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According to historical records, the east and west cities of Chang'an are the size of two squares, and there are more than 80,000 shops. The so-called "buying things" in later generations refers to the two major markets in Chang'an.

Especially in the East Market, "there are 220 lines of goods and wealth in the city, mansions on all sides, and curiosities from all directions, all of which have been accumulated ......"

Although Cui Gengren has not arrived, he yearns for it.

However, in these years, agriculture was valued over commerce, and according to the laws of the imperial court, officials above the fifth grade were not allowed to enter the market to buy things.

He could only change into civilian clothes, and then together with Qin Xiuye and Cheng Fangming, he took Feng Changqing, Song Genhai, Huifan Monk and others to Dongshi.

Entering the city, but seeing donkey renters, acrobatics, pipa masters, and splendid wealth...... Hawking on the street. Pen shop, wine shop, iron shop, meat shop, engraving printing shop...... Row upon row. Biluo shop, wine shop, restaurant, murderous ...... The whole nine yards.

Cui Geng traveled all the way, and he really felt dizzying, and sighed: "This official has also seen the sea market in Thornton Port and the Fang market in Yangzhou City. But these places, compared to Chang'an East City, are really small. Presumably, there is no more prosperous place in the world than this place. ”

"Uh...... This ......" Qin Xiuye smiled bitterly: "Don't dare to deceive Cui Jingzhao, in fact, there is a place that is more prosperous than Dongshi." ”

"Where?"

"It's Chang'an West City. The West Market is known as the "Gold Market", while the East City is simply called the "Silver Market". ”

"Huh?" Cui Geng was slightly stunned and said: "Dongshi is close to the three major areas (Taiji Palace in the west, Daming Palace in the east, and Xingqing Palace in the south), and most of the surrounding squares are high-ranking officials and nobles. It is said that this Chang'an East City should be more prosperous than the West City, right? How can it be the other way around? ”

Qin Xiuye explained: "That's not what you say. Whether the market is prosperous or not depends mainly on the number of merchants. Near the East Market, there are all the mansions of dignitaries, so where do the merchants live? The West Market is different, surrounded by private houses, merchants rent houses to live, and most of the goods they carry are sold in the West Market. ”

"Eh, that's not right...... Cui Geng frowned and said: "Only if there are big profits, how can businessmen care about the distance of the road, your reason is not sufficient." ”

"There's another reason......" Qin Xiuye's eyes flickered slightly.

Cheng Fangming had no scheming, and said: "Old Qin, you are not kind, Cui Jingzhao is your own person, what is there to say?" Cui Jingzhao, let me tell you that the key to this matter lies with Hu Shang. ”

"Hu Shang? What do you mean? ”

"You know the Silk Road, right? The starting point of the overland Silk Road is in Kaiyuanmen. After entering the Kaiyuan Gate, it was not far from the West Market. Most of the merchants of Persia, Dashi, Fuso, and Silla transported their goods to the West Market to sell, and they also bought goods in the West Market. Over time, this west market has become more prosperous than the east market. ”

Cui Geng was puzzled: "No, you still haven't answered the question raised by the official." That Hu Shang has come thousands of miles, is it possible, do you still care about how many steps from the West Market to the East Market? ”

"Well...... Cheng Fangming rubbed his hands and said a little embarrassedly: "You also know that many lords have opened a business in the East Market. Our Da Zhou's money is always not good for Hu people to earn, so everyone is crowded out of them. After a long time, Hu merchants mainly gathered in the West Market. ”

Cui Geng suddenly realized that the East Market is mainly domestic trade, but the West Market is a combination of domestic trade and international trade, and the East Market is of course not as prosperous as the West Market.

In fact, this matter has also been expressed in the records of later generations. When Tang Xuanzong was in power, Yang Guifei's brothers and sisters once fought with Princess Guangping and her concubines to fight for entry into the West Market, causing an uproar~ waves. If it weren't for the prosperity of the West Market and the East Market, why would these two nobles seek to be far away?

Qin Xiuye also felt that it was impossible to exclude Hu Shang on the stage, and said: "It's not that we don't let Hu Shang do business, we just suppress them in the East Market, but the West Market has never intervened. In fact, it doesn't matter if these Hu merchants are not in the East Market, they sell slaves and dancing girls from all over the world, not to mention, they also let Hu Ji sell wine as a pawn, and talk and laugh with young men wantonly, I don't know how many children of the family have been degraded. ”

Cheng Xiuye added: "They also like to lend usury, which has ruined many good families, and these Hu businessmen are really not a thing." ”

Cui Gengxin said, one of you has taken over the Qing~ Mansion and gambling house in Chang'an, and the other has a lot of half-black and half-white transactions, which is not much better than these Hu merchants.

Of course, even if he thinks so, Cui Geng will never say it directly. He asked: "If this official guessed correctly, this Chang'an Han merchant will take the two as the leaders, and the Hu merchant will only look forward to the treasure building?" ”

Monk Huifan couldn't help but interject: "Not exactly. The treasure building is dominated by Persian and big cannibals, and there are also some Fusang and Silla people. But we Tianzhu people, we can't pee in the same pot with them, and we are all doing our own thing. ”

……

Everyone chatted and strolled, during which Qin Xiuye said a lot of interesting things about the West Market in order to enliven the atmosphere.

For example, there is a person surnamed Zhang who pushes a small cart to the West Market every day to sell porridge. Over the past few decades, he has saved a lot of money, and if you don't know, you still think that his family has any heels.

For another example, someone specially trained a red-billed bird, which is clever and cute, and specially asks for money from people in the West Market. I get hundreds of dollars a day, and I have an income of one or two hundred yuan a year.

Also, Hu Shang is rich. Someone once spent 100,000 yuan to buy the clear mud beads given by Wu Zetian to the monks of Ximing Temple. The Buddha bones in the hands of the monks of the Bodhi Temple in Pingkangfang were also bought by a certain Hu merchant for 100,000 yuan.

……

Qin Xiuye gave it with his tongue, and Cui Geng listened to it with relish. Time flies, and it is not far from Qin Xiuye's sumo wrestling field.

But at this moment, I couldn't walk.

But it turned out that the alley in front of it, somehow, was crowded with people, bustling, as if they were scrambling to line up to buy something.

Cui Geng was surprised and said, "What kind of business is so good in the East Market?" This is not an exaggeration to describe it as a daily progression! ”

Cheng Fangming was also a little strange, and said: "It is said that Ren Wulang's family in front of him specializes in selling "oil collapse", so there shouldn't be such a good business." Eh......"

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he grabbed a young man and said, "Wang Xiaosi'er, are you queuing up here, what are you going to buy?" ”

"It turned out to be President Cheng, the little one is polite!" Wang Xiaosi'er hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

Cheng Fangming was tall, stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Xiaosi'er's shoulder, lifted him up, and said, "Okay, don't fix those empty heads." Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”

"It's nothing, everyone is here to buy medicine!"

"What? Buying medicine? What medicine to buy? ”

"A panacea for all ills." Wang Xiaosi'er said: "Ren Wulang's oil shop was taken down by the Persians, and it was renamed Hu Yitang by selling medicinal drinks. 100 Wen, as long as 100 Wen, you can buy a medicine drink in Hu Yitang to cure all diseases! ”

Cui Geng couldn't help but ask, "This Persian is not a doctor...... He can't be the only one kind of medicinal drink, right? ”

"Yes, it's a kind of medicinal drink, which cures all diseases."

"A kind of medicinal drink, curing all diseases? I rub, isn't this selling strong pills? Cheng Fangming was furious at that time, and said angrily: "I deceived people to come to Dongshi, and I don't take my surname Cheng seriously, right?" ”

Qin Xiuye also sneered: "This move is also, treating Qin's loyalty as nothing." So what else is there to say? Tear him down! ：

Then, he commanded: "Huang Xu! ”

"In!" A sturdy man flashed out of the corner and said yes in a loud voice.

Qin Xiuye said: "Go and transfer the brothers of the Loyalty and Righteousness Society." ”

"Whoa!"

Huang Xu took the order and left, and Cheng Fangming also instructed Wang Xiaosi'er to go to the hall of Heli Club to find someone.

The kung fu is not big, and the good hands of the Zhongyi Society and the Heli Society have arrived, and there can be two or three hundred in total, all of them are short and small-dressed, tall, fierce, and extremely strong.

Cheng Fangming said loudly: "Brothers! ”

"Yes!"

"Listen to my order and smash Hu Yitang! Something went wrong, my surname is Cheng! ”

"Yes!"

Immediately, Cheng Fangming was in front, and all the strong men followed, separated the people like wolves and tigers, and came to Hu Yitang!