Villager of Daming

Chapter 351 Difference in price and cost (second update)
While others were having breakfast, the rice planters and wheat harvesters were still working in the fields. This was the normal way of life.

"What a big boy! Another order is to ask the Dingliao Duwei to send ginseng seeds. A seed costs ten Wen. We want as many as we want."

Zhu Yuanzhang, who had breakfast, and Zhu Biao, who got up early in the morning to review the test book, said.

Zhu Biao was a little distracted, probably tired, but he still responded: "I know."

"This matter is very important. Bring the seeds and plant them. Then the people of Ming Dynasty will have a lot of ginseng." Zhu Yuanzhang reminded.

The surrounding ministers naturally looked at the Xiaqiu villagers who were having dinner together. Pregnant women, older, younger, and menstruating people were all there.

But I didn't see the head of the village. The head of Xiaqiu Village seemed to have gone out with a plate just now.

Even Song Zhifu and others were very tempted when they heard it. Ginseng is very expensive, and ordinary ginseng costs more than two pounds per catty.

Ginseng with a long history is counted by plant, and the specific amount of money depends on how the two parties negotiate.

When used as medicinal materials, ordinary people who are sick to buy medicine have to spend hundreds of dollars to buy ginseng slices.

Don't look at the amount of ginseng used at a time, drinking medicine is not enough, drinking it for ten days and a half months, plus other medicinal materials, is also unbearable for the common people.

Now there is a Huimin Pharmacy in a nearby state capital, and the imperial court bears the expenses, and the imperial court's money is not contrived.

If it can be grown, maybe a hundred coins per catty is enough, and the common people can afford it.

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"It's not that people in our village can't bear hardships, they just don't want to suffer."

The chief came out with two dinner plates and sat there muttering.

He eats when everyone is about the same, and eats with Hanhan. He is also hungry now, but he can persist.

The people in the village live a good life, and now they plant rice seedlings in the field without any problem, and they are still so skilled and hardworking.

He looked at it and fell asleep leaning on it, until someone touched him: "Li Zhang, did you bring me some food?"

"Hanhan, you guys... Yo! When is it, the sun is so high, everyone is here, yes, the shed is not in vain."

The chief woke up and looked around. The rice transplanters were sitting under the shed to eat, each with a plate.

Everyone was barefoot, with muddy water on their trouser legs, and they were reluctant to wash their feet and dry them and put on their shoes, because they were bigger than normal after being soaked in water for so long, and wearing shoes squeezed their feet.

Now put it outside to dry, and it can still get dehydrated. The skin on each foot is wrinkled and white.

There is no one else around, and those who help work eat in the distance, leaving this place for Xiaqiu Village.

These people who came over belonged to those with few fields in the family and many people, and they happened to be doing hard labor.

I agreed with them that they don't need to take care of meals and accommodation during the service, as long as they are accompanied, they don't need to bring a single blanket.

As soon as they came and saw the food, they immediately felt that they had made a profit. Each of them got an extra piece of soap, a hand towel and toothbrush and tooth powder, but they could not give them bedding.

They need to work for a month. Now they are harvesting wheat and planting rice, and they will work for a few days. They will come again when the rice and soybeans are harvested.

This is enough for a month, even if their service is over.

Xiaqiu Village told them individually, and gave them ten Wen a day, and five catties of dried salted fish per person when they left.

When encountering such good things, they cherish them very much, and work hard while not disturbing the people of Xiaqiu Village.

"Shuijianbao today? The soldiers also eat it? It's troublesome enough. Anyway, I don't want to make stuffing. I was tired with Zhu Biaobao before!"

Zhu Wentian moved his chair and sat opposite the chief, remembering the matter of grinding bread stuffing with Zhu Biao, Zhu Biao didn't know it at all.

"Someone did it. His Majesty gave our village all the land where we dig peat and grow wormwood, and all the land from Xiaqiu village to that side.

I told His Majesty that I can grow ginseng, and His Majesty will help you buy seeds, and you can buy one for ten cents, and I think you can get a lot.

You have to plan for it in the future, such a large piece of land!Just thinking about it gives me a headache. "

The village chief waited for Hanhan to come over and explain the situation, the area was too large, it would take hundreds of thousands of mu.

Zhu Wentian swallowed a decoction bun: "It's expensive, give too much, even though ginseng is always a catty more now, it's good.

At present, the Northeast is occupied by the Jurchens, and there are a lot of ginseng, which can harvest [-] to [-] catties a year.

Now they see our Daming fighting with Beiyuan, and the trade volume has decreased. When this war is over, they will get better with us immediately.

The former Yuan Dynasty suppressed them very badly. They hated the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty prohibited them from hunting with bows and arrows, and also prohibited them from mining gold and silver mines.

Waiting for the increase in trade volume and more exchanges, the price of ginseng can drop to two or three hundred yuan a catty.

Since His Majesty has given us such a large piece of land, let's cultivate the land first, and then buy fresh ginseng from Jurchen.

It happens to be planted in our field in autumn, and the price is not two or three hundred yuan, sixty or seventy yuan is enough!
Harvesting the seeds now is for the future. Ginseng can be used for medicine in five years, and the most suitable place to grow ginseng is the Northeast.

The seeds need to be adjusted, ten ginseng seeds are paid for one penny, and a catty of ginseng seeds basically has... more than 500 ginseng seeds. "

When Zhu Wentian said it, he considered the number of kilograms in kilograms. It was different from him at that time, so he had to add it in.

"Hanhan, since there are [-] to [-] catties, and a catty is only two to three hundred wen, why should we grow it?" The village chief thought for a moment.

"Because there is not enough and the price is low, it does not mean that the people of Daming have enough, forty to fifty thousand catties, the more they are harvested, the less they are.

In many places, there are no herbal medicine stores and Huimin pharmacies. When people get sick, they spend hundreds of cash to buy medicines, which puts them under a lot of pressure.

Some medicines do not require ginseng, and some have to be taken for a long time, like Wang Yiqian's body conditioning. "

"That's right! It doesn't matter if it's cheap or enough, eh? Isn't that the relationship between supply and demand?"

"It has nothing to do with supply and demand, but with how much the Ming court gave to the other party.

You can earn [-] yuan for a day's work, which you think is normal, and there are not many in Nanjing.

But these thirty coins are for the Jurchen to buy things. They think that ten days will do, and they can save money to buy iron pots.

It involves the cost of survival and the difference in living costs. If you are given ten cents a day in Nanjing, you will have to sleep on the street and starve to death.

In the original Xiaqiu Village, there were more than 500 people, and 300 of them earned ten Wen a day..."

"I'm so happy, I can buy a lot of things, and if everyone gathers together, I can buy dozens of large animals a year." This time the chief understood.

After speaking, he quickly finished eating, and when Hanhan was ready to rescue him at any time, he drank the soup in one gulp, and turned to look for Zhu Yuanzhang.

You can't give ten coins for one seed, you should buy ten seeds for one coin, the ratio is a little bit worse.

By the way, he also explained to Zhu Yuanzhang the issues of survival and the difference in living costs, learning and selling now.

"Yes, you can't give them too much money, and they don't know the situation here.

The people of Daming near them are not as rich as those in Yingtianfu. Isn't this the case of migrant workers?
Working in Nanjing, living frugally and returning to my own place, the money is not a small amount. "

Zhu Yuanzhang then understood that the amount of wages depends on the cost of living, and also depends on the needs of employment and employment.

(End of this chapter)