"Shizhi?" Lu Wen's face changed slightly and he said, "It is prohibited to sell this product in Wufang City."
Lu Xiaoning said suddenly: "The ghost market doesn't sell anything? Don't say there is no ghost market in Khotan."
Lu Wen said: "You can indeed buy stone resin in the ghost market, but it is expensive and not cost-effective."
"If the price is expensive, it should be expensive. Money is not as important as life." Lu Xiaoning said, "The most painful thing in the world is that the money is still there but the person is gone, so don't worry about the money. You have to spend it."
"Well." Lu Wen crossed his hands and said, "It's just that the price of stone resin in the ghost market is too high, I'm afraid I won't be able to buy a few barrels."
Lu Xiaoning said: "Let's go to Fangshi first and then talk about it. You don't have to worry about money. I know astronomy and geography. Isn't it easy to make money? Just go."
"Here." Lu Wen did not dare to disobey and immediately led the horse to Khotan Horse Market.
Before the Song Dynasty, Chinese cities adopted the square market system, so there were no shops facing the streets. All shops were either hidden in the lanes or concentrated in the market. Chang'an had the East Market and the West Market, which concentrated various industries, and there were scattered shops in each square. Shops are like this in Chang'an, other cities, and Khotan.
The largest cargo in Khotan is horses, so the market in Khotan is also called the horse market.
However, horse market is just a name. In fact, there are all kinds of goods in the market.
There are only two gates in the Khotan Horse Market, the north and the south. When Lu Wen led the horse into the north gate, Lu Xiaoning had already taken the camera to the sky above the horse market and looked down from a high place.
But I only saw that Khotanma City was square in shape, surrounded by two-person-high adobe walls, and inside were two main streets running vertically and horizontally. Looking down from a high altitude, it looked like a tic-tac-toe, which is how the term "marketplace" came from.
The entire market is divided into nine areas by four streets, with different functions.
The large area in the middle is the Horse Market Department, which is equivalent to the current market management office and market police station. Officials and delinquents from the Horse Market Department are stationed there, and sometimes slaves are auctioned.
The eight surrounding districts are the real markets for selling goods.
There are also small alleys in each large area, and these small alleys divide the large area into several small areas. Each small area is an independent industry. It is said that there are more than 200 industries in Chang'an West City.
There are definitely not so many horse markets in Khotan, but there are definitely dozens of industries.
Lu Xiaoning looked down for a while, then lowered the camera, hovering over one of the streets, and then slowly advanced, intending to take a full shot of Yutian Ma City first.
But I saw shops from all walks of life selling everything.
The streets and alleys are also crowded with people.
Among the pedestrians were Han Chinese wearing round-collar robes and futou, but more were Sogdian Hu people with blue eyes, red beards, and nose augmentations. There were also many orchids with fair skin and blue eyes, wearing brightly colored headscarves, among the crowd. shuttle.
There was the sound of camel bells, merchants’ shouts, bargaining and scolding.
Lu Xiaoning even heard a kind of deep and desolate music, which could make people's liver tremble.
Following the sound of the music, the camera moved into one of the rooms, and there were more than a dozen Anxi girls inside.
Most of these Anxi girls are young and beautiful, and most of them are Sogdian orchids with high noses and big eyes.
One of the Hu Ji was playing a recorder-like music. The deep and desolate music Lu Xiaoning heard just now was produced by this instrument. It was so nice.
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Khotan Horse Market is mainly about horse trading.
Lu Wen on the other side was not idle either, and soon came to the large area in the northwest corner of the horse market. This entire area was dedicated to buying and selling horses, and there were hundreds of businesses in it.
Lu Wen found one of the shops and said, "The shopkeeper sells horses."
The shopkeeper of this shop is a Sogdian Hu, and when business comes to his door, he immediately welcomes him with a smile on his face.
Lu Wen sorted out seven of the horses. Sogdian Hu Shang carefully inspected them and said with satisfaction: "They are all mature horses between five and ten years old. They are fat and strong, with thick hooves. They are the best Turkic horses." .”
Lu Wen said: "The shopkeeper knows the goods well. These are the Tubo army horses captured on the battlefield."
"Military horses?" Sogdian Hu Shang's expression changed, "Guest, do you have the documents from the military town?"
Lu Wen's face fell and he said helplessly: "I am from the Quy Nhon Army. I will make up for it later."
"That can't be done." Sogdian Hu Shang shook his head and said, "The laws of the Tang Dynasty clearly stipulate that private trading of weapons, armor, and horses of the Tang Dynasty is strictly prohibited. Violators will be fined and have their goods confiscated, and they will also have to travel three thousand miles. Guest, you are in trouble. Little old man."
In the early Tang Dynasty, there was a shortage of military supplies, and the sale of weapons, armor, and military horses was indeed prohibited. Violators were severely punished.
But by the Tianbao period, this rule had long been in vain, and no one followed it at all.
After Li Linfu came to power, the Tang Dynasty was like a runaway train sliding into the abyss at high speed.
The Sogdian Hu merchant said this just because he wanted to lower the price, not because he really didn't want to buy these military horses.
Lu Wen was a little impatient: "Shopkeeper, we don't want to play with these fake things. Just give me a real price. If it works, I will sell it. If it doesn't work, I will go to another store to avoid wasting everyone's time."
Sogdian Hu Shang thought for a moment, stretched out three fingers and said: "Three thousand coins!"
Lu Wen was too lazy to talk nonsense and took the horse and planned to leave. The Sogdian Hu merchant quickly increased the price: "Three thousand and five thousand!"
Lu Wen turned around and said: "A Turkic army horse in Chang'an West City is worth at least 9,000 yuan, and you give it 3,500 yuan? You are robbing money! Each horse costs 6,000 yuan. If it is less, we will not sell it."
"Guest, you are being unreasonable. How can the price in Khotan be compared with that in Chang'an?" Sogdian Hu merchants retorted, "A high-quality Orchid can be sold for a million dollars in Chang'an, but in Anxi A thousand dollars at most!”
Lu Wen said helplessly: "Then five thousand dollars, no more, this is a first-class Turkic horse."
"Four thousand yuan, no more." Sogdian Hu Shang said, "Customers also know that the road from Anxi to Chang'an is not easy to walk. Every year, business travelers are robbed, ranging from losing goods and horses to losing their lives. It’s not guaranteed, so those of us who do business must consider losses, and four thousand dollars really can’t be more.”
Lu Wen said with a dark face: "Four thousand five hundred dollars."
"Deal." Sogdian Hu Shang did not continue to lower the price this time, but readily agreed, because he could see that this price was already Lu Wen's bottom line, and if he lowered the price further, the order would be ruined.
"Guest, this is 31,500 yuan, please keep it."
There are a total of 31 half-hanging Kaiyuan Tongbao, weighing a full two hundred and two kilograms.
Then it was time to buy grain. Lu Wen bought 21 shi of wheat, spending 10,000 yuan.
It's not that he doesn't want to buy more grain, but he can't transport it back to Selüburg even if he buys it, because he only has eight horses left. Except for the horse he rides, each of the remaining seven horses can carry up to three stones of grain.
At this time, Lu Xiaoning finished filming the horse market and returned to Lu Wen.
"How can this little food be enough?" Lu Xiaoning said to Lu Wen's ear, "You said that there are more than 500 people in Seluburg, and each person can only get four kilograms of food. No matter how much you save, it will only be enough to eat four kilograms." sky."
"There's nothing you can do about it. You can't take it back if you buy more." Lu Wen smiled bitterly.
"Hire a camel team to transport it back." Lu Xiaoning said, "You have to buy at least five hundred shi of grain."
"Five hundred stones?" Lu Wen smiled bitterly again, "Immortal Lord, thirty thousand dollars is only enough to buy sixty stones. Even if you sell the remaining eight military horses, you won't be able to buy five hundred stones. You can only buy one hundred and twenty stones. "
"I told you, don't worry about money. I'll figure it out."
Lu Xiaoning said: "Now you just go to the grain store to order the food and the camel team."
Although Lu Wen was very suspicious, he still went to the grain store out of respect for the immortal.
On the other side, Lu Xiaoning opened Baidu and entered how to make money quickly in the Tang Dynasty?
Many methods quickly popped up on the search page, two of which attracted Lu Xiaoning's attention.
One is to make icing sugar, the other is to make refined salt, and the profit of icing sugar is much higher than that of refined salt.
Sugar frost is actually rock sugar. It was not discovered until the reign of Zong Guangde in the Tang Dynasty by a monk named Zou.
Sugar was a luxury product in ancient times and was particularly expensive in the West. In the Middle Ages, Western nobles would write the amount of sugar in their wills before they died.
So if you make icing now, it's a separate business.
A single business is a monopoly, and monopoly often means huge profits.
Can you imagine how much the dignitaries in Chang'an would like the crystal clear rock sugar when it was trafficked to Chang'an?
Maybe Du Mu's "Riding the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows it's lychee coming" will become "Riding the red dust concubine laughs, no one knows it's sugar frost coming", and Li Bai might also write a poem specifically for sugar frosting.
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