Chapter 276: Commodities and Money
Zhou Zhian felt that he had gone out of shit luck. Or that the princess of Liao is a real immortal, and her idol is not worshiped in vain in her own home.
The idol was not cheap, and it cost him fifty cents.
Now it seems that the money was not spent in vain.
This year, his family's harvest was piled up in the yard, and even the courtyard walls were covered with ears.
This is still what is left after paying 30% of the rent. The princess is really a good fairy, and if she says that she wants thirty percent, she wants thirty percent. Half of it didn't ask for much.
The food in this yard is enough for them to eat until this time next year, and they will be much richer.
However, this is also the result of Zhou Zhi'an's family's desperate hard work day and night, and if they do it again next year, their bodies will be a little unbearable.
You have to buy a cow, or rent a cow, or if you can't just buy two slaves.
The people in Yongbian City have now heard the news, saying that the Zhejia army has taken Hebin City, and they have also captured tens of thousands of Liao people as slaves - it seems that the people of any time and space are good at exaggerating.
This made Zhou Zhian couldn't help but be moved.
Buy two slaves, or buy a cow? That's a problem.
If it was before, Zhou Zhian would definitely choose to buy slaves, after all, people are much better than animals.
But now, Zhou Zhian is a little hesitant. Because there is a pharmaceutical factory in Yongbyon City, the factory produces miracle medicines, and the animals eat them, curing all diseases.
Zhou Zhian couldn't believe it at first, but after careful inquiry, he learned that the chicken farm used this medicine. That's why there are so many eggs and chickens in Yongbyon City.
He had eaten more eggs in Yongbyon that year than he had ever seen in his entire life - almost every three or four days, the family had to make a tooth sacrifice and buy two eggs to eat. Otherwise, you won't be able to stand it.
Even chicken, I have to eat it once or twice a month.
In this way, it seems that it is more cost-effective to buy cattle, after all, oxen have more strength than slaves.
But it's hard to buy cows. Because there is no cattle farm in Yongbyon. It's hard to think that I haven't started raising large animals yet. Although Qin Mu needed war horses, the preliminary preparations were not completed, and he did not have the conditions for large-scale breeding.
Large livestock are much more difficult to raise than chickens and ducks, and Qin Mu does not dare to start rashly with such intensive breeding.
There weren't enough cattle and there was so much land that the cattle became very sought-after.
In the past, Zhou Zhian didn't dare to think about buying cattle, but now he has this idea to some extent. Because he is not the lowest level of the common people, he has a small official body - the director of the Jiazi community.
The new area designed by Qin Mu is square and square, and each grid is a community, which is named after the heavenly stems and earthly branches.
Zhou Zhian was appointed as the director because he came early.
At first, he didn't know what the director did, and he was a little afraid of being an official. But for the sake of eggs - the director sends ten eggs a month, and he is reluctant to do it.
After more than half a year, he finally knew what the director should do. It is to convey the instructions from above and organize the people to do all kinds of things.
For example, this time the harvest of autumn grain in Shanghebin City was an order handed down by the Yongbyon Agricultural Bureau, and the directors of each community organized the manpower.
Because of this identity, Zhou Zhian also has a certain relationship with the head of the Agricultural Bureau, at least to speak.
So he was going to go through the relationship and see if he could sell his family a cow first.
But Zhou Zhian thought about it, that is, the government sold him a cow, where is the money? His house was full of grain, but it didn't have much money—where did the farmer get so much cash.
In the city of Yongbyon, even raising chickens is not profitable - it can't sell chicken farms at all.
As a result, Zhou Zhi'an fell into the state of the farmers who had just harvested in later generations. There is food, but there is no money. But there was so much more he wanted to buy.
In the convenience store, he likes every item very much.
For example, the kerosene lamp, with this thing, she can also let her mother-in-law mend her clothes at night, and she excuses herself to do needlework, and she is lazy during the day.
And the glass, this thing, it's so beautiful to look at! It's much stronger than a porcelain cup. It turned out to be translucent. Zhou Zhi'an only saw glass when he arrived in Yongbyon, how could there be such a thing before.
And it's not just the glass, he also wants to replace all the windows in his home with glass, how bright!
And cigarettes. This Zhou Zhian often buys, but he only dares to buy the Daqing brand, and he doesn't dare to buy the slightly more expensive victory card, let alone the top Chinese brand.
He also wants to draw victories, even China.
It's all good stuff, but you can't buy it without money. What to do? It seems that we have no choice but to sell grain.
In Zhou Zhi'an's traditional thinking, food is fundamental, and if it can be kept, it must be kept, which is to cope with famine.
But in previous years, he couldn't keep it if he wanted to, and the big head was taken away by the government.
This year, with the blessing of the fairy Princess of Liao, he has a large amount of food for the first time. But he didn't want to keep it, but wanted to sell it.
Zhou Zhi'an has his own naïve philosophical views.
His house and land were all given by the princess. But the princess does not give it in vain, she has to repay the mortgage for more than ten years and pay the rent for more than ten years.
Since the princess keeps her word this year, she only receives three percent. Then next year and beyond, it will be the same
That is to say, he can get so much food every year that he will not go hungry and will be able to eat a full meal.
This can sell some food for some money.
So after some calculation, Zhou Zhi'an's grain, except for enough rations and seeds, all went to the warehouse in Yongbyon.
The purchase price given at the discount is very fair, and the price is not depressed because of the bumper harvest. And all the money given is copper money, so you don't need to fool people with paper money.
The copper coins were sprinkled out like water, but I didn't have to worry about it.
The money flowed back into his pocket in a blink of an eye. Because the peasants who got the money quickly exchanged the money for goods such as glasses, kerosene lamps, and cigarettes.
And these commodities are all produced by industrial large-scale production - in the opinion of Zhekeqiu, this is already a large scale of production, and the price is much higher than the cost.
This is simply a kind of legal plunder, just use those quartz sand, tobacco, and whole bars, and exchange the fruits of the peasants' hard work for a year.
Copper coins are really useless in this process, but they are just going through the motions.
At this time, Zhe Keqiu realized a problem, if his territory expanded, the entire Xiahetao area would operate in this way, and he would face a state of insufficient copper money.
Although the copper coin is left hand to right hand, basically all back, but always have to be turned back so much. What if there is a state of running out of copper coins?
Although this problem is not big, it makes Zhe Keqiu feel that he must consult Qin Mu, because in the future, the territory will become bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more food and commodities, and he will definitely encounter the problem of not having enough copper coins in the end.
So are you going to start making money now?
Qin Mu didn't expect to go so far as he wanted. But it's also a problem, and it's an opportunity.
So Qin Mu told his uncle in detail about the concept of commodities and currency.
After listening to it, not only did he not understand, but he was confused a lot.
Qin Mu told him that currency is not money, it has no value in itself, and the meaning of its existence is only as a general equivalent.
But I always treat money as money. Even if the paper money issued by the imperial court is money, how can it be said that it has no value.
This class is clearly out of the classroom. If you can't understand it, then there are still a few people in this time and space who can understand it, which makes Qin Mu very suspicious.
However, this issue can be postponed, and now he must go back to Wujiazhuang. First, we have to go to the future generations to ask experts how to repair the reservoir, and second, we can't waste the opportunity to pull equipment.
This time, Qin Mu also had to set up a telephone system. The city dialect should appear in the time and space of the Great Song Dynasty.
And the key is that Li Guojian can't help but go. If you don't go again, don't Zhao Ji deny it. His two-hundred-and-five-year-old character, who knows what will happen.
Mu Nanxing sent news that the Jin Kingdom had suddenly raised the price of selling Youzhou, from 500,000 taels of silver and 500,000 horses of silk to 5 million taels of silver and 1 million horses of silk.
This made Qin Mu extremely surprised.
According to the history he knew, even when it was the Southern Song Dynasty, the appetite of the Jin people was not so great.
At that time, the Southern Song Dynasty gave the Jin State 250,000 taels of silver and 250,000 pieces of silk every year.
This data, and the current data of Jinguo selling Youzhou, is completely an order of magnitude apart. This must be something went wrong.
If the Jin State has this appetite, how can it be that little bit when it asks for New Year's coins in the future and the Southern Song Dynasty.
Qin Mu didn't know what was wrong, but he was worried that Zhao Ji would make another stupid move and take his governor away.
That "oil ambassador" is like Bi Ma Wen that Sun Wukong once was, and he is not an official at all. Zhao Ji didn't care, and Qin Mu didn't care. He just acted in the name of Zhao Ji.
But Zhili Guojian is the official position of the Great Song Dynasty. If he doesn't go to work again, and the situation is so weird now, maybe Zhao Ji's head will be hot, and this official will be replaced by someone else.
He is so short of money, who knows if he will jump over the wall in a hurry and sell his official hat for money.
This kind of thing, the Qing Dynasty is very skillful. Is the red-capped businessman, give the money to the official hat.
However, before leaving, Qin Mu gave an order to the Guards Regiment to take Dongshengzhou at the right time. The next time he returns, he will see that the Lower Hetao area is completely under his control.
In this land, there is no armed presence that can threaten itself.
Western Xia obviously did not dare to come again.
Yelu Yanxi ran out of more than 1,000 people, and Wanyan Zongwang took less than 2,000 people to chase him. These two teams, no matter what, will have at most one or two thousand people left.
A cold-armed army of one or two thousand people is no match for a company of the Guards Regiment at all, let alone an artillery company.
Even if there is no Guards Regiment, the Zhejia Army is not a vegetarian.
It is easy to arrange militarily, but it is not easy to appease the harem.
Because Yu Liyan went to Zhe Kecun afterwards and asked why his father was not in Yongbyon, but ran out and pulled up a team.
This made Zhen Kecun suddenly a little blind. He can't say it's all arranged by your man.
When Qin Mu explained this matter to him, he deliberately carried Yu Liyan behind his back. As Qin Mu's buddy, he can't sell Qin Mu.
So Zhen Kecun could only open his eyes and talk nonsense, saying that he was looking at Yu Liyan's face and respected Yelu Yanxi very much, so there were almost no guards. As a result, I didn't expect him to sneak away.
Yu Liyan was skeptical, but this was not the time to be held accountable. Her father ran away, and in front of her, he ran a second time.
This time the situation is even more dangerous, and behind his father there is the general of the Jin Kingdom, Wanyan Zongwang. Yu Liyan is very aware of Wanyan Agu's hatred for her father.
If Yelu Yanxi is caught by the people of Jin Guo this time, it will not be comfortable, and it will never be possible to be as comfortable as in Yongbyon.
Although her father killed her mother and brother, the blood relationship could not be separated, and Yu Liyan was still worried about Yelu Yanxi's safety.
So she asked Qin Mu to fly the plane to see where her father had run away and whether he had escaped from the pursuit of Jin Bing.
How could Qin Mu agree to her request. He was thinking that Yan Zongwang would capture Yelu Yanxi back to the Jin Kingdom according to the general records of history.
But in the face of Yu Liyan's request, he couldn't think of how to refuse for a while.
In the end, it was Jia Hongxian who relieved him.
"Girl, this plane can only take two people, even if you see your father, how can you pull him up?"
So Yu Liyan had to give up this idea.
This made Qin Mu breathe a sigh of relief. Don't care if the red line is right or wrong, let's not delay, let's take off, the goal, Wujiazhuang!