On the twentieth day of the lunar month, it was another cloudy day!

In the past few days, the weather has not been good, sometimes cloudy, sometimes rain and snow, covering the city in silver! Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed, and the plot at this time could not be more appropriate! All the trees on the street were covered by heavy snow, and the whole world seemed to be white, without any other color.

In the days after the snow falls, it's time for the snow to melt, and that's when it's the coldest! The whole Xiapi seemed to be frozen by this low temperature, and there were few people on the street. If the adults are fine, they will choose to cat winter at home, and they will not be frozen in this ice and snow. Only the children will come out to play for a few days after the snow!

Wearing the new shoes and clothes that their mother had worked so hard to make, the children were very excited, and they ran around the streets in groups of three and five, calling for friends. The children split into two groups and had a snowball fight next to the snowdrift that the neighbor had cleared! For a while, the snow in the sky was flying, as if it was snowing again.

The children laughed and jumped as they turned the freshly swept roads of their neighbors into snow.

At this time, the neighbor's door suddenly opened, and when the man saw the snow foam on the road, he was immediately a little angry, pointing to a few naughty children and shouting: "A few stinky boys, stop for me!" ”

Will the children really listen to him and stop? Fools stand still! When they saw their angry neighbors, the children were scattered!

Tired of running, naturally they all stopped.

A luxurious and wide carriage came slowly. The curtain of the car was lifted, revealing a young face. This person is good-looking, the wind god is bright, handsome and very, in current words, he is more handsome, with a smile on his face, which makes people happy to get close!

He looked at the children, who stopped chattering and looked at him curiously.

He stretched out his hand from the car window, beckoned to the children, and said to the big man driving, "Tian Hu, stop the car!" ”

The man replied, "Yes, Childe!" As soon as the reins of the horses were pulled, the two horses suddenly snorted loudly and stopped!

Several children glanced at each other, and under the leadership of a teenager who was more courageous, they slowly moved over!

The one sitting in the car is Tian Fan! Today is the day of the Hao Clan Conference, and he also went out early to Baiweizhen. But it was so cold that he had to go by car.

Tian Fan smiled gently and asked, "Child, what's your name?" ”

The leading child was not happy when he heard this, snorted, and said, "Who is the child?" Everyone is thirteen years old! It's an adult! ”

Tian Fan was happy, he looked at the child from top to bottom, his mouth was slugging, his head was swaying from side to side, his face was full of disbelief, and he said, "Boy, who are you fooling?" I think you're ten years old at most! ”

The child immediately retorted: "Nonsense! I'm eleven after the New Year! ”

This Xia Tian Fan is really happy, this kid, what a humor! He said, "Yes, I know you'll be twelve in the next year!" Hehe. ”

The child was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood that there was something wrong with his words, and changed the topic unhappily, he said, "Hmph! Didn't you tell me to come over, I came, what's the matter? You said! ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "Okay, hehe, kid, what kind of clothes are your shoes, they are newly made, right?" ”

The child nodded and said, "Well, it's my mother's new shoes!" ”

Tian Fan smiled and said, "Your aunt is very skilled, these shoes are made of such dense stitches!" By the way, what New Year's goods do you have at home? ”

When the child heard this, he immediately became interested and said, "Hehe, there is pork, fish, and rice!" ”

The rest of the children also came to be interested, one by one like primary school students reported the number, for fear that others would not know their own situation, reported a series of New Year's goods such as pork, fish, rice, flour, mutton, etc., and the atmosphere was very warm for a while! …,

Tian Fan nodded again and again and asked, "What about last year?" What were the New Year's goods last year? ”

A few children suddenly stopped squeaking, and finally it was the leading child who said slowly: "Last year, how could I have New Year's goods at home?" Just some wheat flour and wild vegetables......"

For a time, none of the children spoke again.

Tian Fan listened to his words, and he was also a little emotional! He got out of the car, stomped his feet, took some gold out of his pocket, handed them one by one, and said, "Take it home and give it to your parents!" Don't give it to people indiscriminately! By the way, this thing can't be eaten, so don't put it in your mouth! ”

A few of the younger children took it curiously, looking left and right, this golden little thing, what is the magic horse? A child who wanted to put the gold in his mouth listened, and quickly took it out, and stretched out his arm vigorously, as if to stay away from the thing that could not be put in his mouth.

Gold has always been a rarity in China, and before the Song Dynasty, silver was also a scarce thing. In many dynasties, there was a rule that gold and silver could not be circulated, and could only exist in large households, not in small households. Just like the Han Dynasty, how many catties of gold are usually said, but how many catties of copper are actually there. In China, gold and silver exist as currency, although it has been practiced by the people since the Song Dynasty, but the official regulation of gold and silver as currency is about the Ming Dynasty.

The eldest child didn't answer, he put his hands behind his back, held his head high, and said a little bullishly: "My father taught me that I can't just take what others give!" When a few children heard this, they nodded hurriedly and said in a messy voice: "My father I said, and I don't want it either!" As he spoke, he returned the gold to Tian Fan. Although the things were returned, in their eyes, Tian Fan could see that he was a little reluctant.

Tian Fan smiled and said, "It's okay, hehe, when you go home, you will say that Tian Fan gave it to you, and your family will definitely not blame you!" Okay, that's it, I still have something to do, I have to go! Hehe. As he spoke, he returned the gold to the children.

After doing these things, he glanced at the children with a smile, clapped his hands, and turned to get into the car. He lifted the curtain again, waved his hand to a few children, and said, "Children, goodbye, hehe!" ”

Several children were stunned for a while, and a seven or eight-year-old child asked the leading child: "Brother Lin Zi, is he Tian Junshi?" In the hearts of the people of Xuzhou, Tian Fan's name is extremely loud, even on par with Liu Bei's name! Because he served as the military division of Xuzhou for a short time, the people have always called him "Tian Junshi". These children, who often hear their parents mention Tian Fan, naturally have an impression.

The kid looked at the gold in his hand in a daze, and nodded mechanically. Suddenly, as if he had borrowed a corpse to return his soul, he scattered and ran away. Several children were stunned and immediately chased after them.

One of them asked as he ran, "Brother Lin, what are you running!" ”

Brother Lin Zi said: "I'm going to tell my father and mother that I have seen Master Tian Junshi!" ”

Tian Fan, who was sitting in the car, naturally didn't know this. He is thinking about the changes in Xiapi and even the whole of Xuzhou in the past two years!

Since the development of commerce, many people in Xuzhou have tasted the sweetness. Since the workshop is to be opened, it is natural to use a lot of workers, although some of the more secret jobs will not be given to them, but those unskilled jobs such as transportation are still provided to these people.

The development of commerce has led to the growth of Xuzhou's popularity. The number of people who travel with Xuzhou and all over the country is growing rapidly. When there are too many people, they naturally need to eat, drink, and live, so many small people in Xiapi have a new way of life. Whether it is a small business, a stall, a restaurant, even if they have an idle courtyard at home, want to rent it, etc., many people have a stable income. There is also the next level of consumption derived from this, when you have money, you want to renovate the house, so you need workers and materials. I wanted to add a few pieces of furniture, so many small carpentry workshops appeared, and a large number of people found work. And so on, driven by this, Xiapi City showed a prosperity that was completely inconsistent with the times. …,

In order to make soap, Tian Fan had already said hello to the major families, and they all planted a large number of castor beans! Castor beans are also considered a good crop, and if you don't pick a good land, you can grow anywhere. These big clans did not use their own good land, nor did they use the wasteland with development value, and all chose the barren barren mountains that did not have any possibility of growing food. For example, Cao Bao, who has planted tens of thousands of acres of castor beans, occupies almost three entire hills!

At the time of sowing, you can sow the seeds and you're done, but the harvest is not that simple! This naturally requires a lot of labor, so many people in Xuzhou have the opportunity to work again, and naturally have income.

Castor, also a type of hemp, can also be used to make cloth. In this era, cloth is more effective than many types of copper coins, such as the small money issued by Dong Zhuo and the fake money made by the people, which are not as effective as cloth! There has always been a habit of using cloth as currency, and even when the court rewards meritorious officials or pays salaries to courtiers, cloth will also be used, including linen cloth and silk cloth.

The process of castor weaving is more complicated, so naturally, the tens of thousands of acres of castor linen have provided countless employment opportunities for the people of Xuzhou. You don't have to pay any salary, just choose some of the woven cloth for them. As a result, many people in Xuzhou have put on new clothes and shoes this year.

The geometric progression of the winemaking industry naturally produces a large amount of lees. With the free supply of Tianfan's distiller's lees pig raising technology, as well as a large number of distiller's lees that are half-sold and half-sent, many people in Xuzhou have been able to raise pigs at a relatively low cost, and naturally a large number of high-quality pork has poured into the market.

Since July, with the full help of the Yin family of Tanglin Pavilion and the Zhu family of Jiangshui Temple, the coastal people of Guangling have gradually become available with new fishing boats. According to the regulations, in addition to keeping the fish for their own daily necessities, the rest of the fish they caught was used as money to buy fishing boats, which was handed over to the local government, and part of it was made into salted fish and dried fish, and the other part was sold directly to the mainland. As a result, a large number of marine fish poured into the markets around Xuzhou, and the people naturally had a large number of fish at the right price to eat.

The development of salt-drying in seawater has reduced the local salt price in Xuzhou by nearly half, and the people naturally have cheaper salt.

Thinking about it inadvertently, Tian Fan suddenly found that he had unknowingly affected the lives of the people of Xuzhou......