North and South groceries

The eldest name of the Yin family is Yin Tiao, he is ranked sixth, and now his brothers have all died, and in his generation, he is the only one left.

All the brothers of the uncle's house and the uncle's house have also left, so the younger generation of the Yin family naturally all belong to him.Back then, the brothers had been arguing for a long time over who should be the head of the family, but now that I think about it, it is more serious to live a few more years.

Back then, Yin Liulang was also a man of extraordinary demeanor, young and handsome, and a good man. He had an extraordinary understanding of carpentry since he was a child.

He was able to build a windmill when he was 15 years old, and the windmill is still used in the village. When he was 17 years old, he once built a windmill in Xiaohe Village. He became famous for a while, let alone here. In Lishi County, even in Taiyuan Mansion, there are people who know Yin Liulang, but it's a pity that a flood a few years ago washed away the even machine wheel.

When Yin Tiao was young, he wanted to go out several times, but the world was not peaceful after all.

Marrying a wife and having children is a blink of an eye, and decades have passed. Who would have expected that such a romantic person back then would now turn into such a stinking old man with a beard and staring eyes.

Sigh, time is really a butcher's knife.

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In order to express his sincerity and to show his own strength, when he went to Naxipo Village, Yin Jian took a wheel he had made with him.

Or because of the desire to win, this wheel is made more finely than those made by Naheng and his sons. On the axle in the middle of the wheel, in the order of up, down, right, and left, four characters "Lishi Yinshi" are engraved. small print.

After Luo Yong and Heng Yu checked the details of the wheel, they installed it on the prototype car in the courtyard, and asked Heng Huai to ride the car for a walk to check whether the wheel was really useful.

Yin Tiao was not afraid of their inspection, because after making the wheel, he had inspected it himself, made several adjustments, and finally came up with a satisfactory work.

Heng Huai rode the bike out for a stroll and came back, and sure enough, he also said that the wheels were easy to use, so Luo Yong asked Heng Yu and Yin Tiao to sign an order contract.

Firstly, the order was not too big, it was 25 Yaner Flying Wheels, each wheel was 750 Wen, and the delivery was half a month later. Heng Yu first paid [-]% of the purchase price to Yin Tiao as a deposit, which was [-] Wen.

After Yin Tiao accepted the deposit, he went over his own contract carefully, folded it carefully, and put it in his arms.

Then he bought [-] wheel pads from Luo Yong's small shop. He said that he didn't have the source of these wheel pads at the moment, and he might need to get them from Luo Yong for a while, so Luo Yong said it was fine. , Just come and get it, the purchase price of a wheel pad on his side is four renminbi, and the price of selling it to Heng's and Yin's is also four renminbi, and he doesn't make any difference.

With the contract and the deposit in his arms, Yin Tiao came out of the small shop with a bundle of wheel mats in his hand. When he walked to the courtyard, he saw a young man from the Heng family teaching several villagers how to make bamboo chains. There are old and young, among them there are many people who are dressed in shabby clothes and appear to be haggard. At first glance, they are from poor families, and they feel a lot of emotion in their hearts for a while.

When the times were bad, Yin Tiao also lived a hard life with his parents and brothers. Now that he is the head of the family, he shoulders the burden of supporting the family, so he naturally knows that earning money is not easy.Their sons of the Yin family went to the people's homes to make doors, windows and furniture for others. They only had a little money and food a day, and they didn't have to do work every day. There were so many women, children and children at home...

Na Luo Sanlang offered him a price of 25 cents for a wheel, which is really kind. He bought so many wheel pads from him, but the other party didn't make any money. Although it was a cooperation, Yin Tiao always felt that he was taking advantage of the other party. cheap ones.

As for Mr. Heng, the master doesn't have the right to speak at present, so naturally Luo Sanlang will do whatever he says.

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In fact, Heng Yu is not so powerless, Luo Yong still respects his opinion, after all, he is a professional, and Luo Yong himself has no idea of ​​wanting to control this business.

For the sale of Yan Erfei, the Heng family and his son saw a large compound in the county seat, next to the Niujia grain shop, which had the same layout, with a large courtyard at the back and a storefront at the front. The location was good and the place was big enough. The price is a bit more expensive, so I hesitated for a while.

When Luo Yong heard about this, without further ado, he lent him his recent savings, and then collected some money from other disciples, and soon asked Heng Yu to buy the yard.

In Luo Yong's opinion, that yard is not expensive at all. If they can really start the Yanerfei business in the future, there will definitely be many businessmen coming to Lishi County to buy goods from south to north. Everything has to go up, it is estimated that even the soup cakes in the soup cake shop will have to go up.

After buying that yard and tidying it up a bit, the Hengs and his sons moved the work of building Yanerfei there. After all, the yard over there is big enough, and the county has a large population, so the idle labor force is naturally bigger than that of the village. more here.

Just two days after they started working there, many people in the town went to look for work. They couldn’t do fine work, so they could cut firewood and log. The wood they bought had to be sawed into pieces first. Cut a piece, and then cut it into various sizes and specifications according to the size of wood required by each component. These are all hard work, and there is not much technical content.

Almost in those few days, the Yin family also opened another store next to their furniture shop, named Yin Ji Wheels.

For a while, Lishi County was very lively.Many women in the county want to take over the work of the wheel pads, as well as the brake lines, brake pads and other odds and ends.

Yin's Wheel Co. also accepts wheel pads, but not everyone is willing to accept them. If you want to sell them, you have to go to the store to take a test and pass the technical test. , After verifying his identity, he will leave ten Wen as a deposit, and then Yin Jiaerlang will give someone a wooden wheel like a swallow, just a bare wheel, without wheel pads or sheepskin on the outside.

Then they asked these people to move the wheels back and make wheel pads according to the size of the wheels. The pads they made had to fit the wheels without being too loose, and the hardness had to meet the standard. If they were too soft, they would not accept them. As for the price, they will use the price they received earlier, four cents a piece.

Although the Yin family's requirements are a bit harsh, there are still many women rushing to do his job in Lishi County, because the four coins are not easy for them to get, if they have the strength to work A nimble woman can pay for a wheel pad in at most three to five days, and a wheel pad can cost four Wen, and she can get thirty or forty Wen in a month. This is just the beginning. Can go faster.

For many frugal families, with this money and other income in the family, it is enough to support the whole family.Although some fabric costs are required, in their local area, the price of this kind of undyed burlap is not very expensive.

Knowing that Yin's side also began to collect wheel pads, Luo Yong asked his disciples to spread the news when they went to sell goods in various villages, saying that Luo Sanlang's family in Xipo Village no longer accepts wheel pads. The Yinji Wheel Co., Ltd. in the county seat wanted to collect them, so I asked them to go there, and also told everyone about the requirements of the Yinji Wheel Co., Ltd.

As for those who didn’t get the news before, and have already made wheel pads at home and haven’t had time to sell them, Luo Yong asked these disciples to take them back for him. Anyway, these wheel pads are also consumables, and there is no harm in keeping some in the store. , even if it cannot be sold, he can still use it himself.

After the car-making stalls of Heng and his sons moved out, Luo Yong's place became much cleaner. Those who wanted to learn how to make bamboo chains for wheel pads also went to the city, and only occasionally some villagers still knew how to make them. Lengths of chains came to him to buy, and Luo Yong still had to charge for this thing.

In this era when metal products were very expensive and rare, car chains were made of carnations out of helplessness. After all, the texture of bamboo is not as good as metal, so car chains have become consumables.

At the beginning, the chains brought by these people were also different in size. After Luo Yong took a few chains made by Heng's father and son back for display, the size gradually became much more stable. After making experience, it is basically difficult to see the difference in size with the eyes.

In fact, the size of the gears made by Heng and his sons is not completely stable.Usually they will make a batch of gears at one time, and then put these gears with slight errors on the shelves in order from largest to smallest.When it comes to assembling, hold a chain in your hand, and then go to the shelf to find gears of the corresponding size, as long as they can be matched.

Since then, the production of Yanerfei has basically been on track, and the rest is mainly up to Heng and his son. As for the processing of other parts, after all, there are not many in their area at present. A family like Heng's and Yin's, so they had to wait for the future to develop slowly, but they couldn't rush for a while.

After being busy for so many days, Luo Yong can finally relax his nerves. He just does some chores at home every day, or goes to the ground to look around.

After his family's five acres of wheat were taken back, beans were planted in the field again, all of which were soybeans, because his family mainly relies on soybean products to make money.

Some time ago, the Guo family in Taiyuan shipped three hundred Dendrobium beans.

Originally, it was agreed to ship 150 Dendrobium first, but perhaps it was because the Guo family had delayed too long and felt a little guilty, so they were generous and shipped the [-] Dendrobium beans over for the first time, and these beans were used by Luo. In the village, most of them were sold at the price of five cents and two buckets.

Although beans can be planted in spring, the villagers do not want to delay the planting of corn. Therefore, there are not many people planting beans in spring. They usually wait until summer and autumn, when the wheat and corn are harvested, before planting beans.

In the current season, there are not many beans in every household, so Luo Yong's recent batch of beans has sold for a good price.

Speaking of farming, when the wheat was harvested earlier, Luo Yong also went to the county with someone to pay the land rent.

The land rent is not heavy, you only need to pay two liters per mu of land, but you also need to pay some rent feet, which are used by the government to transport grain to granaries in various places. There is no fixed number of rent feet, and it should be different in different places.

Taxes at this time include land rent and household tax, in addition to the rent adjustment.Rent and land rent are also relatively simple and clear, and they all have a fixed amount. There is only the household tax, and it is also called miscellaneous taxes, which are divided into large taxes, small taxes, and other taxes.

This is relatively troublesome, and there is no clear stipulation on how much to pay. Different states and counties have different total household tax collections. Local officials allocate them to the people according to the amount. It should be quite a lot.

After the autumn harvest, it is time to pay taxes. At that time, people have food in their homes, and the general government collects taxes at that time. In order not to delay farming, the general corvee is also arranged during the period after the autumn harvest and before the beginning of spring. .

With Yi Luo’s current age, the corvée is still far away from him. At this time, it is stipulated that men should be 21 years old, and then they have the obligation to serve corvée for 20 days a year. Of course, if the place of service is far away, those who spend on the road The time must be counted as the common people themselves.

But the good thing is that you can still lose as a substitute, as long as you pay enough cloth and hemp, you don't have to suffer that kind of hardship, unless you encounter such unfortunate things as forced recruitment.

With the current income level of the Luo family, he is not very worried about the tax issue, but he can still feel the pressure of the tax corvee on the local people.

It is said that taxes in the early Tang Dynasty were light. Perhaps this level of severity was originally relatively speaking. As long as people were not forced to die, it was considered light.

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At this time, in Xiaohe Village, Zou Li was at home.

Zou Lizheng was sitting in the yard at this time digging a hole in a piece of iron bamboo with a sickle. Recently, he occasionally made a few chains at home. Ten bamboo chains can be exchanged for two cakes, but it is not easy to do. He usually has nothing to do. When it is time, just sit in the yard and do it.

Last time on every fifth day, he took out the three pieces of bamboo chains he had saved up, which caused the children in the family to cheer, grabbed the chains in his hands, and ran to Xipo Village, such a long journey, it was not too tiring .

"Ah Weng, I look at this pig and it seems to be fat again." On the other side of the pigsty, a few grandchildren are teasing the pig with pig grass.

"You feed it every day, so it will naturally grow every day." Zou Lizheng blew on the bamboo piece in his hand, looked up there, and said with a smile.

"Ah Weng, when will we have pork to eat?" A little doll squatted in front of the pigsty and asked him A Weng.

"There are still more than ten months." Zou Lizheng was working hard on that piece of bamboo again.

"How long is more than ten months?" His grandson asked again.

"You can count the thirty days in a month by yourself," Zou Lizheng said.

"Well... thirty, thirty one, three two..." The child really counted with his fingers. He was not too stupid, and he knew that he would start counting from thirty, and the ones in front would not be counted. The days to come, with his few fingers alone, must not be counted.

Zou Li was listening there, laughing until his old face was wrinkled, just smiling, for some reason, the sound of the old pair of sons and daughters came again.

Now everyone in Xiaohe Village says that he is a man blessed with many children and grandchildren, but few people remember that he married a woman before the grandmother of these grandchildren in front of him.

The woman gave birth to him a son and a daughter, she was also very clever and gratifying in every way, but she didn't have a good time and couldn't support her. Even the wife was unlucky, and she only lived with him for more than ten years Years passed away.

He didn't marry his current wife until he was in his early forties. His wife also remarried, and she was in her early thirties when she married. Unexpectedly, she was blessed with many children. She gave birth to three sons and one daughter. Daughter, now these sons and daughters have all grown up, and there are many grandchildren in the family.

Now he has no other thoughts in his mind, he just hopes that the world will be peaceful, there will be no more wars and disasters, so that they can properly raise these babies.