Villager of Daming

Chapter 1257: Food and People’s Livelihood

After the exercise, the teams became more harmonious with each other.

At least the people of Nahachu have become honest, very, very honest, the kind that wouldn't even run away even if asked.

It’s not that I’m afraid of being shot in the back, but I have nowhere to run. If I run away, I will have to return to my old nest. I can’t live alone outside.

So for those who were tired of watching the exercises, the prince's team would prepare a good meal at noon.

The fried noodles were not tasty and had a rancid smell. After a little processing before cooking, the rancid smell was lessened.

There is no need to worry about any problems with Nahachu for now, so everyone can free up their hands and properly prepare the fried noodles.

Adding seasoning is the simplest method, but it wastes seasoning, and it is not cost-effective to use seasoning for this purpose.

There were wild fruits on the mountain, which were not ripe yet in the current season and were quite sour. Nahachu's soldiers dispersed to look for fruits.

Look for them by category and don't mix them together. In case some of the fruits are poisonous, it will be troublesome to pick them out.

They were not needed to prepare the herbs that could be used as seasonings; Xu Da's men were responsible for that.

At noon, the team ate steamed dough pancakes with fried noodles and fruit filling. The dough had been fermented in the morning and was just the right size to be baked now.

In fact, it is best to use fried noodles to make mooncakes, and the fruit can be used as the rose filling.

It’s just that mooncakes consume too much oil, so people have to save the oil for cooking.

The rancid smell of the fried noodles is basically undetectable. Then drink the wild vegetable and mushroom soup, wash the dug small roots of garlic, add some salt and marinate for a while, it becomes a pickled vegetable, which is just right to be eaten with steamed bread and wild vegetable soup.

A few people of high status came out of Naha and looked at it curiously, and then tried it.

"Can this thing be eaten like this? It's much more delicious than what we brought."

Nahachu took a bite of the steamed bun and nodded repeatedly, saying it was so delicious and the cooking was amazing.

Gegehaji cut the steamed bun into four pieces and distributed them to others. She didn't want to eat it, so she just wanted to taste it.

In the end, she took a bite and looked around. It seemed that she wanted to eat one alone.

"Our soldiers carry dry food, which is fried at home. It's hot, and there's oil in it, so it's hard to preserve, and it smells rancid. Sister Ying, is it the same when you make meat oil?"

Gegehaji chose to eat normal stir-fried dishes instead of the pancake because stir-fried dishes and rice tasted better. She asked Zhu Ying about this.

Zhu Ying shook her head slightly: "No, the meat oil we cook, whether it's beef, mutton or pork, doesn't have a rancid smell.

We are responsible for cooking for the imperial city and the palace, especially for His Majesty and the harem. How dare we have any other bad taste?

When Your Majesty and the people in the palace go to the village for dinner, it is east of Chaoyang Gate, and we will build another village there.

Whether it is three meals or four meals a day, the oil used for each meal is different."

"It is different!" Qin Wang Zhu Chong agreed: "In fact, the oil sold by Jubiqi, whether it is animal oil or vegetable oil, is also very good!

We can't do it even a little bit worse, it will damage our reputation and we can't afford to lose face. We have to do well the things we are in charge of.

When you...get to Yingtianfu, I'll show you around. The factory has very strict requirements.

The key is that our service is better, and we deliver goods to your door, no matter how much you buy, we will deliver it to your door. We do not deliver outside the scope of Yingtian Prefecture.

At first, people went to Jubiqi on a street in Xiaqiao Village to place their orders and paid for the delivery.

Later, we made a lot of money, and in order to provide jobs for the people... that is, opportunities to make money, we hired a lot of people.

They are responsible for walking through the streets, pushing small carts with firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea on them, but the variety is relatively simple.

If anyone wants to buy other sauces or something, just tell them and they will write it down and deliver it later. As long as it is something that Ju Biqi sells, it will definitely be delivered within twelve hours after you tell them.

However, the prices of Jubiqi’s products are a little higher, about 10% to 20% higher than normal.

It’s not the cost… the cost is high, in fact our cost is lower.

One reason for the price increase is that our products do sell better than those of others, and the other reason is that we are afraid of impacting them as they also have to make a living.

The wholesale price is cheap, on par with other people’s retail prices, and merchants will buy it and ship it to other places…”

Zhu Chong was more talkative today, talking about Jubiqi's operating model, product pricing rules, and industry concepts.

While others were eating, Gege Haji listened carefully and blinked his eyes after listening: "Your Highness the Prince of Qin is so hardworking. I think when he gets his fiefdom in the future, the people in the fiefdom will be blessed!"

“It’s hard to say whether it’s hard or not, people always have to do something, otherwise how can they realize the value of life if they have nothing to do?
Our fiefdom is doing well now, and we don't expect to make money by collecting land taxes from the people.

Without agriculture there will be no stability, without industry there will be no prosperity, without commerce there will be no life. If the basic engineering is done well, that is, building roads and bridges, a lot of taxes can be collected.

We don't really care about taxes. We build factories, and the big money is made from the products produced in the factories.

The sour plum powder provided to foreign merchants is produced and shipped here.

It is mainly concentrated in Luonan County, Shangzhou and Lantian County.

We have opened up the mountain road from Lantian County to Luonan County. We have normal roads and are building a railway.

At that time, the goods from Lantian County and other places will be transported to Luoshui by rail, and the city of Xi'an Prefecture will take the Bashui River to Lantian County, and then change to land and rail transportation, and then transfer to water transportation..."

Zhu Chong talked about his fiefdom again, and seemed very excited. He didn't care about the other listeners and only spoke to Gege Haji.

Zhu Wentian: "..."

He discovered the problem. This was not right. His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin would never be so enthusiastic towards other women.

The key point is that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin doesn't like women from the Northern Yuan Dynasty! Wang Baobao's sister Guanyin Nu helped to ruin the marriage.

The people eating around him, like Zhu Wentian, noticed what was going on, but didn't say anything.

Because Gege Haji was willing to listen, Nahachu looked at his sister several times and admitted that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin was indeed talented.

Especially when it comes to economic skills, listening to His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin’s explanation, I felt like everything was suddenly clear.

Since her sister Gege Haji got the book, she has also focused on people's livelihood.

Just like that, everyone finished eating, and Zhu Chong and Gege Haji only moved their chopsticks a few times.

The two of them looked at each other, and when they saw that others had finished eating, they both showed an embarrassed look, or it could be said that they were reluctant.

Ling'er narrowed her eyes into crescents: "Your Highness, why don't you invite Sister Gegehaji to eat skewers, so that we can talk more about people's livelihood and communicate with each other!"

"Is it okay...?" Zhu Chong was excited, but felt it was too abrupt, so he looked at Gege Haji.

Gege Haji was very generous and nodded with a smile: "That's great! Do you have any wine? Yellow wine, no grape wine or white wine."

"Yes, yes! Brother Hanhan, please help me grill the skewers. Um... sister, let's drink beer, you try it."

Zhu Chong agreed so readily! He suggested drinking beer. It was still hot, so iced beer was best, so you could drink it for a while. Yellow wine was strong, and you would feel dizzy after just a few sips.

"Roast! Eat! Delicious! Beer, cool! Hmm! Hehehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian wasn’t actually full, so he just happened to eat while grilling and listening to other people’s conversation.

(End of this chapter)