Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 830

When Liumu arrived, the two Yuan brothers greeted him with big gifts.

Their elder brother, Yuan Gai Suwen of Mo Lizhi, who inherited Mo Lizhi, had to perform the lowering ceremony in front of Liu Mu, let alone them.

Liu Mu cupped his fists in return and stood aside with his hands behind his back, looking at the pier.

At this time, the rules enforced on the pier were issued by Liu Mu, who had seen it from the old Shanghai TV films of later generations.

The wharf was originally designed to be conveyed by a winch type belt. This loading method has a very good effect in loading rice in Lingnan, but the ore here is not outstanding.

After discussing with several officials of the Tang Dynasty, since there are a lot of Goguryeo slave workers here, they set up a shelf to build a long slope, and then use a wheelbarrow, one person to pull and one person to push, and pour it onto the boat along the long slope.

After each group of two people completes the task, they will receive a lottery.

The stick is made of bamboo, with a brand mark on one end and a hole drilled with a red-hot iron bar on the other end.Goguryeo slave workers would wear a rope around their necks, and each time they received a bamboo stick, they would untie the rope and string the stick into it.

According to the number of bamboo sticks, dinner is divided into upper, middle and lower classes every day, and the special one is the coin collar.

According to the statistics of bamboo sticks, at the end of each month, cloth, food, and money will be distributed.

All Goguryeo slave workers here have a visa, whether it is mining, loading, transporting, shipping, etc.Signs are also divided into different imprints and signs of different colors to distinguish the type of work.

Everything is based on signing to calculate income.

A full ship leaves the port, and a tank ship loaded with grain enters the port. The grain is made of sacks, a bag of half a stone, which weighs 66 catties in Tang Dynasty, and [-] catties in modern times.

Each Goguryeo dock worker carries a pack and trots down the ramp.

At this time, a small official from the Tang Dynasty came up to the Yuan brothers and said, "You two young masters, please move to settle the settlement at the wealth house."

"Settlement?" The two didn't quite understand, but they followed suit.

The so-called wealth house is the settlement center. This is just a small wooden house, with only account books and no half copper coins in it.

"According to the original contract, five thousand shi was settled at one time. According to the loading capacity of each ship, four ships were [-] shi, or five ships were [-] shi. The two young masters think that it should be settled once for four ships, or for five ships. settlement."

Yuan Jingquan hadn't figured it out until now, and he couldn't understand it at all.

This is also why Yuan Gai Suwen sent Yuan Shaoxiang to accompany him. Yuan Shaofei is a lowly family, but he was once an accompanying student of Yuan Pure Land, and his knowledge is good, and his knowledge is not bad. many.

But lowly people are not gentry and cannot be officials, and Yuan Gai Suwen didn't think it was appropriate without an official with sufficient status to come. That's why Yuan Jingquan was assigned to the mining area wharf.

Yuan Shaoxiang reminded: "Four ships and five ships are trivial matters for us, and it is a big deal to get the coins after settlement. The fourth ship is to get the money faster, and the fifth ship may not get the money today, and it will be done tomorrow."

"Four boats." Yuan Jingquan immediately made a choice, even if he still didn't quite understand what the settlement was.

But he knows how to take money, and it must be a happy thing to get money today.

Someone from the treasure house took them to the pile of money, where a hundred Goguryeo slave girls had already come here with their own small baskets and small stools, and with an order, they began to count the money in front of the Yuan brothers. If one thousand dollars is enough, the small basket will be sealed.

The little official from the Tang Dynasty came over and asked again: "What kind of communication did the two young masters use to pretend to take the money away?"

The two of them had nothing but a hundred guards.

It was Yuan Shaoxiang who negotiated with the officials of the Tang Dynasty and bought the money baskets and purses of the Tang Dynasty.

The one hundred guards led by the Yuan brothers were all cavalry. After receiving the money, they became infantry. The horses were used to carry the money baskets, and each of them had to carry a basket on their backs.

This is a few hundred coins.

There is no city here in Goguryeo, not even a decent village.Their temporary residence was also newly built. It was in a valley about ten miles away from the pier. It was convenient to get water, and the distance from the pier was less noisy.

After returning to the valley, Yuan Jingquan ordered the guards: "Dig a deep hole for me too, and the money mountain of the Tang people will soon be ours."

Yuan Shaoxiang stood aside without saying a word.

It is not a big problem to dig a pit to save money, but if the coins are poured out of the money bag and money basket, it will be messy, and it needs to be counted again when it is put into the basket.

Not many at the moment, but after a long time, what will the people of Tang do after Qianshan turns to this side?
"Wait a minute." Yuan Shaoxuan stopped Yuan Jingquan's order to dig a hole and remove the money bag, and stepped forward to explain: "These are liquidated, and if they are dismantled, we need to count them again. Kung fu. But in case some coins are missing, how can I explain this."

"That's right. Then do you have any good suggestions?"

"I want to send [-] guards to the south to find a few villages, no matter which one is a noble family's village, let the villagers collect branches and vines, we can also weave a lot of money baskets, and buy a money basket from the Tang people It only costs seven Wen, which is really too expensive. If you save money, you will definitely be praised by the eldest brother."

Hearing the two words of praise, Yuan Jingquan immediately agreed to the suggestion.

"Secondly, send another ten people back to Pingcheng as soon as possible. If the money is piled up here for a long time, you will be punished if you lose one basket. It is also appreciated if you want to pile up money in the elder brother's mansion."

"Good idea, just do it."

The Yuan brothers made up their minds and immediately arranged for people to do it separately.

Three days later, the two returned to the pier again, and the low-level Goguryeo officials who stayed at the pier stepped forward: "Report to the two young masters that a total of seven ships have been loaded in these three days. In the first two days, there were still two berths per day. Two ships a day, yesterday morning the first The three berths were opened, because they are official berths, and a ship was loaded in half a day after the opening.”

The Yuan brothers were very excited to hear this data.

A ship is worth 150 shi, and each shi can get up to 110 Wen and the lowest [-] Wen according to the quality of the ore.

The income of these seven ships is nearly a thousand guan.

The Yuan brothers arranged for people to take the baskets that they arranged for them to weave overnight to fill the money.

Good hopes, tragic results.

Datang's money baskets are made of carefully selected materials, and then they are treated in various ways before weaving the baskets. They are also soaked in residual oil, boiled in water to soften them before weaving, and the weaving is very dense.After weaving, it has been hardened, so the result is dense and strong.

The baskets that the Yuan brothers had hired someone to weave overnight looked pretty good, but most of the money in one bag was lost.The unscattered coins kept falling out from the seam of the basket due to deformation.

In desperation, I had no choice but to buy Datang's money basket again.

Two days later, the Yuan brothers had new troubles again. The coins they settled every day were put into the money basket and pulled back, which had filled several wooden houses.

Yuan Taixiang said to Yuan Jingquan: "If this continues, in ten days our guards will have to squeeze 20 people into one room."

(End of this chapter)