The eldest grandmother couldn't help but interject and asked, "How did those people pass?" If this is too late, it will be too late, and if it is pulled by a horse-drawn carriage, this horse-drawn carriage is a large expense. ”

Regarding this, Erya does not deny that there is such a thing in her original world. The cotton production area is somewhere in Xinjiang, and there are local and military regions. Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a shortage of cotton pickers, so every year migrant workers from Sichuan, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places are recruited early to pick cotton, and the military is picked up by military special cars. The local people who have heard that they are doing an excellent job can be reimbursed for two-way air tickets and train tickets, including sleepers. The rest of the personnel are all given to buy return tickets, and the ticket fees are all paid by the cotton landlords.

Not to mention these, just talking about the income of their migrant workers, in 40 days, the highest reaches more than 12,000, and the lowest is 78,000, and their wages are calculated by picking a pound of cotton and a piece of five, more work and more reward!

Erya thinks about it, if she grows cotton on a large scale, she can only do it according to the methods of Xinjiang cotton producing areas, but she has more advantages. This is because in this era there are generally low incomes, but prices are high and there are few jobs. After the busy farming, the peasants basically stayed at home and ate idle meals. There is a part-time job that can earn money to do, and no matter how much money is earned, three full meals a day can attract them very much, not to mention that there are high wages to be paid!?

Thinking about it this way, she is more steady, and she no longer worries about the manpower to pick cotton next year. It's nothing more than spending a little more money!

She replied to the grandmother with a smile: "Grandma, this little money is all small money." That's a lot of money when we can earn it back. We can't eat meat, and we don't have bones to be gnawed, isn't this authentic! ”

The eldest grandmother slapped the second girl in disgust. smiled: "You girl, don't I feel sorry for your money!" You say I'm not authentic, I'm really worrying! ”

Erya pretended to be in pain and rubbed her shoulders twice, and then talked to the big seriously: "Big milk, you have nothing to talk to others now, just say that our family will invite someone to pick cotton in the north next year." Eat and live. At least one meat dish a day, three meals a day are absolutely full. Pick a pound of cotton for two pennies, the more expert in picking cotton, the better. There are additional prizes for the top three. Male or female, between the ages of 45 and 13. It takes about 40 days to pick cotton there, and about two months and ten years to go back and forth. If anyone wants to do it, or if they want to recommend their relatives, let them come and report in advance to register. When the first comes, priority will be given. ”

The big were stunned when they heard this. Straight lips, "Tut! I'm the first one, you're too generous, aren't you? A pound of cotton skin is only sold for 25 yuan, and two pounds of cotton with cottonseeds are dried in the sun to remove cottonseeds and impurities, and it is estimated that it is a little more than a pound of cotton skin. Excluding their wages, their livelihoods, their round-trip car expenses, and the cost of lodging and eating on the road, how much do you think is left? ”

Erya is so excited to see the big. Hurriedly reassured: "Big, don't worry! Hold your horses! You listen to me and calculate with you; You see. We have more and more horses, and they don't need that much to run a business. The rest of the horses at home are also raised for nothing, so I thought about preparing a few more carriages, we have horses and carts in our own house, and when the time comes, we only need to hire a few coachmen, but it will not cost much to hire coachmen. As for food and drink on the road, we can bring enough food and meat from home. Accomodation too! In fact, it doesn't cost much, and we don't want such a good room, just ordinary housing. Some inns also have very cheap Chase shops, a room can accommodate more than a dozen people, and a night is only a few hundred dollars. Do the math, that's a lot of savings, right? We are all people who live our lives, how can we waste money?! Isn't it?! ”

The eldest grandmother listened to Erya's calculations, but it was okay, and she didn't pay as much as she imagined. She settled down and began to think about how to spread the news to others.

Seeing that they were only concerned about discussing matters for themselves, the grandfather ignored him, so he snorted angrily and said, "What if there is a woman here, what if the road is safe?" If something happens, you're going to die! ”

Erya hurriedly replied to Grandpa: "It's okay!" Didn't we go to the grassland with Xiaohu and them just in time! It's just right to ask them to wait for us for a few days and come back together when we come back. ”

Grandpa said "Hmm! After a while, he stopped talking. Erya thought that grandpa didn't speak, so she wanted to continue to talk to the big grandmother about recruitment, but she hadn't opened her mouth yet, and grandpa asked something else: "Girl!" What do you tell your third uncle to do? He hasn't come back yet, and Guangguang came back with a letter and said that what you are looking for has eyebrows, what do you want? ”

When Erya heard this, she exclaimed in surprise: "Ah! It's true? Where is the third uncle's letter? Let me see! ”

The big grandmother replied, "It's been put away by your uncle, and when your uncle comes back, he will bring it to you." ”

I couldn't see the letter at this time, and I didn't know what the third uncle said. When I answered my grandfather, I had to tell the whole thing: "I asked the third uncle to help inquire about a lot of things, I want to ask if there is Siamese rubber, whether there is overseas glass, whether there are overseas clocks, whether there are all kinds of shiny gemstones, whether there are transparent resins, oops!" There are so many things, I can't remember so much now! ”

There is another thing that Er Ya didn't dare to say explicitly is the overseas musket, which is called a musket here. If you are serious, the musket and the musket are actually two different things. The fire gun is to put the fuse into the small eye of the fire gun first, and then fill it with a little bit of gunpowder, and then gently tamp it with a wooden stick. When it is time to use it, light the exposed fuse, and the gunpowder will be ejected because of the rapid combustion, in fact, the power of hurting people is not great at all, but the sound is quite penetrating. And the Western musket, which is really a bullet in it, once fired, the sound is not loud, and the power of hurting people is beyond all bows and arrows. Because this thing seems to be a controlled weapon in any era, Er Ya didn't dare to mention it in front of his grandfather, lest his old man's heart couldn't bear it.

Grandpa Tai's eyes straightened when he heard this, and he asked in a daze, "Where did you know these things?" ”

"I heard it when I was in the provincial capital, when I listened to the small talk of those people in the dart bureau. I listened to those things that seemed to be very useful, so I asked the third uncle to inquire, and if there were, we would exchange them with others.

Don't look at the many things we have here that are not valuable, but when they get to other people, they are worth a hundred times. Those things are the same in other people's homes, and they are not worth much in their house, but when they come to us, they are like precious treasures, and they are admired. Erya didn't answer Grandpa's questions too much, but emphasized that it was beneficial for her family to get those things.

As long as Grandpa Tai hears something that is beneficial to his family, he will be full of interest, and where do you want to ask for anything else!

After only stopping for a while, Grandpa Tai chased after him and asked about overseas things: "Then what you said, since it is so good!" Why is it that Shoucheng has never been seen and brought back to sell? ”

Er Ya smiled: "Grandpa, what you said is too easy. As soon as those overseas merchant ships arrived at the port, all the goods were covered by the big merchants who specialized in selling overseas goods and the local local snakes.

If the third uncle wants to sell overseas goods, he can only take it from those big merchants and the local snakes there, this change of hands is a high price, and he can't make a few dollars when he comes back, and he is still worried about tossing all the way, so why bother! I'm in charge of not letting them take the goods from those skin-pickers.

When the conditions are ripe, I plan to ask my family to bring goods from overseas merchant ships, and only our family can ask for the goods, and it is useless for others to ask for them, so that no one will compete with us or do anything to stab us in the back. When those overseas merchant ships come back the second time, we can privately ask them to bring us some other goods. In this way, we can get cheap goods, not to mention, but also diversify. Isn't it better to get the most complete goods for the least amount of money?! ”

After Er Ya finished speaking, he looked at Grandpa Tai with a little smug and smiled, and Grandpa Tai glared at him with white eyes. "Humph!" He said: "As far as you are a ghost, everything that comes to you has to go around a few times." What people can do in three days may not be able to do well in three years in your hands! ”

Erya screamed: "Grandpa, it's so exaggerated not to take you to wronged people so much." I'm not looking for safety, trying to make money quietly, and develop peacefully! Think about it, if the third uncle is so far away from us by the sea, because he robs other people's business and blocks other people's way, he is remembered by the wicked person, and it is good to maliciously make things difficult or make things bad behind his back, if people come to be ruthless, how can the third uncle, who doesn't even have a helper, parry? ”

As soon as Grandpa Tai thought of the danger that his grandson might encounter, he shivered all over, and suddenly complained to Erya angrily: "Okay! I know your kindness, don't scare me here, old man, I'm old, I can't stand your scare! ”

The second girl touched her nose, laughed with her, and grimaced at her happy big. The big milk was about to say something, and when she was relieving Erya, the uncle who thought it would take a while to come back came back.

Er Ya and the big stood up at the same time and greeted the uncle into the door. The big milk asked the uncle: "Didn't you say that you would mediate disputes!" Why did you come back so soon? ”

The uncle nodded to the second girl as a greeting, and replied to the big milk: "It's not a big deal, it's just that when the brothers robbed each other, the eldest used more cows, and the second child felt that he had suffered a loss. I asked the boss to compensate the old man for twenty or thirty dollars, and the matter was settled. It's simple! ”

The big are very proud to hear that their old man is so capable. Mei Zizi ran to the kitchen, brought a basin of water out, and washed his face and hands for the old man. She followed the maid as if she were on the side, waiting for the old man to finish washing and then taking back the cloth towel and pouring water.

After the uncle finished washing, he did it next to his father in the hall, and the second girl talked about coming to him today. (To be continued......)