Since they were partners, and Pan Yun had come in person, she naturally had to meet the people from the various mines of Silver Mountain.
Pan Yun did not even need to invite them; the foremen from each mine came to find her themselves.
Whether they were from the Martial Arts Alliance, wandering people of the Jianghu, or civilian merchant groups, they all came to the Taoist temple halfway up the mountain to request an audience with Pan Yun.
Nor did they come empty-handed. Some carried a chicken, some a fish; at the very least, even a bundle of greens counted as a gift.
Pan Yun was quite pleased with the gifts they brought. At least they would not need to worry about ingredients for dinner.
Japan's supplies were still scarce.
In the Ming Dynasty, although ordinary households were poor too, chicken, duck, pork, mutton, fish, and meat were not difficult to buy. Every household raised a little of something.
Not to mention vegetables. So long as it was not a year of disaster, greens were plentiful enough.
But Japan was different. Everything here came in small quantities; little was planted, and little was raised.
At first, the newcomers spent money to buy ingredients. Later, because so many people had suddenly poured in, and mining required great physical strength and consumed enormous amounts of meat, supplies had briefly sold out entirely. There had simply been nothing left to buy.
As a result, prices around Omori village soared.
But that could not stump the clever and hardworking Han people. Some spotted a business opportunity and immediately stopped mining. Instead, they organized groups to buy agricultural products from the countryside of neighboring small states, then hauled them back. The profit from buying and selling was better than mining;
Other miners simply found