When the wine and food came up, I was about to raise my glass when Mr. Kang saw it on the road, and said "Huh" and hurried over to salute: "It turns out that the official of the squad also eats here. Xiaomin is a tea merchant in Xiangzhou City. It's such a coincidence that he came here to stroll around today!"

Tsui Hark whispered: "Take a judge, this is the one I mentioned a few days ago. Thanks to his help, I got here."

Du Zhongxiao nodded and said, "It turns out it's Mr. Kang. It's better to meet by chance than to meet by chance. Since we have met, let's have some wine and meals together."

Mr. Kang repeatedly praised his good news, sued him, ran back to the road, and asked his followers to eat elsewhere, saying to Mr. Jiang and others: "I'm so lucky today. I met the culprit and Xu Xiucai having dinner there, so let's use some of this good thing that can't even beg for, but I actually encountered it!"

After hearing this, several of the staff were overjoyed and arranged their followers to go to the shed together.

When he arrived at the table, Mr. Kang whispered: "Master, this table is bigger. If you have any good wine and food in the store, come on!"

The shopkeeper went up to greet him and said, "Customer, our shop has no tricks. We can only cook five or six dishes, and the best wine is the only bamboo leaf clear. The shops around here rent places in the mall to do business, and you can also order other dishes."

Mr. Kang said, "It's okay, even if there are some dishes in the store, I will give you more rewards. By the way, I will see a soup cooker over there, which is very good. If you ask the servant to inform you, you will send a large pot of soup. There is also a roasted mutton seller. It's interesting to ask them to send a few pounds."

The master agreed and ordered a servant to help Mr. Kang order food.

Sitting at the table, Mr. Kang bowed and said, "It's rare to meet a stern official, let the young people do their best and be a host today."

Seeing Du Zhongxiao smiling and not speaking, Tsui Hark nodded to Mr. Kang: "This place is just a simple meal, there is no need to spend money."

Mr. Kang said happily: "I walked for a while and saw that the food here was indeed ordinary food, and there was no decent restaurant. When did the officials have free time, the restaurant by the small river set up a table and a banquet."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let's talk about it. I'm busy with business and can't stay in Fancheng for many days."

These staff members were very generous at first glance, and the owner was very attentive and brought all kinds of dishes in a short while.

Seeing that they were all kinds of stir-frying dishes, Mr. Kang said: "In one or two years, Xiangzhou has learned from Ye County. This kind of food is popular. In the past, cooking is less and less. Although the taste is not as rich as before, it is refreshing."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Frying dishes is fresh, and the other is convenient. If you have dishes, it is not like big fish and meat, which makes people feel bad."

Mr. Kang looked at Mr. Jiang beside him, but didn't understand what Du Zhongxiao meant, so he just nodded and agreed.

The most popular ones now are cooking and stewing. Chicken, duck, fish and meat are all like this. For the poor, eating this way is naturally satisfying, but for the rich who are big fish and meat every day, it is too nutritious and not good for the body. How many people can eat every meal in this era? It’s nothing. Du Zhongxiao formed a habit. Since he sold wine at home and got rid of the life of eating but not having the last meal, he began to pay attention to his diet. Talking about nutritional matching with people of this era is completely about playing the piano for cows. Eating it with rich people first is the common idea of ​​people in this era.

For the store, the convenience of cooking, the use of oil and the taste is particularly delicious, which is the reason for its popularity, and it has nothing to do with proper nutrition. Most people are malnourished, oil has a special temptation to people, which looks fragrant and tastes even more fragrant.

After three rounds of wine, Mr. Kang said, "Today we have been walking around the mall. The goods here are complete, which is unprecedented. We have been to Kaifeng Prefecture before, and there is no such place in the capital. However, there is no tooth here, and the price of all goods has been set. Small people have little knowledge and sell goods like this. If the goods are backlogged and cannot be sold for a while, what should we do? Just like the ones we sell tea, new tea and old tea are not the same thing. Sometimes there are old teas that have been accumulated for several years in the tea farm, which is not tasted different from soil. If it is not a combination, no one will buy that kind of tea. There are many kinds of goods in the mall, and this kind of disadvantage is naturally also there."

Du Zhongxiao said: "If you can't sell it, you will naturally throw it away. Every kind of goods has a standard waiting. If you have time, you will throw it away after you have time."

Mr. Kang laughed when he heard this: "The official who hailed the squad is so generous that he can do this. We went to the squad to buy tea. Sometimes the tea in the squad has accumulated for five or six years, which is no different from the soil. The squad dare not throw it away at all, and all of them are rationed to us. Who is willing to buy tea? The official who hailed the squad there said that the tea is all in the account, which squad has consumed the amount?"

Since the Song Dynasty, the tea method has changed many times in the past few years. But it has never been separated. The government has mastered the acquisition, wholesale and transportation of tea, low-price purchases, and high-price sales. The profit is called tea interest money. In theory, tea interest money is very high, five or six hundred yuan per catty. It is not realistic to make so much money per catty. No matter what kind of tea method, it cannot be operated every few years. With the new tea method, tea merchants will always quickly find the loopholes in order to ensure their profits. Tea interest money only exists in the account book, but it actually does not exist. The most common one is false estimates, and the other is old tea. It looks like so much money in the account, but it is actually all old tea from Curry. Five or six years is not outrageous, and there are also ten or eight years. These are not old Pu'er in later generations. They rot like soil in a few years and are completely useless.

The tea method is unrealistic, and merchants can always find loopholes. After a few years, the loopholes are getting bigger and bigger. The government has no profit, so they have to change the tea method and keep circulating. If all the loopholes are blocked and the merchants are not profitable, no one will do this business and the tea cannot be sold.

The suppression of the combination of Mr. Kang said is a way to deal with old tea by debunking goods. The amount of new tea merchants buy and how much old tea is used, otherwise they will be disqualified from buying tea. In fact, it is to increase the price of new tea in disguise and offset the account of old tea. Of course, merchants are not fools, and they always try every means to avoid it. If they cannot avoid selling tea, they will lose money. This kind of business cannot be done by ordinary people. Not only does it cost a lot of money, but they also need to be able to use various ways.

This is a financial characteristic of the Song Dynasty. It is simple and crude to draw money from the commercial system, and does not follow objective laws and often cannot last. Tea and salt are necessities for daily life, which is particularly obvious. It is much better to have the characteristics of luxury goods in wine.

The tea in the Song Dynasty was extremely profitable from both production and sales. But in fact, most of the tea interest money was wasted on circulation and storage. Tea merchants could not develop, and the government could not receive much money. In the end, merchants' profits decreased, and consumers paid more, but none of them benefited.

When I saw several officials throwing them out of date, I was very surprised when I saw that the goods were sold, and Du Zhongxiao said, "If you sell them, you must be useful things, otherwise who will buy them? After time, it is useless, so you can only throw them away. This is actually the case when you buy tea. Decades ago, the old tea accumulated in the tea farm was still burned? It was just that the imperial court took classes and the tea farm could not make money, so I dare not burn it, so I had to suppress it. Can you sell it after you collect it? In the end, the people who spent this money were just tea drinkers. - By the way, where do you buy tea now?"

Mr. Kang: "Since Xiangzhou's tea industry was abandoned, we all went to Jiangling Prefecture to buy it. Now that the railway is open, it is convenient."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It will be more convenient in the future. Changping and the Shipping Department agreed that in Xinyang, there would be no tea mountains to set up in the places where tea produced by Xinyang, and under the jurisdiction of the field business. Tea will also be sold in the mall in the future, and they all come from there. After the New Year, tea will be produced there, and you can also buy it there. The Shipping Department only charges tea interest, and does not care about everything else, but it is just not shipped to other states for sale."
Chapter completed!