In mid-July, Wang Dang and others brought goods to Chang'an City with a caravan.

They set out from Liangzhou City, and did not pass through Lishi County, but went directly to the old road to the south.

The road is now being repaved. After walking from Liangzhou City, in less than seven or eight days, we arrived at the section of the road that was resting. After that section of the road, it was a spacious cement road. It was estimated that it would take not long before this cement road could directly lead to Liangzhou City.

Merchants who came from the Western Regions have always been on this road. There is an inn every few dozen miles along the way. There are also many privately operated reverse passenger houses around the inn. Basically, you can buy anything you need, and food and accommodation are not a problem.

Before we arrived in Chang'an City, Wang Dang and others ate fried snails next to an inn. They heard that the way to eat fried snails was created by Luo Sanlang of Lishi, and they all felt honored.

Wang Dang and others went to Chang'an City this time, because a familiar caravan invited them to travel, and secondly, they happened to have a batch of goods to be shipped to Chang'an City, and the owner was Luo Erniang, and the goods were mainly cashmere sweaters and mutton fat soap.

After entering the city, he said goodbye to the caravan that was traveling with him. Wang Dang and his party went directly to Fenglefang and transported the goods to groceries in the north and south. A disciple of Luo Yong received them and arranged for people to go to the Imperial Academy to pass on the message to Luo Yong. When he got to the Imperial Academy for get out of class, Luo Yong came here.

"But after dinner, you guys are not awake yet." As soon as Luo Yong entered the backyard of the grocery store, he saw a group of men sitting in the yard yawning, and immediately said with a smile.

"I ate some when I arrived in the morning, and I slept until this point in the first day of the night. Let's go out for dinner together." After a deal, Wang Dang had to reward his brothers. They planned to go out to eat something good tonight.

How could Luo Yong ask him to invite him? He took the people to the familiar wine shop and let the store account all the expenses for food and consumption.

This tavern is also considered a mid-to-high-end restaurant in Chang'an City. The entertainment life in Chang'an City is not comparable to other places. Just the big ice cubes stacked in the hall make these poor men stunned.

"Just find an ordinary shop, why do you need to spend so much?" Wang Dang's income is quite good now, but they earn hard money after all. If they ask them to spend money on their own in such an occasion, they will still be reluctant to let it go.

"I am very happy that you can come to Chang'an City. My sister is alone in Liangzhou City. I can't take care of the distance. I have to rely on you to take care of it on weekdays." Luo Yong picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and bowed to Wang Dang and others.

When the king heard this, he laughed: "How can she need us to take care of her now?"

"This is a bad word." Luo Yongyan said: "Although she is doing a little bit in cashmere transactions, she is a woman after all. If no one helps her, she will be afraid that some bad people will have evil thoughts."

"This is, what kind of place is Liangzhou City? I heard that some evil people wanted by the imperial court have fled there."

"Sanlang doesn't need to worry. Everyone knows that your sister is close to the Zhao family in Shuozhou. The Zhao family is now quite well-known in Liangzhou City. There are so many people in their family, so how dare ordinary people provoke them."

The group ate and drank, and then talked about their intention to travel to Chang'an City.

Wang Dang and others came here this time not only to help Luo Erniang transport goods, but also planned to sell some goods from here.

"What goods do you plan to sell to Liangzhou City this time?" Luo Yong asked them.

"I just want to sell some cloth." Wang Dang said: "Recently, the price of cloth in Liangzhou and other places is high. Some tribes on the grassland even proposed not to trade cloth and copper coins. In the past, many merchants used beans, wheat, corn and other grains to exchange them for cashmere. Nowadays, there are not many people willing to collect grain."

This is not surprising. The population on the grassland is actually not large. After changing to enough food to ensure sufficient food, they will definitely ask merchants to use more storage-resistant and easy to trade with circulating cloth and copper coins.

The copper coins in the Tang Dynasty were simply cast with conscience. One copper coin weighed one coin. Even if it was not used as a coin, it was just a piece of copper lump. It was worth so much money, so there was no need to worry about depreciation.

Cloth is not only resistant to storage and circulation, but also an indispensable necessity in people's daily life. After the grassland people have a full stomach, they will naturally begin to pursue quality of life. The demand for cloth is only the first stage.

It is not easy to produce cloth and other materials. Although Liangzhou City also produces locally, it is still incomparable to the Central Plains and the South.

In this era, the production of fabric is as important as the production of grain. People call the farmland passed down from their ancestors mulberry fields, which shows how important it is for ordinary farmers to grow mulberry trees.

So even though textile technology is relatively backward in this era, Luo Yong's space also has some relevant information, but he has no intention of taking it out for the time being.

After the Jenny spinning machine was released, the inventors had suffered collective retaliation from handicraftsmen. Because of the emergence of this spinning machine, many people's jobs were ruined.

Let’s look at the current era, most of the people in charge of spinning and weaving are women. The so-called men farming and women weaving. While women depend on men to survive, they are also indispensable laborers in many families, and therefore have a status in their own families.

In addition to ordinary farmers, there are many weavers and silkworm farmers nowadays. They do not produce grain and rely entirely on the textile industry to support their families.

In this case, Luo Yong would never dare to easily move the textile industry. The price of silk cloth is expensive, so it should be a little more expensive. It is normal for purely handmade things to get harder and more expensive.

The common fabrics nowadays are far more than silk and cloth, silk satin, and silk-woven linen. The market is full of various fabrics, especially in Chang'an City. Many fabrics have never been heard of in later generations. I think it is known that 80% of them have been lost. Although this kind of thing is inevitable in the development of the times, it is still very regrettable to think about it.

If you want to talk about linen, it is mainly produced in the Central Plains. If you talk about silk, it will still be in the Jiangnan region.

This time, Wang Dang and others mainly wanted to sell some silk fabrics. Luo Yong decided to help them find the Wang family. The Lishi Wang family also has a shop in Chang'an City, and the main ones they sold were silk cloth they sold from the south and various canned fruits.

Wang Jinhuai found a source of Eucommia ulmoides in the south this year, so he stopped taking Eucommia ulmoides from Luo Yong. However, due to his previous agreement with Luo Yong, when the batch of canned yellow peaches came out in the early summer this year, someone still sent a batch of Luo Yong.

The batch of canned yellow peaches was sold without selling them. Except for some of them left to eat at home, all the rest was sent to Liangzhou City.

Peaches are also produced in Chang'an City. Aunt Luo also makes canned peach meat every year. Although it is not as sweet as the canned yellow peaches sent by Wang Jinhuai, it is always peaches. Unlike Liangzhou City, even peaches are not produced.

Two days later, Luo Yongxiu Mu, and the group went to the Wang family shop, but the Wang family was in trouble again this time.

This is the thing. Wang Jinhuai recently sent a batch of canned yellow peaches from the south to Chang'an. However, the batch of canned food was detained by the porters before entering the city. It was said that the heat was unbearable and the road was difficult. He asked the Wang family to process money for them, otherwise they would open the canned food outside the city to eat.

On the one hand, the Wang family felt that the amount raised by the other party was too large, and on the other hand, they did not want to compromise at this critical moment, so as not to be threatened by these porters in the future and refused to agree. So the two sides were in a stalemate.

"Where are you hired porters? Why are you so bad? "Wang Dang and others also delivered goods to others. When they heard about this, they all frowned.

"Hi, it's the porter I invited from there." The elder of the Wang family waved his hand, not knowing what to say for a moment, but he looked helpless.

To be honest, the customs in the south in this era were still relatively barbaric and fierce. No rules, etiquette, law, and laws can work in many southern regions.

You say you sue the official? They are not afraid. These people have a strong sense of courage to fight with the government at any time. Ordinary officials dare not provoke it. Who can afford to do anything that really happens?

"How could you hire a porter from the south?" Southerners of this era were very difficult to deal with, which is well known.

"I just shipped a batch of goods here, and I used up all the people there. Huaijin has built a new school in the south for more than half a year, providing pensions to the elderly and young, getting along well with the locals. He also said that it should be okay for the people there to use them once. However, I thought that something went wrong in the end." The Wang family said.

Luo Yong was speechless after hearing this. Wang Huaijin was treated like this by this. These people really had no conscience when they spoke.

However, the reason why this happens is probably because someone deliberately incites it. It is so hard to transport goods in such a hot day, and everyone wants to get more money. If someone incites it, it is easier to succeed.

As the saying goes, when the granaries are full, you will know etiquette. After several dynasties, the Central Plains region is much ahead of some wilderness in the south, whether in terms of economic development or cultural accumulation.

At this time, many people in the Central Plains looked down on the Southern Barbarians. On the one hand, it was because of their own sense of superiority in their bones, and on the other hand, it was often because some southerners had acted that were not ashamed of them.

Luo Yongwang Dang and others went outside the city with the Wang family, using both soft and hard and appropriate compromises, and finally got the batch of canned food back without causing much trouble.

In this Chang'an City area, no matter who is right or wrong, you will have to end up losing your life.

After working hard all day, when he returned to Fenglefang shop, Luo Yong said to Wang Dang and others: "Depending on today's friendship, you should have no problem finding the Wang family to sell some silk cloth in the future."

"It's just that in my opinion, whether it's selling silk or cashmere, I've sold a single item of goods and earned money from that item of goods, and I don't have much savings."

"What else do you need to save money?" A young man from Dinghu said in confusion, and the others also looked at Luo Yong one after another.

Luo Yong said to them: "If you go out with the banner and specialize in delivering goods to others, in addition to large merchants and bulk goods, you will also receive goods from the public. With the actions of you, you will definitely become famous in less than a few years. You will not need to travel around the world. You just need to set up a shop to receive goods at a distance, and each shop will only care about your own land. Wouldn't it be much easier?"

After today's incident with the Wang family, Luo Yong couldn't help but miss the convenient logistics conditions in later generations again.

If there is a logistics company from Wang Huaijin and others to Chang'an City, then how could such a thing happen today? If there are several logistics companies at the same time, it would be even better.
Chapter completed!