The Ming Dynasty started with caution

After renting a shop, it was much easier to sell their own products. I wonder how much money they can earn.

Earlier, they had planned to rent a shop in Liangxiang, but the owner of the shop was not stupid and was unwilling to sell.

Xie Yu returned to the capital to resell silk. After reading the court newspaper, he was very happy. Fortunately, he returned to the capital this time and took the silver to Liangxiang.

But when he arrived in Liangxiang, he was dumbfounded.

There was no shop at all. It was clearly a straw shed. There was not even a door or wall. You could see the end at a glance.

Isn't this just selling land and straw sheds?

"Brother, are you here to buy a shop too?"

"Yes, how come there is not even a door or wall."

"The rent is frighteningly expensive. Isn't it a scam?"

The gentry who came were disappointed.

The gentry had fields and land, and had more silver than the wandering merchants, but they were not as decisive as these wandering merchants. When they heard that the sale was open, these merchants did not even blink and started to pay silver.

Xie Yu was one of them, queuing in the crowd.

He used to be a wandering refugee, with his family hiding in a broken boat on the river. He used his wife's dowry to do small business. He was lucky and made a little money.

Now he has a pawnshop in Liangxiang, and his business is getting bigger and bigger.

Setting up stalls is embarrassing for gentry, but for him, it's no big deal.

If you buy a shop in Liangxiang, you can transport raw silk and cloth from Jiangnan, and then purchase scarce goods from here and bring them back to Jiangnan, reselling them on both ends, running a business!

In the future, Liangxiang will gather more merchants, even more powerful than the ports in Guangdong, and this move will definitely make money.

"Excuse me, sir, how much is this door shop in the straw shed?"

"Two hundred taels of silver for a year, that... I'm not an official, I just help Liangxiang sell shops." Wang Bushui smiled.

One hundred acres of land was divided into four hundred rooms by Wang Bushui.

Two hundred taels of silver per room, a total of 80,000 taels of silver a year.

"Pay first, then move in."

For the gentry, two hundred taels of silver would only make them feel a little pain, not to the point of breaking bones.

But buying a piece of broken land with two hundred taels of silver is really an insult to intelligence.

Xie Yu had two hundred taels of silver on him, and when he heard it was so expensive, he hesitated: "Without walls and doors, what should I do at night, transporting it to a collapsed house?"

"There will be people guarding at night, and there are also officials from the government office."

When Xie Yu heard it, he paid the silver happily.

A day later, Wang Bushui sold most of the one hundred acres of straw huts.

When checking accounts with the officials of Liangxiang government office, Zhang Xian was shocked that he got 60,000 taels in ten days: "Lord Yan is a living god of wealth."

Liangxiang was originally a poor and remote place in the capital, mediocre, and even not mediocre.

A piece of broken land covered with a straw hut could become so valuable, making him feel like the god of wealth lived here.

After the hut was rented out, many merchants loaded their goods overnight, striving to open the door for business the next morning.

Zhang Xian came to the hut: "Why are there so many foreign merchants?"

"The gentry in the capital brought the goods from Liangxiang to the port, attracting many French and Arabs, who followed to Liangxiang." Wang Bushui said.

Foreign merchants like raw silk, porcelain, tea, and new things from Liangxiang.

They were naturally attracted.

On the stall of an Arab, twelve golden goods were placed, and the price was 80 taels each.

The extremely high price attracted many merchants to watch.

"What is this?"

"This is the golden fruit. In the words of you Han people, it can be used as a medicine. Put it in the elixir furnace and you can refine a golden elixir that prolongs life. 80 taels each, do you want it?" Ferdusi said in a not very standard Beijing accent.

Xie Yu's eyes lit up. The Taoist priests of Zhengyi had plenty of money. If he sold it to the Taoist temple, he would make elixirs for them...

He had traveled a lot and was well-informed. He could tell at a glance that this thing was worth money.

It looked very much like gold and jade. Even if he was fooling around, he could still get some money from the Taoist priests.

He wanted to buy them all, but after paying a year's rent, he didn't have enough money.

"Can you give me less? I want all of them."

Firdusi was overjoyed. He had sold all his goods during his trip to Daming, so he had to put out some of the food he brought. Unexpectedly, someone really bought it.

"Eighty taels of silver for each. One less is not okay." Firdusi said in a stiff Beijing accent, and stretched out his hand and shook it, "No."

Xie Yu took out three hundred and twenty taels of silver and bought four.

Firdusi packed them for him. There were few merchants at night, and by tomorrow morning, these golden fruits would definitely be sold out.

He tore off the price on the sign and wrote a new price, one hundred taels each.

In the early morning, a blush appeared on the horizon.

Yan Chengjin ran a few laps in the yard. The front and back yards were planted with trees, many of which were precious plants. The air in the mansion was very good.

"Why are these shoes different from yesterday's?"

Qianjin said timidly: "The old shoes that the young master wore had worn out soles, so I changed a pair for the young master."

Yan Chengjin was relieved.

He could prepare a sedan chair. The straw shed shop was rented out yesterday. The young master would definitely go to Liangxiang today. He knew it without saying it.

Yan Chengjin got on the sedan chair and went to Liangxiang to see how the straw shed was selling.

It was not autumn yet, but it was cool today. It was a bit cold to stay in the sedan chair, so he quickly sealed the opening of the ice jar.

The air conditioner was turned off, and the temperature was just right.

When he arrived in Liangxiang, Yan Chengjin slightly opened the sedan chair. The stalls in the straw shed were sold yesterday, but today they were all filled with goods. It was very spectacular.

A row of stalls stood at the edge of the straw shed.

A foreigner wearing a round turban and a large carpet on the ground was obviously a merchant from Persia.

It was not surprising that many foreign merchants came here. Liangxiang might become a gathering place for foreign merchants like the coastal ports.

Yan Chengjin almost jumped up when he saw the goods he displayed.

It was just like encountering a wild artifact on the roadside while playing a game and browsing the map.

Corn?

Damn...

Some foreign merchants actually brought corn to the Ming Dynasty!

According to historical records, corn entered the Ming Dynasty earlier than sweet potatoes, but as one of the four major staple foods, corn was used as a fruit to supply wealthy families in the early days.

I didn't know how to cook corn, so I thought it was like a fruit and had to be ripe before it could be picked.

Ripe old corn was hard and hard to digest, and it went in one grain at a time and came out one grain at a time.

So it was introduced for a very long time, and not many people were willing to grow it.

Many farmers have limited land at home. If they plant corn, they cannot plant rice and wheat.

In comparison, corn is far less useful than rice, so it is extremely difficult to promote.

"I didn't expect that merchants have such a strong ability to promote the circulation of goods. Liangxiang has many rare things. These foreign merchants must have heard about it and come here."

As soon as he saw the price posted, Yan Chengjin knew that this person was not a good person.

Golden fruit, one hundred taels of silver each!

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