MTL - Three Kingdoms-Chapter 2788 The ripples are gradually becoming fragrant, and the up and down are separated and hard to get each other

   Jiangdong.

  Wu Jun.

   Today is neither the fifth day nor the tenth day, but it is still extremely lively in the Wujun market, especially some prime locations are full of people, and it is rare to be crowded.

In Wu County, perhaps there was no special planning at the beginning, or it was restricted by mountains, rivers and rivers, so except for some main streets that are straight, many side streets and alleys are winding, and the surrounding houses are It looks layer upon layer, eaves next to eaves, corridor after corridor. Especially in the market place, the signboards almost always push against each other.

Not only these signboards are pinching each other, but even the female recruits of various shops are also pinching each other. In Wu Yue's soft language, they are either teasing, or ridiculing, or referring to Sang Huai, or insinuating, all of them are eloquent, There are unique skills between the lips and tongue, which attracts many idlers to look left and right, just trying to be poor and happy...

And the place where these idle men gather the most is not the place where these women recruit, but the gambling house full of sweaty smell, foot smell and all kinds of smells. They are all red-eyed, cheering or lamenting. Every time they open a treasure, it is like a huge magnet, attracting crowds around them.

  As the most affluent city in Jiangdong, Wu County more or less looks like a feast for the eyes of later generations.

  Before Huqi Feiqian, no one in the Han Dynasty actually realized the impact of commodities, or trade, on the political system.

Emphasis on agriculture, or a somewhat paranoid emphasis on agriculture, has undoubtedly affected many people among the Han people, so Huaxia has long had theoretical research on agricultural and grain trade, but for the development of a wider range of trade, it is not. It has always been behind.

   The concept of foreign trade actually has different scopes in different eras, but there are similarities in purpose. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, foreign trade referred to trade between countries, and was often used as a means of cheating and abducting between princes and states. trade, but the same is still a means of restriction, or a condition of negotiation.

  In the feudal society of ancient China, due to the dominant position of the natural economy, foreign trade accounted for a small share of social products, so that the rulers generally did not pay much attention to foreign trade. Especially after the establishment of a centralized feudal country, China boasted itself as a great country, thinking that it had everything, and then developed a concept of "everything is abundant in China, and everything is available", and the rulers naturally produced a A detached sense of superiority, and regard foreign trade as an insignificant matter.

   Therefore, in the concept of the rulers of the Chinese feudal dynasty, foreign trade is often an additional product for a certain strategic purpose. The focus is on strategy, not foreign trade, not commodities, not the economy, and the economy can even be temporarily sacrificed for the sake of strategy.

  This will inevitably lead to the impossibility of maintaining this type of foreign trade for a long time.

  A typical example is "Guan Zi".

Guan Zhong is undoubtedly an ancient sage who attached great importance to commerce and trade. Under his guidance, Qi State once climbed from a wandering king to a spring and autumn hegemony, which shows how powerful Guan Zhong is, but the biggest problem with Guan Zhong is that he puts too much emphasis on skills , and forgot about "this", whether it is in the Dishu chapter or the Haiwang chapter, it expounds a means of coercing other countries through commerce and trade, and it is omnipotent. It is no wonder that later Confucian children are more concerned about Guanzi There are criticisms.

  At present, the Eastern Han Dynasty is basically a dynasty that is somewhat out of touch with business theory. The Western Han Dynasty was more or less acceptable. After all, the Western Han Dynasty was open to the outside world. The earliest Silk Road in the Northwest, the commercial road leading to poison in the Southwest, and the mutual market in the Northern Desert were all foreign trade. But after the Eastern Han Dynasty...

Emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business made commerce an accessory of agriculture, and the status of natural merchants was repeatedly reduced. In the process, there were a large number of government and merchants, and local gentry played the role of merchants, making the commercial system move towards the structure of bureaucratic merchants. It makes the exploitation suffered by the people even more severe.

The Tang Dynasty resumed foreign commerce and trade, but there was not much progress in theory. It was not until Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty that he had the theoretical development of examining foreign trade issues from the perspective of feudal state economy combined with production, monopoly, and currency circulation. Based on the trade relationship to analyze the outflow of copper coins at that time, and then use the trade relationship to deduce and predict, and propose solutions based on this.

  And under the influence of the current hussars, the causal development of commerce and trade makes even Jiangdong seem to still feel the cold wind of winter when spring is approaching.

  The price of goods from the Western Regions was chilling, blowing to Jiangdong.

  For most Jiangdong people, everything that happened in the Central Plains seems very far away. The closest to Jiangdong people are their jobs and clothes.

   This year, Jiangdong was hit by a disaster.

  According to the concept of the Jiangdong gentry, isn’t it normal to make up for the loss? Back then, Lao Sang's classmate was able to level Huai, so there's no reason why the ruling class of the Jiangdong gentry don't understand now? Therefore, after the two Zhang Gongs took the lead in internal affairs, they used huge forces to promote the collection of food from outside the disaster area and transported it to the disaster area where food prices soared.

   Is there any problem with doing this?

  Normally, there is no problem. After all, one party is in trouble and all parties support it, which is also a virtue of China's simplicity.

   But the problem is that those who are not so simple in this simple virtue...

   If it is purely disaster relief, there is naturally no problem, but at the same time as disaster relief, does anyone still want to make a small fortune?

  Anyway, there is not much difference if there are more disaster victims and less, but does your own small money have a chance to have more? At the same time, in the disaster-stricken areas, the price of food was driven up, and they took advantage of the opportunity to stockpile everything, not only food, but also other goods, such as salt, vinegar, sauce, and medicine...

  Anyway, it seems that what is needed in the disaster area can be stockpiled.

   To get rich, what kind of conscience do you need?

  Little money is the cutest.

Anyway, Jiangdong is so big, every once in a while, something will happen, either there is a famine here, or a typhoon there, there is no time for peace, disasters come, disasters go, those heads of Guizhou are still like weeds, Clumps continue to grow indiscriminately?

   Dead people?

   When will no one die?

   If more untouchables were killed, wouldn’t there be fewer untouchables making trouble?

Ever since, the problem broke out. On the one hand, the victims of the disaster were not well resettled and did not receive the supplies that should have been distributed to them. For those people who are slightly dissatisfied, they will be arrested, arrested, detained, and even sentenced.

  However, the distant disaster area and the chaotic Wuling did not affect the life in Wujun, the big city in Jiangdong, especially the children of the gentry in Wujun.

   It's like Zhang Hong.

   Carefree, moisturising.

  Since Sun Quan "retired to the second line", as the second-in-command in internal affairs, while assisting Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong's small life is undoubtedly very comfortable...

  Zhang Hong is now sitting in a private room of a restaurant facing the street in Wu County.

  Zhang Hong likes to keep a low profile.

   This restaurant is also very low-key.

  But low-key does not mean simplicity, nor can it be said that being low-key means being close to the people.

During this period of time, he always felt that there was something wrong, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of anything, so he came to this restaurant to drink some wine, eat some fish cakes, and eat a little. relax.

   This restaurant is famous for its fish noodles, but it doesn’t have a big name, and even the signboard only has a picture of a fish.

  Regular customers call this restaurant Happy Fish.

When Zhang Hong came, even though he was wearing casual clothes, there were still shop assistants who recognized him. They greeted him in a hurry, asked someone to invite the master to cook for Zhang Hong, served hot towels, washbasins, etc., and arranged I ordered some dried fruit snacks, and there were even two kinds of drinks, one was iced apple wine, and the other was rice wine warmed in a tandoor.

  Among the attentive service recruited by the store, the master chef in the store who got the news came with carefully selected live fish. Because the Han Dynasty did not have the fresh-keeping technology of later generations, so the fish sticks are eaten fresh, basically there is nothing frozen, just for freshness.

  As for why Zhang Hong likes to eat fish sticks, it depends on where Zhang Hong is originally from...

As the "advanced" fish meat for Zhang Hong, not only the fish must be big and lively, but even the dining utensils are specially customized. Although it is said that the food is only fish meat, there are more than a dozen kinds of tableware to match it. , all kinds of marinated ingredients, Linlin put the table full.

  Ivory chopsticks, a silver dinner plate, and a gold flagon jug, with two actresses standing by the side ready to pour wine for Zhang Hong at any time.

  The guy brought a copper basin full of ice water.

The master was quick and quick, first put the live fish in the ice water, and when the fish was a little stiff, he took the live fish to work in the ice water on the spot, removed the scales and fishy film, and then quickly cleaned it There wasn't much blood, and the fish's abdomen was not cut open. Just taking advantage of the unconsciousness of the fish, the fish was put on a piece of ice, and with a knife as thin as a cicada's wing, first cut two pieces of meat from the fish. Fish meat, and then cut two fish meat into fish meat.

After picking one side of the fish, he picked the other side again, and then the master threw the fish that had been picked from both sides back into the basin, but saw that the fish turned its belly upwards, But after a while, the tail moved, turned over again, and swam in the water with a skeleton.

  The fish meat is almost transparent, and it is spread on a black clay plate. The slightly pink fish meat presents a unique pattern.

   This fish meal is the most essential part of eating fish. You don’t eat fish heads, fish tails, and intestines.

  『Wonderful. Zhang Hong nodded, "It's pleasing to the eye, that's all!" Happy fish, skill is close to art! 』

  The master smiled honestly, saluted Zhang Hong, and retreated. It seems to be very simple, it is nothing more than taking the fish meat and cutting the fish fillets, but in order to ensure that the texture or taste of the fish meat will not be caused by the struggle of the fish or the increase in temperature when the fish meat is caught alive It was destroyed, and the whole process was carried out in ice water or on ice, his hands were red from the cold, and the calluses on his fingers were even thicker. Such and such craftsmanship at the moment.

  Zhang Hong picked up a piece of crystal clear fish meat, first looked at it, then put it into his mouth, and savored it carefully.

  The actress on the side hurriedly stepped forward and poured rose peach wine for Zhang Hong.

  Zhang Hong obviously felt the taste was very good, shaking his head, he was in a good mood, perhaps the only downside was that the cup of rose peach wine was not made of white jade...

   After eating the fish sticks, Zhang Hong ate some other delicacies. Zhang Hong was full, and the worries and messy thoughts in his heart were temporarily put down.

  "Mr. Zhang," the shopkeeper laughed with him, and said beside him while sending Zhang Hong out, "Is Mr. Zhang satisfied? There is one thing that I dare not hide from the small ones, the price of the meal is now going up a bit... It is not easy to operate on a small budget, this... The small ones have to follow the market... I hope Zhang Gonghaihan...』

  The shopkeeper laughed along with him, lest Zhang Hong would get angry.

  Generally speaking, if there are ordinary price fluctuations, the shopkeeper will not specifically tell Zhang Hong, but the question now is whether it is ordinary fluctuations...

   Zhang Hong doesn’t give money for meals, um, of course it doesn’t mean that Zhang Hong eats the overlord’s meal, but according to the usual practice, he pays the bill at the end of the month. How much you eat is put on the account, and then at the end of the month, the store sends someone to Zhang Hong's house to find the steward to reconcile the account and withdraw the money.

   This is also the settlement method of most noble children. Even when the servants in their mansion need to buy some public things in the mansion, they are mostly charged. On the one hand, ordinary people don't understand arithmetic at all, and ten fingers may not be able to figure it out clearly;

   Zhang Hong ate this meal, which is also a natural charge. The shopkeeper specially stepped forward to explain that it was just because the rose apple wine had risen too much in the past period of time, so the price was much higher than before, so I had to explain it to Zhang Hong, so as not to say that when the account was reconciled. Not sure.

  『The price of apple wine has increased? I know..." Zhang Hong didn't pay much attention to it at first, but after walking a few steps, the worries that had been deposited because of the delicious food suddenly turned over again!

  Zhang Hong suddenly had some bad feelings.

   Zhang Hong discovered this problem after visiting some markets after leaving the fish meat shop.

Up!

   But the problem is after the increase...

   No matter how much the price of rose peach wine has increased, no matter how high the price of Anxi spices, no matter how many goods come, they are sold out almost immediately!

   Are the Jiangdong gentry really so rich?

   Is apple rose wine a necessity, and is it impossible to live without it? Is there no substitute?

Obviously not.

  Then these Jiangdong gentry children are so rich, why the disaster victims have not been able to get a good resettlement?

  Zhang Hong even had some bad associations.

  After much deliberation, Zhang Hong found Zhang Zhao.

  Zhang Zhao welcomed Zhang Hong and sat down in the hall.

  In terms of age, Zhang Hong is still older than Zhang Zhao.

  Although both of them have the surname Zhang, they are not very related, just like Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao.

  Zhang Hong said straight to the point: "Jiangdong was hit by a disaster, while the price of goods in the Western Regions was high, but they were still sold out!" Can Zibu know these things? 』

  Zhang Zhao nodded, and then pointedly said: "Not only is the price of roseberry wine in the Western Regions high, but the price of war horses in Jiangbei is also high..."

   Wine, of course, is drunk by scribes, and of course warriors also drink it, but for war horses, the demand for scribes is not much...

  Zhang Hong's main job is to plan strategically, while Zhang Zhao is more inclined to arrange practical matters. The cooperation between the two is seamless, and there have been no disputes or conflicts.

   Zhang Hong really didn't notice the price increase of Western Region goods. Not everyone is very sensitive to external affairs. In addition, during this period of time, some areas in Jiangdong were affected by disasters, and then there was a rebellion in Wuling area, so most of Zhang Hong's attention was on the interior of Jiangdong...

In the disaster-stricken area in Jiangdong, while scolding Wuling, who was not affected by the disaster but better than the one affected by the disaster, for being ignorant, inhuman, and sympathetic, and resisting the increase of taxes, they took the opportunity to hoard all kinds of food and materials in exchange for all kinds of money resources, even human life.

  The gentry, how can they get rich if they don't make a fortune by taking advantage of the disaster? This is called taking advantage of his illness to take his life!

  If they can't get rich, how can the children of the gentry buy the rising price of rose peach wine from the Western Regions and rest spices?

  Zhang Hong frowned, and after a long silence, he said, "Now there are many victims in Jiangdong, and the people in Jiangdong are very extravagant... This is a sign of deviation from the top and bottom..."

At this moment, Zhang Hong didn't know whether he really didn't think about it, or he didn't care at all. Anyway, he didn't think there was anything wrong with eating some expensive fish sticks or drinking rose peach wine just now, but felt that the children of the Jiangdong gentry were too It's outrageous...

  Normally speaking, if something becomes more and more expensive and is not a necessity, then there will inevitably be various cheap alternatives, even if the effect is not as good as the original product, but as long as the price is low, it is acceptable. For example, rose apple wine is expensive, so other golden pulp wine, corn wine and so on, is it impossible to drink it?

  So if the market is normal, then the price should go up, but if no one buys it, there will be no sales, and then the price of this type of item will slowly drop...

  But now rose peach wine, resting spices and other items continue to rise in price, but there are still sales, and the sales are not small. What does this mean?

  Zhang Zhao glanced at Zhang Hong slightly, then stroked his beard, and said: "The Qin school has gone to Wuling..."

"who? ah! Zhang Hong's eyes tightened suddenly, "Zi Bu means..."

  If Zhang Zhao hadn’t said it, Zhang Hong would not have known about it at all. This shows that Qin Bo did not go through the normal channel of sending documents to Wuling, which means that he went through another route, that is, direct military orders.

  Zhang Zhao pondered for a moment, then sighed softly, "The governor...it seems to be arranging the funeral..."