By the time Zhu Gang finished sending the person back, it was already dusk.

Huo Wu left the carriage to his son, and Huo Bao called Xue Xiao to get on the carriage.

"I have been transporting grain in Jinling these days, leaving a warehouse of grain, and one warehouse will be delivered to Chuzhou as soon as possible, half the warehouse will be sent to Quyang, and half the warehouse will be sent to Binjiang." Huo Baodao.

"That's the price?" Xue Xiao asked.

This grain is stored by Xue Biao and has costs.

Even Huo Bao came out to transport grain, and it was agreed that it would be a joint stock transaction.

It is a transaction, so the accounts must be clear, “Give me a favor to a horse, but the transaction will not be spared.”

"At 90% of the market price of Jinling, the market price is 20% more freight to all elders. If you have silver, you can use other things to pay for it. You can also ow credit, but you can only ow credit once."

Xue Xiao followed Xue Biao as a child, thought to himself, and said, "In this way, the profit will not be much!"

It sounds like 30% profit, but after a water and land route, there are a lot of vehicles and horses.

Not to mention the prices of Chuzhou Prefecture, just talk about Quyang, which is a thousand coins for rice.

From March to May, Jinling Doumi rice increased from 70 to 80 cents to more than 100 yuan. The profit of seven or eight times is enough to be a businessman to take risks.

But in fact, there are no large merchants from Jinling to Chuzhou; there are only some small merchants, three or five, and they rely on manpower to carry one bucket, and two buckets to earn hard money.

It is because of the chaos in Chuzhou that the people lost food and the whole people were bound by the enemy, so there was no peace on the way.

"First this is the case, go back to Suzhou to collect grain, and then talk about the price of grain." Huo Bao said.

Where is the only place where the severe drought in the past two years?

The rainwater in Jin and Luyu are not good, so the best place to sell grain there.

"How much food is sent in Changzhou every time?"

"One hundred stones, twenty mule carts...one hundred and forty people follow the cart..." Xue Xiao's eyes flashed a little.

Among the 140 people, forty people were escorting the car, and one hundred were the "buds" recruited by Jinling, just like Hou Xiaoming and others.

"Uncle Qi said that there would be a change of pig iron there?"

"Well, two kilograms of grain are exchanged for one kilogram of pig iron... A young and strong kilogram of pig iron..."

Once, the grain was replaced with 6,000 kilograms of pig iron, and the young and strong were replaced with 5,000 kilograms of pig iron.

"How many times have you sent it? Is the iron hidden?"

"Last winter months, one time in January, a total of six times... Two of the pig irons were given to the villages above Wanshanling... The remaining four times were replaced were all placed in Changzhou villages..."

The remaining ones were also 44,000 kilograms of pig iron, enough to equip a team of 10,000 people.

Isn’t this inference saying that there may be thousands of people on Wanshanling?

But Xue Biao said that there were 800 people on Wanshan Mountains, so where did the remaining pig iron go?

Xue Biao handed over the grain and railways, so there was no need to lie about such things.

Huo Bao's mind shows the approximate location of Changzhou, with Jiangyin on the upper right and Taihu on the lower right.

The top is the nest of the bandits in Jiang and the bottom is the nest of the bandits in lakes.

He twitched the corner of his mouth, and the whereabouts of the pig iron seemed to have fallen.

As they talked, the group arrived outside Jinling City and it was almost dark.

Xue Jialiang Shop is outside the city, and Huo Bao follows Xue Xiao directly.

The grain shop is large, and the backyard is in a row, all of which are large and bus shops. There are dozens of original staff here, and the 100 people brought by Huo Bao and Xue Xiao can all be placed.

As for Huo Bao, Xue Xiao was the one who went to Wangjiang Tower to eat mats.

The city gate has been closed long ago, but there is a three- or four-mile wall gap, so the city gate is useless.

There are barriers in the city wall and guards patrol.

Xue Xiao took two silver beans and entered the city smoothly with Huo Bao.

Huo Bao looked back at the piles of earth and rocks under the city wall and said, "Has the new magistrate ordered the construction of the city wall?"

Xue Xiaodao: "It was through his son's fortune, and he used this excuse to collect 300,000 taels of merchants and 100,000 taels of silver for the merchants. It was really greedy. The 70,000 households inside and outside Jinling City were not left behind, and he had distributed silver for the 400,000 taels of silver for the money. He got two piles of broken stones and put them on. It was over."

Huo Bao was secretly talking.

Jinling is really a prosperous place. The prefect can make 400,000 yuan in wealth by one reason; in Chuzhou, he took down two counties and collected 300,000 taels of silver.

"There are more and more refugees outside the city, so the yamen are not afraid? How dare you fool like this?" Huo Bao said.

"The more you can get richer, the more you can get. The new magistrate added a 'public security' fee... I collected 50,000 taels from the merchants and sold a few prisoners in the yamen. It was over!"

Xue Xiao was depressed: "There are many gentry and people who have official relations, so they dare not exploit them too much; ordinary people cannot fry two taels of oil, so they can be slaughtered by merchants!"

While the two of them were talking, they walked to the Qinhuai River.

There are bright corner lamps hanging on both sides of the restaurants, with thousands of illuminating like daylight.

On the Qinhuai River, the boat, flute and drum are painted, desolate and tactful, and touching.

The air is filled with the aroma of rouge.

The lobby of Wangjiang Tower was already full of guests.

When the welcome guests saw Xue Xiao, Huo Bao and the others bowed and said, "The store is full, there is a elegant seat on the other side of the building boat, and there is a small song for everyone tonight. Do you want to go to the building boat to take a look?"

Xue Xiao gave two Yindouzi a reward and said, "Let's ship be there next time, and I've booked a private room No. 1 in Fuzi."

The welcome guest hurriedly said, "Mr. Xie, I will leave a private room for you. The Supreme Eight Treasures Seat is ready. Please invite me!"

The two were taken to the fourth floor by the guests, and a large private room in Wangjiang.

Compared with the private room where Jia Yuan treated him last time, this private room is twice as big.

A round table with a diameter of one zhang is covered with an overlapping table of eight feet.

A round table with sixteen seats.

Huo Bao looked at the table and reached out to move.

The turn is not as smooth as the turntable table in later generations, but it is indeed a turntable table.

Huo Bao's eyes lit up, and his heart suddenly rose, unable to say whether he was nervous or expectant.

"This is the only one in Wangjiang Tower. It was from Shanxi merchants... There are several dozen dishes and bowls. If you want to pick up the food, you have to get up and eat around the table, so someone will make this transfer seat!"

"Who is that man's surname and whose name? Have you made something else?"

"I don't know, nobody will pay attention to it."

Xiao Er lined up and took the extra chair down.

Dr. Tea came to pour tea, and there were four dried fruits, four fresh fruits, four candied fruits, and four fried fruits and sixteen plates of tea food.

As a foodie, how could you never hear about the "Eight Treasures"?

The "Eight Treasures" began in the Zhou Dynasty and continued to the modern era.

But at that time, most of the eight treasures that everyone ate in the Qing Dynasty, delicacies and seas. Everyone knows what the ingredients are, but it is not written in history books that are uncertain what the ingredients are, "Dragon Liver and Phoenix Marrow".

After a while, the waiter started serving the dishes.

In the first round of eight dishes, Huo Bao saw the tremella, bamboo fungus, flower mushrooms, and daylily, and then he understood that the "Eight Treasures" in Wangjiang Tower were the Eight Treasures of the Qing Dynasty, and the first round was the "Eight Treasures of Grass".

Jiangnan cuisine has a light taste and makes the ingredients more delicious.

The two of them are not outsiders, so you don’t need to be polite and have the convenience of turning the table, so Huo Bao tasted them all.

When the second round of eight dishes came, Huo Bao recognized fried quails and steamed geese. Needless to say, these are the "eight bird treasures" that will never appear in later generations.

Except for the geese, which are poultry, the others are protected animals and there is no place to eat them even if you want to.

The poultry meat is lean and there are many bones. Huo Bao is impatient and tastes it and puts down the chopsticks.

The third round of eight dishes came out, which were eaten by later generations, including bird's nest, shark fin, sea cucumber, abalone, fish belly, fish bone, seal, and pirate. This is the "Eight Treasures of the Sea".

I didn’t like anything Huo Bao, so I just picked up a few slices of fish belly and ate it.

Huo Bao ate calmly, but Xue Xiao felt unsure of it.

Didn't you come from a countryside?

This food mat is the most instructive. In the past, the food mat in Heimang Mountain was not counted as a food mat, and it can only be said to be filled with the stomach.

In front of you is the "Supreme Eight Treasures", which is the prosperous place of Jinling City, and it is also unique.

A country boy, still a big-bellied man, shouldn’t he open his eyes and eat a lot when he sees this delicacy of the mountains and seas?

Why do you seem to know everyone and still have a preference?

The fourth round of eight dishes came up with them, all of which were rich in oil and red sauce, such as hump, bear's paw, ape lips, elephant pull, leopard fetus, rhinoceros tail, and deer tendons. These are the "Eight Trinities of Mountains".

Huo Bao was when he grew up and now he likes big meat the most.

Except for the ape lips and the leopard fetus did not move, Huo Bao ate most of the other ones.

Xue Xiao arranged this "Supreme Eight Treasures Seat" to give Huo Bao a warning.

Before, in Hei Python Mountain, everyone was led by Huo Wu, and the younger generation regarded Huo Bao as the most respected, so he was not convinced.

Why?

But he and Lin Jin were embarrassed, and Ma Juzi was not competing for strength, and there was no room for them to compete for strength.

Later, Tu Sanye came first, and later formed an alliance with Deng Jian, and Huo Bao had two more backers, which was even mentioned in the head.

Now that Huo Bao has spoken to several elders, these same generations have become the ones who have taken action.

If Huo Bao had planned something else, he would have to take advantage of the grain and iron business with thick dough.

Xue Xiao was resentful and made such a trick. If Huo Bao wanted to understand that he was just a "country bun" and had to listen to himself more when doing things outside.

Huo Bao in front of him was not as hamstring as the village.

Is this really the biological child of Huo Wu who spoke "I" and kept saying "I"?

But the Huo family's appearance is similar, and it cannot deceive people.

It's really a ghost.

"Why don't brothers eat these two dishes?" Xue Xiao murmured in his heart and couldn't help asking.

"The orangutans carry bacteria, and they may be infected by eating them. The leopard fetus is warm, nourishes yin and yang, and prolongs life. It is not suitable for children." Huo Bao said.

What is bacteria?

I took several bites myself!

Xue Xiao only felt his stomach rolling, and he didn't understand, but he was embarrassed to ask.

Is there such a specialty?
Chapter completed!