North and South groceries

Speaking of wooden tracks, the wooden track from Chang'an City to Luoyang has now been replaced with railroad tracks.

It's not that refined iron is used from the inside to the outside, but the wood is wrapped with refined iron.

In the past few months, the sage is deploying troops to Goguryeo, and the railway track from Chang'an to Luoyang has also become extremely busy.Cars come and go every day, and some of the cars carry very heavy goods, but the rails are strong and there is no damage.

Iron prices are very expensive in this era. When the imperial court was repairing the two rails, it really cost a lot of money, but now it seems that it is very worthwhile.

Guo Xiaoke on the Hexi side also heard about the railroad track, and felt a little envious in his heart. When the iron mines are opened on his side, maybe he can also repair the two railroad tracks.

Although he doesn't know how long he will be the Governor of Hexi, but he can move his family here and guard an iron mine. Isn't that more promising than guarding those acres of land in the Central Plains?

In order to mine and sell mines, Guo Duhu has also racked his brains recently. Road construction is a must, and the documents sent by the court in the past two days, Jiaodong is going to fight, and their Hexi side should indeed be more vigilant.

The other small countries are not bad, they are all about to get into the eyes of money, and they should have no intention of fighting, because they are afraid that those Turkic people will launch a surprise attack.

But this vigilance is vigilance, but it can't seal off all the business channels. If he wants to open a mine, he needs some capital. The source of income is blocked, so tell him where to get the money at that time.

Fortunately, his eldest son, Guo Daizhao, is getting older and able to handle affairs. He is his right-hand man. When the time comes, he will be responsible for organizing the mining.

He, Guo Xiaoke, is guarding the city of Gaochang to see if the Turkic people dare to fight over. In the mine, there are a lot of absenteeism horses that need to be used.

For the iron mine, Guo Xiaoke also spent his money this time. When he said that he wanted to build roads, all the people in Jiuquan, Zhangye and Liangzhou cried poorly for him.

Forget about Jiuquan, he wasn't very rich in the first place, and the track in front of him had just been laid, so they were really powerless. Zhangye Liangzhou, with so much oil and water, even called him poor, and he didn't want to take money out.

However, even if he was dissatisfied, the governors of the two places were not of low background. Although Guo Xiaoke had a higher official position than them, his background was low, and he didn't have many connections in the court, so he didn't dare to offend these nobles.

Besides, mining is still the most important thing right now, it's better not to cause extra problems, so Guo Duhu had to take out a lot of money this time.

Just in time for the autumn tax collection, coupled with the intensive business contacts in this season, he does have some money on hand, and the money was thrown to Zhangye Liangzhou before it was warmed up in his hand went.

Unlike Luo Yong’s disciples who made profits through production and trading, Guo Xiaoke looked forward to fighting when he was short of money. For this reckless general, there is nothing more convenient and quicker than fighting in this world. The money comes from the channel.

But his hope is in vain, and it is useless. If others don't fight him, he must also consider international public opinion, and he can't rush to send troops. I didn't see that the saint wanted to fight Goguryeo this time, and it was also through the joint efforts of Goguryeo and Baekje. The reason for attacking Silla.

To build such a long wooden track, one of which has to climb over Yanzhi Mountain, it is obviously not enough to rely on the money and silk that Guo Xiaoke has on hand.

For this reason, he also raised some money from the local gentry and merchants in Hexi. Not to mention others in Changle County, Luo Erniang alone raised a lot.

Luo Erniang currently has two workshops, one in Liangzhou and the other in Changle. The wooden track will be of great benefit to her.

And the money is not in vain, but anyone who paid for the road construction this time will have a lot of convenience for them to walk and transport goods on this wooden track in the future.

Luo Erniang also hoped that if the wooden track from Liangzhou City to Chang'an City could also be repaired, the goods from their side would be continuously transported to the Central Plains.

When Luo Yong opens another branch of North and South groceries in Changle County, the goods from the Central Plains can also be transported to Changle County.

Although there are many workshops opened in Changle County, compared with Chang'an City, the variety of goods is still too small.

Luo Yong also wrote to Si Niang to see if there is any extra manpower in her shop, no matter if it is a chef or a shop assistant, as long as they are willing to come to Changle County, they will be promoted and raised I am very sure of that.

After all, Chang'an City is prosperous, and compared to the frontier land in Changle County, it is much safer. Generally speaking, Chang'an City, which is born and bred, does not want to go far away even if it is faced with the temptation of promotion and salary increase.

On the contrary, some children hired from Xing Er earlier, these children have also grown up a lot in recent years, some of them grow up fast and precociously, and they almost look like young people.

Those children in the past have now penetrated into all aspects of groceries in the north and south. Some worked as shop assistants in the front, and some worked as warehouse managers in the back.

Relatively speaking, these people don't have much nostalgia for Chang'an City. On the contrary, because they have lived at the bottom of society since childhood, their desire to stand out is more urgent than ordinary people.

Hearing that going to the branch in Changle County can get a promotion and salary increase, and considering that Hexi has developed very rapidly in the past few years, they discussed with each other to go to Changle County to make a living.

For this matter, Xing Er is also very supportive. This time has passed year by year, and the children in the past have grown up one by one. Xing Er does not look as young as before, and has lost a bit of his former vigor. , and his temper is much better than it was a few years ago.

Because he has been adopting orphans in Chang'an City, he has gradually gained some reputation in the whole Chang'an City over the years. From time to time, kind-hearted rich people will send some food and cloth to him, and some people even wrote a few poems for him, praising him. His act of righteousness.

There are one or two poems that are really nasty, and they brag about Xing Er like a Bodhisattva. These children who work in the North and South groceries feel embarrassed when they hear it.

When times were hard, Xing Er often took them over the wall in the middle of the night to steal chickens and pick vegetables in the courtyards of rich people.

"It's better not to talk about these unlucky things, wait until he hears about it, and see if he can make you more anxious."

Xing Er, a character who used to look very tough and shameless in the past, did not expect that in essence he would like to hear people praise himself abnormally. He had people write down those few poems and paste them in the main room. Ask those children who have just learned to read to read it out to him and listen to it, it is very useful and enjoyable.

"What are you afraid of? I'll be leaving in two days."

"Don't say these are useless, your clothes are all packed."

"I'm supposed to make two more winter coats."

"What are you doing for that? I have these two pieces of clothing. If you don't have enough, go to Longyou Road to buy them. The white flowers are cheap there."

"Don't wear it on the road? It's going to be winter in a while, if you don't prepare winter clothes yourself, then don't grab mine to wear."

"Who is going to snatch your rags?"

"Last time you put your inner coat on the fire, did you burn the collar? Did you take mine to wear? You usually have an extra one, so why did you come to take mine then?"

"Look at you being long-winded."

"You are a stingy person, and you are not willing to buy one more piece of clothing."

"Hey, stop arguing."

"He just got used to it in the past, and he can't change it for a while."

"It's been several years."

"I don't think he can change it for the rest of his life."

"Stop arguing, stop arguing, what a big deal..."

"Should I buy some ointment for bruises?"

Seeing that they will be leaving in a few days, all these young men are preparing their bags, and after talking about the clothes, some people say they are going to buy medicine.

"Hey, Sun Simiao's disciple has been measuring blood pressure with people in the market these days, why don't we go and measure it, and if there is something wrong, we can buy the medicine in advance." Someone suggested.

"I heard that it is a problem that only old people have."

"That's not necessarily the case. Two days ago, I heard people say in the shop that there was a young lady in Anyifang, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old and not yet married. Her blood pressure was higher than her old lady's. "

"real or fake?"

"Really! I really heard it!"

"Tsk, I don't know what's wrong with high blood pressure. I haven't heard of it in the early years."

"Since they are Sun Simiao's disciples, they will never bluff people."

"There is also the one who was measured to have high blood pressure. After taking their medicine and getting an injection, it really got better."

"Then we'll check it out tomorrow?"

"Go, anyway, I don't have to go to work for these two days, and I just happened to go shopping in the street and buy some delicious food."

"..."

These young people are talking about measuring blood pressure here. In the palace, when the saint favored a concubine that night, the concubine told him that he had been feeling dizzy for the past two days. He also got that kind of high blood pressure.

To be honest, the concubine is not yet thirty this year, so she is not too old. The reason why she said this is to have more common topics with the emperor. After all, Li Shimin is also 46 this year.

On the second day, the saint really ordered the palace people to invite two of Sun Simiao's disciples into the palace to check the concubine's blood pressure. By the way, he also checked it himself.

After the investigation, the concubine was fine, but the emperor was found to have high blood pressure!

"My blood pressure... is high?"

The old emperor squinted his eyes and looked at the blood pressure measuring instrument that Sun Simiao and the others concocted by their own methods, but they couldn't see any tricks.

He only felt that there was something red inside the instrument covered with oil paper. When he measured it for his concubine just now, the height of that thing was only about half of his current height. He vaguely felt that his problem seemed to be It's serious.

"It is indeed high blood pressure, which is much higher than ordinary people." One of Sun Simiao's disciples replied.

"..." This wise gentleman of the ages had never heard of the disease of high blood pressure before. At this time, when he was found out to have high blood pressure, his heart sank for a while, as if he had a terminal illness.