June 7, 1647, Qing, Wuding Township, Luoqia County.

With a rooster crow, Liqun sat up from the head of the bed in a daze. After being stunned for a long time, he suddenly remembered something, only to see him lift the pillow and carefully count the stack of "banknotes" hidden under the pillow, and then grin reassuringly. The acceptance bill of the Northwest Reclamation Bank of 200 yuan, God, when did we become so rich?

After smirking for a while, Liqun put on a cotton garment for himself, then put on a pair of cotton shoes and got out of bed. The door was wide open, and from time to time a cold morning breeze blew in from outside the door, which made Li Qun feel excited. His foreign mother-in-law opened the door early in the morning, which was really disappointing, Li Qun yawned, and then Shi Shiran walked to the door and leaned against the door frame.

Under the eaves hung a hanging basket under the wooden rafters, and Liqun walked lightly to it, and inside was his sleeping son. Liqun looked at his sleeping son and laughed silly for a while, and then walked out into the courtyard again. At this time, the sunlight in the yard was a little dazzling, and Li Qun squinted his eyes to get used to it for a while, and then picked up a piece of corn from the steaming tin stove and nibbled it on, serving it as breakfast.

After eating, Liqun casually threw the clean-nibbed corn cob at the foot of the wall, and several Gallic chickens, who had been pacing leisurely in the house, immediately fought for it, pecking at the food residues on the corn cob. Liqun laughed, and then went out for a stroll.

At this time, his Greek aunt should still be cutting sweet potato vines in the field. Wuding Township was newly established and belonged to the "backward agricultural township", and every household only planted five acres of thin land allocated by the government. So far, only a few households have spent more money to buy some land. The crops grown are also maize, potatoes and sweet potatoes. The income is generally not high, which is really far from the "traditional agricultural township" in the northern Yazihu area. Therefore, every family here will help Luoqia Leather Factory to tann some raw hides in their spare time to earn some pocket money to subsidize the family.

When Liqun's neighbor, Huang Renshi, the newly appointed village head, held a meeting outside the village's water carrying station a few days ago, he ambitiously proposed to go to the township to ask for special agricultural loans and encourage the villagers to cultivate more fields. In the future, if conditions permit, the three-crop rotation system will be carried out in the village.

Liqun is not optimistic about this. Huang Renshi was a veteran of the 1O3 Company of the 6th Army, and was reluctant to go to the Invalids Farm after Corrientes was discharged from the army due to injury. So he was settled here by his superiors to serve as the village head. This man's military career has come to an end, but he still wants to improve in his career, so he puts forward some unrealistic ideas, which is understandable, but it does not mean that he will agree with his opinion. Soldiers, they all belong to the passionate but not old enough, what Li Qun admires, is still like Zhu Heng Zhu Master who is old and very decisive when he should make a move - although he has always been hurting others.

After wandering around the neighbor's house a few times, Li Qun turned around and walked on a small dirt road at the east end of the village. The road leads to the village market, and today is the weekend market. At the same time, it is the beginning of winter on the east coast, and the market must be more popular than usual. Therefore, Liqun, who was very bored, decided to go to the market and buy some meat, noodles and other things by the way. It's winter, it's time to eat dumplings, Liqun smacked his lips, and then walked up the small dirt road with his hands behind his back.

On the side of a small dirt road, a group of English and Scots (both who have crossed the border from Brazil) in sky-blue jeans are planting oak trees. Liqun was not interested in the stowaways, who had been sentenced to a year's hard labor, so he quickened his pace and soon arrived at the bazaar.

Today's bazaar is really popular, but Liqun took a closer look, but now there are more people watching and fewer people buying. For example, the Tatar butcher from the Crimea sold mutton, and a group of people gathered around him to bargain with him, but few people bought it, for no other reason, the price was too expensive.

The butcher's eldest son, dressed in a pair of leather trousers, was skinning a goat that had been hooked to a wooden shelf, and his skills seemed skilled, reminding him of when he killed sheep for the village Xiucai Gong in his hometown in Henan. It's just that he killed sheep at the beginning, but the world was broken, and then he killed people when he killed......

Liqun walked over with his hands behind his back, picked and chose at the mutton stall, and then picked four catties of mutton and two catties of mutton bones. The butcher did the math and said in a puzzling Chinese accent: "It's five dimes in total." ”

Liqun bared his teeth slightly, and it tripled! However, recently, he has made a lot of money in his business by engaging in grain speculation, and he is not short of money at all, so he took out a five-yuan bank acceptance bill from his pocket and handed it over.

The butcher wiped his hands on his greasy clothes, took the money order with a frown, and said, "If you pay with a money order, it will cost six dimes, and this is the market now." When I went to the countryside to collect sheep, I used silver dollars, and the countrymen did not recognize bills of exchange. My small business is not easy to turn, so I can only charge you a dime more. ”

Liqun was a little speechless. However, he was in a good mood to-day, and did not intend to argue with the brute, so he took the four silver coins and four dime silver coins that the butcher had found. After buying the mutton, he went to buy dumpling wrappers for a dime and a half cents, as well as spices such as green onions and ginger for a few cents. After buying it, he felt that he was still unsatisfied, so he went to buy ten expensive eggs for two dimes, and all the ingredients for today's dumplings were all ready.

All of the above costs a total of one yuan, which is one-sixth of the monthly salary of the average worker on the East Coast, and it really can't be considered cheap. A year ago, it probably only cost less than four dimes to buy all these things, which shows the impact of the shortage of materials caused by the war on the lives of ordinary people in the past year.

Of course, this is only relative to the old nationals, and for the new immigrants of the Ming or Livonia, they can eat the essence of white flowers, and occasionally eat some cheap meat provided by the government (cured whale meat) or drink some beer, which is a paradise compared to the precarious life of the past. As for the shortage of materials and the rise in prices caused by the war, they don't have any personal feelings, because these people don't usually go to the market to spend money on things. They saved almost every penny, and for every five yuan they saved, they bought a permit from the government to reclaim an acre of wasteland.

After all, for them, land and food are one thing. As for consuming non-necessities, I'm sorry, they don't have the habit of doing so. This, coupled with the lack of a large number of craftsmen on the East Coast to manufacture all kinds of small commodities (including sewing needles and fish hooks), had to import large quantities, which led to the high prices of many non-necessities, which made these frugal farmers fearful.

Liqun has been on the East Coast for two years, and he is barely an old national. Although many goods such as tobacco, sugar, liquor, and cocoa disappeared from the shelves of government stores because of the war, his attitude towards the war was not as full of complaints as his business partners. Those large and small merchants were originally engaged in foreign trade business in Colonia, but now that the war broke out, they were naturally unemployed, so they were full of complaints about the government.

Although Liqun was also a businessman, he was full of contempt for these people: What is it? At the beginning, they came to the east coast without food, and now that they have made a little money in business, they don't know how many catties and taels they have, and they actually question the necessity of the government to start a war.

The hottest part of the market is the stage, where hundreds of farmers are watching. Li Qun looked at it from a distance, and today it is still an old play - "Five Warriors of Santa Fe", which tells the story of the deputy commander of the 1o1 company of the 6th Army, Shou Daoist and four officers and soldiers on the east coast, who fought bravely and with unstoppable white-knuckle combat to defeat the surprise attack of the barbarians in the pouring rain, and finally captured the enemy's position with his comrades. At this time, the play had reached the end of the play, and the "Shou Daoist" killed the "Spanish captain" with a knife, and then said a great line, and the audience cheered warmly. In particular, the half-grown boys who looked like five or six students rushed to the stage excitedly, and then shouted some radical slogans, as if they wanted to incarnate the officers and soldiers of our Great East Coast who were engaged in white-knuckle combat with the barbarians at that time.

Liqun also likes to watch this play, and when he first came out, he watched it six times in a row, and he almost never got tired of watching it. I still remember that when I watched it for the first time, he was as excited and couldn't help himself as these students, but it was a pity that the army didn't accept him, which made people helpless. Thinking of this, Li Qun took out a banknote from his waist again, and saw that it was a five-yuan bank acceptance bill, and after thinking about it, he put it back and drew a ten-yuan face note again, and then strode to the military donation box by the stage and put the ten-yuan bill in it.

After doing this, Liqun left the bustling bazaar and walked all the way back to his home. His Greek daughter-in-law had returned home, and was feeding the pigs, and after instructing her to process the vegetables and meat and eat dumplings in the evening, Liqun took out an old horse from the military horse farm in the livestock pen, turned over and rode on, and then went to the port of Rocha.

Today, Master Zhu Heng Zhu invited some businessmen in the county with assets of more than 200 yuan to gather at his house, ready to discuss how to do the next business, after all, it is not a way to sit back and eat. The grain business will not last, because soon many people will raise funds to follow Zhu Heng and others to sell grain, and their profits will inevitably become thinner and thinner, so it is really necessary to think in the long run, and it is best to open up a new source of wealth. (To be continued......)

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