Villager of Daming

Chapter 686: The most boring buyer
"Back to Your Majesty, beef soup, rice, flower rolls, and a whole beef feast tonight." The chief said and swallowed his saliva.

There are many people in the village. If there is only one cow in the market, everyone can just buy it and drink soup.

There were four dead cows at the nearest market this morning. The cows were old, unable to work, and had lost weight. The cow owners told the government, and the Yamen sent someone to take a look, buy them, kill them, and sell them.

The owner of the cattle takes the money to buy a calf, preferably one and a half years old, and raises it for one winter so that it can be used for plowing the land next year.

Whenever something good comes on the market, it must be approached by Xiaqiu Village first to see if it wants it. If Xiaqiu Village wants it, it will not be sold to others.

If someone wants to buy it, they have to wait for people from Xiaqiu Village to come and discuss it. Under normal circumstances, Qiu Village will let them go, especially if they are doing weddings at home or making soup for the elderly and pregnant women.

In fact, there are other markets as well. Among the six markets in Nanjing, Yingtianfu has more markets, and there is no shortage of horses, cattle, and sheep.

Calves are born every day, and old cows die every day. It is impossible for Xiaqiu Village to monopolize the entire Nanjing.

"Okay, the beef soup is good. Let's have a simple meal. Go sit in the pavilion in front." Zhu Yuanzhang felt his stomach and felt hungry.

The chief accompanied him to the small pavilion, where a cement ditch was specially built with pebbles underneath. The water flow was slow and there were small fish swimming around in it.

There were dried fruits on the table, partly in baskets with lids on them and partly on the table for the squirrels to eat.

There are no wolves in the village, and no snakes can be seen. If found, they will be killed. Rats must be cleaned up, but squirrels must not be touched.

Some chickens, ducks and geese are kept free-range, with pens and nests left for them. However, due to the warm weather in Nanjing, chickens like to sleep in trees.

If the chickens were not fed regularly every day, it would be difficult to catch them. The nests are useful, and the free-range chickens will go into the nests and lay eggs.

In fact, it is just a bamboo basket placed horizontally, with straw inside, and it must be erected, preferably more than one meter high from the ground. The hens are reluctant to lay eggs on the ground for fear of being eaten by other things.

Put it in a row, and the hen can choose which one to lay her eggs in. Generally, it is fixed.

This design is to use hens to incubate, and then it is convenient to bring in artificially hatched chicks.

The same is true for free-range ducks and geese, but their nests are placed in the reed grass planted specifically for them by the pond. There is no other grass around them, so they are in a fixed position.

In this way, ducks and geese will develop the habit of laying eggs in a fixed place. When they hatch the eggs themselves, artificially hatched ducklings and goslings will be stuffed to them.

Now there are old hens passing by with their chicks. As they walk, they use their claws to scratch the mud next to them, looking for snails, earthworms and other insects to eat.

The hen stopped, and the chicks circled around the hen, their heads swaying back and forth.

The headmaster had just wiped the stone table clean when he saw the hen looking over and sweeping the twenty dozen pine nuts on the table to the ground.

The hen lowered her head to eat the pine nuts and prevented the chicks from eating them. The chicks were too small to swallow them.

Hens love to eat pine nuts, and sometimes fight with squirrels. Generally, squirrels can't beat chickens because of their different sizes. The key is that free-range chickens can climb trees.

No one clips the wings of a chicken, and the chicken can fly very high.

The chief took the thermos bottle next to him, boiled water in the morning and put it on the shelf here.

Usually the palace maids and eunuchs are in charge. They come to play during their breaks. They can't always chat with people from Xiaqiu Village. They will find a place to enjoy the tranquility themselves.

This kind of place is most suitable, where several palace maids or eunuchs can gather together to talk, drink tea, and eat dried fruits and preserved fruits.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already eaten. The purpose of coming here was to eat. He was hungry and wanted to take a few bites to relieve himself. He didn't want to be full yet, so he was waiting for beef soup at noon!
When making beef soup in Xiaqiu Village, they always use beef cubes, not slices. The chunks are enjoyable to eat, but a bit cumbersome.

After eating the preserved fruits of two apricots, Zhu Yuanzhang felt less hungry due to the effect of sugar or psychology. "Yi Chang, please pour tea, not honey water." Zhu Yuanzhang saw the glass bottle of honey that the leader wanted to open and shouted stop in time.

The director put the honey bottle back, picked up the bamboo tube next to it and unscrewed it to take out the tea leaves. He washed the tea first and then poured it into a tea cup for Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Where did Hanhan go? Half of the honey in the village was given to people!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea and looked around, but he didn't see Hanhan.

Then I mentioned the honey in Xiaqiu Village. There are a lot of bees raised in Xiaqiu Village. Half of them are sold in stores, and the other half is not only eaten by myself and given to the palace, but also sent to Yousheng Medicine Store, Huimin Pharmacy, and Yangjiyuan. ,library.

"Hanhan helps make handmade watches. There is new technology. We won't sell it to the foreigners. We can use it ourselves. It's troublesome to make."

The director will answer the most critical question first, where did Hanhan go?Hanhan took his friends to make a tourbillon and first used it on a marine clock.

Then there are the watches of the villagers and important people in the palace. The ministers won’t give them to them, so it would be nice to have other watches. Do you want a tourbillon?

There will be a tourbillon clock in the imperial city used to set the time. Just calibrate the clock every day when you come to work.

"Although the honey is not sold, internal accounts must be kept to record how much honey, royal jelly, and beeswax we received, as well as the accounts for expenditures.

The village doesn't need that kind of money. Normally, a street in Xiaqiu Village can make more money.

People in the village don’t have much to spend, and that’s all they need every day. How much money can they spend eating beef every day? "

The village chief said the second thing is that the villagers can produce most of the things themselves, and what they buy from outside are basically silk and food ingredients.

Jewelry is of no use, or I just buy spices to make incense. There is one at the drug store, one here, and the hospital gives me stuff.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of tea and said: "We know that the money earned in the village is exchanged for things. If the palace needs anything, come and ask for it. They raise princes and princesses for us, and do business and make money together. As a result, the palaces all share the money, and there is no place to go." flower.

We have also read history books, and we have never seen anything like this in the past dynasties. The money earned cannot be spent, and it is difficult to make purchases in the palace. Only the one in Guanglu Temple is considered normal. "

He talked about making money in the palace and jointly doing business with Xiaqiu Village, especially the little princesses. Women who have not given birth to boys have lower status and less money from the palace.

The village of Xiaqiu helped to maintain the country in order to maintain stability and build the Ming Dynasty. So what about the emperor?You have to do it as required.

The woman who had just given birth to a princess was very happy after taking the money, and she could ask the purchaser to help her buy things.

Later, Xiaqiu Village was opened and everyone went to Xiaqiu Village to play. Now there was nothing to buy.

They like rouge and gouache, which is provided by Xiaqiu Village. Clothes cannot be bought casually and must be unified by the palace.

Then there are jewelry. There are also regulations for jewelry. Queens, various concubines, and beauties should be what they are.

As medical conditions and living conditions improved, Zhu Yuanzhang had more children than at this time in history.

Zhu Wentian didn't know what to do. There were boys one after another, and there were more girls than ever before.

Just like Zhu Xiongying, he should be the second born, and the first one should be a female doll.

So when Qiu Village can provide all the things, the buyers can buy whatever they want, and the money stays in the hands of the women with children.

Women who have not yet given birth cannot get money, but they can get things in Xiaqiu Village.

(End of this chapter)