It's been three days in Black Forest Village, and Silly Da has also returned from the duke's castle, but Lu Jingzhi doesn't have the slightest intention of leaving.

Lu Jingzhi sat on his big shoulder, inspecting the busy places in the village. There are young men cutting down trees to build trestles and warehouses, young women picking breadfruit, half-grown children weaving baskets with peeled twigs, and old men frying slices of breadfruit by the stove. The baskets made of these twigs are sealed, because the branches of the breadfruit tree secrete a kind of gum, which naturally fills the gaps between the branches, and the lid only needs to be smeared with a little gum, and then placed on the stone that exudes the heat of the earth, and after a while it will stick, and there will be no more gaps. These baskets filled with fried breadfruit slices were to be placed on hot stones overnight and loaded into wagons the next day. Fried breadfruit slices can be stored for a long time, and as long as the lid is not removed, they will hardly spoil.

"Forty-nine, what do you think is the best way for us to make money?" Lu Jingzhi asked.

"This young master, what you said about making money, the little one doesn't understand. But aren't you going to sell these things? I guess you're making money with this. Forty-nine pointed to the basket where a carriage was mounted.

"Stupid. Lu Jingzhi shook his head and said, "I still expect you to be smarter, so that I can give you a trade route and make you a fortune." ”

Sijiu said with an aggrieved face: "This young master, the little one is stupid, don't blame the little one." In fact, the small one just wants to follow you, never thought of making a fortune, what line of trade, the small one doesn't understand, don't be angry, the small one really wants to follow you. ”

Sijiu is right, he is such a casual personality, otherwise he would not let himself be beaten and scolded, and he would still be loyal to himself. Lu Jingzhi nodded and said, "Then you can follow me." But there's nothing big going on in the future, so don't blame me for not giving you a chance. ”

Silly walked fast, Sijiu followed a little hard, Lu Jingzhi sat on Silly Big's shoulder, but it was quite leisurely, and when he saw which breadfruit tree was hanging low, he patted Silly Da on the head and asked him to turn around and let himself pick it. Silly Da was also very cooperative, carefully looking at the branches and not letting them touch Lu Jingzhi's face.

"This young master," Sijiu couldn't figure it out after all, so he hurriedly took two steps and followed behind the stupid big man and asked, "You just said that you didn't plan to make money with those breadfruits, but what did you plan to use to make money?"

Lu Jingzhi patted the stupid shoulder, let him walk through the breadfruit grove, and walked forward, and then said lazily to Sijiu: "We are not selling things, we are not talking about making money, but about equivalent exchange." We'll sell it for as much as it's worth. He gave us money, and we gave us food, and the two offset each other. So, if you want to make money, you can't make money from things, no matter how good this breadfruit is, there will always be a time when it will be sold out. So if you want to make money, you still have to use money. This truth is written in "Capital", Marxist-Leninist-Mao Deng's book, Lu Jingzhi only regarded it as a leisure book to pass the time, but he didn't expect to use it here.

Sijiu was a little dazed when he heard this, his feet didn't stop, but his mind turned a little slowly, and he muttered: "Take money to make money? Do you want to use money to buy more money from others?"

Lu Jingyi gave a thumbs up and said, "If you want to say that you are stupid, you are quite smart sometimes, this is not just a sentence." ”

Sijiu was confused, thought for a long time, and said: "This young master, people are willing to do business with you, it is definitely not stupid, so how can you use money to buy him more money? I don't think you can deceive them like this." ”

Lu Jingzhi laughed when he heard this, and said, "Forty-nine, we don't do business to bully people, but to help them." You see there are so many bread and fruit trees in the Black Forest Village, and every year we can't eat all the fruits that fall on the ground and rot, so we take these fruits that may rot and give them money, and the money will not rot, and they can buy things at any time, are we helping them?"

Sijiu thought for a while, nodded and said, "This young master, you are right, we are really helping them." However, if the fruit is rotten in our hands, aren't we at a great loss?" As soon as he finished speaking, Sijiu slapped himself on the head and said with a smile: "Of course the fruit can be fried, so it will not be easy to rot." ”

Seeing that the breadfruit trees were gradually thinning, Lu Jingzhi knew that he had reached the edge of the Black Forest Village, so he asked Silly Da to slowly walk around along the edge and said to Sijiu: "What we earn is the money that makes the fruit not rot." People can't take delicious breadfruit and sell it to people outside because it will rot, and we can sell it if we don't rot. You see, if we have a cart of bread and fruit slices, if they are used as food, it is enough for a village to eat for six or seven days, and how much sulfur can the villagers in the border villages collect in these six or seven days? We only need half of the amount they collect, or a little less, a third, so that everyone can earn a lot. ”

Listen to Sijiu, that's really the truth. Like the Ice Fruit Tree Village that they visited before, the village under Bergo's rule, they themselves have to allocate some manpower to grow food every year. But if you plant food, you will miss picking the fruit, because the time to catch insects for the fruit tree is the same as the time to plant food. If the grain can be sold over there, and they can free up the time to grow grain to deworm the fruit trees, then the yield of the fruit will definitely increase.

"But, young master, you're still selling fruit. "Sijiu still can't figure it out.

"Stupid. Lu Jingzhi hated iron and said: "Our fruit is always limited, right? If you want to sell this thing, you can't collect it indefinitely, otherwise what will the villagers eat? Therefore, if you want to sell it, you have to buy it first." Not only do we sell what we have in our own estates, but we can also sell what we have in other people's estates, provided that we buy them. ”

Sijiu nodded thoughtfully and said, "This young master, I understand. ”

Lu Jingzhi was overjoyed, it seemed that Sijiu's Yulin head had also opened up, and said: "It's really worthy of you when you have been messing with me for so long, come and tell the young master what you want to understand." ”

Sijiu glanced at Lu Jing timidly and said, "I figured it out, you're a little whimsical." ”

Lu Jingzhi was furious, raised a leg from his stupid shoulder, kicked at Sijiu, but it was not enough, and said angrily: "Didn't I see that I wanted to kick you? ”

Sijiu hurriedly leaned his head over and let the strange young master kick comfortably, only to kick him dizzy, and couldn't help but cover his head and shout: "This young master, you are originally whimsical." You think, if someone has something to eat, they can still sell it to us if they don't keep it for themselves. ”

After Lu Jingzhi kicked this kick, he felt comfortable, so he taught a lesson: "Your family has grown ice fruits for generations, will you keep the ice fruits for yourself to eat?"

Sijiu thought for a while and said, "That's not going to happen, the ice fruit is eaten by the undead adults, and we humans eat it poisonous." Suddenly remembering that Lu Jingzhi had already swallowed the corpse insect ice pill, he changed his words and said, "You can also eat it." We can't. ”

Lu Jingzhi ignored the sentence he added later, and said, "What will happen if there is any surplus of the ice fruit you planted?"

Sijiu said stupidly: "I will hide it, and I will use it to pay taxes next year." ”

Lu Jingzhi asked, "Then what if there is any more left next year?"

Sijiu said: "Then keep the new one and hand over the old one." ”

Lu Jingzhi was tired of asking, so he simply changed the question: "Then what if there is a surplus every year?"

Sijiu scratched his head and said, "Then use the old one to make wine, and keep the new one for next year's tax." ”

With a bang, Lu Jingzhi fell off the stupid shoulder, jumped up without waiting for someone to help him, and said impatiently to Sijiu: "Didn't you pay your taxes when you couldn't finish paying them?"

Sijiu's face changed, and he said, "This young master, be quiet, you can't say this." He looked around, and when he saw that no one was eavesdropping, he whispered, "This young master, this kind of thing is absolutely unspeakable, if the adults in the castle know that the village can produce more things, and will set the tax rate higher, the villagers will really not be able to live." After thinking about it, he added: "The adults I'm talking about don't include you." ”

Lu Jingzhi sighed, human beings have lived under the oppression of the undead for more than a thousand years, and they have never resisted? I had to put aside that topic and ask, "Then you have too many things, what should you do?"

Sijiu whispered, "We will bury the fruits in the ground, and we would rather let them rot than let the adults in the castle know how many ice fruits we have overcollected." ”

Lu Jingzhi said: "Then if I ask people to buy it, or exchange it for food, can I get more?"

Sijiu said: "If you go, maybe you can get a lot, anyway, you have to dig a pit if you bury it, if you can take it away, no matter what you do, you can give money or not." But if you can give us more food, the people of the village won't have to live half-starved on the rewards of the castle. ”

"So, let's use the money to buy your surplus things at a low price, and then sell them to those places where there are no ice fruits and grains, so as to relieve their urgent need to pay taxes and eat, is this a good thing to make money and help people?"

"This young master, you seem to be able to say everything at once. Originally, I couldn't figure it out if I wanted to break my head, but you made it clear to me in these few words. Sijiu became excited as if he had discovered a new continent.

Lu Jingzhi looked at Sijiu so happy, he was also happy, raised his foot and kicked Sijiu, and said, "Why don't you help me to the stupid shoulder?" Young master, I'm cold, let's go back." ”

This is already the edge of the breadfruit grove, and a cool breeze blows in outside, making people feel a little chilly. After all, winter is approaching.

"Forty-nine, the things are almost loaded, let's go back to the castle tomorrow. Lu Jingzhi lay down on his stupid broad shoulders, "When we go back, we have to get some meat from Shanqian Village, their meat is really delicious." ”

Sijiu nodded in response, thinking to himself, this strange young master is actually not strange, but he knows too many things, and he can think of one thing, and the young master is only afraid that more than a dozen things will be thought of. It seems that you can't blame the young master, you can only say that you are too stupid.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.