"Xiaocao, come back on the sixth day of the lunar month. Here, push me home."
In the box lunch shop, Zhu Sixi closed the windows and doors and led people to climb over the fence while carrying the cart and talking to Xiaocao.
"Brother Sixi, there are too many things." When Xiaocao was carrying the car, he thought it was going to be sent elsewhere, but he didn't expect that it was for himself.
In the car were bundles of vegetables, two large carps, two smoked chickens, two roast ducks, two cuts of pork, half a fan of ribs, a barrel of beer, a large bag of sugar-fried chestnuts, a jar of pickles, and a bag of rice. , a bag of noodles and rapeseed oil, salt, vinegar, rock sugar, maltose, sesame crisp tube candy, and tea leaves.
Things are given as normal during the Chinese New Year, so there is no shortage of anything.
If we calculate the current price of vegetables, what we are given is half a year's salary, which is fifty cents a day.
"Not much, Xiaocao, you are our first official employee in Xiaqiu Village. If you have to buy things from outside during the Chinese New Year, where will you put the dignity of Xiaqiu Village?"
Zhu Sixi smiled and said that Xiaocao works hard and hard, is smart, knows a lot of words, and can calculate additions and subtractions within a hundred.
"The pork and ribs were bought from outside." Xiaocao felt that these two items cost Xiaqiu Village extra money.
"That's what our village has killed and brought. Xiaqiu Village sells lunch boxes and can buy meat. The pigs raised during the Chinese New Year must be killed.
Look at this meat, it’s hard to find outside. The fat and lean meat in the pork belly are sandwiched between fat and lean meat, because the pigs in the village will run around and feed them well. "
Zhu Sixi introduced his experience in raising pigs. People in Xiaqiu Village no longer focus on eating fat meat, and lean meat is also delicious.
Xiaocao nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "It would be great if I could go to the village and have a look. I heard that there are more than 600 large animals in our village."
"It's seven hundred. The big animals will give birth to the little ones. Go quickly and don't stay in other people's yards."
Zhu Sixi speeded up and went out through the door of Fuhua Building. The lunch shop was bolted from the inside.
"Sixi, are you going to Donghua Gate to celebrate the New Year?" Shopkeeper Xu greeted with a smile.
"Ah! The lunchboxes are no longer for sale. The Jubiqi store across the street will be selling them until tomorrow. There are always people who only think of buying important things at the last moment.
The gauze hat was placed at the door of the greenhouse, shopkeeper Xu went to pick vegetables by himself, and we left. "
Zhu Sixi nodded, parted ways with Xiaocao outside, and went around Hongwu Gate to meet up.
Xiaocao pushed the cart and looked back after walking for a while. She could no longer see Zhu Sixi and others who had turned around the corner of Fuhua Building. She sniffed and muttered: "I will work hard in the coming year and work hard to learn literacy and arithmetic. I can help as much as possible."
As he said that, he strode home. The once-familiar streets seemed to have changed into a different world in the snow, making them even more charming.
When people at Jubiqi Store and the Beer Store across the street saw their doors closed, they were all envious. They had to work one more day because they were from Xiaqiu Village and they were from Prince Qin's Palace.
The key point is that the lunch box can be closed, and there are still a lot of people shopping here. What did you do earlier? Firewood and coal are needed on snowy days.
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When Zhu Sixi led people back to the tent area at Donghua Gate, the five Zhou clan members had already left, and the people from Xiaqiu Village were dividing the cattle.
Tomorrow is the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the title is Thirty. Some beef and beef bones need to be processed first.
There is no cowhide on the cow, so I want to peel it off and make things, such as tents. Bows and crossbows are no longer manufactured in large quantities. The new flintlocks and upgraded fire blunderbuss, plus the old crossbows, are enough to be used, and the broken ones can be repaired.
The headmaster led Hanhan to wipe the ancestral tablet, and while wiping him, he muttered so that others could not hear clearly.
"What a fool! The distance between the two places is far, and we can't ignore Nanjing's affairs. If you think you can dig another river, let it be used by our village. When we come, we can follow the river, and when we go back, we can follow the river."
The headmaster put down a tablet and looked at Hanhan.
Zhu Wentian: "..."
He took a deep breath: "The best way is actually to fly over and fly back."
"Young man, don't be joking. In fact, it's better for us to walk. It's difficult for miners, especially miners who build vertical shafts, inclined shafts and other structures, to carry out baskets of ore.
Fortunately, we have provided good gunpowder, which can control the area to be exploded. There is no need to use a pickaxe to plan the stone. Can you imagine the situation of lighting the oil lamp in the mine and planing the stone? "
When the director was talking about the road, he thought of the mining area. Hanhan provided good mines and found them directly according to the map. The miners were still tired.
Zhu Wentian was stunned when he heard this. After a while, the director called Hanhan, and he came back to his senses and smiled.
"In large open-pit iron mines, the excavated stones must be transported to the Yangtze River via the shortest route. You cannot go to the county seat of Dangtu County, you have to..."
Zhu Wentian paused and continued to wipe the tablets, speeding up.
"Tell me! Why is it gone?" He was worried and scratching his head.
"After cleaning it, I will draw a picture for you. I can't tell you, there are no place names, from the side of Caishiji to the Yangtze River.
Miners will not feel relaxed because of the new technology, but they will get more wages because of the application of new technology.
We propose to Your Majesty that if the efficiency is high and the number of mines dug out in the same period of time increases, the miners will have to pay more. "
Zhu Wentian couldn't explain clearly. There was no county there at this time, otherwise the large iron mine would have been discovered long ago.
The headmaster also speeded up. After a while, the tablets were placed in order, the incense burner was placed, and the two came out of the tent.
Zhu Wentian first drew a set of maps and gave them to the carpenters and bamboo craftsmen in Xiaqiu Village, and then came back to draw the map.
"Look, Commander, if you go through here, it's the closest and you can avoid the high mountains.
Our village spent money to build roads. We first smoothed the roads and continued building them all the way to Nanjing. I have a way to make land transportation faster.
Is the money spent on connecting that road worth it? There are already waterways. "
"Hanhan, is it worth it? If we spend money, others can still get paid for their work. If we don't have any money, we can earn it."
At times like this, the manager takes money very lightly. Anyway, Hanhan always has new ways to make money.
If it doesn't work, pick up the things that made money in the past, sell rock candy and soap, and harvest bamboo fungus in large quantities next year, plus white fungus, it's all money.
After the harvested wheat was exchanged for grain, the prince did not give it to others to play with, but hired people to work and paid for the wheat.
The village never sold glass mirrors and colored glaze. After Hanhan made them, he sent them directly to the palace to trade with the barbarians. It’s not like the village didn’t know how to make them.
Zhu Wentian shook his head: "The head of the village is calculating how much it will cost and whether it can obtain social and economic benefits within a period of time. It is just convenient for our village, so it is meaningless.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to use this money elsewhere. Don’t worry, I’ll calculate whether the regional economy can be boosted.
Cooperating with the passing economy of other lakes, connecting to Wuhu, the number of people, the number of passing goods..."
As Zhu Wentian spoke, he took a pen to write and draw on the paper. The director looked over and saw that he couldn't understand it this time. He didn't even recognize the words. They were going in circles.
After a quarter of an hour, Zhu Wentian put down his pen: "We have to build a road of 250 to 270 miles. It will be cost-effective to extend it a little longer. It is very cost-effective."
(End of chapter)
