Chapter 18: To the county town of Mayi
"This is two hundred and twenty-three dollars, Cheng'er, you take it."
Han Xiao put a heavy small bag into Han Cheng's hand and said with a smile.
The previous worries are gone, and all that remains is peace of mind, because the son who needs her to take care of him all the time has inadvertently grown up and is ready to support the family.
This is the first time since her husband went out to serve, she feels so at ease.
Han Cheng was carrying a heavy amount of two hundred and twenty-three coins, and his heart was heavy......
It's just that Han Xiao's peace of mind didn't last long, and he became a little worried again: "Cheng'er, it's so far along the way, you go alone......"
This is the worry of the mother of the child.
Han Cheng smiled and was relieved: "Mother, don't worry, I'm not going to ...... alone."
"Brother Cheng, are you going to the county town to buy salt? Why do you need to be so troublesome, I still have some at home, I will give you some to eat first, and wait until the salt seller comes. ”
In the morning, Uncle Liu's house.
After learning that Han Cheng wanted to go to the county town to buy salt, Uncle Liu directly took out his family's salt shaker from the kitchen and poured it into the salt shaker that Han Cheng was carrying.
For Han Cheng, the people of Qingque Village are now enthusiastic.
Han Cheng hurriedly stopped, he was going to do business, and he would need more and more salt in the future, and it was not enough to rely on these alone.
This trip to the county town, you can buy some salt, second, you can also see the market of salted fish in the county, and third, you can also take a look at what the county town of the Sui Dynasty looks like.
After some good talk, Han Chengcai finally made Uncle Liu give up this idea.
"We are more than 30 miles away from the county seat, and it hasn't been too peaceful recently, I heard that there are villains in the mountains, and you can't go alone.
The salt dealers on this donkey day don't know why, they just don't come to sell salt, many people in the village are a little short of salt, and it just so happens that this time the big guys went together and came back with some salt. ”
Uncle Liu said this and went to greet someone, Han Cheng did not refuse this time, he came to Uncle Liu this morning, and he had such a plan.
He had heard about the fact that the people in the village did not eat much salt in the past few days, and under such circumstances, he proposed to go to the county town to buy salt, and someone must go with him.
This is also the reason why he told Han Xiao not to worry.
It didn't take long for Uncle Liu's family to be seven or eight more people in the village, and these were the people who were going to go to the county town with Han Cheng to buy salt after hearing Uncle Liu's greeting.
Unlike Han Cheng, who carried a money bag containing copper coins in his arms, most of these people were carrying or carrying some grain, and some were cloth.
At this time, the farmer's cash was not much, and he needed to buy some things, most of which were exchanged for grain.
As for cloth, it was also a hard currency that could be circulated like money at this time.
With the addition of Han Cheng and Uncle Liu, the team that went to the county seat to buy salt suddenly expanded to ten people.
Uncle Liu didn't have to go through this experience, but he went out more often in the village, and now with Professor Han Cheng's fishing method, the family can catch some fish more or less every day.
With these fish on top, they will not smash the old capital and consume the existing food, and this matter will be put down, so Uncle Liu will also go through this experience.
In fact, most of the other seven or eight people also had this idea, if it weren't for Han Cheng teaching everyone how to fish, the food would no longer be as difficult as before, and half of these people would not have made today's trip, but chose to work in the fields.
"Little sister, listen to your mother at home, my brother will come back and bring you something delicious!"
After staying at Uncle Liu's house for a while, the group began to set off, and each family member was sent to the entrance of the village.
Seeing this group of people leaving the village, most of the women were reluctant, and some of them even remembered the men, children and grandchildren who sent their families to serve in the army, and remembered the relatives who had not returned from the service, and couldn't help wiping away their tears.
The children didn't quite understand the sorrow of the adults, and they were all envious of Han Cheng and their ability to go to a big place like the county town.
The little girl looked at Han Cheng even more, her eyes were blank, and she hoped that her brother could take her with her.
At this time, of course, Han Cheng couldn't take her, and after smiling and saying something delicious to her, he gently rubbed it on the little girl's head, and walked towards the direction of the county town with Uncle Liu......
On the way, from time to time, the group of people who accompanied the group would curse two sentences about those who manipulated the donkey and flashed their waists, and never saw the salt sellers who came to the village to sell salt, and sometimes they would also rush into a meat conversation, and they could hear that the two young men who were about the same age as Han Chengcheng and followed him to the county town this time bowed their waists slightly, and became red and red in the laughter of everyone.
"Brother Cheng, why are you so determined? You don't want to taste the that is more fragrant than fat? ”
When someone saw Han Cheng's calm appearance, he was curious and opened his mouth to tease him.
Han Cheng smiled secretly, he is also a descendant, there are such things as mobile phones and computers, what kind of battle has he not seen? Uncle Liu, what they thought was very burning, to Han Cheng's ears, was just a drizzle.
"Third uncle, be careful that the third aunt goes back and beats you......"
Han Cheng said with a smile.
"That, she dares! Give her two more guts! ”
The third uncle who left the village and left home was particularly hard, but this kind of hardness caused a burst of laughter from his peers.
Everyone walked and laughed all the way, but Han Cheng's attention was mostly on the fields on both sides.
Along the way, most of the people working in the fields were old and weak, women and children, and few men were in the prime of life.
Han Cheng knew that these middle-aged people basically went to serve like his cheap dad who had never met.
Open canals, camp palaces, build the Great Wall, build galloping roads, place large warehouses, and build weapons...... Under the leadership of Yang Er, the emperor, the people always had endless labor.
Originally, the law required a man to serve only twenty days of labor a year, but now many do not finish for months or even a year or two, and many never return.
As a result, the middle-aged men who should be the main force in cultivating the fields have left the land one after another to engage in things that have nothing to do with farming, and only the old and weak women and children who do not grow up at home are the elderly, weak, and children......
Han Cheng and his party have almost accounted for half of the men in the entire Qingque Village.
Just these ten of them, they are all old, young, and few are young and strong from eighteen to forty.
Han Cheng knew that many people in later generations were overturning the case for Yang Guang, thinking that he was not a faint tyrant, but a king with great talent and strategy.
But if he is really a king of great talent, how can he play a good hand of cards to a waste? Lost the family business left by Emperor Wen Yang Jian, and made the powerful and unified Great Sui II die? You can't throw all these pots to the family, right?
Ambition, wanting to do great things, wanting to surpass the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, these are good, but if there is no corresponding ability, such ambition will only bring boundless disasters, and it is much more serious than ordinary people to do bad things first!
At the end of April of the fifth year of the Great Cause, Han Cheng couldn't help but sniffle when he looked at the scene in his eyes on the way to the county seat of Mayi.