Chapter 22 Modern Small Commodities Exchange for Great Song Dynasty Crafts (II
Yalang Ma Yun saw with his own eyes that the man named Song Ziqiang once disliked a young plasterer for building a brick wall that was not straight, and seeing that the young plasterer was not convinced, he jumped on the springboard, picked up the trowel himself, and began to lay bricks! I saw that his clay knife flew up and down, mixed with yellow sand mud, and the green bricks were still decent!
It's pretty fast!
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Song Ziqiang was smoking at the time, and said coaxingly: "Your salary is so high, almost all of you are comparable to officials, and you must be worthy of your craftsmanship......
Song Ziqiang is not nonsense, in the Southern Song Dynasty, the annual salary of a prefect was about 400 guan, and a skilled technical worker had to reach 600 guan!
The young plasterer was not convinced, and said, "If I have work to do every day, the salary on the surface is more than that of the magistrate, but how can it be compared like this?!" In other words, which magistrate can live on his money? ”
Looking at the indignation of the young plasterer, Song Ziqiang was happy and said:
"Damn, you mean that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are corrupt?! Come, tell me two things, is this Lin'an County corrupt? ! ”
The plasterer's head rebuked the plasterer a few times, and the crowd said no more, but just kept their heads busy.
No one peeks at Song Ziqiang's smoking anymore, and it feels uncomfortable that Song Ziqiang beats him in the industry they are good at.
This made Song Ziqiang bored, and he had to go back to the room and fiddle with porcelain like Wu Dapeng.
They don't buy porcelain much at the moment, they have almost saved a room, look at this amount, when they travel back, they will have to choose again, and they can't bring it with them at once.
They brought a small notebook, which saved power, and a hand-cranked charger was enough.
Wu Dapeng quickly found out the information of the child's pillow through the previous database.
The ancients believed that this porcelain pillow could be eye-catching, and when they were old, they could read books with very small fonts, so no matter whether they were "rich or poor", there were people who liked it, and even in the palace, they were "used more".
It was founded in the Sui Dynasty and was popular in the Tang and Song dynasties.
The varieties of porcelain pillows are diverse, the shapes are varied, as early as the Tang Dynasty, there are excellent twisted tire pattern flower pillows, as well as leopard heads, Bai Ze, bear and other beast-shaped pillows.
In the Song Dynasty, there were more forms of porcelain pillows, and many kilns were fired one after another. The porcelain pillow is the most good new work of the kiln, there are long, square, child-shaped, and there are also made of lion carrying the Italian pillow, which is varied, and the tire glaze process is also innovative.
This porcelain pillow for children in Dingyao was collected in the Palace Museum.
Wu Dapeng touched the girl's version of the porcelain pillow and said, "The one in the Forbidden City is suitable for men, and we are suitable for women...... Good stuff too. ”
Song Ziqiang said: "How much can it be sold for?" ”
"Tens of millions are no problem......"
Song Ziqiang was about to get drunk at that time, this business is hard to get, life, it's really meaningful!
Wu Dapeng and others released the second batch of goods, this is mainly barter, they no longer want other people's cash, of course, the difference in the price of the exchange, of course, they still have to ask the other party.
As for taxes and things, I don't worry about them, let them calculate them themselves, I heard that there are a lot of commercial taxes.
It's not okay to suffer losses, they still have to live a better life in this Great Song Dynasty.
Compared with Wu Dapeng and Song Ziqiang's busyness, Wang Defa and Wan Shida are a little easier.
In this county town of Lin'an, there are only tens of thousands of people, and there is even a printing workshop, where there are still seven or eight craftsmen.
In addition to collecting old Song books, the two also specially asked that Yalang Ma Yun to take them there to take a look.
Fortunately, with his help, those craftsmen are authentic locals, who have not seen much of the world, and neither side understands each other's words.
Fortunately, people are not afraid of their visits.
As they knew in advance, although there was movable type printing in the Great Song Dynasty, movable type printing at that time was not reliable, due to the factors of material and ink, the printing effect was not good, so people only used it on some cheap prints, and regular books were still the world of engraving.
Those so-called cheap printed materials, such as official documents or merchants' boards, that is, posters and the like.
The only books that really need to be large and popular are those with engravings.
I don't know who deliberately regarded movable type printing as the main driving force to promote the invention of book printing in the Great Song Dynasty, but it actually only played a supplementary role and was blindly elevated.
This Wang Defa understands in his heart that the level of chemical industry cannot be developed, and the ink problem cannot be solved; The level of metallurgy and machining cannot be developed, and the problem of movable type cannot be solved.
Without these two things, this movable type printing would not be of any real use.
Wang Defa ordered a list by the way, the content is simple:
"A large number of old books, old calligraphy and paintings and old porcelain are purchased at high prices all year round! You can pay on delivery, or you can buy it at home. ”
After Yalang Ma Yun translated his request, the owner of the printing shop offered ten wen a piece.
Wang Defa was taken aback, you are robbing money, so expensive?! The information is clearly written, even in Lingao Mansion, a piece is only two or three cents, and you will definitely use movable type printing to do it, because this number of words is small!
But Wang Defa did not bargain with him, but agreed.
The owner of the printing shop looked like a bitter man.
His hands were rough, the lines on his hands were black, and his eyes were red.
It seems that he has taken care of the engraving and printing by himself, and the eyes of the people in this printing workshop are red, because they use their eyes too much, or they are smoked by pine Mingzi......
Wanshida lamented the area of this workshop, and it is really as big as you want.
In this Southern Song Dynasty, as long as crops could not be grown and ownerless land could generally be occupied, and the government often let it go.
This is related to the fundamental land policy of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty set a historical precedent and adopted the land policy of "no establishment of the land system" and "no suppression of annexation".
The correct interpretation is that in addition to snatching, you can get as much land as you have the ability, and my official family doesn't care what your land area is.
The Song Dynasty recognized people's selfishness, complied with the development requirements of private ownership of land, recognized and protected the legitimacy of private property rights of land and the commercialization of land, and allowed it to be transferred and sold according to economic laws, and the state no longer intervened, and even the state participated in it.
Song Gaozong said well, my public land in the Great Song Dynasty also has to harvest grain, if there is no output, then it needs to do much.
Landlords can reclaim new fields, and after the land produces crops, they can go tax-free for a certain period of time.
So everybody is interested in cultivating wasteland.
However, not all wasteland can be cultivated into grain fields, and in some places, even vegetable cultivation is not possible, and no one wants such a place.
The printing shop is located in a gravel field, and at first glance, it is about 10,000 square meters, and there are some bamboo fences inserted around it to indicate the approximate range.
After Wanshida and Wang Defa left here, the two were very interested in starting a workshop, and it has always been the desire of these two people to be entrepreneurs, real entrepreneurs.
The two of them came up with the idea at dinner.
In the evening, Jing Jing and Zhang Guoan fried a few more dishes, and everyone had a good drink.
Although the liquor of the Great Song Dynasty should be called water wine, it is definitely made of grain, damn eggs, hundreds of liters.
During this period, everyone had a smooth life and was happy.
Quiet is responsible for cooking for everyone, it was a little hard at the beginning, it was very sad to buy food, and it was too far to walk.
The housewives of Xiwai Village have their own vegetable gardens, and when they cook, they can easily solve the problem when they go to their own vegetable garden.
Quiet always can't go to people to ask for it, but they have to go to the vegetable market street in the county town to buy, and they haven't formed the conditions for a market here.
Zhang Guoan solved her problem in one sentence: "Let them send it, give more money......"
It dawned on Jing that yes, we are rich.
The craftsmanship of these two people is not picky, and they have already ordered living utensils according to their own requirements, and they are easy to do.
This meal has its own characteristics in this era of the Great Song Dynasty.
The food of the ancients was fresh when eaten once, and there was no head after eating it a few times, not to mention that it was too light, and the processing technique was single and the seasoning was single.
I don't know who is talking nonsense, thinking that ancient food is just better than modern food.
Zhang Guoan and Jing Jing cooperated skillfully together, and the mood was extremely relaxed, the symphony of pots and pans in the kitchen was played very freehand, and the smell of stir-fried vegetables and pots came for a while, and the dishes on this table were good.
Their fuel was charcoal, and the stove they used was a charcoal stove that they asked a blacksmith to make.
The ingredients of this Da Song are no different from the world of that side, needless to say.
But this method is different, and the taste is much better than that of Da Song.
Everyone didn't expect that this little couple could get river crabs...... Several people carefully peeled the crab shell with their hands.
Wu Dapeng took a big sip of liquor, and then ate the peeled crab roe in one bite, which tasted really good.
"This Southern Song Dynasty doesn't eat river crabs, right?"
Wu Dapeng asked casually.
Zhang Guoan said: "Eat." They are not much different from us. ”
But Zhang Guoan knew that in addition to the normal steaming of the people of the Song Dynasty, their raw pickled crabs were too scary.
This way of eating is the most incredible, but it was very popular in the Song Dynasty, and even the emperor's royal banquet would appear raw pickled crabs.
It doesn't matter if it's pickled raw, the key is to eat it raw after pickling, and don't cook it.
These two goods cleaned the crab, crackled and chopped it with a knife, and didn't care about the crab roe crab paste crab claw crab meat, chopped it like mud, shoveled it into a basin, mixed it with salt, vinegar, pepper, fennel, orange juice, garlic and other seasonings, and ate it directly.
The female chef Wu of Pujiang in the Southern Song Dynasty called this very vigorous "big dish" "crab sheng" in her monograph "Zhongfeng Lu", and Fu Qiu, a gourmand in the southern Song Dynasty, called this dish "hand-washing crab" in his monograph "Crab Book", which means that the crab is very fast, no need to steam, no need to fry, here the guest just finished washing his hands, and the host over there brought a pot of raw crab to the guest.
The question is, is the crab really delicious? Anyway, Zhang Guoan didn't dare to try.
Of course, there are also those who can eat.
Crab roe dumplings are similar to the crab roe soup dumplings commonly found in Yangzhou restaurants today, and they are all stuffed with crab roe and fatty pork. However, the crab roe soup dumplings were made of flour, while the crab roe dumplings of the Song Dynasty were made of tofu coatings.
Tofu coating is oil bean skin, it is a thin film of oil, much thinner than the dough, with it to wrap the stuffing to make steamed buns, the crab roe and fatty pork inside are clearly visible, it is spectacular.
When Cai Jing, the minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, was the prime minister, he held a meeting with hundreds of officials at home, and after the meeting, everyone was invited to drink, and after drinking, the staple food was served, and each person had a plate of "crab roe steamed buns".
Zhang Guoan knows that the steamed buns that the people of the Song Dynasty said are what we now call steamed buns, so the crab roe steamed buns may be crab roe soup dumplings.
Zhang Guoan and Jing Jing can also do it, the key is that it is too troublesome.
To really enjoy life, everything will wait until they make their first successful trade.