People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 317: After the railway is repaired, if there is a war in Peking, it will only take two days to transport grain and grass from the capital to Peking.

The reason why Chen Han wanted to bring the old man and others here.

In addition to giving them a mutton hot pot meal.

The most important thing is to let them see the changes now.

Of course, another reason is to let them understand that the improvement of people's lives is due to various reasons.

After eating half of the meal, Chen Han picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth, then called the boss over.

The boss was a middle-aged honest man in his forties or fifties. When he saw Chen Han, he ran over and said, "My dear Lord, why are you here?

You have to go to the private room when you are here. Why do you eat here? "

Chen Han quickly waved his hand, "Please keep your voice down, we are enjoying ourselves with the people, we don't want to take too much advantage, and we don't want to make the people feel uncomfortable.

Just sit down and say, sit down and I’ll talk to you about something. "

The boss was honest, but not stupid. He knew that it was not easy for someone to sit and chat with Chen Han and eat together. He sat on the chair with restraint and said: "My dear friend, just ask if you have anything to say. I will tell you everything I know."

There are also cheap grains constantly shipped from the south.

Everyone is miserable. We don’t have much money, so it would be nice to have enough to eat.

All kinds of logistics trade become more and more frequent, and the cost becomes lower and lower.

In fact, there are many people eating here on weekdays.

As food became cheaper and taxes became lower, commerce became more developed.

Especially in the live sheep business, the meat is very cheap. A sheep in the capital costs three taels of silver, but you can buy one for one tael of silver over there.

Including the cost of transporting it, it's about one tael and a half silver. If I sell a sheep, I can make at least half of it.

Although my restaurant is not big, it consumes three or four sheep every day. I earn four or five taels of silver a day, which means I have an income of fifty or sixty taels a year.

One tael of silver a year can be enough for a family of five to live a good life, let alone five or sixty taels of silver.

First, most people in Ming Dynasty are now wealthy.

In the past, we people had never seen any big scenes in the countryside.

After coming to the city, there was this restaurant. Although we had to pay a lot of taxes every month, it was much less than what we made.

After your reform, all seven members of my family came out, and we don’t care about the little land tax we paid.

I heard that several large markets have been built in Datong, Shanxi, and many Tatars from the north also come to our Datong to do business.

Therefore, with one increase and one decrease, ordinary people will naturally have spare money on their hands.

Our family treats you like an ancestor every day. "

Oh my god, benefactor, you don’t know that we couldn’t even think about it before.

We no longer have to work in the fields all day long.

But in the years since your reform, the treasure money in the hands of ordinary people has become more valuable day by day.

And look at our mutton, the way you introduced us before,

Later, we directly contacted businessmen in the northwest Shanxi area.

In the beginning, a sheep cost more than ten taels of silver, but it is different now. After we built a cement road from Beijing to Datong, Shanxi, we saved a lot of money on the road.

Chen Han smiled and said, "Your restaurant has been open for half a year. How is the income?"

The boss was very proud when he heard this: "My dear benefactor, with the recipe you gave me and the way you pointed me out, you help us build this restaurant and start a business.

That's really hot. Don't look at it. Today is a grand celebration to celebrate the birth of your son. Everyone has come to the capital.

Chen Han laughed loudly after hearing this. After Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao and the others listened, although they seemed to be just talking about business,

But they understand very well that the most important thing is to advance in two aspects.

Eat out, go shopping, play, invest, it’s all here.

Especially this mutton, which was transported thousands of miles from the Shanxi area and was still alive after being transported.

In the past, if you wanted to go there, you would have to walk for two or three months to get there. But now, it takes about half a month to reach the capital from Shanxi.

The money I earned from delivering sheep back and forth was enough to make several trips in the past.

A large amount of mutton was transported from the north.

In the past, eating mutton was a very luxurious treat.

But it’s different now. Now it can enter thousands of households.

Zhu Biao said at this time: "There are few people in Ming Dynasty who eat pork, but this mutton should originally be something that only the upper class can eat.

Nowadays, ordinary people can actually eat it. "

The restaurant owner said: "Isn't it right? We poor people used to dare to do such good things, but now we can afford it. This is all the credit of our benefactor."

Chen Han does know that the reason why pork is not popular now.

Because the quality of local pork is relatively fishy, ​​and there are not so many spices and auxiliary ingredients such as chili peppers.

So few people can make pork delicious.

Even though Su Dongpo had already made Su Dongpo meat in the Northern Song Dynasty,

But to be honest, it is far from the level where pork can be eaten now.

Furthermore, because the royal surname of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu, the government did not allow people to eat pork.

The only things that can be eaten are white meat, such as chicken, duck, and occasionally beef.

Being able to eat mutton now is indeed a blessing for the people.

Chen Han waved his hand to let the boss leave, and then said, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, you have also seen how important transportation is to a country.

It not only solves the transportation problem, but also can effectively change the way people eat, drink and eat.

Especially now that our people in the Ming Dynasty are rich and can eat mutton from Mongolia,

This alone will help the Mongolians sell a large amount of mutton to us.

And we sell them pots, pans and other daily necessities in large quantities,

With friendly exchanges between the two tribes, there is no need to fight or kill each other anymore.

Even if they encounter a freezing period, we can definitely sell food to them.

Of course, these are all expedient measures. What we have to do is to build the city step by step.

Using our strong economic strength to hold the Mongols in the north so that they can no longer move is what we should do. This is the way out for our Ming Dynasty in the future.

Back to the question we want to talk about now. The cement road is already so good. If the steam engine is launched, the transportation of our Ming Dynasty will change even more.

The boss also said just now that they consume three to four sheep here every day, and each sheep is transported from Datong. In the past, it took three or four months to transport sheep from Datong, but now it only takes half a day. months.

And if you use our steam engine, although the speed is not fast in the early stage, you don't need to rest like a horse. You can just burn coal, and the distance can be reduced by more than half.

What kind of scene will it be at that time? It will be one. If there is a war in Peiping, it will only take about two days to transport grain, grass and soldiers from the capital to Peiping.

What kind of scene that is, old man, think about it. "

Zhu Yuanzhang's hands shaking the mutton.

After the cement road was built, Zhu Yuanzhang already thought it might be a heavenly road.

Unexpectedly, Chen Han actually created an even more powerful road - a railway steam train.

He couldn't even think about these things...

(End of this chapter)