Villager of Daming

Chapter 90
Zhu Wentian was very skeptical of the true intentions of the officials who were talking to the head of the village about their concern for the village. Xiaqiu Village was not a village in Dangtu County.

You promise to come to drink mutton soup, and you don’t bring any staple food. The steamed buns in the village are not enough, so you went to buy them again.

He winked at the chief and said he was going to the latrine, and the chief took him there. The officials understood that they were afraid that the fool would be deceived by others.

The huts here are not good at all, not as good as the ones in the village, and the two of them solve their physical and hygienic problems in it without talking.

After coming out and waiting for the wind to blow, the village chief said, "What's wrong with Hanhan?"

"Buy two sheep and bring pepper, and have them sent to officials in the Taiping Mansion to make sheep soup.

Just say that there is something wrong with the sheep, and ask them to try it out to see if it is true.

Regardless of whether there is a relationship in the palace or not, if they let us into the city, we have to express it.

Otherwise, next time we come here at night, they will just find a reason to make us feel uncomfortable. The face belongs to the palace, and we have to maintain it ourselves. "

Zhu Wentian wasn't in the mood to play single words, he would be busy soon.

"Okay, I'll buy it right away when I get back, the salt..." the village chief agreed, it's just a waste of money!What a pain to stay out all night!

"It should be the salt produced in Baofeng, Ruzhou, Henan, which contains magnesium sulfate heptahydrate and bitter salt.

Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate can be turned into magnesium sulfate, which can be turned into sodium carbonate just like the stone alkali we make, which is sodium carbonate decahydrate.

Magnesium sulfate is a fertilizer, which can be used for cotton, soybean, hemp, rice, wheat, etc., and it can be added when needed.

Breeding livestock and poultry, feeding them can supplement magnesium, which is very important. It is also a medicine, which is used by humans, and it can be taken orally and applied externally. "

Zhu Wentian introduced bitter salt, magnesium sulfate, he never considered making it himself, because it was troublesome.

Since someone sells it from the salt well dug over there, it's just a matter of time to buy it, and you can ask for as much as you have.

If your own village can't run out, you can tell the officials of Ningguo Mansion to teach others how to use it, and write a letter to the palace later.

The head of the village kept nodding, and he knew one thing, that was good for everything, and he didn't want to learn the others.

Whether seven waters or ten waters are beautiful, should I know?

The two went back and washed their hands first. The chief said to the city secretary: "I saw two big sheep and felt something wrong. Can I ask the officials in the mansion to make sheep soup and check it? I have pepper here."

"Ah? Ah! Okay, I'm looking for someone." He looked for someone who made mutton soup, and went to the place where the livestock were bought and sold to pick sheep.

He doesn't know how to read. Selling mutton soup knows which mutton produces more meat, and the heavy mutton may not have as much meat as the light mutton.

Here, one or two guys are arranged to look after the sales, and the shopkeeper has to go to the mansion to kill the sheep himself, and the mansion has pots and so on.

The joy of selling mutton soup earns two more mutton processing fees, and can meet the officials in the mansion.

The county magistrate led it there, and the mansion could only drink it at noon, with sweet garlic and pepper from the village.

When other people came to drink soup, the two fellows got busy. The officials and the people of Xiaqiu Village didn't need him to supervise them. They kept a big pot to eat and drink by themselves.

The county magistrate left quickly and came back quickly. He had to continue to eat. Working for Zhu Yuanzhang was very hard, and he usually couldn't eat good food.

During the New Year's Eve, there should be exchanges between colleagues, and the expenses should be paid out of the salary. If you dare to be corrupt, you will die.

Ordinary people don't dare to ask for bribes, for fear of being taken advantage of by the other party. Fortunately, those in Xiaqiu Village are fine.

I heard that the officials of Ningguo Mansion blatantly accepted benefits from Qiu Village, but the palace didn't care.

After eating together last time, I handed over the question book to the imperial court, and said that Xiaqiu Village invited me to drink mutton soup, but no one paid attention to it, and the test was successful.

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After a meal was finished, the officials watched the live pigs with them, and slaughtered the pigs on the spot, so that the blood of the pigs could be left behind.

The common people watched the excitement and bought meat by the way. This meat is not five cents a catty.

The city department sent people to contact the merchants, selling sugar for three thousand catties, the market price was 150 Wen per catty, and they were given 140 Wen.

Buy it directly, and immediately ship it elsewhere, where you can sell it at a high price, hard currency.

Official silver, broken silver, copper coins, and various currencies are piled up.

Everyone looks at the pigs, the pigs keep humming, they are hungry, and selling live pigs is not allowed to be fed and weighed, and the food is taken into account.

The chief put his hands behind his back, glanced at the pigs, and said loudly: "How many pigs are left? I want them all."

'Wow~' There was an uproar, followed by the buzzing of talking, like flies.

"Where did they come from? Are you joking?"

"I'm not kidding, the people from Xiaqiu Village bought all over 200 large animals last time. If they were sick, they gave them a cure, and they suffered a lot."

"Understood, that is their village chief? Look at the village chief and lead the village to live a good life."

"Too rich, alas!"

"Wealthy and benevolent, my second uncle's neighbor's... is in the village next to them, and he praises benevolence and righteousness when he mentions it."

"They've all bought it, what shall we buy? I still want to buy a few taels of meat to stuff it with!"

"Go buy it now, and don't kill it later."

Those who sell pigs obviously know the people who bought their big animals and taught them how to raise them. When they hear that they are buying pigs now, everyone counts them.

There are a total of 330 heads, and the weight is not clear, so it needs to be weighed with a lifting scale.

"Let's keep a few! Don't buy them all." Someone shouted, the price of live pigs has been suppressed, and the price of slaughtered meat has also dropped.

Taking this opportunity, the local pig sellers are depressed, and the meat buyers are happy.

"Three hundred heads, carry the scales." The village head promised, leaving 31 heads for you.

The city secretary came over and carried a stone lock, twenty catties, first hang the stone lock on the scale, and check the scale, twenty catties, no problem.

A steelyard inspection, after the inspection, go to lift the pig, four people lift the pole, and six people under the secretary of the city help to check the weight.

The pig's four hooves were tied, and one was weighed and placed in another place, where it lay there humming and calling.

It sounds like not only hunger, but also the fear of seeing the same kind being killed.

A scale is weighed twice to ensure that no mistakes are made.

In a full hour and a half, [-] pigs were weighed, and each pig weighed [-] catties, with some highs and some lows.

Three hundred heads weighed more than 6 catties, which was more than [-] catties.

"I'll give you three hundred guan, and I'll pay the pigs that have been slaughtered before, and my village will pay the taxes."

The head of the village calculated that the live pig should cost 30 renminbi, and the tax would be [-] renminbi.

"Xiaqiu Village Renyi, we have turned over the pig intestines, and the remaining 31 pigs will be given to you too." The other party immediately agreed.

This is the money equivalent to four pigs, [-] wen.

Pig offal and pig bones are served with meat. No one likes to eat this. If it is not done well, it will be fishy, ​​smelly and smelly.

The village sells [-] catties of rock sugar and pays taxes for [-] guan, and there are less than [-] guan left after buying pigs.

The pig sellers helped to carry them to the carts in the village. This time, the village dispatched 53 carts pulled by two animals with some axles and wheels for fear of damage on the road.

The common people followed and watched, how does the village live?When I went out to buy pigs, I bought [-] pigs, and I sent [-] double-animal carts to transport them.

The other three cars in the village depend on what else to buy. If there are more pigs, you have to hire a car here.

The pigs are put away, Zhu Wentian is going shopping, and the pigs will be fed after returning to the village. If they are not hungry, the vitality of the pigs is tenacious, so give them some water at worst.

(End of this chapter)