0019 Melons are ripe

The next day, Li Tai woke up a little late and was in poor spirits. I simply saved my morning exercise, saved my energy and saved some food.

Last night he tossed and turned, thinking about a farming plan for a long time. But in fact, the land in the world before him was more scarce than in the current world, and he had little practical experience in farming.

But out of the dignity and superiority of the traverser, he still felt that he was only one piece of land away from Baye Kecheng, and what Northern Zhou and Northern Qi were all local chickens and dogs, so there was nothing to worry about!

Regardless of whether this arrogance is justified or not, this mentality is really commendable, at least it can make him positive and energetic.

Gao Huan, the overlord of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, was not born with a golden spoon, but he was determined to defeat the boss and mess with whom, so he was so panicked that he almost shot his own son to death, and his perseverance finally brought down the Erzhu family and replaced him.

Li Tai didn't dare to be arrogant and arrogant, but who is not an ambitious boy with Lu who dreams of being a man?

Breakfast is no longer a meat-filled ball, just a steaming bowl of noodle soup, but it can finally fill your stomach.

Huazhou's urban administration is so-so, but some rules are strict. The market is closed early in the morning and cannot be entered until late afternoon.

Li Tai's heart was full of a sense of crisis, and he was naturally reluctant to waste time, and after breakfast, he set up a bookcase in the front hall, and ordered the servants in the middle of the house to take turns to enter, asking them what skills they had, and preparing talents for the next great farming business.

"Long Technique...... May I ask Lord Lang, what is a long skill? ”

"What would you do besides eating and drinking? Ploughing the fields, planting mulberry, weaving hemp, carpentry, pottery, and making weeds, should always be the same, right? ”

Li Tai really didn't know what skills the ancients needed to survive, so he asked the people around him, plus the entries in the ancient books he read, such as "Qi Min Yaoshu" and "Tiangong Kaiwu", and also sorted out some of the jobs needed for the development of farming.

Hearing Li Tai's enumerated questions, he was still a little dumbfounded, and he whispered for a moment before he whispered: "The slave grew up in the city since he was a child, and he can only distinguish between orders and arrays, and he never needs to cultivate, but he knows how to raise herds, and he also knows how to ram walls, build fences, and build bricks......

"It's a long plan, what's your name?"

This is obviously a veteran of the city, although he has no basic agricultural skills, but he is also familiar with many acrobatics, and he can be regarded as a talent, Li Tai lowered his head to record it, and then asked the next person: "What do you have a plan?" ”

After such a cross-examination and sorting, the time was unconsciously in the morning. The doorman spread the news that He Batsheng had sent someone to visit, and he hurriedly put down the affairs at hand and went out to greet him.

"The lord and the servant led eighty soldiers, half male and half female, and asked Lang Jun to check it. He also told him that he was ordered to patrol the east this morning, and he was not living in the city recently, so he asked Lang Jun to visit slowly. If the force is still insufficient, just sue again! ”

"Enough, enough! Please thank Master Heba on my behalf, when the Master returns to the city in the future, he will definitely come to thank you again! ”

Li Tai looked at the tribules that were standing all over the vestibule, and his mood was mixed, and he even seriously suspected that these old military leaders were stuffing people with him one by one, probably because they couldn't afford to support them.

But even if you can't afford it, people can give it away, sell it, and be willing to give it to yourself, which can be regarded as a favor. Moreover, in addition to these soldiers, He Batsheng also added a cart of twenty stone grain, which indeed made Li Tai grateful.

Because they had to go to the military camp outside the city to rendezvous, He Batsheng's personal soldiers took their leave after delivering the personnel and materials, and Li Tai returned to the front hall to continue the reorganization and interrogation work.

It was not until after noon that Gao Bailing and Shi Heland, the governor of the public mansion, who went to Daxingtai Mansion to handle the pastoral reward, returned and brought back the deed of the rewarded countryside.

This deed only said that Shangyuan Township, Wuxiang County, was allocated to Tianyuanyi, but did not write the specific area. However, according to the estimation of the Northern Wei Dynasty's Juntian system, a male can be granted 40 acres of open fields and 20 acres of mulberry fields.

"Where is Shang Yuanxiang?"

Li Tai held the document that represented the starting point of his hegemony and asked, and Helande next to him said with a smile: "Shangyuan is located on the east bank of Luoshui, thirty miles away from the west of present-day Zhou City, and it is a well-known fat township in the state. But when the wind and rain are good, there are more than six or seven stones of grain and food per mu! ”

When Li Tai heard this figure, he was very excited in his heart, but he thought that the measurements of the Western Wei Dynasty were all from a small system and placed in a unified and wealthy dynasty, and the so-called yield per mu would have to be discounted in half.

With this paperwork, you can go to the countryside at any time to receive the countryside, and the immediate priority is what to eat for dinner.

Li Tai came from a later generation with abundant materials, and was accustomed to eating three meals a day, a bowl of noodle soup for breakfast, and now he was quite hungry, so he put away the paperwork, ordered some money and silk in the mansion, and left home with Gao Bailing and others to enter the market.

With the experience of yesterday's trip, he specially brought a few Hu servants this time, and these Hu soldiers led the way, and there was no harassment along the way.

There is only one commercial market in Huazhou City, which is located in the west of the city. The market is fenced off from the outside world, and from a distance you can see armoured soldiers stationed in front of the city gate.

Gao Bailing counted more than a dozen coins according to the number of people entering the market, but until the line entered the market, no one came forward to collect the money, only one team owner warned them not to make noise in the market.

"The Western Dynasty actually doesn't collect money from the city?"

Gao Bailing threw the counted coins back into the basket in the car, looking quite surprised. Obviously, it was the Hebei market that made more money in the market, which made him feel at a loss.

Li Tai felt that this was not necessarily because the Western Wei government was sympathetic to the people, and that the lack of relevant municipal taxes based on its embarrassing financial situation could only show that market transactions were sluggish, and if more taxes were imposed, the scale of the commodity economy would only shrink even more.

After entering the market, Li Tai did not rush inside, but looked left and right at the city gate, until the entourage asked, and then said a little strangely: "Why is there no current price of materials in this market?" ”

An old Kansai in the entourage said: "There may be a big city in Kanto, but there has never been such a thing in Kansai, and the market is bought and sold by nearby neighbors, honesty is the foundation, whoever wants to cheat, the masses will not allow him to go out of the city alive, and ruin the township!" ”

Li Tai couldn't help but sweat profusely when he heard this, and the more he felt the fierceness of the Kansai people.

Although the rules of the market are simple, but the atmosphere is good, the entrance is a vegetable market, several lines of shops are lined up, but more or sit on the ground or board car to build a stall, look at the temple fair or large set that can be seen in the future annual festival, although it is lively but not messy.

Gao Bailing was looking for people in the market to ask questions, and learned that the grain market was still on the southern edge of the city, so the group went to buy grain first, and then wandered around.

Although the market size is not large, there are many types of goods, just Li Tai saw along the way, the vegetable market is a meat market, a few skinned sheep are hung on a wooden frame, and the qi is scattered in the wind. Further south, there are hand-woven baskets and utensils, as well as many dusty pottery miscellaneous displays.

The area of the grain market is not small, accounting for almost half of the entire market, and the types of grain sold are also diverse.

Grains, sesame seeds, etc., common cereals and coarse grains in later generations, except for corn, almost all have decorations, as well as seeds and tubers of elm money and other plants that Li Tai had never seen. However, the processed rice and flour grains are not displayed outside, and are only sold in shops.

"Fellow, how much is the price of soybeans and grains?"

In line with the principle of shopping around and not being wronged, Li Tai turned over and dismounted, walked to a stall, pointed to a can of soybeans and asked. The beans were smaller and shriveled than he had seen in later life, and looked a little stunted.

The grain seller was a middle-aged man with a dark face, who seemed not used to being called so affectionately by Li Tai, and looked a little timid when he saw how powerful others were, and only after a while did he raise his hand and waver: "Don't want money......"

Are Guanzhong fellows so enthusiastic?

Li Tai was taken aback when he heard this, and before he had time to be happy that he had a chance to take it for nothing, the old fellow who was panting loudly had already said again: "As long as the cloth, a bucket of cloth and a piece of cloth!" ”

Cloth is a relatively coarse linen fabric, but also the most common clothing worn by civilians, a piece of cloth forty feet, according to the per capita eight feet, can also cut the clothes of five people, but can only be exchanged for a bucket of twelve catties of soybeans, converted into later generations of measurement is only more than five catties.

Although Li Tai did not understand the exchange of value of different commodities and labor, he also felt that the price was a bit expensive. Soybeans are a basic crop that can be grown when sown in the ground, but the process of making cloth is much more cumbersome.

"How much does that piece of cloth cost?"

Li Tai didn't want to make any jokes about why he didn't eat minced meat, so he asked again.

"No money!"

The fellow was still panting when he spoke, and he raised a finger and said, "A bucket of mushrooms!" ”

Li Tai suddenly felt that his IQ had been insulted, so he turned around and went directly to another stall, pointed to a sack of barley and asked, "What is the market price of this wheat?" ”

"Three buckets of wheat, one piece of cloth!"

The fellow replied simply, and Li Tai asked again: "What about the money?" ”

"No money!"

It seems that the ancient small-scale peasant economy was still accustomed to bartering transactions.

Li Tai sighed in his heart, and casually pointed to several other goods to ask about the price, although the fellow annoyed him to only ask and not buy, but seeing that he was really crowded, he could only answer patiently one by one. The one used to measure the transaction, without exception, is cloth, the most excessive, even the crockpot elm money, only three cloths!

The villagers didn't care about the money, and for a while Li Tai couldn't figure out whether the nostalgia was like this, or whether these villagers were deliberately playing him as a foreigner, so he couldn't help but feel a little depressed, and bent his fingers to knock on the gourd of the fellow with sesame seeds, and asked viciously: "Is your melon ripe?" ”

"This Lang Jun wants to be a visitor from a foreign country, and the villagers are not reluctant to sell the goods, but there is a lot of bad money in Kansai, and it will not be good in the city for a long time!"

At this time, a spectator who had been observing them for a long time walked up and said to Li Tai: "Guanlang Jun is magnificent, and there must be a lot of materials to buy, and it is difficult to collect them in the retail market." The small shop in the rear is a certain mansion industry, and there is everything in the countryside, and many famous people in the city are supplied, so why not go into the shop and sit on the matter? ”