Tang Emperor Li Er postponed his trip to inspect.

Because of Tianyingge's excuse, I hope to try the process of supervising the country under the guidance of the Tang Emperor first, and if there are any deficiencies, it can be changed, which is a great good thing for the government.

The entire Tang Dynasty is full of draft construction, not only the Japanese people, but also the laborers from Goguryeo, Baekje, and Nanyang are busy at various construction sites, and they are naturally the first class treatment of the Tang people, the second class of the three ethnic groups of the peninsula, and the third class of the Japanese people and Nanyang.

Since the first Japanese laborers on the ship, nearly 70,000 laborers have gone to Datang and have been scattered to several construction sites, and it has been almost two months.

The speed of recruiting people on Wajima is slowing down.

Many Japanese people who wanted to earn a share of the money had already begun to move east, and job posters were posted near the Yamato-Naka capital.

Wang Ba's fleet finally loaded the new rice from his territory and transported it to Hiroshima and several other ports. What Wang Ba got was not just recruiting people in these ports, but also getting the right to connect with commerce. There are also more merchants in the Tang Dynasty here.

Last night, there were special Japanese officials who went to the countryside and shouted in the villages. This is the day of the harvest.

Many of the Japanese carried a small bamboo shelf that they could carry on their backs, and then they could put two stones of rice and tie them to the shelf with a rope. Before dawn, there were thousands of people lined up on the dock, and some people were far away and set off with rice balls when they heard the news last night, and walked dozens of miles to the dock.

The pier in Hiroshima was also expanded over the course of two months. From barely stopping one boat, to being able to park two. It is also reluctant to park in, and when it is close to the dock, it is necessary to rely on manual pulling of the rope to let the boat dock.

"Dismount Village!" There were Japanese officials standing on a high platform, shouting with a trumpet made of iron sheets.

Ordinary low-class villagers do not have official names, but they also have their own names, which are called cheap names by the Japanese nobles, or a kind of code name.

One by one, they shouted, and they came forward one by one.

The Japanese official was shouting again: "This is the rice for the first month of work, and the nobles of the Tang Dynasty have a reward." So there's always a difference between good and bad work. It takes some days to calculate, and it also takes some days to transport the rice, so don't make a fuss and listen to the nobles of Datang. ”

At all costs. Finally there was rice to send over.

The Japanese people had nothing to make trouble about. The lords of Wajima let them work, but they didn't get half a grain of rice at all.

Many of the Japanese first got on the ship and unloaded the goods. Then start encapsulating here, and there are not a few people with straw rice bags, even if they don't have rice bags. He also carried a lot of grass for weaving rice bags. Without the need for a command, many people sat on the ground and began to weave bags, and the weaving method or size of the bags has been imprinted in the lives of ordinary Japanese people.

The people in charge of distributing rice are just a few ordinary, literate boatmen on the ship.

called the name, and called ten in one bite, and the little official hurriedly answered, shouting ten names. But many people are a little at a loss, because in a village, there are many people with the same name. Originally, it was a cheap name, and many people called it the same way. What a man, a big man, a second man or something.

"At that time, when the contract was signed, everyone was given a bamboo sign with the number on that side."

Number, this widow doesn't know the numbers on it, and he doesn't know how to pronounce it.

"Let everyone in this village come over."

There are not too many laborers in a village, usually dozens of people.

"Call the two men to come out. The rest of the people each took a bag and left! ”

It is very easy to divide the grain, and one stone of rice is loaded, which is a good rice, and there are Japanese merchants here to collect rice. One stone of rice can be exchanged for one stone of aged rice, and a few catties of brown rice can be added, which is still in the form of bartering.

There are also people from the Tang Dynasty who are secretly inquiring about the origin of these businessmen.

There were seven families called Ernan, and after checking the number, five of them went to receive a bag of rice.

"You, fifty packs!" The boatman in charge of distributing rice pointed to one of them and said it in Chinese, and the Japanese official in charge of translation was stunned when he heard it, fifty packs, did he hear it wrong? At that moment, he asked respectfully: "You just said, fifty packs?" ”

The boatman didn't bother to explain, and pointed to the pile of rice that had already been packed: "Start here, and then go to this one." It's all from his family, and he told him that the second man was the captain of the squad leading 200 people, and he had some credit, so he had fifty bags of rice. ”

The family almost fainted when they heard fifty bags of rice.

Fifty packets, they can't carry them back, what to do with so much rice.

They are all from the same village, so naturally they have to help, and the people in the village are willing to help him carry the rice back, and there is so much rice, so naturally there is no need to replace the polished rice with old rice, and you can let go of it when you go back.

While everyone was discussing moving rice by themselves, a family member named Ernan was called to the table by the boatman.

A bag was taken out of the basket and opened directly on the table, full of coins. "You have fifty bags of rice and a thousand dollars. If you don't want money, I'll give you another 125 bags of rice. The choice is yours. The Japanese man couldn't understand it, and after the translation, he was still confused.

What can you do with this money?

There is no such thing as money in the Wa Kingdom, and their currency is rice, or cloth. Like the tax, 1 household pays 1 zhang and 2 feet of Yongbu, and 5 buckets of Yongmi. So it's still the era of barter.

What does such a beautiful, shiny little disc represent?

Only businessmen who have done business with the Tang Dynasty understand, but ordinary Japanese people understand this.

"If you want money, if you don't want money, I can give you some cloth. Burlap can be exchanged for two, white linen for one, and silk for half. You look at the change, and you open your mouth for what you want. ”

The widow was still in a daze, even if the translator explained it to him very clearly.

The shipwright in charge of sending rice has frowned, he is not afraid of trouble, but Datang has the rules of Datang, in the words of His Royal Highness King Qin, we can use the Japanese as livestock, but the promised wages, the reward that should be issued must not be less, this is not the credit of the Japanese people, but the arrogance of being a Datang people, and the Datang people are responsible for their own credit.

In desperation, the boatman asked someone to remove many small bits and pieces from the ship.

There was a special person who knew the Japanese language to explain to the Japanese man how many things he could receive, even if he didn't want rice, he could exchange them for something else.

"The next village."

In almost every village, one or two people get more rice than the average person.

Those that surpass ordinary people have as few as five packs and as many as hundreds of packs of rice.

"Head, the widow wants two cans, as well as some fragrant cakes from last time. I want another burlap, and I want a needle, and some thread. ”

"Needle, give him a pack." The boatman in charge of the rice distribution waved his hand casually.

The needle is a small thing that is beaten by a blacksmith and then sharpened, but it is not easy to make. And the really good needles are all steel, so a needle in Wajima, in the Asuka period, was a valuable item.

is placed in the Tang Dynasty before Wude, and a steel needle is worth two cents.

But now, industrial production, there are special stamping machines, as well as rolling grinding machines, and ten needles in a pack only cost a penny.

When the one took what he asked for with a smile on his face, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the boatman who sent rice, and then beckoned the villagers to help carry the things back.

In the afternoon, another climax appeared.

"It rained heavily in Chang'an for three days, and the first person on the construction site of the Qinling Road Construction Site rushed up with sandbags. And in time to cover the leaky part of the cement pile with an oilcloth, the chief plumber of the Qinling construction site was specially rewarded. ”

Banner figures.

This is the original way that Li Yuanxing promoted Xi Jun to buy, and this trick has been used many times in the upper circles of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to subdue the Japanese people, it is natural to choose a banner figure.

One hundred bags of rice, one horse of ordinary silk, two horses of fine white linen, two pairs of delicate shoes, two bodies of clothes, two canned fruits, two canned meat, a reward of three thousand, and a scroll.

"Reward the money and keep it, this coin can be exchanged for many Datang goods. This scroll should be taken well, this is your family's pass, in the next year, with this scroll, there can be three people in the family to visit Chang'an, and you can also visit the construction site. We are responsible for all the expenses, if you want to buy something, the three thousand money can buy a lot, with this scroll can use the price of the Tang Dynasty, no need to add foreign taxes. ”

When you go to Datang, you can visit your family on the construction site, and you can also visit Chang'an City.

This reward shocked all the widows.

The boatman in front was continuing his work, and near the ship, several Datang people had already gathered.

"Head, it's clear. Several merchants are from the capital of Yamato, and many others are constantly inquiring about our affairs. Judging from this situation, Yamato has noticed our Datang. This time I gave a reward, and I am afraid that it will soon be known to the Yamato country, and it seems that it is necessary to send someone to their capital once. ”

The one at the head lowered his head: "For what reason, it's not easy for us to get in, and the lowest one of us is half a head taller than the Japanese people, so it's not easy to get in." ”

"So, how about buying the widows?"

"Time is tight, what if the bribes are unreliable?"

Several people were discussing in a low voice how to deal with Yamato, and at the same time, next to a hay pile outside the dock, several Japanese people were also discussing.

"In the surrounding countries of the Inland Sea, dozens of lords have dealings with the Tang people, and many of them have spent a lot of money to buy many Tang weapons. The people in their territory are calculated in this way in the Tang people, and there are hundreds of thousands of stone and rice every month, and they have weapons and food. It's inevitable that it won't be the same as Izumo, and it's against Wangcheng! ”

"Izumo is already in trouble, and if this inland sea rebels again, it will be a big problem."

At this time, there were bursts of cheers from the dock. There was a Japanese man who went over to inquire, but it was the Tang Dynasty people who let the pot be cooked, and each one who came to receive rice rewarded with two rice balls.

This cheer was not over, and there was another burst of cheers, and it turned out that another rewarder with more than thirty bags of rice appeared.

The spies led by the Japanese had a gloomy face: "You guys are watching, I'll go back and report to Prince Shotoku!" (To be continued......)