warring states careerist

Chapter 56
Seeing the ground line, I was shocked and convinced.

Doing things by yourself, the wisdom of one person is not as good as specializing in art.

He had been pondering for a long time on how to drive these cattle and horses back, but Shi Jiatun could make these details almost perfect.

Seeing Shi Zai's surprise, Shi Jiatun laughed at himself and said, "Shi, do you think it's easy to be a businessman nowadays? From the feudal kingdom of Osmunda to the southern border of Chu, you have to keep in mind what kind of goods you have. Wherever the village community is You are fierce and wild, and you have to know, don't you know that people in the village even dared to kill and eat Qin Mugong's horse?"

The village community at this time was different from the village community in later generations. It lasted until the Qin and Han Dynasties. The degree of autonomy of the village community was very high, and there were many wicked young people and bold people.

Not to mention eating a horse, even the Marquis of Jin who went out of the city to have fun would dare to chop it up just to rob a fortune.

Being a businessman is extremely risky, and it's okay to be near the city, but some villagers in the countryside are not so honest.The whole people are soldiers on weekdays, who hasn't seen a murder?
Tai Shigong once concluded that as long as it is profitable, young people in the countryside can do the following things: murder and bury corpses, block roads and rob, dig graves, mint coins privately, embezzle and occupy, chase and plunder, do not evade the law, make fakes...

At this time, the self-government of the countryside far away from the city is not pastoral. The atmosphere in the countryside is fierce, the grassroots control is weak, and the place far away from the city is completely chaotic and disorderly.

Shi Jiatun was born in Taoyi, where merchants gathered, and where Tao Zhugong made his fortune. The merchant atmosphere was very prosperous, and he knew a lot of business methods, and he also knew the risks involved.

Besides the risks, there are customs everywhere.

Tai Shigong once said in "Biography of Huozhi": The land of Chuyue cannot produce big businessmen, because there is no winter in the land of Chuyue, and the atmosphere there does not know how to accumulate.There are fish and shrimp everywhere, and there are fruits on the trees. You can eat enough by picking fruits by slash-and-burn farming, so it is difficult to develop if the atmosphere does not change. It is not against harmony at all to replace Chuyue at this time with the well-known Black Africa.

Taoyi and other places north of Surabaya often suffer from floods and droughts, but the land is fertile, the population is large, and the four seasons are distinct, so people know how to accumulate and can accumulate, and there is also a habit of doing business to get rich.

According to Tai Shigong’s summary, there are no rich merchants in Wuyue; Qin and Jin are good at agriculture; Zhao people are more speculators; But when it is profitable, it is more ruthless than everywhere; the gentlemen near Shangqiu are very generous, dignified and seldom deceitful.

Times have changed, and many places are different from later generations, but they are always similar to the current atmosphere.

It is not easy to go to the north to transfer cattle and horses, and come back.

It's not easy, but I still have to do it, Shi Shi asked: "Since it's settled, should I start doing it?"

"There are two things to wait for. First, the purpose of this Mohist gathering is a major event, and it must be done after the completion of this event. The importance cannot be disregarded. Second, I think Si Chenghuang has made up his mind. The matter of the land is a foregone conclusion, but we must get the bamboo deed before making a decision, otherwise I, the Mohist, can go to Luoyang Linzi and other places by myself to save money and do justice."

Shi Jiatun nodded to himself, and said again: "Well, I will go to see Mr. first, and let him decide the method. You follow me to get five yi of gold, buy some wheat, and hire people from the village commune to grind the wheat flour first. come out."

The two of them made a good plan, and followed Shi Jiatun back to Mo Zhe's thatched hut, and waited for a while.

Shi Jiatun went to see Mozi himself, returned not long after, took out five yi of gold, wrote it down on a piece of bamboo slips, and said with a smile: "This is not what you, the secretary, should do. I still need to remember this number."

Shi Ye laughed and said, "Few people can recognize the characters I wrote. It's not enough to write more and write less just relying on faith in one's heart."

Shi Jiatun handed over the gold, and said: "Mr. agrees, and I will do it in ten days. Sir, I also want to tell you that there is one more thing to add to the discussion between me and Si Chenghuang. The people in the village community will follow suit." We moved to Peidi, and we are all the people who granted the land. Those children who have learned nine numbers from you will stay in Shangqiu and first help the tofu and wheat flour shops in Shangqiu."

"The people who grant the land move with the soil. This is a trivial matter, and everyone is used to it. You don't have to care about it. Sicheng Emperor has asked me to wait, and the Mohists don't have to follow too many unreasonable rules when doing things. No one dares to say. If you are not Mo Zhe, the private use of granting land is enough to give you a whip."

Shi nodded in agreement, thinking that this method was excellent, and his own thinking was also somewhat fixed, so he didn't think of this.

The village I belong to is a land-granting village, and the people in the village can be relocated to other places. When countries conquer cities, they will often relocate their residents. This kind of coercive behavior abounds, but he was a little unexpected .

Later, after the rise of the Three Jin Dynasties, in order to avoid the edge of the Han and Wei Dynasties, the Song State once held a great migration, almost abandoned Shangqiu City, and moved all the nearby people to Pengcheng. Now this village is considered to be one step ahead.

Now that the matter has been settled, he will be busy grinding flour and discussing the migration with the villagers.

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In Shangqiu City, the story of wheat flour and tofu has spread throughout the city, and those merchants with a keen sense of smell have gathered here.

Shangqiu is not Taoyi, but it is also a big city, where many merchants gather.

At this time, the status of the big merchants was very high, and all the nobles wanted to win over them.

Not to mention the fact that businessmen like Lu Buwei in later generations were prime ministers, even Zhou Tianzi was forced by businessmen to build a debt platform to hide on it.

These merchants are profit-seeking, and they smell profit as much as flies smell carrion.

On the second day after a group of Mohists had dinner, the door of Ji's house was almost smashed by businessmen, and they all wanted to see these things.

Dean is a craftsman, although he is not afraid of strangers, he has never seen such a scene.

Fortunately, Shi Jiatun and Shi sat in it, with a can of snow-like wheat flour in front of them.

Shi's sister-in-law pinched Shi secretly and said: "You man, treat you Mohists to dinner. What you eat is yellow and black wheat flour. Why is it so white when sold to merchants? It's a joke!"

Shih chuckled, and said in a low voice: "This is not edible. It has talcum powder added in it, so the white is white, and it doesn't taste good. It's for people to see, not for people to eat."

The sister-in-law gave him a blank look, she had so many thoughts, she had never seen it before.

Several businessmen from Luoyang squeezed in, looked at the jar of snow-white wheat flour, and praised it repeatedly.Seeing that Shi Jiatun was also nearby, he thought to himself, "It's difficult to make money from this person."

There are a lot of rich and noble families in Dayi, Luoyang, and the wheat flour is sold there for a profit.Although transshipment is not easy, but transshipment in the past will be rewarding.

Shi Jiatun looked at these merchants, thought of what Shi Shi had just talked to him, and thought that there are not many merchants from other places here, but if that method is available, it can be directly used in other cities.

When the merchants saw such wheat flour, they had already moved their minds and asked whether they would sell it.

Shi Jiatun shook his head and said, "I don't know."

The businessman thought to himself, if you sell it, you sell it, if you don't sell it, you don't sell it.

But he didn't know that Shi Jiatun was telling the truth. Before the matter of Peidi was settled, whether to sell fish or sell fish was indeed an unknown matter.

Shi chimed in and said, "Whether it's for sale or not. The food has to be delicious, not the pearls and jades, as long as the color is good. Since you are here today, I invite you to taste it the next day. Come back the day after tomorrow, and please run around to see each other." Tell those foreign merchants to come together."

As soon as the merchant heard it, he knew that he still had to sell it after all, otherwise why would he invite other merchants.

What they thought Laishi said was indeed right, this wheat flour is for eating, and you will not know whether it is delicious until you eat it, so they left first, thinking about coming to taste the taste in the future.

After such a few waves of people, the small merchants in Shangqiu City all knew the news and inquired one after another, wanting to make a profit.

To prepare the tasting for these people, even one person would be too busy to do it. Fortunately, it is organized and easy to handle with more people, so I invited some Mohists to help.

It is:

Ding Ding Dang Dang, do righteousness and enter the kitchen.There is no millet and millet, only snow powder and white.

Shi Dong bought pottery pots, Shi West bought grease, Mo Di personally handled the axe, cut and repaired the rolling pin.

The surface is hot and sour, and plant ash is added.Acid and alkali hate each other, and the stomata save time.

The rolled chopsticks look like flowers, and the red dates contain pistils.Kneading Shanfeng with rough hands, there is only a little bit of bright red.

Rolling noodles is as big as a bucket, and the cold sword cuts horizontally.It is as wide as a waistband and as long as a lady's silk.

Give me a big pottery stew, the fat melts and the soup boils.At this time, there was no Qin Hui, so it was named after fried dough sticks.

Powdered lamb meat, rolled into dough balls by hand.Gently fold your hands together, like a floating goose in the soup.

Qinchuan has no pot helmets, and Yuncheng has no cooking cakes.Sanjin does not drink noodles, let alone sour taste.

Reconcile sauce and vinegar, grind soybeans, cook and drink syrup.The merchants were all frightened when they brought it to the merchants: they have been eating wheat for 20 years, but they don't know that there are so many tricks.

(End of this chapter)