Dong's trip to Xuzhou

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Although Henan has been plagued by natural disasters in the past two years, and all parts of the country have withered, but far away in the east of Xuzhou, it has not been invaded by the chaotic army, and it is still stable.

At this time, the city of Xuzhou was still a prosperous scene, and some wealthy families were worried that they would not be safe in their Zhuangzi, so they bought real estate in the city and moved to live in the city.

It is precisely because these squires and wealthy families gather in the city that even outside the city is a withered scene, but the city of Xuzhou is still prosperous.

Merchants gather in the city, doing all kinds of business and trade, and restaurants and tea shops are lined up one after another.

The prostitution halls in Qinglou are dizzying, the hawkers and pawns are noisy along the streets, and the pedestrians on the streets are even more rubbing shoulders.

From time to time, some yamen officers will swagger through the streets, and some officers and soldiers will walk rampant in the streets, and pedestrians will avoid them.

On this day, a big cart with two big mules slowly drove into the city of Xuzhou.

Although there is a team of lazy officers and soldiers guarding the city gate, it is said that it is to check the identity of passers-by, but in fact, it is just extorting money from some passers-by at the gate.

At the city gate, the big car was stopped by officers and soldiers, and a young man who seemed to be running errands from a large family immediately stepped forward and greeted him with a smile.

Then he took out a small silver coin from his coat and stuffed it into the hand of the head of the officers and soldiers who guarded the city gate.

The officer and soldier weighed the few pieces of broken silver in his hand, and the weight was quite sufficient, and a smile appeared on his face.

Then, the officer and soldier casually looked at the cart, reached out and lifted the curtain, and glanced inside.

I saw a middle-aged man sitting inside, dressed well, looking like a businessman, this middle-aged man smiled slightly, and hugged his fist at this officer and soldier.

So, the officer and soldier squinted and waved his hand, and shouted to his subordinates: "It's okay, let it go!" Then he put the cart into Xuzhou City.

After the car entered the city, the middle-aged man sitting in the carriage let out a sigh of relief and wiped the fine sweat on his forehead with his sleeve.

At this time, the young man who was sitting outside driving lifted the curtain and said to the middle-aged man with a grin: "Captain, uh, no, it's the master." It seems that this Xuzhou City Mansion is not difficult to enter! ”

It turned out that there was no one sitting in this big car, it was Li Zixiao's Dong Xiang.

And the people who followed Dong Xiang were one of his clever subordinates, who were dressed as merchants, but they appeared in Xuzhou City at this time.

Dong Zhuang laughed quietly: "It's easy to do things with money, and the officers and soldiers guarding the gate just want to extort some silver, as long as they give them silver, this city gate will naturally be easy to enter."

Erxi, this is the first time we come to Xuzhou City, everything is careful, let's find an inn to settle down in, and then go to find Huichun Hall. ”

This young man named Erxi tried his best to relax himself, and the kind of military temperament that he had sharpened out also dissipated.

This young man used to be an errand boy in a large family, so he was naturally familiar with this set.

It was because he took a fancy to his past experience that Dong Zhuang came to Xuzhou City this time and specially selected him from his subordinates to follow the action.

After listening to Dong Zhuang's words, Erxi bared his teeth and smiled: "Okay, master, just sit down, and leave the rest to Erxi." ”

Huichun Hall is a pharmacy, although it is not the largest pharmacy in Xuzhou City, but it is also quite large-scale, and the medicinal materials here are very perfect.

There is also a secret Jinchuang medicine, which is particularly effective for knife wounds and arrow wounds, and more importantly, the shopkeeper of this pharmacy is decent and fair.

The surname of the shopkeeper of the Rejuvenation Hall is Xie, although he is not Langzhong, but his ancestor is a medicine merchant, and medicinal materials are a good business in these years.

Although the government has restrictions on the sale of medicinal materials, it is impossible to completely control the trading of medicinal materials.

Especially now that the world is not peaceful, there are poles everywhere, and those caravans that travel from south to north will hire dart guards to escort them, and inevitably someone will be injured, so the business of the Rejuvenation Hall is very good.

Moreover, in recent years, natural disasters have often appeared in various places, so the business of medicinal materials has not become bad because of this world.

Even, in private, some black-hearted medicinal herb merchants will have some dealings with some pole bandits openly and secretly.

In his early years, Li Zhengming traveled everywhere to practice medicine, and he had dealings with the shopkeeper Xie of Huichun Hall, and the two had a good personal relationship.

Originally, the shopkeeper Xie of Huichun Hall wanted to leave Li Zhengming in his store for consultation.

However, at that time, Li Zhengming was unwilling to live in Huichun Hall like this, but he was willing to go south and north to be his traveling doctor.

After so many years, Li Zhengming is also old, and later he encountered bandits on the way to practice medicine, and then he was rescued by Li Zixiao, so he followed Li Zixiao's side.

Now that Li Zhengming is old, he has lost the mind of wandering around, so he plans to stay under Li Zixiao to do things in a down-to-earth manner, which can be regarded as repaying Li Zixiao's life-saving kindness.

In this attack on Zhouzhuang, the White Dragon Army injured many people and needed medicinal treatment, plus a large number of homeless people gathered outside their mountain pass, only many homeless people were sick.

After Li Zhengming consulted Li Zixiao, he led the medical team to treat the displaced people outside the mountain pass, so that the medicinal materials they had stored in the cottage were not enough.

And then the officers and troops will definitely come to encircle and suppress them again, and there will inevitably be a tragic battle at that time, and there will be a large number of wounded soldiers in the White Dragon Army at that time.

Li Zixiao has always attached great importance to the treatment of wounded soldiers.

After all, these wounded soldiers will be veterans after they recover and return to the team, and even those who cannot return after recovering from their injuries can still play a role in other aspects.

Therefore, Li Zixiao planned to be able to purchase a batch of medicinal materials and reserve them before the second encirclement and suppression of the officers and soldiers, so as not to think about it too late when the war started. ‘

So, Li Zixiao was thinking about purchasing medicinal materials there, and it was too dangerous to go to Guide and Kaifeng now.

It just so happened that at this time, Li Zhengming found Li Zixiao and told him that he could go to the Huichun Hall in Xuzhou to purchase medicinal materials, which immediately solved Li Zixiao's difficulties.

Li Zixiao immediately asked Old Man Wei to allocate a large amount of silver tickets and handed them to Dong Zhuang, asking him to go to Xuzhou in disguise and purchase a batch of medicinal materials to come back.

And Li Zhengming wrote a handwritten letter, handed it to Dong Zhuang to take with him, and found Huichun Hall in Xuzhou, and handed it to the shopkeeper Xie there.

So, there was Dong Zhuang's trip to Xuzhou, and in fact, Li Zixiao sent Dong Zhuang to Xuzhou in addition to purchasing medicinal materials, there was also a task.

That is, he hopes to establish a trade route from Xuzhou to facilitate the procurement of materials from their cottages in the future.

After all, with the rapid expansion of Li Zixiao's power, there are more and more people under him, and everything is lacking in food and drink, and relying on those small traders alone is a drop in the bucket.

This is also the reason why Li Zixiao is eager to open up a reliable trade route, and the only thing that is a little troublesome is their identity as bandits.

However, this difficulty can be overcome, Li Zixiao believes that as long as he has silver in his hand, he is not afraid of not being able to buy things.

In order to make money these days, there are so many black-hearted businessmen that they dare not do anything, it just depends on whether the profit is enough.

Look at the imperial court's ban on Tatars outside the customs all these years, but is it useful? Useless.

In the face of huge profits, these businessmen will not take into account the decrees of the imperial court at all, and will still take risks, which is nothing more than to make Li Zixiao pay some more price.

Because of their status, they definitely can't trade with those merchants in a big way, they can only sneak around.

In addition, the merchant lion opened his mouth a little more, and asked for a higher price.

These Li Zixiao can bear it at this time, anyway, he has a lot of silver in his hand at this time, all of which were seized from the hands of those landlords and old wealth, and it is useless to keep that thing.

Dong Zhuang successfully blended into Xuzhou City with Erxi, and then Dong Zhuang completely handed over the matter to Erxi to deal with.

This kid had run errands in a big family before, and he arranged this kind of service thing, and he found an inn to live in.

Dong Zhuang, who took Erxi in the afternoon, walked out and found Huichun Hall after asking for someone.

The business of the Rejuvenation Hall is not bad, there are three stores in a row, and there is a single courtyard behind it, which is specially used for the preparation of medicinal materials and storage of goods in the Rejuvenation Hall.

Dong Zhuang grinned with his hands behind his back and stepped into the Rejuvenation Hall, at this time, he was dressed like this, and he really looked like a shopkeeper.

As soon as I entered this Rejuvenation Hall, a strong medicinal fragrance came to my face, and the business of this Rejuvenation Hall was really good.

A few people were waiting to grab the medicine, and the little guy who greeted the guests in the Rejuvenation Hall hurried over to greet them as soon as they saw the two of them walking into the store.

"This guest officer, I don't know what medicine you want to grab? Our Huichun Hall this medicinal material is genuine, the price is fair, Tong Su is not deceived, the quality is excellent, absolutely you are satisfied. ”

Xiao Er's eyes are very poisonous, and at first glance, Dong Xiang doesn't look like an ordinary patient, but like a businessman.

So he greeted them very warmly, and did not forget to sell them his pharmacy, and then invited them to sit down and serve tea to Dong Xiang.

Erxi, as Dong Zhuang's attendant, stood behind Dong Zhuang's back at this time, Dong Zhuang coughed lightly and looked in the pharmacy.

Then he smiled at the little guy and asked, "I came from Kaifeng Mansion, and I am also engaged in the trading of medicinal materials.

So I came here and wanted to make a deal with your store, I don't know if your shopkeeper can be in the store at this time? ”

As soon as Dong Zhuang finished speaking, Erxi behind him walked out, took out a small string of copper coins from his sleeve, grabbed the little guy, and stuffed it into his hand.

The little guy saw that this master was generous, and immediately smiled, it has been a long time since I met such a generous guest, and today I have a good harvest.

The little guy hurriedly stuffed the string of money into his arms, and replied with a smile: "It turned out to be a big customer, our shopkeeper Xie happened to be in the store, you wait a while, I will go and invite our shopkeeper to go!" ”

"Then there is Little Brother Lao!" Dong Zhuang showed a harmless smile on his face and said to this little guy.

The little guy didn't slack off when he took the money, he quickly ran to the back, and after a while, he followed a fat middle-aged man out.

Dong Zhuang immediately stood up and said to the white fat man: "In Xia Dong Youqing, Kaifeng came over, this must be the shopkeeper Xie, bothering him!" ”

Dong Zhuang, now that he is a pole, he naturally doesn't dare to use his original name to swagger, and after he comes out, he assumes the name Dong Youqing.

Shopkeeper Xie heard that someone was going to come to do a deal with them, so he personally came out to receive them.

After he came out, he saw that Dong Zhuang and the others didn't know each other, and he heard that they came from Kaifeng Mansion, but in his impression, among several medicinal herb merchants in Kaifeng Mansion, he didn't know this surnamed Dong.

But Xie Tiannan hurriedly returned the salute with his fists, and said with a smile: "Disrespectful and disrespectful, I don't know that the shopkeeper Dong came from afar, and he couldn't welcome him from afar, forgive my sins."

Xie saw that the shopkeeper Dong was a little faceless, but he didn't know which treasure number of the shopkeeper Dong was in Kaifeng? Xie Tiannan asked tentatively.

Dong Zhuang immediately smiled and said: "Dong has just entered the industry, and he is stocking up everywhere, and the store has not yet opened, so it's not surprising that Shopkeeper Xie doesn't know me."

However, Dong has a friend who recommended Xie Shopkeeper's Rejuvenation Hall to Zai Xia, and asked Zai Xia to come to Xie Shopkeeper to buy here, so Dong can be said to have come here, which is really presumptuous! ”

"Oh? It's easy to say, it's a guest, although our Huichun Hall has a small business, but it pays attention to the authenticity, this medicinal material will definitely satisfy the shopkeeper Dong!

But I don't know which friend recommended this store to the shopkeeper Dong? I must thank this friend for coming back! "Xie Tiannan is still very cautious, he still needs to be more tentative and tempting for the unknown guests in this year.

Shopkeeper Xie greeted Dong Zhuang while inviting Dong Zhuang to sit down and watch tea.

Dong Zhuang coughed lightly, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said to Xie Tiannan: "I think this friend of mine is also a friend of the shopkeeper Xie, this person's surname is Li, he used to practice medicine in Xuzhou in his early years, I don't know if the shopkeeper Xie remembers this friend surnamed Li?" ”

After hearing this, Shopkeeper Xie suddenly jumped a few times in his heart, and the first person who came to mind was Li Zhengming.

A few years ago, Li Zhengming had actually practiced medicine with him, but after Li Zhengming left, he hadn't seen him for several years.

Later, the shopkeeper Xie also asked someone to inquire about Li Zhengming's news, and later heard that Li Zhengming was practicing medicine in the area of Guide Mansion, and now it seems that there is still trouble, and there has been no news since then.

And today, a few people suddenly came, under the banner of Li Zhengming, and came to his store to claim that they wanted to purchase medicinal materials, could there be any problems here?

Dong Zhuang had been observing the look of the shopkeeper Xie, and seeing his eyes flickering, he knew that he had a different heart.

So Dong Zhuo immediately lowered his head and leaned over, and whispered: "There are a lot of people here, can you please ask Shopkeeper Xie to move to find a clean place and continue to talk about our business?" ”

As soon as Shopkeeper Xie heard this, he immediately realized that the identities of the few people in front of him were probably not simple.

But he also knew that the more people with questionable identities, the more profitable this business would be, so he quickly stood up and said: "Yes, this is not a place to talk about business, a few people are please!" ”

So Dong Zhuang took Erxi and followed Shopkeeper Xie through the front hall, came to the backyard of the Rejuvenation Hall, found a secluded room and walked in.

Dong Xiang gave Erxi a look, Erxi nodded and stayed outside the door to guard, and they talked inside the province and were overheard by irrelevant people.

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