Strange goods can live in an idiom in China. The pinyin is qí huò k and j ū, which means to store rare goods and wait for them to be sold at a high price. It is often used to refer to profiting from a unique skill or thing. Strange goods can live, and strange goods can live; Living and storing. From Biography of Historical Records and Lv Buwei.

Lv Buwei went to Handan to do business. When he met a stranger, he was overjoyed and said, "aliens are like a strange commodity, which can be hoarded and sold at a high price." The idiom "strange goods can live in" came out.

Lv Buwei then went home and said to his father, "How many times can you profit from farming?" Father said, "Ten times." Lv Buwei asked again: "Selling jade beads, or earning several times the profit?" Father said, "A hundred times."

Lv Buwei asked again: "How many times can you make a profit by being the king of a country?" Father said, "I can't count." Lv Buwei said, "nowadays, if you work hard in the fields, you can't get enough food and clothes." Supporting the founding of the country can be humiliated by future generations. I decided to do this business. "

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The life of the character

Lv Buwei is a big businessman in Yangzhai. He traveled around, buying at low prices and selling at high prices, and accumulated thousands of dollars of wealth. In 267 BC (the 40th year of Qin Zhao), the State of Qin mourned the death of the King of Wei and transported him back to the State of Qin to be buried in Zhiyang.

In 265 BC (forty-two years in Zhao Haoqi), his second son, Ann Guo Jun, was made a prince. A Guo Jun has more than twenty sons. An Guojun has a very favorite concubine named Mrs. Huayang.

Mrs. Huayang has no son. A Guo Junren had a middle-ranking son named Allen, and his mother was The Last Month Of Summer, who was not loved. These aliens were sent to Zhao as hostages of Qin. Because of the feud between Qin and Zhao, Qin attacked Zhao many times, but Ye Zhao didn't treat him with courtesy.

As the grandson of the concubine, he was not taken seriously and was sent to Zhao as a hostage. His chariots, horses and daily wealth are not rich, and his life is embarrassing.

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