Chapter 83 Medicine Exchange
On October 16th, the 17th National Medicinal Materials Exchange Conference in Zhangshu began!
Early in the morning, just as it was daybreak, the vendors staying at Yaodu Hotel got up one after another. Carrying large and small bags of medicinal materials, they began to walk towards the trade fair and were busy setting up their stalls.
Gao Mingcheng also took Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to move. The three of them carried the medicinal materials to the rented stall. Looking around, there were stalls and people everywhere.
Behind many stalls, there are banners with some advertising-like words written on them.
For example: If the medicine does not meet the camphor tree, it will not be complete, or if the medicine does not meet the camphor tree, it will not be effective. Some people are more straightforward and directly write the names of elixirs, pills, powders, and medicinal wines and promote them widely.
Gao Mingcheng saw banners on the stalls on both sides, but he had not prepared them in advance and had no way to hang them.
He didn't bring many medicinal herbs, and the stall he rented was relatively far back, in the small-scale trading area, while those units that could do bulk transactions were all at the exhibition hall.
There was not much business in the morning, so Gao Mingcheng asked Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to look after the stall, while he himself planned to walk around. When he walked to a new friend he met yesterday, he said hello to him and exchanged some latest information.
As he walked, he greeted people enthusiastically, and when he saw medicinal herbs that interested him, he would stop to ask for the price.
It is not easy to go out. Gao Mingcheng wants to sell the medicinal materials here, and also wants to buy some medicinal materials here to take back, such as ginseng and deer antlers from the Northeast, cordyceps from XZ, wolfberry from Ningxia, etc.
But these things are very expensive, and with his current wealth, he can't buy much. After buying them, he also needs to find a way to sell them, so he needs to think carefully before making a decision.
Seeing customers coming in one after another and other stalls opening one after another, Gao Mingcheng hurried back to his own stall. He was worried that Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi would not be able to shout and negotiate business.
After returning, I saw the two men standing there with timid faces. They didn't dare to shout out to customers. Even when customers came forward to ask for the price, they spoke haltingly.
Gao Mingcheng did not blame them. He was just old wine in new bottles, while the two of them were real youngsters. It was also their first time to go out and do business, so it was normal for them to be timid. With more experience, they would become braver and their horizons would be broadened.
Seeing Gao Mingcheng coming back, a message for help flashed in Gao Zhuang's eyes, and at the same time his panicked heart calmed down.
Gao Mingcheng began to take charge of the overall situation, and asked Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to learn more, watch how he did business, and then watch how the people around them did business, and then follow suit.
The market price of each medicinal material is actually pretty much the same. Gao Mingcheng sells them at market prices, which are neither high nor low. The quality of the medicinal materials is also above average, so he did some business in the morning.
At noon, there were not many customers. Gao Mingcheng felt that he could handle it alone, so he called Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi to go around the trade fair and see more.
"Well, let's go then." After a morning of experience, Gao Zhuang was no longer as timid as he was at first. Instead, he was full of curiosity about this place. He and Huang Dazhi chose a direction and walked forward. When they saw something interesting, they slowed down and took a look.
At the trade fair, the goods traded are not just Chinese medicinal materials, but also Chinese patent medicines, Western medicines, medical equipment, etc.
In addition to these, there are also stalls selling medical treatments and medicines.
Some stall owners are very famous, and many patients are queuing up to see them. Medicine jars on the surrounding stoves are bubbling with steam, and all kinds of medicinal smells fill the air.
Various methods are used, including decoctions, acupuncture, bone setting, and pulse diagnosis.
When they reached the area where bulk medicinal materials were traded, Gao Zhuang and his friends saw another business - a medicinal materials store.
They support two businesses at the same time and become experts from scratch. As long as you have a keen eye and understand the market, you can start a business without too much capital.
Open a herbal medicine store, and then use an abacus and a scale to ensure fair transactions and reasonable commissions, so as to help herbal medicine merchants with strong financial resources to make large purchases and wholesale in large quantities.
Someone was talking, and it was about the business of the herbal medicine business. The person said a series of rhymes: the local medicine must be full, the master must be old, the apprentice must be young, and the road must be adjusted. Xiao Li, if you can do these things, you can also do the herbal medicine business.
Gao Zhuang found it interesting and was about to listen again, but the topic had already changed.
As he walked along, he discovered that this trade fair had medicine gangs and factions, and he also heard a sentence - there were forty-eight herbal medicine stores, and three of them sold sulfur.
After hearing this, he subconsciously went to find a shop selling sulfur.
As for what sulfur is used for, he doesn't even know.
Every time I passed a shop, I could hear loud sounds coming from inside, whether it was the crackling of an abacus, the clinking of a medicine hammer, or the tinkling of powder grinding.
There were frequent noises and the atmosphere was lively.
There were also many small vendors who had very little goods. They just sat on a small bench, waiting for customers to come and buy. The goods were very mixed, and Gao Zhuang and Huang Dazhi didn't know much about medicinal herbs, so they didn't recognize many of them at all.
Gao Zhuang tried to ask for the price, but when the other party spoke, he spoke with a strong local accent and he couldn't understand anything at all.
The country is so big that every ten miles there are different customs and habits. The Medicine Fair brings together medicine merchants from all over the country. Although Mandarin has been popularized since 1956, many people can understand but cannot speak it. Older people have stronger accents, making it difficult to communicate.
Gao Zhuang's attention was focused on various people and things, full of curiosity and joy. But Huang Dazhi's face was full of confusion.
For some reason, he encountered three theft incidents!
When he saw it for the first time, he instinctively wanted to alert the person who was stolen, but then he remembered what happened on the train before, so he pursed his lips.
By the time he saw it for the third time, his face had gone numb.
He turned his head to look at Gao Zhuang. The thief was standing not far from Gao Zhuang, but Gao Zhuang didn't notice him at all. Instead, he was looking at a strange medicinal herb with great interest.
"Ah! You hooligan! You touched my butt!" A scream echoed throughout half of the trading venue, and people around looked towards the source of the sound.
The person who screamed was a woman in her forties. She was squatting on the ground, her attention focused on the stall in front of her. But suddenly, she felt someone touching her butt, and she immediately screamed.
However, the man was not touching her butt, but was trying to steal the money in her trouser pocket. She just happened to move a little, so the thief not only failed to steal the money, but also accidentally touched her butt, and then this scene happened.
The middle-aged woman was very strong. She stepped forward and slapped the thief. The thief felt guilty, so after being hit, he ran away in a hurry.
So people around started to talk about it, saying that the young man was so hungry that he actually touched the middle-aged woman's buttocks.
Only Huang Dazhi looked on expressionlessly, because no one knew what had happened as clearly as he did!
(End of this chapter)
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