Linqiu is a small county, with an especially small county city, roughly the size of a thirty thousand people, roughly equivalent to the slum areas outside of Yunzhou City.
However, the county's commerce is particularly thriving, because it is not far from Fushan County and can be considered a junction between two counties, thus trade is very lively.
In a society where commerce isn't well-developed, such a phenomenon is not uncommon.
Fushan and Qingdai, the two counties, have their own management styles, and local protectionism is prevalent; coupled with the influence of clan powers, merchants from Fushan have to put in more effort and endure more hardships when doing business in Qingdai.
Goods are expensive when away from their place of origin, and people are undervalued away from home.
For big merchants, this difficulty is not insurmountable, but for small and medium-sized merchants, it would add too much to their costs.
