Someone stealing a horse was just a small incident and did not delay most people's sleep.
Many people didn't know what happened last night until the next day.
Because it is outside the city, cases often happen in this area, especially in places like inns, and the shopkeeper has long been used to it.
Even if two lives were lost, the shopkeeper didn't take it seriously. In order not to affect his business, he didn't even report it to the police. Before dawn, he asked a few guys to take the two thieves to a mass grave and bury them.
Yun Chao thought there was going to be some trouble, but he didn't expect it to be solved so easily. It seemed that Dongping Mansion was not at peace, otherwise the shopkeeper wouldn't be so calm.
Since there was no trouble, Yun Chao did not wait outside the city, and without even eating breakfast, he took Wu Er, Zhang Sihai, Er Lengzi and San Haozi into the city.
Dongping Mansion also collects a city gate tax, which is also two cents per person.
However, Yun Chao is the acting commander of the Qingyang Camp. Taking people into the city is a business matter and does not require payment.
After checking Yun Chao's identity badge and the official document issued by County Magistrate Sun, the soldiers guarding the city let him go.
Yun Chao said to several of his subordinates: "Look carefully and see how others do it. We should learn more from them."
Yun Chao is a time traveler, but he does not think that he is better than the ancients in every aspect.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. We must use our strengths and avoid weaknesses and learn more from the strengths of others in order to continue to make progress.
Because he took advantage of the loopholes in the city gate and assassinated Wu Xianwei and Ding Xiancheng successively, Yun Chao paid less attention to city defense so as not to risk his own life.
The soldiers guarding the city of Dongping Prefecture not only inspected people, but also inspected goods.
Especially the goods on the carriage, probably to prevent bandits hiding in the carriage.
Wu Er nodded: "Dongping Mansion is so strict, which means it must be uneasy recently. We must strengthen the city defense after we return."
Yun Chao felt that what Wu Er said made sense. If it was a normal situation, the inspection into the city should not be so strict. All goods must be inspected. This would waste too much time.
"Come, come here." Yun Chao hooked his fingers at a young soldier.
The young soldier ran over: "Sir, what are your orders?"
Although Yun Chao is only a battalion-level acting commander, he is not something ordinary soldiers dare to mess with.
"Is there anything going on recently? Why are the inspections so strict?"
With that said, Yun Chao threw over a small piece of broken silver.
The soldier quickly took the money and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Sir, I don't know. The bandits in Onozawa have been very rampant recently and have committed many major crimes. In order to prevent them from invading the city, the supervisor has strengthened the city defense. …”
Yun Chao frowned.
It seems like there might really be trouble.
Come wherever you are afraid, bandits in Onozawa should have become a habit, otherwise a military supervisor in a prefectural city would not be so nervous.
Ordinary bandits can be wiped out with casual troops, so there is no need to be so nervous.
After sending the soldiers back, Yun Chao led the people to the government office.
Although it was still early, the streets of Dongping Mansion were already very lively.
Grain shops, butcher shops, vendors hawking along the streets, early-rising citizens, and dung trucks carrying night fragrance outside the city formed a picture of ordinary urban life in ancient times.
As Yun Chao walked, he observed the differences between Dongping Prefecture and Qingyang County.
Except that the houses are slightly better, the streets are slightly wider, there are slightly more people, the clothes are slightly better, and the businesses are slightly more prosperous, it doesn't seem to be much better than Qingyang County.
Well, each item is better than Qingyang County, but together, it is obvious that it is not on the same level as Qingyang County.
Moreover, the scale of the city is not the same as that of Qingyang County.
There is only one cross street in Qingyang County. Although the main street of Dongping Mansion is also a cross street, there are many subsidiary streets, which are somewhat similar to the legendary Qipan Street.
"Shopkeeper, how do you sell the food?"
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"Shopkeeper, how much is a pound of pork?"
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"Shopkeeper, how much is the brown sugar? Can I get a discount if I buy more?"
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Yunchao started a survey. Anyone who was doing business would ask about the price.
The service attitude of the merchants in Dongping Prefecture was pretty good. Even if Yun Chaoguang asked if he wanted to buy something, no one expressed dissatisfaction.
Well, Yun Chao is wearing official uniform. Whoever dares to express dissatisfaction will not offend an official even if there is a backstage behind it.
After going around in a circle, Yun Chao found that prices in Dongping Prefecture were mostly cheaper than in Qingyang County.
For example, food is half a percent cheaper than in Qingyang County.
Half achievement is five percent, not half.
Also, brown sugar, which is in high demand in Yunchao, is cheaper than in Qingyang County.
It is said to be brown sugar, but in Yun Chao's opinion, it is just brown sugar, and its quality is far from comparable to the real brown sugar of later generations.
However, these dark things have brought Yunchao huge profits.
Yun Chao used the yellow mud decolorization method to purify the white sugar. Except for part of it, which was sold to Zhao Runchun's pharmacy, the rest was processed into fruit candies.
The shiny fruit candy is definitely the rarest luxury product in Qingyang County. As the signature product of Lion House, it is only available in limited quantities to high-quality members.
I am not a member of the Lion House. I don’t often go to the Lion House to spend money. If I want to buy fruit candies, I will not do so unless I have something to do with Yunchao.
The reason why the conditions for purchasing fruit candies are so harsh is hunger marketing, but the main reason is the serious shortage of raw materials.
There is only one small southern goods store in Qingyang County, which can only get goods every once in a while, and not much.
Dongping Prefecture is a "big city", and the store selling brown sugar is a large-scale grocery store. It has much more items than the Nanhuo Store in Qingyang County, and it must have a stronger purchasing capacity.
If the supply of brown sugar can be opened up, the production of fruit sugar can be greatly increased.
As for why they don’t sell white sugar?
First, white sugar does not have as much added value as fruit sugar, and second, white sugar is more conspicuous than fruit sugar.
After all, caramel has existed a long time ago, and now Yun Chao has come up with a kind of fruit candy, and the two things can barely go together.
Of course, Yunchao's fruit candies are only sold in Qingyang County, and they don't dare to promote them nationwide yet. If they don't have certain strength, they can just toss them around, and sooner or later they will get involved.
Yun Chao bought all the brown sugar reserves in the grocery store in one go, weighing two thousand kilograms, and spent nearly four hundred taels of silver.
Don't think that four hundred taels of silver is nothing. In Qingyang County, it's just four sets of ordinary houses.
The shopkeeper of the grocery store was already in a daze. No wonder he heard magpies calling early in the morning. This transaction was completed and he made at least one hundred taels, which was almost as much as the entire shop made in a month!
Brown sugar is an absolute luxury product, and ordinary people are not willing to buy it.
There are many rich people in Dongping Prefecture, but rich people can't eat brown sugar every day, right?
Based on the consumption of Dongping Prefecture, two thousand kilograms of brown sugar may not be sold out in a year!
"Shopkeeper, don't patronize me. Help me find someone to buy a few large trucks, and look after a few truck drivers to deliver the goods to Qingyang County for me."
