Chapter 73: Change of grain

In the past two days in Chang'an City, a vegetable called bean sprouts is popular because it is the only green vegetable that people can see in winter, so it is highly sought after.

Just take a pound of beans and you can exchange a pound of bean sprouts in heaven and earth to go home. Without beans, you can use any other food.

Yi Fan asked Li Ke to come forward and organize the refugees to start cleaning up the snow on various streets of Chang'an City.

By cleaning up the streets, Yi Fan hired 100,000 carriages, filled a carriage of bean sprouts, and went to various places in Chang'an City.

There was a wealthy family who brought a few kilograms of rice and grain, and then replaced them with some bean sprouts on these carriages and went home to eat.

In this way, Yi Fan could also collect a lot of food, among which the wealthy nobles wanted one car. The most exaggerated one was that Cheng Yaojin, the Duke of Lu, asked ten carts a day.

The bean sprouts Cheng Yaojin wanted were given by Yi Fan himself every time, just to be with this person who was active in the Tang Dynasty novels, similar to the role of an old man, to see if he was lucky enough to get his protection.

Today, Yi Fan once again brought ten carriages into the back door of Duke Lu's mansion.

Cheng Yaojin and his wife Cui stood in the distance and watched Yi Fan, who was commanding people to load and unload goods.

"Husband, you really won't go out to meet this successor of the Hundred Family? He didn't go there for so many princes and ministers, but he went to our mansion to deliver the bean sprouts every day. He wanted to get to know you, even I, a woman, could see it."

Cheng Yaojin sighed and said, "Hey, this is a good boy, but he is now in trouble with King Li Ke of Wu, but I, the general of the Left Wu Guard, have a hard time making friends with him.

Let your nephew Cui Bao come to the mansion and ask to see me if you have nothing to do. I won’t see him, so let him ask for more blessings.”

Then Cheng Yaojin said to himself: "I hope this time, because I have paid so much food, I will not involve my Cheng family."

Yi Fan brought ten carts of grain out of the back door of Duke Lu's mansion again. Yi Fan took a look at the other five carts of beans and five carts of other grains.

If it weren't for the five carts of beans given by Cheng Yaojin every day, Yi Fan would have never made bean sprouts, so how could he exchange bean sprouts for grain?

Sitting in the carriage, Yi Fan looked back at Duke Lu's mansion and thought to himself: "It seems that he can't get to know Cheng Yaojin anymore, and some things still have to rely on himself."

Yi Fan did not come forward to give alms to Li Kelai to operate the food he collected this time. Anyway, he had a powerful uncle.

Yi Fan knows that whether it is a reputation or reputation, he should not be too much at present, otherwise it will cause trouble.

More and more refugees are entering Chang'an City. In order to prevent these refugees from being idle and avoid causing trouble, they have to let them clean up the snow in various streets of Chang'an City.

The job that originally belonged to the Weiyuan Escort Agency has now been done by these refugees.

Seeing the refugees who were still pouring into Chang'an City, Yi Fan felt powerless. He only had so much to do. After all, he was not a god and could turn food out of thin air.

As soon as Yi Fan returned to the gate of heaven and earth, he heard Wu Meiniang who was greeting him, saying, "Little Langjun, there are two big merchants in Chang'an City who have been waiting for you for a long time, saying that there is something important to discuss with you."

At this time, Yi Fan also saw two gorgeously dressed people sitting in the hall of heaven and earth. They must be the two businessmen Wu Meiniang mentioned.

When the two of them saw Yi Fan returning, they both stood up and bowed to Yi Fan. One of the fat merchants said, "The little shopkeeper is asking us to wait!"

Yi Fan also bowed and said, "What are you looking for me?"

The two looked at each other, but they didn't expect that Yi Fan didn't even say a polite word and got straight to the point.

The fat businessman coughed twice and said, "We might as well take a step to talk to you if you are a shopkeeper."

Yi Fan took a few people to the study room to discuss in detail.

The three of them sat down, and the fat businessman introduced himself: "My surname is Zhao, who is in the inn business in Chang'an City. I bought a hot pot recipe from the shopkeeper some time ago."

Another tall and thin businessman also introduced: "My surname is Zhou, and I am in the cloth business."

Yi Fan waited for the two of them to introduce him and said, "I don't need to introduce myself, right?"

The two of them naturally made a polite comeback: "The little shopkeeper is a celebrity in my Chang'an City. No one knows anyone, so there is no need to introduce it."

"Okay, I won't beat you around the bush and tell me what you are going to do!"

Seeing this, the fat businessman stopped greetings and said, "The shopkeeper has always liked to buy recipes. I wonder if your bean sprout recipe can be sold? I know that the shopkeeper has been helping His Royal Highness Wu prepare food these two days, and I still have some food in the inn..."

At this point, it is obvious that this fat shopkeeper wants to exchange grain for bean sprouts.

Yi Fan was interested this time, straightened his body, and said, "I wonder how many kilograms of grain would be willing to spend for my method of making bean sprouts? You know, now these bean sprouts can exchange for several thousand kilograms of grain for me every day."

The fat shopkeeper said: "I am willing to pay tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, which is almost all my stored grain."

Yi Fan smiled "hehe" and said, "Does Manager Zhao think this is possible? I can exchange your ten thousand kilograms of grain in just a few days, so why bother giving you a recipe?"

The fat shopkeeper waved his hand and said, "The shopkeeper misunderstood. I am not trying to compete with you for business. I want to use this method to go to Luoyang to make a small profit, which will not affect the shopkeeper's current business."

After listening to the fat shopkeeper's explanation, Yi Fan immediately made a decision: "Okay, the deal will be completed."

"Ba,ba,ba"

Yi Fan and the fat shopkeeper had three high fives.

After reaching an agreement with the fat shopkeeper, Yi Fan looked at the tall and thin cloth merchant.

When the cloth merchant saw Yi Fan looking at him, the man said vaguely: "I heard that the shopkeeper has a way to make cotton coats. I am also willing to buy 10,000 kilograms of grain. I wonder what the shopkeeper thought?"

The cloth merchant’s request made Yi Fan a little embarrassed. What he was embarrassed about was whether to cheat the cloth merchant? How could there be any way to make this cotton coat?

It’s just a layer of cotton between two layers of clothes, and the most important thing here is cotton.

It seems that this cloth merchant doesn’t know about cotton, and thinks that cotton coats are made using a special method, so he has the idea of ​​buying them.

On the cart, the frozen old man appeared before Yi Fan again, prompting Yi Fan to make a decision.

"Okay, deal."

"Ba, bha, bha" three high-fives again.

Yi Fan breathed a long sigh, sat back on the chair, and looked at the cloth merchant with some guilt.

He shouted at the door: "Jingli."

Jing Li pushed open the door and came in, stood beside Yi Fan and looked at him, without saying a word, as if he was asking Yi Fan with his eyes, what did he call him?

Yi Fan reached out and said, "Let me borrow your dagger for use."

Jing Li glanced at Yi Fan in confusion, flipped his palm, and a dagger appeared in Jing Li's hand. Jing Li reversed the dagger and handed the handle to Yi Fan.

Yi Fan took the dagger, took out his gloves, and carefully cut off the thread of the sewn gloves, revealing the snow-white cotton inside.

"Shopkeeper Zhou, all the secrets of cotton coats are on this cotton, you can tell at a glance. There is no cotton in our Tang Dynasty at present, so if you want to do the cotton coat business, you still need to find this cotton.

But I have some seeds here, so Manager Zhou might as well plant them for a while to see if there is any harvest.”

The cloth merchant surnamed Zhou took the glove and understood everything. When he heard that the cotton Tang Dynasty had not yet, he suddenly felt that his 10,000 kilograms of grain had been wasted.

After hearing Yi Fan say that he has seeds, he feels better. Then he calmed down and watched the cotton seriously.

I saw Manager Zhou twisting the cotton into thin lines bit by bit. Manager Zhou’s eyes lit up, and he slapped the table excitedly and said, “Okay.”

"Little shopkeeper, thank you, I will add another 40,000 kilograms of grain."
Chapter completed!