"By the way, Uncle Huang, this Uncle Zhou seems to be a Mingren." Guan Chengen had nothing to say. Zhou Shixiong was wearing a Ming-style robe, with a bun curled hair on his head, and inserted it with a jade hairpin, which was 100% of the Mingren's style. These were just dressing, but his face and skin color, only a blind man would believe that he was not a Mingren.

"Yes, my second brother is a wise man, is there anything wrong with it?" Zhou Shixiong could not hide his appearance from others, and Huang Chengen would not do any boring cover-up.

"Of course not. I'm just curious about how a Ming man would come to our wilderness. Isn't he afraid of miasma, snakes and insects?" Guan Chengen's problem is normal. Those Ming people who were sent to Guangdong and Guangxi to serve as officials were basically beaten to death and were unwilling to leave the prefecture, for fear that they would get infected with strange diseases in the wilderness and could not return to the Central Plains alive. The soldiers in the garrison also chose Han people from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Huguang, and Han people from the Central Plains were unwilling to come to this barbaric land.

"Haha, of course others are afraid. My second brother doesn't have to worry about these things at all. There is no disease in the world that can harm him." Huang Chengen pretended to be a master, but refused to say that Zhou Shixiong was a doctor, and he was still a very powerful and extremely powerful miracle doctor.

"Oh, I don't know why?" Guan Chengen kept asking this and that like a questioning boy.

"Well, nephew, I'm going to set off. I'll talk about anything later." Huang Chengen directly interrupted the conversation of Chengen, waved his hand and set off with his servant.

Guan Chengen kept jogging to the city gate, watching the elephant team leave their sight before turning back, "Send someone to Pingxiangzhou, I want to know what happened to Zhou Shixiong."

"Brother, which one of the silencers seems to be very enthusiastic about you?" Zhou Shixiong asked Huang Chengen beside him on a horse.

"He is jealous. We have iron ore in Xiangzhou. If we want to buy iron materials, we can only buy them. With Xiangzhou, there are many mountains and few land, and I can only find him. But in order to curb the growth of Xiashi Xizhou, Longzhou and Shangshi Xizhou will provide grain to exchange for iron materials. Although their prices are lower, I can only accept it for the Huang family. If we open up the trade routes of Nanning Mansion this time, I won't have to look at the faces of these three people in the future. Do you think he can't be in a hurry?"

Zhou Shixiong has never been exposed to such government affairs. When playing games, these strategies such as far-reaching and near attack are basically useless, but in reality, these strategies are very useful. If they are well operated, they can quickly grow a weak force. "Brother, I want to buy a few servants, where can I buy them conveniently?" Zhou Shixiong thought, these messy things have nothing to do with me, I should still care about my own territory.

"Second brother, just ask the servant to tell me. Can't you afford to send me?" As mentioned earlier, the Dongman of Guangxi is a slave. Most people in Xiangzhou are Huang Chengen's slaves. It's okay for him to give it to anyone, and he also gave it to Liu Xiucai's hundred slaves.

"Brother, I don't want these people to serve. I want 14 or 15-year-old boys, and there are a lot of them. I may not be able to give them a gift. I don't want to break up other people's families. If I can buy them, it would be better if I buy them back. Besides, I have more people in my hands. Isn't there too many people in Xiangzhou?" Zhou Shixiong would teach the three brothers to study on the road every day, and he would teach them to write during rest. Huang Chengen saw all these. Huang Chengen's slaves were very envious and jealous of the three brothers. If the head of the family could teach the reading and writing in person, he would at least be a manager in the future. In their eyes, he was a top-notch person.

"So, there is a market in Siming Mansion. If you are not in a hurry, the market in Nanning Mansion is even bigger, and even the people in Ming have to sell it." Huang Chengen thought that Zhou Shixiong didn't want his people to get mixed in. Although he was a little disliked, he couldn't force him to give it to him. But he thought badly, Zhou Shixiong didn't have such a scheming.

In the next ten days, the Xiang team passed through Siming Prefecture, Chongshan City, Taiping Prefecture, and Xinning Prefecture. They walked through mountains and rivers and finally arrived at Xuanhua City, Nanning Prefecture. In order to avoid being discovered by major forces, the Xiang team did not enter the city and did not enter the prefecture, and stayed overnight in the wild. I don’t know if it was their luck or other reasons, but the journey was quiet and I didn’t even see a thief.

The elephant team stopped outside Xuanhua City. Huang Chengen asked someone to go to the city to find Huang Chenghui and his son Huang Shouren. After waiting for a long time, Huang Chenghui and Huang Shouren rushed over and took the elephant team to settle in a house rented in advance.

"Father, the price of iron materials is now ridiculously high. My uncle Chenghui and I just said that there is iron materials for sale, and those merchants were red. A pound of iron materials costs a high price of 100 yuan, and iron ore also costs 200 yuan. This time I sent it." Huang Shouren and Huang Chenghui's excitement infected Huang Chengen, but Zhou Shixiong frowned and asked, "Shouren, how much does a copper coin weigh?"

Zhou Shixiong's question made the three of them stupid, what does this mean? "Brother, think about it, what we bring is iron ore. How much iron can be produced by processing it into iron? I guess a copper coin is about half a tael. Even if lead is added to the copper coin, it is worth more than iron of the same weight! The price of buying iron is actually higher than copper now. Don't you find it strange?"

Zhou Shixiong analyzed from this perspective that the three overly happy people frightened them into a cold sweat. Yes, there are no people in this world who do business like this. It is too unreasonable to buy iron at such an outrageous price. Unreasonable means there is a problem. The three of them are all people who play house, so how could they not think of the dangers?

"Thank you for reminding me that my nephew almost got the wrong thing." Huang Shouren immediately admitted his mistake to Zhou Shixiong, and Huang Chenghui also bowed to him. Zhou Shixiong waved his hand to stop him and said, "I don't mean that, I mean, have you found out the reason for the high price of iron materials?"

The two arrived five days earlier than the Xiang team. As soon as they went on the street, they found out such a good price. The merchant also threatened that if they looked for other merchants, he would no longer trade with them, and would even mobilize other merchants to boycott them. In addition to threatening Huang Shouren's uncle and nephew, the merchant also took them to eat, drink and have fun, and was extremely enthusiastic about serving them. The two knew nothing except the price.

This time, even Huang Chengen changed his face, "You guys!"

"Brother, it's not their business. I believe that the merchant Brother Chenghui is looking for should be the largest salt and iron merchant in Nanning Prefecture. His power will definitely do what he said, is it Brother Chenghui?" Zhou Shixiong grabbed Huang Chengen and prevented him from getting angry with his cousin and son.

"Yes, behind this salt and iron merchant Fang Dafu is the salt and iron envoy Wu. Even if Fang Dafu dares to fight with the chieftains, Wu will not take Pingxiangzhou seriously." Huang Chenghui's words made Huang Chengen a little discouraged. If these eunuchs talked to the court and did not need the court to take action, countless Dongman chieftains would pounce on Pingxiangzhou and divide Pingxiangzhou as fat meat.

"Second brother, what do you think about this?" Huang Chengen didn't know that Zhou Shixiong knew that the eunuch had never seen him. He really wanted to meet this Eunuch Wu now and see if it was as written in the book, and he was so weird that he spoke without a beard.

"Brother, it is impossible to buy iron materials at high prices. He must have to transfer the goods to make money. Or he has lost too much iron materials. Now someone from the top is here to check the accounts, so he will collect iron materials at high prices to replenish his position. Apart from these two reasons, I can't imagine why he did this." Zhou Shixiong had never seen eunuchs, but he knew how those big rats in the 21st century dealt with the inspection. He borrowed this method a little and basically didn't run away.

"It's right. If it's the second one, it won't be a loss at all, and it won't be envied by others. But if it's the first one, his purchase price is so high, what else can I make a profit?" Huang Chengen was very convinced of Zhou Shixiong's analysis. Huang Chenghui, who has always served as a military advisor, was even more amazing. This genius doctor Zhou is indeed extremely powerful, and only so little information can analyze such things.

"Brother, you still haven't figured out my idea. We are not going to come again after leaving Xiangzhou this time, but we want to find a stable next company. Which Fang Dafu is the largest salt and iron merchant in Nanning Prefecture, and there is a support from the salt and iron envoy behind it. We can't afford to hand over such next company. Brother should have heard of the saying that the store bullies customers!" Zhou Shixiong's words made the three people red again, and he felt like an inexplicable mountain citizen in front of Zhou Shixiong.

"Second brother, our knowledge is far worse than you. If you have any good ideas, just say, let's help you run errands." Huang Chengen decided not to play intelligence games with Zhou Shixiong anymore, and decisively put down his body, so that Zhou Shixiong was responsible for making the decisions.

"Brother Chenghui, who Fang Dafu warned you not to ask other salt and iron merchants for price, you can ask someone to go to the market to inquire about news and see what big things have happened recently. We will decide what to do in a few days. Oh, by the way, does anyone know where the market is, and ask him to lead the way."

"Second uncle, I know where the city is. I will help you lead the way." Huang Shouren had already thought about it and tried his best to please the second uncle and asked him to help him get the site in Nanning Prefecture in Xiangzhou. The benefits he got were also his own.

"Shouren, take two hundred taels of gold and see what your second uncle likes." Huang Chengen did not explain that his son would help Zhou Shixiong pay the bill, but he believed that his eldest son knew what to do.

"Brother, I brought money too, so I don't have to spend your money anymore." Zhou Shixiong refused in a fake manner, but he was afraid that Huang Chengen would really take back that sentence.

"Second brother, it's rare to come to Nanning Mansion once, don't be polite to me." Huang Chengen was very proud. Zhou Shixiong admired this kind of heroism very much and accepted it with a smile.

Huang Shouren brought two servants, Zhou Shixiong, and his three brothers, and a group of seven people into Xuanhua City. Xuanhua City is more than ten times larger than Baiyun City in Pingxiangzhou, and is the largest city in southwestern Guangxi. Huang Shouren first led Zhou Shixiong to the inn where he stayed to put down his luggage and horses, and then found several carriages to take them to the people's market.
Chapter completed!