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

Chapter 4 Wuying Town is actually very prosperous!

The second younger brother Song Yingfang led the old mule with two sacks of grain, the grandfather Song Tianshun drove the ox cart with three sacks of grain, his father Song Xueqin, and his second uncle Song Xueyong and third uncle Song Xueliang each carried a load of grain. The whole family set off from home to the town to pay taxes and grain.This scene is really fucking spectacular!
On the way to the town to pay the grain with his family while carrying the burden, Song Yingkui greeted the old mother of the emperor of the Dazheng Dynasty over and over again in his heart.Let the poorest people pay the heaviest taxes, such a feudal court had better finish it soon!
From the village to the town, it took more than an hour to walk, and Song Yingkui felt that the burden on his body became heavier the more he walked!You must find a way to change your destiny as soon as possible, otherwise the burden on your body will always be pressing down!

Departing early in the morning, when we arrived in town, the sun was already high.The place to pay grain is called Liting, and there are already many people who pay grain. It seems that in this era, there are quite a few stupid taxpayers like myself!

"Boss, you take Kuiwa to carry the load to the second room's shop. I and the others line up here to pay the grain!" After queuing up at Liting, Song Tian ordered Song Xueqin and Song Yingkui and his son to pick up the excess grain and exchange it for money at his second brother's shop.

The second grandfather, Song Tiancheng, is the only businessman in Song Yingkui's family, and runs a fighting business in the town.Dou Xing is a grocery store that mainly deals in grain!

In this time-space rural area, it is impossible to do business without food exchange.Farmers lack money, like Song Yingkui's family is a typical representative, there is no eldest son.So if you buy things, you mainly rely on the hard currency of food.Picking up a load of food, exchanging it for cash in the Douhang, and then using the money to buy the things you want to buy, this is the main process of farmers shopping today.

In order to maximize their profits, people in Kaidouxing usually bring some daily consumer goods such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, etc. in the shop.You have exchanged money in my shop. If you don’t buy anything, let me make some more money. Are you embarrassed?In the town, fighting is the most common form of business.For example, in Wuying Town where the Song family is located, Song Yingkui counted no less than ten shops with the signboard of Dou Xing. It seems that the business run by Second Grandpa has many competitors.

Following my father, I carried the burden to the door of the Dou Xing Tian Cheng opened by the second grandfather.Second Grandpa is standing at the door soliciting business!

"Xueqin is here? Hurry up and pick up the grain to the back hall for the fight. After the fight, you and Kui Wa will help the shop assistants carry the grain. Today is the fair, and there are a lot of customers exchanging grain!" Seeing his nephew and grandnephew, Song Tiancheng didn't see any exception, and directly ordered to work.

This second grandfather is even more slippery than the eldest grandfather, and looks like a shrewd businessman.Song Tiancheng has not opened this shop for a long time, and it seems to be only three or five years old in his memory.He used to work as a clerk for the Li family, an old businessman in the town, and gradually learned how to calculate accounts and became a bookkeeper.Later, when he was a little older, the Li family didn't like to use him. The family discussed and sold [-] acres of dry land, ordered a shop for him, and let him be the shopkeeper.

Logically speaking, this shop should also have a share of Song Yingkui's family.But when the family was separated, the second grandfather said that the business has not been doing well in the past few years, and his grandfather gave away the place where the family hid the money so that the bandits robbed all the working capital, so the third party has no shares in the shop!
The Song family was indeed a poor family through and through. When Song Yingkui's grandfather was young, the family didn't even have an acre of land. The great-grandfather even worked as a long-term worker for the family in Yangxili, but his family had an adventure.

This is a bizarre story!When Grandpa Song Yingkui was doing long-term work for others, he caught up with the new emperor ascending the throne.After the new emperor came to the throne, he carried out the new policy, and it was necessary to determine the tax based on the amount of land in the world.As a result, the local government sent a large number of officials to various places to measure land and exchange contracts.On this day, a field surveyor came to Yangjiabao Village. He was going to find Ding's family in the same village to measure the field.But the Ding family was short-lived, and they didn't even bother to give the officials a lunch after measuring the fields.The hungry official with his chest stuck to his back happened to meet Song Yingkui's great-grandfather.

Grandpa knew that he hadn't eaten from the official's face, so he enthusiastically called the official to the cave where he lived, and asked grandma to cook a meal for him.

It was this meal that changed the fate of Song Yingkui’s family. When the official left after eating, he said earnestly, “Brother Song, you see that you have three sons and live in a cave. It’s not a long-term job for people to do long-term work. How will children marry wives in the future? Although my younger brother is not an official, but now I have the right to land. If you can’t get good land, I’ll give you the hill behind your kiln. If you open up a few acres of wasteland, the children will have a meal. Eat it. The rest of the mountain will let the dolls herd sheep in the future, and there will be meat to eat!"

To this day, the Song family does not know the name of that kind official.But the benefits brought by which meal are real, the title deed of 120 mu of wasteland, and an entire grazing hill marked with four to no tax.It's just that the barren fields have been opened, the sheep have not yet been raised, and the great grandfather has not realized the good thing that the benefactor and the official said that he can not only have enough food, but also eat meat.

With this fortuitous encounter, although the Song family did not completely turn over and become a wealthy family, at least the whole family did not have to do long-term labor for others, could eat enough to eat, and even opened shops in the streets of the town.

Like long-term workers, Song Yingkui and his father moved food in the shop of the second grandfather's house for a whole morning, and they were only free until almost noon.Fortunately, the second grandfather is still a person, so at noon, he asked the staff to make lunch for the third family's family.

Carrying the food box, Song Yingkui went to Liting to deliver lunch to the grandfather and others who were still queuing up to pay for food. After that, he did not go back to the second grandfather's shop, but wandered around the streets of the town.

After crossing, he came to the town twice, both to find ways to make money.Haven't found it yet!

As a small town in a frontier county, the streets of Wuying Town can be considered prosperous.It is one of the three streets with market days besides the county seat.There is a small river with long flowing water in the town, and along the small river is a narrow river called Yanchuan.But the town is not in Yanchuan, but in a valley.The prosperity of Wuying Town is not all due to the presence of rivers and rivers. The main reason is that there is a mountain road leading directly to Yuyuan County and Wazhou City, the capital of Xisu Province.

The mountain road can't pass carts, but pack horses can pass without hindrance.The key point is that if the caravan from Xishan Province in the Central Plains wants to take this mountain road to Wazhou City, it will save a day's journey compared to taking the official road in Sichuan District!The caravans in the northwest frontier were originally mainly mules and horses, so Wuying Town became a hub for merchants.The mule and horse team usually rests in Wuying Town for one night, and arrives at Yuyuan County the next day.

On a small street, the most commercial places are not fighting houses, but hotels for residents to eat and live.I heard from the second grandfather that there is a restaurant on the street that makes pig's trotters, and the customers who come and go say that his braised pig's trotters are better than those in Wazhou City.

(End of this chapter)