Chapter 31: The Cattle Lawsuit
"Erlang Erlang, I've been waiting for you for a long time, why did you arrive at this time? Look at the sun so high! In front of the Sansi shop near Tianjin Bridge, Xi Qing stretched his neck to look at Sun Erlang who was rushing to the car in front of him, and jumped to his feet with joy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
In front, Uncle Peng stopped the donkey cart, Sun Erlang jumped down from the car, ran to the front of the celebration, and said with a smile: "I also want you to be tight!" But my home is really not close to here, and it's not easy to make a trip. ”
Xiqing took Sun Erlang's hand and said to him, "Let's go, I'll invite you to eat a bowl of cold tao." Now the autumn tiger, the weather is still very hot, and it tastes just right. In a few days, I'm afraid it won't be suitable to eat. ”
"Don't worry, let's move the goods first."
Where is the festivity, he pulled Sun Erlang to leave, and said: "What's the hurry, just come back and move again!" At this time, you have to stay in the city for the night, and you can't leave right away. ”
Sun Erlang turned around and said hello to Uncle Peng, and happily went with the celebration.
Uncle Peng watched the two leave with a smile, drove the donkey cart to the side of the shop, unloaded the donkey, and tied it to the side of the stake to drink water. Turning around, I saw that there were only a few people in the small wine shop on the side, and I turned around slowly.
Although Zhengzhou also opened a shop of the third division some time ago, the goods in it are not complete. Special people are poor people do not use many daily necessities, Heyin Manxian County, to buy or to Xijing Luoyang City.
Every month and a half, everyone made a list of the goods to be entered, and one family went to Xijing in shifts to buy goods. Poor people don't pay much attention to the road anyway, the donkey eats the forage is their own, the dry food is their own, and now in this weather, they don't even live in the store, and they sleep on the car at night. It only takes a lot of time to run, but the cost of the road does not cost a few dollars. The goods went back from the shop of the three divisions, and the families divided it, and they could also sell it for a month.
The purpose of the trading club is not to make profits, but the people who join the company work in shifts, and the wages are calculated according to the time. The wages I received were not much, and I could only make up for my delayed farm work. What attracts people to join the company is that the profits are divided according to the transaction amount at a regular basis, and in fact, everyone gets the goods at cost price.
In the natural economic form, money is scarce for the peasantry. This is not because of how much money is issued, but because the exchange is too costly for the peasants, and it is preferred to use the form of barter. These trading cooperatives received the physical goods of the members, and some souvenirs were transported to the Sansi shop to be sold in exchange for their own daily necessities.
This is the meaning of the existence of the supply and marketing cooperative system, in the case of the commodity economy is not yet developed, to the greatest extent to the social aspects of the minimum cost into the commodity economy, the transaction cost to the minimum. When the commodity economy develops and the professional merchants become more efficient than this system, this system will naturally die out.
When he arrived at the wine shop, Uncle Peng asked for a bowl of the cheapest spirits and a small plate of pickles, which was placed on the table.
Picking up the bowl, Uncle Peng smelled the wine, took a sip lightly, and closed his eyes intoxicated.
Working day and night in the fields, drinking a sip of spirits to relieve the fatigue of the whole body is really the most beautiful enjoyment in the world. But wine is made from grain, and grain is the lifeblood of farmers, and people who farm the land can't drink wine several times a year. Only during the New Year's Festival, several companies collaborated to brew some moonshine, which was turbid and did not smell of alcohol. As for the official liquor sold in the store, except for the idlers who are not doing their jobs, who is willing to drink it?
The liquor sold in the Sansi shop has a strong taste and a cheap price, which is the wine that the croppers drink. Now this kind of wine is sold in the trading cooperatives, and some people are hungry, so they grab a small bowl of food and drink it, and go home to sleep in a daze. This is the business of his own people, the real drunkard, and everyone does not sell alcohol to him.
Uncle Peng drank wine and pickles, enjoying his own happy time, waiting for Sun Erlang to come back.
Erlang is young, honest and hardworking, and is friends with the joy in the shop, and is now the only long-term employee in the trading company. Even if it is the turn of other families to buy goods in Xijing City, they will deliberately ask him to follow the car.
Life in the countryside is so ordinary, and everyone is looking for their own happiness in this ordinary.
Sun Erlang and Xiqing were on the small table of the cold shop stall in Qiaotou, Tianjin, gently playing with the cold powder in the bowl, happily tasting the taste of the food. They are at the age of carefree, and everything in the city seems fresh and attractive.
After eating for a while, he said to Sun Erlang: "Erlang, in a few days, we will open a new shop in Jianchun Gate, and Director Zheng will take me over." After that, you'll go there to buy your goods, and you'll have to walk a lot less. ”
Erlang thought for a while and asked, "Is there a small shop, is there all the goods?" ”
"Between our brothers, the goods you want will naturally be prepared for you early, how can it not be complete?"
"That's good, it's a lot cheaper for us to stay there in the future. Festive, every time I walk from Jianchun Gate, I see that it is a little desolate, how can you go there to open a shop? ”
"I know where this is! This time, Judge Liu of the Salt and Iron Division came to Xijing City and settled down after staying for a few days. I heard that the cotton cloth sold in Xijing City was sold in that shop, but I don't know what it was for. ”
The two and a half children, where can they know this kind of thing, they are not interested, and after two sentences, they will talk about the strange things they have encountered during this time.
It was Xu Ping's decision to open a shop to sell cotton cloth in Jianchun Gate, which was the industrial layout of Luoyang City in Xijing. The Luo River flows into the city from the west and exits the city from the east. Because of the dam to be built upstream, the water flow out of the city is stable, and it is a gathering place for industries such as hydrospinning planned by Xu Ping. The spinning is there, the weaving is naturally there, and the matching tailoring and so on will also be there.
I chose not to open a shop in Dongshuimen but to Jianchunmen because Jianchunmen is just the road to the east, and there are many idle fields there, which is suitable for large-scale industry and commerce. Later in history, Wen Yanbo bought hundreds of acres of land in Jianchun Gate in Luoyang and built a famous garden, so you can imagine how much idle land there is.
At present, cotton planting and textile are still being planned, and a group of private garment industry will be gathered in the early stage. Cotton cloth is still a novelty, and the price is not high, for the garment industry, it is the time to make a lot of money. The opening of a shop in Jianchunmen to sell cotton cloth will inevitably attract merchants to set up shops there, which can be regarded as forming a new commercial center.
Xu Ping, the back office of the Yamen of the Transfer Division, bowed to tea and asked Jia Changling: "The sentence was originally said to be delayed for one day, why did you delay so many days in the end?" You see, the governors of several large states have already turned around, and you have only arrived in the city. ”
Jia Changling sighed: "Don't say it, if you don't come out of the official house, there is nothing to do, and when you get to the place, you don't know where so many cases come from." Father, the people are stopping, I can't leave if I want to! ”
As he spoke, Jia Changling shook his head again and again.
This time he came to Luoyang, and he set off from Dengzhou with Zhao He, Zhizhou. As a result, because of the entanglement of the case, he was left farther and farther away by Zhao He, and finally when he arrived in Luoyang, Zhao He had already left.
Because the current prison does not persuade the peasant envoys, what things like repairing the river have nothing to do with Jia Changling, and he doesn't care much about it. The reason why he must come to Luoyang City is because Xu Ping's new official takes office, and the chiefs of several divisions always have to bump into him.
Both the Transit Envoy and the Prison Dispatch Division have the right to supervise local officials, and both can be called the Constitutional Division, which is the biggest difference from the pacification envoy. Every year, the chief officer of the Constitutional Division has to visit all the prefectures and counties under his rule, and with the size of the Jingxi Road, this is an impossible task, and it is necessary to divide the labor reasonably. In addition to taking over the places that his predecessor Wang Yong did not inspect, Xu Ping also had to discuss with Jia Changling the places where the two divisions would inspect separately next year, and the two of them would go through the states of Jingxi Road together to complete the task. On the other hand, however, the chief magistrate also demanded that all the states under his rule be visited, so the prefectures and counties that were divided into different prefectures each year had to be discussed.
Speaking of gossip, Xu Ping asked Jia Changling: "Why are there so many cases?" I've been in the area for many years, so it's rare to see that. Could it be that the people of western Beijing also like to litigate? ”
Jia Changling shook his head: "No, the people of Jingxi are obedient." Speaking of good lawsuits, when Du Cao went to Jiangnan and Lianglu to be an official, then he knew what it meant to have many cases. Jingxi Road is located in the middle of the world, and the people are mostly mild. The reason why there are many cases encountered this time is because of leap years. ”
"Oh, what do you mean by that?"
"Isn't it a compilation of leap years, re-dividing households in various places, etc., just for this matter, the lawsuits in various places have not subsided until now."
Xu Ping nodded, households are directly related to the burden of taxes and servitude of the common people, and every leap year, the people come up with all kinds of tricks. In order to reduce one household, there are those who break the law and those who commit tragedies in the world, which is indeed more chaotic than in previous years.
Jia Changling said: "I came from Dengzhou, and Ducao knew that there were many cattle in that area, and if the farmers did not have cattle, they would not be able to plant. The price of cattle is not cheap, so there are large families, who make false deeds with others, and sell cattle to poor families in order to establish a deed. As a result, when the leap year was recorded and compiled, and the household was decided, some people regarded the virtual deed as the real deed and did not return the cattle, there were too many such lawsuits! ”
Cattle are also included in assets at a discount and included in households, so in Jingxi Road, there are very few families who specialize in raising cattle, and they are all bought in large quantities from Jinghu Road. The people here only raise adult cattle that can be used for service, and calves are rarely raised. Because Jinghu Road has not yet been developed, there is a large area of grassland, and the people there are all putting their cattle out and catching them in the wild when they are about to sell them, so there is no problem of households. In addition, there are a large number of barbarians, and they do not enter the house according to the law, etc.
Dengzhou is not far from Jinghu Road, and there are many cattle sold there, and there are even cattle that are rented to others. Every leap year, lawsuits related to cattle emerge one after another.