Chapter Seventy-Three: The People of Great Qin, Heavily Ridden with Debts (I)
γ "Repair the road, get up and repair the road!" "The old man who has little sleep, as soon as the first rooster crows, is playing drums in the cooperative to wake up the sleeping people. An old man who can no longer work can still contribute to the cooperative in this way, the old man cherishes this job very much, has been meticulous and dutiful, ignoring the murderous eyes of the newly married young people in the village.
"Fourth grandfather, don't you sleep at night?" Yiwei complained to the young man.
"What is the matter of sleeping, the rooster is crowing, the rooster crows is the tradition of our village, the pavilion chief passed down the word some time ago, the new rules of Huaxia Building, all the cooperatives that have not repaired the road, the purchase price is reduced by one percent for the transportation cost of Huaxia Building. Do you know how much it costs to reduce our cooperative, which is 100 taels of silver? The old man said indignantly, "If you want to be rich, have more children and build more roads." The elders of several villages have already discussed that before the autumn harvest this year, the road from the cooperative to the county seat should be repaired no matter what. β
The old man often sighs: "Now young people are getting lazier and lazier, the older generation smells the chicken and dances, and the fine tradition of sunset and hard work, how can the young people of this generation not see it, now they have to play the drum and scream when they get up, and they have to rest and be lazy to eat Chinese food at noon. β
The old man is a loyal supporter of the cooperative, and a few years ago, at his age, he would die in his sleep on a winter night that could not stay up, which is a common way for the elderly in the village to die. Unexpectedly, in the past few years, not only did he not die, but he was fed and clothed in the cooperative every day, and he still grew meat. When I started to join the cooperative, I was constricted and only ate three minutes full, drank more water when I was hungry, and left food for the offspring and dolls in the village, which is a tradition that all the old people in the village have been silently adhering to for a long time, leaving food and the chance of survival to the young people and children, especially in the period of lack of food.
Until the village cooperative's production increased year by year, more and more grain was produced, and six or seven more granaries were built. Flocks of chickens and ducks are raised, hundreds of eggs are laid every day, and dozens of pigs are kept in captivity, all of which eat grains that they were reluctant to eat before. I hated and hated it, and I found a lot of young theories to save food, they verbally agreed, but they didn't care about it in their hearts, and there were still a lot of leftovers every day. The bears in the village who worry the elderly the most eat eggs and only eat egg yolks, throw egg whites, eat chicken legs, eat half, and throw chicken bones with meat. "I educated them by myself, and I was told by the little young couple that the fourth grandfather frightened their baby. β
"What can I do, I can only eat it silently, those egg white chicken thighs thrown by the bear children can't be cheap for those pigs. The old man thought silently, and before he knew it, he had eaten fat this year. Looking at the addition of more than a dozen babies in the village this year, the old man was very worried that there would always be a day when his stomach could not eat.
"Dad, my dear father, why are you eating leftovers in the co-op cafeteria again. Today, your son has exchanged two large pig's trotters for labor, and your granddaughter-in-law has already cooked them at home, so she will be waiting for you. The middle-aged man is very helpless about his father, who is getting more and more strange and likes to eat leftovers in the cafeteria, and he thinks he has abused his father.
Today, I used ten points of work to exchange pig's trotters, and today the commune killed 2 pigs in order to celebrate the road repair to the county seat, and hundreds of people were robbing.
"Trotters, hiccup. The old man was too full in the cooperative's cafeteria and hiccuped, "Why didn't you say it earlier!" Touching his stomach that had already been eaten, a faint sadness.
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"Old Zengtou, this year's harvest! You have nearly 10,000 catties."
"Your village is not bad. I heard that the money earned by the cloth in your village last year has already repaid the loan for Huaxia Building, and you should make a lot of money this year," Lao Zeng said.
"I think so too," Lao Chen said, "Last year, the Nine Emperor Princes conscripted three million strong men from the Six Kingdoms to build a royal palace for the royal families of the Six Kingdoms living in Xianyang.
In order to better build and restore the palace of the six kings and give the three million strong men of the six countries to practice, the prince demolished most of the old buildings of Xianyang Palace and Xianyang City. It was rebuilt with the bricks and tiles of Huaxia Tower, and it is said that once in and out, the Nine Emperors earned a net of 100,000 gold from the treasury. I went to Xianyang some time ago to import sea fish, and I looked at it, Xianyang Palace no longer has the momentum of the king when he was there, and I don't know how to deal with this cheating father's son when the king comes back. Then he looked around, and secretly whispered in Lao Zengtou's ear: "According to Xianyang rumors, the Nine Emperor Princes have even moved the gold and silver in His Majesty's inner treasury. β
"Hiccup, hiccup...... Hiccup" Lao Zeng heard this amazing news, and hiccups in disbelief. "Alas, let's be the Nine Emperor Princes of the Prison Country......" Lao Zengtou thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a word to describe it. euphemistically: "I just love money a little, but I'm actually still a good prince." At least it's good for us, we have food and clothing. The conversation changed, "Will he send us real money this year?" It won't be the same as last year's money, but this year is making money, and last year's loans were paid off. Lao Zeng said worriedly.
"It should be, how much money does Your Majesty have in the inner treasury, and a casual dew point is enough to pay for us and others," Lao Chen said unconfidently, and suddenly "Look, there are big boxes drawn by cars and horses on the track road from Xianyang." Lao Chen Tou said excitedly: "I'm sure it must be filled with gold and silver from Huaxia Building." If not, I don't want your son's bride price for marrying my daughter. β
In Lao Chen's affirmative eyes, the guys in Huaxia Building took out a book from it.
Lao Zeng seized the opportunity, looked at Lao Chen with both eyes, and grabbed Lao Chen's hand sleeve: "Lao Chen, you can talk about it." β
Lao Chen: "............" Lao Chen regretted what he said just now. In the end, although Lao Chen Tou did not want a bride price, in order to embarrass Lao Zengtou, he needed Lao Zeng's family to build a set of brick houses in Xianyang City before he was willing to marry his daughter.
A few years later, the mothers-in-law saw the comfort of this brick house. As soon as the custom opened, it spread in Qindi, and the daughter-in-law needed to build a new set of brick houses. Eighty percent of this is the effect of Ying Zicheng, so after completing the renovation of the houses in the old city of Xianyang, the strong men of the Six Kingdoms of the Six Kings Palace were transferred to the project of building houses for various cooperatives in Qindi.
Among them, the people who served in the six countries fully helped each other with the heads of Qin and Qian, and removed and bridged the gap. Qin Min even showed the operation mode of cooperation to the people of the six countries, and the strong men of the six countries who were forced to serve passed the cooperative model to their hometowns, and learned the ability to build new houses, using cement, bricks and tiles, and being an expert in repairing houses and roads.
Qindi, which became rich first, became the world of masons and craftsmen in the six countries, and set up hundreds of contractors to build standard small buildings for one cooperative after another. As for the money, of course, it is still the cooperatives that take out loans from Yingzicheng Huaxia Bank.
This is not the main reason for Qin Min's high debts. The main reasons are as follows:
"Everyone, come and take a look, many people's children are in the textile factory in Huaxia Building, learning the pinyin alphabet. These are the Nine Emperors of our own family, who have privately printed them from the royal collection and sold them to you. Do you know what this is, the Taoist classic "Tao Te Ching", Lao Tzu is sanctified by this, it is annotated with pinyin, children who have learned pinyin can read it, and today it is only a gold. The guy in Huaxia Building said.
"It's so expensive" "Is this true?" The Qin people below commented.
"The dignified prince of Qin, how could he deceive you. The guy said indignantly: "There are still too expensive, this kind of book thing, is it something that you can touch, the children of the hundred families are holy things, and you are still too expensive, now it is just our host Nine Emperor Princes to supervise the country, otherwise how can you wait for the opportunity." Wait for His Majesty to come back............. β
"These handwriting are different," one Qin Min found the problem.
"Do you know what this book is," "Sun Wu, the sage of the military family, wrote "The Art of War", there are in the homes of the villagers who are serving in the military, it is recommended to buy a copy, this is the book of the soldiers, the book of the marquis, and today it is only one gold. β
The Confucian holy book "Analects" only needs one gold today. "Mencius" 500 hundred taels of silver, "Mojia Handicrafts" 24 copies, this book is different, as long as you learn one of them, you will not worry about your life, the doctor's "Five Fowl Opera" is now the only one that does not need the essence of a hundred schools, suitable for everyone's martial arts exercises, "Han Feizi", "LΓΌ's Spring and Autumn", "Zhuangzi" ............"
The quantity is limited, first buy first served, miss this time, wait for His Majesty to return. In your life, and even in the future, countless children and grandchildren will not have this opportunity to contact, and those who do not have enough money can take credit to Huaxialou. "Folks, what are you waiting for, after obtaining such books, the blessing will last for generations to come, the opportunity is at this time, emptying the collection of books of the royal family of Daqin education, leaving it to the children and grandchildren, and missing one is a major loss to the descendants of the future. We Huaxia Building do our best to provide loans for the villagers, so that the villagers do not miss a book. β
The Qin people who came to sell agricultural products to Huaxia Lou heard that the royal family had a book collection, and Huaxia Lou offered a loan. I have never seen books, but Qin Min, who knows the importance of books, flocked to it, although many names they don't know, but this book is a book that can be heirlooms, and one less is a loss, as for this full set of nearly a hundred books, the loan required is astronomical for them, and it is not within the scope of their consideration, it is a big deal to lose Huaxialou in this life, and it is worth it for future generations.
The guy stood on the stage and cried bloody. "Folks, don't leave out a copy. "As a guy who has been working in Xianyang for many years, he has always known that Huaxialou has earned a lot of money from the villagers, and it is dozens of times and dozens of times the earnest. But this time, when Huaxialou bought books, even if he knew whether the Nine Emperor Princes of his own family were earning money from the villagers, or earning excessively, he was still full of gratitude.
"Don't leave a copy out. It was his heart.
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