Luo Yong was worried about the safety and living conditions of the herdsmen outside the city, but the herdsmen themselves did not think there was any problem.

If it is said to be dangerous, the grassland is much more dangerous than here. Except for the slight inconvenience of draining water, everything else is pretty good. Many people are reluctant to leave after selling the sheep, and they live there all the time.

Most of the herdsmen’s life was not as delicate as the Han people. At this time, many herdsmen had money when selling sheep, and they were more generous in spending. So many vendors carried the load and went to them to do business.

Many people in the city said that those herdsmen do not work every day, but are too lazy to even cook food. Many people buy pancakes directly from vendors from Jinchang for rice.

Changle County has a small population and many workshops. Many people go to the workshop to work, and there are not so many local hawkers. However, many people in Jinchang, Dunhuang come to them to do business.

Especially Jinchang, because they are close, the cities there are relatively large and the population are large, but there are not so many places to make money. So now many people in Jinchang go to Changle County to make money.

Most of the people in Jinchang who sell pancakes are familiar with each other. When Changle County collects white and stacked flowers this autumn, many families go to the fields together, and they are so busy all day long that they don’t even have time to cook.

At that time, some Jinchang people came to them to sell pancakes, which cost three cents a day, and the filling was probably canned mutton and some seasonal miscellaneous vegetables. During that time, a batch of canned mutton happened to be cleared in Changle County, which was very cheap.

It was already winter, so they no longer used canned mutton. They all used fresh mutton as fillings, added some green onions, garlic, dried tomatoes, and mixed some sauces sold in Changle County, which cost three cents. The portion was sufficient and tasted good. Some herdsmen outside the city loved it very much and wanted to eat this every day.

Some herders also said that they felt that the people of Jinchang were more diligent and able to endure hardship than the people of Changle. The people of Changle laughed. These nomads who even felt tired even when they entered the workshop were so embarrassed to say that they were hardworking?

Sometimes when Luo Yong walks on the street, he often encounters people who don’t know where they are talking, mainly to bury the other party and praise him. Sometimes he is also very loud when he yells, but generally as long as he doesn’t do anything, Luo Yong and others don’t care.

Recently, several Gaochang people claimed in the city that a monk who had attained enlightenment who came back from India was preaching in Gaochang at this time, and praised the monk for being in the sky and without any underground. Many people only thought they bragged and did not take it seriously.

Someone said this to Luo Yong and Luo Yong, but he didn't believe it in his words. He said that the Gaochang people talked loudly all day long, praising their Gaochang place as if they were Buddhist holy land.

Luo Yong said that the affairs of the eminent monk were mostly true, and he also said that if the eminent monk often went to Le County, he would ask them to treat each other with courtesy.

The eminent monk they were talking about here was Master Xuanzang. Calculate the time, and he should indeed come back from India at this time.

In the original history, when he traveled thousands of miles back to Gaochang this year, he planned to fulfill the promise he made to Qu Wentai and repay his kindness to him in the past. However, the Gaochang Kingdom was destroyed and Qu Wentai was already dead.

Today, Gaochang Kingdom still no longer exists, but fortunately, Gaochang is still the same as Gaochang, the Qu family is still there, and Qu Wentai is still alive. I heard that he has been growing golden gourds for years, reciting scriptures and reciting, and his body is also quite strong.

Recalling the battle between Tang and Gaochang that almost happened that year, Luo Yong couldn't help but think of the young man named Chen Ji again, and I wonder what he is now.

At that time, Luo Yong cut down a sentence in the book, and asked Chen Ji to hand it over to a Gaochang monk, pretending to be the Buddha's revelation, so that the Gaochang royal family at that time realized the seriousness of the situation. Qu Wentai's son Qu Zhisheng rushed to Chang'an City at the last moment, determined to surrender to Tang, and resolve the disaster.

In this blink of an eye, several years have passed.

Last year, Aunt Luo mentioned Chen Ji in a letter to Luo Yong, saying that this person is very useful.

Two years ago, Chen Ji, Aunt Luo and others went to Jiangnan to open a market. Because Chen Ji was able to read and write, had martial arts skills, and knew how to deal with people. In addition, the aunt trusted his character, gradually, he became a core member of the Sister Food Store.

Now that Aunt Luo returns to Chang'an City, he still stays in Jiangnan. He doesn't care about the shop, but has to be entrusted by the aunt to go to Zheng County with several Wuxian children who are also employees of the sister's food shop, and set up a canned fish ball workshop.

When the aunt and the others first arrived in Wuxian, they were still a little uncomfortable with the local eating habits. They were full of river seafood every meal, and they were very depressed.

After staying for a long time, I gradually adapted and realized the benefits of seafood. Fish balls made of fresh sea fish are also a forceful way to cross river fish. In order to enable these fish balls to be supplied to various inland branches, Aunt Luo decided to open a canned fish ball workshop by the beach, and this matter was left to Chen Ji.

Najun County is located in the Ningbo area of ​​later generations. Mingzhou was established during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, it was just a county and was under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou.

Because the fishery products in Zheng County are rich, the price of fish is slightly cheaper than that in Suzhou, and it is very convenient to travel by boat, they bought a piece of land along the coast of Zheng County, bought sea fish from surrounding fishing villages, and set up workshops to make fish balls.

It was not easy to start this workshop in the early stage, and it required a steady stream of funds to invest in it. The folk customs of the surrounding fishing villages are quite strong and are not very friendly to the foreign population. If Luo Erniang had not had a reputation in Jiangnan, this workshop would have been difficult to gain a foothold in the local area.

At the beginning of this spring, Chen Ji received a bundle of sweet potato vines from Erniang and him, and planted them on a slope outside the workshop. He often cut the rattan and gave them to local fishermen. The relationship between the two sides improved a lot.

There is no fertile land in their area, either mountains or sea, and they cannot grow any crops. This sweet potato is good. You can live by just building a slope on the hillside.

This autumn, many families harvested sweet potatoes, so they became very friendly to Chen Ji and others.

Many places in this era were still very closed. They were often full of defense and hostility towards outsiders, and even had many barbaric behaviors and thoughts, and were often heard of killing and robbing goods.

This is not the case in the local county. After the locals truly accepted Chen Ji and others, they regarded them as their own people, and they were often very safeguarded when facing outsiders.

Under such a background, many foreign merchants often have to pay a great price to go to a new place to operate and develop. Once they have gained a foothold, it will be difficult for others to shake.

When Chen Ji and others came here to look at the land, they found out that the owner of the slope was currently living in the county town, so they searched for it.

Originally, he thought the other party would offer a high price, but the landlord not only did not want a high price, but also said that if they wanted to open a workshop there, they would be able to give it to them for free.

"I heard that in Laizhou, it is because Du Langjun opened a canned workshop there in the early years. In the past two years, their canned fish from Laizhou have been continuously transported to Luoyang, Chang'an and other places."

"If fishing products are mentioned, Yuezhou is not bad compared to Laizhou, and our county is unique. I know that your master Luo family is full of capable people. If you want to set up a workshop here, you will be happy. It is just a wasteland, just use it."

Chen Ji and his friends originally had a fancy to several places on the north and south coast of Suzhou, but it has not yet been decided which one to choose.

At this time, after hearing the words of the gentry, he became more inclined toward the place in Zheng County. Later, after some understanding and investigation, he finally settled here.

Chen Ji was not a short-sighted person who liked to take advantage of small gains, so he naturally had no reason to ask for other people's land for nothing. In the end, they completed the land transaction at a reasonable price under the witness of several other famous gentry in the local area.

This slope is not very close to the nearby village, but not far away. It takes less than a quarter of an hour to walk from the nearest village to the fish ball workshop.

Chen Ji and his friends built the fish ball canned workshop on a gentle slope, with a mountain behind and a sea in front. They built a fishing port by the sea.

At first, only nearby villagers came to sell fishing villages. Now there are more fishing boats coming and going. At most, twenty or thirty fishing boats can enter the port a day.

At the beginning, the workshop could only make dozens of canned fish balls a day, but now it basically takes hundreds of cans every day. Sometimes there are too many fish purchased, and the workers in the workshop are too busy. The workshop will increase the wages to attract villagers in the surrounding villages to work as temporary workers for a few days. At this time, they often don’t pick people, and they are willing to ask for the elderly and children who do not collect on weekdays.

Children over seven or eight years old nearby have basically worked in this fish ball workshop, killing, washing, scraping fish, cooking fires, sorting, filling cans, etc., and they can get started at any time, and they are all skilled workers.

Working in this canned fish ball workshop, you can earn several cents a day. There is a grocery store in their workshop, with ordinary fabrics, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and other foods, as well as some cakes, malt sugar and other foods. After children make money, they will use them for food.

The canned fish balls made in their workshop were mainly supplied to the branches of Ajie Food Store in Jiangnan in the early stage. After the spring of this year, the branches in Bianzhou and Luoyang were also offered.

This summer, a batch of goods shipped to Chang'an were sent from them. This piece of goods was mainly supplied to a branch in Tongguan and two shops in Chang'an City.

Because the court was dispatching troops, the goods did not go smoothly on the road, more than a month later than expected, and finally arrived in Chang'an City.

All the managers in the shop were prepared for a long time. After the goods arrived, a new and old store in the city soon launched this kind of sea fish ball at the same time.

This sea fish ball is very expensive. It costs only two cents for an ordinary meatball fish ball, but one piece of this sea fish ball costs two cents for a piece.

The shop has long been customized for fish balls for sea skewers, which are more delicate than ordinary bamboo sticks. They are also carved with patterns between the handle and the fish balls.

It costs ten cents to skew five sea fish balls with this bamboo stick. There is also a longer bamboo stick. One can skew ten pieces of it, which is a full twenty cents, which ordinary people can't afford.

These days, ordinary people can only earn a few cents a day when working with others.

At this time, if someone walks on the street with two long strings of sea fish balls, twenty cents in his left hand, twenty cents in his right hand, and forty cents in his hand, he will look very rich and generous.

However, some people look down on those who are too vulgar.

Some of the more refined ones sent their family members and servants to bring a food box, put a celadon soup bowl in it, and bought it at the shop for five or ten. If so, the work in the shop would make them a spoonful of soup or two. The soup was cooked with the canned soup and some seasonings, and the taste was very delicious.

Take this bowl of sea fish balls back, put them on a small red mud stove and cook them slightly, sprinkle some pepper powder, and add a small spoonful of rice vinegar. That tastes good!

Some bold and unrestrained people also look down on this way of eating, and laugh at them for being poor.

This Chang'an City is very lively all year round. It has to be quarrel for a long time when eating fish balls. It is not enough to make a fuss. It even wrote poems and ridicule each other. Among them, the students of the colleges and academies are active on the frontline.

These young people are naughty and creative, and just like eating fish balls, they have written many ridiculous and funny poems and are widely circulated in the public.

On this day, a minister in the court, who was busy with troubles, heard about this incident and said to others:
Chapter completed!