From Chief to Ball

Originally all the stoves were used to boil water, but now there is an extra empty stove for people to get kindling, so that those who smoke tobacco can use it to light cigarettes.There is a tobacco seller beside the teapot.

A few poor match sellers spat at the stove for kindling, thinking about finding a chance to smash the stove at night, otherwise the matches would not be sold here.

Bypassing a few tea drinking tables is a very old sheep soup restaurant.Some people who came here to go to the market came here, and they often took out their own dry biscuits, poured a bowl of free and unlimited mutton soup to soak the dry biscuits, and ate a large bowl of them.

It’s early spring, and it’s still cold, but everyone here is sweating more than five years ago. The boss ran around saying hello, shouting from time to time: “I’m telling you, chili oil and You should add less pepper noodles, let alone whether it is expensive or not, if you add too much, you can’t eat it, and it will cover up the umami taste of this lamb.”

One person who was pouring the pepper noodles that appeared not long ago in the bowl scolded back: "How much can you eat? Today I heard that the ship from Holland brought another shipment of pepper. The price of this pepper will drop. You I didn’t hear that Mr. Chen talked with the Dutch, and our Indian company will ship directly from there to here.”

The people next to him laughed and said, "Damn our Indian company, you don't even know where the door is?"

While talking, someone took out his corn tortilla, and said that corn is a good thing, and the price is much lower than wheat flour, but swallowing it with the skin seems to cut his throat.

Then he took a few coppers out of his pocket and handed them to the owner of the mutton soup, and bought a white noodle cake for his child. The child slurped the mutton soup and yelled that he would go there to take pictures later, which would cost another sum of money, and I have to sit there stiffly for a while, but I have to eat enough to warm up my body first.

The photo tent is just in front of the hot air balloon, a chair, a black cloth, and a blackout tent.There are many exotic costumes hanging on the rope next to them. The most worn are the large rainproof hats and colorful military uniforms of the armed employees of the Nanyang Company, or the noble robes that were originally sold by the little nobles of the Northern Houbo Kingdom. Children I often also like a wood-carved flintlock gun that is rubbed black next to it.

A few sellers of fried peanuts and fried sunflower seeds, full of Fujian county accents, knew that the first few to enter the industry of fried peanuts and fried sunflower seeds were from Fujian County, and the stir-frying in the sand was spread here not long ago From time to time, someone bought a package of groundnuts and sunflower seeds and cracked them in a paper bag, and several children had obvious gaps in front of their front teeth.

On the road full of melon seeds, a few Dutch sailors peddled some small items they carried privately in their broken dialect.This is duty-free and is not the company's goods. I want to sell some private money on the company's ship. Most of them are Japanese Uchiwa fans and the like. It is strictly forbidden for sailors in the Netherlands and India Company to bring goods privately. It is an act of harming the public and enriching private interests, but the ships trading here obviously do not belong to the Dutch Indian Company, and the management is relatively loose.

The bustling streets and squares related to eating are like a moving picture scroll, conveying the taste of the age of great exploration everywhere, and even the food that has not changed for hundreds of years has begun to change.

When the people on horseback approached the street, there was a little confusion in this orderly and moving picture, not because these people were tax collectors, but because the horses these people were riding had stamps on their buttocks, some There are two more.

A retired old general opened a large horse farm in his manor, and brought several Gelderland horses, Friesian horses and several Andalusian stallions from the Netherlands, trying to match the local summer horses. City horses and northern wilderness horses are hybrids. These hybrid horses are easy to see, and many of them are given out as gifts. The riders are always related to those big families.

Everyone is not afraid, but except during exhibitions, such people rarely appear here, and such people cannot be allowed to eat sugar figurines or drink endless bowls of mutton soup.

A young man on horseback pointed at the horsewhip, and said to the person next to him: "This place is really lively. It has become a scene of the capital in the past seven or eight years. Chen Jian said that a World Expo will be held here in three to five years. The foundation is about to be laid. If I ask you to listen to me, the headquarters of our Indian company will first occupy the land next to it. This place will definitely be valuable in the future. You have never been to Mincheng, and you don’t know about the Mo Party The land near the Ministry of Finance, the Futures Exchange, and Nanyang Company has been expensive in recent years. Listen to me, we don’t care how much he troubles us, it’s definitely right to follow behind and make a fortune. My old man also donated a sum of money , said that this is an opportunity to show national prestige, and the meeting is about to be finalized. The shareholders of the company also intend to fix it to scare others. At that time, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, India, Japan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom People from Daming and Daming have all been invited to come and have a look. The Nanyang Company has also stated that they will bring all the armed ships over by then."

"Why didn't he repair it in Mincheng?"

"He wanted to, and insisted that it should be built in Mincheng. The old man said that it is possible to build it, and it is not impossible to allocate money, but it must be built in the capital. To build it in Mincheng, one has to pay for it themselves, and the other is not the Ministry of Rites. He will come forward to invite, but the Ministry of Industry will not help. Besides, Yu County doesn’t agree with the etiquette, so Min County wants to hold a world expo? Now there are many refugees in the capital, so I just want to learn from Min County. Coincidentally, the company's first transaction was to be responsible for the food, bamboo tendons, cement, masonry, and wood of these migrant workers. Anyway, the Ministry of Households paid for it, and our elders were in charge. This good thing happened to us. This is It is said that the near-water building is the first to get the moon, and the company's ship may not have arrived in Wangbei City, so we will make a fortune first."

Chapter 74 A Glimpse at the Teahouse

A horseman, when it comes to family, is qualified to give advice, and when it comes to uncles, uncles, fathers and uncles, they are all people who can brag about.

But what they were discussing right now was how to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune, discussing how to take advantage of the opportunity of knowing the news in advance to snatch the cement factory that has now developed and was forced to be sent out by Chen Jian using mirror-making skills as a temptation. hands or mandatory participation.

In a teahouse behind the market, the people sitting there are not qualified to give advice, at most they are some people with small assets in the capital.But some young people here are pointing the country, explaining the world, talking happily, blushing, thinking that the world is under control.

Debates began a few years ago in the youth houses of the capital, with the circumnavigation of the world, with the rebellion of the agricultural day laborers and poppers near the capital, with the rise of overseas trade and division of labor in factory handicrafts, with the pamphlets and Newspapers reported that many teahouses in the capital were full of young people who wanted to explain the world.

This teahouse is not the kind of big teapot in the street market, it has a little style, and there are no new things brought back from the nautical trade such as coffee and cocoa.

Tea can be classified into grades, which are grades supported by hundreds of years of experience.Although the coffee cocoa is novelty nowadays, it has not yet been culturally accumulated to the point where it can be divided into three or six grades. Whether it is a cult of goods or a cult of power, this thing is difficult to be elegant, and there will never be a teahouse with a little style. .

The teahouse itself has a certain style, and besides the square near the trade fair, it is also a distribution center for street politics and new thoughts, so the young people in this teahouse especially like to talk about state affairs and explain the world.

They also heard the news that Chen Jian proposed to build an expo here. When the people riding horses outside were talking about how to make a huge profit near the water, these young people were quoting and discussing stocks and money. Ethnic groups, meaning and doctrine to the people.

A young man with an accent that smells like kelp from Min County shook his head and said, "It is said in ancient books that if the water is lost in the years and the people lose their roots, then the palaces and terraces will be built. Those who have no dogs before and no pigs are mediocre. It is also said , The rich spend it, the poor do it, carve eggs and then boil them, carve scorpions and then cook them. That’s what it says. Now we have basically reached an agreement on the issues of labor creating value and the sum of national wealth. These The words of the ancients make more sense."

"If you really talk about it, those big families have to carve flowers if they eat boiled eggs, and burn firewood. Doesn't it mean that many people have something to do? Of course, the Mo party said that natural resources are state-owned. It’s a root cause, but the problem is that since we can’t do it, we have to think about it in the long run.”

The other person obviously disagreed, got up and said: "There is a paragraph behind this remark, which says that the people will lose their ability by mobilizing the crowd, setting up palaces and pavilions. It is said in ancient books that it is necessary to lose the vicious waters of the year and lose the people." It's time."

As soon as the words fell, the young man laughed and said: "Pedantic, stupid. In ancient times, what could you do except farming? Nowadays, maritime trade, domestic trade, and workshops, you have never been to Mincheng, and you can't think of Mincheng. Mines, construction, canals, transport, shipbuilding, and workshops feed and earn a year."

The person who was refuted was obviously not convinced, and scolded back: "Everyone is going to make money and speculate, what do you eat? Eat money?"

The person on the opposite side snorted and said disdainfully: "This is not a problem at all. When you refuted Mr. Chen, didn't you just say that if 500 million people in the whole country can plant the land, the value created will be the same as today's 3000 Is it the same for ten thousand people to cultivate land? Now you don’t talk about it anymore? If you really think so, the land in your house should not be used to grow sugar beets, but to grow food? You talk about worrying about everyone making money and speculating, but you When Dad grew beets and started a potato shochu workshop, you didn't object."

The choking man blushed, and the scolding man took advantage of the victory and chased after him: "When the cotton gin was used in Min County, it was safe and sound. Why did the flower gins object to smashing the machine when it came here? Yes, Now is not the time when the years are fierce and the water is lost, but it is the time when the people lose their roots. Min County has already done this, rolling out the cotton gin and digging canals at the same time, this is the wisdom in ancient books."

"You have to know that the key point is that the people lose their roots, not the loss of Sui Jishui. Sui Jishui is just a possibility of people losing their roots. Can you not tell which is the point? It's like a doctor telling you You told you not to eat hair, otherwise you will easily get sick, such as mutton and Chinese toon. Then let me ask you, is this mutton toon, is it the people who have lost their roots? Or the evil of the year?"

"This exposition is really going to be held, houses and roads need to be built, so how many people who are waiting for the minimum relief of the porridge can be given jobs? Don't you need people for cement, wood, glass, and mechanical workers? If you want me to say, that’s the way it is. Big factories, big workshops, and commercial farms should continue to operate. Even if we don’t say that natural resources are owned by the whole people, we shouldn’t go back to the era of tenant farmers renting and guild pricing. Giving those broke people something to do is the future."

What this person said was done in one go, which attracted rounds of applause from the nearby people, but someone on the other side sneered: "You are shouting about the sum of national wealth every day, but I want to ask you, how many roads, squares and buildings have been created?" What's the use? What can you do standing there? It's a waste of money."

When a ladle of cold water was poured down, the person who had spoken before also sneered and asked back: "The Mexican party has given a solution, collecting taxes from the rich, and organizing foreign immigrants to reclaim land. This land reclamation is not a waste of money, right? But you don't want to do this. Money, on the contrary, as soon as you hear about progressive tax, you shout that it is unfair, and you still have to ask why. There is no long-term solution. What are you doing?"

A person beside him added to the fire in a strange way: "Isn't this simple? If you follow Minjun's toss, cancel the original compulsory labor relief, and change it to find something to do when you have nothing to do, won't the employment fee go up? There are workshops and farms at home. The more refugees who have nothing to do, can't one cornmeal pancake be able to exchange a person's day's work? Besides, even if there is a progressive tax on the top of the family, they may not have to pay it. Didn’t you ask those people who are not high enough to be low enough to come out?”

The yin and yang words made several people on the opposite side furious, and said angrily: "Fart! Lazy, the previous relief method is the best. If you don’t want to die in the poorhouse, then come out to do things and become more diligent. This is the way to save people. It saves people’s spirit. Rich and poor don’t matter , if a person is lazy, his energy will be lost."

"Besides, it's not that you haven't read that pamphlet. If this poor man survives, he will definitely have a baby. After giving birth, there will be more people. By then, they will have nothing to do, starve to death, and get married? You do this , it’s nothing more than delaying the death of these people who should have died and who should not have been married, and you think you have done a good deed? If the expo includes timber and the like, a total of 15 people will be used. The [-] people were originally unmarried, and men and women were separated in the poorhouse, but now you let them receive wages to have children, and after [-] years, [-] will become [-], what will we do then?"

"Three will die now, and six will die in the future. If you learn arithmetic, you will know who is more cold-blooded!"

"If you want me to say, don't try to think that you can understand the principles of society and economy and manipulate it. It's useless to manipulate it. It's best to ignore everything. This is the natural state, the best state. This is also for Good for the Republic, for the good of everyone, these people should have been eliminated."

"Didn't you read "Survive by Keeping the Tao"? These people can't adapt to the current Tao, so naturally they can't survive. You just want these inferior people to live. Isn't this polluting the ethnic group? Is it polluting the human species? If it is passed down from generation to generation, people will be finished!"

"Just like a pack of wolves, you talk about fairness and equality, and the thin wolves also have the right to mate. Let me ask you, can this pack of wolves be saved? This pack of wolves is doomed!"

"I'm not talking about killing some people, but about free competition, complete laissez-faire, those who can't survive will die, and those who survive must adapt to this era. Your socialist system of fairness and equality is to make everyone Dragging into the brink of weakness and extinction!"

The person on the other side shouted: "Do you really want the human species? Or the human society? Did you breed horses back then? Do you want to produce good breeds?"

"Nonsense, no one has a society where people come from? The better the people, the better the society. Humanity comes first, sociality comes second. All are good people who adapt to the times, and the society will naturally be fine."

"Nonsense! Without sociality, how can there be people who are different from animals? The better the society, the better people can be."

As soon as the words of scolding between the two sides fell, there was the sound of ping-pong-pong. The people on both sides rolled up their sleeves and rushed over with tea bowls and benches.

For a while, the teacup and the bench flew together, and the nosebleeds were the same color as the red robe, occasionally mixed with some new words that the newcomers in the teahouse could not understand. Unknown.

After a few shouts, the new guy in the teahouse ran downstairs in a fright.

But seeing the shopkeeper of the teahouse sitting on a chair, waving a newly bought Japanese fan, smoking a hand-rolled cigarette from Dahuangcheng, as stable as a mountain, is obviously commonplace.

Seeing that the newcomer was so panicked, the shopkeeper was not in a hurry. He held the cigarette in his mouth, squinted his choked eyes, took out a plaster pen with a credit account and added it to the unfinished letter on the side. One stroke, it is the three martial arts in this teahouse this month.

The new guy wanted to say something, but the shopkeeper waved his hand and said, "Let them fight, and they can afford it. In this world, even though it is a ten-day holiday, if you don't have money, how can you stop working during the day and talk nonsense here? You Go up and have a look, just don't kill anyone, if it's not enough, then send some cheap teacups and ask them to pay for it."

The man wondered: "If you have money to pay, why don't you give away the expensive one?"

"Stupid! You really can't afford good porcelain. Now you are busy getting a job in an Indian company, and you don't have time to talk nonsense!"

The buddy suddenly realized, his respect rose sharply, and he said to himself, no wonder he is the shopkeeper, he has figured everything out.

Chapter 75 Every Purpose

Two days after the usual young people's brawl, the teahouse was closed, and the sign of closing was put up early.