Chapter Forty-Seven: A Day in the Life of Li Dalang

"Li Jialang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info was ready to come out so early to catch up with the work. An old woman quickly packed five white and big steamed buns and a bowl of gruel into the bamboo tube handed by Li Dalang.

took out sixteen cents and handed it to the old woman, Li Dalang nodded with a smile, took the oil paper bag and hurried home, but unfortunately the price of this Juyongguan is still a lot more expensive than before, if a steamed bun is bought in the county a few years ago, it only costs a penny, but I heard that the price of the Central Plains is much more expensive than that of Juyongguan.

Li Dalang was originally from Jiuquan County, but due to the rebellion of the rebel army, he had to become a homeless person and came to Juyongguan with his wife and children. The war took the lives of his elderly parents and second brother.

Returning to the HOS Fang, that is, the former refugee camp, since Cheng Ma Heng was in charge of Juyong Pass, Li Dalang's family's life gradually stabilized, back to the house built by Ma Heng's order, all the bungalows in the entire HOS Fang are exactly the same, according to the little official, this is the so-called standardization of the lord, and Li Dalang is no stranger to standardization, with a hand of carpentry work learned in his early years, Li Dalang also became a junior carpenter, and his place of work is to make crossbows for the army. What standardization, assembly line production is to be contacted every day, according to Shangguan said, that is, any crossbow can be dismantled and replaced with another crossbow for use, the specifications of the crossbow, the length of the crossbow arrows are clearly stipulated, there is no trace of deviation, and even each part is engraved with the name of the person who made it, as well as the name of the inspector, if there is a problem, directly ask the guilt.

This kind of regulation is not extraordinary, but it is just the application of the Qin Dynasty's unified car on the same track, and the book and text in all aspects.

Back to his own door, each house has a house number to distinguish it, and Li Dalang will naturally not be mistaken. My mother-in-law is still asleep, since the government borrowed a new type of silk loom to my own house for free, often my mother-in-law will weave silk until late at night, this Yongguan candle is not expensive, but a penny, and this is said to be made of demon animal grease of the candle, the burning light is not only bright, but also burns several times more than ordinary candles.

Beckoning a pair of his children to come over for breakfast, let the children not make noise until the sleeping mother, looking at his second son and youngest daughter gobbling up, Li Dalang smiled with relief, he had been a farmer for more than ten years, and when he came to this Juyong Pass, he found that there was no land to plant, fortunately, the general soon issued an order to recruit workers, relying on what he learned in his early years, Li Dalang and his younger brother San Lang had the courage to come forward to ask, and the family really couldn't open the pot.

After all these years, Li Dalang found that his income was much higher if he didn't farm, and since he was rated as a junior carpenter last year, his salary, which is said to be the salary mentioned by the general, that is, the previous salary, has more than doubled. Instead, a sum of money was saved. Li Dalang has always wanted to use this savings to buy land, and he is only down-to-earth when he has land, but there is really no land to buy in this Yongguan pass.

"Abba, we went to school. As he spoke, the second son took his young daughter and ran out.

"Be careful, take care of your sister, and listen to your teacher. The two children, who were carrying their mother's hand-knitted school bags, had already run out of the house, and they didn't know if they heard or not.

The Shogun was kind enough to make admission free of charge for all children over the age of five, both male and female. Looking at the sleeping mother-in-law, Li Dalang calculated the money saved at home, gritted his teeth, and finally made up his mind, since his thin eldest son awakened the magic vein, he moved to the military academy to live, and only can he go home for two days of vacation every month, and in the military school, not only all tuition fees are free, food and miscellaneous expenses are also free, and there are monthly subsidies to get, but the money spent on this cultivation is endless, for this monthly Zhuji Dan, my mother-in-law is also tired this year. Li Dalang made up his mind to buy a new type of silk loom, although he had discussed with his mother-in-law countless times, although the new type of silk loom rented by the government was good, it was said that it was free of charge, but he still had to hand over a lot of brocade every month for rental.

After tidying up the house, Li Dalang carried a small book, which is an intermediate carpenter, but not only requires craftsmanship, but also needs to read and write. For the sake of his eldest son, Li Dalang also had to start learning words in middle age, the teacher is his second son, this kid can't be angry after learning a few words.

When I went out and closed the door, the third brother in the next room also came out, and the two brothers set off to work together. Li Sanlang also had a satisfied smile on his face, his own mother was also pregnant for eight months, and he didn't know if he could give birth to a big fat son for himself.

Along the sidewalk, every family went to work at about the same time, and from time to time they said hello to acquaintances.

There are still people riding horses on the horse road from time to time, and the road planned by Juyongguan is well organized, the people are humane, and the horse has a horse road. There must also be garbage points and public toilets every few miles. There is also a drainage canal in front of each house, so you are not afraid of being flooded in case of heavy rain. Don't look at the annual rainfall in Xiliang, this is a heavy rainstorm, in previous years, when Li Dalang was in the county, it was common for him to drown his knees and even half of his body in a heavy rain. If it doesn't rain, the yellow earth is even more dusty, and this cement road is really good.

Walking straight along the sidewalk, they came to a crossroads, and the two brothers went their separate ways, one was going to work in the workshop, Saburo was a transport groom, and Dalang was going to the engineering camp, which was not only heavily guarded, but also said to have many new gadgets developed by skilled craftsmen, and the location was also remote, so it was said that it could not disturb the people and minimize the pollution to the environment. Some paper mills and the like have been moved out of the city.

However, in two days, Ma Heng and others, who had traveled thousands of miles in a day, came to Juyong Pass.

In more than a year, the haze of war has completely dissipated at Juyongguan. And it is several times more prosperous than in the past. After all, since Cheng Ma Heng took charge of Juyong Pass, he has vigorously developed commerce, especially border trade with the Qin Dynasty, although the Qin Dynasty has been sneaky, after all, the upper echelons of the Qin Dynasty have always explicitly forbidden trade with the Han Dynasty. However, although dozens of miles outside this Juyong Pass is the Qin Dynasty, the middle of these two places has been on the right, passing through an ancient road, but it is the territory of the Huns, and the Huns need to trade a lot of things, salt, brocade, iron, and even all kinds of civilian things. In the past two years, Juyongguan has added a lot of Huns and Xianbei people.

After Ma Heng arrived, the old general Gai Xun did not go out of the city to greet him, in recent years, Gai Xun has worked hard and rushed into the military camp, for Ma Heng to Juyong Pass, the world's Xiongguan to make the miasma, but also put a lot of Huns Xianbei people into the pass and a lot of complaints, not to mention that only 50,000 horses have been stationed to guard, even if the war subsides and does not send people and horses, naturally quite complained, often have to write to request the dispatch of military horses to Juyong Pass, Ma Heng is kind words, but still do his own thing, Gai Xun can only train the 50,000 soldiers more strictly, and the strict precautions against the Qin Dynasty。 He shall go up to the city wall once a day and inspect it.

As the basic plate of Ma Heng, the people of Juyongguan are very fond of Ma Heng, so that most of the people who have become displaced people because of the war can live and work in peace and contentment, although they have no land in their hands and are still uneasy, but the property earned in Juyongguan is naturally not comparable to guarding an acre and three points of land, all kinds of handicrafts, transportation, and service industries have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the labor force needed has always been a lot of gaps, it is really not a problem to go to the construction site to move bricks and mix food and clothing, if you don't gamble on the brothel, there is even money to save every month. Don't look at Ma Heng welcomes anyone to come to Juyongguan to invest and do business, not only Hanteng Qianzhuang came to Juyongguan to open a branch, but many Central Plains caravans also came. The Xianbei Huns also began to have people come to open shops. The gambling house and brothel are not allowed to operate without a license. There is no other company that can get permission except Ma's firm. And these trades naturally earned Ma Heng extremely rich benefits.

Let the officials who greeted him, led by Huang Shi and others, be silent, Ma Heng and others came to the Governor's Mansion on horseback, and Gai Xun himself was not there, but in the barracks. Ma Heng didn't care, whether the old general was for public or private, Ma Heng was extremely relieved, the old general's only son Gai Shun could be a Taishou in Xiping, although he was not as upright as his father, but he was also a strong county guard with a strong ability to serve the public.

Ma Heng inspected Juyong Pass for a few days, Ma Heng was quite satisfied, and under his own personal appeasement, Gai Xun finally let go of his heart. And taking advantage of this opportunity, Ma Heng also kept summoning the generals in the army to stabilize the relationship between himself and his own little rustiness these days.

On this day, with the caravan setting off together, Ma Heng and the others headed for the Qin Dynasty.