Changle County is located in a remote area. It has neither abundant labor nor water resources nor any other resources. It is the only point that it is located on the commercial road of East-West trade, which can bring some living water to this place.

However, this business road is not always smooth. There are so many small countries in the Western Regions. Whenever there is a little war, the business road will be blocked. This is an inevitable thing unless the Central Plains dynasty can unify the Western Regions and have always adopted relatively relaxed foreign trade policies.

The Central Plains dynasty began to manage the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty, and now the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is also very concerned about the Western Regions.

However, this area of ​​the Western Regions cannot be easily annexed. The Turks have always regarded the Western Regions as their sphere of influence, and now they have to add a big country that is constantly swallowing whales and eroding around them.

The collision and restraint between major powers, and there are also various small-scale forces. The Western Regions are destined to be in peace.

In this case, Luo Yong might not have complained that the business road was blocked. He should thank the Hu merchants of this era for being brave enough. Under such harsh conditions, they dared to travel thousands of miles to do business. Although it is still just a trickle and sometimes no, it still brings vitality to Changle County.

Whether it is a tofu workshop, a cement workshop, a bacon workshop, a needle workshop, all of this Luo Yong has done so that the people of Changle can achieve food and clothing.

If you really want this place to prosper, you may eventually have to rely on the tea market.

After tea is widely accepted, how can we concentrate this market in Changle County, instead of Dunhuang and Zhangye, where Hu people were originally many, or Liangzhou, which has developed rapidly in recent years, but their small Changle County.

If this problem can be solved, then Changle County will prosper and the local people will be rich. Luo Yong has outstanding political achievements, so it is naturally not far from being transferred back to Chang'an City.

Although he is now more adaptable to life in Changle County, Si Niang Wulang and the others are all in Chang'an City, Qiao Junlin should also want to go back, and his disciples and their families are also in the Central Plains.

Just as Luo Yong was thinking about the tea sale, the tea merchants such as Li Shi had just left Mengmen Pass a while ago and were walking on the cement road that Luo Yong's disciples had paved in the past few days.

This year, because the Gaochang Kingdom was fighting, their itinerary was postponed for several months. Since Jiangnan returned to his hometown in Lishi, they have been waiting for news from Changle County.

Ma Silang and others from Changle County asked Tang Jian to help him, and wrote a letter to Lishi's hometown through the post station, asking them not to rush to transport the tea this year. They still have some on hand now. Besides, after being delayed by the war this year, the tea sale should be 80% gone. So just wait a little longer and stagger the people with Li Daozong and others, so don't meet those tens of thousands of troops.

It is normal for a few scum among tens of thousands of people to appear. They are victorious at this time, and they are inevitably proud. The status of merchants is very low, so it is always right to avoid them.

So they stayed in Lishi's hometown until the merchants coming from the west told them that Li Daozong's troops had already passed Liangzhou City and went south, and then they summoned the team to set off.

If you want to say that there are merchants from all over the country in Mengmen Pass, the news is really well-informed. There is also Dingda Express run by Wang Dang and others, which is very close to Chang'an City.

I found it inconvenient to come out of a place like Lishi County. I was not well-informed, there were no express delivery, and there were no merchants who traveled from north to south. I couldn’t buy anything if I had money. Unlike the food shops in Lishi County, they could make even the meat, so they were delicious and not expensive.

"...Is your place so good?" A young man grinned and laughed. His face was dark and his teeth were quite white. The light in the room was not very good. When he grinned, he saw white teeth all over his mouth.

"Why didn't you? Don't choose the best food shop on the street. Just find a normal one and walk in. You can't ask for ten cents to keep your food round." A middle-aged merchant said.

The autumn rain started in the past two days, so they stayed in a small village on the roadside, and a group of people lived in several families. The family they stayed in had a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old. He was curious about the outside world. He had nothing to do on rainy days, so a few people sat in the house talking all over the world.

"Ten cents?" the young man smacked his tongue: "I can't spend ten cents a month."

"That's because you have no place to make money here." A man in his twenties smiled and said, "In our place, if you are as old as you, your family should find a way out for him. If you have to be braver, you will come out to work with us. It is also dangerous to work hard and do our hard work. In spring, you will go to Longxi again in autumn. If you are walking outside, you are afraid of meeting bad people. But when we deliver this batch of goods to Changle County, you will be able to earn money."

"How much can I earn?" the young man asked.

"As long as you are, you can't make that number in most of your life." A little old man laughed.

"Please talk about those who are timid. If you don't have the capital and don't dare to come out by yourself, then go and work for Boss Wang. Boss Wang treats the brothers under him, and works diligently for ten or eight years. As long as you are not a elm-head, you should have a future." The man said just now.

"Ten years and eight years?" When the young man heard that ten years and eight years were very long, he felt that it was very long. Since he came to this world, he had a lot of plans, and it was less than ten years and eight years.

"Then if you can't stand these ten or eight years and don't like to run outside all day, then go to the workshop to work? There is a Yin wheel shop and a Heng car manufacturer. If you are really smart and skillful, working with them may be more profitable than being under Boss Wang."

"They like to have craftsmanship and think about it."

"My sister's eldest son, my eldest nephew, entered the workshop at the age of thirteen. Now she can earn more than 100 cents a month."

“So many?”

"What's this? The few bearing craftsmen in Yin's wheel shop have at least a consistent amount of money every month. If there is more, I don't know how much it will cost."

"They Yin family are all carpenters, and no one can do ironwork. I heard that these blacksmiths were specially invited by Taiyuan Prefecture."

"Why did I hear that there is a Turkic man in it?"

"The Turkic people are so powerful."

"No matter who he is, he is just working and getting wages when he comes. Our place is not Chang'an City, so there is nothing wrong with that."

"That bearing is not easy to work with. The Yin family has been thinking about it for so long, but they don't know how much they spent to get it in. Fortunately, they asked them to make it out in the end."

"Now they sell a lot of bearings to Chang'an City every year."

"There are also people in Chang'an, but the workmanship is still a bit worse than what the Yin family did."

"If a carriage uses the bearings of the Yin family, and the Heng family's springs, walking on the cement road, it will be so smooth and stable, and it will not be bumpy at all."

"It's just that ordinary people can't afford it."

"We can still walk on the cement road now and stay in Liangzhou City. I don't know how much more we have to suffer."

"Then it's not easy to live in Yanzhi Mountain..."

"We're afraid we'll have to go down to push the cart..."

“…”

As these Lishi merchants talked, they talked about their next itinerary.

The young man who had just spoken with them was sitting in front of the kang hole and started to be stunned.

A young New Year's man of thirteen or fourteen years old went to the workshop and could earn more than 100 cents in a few years. It would be great if he could go to Lishi County.

Otherwise, I would go to work with Boss Wang and deliver express delivery to others. When I heard about it for ten or eight years, he felt it was a bit long. Looking back now, after ten or eight years, he was less than thirty.

It really doesn't work. It's better to find a shop to be a clerk for others. Listen to these people, there are so many shops on the streets of Shixian County. He will work for a while first, and after it stabilizes, he will take his wife and children over.

At that time, her wife would make oil paper umbrellas at home and take care of her children. He would work outside every day. If he earned money, he would buy some delicious food to take back in the evening. His wife was now full of belly. The old man in the village said that her baby looked like a girl, and the girl was also very good. At that time, she would buy flowers and clothes with her, and she would buy rouge with her, and she would buy dowry for her to buy decent and decent.

They were only more than ten days away from Changle County. They even thought of my mother, so they came back to take a look and sent more money to his brother's house, so that the old couple could enjoy the blessings of their children and grandchildren...

"You can't come back from Changle County at any time?" the young man asked the Lishi merchants.

"Come back? At least I have to wait until next summer."

"What, do you want to go to Lishi County?"

"It's not bad for young people to go out and have a look. They just need to follow the right person and don't learn bad things."

"If you really want to go, don't wait for us. Just go to the nearby city to see if there are any merchants who want to go there. You have to find reliable local businesses. Don't be deceived by those bad guys. Then you will be sold to mining."

"You go and find a big business as a porter. When you arrive in Lishi County, if you can't find a job, you can go to the papermaking workshops by the river outside the city. Those workshops are recruiting people all year round, and you can earn two or three cents a day. You can make some money there first, and then slowly find a way out."

"It's hard to go out alone, so it's better to find one or two safe companions."

"Be careful when you go out and don't believe anything others say..."

“…”

The rain stopped that night. Early the next morning, the Lishi people got up early to pack their bags, and after breakfast, they drove out of the carriage. The villagers in the village sent them all the way out.

In their villages next to the cement road, as long as the caravans coming from Lishi can receive warm receptions.

When the road was being built, the villagers worked with those Lishi people. After this road was opened, the caravans passing by them at the end of the year were unknown. As long as the caravans passed by, their villages would have income.

An autumn rain and a cool feeling. It is already late autumn. After the rain fell two days ago, a little chill appeared in the air.

The leaves of the big and small trees on both sides of the road have almost all fallen out, and the crops have been harvested in the fields. At this time, they are all bare. Only a few fields near the village chief have been planted with some cold-resistant vegetables such as reeds and cabbages.

There are many difficulties on the way to transport goods, and the road is long and hard. Fortunately, they transported tea, which is light and has accumulated a lot of money for many years of business, so this time their team was equipped with a carriage. The carriage ran much faster than the ox carriage.

"It's almost time to start winter?"
Chapter completed!