Villager of Daming

Chapter 1163 The situation has changed and the number has increased

"Adoza, are you going to pick wild vegetables again? You can't sell them at a high price. Why don't you buy things and sell them elsewhere. You can make more every time you go there."

At the entrance of the department store, a sergeant in charge of weighing and giving money was talking to the leader of eleven people. The other person's name was Adoza, the leader of a small Jurchen tribe.

Small tribes usually have the same characteristics, there are no slaves, the population of a tribe is small, and everyone chooses a person who can lead them to survive as the leader.

If one day the leader dies and another one is chosen instead of the leader's son and others to succeed him, everyone will be dissatisfied, unless the son himself is strong.

The Adoza tribe has a small population and without slaves, it cannot obtain more surplus value. The tribe does things according to the needs of the department store. If it needs tussah silkworms, it collects them everywhere and sends them to the department store.

Afterwards, Adoza considered that the people in his tribe would not be able to keep much money no matter how hard they worked, so he began to engage in speculation, no, free trade activities.

If you bring something from your own tribe to someone else, you don’t rush back to your tribe after selling it. Instead, you buy other goods and send them to tribes similar to his tribe, and earn a little hard money from them. The price difference is not big, just double. .

He sometimes comes into contact with large tribes, but he said that he never goes to find people from the Bei Yuan Dynasty. The things he brings over are indeed not of the Bei Yuan style.

Eleven people ran to look for mountain vegetables today. Since it had just rained, it continued to rain for dozens of hours. The water vapor on the mountain was relatively heavy, and wet rainwater was still hanging on the leaves.

The other ten people he brought nodded, yes, it is better to buy food with the money from selling wild vegetables than to do no work at all.

When they came over, none of their clothes were fully dry. Even though the sun was so bright, it was still the hottest day of the year.

It’s not that there aren’t better flours in the team, it’s that the eight-five-year-old flour is more nutritious and can be eaten by the guards and craftsmen. It also tastes good after fermentation.

"We've weighed it. One hundred and forty-seven coins make up one hundred and fifty coins. These are treasure notes. If you have any copper coins from the Northern Yuan Dynasty, I'll give them to you in exchange."

The sergeant weighed the food, without looking carefully at the appearance of the wild vegetables, and counted the coins to the other party. If the other party wanted to buy something, he would pay with the coins. Bartering was not allowed.

Adoza nodded after listening to the sergeant's words: "I thought about it, it's just that the road is muddy and it's not easy to walk now. It's better to wait. We have nothing else to do. We can pick as much as we can, even if it's enough for a meal. It’s also good.”

The bundles of mountain vegetables carried back by eleven people were indeed not worth much. Even though there were very few people entering the mountain today, they could not sustain the large harvest before. They could not dry them when it rained, so they took them out only after the rain stopped.

Of course, it is not necessary to make dumplings with bawu powder. It is most suitable for making bread and biscuits. Bread is eaten with something in it. Some people also like to soak it in soup.

The remaining ten percent is used to make brown bread, which is fermented and baked. The resulting bread will become hard after being left in a long loaf, suitable for carrying on the back and cut with a knife when eating.

This is not brown bread made from fermented whole wheat, but the leftovers after the prince's team ate eight-five-year-old flour.

Adoza shook his head: "Thank you! If you don't go to Beiyuan to sell things, you won't be able to get their copper coins. We'll talk about it when we get there. Is there any black bread?"

"Yes, how much do you want?" the sergeant said, looking to the other side, where there was a black bread seller.

Including the local people, making them develop the habit of spending treasure money, so as to conform to the Ming Dynasty's currency system and facilitate future layout.

Not only sold to Jurchens, local people also like to eat it. It saves money and the taste is almost the same! If you don’t eat it every day or every meal, you won’t be afraid of dryness.

After all, there is no sawdust in it, and everyone still has food to eat. The purpose of eating is very single and costs little.

A long loaf of black bread only costs one penny and weighs two kilograms, which is a welfare benefit. Otherwise, some people think it is a good deal to sell it for two pence. Zhu Wentian is willing to sell it, it is more cost-effective than using it to feed poultry and livestock.

Now, it's not like his time. Wheat bran alone is not cheap, because it can be used as pillow core, which is better than rice husk. Rice husk can be used as pillow core to pierce the face and neck. Wheat bran does not pierce, and buckwheat is better.

Some people of the older generation have used this kind of pillow material and are not used to it when they switch to other expensive pillows!
Adoza is the kind of person who wants to make money at all times. He feels that if he can sell blood, he will also sell some. He is obsessed with money.

He glanced at the people in his team, squinted his eyes and thought: "Four, eat at noon and evening today, yes, eat them all, three meals a day.

We ate one meal in the morning, which was the leftover black bread from yesterday. After finishing two meals today, there was more leftover than yesterday, and we will eat it tomorrow morning.

These one hundred and fifty coins, uh...I heard that some tribes received bows and arrows, I..."

"That's a special situation. Not everyone can give it. I can't make the decision."

The sergeant shook his head, dream on you, you didn't help Daming fight the tribal leader over there, why should I give it to you?
You said that our tribe is small and we dare not fight for fear of retaliation. If this is the case, why do we need bows and arrows? Aren't you worried that they will rob you if you take a bow and arrow?
"Buy it?" Adoza asked tentatively: "How much does it cost for us to buy a bow?"

"There are not so many things to make bows and arrows. In fact, there are few manpower. The craftsmen in your highness's team are busy mining gold mines.

In addition, their highnesses are going west, saying they are going to Salhu to offer sacrifices. The Ghost Festival is exactly one month away.

Craftsmen need to create some useful things in advance to avoid problems.

In addition to building new houses and making wheelbarrows for the people, the manpower is actually almost enough.

The bows and arrows given were leftovers from the original ones. It was not cost-effective to collect materials to make them and they would not be used in battles.

Buy something else! Seeing that each of you has one bow, you can’t buy two bows each. "

The sergeant explained the reason to the other party, presented the truth and told the facts. Daming will not continue to waste materials to make cold weapons, and the inventory will not be replenished when it is used up.

"It's still early! From here to Sarhu, seven or eight days are enough. It's faster for you to take a boat. It just rained and there is a lot of water in the river, but it is turbid."

Adoza shook his head and said casually, where does it take a month to get to Sarhu? The two places are very close, the team is large and moving slowly, and it takes seven or eight days.

"We'll go somewhere else first, and finally arrive at Saarhu. We'll go to a place with gold mines first. We can't take a boat. The boats are busy now, taking the collected things to the seaside, loading them on large ships, and then transporting them to Yingtian Mansion. . In fact, things here are several times more expensive than there.”

The sergeant explained that he did not want to go immediately, as long as he could arrive on July 15th. The ship would not leave. He collected a large amount of wild vegetables, medicinal materials and other things and hurriedly brought them to Yingtian Mansion to sell them for money.

"Yes, yes! Well... if I buy more, I can buy black bread for one hundred and fifty cents and take it back to the people in our village to try it."

Adoza suddenly increased the purchase of black bread. He did not lower the price. In fact, he had argued before about how much something should cost. If the price was lower during the Ming Dynasty's harvest, the price would be higher.

"Buy so much? Why don't we make a pile of black bread for you separately when you go back." The sergeant looked surprised.

(End of this chapter)