Chapter 52: 180,000 catties
When the carriage arrived at the entrance of the village, Gu Jinfeng drove directly to the chief's house.
After listening to the two of them explain their intentions, the lieutenant couldn't believe his ears.
He has lived most of his life, he has heard of buying land, buying trees, and he has never heard of anyone wanting to buy mountains.
Because there had never been such a precedent for buying a mountain before, the governor didn't know how to set the price.
But he still told the two of them the approximate price first: "I can't set the final price for you yet, but I told you that if you want to buy this mountain, it will cost at least a few hundred taels." ”
Qi Ling nodded, the price was still within her expectations.
Seeing that these two people really want to buy a mountain, not a joke or something, the lieutenant also gave them a thorough explanation, which is about three hundred taels.
It's just that he still has to discuss it with several senior Gu clan relatives in the village, after all, this mountain belongs to the whole village, and he can't be the master alone.
After agreeing on a time to come over and buy a mountain, Qi Ling and the two returned home.
The only thing Qi Ling wanted to do now was to find a place where no one was there and take out the silver ticket in the money bag to take a good look.
This feeling of holding "heavy gold" in her hands, Qi Ling has not experienced it in modern times, and the money she has held in her hand is no more than five figures, but now she has 1,800 taels in her hand!
One thousand eight hundred taels, what is this concept?
Take Qi Ling's favorite meat as an example, the current price of meat in this dynasty is ten copper plates a catty, which means that she can buy 180,000 catties of pork, and I am afraid that she will not be able to eat it all in her life.
It's such a blissful feeling!
Gu Jinfeng looked at Qi Ling squinting his eyes and looking at the silver ticket happily, just like a little fox with a dull head.
I like silver so much, then I will definitely work hard to make money in the future, so that you can be so happy every day, Gu Jinfeng thought secretly.
Holding the silver ticket for a while, Qi Ling finally calmed down, she believed that this was just her first step, and she would make more money in the future.
Qi Ling thought, since the mountain is definitely going to be bought, then it is necessary to invite people who go up to the mountain to plant flowers, but this matter still depends on Gu Jinfeng to Zhang Luo.
"By the way, Gu Jinfeng, you can help me find some more people, isn't the spring ploughing almost over now, the people in the village should be idle immediately, it just so happens that I want to hire someone to go up the mountain to plant flowers, and there will be no fewer people coming."
When he came back from the carriage just now, Qi Ling saw that corn and soybeans had been planted in the fields beside the road, and he guessed that the spring plowing should be about to end.
In fact, the reason why the ancient peasants worked so hard was because they could only rely on the crops in the field, and if the harvest was better, life would be better, and if the harvest was bad, life would be sader, and they would rely entirely on the sky for food.
It was not easy to grow food all year round, but after paying the taxes to the imperial court, what fell into their hands was only enough to eat, but that's it, they never thought of finding another way to make a living, or they were focused on farming.
Take Gujia Village as an example, there is a big river next to the village, but many villagers only think of going to the river to catch a few fish in addition to eating for themselves, and at other times they have no idea of catching more fish and selling them in the market.
Doing some small business or something, they can't even think of it, although the position of agriculture is second, but the life is basically the worst.
Before, Gu Jinfeng told himself that there were many old people in the village who had never left Gujia Village in their lives, and Qi Ling couldn't believe it, he had been active in this small place all his life, like a frog at the bottom of a well, only seeing what kind of color the unknown world had.
So this also created the fact that the entire village of Gujia Village is not too rich on average, just like the people who come to help build a house, they can't even eat meat a few times a year.
Qi Ling's actual plan is to develop step by step, and when the time comes, let every household in the entire Gujia Village plant flowers and make a living from flowers, but the premise of doing this step is that she must open the shop first and ensure that the business is not bad.
So this can only be said to be the "blueprint" planned by Qi Ling himself, to be a man, you must always have a goal for yourself, this is a long-term goal that Qi Ling wants to strive for.
Hearing Qi Ling say this, Gu Jinfeng thought for a while, "Then tomorrow, I'll go to the village and ask who is willing to come, but how much do you plan to give your daily salary?" ”
"This kind of flower is simpler than farming, then forty wen a day, although it is less than the workers in the workshop, but it is not bad." Qi Ling thought for a while and said.
Gu Jinfeng nodded, the price was indeed good, "But you can ask your workshop workers first to see if anyone in their family is willing to come." ”
That's right, if you are like the kind of person who works in his own husband and wife, isn't it equivalent to the "double income" in a modern enterprise, the two of them work together, the sense of happiness is raised, and the efficiency will naturally be higher.
Qi Ling agreed with Gu Jinfeng's proposal with modern thoughts, and thinking so, she was ready to go to the workshop to ask.
It's just that before leaving, Qi Ling looked at the silver tickets and hesitated, whether it was better to take them with him or put them at home.
In the end, she was ruthless and stuffed the silver ticket to Gu Jinfeng, "You keep it for me first, don't lose it!" ”
Gu Jinfeng took it, folded it a few times very casually, and stuffed it into his sleeve.
That calmness and indifference suddenly made Qi Ling a little unconvinced, "Otherwise, you should return it to me, I'll take it myself."
"I won't lose it, but you take it, what if you lose it like last time?" Gu Jinfeng looked at her and asked expressionlessly.
Gu Jinfeng asked this for a reason, last time Qi Ling brought five taels of broken silver with her, and was going to exchange some copper plates to pay the people in the workshop, and before leaving, she deliberately put the silver in her money bag, and put the money bag on her chest.
But it was only a trip up the mountain, and when I came down, I didn't even know where I lost my money, not to mention the silver.
As soon as she said this, Qi Ling didn't believe in herself even more, because she had too many records of losing things.
In modern times, when he was a child, because the key to the family was lost every day, Qi Ling's mother tied the key with a red rope and hung it around Qi Ling's neck. After going to middle school, the meal card was lost every day, so Qi Ling managed to buy a card sleeve, which was still hanging around his neck
Do you want to make a money now, wrapping it around your neck?
Thinking of that scene, Qi Ling decided to let Gu Jinfeng keep it. After all, he is still more reliable than himself.
But before leaving, Qi Ling still explained: "You must take care of my 180,000 catties of pork!" ”
Gu Jinfeng suddenly felt that he couldn't understand what Qi Ling said, what does 180,000 catties of pork mean?