Chapter 1098 Changping County Lord 46
The King of Han couldn't hold back anymore when he saw Liu Biao's sanctimonious old face. He just kept feeling funny, but after all, he had to give some face to this old uncle who was a veteran of the four dynasties: "Chang Ping said, keep the iron ingots and it will cost money." To make people look at her, she just made a small kitchen knife like this. If there are no small abacus, small wishful thinking, small axe, etc., then she would make a small kitchen knife to attract wealth and ward off evil spirits. "
There are indeed these gadgets, and there are also ones made into small gourds, small lotus pods, small treasure bottles, etc. But this is a kitchen knife, a kitchen knife! Wherever you go, who will place a kitchen knife to attract wealth and ward off evil spirits?
This kitchen knife hasn't been sharpened yet, is it really going to be used as a small object?
Liu Biao looked at the palm-sized kitchen knife. It was as thin as a blade. There was a hole at the top of the handle. He stared at the hole.
The chief chamberlain said with a smile: "It is said that this hole can be used to string a rope and hang a house."
Now Liu Biao was completely stunned. He had indeed fallen into someone else's trap. No matter how much he considered this kitchen knife, it could not be considered a weapon.
One article and one arrow are sold, but there is no need to queue in front of the store. Instead, they come from one household to another.
Every day before evening, the arrows that can be sold are packed in boxes and passed from door to door. The number of people in this family is listed in the household register.
After County Magistrate Zhou collected the money, he was so awesome that he simply sent someone over to conduct another census. You must know that in this era, population migration was restricted. All families were divided according to regions and managed by the government or people who were granted the title. If you want to go elsewhere, you still need approval. If you leave your country without permission and go into exile, you will be slapped with a ban, be tattooed after being captured, or even be imprisoned and exiled.
One article per article is simply a free gift, and autumn is not far away, with only one month left. Almost every household bought it, and if they had no money, they would buy it on credit from their neighbors. Because the county boss said that if you don’t want it in the future, you can recycle it.
But this is an arrowhead. If you buy it from outside, the worst one will cost you ten cents each. It is forbidden to sell it out now, but later, who knows? I bought ten of them for ten cents, and if I can, it will be at least a hundred cents!
One family happened to have a newborn baby and asked the child to buy ten arrowheads.
The answer is, as long as you are from Linyi County, you can buy it. As soon as she gave birth, she was naturally from the county. So after spending ten cents to buy it, everyone said that the child was born well and would help the family make money. What I bought was an arrowhead, and I might become a general in the future. So the whole family was very happy.
A notice was also posted at the city gate. First of all, arrows are not allowed to leave the city. Any arrows or arrowheads that are seen will be confiscated and cannot go in or out.
The surrounding villagers couldn't help but talk about the injustice. Why were the arrows they made confiscated when they entered the city?
Discuss and discuss and come to a conclusion. This archery competition is held by Linyi County, and naturally it is for the local residents. If other people are afraid that their arrows will be confiscated, they will naturally not go. Otherwise, if everyone goes to a competition and each person shoots ten arrows, the competition will last about a month and a half.
Just after coming to the conclusion, another announcement came, saying that during the competition, if the arrows are set on the target and do not fall off, they will be purchased with a subsidy of ten cents each.
The worst arrows out there cost ten cents each. This price was considered fair. After all, each person shot ten. If all ten arrows hit the target, it would cost one hundred cents.
Now people from the city and outside the city sat together in their free time, chopping wood to make arrow bodies, and chatting happily about the competition. The roosters and hens, whose tails and feathers on their wings had been cut off, were coming and going to eat. (Arrows need tail feathers, and it is best to use feathers. If not, you can use blades, pieces of paper, etc., but arrows in the army often do not have tail feathers)
Xining looked at the bamboo slips spread out on the document, picked up a pen, and drew a thin line on the first side of the arrow. And on the bamboo slips, it also said: grain, grass, kerosene, cotton clothes, wine, medicine, bamboo... These were all things that came to her mind, so she wrote them down, and when she solved one of them, she checked it out with a pen. When winter comes and the first heavy snow falls, you will know what snow disaster and severe cold are.
By the way, cotton shoes too! My body is warm, but my feet will get frostbite if they get cold. She picked up her pen and wrote "shoes" in the last empty space.
When Xiao Zhan came in and asked what goods he needed to bring this time, he saw cotton shoes on the goods list.
"You can buy whatever size you want. Winter shoes, thick ones." Xining thought for a while: "Buy three thousand pairs."
It takes an average person seven or eight days to make a pair of cotton shoes, but a skilled person can make them overnight if they stay up all night. Shoes are made according to human feet, and the sizes vary widely. So after thinking about it, buying is the fastest.
"Ah?" Xiao Zhan almost fainted. The county lord's request is getting more and more weird, three thousand pairs. The entire county has just been surveyed, and there are only about a thousand people. Why buy so many cotton shoes?
Although it has been a warm winter for two or three consecutive years, a pair of thick cotton shoes will still cost 120 to 150 taels of silver if the price drops again. If you buy 3,000 pairs of them, you will lose hundreds of taels of silver. In this case, all the gold, three and silver mountains will be spent. How do you make money?
I heard the county chief say leisurely: "Don't worry about the money, just collect it."
Well, the county boss is rich and willful.
The county leader said again: "Collect another five hundred cloaks, a little thicker ones."
It's over, another few hundred taels of silver are gone! Why does this county chief specialize in collecting items to keep out the cold? Is he fainted by the long-lasting high temperature outside?
What did Xining think of: "Is there any tea that is not ground and dried?"
Xiao Zhan was stunned and recalled: "Yes, I have seen some tea farmers brewing unground tea."
Great, Xining immediately said: "If you have any, buy me three to five kilograms." She had had enough of the matcha powder soup with salt. If you buy this amount, you should be able to drink until she completes her mission and leaves.
Knowing that the county magistrate didn't like to drink tea, she originally made the tea, but after taking a sip, she stopped touching it; now she simply said there was no need to prepare it for her. Why did you think of drinking unpulverized tea?
Xiao Zhan still said "yes". As long as the county lord is willing, even if the tea leaves are soaked in water and spread on the floor, it is also the county lord's business.
What was shipped out this time was nothing more than cattle, sheep and horses. Because the relationship between the Xiongnu and the Han was not very good, the horses sold to the Han were not excellent horses. Is it possible that a thousand-mile horse was sold to the Han Dynasty to be used as a stallion, and then the horse was bred to fight back against the Huns? Those horses can only be used normally.
Xiao Zhan went out with the list and calculated it. If you sell these cattle, sheep and horses, you can only earn three to four hundred silver at most, which is pretty good. But the money is spent faster than the money is made, and the county government will be emptied sooner or later.
Or it won't be very late. If we continue to spend money like this until winter, the money in the basic warehouse will be used up. There are still many things that are not enough, such as hemp powder, cotton gauze and so on. You know, those wineries will not start making wine until after the autumn harvest. I just paid a deposit, and when it was delivered, there was another sum of money.
(End of chapter)