Jia Tianlong had brought enough money-carrying money had actually become much easier since hundred-yuan notes began circulating.
More importantly, he had brought seven trucks. With the Volga he drove himself, eight vehicles rolled up in a line, making quite a spectacle and drawing Guo Tiebing and the others over.
He had brought not only vehicles but plenty of loaders too. When they called Li Long over, Li Long brought the matryoshka doll along.
Near the Purchasing Station, Li Long ran into Guo Tiebing, who asked him:
"With all those vehicles at your Purchasing Station, nothing's wrong, is it?"
"No, no. We bought quite a lot of medicinal herbs a while back. They're being shipped out today."
"All those vehicles for medicinal herbs? They must be worth quite a bit!" Guo Tiebing marveled. "This is my first time seeing so many vehicles in such a long convoy."
"They're not worth that much. Licorice only costs a few mao per kilo, and it's light for its bulk. A truckload is only worth a thousand yuan or so," Li Long said. "It looks like a lot, but it really isn't much money."
He paid thirty-five fen for licorice and now sold it to Jia Tianlong for seventy fen, doubling his money.
There were ten-odd tonnes of licorice and about as much astragalus. Astragalus was a little more expensive, but not by much. Together, they were worth less than a vehicle, let alone those antelope horns.
But the antelope horns were a one-time opportunity, whereas licorice and astragalus could be dug year after year. Leave just a little licorice root in the soil and it would grow again the next year, and its seeds could sprout too.
Seeing that nothing was wrong, Guo Tiebing headed back. Li Long took the matryoshka doll to the