Villager of Daming

Chapter 1164: Not focusing on administrative and economic orientation

Adoza left in a hurry with his ten men, saying he was anxious to let the people in the village taste the black bread.

He actually bought one hundred and fifty pieces of black bread, plus the other money he earned from selling things to buy powders, Chinese patent medicines, soaps, soaps and other things.

The soap Jurchens didn't even intend to use it to wash clothes. How they washed it before and how they still wash it now. They regard that soap as a holy medicine for trauma. They apply soap when they are injured.

Soap is indeed effective for some situations in daily life. If you have a broken skin or a cut, just apply soapy water on it and it will have a sterilizing effect.

This is also Ming Dynasty's propaganda to its people. Having a piece of soap in your hand is equivalent to having an extra life-saving thing.

Including a big pimple on the body, many people died from it, squeezed out by themselves, did not know how to disinfect, got infected, and died, including Prince Zhu Biao in some records.

In fact, the theory of disinfection has always been in Chinese medicine. When delivering a baby, the first thing Wenpo does is to boil water and put things to wipe the body in, including scissors.

But it can only achieve this level. Most people are not ready for other medicines.

Until the advent of soap, it is easy to store. As long as it is not exposed to water, it can be stored for a long time without decomposing, and it is not afraid of cold or hot weather.

They would also use soap to wash the wounds of injured large animals. Among the Jurchens and even the Beiyuan people, soap was a hard currency, just like salt, and sometimes more precious than salt.

Department stores don't know how to make soap, and no one teaches them. In the Ming Dynasty, only soap factories can produce soap, or there are limited craftsmen and Xiaqiu Village. Some people in the palace know how to do it, but those who know how to do it dare not say it, and it is difficult to leave the imperial city.

Department stores across the Ming Dynasty must report their warehousing, sales and purchases every month.

It's just that for the Jurchens, soap cannot be bought with money. It must be exchanged for oil crops or directly sent animal fat to earn the price difference.

This can avoid the occurrence of malicious takeovers by businessmen who then bid up prices, so that administrative measures can be used less often to deal with the problem.

Once administrative means are used, it only means that the system and laws are not perfect enough, and additional measures have to be taken to remedy it.

The fats and oils collected in department stores can be directly relied on to produce oil. Animal fats, that is, meat oil, are preserved with a little salt and can be sold to local people. The excess can be shipped to other places.

If a businessman wants to purchase a large amount of something from a local department store and does not sell it immediately, but has to wait and pay the full amount, the department store will report it and transfer the goods from other places.

The department store advertised to the local people in Dingliao Duwei that every household had it, so the Jurchens naturally followed suit and bought it. They also bought soap, which smelled so good!
Use it when taking a bath, and both men and women will feel more comfortable than before when performing the rites of Zhou Gong.

If you buy it, there is a price, and the local people can buy it with money. The Jurchens use other things to sell the money, and then buy soap and scented soap. The raw materials for making soap are not enough.

The economy is the economy. When using administration to deal with it, if it is between countries, it proves that the country using this method has failed economically.

The more administrative means used, the more economic failures are proven. Administrative means are a double-edged sword. When used on others, others can also use them.

This is the case between countries, and between countries and people, the people do not know what is right and what is wrong. They were doing things normally, but suddenly a decree came and stopped them from doing things, and then changed them back a few days later. For example, today the people are asked to stop farming and plant trees on the land. The people's food is about to be harvested. The yamen doesn't care. They ask you to stop. If the food is destroyed, dig holes and plant trees.

The people had no choice, their little arms couldn't twist their thighs, so they had to follow the instructions and plant fruit trees.

After a few years, the fruit trees grew up and began to bear fruit. The court ordered the trees to be cut down and grain was grown. What happened? The result is also axed, who is dissatisfied?
The consequence of doing so would be to lose the people's support. When Bei Yuan came again, the Ming court mobilized the people to provide food and manpower. The people hid far away. It would be kind to not provide help to Bei Yuan.

Secretly support Bei Yuan, fight, kill the Ming Emperor and those ministers, and change the day, maybe my life will be better than now!
No matter how bad it is, can it be so bad that the trees to be harvested are destroyed, and the trees that are beginning to bear fruit are cut down to destroy the grain? This is already the case, how could it get worse?
So Zhu Wentian first took precautions against some possible things that might happen. According to the rules, the merchants would know the rules before they were operating and explain them clearly, otherwise... they would be punished without being taught!
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"Leaving? Adoza is in a hurry!"

Xu Da, who was standing next to the villagers of Xiaqiu and watching the young girls selling pancakes and selling eggs, raised his lips when he heard the report, concluding that Adoza was a craftsman related to the remnants of Beiyuan.

They didn't leave early or late. As soon as they heard the key news, they bought so much black bread and took the team away. What was the purpose? It can't be that you suddenly feel homesick, right?
"Are they carrying more than ten pieces of black bread alone? They might as well have fried noodles! I feel that fried noodles are more convenient to carry, small in size, and can be eaten directly. Just grab a handful and stuff them in your mouth, and just get some water.

If you have time, stir the fried noodles with water. Hot water is best, cold water is also suitable, so that it becomes mushy.

I remember that we always brought fried noodles with us in our team. When we got to a place and it took too long, we sent it to a department store and sold it, and then fried it again.”

The fifth child, Zhu Ru, helped others think of something good. Black bread weighed two kilograms, no matter how big it was.

It takes up a lot of space for one person to carry 13 or 4 pounds, 26 or 7 kilograms. For thirty kilograms of fried noodles, a bag slung across the body in front of the body and on the back is enough.

There were fried noodles in the team. When they arrived at Xi'an Prefecture, they fried new ones and disposed of the old ones. They did the same thing when they arrived at Taiyuan Prefecture and Beiping Prefecture.

When frying noodles, the main ingredients are wheat flour and soybean flour with a lot of oil and sugar, a little salt, sesame seeds, walnut kernel powder, hazelnut kernel powder, and pine nut kernel powder. After frying, add dried green onion, minced cabbage leaves, and meat floss. Installed.

I ate it once and it was so boring! Brew it with hot water and stir it into a paste, which tastes delicious.

I don't eat it usually, I just keep it in reserve and take it with me wherever I go. I'll replace it with new ones as time goes by. This stuff is good.

Ling'er baked an egg pancake and put it aside, then brought some noodles and continued to bake them: "Fried noodles are expensive. You can eat the fried noodles and put them in the department store. They only sold less than 200 kilograms in the past few days. One kilogram is 20 kilograms." If someone has a penny and a penny, they will naturally choose the latter.”

Ling'er gave the price. The cost was twenty cents per catty. There was a lot of floss and sugar in it, and the dried fruits were not very valuable. It was impossible to sell them for twenty cents per catty.

"Biscuits, press, okay, um! Hey hey hey hey..."

Zhu Wentian was spreading pancakes and fruit there, but he didn't make egg pancakes.

Compressed biscuits are better than fried noodles because they have more oil, and of the same weight, compressed biscuits are indeed smaller than fried noodles, that is, tea-oil noodles.

(End of this chapter)