"Where are the others?"

Ou Xing asked as he turned over and dismounted.

"At the young master's residence, I was chatting with the old man."

"Don't talk nonsense, it's the patriarch's mansion. Thank you for your hard work. I'll go over to see him right now."

Guo Dajia, surnamed Guo Mingshi, was a native of Chenxian County, Guiyang County, Jingzhou Governor. He was a businessman traveling between the Dongting Lake Basin and Panyu in the South China Sea.

Guo Shi started from scratch, but in terms of assets, compared with wealthy businessmen such as Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, there is actually a long way to go.

However, because he kept his word and was honest, he had a good reputation on the business road. Therefore, he was often called Guo Dajia.

"District division."

In front of the patriarch's house, Guo Shi, who received the news, was already waiting at the gate of the courtyard to meet him as a disciple.

"Guo Sufeng."

Ou Xing held up Guo Shi with both hands, talked with him about his own affairs, and took advantage of the situation to hold his arms and walk with him.

Guo Shi is now forty-six years old, and Ou Xing is only eighteen years old, but they have been close friends for many years.

Seven years ago, in the third year of Guanghe (AD 180), at the time of autumn harvest, friendship was born due to fate or fate.

At that time, E-Xingshan was still regarded as a dragon's pond and a tiger's den in the eyes of the outside world. Legend has it that the barbarians there were extremely vicious in killing people and stealing goods. Therefore, business travel was not possible.

Guo Shi, a small businessman who had struggled for half his life, said goodbye to the caravan owner Zhou Chao that autumn and began to work alone.

The brave ones were starved to death, and the timid ones were starved to death. Not long after the small caravan was formed, Guo Shi personally led the team and drove into the small road leading to Ou Jiachong.

Plain flags were flying and whistles were making a noise. When they quickly arrived in front of the dock gate, the caravan was greeted by people from the District clan.

The barbarians did not know much about fabric printing and dyeing techniques and lacked dyes. They found the cleanest plain linen that had not yet been cut and tied it to bamboo poles to make flags to welcome visiting merchant friends.

Being discriminated against by the law and forced to wear plain clothes, Guo Shi and others could have mistaken their intentions. Could the flying plain flags be specially prepared for us?

The long-lost respect almost brought tears to the eyes of the businessmen, and the story began with a beautiful misunderstanding.

Guo Shi's small caravan had a total of seven donkey carts. Five of them carried sea salt produced in Panyu, South China Sea, totaling eighty shi. Two carts carried the caravan's luggage, some rare treasures and small gifts.

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During the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period, none of the four counties in Jingnan produced salt, and the price of salt in Luo County was particularly high - the salt sold in the county market cost 1,500 yuan per stone when it was cheap, and several thousand when it was expensive. The price is so high, this

Salt is even coarse salt with a very bitter taste.

Ou Jiachong was particularly short of salt. The salt brought by Guo Shi's caravan made the Ou family cheer. Unfortunately, Ou Jiachong, who was poor at that time, was not only short of salt, but also short of money.

After Guo Shi and Ou Zhen discussed it, they drove the convoy into the courtyard of the clan chief's mansion and announced: Salt is sold at ten cents per catty, two hundred and fifty cents per jun, and eight hundred cents per shi.

, can be purchased with money, or can be bartered with goods of equal value.

Although the Ou family is poor, over the years they have worked hard to open up the mountains and forests, and each family has accumulated a lot of mountain goods.

After hearing the news about the sale of "cheap" salt, people from the District clan lined up in front of the clan leader's house with rhino horns, antlers, deer antlers, ivory, tiger skins, tiger bones and other items they had accumulated during hunting.

People of the Ou clan first handed over the mountain goods in their hands to Guo Shi and Ou Zhen to jointly evaluate their quality, and then exchanged them for bamboo slips with prices written on them, and then used the bamboo slips to exchange for salt at the corresponding price.

When the autumn harvest was busy, Kou's private school took a long vacation. The person writing the bamboo slips at the transaction site was the eleven-year-old star of the community who was at home during the vacation.

In less than half a day, five carts of salt were sold out.

Guo Shi was very happy.

The cost of buying salt from Panyu and transporting it to Luoxian was only 300 yuan per stone. During Guo Shi's trip to District Jiachong, the average price of salt was about 950 yuan per stone, making a net profit of more than 50,000 yuan.

If Shan freight is sold out of district, he can earn another ten to two hundred thousand yuan - the profit from this trip is equivalent to Guo Shi's income from working in the Zhou Dynasty for the past five years.

Ou Zhen was also very happy.

This time, by purchasing salt from Guo Shi, the whole family saved more than 40,000 yuan. The money saved was enough to buy three more mature cattle.

The guests and hosts enjoy themselves.

Ou Zhen invited the caravan to enjoy a meal at his home and entertained them with a banquet in the evening, allowing everyone to have a good rest and relax before setting off.

Guo Shi gave Ou Zhen two stones of table salt and a small box of South Sea pearls as a kickback for facilitating the transaction. He did not miss even the community star written on the bamboo slips in handwriting, and personally presented a bag of malt candies as a thank you gift.

"Young Master from the troubled area. The little man Guo Shi, I hope you will take care of me in the future."

"Easy to say, good..."

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Guo Shi?!

Ou Xing raised his head sharply, and his hand that went to pick up the candy bag froze in place.

"Young Master, this is a candy, but is there anything wrong with it?"

Ou Xing didn't know whether there was anything wrong with the candy before he saw it or ate it. However, the name "Guo Shi" made Ou Xing's heart agitate.

"The name Guo Jun is the 'stone' of the two thousand stones?" The surname "Guo" is on the caravan flag, so Ou Xing asked.

"Back to Young Master, that's right."

"Guo Jun's native place is Lingling County or Guiyang County."

"Eh~" Guo Shi was very surprised, "Back to Shaojun, the villain lives in Chen County and is from Guiyang County. I wonder how Shaojun knew about it?"

"I figured it out on my fingers."

It's really that Guo Shi.

Before traveling through time, Ou Xing's knowledge of history was average. He knew a little bit about the big figures and major events in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. As for the trivial matters and the little people in the corners of the historical annals, he basically had no impression.

However, Ou Xing's deeds are another matter.

Ou Xing knew very much about the glorious deeds of Changsha thief Ou Xing, who had the same name as him in history and was probably his great-great...great-grandfather.

Because Ou Xing's glorious deeds are only recorded in a few sentences in history books.

"At that time, Qu Xing, a bandit in Changsha, claimed to be a general and led more than 10,000 men to attack and besiege the city. He appointed Jian as the prefect of Changsha. He went to the county to lead the officers and soldiers and implemented strategies. Within ten months, he defeated Xing and others."

"In the Zhou Dynasty, Guo Shi also commanded his disciples to start from Ling, Gui, and the stars. Then he crossed the border to pursue them, and the three counties were in awe."

In the history of the original plane, Guo Shi, the salt merchant brother, did not know what he had committed, and he actually followed Ou Xing's great-great-great... great-grandfather Changsha thief Ou Xing, who had the same name and the same surname, to rebel.

Unfortunately, the two young rebels ran into an elite monster just after leaving the novice village, and became a small footnote to the glorious life of Jiangdong Tiger Sun Polu.

"The salt sold by Guo Jun is sea salt produced in Panyu?"

"Exactly."

"Have Jun Guo been to a salt farm? Do you know how sea salt is produced?"

"Back to Shaojun, I have been there and know a little bit about it. Salt production in Panyu can be roughly divided into two steps. First, pour sand to make brine, and then boil the brine to make salt."

"Guo Dajia, if I have a plan, I can save less than ten percent of the cost of making salt, and my wealth can be increased tenfold or a hundredfold. Are you willing to learn it?"

"Hey~"

The child was talking nonsense, and Guo Shi couldn't help but laugh. But he didn't want to offend this barbarian young gentleman.

After all, he was just a lowly businessman, while the other party, after his eldest father rebelled and surrendered on the basis of a united war, became a young master of a wealthy family.

"How could such a good thing happen? I would like to hear the details."

"Just come with me."

Ou Xing, who had been a copycat at Kou's private school for more than two years and nearly three years without causing much trouble, did not accept his fate.

This autumn, he will use the sea salt drying technology that countless time-traveling predecessors have made rich, to change the fate of the older brother behind him who will rebel and die with him as planned.

It also changes the destiny of this era.

"The late emperor came to the throne and took a break from military service. However, he still thought deeply and did not forget the danger. He explored the old scriptures and recovered salt and iron, hoping to be prepared and secure the Ning'an border. However, there were many bad officials who acted improperly and violated regulations.

Shangyi. The late emperor hated him, so he left the prefectures and states to ban salt and iron, allowed the people to cook and cast, and taxed the county magistrates like a story. He applied for the imperial edict, two thousand stones, obeyed the imperial edict, encouraged morality, and issued a notice
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