Chapter 524: Capital VII
Compared with the world and hegemony in the mouth of the monarch and the prince, in fact, the most interested in winning the Si is the 'horned cow race' outside the city of Wuyuan; the protagonist of the game is the buffalo, every family will pull out a head of the most healthy cow before and after the autumn ploughing, under the command of the clan elder to carry out the competition, the top three buffalo can be dressed in red and hung flowers to boast of the previous year, and the owner of the cow can get the best green seedlings of the year, and ask for a good harvest in the coming year.
Along the way, I listened to Aunt Meizi tell about this horned cow race, but why didn't I see the legendary horned cow race when I got here? Ying Si was not disappointed, and suddenly felt that any moving legend was just a beautiful bubble, and none of it could be true; It's like the story that Taifu told him for more than a thousand nights, it's good, it's good, but it's not true!
In fact, Wu Yue is similar to Chu State, because the climate is warm and the water and soil are abundant, you can plant one-year-old rice, which is the land of fish and rice in this era, it is said that even if it encounters natural disasters, it is much stronger than the Shandong countries and Lao Qin who only have one crop a year, and this horn bull race is the most representative activity between Wu Yue, and Meizi did not talk nonsense in front of children.
This is the terrible economic law, even if the collapse of the local economy will bring disaster to all walks of life, as far as the farmers who grow rice are concerned, even if they use the Quyuan pear province of Baidong, but after all, there is no modern fertilizer available, and the annual output is only 60 quintals, in addition to paying land rent and agricultural tax, they also have to pay a large amount of money for the purchase of green seedlings, and then sell some in exchange for the necessary oil and salt clothes, so that even if there is no natural disaster, it is only barely enough to survive. It's a good year, but if there is a hurricane at sea, I'm afraid I'm going to go hungry. This is the biggest drawback of a 'industrial' city. Wuyuan is a four-point division of labor, three parts of business, and three points of agriculture. Seventy percent of the adults had to rely on 30 percent of the farmers to plow and harvest to survive. In the past, when Wuyuan was prosperous, the price of grain was quite high, and the nearby farmers could barely support it, but now industry and commerce have been hit hard, and the price of grain has naturally been depressed, and the grain that has been planted hard cannot be sold at a good price. I can't live this day, it's just getting more and more bitter; But no matter how hard it is, people don't want to leave their homes, and would rather endure back-to-back hardships.
Sang Wazi brought a group of Qin State's 'Da Nei masters' and the Bai family's Jingzhuang to temporarily act as masons, and soon cleaned up three ancestral houses, one for Mei Zi and Zhong Wuyan to live in, one for Bai Dong's living, one for Xiao Yingsi, and the rest of the people set up dozens of tents near the three ancestral houses. From a distance, it is dotted around, but it has a bit of the taste of army travel. It's just that from time to time in the ancestral house, there is the sound of the plum girl reading aloud with silk and bamboo, how to look at it and how it doesn't match, but fortunately, Zhong Wuyan has already dismissed the three or four hundred minions under her, otherwise the taste will only be worse.
Xiao Yingsi had a comfortable life along the way, especially in the first Lu of Qi Kingdom, it was a brocade of clothes and jade food, snow and moon wind flowers, the delicate little chick of the first Lu enjoyed it, and Aunt Meizi's delicate thighs were pillowed, all he was worried about was how to spend the money on the blade and spend it to make Taifu admire, when it came to eating and drinking, Bai Dong did not wronged him for half a point; But since he came to Wuyuan, Taifu suddenly stopped giving money to spend, while tightening the 'silver root', and on the other hand, he was still mobilizing a large number of silver coins from the nearest Bai family's trading stronghold, didn't it mean that Wuyuan's problem could be solved without spending a copper coin, could it be that Taifu was going to break his promise and lose to that Aunt Zhong Wuyan? Thinking about Xiao Yingsi's schadenfreude, but it's hard to laugh out loud happily, every day when he picks up the big black bowl and sees the brown rice that is not yellow and black and the salt radish that is placed on the rice rice Yingsi wants to cry, people want to eat wheat cakes, eat desserts, and eat fat sheep stew......
Holding a big bowl to find the Qin palace attendant, it's good to have no meat and a piece of fat on the rice, now the prince doesn't pick it, even if it is a lard block that he doesn't want to look at in the past, he can eat it with relish. But it is said that all the good things were eaten up on the way, and all the surplus was distributed to the poor villagers in the vicinity, and now there is not even lard; The poor little guy didn't know how many times he quietly lay under the window root of Bai Dong, smelling the aroma of mutton wafting from inside, and tears fell down. Where in the world is there such a teacher? Eat and drink spicy food by yourself, but let the poor disciple nibble on salt and radish strips every day, is this still reasonable? People are going to sue sΓΉ the monarch! But most of the monarch's father will still be towards the Taifu? When I thought of winning here, I cried even harder.
"Boy, is it the man's husband's action to lie under the window and cry bitterly, roll me in, there are still some snacks brought by Liyang, do you eat or not?"
The wooden window opened, a big hand reached over and slapped it on Ying Si's head, the little guy looked up, and saw Taifu looking at himself with a smile, and unconsciously cheered: "Is it lard cake or chicken crisp?" I want to eat! As soon as I got into the window, I saw a few people sitting in Taifu's room, but it was the Aunt Zhong Wuyan who sat on the top of the big horse golden knife, and suddenly smiled at him under the dim light, and the little guy shuddered unconsciously, feeling that this scene was really terrifying.
"The news you got is indeed good, this time Bai Mou and the prince came to Wuyuan not for any major national political affairs, but to see this generation of refining the city that has been inherited for a hundred years, so that the prince can experience, the day before yesterday, Dr. Guiwei and dozens of workers and merchants in the city came to beg me, and I refused? It's not that the book is indifferent.,But the things of the world should be done by the people of the world.,If everything comes to me.,Isn't it going to be tired to death? β
Although the few people sitting in front of Bai Dong did not look like any nobles, they did not look like ordinary villagers, and one of them looked very familiar, and seemed to be a patriarch who personally greeted them on the day they first came. Seeing Xiao Yingsi come in, these people stood up and saluted, this is the prince of Qin and the prince of the future party, but no one will treat him as an ordinary child.
"The book can't help you, but it just so happens that this Zhong Wuyan girl is also looking for you, everyone knows the Wuyan Yi of Qi Country, and the Zhongli clan is a local clan, and this Zhong girl is one of the few heroines in the clan. Now she intends to stretch in Wuyuan, it just depends on whether you are willing to cooperate; This time it was supposed to be Miss Zhong to negotiate with you, and it was also at her request that I came to testify, and now with the addition of the prince of Qin, you villagers should no longer have any worries, right? β
Bai Dong smiled and spoke, and secretly glared at Xiao Yingsi, after all, he is also the son of the Qin State, so he can't have some appearances? Frightened, Xiao Yingsi swallowed the chicken crisp in his mouth in three or two bites, and gently put down the lard cake in his hand, but he kept thinking in his heart, what does Taifu mean by this, to testify for this Aunt Zhongli? What exactly is this aunt going to do in Wuyuan? (To be continued......)
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