Chapter 101 The simple Tang Dynasty
Buddhas can be eternal, but people can't be eternal, so it's unfair to use people's short lives to dedicate themselves to the Buddha and make the Buddha more eternal.
Yun Chu wanted to use his short life to eat, sleep, drink tea, be in a daze, feed Naha, find a beautiful woman to fall in love with, and have a baby, but he didn't plan to spend his life on other things.
So, the old monkey said that Yun Chu - the erection is not enough and conspiracy!
Then he jumped off the wall and left, even if the door was open for him, he was still reluctant to go through the door, which shows that the monkey nature has not changed.
The old monkey did not accept the giant Kong Ming lantern that Yun Chu suggested to him, he thought that it was not pure Buddhism, and Yun Chu was suspected of cheating him of money.
It may be because the first day has passed, the sun is getting hotter and hotter day by day, and the ice in the canals is beginning to melt.
However, it was still 39 days, which should be the coldest time of the year, and the weather was very, very abnormal.
The appearance of a warm winter is not a good phenomenon, judging by the experience of working in the streets before, as well as the various forecasts issued by various departments.
As a good street cadre, he first had to stock up on some medicines to prevent viral influenzas, and through propaganda to make the people on the streets pay attention to personal hygiene, not to get sick, and to closely monitor whether there is an epidemic.
Second, because the winter is not cold enough, many pests and diseases cannot be killed, and they can survive the winter safely, so in the coming year, the sanitation department should be urged to spray pesticides on street trees.
Third, if the community is in the countryside, it is also necessary to think that winter wheat will recover early in the warm winter, which will cause the problem of reduced food production.
The most important thing is that once the warm winter appears, it is easy to have a dry weather and dry scenes, and it is necessary to prevent fire.
In the past, Yun Chu had already taken action, and when he came to the community of Datang, he didn't have to worry about other things, and the work of grain storage and fire prevention must not be relaxed.
After the first day, the grain price in Chang'an fell again, this time it was Chang Ping who took the initiative to make grain, causing the price of corn in Chang'an to fall all the way, almost to the point where you can buy a bucket of corn for two cents.
After careful calculation, Yun Chu found that the price of grain could not be so low, because, even if there is a condition for buying corn at a reserve price, the price of a bucket of corn cannot be so low, which is very unreasonable, after all, Hebei Province and Shandong Province suffered a catastrophe last year, and the imperial court once released a tone that it was ready to stop brewing wine to ensure food supply.
Thinking of this, Yun Chu looked at the people in Jinchangfang who only ate one and a half meals a day and were so hungry that they had meat and eight vegetarian noodles and vegetables, so he asked Liu Yi to come forward, and set aside the money in his hand to pay wages and buy materials, and took out sixty percent of the remaining money to buy food from Changping.
The rest of the money was used to buy necessities such as salt and linen.
Later, when the people were paid for their wages, they would be given grain, salt, and linen.
Because all the price measures of Datang are grain, and if the price of grain falls, the price of other things will also fall.
Speaking of which, Yun Chu really has no confidence in Datang's legal tender copper plate, because as long as anyone has copper in their hands, they can mint it.
Yun Chu suspected that the main reason for the drop in grain prices this time was probably the prelude to the imminent appearance of a large amount of privately minted money in the market.
He is too familiar with this scene, and he has suffered too many losses, if something is to be shipped in large quantities, he must first speculate the price of this thing, and then ship it to make money.
Therefore, he concluded that it would not be long before a new exchange ratio between copper coins and grain would come out.
The people of Datang feel pitiful when they think about it, and they finally earned a few copper coins, and when they were about to do something else, they suddenly found that the copper coins had become worthless, so it was more difficult for them to get rich than to ascend to the sky.
Yun Chu told Liu Yi, who had recently earned some copper coins, to try his best to turn all the copper coins in his hand into grain or other durable things.
Liu Yi scoffed at Yun Chu's suggestion, and after returning home, he also wiped every copper coin in the house with tung oil and put it in a more secure place to store it.
Two pennies can buy a bucket of corn, oh my God, copper coins are becoming more and more valuable, this is the opinion of Liu Yi, a miser.
Truckloads of grain, salt, and linen were transported back, filling the warehouse arranged by Yun Chu to the brim.
To this end, Yun Chu created six more husband positions.
The money, when it entered the warehouse of the Li Chang's house, the people automatically thought that the money belonged to the Li Chang, and even Liu Yi thought so.
Now, the money, turned into grain, salt, and linen was put into a warehouse that everyone could see, and at this time, everyone finally thought that probably, maybe, probably, these things had something to do with them.
What they didn't know was that these things were deliberately revealed to them by Yun Chu, a centripetal collective, first of all, asked for public property.
With public property, it must be distributed.
Under Yun Chu's gaze, Liu Yi took four people to distribute yellow rice to the people in Fang City, one bucket per family.
The number is not too much, 867 households, and the total is only 87 quintals of yellow rice, but everyone who receives the yellow rice feels that they owe a favor to the eldest of the Li family.
They didn't know where these things came from, only that they were ordered to be sent to them by the lieutenant.
After the townspeople received their things, they ran as fast as they could, and they didn't even thank him for his efforts.
"What are they doing so fast?" Yun Chu looked at a little woman who was running fast with a grain bag on her back and asked Liu Yi in puzzlement.
He thought that he was not a pervert, and he did not do bad things to bully men and women in Jinchangfang.
"They were afraid that the long-haired food would be distressed, so they asked them to go back."
"What was sent to them is theirs, what am I going to come back for?"
"Since ancient times, only the people have paid grain to the government, and no government has ever given food to the people, or it has been given in vain."
"Huh? Since this is the case, then inform them to come and receive salt again, and each household will receive a catty first. ”
"Huh? Still send? Liu Yi's hands trembled for a moment, and seeing that Yun Chu's eyes were blazing and he didn't go crazy, he decisively asked people to shout all over the street, asking those who had received food to come back and receive salt.
"They are all obedient, and when we run Jinchangfang well, in the future, they will be in charge of their food shop."
Although Liu Yi already respected Yun Chu very much, but when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but advise: "Then we can't afford to take care of it, nearly 6,000 people eat 6,000 catties of yellow rice and corn ...... a day."
"Nonsense, one pound of yellow rice a day, can only keep them from starving, want to eat, each person needs at least two pounds of yellow rice or corn per day, that's it, but also equipped with vegetables and vegetables, meat can become, want to eat well, a person a day three pounds of yellow rice, corn, but also mixed with white rice and wheat rice, and then with vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, pig and mutton, that is the life that people should live."
Liu Yi licked his lips and said with a smile: "It's good to think about it, it's good to think about it, our life is already very good now, there are no people in the market who can't afford to eat, this is already very good." ”
Yun Chu lazily looked at the sky and said: "I have calculated, the reason why they can eat one pound of corn is not enough is that there is no oil and water in their stomachs, if there is enough oil and water, five thousand six hundred people spend 10,000 pounds of corn a day is actually enough, according to the current price of two pennies and a bucket, a load of corn is only twenty yuan, ten thousand catties of corn is only one hundred quintals, two cents of money, a month is only sixty cents."
A mouthful of pigs is only worth 300 yuan in the grass market outside the city, and now the copper coins are valuable, and I heard that 250 yuan can buy a pig weighing 150 catties.
Consistent money can buy four pigs, four pigs 600 catties, which is a few mouthfuls of pork per person......"
Liu Yi saw that the chief had to put in the calculations, for fear that the chief would lose the little belongings that Jinchangfang had accumulated with great difficulty, so he hurriedly said: "The chief doesn't know, these people eat one pound of rice a day from their own house, if they eat in the city, they can't beat five pounds of rice a day, if they are paired with pork, believe it or not, they can eat themselves to death!"
Even if we put all the money in the market, it won't be enough for these 6,000 people to eat, and we are already very good, very good.
There is grain in the market, at least this year, there will be no starvation to death, this is already a great blessing for them, but they dare not continue to give benefits. ”
Yun Chu patted Liu Yi on the shoulder and said, "We can think like this first, is it hard to guarantee that it will be realized one day?"
Since you're fine, you'll go to Caoshizi tomorrow to find out how much it costs to prepare a meal for 6,000 people a day.
Remember, take it as a matter of course. ”
Liu Yi nodded helplessly, although the lieutenant chief looked normal, he still felt that the lieutenant chief had gone crazy.
It is not uncommon for people to die of starvation in the prosperous era of Zhenguan, but when the government registers people who die of starvation, it often registers them as violent deaths or deaths of illness, which is a fact that Yun Chu has recently discovered when he ran to Wannian County.
Every day, when the city gate is not yet opened, the small gate on the city gate will be opened first, and some ox carts covered with reed mats will go out first, one or two carts when it is hot, and five or six carts when it is cold.
These are all the corpses found by the Tang Dynasty guards when they patrol and fight at night, and there are also the corpses found by the Fangzheng, they will gather these corpses to Yanxing Gate before dawn, and before opening the city gate, they will be pulled out of the city by ox carts from the small gate and stored in Yizhuang outside the city, and if no one claims them after three days, the people of Yizhuang will bury these corpses in the mass grave.
Yun Chu didn't know if those ministers in the Tang Dynasty knew about these things, anyway, in the eyes of the group of small officials in Wannian County, this was the most inconspicuous thing in their daily work.
If you want people to listen to you, you have to give money!
If you want others to listen to you without thinking, then you have to pay for it!
Yun Chu thought that this was the most simple exchange.
What kind of thinking, what kind of truth, what kind of grand blueprint, is not as real as giving money and taking care of food.
The Tang Dynasty people, who are relatively simple, recognize this.
(End of chapter)