Chapter 32: Preparing to Go
- Ten days later
Ten days, Ma Qiang's new house has been completed, this is a house with a yard, left and right wings, toilets, kitchens and other living facilities, although all are made of grass and loess, but it can be regarded as shelter from the wind and rain.
When Ma Qiang moved in, Lin Huan and the others naturally came to have a lively time, and the only tearful one was Lin Zhi, who was separated from Bai Yan.
The production base of toothpaste and toothbrushes has also been transferred from the courtyard of Lin Huan and others to Ma Qiang's house, and the staff has expanded from four to more than a dozen.
These dozen or so people are all villagers selected by Lu Qingcheng and others, or they are willing to work, or careful, or powerful, or... Good lung capacity.
How much carbon dioxide can Liu Hui spit out alone?
"Look, just take the template I made and brush it with a layer of cinnabar, so that the box will have a red pine pattern."
Ma Qiang took a toothpaste box and said to the four people who had just come to make the box.
As a later generation, Ma Qiang knows too well what packaging is, a moon cake worth less than ten yuan, after giving you a bunch of packaging, he dares to sell it to you for 500!
Since the quality of grass and wood gray water is extremely unstable, the toothpaste made by Ma Qiang is also of high quality and inferior quality, not to mention soap and soap with flower juice, which are completely two products.
Ma Qiang divided all the products into three gears, one is an ordinary wooden box, the first is painted with lacquer, and it is also equipped with pine patterns, the most high-end is not only the pattern of pine trees, but also poems such as red faces and pearls, and white jade on the lips.
"Ma Lang, are you busy?"
Lin Huan came to the outside of Ma Qiang's courtyard and shouted inside.
"Oh, it's Lizheng, wait a minute."
Ma Qiang said a few more words, and when he left the courtyard, he bowed to Lin Huan and said, "Uncle Lin, what are you looking for me?" ”
"You see, now that the 10th day has arrived, we might as well discuss going out."
Ma Qiang looked back at everyone and found that there was nothing unusual, thinking that the worry before coming was unnecessary, he did not bring any messy viruses or superbugs to this world.
"Okay, I'm a little messy here, why don't you go to Lizheng and talk about it."
"It's okay, your Uncle Yang's legs and feet are inconvenient, so it's more convenient for me to come there."
The two came to Lin Huan's courtyard together, and after a while, Lin Huan's five people arrived.
"Ma Lang, this time we are going to send the bear skins, bear bile, and other animal skins you brought to the county to sell, where the price can be higher.
Lime is sick and has to go to the county to find Dr. Li, since you want to send toothpaste and toothbrushes to the county to sell, why don't you go with you this time.
In addition, I will take the Qi Min Book to the county this time, and according to your request, I have already recorded your name in the book. We'll set off together when the time comes, and we'll go our separate ways when we get to the county. ”
In the past ten days, Ma Qiang's toothbrush and toothpaste making team has stockpiled a lot of goods and can be sold for the first time.
"Thank you Lizheng, it's just that the county town doesn't know that we are already Qi people, will it have any impact?" Ma Qiang worried.
"It's okay, you need to go to the county before going to the county seat, and I can open a place for you after I send the roster."
In order to effectively control the population, China had a system similar to the ID card of later generations from the Zhou Dynasty, and when Shang Ying changed the law, this system was enacted into law, and Shang Ying was also arrested because he did not have the talisman he formulated when he fled.
In the Han Dynasty, the Fu Festival became a passing document, whether it was an official errand or an ordinary person to do things, this kind of document was generally issued by the county officials where it was located, and it would write information such as characters.
If it is found that there is a discrepancy between the documents and the actual situation, then the person who is considered to be a conspiracy or a violation of the law will be arrested.
However, in fact, such documents will not be checked, and only at checkpoints and border towns will they be checked more tightly, just like the ID card inspection system in later generations.
"Then who will accompany me to the county seat?"
Ma Qiang didn't know all the rules of this era, and he was really worried that he would be arrested for doing something wrong.
You can't afford to hire a lawyer in this era.
"The old man leads the team, Lime is going to see a doctor, and ten more offspring will be selected."
Ma Qiang saw that Lu An was going, and he also understood that this was convenient for taking Lu Qingling to see a doctor.
"It's okay, this time, in addition to the self-use of everyone, there are more than 600 toothbrushes, more than 800 boxes of toothpaste, but now the materials are basically used up, so this time we have to buy materials and come back with adult pigs."
Toothbrushes need to use bristles, although horsetails are fine, but horses are much more expensive than pigs, and it is almost summer, when pigs are the time to moult and shed, as long as the technique is right, you can collect new bristles every two or three days.
"Lin Lizheng, I said before that I want my brother to settle accounts, and I want to take this opportunity to calculate the dividends of our future earnings."
Lin Huan and the others looked at each other, and then looked at Ma Qiang.
"It's... Is it necessary to make such a clear distinction? Lin Huan has become accustomed to the farm economic model, according to which all the income is in the village, and the village is distributed according to everyone's needs, which can be understood as primitive socialism.
However, for Ma Qiang, such a distribution model cannot invest the income in a timely manner to expand production and train soldiers in the future.
Ma Qiang has never forgotten that the troubled times are coming, and the current Taiping is just the last light of the sunset of the Han Empire.
"Li Zheng, it is necessary to calculate the sharing ratio and the expenditure method of the income in advance, even if Li Zheng and your uncles are willing to help me for free, but what about the others?"
Ma Qiang first assigned the manufacture of toothbrushes and toothpaste to his own name, and Lin Huan and the others didn't feel that there was anything wrong, after all, if there was no Ma Qiang, they wouldn't be able to make these things in another hundred years.
"Our school believes that anyone's work should be rewarded, and a Ma Xianzhe of our school has put forward a proposition, which is called distribution according to work, that is, more work, less work, less work, no work, today we will determine the distribution method, the purpose is to make everyone more active in the future to participate in the research and development, production and sales of our toothbrushes, toothpaste and even soap."
Ma Qiang unconsciously threw out the distribution according to work of Ma Zheism, which is no way, the only thing he understands when he reads science is some of Ma Zhe's economic theories, if you want him to say that the economic theories of the West come out, he will give you at most a sentence of invisible hands and night watchman.
"Is this Ma Xianzhe your ancestor Ma Lang?" Lin Huan felt that he had captured some important information.
"It's not, it's just that it happens to be a surname..."
Ma Qiang thought about it carefully, Mr. Ma should be surnamed Marx to be precise, so rounding off can be regarded as the surname Ma.