Xiaobei and the others wanted to go to a place in Fengzhou to see potatoes, so they walked along the Yellow River.

Coming out of the capital to the east first, turning a bend to the north, it is exactly the route of the Yellow River. It's better than going over the mountains and then going to the desert.

It's not that their team can't get through such a steep terrain, but it's meaningless, it's difficult, it's slow, and they expect to meet people for ten days and a half months.

Walking along the Yellow River is different, the Yellow River is a mother river, and people must rely on a water source if they want to live.

Xiaobei and the others made up their minds to have more contact with people along the way, saying that they didn't expect to catch a corrupt official or anything.

The current officials have become smarter, especially after the imperial court did not give land but replaced it with a simple salary, coupled with the almost semi-monthly inspection of the secret visits, and the evaluation of a handsome reward when leaving office.

The officials calculated the cost of the crime and found that after leaving Datang without huge benefits and a way to live a good life, they chose to be honest officials.

The Tang Dynasty paid a lot of money for the inspectors, which seemed to add an additional financial burden, but in reality it made the treasury more revenue than before.

The officials who were eligible to participate in the early morning court understood what was going on, and the local officials had lost thousands of times more money than the inspectors through various means.

What is more important is that once the officials put their minds on how to be greedy for money, they will inevitably be unable to invest more energy in governing the localities, and once a habit or potential rule is formed, the officialdom will be chaotic, the people will no longer support the court, and lose the support of the people, no matter how much you build the Great Wall, no matter how tall you build, it is useless.

Therefore, Xiaobei and the others can only try to find trouble from the perspective of the official's ability, but it is difficult to find which official secretly put the money into his pocket.

Walking by the Yellow River, you can get close to the people, stop and take a look at every place, and then invite everyone to sing a song, dance, and have a meal.

It is impossible to say that there is no offense in the autumn, according to the people, why do you come here to do it if you don't commit it? Could it be that the people in our village don't like you like that? Obviously walked to our door but didn't even say hello? Offended you? Do you still think of us as Tang people?

In such a situation, during the trip of more than a month, Xiaobei and the others had nearly half a month to help the people repair the houses, and each of the nine little guys plus Xu Yilong drank more than a pound of wine, which was excessive.

The only thing to be thankful for is that before coming out, I have considered the problems that will be encountered on the road, prepared a lot of food and building materials, and the toolbox is also a set, as well as the knife surface of the kitchen knife, the head of the hoe and other accessories, which are used to exchange and give away, and the corresponding wood handle, I believe that the people will make it themselves and install it.

The people along the way took out their own dried vegetables, bacon, ham, etc. to entertain, and Xiaobei and their team used to cook without saying a word, and they didn't give a penny, giving hurt feelings, and could only make up for it with other extra things.

Today, Xiaobei and his team came to Xialu Village, which is next to the Yellow River in Zhenxiang County, Yinzhou.

The population of the village is not large, and the record of last year's census was 210 households, 1,305 people, and this year according to the normal situation, there will be a few, a dozen, or dozens of more people, and it is difficult to determine, and it is necessary to see how many children are born and how many people die.

Relatively speaking, the data is quite accurate, there is no situation where someone in the family has not entered the household registration and does not report, it involves welfare, especially children, you said that your family accidentally gave birth to twins three times in a row, don't be afraid, don't fine, give you back the money, too able to give birth, you have to be rewarded, and you don't need to worry about whether the child has food, the court helps you raise, if your family is still twins this year, and even invite you to make a report, how did your family get it? Is there a secret recipe?

"The village chief of Xialu Village is surnamed Zhao, 42 years old this year, and he succeeds his father, his father is the previous village leader, and his grandfather is the previous village leader, and his great-grandfather ...... Unknown, detailed details, not auspicious, without any academic qualifications? Diploma? There is no enrollment record. ”

When he was about to arrive at Xia Lu Village, Xiao Yuan held a piece of paper in his hand to make an introduction.

"I'll let you memorize it, and you read it? Who can't read it, you see I read it to you, he ...... Why are there no words on the paper? Xiaobei muttered dissatisfiedly, grabbed the paper to read, but was dumbfounded, paper is paper, a paper like a big white character book, there is a blank on it, much cleaner than Tianzi.

"Xiaoyuan, you bully me, brother, look at Xiaoyuan, he is pretending to be a blank piece of paper." Xiaobei was unhappy again, and pulled Xiaohai to complain.

Xiaohai was silent, no matter how much he protected his sister, he couldn't be shameless, right? No matter how good the logic is, I can't find a reason to favor my sister in it.

The others were also silent, which made Xu Yilong feel a little dignified, and just about to open his mouth to ease up, Xiaobei took the paper and looked at Xiaoyuan with a smile, and said, "Xiaoyuan, I know, you want to surprise me, right?" ”

"You can pull it down, what a surprise, last night when everyone was eating, you gave me a piece of information, let me see, I will sweep it twice, and you pulled me and asked Sinong Temple how many experimental sites there are here, what do you let me do? I can only memorize pictures according to the methods taught by my brother and sister, and now you ask me about the local situation, how can I concentrate on recalling pictures without taking a blank piece of paper? ”

Simple and real Xiaoyuan said what he thought in his heart.

Xiaobei pouted: "Xiaoyuan, you can't find a daughter-in-law in your life, and the official who can't coax a girl is not a good genius, hum!" Ah, a group of people rushed over, it must be from Xialu Village, Xiaoyuan, how do you describe Zhao Cunzheng in the information? ”

"I didn't write it, I was forty-two years old." Xiao Yuan replied, looking at his expression, he knew that he didn't care what Xiao Bei said.

Xu Yilong next to him found that he was nervous again, and the atmosphere didn't matter to the nine of them, looking at Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan, he shook his head, and there was endless envy in his heart. He didn't believe that Xiaobei would marry Xiaoyuan, habit was terrible, and what was even more terrifying was Xiaoyuan's character and talent.

Xiao Bei, who had forgotten what had happened in a blink of an eye, was staring at the crowd, suddenly clapped his hands, and shouted happily: "I know, the one who is surrounded in the middle is Muramasa, forty-two years old, slightly old." ”

Xiao Yuan interjected very shamelessly: "That's his father, seven out of fifty this year." ”

"How do you know?" Becky was not convinced.

"Because his father has a record, there is little hair on the top of his forehead, his temples are over his shoulders, and he has a double mole on his left cheek." Xiaoyuan added.

"I really can't afford to be hurt this day, Xiaoyuan, you insist on saying it all next time, even if I interrupt you." Xiaobei saw that it was indeed the middle person who was bald, and the person who was holding him next to him was probably the current Muramasa.

Seeing that the person was getting closer, Xiaobei first looked at the guard next to him, and the guard nodded, meaning that the previous spies confirmed that there was no danger in the crowd.

Xiaobei immediately hit the head and ran over, the main target was the bald old man, as for the current village masa, I'm sorry, your father is more important than you, if you dare to find fault, I will arrest you to mine when you turn around, charge: unfilial piety.

"Uncle Zhao, why are you here in person? We should have gone to see you, but you're in such good shape, and I'd be so tired from running here from our village that I'm panting. Xiaobei, who ran to the front, raised his head and greeted happily.

Not to mention Xiaobei's official position and background, just by virtue of his appearance and current expression and words, he won the favor of all the villagers, how good is it, that is, Xiaobei accidentally broke one of people's thermoses, not only will people not say that Xiaobei did something wrong and put on a face, but will say that he has long wanted to change to a new one, and has not made time to kick, and by the way, he also kicked another thermos to make Xiaobei listen to a sound and enjoy it.

That cute appearance makes people unable to feel any unhappiness even if they do something wrong, and they will worry that Xiaobei will not be able to go, and the 'our village' in the words suddenly shortens the distance.

Lao Cun was holding his sideburns with both hands, smiling so much that his eyes were almost out of sight, he nodded again and again, and said, "Our Xiaobei is affected, this is my useless son, Zhao Wucan." ”

"I, I mean." The current Muramasa Zhao Wu was able to correct his father's words, and his voice was slightly lower.

"Can you? What can you do? No, I made a mistake when I first became a naturalized citizen, and it was nothing. Can you have half of our Xiaobei's ability? Lao Cunzheng showed no mercy and reprimanded with a straight face.

When he turned his head to face Xiaobei and the other nine people who came up, he changed his expression again, and was kind like a father, and said: "I heard that you are going to Fengzhou, don't worry, go home for two days first, the village is all ready, there is nothing else, there are many fish, don't look at the Yellow River frozen, there are a lot of fish in the village when you go to the net, and they are raised in a warm pond." ”

Xiaobei's eyes quickly rolled twice, and nodded: "Eat, are there any carp?" We love to eat the Yellow River carp, with a hint of earthy smell, when I followed my brother and sister to India, eating fish in the stream, very unaccustomed, not to taste the earthy, less hometown feeling. ”

Xiao Yuan and the others nodded violently in agreement.

In fact, they really don't want to eat it, and the fish they caught before they are frozen will be sold for a large price when the weather is cold again. But if you don't eat, you can't eat, not only do you have to eat, but you also have to make a very urgent appearance, otherwise you will look at what is needed in the village, and you can only make up for it when the time comes.

Seeing that the little ones agreed happily, the people in the village were happy, turned around and walked back, Xiaobei grabbed one of the old villagers' hands, jumped up, and talked while walking: "Uncle Zhao, are there many people in our village who dig ice and catch fish in winter?" ”

"Not much, digging ice is a hard job, far away from the big county, not fresh and worthless, like raising in advance, if you don't know that you are coming, you will be transported to the county seat early, rent a few rooms in the village over there to raise, and then sell it then." Lao Mura replied naturally.

Xiaobei nodded: "Oh, why don't you use the charcoal brazier to float on the water?" ”

"You have to go over the mountain, do you think the charcoal brazier will turn over?"

"Yes, Uncle Zhao, I suddenly remembered something, there is a thermometer in our village, right?" Becky asked again.

"Yes, hatching chicks and ducklings, your family sends, I take care of it when I don't hatch the chicks, I turn it around once a day when I hatch, no one is allowed to say that it is lost, the people in the village all know, although the thermometer is small, but there is a lot of technology, the country next to it also dreams of having it, but it can't be made, I have to keep it, I can't blind Xiaobao and Juan Juan's heart."

Lao Cun is speaking very seriously at this time, which can be regarded as a guarantee.

Xiaobei clicked his lips: "The cost of that thing is very low, someone robbed it, in order to ensure your safety, give it to them, turn around and report to the official, there are meteors to solve it." Since I have a thermometer, I happened to bring a thing, a heater, a hand-cranked, hand-cranked power generation, which gets hot when it passes through the resistance, and takes two sets out to sell fish in the winter. ”

Xiaobei said as he asked people to send two sets, which were not small in size, the size of the bench that is usually used.

The old man took a closer look at the one in his hand, and said: "The east and west villages have been collected, we still have to protect the thermometer desperately, if someone is strong, it will make the robbers give birth to our weak thoughts, and next time someone will rob it, a needle is not small?" Whoever will rob it, chop whose hand, so that those who want to make up their minds will avoid it when they think of Xia Lu Village. Just like dealing with a thief, he will be beaten to death if he is caught, and let him know that he is afraid that it is not right to steal. ”

"Okay, I support it, fight to the death, kill it and count it mine." Xiaobei sees that people are strong-willed, and he will not say anything about the law with others, and there may be a situation where someone exploits loopholes, but in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The old village is sending Xiaobei and a few people to the village, and most of the team stays by the river, otherwise the village will not be able to arrange it.

There are also a few relatively strong village men who protect the hand-cranked heater, and they don't play any tricks to push and not collect, and they happily accept Xiaobei's gift, they know very well that two bench-sized gadgets are an important tool for increasing income in winter.

"Uncle Zhao, don't worry when things are broken, send me a telegram, someone will come up with the fastest speed to solve it, try to catch big fish in winter, release small fish, live by the river, leave something for others and children and grandchildren, don't catch it."

Xiaobei followed everyone to the village, and on the way, he did not forget to tell the old village what to do.

"Understand, understand, catching the big and letting go of the small, catching the male and releasing the female, is the rule of hunting, but also the rules of fishing, especially when bringing cubs. If something is broken, it will always trouble you, so we will find a few people to send it to the capital to repair. Lao Cun Zheng glanced at the heater from time to time and said happily.

Xiaobei shook his head: "Don't bother me, I can't see the telegram you sent, the name is ours, the people below will do it, unless we need to clean up the officials will notify us, we have a special line in every telegraph office, it is convenient to use, and there are not tens of thousands of telegrams to us on any day?" Leaving it all to us will exhaust us. Hey? Sugar man? ”

Xiaobei, who was telling the truth, suddenly saw a person in the village carrying a box on his body, and this person also carried a coal stove in his hand, which at first glance seemed to be used for heating, and then looked carefully, and found that there were several rows of small holes in the wooden box.

Recalling, Xiaobei remembered the candy blower, so he asked tentatively.

Lao Cun was stopping and beckoning to the man: "Hanzi, come here, Xiaobei and they want to eat candy." ”

When the man arrived, the old village was introducing Xiaobei to a few people: "The old craft heirloom in the village, used to pinch clay people, and then the price of wheat stabilized, and began to pinch noodles. ”

"Okay, good, the clay man and the noodle figure should continue to be pinched, it is a craft. Don't talk about it, just talk about toys, there are also moldings in it, help me blow a panda. "Becky made a very difficult request, the panda does not care about the shape, but the color.

"I want a koala." Xiao Yuan thought of something equally cute.

"Sensei listen to Xiaoyuan, koalas are only available in Luzhou and Chang'an, and ordinary people have never seen them." Xiaobei was afraid that the other party would be embarrassed and helped to solve the siege.

Xiaozhu stood up, opened the painting clip, and used a pencil to brush on the paper a few times to draw three pictures, one front, one side, and one back, Koala.

Her craftsmanship startled the honest man, and she commented very sincerely: "Amazing." ”

"Of course it's amazing, and you still need to say it, blow it quickly." Muramasa Zhao can finally find an opportunity to interject.

Hanzi was indeed honest and obedient, put down the stove, and baked an iron box on the shelf, which was syrup, and it seemed to have been boiled before.

Hanzi picked out a piece of syrup, dipped his hand in the bowl next to him with some white powder, and began to process the syrup into a hollow shape like a large drop of water.

Xiaobei frowned slightly, and the old village was busy explaining: "Starch, not talcum powder, can be eaten." ”

"Talcum powder can also be eaten, I'm thinking about who will blow it in a while." Xiaobei didn't care why the other party hadn't washed his hands before.

"Whoever buys it blows, it's too young to make a force, and it's difficult for the child's adult to blow it." Only then did Hanzi speak.

Xiaobei nodded, admitting that it is difficult for the sugar man to be blown by the person who bought it, but this is an important place to test the craft, I have seen one in Yizhou before, the success rate is very high, I don't know how the fool in front of me is.

When Xiaobei was thinking, Hanzi handed over the candy and said, "Blow, you have to ...... your strength"

"Yes, look at me." Xiaobei didn't use the other party's introduction to how to make a force, puffed up his mouth and blew, Hanzi began to pinch the shape, and when Xiaobei breathed and snorted, the panda had already formed.

Hanzi was very satisfied and smiled kindly at Xiaobei.

"Xiaobei, you are amazing." Zhao Wuneng followed up with praise again.

Xiaobei is modest: "It's okay, at this time, pay attention to cooperation, as the saying goes, you are not afraid of god-like opponents, but you are afraid of pig-like teammates." ”

"Who said that?" Zhao Wu has a strong desire to learn.

"My brother." Little Becky answered.

"Makes sense." Zhao Wu can immediately follow suit.

Hanzi is painting the panda at the moment, and he doesn't know whether he is holding a brush or a small brush, dipping it in something like black powder to brush the panda, and then dipping it in starch to fix the color.

"What's black?" Xiaobei was a little worried and asked.

"Sugar." The old village is giving the answer.

Xiaobei was relieved this time, she didn't ask why the sugar was black, and she didn't ask if the black sugar was bitter, she knew that the process and heat were controlled and there was absolutely no problem, and her brother could make the sugar colorful, the easiest way to make black was black dates, purple was ripe mulberries, and boiling syrup could show the sugar from white, yellowish, golden, red, and black.

Of course, this requires a lot of deep skills, and theoretically it doesn't mean that everyone can do it all.

A panda was completed in the hands of Hanzi, who took Xiaozhu's painting and looked at it carefully, and remade the hollow 'water' droplets.

The people around did not show any surprise, Datang's craftsmen look at pictures and make things is the most basic professional quality, which belongs to the entry level, and some masters even require apprentices to do the same.

Zhao Wuneng looked at Xiaobei fiddling with the panda there, thought about it, and said: "From the perspective of the transformation of the Hanzi family's craftsmanship, it can well reflect the economic development, clay people, noodle people, sugar people, in their excess, the policy of the imperial court is in the first place, and the last thing about the economic improvement is that there is no sugar man, because sugar is no longer a necessity for people." ”

"You little, you still don't admit that you are incompetent." Lao Cun is beginning to teach his son, the forty-two-year-old cub son.

"At the end of economic development, people are not only pursuing sugar, but the craft of making candy people, when sugar is not worth anything, craftsmanship is valuable, Xiaobei, am I right?"

"Uncle Zhao is so powerful, my brother and sister said, when the flashy squint, people will cherish the simplicity in their hearts more, in fact, just now I wanted to say to make a few models, put the sugar in it, and blow it directly in the molding, and then think about it, how to reflect the craftsmanship in that case? Volkswagen stuff is low production cost, fast processing, easy to use, but not valuable. ”

Xiaobei gave a thumbs up with a free hand.

"Uh-huh!" Lao Cun was coughing and glancing at his son with his spare eyes.

"Didn't you say that the more gorgeous the better?" Zhao Wuneng was not convinced.

Xiaobei patted the clothes on her body and said, "Who can position Gorgeous Beauty?" Look at my clothes, the lining and the outside are pure cotton, and the inside is sandwiched with duck down, clean, concise, generous, and comfortable, isn't this another form of gorgeousness? You can't make all kinds of flowers on my clothes?

Look at my head again, the two horns are tugging, and the rest of the hair is draped and tied with a pale yellow head rope, isn't it beautiful? Isn't it more pleasing to the eye than wearing a head of all kinds of gold and shining stones? Don't I have a fist-sized pearl in my house? Green mountains, green water, blue sky, pure is not gorgeous? ”

Zhao Wuneng looked at Xiaobei carefully, had to nod, and admitted: "It's obviously a very simple dress, why does it feel luxurious?" ”

"Because it's pure enough, monotony doesn't mean boring, a bowl of white rice with a strong rice aroma is better than egg fried rice, and the dry noodles kneaded with good noodles are more like snacks than cakes, I have always felt that wild vegetable soup is better than vegetarian stewed soup, and the faint earthy smell has a different fragrance. Cherish it, the Yellow River has a lot of sediment but it may not be unclean, because it is filtered by the sediment, I give you distilled water every day, can you stand it? ”

This is said by Xiaoyuan, it sounds very reasonable, and it makes people feel comfortable.

When it was his turn to speak, a koala pinched out, followed by several other children, including Xu Yilong, and a maid also asked for one, Little Pig, she said that she was a pig, and she had a birthday tomorrow, and she was going to put a sugar man on the cake.

Hanzi is still serious about the production, he doesn't dare to look down on the maid, it depends on whose family, the maids of the Sanshui Zhang Wang family are the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and songs, and can go to the hall and the kitchen, and can also be in the battlefield against the enemy.

Ordinary people don't expect to marry such a daughter-in-law, saying that there are hundreds of thousands of yuan in the family, sorry, don't talk about money, the maid is not a monthly example, only say that seasonal clothes and gouache are more than 200 times a month, it is the purchase price, and the production cost of their own home is not so high.

The most important thing is knowledge, you said that if you take a jade cup or a green cup of water seed to drink at home, you have to consider what people usually serve when they serve people, glass or dragon? accidentally fell to the ground, cleaned up and changed the set, no one reprimanded her, if you have to say that someone has a lot of things, it must be the housekeeper, ask her why she is careless, what if she cuts herself? How dare you say that you don't scold her if you fall a few times?

Just like Xiaobei's mothers Zhang Wang and Wang Qiaoer, what do you think she cares about? She lives with her husband guarding the Zhuangzi, do you think taking something valuable can make her envy you? What she cares about is very simple, that is, her family, her husband works hard to study, her parents-in-law are harmonious, and her children are sensible and promising.

The maids and manservants of the Zhang Wang family are the same, they can only look for a partner inside, and they can't go out at all, because they can't find a suitable one. And their status is only low when they are at home and serving the Lord's house, but not at all when they go out alone. When others quarrel, they have to listen to every word of advice, not only to know who their master is, but also to understand their ability, and what they say is even more convincing than the punishment of the officials of the yamen, selfless and just.

So no people really see them as human beings. For example, now the maid wants a little pig, is it overdue? Don't exceed the system, Xiaobei they didn't say anything, respect and love are in the heart, not the surface, at the critical moment the maid can stand up for Xiaobei and they block the knife, she doesn't fall, Xiaobei and they will be fine, it's better than usually looking at the system, and running away when in danger.

"Ah, I almost forgot, Sister Xiaoxiao will celebrate her birthday tomorrow, October 20, and she will be born on the twentieth day of October, and she will be ...... when she is a child," Xiaobei said speculatively.

"What's the time? It's ugly three moments, the five elements lack wood, after the night let's find a place with a lot of forests to celebrate the birthday of Xiao Xiao's sister, but we can't take the place behind the mountain, too yin, and can't take the place to welcome the sun, the sun, you have to choose well. Xiao Yuan immediately took over and corrected it, a strong memory is this kind of benefit, which makes people comfortable.

"Thank you, little lady Bei and little boys, for remembering the slave family." The maid Xiaoxiao was really moved, and said that the main family remembered the birthday of the next person, did you? Yes! But it's just one or two, and it's the kind that's very reused.

For example, Li Longji knew about Gao Lishi's birthday, and remembered it very well, and the princes and princesses also remembered it, but in the past, Li Longji would not help celebrate, he would only take a holiday, and he would find a reason to take a day off.

So Gao Lishi was already very happy, otherwise he would not be so loyal, and because of his loyalty, he won the favor of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, and even let Zhang Xiaobao recognize his father-in-law. A man is faithful to his degree, and no one is embarrassed to find fault with him, even if he is still a eunuch.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan have both been betrayed, otherwise the information of the two people would not be revealed, and that kind of pain is truly unforgettable.

And Wang Juan can't grasp the information that Zhang Xiaobao has been in prison again and again to learn the ability to change his identity, and Zhang Xiaobao can't do it at the last moment to have the ability to get out of Wang Juan's mastery. Who is in heaven? Who's in hell?

So Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan like Colliers, because he doesn't betray, but they always feel that Li Longji gives Colliers too little, and you don't show up for people's birthdays? Well, you don't come out and we're out. So Li Longji had to come forward to follow.

In recent years, Gao Lishi's birthday has been celebrated by four people, he, Li Longji, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, Zhang Xiaobao will make a very small cake, followed by more than 20 dishes, prepare the dishes, cook them on the same stove, and it will be a table of dishes in a short time.

Gao Lishi is a special case, even the prince has to call him a master, and there are a lot of subordinates of the Zhang and Wang families, so I don't think everyone who follows the team will be remembered.

Xiao Xiao knew these things, and what moved her was not Xiaoyuan's memory, but Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan's willingness to remember. She believes that the whole team of more than 20,000 people, the little boy and the little lady can remember everyone's birthday, because there are only about 350 days a year, just remember the number of days.

Xiao Xiao knew Xiao Yuan's little son's ability, but the people in Xia Lu Village didn't know it, and they were shocked to hear Xiao Bei and Xiao Yuan directly say the birthday of a maid.

Xiao Xiao, who got his birthday present, happily ran away. Becky began to carefully inquire about the situation in the village.

The old village replied, the son of the village helped to supplement, and the villagers interjected from time to time, each of them lied and deceived, and even revealed that the village deliberately underreported the rent of 77 buckets this year.

"This ...... It was our selfishness that we underreported the harvest when it was clear that it was good, just to keep some more money for the public use in the village. ”

Lao Cun was talking, and when he faced Xiao Bei, he actually looked ashamed, he really couldn't lie under Xiao Bei's watery and innocent eyes.

The people in the village are very nervous, concealing it, taking the benefits of the imperial court, seeing a doctor, raising children, providing for the elderly, education and other things without spending money.

Xiaobei nodded naturally and said: "Less is less, in fact, our Datang really doesn't care about you underreporting that little food, brothers and sisters cherish food, we also don't waste food, it's not that Datang is short of food now, but it's not easy to control, we have to seek a balance between it, of course, the main thing is that our family doesn't have the habit of throwing away a lot of staple food." ”

"Not lacking? No one is starving? "Lao Cun Zheng didn't believe it.

Xiaobei was even more unconvinced, and said: "Some people can't eat enough, but it's not a problem of food, it's that they live too remotely, and the normal official roads can't be passed, and they don't pay rent, let alone silk and fu." They opened their own mountains to grow some food, and when the year was bad, a big flood or a drought, it was over.

I usually have to wear clothes, eat salt, buy vegetable oil, and grow a few acres of grain, which is not enough for daily use. It is more difficult for children in the family to go to school, and they don't see each other once a month, because they live in school, or they will go for two days and come back after two days. ”

The villagers thought so, and indeed, as Xiaobei said, remote places, especially in the mountains, were really poor, so poor that people couldn't bear to see them.

"Xiaobei, isn't it okay to repair the official road?" A villager came up with an idea.

"Don't repair, resolutely don't repair, it's not cost-effective, more than 30 miles of mountain roads, a total of six households, I will repair the road? If the money to build that road is stored in the bank, only one year's interest is enough for them to live for a lifetime, how stupid would the court be to repair it for them? ”

Xiaobei thought about the cost of building more than 30 miles of mountain roads for useless work, and suddenly felt shuddered.

When the people in the village heard this, they all felt that it was really impossible to build a road, and there was no point, so it was better to let the people from the mountains move it down. In the past, there were various reasons to escape from the world, such as wars, heavy taxes, and so on. If it is still used as a reason, it is not a reason.

Because the imperial court cannot watch you starve to death after you move down, it will temporarily provide you with some money and a place to live, and help you find a job, and if you don't know anything, it can teach you for a few months.

If you can still starve to death like this, how lazy do you have to be? You don't even have to go to the place where the Yamen receives the people? As long as you go, there is no problem, you can't work when you're old, there is a pension department in charge, the disabled department is responsible, you can go to school when you are young, you don't have to worry about food, you don't have to worry about clothing, you starve to death under such conditions, you should!

It's not that I don't sympathize with you, but I really can't find a reason to sympathize with you.

"Xiaobei, you tell the old man about me, how much grain does our Datang have in reserve?" The old village cares about national affairs.

Xiaobei shook his head: "I really don't know, you haven't given us this data at all, you don't want me to send a telegram to ask my brothers and sisters, right?" ”

"No, no, no." Lao Muramasa hurriedly said.

Xiaobei thought about it again, and added an explanation: "Anyway, we have a lot of grain in Datang, in the past, in the north of the place, my brothers and sisters were called pre-Turkic and post-Turkic or something, but now it belongs to Datang, there are many cattle, sheep and horses on the grassland, and corn and potatoes can be grown."

There is also the northern part of Hebei Province in the past, which is also under the direct jurisdiction of Datang, unlike the first few years, nominally Datang, but never paid rent, now the elder brothers and sisters are in charge, there are a lot of advanced farming equipment in use, for fear of impacting the grain market in other places, they dare not sell it.

As long as the logistics are normal, people don't die of hunger, you don't want to waste food if you don't starve, everyone saves food, you can let businessmen take it overseas to exchange things, you can't always use force to grab it, right? ”

"Replaced with something?" Zhao Wuneng looked modest and studious, and asked Xiaobei, who was more than two rounds younger than him.

Looking at Xiaobei, he is actually very contradictory, obviously he is a child, and he has to show respect; Obviously a child, he has learned more things than himself, and he has been at war in his heart, and his contempt for Xiaobei's age and the importance of her position are really torturous.

Xiaobei can feel that many people look down on her age, but she doesn't care, just like others say that she relies on the power of her family, she admits that she does rely on her family, otherwise who cares about her? Admit it, but she will not give up using her family's power.

According to her ideas, she used it, and she didn't rely on the power of the family to grab other children's candy, nor did she force it to buy and sell, but helped many people.

Therefore, Xiaobei can understand Zhao Wuneng's thoughts, so he answered: "For all kinds of ores, my brother and sister will generally draw a general range, especially my brother, who seems to know the distribution of all kinds of overseas resources." My sister once said that the reason why my brother remembers a lot of resources is that the original purpose is not pure, and he can use the secondary development and tertiary development of resources to deceive people, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it, and it's a deception to deceive overseas people, right? ”

Zhao Wuneng deeply believed Xiaobei's statement, and at this time he no longer looked down on those younger than him, even if he clearly knew that Xiaobao and Juan Juan were more than twenty years younger than him.

"It's good to cheat, you should cheat, it's better than calling directly, the deceived people should thank our Xiaobao, we are even more grateful to Xiaobao, Xiaobao didn't use the tricks on us, the price of salt and vegetarian oil has been very low, it is Xiaobao's credit."

The old village was supportive, and the people in the surrounding villages showed empathetic expressions.

They knew how dark the hearts of the merchants were, and how bold they were, but whatever the merchants thought, the prices of salt, vegetable oil, rice, wheat, and millet remained very stable, and there were coarse and fine hemp, and the prices of things other than salt were always twice as slow as the increase in income.

As for salt, the price of salt has been fixed for three years, neither falling nor rising, three cents and two catties, much cheaper than the salt bought more than ten years ago, no businessman dares to touch its price, whoever touches it will die, the kind that will never recover.

This is definitely the credit of Xiaobao, when a caravan came over, they were not afraid of the policy of the imperial court, there are loopholes in the policy, they are afraid of touching Xiaobao's bottom line, because Xiaobao and they follow the same rules of the game, and the rivers and lakes are in trouble. And once it comes to the means of the rivers and lakes, it will inevitably be bloody and bloody.

The merchants did not dare to fight so hard with Xiaobao, so the price of salt has not been decreed by the imperial court, but it has never changed, just because Xiaobao said that the necessities of survival are not allowed to rise and fall.

So the price of these things is really stable, and the merchants will still ship them to sell, and there are still profits, which shows how bad the previous merchants were, obviously having profits, but still tossing the price.

Thinking about Xiaobao, a villager asked out loud: "Xiaobei, does Xiaobao and Juan Juan's child have a name?" ”

"There is a nickname, it is called Mingming, and the big name has not yet risen, it will be a cruel battle. When we came out, we were obviously a little older, and it was fun to be chubby. Oh, I remember one thing, you have to be careful when you dig coal secretly, and besides, you can use it yourself, but you can't sell it. ”

Xiaobei talked about his nephew with a happy face, and after a while, he talked about stealing coal.

The people in the village were startled, and Zhao Wuneng stammered and asked, "You, you know, you know?" ”

"I know, my brother and sister said that no matter how much coal is brought back from outside, where there is open-pit coal in Datang, there are still people who dig it themselves, because the labor cost of digging a basket of coal is very low, and coal is zero cost, how can you not dig it out and use it yourself?

My brother and sister also said that where there is open-air coal, it is like the children in my own family, and when I am hungry, I go to the kitchen to secretly get a steamed bun to eat, but the adults of the family still don't let me? As long as the child doesn't throw away or sell the steamed buns, he can't finish digging coal for a thousand years of digging for his own use.

Let me tell you, you have coal in the local area, and you can use it for your own use, and you are not allowed to open a factory for it, let alone sell it for money, once you will dig coal as your main income, and the coal at your doorstep will be dug up, what will happen to your descendants? ”

Xiaobei's expression became serious when she said this, obviously she didn't represent herself.

"Xiaobao and Juan Juan are benevolent." Lao Cunzheng said with emotion, and swore to the sky that he would only dig it up for himself, not give it away, and not sell it.

Xiaobei waved his hand: "Don't talk about this troublesome thing, go into the village to eat fish, we brought you a gift, it is a book, a book for fish farming in cages, no matter how many fish there are in the Yellow River, it is not as big as the harvest when you raise it." Before we came, we checked the information, you have a lot of big puddles here, domestic sewage is discharged, the nutrient content is high, just fish farming, every year, dig out the silt below, use it in the field. ”

"Also, there's that ......" Xiaoyuan opened his mouth to say.

"Yes, there is also whale meat in the sea, marinated, twenty catties for a family, and then you load coal for us, we want that kind of good coal, don't want coal face, we can't beat the coal billet, there is not enough time."

Becky took over.

"Also, there's ......"

"Yes, there is ......"

"Xiaobei, let me say it once, okay?" Xiaoyuan was very dissatisfied.

"You say, I give you permission, say it." Becky agreed.

Xiao Yuan's good mood just now disappeared: "It feels like you gave it to me." ”

"You mean you're not going to say it? Don't give alms? Then I say. ”

"Yes, there is still moldy dried vegetables, a family of thirty catties, we don't produce that vegetable here, the method of making it will tell you, and you can also figure out how to cook it yourself." Xiaoyuan finally got over the addiction of giving things.

The people in the village are even happier, and they know that the little ones are ready to send things along the way, otherwise they will eat all the way along the way, which will be the real labor and money.

When Zhao Wuneng heard that he had sent so many things, he was very embarrassed: "Let you break the bank again." ”

"No, it's just the money that was transported, the things didn't cost money, the merchants who sold moldy dried vegetables came to us, let us help them sell, you eat now, after ten days, it is estimated that there will be sales in the county."

Xiaobei explained with a smile that things were indeed as she said, as soon as she heard that she was going out, a businessman immediately came to send something and asked her to help sell it to others, especially the businessmen in the south, there is a difference in the diet between the north and the south, and without personal help to publicize, it is impossible for both parties to like each other's food.

Normally, let Xiaobei and them help with publicity, and they have to give them money, and they will be sent by another person, and the effect is definitely not as good as theirs, but Xiaobei They didn't make this money, so they helped out of friendship.

The people in the village were very happy, not only to meet them, but also to get technology and things.

Of course, there was no part of the large army, and there were not enough fish in the village, but only a small number of people ate it.

At dawn the next day, the team bid farewell to Xiaolu Village and continued to move forward.

After walking for a few more days, when I was about to reach Yinzhou, it began to snow in the sky.

For the time being, there was no howling wind, and no winter thunder was heard.

Snow, very simple, it was dark, even at noon, a large clump of snow was falling, almost like cotton.

The little ones looked up, one by one the black dots gradually became larger, and when they reached out, they could see that the snow was white, and the big snow was composed of small snowflakes, if you looked closely, you could see that most of the small snowflakes were six petals, as for no, it was because they were broken when they adhered to each other.

When the snow on his hand turned into water, Xiaobei blinked and said, "It's so big snow, it's going to be troublesome." ”