Chapter 161: The caravan prepares to depart

Yan Wu stood in place at a loss. What did 'fancy' mean? He hadn't heard of it.

What Jiang Jinshi said was also sincere. He didn't even need to use the Martial General Soul to test the other party. After all, he was a person who had been trained as a guard since childhood, so his loyalty to the Crown Prince naturally wouldn't be easily shaken.

Now Jiang Jinshi had to go and talk to Li Xinyue. After the pass was closed, food prices would definitely skyrocket, so could the Xinyue Chamber of Commerce take this opportunity to make a fortune?

When Jiang Jinshi found the busy Li Xinyue, the two rarely sat down and chatted for a while.

Li Xinyue learned of this news and answered without hesitation: "It's certain that we can make money, but the source of points is a problem!"

"Little Yue, how many points do you have now?" Jiang Jinshi asked curiously.

"About one hundred thousand!" Li Xinyue didn't even need to look at the system. This was like how much money she had in her pocket; she didn't need to count, she knew it clearly in her heart.

The one hundred thousand points in Li Xinyue's hands were all from when they were making salt and cutting down trees. Li Xinyue discovered quite a lot of nanmu, and later recycled some miscellaneous items to make up the total.

Now these points were basically used to exchange for food to supply the people of the two cities every once in a while, and the silver obtained was saved.

That's right, Li Xinyue didn't want to use silver to exchange for points. Although she could make money this way, she wasn't very short of points, so she wasn't willing to spend silver.

Points could only be spent in the system mall, and silver was needed to pay monthly wages to the mountain bandits of Yangguangzhai, as well as to hire people from Li Family Village to dig salt mines and other expenses, so the silver couldn't be moved for the time being.

"Otherwise... recycle the Imperial Seal?" Jiang Jinshi proposed a bad idea, because he always felt that thing was a disaster.

"No, that's too wasteful!" Li Xinyue shook her head repeatedly. The meaning represented behind the Imperial Seal could not be measured by money.

Jiang Jinshi spread his hands: "Then I have no way!"

"It's fine, closing the pass only limits food, the circulation of other items will not be restricted." Li Xinyue said confidently.

"Do you have a plan?"

"I've been prepared for a long time. Tomorrow, the first caravan of the Xinyue Chamber of Commerce will set off!" Speaking of this, Li Xinyue was still very excited. She urgently wanted to know if her caravan could make money.

"Ah? Why haven't I heard of it?" Jiang Jinshi was stunned, clearly unaware.

Li Xinyue put her hands on her hips and said angrily: "You sleep every day, what could you possibly know?"

Jiang Jinshi smiled awkwardly: "Then what is this first caravan selling?"

"Let's go! I'll take you to see." Li Xinyue was like a proud little cat, stretching her swan neck and looking smug.

"Alright!" Jiang Jinshi followed Li Xinyue with small steps.

Li Xinyue took Jiang Jinshi to a house. As soon as Jiang Jinshi entered the door, he saw twenty horse carts loading and unloading goods.

"Great Leader is good!"

"Greetings, Great Leader!"

The mountain bandits who were moving goods stopped to greet Jiang Jinshi.

Jiang Jinshi nodded in response, and suddenly saw a woman in the crowd whom he had met once before.

"Tang Rui? Why is she here?"

Hearing this, Li Xinyue looked in the direction of Jiang Jinshi's gaze, and then explained to Jiang Jinshi: "Oh! The Tang Family Head wanted her to exercise, so he asked me if she could follow the caravan to learn."

"So the Tang Family Head wants her to inherit the family business?"

"Should be, after all, she is the Tang Family Head's only bloodline!" Li Xinyue moved her gaze away, preparing to tell Jiang Jinshi about the goods she had prepared.

The two had just walked away when Tang Rui noticed Jiang Jinshi. This was the first time they had met since she was robbed by Jiang Jinshi last time.

"Abominable mountain bandit!" Tang Rui cursed in a low voice, muttering as if recalling the experience from back then.

Arriving at the front of the horse cart convoy, the goods here had already been loaded and tied up with ropes.

Li Xinyue gently lifted a corner of the oilcloth on top and said: "This one is loaded with refined salt."

Jiang Jinshi stretched his neck to look. It was indeed the refined salt produced by their own family, but why was the quantity so small?

"This time is just to test the road. The best result is to find a fixed buyer, and then transport a large amount." Li Xinyue knew what Jiang Jinshi would say next, so she explained immediately.

"Oh! So this time it's not mainly about making money, it's mainly to see the market, right?" Jiang Jinshi nodded as if he understood.

Li Xinyue put down the oilcloth and walked toward another horse cart: "We can also make money this time. The things of my Xinyue Chamber of Commerce don't have to worry about not having a market, but only by hitting the market can we form a fixed trade route, and then we can make money steadily and continuously."

"Then what is this?" Jiang Jinshi pointed to a large box on the second horse cart.

"This is glassware, which is what they call 'Glazed Glass'!" Li Xinyue opened the box, took one out, and handed it to Jiang Jinshi: "What do you think?"

Jiang Jinshi took this glass cup and examined it carefully in his hand. The transparent wall was very thin, and there were simple patterns on the cup. Just as Jiang Jinshi was about to ask if this was purchased from the system, he suddenly saw some sediment and black spots on the bottom.

This discovery made Jiang Jinshi exclaim: "This was produced?"

Li Xinyue nodded with a smile: "That's right, it took a lot of effort!"

Jiang Jinshi was full of emotion: "This is really good!"

In modern times, this could only be considered a defective product, but in this era, it was a work of art with high value and could be sold for a lot of gold and silver!

Li Xinyue bent down to search in the box and took out a 'Glazed Glass' vase to show Jiang Jinshi.

This time Jiang Jinshi didn't even need to guess; looking at the complex patterns on it, he said: "This must have been bought from the system!"

"That's right, I'm preparing to divide it into two grades. The ones we make ourselves will be sold at a lower price for the time being, and the ones bought from the system will be sold at a higher price." Li Xinyue clearly had a plan in her heart.

Jiang Jinshi looked into the box and found that there weren't many 'Glazed Glass' items in it.

"Things are valuable because they are rare. If too many of these are sold, they won't be worth much!" Li Xinyue explained and continued to walk toward the back.

It could be said that the most valuable items in this pile were these glassware items, but it was a pity that they couldn't be sold in large quantities. Selling some every once in a while to ensure long-term income was enough.

"This box is mirrors. They should sell very well in places like Luoyang and Jiangnan. I'm also preparing to send people to explore the capital!" Li Xinyue was a woman, and she knew very well how attractive mirrors were to women.

So in her pricing, the price of mirrors was much higher than vases, water cups, and the like!

"Going to the capital too? I'm afraid there aren't enough people!" Jiang Jinshi was stunned for a moment, not expecting Li Xinyue's plan to be so grand.

Li Xinyue shook her head, "The first time, we probably won't go. The main destinations are Luoyang and Jiangnan. These goods are enough to sell for the time being!" ===== CHAPTER 162 =====