"Huh~~ Let's get down to the place." A horse-drawn sleigh from Xianyang County to Chang'an stopped.

The driver jumped out of the car first, urging the four passengers to get out of the car, so that he could unload the sled and make it easier for the horse.

The horse was leased from Li's Zhuangzi, and the lessee cherished it very much, and always let the horse run at a uniform speed when he was in a hurry, never urging.

It turned out that the distance between the places where the free soup was given away by the river was widened, and the five sheds were combined into one shed.

There is still free soup for people and horses to rest.

Xianyang County was fifty miles away from Chang'an, and Ma ran for more than an hour with five people, resting in a shed for a quarter of an hour.

Four people went to the sleigh, and one took out a voucher for four dollars and gave it to the driver.

This is the cost of their car, it is cheap to rent a boat in the summer, and you can sit six to eight people from Xianyang to Chang'an, and it costs four to five dollars.

Come in winter, a trip to the sleigh is four dollars per person.

I didn't want to spend this money, so I walked more than fifty miles in the snow.

"Hurry up and buy something when you see it, and rush back before dark at night." The older of the four said to the others.

"Knowing Uncle Eleven, the things in Chang'an City are cheap, and the things we buy are less than spending money in Xianyang."

Someone said the purpose of the trip, shopping.

Today's New Year, buy once, and don't come out when you go home.

The things in Chang'an City are cheaper, and they are the same goods as Xianyang.

There are still commodities in Chang'an City that are not available in Xianyang, and the prices are sky-high.

The price of vegetables in Chang'an Cheng is more expensive than that of the 20 counties of Jingzhao Prefecture, and people in the county do not buy them.

The charioteers watched the four men leave, took off the dung pockets behind the horses' buttocks, unloaded the sleighs, and led the horses to eat.

There was a place near where the horses were parked, and the horses used to be provided with grain and grass, and the people who drove the carts bought the forage according to the package, a small bundle.

Concentrate is purchased by the pound and added to the horse.

There was a guillotine next to him, and he was willing to cut the hay for his horse, so he did it himself.

Water was free, and it was provided by the imperial court, as was the supply point on the road.

"Eat, eat, eat, go back after eating, they bring the goods, charge more, and run back and forth for a half today, just rest, and add ingredients to you at night."

The driver said to his horse, with a smile on his face.

Coming from Xianyang, four people paid sixteen yuan, and went back because there was a stock, and the price was negotiated depending on how much the goods were.

Too many words must go down to the people, not to the horse.

The rent is now ten dollars a day, and the food depends on what the tenant gives.

It costs more to feed concentrate, more than a dozen dollars a day, and it is cheaper to feed ordinary hay.

There is a problem, if you don't feed the concentrate, the horse will have no strength, because of malnutrition and death, and in the future, you can expect to rent things from Zhuangzi.

The surrounding neighbors will even point fingers at him, saying that he has harmed the livestock of the Li family Zhuangzi in Bashui.

The coachman is thinking about going back, earning back the rent and forage money, and running another round trip, which belongs to his own income.

Nearly forty dollars a day, a winter, not a lot.

Next to it came a snow plough pulled by oxen carrying nine people.

The cattle stopped, and everyone came down one after another, carrying the goods on their backs, to be sold in the western market.

The driver took out a broom to clear the snow from the hooves and legs of the ox, and the ox could pull the cart, but slowly.

The ox cart apparently came out earlier, and then rested a little longer, and then went back in the afternoon, and made about the same amount of money a day.

……

"The proprietor, today I bought three more cows and two horses, I am old, and the people I raise can't use them to do a lot of work, and I can't afford to feed them, ask Zhuangzi, and if Zhuangzi doesn't buy them, they will report and kill them."

Song De found Li Yi, who was looking at the big scarlet-breasted parrot, and reported the situation.

"Bought for meat?" Li Yi picked up a pine nut with long tweezers and sent it to the cage.

"Hello, my proprietor." The parrot connected the two words he had learned.

Sometimes it's like, 'Hello, welcome, it's too cold, my host.'" ’

"Yes, according to the meat money." Song De responded.

"Raise it for a few days, and then set up the car." Li Yi didn't want to kill and eat meat.

He knew that Song De was not buying the kind of livestock that couldn't do any work, but a family raising a cow, and when he was old, he couldn't expect it to work like before.

There is a way to put two cows together to pull a cart, or even three cows, four cows.

They can work together, and theoretically two such cows and horses can do more work than normal cows and horses.

In the current state, I can earn some money, and in addition to eating myself, there is a surplus.

They were kept until one day, when none of the four cows could do the work of a normal cow, and they were fed with the extra money they earned.

At that time, it is not far from natural old age and death, and they will not live for a few years, otherwise they will always be able to work, and it is a question of efficiency.

When the old man dies, check it out, eat the meat and skin it again.

That is, to exchange the labor of cattle and horses for a chance of natural death in their old age.

After death, you still have to eat, as long as there is no disease, no matter how important the cattle and horses are, no one is important.

"The proprietor is benevolent." Song De always thought that Li Yi was benevolent and kind.

Li Yi no longer explained, and others didn't believe it.

He wanted to make the most of the labor force, and the animals had to work together with more animals, just like an engine that didn't work well.

If you can do it, the value generated cannot be directly calculated in terms of the monetary value at that time.

If the ox can live for another five years, it will work for four years, and the last year will wait for it to die slowly.

To consider the issue of currency depreciation, the money earned by the work done in the first year of the four years is greater than the purchasing power of the last year, and the Zhuangzi earns it.

There is also a problem involving jobs, a thousand acres of land, with old cattle and horses to plow, the feed and the work done are basically the same, does not mean that there is no profit.

There is no need for cattle and horses to plow, but for adults, the consumption is greater, and even people can't be recruited, and a thousand acres of land are wasted.

The value is reflected in the maximum use of resources, and the old livestock is supplemented by location.

"The proprietor is benevolent." The big crimson parrot that was slowly fed by Li Yi suddenly imitated a sentence that Song De said.

"Okay, you're smart, give you two more." Li Yi was stunned for a moment, and continued to clip the pine nuts and hand them in.

"The proprietor is benevolent!" The parrot shouted again.

"This is the power of capital, even if it is a waste collector, the scale reaches a certain level, and it can also make a fortune.

When the cattle and horses die, the processing of meat, leather, and tendons, with the scale of Zhuangzi, can make money.

Yes, bones are used to make free soup to give livestock a chance to die a natural death, and people get no less. ”

Li Yi explained to the parrot, idle, let's click the mouth, slander, I want to eat sauce beef, why haven't there been dead cows in the past two days?

……

At noon, heaven and earth.

Song Jing invited a group of people to dinner, and he had important matters to discuss.

The people of the first inspection group of Datang are here, and it is estimated that he feels that the current strength of the court is not enough, and he must find more people.

"When you see the capacity of the sleds in the winter snow, you can't imagine that this year's water network will work, and because of the heavy snowfall, it will be easier to travel on land."

Song Jing pointed to the crowd outside, there were no sleds in the city, but there were many people on the streets.

Everyone looked at him and waited.

"The imperial court has earned tax money this year, and the Li family Zhuangzi has raised too many livestock, can it be collected by the imperial court?" Song Jing got to the point.