When Liu Mu arrived, the two brothers of the Yuan family greeted each other with great gifts.

Their elder brother, Yuangai Suwen, who inherited Mo Lizhi, had to perform the throne in front of Liu Mu, not to mention them.

Liu Mu returned the salute with his fists and stood aside with his hands behind his back, looking at the dock.

At this time, the rules implemented on the dock were still seen by Liu Mu from the old Shanghai TV films in later generations, and the signs were issued.

The wharf was originally designed to be conveyed by a winch belt, which has a very good effect on loading rice in Lingnan, but the ore here is not outstanding.

As soon as several Tang officials discussed, anyway, there were many Goguryeo slave workers here, so they built a frame to build a long slope out, and then used a wheelbarrow, one person pulled and one person pushed, and fell down the long slope to the boat.

Each group of two people will receive a lottery after completing the task.

The sticks are made of bamboo, with a brand on one end and a hole drilled out of a red-hot iron bar at the other. Goguryeo slave laborers would wear a rope loop around their necks, and each time they received a bamboo stick, they would untie the rope loop and string it in.

According to the number of bamboo skewers, the dinner is divided into three classes every day, and there are also coin collars that are particularly outstanding.

According to the statistics of bamboo sticks, at the end of each month, there will be cloth, grain, and money.

All the Goguryeo slave workers here have a signature, whether it is mining, loading, transporting, loading, etc. Sticks are also divided into sticks that don't use imprints and don't use colors to distinguish types of work.

Everything is calculated by signing to calculate income.

A ship full of grain out of the port, a trough ship loaded with grain into the port, the grain is used in sacks, a bag of half a stone, that is, Tang fifty catties weigh, in modern times it is sixty-six catties.

Each Goguryeo dock worker carried a bag and trotted down the ramp.

At this time, a Tang official came to the Yuan brothers: "Two sons, please move to settle in the wealth house." ”

"Settlement?" The two didn't quite understand, but they went along anyway.

The so-called treasure house is the settlement center, which is just a small wooden house, with only account books and no half copper coin.

"According to the original contract, 5,000 stone will be settled at one time. Depending on the load of each ship, four ships are worth 4,800 stones, or five ships are worth 6,000 stones. The two sons think that it is four ships and one settlement, or five ships and one settlement. ”

Yuan Jingquan hasn't figured it out yet, and he can't understand the straw bag in a straw bag at all.

This is also why Yuangai Suwen sent Yuan Shaoqian to accompany him, Yuan Shaoqian is a lowly family, but he used to be the companion of Yuan Pure Land, his knowledge is not bad, and his knowledge is not bad, which is much more useful than drafting Bao Yuan Jingquan.

But the pariahs are not scholars and cannot be officials, and there is no official with sufficient status to come, and Yuangai Suwen thinks it is inappropriate, so Yuanjingquan is assigned to the wharf of the mining area.

Yuan Shaoqian reminded on the side: "Four boats and five boats are trivial matters for us to come, and it is a big deal to settle and get coins." The four ships are faster, and the five ships are estimated to not get the money today, so they will be able to do it tomorrow. ”

"Four ships." Yuan Jingquan immediately made a choice, even if he still didn't quite understand what the settlement was about.

But he knows how to take money, and it must be a happy thing to get money today.

Someone from the treasure house took them to the pile of money, and a hundred Goguryeo slave girls had already come over with their own small baskets and stools, and when they gave an order, they began to count the money in front of the Yuan brothers, and when they counted enough for a thousand yuan, they sealed the small basket.

The Tang official came over again and asked, "What did the two sons use to carry away this money?" ”

The two of them had nothing but a hundred guards with them.

It was still Yuan Shaoqian who negotiated with the Tang officials and bought the Tang people's money baskets, money bags, etc.

The 100 guards brought by the Yuan brothers were all cavalry, and after receiving the money, they became infantry, and the horses had to be used to carry money baskets, and each person had to carry a basket on his back.

That's a few hundred dollars.

There are no cities in Goguryeo, not even a decent village. Their temporary shelter was also newly built, a valley about ten miles away from the wharf, with easy access to water and less noise from the wharf.

After returning to the valley, Yuan Jingquan ordered the guards: "Dig a deep pit for me too, and the Tang people's Qian Mountain will soon be ours." ”

Yuan Shaoqian stood aside and said nothing.

Digging a pit to store money is not a big problem, but if you pour the coins out of the purse and basket, it will be messy, and you will need to count again when you put them in the basket.

It's not much at the moment, but after a long time, what will the Tang people do after the Qianshan is transferred here?

"Wait a minute." Yuan Shaoqian stopped Yuan Jingquan's order to dig a pit and open the money bag, and stepped forward to explain: "These are liquidated, if they are dismantled, we need to count them again, and counting just takes some effort." But what if there are some coins missing, how can this be explained? ”

"That's right, too. So what good advice do you have? ”

"I want to send twenty guards to the south, find several villages, whether it is the village of a noble family, let the villagers collect branches and rattans, we can also make a lot of money baskets, buy a Tang people's money basket for seven yuan, it is too expensive. Saving money will definitely be praised by the big brother. ”

Hearing the words of praise, Yuan Jingquan immediately agreed to this suggestion.

"Second, send ten more people back to Pingcheng quickly, this money has been piled up here for a long time, and you will be punished if you miss a basket. To pile up money in the big brother's mansion can also be appreciated. ”

"Good idea, just do it."

The Yuan brothers made up their minds and immediately arranged for people to do it separately.

Three days later, the two returned to the dock again, and the low-level officials of Goguryeo who stayed at the dock stepped forward: "Report to the two sons that a total of seven ships have been loaded in the past three days." The first two days were still two berths and two ships a day, and the third berth was opened early yesterday morning, because it was an official berth, and a ship was loaded in half a day. ”

The two Yuan brothers were very excited to hear this data.

A boat is 1,200 stones, and each stone can get a maximum of 150 wen and a minimum of 110 wen according to the quality of the ore.

The income of these seven ships is nearly 1,000 times.

The Yuan brothers arranged for someone to take the basket they arranged for someone to pack the money overnight.

Hope is good, the result is tragic.

The materials of Datang's money basket are selected, and then various treatments have been done before the basket is made, and it has been soaked in residual oil, boiled and softened before weaving, and the weaving is very dense. After weaving, it is hardened, and the result is dense and strong.

The basket that the Yuan brothers temporarily found someone to weave overnight looked pretty good, and most of the money was scattered. The coins kept falling out of the cracks of the basket because of the deformation.

In desperation, I had to buy Datang's money basket again.

Two more days passed, and the Yuan brothers' new trouble came again, and the coins they settled every day were put into the basket and pulled back, and several wooden houses were already piled up.

Yuan Taiqian said to Yuan Jingquan: "If this continues, in ten days, our guards will have to be twenty people in a room. ”