I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 282

The transaction process was unremarkable, because Shen Xiaoye only had 100 pieces of cloth, which were not enough to be divided among the Dada cargo owners. She selected one or two and exchanged them for 200 fat castrated sheep.

"By the way, how much is this sheep worth?" Shen Cungeng chased the stray sheep, as if he was dreaming.

Shen Xiaoye whispered in his ear: "I just negotiated with the Dada people. A piece of blue or red cloth has a discount of more than six cents. If we exchange it for two sheep, it is already a bargain.

Yesterday, Master Shi was vague when talking about the retail price of Guanzhong cloth, but we have an expert in our caravan, and after a feast with his guys, we got them to sell it for eight cents."

"Xiao Ye, I think Mr. Wang's suggestion is very good. Why don't I accompany my parents to recognize my relatives next year and bring 80,000 pieces of cloth with me." Shen Cungeng calculated the cost and thought he could make more money from one piece of cloth.

Shen Xiaoye nodded: "We will go there, but we will discuss the details later.

It's a journey of thousands of miles, with mountains and rivers everywhere, and the expenses are not small. There are also robberies and the like. If you walk carefully, you can also find out if there are any suppliers who can make a lot of money."

The hot blood rushing to Shen Cungeng's head slowly subsided. "Yeah, no hurry, no hurry. Let's find more local customs books there and ask the Qin people in the capital for more information. We'll go after we're fully prepared."

The two siblings were whispering to each other, and another sheep ran away from them.

Lu Guan took a deep breath, and without letting Erniu and Zhuangzhuang leave the side they were in charge of, he ran over to drive the sheep back and said, "Shen Xiaoye, Shen Cungeng, you two should be more careful.

After we deliver this batch, we have to buy another batch to make up the number.”

He looked at Shen Cungeng who was looking at him, and answered his doubts: "One hundred taels is not equal to one hundred pieces of cloth.

Besides, you have to understand what the calculation is, Shen Xiaoye."

"I know." No matter what, she could only give more sheep, so she would calculate it based on the price she sold to General Wang last time, even though she would have to wait a few more days to settle the bill.

The family still had to pay another seventy taels to buy the sheep, but Shen Xiaoye didn't want to show the silver.

She simply gave up herding the sheep and said to Lu Guan: "I'll go and find out the prices in the cloth section?"

"It's not suitable for you to go alone, let Erniu follow you." Lu Guan personally thought that Geng Ge'er's ideas were too active, and it would be more appropriate for him to have Lin Erniu as his assistant.

Since he formed a team of veterans to guard the convoy, he felt that he had to worry about everything and that starting a business was not easy.

Shen Xiaoye saw a flash of sadness in his eyes and felt puzzled, mainly because the initial stage of her entrepreneurship had passed, and at this moment she did not have much emotion to empathize with other people's start-ups.

She asked Erniu to go with her. The place where cloth was traded was about two miles away from the horse, cattle and sheep area.

The merchants from the Great Zhou Dynasty were the owners of the goods, while the Dada people carried things for exchange, such as furs, horse tails, beef tendons, etc.

Shen Xiaoye asked several cargo owners and found Mr. Zhu, a cloth merchant in Ganlong. Upon meeting him, he discovered that it was Mr. Shi Wanhuai, who was wearing coarse cloth clothes and walking among Mr. Zhu's men, doing business with the Dada people.

She had no intention of going up to greet the master, but instead walked out of the trading area with Boss Zhu and talked about her intention to resell several hundred pieces of cloth.

The other party looked at them carefully and was about to say "too little, not worth it" when he saw Shen Xiaoye take a letter and hand it to him.

Boss Zhu scanned the handwriting of the young master of the Wu family on the envelope, took it and took a look.

It turned out that the little girl wanted to take advantage of her situation and come into the horse market for a visit.

But for some reason, she was allowed to pass directly by the soldiers this morning, and now she is even asked to resell the cloth to herself. The more she thought about it, the weirder it became.

After quickly reading the letter, he said, "Since he is Boss Wu's friend, he is also my friend.

Did the girl bring in any sample cloth? "At the entrance earlier, Zhu Ban also saw Shen Xiaoye driving in with a double mule cart.

Shen Xiaoye was waiting for him to say this, "They are all outside the horse market."

Boss Zhu was slightly startled, then asked, "Then bring in another sample?"

“If I go out, I won’t be able to come back in a second time, so why don’t you send someone to check the car at the door.

As for the price, we will just give you a friendly price, okay? "Shen Xiaoye wanted to give him a high price, but he had just seen the cloth at the Zhu family's stall, and it was obviously southern cloth.

The purchase price was the same as the price she paid for the cloth herself. Even if she transported it here, she could not raise the price of the cloth to more than four cents.

Seeing that the other party was still hesitant, she said clearly: "I didn't have a certificate. I was punished by General Wang before. Then, the cart of cloth that came in was exchanged for castrated sheep for the soldiers in the horse market.

But only two hundred are not enough, we need more."

When Boss Zhu heard this, he knew General Wang. He immediately said, "I will send someone to contact him. Miss Shen, can you give me a token?"

She asked in return, "My cousin is going with your people?"

"Good." Boss Zhu asked his second shopkeeper to go with Lin Erniu.

Then he asked again: "Shall we exchange them all for sheep?"

"One hundred and fifty rolls of four-foot-long red printed cloth, and three hundred rolls of thirty-two-foot-long blue cloth.

How many castrated sheep do you think would be appropriate to exchange for? "Shen Xiaoye didn't mind taking some more sheep back with him.

By the time we get to the capital, these sheep will almost be sold out.

"Five hundred heads, how about that?" As business is business, Boss Zhu did not feel that he had given too little. On the contrary, based on the calculation of three cents per head, he even gave more.

Shen Xiaoye smiled and said, "What if we only want half of the castrated sheep and replace the rest with ordinary sheep?"

Boss Zhu quickly calculated, "Two hundred and fifty castrated sheep, and three hundred ordinary sheep.

However, uncastrated sheep are not as delicious as castrated sheep. Do you really want to change them?" I only have a dozen more sheep anyway.

Shen Xiaoye clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, I'll change it."

For ordinary villagers, three hundred sheep can produce more sheep in the future and will be easier to sell than castrated sheep.

Boss Zhu probed, “I saw Brother Wu mentioned that your family mainly deals in northern cloth.

If the quality can catch up with Nanbu, there may be more cooperation in the future.”

In fact, he had once asked the young master of the Wu family to transfer goods. The goods were of high quality and cheap, but the other party was not willing to give him too much.

"Okay, you take a look at the cloth later." Shen Xiaoye didn't mind having more customers, even if he would meet them in Guanzhong in the future.

As a result, after Bulla was brought in, Boss Zhu saw that the red print was done very well and intended to transfer some goods from Shen Xiaoye.

But he did not explain it on the spot, at least to give the Shen family some time off so that he could discuss it when he visited them in the future.

At this moment, as soon as the cloth entered his tent, Shen Xiaoye didn't need to wait long, and soon hundreds of sheep were handed over to her.

Shen Xiaoye only handed over more than 200 castrated sheep to the barracks, and she kept 300 for herself and prepared to leave.

Lu Guan had a different idea, “It’s not easy to drive them hundreds of miles.

Why not exchange some things with the merchants in the market?"

"There is no shortage of sheep here." Shen Xiaoye insisted on her opinion. She did not change to cattle because the tax was too high, and she did not change to fur because she did not want Boss Zhu to make more guesses.

But the living creature did take the trouble, “But what do you want to change?

The goods of the caravans that come here are not cheap.”

Of course Lu Guan knew this, and he said, "Go find the Dada people and exchange them for some cow and sheep furs."