Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Scene on the Street
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In June of the fourth year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse, Li Shouhan led troops to conquer Hue, surrendered troops to make a rebellion, slaughtered the Ruan clan, and Shouhan was furious. Stripped the generals of the front line. In order to command Ye Qi, he was dismissed from his own positions, and all departments of the guard battalion were led by Shouhan. All the swords and guns originally from the various departments of the New Army were confiscated and issued for public service.
Shouhan's kind words comforted Ruan Fuyu and was willing to protect him to inherit his father's position. In an instant, Ruan Fuyu's family was ruined, and he didn't feel disheartened, and he had the heart of returning to the countryside. Shouhan then organized his department and the original engineering service from the New Army as Fengshun Lianhao, which was responsible for building roads, dredging rivers, and building ports and cities.
Wang Bao, the commander of the Phoenix battalion, was in charge of the attack and defense of the city, and the sailor Xu returned to the mountains to cruise south to Manchuria. Then the troops were returned.
Outside the city of Ha Jing.
Jiang Chun had eaten breakfast, which was also quite rich in the eyes of Yangzhou, and took people from the commercial port to the port to look at the scenery along the way, and asked about the market prices of various commodities. It's also quite self-satisfied.
In the market, the morning market has just ended, and the vendors have begun to clean up the goods on their stalls, clean up the garbage generated by the morning trade, and prepare for the morning business.
"Excuse me! Excuse me! Let's get it! From behind Jiang Chun, a hearty and bright woman's voice came quickly. Accompanied by this sound, there is a unique rattling sound of the board car, which is more and more clear when rolling over the burnt ash road.
"Shopkeeper! We've been buying a lot of meat at the morning market for the past few days, and I've been worried that I won't be able to sell it. A young man's voice came.
"You! On weekdays, let you pay more attention to the news and notices on the street, but you just don't listen! Just go to the teahouse and listen to the story! The woman paused and took a breath, "I tell you that the battle of the lord of the south is still being fought, and all kinds of weapons are being made in various workshops to ensure the needs of the front. The lord is benevolent and righteous, and all the government-run workshops, whether they are craftsmen or official slaves, have been given a vegetable fee for additional meals and a reward for piecework. ”
As he spoke, the cart walked past Jiang Chun. Jiang Chun recognized the woman who spoke at a glance.
Su Siniang!
"These people came to work hard, and secondly, the lord gave a reward, and we are doing a food business, which is a good opportunity for us to do business! You don't think about the customer, you think about what to do all day long, thirty-six days and seventy-two earths, and there is a ball! The woman burst out with a foul word.
The guy was speechless by Su Siniang's words, lowered his head and pulled the car hard. Watching their figures pass by in front of him, Jiang Chun carefully looked at the celebrity in the market in front of him.
Su Siniang, a reclamation man from Fujian, worked as a blacksmith in his hometown, and soon after he came, he was recruited to the Taipingdong workshop. Su Siniang relied on her own good cooking, and ruthlessly rented the thirty acres of paddy fields under her name to her fellow villagers for farming, and when she arrived in Hejing City, she relied on a pot and a kitchen knife to start a food business.
At first, he only relied on a few door panels and set them up on a stool as a dining table, and did some business of officials and slaves and workers, relying on good taste and sufficient quantity; After more than a year, she has won a reputation in several workshops. Several directors summed it up in private, and simply contracted the food in the workshop with her.
Su Siniang is also a very hearty and resolute character, although she is a woman, she immediately said to several principals, "Fifteen Wen can eat enough, twenty Wen plus one fried egg, Twenty-five Wen more than a vegetarian dish, Thirty Wen more than a meat dish, fifty Wen one meat and one vegetarian with a bowl of sugarcane wine." ”
Soon, she changed from a small proprietress of a small food stall to a proprietress who employed more than 20 large and small men, cooks, and domestic helpers.
However, Su Siniang's fame in Ha Jing is not only because of her shrewdness and good management, but also because of her toughness. It is rumored that when she came out to set up a food stall, her husband, an honest ironworker, asked her to take the stall and go home to serve the fields and her husband and children. Unexpectedly, Su Siniang's eyes widened, and a sentence that was praised through the ages came out of her thick lips.
"My mother earns more money than you now! You pay more taxes than you do! There are also four or five people who rely on me to eat, why do you want my mother to come home and serve you?! If you want me to serve you, you can do it! You first upgrade your tax standard to level 3! ”
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately spread in the street conversation, and many women who worked outside to earn money also used this to fight back against their husbands, causing many scholars to shake their heads and shout that the world was declining.
"Shopkeeper, that's true, but you've bought too many things! My waist is about to break! The guy was also pretending to be a coolie, grinning at Su Siniang.
"You don't have to go there, wait until we have a good deal. In a few days, save some money, and the old lady will go to buy a Guangxi pony to come back and pull the cart, so you don't have to pull the cart! ”
"Good my shopkeeper! You have to talk and count! That short pony is now sold for more than a dozen taels of silver, are you willing to do it?! ”
"Less noisy there! Come on! ”
Looking at the head covered with a silk handkerchief, a very crisp apron, two sleeves on the arms, Su Siniang, who was dressed as a standard cook, pushed a cart full of meat, eggs, vegetables and rice oil, and ran over the burnt ash road, Jiang Chun couldn't help but think of the famous words of this strange woman, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly. "This woman is worthy of being the sister of the three female thieves of Liangshanbo, and she is really spicy."
"Oh, Jiang, my friend." Father Alfonso's strange tone sounded from across the road, and Jiang Chun realized that who was standing opposite, wearing a Hangzhou silk zuò with two fronts and a pleated waist, and a loose and folded bottom?
Jiang Chun is also born with a character who likes to search for wonders and explore secrets, when he was in Songjiang, he once studied geometric originals with Xu Guangqi, who was known as Shanghai Xiangguo, and learned a few words of Portuguese by the way, and the language differences between the countries of Taixi and Thailand, especially the countries around the Mediterranean, to put it mildly, are far less than the gap between Shandong dialect and Sichuan dialect of my Celestial Empire.
Not wanting to deal with Alfonso, the shepherd of Jehovah felt like he had met in a foreign land, and he immediately became a confidant. However, Jiang Chun smiled bitterly in his heart, he had vaguely heard that the general was not so friendly to this priest.
However, out of politeness, he could not fail to greet the brother.
"Father Fang, why are you here?"
"My friend, I'm here to buy some items for my church, and this!" Alfonso didn't care about his silk robe, and reached out to hand over a briquette. "This thing has now risen to five cents a piece! It's too expensive! I drink a cup of tea and boiled water, and it will add up to a penny! ”
Jiang Chun looked at it, the briquette, made of eighty percent powder and twenty percent loess, looked through the thirteen holes of uniform size, in order to burn more conveniently, it seemed that some straw clippings and grain bran and the like were added.
"Father Fang, this price is all on the market now, and it's nothing."
"Nope! No! River! You don't know! They're driving up prices! Three years ago, when this thing first came out, it was three cents a piece, but now, it is five dollars! Why is that?! ”
His strange tone of words was easy to attract the attention of others, and his voice was loud, which immediately caused the displeasure of the shopkeeper who sold briquettes. "Don't you have to look at the old yellow calendar three years ago, at that time, there were still few coal in the workshops, and now, coal is used everywhere, Taipingdong, metallurgical workshops, and what chemical workshops, where coal is not used? There is also the cooking of this family's fire, which is now mainly based on this thing! As soon as the coal ship came, first the factory picked up a large piece of coal and used it to smelt coke, and then the chemical workshop, they wanted coal and gangue. A few workshops picked up the leftover coal dust, which we bitter haha used to make briquettes! ”
"You're too expensive! I'm not selling it yet! Put things down, hurry up! Don't get in my way! ”
The shopkeeper, who had been mixing in the market all the year round, had already developed a sharp mouth, and a few words refuted Father Alfonso speechless.
"Forget it! Never mind! Five cents is five cents! Jiang Chun hurriedly played a round and pulled out a few 500 money tickets from his purse, "The shopkeeper, I was involved in sending someone to Father Fang to the church." Thank you very much! ”
Seeing Jiang Chun hand over the money to the shopkeeper and settle the delivery matters, our Father Alfonso spoke, "Jiang, you don't have to be like this, it's not that I don't have money, but I want a principle." ”
"I know you're not short of money, isn't Luzon's dividends enough for you to build a few more churches? Don't be angry about this little thing. ”
"Jiang, you know me. Not only am I a slave of God, but I also have strong business talents. Not long ago, my friend sent me some seeds of plants that the general needed, and for these seeds the general rewarded me with a large sum of money. Although this was not the first seed he obtained, the money was enough for me to become a wealthy priest. ”
"Also, I have a position in the government hall and the elementary school as their surveying and mapping teacher. This position also brings me a generous stipend. So, I'm not short of money. ”
"Spicy Block Mommy!" Jiang Chun couldn't help but secretly scolded in his heart, "You are not short of money, why don't you take it out when Lao Tzu pays the bill?!" ”
"Oh, Jiang, I almost forgot about Jì!" As if to thank Jiang Chun for the benefits of relieving him and paying the bills, Alfonso took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve, "This is the day before yesterday, Lord Changshi gave me a commission, and my lord wants to carry out large-scale expansion and planning for Hejing, because of my surveying and mapping technology, I was hired as a consultant." ”
"As far as I know, the streets of the commercial port need to be rearranged and repaired." He lowered his voice, pretending to be mysterious. "And it's going to be renamed. In this way, I am concerned that it will adversely affect your business activities. ”
Jiang Chun still had a sunny smile on his face, "It's okay, Father Fang, as long as the adult's workshop can deliver my goods on time." As for the name of the street, for me, it doesn't matter much. ”
"Nope! No, no! Father Alfonso waved his furry hand, "I saw a group of Japanese monkeys at Tobofuku-sama, they have a good eye on a piece of land near your office, and they are applying for a license to buy land and build a house!" ”
"As far as I know, it seems that there is some overlap between the General's business dealings with them and yours, and I hope that your business interests will not be infringed. Good bye! My friend. ”
Saying goodbye to Alfonso, Jiang Chun's heart began to fluctuate: What are those Japanese dwarfs going to do? In my neighborhood? Could it be the vacant lot under construction? But it's not suitable for building a storehouse!? Even if a warehouse is built, according to the contract between the lord and me, the devil's things can only be sold to his three islands in the East, and cannot be shipped to the mainland for sale, not to mention, the price that the lord gives to the Shimazu family is much higher than the price given to me.
Full of suspicion, but unable to find a reasonable explanation. Jiang Chun didn't want to look at the street scene anymore, so he simply went back to his residence to look at the account books of the past few days.
He turned around with the servant to go back, but unexpectedly, someone was walking briskly towards him.
"Mr. Jiang. The little one is ordered by Lord Changshi to send you an invitation. "The person who came was one of the messengers of the General's Mansion.
"What?"
While looking at the red gilded invitation, Jiang Chun inquired about the reason.
"The lord is back today. It is scheduled to be held in the house ten days later, and a banquet will be held in the house to celebrate the success! ”
That night, outside Jiang Chun's shop, a big man with a few relatives posted a visit to him.
"Jiangnan fellow Ye Qi?" Jiang Chunden was shocked, although the general of the guard battalion was deposed for the slaughter of the city in Hue, but everyone knew that this person would be of great use in the future, and now it was just to block the mouths of the people.
"Go! Take my robe! I greeted you at the gate! ”
Jiang Chun was a little flustered.
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