Wentang

Chapter 44
Soon Yue Shan realized the benefits of having a competent staff.He didn't have to do anything while sitting at home, so Zhou Shangyun found a carriage and came to pick him up.

"This carriage belongs to Boss Liu of the grocery store next door. I told him Dalang was going to the city on business, and he kindly lent it to me." Zhou Shangyun said.

By the way, he also lent them a coachman, this Boss Liu is really good at life.

As for Zhou Shangyun borrowing a car in his own name, Yue Shan understood very well.This is normal, the staff is the shadow of the master's family, so if they don't use the name of the master's family, can they still act in the name of other people's family?

Let's put it this way, if a staff member commits a crime, the owner's family will be implicated. In history, there are many people who have been implicated by the staff to ruin their families.This is also the reason why big families are so cautious in recruiting staff.

That is to say, Yue Shan's starting point is too low, and there are really no available people around him, otherwise Zhou Shangyun will be the staff in one round.

Because Feng Luokung and the coachman were there, the two of them didn't talk about any deep topics, but Zhou Shangyun introduced the situation of Chang'an City to him.

The speed of the carriage was very fast, and it arrived outside Chang'an City in a short while.

To be honest, Yue Shan's first impression of Chang'an City was somewhat disappointing.He thought that the first thing he saw would be the majestic and tall city wall, with rows of fierce soldiers standing on the city wall.But in fact...

When it was two or three miles away from Chang'an City, various stalls, tea sheds, and food shops began to appear on both sides of the road.The closer to Chang'an City, the more people of all kinds.There are everything that sells vegetables, livestock, and groceries.

It can be seen from the clothes that most of the people here are ordinary people.

It's not that Yueshan discriminates against the people, but... This is not like a capital city of a country, it is simply a rural market.

In the film and television works, the outside of the city wall is very clean and tidy, and no one else is allowed to hang around at will.Yueshan was inevitably affected, and he also thought that ancient cities should look like this.

But the scene in front of him overturned his cognition too much.

This reminded him of some interesting anecdotes about the Song Dynasty.

It is said that the morning time of the Song Dynasty was very early, and those ministers had no time to eat breakfast, so a large number of breakfast shops gathered outside the imperial city.

The emperor thought it was too unsightly, so he wanted to clean up the breakfast shop.But the people just didn't agree, and the two sides dragged each other until the emperor was defeated in the end, so he could only pinch his nose and admit their existence.

It seems that this situation is not limited to the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty already existed.Our ancestors were really talented in turning the place outside the city wall of Gyeonggi into a market.

Yue Shan said with emotion.After being disappointed, he felt that such a Tang Dynasty was more humane.

Zhou Shangyun has always been paying attention to Yue Shan's every move. Originally, he thought that this grassroots master would be shocked by the prosperity outside Chang'an City.

However, he found that this big man was not only not surprised, but disappointed.Later, I don't know why and showed a gratified smile.

Unfathomable, unfathomable, Zhou Shangyun was secretly vigilant.The master's age was too deceptive and it was easy for people to relax their vigilance. For a moment, he actually forgot the relationship between the two parties.

But the change in Yue Shan's expression sounded the alarm for him, reminding him that the other party was someone that even King Qin could coax, and he had no right to despise him.

Zhou Shangyun, Zhou Shangyun, you must always recognize your identity, and don't have any thoughts that you shouldn't have.If such an opportunity is missed, it will never come again.

He desperately reminded himself.

Yue Shan, who was appreciating the ancient humanistic style, didn't know that his newly recruited staff members actually sang such a big show in their hearts.

Fortunately, both those who set up stalls or those who came to buy things were far away from the main road and did not hinder normal traffic. Yue Shan and others arrived at the city gate smoothly.

"Lang Jun, my old man can only send you here, and the carriage is not allowed to enter the city." The handlebar smiled.

Seeing Yue Shan's puzzled expression, Zhou Shangyun immediately explained: "There are limited places in the city, and foreign horse-drawn carriages are not allowed to enter the city casually. Moreover, in order to control the number of people, the city inspection will be looser in the morning, and it will be stricter in the afternoon. inaccessible."

Yue Shan was really stunned. Has the Tang Dynasty already started restricting numbers?Actually know how to control the flow of people.What else is there that our ancestors didn't think of or didn't do?
After getting off the carriage, Yueshan was not in a hurry to enter the city.He gave the handlebar a few copper coins to let him find a place to rest, and he took Zhou Shangyun and Feng Luokung to wander outside the city.

After looking at it for a while, he found that it was not much different from the country fair in his previous life when he was a child.They sell everything, such as cloth weaved by home, vegetables grown by home, some selling fish, some selling game, and some selling leather goods...

And most of them don't have serious booths. Everyone puts the goods on the ground one by one, and shouts loudly when they see customers coming.

"Are they peddling here and no one cares?" Yue Shan asked.

"Why is no one caring? On the surface, this place is under the jurisdiction of Chang'an County. Every stall has to pay, with dozens of pennies more and one penny less. There are still many local hooligans collecting protection fees in secret."

Yue Shan nodded, this is normal.Without the permission of the imperial court, it is impossible to form such a large market outside the capital.As for those who collect protection fees, he is not particularly angry, as the times dictate.

As long as the tentacles of the imperial court cannot reach the lowest level, this kind of problem will not be solved for a day, and it will be like this for the next millennium.

It was not until the 21st century that this malignant tumor was eliminated with the help of a well-developed public opinion supervision system and dictatorship forces that penetrated into the grassroots.

To put it cruelly, when the power of the ancient imperial court could not reach the grassroots, it was these gentry and gangs who maintained the most basic social system.

Therefore, we can only use one sentence to explain all this.

"Is there any difference between here and Fangshi in the city?" Yue Shan asked again.

"There are some things in Fangshi, and there are also things that are not in Fangshi. Fangshi is relatively safe, and the price of goods is fixed, so it is not easy to buy inferior goods, and the corresponding price is more expensive than here. Here is a mixed bag of good and bad things. It happens from time to time." Zhou Shangyun said:

"But the biggest advantage is that the price is cheap, so small households in the city like to buy things here, and people in surrounding towns also like to do business here."

As they walked, the three of them came to a livestock trading market.It's just that it's obviously not so prosperous here, and only small poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese are sold, and there are dogs, cats and so on.

"Are there no cattle and horses?" Yue Shan asked suspiciously.

"Cows and horses are precious livestock, and each one must be recorded by the imperial court. The transaction must also be done in a special market in the city, and private transactions are not allowed." Zhou Shangyun said.

Yue Shan suddenly realized that this is in line with the importance that ancient people attached to cattle and horses.If it can be traded casually, all kinds of legal provisions on cattle and horses will be useless.

"Huh?" As he was walking, his eyes inadvertently swept across a wooden cage, Yue Shan's eyes lit up and he stopped.

(End of this chapter)