Villager of Daming

Chapter 740 Selfish and greedy things for the public good

In the afternoon, the weather was sunny, but the dazzling sun did not bring much warmth to people.

There is a thermometer in the exchange area. At the moment, outside where the sun is not directly shining, it shows minus 29 degrees. There is an error. The low of the four thermometers is minus 27 degrees and the high is minus [-] degrees.

This temperature is suitable for working for half a day, or if you don't stop working all the time, you won't be able to withstand the cold if you stand outside for a long time.

The Jurchens had to stay today and could not just stay in their rooms in the afternoon. They helped cut the ice in exchange for dinner and accommodation.

The road does not need to be repaired, and the snowy road is suitable for walking. There are ashes and slag from the stove, but they are saved and used to bake bricks.

The local people are always working. They have nothing to do in winter, so they just work and change things.

Some people have arrived here more than 100 years ago. It turns out that they are also Jurchens, and there are also some Mongolians from the Yuan Dynasty, plus locals and immigrants who have always multiplied here.

For example, there are Korean people now, and their numbers are very small. Some of them were caught as a result of efforts, and some fled here.

At present, there are no intruders from Henan, Shandong and other places to Guandong, because there is no Shanhaiguan. To the east of Shanhaiguan is Guandong, also called Guanwai, and to the west are Guanxi and Guanli.

People from the Northeast always ask you where you are from when talking about a place.The other party replied, Guanli.

Historically, the pass built by Zhu Yuanzhang at Shanhaiguan in the 14th year of the Hongwu period was connected to the Great Wall. This is how it was said in later generations that 'the two capitals are the key to each other and the first pass of the Great Wall'.

But that Beijing refers to the Beijing during the Qing Dynasty. The one outside the Guan is called Sheng Jing. There is the Forbidden City in Shenyang and the Beijing inside the Guan.

Zhu Wentian didn't know whether Shanhaiguan should be built. Ming Dynasty did not need to continue to build the Great Wall and passes. Ming Dynasty's army could easily defeat any enemy.

If we have the manpower and material resources to build the Great Wall and passes, it would be better to use them to build roads.

The local people do not know the plan of the Ming Dynasty. They only know how to work. This year they planted rice according to the officials' instructions. After harvesting, they kept the seeds and sent the rest to Nanjing.

The yield of rice is low, but it is delicious. If you trade it with them for wheat, you can get twice as much as if they grew their own wheat. Who says that steamed buns cannot be eaten?

Now they work, exchange money, and give copper coins, and they use the copper coins to buy things. They don't need to buy medicinal materials. There is a Huimin Pharmacy here, which gives them free of charge, including to the almshouse.

The Ming Dynasty needed to win over the local people and help them resist the Haixi Jurchens.

They can buy cheap dried oysters, dried sea rainbow, that is, mussels, plus small crabs, dried shrimps, dried shrimps, shrimps...

The kind of small crabs that are a few centimeters long at the beach are called Chinese mitten crabs. They are eaten fried or put in when making soup. They have no meat.

Then give their family a copper hot pot, the kind that burns charcoal and has a small chimney and a lid, which is the Northeast hot pot.

In this way, when they eat hot pot, they put in a handful of dried sea food, including seaweed, to borrow the umami flavor and then rinse the sauerkraut and frozen tofu.

As for meat, the pigs they just raised have not grown up yet, and they will wait to breed piglets next year before they can pick and eat them.

The army went out to hunt, and when they came back they had meat. They paid for it, and the price was not high.

"Liu Chaoguan, I saw there are leeks in the greenhouse. Can you make some dumplings stuffed with leeks? I'll take them away tomorrow. What do you want?"

Wuerduo sent his men to help with the work. He stayed beside Liu Wenli. When he came out, some people in the village wanted to eat dumplings.

They don't know how to make dumplings themselves. Since the mutual trade started here, dumplings, steamed buns, boxes and other foods have been passed on.

Most people can't believe that the Jurchens guard the black soil in the Northeast and actually grow highland barley and eat fried rice and noodles every day.

Perhaps when they hunt, they can always get fishy prey meat to eat, so they prefer eating dumplings and steamed buns stuffed with chives.Liu Wenli looked at the people Wu Erduo had brought working: "How many do you need?"

"With such a big one hundred, I can bring four badgers, okay?"

Wu Erduo made a gesture. As a leader, he needs to make people feel that he can be relied on. If someone wants to eat leek dumplings, he is willing to pay the price.

He thought that exchanging four badgers for a hundred dumplings was an advantage for him. Apart from greenhouses, where could there be fresh leeks in this season?

"I'll ask someone to give you a bag." Liu Wenli nodded.

He turned and went elsewhere, looking for the woman, who was helping to take care of the greenhouse, which contained beehives.

"My fifth daughter-in-law, please lend me a piece of fat for steaming buns later. They come here to trade for hunting. Buy some meat, soak it in cold water to remove the smell, and wrap it with sauerkraut."

When Liu Wenli came over, he heard someone talking, borrowing fertilizer, that is, dough fertilizer. There is no yeast when making dough, and it takes a long time to make the dough.

Leave the dough to rise together, it will contain yeast, and when you add it to the dough next time, it will rise faster.

If you haven’t eaten noodles for a while and the yeast has gone bad, you will have to borrow it from others. You don’t have to pay back the loan.

When someone else doesn't have it, come and borrow it. If you happen to have one, give half of it to the other person. If you don't want to send it out again in the near future, give it all to the other person.

"Okay, Auntie, I saw a roe deer. Cut a piece of it into oil. Then boil it back and use the remaining oil residue to make dumplings with sauerkraut."

Lao Wu’s wife happily agreed and talked about what she wanted to buy.

The life of their family is much better than that of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty. In the mutual market, they are close to the water.

They work to make money, and they can buy cheap things when they trade with each other. As long as they are not lazy, there is always endless work to make money all year round.

Who among ordinary people would dare to make meat buns or dumplings?
"Make two hundred dumplings stuffed with leeks, eggs, and shrimp. Come and get the stuff yourself. It costs ten cents."

Liu Wenli stood outside the greenhouse and shouted, "If you don't go in, it's not a matter of male and female defense. He is afraid of being stung by bees."

"Yanzi, you can take this job, and I'll help you make noodles. When the baby comes out of your belly, you can use the money you saved to eat well and make up for your milk supply."

Someone in the greenhouse directly arranged the matter for one person. For ten cents, he could mix dough and stuffing to make two hundred dumplings. It was a good job.

I gave it to a newly married and pregnant daughter-in-law, and no one else took it away from me. If someone else's new daughter-in-law came in and got pregnant, I couldn't bully anyone, I had to let her go.

"Hey, thank you Sanniang." The voice sounded again, obviously Yanzi's.

After a short while, two people came out to collect noodles and other things. They first reconciled the noodles and packed three hundred if they were given two hundred.

The extra one hundred will be allocated to Liu Wenli. He can eat it himself or ask others to eat it together, and it will go to the public account.

That's what Liu Wenli meant. He needed to benefit his subordinates. He didn't care. His father was Liu Ren, Minister of War.

Others have no backing and want to eat something good, so they can only rely on him to make it. The dumplings are not mentioned as to how big they are. When I entered the account, I paid [-], but the ingredients used were for [-] dumplings that big.

The only person who suffered a loss was the person who took the wallet to make dumplings, but he was willing to make three hundred dumplings quickly and got ten cents, and everyone was happy.

(End of this chapter)