Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 151 The Last Batch

Zhu Yuan still didn't have much appetite, he finished half a bowl of mutton talking and laughing with the girls around him, and didn't do anything else.

The food on the table was not wasted. Guided by the food, I quickly taught the three people around me to call themselves 'adult' with a standard accent. At the same time, I also got the original names of the three women, one Annika and one Margot Ritter, a Felicia.

It once again proved the Northeast European origin of the three women.

So I ordered the identity cards of the three women to combine Chinese and Western, Annika Wutong, Margaret Xiaoyu, and Felicia Diandian.

The original surname is skipped directly.

In addition, Xiaoyu really knew how to write. She dipped her finger in water and wrote her name, Margrethe, in a very long string of letters.

Zhu Yuan used to have a mediocre level of English, and he also knew that the same transliteration of "Margaret" was spelled differently in different countries in the West, and even in different historical periods. Which country spells Europe.

Just one thing to confirm, this is the Latin alphabet.

Later, when people saw similar letters, their first reaction was English letters.

Yes or no.

The English alphabet only uses 26 Latin alphabets in its entirety, while the two main writing systems in early Europe, one is Latin, which belongs to ancient Roman script earlier.

The other is Greek, which is the string of 'Alpha', 'Beta', 'Gamma' and so on.

Hundreds of years later, the languages ​​of mainstream European countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Italy all evolved from Latin, so it can be seen that many letters in their languages ​​are similar.As for the Greek, which was once equally popular, it was gradually marginalized due to the overall decline in politics, economy, and culture in the ancient Greek cultural area, and its letters were often used as representative symbols in the fields of mathematics, physics, and other sciences.

After feeding the three foreign girls, and distributing the rest of the food, Zhu Yuan didn't move, and started writing a day's work diary here.

At this time, except for Xie Yi, the other girls, big and small, will be sent away.

Let Liu Bai, who came back again, accompany his small officials to write a diary, and come out freehand to arrange various trivial matters.

First, the three of Wutong, according to the order of the little official, arranged maids to bathe them, and then turned to Ling'er, who was brought along with them, and waited for the six girls. The girls are arranged on a common bunk.

Xieyi is very entangled with this.

It's so indecent.

Fortunately, I will leave soon. Over there in Jinling, the mansion on the back lake, I have seen the pictures freely, but the mansion is only a hundred acres in size, which is many times larger than this small courtyard of more than ten acres. Not only that, the lake According to His Majesty's attitude, the other small islands are roughly his own.

When we go back, we don't have to squeeze like this anymore.

It's best not to come back here.

Ever since she came to Mingzhou, the living place was crowded, and her petty officials were busy all day long, which really made her feel distressed.

After arranging the six new maids, after thinking about it for a while, he asked someone to vacate a room, called He Xuan, and asked him to pick some strong women and servants to come in, intending to make them responsible for the night watch.My petty official should stay here to rest in the yard tonight, so Xie Yi is not at ease.

Recently, I have collected so many weird bearded women, all of them are in this yard, not to mention, just that big Indus, even though it looks very docile and obedient on the surface, but in the end it is the Fanyi woman who came from that day, Even Xieyi doesn't think of them as human beings, like cats, cats and dogs, they can't speak, if one of them goes crazy, I'm afraid Xiaoyu's small size can't stop it.

If you hurt your own petty officials, everyone will not live.

He Xuan left to pick someone up, and Xieyi came to the bathroom in the southwest of the courtyard again, knocked on the door, and the three Wutongs had already bathed, and were learning to brush their teeth under the guidance of the maid, but... just took a look, and Xieyi frowned, criticizing the way they looked at Nuan Niang said: "After washing, put a robe on them, at least they look human, what's the point of showing it like this?"

The maids hurriedly found robes for the three girls to put on.

Xieyi was about to say something more, when she noticed that apart from a few Cipai girls, there were two other girls who came in to help, they were Loulan and Lihua from the yard, and she frowned again: "Why are you two here?"

Loulan had just found the robe and picked out the smallest dots to wrap it up. Hearing this, she hurried over and said, "Sister Xieyi, I heard that the lord wants to sort out some knowledge from Hu Nu, and Lan'er just knows some foreign words. Why don't you let the slave come over?" Shall we try it?"

Xieyi didn't answer for a moment, she glanced at Nuan Niang, saw her lowered her eyebrows, then turned to Li Hua who was shy behind Lou Lan: "You can also speak French?"

Lihua quickly shook her head: "I don't know..." She glanced at Lou Lan and added in a low voice, "I will help you with the work."

Listening to what Lihua said, Xieyi probably understood that it was mainly Lou Lannizi's thoughts. Thinking about the girl in this house, she was not in the mood. .”

Then he signaled to the three bearded girls: "After washing and washing, help them measure the size for making clothes."

After Xieyi finished speaking, the scene paused briefly, and Nuan Niang realized that she was talking to herself, and nodded in agreement.

He glanced at Nuan Niang dissatisfiedly, then turned and left freely.

When Xieyi went out, the atmosphere here relaxed a bit, Loulan turned around, stared at Nuan Niang who had not helped for so long and had to fight for it by herself, then turned to the three bearded girls who were still clumsily brushing their teeth, and actively Let them speak.

Nuan Niang knew that Loulan didn't know any dialect at all, and even if she knew it, she probably only learned it in recent days, but she didn't dare to expose it, so she could only acquiesce.

Xinyi returned to the West Room of Minglun Hall. My little official had finished writing the diary, and was flipping through a new book that the girls in the inner house had recently checked out. written.Xieyi also pays a lot of attention to this book, because the various murders and prison sentences in it are really impressive after reading it. A group of girls waited patiently to complete the proofreading, and some people had nightmares because of it.

Thinking of this, Xieyi couldn't help reminding: "Young official, don't read this book too much, it's too...too..."

After stuttering twice, Xieyi couldn't think of a suitable adjective.

Can't say it's too disgusting.

Zhu Yuan glanced at the freehand expression, smiled and shook his head: "You don't understand, this is a university question, but this book, when you return to Jinling, it is enough to open a single major in Jinling University, called forensic science .”

In fact, Xieyi didn't want to understand, so she nodded in agreement, and deliberately interrupted when talking about Loulan.

Zhu Yuan casually agreed: "This is the original plan. The girls in the two courtyards can get in touch with them as long as they are interested. Whoever can master a foreign language better will be rewarded in the future."

Anyone can do it, wouldn't that be messed up?

Xieyi didn't want a group of girls to get in touch with those barbarian women, and took the initiative to quietly shrink the arrangement of her little official in her heart, and asked instead: "Little official, are you going to rest here tonight?" ?”

"Ah."

After getting the confirmed answer, Xieyi went to the east bedroom to make the bed.

At the end of Xu Dynasty, not wanting He Xuan and the others to urge him again, Zhu Yuan took the initiative to get up to wash up, and then went to the bedroom.

It's cool in autumn, and there are no earth dragons here. Xieyi called Chaier and Caisang, who happened to be talking at dinner, to warm up the bed in advance. Zhu Yuan wanted to sleep alone. Pulled and left the two little girls directly, the others... are too big and take up space.

After serving his petty officials to sleep, Xieyi blew on the lamp and went outside.

Qing Niang, Luo Shui, Nuan Niang and the others had already returned to the back yard, and Xie Yi went to see it in person, locked the door before returning here, except for the two warm bed girls beside her little official, Xie Yi and Liu Bai, and some sack girl, would sleep outside the bedroom.

Mainly sack girls.

It's powerful, and it's reassuring to look at.

Then he looked around, locked the small gate of the courtyard by himself, and inspected each house, especially the women and servants whom He Xuan picked to watch the night, and explained carefully before going to wash and return to the main room , also locked the door, looked at the time, it was almost Haizheng, and finally fell asleep.

The next day was the sixth day of September.

Xieyi knew that her petty official had a lot to do today, so she got up early as usual.

Only Xiaoyu was left in the outside room, and Xieyi and Liu Bai started a busy day, until it was daylight, and brought the young lady who had prepared breakfast back here, and told them to go to the west room, and Xieyi took Liu Bai to the east. In the bedroom, just after opening some curtains, I faintly heard a coquettish voice that seemed somewhat familiar: "...Father, I have a sister..."

Did it happen yesterday?
Xieyi didn't open her mouth, but Lu Bai, who followed this time, had already muttered in a low voice: "Lang hoof..."

Turning his head and staring blankly, Xieyi waited until the room had finished talking, and then deliberately lifted the curtain and entered the door with some movement, and did not drive away the Caisang who happened to see and was entangled with his little official and the hairpin next to him. Let's go, pretending not to know anything, to help my petty officials get dressed and get up.

It was just a small episode, the girl was acting like a baby, Zhu Yuan casually ordered someone to pick up Sister Caisang after breakfast.

Then start the day's work.

The first thing is the idea that was made yesterday. Zhu Yuan recruited Liu Lian, Yao Feng and Fang Li to announce his decision directly. Yao Feng and Fang Li have no objection. How to do it, Liu Lian doesn't agree, and refute Zhu Yuan's previous argument, if it is all official arrests, without civilian arrests as a supplement, it will lead to a rigid industrial system, blah blah blah.

Zhu Yuan directly rejected it.

Ask Liu Lian to draw up the document this morning and promulgate it.

After arranging this matter, he casually talked to Yao Feng about the movable mold of the tile making machine and asked him to handle it. Then there was another meeting to discuss the establishment of distribution channels for fish harvest.

In the past few months, the fish caught in Mingzhou was not only eaten by the family, but mainly supplied to the front army.

However, Zhu Yuan understood from the very beginning that this matter could not last.

Forget it this year, and next year, the army will not be able to eat such a large amount of food. Therefore, while continuing to supply himself and the army, Zhu Yuan must distribute the excess fish.

Speaking of which, during the discussion, it was discovered that the biggest difficulty in this matter was not the establishment of the distribution channel itself, but... salt!

The finished fish catches processed by Yinghai Division basically contain one-tenth of the weight of salt according to the standard set before. That is to say, 10 catties of salted and roasted fish catches will contain about 1 catty of salt.

The current retail price of table salt is 30 Wen a catty. In comparison, based on the usual price of a stone of grain, the Yinghai Division basically assumes that a load of fish is equal to a stone of grain, and a load of fish is 100 Jin, which is equivalent to 10 Wen a catty. , of which there are nearly 1 taels of salt in 2 catty.

Don't forget, in this era, a catty is 16 taels.

Counting 2 taels of salt, the price is 6 Wen, and the rest of the fish, at 10 Wen per catty, is only worth 4 Wen.

Certainly not.

All in all, this is a great question.

The Yinghai Division distributes and retails fish catches to the private sector. If the price is set high, it will affect sales. If the price is set too low, it will interfere with the salt price and even affect the salt tax.

Therefore, it is definitely impossible for the specific terminal retail price in the future to be 10 cents per catty.

After some discussion, Zhu Yuan made a final decision and directly doubled the price to 20 cents a catty. He will try it out first and adjust it according to the situation in the future.

As for the possible impact on the salt business...

Zhu Yuan felt that the salt and iron monopoly system had been tried out for more than 1000 years since the Han Dynasty, and it should be changed.

Zhu Yuan believed that after returning to Jinling, he would make sense of the truth with Lao Zhu, and his ancestors would not insist on it. After all, the salt tax of only 200 million taels per year should not affect the entire grand strategy of ocean management.

Of course, like the prohibition of private sea fishing, doing so will definitely offend another group of people.

From the salt transportation system to a large number of salt merchants along the coast.

Zhu Yuan actually considered pushing the country into a new era without disturbing the existing structure of interests.It was precisely because of this that I chose to manage the ocean before. In the past thousands of years, this land did not pay attention to the ocean.

Unexpectedly, there are still certain things that cannot be escaped.

Just to repeat that sentence, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Can't hide.

After this meeting and some other affairs were dealt with, Zhu Yuan hurried to the east pier of Dinghai City.

South wind today.

This year's eighth batch of seaborne grain ships will officially go to sea in the afternoon.

This is basically the last batch of this year.

Next, the north wind is getting stronger, so it is not suitable to send grain to the north, otherwise, the fleet may be blown in the opposite direction. In fact, the seventh batch before encountered a similar situation. The wind forced the fleet to lower their sails and anchor, and waited at sea for four full days.

Therefore, it took 26 days for the seventh batch of grain ships to reach Zhigu.

That's right.

The seventh batch did not go to Jiaozhou, but went straight to Zhigu.

For the current batch, Ying Haisi has already made preparations for at least one month to arrive at the destination. Even, if the wind direction is not right for a long time, the fleet chief can act cheaply and turn west and dock directly.

In any case, including this batch, throughout this year, the Yinghai Division and the Navy Commander's Mansion sent a total of 220 million shi of grain to the north, including 160 million dan of grain and 60 dan of fish.These grains not only ensured the ration supply of the army in front, but also allowed Lao Zhu to relieve the victims very well, and then more quickly stabilized the turbulent situation in the northern provinces after the military disaster.

(End of this chapter)