It turns out that I came early!
Finally, I have an explanation for that old guy Bai Baozheng. Otherwise, I would take his descendants out like a dog and go back without catching anything. How would he be willing to do it!
Why did these three boys come to Malipo? This was quite surprising to him. He asked them to look for salt outside and found this place!
But this also proves that his own vision is correct. These three people do have something. They know that Malipo is the place to do business!
"How many days until the show starts?"
"According to the store, it was the day after tomorrow. We have asked a lot of people in the past few days, and most of them said the day after tomorrow!"
"Very good, then wait for two more days!"
Liang Chuan took A Yue to stay at the inn. Nong Da looked at the large group of people behind him. This person was still thoughtful about how to settle these people.
"What to do with these people?"
"Go and ask if there is a donkey shed behind the store and let them stay!"
Liang Chuan's tone seemed to be very unhappy, and Nong Da didn't know why, but he didn't have to ask Liang Chuan, so he just didn't care.
The Bai family didn't bring much money with them when they went out. They had a donkey shed to live in, which was great. Bai Dai himself didn't say a few words, so he took the lead and went to the back of the house!
Liang Chuan took one look at this group of people and felt a headache.
These people themselves don’t even look down on them. Is there any girl who is so ignorant that she can look at them seriously? Marrying them really shows that her ancestors lacked great virtue!
As soon as he entered the door, before he could sit down, they were sitting there, dejected and desperate. Walking for two days, what kind of hardship was this? In this place, he had seen a lot of people carrying bamboo baskets and how many goods were inside. It starts at ten pounds, and you can carry it over mountains and ridges without even making a sound, tsk tsk, these sissies.
The next day, as if by chance, the heads of people at the foot of Xiushan suddenly began to move, and many figures appeared!
What surprised Liang Chuan even more was that Malipo was like opening a clothing exhibition hall. Most people didn't wear the same clothes!
Malipo doesn’t know how this bird-like place developed. It turns out that it is really called a bird that doesn’t poop. There is nothing as far as the eye can see, and there are only a few houses. How can such a remote and backward place be developed? It’s completely It goes against the laws of economics!
But this is how people do business. They carry batches of goods on their backs without even a stall. They put them on the ground and start shouting at the top of their lungs, and the business starts!
Although it is lively, the added value of the things sold here is not high!
It can be seen with the naked eye that the most expensive and valuable items sold here may be some silver jewelry!
Silver was the strongest hard currency before modern times. This was true in the Central Plains. Starting from the Youjia Kingdom, the value of silver was even more obvious in border areas such as the southwest.
There will be more non-ferrous metals in the southwest, but the technical conditions here are not as good as those in the Central Plains in all aspects. Therefore, the silver and copper mines that were easy to mine everywhere are more difficult and costly here, and silver is more valuable here.
And one thing is that both men and women of ethnic minorities love silver jewelry. If a woman can wear silver armor all over her body when she comes out of the palace, especially if she has a towering silver head, she will be extremely glorious!
Although Liang Chuan has never seen it with his own eyes, he has seen it a lot on TV. Every New Year, the girls here always take out the silver crown passed down from their family and put it on their head. Focus!
It was not yet the Five Songs Festival in May, and the fair had not yet begun. These silversmiths had already arrived first, found the most open seats on the slope, and began to work on their crafts.
Most of the silver jewelry is already finished. If we rush the work at this time, not to mention the poor quality, we won't be able to produce many pieces of jewelry. Just that big crown may take a whole month to complete, which is still quite a rush. In two or three days, they couldn't make anything!
Next are some farm tools and hunting equipment, these places are also very popular.
Probably because craftsmen are quite scarce in this place, there are not many people making tools. Some small tools such as hoes, sickles, axes, and even arrowheads are crowded with people here, and the prices seem to be low.
It’s not cheap. Many people were holding tools in their hands with longing in their eyes. After talking about the price for a while, their expressions immediately dropped and they reluctantly put down the tools in their hands. Their eyes were full of helplessness. It seemed that they were frightened by the stall owner’s price. .
Malipo is a big fair that only happens once every six months. Tourists want to come here to pick up bargains and buy hand-made tools. Of course, sellers also want to seize this precious opportunity and make a lot of money!
Therefore, there are advantages and disadvantages to shopping in Malipo. The advantage is that you can find what you want as much as possible, but the disadvantage is that what you want may not be cheap at this time.
Here, Liang Chuan also met many people selling Cordyceps. He once wondered whether the Cordyceps these days were artificially cultivated. Why were there so many! It seems that there is no end to it, and it is a big bag. People in the Yunnan-Guizhou Mountains usually collect this kind of beef grass, not for themselves, but for their cattle. .
Liang Chuan is one of the few people who buys it and makes soup and eats it himself. .
From dawn to dusk on the second day, there were more and more people on the slope. At night, the road at the foot of the mountain was almost occupied by vendors on both sides, and the middle was already crowded with people. Many people did not even visit restaurants or inns. I found a dry place to lie down and prepare to spend the night!
There are also cloth sellers.
People here are also obsessed with cloth. It should be said that everyone is the same. Liang Chuan remembered why he looked forward to the New Year every day when he was a child, because it was just this time to wear new clothes! During this May Day, many people will tear out two feet of new cloth, take out the old ones, and sew them together again. Those who have more money will just make them all over again, but there are very few people like this.
These exquisite cloths came from Shu.
There are also extremely high-end silk and lacquerware, as well as porcelain. There is no market for these high-end luxury goods here. Most of them have limited spending power. Going to the market is a feast for the most simple people in society. Those rich people, They need to go directly to the store to purchase goods. Who would rush to the store to throw away such a person!
There are also very popular stalls selling daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea.
Firewood is cheap and available everywhere. Selling firewood is what Liang Chuan can't understand the most, but he saw with his own eyes that the firewood in this episode was sold the fastest! Most firewood farmers bring over loads of firewood, almost in the blink of an eye. You share a small load, I share a small load, and it’s gone in a moment.
Collecting firewood in the mountains is a very dangerous and difficult job. If you are not careful, you may be attacked by poisonous insects and snakes. The terrain in the mountains is also very complicated, so many people would rather spend a small amount of money than suffer.
The salt seller may be the most confident in Dali.
Smuggling salt here will not be severely punished, and the price of salt sold by salt dealers is not low, just because the road here is so far away from several salt-producing areas.
The emperors of Dali were of Buddhist origin, and they admired the compassion of Buddhism. Unlike Emperor Wu of Liang who relied on his faith in Buddhism to impress the people and respect the Buddha, the Duan family actually worked with the people. Salt is a good way to control the people. If they don't want to deal with the people, they will naturally not use salt, a good knife, so Dali is a paradise for salt dealers.
The three Nong brothers went out early to look for suitable coarse salt.
What they want is the coarser and cheaper salt, and they will charge as much as there is. This is what Liang Chuan told them.
As long as it's cheap enough and the quantity is large enough, he can turn coarse salt into fine salt, and the profit will always be huge!
There are also tea sellers.
It's actually very popular here.
But he really didn't see many people having the habit of drinking tea. In the past, when he was at work, everything was done on the tea table. You could do without wine, but you couldn't do without tea. He couldn't understand the tea sold by the tea seller. It was a big lump and dark, completely different from the oolong tea he had seen! It’s not so much tea as it is tea cakes pressed from tree leaves or herbs!
Even if he had seen bricks of Pu'er tea, the leaves were clearly defined when soaked in water. If these tea bricks were put into water, they would all turn into dregs!
The technology of making tea these days is very backward, and people’s pursuit of tea is not about the fragrance and taste. Tea is more like a condiment, which can keep the body healthy. When drinking tea, other ginger and garlic must be added!
The Bai family slept in the donkey shed all night.
I don't feel wronged at all, but it's a hundred times better than sleeping on the mountain road. At least I won't be covered in dew when I wake up.
They also went to the market to join in the fun.
The pitiful thing was Ah Yue. As the noise on the slope became louder and louder, her little body stretched her neck and tried hard to go to the street to watch the excitement, but Liang Chuan did not move.
Liang Chuan has wanted to go out for a long time!
It is said that the Song Dynasty is a world of flowers and flowers, but this era is really boring. There is no legendary smoke willow painting bridge, there are no brothels and literati fighting ink, and there is no life and death. All Liang Chuan sees is terrible poverty and incomparable poverty. of backwardness.
The people are simple and unpretentious. To put it bluntly, they are stunned. They have never seen anything in the world. Even a monkey with a rope tied around its neck can walk down the street and many people will watch. This is the most exciting show!
In this inn, people are almost out of their minds!
As soon as Liang Chuan took A Yue to the street, the open space down the slope was suddenly filled with people. People shouted excitedly and hard at the top of their lungs. The gongs and drums were loud. A Yue was shouting. He was small. Unable to see clearly what was happening in front of him, Liang Chuan lifted the little princess and put it on his neck!
"What are these people doing!"
Liang Chuan couldn't see it either, so he asked Ah Yue!
"There were two dogs fighting on the field. They were so fierce and their bites were all covered in blood!"
Hey, dog bites dog? Could it be. . !
Liang Chuan was tall and squeezed through two circles of people. Although he was still on the outside, he could already see the situation on the field. The people around him were at least a head shorter than him. When he saw it, it was a dog fight!
This is a lively event. Bullfighting, dog fighting, and cockfighting are all very popular activities in the southwest!
