Chapter 105 – The Marketplace
The prosperity of Lingzhou City is definitely not inferior to the capital, due to the stimulation of a large number of smuggled black goods and stolen goods, in terms of market prosperity than the capital is even more than ever, but the humanities are much worse.
All the way around, see the most is “XX martial arts school”, also “XX door” signboards, some of them are quite elegant. Accordingly, the market is the most is the weapons store, potion store and so on.
Casinos, black rings, private kilns, everywhere, not like the capital city has a clearer plan, it seems a bit messy and disorganized.
In addition the inns were also very numerous, after all, the number of foreign merchants here was feared to be the first in the world.
The market was bustling with people. Xue Mu casually sprinkled silver and bought a batch of jewelry for the sisters, who accepted it with smiles on their faces. Zhuo Qingqing also smiled and accepted a vermillion hairpin, and tentatively asked Xue Mu: “Gongzi is observing the marketplace of Lingzhou?”
“Pretty much, roughly understanding it.” Xue Mu laughed: “If you really want to observe, it’s not enough to stroll around for a day or two, you guys might have to accompany me out more often in the future.”
Zhuo Qingqing then smiled, “You can ask us directly about many things, several of us have been in Spirit State for many years.”
“This is the reason why Patriarch allocated you guys to me ah.” Thinking of the Qiankun Bag, Xue Mu thought of a question that he hadn’t noticed before and asked, “In a place like Spirit State where commerce meets, there are extremely many merchants from all over the world, how do you deal with carrying money? After all, there aren’t many people who can use the Qiankun Bag……. Can there be a money bank that exchanges money in a different place?”
Zhuo Qingqing was asked to stay for a while. This question can really not general jianghu people’s thinking, that is, the dynasty and field is also difficult to have, only those merchants who have personally experienced the inconvenience of carrying a large amount of money, will think of these, really do not know what in the end Gongzi used to do.
“Foreign exchange, can’t be realized.” Zhuo Qingqing replied carefully, “No one dares to open a money bank on another clan’s territory, they can only open in their own sphere of influence, and even off-site is only a small area.”
“Even the court can’t?”
“There has been a court money line was Deception Heavenly Sect theft a empty, Department Six can not do anything ……”
“Tsk, Xiahou Di the vegetable melon ……” Xue Mu mourned for Xiahou Di for a moment, then asked, “So then, people can only travel with large amounts of money? Wouldn’t that be risky.”
“Yeah, the dart board eats this bowl of rice.” Zhuo Qingqing laughed, “Hengxing Road is just the opposite, eating robbing rice.”
Dare to form a natural ecology is it …… Xue Mu stroked his forehead and said, “Then people to the place, where to put things? Inn?”
“That can be put in the local money bank.” Zhuo Qingqing said, “I know there are some in the capital, which are officially run by the imperial court. There are also several in Spirit State, not too sure about elsewhere. By the way, the Yan Yang Sect is doing this business in Spirit State, borrowing other people’s deposited silver that exists with them, and usurious lending to other people as a way to make a profit.”
Xue Mu’s eyes lit up, “There’s such a talent in the Yan Yang Sect! Whose idea was this?”
Zhuo Qingqing obviously didn’t have any good impression of that person and snorted, “Pu Xiang, a nasty and shameless fat man who is as horny as life.”
“You guys know each other?”
“Recognize ah, when the family is not yet divided, we are all outer disciples, Pu Xiang was only ten years old, it is already famous for lazy greedy money and profit, martial arts cultivation without any achievements, every day colorful look at the teacher sister, to me, this kind of goods should have been expelled from the clan! After the separation, the Yan Yang clan is waiting to prosper, no money, no one, this colorful ghost is a can get money, in turn, by the heavy use.”
“You guys ah ……,” Xue Mu lost his smile, “really don’t know what it means to use talent in an unconventional manner, no wonder the days are miserable.”
Zhuo Qingqing wondered, “Gongzi thinks so highly of this person?”
Xue Mu laughed, “You think this person is vulgar and unpleasant, but you forget that Yan Yang Sect was swept away back then, without this person, how could it develop without money and rice?”
Zhuo Qingqing gave him a cross glance and bristled, “Not everyone can have the temperament and breadth of mind of a gongzi like this.”
This unintentionally reveals the light mature girl flavor, but it is to see Xue Mu heart a move, do not want to provoke, so don’t open the head to change the topic: “You say, if I and Xiahou Di again cooperation, so that the capital and the Lingzhou two places to exchange, feasible?”
Zhuo Qingqing stayed for a while and smiled bitterly, “Such things, Qingqing does not know. If there were such a bower, Qingqing wouldn’t only be in charge of a place as unappreciated as the capital division.”
The two of them muttered for half a day, long ago letting the other guards beside them be filled with jealousy, at this time there was a sister who squeezed over and asked with a smile, “Is it true that the Prince likes those older than himself? So does Sovereign, so does Sister Qing ……”
Zhuo Qingqing somewhat awkwardly inclined her head. Xue Mu cried and laughed, talk about business not with a little bit of age experience has done management talk, can not talk with your gang in addition to martial arts is rouge powder jewelry hairpin ornaments of the little goblin talk?
At this moment, there was a clamor in front of them.
Xue Mu and others stopped to look, only to see a fat man wearing a Taoist robe leading a dozen or so big men with swords and knives, and a group of people strutting and tapping on the door of a mansion, shouting, “Debt repayment!”
Zhuo Qingqing whispered, “That fat man is Pu Xiang. Wearing a dubious Taoist robe, he even called himself a real person now.”
Xue Mu’s heart stirred and asked, “Is it routine for Spirit State to hit the door to collect debts like this?”
“If there is an IOU in black and white, it is indeed routine, the rules of the jianghu are debt repayment, heaven and earth.”
“Tsk, really ……” Xue Mu dumbfounded, this Lingzhou is really very jianghu.
Carefully look at the mansion door, actually is a sect, the door has two stone tiger, carved with awe-inspiring power, a large plaque on the door, the book “fierce tiger door”.
Xue Mu fell up a little reminiscent of the idea. At that time and Yue Xiaochan into the capital, the first eye attracted attention, is not it a fierce tiger door disciples and people set up martial arts will be friends it …… At that time, Yue Xiaochan said that this third-rate sect even out of the very good disciples, quite touched.
I can’t think of coming to the Spirit State, the first time I went shopping, I saw the Tiger Sect, but it was a bit of fate.
More destiny came …… the door opened, a big man as fierce as a tiger stride out, eyes wide open, gnarled beard like a sword, angrily said: “Pu Xiang! We are all fellow jianghu practitioners, don’t push people too far! My master is already sick in bed, can’t you give him more time?”
This is the one Xue Mu has seen the ring, look a little more cordial ……
But see Pu Xiang two eyes rolled: “is to read in the jianghu fellow part, this real person has been three days of grace.”
“But you this three days also rolling interest!”
“Please, this real person is a lender, not a goodwill hall.”
“My master borrowed the loan originally because you cheated him!”
“You can’t say this nonsense.” Pu Xiang shook out a loan note, smiled and said: “Murder pays for life, debt repayment, black and white, you are to say all over the jianghu to go, also can not escape a reason.”
The man’s angry eyes round, strong arm muscles high bulging, obviously angry has been extreme, forced to hold back a long time before reluctantly said: “in the next just back to the spirit state, please again three days of grace, in the next will raise money.”
Pu Xiang laughed: “Three days and three days, three days is a lot. You have to settle the interest first, right?”
The big man said angrily, “Even the grass in the door has been pulled out by you! Where is the money to pay you!”
Pu Xiang laughed: “This mansion is not bad, if you pay it to this real person, even the capital and interest will be paid off.”
“This is our ancestral home!” The big man said angrily, “If you, Yan Yang Sect, want to destroy my Mighty Tiger Sect, you might as well say so!”
“Aiyaa, this real person is a businessman, harmony makes money, mentioning annihilation and what not.” Pu Xiang smiled and said, “Why don’t we do it this way, I heard that your teacher’s wife is quite graceful ……”
“Boom!” The big man couldn’t hold back, a fierce tiger shape whistled out, Pu Xiang rolled on the ground, behind him, several of his men knives and swords came out, and that fierce tiger collided for a moment, and then all of them fell out and rolled down to the ground.
Xue Mu secretly praised. Indeed in the capital of the uncontested formation under the suppression is too much, this han at this moment the prestige is much stronger than the original ring ah ……
Right at this moment, a dazzling blazing sun in the sky blasted straight down, and dazzling blade light slashed at the big man.
“Wind Blazing Sun!” The big man’s complexion changed, this guy left the Spirit State to break into the north and south for a few years, when did he actually come back?
He knew that there was an absolute gap between himself and a world hero like Feng Lieyang, it was almost impossible to fight. Seeing the light of the knife is about to split to, the big man is about to give up, the other end of the street came from the angry shout: “All to this sheriff to stop!”
A wave of three twists and turns ah, today this street shopping is really time …… Xue Mu turned his head to look with interest, only to see a big fat than Pu Xiang is still fat with a leather ball like all the way rolled over, bias that the speed of the speed is rapid and incomparable, like a discharged cannonball, the blink of an eye that is to come.