Everything in the "Demon Capital on Earth" is new to Li Liqian, even the price.

In addition to the shipyard and ironworks, there are also grain wharves, cloth wharves, timber wharves, stone wharves, and utensils wharves in Hanyang...... There are about 20 kinds of special wharves, and the shape of the official ships berthed is also different. Even if it is the scarf wrapped around the sailor's head, there is a clear distinction between colors, and the yamen are busy, staring at their own colors and roaring.

In addition to the official wharf, the private wharf is naturally endless, and some even donate money to "dredge the river", which looks like a decent gentry, and then take advantage of the situation to get a wharf in individual courtyards, which can dock their own boats.

The smuggling ban is not stopped, sugar, salt and wine are the big heads, and in recent years, some sugar has been put in the popular rice wine, which is even more rampant.

Although Zhang De cracked down, the effect was not very good, but the "Lijin Yamen" was big enough to kill the local records departments of Jingchu Province, and he was absolutely ruthless enough to kill those smuggling tycoons who made a reputation.

"Three hundred and fifty wen! Three hundred and fifty wen! It's all Nanchang rice! What a rice! ”

"High, high, high. Come from Guanzhong, the realm is only forty Wen, and I won't lose anything if I transport it over......"

"Brother, the rice from Guanzhong, people eat horses and chew it, and they have to have special carriage baskets, isn't it all money? From Guanzhong to Xiangyang, the price of this rice has quadrupled, how can it be calculated like this? Besides, my brother, this Nanchang rice used to be eaten by the prince, good rice. ”

"If you say it, I'll give you another twenty wen."

"Twenty Wen! Oh my God! There are no young and old people on Poyang Lake, and being able to cross the mouth of the lake is a way of luck, brother, look at my fellow villagers who are still burdened with their lives, twenty wen is too much, too much. Or...... Or...... Don't subtract ten wen, ten wen! ”

"Good! Yes! I'm not ruthless, it's just that this workshop is also a bunch of breadwinners, whose money is not money? ”

After that, the two sides clasped their fists together, returned the salute, and greeted the greeting.

"Da Lang, the price of rice in Wuhan...... How is it so high? More than 300 texts, is it a stone? ”

"It's a stone."

"Yes...... But I've heard that one stone of rice is only forty wen. ”

"Who told you? At present, one stone of rice in Chang'an also costs a hundred Wen. Forty wen for one stone, that was the price of three years ago. ”

"That'...... Then I'll sell Chang'an's rice to Wuhan, won't it...... Don't you just ......"

Li Lizhi thinks this is very feasible, but after thinking about it, if this idea is good, wouldn't anyone be able to do it? It can be seen that there must be an ulterior reason inside.

"You stupid girl, the princess actually thinks about reselling grain."

Lao Zhang laughed and said, "If you want to say it's feasible, it's okay." Just have you thought about it? If it is an ordinary person, sell two stones and three stones, at most five stones of rice, it is almost the same. Along the way, people eat horses and chew the feet of cars and boats, even if it is a stone and forty dollars. When he arrived in Wuhan, even if he earned a price difference of 300 yuan, five stone rice, it was just a lot of consistent. ”

"yes."

"Isn't it? This is always a lot, how much livestock can be worth, and how much can it be worth your own rations? Spread to the feet, tired and tired, it is better to be a weaver in Weishui Diaoyutai to earn more, why do you say he has to do such a thankless job? ”

After that, Zhang De asked Li Li again, "Moreover, Wuhan's hundreds of thousands of mouths, plus the caravans and caravans of ships, are worth two or three hundred thousand mouths." In ordinary places, how much surplus food can be supplied? When I was in Chuzhou, the purpose of building water conservancy was to increase paddy fields, and at present, more than 60 percent of the rations for many people in Wuhan are still locally produced. If it's all close to Wuhan, what if people elsewhere are hungry? ”

As for local inflation, it is also a vain explanation to Li Liqing. Only three or five sentences made Li Li unaware of his feelings, and he immediately stopped wondering whether he made a fortune by reselling grain from Chang'an.

While talking, the two businessmen on the grain wharf agreed that the payment method was half "China Resources Flying Ticket" and half Kaiyuan Tongbao, which made Li Lizhen even more surprised: "Then why don't you want to use all the flying tickets from Nanchang?" ”

"The people who use flying tickets in Nanchang are all rich in furniture and have a lot of industry outside. Look at this merchant, although he is also a little decent and rich, but you look at his hands, thick joints, dark skin, palm prints, fingertips and cracks, he is from a bitter background. It is necessary to run errands for his father and fellow villagers, and he is a local prestige. Of course, he is not bad at using flying tickets, but the people who ask him to sell rice are not all small households and the like. If you give him a hundred tickets, I'm afraid I won't be able to use them up in this life. On the contrary, with Kaiyuan Tongbao, many children and grandchildren can still turn, and they are not afraid of being shy in their pockets during the New Year's holidays. ”

Letting Li Lizhi hold her arm, Zhang De said again, "In the end, ordinary people are still in the bag." No matter how convenient the ticket is, what if the business that issued the ticket falls? Or did you get a fake ticket? Where to reason? Moreover, after the ticket has been released for a long time, the insects may eat the rats and bite them, and they may be brittle and burned. Only this copper coin, with a round square hole, is a big character that does not know one, and this shape is always recognized. ”

There are still a lot of ordinary people to consider, Zhang De did not joke with Li Li one by one.

But Li Lizhen still clearly understands one thing, the "Devil Capital on Earth" is different from the old capital Chang'an, and it is also different from the ordinary Qianmo Township.

"When Da Lang left Beijing, he had such ambitions?"

In a haze, Li Lizhi seemed to have caught some traces, raised her head in a daze, and looked at Zhang De with clear eyes.

"Nope."

Zhang De shook his head.

Then he patted the back of Li Lizhen's hand: "When I left Jiangyin, I thought about the current scene. ”

Just this sentence made Li Lizhi suddenly burst into flames, and laughed heartily like a silver bell.

The smiling fairy girl is falling into a kind of self-satisfied spiritual pleasure, as if she has received the most special award in the world, which makes her proud.

As he spoke, the rows of counterweight cranes on the wharf, under the steaming heat of the cold winter breeze, were lifting the grain from the cabin of the grain ships that were also docked in rows, and then placed them in the rows of docked plate rail bucket trucks.

The big animals dragging the bucket cart are busy replenishing water and beans by the handle, and if there are big animals farting, they are still busy stroking their stomachs, but I am afraid that these "ancestors" are also like beasts who are cold and break their bodies.

The orderly labor scene and the orderly state made Li Lizhi feel indescribably smooth and happy, but I just felt that these dense human heads, how could there be invisible hands to make them so organized?

"Okay, now that you've finished reading here, where do you want to go?"

Holding Li Lizhen's hand, Zhang De asked while walking towards the carriage.

"The academy, the academy on the mountain."

"Then go check it out."