Chapter 432: Five Flavors Store
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After the Yuanyuan, Song Liao made an alliance not to accept fugitives from each other, and the trade between the two countries was also dominated by the mutual market, which theoretically cut off the people-to-people exchanges between Song and Liao. The situation in Western Xia was not too much.
However, I don't want to think about how it is possible to meet the commercial needs of the common people by relying only on the Xiongzhou mutual market between the two most powerful empires in the world?
Therefore, although the government restricts people-to-people exchanges, smuggling and trafficking still cannot be completely stopped.
The current situation can be said to be invisible.
The three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Xia seem to have formed a tacit understanding, and the Song and Liao confronted each other on the two roads in Hebei, but they neglected to guard against the West Road of Da Liao Jing and the East Road of the Great Song River in the west.
And between the Song and Xia, while the Yongxing Army Road continued to fight, there were few attacks on the Northeast Da Song River East Road.
In this way, it has created very favorable conditions for people-to-people exchanges and fulfilled the special existence of Taiyuan.
In addition, the Qiang people in Liaodi and the Qiang people in Western Xia were engaged in smuggling, and the tea, silk, pottery, and iron of the Great Song Dynasty were sold into the two countries for decades.
The green salt, cattle and sheep of Western Xia, cattle and sheep of Daliao, and mountain goods were also needed by the Great Song Dynasty, resulting in a high degree of integration of various ethnic groups in Taiyuan.
In addition to the party members and Liaodi Han'er, Khitan merchants smuggled here for decades, and some gradually settled in the Great Song Dynasty. The current pattern of Taiyuan has been formed.
Tang Yi and the others dismounted and walked slowly, and now in the shops on both sides of the street, they can even see a lot of strange goods that can't be found in Kaifeng.
For example, wild goods such as pine nuts, pecans, and mountain fruits in Daliao. These things are extremely sought-after in the Xiongzhou market, and the Liao people are even more used as a national gift to the Great Song Dynasty, which shows its preciousness.
But here, it is sold casually on the side of the road, just like ordinary goods.
Tang Yi deliberately went to the bazaar for a turn, where there were not only the specialties of Daliao and Xixia, but also the grape wine and dried fruits of the Uighurs in Xizhou.
Song Kai saw the novelty, and turned his face to squeeze Tang Yi.
"It seems that the capacity of Guanlan still needs to be improved! There are so many good things in the Northwest, but you don't get any light on it. ”
The Guanlan transportation system is based on waterways, mostly based on the output of the south of the Yangtze River, the two lakes, and the coast, and the northwest waterway is not passable, so it is impossible to catch up with Guanlan.
However, Tang Yi didn't answer, frowned, and muttered: "There is everything, but there is no salt." ”
Everyone was stunned, and only then did they appear, the whole city was full of strange goods, but it was indeed as Tang Yi said, only the most famous thing in the northwest was missing-green salt!
Song Kai scratched his head and said, "Yes, why is there no salt?" ”
Ding Yuan pouted and said: "Of course I go to the grocery store to buy salt, who will put it on the street." ”
Everyone was right to think about it, and deliberately scanned around to see if there were any shops selling salt. Coincidentally, there is one less than ten zhang away.
Tang Yi walked in with a frown.
"Boss, do you sell salt?"
The shopkeeper of the miscellaneous shop was a stout man, and when he raised his eyes, he didn't say if there was any, but he asked indifferently: "From the south?" ”
Tang Yi smiled, "What's the matter, hang the face?" ”
The man didn't answer again, and he pointed to a row of white cloth pockets on the cabinet for a catty, how much did it cost? ”
Tang Yi was stunned again, and then picked up a piece of "salt" and looked at it carefully, and said without a word: "So expensive?" ”
The man said: "Our northwest is very large, so it is naturally more expensive." ”
"Then the quality is too bad, isn't it?"
This salt is slightly blue and black, rub a little bit and put it in your mouth to taste, it is a little bitter, it is the official circulation of salt relief.
The man is gone, "Does the son know the goods?" This is the best anti-salt. But in Taiyuan City, you can't find a better official salt than this. ”
Tang Yi smiled, "Don't get excited, I mean ......"
"Is there any green salt?"
The man was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously replied: "No." ”
"That's against the law!"
Tang Yi said with a smile: "You see that we came all the way from the south, not to relieve salt. ”
Song Kai said: "We don't have to scan the amount we walk." "If it happens, it will be enough for you to eat in this small shop for three or five years, and it will not be a problem."
The man hesitated for a moment, but still said firmly: "No!" ”
Tang Yi shook his head and stopped asking about salt.
"Which inn in the city is comfortable, and I ask my eldest brother to give me some directions."
This time, the man didn't hesitate, "At the west end of Fu Street, there is a five-flavor store, which is the best big store in Dayuan." ”
"Derre!" Tang Yi gave up his hand. "Then don't delay the big brother's business."
After speaking, he took Song Kai and the others and left.
Walking outside the shop, Tang Yi stopped, turned around and shouted: "The younger brother has been living there for the past few days, if the eldest brother finds the doorway, he can go to the inn to find it." ”
After speaking, without waiting for the man's reaction, he had disappeared into the flow of people.
"This guy is quite careful!" Ding Yuan complained. "I still don't believe it, there are so many grocery shops, he doesn't sell them, there are always people who sell them."
Tang Yi smiled coldly, "Be careful with your fart!" If you go to other homes to see, most of them are treated like this. ”
Ding Yuan didn't believe in evil, so he asked a few families, and sure enough, there was only anti-salt, no green salt.
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"What's going on?"
Tang Yi replied: "It is estimated that Wu Xianggong came to the northwest to inspect the case, and it has already spread here." ”
As soon as he entered Taiyuan City, Tang Yi wondered, this was completely inconsistent with what he had learned!
According to the teacher, the green salt is all over the northwest, and Taiyuan is the most, which is the distribution place for the green salt into the Song Dynasty. Not to mention grocery shops, street markets are full of open pockets and selling.
How could they have walked for so long, they couldn't even see what Qingyan looked like.
Someone must have spread the news that the imperial court was going to rectify the salt affairs in the northwest a long time ago, so the salt dealers would be so vigilant.
"So what now?" As soon as Tang Yi explained his words, Song Kai was a little depressed.
"It seems that if it is really as rumored, the benefits of private salt, both military and political affairs are involved, and we are so low-key, it is still not good."
Tang Yi shook his head, "Let's stay in the hotel first, and then talk about it when Yang Wenguang arrives." ”
It seems that he still wants to keep it simple. I wanted to go into the city to see how rampant the green salt was, but I didn't expect that people would guard against him.
According to the man's guidance, several people found the Wuwei store.
The front foot enters the store, and the back foot follows up with a flowing man. didn't speak, just sat down in the hall when he came in, staring at Tang Yi and the others for a moment.
Tang Yi and the others entered the hall, but they didn't pay attention to the ploppy man, but they couldn't help but be suspicious.
I thought that the business of the legendary largest inn in Taiyuan was not very good, but I didn't want to, it was not so evil, there were few tourists in the hall, and it was quite deserted.
Leaning on the counter was a middle-aged man in a satin burqa, not very old, but with a lot of beard. The beautiful hair that is more than half a foot long, coupled with the unique plateau red of the Northwest people, really has a little bit of Guan Yunchang's taste in later TV dramas.
At this time, this person is gently shaking the pu fan, so leisurely. Hearing the movement, he glanced at Tang Yi and the others with half open eyes, slowed down the fan, and swept up and down well, before lazily calling the guy to say hello.
"Sixth son, a guest is here."
Tang Yi nodded slightly to the beautiful bearded man, which was regarded as a greeting. Then, while calmly waiting for the cousin to come up to greet him, he looked around at the shop.
At this time, the cousin also greeted him, "How many sons, do you want to stay in the hotel?" ”
Tang Yi didn't answer, and his mind wasn't here.
He had already noticed the sloppy man who had come in late, and his heart moved, and he felt that he had just swept this man on the road.
And what attracts Tang Yi more is not this man. It's the table where the man sits.
That table was special!
Although this five-flavor store is deserted, the decoration is not bad at all, and the painting of beams and buildings is considered to be a lot of work. When it comes to wood furnishings, a discerning person will know that it is a first-class product.
More than a dozen sets of tables and chairs in the hall are all made of vermilion lacquer, and the cost is expensive.
However, among the more than a dozen sets of vermilion tables and chairs, only the one that the sloppy man sat on was extremely special.
The table was actually a bare log, and the pestle of the white flowers was extremely incongruous in the red hall.
The cousin asked again, but Tang Yi didn't answer, so he had to speak slowly again, "Guest officer, do you want to stay in the hotel?" ”
Tang Yi came back to his senses and smiled meaningfully, "The little second brother thought wrongly, vacate a few rooms and live in the hotel!" ”
The word "dajian" is not a northwest dialect, nor is it the official dialect of the Central Plains of the Great Song Dynasty, but a local dialect close to the north side of the Yanyun River in the Great Liao.
This cousin obviously saw that Tang Yi and the others were foreigners, and used this non-local word to set Tang Yi's words.
If you can understand it, it means that you are from the east, if you don't understand it......
It's not from the northwest, it's not from the east, so it can only come from the south.
Tang Yi said that "Xiao Er thought wrong" The meaning of the words is: We can understand it, but we are a guest from the south.
When the beautiful bearded man heard this, he couldn't help but open his eyes again and take a good look at Tang Yi again.
chuckled: "Vacate the third floor for a few resters, and pick a few Uighur melons for the guest officer to send over." ”
After instructing Xiao Er, the man said to Tang Yi again: "The child is ignorant and offended." ”
Tang Yi nodded, "It's okay, thank you!" ”
After speaking, he didn't stay long, and went upstairs with Xiao Er.
And the little second was also obedient, and he didn't test Tang Yi and the others anymore, respectfully led a few people to the guest room, and brought back and forth the hugurin, which should be an atonement.
At first, Tang Yi didn't know what this Uighur melon was, but when he brought it up, he realized that it was the cantaloupe of later generations, which was called Uighur melon because it was produced in the Uighur area of Xizhou.
There is no such thing in Kaifeng, and Song Kai and they have never seen it. When I picked it up and ate it, I was so amazed that I couldn't stop eating several pieces in a row.
Tang Yi watched them eat melons, but he was worried about other things. Said to a few people: "You stay, I'll go downstairs and take a look." ”
gave Jun Xinzhuo a look, and the two went out of the room and went down to the hall on the first floor.
When he arrived at the hall, Tang Yi couldn't help but be disappointed, because the angry man was gone, and the nude wooden table was empty.
The cousin saw that this boy had just gone up and came down, and hurriedly greeted him, "Childe, what else do you have to order?" ”
Tang Yi prevaricated and said: "My stomach is empty, what kind of food do you have here?" ”
As soon as he heard that it was a meal, he let the cousin let go, "The son will sit high in the hall first, and the small one will slowly tell you." ”
Tang Yi nodded and sat down in the hall with Jun Xinzhuo. It's just that the ghost makes the god worse, and when choosing a location, Tang Yi chose the nude wooden table.
Xiao Er was stunned, and subconsciously looked at the shopkeeper on the counter, but the beautiful man nodded without opening his eyes.
Tang Yi pretended not to see it, and said to Xiao Er: "If there are any good things that are not available in the south, tell me a few things." ”
Xiao Er said with a smile: "Childe, this is asking, the special food of our Wuwei Zheng Store, I guarantee that Childe has never enjoyed it." ”
"The best thing in this store is the secret system of Pili Bang in Liaodi. That's not a delicacy that ordinary people can eat in Daliao, do you want to have one? ”
Tang Yi laughed dumbly when he heard this, "This thing is a treasure for the Liao people, and we are not rare." For another thing. ”
Xiao Er was stunned, "The guest officer is so knowledgeable!" ”
Vilibon is the picoon, that is, the weasel.
The Liao people use a special method to simmer until the meat is rotten, which is indeed a delicacy in Daliao, and ordinary people are not qualified to enjoy it.
When Tang Yi made Liao, Yelu Zongzhen invited him to eat, and it was indeed delicious. But then I learned that it was a weasel, and I couldn't eat it.
Tang Yi was able to say that Bi Libang was a civet dog, not only Xiao Er was stunned, but even the beautiful bearded man on the counter opened his eyes, and once again looked at Tang Yi a few times.
"Childe is knowledgeable, have you been to Liaojing?"
Tang Yi didn't look back, playing with the teacup in his hand.
"Stay for half a year."
The man smiled: "It's a certain family that has lost its eyes, but the son is traveling from south to north at a young age, and he has traveled widely." ”
"How did you come to this place in the northwest? Relatives? ”
Tang Yi said with a smile: "The shopkeeper thinks too much, there is a family in the court, but not in the northwest." ”
"Hahaha!" The man laughed. "It's a certain family that is abrupt again! This meal is so-and-so, and all should be reparated. ”
Tang Yi shook his head and said: "I always heard that the Northwest man is refreshing and neat, and there is no other in the world. What I saw and heard today is far from the same! ”
The man was not angry, and said thoughtlessly: "In extraordinary times, do extraordinary things, son, take care of it." ”
Tang Yi smiled secretly, "It's reasonable." ”
“......”
This time, the man was really stunned.
To be honest, the last sentence is also a temptation.
If this boy doesn't understand, he naturally has an answer that he doesn't understand, but he understands it, and he makes a look of indifference.
"What the hell is Childe?"
Tang Yi turned around and faced the bearded man.
"I said, someone in the family is in court!"
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The truest lie in this world is seven parts true and three parts false.
Since meditating, every word Tang Yi said was true.
However, the meaning he conveyed was false.
This man is obviously the same as the miscellaneous shop on the street, he took the letter. Otherwise, even if Tang Yi is a foreigner, he will not be tempted by him in every way.
The more he probed, the more he showed that this store was not as simple as it seemed. And the message that Tang Yi conveyed to them was also ambiguous.
However, from this information, there is one thing that can make the bearded man sure, that is, Tang Yi has a wide range of knowledge and a great background.
As for whether he came to the northwest for business, the bearded man really can't tell it.
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