"Let's go faster and try to get into Suzhou City before dark." The man leading the caravan said to his companions behind him.
Most of them were originally porters in Rongcheng, and were later hired by caravans to come to Suzhou City several times.
After becoming familiar with this trade route, they discovered that reselling goods could make money, so a few fellow villagers decided to start this business.
It only takes one month to transport the wine and cotton from Suzhou City to Rongcheng.
This trip will earn you ten taels of silver!
Ten taels of silver! This is more than they can earn in a year!
As long as they work hard and make a trip, they can earn money, so they are very satisfied with the current situation!
The group walked for another hour in the cold wind and finally arrived at Suzhou City before dark.
As soon as they stepped into the city, the group of five were attracted by the lively scene in the city.
The restaurants and eateries on both sides of the street lit up their lanterns early in the morning, and the warm yellow lights gave travelers a feeling of returning home.
The waiter standing in front of the shop, greeting and seeing off customers, would greet travelers passing by warmly. "Sir, today we have stewed mutton offal. It's delicious and affordable. A bowl costs three cents."
The customer shook his head and said, "I want to eat hot and sour noodles today. Does your restaurant have it?"
The waiter didn't get angry when he failed to attract customers. He pointed forward and said, "Sir, please go forward. The hot and sour noodles are at Li Ji's restaurant in front!"
The few people who had just entered the city seemed to be accustomed to such scenes and walked towards the inn as if they were familiar with the place.
One of the men said, "Boss, let's go eat some sour soup noodles later. I haven't had it for a month and I miss it!"
The leader nodded.
That's exactly what he meant!
This hot and sour noodle is sour with a hint of spicy, smooth and elastic when eaten. He had eaten it once when he came to Suzhou City last time and was amazed by it!
The strange thing is that although this sour soup noodles also comes from Li Ji’s food shop, it is not available in other Li Ji’s food shops!
The middle-aged man couldn't understand why Li Ji Food Shop didn't make money?
Oh, it’s really hard to understand what rich people think!
Later in the evening, the Li family's food shop was still crowded, and the lobby on both floors was filled with diners slurping noodles!
"Oh, I heard that the vermicelli we eat can be purchased by ourselves tomorrow!"
Upon hearing this, the diners who were slurping noodles all put down their chopsticks. Someone couldn't help but ask, "What? What? Who told you that?"
One of them was skeptical: "I don't believe it! If we sell these vermicelli noodles, then all the food stores in the city, big and small, will be able to make these sour soup noodles. This will destroy our own jobs!"
The diners thought this made a lot of sense. Giving away one's own secret recipe to others would be foolish!
At this time, someone said, "You must have forgotten who did this. It was County Master Li!"
Everyone quickly came to their senses. If County Lady Li was doing this, then it was indeed possible.
In just two short years, Suzhou City was transformed from a depressed border town into a bridge connecting the Western Regions and the Central Plains.
The people of Suzhou City used to be starving, but now they have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear.
Every day, merchants from all over the country come to Suzhou City to trade. Among them are Hu merchants from the Western Regions, merchants from all over the northwest, and even merchants from the south thousands of miles away.
Caravans from all corners of the world gathered here, bringing unprecedented vitality to the originally depressed Suzhou City!
When Li Yan followed her father to Suzhou to take up her post, she used the money she earned from selling chili seeds to buy a lot of land.
Based on the local climate, Li Yan hired local people to vigorously promote cotton planting and grape cultivation.
The grapes grown are then hired by local people to be brewed into wine.
In order to promote wine, Li Yan presented it to the emperor under the guise of filial piety.
The name of the wine became well known.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yan held several garden parties in Suzhou and Rongcheng, inviting young ladies from local wealthy families to taste wine and listen to opera!
It’s no wonder that Li Yan’s marketing strategy quickly became successful.
Because of the wine's slightly sweet taste and light fruity aroma, it quickly captured the hearts of the ladies in the boudoir, and then the wine market gradually opened up!
As Li Yan continued to attract customers in Rongcheng and Jingcheng, the wine became more and more famous. In the wealthy areas of Jiangnan, a jar of wine was even sold for twenty taels of silver.
This may be a sky-high price for ordinary people, but for those rich daughters, it is not worth mentioning!
Where there is demand, there will be a market, and where there is a market, there is money to be made!
In addition, Suzhou is rich in cotton with high yield and good quality.
More and more businesses gradually flocked to Suzhou City, which increased the income of Suzhou City inns and also created more jobs.
Suzhou City has developed from the original two inns and one restaurant to six inns, a restaurant, three restaurants, and countless mobile stalls!
However, in just three years, Suzhou City was built into a platform for exchanges between the Western Regions and the Central Plains.
Here, you can buy not only sweet wine but also snow-white and soft cotton.
They were also able to bring jewelry, jade, spices, saffron, cordyceps and other precious medicinal materials from the Western Regions!
No one would have thought that such a vicissitudes of life city that had been ruled by the Hu people for more than ten years could be so prosperous and bustling today!
"This is all thanks to County Lady Li!" a diner suddenly exclaimed.
The diners nodded in agreement.
At this time, a pleasant voice rang out in everyone's ears, "This is the glory created by the hard work of the people of Suzhou City. It is not my achievement alone! I can't do it alone!"
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