Chapter 172: The Man Who Went South
The south, for the Tang people, is actually very dangerous, there are human disasters, animal pests, epidemics, and unsuitable climate and environment, each of which can make people's souls return here.
Therefore, the people of Fan Jingjing's faction are basically armed forces, and the number is as high as a hundred.
When these people go to the south, they will investigate the specialties of the south and even take possession of some undeveloped land.
As long as there is a local government and the land for development can be regarded as the Fan family manor.
For their part, the government was eager to increase the population of the south.
With the traffic situation in Datang, even if they have bicycles that can be used to help carry some things, until now, they have not left Jiangbei.
"The road is not easy to walk. I have to cross the river in front, and I don't know if there is a boat to take it. ”
Boatmen generally do not travel long distances, and when they get to a place and want to go through the canal, they have to hire new boats.
"To the south, there are many rivers that flow from west to east. If you want to walk, it is very difficult, and you have to carry a lot of goods up and down. ”
"Didn't Master Fan say it? If you want to transport the glass well, you have to rely on the ship, by boat, and then the place in Jinmen, Hangzhou, the canal on the street and then go north. ”
"Why don't you take a boat and go straight to the exit of the Yellow River?"
"It wasn't easy to navigate, it was often frozen, and it was riskier to sail at sea than it was to sail on land."
"There are robbery boats on the canal, right?"
"But official grain ships often walk on it, so there are still a lot of official troops guarding the canal, and there are far fewer ships looting than other passages."
"yes, we really met a lot of robbers along the way, and if we hadn't been trained to fight at first glance, they would probably have to fight with us before they quit."
"Master Fan said well, they fight with persimmons, not to mention that we don't have too much money on us."
"We didn't bring too much money, so wouldn't the principal amount of our money to open a bank be less?"
"Are you stupid? When the time comes, when the ships transport the glass cans or the cans of ceramics to the north, don't the cans that go to the south contain commodities and a lot of money? After we have arranged the front stations of various places, the point card of our Fan family manor can be converted into coins, and then each place can go to our money bank to exchange, and the merchants who come and go from the south to the north can spend less money to transport these silver taels as long as they pay a little hardship fee. ”
"They don't bring a lot of silver taels in exchange, do they? Most of them brought goods to the north to do business. ”
"They come to the north to do business in exchange for our goods in Chang'an, but there will still be some gaps in the middle, and there will be a lot of money-making expenses, whether it is to the south or to the north, as long as there is one more person who needs to be transported, there will be more costs."
"Won't they save money and have one less chance to eat?"
"Master Fan said that the opportunity will be changed to other places, just rely on transportation, although they will also make money, but the money will be relatively small, after all, they do not rely on transportation caravans, most of them are long-term workers in other people's homes.
When we go to the south, we also have to observe where we must set up nodes for transportation caravans, and we will also invest in transportation in the future, and any industry, after specialization, can make money. ”
"But there is a very troublesome thing to put into transportation, which is to fight against robbers along the way, and I really don't like to fight and kill."
"There are actually very few people who are really poor and vicious, and most of them just want a bite to eat and don't keep their voices down.
It is really vicious and vicious, and can only use the law to take their lives. Those who are willing to spend a little labor to earn money, come to find food to eat, and we will create enough opportunities to work for them. ”
"I think those bandits and robbers are really very poor, and the really rich people won't rush out to fight, right?"
"There are also some bandits and robbers who have been put up in the bandits' den and have to do it, but most of them have no way to turn back. Especially in their own hometowns, unless they leave their native land and go to a distant land. ”
"Aren't we the great men who charge into battle and go to distant places to develop?"
"Hehe, it's true, but our adventure is not an adventure, the danger we have to face, the owner of Fan Zhuang has clearly told us, the point to defend, and it is also clear that when we go to the southern jungle, we can't drink raw water with a gauze net. It can prevent malaria relatively well. Hopefully so. ”
"You don't believe Master Fan?"
"Master Fan Zhuang is a god in the world, how dare I not believe it."
"It's good to know, if it is what Master Fan has never said, then it is understandable that she can't do it, if Master Fan Zhuangtou once said that he must do this, then you had better believe her.
Whoever doesn't believe in her will be punished. ”
"Sounds like you're very experienced."
"I'm the one who joined the Fan Family Manor at the beginning, if it weren't for the fact that those children haven't grown up yet, maybe these jobs wouldn't depend on you, you must know that the earlier those who enter the Fan Family Manor, the more elves and eccentric they are."
"It is said that they are also classmates with the princes and princesses, and often play with the princes and princesses, and do experiments with them."
The person who spoke had obvious feudal society and inferiority, and when he mentioned the prince and princess, he had a very reverent feeling in his heart, and he also had a very envious feeling.
"The more you feel this way, the less likely it is to get to the princess and princess.
Only those who can get along with the prince and the princess on an equal footing, the owner of Fan Zhuang will let them be by their side, this feeling is very wonderful, only those who can cultivate an equal attitude with the prince and the princess can really give full play to their strength. ”
People who will value the dignity and humility of the upper and lower levels, in fact, there is a law of measurement in their hearts, although this person still persuades, but in his heart he already feels that he must put this person aside.
This time, there are more than 100 people sent out by Fan Jing, these people are specially selected in the Fan family manor, and they are also people who have achieved success in reading and learning, because they will have no way to learn the text well for a period of time after they go out, so Fan Jingjing still let him follow them alone.
It's also not easy to hire.
The children of the families of this era must receive all kinds of good education, so they really look down on those who can only wield swords and fight, and they also look down on those who are powerless, unless they are sick.
Fan Jingjing sent people out according to the plan, but she still felt the difficulty of long-distance communication in her heart.
Things are often changeable, and when things change, there is no way to contact a certain part of the people in time, and it is likely that these people can only be sacrificed, unless they can take advantage of the situation and pull themselves out of the field of sacrifice.
Perhaps this is the reason why the ancients were more able to understand what sacrifice is, for a big family or a big force, they will never sacrifice the majority for the sake of a few, even if these minorities have the elite of the family in them, but for the majority of the family, the elite of the expatriate is the one who can be sacrificed.
Fan Jingjing slowly controlled the fate of more and more people.
At first, some of these people appeared that did not match her imagination, and she had to punish these people, otherwise other people who were originally obedient may have some bizarre behavior.
Fan Jingjing's heart was very sad, obviously Fan Qi knew Fan Jingjing's psychology very well, she did not persuade Fan Jingjing, because she knew that Fan Jingjing would not listen to persuasion, but was very active and did these annoying jobs.
Although she is a child, she is a child trained by a large family. She understands these people better than Fan Jingjing that they must be dealt with, so she can be completely ruthless when dealing with them, and she doesn't care about them at all.
After all, she doesn't take these people's feelings as seriously as Fan Jingjing, and when she looks at everything in the world, she starts more rationally.
More importantly, she only paid attention to Fan Jingjing's opinion.
When you focus on one thing, work that has nothing to do with it can be boring.
However, farming is a matter of subtlety, and only by cultivating the land diligently every day will you be rewarded with enough food.
Fan Jingjing sometimes focuses too much on looking at cans, and she also thinks about whether she shouldn't go farming and hand over this job to others, but Fan Jingjing must be an example of the Fan family's manor, if she doesn't farm, these people who have become rich, many people will focus on workshop work or real estate management, and will never farm again.
Just like Fan Jingjing has always insisted on learning to cook and cook, even if the dishes she cooks are not delicious, she still thinks about the kitchen half the time.
Although most of the time, the dishes she made were still inedible, and she would still go to the big cafeteria, but she really worked hard to make a dish, but fortunately she found that the dishes she made could actually be fed to pigs, unless she felt that she could still eat it, and it was not a waste.
It's just something that makes Fan Jingjing feel very desperate, why can other people's cooking be more and more delicious, the dishes she makes seem to have never improved, she saw the appearance of the kitchen, and felt that the job she should do is to improve the kitchen, at least so that the firewood can be boiled and the heat can be controlled.
"Gas is still too dangerous, not to mention that there are no very safe pipelines in this era, which can be transported through cement pipes, although it can be manufactured, but it is too heavy."
Fan Jingjing is thinking about how to make fire a safe user, but although I am said to be the safest fuel in the later life, there are still things that are deflated and exploded due to improper use.
"Firewood can make it bigger in an old-fashioned way, which can help stir-fry without increasing the firewood fire."
Fan Jingjing knocked on her head, and suddenly thought:
"What's wrong with me? In fact, you should find someone who is good at doing anything, although Niu Shijin doesn't have much of a concept of how to make iron, but she knows what a chef needs, and when it comes to controlling fire, he has more concept than me.
At least the dishes he cooked, you can see that the heat is well controlled.
I or any other cook can't learn it, and if he finds more things for him to do, he won't want to go to war all day, and seeing that he will spend half of his time exercising his body every day, I know that he is not going to live a peaceful life when he comes back, but also to ride a horse and fight. ”
In fact, Fan Jingjing didn't stop Yu Chi Aya and Niu Shijin from meeting, but the two of them didn't meet for fear of making Fan Jingjing angry, and especially Yu Chi Aya, she could feel that her skin was getting better and better, so her mood gradually became relaxed, but she was also afraid to stop the treatment, but it seemed very difficult for her to give up Niu Shijin.
In fact, women in the feudal era never regarded love as the most important thing, for them, everyone has his own task, unless he is a common man, as long as he grows up in the constant pursuit of the upper reaches of the eunuchs, other women will become a tool to make friends with the powerful.
Unless you give up making friends with powerful people, you generally don't want your daughter to marry someone of a lower class.
For these families, women are a means for them to climb up, through women to a family, if a woman can be the head of the family, even if there is no way to bring benefits to the family in contemporary times, but when her children become the masters of the family, more or less will be better to their mother's family, and the mother's family will also become the arm of the head of the family.
At this time, the mother's family is most likely to live and die with the head of the family, and get benefits, in fact, many families have such a consensus, if they can live and die with the main family, they can get a lot of benefits when they pass the life and death level.
Wanting to invest is actually the most difficult, and it takes vision and luck.
In fact, when the three of them were waiting for Yu Chi Aya's face to return to its original state, what choice would Niu Shijin have? It's too early to tell.
It's not just a woman's heart that's hard to guess, it's also a man's heart that's hard to guess, it's just that because he's the other half you need to guess, you have to take the trouble to guess the other person's mind and then cooperate.
Sometimes you want to guess the other person's mind because you want to change the other person, and the person who is changed may not be willing.
Everyone has their own subjective initiative, and if the other party can change it with a word, then this thing should not be important to this person.
More than ten days have passed, Fan Jingjing feels that she should go to the amusement area again to see the actual situation, and when the ladies and girls go back, he also returns to the Fan family manor to do ordinary things, the work that should be worked, and the attention should be paid to.
In fact, Fan Jingjing's main job every day is to find a way to record the things she remembered before and become the materials in the library.
She knew that it couldn't remember these things forever, and she had to record them before they disappeared, whether they were useful or not, and maybe one day she would be able to use them.