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

Chapter 82

"Hey! Shopkeeper Song, you're not happy with what you said. Gui Wang said that you are a character. My general admires your craftsmanship, but you are so unscrupulous! What is lack of wood, iron, and manpower? Can it count?

The wood and iron materials for the carts are provided by our army. As for the shortage of manpower, if you take the food and hire people, do you still worry about no one coming to work?The army will give you a hundred shi of grain for you to hire people to help you make cars, is that enough? "The secretary of Qinzhou Bingzhang surnamed Lu scolded Song Yingkui, and made a promise that they would pay the processing fee with a hundred stones of grain if they settled the materials.

Is there such a thing?When Song Yingkui heard these words, his mood immediately improved, and he didn't care much about the cursing attitude of the surnamed Lu.

The so-called hundred stones of grain is definitely not very good grain, but it is almost enough to deduct the labor wages of [-] vehicles.In this world right now, it is a good thing to have a big order, so that the big guys can earn food.As for earning more and earning less, what kind of bicycle do you need?

"If the military men can solve the materials and food for us to work, what else can Song have to say? Just make the car with all his strength! As long as the materials are in place quickly, Song will try to make [-] cars in one month. Come out." As long as the money is in place, the matter will be easy to handle. The nearby villagers have no work at this time, so hire more people to help them make the car as soon as possible.

Hiring more people and paying food to everyone with wages will help everyone fight this disaster year a little bit more.

"Can it be done in one month? That's the right thing to say. Lu's ugly words are in front of me. The vehicles used in the military must not be sloppy. You must ensure the quality and quantity, or you will have good fruit." The man surnamed Lu is always not very pleasant to speak, but he doesn't seem to be cheating. This is probably the character of the soldier.

"Don't worry, Mr. Song, what Song does is never ambiguous, and he dare not neglect when doing things for the army."

"Okay! Do things with your heart, my general can't lose your benefits. By the way, I heard from Chief Wang that your family still sells bean curd sticks and preserved eggs? Our army Zhong Erlang likes these two things very much. I don't know if they are available for sale now." Give it to us?" Seeing that Song Yingkui agreed to leave the job of building a car, the surname Lu was in a good mood, and talked about other business.

"Master Lu, when there is a great chaos, my family doesn't have the materials to make these two items. This year, my family is planning to stop doing business related to eating and drinking."

"No materials? It's easy to handle. I'll get food from the army. You just need to make things."

For Shengdou Xiaomin, it is a huge difficulty, but it seems that it is not a big deal for the surname Lu.There is a shortage of food in the drought, isn't there a shortage of food in the army?
It doesn't matter whether they are short or not, as long as they have money to support their family, Song Yingkui quickly replied: "If there are soybeans, it is not difficult to make bean curd sticks. As for the preserved eggs, it may take a lot of trouble. The child has caused a lot of trouble, and I can't collect many eggs."

The soybeans used to make bean curd sticks can be taken from the military rations, but the eggs cannot be transported. Song Yingkui had to tell the truth.

"Chicken is really hard to get! Forget it, your family will make yuba with a hundred stones of soybeans for the army first, and I will arrange for people to bring the food from Didao tomorrow."

With ease, the person surnamed Lu placed another order for [-] shi of soybeans, but this guy didn't say how the processing fee would be calculated.

For bean curd sticks, it’s fine if you don’t clarify the processing fee, but you can think of a way when delivering the goods.In addition, after making soybeans into tofu, it is also good to have bean dregs left over.

Usually people don't eat bean dregs, if they have to eat it, they have to be further processed with oil, salt and seasoning.Last year, the Song family used this stuff to fertilize the ground.But this year's situation is special, and I can satisfy my hunger even if I am really hungry.Even if people don't eat it, it's okay to feed pigs and livestock.In short, we can think of some ways to let the people in the village get the honor of this military order, and have more confidence in resisting the famine.

In the year of catastrophe, the common people are not afraid of working, what they are most afraid of is that there is no work to do, so they can only stay at home and resist.A stone of grain can flow in from the outside, which can be of great use to the people in the famine area.Isn't the concept of work-for-relief just to let the people affected by the disaster exchange their labor force for living materials at relatively low wages after a famine?

After the Fan Rebellion, it was not the streets of Wuying Town that became bustling first, but the mouth of the Yanchuan Gorge.Song Yingkui, who took the order, hired five people, No. 60, from nearby Zhuangzi to make the cars.There are also 34 soldiers on the [-]th who come to carry wood and industrial food every day, and there are many people coming and going around the workshop.

In addition to Yanchuan Gorge, Yangjiabao is also very lively.The Song family borrowed several pairs of stone mills, and called the Master No. 40 of No. [-] Zhuang to help grind the tofu.

The wages for these jobs are not much, which is more than half cheaper than the usual wages.But the people who came to work did not complain, and were even full of gratitude.If there is no job for the Song family, how can the big guy find a way to earn food?For many families this year, it is not easy to have an extra morsel of food.

Potatoes and bean dregs are added with some oil, water and flour, and the resulting paste is used as a working meal. The big guys eat very delicious.Working in the Song family for a day, not only can you receive food, but you can also save a day's ration.Calculated, one month's work can fill the mouth for two or three months.With two or three months of food, plus the food stored at home, the big guys can see the hope of resisting the grain harvest next year.

"Shopkeeper Song, you are really capable. It has only been less than 20 days and you have already completed more than 200 cars. With this posture, you can really make almost all the cars used by our army in one month. General Sending me to look for you, it seems that I found the right person, and I really don’t have the ability to find someone else.” When the surname Lu brought someone to pick up the finished car, what he said was finally pleasant some.

When people communicate with each other more, their attitudes will change, even for soldiers who are rough and rough.

After ordering the vehicle, the surname Lu took out a document from his arms and handed it to Song Yingkui, and said, "Here, this is the benefit my general gave you! Are you literate? If you can read, look at what it is!"

What good?It can't be the legendary silver ticket!It seems that the bank note should not look like this?Song Yingkui took the document and quickly opened it to read.

It turned out to be a letter of appointment, appointing Song Yingkui as the commander-in-chief of the Wuying Volunteer, to restrain the volunteers in the countryside, help prevent bandits, protect the border and the people, and relieve the country's worries.

What is the Commander-in-Chief of Volunteers?Is it an official?It seems not.Can this be considered a benefit?Song Yingkui was a little confused about the situation.

"What are you doing here? Here, this is the badge signed by the general. With this badge, you can justifiably order all the volunteers in the Wuying territory, and you will have more confidence when you encounter bandits in the future. This If the nearby strongman dares to bully you, you can directly handle it, and my general will make decisions for you. Of course, you can't get this benefit for nothing. I see that the artillery carts placed outside your shop are very useful in the army. According to that, I will make another ten sets for my general. You don’t have to worry about the materials, I will allocate them to you from the army.”

(End of this chapter)