This year, the Alan County Chamber of Commerce dividends are very satisfied, regardless of whether you are the main or a worker, how much can get some benefits, the New Year workers not only increased their wages, but also at the end of each year can also receive an extra month of monthly salary, although the monthly salary has only risen by 200 yuan per month, but the living standards of workers and their families can indeed be greatly improved

In Alan County, no matter what kind of money you have or no money, as long as your family is naturalized in Alan County and lives here, Alan County will provide your family with a house with a single courtyard and some daily necessities, such as what water tank - rice bowl - iron pot - kitchen knife - wooden basin - furniture, etc., in addition to giving your family 6 acres of land, and a job to ensure the source of living

All of the above are free, and the production unit pursued in the north of Taizhou is based on households, the standard of the household is a family of three, a room with six acres of land and a job, if a household has four people, then one more acre of land, five people can be divided into two acres of land plus a job and so on, so everyone usually does not have much money to spend, nothing more than to buy some daily necessities and food

Wage increases are definitely a good thing for workers, and it is really better than you draw a hundred pies, but there is also a hidden disadvantage of wage increases, that is, prices will also rise, and sometimes prices will rise even more than your wages, which will create a vicious circle, which will lead to the life of ordinary people is getting tighter and tighter

Therefore, while raising wages, we must also start to control prices, and the original intention of Li Yang and Li Song to create the Alan Chamber of Commerce will be to stabilize market prices, which is why Sun Daren will give the Alan Chamber of Commerce certain support in some aspects, and the Alan Chamber of Commerce involves many industrial chains, such as agriculture, animal husbandry, salt industry, winemaking, handicraft manufacturing, mining, military industry, forestry, navigation, etc

This is a unique supply chain for the Alan Chamber of Commerce, and it is also the confidence of the Alan Chamber of Commerce to stabilize the price of Taizhou Prefecture, if the price of the goods supplied by the supplier rises rashly, then we will not enter and sell our own goods, who is not a fool of the same quality goods who do not buy cheap ah, rash price increase can only affect your own business

But this thing has to be prevented in advance, especially after the year and the New Year, every family has to stock up on the New Year's goods, which will cause a shortage of supply of some commodities resulting in a rise in prices, even if the price will fall later, but compared with previous years, there will still be an increase, only by controlling the price of the people can fundamentally have a good year

So Li Yang looked at Li Song: Second year, our Alan Chamber of Commerce, how much was the price of daily necessities, you can tell everyone briefly

Li Song thought for a while: Now the price of pork on the market is 20 wen yuan a catty, a fat 15-6 wen yuan or so, mutton and venison 25 wen yuan a catty - wine 10 wen yuan a catty - tea 6 wen yuan a tael - rice 5 wen yuan a catty - oil 50 wen yuan a catty - 1 4 catties of carp - grass carp 15 wen yuan - cotton 35 wen yuan a pound - paper umbrella 5 wen yuan - kitchen knife and shovel 30 wen yuan a piece - tofu a piece of 3 wen yuan - dry tofu a pound 5 wen yuan

Salt 20 wen yuan a catty - refined salt 60 wen yuan a catty - white flour 8 wen yuan a catty - cotton cloth a horse 300 wen yuan (width 1.2 meters long 13.3 meters) - chicken 65 wen yuan a - egg two wen yuan a duck 70 wen money a - egg two wen money a goose 100 wen yuan a goose an egg 3 wen yuan a catty, marine fish and shellfish are 5-6 wen yuan a pound - river shrimp 10 wen yuan a pound - sea shrimp 15 wen yuan a pound - apple 4 wen yuan a pound - orange 3 jin 10 wen yuan - pear 4 wen yuan a pound - dried fruit 15-30 wen yuan a catty

When Li Song was about to continue, Li Yang raised his hand to interrupt his words: "The second brother, all the civilian commodities of our Alan Chamber of Commerce this year are still sold at the price set last year

Li Song: Boss, I'll put this in place tomorrow

Gao Yuan: According to what the second child just said, then we can buy something for the craftsmen with 200 yuan

Li Long: If you calculate it in a year, it's 2 taels and 4 yuan of silver, so you can buy a lot of more things seriously, and you can save a little bit and buy a few domestic animals

Yuan Kui: The workers are well-off, so don't we have to increase our expenditure by more than 20,000 taels of silver every year?

Li Yang: Yuan Kui's rise has already risen, and I still care about those dry ha

Yuan Kui: I'm also in a hurry, just say that

Li Zhuo: The second elder took advantage of the fact that there was still some time before Chinese New Year's Eve, and prepared more daily necessities in advance of the tight supply in previous years, and we still have to rely on Orion for the supply of meat this year

Li Song: In the past few days, I will talk to the hunters and ask them to start hoarding prey now to ensure the normal supply of meat during the Chinese New Year

Li Yang nodded slightly: Okay, if everyone is fine, then let's do it today

Yuan Kui got up and beckoned to everyone: Brothers, Song's Noodle Restaurant, I will be the east today

Gao Yuan: Oh-ah-ah, it's easy for the brothers to invite the Yuan Commander to dinner, I have known him for more than ten years, this is the second time he has invited Zhang Le to dinner, and today the sun is really coming out in the west

Yuan Kui was a little embarrassed when Gao Yuan said this: Gao Yuan looked at what you said, and if you don't know, you still think I'm picking too much

Gao Yuan: You're not just picking

Yuan Kui shook his hand: Brothers, don't listen to his nonsense, I don't say so much to him

When the brothers heard this, they all laughed "haha"

Li Yang: Yuan Kuina, you take the brothers to go first, I still have something to do, I'll go to you after I deal with it

Yuan Kui: Okay - we'll be waiting for you at Song's Noodle Restaurant

After everyone left the chamber, Li Yang asked Li Song to invite Dian, speaking of Dian, he is my old boss, when the war broke out between Fuguo and Zhejiang, I was a chief under his command, and he was my hundred chiefs, on the battlefield Diane took care of our brothers, and our brothers were able to save their lives in the melee between the two armies, all because of his long-term battle-hardened and obscene experience

Due to the emptiness of the army of Zhejiang at that time, the provinces have conscripted a large number of peasants to supplement the army, after the two countries negotiated peace, these conscripted peasants, received some rewards and all returned to their hometowns, encirclement and suppression of the Maple Ridge bandits is the most difficult time for our brothers, Captain Dean was very worried after hearing the news, so he led the old subordinates to come to support, although the number of this team is not very large, only seventy or eighty people

But in terms of the situation at the time, it was really a relief in the snow, and these seventy or eighty people were all of them, who survived desperately with the enemy's real swords and guns on the battlefield, and the people who were temporarily conscripted were not at the same level at all, and I also relied on the merits of recruiting the bandits of Fengshuzhai to become the northern garrison of Taizhou under the protection of Lord Sun, and in the future, there was the Shadow Wind Camp - Lin Ran Camp - Fire Trap Camp and Trap Mountain Camp - together it is the Wind Forest Volcano

Captain Dean is easy-going and not good at soldiers, he likes to farm and live in the countryside to raise some livestock or something, just then we set up the first farm in Alan County, and the people who take care of the farm must first be careful, and then they must be trustworthy and passable, the first person I thought of was Captain Dean, and the results of last year's farm proved that my original decision was correct

After a while, I heard Li Song's voice coming from outside the house, "Brother Di, please."

So Li Yang hurried to the door to greet him, and as soon as Di An entered the conference hall, Li Yang bowed to him: Taizhou 4500 people, the seventh chief Li Yang has seen Shangguan

Seeing this, Di An hurriedly helped Li Yang up: Di is just a cloth cloth now, why is there any Shangguan

Li Yang: Brother Di, no matter what time you go, you are the leader of our brothers

Dean pinched Li Yang's arms with both hands, and then patted him on the back with his hands: Well, that's not bad - your body is a lot tougher than before

Li Yang: I learned some boxing and kick kung fu with the Gao Yuan people, and I would practice a few moves when I had free time

After speaking, he led Dean to his seat, "Brother Di, please take a seat", and then he brought a cup of tea for Dian: Brother Di's family is very good, are there any difficulties in life

Dean: The family is fine, there is no difficulty, and last year your sister-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy for me

When Li Yang heard this, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said congratulations: Congratulations-Congratulations-Brother Di is such a big thing, why don't you tell me

Dean: Even having a child isn't a big deal

Li Yang: Brother Di, look at what you said, having a child is not a big deal, so what is a big deal?

Dean smiled innocently: Ordinary people don't say that

Li Yang: Then how many children do you have now?

Dean: Including last year's child, I have three children

Li Yang: So how old are they this year?

Dean: The eldest son is 14 years old and the second girl is 11 years old

Li Yang: Brother Di set up a college by himself last year, so we might as well let him go to the academy to study

Dian: The farmer reads and reads in vain, so it is better to let them do their farming

Li Yang: Brother Di is now a little early to let the children go to the field to farm, like their age is a good time to study, you let the children study for a few years, maybe you will be able to come out of the top in the future - the eyes of the leader to glorify the ancestors, if nothing can be learned, it is not too late to let them go to the field to farm

Dean pondered for a moment: Okay then

Li Yang: Brother Di, you are old and young, is the monthly salary enough for the family's expenses?

Dean: Enough

In fact, I asked in vain, everyone's monthly income is the same, even if it is not enough to spend, with my understanding of Dian, he will never speak easily: enough flowers, there is something urgent to solve on the farm

Dean: There are a couple of things that are really difficult

Li Yang: Then please say

Di'an: Now the farms live in simple wooden houses, every time it rains in the summer, the house will leak, in the winter the wooden house is leaking everywhere, the workers do not dare to burn more for fear of lighting the wooden house, this year the Chamber of Commerce can build some green brick houses for the farm

Li Yang: Brother Di, you said it earlier, what you said earlier is now finished

Dean: The simple wooden house was quite warm last winter, but this year I don't know why the wooden house is leaking everywhere

Li Song: The boss should be the wooden square of the simple wooden house, which is caused by the deformation of the wooden house due to wind, sun, humidity and other reasons, and I will send someone to repair it tomorrow

Li Yang: Brother Di asked the workers to hold out for two or three months, and when the spring begins, I will send people to build a blue brick house

Dean: The fence of the farm also needs to be replaced with a brick wall about a foot high, and last year alone, the workers caught more than 20 chickens and dogs, and more than 100 chickens, ducks, and geese were lost, and now the workers sleep with one eye open

Li Yang: There is such a thing, how do those people who steal chickens and dogs deal with them after they are caught

Di'an: It's all the villagers who live nearby, and they were let go after a brief lesson, and the villagers are still having a hard time, or who would want to do that thing of stealing chickens and dogs

Li Yang: This is no problem, I'll do it together in the spring

Dian: This year I want to expand the scale of the farm, the mountains near the farm are a good place to herd cattle and sheep, but I don't know if the official side can agree

Li Yang: I'll solve it at the government, is there anything else that needs to be solved in the farm?

Dean: The farm is understaffed, can you recruit some people, it's better to have a patrol team on the farm

Li Yang: How many people does the farm need to recruit?

Dean: Now there are 60 workers on the farm, and I want to recruit 40 people to set up a guard team to prevent chickens and dogs from sneaking into the farm

Li Yang: Okay, Brother Di will check the recruitment of workers, and recruit some people who are solid and willing to work

Dean: There are quite a few of us in our team of 100 who are idle at home, and I want to invite them to the farm

Li Yang: Now the old brothers can get together again, Brother Xingdi, just do what you said, what are the difficulties?

Dean: That's all there is to it

Li Yang: If Brother Di has any difficulties in the future, you can tell me, if I don't tell the second brother in you, don't be afraid of causing me trouble

A relieved smile leaked from Dean's face: Okay

Li Yang: Brother Di Plateau, they have prepared a table of wine at Song's Noodle Restaurant, let's have a few glasses and have a good time

Dean: I'm not going, your sister-in-law is still waiting for me to go back to take care of her, and it's almost time for me to go back

Li Yang: That's okay - then I won't keep you, second, you go to the treasury and get 200 taels of silver

"I'll go now"

When Dean heard this, he hurriedly excused: No-no

After a while, Li Song panted and carried in a heavy bag, and after entering the house, he put the cloth bag on the table: Brother Di, this is 200 taels of silver, it is my brother and my heart, you and your subordinates

Dean shook his hand one after another: What is this for-no-no-no

Li Yang picked up the cloth bag and stuffed it into Dian's arms: Old captain, I don't have any great ability, and the places that can help are these things outside my body, this is my gift to the child

Dean refused to accept the two hundred taels of silver, Li Yang changed his rhetoric when he saw it: Brother Di has been working hard for a year, you can share 100 taels of silver with them so that everyone can have a good year, and the remaining 100 taels will buy some food and clothing for the children and sister-in-law

At this time, Dean burst into tears, and he arched his hands at me: Brother, don't worry, the workers and I will take care of the farm for you

Li Yang nodded with satisfaction: Okay-the second child prepared a carriage to send Brother Di back

After sending Dean away, Li Yang instructed Li Song to increase Dian's monthly salary to two silver from this month onwards, so that their family can live more comfortably, the old captain is really powerful and has three children, no, I have to pay attention to this aspect

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, under the mediation of Brother Long and Zhao Shoubei-Quan Garrison and Su Shoubei and others, Yuan Kui was promoted to Pengxi County Garrison by Sun Yuanwu, the prefect of Taizhou, although some people objected to Yuan Kui's promotion to Pengxi County Garrison, but with the support of Sun and several brothers, Yuan Kui finally stood out and became the Pengxi County Garrison

Yuan Kui's comprehensive conditions are still relatively prominent, first of all, he has made meritorious contributions in the two fights against Haikou and the pacification of the Changwei Rebellion, which is the most critical point and other candidates do not have, and secondly, Yuan Kui has served as the battalion commander for more than three years and has a certain amount of experience in leading troops, just by virtue of these two points, he already has the basic conditions for promotion to the garrison, but interpersonal relationships are sometimes an important factor in determining the success or not, Yuan Kui was able to be successfully promoted to the garrison of Pengxi County this time, and Lord Sun and Brother Long played a decisive role

After Yuan Kui was promoted to the garrison of Pengxi County, he deliberately went to Pengxi County with the plateau to go around, and found that the people living in Pengxi County were not rich, and when they saw the officers and soldiers, they would deliberately dodge, and the source of life of the people living here was to cultivate the fields, and it was understood that there was a silver mine and a limestone mine under the rule of Pengxi County, and the silver mine must be in the hands of the government

As for the limestone mine, according to the locals, no one has mined it for four or five years, and there was a lime workshop near it in the first few years, but it closed down after only a year due to the recession of business

But he didn't have an idea exactly what to do, so he thought of a person, to talk about doing business and buying industries Li Yang is too familiar with the road, when he told Li Yang about the situation in Pengxi County, Li Yang immediately found a business opportunity, he planned to establish a cement factory in Pengxi County, the limestone mine in Pengxi County and the limestone mine in Alan County, which can provide sufficient raw materials for the cement field

I used to read in a book, which recorded that cement is made by grinding limestone and clay into flour, putting it in a kiln and burning it with iron-making slag-iron powder for three days and three nights, and the cement is ready, but I can't remember how to mix it, no matter how many times I tried it first, and slowly groped it up, the cement building is much stronger than lime, and the cement is also very versatile

It just so happens that there is a lime kiln nearby that can be used for experiments, and it is really a way to make money if the cement is ready, and I can use it myself, so it seems that there is no too big risk to let it go, even if it is a loss is a loss of personal labor expenses, tomorrow I will go to the government to inquire and see who the limestone mine in Pengxi County is