Infrastructure masters in the red building

Wang Erlang put on the "uniform" that he had just received not long ago. When his wife saw it, she nodded and said, "This looks really energetic."

This is also a short dress, similar to the short brown style, with tight trouser legs and tufted sleeves at the cuffs. Although it is not a long gown, it is neat and tidy everywhere.

Wang Erlang called out: "Mother, help me put this armband on."

Aunt Wang put a sleeve made of red cloth on her son and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Wang Erlang raised his chest and protruded his belly, and said proudly: "The inspection team's armband has the word 'inspection' written on it. Wearing this, the whole village will know that we are members of the inspection team."

Aunt Wang nodded her head, her eyes filled with relief: "It's like the county government officers used to write a word on the back... Finally, Erlang is also a person who eats the emperor's food."

Wang Erlang remembered Jia Fang's teachings several times, the principle of "serving the people", and thought that his current "inspection captain" was actually not exactly the same as the "eating emperor's food" in his parents' impression.But he didn't know how to explain it, so he had to prevaricate: "Mother, there is a business meeting held in the village today, so the child is very busy, so I won't come back at noon, let's talk about it in the evening."

Aunt Wang was dazed: "What... what kind, what meeting?"

Wang Erlang said loudly: "Actually, it's just holding fairs. We hold our own fairs in the village, and everyone else comes to us."

This is the result of the villagers of Taoyuanzhai spending several days going around to various villages and villages to promote it.The surrounding villages heard that the patients who filled in Taoyuan Village had found the "miracle medicine" and all their illnesses were cured, and many producers and craftsmen from Yujiang expressed their interest in taking a look.But how many people can come, no one has a clue.

Jia Fang also gave "vaccination" to the people in the village - although no one knew what "vaccination" meant.Jia Fang said that it is normal that there are not many people coming to the fair for the first time, but as long as people outside know that we have products here, and the exchange can benefit them, more and more people will come later.

In addition, Jia Fang also gave this episode a strange name called "Commercial Forum".Wang Erlang knows these five words now, but he still doesn't know what they mean when they are connected together—in short, it is right to run a collection.

After bidding farewell to his family, Wang Erlang left his house in good spirits, and first walked around Xinyu Village where he lived, and met up with a few of his subordinates by the way.

Wang Erlang looked up at this brand-new "Xinyu Village", feeling a little emotional in his heart.No one thought that they could live in a house built by themselves in such a short period of time.

When we first came here, we lived in simple prefabricated houses, which was much better than the dilapidated temples and deserted villages we lived in along the way.Now that everyone in the village has been allocated homesteads, they immediately began to build houses on their own land.Looking around now, Xinyu Village has begun to take shape, a lot of houses have been built, and many people have bid farewell to the dwellings in the simple prefab houses, and moved to their own land first.

The houses that have been built so far are relatively simple, and most families can only afford a main house.But most people in the village chose to lay the foundation first, then build a main house and live in it, and leave the other houses, courtyard walls and doors to be built slowly later.

Wang Erlang is standing in the center of the village now, looking around, he thinks the village is quite beautiful.The main reason is that Jia Fang provided a way to build a house, which he called a "standard".Each house can be modified and decorated on the basis of the "standard", but the general regulations are the same.

In addition, each family uses logs from the upstream and bricks and tiles fired by the Taoyuanzhai Brick and Tile Factory, so the houses built are really unified in style and look quite comfortable and eye-catching.

——It looks like a village, Wang Erlang thought.

In addition to the private houses of each family, the "public toilets" in the village have also been built.At present, each family does not have the conditions to build their own latrines, but Jia Fang said that the location of the "pipelines" and biogas pits has been planned. In the future, each household in the village can build their own latrines, and the gas from the biogas pits is still OK. It is used to burn stoves for every household without chopping firewood.

A long row of sinks has been built outside the "public toilet".A child ran out of the toilet in a hurry, caught sight of Wang Erlang, and immediately crawled obediently to the sink, turned on the faucet, and washed his hands vigorously for a while.

Wang Erlang glared at the child, thinking to himself: This is more or less the same.

He waited for a while in the open space in the middle of the village, and several of his subordinates also arrived, all of them majestic and high-spirited, with armbands pinned to their sleeves.

These subordinates were also selected by Wang Erlang himself. Before he selected them, he had asked Jia Fang what standards the members of the inspection team should meet.Jia Fang only said one thing: to solve the problem, not to easily provoke disputes.

After several times of "inspection" in the village, Wang Erlang took it for granted. When he picked people, he only looked for those who were stable and peaceful, and he didn't want to pick and provoke troubles. Sure enough, his team was easier to lead—at least better than Zhao Wuguang's. .

Wang Erlang led the team to the main venue of the "Business Symposium", and met Zhao Wuguang's people halfway.At that time, Zhao Wuguang was helping a craftsman in Taoyuan Village change "wooden rails".

Wang Erlang and his subordinates were stunned.They have been in Taoyuan Village for a while, and they see two wooden rails on the ground every day, and they also see people using these wooden rails to pull carts and transport things.But Wang Erlang never thought that this thing nailed to the ground could be exchanged.

Zhao Wuguang rolled his eyes at his colleagues, and said, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and give me a hand! Today's teacher from other villages opened his eyes, it all depends on this."

Wang Erlang suddenly realized, quickly waved his hand, and went forward with his "little brother" to help lift the decayed wooden rails that had been removed, and replace them with new ones.

"Don't look at the wood, it's really heavy." A team member couldn't help complaining.

"Shen?" Zhao Wuguang laughed boldly, "Shen is right! Mr. Jia said that this track is meant to be heavy. Other tracks are made of copper and iron. We use iron wood here to last for a long time. .”

Wang Erlang stretched out his hand to caress the newly installed wooden rails on the ground, and asked, "Is this thing really that useful?"

Zhao Wuguang gave a "cut" and said, "Of course. When we didn't have this wooden rail before, you could hold up to the sky with a weight of thirty or fifty catties, right? Wouldn't it be impossible to carry a hundred catties with a small cart? Now Using wooden rails, at least it can carry five hundred catties, leading a donkey, and transporting it to the ground with ease."

The more Zhao Wuguang talked, the more excited he was, he stretched out his hand and gestured: "For example, we opened a new brick and tile factory? You can see that it is far away from the river bank, and it takes a lot of effort to transport the river mud used to the kiln. ? Well, with this wooden rail, push a small cart, and it’s easy to transport.”

Wang Erlang looked at the direction of the wooden track, it really started from the river, and it was quite close to the brick and tile factory.

Zhao Wuguang continued to brag: "Our third master Jia also said that in the future, this brick and tile factory can be built into a large factory, and the bricks and tiles will start to be transported to other villages, and the same wooden rails will be used to transport the bricks and tiles to the river and onto the raft. Once delivered, it will be shipped directly downstream. Isn’t our brick and tile factory not only doing business in the village, but also doing business outside?”

Wang Erlang scratched his head, thinking: yes!But why did I never think of transporting bricks and tiles abroad?It can be seen that this vision is still poor, and it can't compare with Mr. Jia.

But he looked at the wooden rails hundreds of steps long, looked back at Xinyu Village under construction, and asked: "But isn't the most urgent thing now to transport bricks and tiles to the new village? Why not extend it to the other end? In this way, it will be cheaper for everyone to transport bricks.”

Zhao Wuguang looked like an insider: "It's been planned for a long time!" He said, "Jia Sanye's 'business talk' this time is also to make a long-term contract with the upstream people, so that the upstream people will regularly Send the felled iron wood."

"The third master also said that this track is very useful. In the future, it can not only transport goods, but also transport people!"

Transport people?Wang Erlang and his subordinates of the inspection team were all dumbfounded—"It's...it's only a few steps from here to Xinyu Village, so it's not worth using this track to transport people!"

At the moment, Wang Erlang's mind is full of himself curled up like a cat in a cart, with his team members behind him pushing him around the village.

This...compared to the eight-carried palanquin that I saw the official lord before, it is really not majestic.

Wang Erlang still wanted to go by himself.

But Zhao Wuguang waved his hand, imitating Jia Fang's tone: "Thinking a little further, our Taoyuan village will become bigger in the future, and become Taoyuan Township, Taoyuan County, and Taoyuan Prefecture? The radius is dozens of miles, dozens of villages. At that time, I, Zhao Wuguang, wanted to visit you, Wang Erlang, so I jumped into a cart. We were pulled by horses in the front of the cart, and the local products I gave you were loaded in the back... Hey, why should I give you local products if I have nothing to do... In short, I To visit your village, the horse-drawn carriage will drive at high speed, and it will take tens of miles to arrive in an hour or two."

Wang Erlang couldn't close his mouth wide open. He followed Zhao Wuguang's description to daydream, and vaguely saw a big city. There were many villages scattered outside the city. The villages were connected by wooden rails. Wherever you go, you will be there in the blink of an eye.

It was only here that he dared to dream like this.

"Captain Zhao, but now we only have four villages, and the distance is only...one or two miles?" Wang Erlang's subordinates spoke timidly.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Wuguang raised his chest and protruded his belly and said: "San Ye Jia said, you must dare to think, and only if you dare to think can you hope to realize it. If you don't even dare to think..."

Wang Erlang interrupted excitedly: "You are right!"

These two have always liked to argue, and they have long been used to it.Zhao Wuguang was suddenly echoed by Wang Erlang, and he felt very uncomfortable all of a sudden.

Unexpectedly, Wang Erlang dropped a sentence in the book bag: "But a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you want to go home, you have to do today's errands well. Otherwise, Xiao's thinking about the future will be in vain."

It was right for everyone to think about it, so they helped the craftsmen install the wooden rails together, and hurried to the place where the "Commercial Symposium" was held.

The "Business Symposium" in Taoyuan Village was held in the place where the "simple activity room" was originally built.Since the new immigrants from Yujiang moved to their assigned homesteads, a lot of this simple prefab house has been demolished, and the materials are kept in the back of the Xianliang Temple as it is, saying that it is for emergencies, and will be used later. use.

However, several of these simple prefab rooms have been retained—as the location of the collective office of Taoyuan Village.After all, Jia Fang thought that the village offices of each village could be temporarily placed in the village head's house, but it was not suitable for the office that manages the collective affairs of the entire village to be located in any village, so he finally chose here.

The inspection team walked through a row of activity rooms in high spirits. Wang Erlang's literacy class was about to finish, and he explained to his team members one by one: "This is the archives office. Our household registration identities are all registered here. The population of the family must change. To be notified here."

"This is the Finance Office. Everyone knows what this is for, right? It's here to exchange copper coins and circulation certificates."

"This is the Merchants Office, and I don't know what it's for. But I heard that today's business meeting is organized by them—you see, this venue, this shed, and this booth... are all created by them."

The people from the China Merchants Association greeted Wang Erlang and Zhao Wuguang together: "Thank you for your help!"

There are many things on the set, and it is very important to have an inspection team to maintain law and order.Therefore, the China Merchants Association has a friendly attitude towards the inspection team.The inspection team immediately puffed up their chests, stretched their legs, and continued to "inspect" in a majestic manner.

It may be that the people from the China Merchants Association did a good job in the early stage, and more people came from the village outside than expected.After asking, I found out that the people from the China Merchants Association promised, and they came back to the market. If you want to set up a stall, you can get the booth in a row. The booth fee and sanitation fee are all free, and a free meal is also provided.

The people from the China Merchants Association also said that if you feel good, you can apply for registration, and you can set up a stall here for a long time in the future, and the cost will be greatly discounted-but this is not mandatory. These are not too late.

As a result, many foreigners came to Taoyuan Village with baskets on their backs and shoulders, carrying a lot of mountain goods.However, many people are still hesitant even if they come:

"Taoyuan Village didn't have much money in the past, but people who come to Yujiang are not much better now, right?"

"Anyway, you and I are not worth much money. Just treat it as a waste of money."

But soon they discovered that everyone in Taoyuan Village was rich and interested in their goods.Among them, the fastest-selling chickens and pigs were brought from other villages. The piglets from afar were picked out as soon as they emerged from the bamboo baskets and transferred to the pigpens in the village. Let's have fun.

In addition to breeding pigs and chickens, other popular commodities are salt, tea, cloth, iron farm tools and the like.

People from other places are not familiar with the products of Taoyuan Village.The only thing they know is the rice seeds—Taoyuan Village produces excellent Champa rice. Besides, Taoyuan Village also produces a kind of salted fish, which can be eaten for a long time if stored properly.

This time, in addition to seeing the familiar rice seeds and pickled rice flower fish, people from other places also saw a lot of unexpected things——

The head is like bricks and tiles.A brick and tile factory was built in Taoyuan Village. It was built by people from Yujiang.The price quoted was half the previous average price in the surrounding area.

Just when the villagers from outside were excited, the person in charge of the brick and tile factory advised them: Wait a few months before buying, then bricks and tiles will be cheaper - after all, everyone is busy building houses now, and bricks and tiles are in short supply. Sometimes, it is easy to be oversupplied.

Therefore, although the brick and tile factory failed to make a deal, the advertisement was properly published.Many foreigners have secretly recorded it, thinking that they can come here to buy bricks and tiles in the future.

In addition to bricks and tiles, Taoyuan Village also has a variety of local products, such as the best winter bamboo shoots dug out of the mountains, sliced ​​into pieces and then stir-fried in a pan, without adding anything, just sprinkling salt is enough.

Everyone who came to Taoyuanzhai to set up a stall received a "Canteen Coupon", with which he could go to the nearby "Sancun Canteen" and get a lunch, which included stir-fried winter bamboo shoots.Foreigners can taste it before buying it, but the number of winter bamboo shoots is limited, so they must be served on a first-come, first-served basis. If the action is not fast enough, it is very likely that Taoyuan Village's own people will "digest" it first...

But to outsiders, these goods are not surprising.The strangest thing is the colorful paper that people in Taoyuan Village use to trade.

People in Taoyuan Village use these "flower paper" to trade with each other, but they still use copper coins to buy things from outsiders.

Finally, people from other villages became curious, poked their heads to look, and asked suspiciously: "What is this?" "Don't you use copper coins?"

The locals helped to explain: "This is called a 'circulation certificate', which can be used as money, just like money."

Outsiders are dubious.They held the heavy copper coins in one hand, and the fluffy "flower paper" that they borrowed to see in the other, thinking to themselves, how can this be the same?

"Take this 'circulation certificate' and go to the financial office ahead. As long as the verification is correct, the financial office will exchange the corresponding copper coins for you." The villagers pointed out kindly.

At present, there are really good people who take out five Wen coins from their pockets, find a local person to exchange for a circulation coupon with a face value of "Five Wen", and go to the door of the "Financial Office" pointed out by others.

There were quite a few people around, most of them were migrants who moved from Yu Jiang, and there were some villagers from Taoyuan Village who wore complicated silverware among them. Everyone gathered at the gate of the Finance Office and listened to an old man who looked like a cashier explaining:

"Circulation certificates are banknotes guaranteed by the credit of Taoyuan Village. Everyone can understand that they are copper coins - after all, every penny issued in Taoyuan Village has the credit of Mr. Jia's inch of silver as the basis of credit. So As long as you need it, you can exchange this circulation coupon. There is absolutely no way that Taoyuan Village will not be able to take it out."

The old gentleman who looked like a cashier took out a box next to him, turned the key in his hand, the lock was released with a "click", and the lid of the box opened with a "wow", and the people around were immediately caught by the bright lights inside. Silver dazzled.

"God!"

There were at least a thousand taels of silver in the box, but they were all neat and uniform silver ingots.

Now the villagers in Taoyuan Village are all relieved: Mr. Jia will do what he says, and if there is silver exchange, there will be silver exchange.

Outsiders saw it and felt that it made some sense: Since you can exchange it for copper plates whenever you want, isn't making this "flower paper" the same as making copper plates?

Lao Jin was explaining here, and Wang Erlang, who was in charge of the inspection, happened to pass by here. He caught a glimpse of the shiny silver taels, and immediately frowned, thinking: If wealth is not revealed, isn’t Lao Jin just a way for thieves to think about it?

He looked around quite vigilantly, and already found a lot of greedy eyes.Wang Erlang knew in his heart: his inspection team had work to do.