Chapter XVII: Chinese Household Registration and Refined Salt
"Dong, ma'am, Fauber." Saluting to the three people sitting on the Huanghuali official hat chair one by one, Wu Cunjie began to perform his duties.
"Five days ago, the autumn grain in various places has been put into storage. According to Dong Weng's meaning, in the Yicang of each village, the general's treasury, and the granary of the Li family, all the collected and stored are rice; The method of rice and fish farming and paddy field upgrading in Dong Weng was implemented everywhere, with a total area of 973,420 mu and another six points. The highest yield was Huang Baiming. Each mu reached 12 stones, and another 170 catties of fish were caught. The minimum yield was also around 10 stones, and another 140 catties of fish. ”
"In this way, all localities shall pay land levies, ground rents, etc., in accordance with the law of twenty taxes and one set by Dong Weng. Based on an average of 10 stones per mu, 486,710 stones should be collected from the treasury. ”
When Fu Bo and Yan Mei'er heard this number, they couldn't help but smile and smile in the corners of their eyes, yes! A very simple method has almost doubled the hundreds of thousands of acres of paddy fields sent out by his own family, the nearly 100,000 acres of fields seized by the traitor He, and the land harvested from all over the country! These 480,000 stone paddy can allow the nearly 40,000 officials and slaves scattered everywhere to eat for a few years.
"All the shopkeepers of the Han and Yuan firms, but there are farmers everywhere who come to sell grain, they are all open to purchase, and we are not afraid of too much grain. In addition, it was ordered that all villages, tunpu, and households should not have less than one year's ration storage. ”
Shouhan took a leisurely sip of tea and savored the aroma of the tea leaves. In his opinion, producing twelve stones per mu is not a great thing. This is a year's yield, if they know that Professor Yuan's hybrid rice can reach a yield of more than 2,000 catties per mu in one season, will it frighten everyone?
"Dong Ong, this ......"
"Young Master!"
"Xianggong!"
All three of them were a little surprised by Shouhan's approach.
"Young master, listen to the old man, buying food is also in moderation!"
"That is, we now have more than 1.7 million acres of dry land, and the number of raw lands is more than several times, and there are more than 100,000 acres of ripe land, and the grain that has been laid, not to mention the mountains and reclamation, is almost the same, if we open up to collect grain, first, there is nowhere to pile up, second, we may not have that much money, third, as far as I know, under the rule of my general's office, in addition to the more than 200,000 peasant households in various villages and tunpu, there are 36,347 official slaves, scattered in logging, mining, smelting, shipbuilding and other workshops. There are also 2,477 sailors and horses, in addition, there are still more than 300 students, and there are nearly 10 million stone grain and rice on the market, so why worry about rations? ”
Putting down the teacup in his hand, Shouhan stretched her waist beautifully, and her eyes scanned the three people in the study. Fu Bo tickled his back with a pair of tickles, Yan Mei'er looked at herself with a pair of beautiful eyes without blinking, and the pure wolf held the account book in his hand, waiting for his own instructions, well, this feels good!
"Pure wolf, you only count our soldiers and horses, officials and slaves, and clerks, these are what I will call the non-agricultural population, because they are not engaged in cultivating fish and mulberry, and must eat rice grown by others."
"You just said that there are more than 200,000 peasant households under your rule, but this number is not accurate. This number was calculated by my general's office when it was allocating the fields, and there are numbers on your album of Honda acres, am I right? This number naturally does not include the hundreds of Han villages in the west and south that have recently been annexed, as well as more than 200 Miao Yao Xitong villages. There are hundreds of thousands of people in it. The same to eat! ”
"The figures you just mentioned for the birth, maturity, and water and dry fields still do not include the status of acres in these areas. These are the areas where we will upgrade paddy fields and promote rice and fish farming methods next year. ”
"In addition, have you ever been to Huang Baiming, Lin Atu, and other villages of Fujian and Guangdong reclamation people? Most of the people in the village are men of the age of Zhuangding, if we continue to maintain a yield of about ten stones per mu here, and each mu of paddy field can have more than 100 catties of fish, if you are Lin Atu, what will you do? ”
"Gou Fugui, don't forget! Students should bring their parents, wives and brothers from their hometowns to live together. ”
This is human nature, and it is a principle of eternity. But, pure wolf, have you ever thought that it may not be a family, but a village, a family?! If I don't take precautions, and these hundreds of thousands, millions, or even millions of mouths pour into our Hejing at once, what will I use to feed them? ”
Shouhan's few words, the three people in the study were stunned at first, and then sweated.
"Now I know why I want to let all the villages, tunpu, and check every household, and have no less than a year's ration reserves?!"
"Tell me about the money income!"
"Dong Weng, our financial resources are mainly Yuhe Tai Salt and Tonghe Dyeing Workshop, by the tenth day of October, Yuhe Tai Salt received a total of 4,000 stones of refined salt and 10,000 stones of filtered salt. According to the price of 80 wen per catty of refined salt and 60 wen of filtered salt, a total of 3,800 stones of refined salt and 8,000 stones of filtered salt were sold. Obtain 168,000 taels of silver. Among them, the refined salt is 18,000 taels of silver, and the filtered salt is 100,000 taels of silver......" Wu Cunjie, the treasurer of the Han Yuan firm, shook his head, holding the red-headed ledger in his hand and reported to Fu Bo quite proudly.
"Stop, how do you filter more salt and less refined salt?" Fauber was keenly aware of the problem.
"My lord, do you know that compared with refined salt, this filter salt is cheaper than 20 cents per catty, and the taste is compared with coarse salt, which is heaven and earth. And the taste of filtered salt is also similar to that of refined salt. Many small households, in order to save the 20 yuan, buy filter salt. ”
"How's the dyed cloth going?" Putting down the tea bowl in her hand, Yan Mei'er asked.
"Returning to Mrs. Housekeeper. Tonghe Dyeing Workshop, as of the tenth day of October, has dyed a total of 38,000 pieces of cotton cloth of various colors. Twenty-one thousand and forty pieces of white cloth were in stock. 29,700 pieces of dyed cloth were sold. Profit of 48,000 taels of silver. ”
With the cooperation of seawater salt, industrial processing of refined salt, and anillin violet dye extracted from coal tar, the financial crisis of the General's Mansion was nipped in the bud. Under the dumping blow of Yuhetai, many salt numbers in the Zheng's control area in the north went bankrupt one after another, and their brains were flexible, so they simply became a joint with Yuhetai, and used their own sales network to become Li Shouhan's regional agent.
However, Fu Bo and Yan Mei'er, who tasted the sweetness, saw the same pile of refined salt in the treasury as Xiaoshan, and saw how they could exchange them for white flowers and yellow copper coins.
Seeing that the two people in charge of financial management were a little anxious, Wu Cunjie, who was full of lack of moral ideas, gave the two of them an idea, which was actually just a wake-up call.
"My lord, Mrs. Butler, why don't you two go and ask the general? Let's see what the general has to say. ”
"Alas, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants!" Fauber smiled bitterly, shook his head, and got up to leave.
"Salt and cloth don't sell well?" Li Shouhan was a little surprised.
The output of seawater salt is amazing, almost no cost, and the salt salts working in the salt works are all slaves evolved from prisoners of war, and the labor cost is also very low. Not to mention the dyes, which are produced from coking waste. In addition to the grey cloth that needs to be purchased, the cost is four dollars and eight cents of silver per flat machine, which is also very low compared with the price of one and a half to one or two dollars of silver per dyed cloth.
Can't you make money like this?
"Young Master, that's not the case. It's just that seeing the lot of refined salt piled up in the warehouse, the old man was a little anxious. Fauber stroked his somewhat sparse beard.
"How much silver did you receive in your treasury?"
The name of the pure wolf was given to Wu Cunjie by Shouhan.
"Young master, although there is a lot of silver in the treasury, it has always been that there is food at home and there is no panic. But it has never been said that there is salt at home, and there is no panic in the heart. Besides, if the salt is piled up for a long time, it will also be brine. ”
"Fu Bo, how many people are there under our rule now?"
"Now we have 60,000 households and more than 500,000 people."
Fauber, who was in charge of the money and grain account of the interior, reported a number.
"So much?!" Shouhan was taken aback. I didn't expect that there would be such a large population under my rule.
"According to the standard of one pound of salt per month for one person, calculate how much salt these many people have to eat every month?"
"My lord, having said that, we can't let the guys of the Salt Number forcibly sell refined salt to the people, right?!" Wu Lao Wolf was a little puzzled.
"Hehe, if you say that there are many people who buy filter salt, it is because filter salt is cheap, and the taste is not much different from refined salt; But what if the price of refined salt was the same as that of filtered salt? ”
"Then of course it's buying refined salt! No one is stupid! ”
"Young master, is it impossible to say that the price will be reduced?" Fauber was a little unwilling.
"Not really. Fauber, watch me play a trick. ”
"This is your new home?" Under Wang Jin's guidance, Wang Jin's brother-in-law looked at the five-bay brick house with some envy.
From the moment he entered the door, Wang Bao's uncle Huang Duo was shocked by a series of shocks.
A neat courtyard, the main house with five bays, the side buildings on the left and right sides, the barns and cattle pens below the side buildings, he peeked at it just now, the barn was full of sacks, and there were rice grains scattered on the ground. There were two bulls in the bullpen who had just made their noses, and his eyes were red when they saw it. What made him even more angry was that the outside of the house was built with bricks and became a kiln. On the door and pillar of the hall, there are two couplets and plaques written by Mr. Consultant, which looks very magnificent.
"Originally, it was planned to be built again next year, but this is not Ah Bao who came back from winning the battle, got a reward of silver, and laid a new valley, thinking that Ah Bao was going to marry, so he was ruthless and asked a few people to help build this new house." Wang Bao's father, Wang Jin, modestly showed off his new house.
In his opinion, his brother-in-law has always looked down on himself, and when he went south with his clan, half of it was to avoid the war in the north, and the other half was also angry and left this guy.
However, who would have thought that this annoying guy would actually go south with his clansmen. The reason is the same as himself, it is to avoid the increasingly frequent fighting in the north.
"Alas! The battle between the Zheng family court and the Mo family is getting bigger and bigger. Without moving the Zheng family's court, tens of thousands of troops were dispatched to fight against the remnants of the Mo family, and there was no day of peace! Speaking of what happened in the north, Huang Duo was nagging endlessly.
It wasn't until Wang Bao's mother served the oil tea that he temporarily closed his mouth and took a big gulp of the bowl.
While drinking tea, Huang Duo peeked at the strings of salted fatty fish hanging on the pillars, as well as the jars placed in the corners, and it could be seen that his brother-in-law's life was very good. However, why didn't I have such luck, why didn't I go south earlier?
After a few sips of tea, the meal was greeted over there. Unlike the traditional fire pond of the Miao family, Wang Jin's new house does not have a fire pit, only a dining table.
The dishes are very rich, fish, meat, duck, muntjac meat, placed on the dining table, bursts of tempting aroma come to the nose, very stimulating people's appetite.
"Please!" Wang Jin gestured with chopsticks, and as a result, the two found that their brother-in-law was really hungry. One after another, it rained like rain, and soon, a full bowl of rice had been eaten.
"Brother-in-law," after he was full of wine and food, Huang Duo's address to Wang Jin became more affectionate. "How can I live a life like yours? Just eat a meal, just four or five dishes, plenty of oil and water, and fish with meat and duck? ”
Wang Jin laughed a little proudly, finally you guy gave in to me! "Actually, it's all thanks to the General! Our new house was built with the silver he gave as a reward, you know this. He gave us the field. Fifteen acres per person, and the cow was also rewarded by him to Bao. Also, you don't know that the fish and ducks on the table are all raised together with rice in the paddy fields according to the method he taught. The fish fry are bought from the general's mansion, a penny and a tail, what other cages are used to raise fish in the house, we don't understand how to raise fish in this net and box? You can also raise big fish. ”
Wang Jin's wife was showing off some food gifts for her sister's family on the side, telling the source of the gift while dotting, what surprised Huang Duo the most was, "This is five catties of refined salt, be careful, don't sprinkle it on the road." ”
Table salt! He had seen it in the kitchen just now, and it was as white as snow, and it was not the same as the thick salt he had eaten before. I feel that the difference is that King Miao's daughter and the girl who burned the fire stand together.
"This, this is too precious!" Although Huang Duo said that he felt that his brother-in-law was just a piece of shit luck, but it was beyond his expectations that people gave away such a valuable gift.
"Brother, I heard from the people in the yamen that they will soon send you a Chinese household registration and a household post. However, for you, whether you join or not is voluntary. My brother advises you, and it can be regarded as giving you a thorough explanation, you must ask for this household registration! ”
Looking at the solemnity on Wang Jin's rough black face, Huang Duo also felt that it was a big deal. "Brother-in-law?"
"This salt, if sold outside, will cost eighty wen a catty. However, if we have a Chinese household registration, it is 60 wen a catty, and each person has a catty per month. Also, if you have a Chinese household registration, you can divide the land within the jurisdiction of the General's Mansion, or receive rations to open up the wasteland. All the wasteland you open is yours. If you don't have this, you can only do some menial work in the general's place, or go to the mines to dig coal, or go to the woods to cut wood, or go to cultivate the fields where there are more fields for other people's families, in short, you can only rely on your strength to change food, and there is no future. ”
Carrying the basket on his back, he walked all the way, and Huang Duo pondered the words of his brother-in-law and sister all the way, "It seems that fleeing is also beneficial!" This Chinese household registration must be obtained! ”
"With this, with your ability to heal buffalo and gelding horses, go to the house to prepare cases, be a veterinarian, and patrol the villages everywhere, and worry about a bad life?!" The words of the eldest sister-in-law are still in my ears.
Huang Duo's eyes kept shaking the purple book, and the few lines of Chinese characters on it were heavenly days for him.
"The beauty of the uniform is gorgeous. There is a great etiquette, so it is called summer. ”
"My lord, after the household registration book was issued, the stock of refined salt has been basically sold, but the new problem now is that our salt is not enough to sell!"
"Get out!"
Pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and many other weapons of mass destruction flew on Wu Laowolf's head.
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