is safe and the people are peaceful, and he doesn't have to have such a person in front of him to make him feel uncomfortable.

On Luo Yong's side, he has been quite sympathetic to Hou Lin recently, and he has no idea how much trouble this coffin board's reputation has saved him from.

With his coffin-like appearance, coupled with the high degree of social attention, if someone baba comes up and touches a hard face... no one can afford to lose this face.

Not only Luo Yong, but Luo Siniang was obviously of marriageable age, but no one came to mention it.

But for Si Niang's matter, apart from being influenced by her brother's coffin board, she also contributed a lot. Since the Lantern Festival at the beginning of this year, after she cleaned up the little lady with upturned nostrils, Si Niang of the Luo family has been amazing. The reputation spread.

In this era when marriages are completely decided by parents, which parent would be so overwhelmed that finding such a powerful daughter-in-law for themselves is not to be avoided.

Coupled with the fact that Siniang sometimes had itchy hands and liked to play with two knives in her yard, and this matter was spread, Li Shi Luo Siniang's image was no different from that of a female bandit.

Now let alone those decent people, even the neighbors with average family backgrounds, no one has any ideas about Si Niang. With her knife, if the young couple quarreled someday, they would fight again. Come on... Oops, I dare not think about it.

"Brother, is that little lady from Dr. Huang's family good-looking?" Luo Yong was sorting out the homework of the students in the evening, and the fourth mother put her hands on the table and asked Luo Yong with a gossip. .

"I heard that it's not very pretty. I had smallpox when I was a child, and my face was uneven." Luo Yong told her what he had heard.

"Do you think she is ugly?" Siniang continued to inquire.

"There should be a reason for this." Luo kept moving his hands, paused and added: "I heard that the little lady can't read."

People in this era still generally believe that it is better for women to have some talents, especially those flamboyant scholars.

Firstly, if people find out that they are married to an illiterate person, they will feel ashamed and not classy enough. Secondly, these people actually have their own expectations and fantasies about love. This kind of woman who is about to cause trouble and make people laugh is definitely not the object of their fantasy.

"You said that Professor Hou can hide this time?" Si Niang's face was full of interest.

She doesn't think it's a big deal to be illiterate with a pitted face, she can be handsome and chic with a pitted face, and she can learn anytime if she is illiterate.

"Who knows." Luo Yong also felt that just relying on hiding is not a long-term solution.

"Why don't you just marry that little lady, and there are no rumors that she has a bad character." Si Niang grinned, not knowing why she was so happy.

"Maybe you have to cry when you are teaching." It's just that the dream is broken.

"Hehehehe!" Luo Siniang laughed so gloatingly.Luo Yong looked up at her, and couldn't help laughing along with him.

No one dares to ask for these two, but I am ashamed to gossip about others here for fun.

It's not just the two of them. In the future, the marriages of the younger ones will be affected. In the family there is an elder brother who dares to fight against the emperor, and another one who is also worry-free and can play with knives better than a barbarian. Sister, which family should not be carefully considered.