Unlimited Food Plan

"Brick pickers, two cents for a load of bricks and stones, no food." In the big mansion outside the city, the powerful people raised their glasses and mocked the whimsical new magistrate, while the military room was crowded, Guan Bingshu got the job , now I am asking the soldiers and servants below to explain the work and wages one by one.

Everyone heard that this kind of work seems to be more cost-effective than digging a well. It took a long time to carry it, and it was impossible to go back and forth on the same day.

But that is to say,? The problem is that a load of masonry costs two cents. If you replace it with beans, chestnuts, or beans, it will have at least two liters. Four days of rations are earned.

In the past years, selling firewood was only a few dollars, and I had to worry about not being able to sell it. This is a sure thing that you can get money. How can everyone dislike it?

So the man in the military room explained that, except for the very old and young children, all the people who came here registered one after another, for fear that they would not be able to get the job.

"Hey, I just happen to be sending bedding to Youwei, so I'll take a half-stone there in a short while, and I can earn a penny, no matter how big or small." Qiao Niang replied quickly after listening to Guan Bingshu.

There is a government brick-burning factory in Huarong County, but it is not in the city. They are all located two miles outside the city, which happens to be a detour beside the only road to boil salt mountain.

After receiving the bricks and stones, turning around and entering the mountain, it is time to test one's strength.

The mountain roads in Huarong County are difficult to navigate. The road to the mountain where the salt is boiled is not bad. At any rate, there is no hanging plank road, but the slope is quite steep. People who carry a load to climb the mountain will soon be covered in sweat.

When it was time to go down the mountain, the whole body had to be tense again, and I dared not walk too fast, otherwise I was afraid that I would rush too hard and my feet would not be able to stop the car. If I rushed all the way down, I was afraid I would fall.

There are no residents on these two mountains, because the land here belongs to the government's land, and it has not been cultivated, and it is all old forests.In the past, if there were only one or two people going up the mountain, even if there was a dirt road, people would inevitably be afraid when walking in.

But this time, I am not afraid. In Huarong County, everyone is moved by the news. It has never been a time that the entire forest in the mountains is full of human voices. There are too many people, and occasionally there are lively people greeting and laughing, which is very lively.

We all went together along the way, and only took a short break at noon, and while the sunset was still there, Qiao Niang arrived at the place with half a stone.

I went to the local area to check that the number I picked was correct, and I quickly got my wages.

After getting the money, some people think about carrying the burden and walking back together at night. They may get Zishi when they get home, but if they can stay up late and go back fast enough, they don’t need to enter the house. The next general will sleep with his clothes on, and the next day he can pick bricks and rocks up the mountain early.

The others were busy beckoning friends, Qiao Niang didn't plan to rush back overnight, and in the other half of her pole was the quilt prepared for Qian Gongshu.

Qiaoniang's aunt, Third Aunt Liu, followed her up the mountain with pickled radishes and a change of clothes for the men in the family. After taking their wages, they went straight to the camp where the men were digging wells. there.

When this passed, Qiao Niang was startled. She saw men from a distance cutting and cleaning up trees and dead branches. While they were cleaning up, there were still people digging in the ground next to them, and the soil was shoveled by shovels. Dig it up and pour it into the basket next to it.

It was filled quickly, and one of them came out, quickly picked up the soil, and dumped it not far away.

"Qiaoniang? Why are you here?" Qiaoniang was watching curiously, when she suddenly heard her man's familiar voice, and when she turned her head, she saw Qian Gongshu's nose was red with cold, and he was walking towards her quickly. come over here.

"You guys haven't come home yet, so I'll bring you the bedding." Qiaoniang saw her man, and immediately grabbed him and looked him up and down, and found that although Qian Gongshu's nose was red from the cold, his body was still steaming , did not touch any mud, obviously did not do physical work on the wheels.

Qiaoniang immediately felt relieved, because Qian Gongshu's health was not particularly good, and he also suffered from coughing, phlegm and shortness of breath in autumn. If he insisted on doing physical work, it might affect his life expectancy.

"It was really cold a few days ago, thanks to Mr. Xie for lending me the quilt!" Qian Gongshu said happily when he saw his wife, "And we just opened the fire well yesterday, and now the house is empty. Fix it, we all like to sleep in the stove house in Huojing at night, it’s warmer!"

Qiaoniang and Aunt Liu were both taken aback for a moment, since they have only heard about water wells, how have they heard about fire wells?

Qian Gongshu knew that they didn't understand, and he himself had never thought about it before last night, that there is such a thing as a fire well in the world.

Drill down along the place measured by Mr. Xie. The hole is very small. After sharpening it with a large bamboo wood, it is pierced into the soil and dug down inch by inch. The hole dug out is no more than a large bowl, deep You can't use your strength if you pierce it a few meters away.

In the past few days, Qian Gongshu followed Mr. Xie to learn how to make the simplest hole punch and use the simplest principle of leverage.It can be made to tie bamboo and wood, and then people step on the huge wood to hoist the bamboo and wood, and then jump down, the wood is heavily tied to the ground, and the soil deep in the ground can be brought out.

This way of piercing is extremely fast, and it didn't take long yesterday when Mr. Xie, who had been watching by the side, suddenly said, "It's done, let's vent!"

Recently, I have been with Master Xie for less than a week. Qian Gongshu admires this Master Xie. From Qian Gongshu's point of view, Master Xie has no plans, just like a real god. For example, what does the fire well smell like? None, with different depths and different directions. Some of them haven’t vented yet, but for example, the fire well that was first ignited yesterday took the shortest time to dig. In one day, the adults will say it.

At that time, Qian Gongshu's mind was still in a state of confusion. Recently, he has been spinning continuously without stopping. Sometimes he is pulling the cobbler to tie the belt, and sometimes he has to be busy all over the mountains and plains for people to cut bamboo and dig bamboo, so as to dig such a small well.

"In the future, I will study slowly and ask the blacksmith to connect these wooden rollers with axles, so that one person can operate the well digging, and the positioning will be clearer, so that it will not be knocked down and crooked like it is now, and it is useless. We are in a hurry now about bamboo wasting energy, so use brute force first, and if you do it well in the future, you won’t be so tired.” Master Xie still didn’t let him go, during the rest time every day, Qian Gongshu and the county government All the cobblers and blacksmiths in the village had to hold their job bowls, followed by Mr. Xie, who was waving chopsticks, and listened to Mr. Xie's special training class.

But hard work is hard work. I eat dry rice in my rice bowl every day, and my stomach is full, and I can still hear these fairy-like techniques. Master Qian, blacksmith and cobbler and others are not willing to listen to it. No matter how tired they are, just listen to it. As soon as Master Xie opens his mouth, he will follow him involuntarily, just like being demented.

"Youwei, let me ask you, what exactly is Huojing?" Qian Gongshu was in a daze, and Qiao Niang hurriedly continued to ask about Huojing. She listened as if she was listening to a scripture from heaven, but she couldn't think of that at all. What the hell is it.

"I'll take you to see it!" Qiaoniang yelled, calling Qian Gongshu back to God, Qiaoniang saw her man showing a mysterious smile, pulling her, and greeted the bewildered mother-in-law , the three of them walked to the distant house together.

"Is it okay for us to go in?" Qiao Niang looked around, afraid of running into the county magistrate's bad luck, and finally got a good job of ten cents one day, but Qiao Niang didn't want her man to embarrass her in front of her at all. , At that time, he will lose the favor of the county magistrate.

"It's okay, the county magistrate said that this place will need a lot of people in the future, and others will not be able to learn it after seeing it. This is the godsend treasure of our Huarong County!" It's okay if Qiao Niang didn't ask. It was as if he had scratched her man's itchy spot, seeing Qian Gongshu not only beaming with joy, but also as if he was about to fly up, his feet didn't even touch the ground.

Afterwards, Qiaoniang followed Qian Gongshu, and Aunt Liu followed the son-in-law. Together, the three of them saw a fairy-like scene—then as soon as they entered the door, they realized that there was a temporary roof and only beams around it. In the big shed, there are machines with strange big wooden piles, big and small.In front of each machine, there are deep pits being dug one by one.

There are many such sheds in the distance, but Qiao Niang didn't have time to look at them, because Qian Gongshu led her mysteriously to a pot with a huge fragrance, and then Qiao Niang saw that this curved bamboo branch The protruding place got under the iron pot, Qiao Niang couldn't understand what was going on, she just widened her eyes in surprise and shouted "Ah!"

Frightened, she took a big step back, Qiaoniang was in shock.Because she saw that the bamboo was connected to the mouth of the well and plunged deep into the well, and then an open fire was directly burning under the earthen stove at the other end.

There is nothing, just the bamboo branches are connected, burning quietly.

It's like a sky fire.

The well should be water, but this well can burn flames.

For the people of Daye, this is like the effect of a god's practice.

Qiao Niang looked around and was very shocked. When the meal was ready for a while, seeing Master Xie's appearance, Qiao Niang was sure in an instant——Master Xie must be a god from the sky who came down to earth!

Because only gods can grow into such a beautiful appearance.

Du Changqiu didn't know at all, following Qian Gongshu's wife and others up the mountain to deliver supplies, he only stayed one night and went down the mountain, and then it directly led to people in the county. It never stops.

Also because the rumor was very funny, Zhao Lishu and Chen Hushu had a good laugh at the banquet because of this rumor.

They don't believe at all that you can emit a steady stream of flames from the bottom, unless you dug through the fire hell in the eighteenth floor of hell.

Du Changqiu didn't care about these rumors at all, he was looking at the pot very nervously at the moment.

There are three places in the shallow well where the burial layer of brine is very shallow, only about six to seven meters. Therefore, the brine has started to come out one after another after driving down day and night in the past few days.The fire well was also on fire, and everything was ready, so it was natural to start cooking on the pot stand.

However, although the detector detected no problem, Du Changqiu was still nervous.

After all, half a month has passed from living in to digging to building a shed. This winter is dry and cold. After spring, there will be caravans entering Guangyuan County. Before spring, Du Changqiu has been throwing Money, these workers, the people of Huarong County who pick bricks and do the work, go out like running water every day.

If the capital cannot be recovered in the spring, the finances will be in danger by then.

Du Changqiu was anxious and couldn't help but plucked Fanxing's hair. Fanxing felt that the place was very hot and wanted to go out and go for a walk on the mountain. But although Du Changqiu had no expression on his face, Fanxing could understand at once. This is anxiety.

He just stood by the side patiently, using it as a cowhide cushion for Chang Qiu, who is now in poor health, and then looked at it. After a while, the brine slowly began to crystallize, forming hoarfrost.

Continue to cook, more and more white frost crystals, day and night pass, take down the pot, scrape off the thick salt layer, and then beat it a little to disperse the agglomerated white crystals.

"It's salty." Qian Gongshu, Li Zandian, and Guan Bingshu, who was in charge of dispatching migrant workers recently, all came over, took a sip, and suddenly said in surprise, "It's really salty, salt!"

"us……"

"Have we boiled out the salt?"

"Have we boiled salt out of well water?!"

"We really boiled out the salt!"

Everyone was confused at first, then confused, and then ecstatically shouted, shouted twice, and turned into a howl.

Everyone hugged each other, hugging each other with great joy, and even the tears of excitement from the men burst out.

This is excitement and sentimentality, and the joy of hard work and hope, mixed flavors.

Du Changqiu was finally completely relieved, and he announced to everyone with a smile: "Salt is out, what you say is true, tomorrow we will get a pig for extra meals!"

That night, Li Zandian went down the mountain overnight again, knocked on the door of the butcher's house, and quickly ordered the meat.

On the second day, Li Zan didn't wait for dawn, and quickly went up the mountain in the dark.

The men on the mountain were still working at noon. Those who finished the well were picking brine and watching the pot cook the brine, and some were scraping salt with a small scraper and beating salt blocks.

What everyone did was very entertaining, not for anything else, mainly because it wasn't just Zhao Lishu and Chen Hushu who thought Mr. Xie was whimsical. What I said seems to be a bit of a dream.

How have you ever heard of such a rare thing as salt that can be dug out by digging a well?

But for the sake of the wages, everyone is willing to mess around. In fact, they all have doubts in their hearts, and they only plan to take this job as a part-time job. It is also a good thing to supplement the family.

But when the salt really comes out, everyone's thoughts are completely different!The production of salt means that their job is not for a few days. Mr. Xiao Xie is a short-term worker who loses his interest and quits. As long as the salt is produced, it will naturally require people to work hard. households, but let them stay here to boil salt in the form of labor.

It is not counted as low status, nor is it counted as a controlled existence without freedom, and there is no restriction on what the descendants can do in the future.Who wouldn't want to do such a job of boiling salt? !

Therefore, everyone has been working hard recently, for fear that their performance will not be good, and they will be driven down the mountain at that time.After all, every day when brothers and mothers-in-law go up the mountain, they will announce the good news, saying how much money the family has received recently, how much they have saved, what they have bought for their children, and how much they have spent.

When the men were working, they often said with a smile, this year's Chinese New Year, I'm afraid everyone can afford some meat for the Chinese New Year.

Everyone was full of energy, and just as they were busy, everyone suddenly smelled the aroma of oil.

Different from the West, China already had the technology of barrows in ancient times, and it was very early. There were records about raising pigs and barrows from the period of oracle bone inscriptions. Records of castrated horses.

In short, when it comes to breeding and planting, China’s ancient time is almost the extent of being proud of the entire earth. The only thing that limits the production of China’s planting is only two possibilities, which are the inevitable restrictions of the development of the times. High-yielding crop seeds in various places have not yet appeared and so on.

The second limitation is that materials are really in short supply, and there are ways but no way to fully supply them.

For example, this bought pig has been raised for ten months, and it weighs less than [-] catties. When Li Zan came back, he told Du Changqiu that he bought the biggest pig because the farmer wanted to keep it. I ate during the Chinese New Year, but because I had enough money, I sold them all.

A hundred catties is considered big, compared with the forty or fifty catties in the Middle Ages, it is indeed very powerful, but Du Changqiu scanned it and found that this pig breed is a kind of flower pig with very delicate meat. Looking at the cut fat, Du Changqiu found it really It was snow white and beautiful, and the lean meat showed a kind of rose flesh red. The newly hired cook on the construction site cut it with a knife, and it was all thin and uniform. You can tell by looking at it that the meat is very good.

Moreover, Du Changqiu saw in the detector that the analysis of the pork was similar to his naked eye judgment, indicating that the pork was indeed of extremely high quality.

The most important thing is that according to the genetics of this pig, if it is raised well, it should weigh about 180 to [-] catties, that is, [-] kilograms.

And the time to slaughter should be about six or seven months. The pig has been raised for ten months, so logically speaking, it should weigh two hundred catties.

In fact, everyone understands this truth. It is different from the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, there were resources, but people didn’t know how to use them. It was tantamount to begging for food.

But here in Huaxia, there are many people, and everyone is very smart and hardworking, but it is true that there are not enough resources, which leads to the fact that everyone is very hardworking, but they are often hungry.

"The family was still feeling emotional when they were taken away. It's a pity that when the body was growing, it was full of pigweed and there was no rice bran. If there was enough rice bran, the pig would be half as big!" Li Zandian, who came back from buying meat, looked at it. The pig is also sighing, there are hundreds of people here, and a head of a hundred catties of meat can be divided into two or two at most. If it is bigger, everyone will have to eat more comfortably.

"Next year will be enough." In Du Changqiu's two worlds, this is the first time he has encountered such a worry-free farming and breeding labor force. They do not lack experience and technology, but what they lack is a virtuous circle environment.

Du Changqiu felt that although this game was a bad start, fortunately, there were still successes in the follow-up.

He didn't expect that, he was feeling emotional, and the sauerkraut stew was stewed that night, and everyone had a delicious meal.

He didn't know that they were eating meat on the mountain. That night, Lishu Zhao, who was drinking and flirting with the concubine at home, received the news that salt was coming out of the mountain.

This awakened Zhao Lishu's wine, and he quickly asked his eyeliner, only to learn that there was a fire well on the mountain. It sounded very whimsical, but it was true. The people who picked things up the mountain I have seen them all, and the fire well is being discussed all over the street, so there is no need to bother to inquire.

It is also true that the salt wells produced salt.It is said that the brine from the salt well looks the same as the well water, but white grains will form after boiling. Usually, a small pot of brine can be boiled for a day and a night, and half a pot of salt can be produced, and the salt produced is white and crystal clear. It shines brightly under the sun, without any impurities, and you can tell it is top grade at a glance!

Once he heard the news, how could Zhao Lishu sit still?They went to find Chen Hushu on the spot, and the two of them got together and got the news, but felt their faces were hot, as if they had been slapped dozens of times in the air.

A few days ago, they were still laughing at Mr. Xie's whimsy, but they didn't expect that within a few days, they would be replaced by their ignorance.

But both of them were old fritters. After being slapped in the face, after being ashamed and angry, of course they didn't think about anything else, but immediately decided to go up the mountain.

This is salt!White flowers, all of which can be exchanged for silver salt!How could they watch this important silver mountain fall into the wrong hands?

So in the early morning of the next day, Zhao Lishu and Chen Hushu went up the mountain together in a carriage. When they met, their expressions, smiling like two big chrysanthemums, shocked Du Changqiu.

When the two met, they greeted each other, where was the ridicule and arrogance that stood by before?

After dragging Du Changqiu to talk about it for a long time, Du Changqiu understood the meaning.

The news from the official house and household house is very good. Li Zan went back to buy meat last night, and they rushed to this deep mountain and old forest this morning.

"Qian Gongshu is not good at money matters. As officials and housekeepers, we can just take over and manage the business of the salt industry and the cooking of salt by salt households." After all, I just want to pick peaches.

Looking at these two people, Du Changqiu felt very strange in his heart—they were pretending to be dead all day long, and even laughed at him behind his back for his whimsy. They actually wanted to dig out salt in a place like Huarong, which was an unheard of foolish move.

There was no need for Du Changqiu to bother to inquire about the above. When Du Changqiu asked him what was wrong when he slapped his ears in the starry night, he said he had heard it.

Niu Duzi didn't know why recently, but he always said that he would hear all kinds of voices accidentally, especially about Du Changqiu, he would always hear it involuntarily.

Du Changqiu combed Fanxing until midnight yesterday, before coaxing the calf, who was harassed by all kinds of news, to sleep. He already knew what the two were discussing, and he was very upset. Restless.

"Oh? Then if I insist on handing over this matter to Qian Gongshu, what do you two want to do?" Du Changqiu looked at them, with a slight smile on his face, and asked directly with a sly tone.

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