"Some people say that the Ming Dynasty has to pay taxes, thirty taxes one, and if you have thirty sheep, you have to give them one a year."

Aji told Luo Lu about the tax he had heard from others, and in his opinion, thirty sheep were given one a year, which was too much.

When there are sixty, you have to give two to each other, as well as horses and cows! How do you count it?

How many sheep is a cow worth? You can't kill the cow and divide the meat!

"No taxes, the prince said, said that in the future, many merchants will come to collect merchants' business taxes, and we will sell as much as we want.

What's more, we don't pay taxes and we don't pay for it, we save it ourselves, we have to buy it for ten years, and we have to buy it all at once.

But let's wait for them to finish repairing the fort and then want to burn coal, either follow and help dig it, or change something.

They dig and transport, men have to eat, horses have to eat, and indeed they cannot take it for nothing. ”

Luo Lu also talked about taxes, saying that the prince exempted them.

In fact, Zhu Wentian didn't let him collect it, and he collected taxes as soon as he beat it? After a stable period of more than ten years, everyone has money, and then collect taxes.

Moreover, in other places in the Ming Dynasty, people buy and sell something, and they do not charge taxes, and the chickens and vegetables raised at home are sold at home, and Zhu Yuanzhang is not allowed to collect taxes.

The herdsmen's goat's milk, cheese and other things also belong to the herdsmen's homes, including sheep.

"Then we have to help repair the fort, otherwise the Northern Yuan will come back, and we will still have the current life?

The stove and coal burned in winter were warm and clean, and I didn't dare to dream of it.

Now I still think it's a dream, it's the snow that crushes the tent, I'm going to die, the last ......"

"Answer, wake up, wake up from the dream, it's not crushed." Luo Lu was startled, and Ji Ji's eyes closed as he spoke, and he leaned forward.

He hurriedly grabbed it, and when he leaned it again, it hit the stove, and it would be a hot bubble.

"Yes, as soon as it's hot, I'm sleepy, I'm a few steps away, and the stove is convenient for cooking. When the weather is warmer, in the fall, build a sleigh as well. ”

Answer: Move the stool back, in the tent in winter, there is no such temperature, burning grass and cow dung, how can the calorific value of coal be high?

A dozen pieces of coal are thrown into the furnace, which can be burned for a long time, and if you use a furnace hook to penetrate, the fire will be strong, and if it is not transparent, the temperature will slowly drop.

Except in special weather, under normal circumstances, there is only a burst of smoke in the tent when the stove is built, and then the smoke flies out along the stove.

Luo Lu then moved the stool back: "They said, let's burn coal, and we will give them more cow dung, and they will bring it to make manure."

After the manure is applied, the land is planted, oil crops are planted, and the oil that is given to us can be used to make soap.

When the time comes, we will be able to eat flour, and they will grow wheat, so we don't have to grind it ourselves, and when the time comes, we will go to the forts to change it. ”

"Did you say what to get in exchange? We don't have anything, and we can't keep asking for them for nothing. ”

In the past two days, I have eaten pasta, rice, and fried dumplings for the first time, which have a lot of oil and are fragrant.

He felt poor and couldn't get anything to exchange with others.

"Ghee and cheese, they then took it out and sold it, including salt from afar.

They said that they could still find work for us to do, and they would do it without delaying our grazing.

Anyway, they think more than we do, so let's just follow along, and don't think about anything else. ”

Luo Lu didn't know exactly what work he was going to do, as long as he could still graze normally, there would be no problem.

"Now in winter, while there is nothing to do, let's help them do more things, okay?" Answer: Ji wants to work hard first.

"Now we can't ask for anything to work, they give fish and other food, and we do it for ourselves." Luo Lu shook his head, no.

"It's not cold, go out, boil water here, it's actually better to extinguish it, they just won't let it."

Aji got up, took off a few rings with a hook, and sat a pot of water on it.

He felt sorry for coal, and the people of Daming said that even if the fire was smaller, it should be burned.

Luo Lu walked out of the tent, the cold wind came out, and he shivered: "They say it's cold outside, so they expect to go back to the tent to warm up, if the tent is also cold, it's easy to get sick."

It is said that the people who work sweat and stop to be physically and mentally exhausted, and the warm tent can save lives.

They dug up the coal and blew it up with explosives, then put it in baskets and put it on the climbing plow, and the horses and camels helped to bring it back. ”

While the two of them were talking, they came to the river again and helped carry the frozen fish.

The other herdsmen are similar to them, they are not afraid of getting tired of working, they always have a smile on their faces, and they seem to follow the prince of the Ming Dynasty, so they don't have to worry about anything.

……

"There are many large animals that have an advantage, where can the people of Jiangnan summon so many horses and camels, oh! And wild asses. ”

Standing on the city wall, Zhu Fan used a telescope to look at the surroundings, and the procession of transporting coal and ore was continuous.

The most interesting thing is that he saw more than a dozen wild donkeys appear in the team, and they came with them and now help with the work.

Wild asses are stronger than horses, and their hooves are hard, and they can be used to dig pits for water, but if horses are so gouged, and there is no horseshoe, their hooves will be scrapped.

Zhu Biao is also watching the team, the coal will be sent to the river to be washed, the gangue and other stones will be taken out, and the good coal will be piled up into hills.

And the slime is also put in a special place, and when it comes to summer, you can make the slime into honeycomb coal to save lump coal.

"Captain, are the people around you willing to come over? For example, a herder who loses a lot of sheep in winter? Inside? Alas! ”

Zhu Biao asked when he thought of the question, and only after turning his head did he react, the chief was not there, and the chief said that he was helping the village to make something important.

You can take everyone to inspect the lower reaches of the Hunhe River and the mining area, and the speed is fast.

"Gansu is far away from here, I feel that there are no people around, and it is best to build many service areas in the desert, and the distance between them is short."

Zhu Fan took the initiative to speak, he thought of the village's well-drilling equipment, as long as more wells were drilled in the desert, buildings were built around them, and the wells were protected.

Then it becomes a service area, and caravans and other people come and go to the service area...... Fees are charged on a case-by-case basis.

He didn't think about whether to collect money for a while, and felt that collecting money was taking advantage of people's danger.

"It is estimated that many routes will be designed, not only in the desert, but also between the forts will become a spider web."

Zhu Biao saw that there was no lieutenant, and he couldn't ask anything, so he turned around and walked back.

……

The next day, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the team ate the Lantern Festival, not rice balls, the weather was too cold, and the rice balls were not good to wrap.

Lantern Festival is to freeze the stuffing into pieces, dip it in water and put it in the glutinous rice flour, and then dip it when the water is less.

I made it before, make some of it a day, and throw it outside to freeze.

I brought less glutinous rice flour, only a few times, otherwise I would have made it in advance.

When I get up in the morning, I send it to the herdsmen's homes first, so that they can cook it by themselves, and don't cook too much at a time, otherwise the stomach will be upset.

Seeing that at noon, Zhu Biao and Zhu Fan came to the palace in Xiaqiu Village for dinner.

As soon as the two of them entered the courtyard, they heard a familiar sound, ......a steam engine.

Then I saw a ...... A ...... Cart?

"Captain?" Zhu Fan asked the lieutenant who was standing there.

"The village's newly built steam engine snowmobile can pull a big climbing plow in the back, and it is fast, and it can run with coal and water."

The lieutenant turned around and nodded to the two of them, happily introducing the new thing.

(End of chapter)