According to the village, it can be said that some people have already earned money before the harvest of summer silkworm cocoons, even if they earn a penny per catty, it is a lot of profit.

"Add one article, and charge two thousandths of the stamp deed tax at a time. This money is used for filing, and the filing is managed by the stock bureau under the General Shipping Division. ”

Someone asked, "What if someone buys this contract and doesn't want to sell it?" ”

"Then take the contract to the time to change the cocoon, and the detailed rules will be announced in the near future." Yanagi also only explains so much.

If raw silk futures were to be issued, it would be impossible for Yanagi to be placed in Kumamoto.

Raw silk futures must be placed in Jiangnan.

In the past few days, Liu Mu has a big thing to do, so elect five excellent village chiefs, as for the other five, it doesn't matter if they are excellent or not, they can be more loyal.

The harvest of raw silk is still the most important thing in the entire Wazhu Purple Island, all the soldiers cancel their vacations, maintain law and order everywhere, and all the young and strong people of the Wa are incorporated into the transport team.

If you fly by air, you can see countless people and vehicles flowing through the castles of Chikushijima as meeting points, and then bales of raw silk are transported to Kumamoto Port through the river.

In Kumamoto Port, on a recognized auspicious day, 10 young Japanese people, the oldest of whom is 30 years old and the least of 24 years old, are lined up, with their feet together and their hands behind their backs. All of them wore Tang Xin-style official short clothes, thick-soled cloth shoes, and pigskin copper buckle belts.

"I heard that you guys are very good." Yanagi, who was sitting at the top, spoke in a very slow tone, and his voice was not too loud.

The ten people stood straight, and no one dared to answer casually.

An official in charge of Kumamoto Castle made an example: "The chief envoy, this mulberry eleven village ......"

A detailed document, compiled and written by the village chiefs and village elders, and verified by the relevant officials of Kumamoto Castle for more than a year.

There is no mention of loyalty in the report, only ability.

"Our general manager has a rule, meritorious service must be rewarded, there is no upper limit for meritorious service, and there is no lower limit for meritorious service."

After Liu Mu finished speaking, someone immediately explained to these ten people that the meaning of this unlimited and unlimited limit is that even slaves will be rewarded for their meritorious service, and this reward will never be capped.

"Reward!" Liu Mu only said this one word.

Ten people saluted at the same time: "Thank you." ”

The small bronze medals of the ten people were taken back, and they were replaced by a piece of exquisite paper for each person, plus an identity plate two inches long and one inch wide, with a steel seal smashed out of the handwriting, and the name on it was naturally the name of Datang.

Then two knives per person, one long and one short.

Ten people have seen this knife, with a wooden knife holder, the village chief and several clansmen have it in their homes, and they are often seen wiping this kind of knife.

"A man in the Tang Dynasty, how can he be a real man without a knife, this knife is called a Tang knife. Feast! ”

When they had finished speaking, the ten men gave a salute and were taken away.

From the time they entered the hall to the time they left, they couldn't figure out who the young man sitting on it was, only that it was a noble person.

They were taken to a courtyard, where five rooms were assigned to them for temporary dwelling, and then a feast was set up in the middle of the room.

Speaking of this feast, Liu Mu was speechless, but he had to comply.

The Tang Rites Department issued a set of extremely strict and hierarchical banquet standards for banquets. Not only the size of the table, the arrangement of seats, but also the identity of the person who hosts the banquet and the identity of the person who is invited to the banquet, there are very complex regulations on the dishes and ingredients that can be used.

For example, sea cucumbers, non-annual festivals and other major festivals for officials below the fifth grade are not allowed to be used in banquets.

People with titles below the second grade are not allowed to eat purple sea cucumbers, as well as special sea cucumbers and other complex regulations.

Since this regulation came into effect, Liu Mu never mentioned a feast when eating at home, only a light meal. Otherwise, just the way of setting up the tables and chairs will annoy Liu Mu to death.

These ten people ate a banquet for low-class civilians in Fuzhou.

Chickens, fish, pigs, and sheep are essential, and it is not allowed to use beef, meat of fish larger than three feet in the open sea, and mountain suzhen.

Liu Mu can't remember, but these are what every level of chef must learn.

The Ministry of Rites stipulates that Liu Mu thinks that the biggest benefit is that it rectifies the rich businessmen who invite officials, because the rich businessmen do not have titles, how to count them as people, and they secretly buy some good things to eat and no one cares, but they must be careful to be cleaned up when they are used for banquets.

The lowest level of banquet is the inferior banquet of tenant servants in poor counties.

Therefore, this high-class civilian banquet of the Fuzhou level is more gorgeous than the high-class banquet of the Japanese nobles on Wa Island.

Before eating in the Tang Dynasty, the big pot was boiled, and the paste was in one pot.

Knife skills, after the creation of the kitchen in the willow wood, carving radishes became a must for new chefs. In the eyes of these ten young people, this table dish is not a banquet, but an extremely precious work of art.

After sitting down, no one dared to move the chopsticks.

"Eat, eat quickly, don't wait for it to cool. This is a dish made by the chef of Princess Changping's Mansion, and if you waste a leaf, you will definitely regret it for a few months. A servant came in and smiled and placed a glass bottle of wine on the table.

At present, Datang's wine in glass bottles is not only available in Chang'an.

The three famous liquors of Bashu, Jiannan Roasted Spring, and Yao Zixue Qu have received special approval for the use of glass bottled wine. The wine in the glass bottle represents the Tang Imperial Liquor Grade.

A bottle of Jiannan Roasted Spring was placed on the table, and the little official's eyes were a little different.

"Let go of eating and drinking, this is the reward of the chief envoy."

Immediately, a young man stood up and asked, "Dare to ask what kind of official this chief envoy is?" ”

A very simple question stopped the little official, and the little official didn't know how to say it in order to make these people who didn't understand the rules of the Tang Dynasty understand that the chief envoy belonged to an official who was not an official.

After thinking about it for a long time, he asked rhetorically: "Do you know who is a noble person and an official in your heart?" ”

"Kumamoto Mulberry Forest and Sericulture Inspector. Every time this noble man came to the village, the village chief would go to greet him and send him far away. ”

The little official was defeated, and he still didn't know how to explain it.

This mulberry forest and sericulture patrol envoy belongs to the sixth class of gardeners outside the stream, and here belongs to the mulberry forest gardener, which is not as high as his own grade, he is a record of Kumamoto Castle, and he is a second-class outsider.

"In short, he is a very, very big official, a very, very noble person. Just remember that. The little official really couldn't explain it, so he had to say this.

Another widow stood up and asked for a question.

This little official was helpless in his heart, but he couldn't help but let these people ask questions, and after allowing it, the Japanese who asked the question said: "That's the big man around Kumamoto Castle." ”

The little official couldn't cry or laugh, and after signaling a few people to let go of eating, he shook his head and was about to leave.

Another official came in with a bundle of scrolls, and after the two of them whispered a few words, the later official said, "You can understand it this way, the lord of Kumamoto Castle is equivalent to an ordinary villager in your village, and the chief envoy is the rank of clan elder. Don't ask this question again, give your appointment. ”