With the arrival of the first light snow, the winter of the second year of the new calendar officially arrived, and this year's winter came a little later, but it came very violently.

With a level eight gale, a day and a night of heavy snow will cover the entire Northeast, just three or five days apart, let the Northeast enter the snow-covered weather, the temperature also turned sharply, October 25, people wearing thin coats can still walk outside, now there is no warm clothes, walking on the street for more than ten minutes can make a person feel the cold air around the bones.

Fortunately, there are many coal mines in the northeastern corner and the mountains occupied by the Korean Peninsula, and they are all stockpiled for the winter, and the price of timber is so high that even the forks of dead trees can be collected to make paper.

The price of coal is low, and many people pick up branches to exchange for coal, which is more practical.

As for logging, the Department of Health Management, which is in charge of all resources, has issued a law that private individuals are not allowed to cut or sell wood, and if anyone sells timber that is obviously felled, they will be fined for hard labor.

Originally, there were enough trees in the Northeast, but after a statistical survey in the first half of the year, the Department of Health Management found that there were so few trees, mainly because people used trees to live and build houses on the spot after the catastrophe, and the consumption of fearlessness was too great.

If they are still the small forces that need to flee everywhere, of course they can't control these things, but after all, now that the Liaoning Central Administration is becoming regular, it is necessary to take into account the ecological balance.

Coal is dumped at a low price in exchange for the growth of trees.

The highway is closed, now there is no electricity, the productivity is very primitive, even the large machinery must be fixed, with large gears and levers to use, with large machinery to clear the snow, is a very unrealistic thing, fortunately the railway has been opened, has been renamed Liaocheng City officially beckoned to build a direct railway, abandoned for a long time outside the city of temporary railway station, this construction is still necessary to be easy, the road is relatively short, once repaired, the original Northeast is always connected to Pingyang, as long as six hours, you can arrive, A day trip is no longer a joke.

This year's winter is not as good as the winter of previous years, the winter at the beginning of the new calendar, people are in panic and anxiety, and the winter of the year in their hearts is not steady, but look at this year's winter? The streets of Pingyang are full of laughter, all kinds of businesses on the streets have been opened, cheese and yogurt are sold everywhere, a bowl of seasoning, full of flavor chicken soup and tofu skewers is only two cents a bowl, now in Liaozhong, not only food, with the planting of large areas of off-season vegetable greenhouses outside Qinglin City, all kinds of green food after a year of precipitation, since then flooded the streets and alleys, farmers have their own yards, raise some chickens, ducks and geese, plant some cabbage and potatoes, take them out and sell them, All you get are the most affordable copper plates and silver coins, buy some good cigarettes and wine, and find three or two friends to have a meal, it is not a luxury thing, although the price is still a lot worse than in peacetime, but everyone knows that there is something in it.

It is not that the prices of grain, meat, and other non-staple foods cannot be lowered, but that the government has deliberately done so, and the large quantities of commodities that can really affect prices are either deliberately hoarded by the government to protect prices, or they are bought by those merchants and shipped to distant places.

Now the Triangle Bay port is already a great deposit, all the first phase of the project has been completed under the investment of a lot of manpower and material resources in this year, there are ships in and out of the wharf every day, the civil ships registered in the Ship Bureau have reached more than 1,230, this is still the number of seal-class sailing ships, if those large and small fishing boats and other types of self-built ships, the Northeast General Affiliated Ships are afraid that there are not more than 10,000, every day the wharf is noisy and abnormal, here bars, manpower companies are everywhere, There are more than 200 workers on the wharf who are responsible for cleaning up the wharf.

Since the advent of slavery, now those who come to Liaozhong by boat from other places, except for those who have paid enough tickets to land freely to settle down in a third-class household registration at the Civil Affairs Bureau, the others, whether they are Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, or Americans, are slaves.

Because they can sell for a price.

Since the departure of the ship in June, there have been people from all over the world every day, from the southern coast of China, as well as from treasure islands, Southeast Asian countries, all kinds of materials are also flooded in the Northeast, if it were not for the government to unconditionally collect jewelry, real money and silver or something at a fixed price, these things would have been rotten on the street, Liaozhong is only more than 13 million people now, how can they eat so many jewels, although these merchants do not know what the government will do after receiving these things, They have never seen it in the market, but as long as someone collects it, they will try to get it back as much as possible, after all, these things are the most valuable, and the unit volume and weight are the smallest.

A merchant stood at the bow of the ship, and three months of life at sea had caused him to survive several times in strong winds and waves, and if it weren't for the fact that the hired captain was still of some level, he might have been wrecked long ago.

But every qiē was worth it, and when he thought about the oak and rubber on the ship, and the abundance of cotton cloth, he would wake up laughing in his dreams.

Although I exchanged travel diaries with passing ships and learned about the currency reform, it was only a reduction in prices by dozens of times, and valuable things were still valuable.

His two ships exhausted all his net worth, and if he didn't make money this time, he would have no financial resources to become a big businessman in Liaozhong.

Countless people wore simple clothes, wrapped in several layers of single clothes, feeling the cold in the air, looking at the silver-white port, the majestic forts on the cliffs, on the flat ground, and looking at the dense and busy crowd on the dock, they believed, they really believed, this place is the paradise of mankind.

But they did not come to heaven to enjoy the blessings, and the five hundred men on both ships came to this place called Triangle Bay Harbor as slaves, and they had to be sold and lived for two years without security except their lives before they could be freed from slavery.

But looking at the solid fort, looking at this prosperous city, they would rather be slaves here than be a trembling free man in the former place, who could be eaten by zombies at any time!

In exchange for two years of slave life, in exchange for the rest of their lives to live like a stable individual, they are willing!

There were only about fifty people, they stood behind the merchants, all dressed in down jackets and large cotton clothes, although the long voyage made them look a little haggard, but they had an unusual pride, and a middle-aged man led by him asked: "Boss Lu, when will you dock?" ”

The merchant said: "We have entered the waiting waterway of the wharf, do you see it, my boatswain is negotiating with the shore with flags, and when my berth is confirmed, you can get off the boat, Zhang Chao, although you have spent a lot of money to buy my boat on the ticket, we are just a money transaction, but I still advise you, here, be a man with your tail between your legs, and do things according to the rules, since there is slavery in this place, you should know that power must exist. As for what Cheng Dù you get mixed up in the future, it has nothing to do with me, get off this ship, you have nothing to do with me Lu Xu, understand. ”

"Is the money clear?" Zhang Chao carried a very high-end suitcase, looked at those who had been transported as slaves, and said, "Can I buy a few slaves and take them away?" ”

"No, these slaves must be inspected by the Civil Affairs Bureau Office and the people of the manpower company, slaves without identity plates are not allowed to get off the ship, nor are they allowed to sell, this is the rule, if you want to buy it, just watch from the sidelines, and wait to buy it with the public."

Lu Xu said this with a mocking face, but he didn't let the group behind him see it.

Zhang Chao: These people think they are fools?

Buy a ticket, and then let relatives and friends get on the ship as slaves, and buy and sell slaves when you get ashore?

How could such a loophole be exploited by you!

Not to mention that the household registration system in Liaozhong is very perfect, even if it is not perfect, I, Lu Xu, have been in Daji for so long, and I have managed these net worth, can I still let you take advantage of the loopholes?

In this world, there are few fools who survive.

Sure enough, Zhang Chao and many others heard this, and left one by one with unkind faces, entered the slave team, looked for someone to talk about, and basically didn't talk for a month on the ship, just for fear that Lu Xu would be suspicious, and now it seems that Lu Xu has always known, waiting to see them look at each other!

This damn businessman!

Soon, an old man in his fifties led a girl in his twenties out and said, "Boss Lu, I was clever, I can't let my daughter be a slave no matter what!" Can I make up a ticket for my daughter? ”

Lu Xu looked at the old man, looked at the average-looking girl, and saw that the girl had some stage fright, before he smiled and said, "Yes, add 20% of the food expenses, and I will treat him as a passenger." ”

"Twenty percent! Their slaves ate the lowest food."

Lu Xu waved his hand, the boatswain next to him finished contacting, nodded to Lu Xu, Lu Xu signaled to enter the port, turned around and said, "I have the final say on this ship!" I say two makes two into two! Lao Tzu is quite kind in business! Otherwise, you will all be counted as slaves and swallow your assets, and you will have no place to reason! ”

Lu Xu said: "You have to think about it clearly, do you see it, the few people who are waiting on the dock with a notebook are the people from the Civil Affairs Bureau Office, they are on the boat, and it will be too late for you to make a decision!" ”

This man in his fifties gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, opened his suitcase, took out a jade Guanyin, handed it over, and said with his gums bleeding: "The jade jade Guanyin of the glass species, enough is enough!" ”

Lu Xu took it in his hand and looked it up and down, nodded, handed it to his captain, and said, "Okay, stand aside, I'm a kind person." ”R1148