What worries Yun Chao the most is the price of copper materials, which is not generally expensive.
Copper can be used to make copper coins. Moreover, when making copper coins, I don’t know how many other metals are added to it, so it is more expensive than copper coins of the same weight.
When Yun Chao came to Dongping Mansion this time, he brought thirty men with him.
Because the horsepower was limited, the gold and silver they carried were also limited, and they spent a lot of money on ordnance.
Therefore, even if all the remaining gold and silver are spent, not much copper material will be purchased.
This is why Yun Chao is so desperate for money. If his power really expands, the money will be spent like water.
As long as he is willing to spend all the money he has on hand, it won't take long for him to spend it all!
With no money left, Yun Chao had no choice but to leave.
However, because there were too many trucks and too many things to carry, the convoy failed to move until nightfall.
Yun Chao, his subordinates, several newly recruited craftsmen, and all the coachmen were all prepared to spend the night in the open air, and no one stayed in an inn.
With hundreds of carts, dozens of horses, entire carts of weapons and equipment, iron materials, copper materials, and so much cargo, how could Yun Chao dare to be careless and not keep an eye on it himself, even if he was sleeping in an inn? Not.
Fortunately, it is close to the city and is relatively safe at night. With so many people gathering together, small groups of bandits dare not make any plans, and large groups of bandits will not come.
It's just that the weather is a bit colder, and even with Yun Chao's physique, he almost catches a cold.
Lying on a large cart, Yun Chao was too cold to sleep. He opened his eyes and counted the stars in the sky.
When we get back, we will engage in outdoor training. We must not cultivate a bunch of veteran soldiers.
If all the boys knew that their super brother had figured out a training method just because they slept outside, they would definitely take off their clothes and cover them all with him. We are not afraid of the cold, and our bodies are very strong. You'd better not torment us!
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Before dawn the next day, someone brought food.
This is the scheduled breakfast.
In order to ward off the cold, Yun Chao asked Zhang Sihai to order spicy soup and big pancakes at a restaurant outside the city last night.
Even Yun Chao found it incredible that Dawu Dynasty actually had Hu spicy soup.
However, after Yun Chao tasted it himself, he discovered that the hot and sour soup in the Dawu Dynasty was different from the hot and sour soup in later generations. It was a combination of hot and sour soup and broth. To put it bluntly, it was a hot and sour broth.
The spiciness in Hu spicy soup is not the spiciness of chili, but pepper.
The price of pepper is not cheap, and the poor cannot afford it.
A bowl of spicy spicy soup with pepper costs fifty cents.
If he wasn't worried about his men getting sick from the cold and wanted to buy horse bones with thousands of gold, Yun Chao wouldn't be willing to make them like this.
Fortunately, the money was not wasted. After being frozen outside all night, I drank a bowl of hot and sour mutton soup with pepper, which made my whole body feel comfortable.
After a bowl of spicy soup, no matter whether they are craftsmen preparing to go to Qingyang County or drivers on temporary visits, everyone will say that Yun Chao is good...
...What a loser!
A bowl of hot and spicy soup costs fifty cents, and you can buy hundreds of bowls at a time. Is this too much?
Yun Chao is not afraid of others saying he is a prodigal, nor is he afraid of others saying he is stupid.
This is the effect you want.
You're not a prodigal, you're not stupid, why should I let you live a good life and follow you hundreds of miles to Qingyang County?
Yes, the conditions you Yun Chao gave are not bad. Going to Qingyang County may lead to a better life than what they had before.
However, what's the use of just talking? If you don't give everyone a reassurance, who will believe what the official says?
The craftsmen who were going to follow Yun Chao to Qingyang County all had families. As soon as the city gate opened, their families came out to see them off.
Therefore, before Yun Chao left, the reputation of generosity had already begun to spread in Dongping Mansion.
Not only did he treat everyone to drink spicy soup, but he also paid settlement allowances to the families of several craftsmen in front of everyone. We have never seen such an official!
Each craftsman received five taels of silver, and if he could stay in Qingyang County for a full year, he would receive another five taels.
This is scary.
Even though Yun Chao often gave away gold ingots, which cost thousands of taels of silver, he felt that gold and silver were worthless.
You know, those were copied from the families of wealthy locals who had been tyrannical for generations.
If it were ordinary people, even city dwellers, not many could take out ten taels of silver at a time.
What's more, the craftsmen of the Great Wu Dynasty were not even as good as ordinary people.
Take marriage and finding a wife as an example. As long as the woman's conditions are acceptable, no one will be willing to marry a craftsman.
Because a man is a craftsman, his son is a craftsman, his grandson is also a craftsman, and he is a craftsman from generation to generation.
Craftsmen not only had to perform heavy corvee labor, but were also subjected to cruel exploitation. To describe the craftsmen of the Dawu Dynasty as horrific is not an exaggeration.
Especially some craftsmen who were naturalized by the government, such as the hard-working trio in Sanshui Town, found it difficult to even have enough to eat.
If the government hadn't forced them to have wives out of fear that they would lose their families and affect the number of craftsmen, they would probably die without knowing Shakespeare!
You can imagine the quality of the wives forcibly issued by the government, but I won’t go into details, otherwise it will be suspected of discrediting vulnerable groups.
Before setting off, Mr. Yun from Qingyang County handed out five taels of silver. It seemed that he was really not deceiving everyone, but really knew how to pay wages on time!
No one doubted that Yun Chao was deceiving him. He was a broken craftsman, so what was there to deceive? Didn't he do enough work without being paid?
To put it bluntly, even after arriving in Qingyang County, wages were still being deducted. Didn’t they still have the five taels of silver to settle in? How could they lose?
Seeing that the craftsmen had paid the settlement allowance, the eyes of the coachmen turned red.
Why does Mr. Yun only want craftsmen and not us coachmen?
Doesn’t a coachman count as a craftsman?
It's a pity that in Yun Chao's eyes, the coachman is really not a craftsman.
If you want to cultivate a craftsman, it will not work without a few years, or even more than ten years of effort.
If you want to learn to drive a car, if the requirements are not high, you can learn it quickly.
Since the technical content of the driver is not high, Yunchao must ensure that the people in his territory use it. Firstly, it will give him peace of mind, and secondly, it can increase the economic income of the people in the base area.
However, these coachmen were witnesses and free propagandists.
Therefore, Yun Chao treated them well. In addition to not paying settlement allowance, they also had the same food and drink as the craftsmen, and they were not treated differently.
Not only was Yun Chao prepared to treat everyone equally along the way, but when he arrived in Qingyang County, Yun Chao was also prepared to reward these drivers.
These days, there is no online media promotion. If you want to do things smoothly, you must have a good reputation.
It took so long to come to Dongping Mansion, but it couldn't be in vain. Yun Chao would rather spend more money and get a good reputation. Things will be much easier when he comes to Dongping Mansion in the future!
