Volume 1 The Wind Rises in Nanyang Chapter 24 The Iron Cauldron and the Seeds

When Guo Fei and his entourage left, the crowd gathered outside the door gradually dispersed, and Fuwangli began to be deserted, so Zhuo Liang invited the five heads of the family to his house as guests.

Wu Yong thought that he could go home and rest without him. But he didn't expect Wu Xu to ask him to accompany him.

Just when everyone was about to rush to Zhuo's house, Tian Dian and Li Jie ran over to inform Wu Yong that two people had come from Wancheng to find him.

Wu Yong guessed that it should be the iron pot and seeds that had arrived.

Sure enough, when he came to the inner door, he saw two strangely dressed people standing there. One carried a large iron pot on his back, and the other was covered with cloth bags.

The alternative dresses of the two naturally attracted everyone's attention, and everyone gathered around to watch the excitement.

"Is this person stupid, running around with an iron pot on his back."

"Good guy, such a big pot, it has to weigh twenty pounds, it is said that it is still from Wancheng's back, is there no place to use this strength."

"What's that guy next to? How can you carry so many cloth bags on your body? ”

"It's lonely and unheard, it's all grain. I know this person, he is a guy from the Wei family's grain shop in Wancheng. ”

"The Wei family's grain shop, that is the private property of Chen Guoguo's minister Wei Su, and it is said that it is also related to Chen Wang Liu Pet."

"I said how can there be such a loser, the grain dares to sell, I didn't expect it to be related to Chen Guo, this is not unusual, it is said that Chen Guo's Tai Shi Su Chen Xiang is full of dew and accumulates outside, and corruption is inedible."

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Wu Yong couldn't help but be a little speechless when he saw so many people watching, his original intention was to buy an iron pot to improve the eating conditions at home, but he didn't expect the system to give him a realistic delivery.

In his previous life, he had also read some systematic flow novels, and he could basically conjure items out of thin air, could he be a fake system?

He was now more curious about what the rules of receiving goods in the Han Dynasty were, so he asked the two: "How are you sure that I received the goods, and what if I say I didn't receive them?" ”

The person who carried the pot snorted and said with a smile: "Xiao Langjun said that I laughed, my store has always been that customers pay all the fees in advance first, and then take the voucher to pick it up. As long as the villain sends it according to the address, he has his own certificate issued by Lidian, and with so many witnesses present, there will be no mistake. ”

At this time, the person carrying the seeds also said proudly: "My shop is operated in good faith, and there are really cunning people who have lost their conscience as Xiao Langjun said, and they will have their own government to deal with them at that time." ”

Wu Yong saw that they were so confident, he really didn't know what to say, put it in the future generations, and teach them to be a man in minutes.

Of course, Wu Yong didn't have any bad intentions,

Lidian Zhu Yu asked the identities of the two and engraved two copies of the bamboo board certificate respectively and handed them to the two.

Wu Yong glanced at it, and it read:

"At noon on the twenty-second day of the first month of the third year of Jianning, Wancheng Chen's iron shop Chen Sand sent an iron pot to Wu Yong"

"On the twenty-second afternoon of the first month of the third year of Jianning, Wancheng Wei's grain shop Wei Lun sent a number of grain seeds to Wu Yong"

The two took the bamboo board, then handed the goods to Wu Yong, and left.

Seeing that Lidian was still busy, Wu Yong had no choice but to call Zhuo Tao and Li Miao to help with things.

Just as the three of them were smiling and about to rush to the Wu family with these items, the five family heads came up and touched the iron pot, and were amazed.

"At first glance, this iron pot craftsmanship is from the Chen family in Lin Shu Mountain."

"Haha, that's right, almost all the ironware in our blacksmith shop in Wancheng comes from the Chen family's smelting workshop in Lin Shu Mountain."

"It is said that their family is the descendants of Zhaoping Jun and Princess Yi'an, the daughter of Emperor Wu, and they have been entrenched there for nearly three hundred years, and it is difficult for outsiders to interfere in it."

"Since the rise of Guangwu Zhongxing, the imperial court has gradually liberalized the monopoly of salt and iron, allowing private smelting, the profit of this iron tool does not know how many families have been rich, but it is a pity that although we have a population of 100,000 households in Wancheng, there is no iron mine, and the Chen family of this forest is cheap."

"Time has changed, and the imperial court has tried to take back the monopoly of salt and iron several times, but they have been prevented by these families with vested interests, and they have no choice but to collect taxes.

"Yes, these iron tools are monopolized by them, and the price is not affordable for ordinary families. Take the iron pot in front of you as an example, it is worth two hundred yuan, which can be exchanged for four stones of grain. ”

"Hey, if Wu Yongxian's nephew's practice of eating too much is promoted, my Han family's tens of millions of households will need at least 10 million iron pots, what a wealth this is."

"It's a pity that this wealth has nothing to do with our five surnames."

"Hehe, maybe that's a deal!" At this time, Director Ren won and smiled coldly.

"What do you mean by that?" The other four heads of the family looked at Ren Sheng.

"In the past, the needs of the people were limited, and the profits were limited, and the court turned a blind eye, but now it is immeasurably wealthy, how can the court ignore it, even if the son wants to make profits and the people today, those who are officials in the court are not so easy to talk to."

After Ren Sheng finished speaking, he glanced at the other four family heads, and thought to himself: Maybe we can also get a piece of the pie then.

The five of them thought of it together, but now that there were many people, it was inconvenient to say more, so they shifted the topic to the seeds.

I saw Li Huang, the head of the Li family, randomly choose one of the many cloth bags, took out a small handful of rapeseed from it, and wondered: "This is rapeseed?" What to buy this seed for? ”

"It should be oil extraction, it seems that this is what Wu Xian's nephew made to eat just now, this kind of food has spread, I am afraid that every household will have to plant some rape in the future."

Li Huang nodded, didn't ask any new questions, and continued to look through the other seed bags.

"It's Persian seeds!"

"It's celery seeds!"

"It's a woad seed!"

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When all the cloth bags were opened, they turned out to be vegetable seeds, and the faces of the five heads of the family changed a little.

"It's just too much of a deception! This Wei family's grain shop actually coaxed my Wu family's descendants, and no one may want these vegetable seeds to give away. ”

"Yes, the current land may not be enough to grow grain, and there is still idle space for growing vegetables."

"Nowadays, the merchants really want to make money, and they don't want their conscience, so they also deceive young people who don't know the market, trick them into buying seeds and planting vegetables, saying that when the time comes, the people in the city will rush to buy them, and when they sell the money, they will buy grain, which is more cost-effective than growing grain, and they don't know how many people will buy vegetables. In the end, it's not just a bamboo basket for water. ”

Wu Yong listened to the words of the five family heads, and couldn't help but be a little amazed, these people are all powerful people comparable to the township chiefs in later generations, I didn't expect to know so much about crops, if they were left in the next generation, it would be good for the vegetables that grew to be recognized.

Even he Wu Yong himself, don't look at the background of agriculture and forestry, just look at the seeds, and may not be able to distinguish these vegetables.

Seeing that the five family heads were angry and wanted to go to the Wei family's grain shop to settle accounts, Wu Yong had no choice but to stand up and say: "The nephew has received the wishes of several uncles, and these seeds are designated by the nephew, and they have no intention of deceiving." ”