Daya Town is bustling with people today, and there are even more people picking up cow, horse and donkey dung.

After Su Qingqing's strangely composed oxcart drove into the town, she had a high rate of turning heads, even though she had already put on a veil to cover her face when the oxcart was about to enter the town.

For no other reason, it was just because Su Qingqing's dress was incompatible with other people, but she rode in an oxcart with everyone regardless of priority, and it didn't look like a noble person, which was very strange.

Everyone is speculating whether she is a businesswoman.

Only business girls have money and wealth, but they lack rules and etiquette.

Although Su Qingqing was just wearing a smart outfit today, the material and color were completely different from the plain kudzu and linen clothes worn by others.

Just like the contrast between the bright moon and rice grains.

This is not like modern times. There is not necessarily much difference in appearance between luxury clothes that cost tens of thousands a piece and civilian clothes that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars. Even the imitation version of product A may be of better quality.

In ancient times when resources were scarce, clothes made of silk and satin and clothes made of coarse magnolia cloth could be distinguished at a glance.

The lowly merchants of the Tang Dynasty were not allowed to wear silk. Ordinary good people, including farmers, could theoretically wear gold, silver, and silk as long as you could afford it.

Just like in theory, a farmer's son can become an official, as long as you pass the exam.

Low statuses such as merchants and slaves were legally blocked from taking civil service examinations, and they were not allowed to wear gold, silver, or silk clothes.

"Scholars, farmers, industry and merchants", merchants are at the bottom of the four peoples.

Those in power felt that the high circulation of merchants was not conducive to the court's conservative household registration policy; moreover, merchants were not engaged in production, which was detrimental to social development.After all, food is the foundation of a country, but food output is low and farmers' income is really low. If businessmen are not suppressed, who will farm if all the businessmen go into business?

Therefore, all dynasties were basically sorted by "scholars, farmers, industry and merchants", and merchants were suppressed, especially in the Tang Dynasty, in order to prevent you from enjoying even if you had money.

Of course, these are all theoretical ideas.The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In fact, in the late Tang Dynasty, officials and businessmen had already colluded, and the wealthy merchants were basically the local wealthy gentry.

Bai Juyi once wrote that "a salt merchant's wife has a lot of money and silk, but she has nothing to do with farmers and silkworms." "Every year when the salt profit comes to the official, less of it goes to the official family and more to private life."

The imperial court's control over Lingnan Road continued to decline.

In this way, despite the strange looks from around them, Su Qingqing and his party arrived at the Daya Ruins located in the northwest corner of Daya Town.

There were a lot of people carrying burdens and selling goods inside. After a few people made an appointment, they got off the bullock cart at the entrance of the market and dispersed.

Mrs. Zhang does not have to spread mats and set up street stalls in the open space like other ladies. She collects and prepares good medicinal materials and has her own special sales channel.

Pharmacists are different from people who occasionally get lucky and find treasures in the mountains. They usually cooperate with a certain pharmacy. This is the so-called practice.

Zhang is also a half-medicine farmer, and due to the legacy of her former husband, she has a fixed cooperative relationship with Shangshan Pharmacy in Daya Town.

Su Qingqing wanted to sell her own soaps and toilet soaps. Considering the luxury attributes of similar bath beans, her preferred partner was also a drug store, so she and Zhang acted together.

The best medicine is sold in a shop along the street in Daya Market.

When Mrs. Zhang showed up at the pharmacy with Su Qingqing carrying medicinal materials, there was a doctor sitting in the pharmacy treating people.

"Shopkeeper Su, do you have food?" Mrs. Zhang put down the basket on her back and saluted the old shopkeeper of the medicine shop.

Shopkeeper Su responded casually: "It's dinner. Follow me into the backyard."

"Here."

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly wanted to pick up the basket and follow her, but Su Qingqing reached out to help her.

The young apprentice who was copying prescriptions behind the old medical worker in the drug store turned his head and looked over with a trace of surprise in his eyes. He was probably surprised that Su Qingqing would help carry the basket.Naturally, the young apprentice would not have thought that Su Qingqing and Zhang would be together. Just looking at their clothes, they did not seem to be of the same class.

Entering the backyard, shopkeeper Su waited for a moment, but when Su Qingqing didn't exit, he asked doubtfully: "I haven't asked for advice yet, who is this?"

Mrs. Zhang quickly helped with the introduction: "Shopkeeper Su, this is my distant cousin Su. Due to the decline of her family, she was lonely and had no one to rely on. She lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests with the old gods in the mountains since she was a child. Not long ago, the old gods went away and came down the mountain to join me. I came here today because I have something to sell.”

"Oh, what are you going to sell to the drug store? Let me take a look at it."

Su Qingqing took out the soap and scented soap from the bamboo basket and handed them over one by one, and gave a brief introduction.

Shopkeeper Su took the two things and studied them for a while, then smelled them with the tip of his nose, and said to the soap: "This thing seems to have mint?"

Su Qingqing replied: "Yes, with mint and a few spices added."

Of course, there is no need to elaborate on what it is, it is a secret recipe, and you can tell by smelling it.

"So, these two are similar to bath beans." The old shopkeeper looked not very interested. After all, their drug store also has its own secret recipe of bath beans.

Although Su Qingqing made this thing into a square or round shape, the function is still the same.

But what Su Qingqing said next cheered him up: "I sell soap for 100 Wen per piece. Mosquito repellent soap is slightly more expensive, costing 300 Wen per piece."

When the old shopkeeper heard this, his dim eyes suddenly lit up. The price was too cheap!Do you have enough money for spices?
Bath beans of the same weight are at least ten times more expensive!
Shopkeeper Su, who was originally interested in returning the soap, immediately retracted his hand, took the round soap and looked at it, raised his eyes and asked: "How many of these do you have? How many drug stores have you sold it to?"

Su Qingqing only picked one question and replied: "Here are 20 yuan soap and 37 pieces of soap."

"That's all there is?"

"Ah."

"Our Shangshan Pharmacy has already collected it. How about giving you twelve guan of money?"

Su Qingqing shook her head: "You can't lose one penny, but if you give me Qian Fengquan Bao, you can lose a hundred penny."

Although you can’t travel through time and space with gold, silver, and copper now, what if you upgrade one day?

It will be distributed when the time comes. The Qian Feng Quan Bao is very valuable.

Shopkeeper Su bargained for a long time, but Su Qingqing ignored it.

Then the conversation changed and they asked about soap prescriptions and soap prescriptions. Su Qingqing refused to sell the soap prescriptions.

In the end, seeing that she was really tight-lipped, shopkeeper Su asked the little medicine boy to go to the warehouse and find the Yi Feng Quan Bao. A hundred cents less would be a good thing.

The dirty clothes Su Qingqing originally prepared were not even used.

Shopkeeper Su, who knows the goods, can roughly understand the function of this thing by touching it and smelling it, without Su Qingqing having to waste any time.

This is the importance of finding your target customers.

The soap doesn't smell good enough, and the old shopkeeper estimates that it won't be able to sell it at a high price, so it will just be doubled.

But mosquito repellent soap is different. It has to be sold for at least seven to eight times in order to realize the status of a noble!
After Su Qingqing finished her work, Zhang was selling medicinal materials very quickly.After all, there are no rare good things, they are all common medicinal materials, the prices have not changed, and everyone knows them.

She carried baskets of medicinal materials and finally exchanged them for seven hundred coins.

After the payment was settled, Shopkeeper Su invited the two of them to sit down and watch tea, but they were declined. The two of them had to go shopping at Daya Market!

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