The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Chapter 108 A shocking event, Xifan was trapped in Dahekou and crossed the Yellow River!

"Ting Wei misunderstood. What I want to talk about is that this year's five battalion levies don't need cash, but grain can be used to pay for the silver. The grain to be paid for the silver is not limited to wheat, soybeans and yams can also be converted into silver at the market price. , Just send it to the guard station."

Because of the income from selling wheels and iron materials, Song Yingkui is not short of cash now.So he went to Han Yuhong, just to let Li Ting directly collect food for himself.

Hundreds of people in the Garrison need to eat and drink, and they need a lot of food. Instead of finding a way to buy food after getting the money, it is better to collect the food directly.In addition, the Song family's yuba and vermicelli business needs a lot of soybeans and potatoes, so these two can also be received first, and then sold to the second uncle who runs the family business at a price.

Harvesting soybeans and potatoes has another purpose, which is to further drive the scale of planting these two crops by farmers in Wuying and surrounding areas, especially the scale of planting potatoes.

Song Yingkui is not completely selfless in trying his best to promote Tudou.In addition to wanting to expand the source of raw materials for the family vermicelli industry, he also wanted to use potatoes to make wine.

The brewing of wine was not within the scope of Song Yingkui's consideration for developing the industry before, because it was very troublesome to obtain a license.But now that even the iron-making license has been obtained, is the wine-making license still a thing?At worst, I will find the second uncle again, and take a high-priced back door to suffer a bit.

Alcohol is a huge profit industry in later generations, let alone in this era, the road to the potato wine industry has been opened. With this industry alone, the brothers in Guanli can live a prosperous life without worrying about food and drink.Wuying is not far from Fandi, and wine is more popular in Fandi than in Dazheng.They use potatoes to make some bad-tasting liquor and sell it in Tibet. They are not like the people in Dazheng, who are not used to drinking non-grain wine.

If you want to make wine, the current scale of potato planting is not enough, and you must further expand the source of raw material planting.

"Collect grain directly? You can also collect soybeans and yams for defense. This is good governance. All the villagers in our fifth battalion must be grateful for your kindness." Han Yuhong heard that Song Yingkui came to discuss this matter, and hurriedly said Speaking of business bragging.

Is it good governance to collect food directly?It can be counted in a certain sense.In rural areas where the commodity economy is underdeveloped, there has always been a shortage of cash.The servants collect cash in cash. When it comes to the tax season, the merchants know that the farmers are short of money, but they have to sell the grain to pay the cash tax, so they will try their best to lower the price of grain and make profits from it.

For farmers, food is cheap and money is expensive when there is grain, but they have to sell grain for money and pay taxes.When there is a shortage of food, money is cheap and food is expensive, and they can be sheared by grain merchants.Regardless of the small amount of tax paid by the servants, the farmers have to pay a lot of extra costs in order to collect this tax.People in many lands do not see cash of a few taels of silver throughout the year.After Wuying Town can use grain to offset taxes, the people in the town don't need to pay any cash taxes, which is naturally a good thing.

Of course, Han Yuhong's commercial bragging about Song Yingkui is not entirely a representation of ordinary people's gratitude for good governance.By collecting the food directly, Ting Wei of him can make more personal gains through kicking and fighting.Therefore, using food to pay taxes is a benefit to both Liting and the villagers. This behavior is worthy of praise.

After discussing how to collect the servants' money, Song Yingkui returned to Shiping Pass and focused his energy on making weapons.Forging cannons, making flintlock guns, and making wingless crossbows, these key technologies required Song Yingkui to do it himself, and the others didn't have that worry.In the final analysis, craftsman craftsmanship is the foundation of one's own life.

While working, Song Yingkui realized a problem. The Garrison's industrial development, technology accumulation is a bit weak!It's not a problem to rely on yourself to support yourself now.We have to find a way to recruit more capable craftsmen, such as the old acquaintance Carpenter Qin.In addition, some skilled workers have to be trained in the institute.To make the industry in the institute less dependent on itself is the way to sustainable development.

Why not just come to a technical school to train skilled workers?I just don't know if anyone will sign up after this thing is launched?In this time and space, everyone thinks that going to school is to study literature and take the imperial examination, and to study craftsman counts as going to school.

A few days ago, in Wuying Street, Song Yingkui ran into Jia Guiling who was shopping with her child in her arms.The woman was just looking for trouble, saying that his elder brother Xiao had passed the human examination, and now he has gone to the capital to take the Jinshi examination.When his elder brother Xiao passed the Jinshi examination, he would be able to become a seventh-rank civil servant. How could his status be higher than that of Song Yingkui, a inferior military officer?

In addition to boasting that her man is getting better and better, Jia Guiling also incidentally laughed at Song Yingkui and Ding Yumei's mess.It was said that Song Yingkui was too worthless, and he did everything he could to embarrass him, and his reputation was stink in the whole Wuying Town.

What does it matter to me if your man is successful?What does my reputation have to do with you?Facing such a woman with a sick head, Song Yingkui had no choice but to hide away.If you see that woman on the street again in the future, you must avoid it first. What do we care about between a normal person and a psychopath?
However, from Jia Guiling's words, it can also be seen that scholars have multiple positions in this era, and they can make people obsessively admire them and find various opportunities to show off like crazy.Being a craftsman, is that so attractive?

Take your time, we still have a long time, if we accumulate hard, maybe one day we will be able to accumulate a technological force that can change the consciousness of the people in Dazheng, so that craftsmen can also become a force that can influence the current situation in Dazheng where.

Ideas are beautiful, but reality is very confusing, just when Song Yingkui had the idea of ​​changing Dazheng's appearance.Da Zheng seems to have changed himself?

No, to be precise, a shocking change has taken place in Song Yingkui's place.

On September [-]th of the second year of the Jingli calendar, Song Yingkui was sharpening the barrel of a gun at the workbench, when an officer from the Fifth Battalion rode a mule and ran into the workshop area in a panic!
"What? The Xifan soldiers captured Dachuan Ferry, and now the army has crossed the Yellow River and is approaching Wazhou City? Where did this news come from? I, as a military attache, have not received such important military information. How could Li Ting accept it? Did you hear the news?" The guard was sent by Han Yuhong, and Song Yingkui was shocked by the news he sent.

Song Yingkui has heard about the Xifan soldiers advancing on the front line of Dachuan Ferry.However, the warlord's yamen also deployed heavy troops at Dachuankou. I haven't heard that a war broke out there recently. Why did Dachuan Ferry suddenly fall, and the main force of Xifan was allowed to cross the Yellow River.

Once the natural danger of the Yellow River is lost, Wazhou City will lose its most important barrier, and Wazhou City, which is short of major generals, may not be able to protect it!Isn't this tm nonsense?If Wazhou is not guaranteed, won't Xisu be in chaos?This news was many times more serious than last year's riot. Song Yingkui didn't know what to do now.

(End of this chapter)