Xuanmen Ferry is the first stop for northern refugees to reach Jingkou.
In addition to welcoming the refugees, there are also many goods that need to be transferred here. It is precisely because this place is extremely busy every day and people are busy here, so the shore of Xuanmendu is also crowded with merchants.
Small shops selling all kinds of daily necessities are all gathered here, and business is extremely prosperous. It can be said that the flow of people on this Xuanmen Crossing has completely ignited the local merchant trade in Jingkou.
Compared with Dongshi in Jiankang City, Dashi is not inferior at all.
Liu Yu got up early, put six pieces of cloth on a flatbed cart, and pulled them to the vicinity of the Xuanmen Ferry.
Because he had to rush to Ma Xing Soma, he came very early, and half of the shops near the ferry were not open yet!
Fortunately, Xiao Wenshou had already told him the shop where she usually sells cloth, as long as he still sends the cloth to this shop.
According to Xiao Wenshou, she found this store after a lot of searching.
The shop owner is young, very kind, and fair in doing things. Unlike some bosses who are dishonest and deliberately lower the price when they see that she is a woman.
Liu Yu pushed the cart and followed the road pointed by Xiao Wenshou and quickly found the cloth shop.
Hejia cloth shop.
It should be right here...
The flatbed truck in his hand stopped slightly. Although he had known for a long time that the business of He's cloth shop was booming, he never expected that it would be so booming.
This is too lively...
Hejia Cloth Shop is indeed a large-scale shop. It has a large room with eight doors. Even the signboard is a bit larger than that of the shops next to it. It looks very grand.
In front of the door of the cloth shop, a large number of people were standing in front of the cloth shop, all with their waists tied. Liu Yu came closer and took a closer look.
Huh?
These people don't look like they're here to buy cloth, but rather... they're here to cause trouble.
Especially the man at the head, who wears a black bun on his head and Zeng (a relatively low-end silk) cloth uniform. He has a strong back and waist, a slender neck, a big face, and two eyebrows that are particularly eye-catching.
This man was currently crouching in his waist, shouting and cursing at the open door of Hejia Cloth Shop.
"Who dares to enter?"
"Let me see who of you dares to go in!"
Although it was still early, there were already customers in front of Hejia's cloth shop. The young ladies in decent clothes rushed to the cloth shop excitedly, in groups of three or five. They originally wanted to take advantage of the early hour and the less people in the shop to make more choices.
Favorite cloth.
Unexpectedly, I was frightened by the yells of the villains before I even got close.
"How is this going?"
"What happened?"
The young ladies looked flustered, with deer-like eyes, looking timidly at the villains. They held each other's hands and hugged each other.
The big man with broom eyebrows immediately became excited when he saw the young ladies approaching.
He swayed and walked closer and closer: "Yo!"
"Where did this little lady come from? She's so pretty!"
He waved his hand and pointed at the signboard: "Want to buy cloth?"
"Want to make a wedding dress?"
He bared his teeth in a playful smile and showed a sinister look in his eyes. The young ladies shrank in fear and did not dare to move.
Not bad, I haven't been scared away yet.
"How about marrying our brother?"
He took a few more steps forward, and was almost face to face with the ladies. The stinky smell sprayed from his mouth blew onto the delicate faces of the ladies, making them frown in disgust.
The people present were just a few evil men who had no dignity at all. After hearing this, they immediately screamed and booed.
The faces of several young ladies turned red.
I will endure!
I can't bear it any longer!
I really can't bear it!
He screamed out loud, and when he came to his senses, no one could be seen.
Liu Yu was relatively far away and could only hear these words intermittently. It seemed that he was really here to cause trouble.
Xiao Wenshou's words rang in Liu Yu's ears: He Xiaolang, the store owner, is a good man!
Although he had never met this He Xiaolang, he still felt a sense of justice.
It was this sense of justice that took root in his feet and refused to turn around and leave.
He sat on the cart and wanted to see what was going on!
In front of Hejia's cloth shop, seven or eight strong men gathered together. Some were squatting in front of the door, and some were just standing there. They looked at each of them with ferocious looks, and their faces were full of flesh.
You can tell at a glance that he is not a good person.
They stood in front of the cloth shop, and they just drove away the customers who came to the shop one by one, but they didn't do any damage. They just refused to let Boss He do business.
Looking up, the large gold-lettered signboard of Hejia Cloth Shop stood in the middle, looking particularly impressive. However, in the right corner of the signboard, there was a large piece of paper full of handwriting, which was particularly eye-catching.
"I said, Boss He, you are really not simple. The day has come, and we are all here, and you can still sit still!" The big man with broom eyebrows yelled for a while, and finally got tired.
He went into the store minding his own business and stared at the counter.
Boss He, who has a round face and is particularly amiable and lovable, is named He Mai. He is said to be sitting, but actually he is standing.
The commotion outside seemed to have nothing to do with him.
Regardless of whether the wind blows from southeast to northwest, I will remain unmoved.
He stood behind the counter, holding a bald pen in his hand. The small green leather notebook on the counter was the account book he regarded as his life.
Two hundred pieces of fine silk cost one hundred yuan each; three hundred pieces of medium-grade silk cost eighty yuan each; seven hundred pieces of cockcrow cloth cost fifty yuan each...
While he was settling the accounts, he was still talking about it. His leisurely and contented look really pissed off the big man.
No matter how noisy outside, Boss He is still obsessed with calculating accounts, waving the brush in his hand very fast, calculating the accounts clearly and carefully, without any mistakes.
If you look closely, you will see that the handwriting is not messy at all, which shows Boss He's extraordinary calmness.
"Boss He, do you want to sell this store or not?"
Facing the motionless Xiao He, the big man with a black head decided to try one last time. This was his last chance!
Behind him, several followers were exerting all their strength, and it was obvious that they could no longer hold back.
More people gathered around, and as soon as they saw these villains, they began to guess a little bit about what happened to Boss He.
"Look!"
"These bad guys from the Diao family are here to bully people again!"
"What's on the plaque is the land certificate!"
"They want to rob Boss He's shop again!"
The villagers wearing coarse cloth and short jackets gathered together and discussed loudly, not afraid of the evil men's obstruction at all.
Liu Yu stood in the distance, listening to their discussion, and finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.
It turns out that these gangsters want to use land coupons to harm people again!
Land coupons were not a rare thing in the Jin Dynasty, but were considered a specialty to some extent. They were used to buy and sell land and attachments to the ground.
This type of land certificate was quite popular in the Jin Dynasty and became all the rage.
Even in wealthy families, when a family member dies, his relatives will bury a land certificate in the coffin and buy the use rights of this piece of land from the land owner.
On the land certificate, the names of the buyer and seller, and the location of the land being purchased and sold are written very clearly, and the amount of money is no exception.
It's popular underground, and it's even more prevalent above ground.
Although the weak Jin Dynasty failed to achieve success in the war, it did not fall behind at all in other matters. The dignitaries were keen to occupy mountains and consolidate the land. To put it simply, they wanted to enclose the land for themselves.
Sometimes, they would beat gongs and drums to occupy unowned wasteland and turn all the fertile farmland in their territory into their own.
Some people are smarter and can also use small tricks. It is obviously a robbery, but they still want to give themselves a decent name. In fact, it is a robbery, but in name it is a transaction.