Villager of Daming

Chapter 1051 Silk is left to prepare the people for simplicity

Xu Da took care of everyone, and Xu Yihua chatted directly with Ling'er without wearing a veil. She knew all the people in Xiaqiu Village, and there was no need to be separated from Zhu Di.

Ling'er talked to Xu Yihua about what happened along the way and about the living conditions of the people in each place.

Including products, prices, economic level, traffic conditions...

Xu Da accompanied the four princes and Li on the Marco Polo Bridge. In the early morning, there were already people setting up stalls selling vegetables on the bridge and at the head of the bridge.

Vegetables from the earth are harvested at dawn in the morning and placed on straw mats on the ground with dew for sale.

Seeing the troops and flags, the squatting and sitting people who were selling their talents knelt on the ground.

It was the first time Zhu Di came to his fiefdom. Everything he saw was strange. He walked to a vegetable stall and squatted down: "This... uh... brother, how much does a pound of eggplant cost?"

"No money, take it! Take it all! Let's go!"

The kneeling man lowered his head and did not look at Zhu Di at all.

"We don't have money to eat food, so we're robbing you, right? If we don't want it, we won't buy it, so we just ask the price. Get up, get up."

The vegetable seller didn't dare to stare at Zhu Di and pointed at the eggplant.

Zhu Di was depressed. Did he come all the way to be a bandit? Stealing the vegetables grown by the people in your own land?

"Your Highness, King Yan, we sell vegetables regardless of the pound. We don't have scales. We just divide them into piles, and they can be divided into piles and roots.

"Wang, don't you want it? What kind of king are you? I know the flag, the prince's, the emperor's son's."

"Do you recognize our flag?" Zhu Di pointed to his own flag.

Zhu Di looked at the stalls on both sides. They were indeed divided into piles, or put there for people to choose from.

This pile was from yesterday. It was soaked with river water in the morning, and it looks like it's still in good condition. It's only five cents each.

"Literacy, we are literate, yours is...Yan? Yan is...ours? Oops! Are you the King of Yan? Are you in charge of us? The food is given to you, no money required, just take it."

It's not convenient to suddenly stand up and attack while sitting, but it's not possible to crouch. The crouching posture is very explosive.

In winter, they sell fried eggplant boxes and buy dried eggplant slices, which are more fragrant than fresh eggplant slices. "

People from the four prefectures went to shout, help, and tell the people to get up. Don't kneel down. You can't see your face, and you still expect to understand the situation!

The eggplants depend on their size and tenderness. The big ones cost a dime each, and the small ones cost two.

No one bought it, so I took it back and made it into dried eggplants. I sliced ​​them into pieces and dried them in the shade. I also wanted the prickly stems, which were more delicious.

This person changed from kneeling to squatting. As a result, a young man from Xiaqiu Village came over to help him and pushed him to sit on the ground.

The same goes for eggplants, they have a handle at the back, just tie the handle on.

There was a big bundle of cowpeas, which was untied and hay was placed next to it. Anyone who wanted to buy could grab a handful and use the straw to lift the bundle and sneak away.

"I don't want it. How much does a pound of eggplant cost?" Zhu Di waved his hands together.

"What time...and what time did you get up in the morning? Are your clothes wet with dew?" Zhu Di asked after observing.

The same goes for cucumbers. For lettuce, add straw ropes along the gaps between the leaves.

The vegetable seller is not stupid. He knows the character Yan, and he also knows who King Yan is and what place he is in charge of.

"At the end of the Yin period and the beginning of the Mao period, I don't eat. I go to the fields with my wife and children to pick vegetables.

It's not far away. It only takes two-quarters of an hour to pick up a load and walk there. My wife also picks up some and will come back later to deliver food to us.

Now it's all the restaurants that pick out the leftovers, and they don't want the good stuff if they don't give it to them.

I didn’t ask for them yesterday. If I asked for them, there wouldn’t be any eggplants left. If there were a dozen or twenty left, we would just give them to the almshouse. ah! Dew, if there is dew, change clothes. Wear linen clothes to pick vegetables. Come out and change into cloth. Cloth is more comfortable than ramie.

Your Highness, our family also has silk clothes, one for each person, which we wear during festivals or when we visit relatives. "

The sales agent looked proud and touched his clothes with his hands.

"Ah? Silk? Is it expensive?" Zhu Di was surprised.

"It's not cheap. We don't have a large area of ​​land to grow food, so we grow vegetables. In a month or so, we will grow radishes, Chinese cabbages, carrots, onions, and green onions, and then sell them during the winter.

If you grow miscellaneous grains, such as soybeans, green adzuki beans, red adzuki beans, and sorghum, you will not be able to sell them at a high price.

Our family raises chickens, ducks and geese, but not pigs. There are few people and we are too busy. How do we make money? This is..."

The vegetable seller explained to Zhu Di how to develop his own economy and how much vegetables could be sold. It was really impossible to dry vegetables.

Among the grains grown are sorghum. A pit was dug in the vegetable field last summer. It was dug after harvesting the Chinese cabbage and a fire tunnel was made in the pit.

The sorghum stalks are spread on the top, and the bean sprouts are grown in the tunnel below. The bean sprouts are sold in winter and are not much cheaper than greenhouse vegetables.

If the number of bean sprouts produced by his family is large, the hotel will be willing to buy from him, which is stable.

Then use the bean shells to feed the poultry, and use the money to buy wheat bran. If there are too many poultry eggs, you can exchange them for money and eat them at home.

This year I planted more beans and sorghum, and I hired help to dig tunnels and build firewalls.

"We will build a new house next year. If we build it at this time next year, it will be hot and the family can sleep in a straw shed outside.

I didn’t just say hello to you in person, Your Highness is the good life you gave us, everyone said so.

There is endless work in the entire Beiping Mansion. As long as you work hard, you will not only not be hungry, but you will also be able to save money.

Greenhouse vegetables have nothing to do with us. They are too expensive. You can eat them with a bit of grit, but they are not worth it.

The others are all helping us. They have grain fields. After planting wheat, they plant other crops, so the price of grain is cheap.

A lot of big animals were transported from Peiping, and they helped with the work while they were giving birth.

Fish in the sea! That’s so cheap! It tastes better than the one from the river, which is fishy and has many thorns, while the one from the sea is salty..."

The vegetable seller continued to say that the people's lives were better and richer, and if anyone didn't have silk clothes that they could wear, they were lazy.

"Did your family suffer from hunger last month?" Zhu Fan listened and couldn't help but speak out.

"Are you your Highness too? Ah! If you are not hungry, you have food. It has nothing to do with whether you are hungry or not. If you are not fed, you will not be fed. At worst, you will not eat vegetables. Why are you still having radishes?
The sauerkraut will die after the spring begins and cannot last for a few days. The stored radish has a little bit of bran. The green onions were frozen in the winter and then sprouted. The carrots can still last for a while, and the onions are almost the same as green onions.

Then the grain harvest stopped and wild vegetables came out. Our family killed a chicken or sold the chicken for pork and made dumplings with the wild vegetables.

Beiping Prefecture is close to the sea, and you can see all kinds of good things. Every house has soap, but I heard that it can’t be found elsewhere, right? "

"That's right! We can't do it there. We are all suffering. Fourth brother, go inside!"

Zhu Fan's eyes were red. The people in Taiyuan Prefecture were different from those in Beiping Prefecture. They actually had silk clothes.

Zhu Di could feel the third brother's mood, so he had to endure his happiness and asked the vegetable seller: "Has your fire tunnel been expanded?"

"No! We have to find someone! Don't worry!" He shook his head in a show of talent.

"You leave a place, and we'll call someone over to help you take a look. Once it's done, let others learn from it."

Zhu Di wanted to help, but everyone had already said that he didn't just say good things to his face, what a simple common people! Rare!

(End of this chapter)