Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

  Chapter 38 Profitable business

   "Oh? You know?" Mo Jun's eyes flashed, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

   "Hehe~~ No matter how incompetent Zuo Teng is, he is still a city sheriff. How can I not know that they are doing things in my city's farmland in broad daylight?"

   "Then you are not going to stop?"

   "How to stop it? Zuo Teng seems to be the governor of Nanyang County now, but he has no military power in his hands and is far away from the power center. Sometimes even the memorial on the above table cannot be presented to the king."

Zuo Teng clenched his fists tightly, but in the end he couldn't put them down, and said dejectedly: "Since the ninth son returned to the country, he has been fighting with the general. Both of them are high-ranking and powerful, and a little movement is enough to change the fate of countless low-level people." .”

"Zuo Teng thinks that he is weak and powerless, unable to participate in the vortex of this power struggle. But since I am the governor of a city, I can't watch the people under my rule suffer disasters because of the struggle at the top. Say, how innocent are these civilians!"

  After listening to Zuo Teng's narration, Mo Jun was slightly surprised.

to be honest.

  The governor of Nanyang seems to have a more thorough view of the current internal disputes in South Korea than he imagined.

  But after thinking about it, this seems normal.

  A person who can be a sheriff of a city, even if he is not a smart person, is certainly not an idiot.

  Some time ago, in Xinzheng, the capital city, the struggle between the great general Ji Wuye and the ninth son Han Fei was almost well-known throughout the city, but anyone with a little bit of official savvy could clearly see the vortex.

  And this time Ji Wuye chose Nanyang for the chessboard. It is obviously impossible to say that Zuo Teng, the governor of Nanyang, knew nothing about it.

  After roughly confirming that Zuo Teng's surrender is indeed no problem, Mo Jun took out the secret letter from his arms, stretched out his hand and handed it to Zuo Teng, saying.

   "I hope you won't disappoint Qin Guo."

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   Walk out from the Sheriff's Mansion.

  Mr. Mo took off his night clothes, changed into ordinary clothes, and changed himself into an ordinary but handsome businessman again.

   "Then, it's time to go to Xinzheng to have fun."

  Mr. Mo has not forgotten the real purpose of his trip to South Korea, he was ordered to enjoy... Ah no. They ran here specifically to avoid the limelight.

  Since it is sheltered from the wind, it is naturally impossible to stay here for only a day or two.

   After such a long time, if you don't find a place with a slightly better environment, it will be quite a torture for Mo Jun.

   Korea is very small.

  The entire land area of ​​South Korea, if placed in Qin and Chu, would be about the size of a county.

  So although Nanyang is a border city of South Korea, in fact, it doesn’t take long to start from Nanyang to Xinzheng, the capital.

  Mr. Mo rode the carriage and wobbled all the way, and it only took half a day to arrive at Xinzheng.

  Compared to the remote Nanyang, Xinzheng is undoubtedly much more prosperous.

   Not only are there dense pedestrians on the road.

  The buildings on both sides are also more regular, with railings and carved lacquer, blue bricks and green tiles; red doors and white windows, pavilions and pavilions, complement each other, full of the beauty of ancient style and charm.

  Although the area is small, when it comes to extravagance and prosperity, it is hardly inferior to Xianyang.

  After Mr. Mo entered the city.

   First, he found an inn to put down his horses and horses to salute. Although he really wanted to go straight to Zilanxuan now, considering that he still had business to do, he held back his urge for the time being.

  According to the message left during the previous contact, Mo Jun spent a while and successfully got in touch with Xiong Da.

   "Boss!"

   "Boss!"

   Not long after, Xiong Da and Xiong Er came to the inn.

  Compared to a year ago, the appearance of Xiong Da and Xiong Er has also undergone considerable changes. Xiong Da doesn't look as thin as before.

   But the biggest change is Xiong Er.

Perhaps it was the large amount of nutritional supplements in the past year, and Mo Jun once asked Yao Gui to use a mature tonic elixir and a little [Life Crystal] to make a bowl of medicine, which made Xiong Er make up for the malnutrition caused by malnutrition. deficit.

  Now Xiong Er has not only grown in size again, but even his original talent of "natural power" seems to have been fully developed.

  The "Song of No Battle" practiced by Mo Jun is not suitable for Xiong Er.

  But Yao Gui has traveled for many years, and he has naturally accumulated some martial arts mentality. The two discussed it and finally selected a horizontal martial arts called "Hundred Refining Xuanjia" for Xiong Er to practice.

  This martial art focuses on defense, and can temper the body into a hundred-refined black iron as hard. With its "natural power", it can be said to be both offensive and defensive.

  Now Xiong Er is standing there, if he doesn't use the mental attack of 'power and power', even Mo Jun can't break through his defense.

   This is true talent.

certainly.

  Xiong Er could enter the country so quickly, and of course it was inseparable from the assistance of money.

   This year, it was just to brew potions for Xiong Er to assist in cultivation. Three plants were used for the great tonic medicine alone.

  If it weren’t for Mo Jun’s ability to artificially cultivate elixir now, it is estimated that killing the drug ghost would not be such a waste of handing over his elixir to Xiong Er.

"Um!"

  Jun Mo nodded to the two of them as a greeting, and then asked, "How is the business here?"

   "Very hot."

When he heard about the business, Xiong Da's eyes lit up immediately, and he said: "Although there are not as many people here in Xinzheng as in Xianyang, the nobles here are more willing to spend money. Boss, you know how much our white sugar has been sold for a tael." gone?"

"How many?"

  Mr. Mo heard this, and there was a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

  Xiong Da raised a finger mysteriously. Seeing this, Mo Jun guessed a number and said, "One hundred baht?"

  Xiong shook his head, and then he stopped trying to keep his promise, and said directly: "Not only, it's one hundred and twenty baht, one hundred and twenty baht and one tael of sugar."

"so much?"

   Mo Jun's eyes widened, even though he had prepared before, he couldn't help being startled at this moment.

  What is the concept of one hundred and twenty baht?

  Although the currencies of the seven countries today are different, only the value of gold is measured by the seven countries.

   At most, the measurement varies from country to country.

  For example, South Korea adopted the Dajin system after the unification of the Qin and Han Dynasties. One gold is equal to twenty taels, which is equal to four hundred and eighty baht.

   And now the average grain price is only 24 baht per dendrobium.

  One dendrobium is about 120 catties.

   That is to say.

   The white sugar that Mo Jun sells here in South Korea can buy back about five or six hundred catties of grain for one tael.

   In a more crude conversion, one tael of white sugar is equivalent to one gold coin of Qin State.

   "This... is too profitable!"

  Mr. Mo couldn’t help being a little stunned for a moment. No wonder since the Spring and Autumn Period, no matter how chaotic the world is, there will be a large number of caravans traveling across borders at the risk of their lives.

  Before, Mr. Mo thought that in Xianyang, selling sugar for one stone and one tael would be expensive enough.

   I didn't expect that now just across a neighboring South Korea, the profit has doubled tenfold in an instant. This kind of terrifying return is enough to make any businessman crazy.

But at this moment, I only heard Xiong Da continue: "According to my understanding during this period of time, compared with the nobles in Xianyang, they are a little more restrained. In Xinzheng, extravagance is extremely prevalent, and ordinary civilians are still struggling to survive at the bottom. , but it is normal for countless dignitaries and nobles to spend a lot of money."

"In addition, rare things are more expensive, and now the sugar business is only ours in the whole world, and there is no semicolon. So even if we offer a price of one hundred and twenty-one baht a tael, it is nothing more than a leisurely move to the nobles here. That's all."

   "I even suspect that even if I continue to increase the price now, there will still be a large number of nobles chasing after me..."

   Speaking of this, Mo Jun didn't wait for Xiong Da to finish, and interrupted directly: "There is no need, what we are doing now is not a one-off sale, the sugar business will maintain this price for the time being, let's talk about it after it stabilizes."

   "Yes, I see."

Xiong Da nodded, then took out a money bag from his arms, and handed it to Mo Jundao: "This is our income during this period, white sugar plus some other small commodities, a total of 167 gold coins, and some change, I will According to the boss's order, all of them were replaced with grain and cloth."

  Xiong Da brought a total of ten catties of sugar, which is one hundred and sixty taels, for this trip.

  Now the currency systems of all countries are unstable, so Mr. Mo has long ordered that all income from Qin’s foreign countries be exchanged for gold or grain and cloth.

   Facing the money bag handed over by Xiong Da, Mo Jun did not reach out to take it, but said: "No hurry, you keep the money first, I still have something for you to do."

"I came here this time, and I brought you ten catties of white sugar. You will sell it at the previous price, and then start buying grain in a low-key manner at major grain shops. The more you buy, the better... ·”

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   The original Tianxing Jiuge uses the unified currency system of the Qin and Han Dynasties, but most of the money shown in the plot is in the form of gold coins, so the currency unit is slightly changed here.

   In the future, gold and gold coins will be used to make a distinction.

  (end of this chapter)