Gu Liang also negotiated cooperation with the shopkeeper of Xinhua Bookstore, but the negotiation was difficult, and the old guy couldn't get a drop of water, which frustrated Gu Liang's plan.

"Huh! The more you stay in this place, the more novel ...... it feels", Zhang Heng picked up a coriander and said: "Today, I wandered around casually and found that there is a means of transportation called a public carriage here, and you can go around the island for ten dollars, and this dog meat is purchased from a farmer?" ”

The main island in the south is not big, but it is not small, it is about 40 miles wide from east to west, and about 50 miles long from north to south, it is the largest island in the Wufeng Islands, and its circumference is more than 300 miles.

Zhang Heng said that the ten dollars turned around the small island, but the south main island is open to the outside of the wharf and one-tenth of the development area of the residential area, the rest of the area has not been developed so far, almost covered by primeval forests, especially the plain in the center of the south main island, but also the later generations of Wudao City, because of the lack of labor has not been able to reclaim and develop.

In later generations, due to the limitation of grain production and the need to protect the local natural environment, the population of the Wufeng Islands has always been about four or five hundred thousand, but in terms of living conditions, even if the population reaches two million, it will not be crowded.

Seventy percent of the area of the entire southern main island is mountainous forest, and there are not many habitable plains, and the southeast corner has been developed at present.

"The public carriage and four-wheeled carriage are unique to the Wufeng Islands, and it is indeed very convenient to travel, and there are a large number of craftsmen on the island, but there are few active farmlands, so the food on the island should be tight, otherwise it will not be planned to supply?" Zhu Yan guessed.

The first time the four of them landed on the island, they thought they had learned about the Wufeng Islands, but with the second landing on the island, they had a deeper and deeper understanding of the Wufeng Islands, and the four of them also had differences in their understanding of the Wufeng Islands.

Everything in the Wufeng Islands is new to any outsider, but at the same time, it also has doubts and puzzles.

There is a gradual process in the development of things, and if everything is beyond the scope of understanding, it will instinctively reject and resist, and may even demonize.

Zhang Heng pointed to the armor placed on the hanger behind him and said, "I didn't expect to be able to buy the legendary leaf armor in the Wufeng Islands, but unfortunately there is only one, otherwise I really want to buy a few more sets of armor to go back?" ”

Gu Liang was also very curious, the Wufeng Islands did not prohibit the sale of weapons and armor, almost every family had weapons, but it was usually forbidden for people to carry weapons on the streets.

"There are too many strange things in the Wufeng Islands, and all the salt sold here is refined salt, and the price is only more than three times that of coarse salt, this is simply a loser!"

Before the Anshi Rebellion in the early Tang Dynasty, salt and iron could not be forbidden, and they could be bought and sold freely, and many families had their own salt trading.

The first salt monopoly in history was in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Guan Zhong began to monopolize the production and sales of salt in order to dominate the princes of Qi, and earned a huge amount of wealth for Qi, thus establishing the status of the overlord of Qi.

Later, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty squandered the wealth left by Wenjingzhizhi, and implemented the monopoly operation of salt and iron by the state, and set up administrative agencies for specific management, which increased government revenue and severely dealt a blow to industrialists and merchants.

Before the Anshi Rebellion, the price of coarse salt per catty has been maintained at about 10 to 20 Wen, and there are three main sources of salt, one is the well salt of Bashu, one is the pool salt in the river, and the last category, which is also the largest one, is to boil the sea for salt.

According to legend, Shandong Shusha's boiled sea is salt, which is the originator of salt production in China.

In the south of the Yangtze River seaside will often appear "ten thousand stoves of green smoke are boiled sea" grand occasion, almost every family will not give up the profit of boiling salt, often have "the benefit of boiling the sea, thought to support the country", "Wu Yue thousands of miles, with a million, cast mountains and boiled sea, like the wealth of rhino pearls and jade, a in the world", it can be seen that the profits in the middle of salt are huge.

The table salt made by boiling the sea as salt is coarse salt, the color is slightly yellow, with a small amount of impurities in the middle, and the taste is slightly bitter, and the wealthy family does not eat it.

Coarse salt needs to be washed, filtered, purified and other processes again to obtain refined salt as white as snow, and the price of refined salt is dozens of times that of coarse salt, which has become the first choice for many wealthy families.

What can make a few people puzzled is that all the refined salt sold in the Wufeng Islands is as white as snow, and the price is only fifty or sixty wen a catty, which is converted into ten dollars a catty, which is four or five times lower than the refined salt of Datang.

Similarly, the refined salt of the Wufeng Islands is also not a controlled commodity, as long as you have the money to buy as much as you want, which makes several people crazy.

"Dog meat rolls, and the gods can't stand still!"

Zhang Heng was a little annoyed, turning his dissatisfaction into appetite, taking a bite of dog meat and a mouthful of drunken immortal brew, and after a while, he was slightly drunk.

Gu Liang was sipping fresh winter bamboo shoots in the hot pot, new crisp and refreshing, and his mouth made a "click, click" sound, seeing that Zhang Heng and Zhu Yan were already stunned, he said: "The Wufeng Islands are an opportunity for our four major scholars, if we wait until other maritime merchants find out here, there will inevitably be a scramble, in this case, we might as well start first, sign a long-term contract with the Wufeng Islands, and finalize the goods we like in advance?" ”

Zhu Yan rolled his eyes and said: "I saw those shopkeepers in the Wufeng Islands, the people in charge are all Tang people, but the accent is Hebei Province, Huainan Road and Henan Province, Guanzhi's words and deeds are not from a rich and noble family, his hands and feet are rough, and ordinary Tian Shehan is no different, it is not difficult to deceive them, it is difficult to involve the island's stewards and money banks in the foreign trade of the Wufeng Islands, and it is difficult to seek the greatest benefits!" ”

The natural nature of businessmen to pursue profits makes it impossible for several people not to be tempted when they see huge business opportunities, especially when they find that many shopkeepers on the island are mud-legged, and most of them can only write their names crookedly, and it is not very difficult to deceive these people.

However, the Wufeng Islands stipulate that all foreign trade must be carried out by an agency called the customs office on the island, and at the same time, the island's money bank supervises the flow of money, and evaluates the risk of the business.

It's easy to deceive mud legs, but it's not so easy to deceive the Wufeng Islands.

However, the four major scholars in the southeast only sold thirty percent of the goods on this trip to the Japanese kingdom, and there was not much cash in their hands to trade, and they wanted to pay it on credit, or promised to repay the money when they went to the Wufeng Islands to trade next time, but they were all recognized by the Wufeng Islands as having a transaction risk, and no one was willing to guarantee this business, so that the four major families in the southeast could only agree to sell the goods in their hands to the Wufeng Islands at the reserve price, how could they be willing!