Villager of Daming

Chapter 608 Commodity Exchange by Coins

"The mountain material corresponds to the seed material. The seed material is the mountain material that fell into the river and was washed away by the water. The outside stones fell away, revealing the jade inside. Generally, the seed material is the most expensive and looks full in color."

The head of the village talked about the difference between the materials. As for the mountain materials, of course they didn’t fall into the river.

"Where did it come from? Is the output high?" An Qing reached out and touched the window.

"It existed a long time ago, thousands of years ago, but because the population in the Northeast was always small and they were all tribes, even in the Liao Kingdom, there was no large-scale mining.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Jurchens also picked some from the river and used them for trading.

That place is called Xiuyan County. It doesn't reach the seat of Ding Liao Duwei. A lot of jade can be mined, at least it is easier to mine than the current Lantian jade.

This jade is nephrite, which is easy to process. The local mountain material is greener and the seed material is yellower and whiter.

It is no worse than Khotan jade, Lantian jade, and Nanyang jade, and ordinary people cannot afford it. "

The chief continued to tell everyone the age and place of origin, and compared it with other jade stones.

Zhu Xi also stepped forward to touch it: "This jade was carved for my brother. Since there is still there, it belongs to us. Send troops to guard it and do not allow others to mine it casually."

At this moment, he had no idea of ​​benefiting the people. Jade should not be owned by ordinary people, and the people could not carve well with the stones.

Zhu Wentian stepped forward, grabbed the jade, and prepared to go back and polish it slowly. He first polished off all the stones, and then looked at the shape and what it should be carved into.

Designing is very troublesome, mainly because of how to reduce losses. For example, in some places, you can get a ring surface, earrings, earrings, and hairpins.

You can't just take out a bracelet and throw away the rest of the jade.

Seeing such a large piece of jade being taken away, the officials looked at each other with depressed expressions.

In fact, they also wanted to help find good jade craftsmen to process, so they might be able to get some scraps.

It's a pity that they don't know where this jade came from, let alone other information. Look at Zhu Lichang, he opened his mouth to introduce it, how much has he learned?

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In the afternoon, after dinner, everyone walked around the streets. A large number of headless dried salted fish were sold everywhere.

There are four locations in the city, as well as in counties outside the city. People come to buy them and buy salt on the way.

There are copper mines locally, as well as lead and zinc mines, as well as silver mines and gold mines. There is no shortage of anything.

The craftsmen began to mint coins and cast Hongwu Tongbao, just like the official, when it was ten, when it was five, when it was three, when it was two, when it was one.

They are skilled at this. They use the existing Hongwu Tongbao to make sand molds and control the contents of copper, lead and zinc.

After the casting is finished, the defects should be smoothed out, and then used to buy food for the people, and then pay the people's wages when they work.

When people use this money to buy things, they cannot always be exchanged for them. Currency must be available and must be circulated.

Some people still used copper coins from the Yuan Dynasty, the earlier Zhida Tongbao, and the later Zhizheng Tongbao before the Yuan Dynasty was driven away.

The official is responsible for recycling, and then melting it again to continue casting Hongwu Tongbao.

Zhu Wentian never thought of leaving a part specifically for future generations to study. If something exists, it will exist, and if it doesn't exist, it will not exist. However, it will be recorded in the materials and written in the chronological history.

Including the history of the Yuan Dynasty written by the Ming Dynasty, including currency and other matters, as well as other etiquette and so on.

I don’t know why, but the Chinese nation likes to write such histories of previous dynasties, as well as general histories, including county annals. During wars, they would say these are county annals!Can't burn!

Then if there are officials, they will come immediately, take a look and preserve it.Wei Su wanted to die at the beginning, but someone advised him that if he died, a lot of his information would be gone, and he had to live to write it out.

When Zhu Biao saw the brand-new money, he came over to weigh it twice and nodded in approval.

"Your Highness, the fish has no head or internal organs. How about throwing it away?"

A farmer came to buy dried salted fish. Knowing that the prince was there, he was not afraid and took the initiative to ask about the situation.

"I didn't throw it away, but dried it in the sun to make feed. The fish maw, that is, the swim bladder, is stored separately and is used as medicine. If there are too many, some of them will be selected to make isinglass.

When we have more chickens, ducks and geese at home, we can spend a little money to buy such feed to feed them. They will grow faster and lay more eggs, especially if they do not lay soft-shell eggs. "

Zhu Biao told the other party with a smile that large quantities of fish were caught and processed, and fish heads and fish offal must not be thrown away.

"How did the prince know that I raise chickens, ducks and geese at home?" The farmer looked surprised.

Zhu Pingyu said next to him: "Because there are chicken, duck and goose feathers on your shoes and trousers."

"Oh! Thanks to your highnesses, you have asked people to help hatch chicks. We have raised a lot of chicks at home. The younger ones are learning to eat and swim with the older ones."

The farmer lowered his head and looked, and sure enough, His Highness King Qin was right.

"So the wheat bran will be used to feed the poultry when the weather is cold, and the grass will be stored for the geese to eat. By then, the soybeans and sorghum will have been harvested, and we can afford to raise poultry. Plus... you should raise poultry first!"

Zhu Xi originally said that including the remaining livestock, they would all need food and grass, but after realizing that the people would not be able to take care of it, specialized people would be responsible for it.

The farmer nodded repeatedly. He was full of confidence in his future life and added many things to his home.

Leaving the place selling dried salted fish, the group continued shopping.

There are no more children playing on the street. The 130 officials from the former government now began to teach children to read, taking turns with the literate sergeants.

Involving the entire North Parallel Province, I randomly found a wealthy family and borrowed a house, and a new school house was under construction.

All the people walking on the street looked very happy. They had things and money, and they began to think about buying something more for their families.

If you want to eat meat, you should choose salted dried fish. This is cheap. You can soak two pieces at home and steam them in a pot without adding salt.

Or stew it with eggplant. A single salted fish can stew a large pot of eggplant, just lending it flavor.

"Looking at it this way, we should celebrate the New Year when we go back!" Zhu Fang thought about things and took care of the people along the canal on the way back.

At least in Peiping, you have to wait until the miso is ready to be eaten before you can leave safely. Making miso in the summer is fast, but it also takes a lot of time.

"At least the people's lives can get better, so it's not worth coming out." Zhu Biao had already thought about it.

He went out to Helin this time and took care of everything along the way. Many grain-producing places were well arranged, and he would wait for the people in these places to provide various resources for the Ming Dynasty.

When people have more food, they save part of it and sell the rest. Especially after the number of livestock and poultry raised increases, they can usually eat oil and water, and their food consumption decreases.

Others are mineral resources, which will be continuously sent to Yingtian Mansion, where they will be smelted and sent elsewhere.

For example, a smelting plant was built in Peiping, and some of the smelting was digested internally in Beiping, while the rest was also sold to other places.

There is no need for the court to take care of it, businessmen will take the initiative to look for business opportunities.

As for Jiangnan, let's take it slow. It's close to Yingtian Mansion and easy to govern.

(End of this chapter)