After he had picked up all the cloth, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty asked him to take the things to the front and wait at the place where the straw sandals were made.
When he arrived at the gathering place, Pu Er sat on the haystack on the ground again. He couldn't help but touch the linen cloth in his hand... Isn't this too thick? Silla also had linen, but the linen in Silla was not thick, and you could even vaguely see the opposite sides between the linens, with large gaps. This is the quality of Silla linen.
But the linen cloth of Tang Dynasty... Pu Er didn't know how to weave it, but the stitches were too dense. Not only were the stitches dense, but he didn't know how to weave it. It seemed to be far thicker than ordinary linen cloth. He Don't know how this is done.
But was this linen cloth casually distributed to workers in the Tang Dynasty for use?
In addition to this set of clothes, this piece of cloth was also the reason why he was so happy. This batch of linen cloth was very heavy. From this weight, he knew that this piece of cloth was probably enough for their whole family to have one set of clothes, and there was still more.
After all, the two children are still young.
And these cloths mean to him that people will not freeze to death in winter. Regardless of whether the clothes are filled with straw or other stuff, in short, they can withstand the severe cold.
Just stroking the cloth in his hand, caressing and stroking, Pu Er fell silent, Datang... was he really so generous?
Why did Datang issue these? Really just to hire them? Thinking of the composition of those people hired by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty before, Pu Er understood something even if he had never read a book and had little experience.
His eyes were a little blurry, but he didn't know how to express his gratitude. Besides working hard, what else could he do?
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Standing in his barracks, Niu Jinda looked at Li Daozong and said, "General, can they understand what we mean?"
"They are not fools. If they can't understand this, then aren't they stupider than pigs?" Li Daozong said, "Besides, if they can't understand it, wouldn't they know better by asking their colleagues in the Intelligence Department to publicize it to them? "
"General, your method is amazing." Niu Jinda said directly with great admiration.
"Do you think this is my method?" Li Daozong was helpless.
"Hehe, I know it belongs to His Highness, but you can't be so straightforward here." Niu Jinda chuckled, "But aren't these cloths expensive in our Tang Dynasty?"
"Expensive, but not expensive either." Li Daozong shook his head.
"What do you mean?" Niu Jinda scratched his head.
"Expensive means that their prices in the market are not cheap. Even if they are specially purchased by the military, their prices are not cheap. They are only about 50% lower than what is on the market, so they are not cheap."
"But the reason why it is not expensive is that its cost is not expensive. At least it is much cheaper than we imagined, and it can even be lower. But the reason why its cost is not lower is because His Highness has improved the people's ability to grow various hemp. Purchase price of similar crops.”
"And the profits we give to state-owned commercial banks will return to Datang when the time comes, which means that for us as a whole, Datang will only pay actual costs." Li Daozong said with a smile.
"What's the point of this? Isn't it just the left hand and the right hand? Why bother? Why don't you just provide us with the direct cost price?" Niu Jinda couldn't figure out the problem here and shook his head helplessly.
"If you don't understand this, don't ask. Anyway, you know the benefits of doing this. To us, these linen clothes seem to be of very good quality, but they are actually cheaper than the linen of Silla. They It's even lower than the price of food, and it's not a burden to us at all." Li Daozong shook his head.
The profit of these cloths is extremely high, and it is not a completely consumable product like food. At least for these people, if they do not have to do heavy work all the time and do work with serious wear and tear, they can wear one set of clothes. No problems for years.
"Understood." Niu Jinda nodded, and he stopped asking. Indeed, he didn't understand issues such as money, economy, and profits at all.
"Actually, the cost we paid is not much, you just know." Li Daozong smiled.
After everyone had distributed clothes, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty began to explain to them some precautions. In fact, there were not many precautions for working. The main thing was to cut down trees and then build some barracks. The method of building barracks was also very simple. The wood was cut down, and then under the command of Tang Dynasty soldiers, the wood was steamed and dried in several weird houses that steamed the wood with water, and then built houses.
It seems that they have done this before, but this time it is on a larger scale. They just need to keep going to the mountains to cut down trees.
Anyway, there are enough trees here, and they can't cut them all down even if they want to.
After telling them all, the soldiers of Tang Dynasty asked them all to go back and told them what time they would officially report here tomorrow morning.
When Pu Er returned home with these clothes, his wife was shocked. After asking him about the origin of these cloths, his wife fell silent.
"Dad, tell me... why did Tang Dynasty do this?" Pu Er's wife asked with some confusion.
This question made Pu Er stop his hands, and after a long time he spoke softly: "Why do you think it is? Do they really need people to work? You know them, when they selected the people to work today, they went out of their way to Every household picked one, and some old people, women, and half-grown children who came to look for work were chosen by them."
After hearing Pu Er's words, his wife also understood that those old people, women, and half-grown children were the ones who had experienced changes in their families. Either these people were the only ones left, or they were the only ones who could move in the family.
But these people were obviously not ideal workers, and the people of the Tang Dynasty chose them away.
"The point is, what are they going to build? They want us to build barracks. Datang's military barracks have long been built, and their soldiers have already had a place to live. And when the weather was not so cold in the past few months, they They don’t build barracks either, but now that winter is coming, they have to build barracks.”
"Why are they? They just...just want to find an excuse to let us live!" Pu Er's voice was choked with sobs. He had no choice but to be moved. Even his own officials, nobles, and people from his own country would not let them go. To my heart, I don’t care whether they live or die.
But the people of Tang Dynasty made excuses and tried to find ways to provide them with food and clothing so that they would not starve to death or freeze to death and still survive.
