Yuwen Wen was in a good mood without knowing it, so when he met Li Hui and others, he used spices for the first time to cover up the gradually obvious stench of the corpse.

Of course, Yuwen Wen is not a zombie, and he will not emit the stench of corpses on his body. These smells are emitted by the corpses everywhere in Dianchong City, and he did it on purpose.

After the Zhou army broke through the Dian Chongzong army and plundered, dead people were everywhere in the city. Because no one restrained them, the bodies rotted quickly in the hot weather and could not be noticed in the quiet wind, but as long as the wind blew, the smell could be smelled.

Yuwen Wen has been in the army for many years and has become immune to the stench of corpses that are not very high, just like the soldiers, but Li Hui and others are not able to do it. When they entered the city, they felt uncomfortable in their stomachs when they smelled the stench.

Fortunately, the room smell was so fragrant that the nausea odor had been covered up without a trace, so Li Hui and others could have calmly talked with the King of Xiyang.

"Everyone says that Lingbiao is a place of smoke and smog, especially when miasma is thriving in summer, it is not a place for people to stay. As a result, Jiaozhou is even worse than Guangzhou, and Linyi is a little hotter than Jiaozhou. Most of the officers and soldiers are not suitable for the local conditions. Can you resist it?"

"Return to the king, Caomin and others can withstand it."

"Don't be too arrogant. Everyone can't drink the water in this place. There are many people in the army who have stomach problems. I'm afraid you can't drink it either. Otherwise, why do you drink coconut milk all day long?"

Yuwen Wen smiled and signaled the guards to serve the coconut milk that had been prepared. This was the few liquids he had dared to drink in Dian Chong. Even if the local river water and well water were boiled, he felt that the taste was a bit strange.

Seeing Yuwen Wen in a good mood, Li Hui and several other young people gradually became less reserved. After all, the King of Xiyang is noble and is the only one in the territory of the Huangzhou General Administration. With the support of King Qi, he can walk sideways in Shannan. It is as easy as shoveling a family and crushing an ant.

Even if his Aye didn't dare to breathe loudly when he saw the other party, let alone them, but now in the eyes of Li Hui and others, the King of Xiyang is like a good-family peer, and everyone is drinking tea and chatting together.

"I don't know how the water here tastes. Fortunately, I don't have to stay for long, otherwise I will really get sick and have everything you have done?"

"Return to the king, everything has been completed. There are many merchants in Linyi Port, and the goods brought by the grass-roots are easy to sell."

"Oh, did Kunlun slaves buy a few?"

"Of course I bought some and wanted to bring them back to Xiyang, which would attract everyone's attention."

"This is natural. After being trained, I will be taken by my side as a relative, visit relatives and friends or travel with friends. That is how eye-catching it is. Walking on the streets of Xiyang, how many young ladies will come to watch!"

Yuwen Wen started to joke, and the atmosphere gradually became relaxed. He had a noble status but had no intention of putting on airs, so he didn't pay much attention to his words and talked. When everyone drank the coconut juice in their hands, he turned to the topic.

"Everyone followed the official army to cross Dayu Ridge, and arrived in Shixing, Qujiang, Panyu, Xuwen, Song Shou, Longbian, and the Dianchong of Linyi Kingdom. What do you think about what you see and hear? How do you think the merchants in Huangzhou do business in this vast ridge and surface area?"

The questions Yuwen Wen asked were very wide, and he did not specify what kind of business he was doing. The implicit meaning was to let everyone express their opinions, while the young people present were no longer restrained and began to speak freely.

One is a middleman who makes profits by reselling goods by selling goods, and the other is a manufacturer who sets up workshops and sells various goods. More than half of the merchants in Huangzhou are the latter.

Many Huangzhou merchants started their own business by opening workshops. After they became rich, they gradually began to organize caravans on their own or entrust escorts to escort their people and goods to afar, and maximize their profits by producing and selling them.

Among the goods produced in Huangzhou workshops, cloth sales are the largest. At first, people thought they could make profits by selling cloth to Lingbei, but after actually arriving at Lingbei, they found that this idea was too naive.

Lingbiao's textile industry is not as bad as they imagined. Although it is hand-made textile, the overall scale is large. It is not high because it is produced locally. However, the price of water-textile fabric in Huangzhou is low, after a long journey of thousands of miles, its freight has offset the price advantage.

The "selling point" of Huangzhou water-textile fabric is good quality and low price. Now there is no "low price", and there is no advantage in "good quality", because there are many places in Lingbiao that can weave high-quality fabrics.

Using kudzu as raw material can weave a fine kudzu cloth. This cloth is as thin as a cicada's wing. A piece of cloth weighs only a few baht. A piece of kudzu cloth that is ten feet long can be rolled up and put into a bamboo tube, so it is named "Tube-in-tube fine cloth".

Using hemp as the raw material can also weave fine linen cloth. A fine linen cloth about four meters long weighs only a few dozen coins, and can also be rolled up and put into a bamboo tube.

The fine kudzu cloth on the surface of the ridge is made into clothes and is sweat-absorbent and breathable. It is the best among the "summer cloth". It was listed as a tribute as the Han Dynasty and is called "Yuebu".

Of course, such good cloths are carefully woven by manpower and are not cheap. The cloth shops in Huangzhou can already weave slightly inferior fine cloths with hydroloons. However, considering the freight, Huangzhou fine cloths shipped to Lingbiao have no price advantage at all.

The prices are similar, but the quality is slightly worse. In this way, the fine cloths in Huangzhou cannot compete with the fine kudzu and fine linen cloths in Lingbiao.

One of the reasons why the cloth produced in Huangzhou is best-selling in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is that the freight costs are negligible. Cargo ships that go downstream can reach any city along the middle and lower reaches without much effort, but the ridge table is not enough.

The sales prospects of cloth are bleak, so what about other things?

Another best-selling "specialty" in Huangzhou is books and paper, but the problem is that most of the prefectures and counties in Lingbiao are semi-civilized or even uncivilized areas, and the education has not been opened, so the writing style is not smooth, and not so many scholars need books, so the sales of books and paper are probably not optimistic.

These two things don’t work, so how about down? Because there are many chicken, duck and geese farms in Huangzhou, down is also a large-scale transaction, but the lingbei does not need it because it is very hot here.

Clothing and bedding filled with down can keep warm, but it will not snow in most areas of the Lingbiao area in winter. Since it is not much colder, the demand for keeping cold is greatly reduced.

This is just one of the reasons, and the other is that there is something comparable to down on the Riding Table - Jibe.

Yuwen Wen knew that Jibei was the name of cotton in this era and was rarely planted on a large scale in the Central Plains. However, Jibei was a common object at the ridge table at this time and was divided into two major categories.

"The king, Caomin has investigated, and there are two types of Jibei in Lingbiaojiao..."

Li Hui talked about it, but he put in a lot of time to understand Jibei, so he could tell that he was ugly: "One is called Jibeimu, the other is called Jibeigra..."

This is the first time Li Hui has seen a plant called Jibei. The so-called Jibei is a tree-shaped Jibei (Kapok). The tree is tall like an ordinary tree. After it blooms and bears fruit, its fur is like silk cotton. The locals collect it and remove its seeds and use it as fur. It can be used to fill clothes for cold protection.

There is also Jibei grass (cotton), the plant is as short as flowers, plants and shrubs. Its tidal seed removal can be used. The two tidal use is the same. In addition to being used as fillers, it can also be used to weave cloth, which is for Jibei.

Jibeibu is produced in various places in Lingbiao, especially Jibeibu in Yazhou. It is said that in the Han Dynasty, the "wide-range cloth" made of Jibei textiles was famous in the Central Plains. The characteristics of Jibeibu are somewhat different from those of linen and gurban. If it is in terms of quality, it is better.

Therefore, Huangzhou Bu, which has always had good sales, is difficult to sell well in Lingbiao. It can be said that Huangzhou Bu encountered "unfamiliarity" in Lingbiao. I am afraid that it cannot bring huge profits to merchants as expected.
Chapter completed!