You are unlucky and I am tough

The two of them strolled around for the whole morning, found an empty alley, put their things in Wei Qinglang's space, and then found a small restaurant to have lunch. After lunch, they asked the owner where the Hushi Street in the city was.

A mutual market is a gathering place for foreign merchants. Since the opening of trade among countries, more and more foreign merchants have come to Daliang to do business.

In order to facilitate management, the imperial court designated fixed trading locations, and all foreign merchants could only trade in the trading markets.

You can buy many things there that are not available in other places, and many businessmen also go there to look for business opportunities.

After finding out the location, the two of them headed straight for their destination. When they entered, they looked around and saw people of different skin colors and clothing everywhere in the streets and alleys.

There are all kinds of things sold on the street, and customers are bargaining in various languages. Some of them don’t understand the other person’s language, so they make gestures with their hands, which looks a bit funny.

Cheng Shuang didn't really come here to buy anything, she just wanted to find out what was available so that she could take advantage of the situation in the mall in the future.

After walking around for a while, the two found a stall selling mustard seeds in a simple shop.

As soon as Cheng Shuang saw the price, she gave up buying it. It was more than ten times more expensive than what she bought in the mall. A bag of mustard seeds in the mall was only three cents, and it was sweet mustard seeds with heart.

After walking around for more than half an hour, they found seeds of edamame, okra, avocado, green beans, pumpkin, tomato, etc. in various stalls.

I also understand why these things are available in the market but not popular in Daliang. The seeds are too expensive.

These cannot replace food. Ordinary people grow crops and sell food to support their families. It is impossible for them to spend so much money to buy these things from foreign merchants.

Besides, there are risks in buying it. I don’t know what can be grown. It seems that she is destined to get it cheaply.

After getting a general understanding, the two of them had a rough idea in their minds and prepared to go home. When they were walking back, there was suddenly a crowd in front of them, as if someone was selling something in front of them.

There was only one way out, and the two of them squeezed out with the crowd when they suddenly heard a familiar foreign language.

After exchanging a glance, Cheng Shuang couldn't help but say, "Fuck, it's just a small day."

Yes, they heard Japanese. Cheng Shuang liked watching Japanese dramas so she felt familiar with it.

Wei Qinglang is proficient in Japanese. His college roommate had a business called Xiao Rishi, and several of his entrepreneurial clients were from that business, so he learned Japanese specifically for his career.

The two decided to go and see what was going on, so they turned around and squeezed towards the center of the crowd, and finally squeezed to the front row.

The two were also surprised when they entered, because several Japanese people inside were actually selling living things - Procambarus clarkii.

The onlookers thought the things in the bucket with two large pincers were a bit scary, but they were also very curious and were listening to the Japanese people's introduction.

Every time the short Japanese man spoke, a middle-aged man next to him helped translate.

"This thing is called a crayfish. It eats everything and can purify water. Throw a few of them into the sewage ditch and the water will be clean next year."

"They can live in water without any care, and they can also be raised in rice paddies, where their excrement can be used as fertilizer.

"They reproduce very quickly, so if they are kept in the fields, the crops will grow better, and we won't need to apply fertilizer anymore."

When Cheng Shuang and Wei Qinglang heard these words, their faces turned a little ugly. Bullshit.

Procambarus clarkii, also known as modern crayfish, is a delicacy on the table today, but in the beginning people deliberately allowed it to flow into China in the hope of destroying the ecology.

They have strong survival and reproduction abilities, and large-scale reproduction will affect the structure and number of the original biological population in that area of ​​water.

It will also damage embankments and aquatic vegetation, change water flow and water quality, and have an adverse impact on the balance and stability of the entire ecosystem.

Not to mention rice fields. If they are raised in the fields, they will dig holes in the fields, causing the ridges to leak and the soil to loosen, affecting the growth of crops. They will also eat the roots and seedlings of crops, affecting the yield of rice fields.

It turns out that the Xiaozizu nation is bad at heart, and its bad nature cannot be changed no matter what dynasty it is in.

The middle-aged man was still translating for the Fuso people. The price of crayfish was very cheap, almost free. It was obvious that these people wanted to take advantage of the trade and let them take the crayfish to various places in Daliang.

As long as one person brings a few back and puts them in his own rice field, it will only take one year for the nearby waters to be filled with swarms of crayfish.

People in this dynasty didn't know that crayfish were edible. Given the crayfish's terrifying reproductive ability, they would only cause a flood, and their excrement would also pollute the water quality.

By the time the people realize the problem and start to remedy it, it will probably be difficult to eradicate it completely.

So these Japanese people are definitely not ordinary businessmen.

When they heard that it could fertilize the fields, some of the onlookers were tempted, but they were still waiting and watching.

"I want them all."

A clear female voice sounded, and everyone looked in the direction of the voice. They saw a little girl. She was really pretty, but judging by her clothes, she looked like an ordinary village girl.

"Why are they all leaving?"

"Yeah, I want to buy a few more."

Those who were originally hesitant, after seeing someone make a move, started asking for it again.

Cheng Shuang pretended not to hear and raised two fingers to the middle-aged man, "I'll pay double the price. I want all of these. You can't sell them a single one."

The man asked, "Little girl, what do you need so much for yourself?"

"Take it back and distribute it to the villagers."

The man looked at Cheng Shuang, went over and translated her meaning to a few Fuso people. They whispered for a while and agreed to sell all the lobsters to her.

The man said, "Ten for one cent, and there are more than five hundred in the two buckets. Since you're paying double, I'll take one hundred cents."

Cheng Shuang immediately took out the money. For her, this price was almost like giving it away for free. It was not even worth the two buckets.

But others didn't think so. Seeing that Cheng Shuang really offered double the price, they all gave up the idea of ​​bidding.

The crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed. Wei Qinglang, who had been silent all this time, secretly looked at the Japanese people, memorized their appearance features, then went over, picked up the two wooden barrels and left.

Looking at the backs of the two people leaving, several Japanese people showed a triumphant smile on their faces.

Crayfish have become a disaster in their area, not only destroying dams, damaging water quality and the growth space of other aquatic organisms, but also eating the roots of rice fields, causing a significant reduction in grain production.

They spent a lot of manpower and resources to barely control it. After that, someone came up with the idea of ​​releasing crayfish into the sea area shared with Daliang to harm the Daliang Kingdom.

However, crayfish could hardly survive in the sea. After several attempts, they decided to pretend to be merchants and bring the crayfish into Daliang State.

Cheng Shuang was actually still a little nervous, worried that those guys were part of some spy organization and would follow them.

She didn't feel relieved until they left the market and made sure there was no one following them. They turned into an empty alley and then entered Wei Qinglang's space.

In the living room of the space, two people squatted on the ground and stared at two buckets of crayfish.

After watching for a while, Wei Qinglang asked, "What are you going to do?"

Cheng Shuang touched his chin. "Spicy crayfish or steamed shrimp with garlic sauce, which flavor do you like?"

“Spicy crayfish.”

Wei Qinglang answered without hesitation, then said with a smile, "Let's not think about eating them for now. We bought them this time, but we might come back to sell them in the next few days. There are always people who hear that they can fertilize the fields and want to try them.

And this might not be the first time, they've sold it before. To be safe, after a few successes, they'll definitely not come to Daliang again. We can't let them get away like this."

Cheng Shuang nodded and thought it made sense. Then the two of them discussed it and decided to deliver the anonymous letter directly to the prefectural government office. There was no other way except to tell the officials.

They can also use this opportunity to observe how the prefect will handle this matter and indirectly judge what kind of official he is.

Wei Qinglang acted immediately and wrote an anonymous letter stating that there were several Japanese people in the market who were selling a species called crayfish, which could destroy crops. He also wrote down the approximate appearance of those people.

He also drew a picture of the crayfish and described in detail the various harms it would cause.

Then the two of them went directly to the prefectural yamen and hid in an alley about fifty meters to the left of the yamen. Wei Qinglang took out a metal crossbow and shot an arrow at the plaque with the words "Luohe Prefecture Yamen" on it. There were several pieces of paper wrapped around the arrow.