The drinking water conditions of this era were unimaginably worse for later generations, and if there were no wells, they generally had to go far away to pick up the water they drank, and this was a big project every day. d-mDon't think that the river water is always sweet - that's, although it is not polluted, the water quality is not very good, most of it is more astringent and unpleasant. Most people have never drunk sweet water in their generations.

One well is enough to feed thousands of acres of land and hundreds of homes, especially in places where there is no water source or river. And even in a year of great drought, the water from the deep well will not be exhausted, and it can still be used.

How to dig a well, Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creation" records very clearly, but Dong Ce asked Zhao to search everywhere but did not find this huge work, which is known as "China's 17th century craft encyclopedia", may not have been published yet. Dong Ce asked Zhao Dahui to spend fifteen taels of silver plus food and lodging, and invited two teams specializing in drilling wells from Gudian, and spent a month digging a total of fifteen wells in Panshi Fort and its vicinity.

There are twelve mouths in the city, and three mouths in the cultivated land far from the river outside the city.

During this period, Dong Ce also took a look with great curiosity, and couldn't help but sigh at the intelligence of the Chinese people. Not to mention anything else, just talking about cementing technology, it is the same as that of later generations. The so-called cementing, refers to because the well is getting deeper and deeper, so that the groundwater continues to infiltrate into the wellbore, eroding the wall of the well, hindering the digging, in order to block the infiltration of groundwater, modern people use casing, and the ancients used "wood and bamboo" to go down into the well to isolate groundwater. That is, after the embryo shape of the well body is punched out in + one + book + reading + novel, use wood or big bamboo to knot, make the hollow of it tube-shaped, and connect it one by one, head and tail, and go down to the well, so as to prevent groundwater from seeping into the well and the collapse of the well wall, and prolong the life of the well.

There is abundant groundwater near Rock Fort, so you don't need to dig that deep. These fifteen wells are all of the same size, octagonal, fifteen zhang deep, and the diameter is about one zhang and five feet, which is considered a large well. The wall of the well is made of stone, and the bottom of the well is covered with good river sand, and there is a wheel by the well, and there is a pavilion built on the well. And in order to prevent people from falling inadvertently, stone railings were counted around the well.

This is by no means unfounded, Dong Ce still remembers an incident that happened when he was in junior high school. It seems that it was August 15 of that year, and many people went into the city to watch the fireworks in the square, and the continuous fireworks feast was still a rarity at that time. In a family not far from their town, the woman and the child went to the field to steal dates while no one was there, and both of them fell into the well.

I don't know when I found it again.

There are a number of shallow ditches that are no more than a foot deep in the city walls, which are the boundaries of the planned area, and they are roughly planned.

The scene of Rock Fort is in full swing, like a large construction site, but the crisis is gradually approaching.

On November 20 of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhao Hui, who was in a lonely shop, came to Panshi Fort again with a huge caravan.

Dong Ce spent eight hundred taels of silver to buy two hundred and twenty stone of grain from him. At the same time, Zhao sent five more blacksmiths, one of whom had been beaten with a torch and one with a nail leaf. For this reason, Dong Ce took out another twenty taels of silver.

It stands to reason that when Jiannu retreats and the land of northern Shanxi is upgraded and recovered, grain prices should fall, but due to the toss of Jiannu, the summer and autumn grain in many places this year is almost no grain. In addition, many large grain merchants hoarded and bought at low prices, sold at high prices, or even did not sell at all, so that the price of grain has risen all the way, and now it has reached four taels of silver and one stone.

Zhao Dahui is loyal, and he is also a thoughtful person, and he also gave Dong Ce twenty stones of grain, according to his words, this is basically making hard-earned money.

Dong Ce knew that most of what he said was true.

Then he spent fifty taels of silver to buy some daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, mainly salt, a large amount of salt.

The salt consumption in Rock Fort is very large, and they are all people who dare to do rough work, sweat like pulp, and the salt consumption is very large, so they will be given a small bag of salt every three or five days. Moreover, the consumption of pickled salted fish is not a small number on the side of Anxiangdun.

Before building the city wall, buying all kinds of utensils and materials, etc., it was also like flowing water, and after the eight hundred taels of silver were allocated, the two thousand taels of silver allocated by Liu Ruozai had been completely spent.

Nothing can be done without silver.

Without silver, there would be no food, and the people would not be able to live, and without silver, the houses would not be built, and the winter would be approaching, and the people would freeze to death if they stayed in the kind of self-built houses.

If you want to maintain it further, you have to put money into it, or you have to scatter the hall, which has just had some meteorological scale of the rock fort, and it will be scattered and quickly disappear into this land.

Dong Ce naturally did not allow this situation to occur.

He has his own way.

In fact, for the sake of money, he has been planning and preparing for a long time, and it has been two months now, and the time is almost ripe now, just see how to launch it.

"Boss Zhao, take a step to speak."

Dong Ce beckoned to Zhao Dahui.

At this time, Zhao Dahui was handing over to Liu Daku over there.

Liu Daku has been in Rock Fort for a while, and now he is Su Dacheng's deputy. These two big-character guys are responsible for the management of the entire warehouse, to be exact, it should be Liu Daku who works and records accounts, while Su Dacheng is on the side to supervise whether this guy has made some small moves.

Su Dacheng's business ability is indeed very poor, and he can't be blamed for this, after all, he has never been in contact with it before, and for ordinary people in this era, doing the bookkeeping to write and draw, recording numbers, and how much in and out, it is really the same as a book from heaven.

Fort Rock's accounts have always been chaotic.

After Liu Daku came, this problem immediately changed, he re-checked all the accounts, registered and made a book, and then asked people to classify the materials in the warehouse, the maintenance of the maintenance, and the wiping of the wipe. The whole thing is a new look.

Dong Ce also gave him an errand as the deputy ambassador of the general treasury, with a monthly salary of one or two or five silver dollars per month. If you wish, you can build him a house in the city and bring his family over.

But now Liu Daku is in a wait-and-see attitude for the time being.

Zhao Dahui heard Dong Ce's greeting, and hurriedly handed over the work in his hand to a capable guy under his hand, clapped his hands and followed Dong Ce to the side.

Dong Ce said with a smile: "Shopkeeper Zhao, this official asks you for advice, is this grain price so expensive everywhere?" Is this the price in the towns in the city, or is it the same in the countryside? If you go directly to the village to buy it, what kind of market is it? ”

"Don't dare to be an adult and ask for advice." Zhao Dahui thought that Dong Ce was blaming him for the high price of grain sales, and cold sweat oozed out of his forehead, so he hurriedly sighed.

"Eh, don't think about it, the official just asked, and didn't blame you." Dong Ce waved his hand and smiled.

Only then did Zhao Dahui put his mind at ease and said: "My lord doesn't know, all walks of life in our Ming Dynasty have their own guilds. Although the guild is not an official government, the leaders in the guild are all local squires, and most of the people in the family have taken fame or become officials outside, even in front of the official master, they can also speak, and the government must let them have three points. It is a guild that has great power in the local area. ”

"Little to tell you the truth, how can the price of food be so expensive now? If you go to the countryside and village to collect it, it only costs two taels of silver and one stone, and I don't know how many farmers rush to sell it. It's just that this way doesn't work! He sighed: "The head of the guild that makes rice, flour, grain and oil in Datong Town, together with several proprietors of the big grain stores, has set a rule, if you want to collect grain, you can only pay five dollars and one stone, and if you want to sell grain, you can only sell it for four taels and one stone. Whoever dares to raise the purchase price without authorization and lower the takeaway price will not be able to get along with all the food makers, and will smash his store, so that he can no longer do it! ”

Dong Ce nodded, this kind of trick is not uncommon, to put it bluntly, it is to engage in price monopoly in local areas!

However, unlike the monopoly of the giant trusts in later generations, people rely on market share, and these head guilds rely on nothing more than power.

Dong Ce didn't ask such stupid things like 'why is there no government to manage it'. There is no need to ask, there must be the shadow of the government behind, and the profit in it cannot be achieved by the government.

It's all obvious at a glance.

"Five dollars of silver and one stone, the people are not stupid, who wants to sell it? However, the court did not want to pay grain, but silver, and they had no other input, so they had to sell it at a low price! Alas, that miserable! Now Datong Town and the surrounding towns, the front of the grain store is gloomy and bleak every day, and the crying is shocking. ”

Zhao Dahui paused: "There are also those who are kind, and slightly raised the price, but the store was smashed by a group of green-skinned gangsters that day, and the shopkeeper was beaten to death, and a group of people left, and the government didn't care at all." ”

Dong Ce just nodded heavily.

Any system, no matter how good it is, can breed evil obstacles on the strange soil of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, before Zhang Juzheng's reform, the people all paid taxes in kind, so there was a drenching kick. The grain that should have been handed over one stone can make you pay five buckets with one stone! Aren't these in many places just let these people who handle it in the middle be swallowed privately?

However, Zhang Juzheng's reform, under a whip law, there is no need to pay taxes in kind, and all of them are changed to pay silver, which was originally to facilitate transportation and reduce the burden of extortion and blackmail on the people. But I didn't expect that this change would make the burden on the people even heavier. The first is fire consumption. "Fire consumption" refers to the loss and cost of crushed silver when it is melted and recast into silver ingots. Because the people handed in broken silver, and when it was transported to the capital, it was necessary to melt down and recast the broken silver handed over by the people into silver ingots of uniform specifications and weight. As a result, there was fire consumption, which was levied by the imperial court, about 15 to 20 percent, and this burden was naturally pressed on the people.

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