Chapter 524 [Das Kapital Seven]
Compared with the world as mentioned by the king and father and the tutor, Ying Si is most interested in the "Horn Ox Competition" outside Wuyuan City; the protagonist of the competition is the buffalo, and every autumn plowing will lead the strongest bulls, and the competition will be held under the command of the elders of the clan. The buffalo selected into the top three can be bragged about in the previous year, while the owner of the cow can get the best green seedlings of the year and seek a good harvest in the coming year. ▲∴,
Along the way, I heard Aunt Mei Zi tell the story of this horned bull competition, but why did I not see the legendary horned bull competition here? Ying Si was disappointed and suddenly felt that any moving legend was just a beautiful bubble, and it could not be done in real life; just like the story told by the Grand Tutor to him that lasted more than a thousand nights, it sounded nice, but it didn't look real!
In fact, Wu and Yue are similar to Chu. Because of the warm climate, the water and soil are abundant, rice that can be grown year-round. It is the hometown of fish and rice in this era. In theory, even if it encounters natural disasters, it is much better than Shandong countries and Lao Qin, which only ripens in a year. This horned ox competition is the most representative activity between Wu and Yue. Mei Zi did not talk nonsense in front of children.
This is the terrible economic law. Even the collapse of the local economy will bring disaster to all walks of life. For farmers who grow rice, even if they use Baidong's Quyuan Peach Province to work hard, they have no modern fertilizers available, and the annual output is only 60 dan. In addition to paying land rent and agricultural tax, they also have to pay a large amount of money for purchasing green seedlings, and then sell some of the necessary oil, salt and silk. In this way, even if they don't encounter natural disasters, they will only be able to survive the day. Fortunately, if there is a hurricane at the sea, they will probably go hungry. This is the biggest disadvantage of relying on the "industrial" city. Wuyuan is
Four-part labor, three-part business, three-part agriculture. Seventy-percent of the people have to rely on 30% of farmers to farm and harvest to survive. In the past, when Wuyuan was prosperous, the prices of grain were quite high, and nearby farmers could barely support it. Now that industry and commerce have suffered heavy losses, the prices of grain are naturally lowered. The hard-working grain cannot be sold at a good price. However, the government has to solve the problem of most people's food, so it becomes that farmers are following the commodity economy when they are sold privately, but they are bound by the "planned economy". They can't live this life, and it's getting harder and harder. But no matter how hard it is, people are not willing to leave their hometowns and would rather endure it back to back.
Mei Zi has not returned for many years and her family has been in decline. Sang Wazi brought a group of Qin's "big masters" and the Bai family Jingzhuang temporarily acted as bricklayers. He quickly packed up three ancestral houses, one for the Mei Zi girl and Zhong Wuyan, one for Bai Dong's living, one for Xiao Yingsi, and the rest built dozens of tents near the three ancestral houses. From a distance, it looked a bit like a large army. However, the sound of reading aloud of Mei Zi girl playing silk and bamboo and Xiao Yingsi was heard from time to time in the ancestral house. No matter how you look, how you don't match it. Fortunately, Zhong Wuyan had already dispersed the three or four hundred minions under her, otherwise the taste would be worse.
Xiao Yingsi lived a comfortable journey, especially when he was the first place in Qi State, he was even more fragile and beautiful. The first place had a beautiful dress and a beautiful food, snow and moon, and the first place had a delicate little boy. Aunt Mei Zi's delicate thighs had passed. She was worried about how to spend money on the blade, which made the Taifu admire her. When it comes to eating and drinking, Bai Dong did not feel wronged at all. But since he came to Wuyuan, the Taifu suddenly stopped spending money. While tightening the "money root", he was still from the closest distance.
The Bai Family Trading Base mobilized a large amount of silver coins here. It wasn’t it that it would be possible to solve Wuyuan’s problem without spending a copper coin. Is the Taifu going to break his promise and lose to that aunt Zhong Wuyan? Thinking about Xiao Yingsi was extremely gloating, but it was difficult to laugh happily. Every day, I picked up the big black bowl and saw the rough rice rice that was neither yellow nor black and black and salt radish placed on the rice rice. Yingsi wanted to cry. People wanted to eat wheat cakes, desserts, and stewed with fat sheep...
I held a big bowl and went to find the eunuch of Qingong. It was good that there was no meat or fat on the rice. Now the prince didn't pick any more. Even the lard pieces that I didn't want to look at in the past could be eaten with relish. But it was said that all the good things were eaten on the road, and all the remaining ones were distributed to the poor villagers nearby, and now there was no lard. The poor little guy had lie quietly under the window of Baidong, smelling the aroma of mutton floating out of it, and tears fell down. Where can I be like this in the world? I eat and drink deliciously, but my poor disciples chew salt and radish sticks every day. Is there any reason for this? People want to tell the king and father! But the king and father will still look at the Grand Tutor? When Ying Si thought of this, he cried even more fiercely.
"Boy, lying under the window, crying bitterly, isn't it a man's act? Come in. There are some snacks brought by Liyang. Do you eat them or not?"
The wooden window opened, and a big hand reached over Ying Si's head and patted him heavily. The little guy looked up and saw the Grand Tutor looking at him with a smile, cheering unconsciously: "Is it lard cake or chicken crisp? I want to eat it!" He crawled into the window and saw a few people sitting in the Grand Tutor's room. The head of the Grand Tutor was sitting on the top was Aunt Zhong Wuyan. Under the light and dark light, he suddenly grinned at him. The little guy shivered unconsciously, feeling that this scene was so horrible.
"The news you have received is indeed good. This time, Bai and the prince came to Wuyuan not for the national affairs. They just wanted to see this generation of refining cities that had been passed down for a hundred years, so that the prince could be trained. The day before yesterday, the doctor of the Guiwei brought me with dozens of urban workers and merchants, but I was rejected by me? This is not a book indifferent, but a matter of the world should be done by everyone. If everyone comes to find me, wouldn't he be exhausted?"
Although the several people sitting in front of Bai Dong did not look like nobles, they were not like ordinary villagers. One of them looked very familiar, as if he was a patriarch who personally welcomed them on the day he first came. When Xiao Yingsi came in, these people stood up and salute. This was the prince of Qin and a prince in the future, but no one would regard him as an ordinary child.
"I can't help you, but this girl Zhong Wuyan is also looking for you. Everyone knows Wuyan in Qi. The Zhongli family is a local clan. This girl Zhong is a hero in the tribe. Now she intends to expand in Wuyuan, just to see if you are willing to cooperate. This time, it was originally a negotiation with you and at her request that I will be here to testify. Now, with the prince of Qin, all the villagers should not have any more worries?"
Bai Dong smiled and glared at Xiao Yingsi secretly. After all, the prince of Qin could not have a look of eating. Xiao Yingsi was so scared that he swallowed the chicken crisp in his mouth in his mouth in a few bites, and gently put down the lard cake he grabbed in his hand, but he kept thinking about what the Taifu meant, to be a witness to this aunt Zhongli? What is this aunt going to do in Wuyuan? (To be continued...)
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Chapter completed!