Chapter 36 Entering the city
"Xiao Xun, it's our turn."
Qixun, who was in a daze, was woken up by Brother Monkey. He followed Uncle Lu and Brother Monkey, paid the entrance fee, and entered the city after passing the 20-meter city gate.
Qixun also lamented that the entrance fee of one penny per person was really not expensive.
The donkey cart cost two cents, and the city gate tax for the goods was charged based on the estimated value, which was less than fifty taels. Based on the forty taels, forty cents were collected.
She was saying that the capitation fee was cheap, but Uncle Lu shook his head and said: "Although a penny per person is not expensive, our county is an important land transportation route, and merchants traveling from north to south and east to west must pass through it. People and goods come and go every day.
Fanji, this city gate tax is also an important source of revenue for our county, so don’t underestimate it.”
Qi Xun thought about it. They had arrived relatively early, so there were many people leaving the city and not many people entering the city at the moment.
Inside the city is a different scene.
Inside the city wall is a ten-meter wide bluestone road along the wall. This should be an emergency road for transporting supplies and chariots during wartime, so no one walks on it. Within the stone road is the inner city river about five meters wide, and on the other side of the river
These are the buildings in the city.
After passing the city gate road and the ten-meter stone path, you step on the stone bridge, and then cross the stone bridge, which is the main street leading to the inner city. The four main avenues of the inner city, east, west, north and south meet in the center of the city, and the entire city is shaped like a field.
The most central location is the office area of the county government and various administrative departments of the county.
The four main avenues in the east, west, south and north are commercial streets. There are rows of three-storey shops on the street, and the street is up to ten meters wide. Therefore, although there is a heavy flow of people, it does not seem crowded. Vehicles also move in an orderly manner.
For fear of hurting others, the three of them did not sit on the donkey cart. Uncle Lu took the donkey cart after entering the city. Brother Monkey got the advice of his beautiful mother at home, fearing that his restless sister would be abducted, so he took the donkey cart after entering the city.
He kept holding Qixun's hand.
Qixun looked at the orderly streets, the various shops on the streets, the various banners hanging on the shop doors, and listened to the cries of sales one after another, and he was very excited.
This is much more vivid than what I saw on TV and movies before.
Because it was still early in the morning, the city was bustling with fireworks and life.
They entered the city from the north gate. The fifth uncle's family lived in the South East District of the county, so they had to pass the county government office in the central district, walk south for a while, and turn into the South East District before they could get there.
So the three of them discussed it and decided to sell the things first and then go to Uncle Wu's house.
Uncle Lu often came to the county town to sell game, and he had regular customers. The three of them first sold the meat of two tigers, two venisons, four dogs and badgers, as well as about 20 chickens and more than a dozen rabbits to a big family.
Restaurant.
Although venison is good, it is not that rare. Although tiger meat may not be as delicious as venison, it is valuable because of its rarity. You may not get it once a year, let alone two tigers this time. After killing the meat, there will be four
It weighed more than a hundred kilograms, and the shopkeeper of the big restaurant was filled with joy.
It is said that the most valuable thing about a tiger is its meat. Uncle Lu originally thought that the meat of two tigers would only be sold for fifty taels at most, but with a wave of his hand, the big shopkeeper gave him sixty taels for two tigers.
I was also given fifteen taels of venison. The price of the venison was considered expensive.
There were six badgers, one was given to the fifth uncle's family, one was a filial piety to the old man, and one was kept at home. Only three were sold for meat. Although it was a small amount, it was better because of the delicious meat. Each one was worth one tael of silver.
As for the twenty or so chickens and the dozen or so rabbits, such a big restaurant really has no shortage of chickens and rabbits. If it weren’t for the sake of tigers and deers, they wouldn’t be accepted at all, but the prices given are very reasonable.
.Counted one and a half silver coins.
Uncle Lu collected the sixteen and a half taels that belonged to him, and Brother Monkey also put the sixty-three taels of silver from selling tiger meat and badger meat into his bag and said goodbye to the shopkeeper.
The big shopkeeper felt extremely regretful, why were there no tiger skins and tiger bones? There were no deer antlers, deer fetuses, or deer whips. The venison looked like stag meat, and the glands used to make musk deer were not sold. They probably
You should have a place to make it yourself.
He was still thinking that Hunter Zuo was quite capable now. He usually brought whole deer and sold them, but he really didn't do this with tigers.
He pointed out that people would continue to come over to sell him rare things in the future, so the big shopkeeper did not hesitate to give him a good price. Before leaving, he also warned him earnestly: "Hunter Zuo, if you have good things in the future, you have to remember
Yes, price is not an issue. As long as it is a rare item, I will give you the best price in the city."
Uncle Lu agreed with a smile, said some words of thanks to himself, and then left.
The prey sales went smoothly and it didn't take long. The three of them planned to sell the medicinal materials again.
Because his father has been taking medicine all year round, Uncle Lu is familiar with both medicinal shops and medical clinics, and he also knows which one has a good reputation. He found a medical clinic with a good reputation and asked the medicine boy to help look after the donkey cart and take the monkey with him.
Brother and Qixun entered the door.
Uncle Lu felt that these two were still children, so he went to the shopkeeper of the medical school pharmacy and showed the basket of sorted medicinal materials: "Please see how much these medicinal materials can be sold for. These are all
It's very well made, and if the price is right, I'll send it to you from now on."
The shopkeeper was serious. He looked at every medicinal ingredient carefully and couldn't help but praise it in his heart.
Medicinal materials are no different from other products. The quality of the medicine affects its efficacy. You cannot be too cautious.
The medicinal materials they use are really good.
The best medicinal materials handled by the best doctors in their medical clinics are nothing more than that.
Good medicinal materials are hard to find. This good does not refer to the quality of the medicinal materials, but to the preservation of medicinal properties. For the sake of efficacy, the medicinal materials used in medical clinics are usually produced in the local area, and most of them are homemade, and the rest are purchased from drug dealers.
Where to buy. Except for the drug dealers that we often cooperate with, they actually rarely collect medicinal materials from outside, just to ensure the effectiveness of the medicine.
He didn't really take the young man's medicinal materials seriously at first, but looking at it now, these medicinal materials are definitely of top quality and are really rare. Moreover, these medicinal materials are not ordinary varieties, they are all relatively rare.
It must have been picked from deep in the mountains.
The shopkeeper was satisfied and did not lower the price: "These medicinal materials are of excellent quality and the varieties are rare. I will give you a fair price. I will accept all this basket and give you fifteen taels of silver in total. If the quality is like this again in the future,
We also charge medicinal materials here. You can go to other pharmacies to inquire about this price, and there will be no one with a higher price than ours. Let me tell you the truth, your medicinal materials should be wild medicinal materials collected from the mountains. They are processed properly and are better than mine.
The same kind of medicinal materials bought from drug dealers are very effective. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to pay such a high price."
Uncle Lu looked at Brother Monkey. With the existence of Brother Monkey's flaming eyes, he certainly knew that the shopkeeper was not lying, so he nodded.
After taking fifteen taels of silver, Brother Monkey continued to put it into the bag. Qixun asked the shopkeeper: "Our family originally belonged to Xinglin. My grandfather was an imperial doctor. There are medical books handed down by our ancestors. They are rare books. Can you buy them?"
Chapter completed!