Villager of Daming

Chapter 555: Stable and stable new products are released (second update)
"Someone said that they have to pay taxes over there. Thirty taxes per one. If you have thirty sheep, you have to give them one every year."

Da Ji told Luo Lu what he heard about taxation from others. In his opinion, giving one out of thirty sheep per year was too much.

When there are sixty, I have to give two to others, as well as horses and cows!How to calculate it?

How many sheep is one cow worth?You can't kill the cow and divide the meat!

"No tax, the prince said, saying that many businessmen will come here in the future, and we will collect the business tax from the businessmen, and whatever we sell will be our own.

What's more, we won't pay for the taxes. We will save the things we are given. It will take ten years and we will have to buy them all. Now we are giving them all at once.

But if we wait until they finish building the fort and then want to burn coal, we can either follow them and help dig them out, or give them something to exchange for.

They dig and transport, people have to eat, horses have to eat grass, it really can't be free of charge. "

Luo Lu also talked about taxes, saying that the prince exempted them.

In fact, Zhu Wentian refused to collect taxes and collected taxes right after the victory?We can only collect taxes after it has been stable for ten years or so and everyone has money.

Moreover, in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, people did not collect taxes when buying and selling things. Zhu Yuanzhang did not allow taxes to be sold on the chickens and vegetables raised at home.

Herdsmen's goat milk, cheese and other things also belong to the herdsmen's homes, including sheep.

"Then we have to help repair the fort, otherwise if Beiyuan fights back, will we still be able to live as we are now?
The stove and coals for burning in winter are so warm and clean that I would never dare to dream about them.

Now I still think it was a dream, it was the snow that collapsed the tent, I was going to die, and in the end..."

"Da Ji, wake up, I woke up from the dream and it didn't collapse." Luo Lu was startled. Da Ji closed his eyes as he spoke and leaned forward.

He quickly grabbed hold of him, but if he leaned any further, he would hit the stove tube and cause big blisters.

"Yes, I feel sleepy when it gets hot, so I stay a few steps away. The stove is convenient for cooking. When the weather gets warmer, in autumn, I will also build a sled."

Da Ji moved his stool back. There is no such temperature in a tent in winter. How can burning grass and cow dung have as high a calorific value as coal?

Throw a dozen pieces of coal into the stove and it will burn for a long time. If you use a stove hook to penetrate it, the fire will be strong. If it is not penetrated, the temperature will slowly drop.

What is particularly important is the stove tube. Except for special weather conditions, under normal circumstances, only a burst of smoke will come out of the tent when the stove is turned on, and the subsequent smoke will fly out along the stove tube.

Luo Lu then moved his stool back: "They said, let's burn coal, and if we have too much cow dung, give it to them, and they'll use it to fertilize.

After retting, the land is planted and oil crops are grown. The oil is given to us to eat and can be used to make soap.

When the time comes we can eat flour, they will grow wheat, we don’t have to grind it ourselves, we will go to various forts to exchange it. "

"Did you tell me what to exchange for? We don't have anything, and we can't keep asking for them for nothing."

Da Ji has eaten pasta and rice in the past two days. It was the first time I had fried dumplings. They were rich in oil and fragrant.

He felt that he was very poor and could not exchange anything with others.

“They sell the ghee and cheese, including the salt, which is brought from afar.

They said they could still find work for us so that it wouldn't delay our grazing, so they did it by the way.

Anyway, they think more than us, so we just follow them and don’t think about anything else. "

Luo Lu didn't know exactly what kind of work he was asked to do, but as long as he could still graze normally, it would be fine.

"It's winter, let's help them do more things while there is nothing to do, okay?" A Ji thought about putting in the effort first.

"You can't ask for anything when working now. They give fish and other food, but we do it for ourselves." Luo Lu shook his head and didn't count.

"It's not cold anymore. Go out and boil some water here. It's better to put it out, but they won't let you."

Da Ji got up, used the stove hook to take down some stove rings, and sat a pot of water on them.

He felt sorry for the coal. People in the Ming Dynasty said that even if the fire was smaller, it would still burn.

Luo Lu walked out of the tent, and the cold wind came out. He shivered: "They say it's cold outside, so they hope to go back to the tent to stay warm. If the tent is also cold, it's easy to get sick. They say that people who work will sweat all over, and they will be exhausted physically and mentally when they stop. The warmth A tent can be a life saver.

They dug coal and blew it up with explosives, then put it into baskets and put it on sledges, and horses and camels helped transport it back. "

The two men talked and came to the river again to help carry the frozen fish.

The other herdsmen are similar to them. They are not afraid of getting tired when working and always have a smile on their face. It seems that they don't have to worry about anything if they follow the Ming Prince.

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"There are advantages to having large livestock. How can the people in Jiangnan control so many horses and camels, oh! There are also wild donkeys."

Zhu Xi stood on the city wall and used a telescope to look at the surrounding situation. There was an endless line of teams transporting coal and ore.

The most interesting thing was that he saw a dozen wild donkeys appearing in the team. They had followed them and now helped with the work.

Wild donkeys are stronger than horses and have hard hooves that can be used to dig holes for water. If a horse digs like that, its hooves will be useless without horseshoes.

Zhu Biao was also watching the team. The coal would be sent to the river for washing, the gangue and other stones would be taken out, and the good coal would be piled up into hills.

The coal slime is also placed in a special place. When summer comes, the coal slime can be made into briquettes to save lump coal.

"Li Chief, are the people around you willing to come over? For example, the herdsmen who lost many sheep in the winter? Chief? Alas!"

Zhu Biao asked the question as he thought of it. He turned around and realized that the village chief was not there. The village chief said he was helping the village make something important.

You can take everyone to inspect the lower reaches of the Hun River and the mining area quickly.

"The Gansu side is also far away from here. It feels like there are no homes around. It is best to build many service areas in the desert, so that the straight-line crossing distance is short."

Zhu Xi took the initiative to talk. He thought of the well-drilling equipment in the village. He only needed to dig more wells in the desert and build buildings around them to protect the wells.

Then it becomes a service area. Caravans and other people come over and go to the service area... and charge depending on the situation.

He didn't decide whether to collect money for a while. He felt that collecting money was taking advantage of others' danger. If he didn't collect money, who would be responsible for the money invested and the wages of the workers in the service area?

"It is estimated that many routes will be designed, not only in the desert, but also like a spider web between the forts."

Seeing that there was no inside, Zhu Biao couldn't ask anything, so he turned around and walked back.

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The next day, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the team ate Yuanxiao, not glutinous rice balls. It was too cold to make glutinous rice balls.

Yuanxiao is made by freezing the stuffing into pieces, dipping it in water and putting it into glutinous rice flour. When the water is gone, dip it again.

It has been made before, so I make some a day and just throw it outside to freeze.

I brought a little glutinous rice flour, only a few times, otherwise I would have made it in advance.

In the morning, deliver the food to the herdsmen’s homes first and let them cook it themselves. Don’t cook too much at one time, otherwise your stomach will be upset.

At noon, Zhu Biao and Zhu Xi came to the palace in Xiaqiu Village for dinner.

'Buzz buzz...' As soon as the two entered the courtyard, they heard a familiar sound, a steam engine.

Then I saw a...a...car?

"Li Chief?" Zhu Fang asked the Li Chief who was standing there.

"The new steam engine snowmobile made in the village can pull a large sledge on the back. It is fast and can run with coal and water."

The director turned around, nodded to the two people, and happily introduced this new thing.

(End of this chapter)