Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 355 Beautiful Picture Scroll (Part [-])
Chapter 358 Beautiful Scroll

The yamen servant brought Xie An, Xiao Jing and other scholars to an inspection site.

The main purpose here is to check whether there are infectious diseases. The infectious disease medicine in this period is not perfect.

What Wei Guo can do now is to ask those doctors who are not very skilled in medicine to see if there are any patients with skin ulcers and respiratory diseases among these refugees.Checking these scholars is faster.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and no matter how poor the scholars are, they are better than ordinary people. Respecting scholars is a common phenomenon in this era. a handful.

These more than 30 scholars are in good spirits. Although most of the Confucian shirts are worn out, they are finally clean.

The yamen servant looked at Xie An and the others, and said with a smile: "Gentlemen, wait a moment, it will be ready soon!"

A helper came over with a stack of clothes, and said to the crowd, "Gentlemen, please choose your clothes!"

Xie An laughed and said, "I don't have any money."

The helper said: "It doesn't need money, it's free. Your Majesty has a decree that all local governments must treat the scholars who enter Wei State kindly. As long as the scholars who enter the country are resettled and rescued, they can get two sets of clothes for free."

Xiao Jing saw that the clothes sent up were all made of fine linen, and the workmanship was also very fine. If it was in the Jin Dynasty, this set of ready-made clothes would probably cost tens of thousands of dollars.

The Xiao family in Lanling is not a wealthy family. Even if he owns five or six thousand acres of land, his annual income is only three or four million yuan. The money needs to feed hundreds of people in the family. When divided, the per capita income is not too much.

Even for the direct descendants of the Xiao family, the yearly clothing is only [-] to [-] yuan.It's not bad to be able to wear fine linen. As for silk and brocade, only the children of the direct line can have the benefits.

What surprised Xiao Jing even more was that the two sets of ready-made clothes not only included outer shirts but also underwear, shoes, hats, and socks.

However, what Xiao actually didn't know was that ever since Ran Ming founded the Huaxia Business Alliance, Wei Guo had used the integrated production method of the assembly line to break the original backward production mode of the family workshop and greatly reduce the production cost.

Now the production cost of all industries in Wei State is less than 150% of the original, and some have even dropped to less than [-]%.Just like ready-made clothes, the cost of machine-woven cloth is only [-] yuan, and the cost of making ready-made clothes is only about five or six hundred yuan. In addition to the sales benefits of transportation, civilian clothes like this only sell for about a thousand yuan.

Holding the distributed clothes in his hands, Xie An felt heavy in his heart, and secretly said, "Ran Min is really willing to spend money to win over scholars!"

Xie An made a careful calculation in his mind, if their meals today would have cost around six or seven hundred renminbi in the Jin Dynasty, plus the expensive green tea, a meal would probably cost [-] renminbi.Including clothes, it is enough to feed five soldiers for half a year.

Then Xie An and the others were taken by the yamen servants and began to enter the bathhouse one after another to take a bath, get a haircut, and finally put on new clothes.There is a saying that people depend on clothing, and Buddha depends on gold clothing.

Xie An, who had changed into the white Confucian shirt under the moon, looked handsome and extraordinary.Especially the temperament revealed on the body, people dare not take it lightly.

Xie An walked out of the square and saw those refugees.He was taken aback for a moment, and almost all of these refugees put on new clothes.Of course, the texture of the clothes of the common people is much worse than that of the scholars, and they are all made of blue-gray burlap.Most of these refugees used to be naked, but now they seem to be in good shape.What makes Xie An dumbfounded is that the clothes of these refugees are printed with words.

"Fang Ji Scissors is the best in the world!"

"Daiji warehouse is of high quality and low price."

"Niu Kee farming implements are strong and durable."

"Liu's credit with small profit discount."

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Xie An was stunned for a long time, looking at the beaming faces of the people, he thought to himself: "How dare these merchants from the Wei Kingdom actually target the refugees with their advertisements?"

Xiao Jing smiled and said: "Now I understand, I think these new clothes may not be issued by the court of Wei State, but sponsored by those merchants."

"Businessmen are chasing profit, how can they be so benevolent?" Xie An obviously couldn't believe it: "Even if it's advertising, but these people can't read, what's the use of it!"

Xiao Jing said: "It doesn't matter if the refugees are illiterate, there will always be people who can read and write. After these refugees enter Wei, they will be assigned to the original household registration, which is said to be naturalized. Those who perform well will be converted to nationality. Enjoy national treatment. They will definitely work hard and move around. As long as people move around, the effect of this advertisement can be displayed. Merchants and scholars from other places will interpret these advertisements and pass them on word of mouth. And the ad went out."

In fact, Xiao Jing's guess was right. Most of these clothes were donated by merchants for free.In this era, the status of merchants is very low, even inferior to free people.No matter how rich they are politically, they have no status.However, Ran Ming formed the Huaxia Business Alliance to give the merchants a hope that their children can enter the academy founded by Ran Ming to study, and promised that after they complete their studies in the future, they will have the opportunity to become officials in the future.

This offer can be said to be the most exciting for merchants.

Ran Ming is now the first and only dignitary in the world who does not treat merchants with discrimination.These merchants gradually formed an interest alliance with Ran Ming.

They want benefits from Ran Ming, especially political benefits.Ran Ming drew a big cake for them when he founded the business alliance, and these merchants had such thoughts.

They support Ran Ming, even if they are at a loss, they must support Ran Ming's political actions.Because these predators who are ups and downs in the business world all want to imitate Lu Buwei.

Naturally, after Ran Ming mediated, Ran Min reached a consensus with the Shangmeng.Those who have made outstanding contributions in benefiting the society can enjoy political privileges such as not paying homage to officials.The businessmen went crazy at once, they were very rich, especially during the period of war and turmoil, they even let the country lose money.But no matter how rich they are, they still want to gain the respect of the world. When an opportunity arises, don't they seize it?

In this way, in Wei's move to attract refugees.Merchants big and small have contributed their strength.

Ran Min also fulfilled his promise.

Zhang Xun, who donated 30 shi of grain, 8000 sets of ready-made clothes and 20 million yuan in the first batch of free aid to Wei State, won the title of Ma Yibo.Wang Cheng, who was also less powerful, paid [-] shi of grain and [-] sets of farming tools to seal a baron of Qi County.There is no need to publicize the following matters. The businessmen are vying to contribute, as if you don't want me to pay, and I'm in a hurry with you.

At this time, the children who had just put on new clothes cheered, and they shouted: "I have new clothes, I have clothes!"

A little girl about three or four years old just took a bath and changed into new clothes. She said excitedly: "Mother, do you think Niuniu has become more beautiful?"

The mother looked at her daughter with pity, feeling that she had treated the child badly.Since the child was born, I haven't added a new dress to her.She never thought that the child's first new clothes would be obtained at this time.Although it was burlap, in the past, only five buckets of grain could buy a piece of coarse cloth, but she was not willing to buy it.

"Of course Niuniu is beautiful, Niuniu is the most beautiful." Mother's eyes were a little moist.

At this moment, a yamen servant said: "Here are your quilts and a change of clothes. Give me your rags!"

My mother was a little bit reluctant, and there were two clothes in the package, which had only been worn for five years.Because of her fear of the government, she timidly said: "This dress can still be worn!"

The yamen servant said: "I can't take it anymore. If you bring these things into the villages and towns, it will easily cause plague, so you must burn them!"

"Burn it!" The young mother still had a lot of reluctance in her words.

The yamen servant said: "What are you afraid of? The old ones won't go, and the new ones won't come. You work hard, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing in our country of Wei."

Such scenes were staged one after another, piles of tattered clothes were piled together, doused with kerosene, and then set ablaze.

In the raging fire, there were faint cries.

Xie An felt a little uncomfortable. Even in the good harvest year of Jin State, the life of the common people was still very difficult. When the grain harvest was good, the grain merchants would try their best to lower the price. Their harvest was not even as good as when the harvest was not good. Said to get dressed.It was the little fish distributed to the refugees just now. I'm afraid it was the first time for many people to eat fish in their lives.

Some refugees started queuing up to get their naturalized household registration, which is their ID card.

By virtue of naturalization, they can first be protected by the army of the Great Wei State, and their property and lives are guaranteed.What's more, they got the hope of life.

Of course, Xie An would not really be an official, he wanted to continue watching.

Xie An sneaked away while the yamen servants were not paying attention, and left the refugee resettlement site.Just arrived at the meeting point.Xie Yan said in disbelief: "Father, why did you go out and change into a new dress? I remember you didn't bring any money when you left just now!"

Xie An tugged at the new clothes, the clothes fit very well, especially the color of Moonlight White, which he liked very much.

Xie An laughed and said, "The clothes don't cost anything, they were given away for free. Not only did I earn two sets of clothes for my father, but I also ate a free meal."

After a while, Xie Lang and Chu Xian also came back.

Xie An started on the road again.

Xie An and the others continued westward along the official road, but after walking for half an hour, they came across a new town filled with the fragrance of soil.Spring has just started, and the frost has not completely melted.But the people here are working in full swing.

This should be a village that has just been built and has only a rudimentary form. Looking at the outer outline, it looks like there are more than 100 households. Women and mud men are squatting on the roof covered with thatch.Although it is only a thatched roof, it can also shelter from wind and rain, and the most important thing is that it is cheap.

The children were not idle either, they sang moving songs and ran fast, some collected firewood, and some helped the adults carry water.

All the refugees had sunny smiles on their faces.

An old man with all his teeth missing was holding a stone mill at the entrance of the village, smiling and looking at the busy people.This is a very beautiful picture, a very harmonious scene.

(End of this chapter)