Chapter 132: Drought Response
Although Fan Jingjing feels that she is living her life step by step. However, the lobby did change a bit because of her presence.
Fan Jingjing can see from time to time that on the nearby mountains, unknown objects float up from time to time, but unfortunately these strangely shaped unknown objects often do not stay in the air for too long before they will dissipate and fall.
Luckily, they knew that they could carry a living person or living life on it when they were not sure that it would be able to float on it, and they knew to tie a long rope next to the floating object in order not to create garbage.
It is said that the person in charge of the sky is the person of the Qin Heavenly Prison.
Therefore, the person in charge of this matter is the person of Qin Tianjian, and the officials of Qin Tianjian are almost passed down from generation to generation, and there are very few outsiders, and their scholarship is very professional, and ordinary outsiders cannot understand it.
There is an advantage to semi-finished products, objects like balloons that can endanger the palace, if Fan Jingjing says that she can do it, it is tantamount to looking for trouble for herself.
You must know that the reason why many scientific inventions can get a lot of funds and can be developed is because of military needs.
It wasn't until the hostile side that the public relations made these inventions useless, and then slowly fell into the people, became an effective tool for folk applications, and then slowly became a daily life, and everyone is familiar with the supplies.
Obviously, balloons that belong to the R&D stage do not belong to this ranks.
In Datang, there is not even a passable asphalt road through the whole country, when the army goes out, the people who walk in front must also hold a sickle to remove the obstacles that block them, and they know that many roads in this era are actually stepped out by the army.
As for the ordinary people, the only way she has to go is always the few around her.
In the era when there was no GPS, no electronic maps, and even no paper maps, people had the fear of the unknown when they traveled far away.
You know, in this era, there are no blogs that can tell you in advance what the city on the other side of the road is like.
For information that cannot be easily obtained by others, the businessmen who are most easily able to obtain it treat it as confidential information and easily do not tell others.
What is a trade secret?
That's what you know that others don't know.
And such news is able to make money.
Therefore, people who sell news are also very able to make money in this era, because the news of making money is bought, and they are reluctant to let others know.
The person who sells the news also knows that the news should keep pace with the day, preferably in the nearby city, and if there are any business opportunities changing, the person who sells the news must be able to grasp it well, and crack the mystery behind the news to grasp the key points of the current disadvantages.
"Boss Yuan, are you going out? What to bring? ”
"I heard that the price of grain in Chang'an has risen sharply recently, so I have scavenged enough grain in our place and prepared to make a fortune in Chang'an."
"No matter how much food rises, it can't make any money, it's better to whole other goods."
"I didn't make any money, and it didn't matter, at least I earned back the cost of this trip. What's more, now I heard that the price of food has risen tenfold. I've heard that it's super fast. ”
"It's rare that you're willing to tell someone about your business. Makeover to be a good person? It's not that there is no treachery and no business, you can't make money if you don't change your face. ”
"For the sake of being my good friend, I just told you that there are good things in Chang'an recently, and I am going to go there to bring them back to sell. It is not my principle to run empty, and now when I transport grain to Chang'an, I can be named a patriotic businessman, and I can sell grain to facilitate my batch of goods.
Actually, I can exchange the grain for that shipment directly, but I don't think it's worth it. Because of those grains, the other party only counts the original price. ”
"It's really better to sell it to the merchant and then take the money to exchange the product and come back." Hearing this, the other party nodded. However, at this time, the speaker suddenly said:
"No, there must be ghosts in there. Maybe I'll exchange the grain, and I can have a little more shipments, and when I get to Chang'an, I must take a look. ”
"I heard that the bandits on Chang'an Road have now changed their careers to rob food, you have to be careful when you go out, don't be robbed by others halfway."
"Yes! Those who know how to fight martial arts have to bring a few. Datang is not good here, except for the safety of the city. Unless he thinks you're a local and doesn't rob you. ”
"There are places where even locals are robbed. Such bandits just don't know how to do business, and sooner or later they will definitely be suppressed by the government. ”
"It doesn't have to be to provoke the official, the government will suppress it, and they will not provoke the official if it's okay."
After Fan Jingjing returned to the Fan family's manor, she felt that her food was insufficient. In this way, he will not be able to make promises to keep everyone fed and clothed. But the price of food in Chang'an is too high. So she came up with another method, that is, to let the workshop produce more novel products, and let the merchants from other places transport the grain in exchange.
How do you determine if you are a businessman from another country?
That's the official guide.
Local merchants were also reluctant to sell grain to him at low prices.
In addition to the original scarves and soap matches, Fan Jingjing also asked the blacksmith workshop to make many knives with different functions, and most importantly, he used wooden gears to make many fun toys.
However, all the toys were only made in one batch, with a weight of 300 pieces.
Fan Jingjing believes that with the application of these gears, many smart people in Datang should extend these applications and promote more production undertakings.
But what can really make money is the mirror made by Liuli.
A mirror made of glass can be exchanged for a hundred stone of grain.
It stands to reason that Fan Jingjing will make more mirrors, and food will be enough, but Fan Jingjing deeply remembers that scarcity is expensive, and there will be no more than five mirrors sold in a day.
Fan Jingjing knows that good things can't appear at one time, and the most she has prepared for this drought is a mirror, encouraging businessmen from other places to send grain to the city, she knows that it is not profitable to be early, if there is no inducement, how can businessmen send grain into Chang'an?
Although grain can make a little money, but the big businessmen are disdainful of the transportation of grain, the cost of transportation in the lobby is extremely expensive, and the drought in the Guanzhong area near Chang'an this time is a bit wide, and if you want to send grain from the place where there is a surplus of grain, you need to walk at least ten days.
This conversion was calculated after Fan Jingjing discussed it with Sun Erlang.
Of course, the most important thing is to have Li Chengqian's final information.
Although he has never been out of Chang'an, Li Chengqian has at least read some documents and knows the time and distance required for transportation and situations, plus he has now learned basic arithmetic, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, so he quickly corrected the misunderstanding between Fan Jingjing and Sun Erlang.
"How much food have you received?"
Fan Jingjing is now serious about the specific affairs of teaching, and he really doesn't care, but he will discuss with Sun Erlang when he thinks of something new and relatively simple.
Because she knows that all crafts need to be gradual, human hands will slowly change from clumsy to dexterous, and the difficulty of the finished product must also change from simple to difficult.
So what she is launching now is basically relatively simple things, a little difficult things, Fan Jingjing actually doesn't fully understand, but he knows that there is still a principle for the final appearance, so she will discuss with Jiang Blacksmith how to make such a thing.
Because when she drove to the mountain in the first place, it was equivalent to a move, except for the large daily necessities such as quilts, she asked people to directly help him buy them on the mountain, and some other daily necessities were placed in the car, or suitcases.
So sometimes she simply picks out simple things from her belongings for the ginger blacksmith to worry about.
In just a few months, Jiang Blacksmith's blacksmith shop has expanded more than ten times.
Blacksmith Jiang is very good, he doesn't sell his products alone, but some of them are given to the Niu family, and most of them are given to Fan Jingjing to sell, after all, she has any new products, most of them are ideas provided by Fan Jingjing.
Fan Jingjing's share is also getting higher and higher, this share is what Jiang Blacksmith is willing to give to Fan Jingjing, and even he wants to let their blacksmith shop directly join the Fan family manor. As for how to join, he is still discussing with Sun Erlang.
Hearing Fan Jingjing's question about food, Sun Erlang's face was flushed, not shy, but said excitedly:
"Recently, a lot of far-away businessmen have sent grain to exchange for our products, and our products are selling very well. This is enough food for more than 600 of us until next fall. ”
Sun Erlang knew that although Fan Jingjing was good at mathematics, he had no concept of units of measurement, so he simply converted it into a concept that Fan Jingjing understood very well.
At the same time, it also let Fan Jingjing know that he is now also a person who is very good at mathematics and can definitely keep up with the pace of Fan Jingjing's career.
Fan Jingjing's farm has grown from 100 people at the beginning to more than 600 people now, and in addition to the original farmers, there are also many craftsmen.
Because many people know that Fan Jingjing produces many different things here, many people wanted to come to steal the teacher at the beginning, so they joined the farm.
Fan Jingjing now knew that the water polo could tell her who was malicious, who was well-intentioned, and who respected him in particular.
The most important thing is that when people are genuinely attached, the energy of her water balloon can be increased, so that the condensate can be watered in more places.
So when there is enough food, he is very willing to accept people.
These folk craftsmen are the most direct victims of this increase in food prices, and they were originally able to eat and clothe themselves.
It's good to be able to starve to death now, and since someone defected to Fan's Manor and was accepted, more and more craftsmen have defected to Fan's Manor.
Speaking of which, this is what began to happen when Fan Jingjing returned to Fan's Manor.
Because after Fan Jingjing returned to the manor, she began to vigorously carry out the grain transfer plan.
In this grain transshipment plan, in addition to increasing the grain, the most important thing is to increase the number of people, and if there is not enough manpower, there is no way to increase the production of the workshop.
Only when Fan Jingjing shares the work of raising more people can the court reduce the pressure.
What's more, Fan Jingjing is a non-governmental person, he doesn't think it's the best way, if a person waits for relief from others, and doesn't know how to work hard for life, this person has a great chance of becoming a wasted person.
So his relief is to bring the other party in, work for him, create greater value, and save more people in exchange for more food.
"So that means we have more food?"
Fan Jingjing is very satisfied with this result.
"It's not too much food until next fall, is it?"
Sun Erlang knew that although everyone in Fan's Manor was a free man, not a slave.
But the money received by Fan's Manor was not money, but a loyalty card. The point card in Fan's Manor can be exchanged for food, daily necessities, and even copper coins.
The purpose of the exchange for copper coins was that some of the purchases had to be spent outside of the Fan estate.
The various items that can be exchanged in Fan's Manor are of good quality and low price, so Fan's points are very useful.
Fan Jingjing also asked some craftsmen to start developing new paper and engraving printing technology.
The new ones are only made with black tree as the basic raw material.
Fan Jingjing wants to develop new banknotes, after all, the points are carved from wood, which is easy to imitate, not to mention, and it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to carve.
And he noticed that Fan's scorecard had spread outside of Fan's manor.
With the loyalty card of Fan's Manor, you can spend it in Fan's Manor. It has become a popular wooden card.
Fan Jingjing realized that she seemed to have turned Fan's point card into a banknote. However, he didn't have a specific purpose to carry it out, anyway, it was more important to solve the problem that the drought would starve a bunch of people to death first.
It is very difficult to print a perfect banknote by block printing.
However, it is not too difficult to use a loyalty card that can be recycled at any time.
Although Fan Jingjing has no way to break through the problem of ink now, it is not as a book, but just a piece of paper. And with a special material as the material of paper. It's not too difficult, all the rice issued is banknotes, and there must be a signature made by Fan Jingjing with special pigments.
The raw material of sky blue is rare in this era.
Fan Jingjing pointed at the pillar next to her. Sun Erlang stood quietly aside. Now he is one of Fan Jingjing's employees. Fan Jingjing didn't have the idea of dividing the land of the Fan family's manor to others. But they were encouraged to reclaim outside the estate.
In the beginning, people didn't have the energy to do such things.
Finally, after taking the point card to be able to eat and warm up, they will slowly take some leisure time, after discussing and allocating, and then reclaim the land outside the Fan Manor, and use the unique farming method of the Paradigm Manor to cultivate. They traded their points for a lot of new farming tools, and although they cultivated a piece of land that was one-third the size of the land before, it didn't take much time.
It's just that the land outside the Fan Manor, unlike the cultivated land inside the Fan Manor, will rain regularly. I want to chat with more like-minded people about "Cantang", pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~