Chapter 385 Founding of the city
After Zhangxiong's envoy flickered to Shang Fang's sword, he hurriedly dispatched personnel and grain and grass, but the soldiers didn't bring much, only 5,000 people were kept to manage!
Chase the people along the way, catch up with a group, collect a group, and finally go to the border to count a little~ Okay, this is more than tens of thousands!
Come on, let's go, if they give money to the extra people, even if I am biased, if they don't give it, give them help in vain, and they can't be pushed back, right?
So this group of people went out of the pass and went straight to the newly built mall!
When he arrived at the place, the envoy asked the answer he wanted, and this heart fell to the ground!
This way I was scared, when Fang Yiai said to give money, the envoy almost stopped crying, and secretly said in his heart, whether you are a butcher or not, from today on, you are my ancestor!
The pressure almost didn't blow him up!
As soon as the envoy heard that the salary could be calculated in ten days, he was even more overjoyed, so he asked: "General Fang, it's not that the minister can't trust you, it's just that our lord has admired the culture and goods of the Tang Dynasty for a long time.
Although I can't go there in person, it's good to see Datang's things! So look at this, can you bring me some back first, and give it back once a month for the rest! ”
Fang Yiai nodded: "Okay!" You have a total of 173,000 people, and 5,000 soldiers, and this general will give you a whole number, and count you as 180,000.
Later, you go to Steward Xiao and calculate how many things you will take, or money and food!" After you calculate it, come to me with the list to stamp it, and then take it back to Shicheng by the convoy, and you will be back in about ten days! ”
The envoy was overjoyed: "General Xie Fang!"
The envoy ran away, and while running, he calculated in his heart, this man gave seven and a half catties of grain a day, or something of equivalent value!
The rest belongs to the lord of the country, but the lord of the kingdom only takes 130,000 people's money, and the remaining 50,000 is mine!
When the time comes, half of it will be used to dot up and down, and the remaining half will be used......
At this moment, the Xiangxiong envoy has a word in his heart~ Get rich! Get rich!
And the Zhangxiong envoy who was picking and picking in the list was also these three words in his heart.
It turned out that the envoy of this Zhangxiong only took half of the work in exchange for food, and the remaining small number picked up some silk and porcelain, which were about the same price everywhere, and there was no profit.
But the rest is profiteering, sugar, canned fruits, dried seafood, this seafood includes kelp! Can you imagine? Kelp and sea cucumber are the same price!
You must know that this kelp was originally a dish for feeding pigs in coastal areas, and later Cheng Hong came here, and everyone knew that this sea vegetable could also be eaten!
It's just that the coastal areas rarely eat, but the inland areas have a lot to eat, buy a bundle of a few copper plates, go back and soak them in water, make a big pot, and put some salt, salt and garlic to mix......
But in any case, this thing is so cheap that it is only worth the price of the road fare, but in Xiao Tianxing's list, this thing and sea cucumber are the same price!
And after this thing is bundled and put aside, it is not bad at all, at least it looks better than sea cucumbers! When the price was set, Xiao Tianxing made up the number and filled in this thing!
Unexpectedly, this Xiangxiong's envoy didn't know how to look at this thing, and he actually picked a lot!
Then there are spices, although only half of the spices that Cheng Hong brought back from Spice Island were lost, they were almost enough to consume!
But there are so many in the royal house, you can't throw them all in the treasury of the imperial dining room! How long do you have to eat?
So this batch of spices is also on the list.
And in the Zhangxiong area, what is lacking is spices, and when you see spices, it is called a red-eyed! If it weren't for the things that had to be exchanged, he would have exchanged them all for spices.
At this time, Xiao Tianxing served a bowl of tea in a timely manner, Cheng Hong's special fried tea, this thing is the most greasy, and sure enough, the envoy only took a sip and immediately began to look for tea in the list.
In the end, when I saw the shocking price, I had to return some sea cucumber silk and the like and replace it with tea.
When Xiangxiong's envoy took the list and excitedly looked for a house to seal his love, Xiao Tianxing looked at the envoy who walked away and laughed!
Although the pricing of this exchange list is set by Xiao Tianxing, the things are all paid by Datang's private treasury! Although some bits and pieces were collected by the Xiao family, they were still purchased at market prices.
It's just that there are 30% of their profits in it. Zhangxiong's envoys are so picky, if there are more, there are still several times the profit.
Even if this Zhangxiong's envoy still has a conscience, he didn't squint at the people's share, if he didn't have a conscience, he saw so many things he wanted, and he wanted to change them, and the money was in hand......
The envoy took the document excitedly, and asked Fang Yiai to stamp it, and Fang Yiai took the document and looked at the secret seal, and after confirming the accuracy, he picked up the big seal and stamped it directly, and signed his name next to it.
After drying it, it was handed to the envoy: "Take it to Steward Xiao, it will naturally be prepared for you when the convoy comes next time!"
The envoy said goodbye to the widow of the house with great gratitude, and returned the document back to Xiao Tianxing, Xiao Tianxing recopied two copies, and after checking that it was correct, he asked the envoy to sign and draw the pledge.
The original was left with Xiao Tianxing for the record, one was given to the envoy to keep for checking the goods, and the other was handed over to the convoy for Shicheng to prepare the goods......
All that's left is to be patient!
The envoy took the slip, carried it in his arms, covered it with his hands, and slept under the pillow, and took it out to look at it at least three times a day, immersing himself in happiness every day......
Under the command of the craftsmen, the people shouted the trumpet to put the iron basket in the designated position, and then began to pick up the gravel and put it inside.
After filling, cover with a layer of cement and stack the next layer......
If it weren't for the cement and gravel that limited the speed, it was estimated that it would be a little faster.
This speed was delayed in picking up gravel and weaving iron baskets.
It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that the main force of transporting gravel was not a carriage, but sheep, and the surrounding Dorjee herdsmen who sold sheep to the city-building team couldn't kill so much for a while, and the remaining sheep had to ask the Dorjee herdsmen to help graze.
Naturally, the herdsmen of Dorjee have nothing to say, not only do they have wages to help grazing every day, but they also have meat to eat, and grazing is not a big deal.
When the crowd began to pick up gravel from all over the place, the sheep herders had to go farther to graze, and it just so happened that the herdsmen were not feeling well that day, so they handed over the sheep to their twelve-year-old son Mondo to graze.
Mondo was twelve years old, and at that time the herdsmen were already half adults at the age of twelve, and it was a trivial matter to ride a horse and graze herd.
This is the case with this twelve-year-old half-grown boy, who hangs around behind the students of King Wei every day, and has nothing to do to help them shoot a gopher and find some tahuang......
It's a good mix, because his father often told him: "Dorjee once said ~ Follow smart people, you will become smart, and follow stupid people, you can only learn to be stupid."
Son, you have to be friends with smart people, and you will learn a lot even if you run errands for them......"
Sure enough, as soon as this kid met Datang's caravan coming, he went there to help, even if it was to help boil some hot water, light a bonfire, or point the way......
Indeed, Mondo's child belongs to the kind of smarter among the half-grown children of Dorjee, the Han family pays the most attention to courtesy, this child is so enthusiastic, of course the caravan will not let him return empty-handed, more or less will always give some belongings.
Due to the many contacts, there are people in the caravan from all over the world, and they have a wide range of knowledge, and this half of the eldest likes to listen to these, and this knowledge is wide, and the mind will naturally live.
And this group of students under King Wei is undoubtedly the smart people among the smart people, and the communication between half-grown children is undoubtedly much easier than that of adults, plus Mengduo deliberately makes friends, so it is naturally easy to get together.
On this day, Meng Duo had made an appointment with the disciples of King Wei to find Ta Huang to fight whack-a-mole, but his father was a little unwell, so he could only miss the appointment.
When Mondo went to explain to the students of King Wei, the students of King Wei totaled~ Simply, let's play with Mondo herding sheep!
A group of ten people, plus Mondo, plus the twenty Cheng family guards who accompanied them, all went to herd sheep!
With the arrival of these heavenly elephant males, the name of this beloved "Snow Mountain Man Tu" has spread, and the feat of 800 to 60,000 has also made everyone talk about it.
A group of children unanimously decided to go to the first line of the gorge to see the battlefield where miracles were created.
The guards thought about it for a while, this line of gorge is not far from the new city, just take a look.
Mondo drove the flock, and everyone followed, heading straight for the first line of gorges.
After arriving at the first line of gorges, looking at the snow-capped mountains on both sides, I sighed for a while, and I was not interested, this place has many mountains and stones, and there are gravel cracked down from the mountains everywhere.
Everyone began to discuss: "If all this gravel is moved to the city, there will be no shortage of cities!"
This one said: "That's impossible, even if it is transported by horse-drawn cart here, it will take a long time, if you build a road here, there are so many mountains here, if you build a road, it is better to pluck the ground and take stones!"
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Mondo scratched his head and said, "Can we let the sheep go back?"
Each sheep carries two pieces, that is, tens of thousands of stones, and the sheep have to come here once a day, and if all the sheep come, one round trip is hundreds of thousands of pieces......"
That's right! It's not easy to walk on this mountain road, horses and cows, but the sheep are like walking on the ground, and a sheep carries two pieces, not much......
There are so many benefits!
From then on, the sheep became the main force in picking up stones, and Mondo also entered the eyes of Fang Yiai, Fang Yiai asked a few questions, found that Mondo is a piece of manufacturable material, found Mondo's father, and asked if he could be willing to let Mengdo go to Chang'an to study.
Mondo's father was overjoyed, and hurriedly agreed, and asked Mondo not to return to Dorjee if he did not study......