Huangmo Pass, a place that was treated as a subordinate by many princes, once again came into everyone's sight. The reason was that those delicious beef and mutton were all purchased from the alien grasslands at Huangmo Pass.
Looking at the entire Lin Dynasty, only Huangmoguan has the ability to cooperate with foreign races, eat their beef and mutton, and let the people inside the pass eat it. It has to be said that the Xing family army is indeed good at military defense.
The people who were most informed about the news in the court were the merchants. They all smelled the business opportunity of hot pot base, and they harnessed their horses and hired bodyguards to rush to Huangmo Pass overnight.
Just like when Lin Rui had to hire escorts to travel such a short distance between the capital and Longting Town, there was nothing he could do! The world outside was too chaotic, and robbery and murder were nothing new.
Some rabble even became kings of the mountains, living on robbing passers-by and merchants. They had no business robbing the rich to help the poor. If they were targeted, their families would be destroyed, and the women would be abducted to the mountains and humiliated.
They are all people in power. Some people stand up when the country is in danger, while some people take advantage of the situation and make the already turbid waters even dirtier.
A businessman named Yang finally arrived at Baixing Town after a bumpy journey. Now Baixing Town has become a town of certain size near Huangmo Pass, but it is still not as prosperous as Baituo Town.
Yang Chen asked the guards at home to find an inn and have a good rest. Early the next morning, he led his men to Huangmo Pass.
He thought he had arrived early enough. Since he saw that the hot pot restaurant in their town was crowded with customers, he had an idea and packed up his things and rushed to Huangmo Pass.
Unexpectedly, there were people whose speed and sense of smell were faster than his. Ahead of him were many merchants with luggage and servants, riding horses towards the Xing Family Military Factory.
Yang Chen thought that since he was already here, he couldn't catch up with them anyway, so he might as well not try so hard. He asked the servants to slow down and enjoy the scenery along the way.
This was not his first time to come to Huangmo Pass. Before, when border trade was not so strictly controlled, he often traveled back and forth between the two places to do fur business. Later, due to the invasion of foreign races, the business could not be done, and the world was in chaos, so he returned home and never went out again.
Fortunately, their family had sufficient food supplies and donated a lot of wealth to the local princes, so they managed to survive.
Nowadays, these princes have become more rampant. Knowing that these merchants can only survive under their protection, they are more aggressive in exploiting them and asking them to pay tribute from time to time.
In short, it is impossible to live in peace in a corner. If you don't make money and the princes can't squeeze you for money, they can raid your house at any time and destroy your family.
So what could he do? He could only pack his bags and set off again for his family!
What's the point of living like this! All the money he earns belongs to the princes. He can only be called a tool for making money by selling his life to the princes.
"Master, please try the sweet tofu pudding here, it tastes really good!" The housekeeper of the family went out with him this time and brought over a bowl of tofu pudding.
"Tofu pudding?" Yang Chen had never heard of this thing before, and he was curious. When he saw the servant bring it to him, he took it and tasted it.
It was soft, glutinous, and tender, just like egg custard, flowing smoothly down the throat with a sweet taste and a faint bean fragrance: "Hmm, it tastes good."
"Master, there's more. Try this fried tofu." The butler handed over another snack.
The surface of the tofu is fried crispy, and the crispy shell is drizzled with a spicy sauce and sprinkled with chopped green onions, which is fragrant. When you take a bite, you can taste the crispy and tender taste.
"Well, not bad, not bad, butler, please buy some more."
Yang Chen was enjoying his meal and said, "See if there are any other good things. Buy them all for me."
In the end, the housekeeper bought red soup bean sprouts, red soup bean curd skin and cold bean curd skin without hesitation, as well as fresh soy milk for hot drink in winter and fermented bean curd with vegetables.
After eating and drinking his fill, Yang Chen even complained less. He then noticed that there were scattered vendors along the way. They did business just like peddlers, carrying two food boxes on a shoulder pole and selling their wares along the route they took.
Yang Chen looked curious and called out to one of the vendors, "Brother, I see there's no village or shop here. Why are you doing business here? Is anyone here?"
The vendor wiped the sweat from his head and smiled innocently: "Why is there no one here? Aren't you our customers?"
Yang Chen smiled and said, "So you're doing business with us? We're not locals, and we only come here a few times. We definitely can't do this business for a long time."
The vendor said, "One merchant certainly can't do it, but this road leading to the Xing Family Military Factory in Huangmoguan is full of merchants like you, so this business will flourish."
Yang Chen had previously thought that some businessmen would come to Huang Moguan, but he did not expect that everyone would be so keen on this business opportunity.
He didn't even bother to eat and immediately ordered the housekeeper and servants to ride their horses towards the destination.
"Butler, please ask what bean curd sheets and fermented bean curd are. They're quite delicious!"
There are really a lot of businessmen like Yang Chen. Originally, only scattered vendors could be seen along the way, but later there were more and more vendors, and the speed of selling products became faster and faster.
The raw materials for foods such as bean dregs cakes, fresh fried bean dregs, soy milk, red soup bean sprouts, and bean curd sheets are very cheap in the Huangmoguan market. If the quantity is large, you can also go directly to Lin's Workshop to buy them at a more favorable price.
Take these foods home and process them simply. For example, red soup bean sprouts are the hot pot base that many people bought from the Huangmoguan factory. Xing Jiajun's factory welfare is very friendly to the people of Huangmoguan. The hot pot base is sold at cost price, but the quantity is limited every day.
As long as these processed foods are placed along the roads that merchants must pass by, there will always be some merchants willing to stop and buy some to fill their stomachs.
Especially when the small vendors grew to a certain scale, big merchants would get off their cars and take their servants or followers with them to take a walk around here and try the snacks from foreign places.
As a result, a lot of soy products such as bean curd sheets, bean curd sheets and fermented bean curd were sold. Every small vendor made a lot of money during this period, so more and more small vendors joined in the business.
When Yang Chen arrived, many businessmen were already queuing outside the factory. Some were driving horse-drawn carriages, some were driving ox-drawn carts, and some were driving donkey-drawn carts. Without exception, the carriages were wide enough to carry a lot of things.
When he went to queue up, he happened to see an ox cart that had already loaded the goods and returned. On it were neatly stacked packaged hot pot gift boxes and hot pot bases, with the quantity of hot pot bases being even greater.
This is the cleverness of the businessmen. The essence of hot pot lies in the soup base. As for the side dishes, they can go back and combine them themselves and sell them at a high price.
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