Emperor Xiaoyao of Tang Dynasty

Chapter 253 The People Are Suffering

Since last year, the construction of Jinjiazhuangzi has not stopped, and it looks like "learning from agricultural Dazhai".Basically everyone who can move came out of Zhuangzi. The elderly and children couldn't do heavy work. It was still possible to pull weeds and clear the land. Not to mention the labor of men and women, they worked hard.Now the farmers are still living in the house of the master's family, but the mistress is kind and allows the house to be sold to them, provided that they have money in their hands, right?Three pennies per person per day for the whole laborer, one penny for the elderly and children, and two full meals and enough big bone soup. Where can I find such a good opportunity?If it weren't for the prodigal young master's tight schedule, how could such a good job be done by people from Waizhuang?I remember that last year they were still standing aside watching their Zhuangzi's jokes, don't they also beg the master to send their children to school now?To say that the baby is really proud of himself, not only can he write his own name, but he can also calculate the accounts clearly. For generations, his grandparents have been digging loess to make a living, so why would he ever think that his child can read?Didn't I just focus on the key point before, saving some money to marry a wife and have children?Now the days are moving forward!

The labor is digging the ground in full swing, and the chef team is there to put more salt into the soup pot according to the instructions of the owner. In hot weather, labor sweats a lot, and if the salt is not replenished in time, it is easy to lose the balance of electrolysis, and heatstroke and collapse are mild !There are old people and children, so Jin Yu ordered to change the green salt.Coarse salt has too many impurities, which is not conducive to the excretion of the elderly and children.A bowl of fine green salt was put in, and the chef choked in pain, thinking: Blessed be labor, with so much fine green salt, it must be delicious!Drink one more bowl in a while!
If you want a cook to ask why you feel bad, you have to mention an old saying: A good cook has a handful of salt.The so-called culinary art in ancient times is basically one word-cooking. There are not so many complicated cooking skills, and it all depends on adding salt to enhance the taste.In ancient times, it was very simple to be a cook. If you ask a teacher and be willing to put salt, you are a good cook.In this case, if any wedding or wedding event cooks dishes with heavy taste, it will be praised by everyone—this cook is good, you must ask who it is, next time you have something to do at home, you must not invite him to cook, it is too much salt!
Speaking of this salt, it is really a valuable commodity that must be consumed. Many dynasties’ tax revenue comes from the salt monopoly. Didn’t you see the green forest hero who smuggled salt to make a fortune in the Water Margin?

There are also good and bad salts. There are a lot of green salt and coarse salt mixed with sediment.Many rich and noble families have the habit of gargling with green salt, and this custom was not terminated until the appearance of tooth powder.Even if it is [-] Wen a catty of green salt, Jin Yu finds it bitter and unpalatable.Jinyu opened a restaurant, in addition to exclusive cooking techniques, seasoning is also very important, and salt is the top priority!Jin Yu couldn't ignore it!

For the reputation of my restaurant, I bought coarse salt from outside, processed and purified it myself, that is, dissolved it with distilled water, filtered it, put some caustic soda, and then stirred vigorously. It would be better if I blow some air bubbles inward, and finally filtered the precipitate Just come out.Jin Yu never said that the crystallized salt was taken to restaurants, it was too eye-catching!So Jinyu took a clever trick, every time people carry over filtered saturated solution!As far as the consumption rate of the restaurant is concerned, coupled with Xu Ming's supervision, there will be no one desperate to find out what the salt is, let alone Jin Yu's great favor to them?Of course, in order to cover people's eyes and ears, Jin Yu also asked his servants to buy a small amount of green salt, and said he would enjoy it.Fortunately, salt is not difficult to dissolve and filter. If you add boiled salt ``````Jin Yu may not be able to stand it, and the refined salt boiled in a large pot of water will not pass.Of course, only Yang Ying knew about this matter, and even the chef Xu Ming was only told by Jin Yu that some precious things were added to the salt water to remove the remaining bitterness, which was an exclusive secret recipe!As for what to do with it`````` Jin Yu has no obligation to tell him, let him think about it!

Compared with profits, the so-called salt purification is really not difficult, but it will involve huge conflicts of interests!Salt is not like soap and shaved ice. Although the latter is also an exclusive business, it is also very expensive, but people are jealous and don’t hold grudges, because these new things have not affected their peers. People can’t afford it or don’t buy it. Just let it go Well.However, salt is different, regardless of whether you have money or not, whether you are old or young, you must eat salt!Even if the purified salt only takes the high-end route, it will have an impact on the green salt market.Although the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty were the only periods in which private salt production was allowed in all dynasties, the salt production often had the shadow of aristocratic families. I dare not do anything to you on the surface, but what about you in the dark?How profitable is it to purify salt?Three catties of coarse salt can be purified to two catties, and ten pennies instantly become fifty or sixty pennies!What can make money faster than this thing?Three times the profit can make people put their heads on their belts and take risks, let alone five or six times the profit!At that time, Jin Yu will definitely be pointed at with a bow and arrow and said: "You know too much!" Then die, or be arrested and tried all kinds of torture to ask the secret recipe `````` Money is precious, life is priceless Higher, for the sake of the lives of himself and his family, Jin Yu has not yet figured out how to deal with it, so he just dealt with it in a low-key manner.

Putting a lot of money and not being able to make money, instead making money with low-profit methods around the bush, made Jin Yu very depressed, but the advantage is that the safety factor is higher.

The meat was fragrant and the soup was salty, and the laborers were very happy to eat. They praised the cook for his superb craftsmanship, but the cook didn't dare to take the credit, so the owner's behavior of caring about everyone's food moved the laborers very much.Many farm households were also tenants of other big families in the past. How have those high-ranking gentlemen ever looked at them?Not to mention ordering the cook to put more salt, and it was green salt!

If we don't say "the ancients are sincere", the ancients are indeed very simple and easy to be satisfied. They know who treats them well.In terms of repaying the Patriarch, there is nothing else he can do except a handful of strength.Although Lao Li didn't know what to dig so many holes for, but the owner obviously cared about these holes.The laborers had nothing to show for thanking Jin Yu for his care except a handful of strength, so after eating and drinking enough, they stopped chatting about their parents and waved their heads with all their strength, trying to finish the work one day earlier .

The laborers are working hard, Jin Yu knows it very well, but Jin Yu is not satisfied with the progress of the "Winter Vegetable Basket Project".I won't talk about the excavator, but this guy who digs the soil is too weak!In the later generations, a three-day workload of a laborer would take five days to finish it now, provided that the laborer does not slack off and the tools do not go on strike!

The inefficiency of later generations is more due to people's laziness and procrastination, which is most vividly manifested in public servants.The low efficiency in front of me is more due to the backwardness of the tools!Livestock is a big piece of labor in this era, and Jinyu pays for the purchase, and each household registers and collects it when it is used, and pays a symbolic extra rent during the autumn harvest.But small pieces, such as the pout that Lao Li is waving now, were made by them themselves at the expense of a blacksmith.Anyone who has played online games knows that if you want to fight monsters and get more blood, you must have a powerful weapon. A pout made of pig iron is the best equipment in this era!More is the national standard equipment dropped by the system - wooden prongs``````The so-called wooden prongs are not all made of wood, but a layer of iron sheet is wrapped on the front end of the wood, just like the later generations Like the antiques dug out of the tomb.

Seeing that his farmers still use agricultural tools with wooden cores and iron blades, Jin Yu felt very uncomfortable.According to history books, farm tools with a wooden heart and iron blades appeared in the Warring States period, and iron smelting technology in the Han Dynasty developed by leaps and bounds. According to this process, the Tang Dynasty should have popularized iron farm tools long ago, right?However, the real situation is far more cruel than fantasy!Bronze farming tools appeared early enough, right?But how many years did it take to go from stone farm tools to bronze farm tools?Bronze smelting technology was already very developed in the Shang Dynasty, but bronze farm tools were not popularized in the Warring States Period!Bronze wares belonged to the nobles at that time. Don’t you see that everyone is showing off a broken incense burner that is known as the world’s largest?Jin Yu couldn't figure it out, for the sake of no one showing off the people in his territory?Can you eat meat?No one in power will understand the suffering of the common people, as long as they pay their taxes on time and let them bully them casually, no one cares about the lives of the common people!
Muxin iron blade agricultural tools also appeared very early, it is said that they existed in the Warring States period, but history books only dare to say the representative meaning, not the essence!Does appearing mean that it can be popularized?Can it represent that the people can use it?Ridiculous!Qin Shihuang unified the six countries with copper weapons!If there is more awesome equipment, will Ying Zheng let it go?

The hardness of iron is much higher than that of copper, and those in power in the Han Dynasty also discovered this, so various iron weapons appeared, followed by successive years of wars, expanding the territory and cracking the soil, declaring our great Han Tianwei, what " Those who offend our heavenly power will be punished even if they are far away", in an attempt to realize the situation that Liu Wang will be king for thousands of years.It's a pity that I only know that I have beaten others. The foundation of the family is not solid, and the productivity does not develop. Sooner or later, it will stumble.Then came the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Fortunately, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty came out to balance all forces, and finally agriculture developed. However, a good chicken coop was beaten by Yang Guang's chickens and eggs, and nothing was kept, so that productivity was still lagging behind.

Iron was still an expensive metal in the Tang Dynasty. It was more difficult to mine and smelt than copper, so the price remained high. It took a few pennies to buy a set of farm tools, and many people would definitely not hesitate The evaluation of its prodigal!
It is no exaggeration to say that any household with a set of iron farming tools can be passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom!This also involves the issue of burials. Because of their preciousness, only wealthy families can bury ironware with them. Ordinary people can only use pottery instead. It is a luxury that ordinary people cannot afford.

Looking at the farmers sweating profusely, Jin Yu sighed, he had to do something.

(End of this chapter)