Chapter 12 Beef offal is a good thing

When he was in Kelongli, Su You had seen land sales, and one acre of land was the same money.

Compared with later generations, this price is really a world of difference, and the belongings of urban residents in the Song Dynasty are basically worn on their bodies.

If you pay close attention, you will also find that the money used by the people here is not the usual copper money, but iron money.

Occasionally, there are outsiders who purchase copper coins, and the copper coins can be used as iron coins.

There are also banknotes, made of vellum paper, officially issued, and the banknotes can be roughly 900 yuan.

There are also private banknotes, issued by large merchants to trade with business partners, which are actually more like fixed-value bills of lading or original bills of exchange.

Su You was like a curious baby looking around, but Su Banniang couldn't stand it, beckoned him in a low voice, handed him a purse, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Xiao wants to make money?" I have some here. ”

Su You didn't answer, and explained a little embarrassedly: "No, no, I just stayed in the countryside for a long time, and I want to know the price, it turns out that the price of the Great Song Dynasty is so cheap." ”

Banniang sneered and laughed: "Uncle Xiao doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, and the county magistrate often fights the autumn wind." ”

Su You was surprised: "Won't it?" I have heard that the official family is very lenient with scholars, and they give them all higher gifts, and they also give rewards of various names during the New Year's Festival. ”

Banniang said with a smile: "That has to be more than five grades, such as seven or eight grades like the county order, and the cost of five or six times a month, to support the family, the people are not prosperous, and it is okay to go to ten mouths, plus ushering in the send-off, it is not enough to see." ”

Su You didn't believe it, and replied: "Banniang, you lied to me again, the county magistrate ushered in the send-off, and there was money from the minister." ”

Banniang shook her head and said, "You haven't seen the dilapidated appearance of the post station!" In a place like Meishan, a waterway hub, there are more nobles and high-ranking officials coming and going, and the minister's money can be spent? If Lord Taishou wants to live a nourishing life, he has to rely on our Jiang Qing family. ”

Su You was a little puzzled: "Then what else does this official do?" ”

Banniang smiled: "You are not the only one who has your idea. Hanlin Qinggui, isn't it? In the big news that came out a few years ago, there was a poor Hanlin who didn't even want to be elected, resigned from his official position, and opened a quality store in Tokyo! ”

Su You nodded, this can be regarded as the first superficial understanding of the political ecology of the Great Song Dynasty.

His previous knowledge was too narrow, and his eyes only fell on the big figures recorded in the history books, but he never knew that the lower-level officials of the Great Song Dynasty were so hard.

It seems that promotion does not necessarily mean that you will get rich, but it is too early to understand those now, and you came to the Great Song Dynasty by yourself, not to suffer from poverty.

After a short time, the small sedan chair came to a workshop near the river outside the city, next to the workshop are several kilns, and there are some fields in the distance, a small Zhuangzi.

The workers are kneading the mud and making embryos, and a young girl is directing the workers to work.

Seeing the soft sedan car coming, the girl hurriedly walked over and asked, "Is it Sister Su?" ”

Su Banniang came out of the sedan chair, and after the two met, the girl pulled Banniang and said happily: "Sister is finally good, hey, Xun'er didn't come with you?" I'd love to see him. ”

Banniang smiled: "It's been a bumpy road, but I don't dare to bring it out." ”

The girl looked at Su You and teased, "Who is this kid?" Call me sister, I'll give you sweet beans. ”

Before Su You could speak, Banniang hurriedly pulled the girl and said angrily: "You don't want to talk nonsense, this is the elder of the Su family's old house in Kelongli, although he is only five years old, I have to call him Uncle Xiao." ”

After hearing this, the girl stomped her foot and muttered, "Oh, why did you bring a little elder!" It's a shame that I've lost my rank! ”

Banniang smiled: "Although my little uncle is small, he is extremely smart, and now he is helping me solve the problem of movable type typesetting." Uncle Xiao, this is the twenty-seventh sister of the Shi family. ”

Su You gave a salute: "I've seen Twenty-Seven Niang." ”

Twenty-seven Niang pouted: "The little doll is still pretending to be an old man, I can't call this little uncle, I'll call you...... Small oil bar. ”

Su You was not surprised, and said with a smile: "The name is just a code name, and the elders in the family often call me a little monkey." ”

Twenty-seven Niang smiled so much that her waist was bent: "Little monkey, hahaha, when you perform the crown salute, it's not ...... That's not ......"

Su You was quite atmospheric, and replied: "Mu Monkey and crown, just say it if you want to, I won't be angry." ”

Twenty-seven Niang didn't laugh anymore, and changed her appearance and said to Su You seriously: "Xiaoyou's personality is really good, but it's the slave Meng Lang." ”

Su You hurriedly returned the gift.

Banniang said: "I came here today to ask my sister for something." ”

Twenty-seven Niang said: "Well, I already know the matter, this is not ready in the morning, look, the mud is all here." ”

The three of them went over to inspect one by one, Su You looked at it for a long time, shook his little head and asked, "Twenty-seven Niang, there is a kind of mud, I don't know if you have used it here?" ”

Twenty-seven Niang was quite surprised: "You are young, do you still know clay?" ”

Su You looked at the earthy yellow, brown and green porcelain jars and said, "I understand a little." ”

After speaking, he casually took a very large bucket bowl, grabbed the edge of the bowl with both hands and flipped it over: "You use local red clay, which is made of embryo after aging, and then glazed and fired once after drying. ”

Twenty-seven Niang's eyebrows suddenly rose after hearing this: "Although our porcelain is not as good as several famous kilns, it also has a reputation on the fourth road of Sichuan Gorge. ”

Su You blinked his little eyes and said, "Twenty-seven Niang, don't be angry, I believe what you say, I mean to say, you can be more refined." ”

Twenty-seven Niang sneered: "If only you could refine a finer clay ......"

After speaking, when she saw Banniang who was smiling on the side, her eyes gurgled, and she suddenly smiled like a flower: "Then we will do the pottery printing work for you, we will cover it." ”

Su You waved his hand again and again: "No, no, this is very simple, I only taught my in-law in the morning, in fact, it is a gesture, let's do a small experiment first." ”

There are many craftsmen here, seeing that Twenty-Seven Niang has no words, Su You called the workers, took a large vat to hit horizontally, made a wooden shelf stuck, and then on both sides of the shelf on the round shaft, rested on the bracket, and made a shaft handle, when the worker shakes the shaft handle, the big tank can be rotated on the shelf.

After adding some water to the vat and throwing some broken porcelain pieces into it, the workers shook the vat around, and Su You began to add clay to it.

Soon, the clay was cut and ground by the tumbling pieces of broken porcelain, and finally turned into mud.

Twenty-seven Niang's eyes widened: "Your method is very ingenious." It's just that the scale is not big. ”

Su You was not angry: "Do the experiment, it's so fast." ”

Pour out the mud, filter it with a coarse bamboo basket to get the fine mud, pour it into another jar and stir it for a while, and then hang a cloth strip around the jar containing the fine mud, and use the capillary water absorption phenomenon to absorb water.

Then I talked to the workers about the porcelain clay.

In the mouth of Su You, porcelain clay is a kind of white very sticky soil, in the famine years, some people take it to satisfy hunger, although they can have a full stomach for a while, but they can't vent the diarrhea, and people who eat this kind of soil will eventually die of bloating.

As soon as this was reminded, some workers reacted, saying that there was a piece of land under the Toyi Mountain in the west of the city, and there was this kind of soil there. There are also white stones on the mountain, and this soil is estimated to have been weathered by the white stones over time.

As soon as the twenty-seventh mother heard that there was such a thing, she immediately asked people to bring mules from Zhuangzi and sent people to the west of the city to fetch soil and stones.

After the matter was arranged, Twenty-seven Niang smiled and said: "You two are blessed, Zhuangzi just dropped a cow, reported to the official, and fined some silver, but there is beef to eat." ”

Su You was immediately overjoyed: "Really? I'll get this! ”

Twenty-seven Niang seemed to have a very low laugh, and suddenly smiled again and bent over: "Ouch, you really know everything?!" ”

Su You said to Banniang: "Banniang, you quickly call someone to go to the house and find Shiyue to find out the packet of medicinal powder I asked her to get yesterday, hahaha, this time it will be of great use!" ”

A group of people came to Zhuangzi, this place is actually not big, there is a low earthen wall, outside the earthen wall is a field, planted rice, inside the earthen wall is a vegetable garden, one end is a circle of grass houses, the people on the Zhuangzi are unraveling cattle.

Su Youxing hurriedly ran over, and when he saw that there was only one cavity left, he couldn't help crying: "Where's the offal?" Where's my offal? ”

Banniang was so anxious that she stomped her feet: "Little uncle, don't be rude!" Lost the face of our Su family! ”

Su You was inexplicable: "What's wrong?" ”