Chinese dining table

Chapter 108 The Simple Tang Man
Buddha can be eternal, but human beings cannot be eternal. Therefore, it is unfair to use human short life to dedicate to Buddha and make Buddha more eternal.

Yunchu wanted to use his short life to eat, sleep, drink tea, be in a daze, support Naha, find a beautiful woman to fall in love with, and have a baby. He didn't intend to spend his life on other things.

So, the old monkey said Yunchu——Zhuzi is not enough and tricky!
Then he jumped over the wall and left. Even though the door was open for him, he still didn't want to go through the door, which shows that the monkey nature has not changed.

The old monkey didn't accept the giant sky lantern that Yunchu suggested to him. He didn't think it was pure Buddhism, and Yunchu was suspected of defrauding him of money.

It may be because the first day has passed, the sun is getting hotter day by day, and the ice in the canal has begun to melt.

However, it was still three or nine days at this time, which should be the coldest period of the year, and the weather was very, very abnormal.

A warm winter is not a good phenomenon, according to the previous experience of working in the street and the various forecasts issued by various departments.

As a good street cadre, he must first stockpile some medicines to prevent viral colds, and through publicity, let the people on the street pay attention to personal hygiene, not to get sick, and closely monitor whether there is an epidemic.

Second, because the winter is not cold enough, many diseases and insect pests cannot be killed, and they can survive the winter safely. Therefore, the sanitation department should be urged to spray pesticides on street trees in the coming year.

Third, if the community is in a rural area, it is also necessary to advocate the early recovery of winter wheat in the warm winter, resulting in a reduction in grain production.

The most important thing is that once the warm winter appears, it is easy to appear dry and dry, so fire prevention is necessary.

In the past, Yunchu had already taken action. When he came to Datang's community, he didn't have to worry about other things. The work of grain storage and fire prevention must not be relaxed. Once something happened, it would be the end of the fire.

After the first day, the price of grain in Chang'an fell again. This time, Changping warehouse was actively selling grain, which caused the price of corn in Chang'an to drop all the way, almost to the point where a bucket of corn could be bought for two cents.

After careful calculation, Yunchu found that the price of grain cannot be so low, because even if Changping warehouse has the conditions to buy corn at a reserve price, the price of a bucket of corn cannot be so low, which is very unreasonable. After all, Hebei and Shandong provinces suffered catastrophic disasters last year, and the imperial court even announced plans to stop wine making to ensure food supply.

Thinking of this, Yunchu took a look at those people in Jinchangfang who only ate one and a half meals a day and were so hungry that they had all kinds of meat and vegetables, and asked Liu Yi to come forward and get rid of those who had to pay wages and buy materials. The money was set aside, and [-]% of the remaining money was used to buy food from the Changping warehouse.

The remaining money is used to buy necessities such as salt and linen.

In the future, when the villagers are paid wages, they will be given food, salt, and linen.

Because all the prices of Datang are measured by grain, the price of grain will fall, and the prices of other things will also fall accordingly.

Speaking of it, Yunchu really didn't have any confidence in Datang's legal currency copper plate, because whoever has copper in his hand can cast this thing.

Yunchu suspected that the main reason for the drop in food prices this time was probably the prelude to the imminent emergence of a large number of private minted money in the market.

He is too familiar with this scene, and has suffered too much. If something needs to be shipped in large quantities, the price of the item must be raised first, and then it will be sold to make money.

Therefore, he concluded that it would not take long before there would be a new exchange ratio between copper coins and grain.

The people of the Tang Dynasty feel pitiful when they think about it. After finally earning a few copper coins and saving them to do other things, they suddenly find that the copper coins have become worthless, so they want to become rich It's harder than climbing to the sky.

Yunchu told Liu Yi, who had earned some copper coins recently, to try his best to turn all the copper coins in his hand into food or other durable things.

Liu Yi scoffed at Yunchu's suggestion. After returning home, he wiped every copper coin with tung oil and put it in a more secure place for storage.

Two pennies can buy a bushel of corn, oh my God, copper coins are becoming more and more valuable, this is the opinion of this miser Liu Yi.

Carloads of grain, salt, and linen were brought back, filling the storeroom arranged by Yunchu to the brim.

For this reason, Yunchu created six watchman positions.

When the money entered the storehouse of the village chief's house, the villagers automatically thought that the money belonged to the village chief, even Liu Yi thought so.

Now, the money has been turned into food, salt, and linen are put into the warehouse that everyone can see. At this time, everyone finally thinks that probably, maybe, maybe, these things have something to do with them.

What they didn't know was that Yunchu deliberately revealed these things to them. A group with centripetal force, first of all, requires public property.

With public property, it must be distributed.

Under Yunchu's watchful eye, Liu Yi led four people to distribute yellow rice to families in Fangshi, each family with a bucket.

The quantity is not too much, 860 seven households, combined, only 87 tans of yellow rice, but every family who received the yellow rice felt that they owed a favor to the head of the village.

They don't know the source of these things, they only know that the things were sent to them by order of the chief.

After receiving the things, the villagers ran so fast that they didn't even have the time to thank him as the head of the village.

"What are they running so fast for?" Yun Chu looked at a young woman running fast with a grain bag and asked Liu Yi puzzled.

He thought to himself that he was not a pervert, nor did he do anything bad to bully men and women in Jinchang Fang.

"They are afraid that Li Changfa's food will be distressed, and they will ask them to go back."

"What was sent to them belongs to them, what do I want to come back for?"

"Since ancient times, only the people have paid food to the government, and no government has ever given food to the people, and it is still free."

"Ah? Since that's the case, then tell them to come to collect the salt again, and each household will be given a catty first."

"Ah? Still sending?" Liu Yi's hands trembled for a moment, seeing that Yun Chu's eyes were bright and not crazy, he decisively sent people shouting all over the street, asking those who had received the food to come back to get the salt again.

"Everyone is obedient, and when we manage Jinchang Fang well, they will take care of their dining hall in the future."

Although Liu Yi already respected Yun Chu very much, but after hearing what he said, he still couldn't help admonishing him: "Then we can't afford it. Nearly 6000 people eat [-] catties of yellow rice and corn every day..."

"Nonsense, one catty of yellow rice a day can only keep them from starving to death, and if they want to be full, each person needs at least two catties of yellow rice or corn per day. That's all, and they need to be equipped with vegetables and meat. If they want to eat Well, three catties of yellow rice and corn per person per day, mixed with white rice and barley rice, and then served with vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, pork and mutton should be good, that is the life a person should live."

Liu Yi licked his lips and said with a smile: "Just think about it, just think about it, we are living a very good life now, there is no one who can't afford to eat in the city, which is already very good."

Yun Chu lazily looked at the sky and said, "I've done the math. The reason why they can eat a pound of corn for a meal is not enough because there is no oil in their stomachs. If there is enough oil and water, 600 people will spend a day. In fact, [-] catties of corn is enough. According to the current price of two pennies per bucket, a load of corn is only [-] yuan, and [-] catties of corn is only a hundred dans.

A pig is only worth 250 Wen in the grass market outside the city, but now copper coins are very valuable. I heard that you can buy a 150-jin pig for [-] Wen.

You can buy four pigs with the same money, six hundred catties for four pigs, a few pigs per person..."

Liu Yi saw that the head of the village was very involved in the calculations, and he was afraid that the head of the village would lose all the little property he had accumulated so hard in Jinchang Fang, so he hurriedly said: "The head of the village doesn't know something, these people can eat a catty of rice a day from their own family. If you eat from the market, you can’t eat five catties of rice a day. If you serve them with pork, believe it or not, they can eat themselves to death!
Even if all the money in Fangshi is put into it, it is still not enough to feed these 6000 people. We are already very good, very good.

There is food in the market, at least this year, no one will starve to death. This is their great blessing, and they dare not continue to give benefits. "

Yun Chu patted Liu Yi on the shoulder and said, "We can think this way first, is it possible that it will be realized one day?

Since you are fine, go to Caoshizi tomorrow to investigate and see how much it costs to prepare meals for 6000 people a day.

Remember, treat this as a business. "

Liu Yi nodded helplessly. Although the chief seemed normal, he still felt that the chief had gone crazy.

It’s not that people died of starvation in Zhenguan Prosperity, but when the government registers people who died of starvation, they often register them as violent deaths or deaths of illness. fact.

Every day before the city gate is opened, the small gate on the city gate will be opened first to let some ox carts covered with reed mats go out first. When it is hot, there will be one cart or two carts, and it will be freezing in the cold. Sometimes there are five or six cars.

These are all the corpses found by the watchmen of the Tang Dynasty when they were patrolling at night, and there were also corpses found by the Fangzhengs. They would gather these corpses at Yanxing Gate before dawn, and before opening the city gate, they would use bullock carts to collect the corpses from childhood. Pull the door out of the city and deposit it in the Yizhuang outside the city. If no one claims it after three days, the people in Yizhuang will bury the corpses on the mass grave.

Yunchu didn't know if the ministers in the Tang court knew about these things. Anyway, in the eyes of the small officials in Wannian County, this was the most inconspicuous thing in their daily work.

If you want others to listen to you, you have to pay!
If you want others to listen to you without thinking, then you have to pay for it!

Yunchu thinks this is the simplest exchange.

No idea, no reason, no grand blueprint is as real as giving money and taking care of food.

Datang people are relatively simple, so they recognize this.

(End of this chapter)