Chapter 20: The Second Gathering
Inheriting the position of village chief from Zu Heng is also a month in the blink of an eye. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The accumulated reputation value is as high as 11235 points, but unfortunately this thing can't directly strengthen the physical fitness, otherwise Li Yu will definitely turn himself into a demon who has broken through the sky with force and intelligence.
During this period, he spent 6,000 points, and finally let Ouyang Xing learn all the content of primary school Chinese. This is because he already has the knowledge of the first grade of primary school, otherwise he is afraid that it will cost more prestige.
With the knowledge of the sixth grade level of primary school, Ouyang Xing gradually became like a literati. At least write some straightforward articles, and help with some inconsequential chores a little, he is more than competent. As a deputy, he is qualified.
Even, Li Yu can leave the affairs of night school to him to deal with, and even help teach the little children during the day. Since only three subjects are taught: Chinese, Mathematics and Physical Education, the learning progress is naturally very fast. In addition, there is no need to impart some knowledge, and during this time, almost all the courses in the first grade of primary school have been completed.
Li Yu was lazy, or he had too many things to think about, so he simply used social internships as an excuse to ask these students to help with some things, such as teaching the villagers etiquette and rules in the night school, and helping them change their names by the way.
After all, everyone had no culture before, and the names were very casual, Ah Da Ah Er, Niu Niu Cat and Cat or something. Now everyone has a more elegant name, at least it sounds good, and after learning some etiquette and rules, it is a bit of a look. At least Li Yu didn't think that when they came into contact with outsiders, they would continue to be called barbarians.
In contrast, there are many ordinary people under the mountain, but I am afraid that they will not be able to compare with them.
In the beginning, it was not easy to get these casual guys to correct their bad habits. Thanks to Ouyang Xing and his continuous propaganda, he repeatedly promoted the concept of 'mountain people should be self-reliant and strive to be civilized people'. Even the little kids lead by example, which further stimulates their self-esteem and shame, and only then does they turn it back.
Seeing them slowly changing, Li Yu was also very happy. I am not afraid of vulgarity, but I am afraid of being accustomed to vulgarity, and getting used to vulgarity is not the most terrible, but the most terrible thing is to be content with vulgarity. That can be said to be a kind of self-exile and self-abandonment, and if people really reach this point, then it can be regarded as waste.
One can be poor, but at least the soul is noble. Although this is not filling, it can enhance self-worth. People always like Sven's sleek existence and hate sloppy and vulgar existence, no matter what era it is.
With the end of the month, it is already the end of autumn, and it will not be long before winter begins.
During this time, everyone was mobilized by Li Yu to pick a lot of wild vegetables and dry them into dried vegetables and reserve them. Since the amount of collection is a bit large, there are probably more than 300 catties of dried vegetables, and Li Yu plans to sell them. In addition, the meat of those prey is naturally left, but there are a lot of leftovers such as tiger whips, deer antler velvets and furs.
Li Yu spent 1,000 points of prestige to learn some methods of concocting medicinal materials, and concocted these as the existence of medicinal materials. With some herbs in the mountains, I am also ready to take down the mountains and sell them.
According to the calculations of the old villagers, all these things were sold, and there were about 200 yuan. Don't blame the low bid, everyone sells this thing, and the Chinese people always like malicious competition, in order to sell things, constantly lower the price, and finally make the businessman make a lot of money, but he can't make a lot of money.
These 200 guan are mainly used to buy salt, and the salt is running out, but I don't know if I can contact the person who sells it.
After all, salt is a controlled product, at least the imperial court will never allow merchants to sell it to mountain people. I used to get it from Zhang Shishang, but now I don't know where to get it. Before leaving, many villagers were very worried about this transaction.
Li Yu is also worried, but he is not worried about the problem of not being able to trade good things.
He has a system, and he has more than 4,000 points of prestige, he can buy a few stones of table salt back, and even a few packs of refined salt.
Not to mention iron, a 1-pound iron ingot only needs 30 prestige points, and if you buy about 50 catties, you can almost build the farm tools you need. After all, the agricultural tools in these years are mainly on the wooden body, with a small amount of iron on it, and not much iron is needed.
As for arrowheads or something, you can make do with obsidian or animal bones, and even stone arrows are not nothing. Materials like this are not uncommon among mountain people, and they are substitutes that are made without enough iron.
It's worse in terms of weapons, and there is not much iron needed for gun heads and short knives, but the key is that the amount of iron needed is relatively large, and there is no way to cope with 300-500 catties of iron. For Li Yu, even 300 catties of iron need 9,000 reputation points to exchange, and sure enough, the acquisition of reputation points is still a little slower, how can it not be enough!
Considering that there is no shortage of weapons in the village at present, Li Yu plans to rush to the market this time, and the exchange objects are mainly salt and customized farm tools. I asked the system directly, and I needed 3980 reputation points. Among them, 480 is the price of 2 stone of coarse salt, 3500 points is 100 catties of iron, and the cost of processing.
The biggest problem is how to hide from other villagers that these things are exchanged for these goods by selling them? Also, what to do with the money from the sale of goods! Sure enough, at present, we can only take one step at a time!
I sent someone to another village to inquire, only to find out that someone else had already traded last month. Fortunately, I didn't plan to go to Qianxian County to trade, if I went to Lingyang County Market to trade, I could go back and forth on the same day, and I didn't need so many people to go.
Lingyang County had been looted by Zuheng a few months ago, but it was mainly aimed at the surrounding family estates, and the people did not suffer any losses. As the months passed, the new lord of the manor began to be ready, and the people began to return to their previous lives. Everything was back to its original state as if nothing had happened a few months ago.
The market in Lingyang County is much more lively than in Qianxian County, and according to old villagers, there used to be a purchase point for the Zhang family. However, when I went inside to ask, I learned that the original Zhang family's acquisition point was no longer done, and it was replaced by the Gu family's people who bought it here.
Li Yu didn't want to deal with them anymore, so he directly found those low-level buyers to sell the goods. In fact, in the past, Zu Heng was similar, unless it was stolen goods, he rarely dealt with the acquisition point of the family.
Furs are naturally easy to sell, and those old men in Hebei rely on these furs to keep out the cold in winter! Needless to say, tiger whips and deer antler velvets are not to mention, especially Li Yu's concoction is still very good, and many businessmen are willing to buy them. Tiger whips and deer antler velvets of this quality are sold to Ruoyang, and the price is definitely not cheap!
Not to mention dried vegetables, there are very few things that can be eaten in winter, what vegetables can you eat other than dried vegetables? I have to say that Li Yu understands the needs of the market very well, and the things he sells can be sold for a large price. Others have the intention to compete, but either the quantity is not enough, or the quality is not enough, so they naturally can't compete with Li Yu.
After trading all the money, he earned 300 yuan, and after paying 120 yuan in taxes, Li Yu took it upon himself to secretly stuff 30 yuan into the hands of tax officials and tax collectors, and naturally won their favor. Of course, that's all there is to it!
Not everyone's character can be so rebellious, bribing someone once can secretly tell you something, or help you with something. For these tax officials and tax collectors, Li Yu is just a stranger, and the money is just a meeting gift.
At least, everyone knows each other, and it will be difficult to communicate again in the future? This tax official belongs to the subordinate officials of the county household, and everyone will be familiar with it in the future, and it will be much easier to contact the county officials and officials through it. In this way, the network can be cultivated more or less gradually.
There are still more than four years left for Li Yu, and then the Yellow Turban Rebellion will break out. He can indeed choose to join the Yellow Turban Sequence to fight against the big man. But everyone knew that the Yellow Turban Uprising would fail, and naturally he could not be on the side of the losers. The distance between Jiangnan and Jiangbei was too far, and it was impossible for him to run to Julu County, Jizhou to support Zhang Jiao.
Therefore, in the past four years, gaining the recognition of the imperial court and becoming the leader of the autonomous region like the state of Jian is his goal now. To this end, it is the first step to befriend the prefectural magistrate and even the prefectural magistrate, and get their approval!
Li Yu admitted that he was thinking too much, who made him too weak now? Now, even if he plays the banner of communism, he can't fight the local tyrants and divide the land openly. After all, this is not the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has not collapsed, the people are ignorant and more numb than later generations, and now playing slogans is nothing more than looking for death!
The villagers who came with him were all worried about whether the remaining 150 guan could buy salt. Now they feel that as long as they can buy dozens of catties of salt, they can make do with it.
Li Yu smiled, asked them to wait in place, and left like this. As for the 150 yuan, Li Yu really spent it, he found 3 low-level businessmen, gave 50 yuan each, and told them that he wanted to invest.
The other party naturally didn't understand what investment meant, so Li Yu told them that the 50 yuan would buy goods for them. Three months later, when they went to the market for the second time, they had to share half of the profits they earned this time, deducting the 50 yuan principal. Most of these businessmen's capital is around 30 yuan, and 50 percent can really help them become bigger, even if the profit is divided into fifty percent, they can still make a lot of money, so they naturally agreed.
Perhaps some of them also have the idea of taking the money and leaving the country. Li Yu doesn't care, he has a prestige system, and he is not short of money. On the contrary, he can cultivate a reliable trading partner, and there is an existence that can cover for him, which is what he desperately needs.
After doing this, Li Yu came back and told the villagers that the things would be transported outside the village in three days, and this time he took a special doorway, and the other party was willing to give him a preferential price. These villagers are naturally skeptical, but this was almost the case before, so everyone chose to believe Li Yu once.
After three days, Li Yu asked everyone to go to the designated place to collect things. When the villagers arrived at the location, they found two stones of coarse salt and a lot of iron parts for farming tools.
If these were before, it would have cost hundreds of times, but I didn't expect Li Yu to get them for only 150! Everyone was naturally curious about what path Li Yu had taken, and the latter whispered to them the word 'private'!
Everyone instantly understood that these were illegal salt and illegal iron. However, in terms of quality, it is much better than before.
Zu Lang suddenly asked: "Since the master has a doorway, why ......?"
He didn't finish speaking, but Li Yu understood, that is, why didn't he take it out earlier, saying that his father didn't need to die. Li Yu was also helpless, he didn't plan to stay in the village at that time, of course he couldn't take out his things.
"This road is not familiar to acquaintances, others don't dare to take over business, the village chief has only been here for a short time, how can he get it so quickly?" While Li Yu was speechless, some smart villagers helped answer this question.
Speaking of which, illegal salt and illegal iron are both illegal, and those caught will be beheaded. Therefore, the trading partner naturally needs to be safe, and they are willing to trade. Li Yu has only been here for a few months, and he was still in a semi-secluded state before, and he didn't understand anything, how could he gain the trust of others? Come to think of it, it was the last time I went to trade, and I just happened to find a way.
At that time, almost all the villagers went to live happily, except for Zu Heng and Li Yu, no one knew where they went and what they did. Villagers who knew about this matter would naturally think that Li Yu had found the way at that time. Anyway, Zu Heng also hung up, and there is no proof of death, who can know the truth?!
So Zulang also accepted this result, and could only sigh that his father died too undeservedly. Even so, the Zhang family planted a dead room in the village, and they also swallowed them a transaction, which was hundreds of guan (in fact, it was nearly four thousand, and the main reason for Zu Heng's action was to recover the money for Li Yu).
With Zu Lang's understanding of his father, suffering such a loss, even if there are other ways to trade in the future, I am afraid that he will have to fight with the Zhang family. knew his father Mo Ruozi, but made Li Yu completely suspicious.
Now that the things have been purchased, people have also begun to get busy for the arrival of winter under Li Yu's arrangement.
At the same time, in Tongxiang under the rule of Lujiang, one of the businessmen invested by Li Yu came to a courtyard. The courtyard is far from the town, overgrown with weeds but unmaintained, and the houses are very simple or even crude.
"My lord, my subordinates are back!" The merchant came to the hall of the house, where the owner was eating.
If you look at the menu on the table, you will find that the host here actually eats in an inferior earthen bowl, drinking a soup of quinoa, but eating coarse wheat rice. Not to mention what the man was wearing, it was actually a kudzu cloth that only a pariah would wear.
This is almost the lowest standard of living in society, but it is hard to imagine that this person's status does not seem to be so low!
"Look at you, you've acquired a lot of good things this time, right?" The man looked up and asked with a smile.
"I can't buy anything, but my subordinates have an adventure this time......" The merchant directly told what happened in this rush.
"Investment? How trustworthy is he to you? The man couldn't help but be amused.
"Exactly, if his subordinates run away with money, he is afraid that he can't do anything!" The merchant couldn't help but agree.
"Bold!" The man directly threw the bowl on the low table, and directly smashed the earthen bowl into pieces, "I and other Momen disciples have always kept their promises, morality first, Er'an dares to do this!" ā
"Brother Lin, he's just joking along with your words, why take it seriously?" At this time, another unruly voice came from the man's side.
"Yes, yes, it's really a joke! Momen rules are small, and they don't dare to forget! The merchant hurriedly replied.
"Brother Yang, what do you think about this matter? Did he do it intentionally, or unintentionally? The man looked to the side.
"I'm more curious about why he, a mountain man and a barbarian, understands the concept of investment. If the investment is successful, the money they will make may not be less than what they have worked hard to gather...... Yang was very curious about him! The man surnamed Yang smiled.
This is also where Lin is most confused...... Keep in touch with it to see what its intentions are! The man surnamed Lin ordered.
"Whoa!" The merchant hurriedly agreed, and then hurriedly took his leave.
"Why don't I go with me, it's really boring here!" The man surnamed Yang suddenly got up, turned around and followed.