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Chapter 111 Pingxia Branch
Tuoba Xian was overjoyed and nodded quickly: "Okay, I will arrange someone to do the statistics immediately when I go back."

After a while, the three of Tang Yaoling got off the mule cart. Chen Huiyin told the three of them about going to the Pingxia branch at the invitation of Tuobaxian, and then assembled the team and went to the Pingxia branch with Tuobaxian.

Half an hour later, Chen Huiyin and the others arrived at the Pingxia branch with Tuobaxian. They saw tents stretching out along the river for a long time. Chen Huiyin glanced at them and roughly estimated that the total number of tents was no less than one Hundred.

Among them was the tallest and largest tent, surrounded by several tents that were twice as small. Chen Huiyin guessed that the largest tent should be the residence of the chief of the Pingxia branch. The residence of the wives, concubines and children of the Xia branch chief.

Tuobaxian sent people back to the tribe to say hello in advance, so when Chen Huiyin and the others arrived, the patriarch of the Pingxia branch personally brought people out to greet them.

The patriarch, Tuoba Li, was tall and strong, with dark skin and an unremarkable appearance. His expression was very serious, even a little fierce, but he was very cheerful.

Tuoba Li's wife has mixed facial features, even though she is nearly forty years old, she is only in her early thirties, she is very beautiful, Tuoba Xian's appearance is more like her, she is very handsome, He has a very mixed-race look, and at the same time inherited his father's tall and strong figure.

Chen Huiyin and his party followed the patriarch Tuoba Li to the largest tent. Tuobaxian asked his confidants to set up a tent for Chen Huiyin and their caravan, and after arranging accommodation, they also went to their parents' tent.

He came in just in time to hear his father discussing with Gu Xinfang about buying grain, so he glanced at his mother, the patriarch's wife received the hint from his son, shook her head slightly, and signaled him to wait patiently.

Gu Xinfang originally planned to sell the Pingxia branch twenty shi of cornmeal, five shi each of rice, white flour, and millet, but Tuoba Li was not satisfied with this amount, and he wanted to buy forty shi for each of the four grains.

In the end, you came and went and bargained, and finally settled on thirty stones for cornmeal, and twenty stones each for rice, flour, and millet to trade fur with Tuoba Li.

Tuobaxian waited for his father to negotiate a deal with Gu Xinfang before he spoke: "Father, Brother Chen and I have already agreed that when they come back from the Daqing Town Trade Market, they will buy more grain and exchange leather goods and medicinal materials with us. , Aunt, I will trouble you to take the female relatives of the family to count out the fur goods and medicinal materials we have accumulated, and report the data to little brother Chen."

After hearing this, Tuoba Li happily said to Chen Huiyin: "Mr. Chen Xiaolang, our tribe not only needs food, but also tea and silk cloth. The more these things, the better."

Chen Huiyin said with a slight smile: "Patriarch Tuoba, my brother Gu is in charge of the caravan affairs. If you need anything, just discuss it with my brother Gu. We will often take this business route in the future. I believe that we and Tuoba The opportunity for patriarchs to work together will last a long time."

Gu Xinfang followed Chen Huiyin's words, and said, "Clan Chief Tuoba, I'm ugly to say that tea and silk cloth need to be purchased from the south, and there are risks in the transportation, so we can't give benefits to Patriarch Tuoba.

As for food, the food consumption of your tribe can be solved by my contacts in Lingwu County, so I gave the patriarch the profit before. The difference between the two is here, I hope Patriarch Tuoba understands. "

Tuoba Li, who originally wanted to imply the profit, swallowed decisively. For the tribe, food is the foundation of survival. Without tea and silk cloth, the tribe can still live. I want to continue to buy at a low price in the future. If you don't buy grain, you can't offend Miss Gu who can sell him grain at a low price. At this moment, Tuoba Li even regrets that the price was too hard before.

"Understood, and thank you, Mr. Gu Xiaolang, for considering the poor life of the people in our tribe, and willing to give up the benefits." Afterwards, Tuoba Li said good things without money, and asked the tribe to slaughter a few fat sheep, roast whole sheep, and boil them. Sheep soup entertained Chen Huiyin and his party.

After dinner, Chen Huiyin and others went back to the tent to rest on the grounds that they had to get up early the next day.

As soon as he entered the tent, Wei Chen finally couldn't help it, and said in a low voice: "This patriarch Tuoba doesn't look very smart, he's quite good at doing business, and his heart is really dark, one piece of rabbit skin fifteen coins, three The rabbit skin is exchanged with us for a bucket of rice, which is five cents less than the market price."

Tang Yaoling and Mu Yang also nodded in agreement, and Chen Huiyin said: "You can't just look at the price of the rabbit skin. The fur dealers buy fur from these tribes and ship them to Guanzhong and the southern regions. The price of the rabbit skin can at least Double it, if the quality is good, it can more than double.

They exchanged three pieces of rabbit skins for a bucket of rice with us. It seems that they made money by buying rice, which is 45 cents lower than the price of rice on the market, but our rice price is lower than [-] cents. Even at a loss, if the leather goods were shipped to the south and sold at at least double the price, would you still think we were losing money? "

The three of them shook their heads in unison. At this time, Gu Xinfang also smiled and said: "Being good friends with the Pingxia branch will benefit us and not harm us. Don't talk about making money, I will do it even if I don't make money, let alone I am Who would make a loss-making business? Don’t worry, the fur goods we collected today are taken to the south, and I can sell them for [-] yuan a piece, and they will never lose money.”

Seeing what Gu Xinfang said, Tang Yaoling and the others were relieved, and then returned to their tent.

The next day, after breakfast, Chen Huiyin and his party bid farewell to Tuoba Li, but Tuoba Xian brought a team of people to escort them, walked a certain distance, and then separated from the caravan.

In the next few days, Chen Huiyin and his party passed by several small tribes, and almost every tribe had made an idea of ​​Chen Huiyin's small caravan, but they were all contested by Tang Yaoling, Mu Yang and Wei Chen. After that, Gu Xinfang came forward again and reached a verbal agreement with these tribes in exchange for how much leather and food.

Finally, on the tenth day after departure, Chen Huiyin and the others arrived at Hushi, Daqing Town. Although it is a town, its scale is not smaller than that of a lower county. There are inns, shops, and squares in the town.

Although I knew a lot about the mutual market in Daqing Town from information, it still felt different when I was there.

Because they arrived at the Daqing City Mutual Market, it was already evening, so they found an inn to stay, and rented a guest house alone with money. They had more than 20 people, plus five carts of goods, barely enough to live in.

Because there was also a curfew at the Mutual Market in Daqing Town, Chen Huiyin and the others didn't go out after dinner. After arranging their shifts, they went to bed early.

The next day, after breakfast, Mu Yang and Wei Chen stayed at the inn with fourteen guards to look after the goods. Chen Huiyin, Tang Yaoling and Gu Xinfang took six guards to Fangshi and found the owner of the shop to rent a stall.

(End of this chapter)