The road outside Shangyuan Village is now a two-zhang wide flat road avenue, and the road is paved with a layer of sand, extending from the bottom of the hill to the gate of the manor, even in heavy rain, it will not accumulate cement.

The construction of this road did not cost manor materials, and it was paved with sand by the villagers who came and went recently.

On both sides of the road is Qu City, where villagers have become accustomed to gathering to buy and sell daily output of seasonal goods, no matter whether they buy or sell can have a fair price, three or five chickens can be exchanged for needles and threads, and one or two buckets of miscellaneous herbs can be exchanged for salt and vinegar.

Occasionally, the weavers who leave work early think that today's working hours are continuous, and they ruthlessly cut two fingers of oil, and when they return home, their aunts praise and children laugh, and the man is even more smiling and brings the wooden basin for bathing feet to the bed.

The villagers only focus on the current life, and are reluctant to rent those shops and inns along the street, but the guests in the distant countryside have nowhere to live, and remember when the new goods on the village will be put on sale, and they dare not leave for a while, so they can only stay for a long time.

In addition to the villagers and merchants who are engaged in trading, there is also another group of people who make a living.

These people have nimble hands and eyes, and whenever they see familiar customers coming in and out of this place, they will come up and ask: "Does my brother have a canal ticket?" No matter how much, I have the highest price here! One vote and one handful, now to the bare volume! ”

Some people who are not familiar with the market and current affairs heard that there was still this cheap, and immediately became happy, took out the red and green pattern in his hand, and the two-finger-wide piece of paper in his hand smiled and said: "I have more than ten pieces here, you don't lie?" Fang just entered the village and sold six or seven buckets of soybean material, and the dealer stuffed it over, and Lao Tzu also planned to wipe it on the road......"

"Yes, yes, no matter how much, the cash ticket is in stock!"

Before the man finished speaking, he was pulled out of the road, and was about to panic and struggle, a roll of cloth had been stuffed in his arms, and the bill was naturally taken away, and he returned to the center of the road with a blank face to see that the coarse cloth in his arms was indeed true, and then he realized that he muttered to himself: "Did Lao Tzu suffer?" ”

He was not stupid enough, turned his head and walked to a stall selling baskets on the side of the road, bent down and asked, "Brother, what are the pieces of paper and people calling for canal tickets issued by this village?" ”

"Then the canal ticket, you have to collect it, Shangyuan, this Li Jiazhuang Shangzhi sells goods, in addition to the goods, you also have to check and collect the canal ticket. Without this ticket, no matter how much money you have, you won't be able to buy his goods! ”

The stall owner was a warm-hearted man, and when he heard this, he laughed.

"I see, that's no use, and I don't need to buy his goods!"

The man breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he only felt that the person who bought the ticket with the cloth just now was a fool, and the owner of this village was also a boring person doing boring things, could you still take out the dragon liver and phoenix gall to make people fight for it? The villagers have food and clothing, what do they want?

At this moment, a group of knights galloped out of the village, escorting two carts in the middle, and went straight to a large shop outside the village.

"It's new, it's new!"

Seeing this scene, the originally orderly market suddenly became boiling, shouting one after another everywhere, and people everywhere ran towards the big shop. The stall owner who was guarding the stall also jumped a few feet high, and hurriedly shouted to the stall next to him: "Help me look at the goods!" ”

Before the words fell, the stall owner had already jumped out of the distance.

When the man saw this scene, he was also a little dumbfounded for a while, and he couldn't figure out what kind of madness this merchant native was doing, because he was curious, but he was not in a hurry to hurry, and squatted on the side of the road to see what kind of moth this was.

After another half an hour, the stall owner came back sweaty, holding a withered bamboo tube in his hand, returned to sit down with a gloomy face, and sighed to the stall owner next to him: "Unlucky, only grabbed a tube of apricot blossoms, it is better to sell the canal ticket more profitable!" ”

When the spectator heard that the stall owner was in a hurry just to grab the ingredients, he was immediately overjoyed: "Brother, are you Shangyuan people too informed?" I can't make this honey at home, so I want to fight for it here? ”

"You know!"

The stall owner didn't grab the goods he wanted, and he was already in a bad mood, so he rolled his eyes after hearing the words, and shouted loudly at the stall: "Li Zhuang apricot blossoms, only one and a half catties, first come, first served!" ”

As soon as these words were shouted, several people gathered up to ask the price, and the stall owner directly quoted three times the current price, and the spectator felt that the atmosphere of this country was corrupted, and he couldn't help but say: "My family also has food, which is several times lower than the price of this thief!" ”

After hearing this, a few people who were still bargaining immediately surrounded the spectators, and each competed for a premium, and the spectators couldn't help but widen their eyes when they saw this, and nodded busily: "I'll go home, let my family rush to make it, and I'll still be here in the second half of the year, let's ......."

"Your family is homemade? Not Li Zhuang's property? , don't make a fuss! ”

When a few people heard this, they immediately scattered, and then turned their heads to look back at the stall, but the tube of apricot blossoms had already been sold.

A few people couldn't buy goods, they glared at the visitors, and some people were already gearing up, the visitors saw this, and hurriedly drove away from here with a cloth, and walked out for a long time before spitting: "Crazy, Shang Yuan is all crazy!" ”

He went down from here, and another person rushed out of the road next to him, pulling the car and whispering: "Brother is going to sell goods in Li Zhuang?" Does his family have a canal ticket for you? One ticket and one foot cloth, cash tickets! ”

The man was stunned at first when he heard this, and after a while, he looked at the roll of coarse cloth caught under his armpit, slammed it on the car board and roared: "Lao Tzu didn't! This Shang Yuan and Lao Tzu will never come again! ”

Li Tai didn't know that there was a guest from a foreign country who was at a loss and almost collapsed because of the strange feelings of his hometown, but even if he knew, he would only laugh it off.

The Kansai region has been in turmoil for many years, the entire logistics trading system has collapsed seriously and is almost non-existent, and the social structure has almost no concept of division of labor and cooperation, and everyone has become an island.

Without the division of labor and cooperation, and without mutual needs, social development will stagnate. Lacking the motivation to change the status quo, it is nothing more than keeping to the status quo and living from generation to generation.

Li Tai has seen a lot of effect on the change of the countryside, the promotion of the Quyuan plough has greatly shortened the farming cycle of the villagers, and the rebuilding of the Longshou Canal has improved the crop yield along the line.

The villagers used to plough the land in three days, but now they can do it in two days, saving a day to go home and dig the cellar to store more grain, so what am I busy with?

Hurry up and work in my workshop and make more money!

I don't know what to do after making money, and I am still panicking when I hide at home? I have a supply and marketing cooperative, add new clothes, add new dishes, and be full of vitality after a tiring day!

The truth is this truth, but when Qu City was first founded, Li Tai was also beating the drum in his heart, after all, the nostalgia has been so many years, and the villagers may still be used to accumulating grain and preparing for famine, and they may not be willing to enjoy the present.

So at first, he just wanted to buy surplus goods from the countryside, and then transfer them to Huazhou, Chang'an and other cities with high demand for sales.

However, after the construction of Dangqu City, Li Tai soon found that the desire to consume in the township was also not low, and the villagers did not have no demand for consumption, but they lacked a stable and continuous supply channel for goods in the past.

In particular, some simple tools and goods, not everyone knows how to manufacture, but there is indeed a demand, rather than their own labor-intensive and costly attempts to make, it is better to buy directly from the market.

In addition to tools and utensils, all kinds of fresh agricultural ingredients are also sold very well, and are often in short supply.

In the final analysis, a better life is the most instinctive pursuit of people, and Yang Bailao has to pull a two-foot red head rope for his daughter even if he is so poor.

Of course, there is another reason that prompts the people to consume surpluses, that is, the Western Wei government, or the hegemony of Yuwentai, is not a person.

On the eve of the battle of Shayuan in the third year of the Great Unification of the Western Wei Dynasty, there was a great hunger in Guanxi, and Yuwentai ordered the expansion of households to search for grain, and it was guilty of excessive grain storage at home. Although a lot of grain was transported back after conquering Hengnong, and the battle of Shayuan also achieved a brilliant victory, the grain that was stolen did not say that it would be returned.

So the people of Kansai really don't have too strong a desire to hoard, and it's serious to wear and eat it, and it's useless to save rations for cats.

The profit of buying and selling between villagers is not large, and the essence is to communicate with each other and take what they need. No matter how short of money Li Tai is, he will not be so mad as to make profits in it.

But this atmosphere of business prosperity can be used very well. Everything is from small to large, from the bottom up, when some rules become the common sense of convention, it has power in itself.

Today, the canal bills that are copied and sold in the canal market are this kind of product. The channel ticket is only a voucher for the internal record of the contribution of the channel alliance, but when it is introduced into a supply and exchange system and is recognized by the public, it itself has a certain credit value.

Of course, it is also because Li Tai's manor can provide some high-quality commodities that the canal ticket has the qualification to be linked to scarcity, and even produces a certain amount of circulation.

With the internal recognition of the Qu League, and with the Qu Ticket as a qualification certificate, Li Tai is equivalent to creating the prototype of a business system centered on him.

As long as we can ensure the leading position of our own production capacity and the continuous supply of high-end goods, this business system will continue to expand. In short, the canal ticket provided Li Tai with another means of controlling and regulating the market.

He can expand the radiation range of the canal alliance by issuing additional canal tickets, and replicate the Longshou canal incident in other townships. It is also possible to attract sellers who have scarce resources through the growth of the market, such as those salt wealthy families in Hedong, or Duguxin, who has great influence in the Hexi trade routes.

Of course, at present, this business system is still very immature, not enough to touch those real giants, but one day, Li Tai can grasp the social resources that can have equal dialogue and mutual benefit with them.

He is not worried that this method will be copied and used by others in the short term, any method has particularities, and others who can use it may not.

As for the Western Wei court, it is better to engage in these things than to directly carry out monetary policy reform, which will make the integration of social resources stronger.