After leaving the bird market, he turned a street and Zhang Ran and the other two came to the city of Ji. The streets of Ji were obviously much wider than those of Ji City, but it did not occupy the entire street, but shared a street with Yang City.

In the first half of this street, the ones sold are big pigs, small pigs or mountain pigs. In the second half, the ones are all sheep...

After Zhang Ran and the other two arrived at this street, they first walked around the stalls selling piglets and asked about the price of piglets one by one.

Finally, I summarized it and found that the price of piglets is about 100 to 150 yuan per pig.

Among them, the price of boars is relatively low, generally around 100 yuan, while the price of sows is slightly higher, basically above 120 yuan.

An adult pig with a value of more than 300 kilograms (Hanjin) costs at least 800 to 900 coins, so in comparison, the value of a pig is not too expensive.

So, after thinking for a moment, Zhang Ran took out a piece of golden cake from his arms and handed it to Sankui beside him and said, "Sankui, take the money and buy me twenty young pigs. The mother wants three, and buy all the remaining ones for the husband. After buying them, leave a breeding pig, find someone for me, and castrate all the husbands!"

"Castified?" Sankui took it over, a little confused, and said with some uncertainty: "Is they really castrated?"

"Yes!" Zhang Ran nodded with great affirmation and instructed Sankui: "If you feel that you are too busy, go back to the restaurant and ask Zhang Jing and the others for help. Remember, except for leaving me a male breed, everything else will be castrated!"

"Oh well!"

Sankui nodded helplessly, then took the cage of chicks from Zhang Shan's hand beside him, and handed the bamboo basket containing the eggs to Zhang Shan, and said, "I'll go back to the restaurant first and take the chicks back by the way!"

"Okay! You can do it!"

...

After Sankui left, Zhang Ran took Zhangshan to Mashi again. Unlike the alleys like Chicken City, Mashi is the largest market in Xinfeng County except for the wine city. Mashi itself occupies an entire street and has a good geographical location. It is next to the main street across the north and south of Xinfeng City.

This time, Zhang Ran came to the horse market not to buy horses, but to buy two donkeys. The horses were too delicate. Even the worst ones were used to pull carts, at least 5,000 yuan per horse, and the price of ordinary horses was higher, at least 10,000 yuan. If they were well-trained and excellent war horses, each horse would have to be more than 100,000 yuan...

But donkeys are much cheaper. They can pull a cart or ride, and can also be used to pull mills. They can also go to the fields to work during busy farming. They are simply a three-purpose donkey, a perfect tool for donkeys!

After walking around the horse market, Zhang Ran found that in addition to various horses, war horses and donkeys, there were even mules selling in the horse market. The price of this mule was extremely high. Out of curiosity, Zhang Ran went up to ask, and the other party asked for 10,000 yuan... The price of this mule was almost as high as the price of the previous medium war horse.

In addition to mules, there is also a kind of donkey mule called "光", which is also very expensive, and each head costs at least 5,000 yuan (the descendants born from a male donkey and a mare are called horse mules, and the Han Dynasty called it mule; the descendants of stallions and female donkeys are called donkey mules, and the Han Dynasty called it "光")

The main reason why mules are so expensive is that they are relatively rare. As the saying goes, things are rare, so it is very common to be more expensive. Moreover, mules are just ornamental animals for nobles, rather than being used to pull carts or as "service animals" for transportation. If you really use mules on a large scale for transportation, you will have to wait for the Tang and Song dynasties...

To be honest, although the size of mules is not much different from that of horses, they are much stronger than horses, and they are more powerful than horses. They are not picky about food. They can eat ordinary forage and crop straw, which is easy to feed. However, the disadvantage is that they are not explosive, cannot be regarded as a battlefield for war horses, and cannot give birth.

However, if you only use mules for transporting goods, mules are obviously more practical than horses or donkeys.

But the current mules are too expensive and have a low cost performance, so Zhang Ran doesn't want to buy them at all. Anyway, donkeys can do things that mules can do, so Zhang Ran's first choice is naturally a donkey.

Buying a donkey is not as simple as buying a chicken or a piglet. You just need to pay if you like it. First, donkeys are medium and large animals, and the price is relatively high, usually around 2,500 to 3,000 yuan. Second, buying a donkey is very similar to buying a horse, and both require rich experience. The size of a donkey, fat and thin body, strength of muscles and bones, mouth age, and even the color of a fur will affect the quality of the donkey.

Both Zhang Ran lacked relevant experience and could not tell whether the donkey was good or bad. If you pay for the donkey casually, you would easily be cheated.

Fortunately, there are middle-aged people in the horse market who specialize in serving customers, which is called "Zǎng kuài", which is equivalent to later generations of gangs or intermediaries. They can solve this lack of experience for customers who want to buy horses or donkeys, and recommend better donkeys or horses for customers to choose from.

Therefore, Zhang Ran specially found a famous kid in Mashi and asked his help to find a few donkeys with better quality to prevent them from being cheated by unscrupulous vendors.

The surname of Zhang Yi is Li, and is known as "Li Zhui Yi" in Ma City. She is about forty years old. She looks very righteous with a national face, and is very enthusiastic in dealing with others. She is also very talkative.

After Zhang Ran and the others explained their purpose, Li Ziyi patted his chest and promised Zhang Ran that he would find a good donkey that suits him, and boasted: "Xiaolang, you are looking for the right person to find me. I dare not say anything else, but in Xinfeng City, I, Li, is definitely the person who understands donkeys the most. I just need to take a look and I can tell whether the donkey is good or bad..."

Along the way, Li Ziyi talked loudly, constantly boasting about how rich his experience was, and enthusiastically taught Zhang Ran his experience in the donkey...

At first, Zhang Ran was very interested in this, but after listening for a while, he found that the so-called "showing donkey experience" revealed by Li Ziyi was all empty talk and could not even be considered a superficial one, so he quickly lost interest.

But Li Jianyi still introduced his so-called "experience", so much so that Zhang Ran had to interrupt him: "Please hurry up, it's getting late. After buying a donkey, we will go to the car market to buy a car..."

"Okay, okay!" Li Zhiyi has been hanging in Ma City for a long time. He is the best at observing his expression and is so smart. After seeing the faint impatient expression on Zhang Ran's face, he immediately stopped talking about his "experience". Following him, he couldn't help but speed up a little bit, and took Zhang Ran and the others to a stall.
Chapter completed!