Yamazaki guessed: "The mysterious substance in our body should be the innate Qi. When accumulated to a certain level, it can cut off the hair and cleanse the marrow."
Shandai suggested, "In this case, we should leave the city."
Yamazaki shook his head, "No, although I don't know what it means to cut off the hair and cleanse the marrow, but I think it is a kind of change that introduces the old and brings out the new. If you practice too quickly, there will be problems."
Shan Dai was dissatisfied, "But meditating like this is too slow."
Yamazaki shook his head, "I've been sitting around the stove for the past two days, and I feel pretty good."
"Didn't you think it was good last time? From now on, you can meditate in front of the stove in the kitchen and absorb the energy of fire. The fire is in conjunction with the heart. The heart controls the blood energy. Only when the blood energy is strong can the marrow be washed."
"It just so happens that I'm selling cakes outside and the fire is always burning at home. The continuous smoke won't attract anyone's attention."
Shandai smacked her lips, "Okay, let's try it first."
…
Shandai stationed himself in the kitchen, and Yamazaki continued to sell cakes. He needed ten taels of silver every day and bought more firewood and coal to hoard.
Seeing that there were more and more people in the city, I quickly went to the vegetable market to do some shopping.
At this time prices returned to normal and climbed a bit higher due to lack of manual labor.
The price of fine grains has risen the most. Those who are dragged to work have ten taels of silver per person per month. As more people eat fine grains and there is less fine grains in the city, prices will naturally rise.
Also rising sharply is meat, especially fresh meat.
Yamazaki traded the fine grains he brought and was able to produce nineteen bushels of fine grains.
After shopping for goods on the street, I finally exchanged 380 bushels of soybean meal for coarse grains, and one bushel of fine grains for 20 bushels.
It was usually used to feed livestock, and since everyone had sold their livestock before, the price of this stuff naturally dropped sharply.
Shan Dai was curious, "Why do you want to change this?"
"You'll know in a few days." Yamazaki smiled mysteriously.
"Forget it if you don't tell me. Don't lose all your money."
"How could it be possible? These two pigs are worth five hundred taels of silver now."
Shandai immediately protested, "No pigs are allowed to be sold. What will we eat if we sell them!"
Yamazaki was funny, "Don't worry, you'll know in a few days."
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Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, caravans arrived one after another, and prices in the city plummeted, especially fine grains, salted meat, salted fish, salt, cloth, silk, paper, etc. The merchants brought a lot of them.
Yamazaki noticed that there were many horses and livestock on the street, so he took soybean meal and coarse grains to various warehouses and sold them as feed for money.
One dou was sold for twenty taels of silver, and three hundred and eighty dou was sold for 760 taels of silver.
Then go buy fine grains and bacon.
One dou of fine grain now costs eight taels of silver, and fifty dou of fine grain costs four hundred taels of silver.
One pound of bacon costs one tael, and two hundred pounds of bacon costs two hundred taels.
…
Yamazaki settled the accounts, giving him a bushel of fine grain, ten pounds of bacon, and eighteen taels of silver.
Make five hundred fine-grain meatloaf, sell each for one penny, and get fifty taels.
Sell a thousand loaves a day and get a hundred taels of silver.
Including firewood, the cost is about forty taels of silver, and the daily net profit is sixty taels.
I can earn 900 taels in half a month, but the cost has already been paid. In the end, I get 1,500 taels in half a month, plus the remaining 160 taels, and before...
Shan Dai looked at Yamazaki's crackling abacus and found it amusing, "Brother, you might as well open a shop here and be the shopkeeper."
Yamazaki smiled and said: "Silver is a must. Don't think that it's just twenty taels a month. I've asked about it, and there are all kinds of cashiers with clear eyes."
"Is this okay? Those people have all run away."
"Where are you going? The world is as dark as crows, even in the imperial court."
Shan Dai clicked her tongue, "So, it's better to go over to our side."
"It will take less than ten years, which is about the same." Yamazaki sighed. "Fortunately, peace will still be restored to the world, but it is far away here."
Shandai smacked her lips and said, "Why do you care so much? In any case, you should develop your innate talent first."
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Fifteen days passed in the blink of an eye, one month was up, and the money was paid again.
First there is the stall fee of ten taels, and then there is the labor fee of ten taels.
There is also an extra security fee, ten taels of silver per person, which is another twenty taels.
I paid a total of forty taels before I passed the test.
The balance is one thousand six hundred and twenty taels of silver, twenty measures of fine grain, fifty pounds of bacon, and the rest is not counted.
While merchants are stocking up on goods, quickly take them out to scan the goods.
Eight taels per dou of fine grain, one hundred dou of fine grain, and eight hundred taels of silver.
Four hundred bushels of various coarse grains, thirty taels.
Wind chickens and wind ducks, the same ten, a total of twenty taels.
One hundred catties of various salted fish and salted fish sections, fifty taels.
Six hundred catties and six hundred taels of various kinds of bacon.
More than two hundred taels were spent on various sundries, including pigs, grass, hay, furniture, seasonings, toilet paper, coal, stone, cloth, etc.
…
Shandai was curious again, why did she buy so many.
Yamazaki didn't keep it secret this time and told the reason directly. The Jianghu people were leaving.
Sure enough, not long after, a large number of Jianghu people in the city began to retreat.
Since the evil thief has never been found, everyone stopped wasting their time here.
Without the Jianghu people, the city's consumption power has been greatly reduced, and merchants have stopped purchasing goods on a large scale.
Prices began to fluctuate again, and prices of fine grains began to rise again.
Yamazaki did not increase the price of the fine-grain meatloaf, it was still a penny a piece.
Attract customers at cheap prices and continue to sell out a thousand units every day.
After consuming two bushels of fine grain and twenty kilograms of meat, he got one hundred taels of silver.
After all, there are still a lot of construction workers in the city, and they can still afford it.
…
On the other side, Hancheng.
The Southeast King's naval vanguard pressed outside the city. The imperial navy fought with them several times at the bend of the river, but they could only drive them away with the help of many arrows and could not annihilate them.
An army from the southeast road moved to Hancheng, commanded the officers and soldiers of Hancheng, and set up defenses on the south bank of the city.
The officers and soldiers were like wolves and tigers, requisitioning many people's properties and asking them to provide military supplies.
They also requisitioned people and asked them to do chores. If they didn't want to serve, they had to pay.
The only people who can keep their family business are those who rely on officials and powerful people, and they must also have good relations with the Southeast Route Army, otherwise they will not buy it.
The situation in Hancheng has changed drastically, and many wealthy families have fled. However, the wealthy families are reluctant to leave their property and flee, so they can only bite the bullet and find ways.
However, the officers and soldiers did not touch the belongings of the Yama family, because the local government and the spies mistakenly believed that behind the alias Yamazaki was the spy commander.
Although the army is at odds with the spies, they still need the help of the spies in times of war, so they dare not move.
In this way, the Shan family also gathered a group of families they had good relations with in the past, and their related families.
The Shan family's goods were sold to the garrison, and they also built and repaired ships for the navy, and made arrows.
The dock outside the city has become extremely prosperous, and it is the first choice for officers, soldiers and requisitioned personnel to relax.
At the same time, Shanjia's signboard was so effective that it allowed caravans to pass through the restricted rivers and land checkpoints, and the transportation business going north became better.
And in this glorious spring season, the second lady and third lady of Shanjiabao and their entourage slowly arrived in Hancheng and met up with the Tian family who had evacuated to Hancheng earlier.
Although the war had not yet spread to the small town where the Tian family was located, the Tian family and the surrounding big families were worried about being raided, so they left first.
Since he couldn't let go of his family business and still had to do business, he didn't go far and arrived at Hancheng, which was heavily guarded by soldiers.
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