Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1142
In fact, the villagers who entered Luo from east of the river, although they have a little energy in the current situation between He and Luo, are actually very limited.

This can be seen from the location of Fang Wang's family residence. The Fang family's residence in Luoyang is in Fang District, south of Xincheng, which is already some distance away from Luoshui.Nowadays, Luoyang City is characterized by noble inside and humble outside. The banks of Luoshui River are mostly homes for upstarts from Taiwan, or people from rural areas with strong financial resources, and the surrounding area is mostly populated by civilians.

Although the location of this mansion is not good, but the area is large, covering more than an hectare, it is still more than enough for hundreds of people from Fang's family to live here.Of course, in terms of scale, it is not as grand as Fang's family business in Hedong Township, but it is better than being stable. You don't have to tense your heartstrings even when you sleep like in previous years, and you can adapt at any time.It is already considered a very good situation to be able to cover one's head with a roof tile while leaving one's hometown in desperation.

On the way leading Xue Tao back to his home, Fang Wang also briefly told Xue Tao about his family's living conditions in Luoyang.

Fang Wang led his family into Luo, and he didn't abandon everything in the village. Some of his family members stayed in the village and managed poorly, but it was difficult to give assistance to the Luoyang tribe.

Fang's family is a wealthy family. Although he is not famous for his family studies, he is more or less proficient in arts and sciences.After entering the city of Luoyang, Fang Wang made his own donations through various wealthy families at first, but he didn’t respond much. Later, he was instructed to take part in the official examination of Xingtai’s subordinates. Right now, father and son are serving as officials in different temple offices under Xingtai. .

"In the past, I was tired of studying. Fortunately, my parents were able to understand the meaning and principles. Now I can make a living."

Speaking of this, Fang Wang laughed at himself, and he never thought that one day he would need to use a knife and pen to make a living.

After Xue Tao heard the words, he felt that Fangwang's situation was miserable, and he felt remorseful. At the same time, he also expressed dissatisfaction: "Jingyuan, you were always a secretary in the early years, and you have a lot of talents. When you enter Luoyi, you can only get such a humble job. That General Shen treats my Hedong folks really a little coldly and arrogantly."

Fang Wang couldn't help being stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head and smiled after a while: "Brother Shi, you have misunderstood, there are so many homeless people like me in Heluo, and I know how talented I am. Dare to imagine that the others are narrowly defeated. The purpose of taking the officials to use the platform is actually to take care of me and other poor people, otherwise I don’t know how many people will be starved and killed inside and outside the city.”

Xue Tao's misunderstanding is purely due to his ignorance of Luoyang's personnel affairs. Before the two Zhaos fought, there was indeed no lack of courtship for these local tyrants who were based in the countryside. Not only can't get any supplies, but they have to be blackmailed frequently because of this number.

Now it seems that Fang Wang and his son are all petty officials, used to whip soldiers, but in terms of real treatment, the petty officials are even worse than the general Luting.

The salary of these officials is not much, the monthly salary is between three and five hu, and the salary alone is enough to support a small family.However, these salaries are not distributed in full, and half of them have to be folded into the public treasury and accumulated according to the number of months. Basically, within six to ten months, they can get three to fifty acres of employment land.As long as the official examination is always qualified and can stay in the job, this job field can be cultivated forever.

Now both Fang Wang and his son have successfully passed the official examination and obtained the land of employment. The total number of hectares is large, and there are many fertile fields in Heluo.For small households, these are enough for food and clothing.

Fang's family has hundreds of people, not an ordinary small family, so it is still difficult to live on the basis of employment and salary.But in the job, there are still various other benefits. First of all, Xingtai often organizes and mobilizes the family members of officials to participate in some not onerous affairs, which is another part of extra income.

But the most important thing is the monthly quota of goods distributed with the job, that is, every month, these officials can buy some commodities that are controlled by the Taiwan government and not allowed to be sold privately by the people, such as caramel and the like.

As for this part of the quota, there are wealthy merchants in Heluo who buy it all the year round, and the income from selling the quota alone sometimes exceeds the salary by several times.

Others include additional subsidies and New Year's rewards, mostly in the form of quotas. Adding up all kinds of benefits, the three of Fang Wang and his son can earn as much as a thousand hu every year just based on their annual income.This has even surpassed what he earned from working hard in the countryside for many years in previous years.

"It's really cheap to live in Luoyi. After this autumn, I plan to release some of the family members. There is no need to tie the villagers around and hinder each other."

Speaking of this, Fang Wang said with a smile.Living in Luoyang and living in a small village, the way of making a living is very different, and the village can only be safe by sheltering and helping each other, but in Luoyang, there is no such worry at all.

Keeping too many families at home will only increase unnecessary burdens, and because these shady households do not have citizenship, a considerable part of Luoyang's resettlement decree does not involve them, and there are not many opportunities for legitimate income. It is a two-phase obstacle.

After Xue Tao heard this, he couldn't help but widen his eyes for a moment, especially when he saw Fang Wang's contented expression, the feeling in his heart was even greater.

Their Xue family has a big business, so naturally they don't pay much attention to these benefits, but how many households are in the same situation as his family in the entire river east?Most of them are just unavoidable hunger and cold, poor maintenance, and Fang Wang's life in Luoyang is simply incomparable.

When he arrived at Fang Wang's house, Fang Wang summoned his sons to meet the village head, and then ordered his family to hold a family banquet.Seeing the various and rich meals on the banquet table, Xue Tao couldn't help but marvel in his heart. Even he himself rarely enjoys such a meal in the village!

However, Xue Tao's entry into Luo was not because he was greedy for the benefits of words, and he had a hasty meal. Then he talked about the purpose of entering Luo this time, which was to purchase a batch of supplies.

Speaking of this incident, I have to go back to the plague in Guanzhong in the spring of last year.The epidemic broke out in a hurry, and all parties in Guanzhong were unavoidable. There were many deaths from the disease, and even the disputes between the various forces from last year to the present have become peaceful.

Although Hedong is located outside Guanzhong, when Shi Sheng escaped and crossed the border, it was inevitable that the epidemic would spread along the way, which caused a lot of damage to the people in Hedong.However, at that time, a considerable number of Guanzhong exiles went east to Heluo, and even Shisheng's troops confronted Tongguan Wangshi at that time, but there was no large-scale epidemic and death in Heluo.

Afterwards, all parties found out that there was an epidemic in Heluo at that time, but Ge Hong, who was known as the little fairy, led a group of military doctors and pharmacists to travel to various places to quickly extinguish the epidemic, and also found out the cause of the epidemic. cause of disease.

The reason for the epidemic is that there are many groups of Hus in Guanzhong, and the diet of Husbands is not the same as that in the Central Plains. They have a lot of smelly, greasy and difficult to get rid of. They accumulate in the paste and block blood, which is the cause of disease.Moreover, with this eating habit of the Hu people, even if there was no outbreak of such a vicious disease, they would not live long at all.

That Mr. Ge is worthy of the name of an immortal master, not only diagnosing the disease, but also prescribing a good prescription, the most important point is to drink tea to relieve greasy cream, and then get smooth blood and qi.In short, if Hu people want to live a long life, they must drink more tea, otherwise, even if they are as strong as Liu Yuanhai and Shi Shilong, they will all go to hell early, and there is no longevity.

Tea is a drink that not only puzzles the barbarians, but even many northern Jin people are confused.Because of the northern diet, there is really no such habit.Even in Jiangdong, tea drinking gradually became popular among the upper classes because of General Shen Da's strong advocacy.

If in the past someone told the barbarians that there was an unseen celestial being able to extend life, most people with a normal mind would be more or less skeptical.However, because of the completely different manifestations of the epidemic in and outside Tongguan this time, all those who survived the epidemic in fear and waited for death all regarded it as reasonable.

Even if nothing else is mentioned, at that time some tea leaves flowed from Heluo to Guanzhong, Hedong and other places, and some people did try to drink it and lived because of it. .Some people even speculated that the reason why Jiangdong Shen Weizhou shocked the world was precisely because he was born in a tea country, often accompanied by wonderful things, immersed in it day and night, and became more and more intelligent.

Of course, this kind of argument is somewhat persuasive. After all, apart from Shen Weizhou, Jiang Dong also has a lot of idiots.But no matter what, tea is a kind of item that has been given full attention in Guanzhong and Longshang where the Hu people live together. In particular, a large number of Hu people's chiefs and dignitaries are preparing heavy goods and seeking to buy them from many places.Even if you don't suffer from a serious disease, no one wants to live for a few years because of it.

There are actually many merchants traveling to and from Heluo among these regions, but they have never paid attention to the commodity tea before.At this time, the demand in various places increased sharply, and the trend of profit made it inevitable for merchants to make large purchases.

But only at this time did they realize that even Luoyang tea was scarce in the market. After all, tea drinking had never been a fashion in Jiangbei. If it weren't for the outbreak of the plague, who would have thought that tea would have such a magical effect.

Luoyang Xingtai also reacted quickly. When it realized that this was a heavy weapon to restrain the barbarians, it quickly brought it under control.In the past few months, anyone who confiscated smuggled tea from merchants' goods, ranging from confiscating the goods, to beheading immediately, strangled all the channels for the tea to flow north, and further raised the price. the price of tea.

Xue Tao came to buy tea this time, on the one hand, he also wanted to reserve this kind of life-saving food. Even if his own people are not worried, there are many barbarians in the surrounding countryside, and no one knows what the next plague will be. When it erupts, it is natural to be prepared.

On the other hand, it is the persecution and demands from Shisheng in Pingyang.Although Shi Sheng avoided Pingyang, it was not a crime of war, especially in Pingyang, where there were many miscellaneous Husbands wandering around, and soon he gathered tens of thousands of people, often harassing the east of the river.

Even if the Shisheng Party could not attack Xue's Fenyin fortress, the raids around Fenyin day and night made Xue's miserable, especially when all kinds of production outside Wubi completely stopped, and tens of thousands of people were about to cut off their rations.Therefore, Xue Tao had to make a compromise and promised Shi Sheng to raise a batch of tea for him to retreat.

Hearing Xue Tao's narration, Fang Wang couldn't help but frowned. Why didn't he want to rescue the local crisis, but with his mere official knowledge, how could he raise a large number of controlled goods between Heluo in a short period of time.

He did remember that tea had appeared in the commodity quota earlier, and even had some storage at home, but these were just a drop in the bucket, how could they meet Xue Tao's huge needs.

"Brother Shi, if you come to visit next year, I may have one or two strategies to help you. I'm a petty official who works in Taicang Cao, and I have been excellent in the examination for Lian Yueli, and I hope to become a full-time official next year. I can introduce you to Brother Shi, but at the moment It’s still light to say. But it’s the Huashang Banquet in the near future, and there may be a batch of prohibited items on sale at the meeting.”

After pondering for a long while, Fang Wang said: "If there is nothing in the market, I think you should go straight to the general Xingtai's mansion and explain the difficulties in this village."

　The bulk of tea foreign trade should be between the Tang and Song Dynasties. Tea should be regarded as a mild drug. It has to be said that this is a very grand health care scam in ancient times.In addition, I will do three shifts today, my head hurts a bit, and I will make up for it again and again tomorrow. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)