Take Taobao with you to another world

No matter the new residents or new citizens in the resettlement area, they enjoy the same holiday every month, although many people, including those who get the holiday, think that they work from morning to night until the project they are responsible for is completely or partially completed. It is more "reasonable" to take a break, but there are few people who really hate being "imposed" with a break.

Of course, some people murmured, since it was already a holiday, why did the night school courses just shift from evening to daytime, and there was not much homework at all?

Even if they still have to attend classes and do homework, this does not affect people's enjoyment of the remaining leisure time. They have no reason not to enjoy it: they have completed the assigned work, the system of rest is stipulated by the highest authority, and they have food. , clothing and use, no worry about wind and rain, no fear of illness and injury, so during the holidays, they can sleep as long as they want, eat whenever they want (as long as the cafeteria is open), and can follow Friends play chess or sports games together, and they can also come to the trade fair to hang out and buy whatever they want, because they have money in their hands.

If it was in the old days, people would definitely try to hide any bit of money in a way for natural or man-made disasters, but maybe the currency in this city is not in the form of metal casting but in the form of paper, and people store it when they come here. The objects of the people have changed from currency to various physical objects, and as they gradually adapt to urban life, the fanatical desire to hoard has gradually subsided, especially after the alliance congress, people are no longer afraid that the pioneers will leave at any time. With more expectations in the future, they have higher requirements for improving and enriching their lives.

Although most of their wishes are not extravagant, they want a new dress, a pair of gloves, new paper and pens, a set of gadgets, or even just some small toys for children, but don't say that they are almost nothing compared to their old days. The poor life without desires is even a great improvement compared to when they entered the city.

People either call for friends, or bring their children, or walk towards the market alone. They are first attracted by the stalls selling various food at the door. The free baked potatoes have been distributed, and they need to pay for rich food instead. All kinds of cakes, porridge, noodles and soups occupy the chopping boards on both sides of the road, as if the organizers of the market have moved a semi-finished canteen, although the price is more expensive than the canteen (the non-holiday canteen is also People pay for it), but it also seems to look better and smell better.

The waiters at the booth proved that people's feelings are not an illusion. They took out the delicious secrets under the booth - some glass or metal jars, and introduced these food collectively called "canned food" to curious people. The resulting effect, not surprisingly, is also known that these cans are also available on the fair's market and are a new product to look forward to.

The appearance of new foods has indeed enhanced people's curiosity about the trade fair, and after entering the market, even though the new residents have already thought they are familiar with the "big skills" of the pioneers, they are still open to the scale and arrangement of the trade fair. vision.When they were amazed, someone else asked, "Haven't you even seen these products?"

"As far as things are concerned, we have seen most of them," said the new residents, "but there are too many of them!"

Then the new resident asked the person who asked the question: "Are you from anywhere else? Have you seen so many commodities in other cities?"

The other party said with a dry smile: "Ah, every city has its specialties, and the new Mahi City probably has more commodities."

"It's a pity that most of them are not made by ourselves." The new resident said, "I really hope that one day we can produce so many goods by ourselves."

The other party was very surprised, "The goods in this market are enough to be sold to people in a kingdom! You also want to produce them yourself, so who should you sell so many things to?"

"There are still so many people in this kingdom who don't have enough to eat, don't wear warm clothes, and have nothing," said the new resident. "They must need these things."

The other party looked at these stupid young people in amazement, "But they have no money!"

The young people looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Yeah, none of them have any money," they said.

The person on the opposite side showed sarcasm, and when they were about to sneer, the group of young people spoke again.

"Then make them rich."

"Just let them live a life like ours."

"To build more places like this city, it is best that people in the entire kingdom can get what they need by working with their own hands like us."

“That way, whatever we produce will go somewhere.”

This terrible dialogue made the person on the other side unbearable: "This is impossible! What dreams are you having!"

The confused eyes of the young people focused on him, "Why is it impossible?"

This time it was the turn of the person opposite to be tongue-tied.

What is impossible?Is it impossible to build such cities again, or is it impossible for Gentiles to occupy the country through these cities?After coming to this city and seeing this trade fair, who can categorically say "impossible"?The young people waited for the person who provoked the trouble to respond, but only waited for the other party's stern sentence "Heretics can't last long!" and the back view of leaving in embarrassment.

"It's really incompetent." The young man looked at the back of him and his entourage leaving in a hurry, feeling very emotional.

"Even we can't argue."

In the market as a whole, few people would be willing to clash with the new residents of the city.The vast majority of people did not come here to make trouble. When communication is needed, most of the attitudes of the two sides are very friendly.New residents do not resist communicating with outsiders at all. Although they can learn about what is happening in other places through channels such as newspaper broadcasts and classes, they are also eager to get some life information from nearby, preferably their own hometown. For outsiders, they believe that the lives of the new residents are real compared to the overly perfect official answers of the waiters in the market hotel.

Especially after visiting the shops that sell crop seeds, foreign traders have many questions to be answered-no matter how much the various wonders they see along the way make people linger, most of them will eventually rely on With firm determination, I came to the shops selling crop seeds. They were opened next to the grain, oil and food stores.However, only one side of the interconnected stores was stacked with goods that looked like grain seeds. On the low booth outside, square wooden frames were used to hold soil. I don’t know what method they used to make them placed side by side. Together, the wooden frames show the different stages of growth of the crops, just as they have seen in the instructions.

People have to stare at these green and swaying crops in the late autumn morning for a while before they notice the open area on the other side of the seed store. There are long tables and benches on three sides, and some people who look like shop assistants are sitting behind.

People have accumulated the courage and experience to communicate with the clerks through the shops they passed on the road, so they went up and asked, "How do you sell the seeds?"

The clerk spoke briskly about the unit price, and people, though they had no way of comparing it, believed that it was as reasonable a price as any other commodity, since almost everyone could afford it.But when they took out their wallets and took out the banknotes exchanged at the market hotel to calculate how many seeds they could buy, the clerk said: "Besides currency, you can also use another payment method."

"Do you know the 'labor contract'?"

Of course people don't know.

The clerk told them that this is a contract of "exchanging power for power", because the production of commodities consumes not only raw materials, but also human strength. Only human labor can turn natural materials into commodities, and people use their own labor to obtain Currency, and then using currency to buy goods, is to complete a "force-for-force" - in this understanding, even if there is not enough currency, people can sign a contract with the market party and promise how much they will work for them in the winter slack season God, come and get yourself the goods you need right now.

And what people can sell in this contract is not only their own labor, but also other people's - after all, many people come on behalf of their own villages. Although the terms of the multi-person contract are more and more complicated, if you dare Promise that a poor village can bring back the expensive water wheel from the farm tool shop: they don't even have to worry about how to bring these big guys, the city will send a special convoy to the village for them.

No matter how impatient, people who want to pay as soon as possible to save themselves from temptation will take a breath when they hear such conditions.

This is really unheard of... a loan contract!

But after the initial horror passed, more than one person felt moved.It is too difficult to resist the attraction of many commodities at the fair. Every time people make a choice, they will feel mental pain, not because their own greed cannot be satisfied, but because of the expectations of others behind them. Everyone comes to this They all took all the money they could find with themselves and their relatives, friends and neighbors, and wanted not only the legendary magic seeds, but also some food and medicine like "good bread" to go back to the city.Under such circumstances, even if they only need half a copper coin a day, the general store that includes a meal will not make them live comfortably, so this "labor contract" is very attractive to them.

It's just selling their labor, even selling their souls is not impossible. People have repeatedly asked and confirmed: once the contract is signed, they can immediately take away the goods they fancy, and they can just leave the city and return to their villages. As long as you arrive at the agreed place before the performance date, and then follow the arrangements of the foreman.When they come to fulfill the contract, they only need to bring enough food for their own journey, they don’t need to bring their own tools, and they don’t need to bring their bedding.

If they worked until spring at most, they would be able to pay off their contractual debts and return to their villages.

Is this contract harsh?Of course not, no one thinks that such a contract is harsh, unless the job the Gentiles want them to do is to use flesh and blood to open the gate of the devil world.

People also do not doubt whether the new Mahi City has enough power to ensure the fair realization of this contract. This city has already created an indestructible image in people's minds.But people's first reaction is still hesitation and caution, which is an instinctive sense of insecurity caused by the large power gap.

And people are not used to making choices. Most of them came to this city because they couldn’t imagine, but now they have to face so many—limited money and almost unlimited necessities, the embarrassing present and the pre-planned future— These choices confuse them.

As a result, most of the hands that reached for the purse were hesitantly put down. People crowded in front of the long table and asked the shop assistants one question after another. Some people left the shop silently after listening to a wave of questions and answers. Companions, or people who have only met after coming here, get together to discuss the pros and cons of this new payment method for them, and if they want to sign such a contract, how much should they mortgage.

Before the discussions came to a definitive conclusion, yet another shock spread from the center of the crowd: the labor contract had actually been signed before the fair, and the city was not contracted with an individual farmer or village , but the three lords, the contract has come into effect from now on, and their subjects are allowed to travel freely between the two places and use their own labor to make deals with the city between now and before the spring planting begins.

The news was absolutely true from the clerk who represented the city. Even the notice of the contract signed by the lords was pasted on the wall, and the white paper was covered with bright stamps. Those who belong to the territory, they were pushed to the front of the crowd, carefully observed the seals representing the lords, and said in a weak voice after a long time: "We can't tell that this is fake..."

But when did the lords come to this city?Why would they make such a covenant with Gentiles?What good would this contract do for themselves, would the King and the Church allow them to do so?Does this mean that the Gentiles are to be reconciled with the nobles?Can they coexist peacefully?

More urgent questions quickly overwhelmed the clerks, but they seemed to have received special training and answered these questions skillfully. It cannot be said that they did not answer the above questions, but it is difficult for people to learn from these skillful answers. Satisfied, especially after discovering more remarkable things from their veiled rhetoric, people's thirst for knowledge has risen to an almost anxious level.

There seems to be another way to find a real answer.

The seed shop not only attracts people from all over the world, but also attracts new residents who have already learned about the basic point village plan and are shaken by it.The city will provide a certain amount of seeds for the first three years of the new village, but it is limited to the staple food, so people also need various vegetable seeds and livestock seedlings, which can be purchased from the city in the name of the village after people migrate to the base village , But old habits make people have to understand the market now.

In fact, these new residents who intend to engage in agriculture have no intention of actively communicating with outside traders, but for some reason they are gradually surrounded—because someone else brought the topic over.Seeing that the situation was not good, some people struggled to get rid of those chasing questions, but very few people stayed behind.Maybe it's because they've discovered their fellow countrymen, maybe it's just because they've always been responsive in this city, so they've learned to treat others in the same way, or maybe it's just because they've never received such attention...

But this very small number of people is not enough to complete the task of information dissemination.It is those who answer the "why" in the crowd that make the news spread in the shortest time.

Shara was such a person who accepted the task in question.

It's a somewhat miraculous task, but people have grown accustomed to accepting arrangements that seem miraculous.This girl who works in a breeding farm wears a loose uniform and her hair is tied up in a rough way. Even in the crowd, she is not timid. It is difficult for people to discover her female identity in a short period of time, not to mention that their emotions have already been mixed with her. The scene fell into chaos together. When she said "I know" and saw the clothes on her body, people couldn't help but follow this articulate "boy" to the thatched shed as the dividing line of the road, concentrating on it listened to her explanation.

Then, through her, people learned about the winter construction plan of New Mahasi City, including twelve new-style villages, and a project that will benefit a quarter of the plain—the actual control area of ​​New Mahhi City is already so large. hydraulic engineering.Only half of the people in the city are left to maintain production, and the rest of the people have to invest in these projects. The alliance has allocated a large part of the food to the city from this year's harvest. Not only can it supply the needs of the city and the projects, they can also hire People from outside the city join in the building.

"That's right," said the people.

"But why the urgency?" they asked again.

"Sow the seeds one year earlier, and you will get another year's worth of food." Shala said, "Food is like wealth, and there is never too much food."

This reason is indeed convincing.People believe that turning a stone into gold, but they can't imagine that someone in this world can conjure food out of thin air, and they don't believe that any mage has the ability to make the land three times a year.It is also impossible for Gentiles to change the weather and the growth cycle of crops, at least it is impossible to do so on hundreds of thousands of acres of land-that is not something that humans can do!How could the Gentiles not wish to take back the food which the Gentiles had invested in the city and in the plain for all kinds of wonders?

"But why did the lords sign a contract with the city?"

The amazing plan of the Gentiles, even if it can only be partially completed, will turn the land that was devastated by disasters into good fields again. Although there is no such contract, it will not prevent the Gentiles from achieving their goals, but why should the lords help their enemies? What about growth power?

The girl who looked like a boy was silent for a moment before answering.

"Perhaps they don't want to be sinners."

This answer is not in the reference materials obtained by these non-professional public opinion guides, but their training is very rough. As long as they can spread most of the content of the "Plan", they will complete their mission. In addition, they can say whatever they want Anything, including going to warn people not to sign such contracts.

No matter what personal views these new resident representatives from production organizations at all levels express on such issues, the power to make people make decisions comes from their hearts. The consultation desk of the seed store is busy from morning to afternoon. There were a lot of people, and there were a lot of people who wanted to sign the contract on the spot, and there were even queues at the places where such formalities were handled.

Different from the cash-for-money transaction in the store, the process for people to sign the contract is very strict and serious. They have to go through at least three different questions and answers, repeating that their decision to sign the contract is made alone, knowing all the risks and costs, and After careful consideration, the three copies of the six copies of the contract with fingerprints were handed over to the last notary office, and the fingerprints were pressed for the last time, and finally the official seal of New Mahy City and the seal of the lord representing the third party were stamped.

This set of procedures is too grand, as if what they signed is not a labor contract, but an important document that can determine history.

Perhaps the farmers who signed the contract did not have any concept of "history" in their minds, but this kind of grandeur did give them a strong feeling of being valued.After the contract is signed, one copy is kept by the city in a locked wooden box, and the other can be taken away by the other party, or handed over to a "third party" for safekeeping on the spot—although the city is still responsible for keeping it in essence, Instead of the covenant book, what was taken away by the covenant farmers was a special wooden plaque as a token of fulfillment of the covenant.

Once the legally effective fingerprints and seals are stamped, the people who sign the contract can immediately obtain the paper "currency" issued by the city. They have no threshold and can pass through the entire trading market.

So the first batch of the most courageous people returned to the market and began to consume. Seeing these ragged and emaciated peasants walking into one shop after another with smiles on their faces, the people were greatly shocked by their transformation, and many people wavered in their determination. Therefore, the change to firmness is only due to the fact that the signing process of the contract takes a long time, and the notary office can handle the limited number of contracts during working hours. More people who have this intention can only get the numbered paper first, remember to talk to yourself Who are the two front and back who lined up together, waiting for the notary office to open again the next day.

But the end of the day's work by the notary office does not mean that the trading market will be closed accordingly.As dusk deepens, the market lights are lit.

The warm lights lit up the radiant shops, and the lamp burners pushed the carts like flaming mountains to the light poles standing on the side of the road, picked up bright wind lanterns with iron hooks, and turned them Hanging the pole heads one by one, the light shines on the avenue where there is still an endless stream of people. In the center of this bright avenue, the circular stage in the center of the market is also lit up with more bright lights one by one.

Even if someone has already signed the contract and bought everything they want on the first day, they are willing to delay leaving the city for a day.Not only because of the magic and colorfulness of this city and this market, they lingered here, almost the troupes of the entire kingdom were gathered here, even some troupes from the lower reaches of the river came here especially, perhaps only the major celebrations of the kingdom could Gathering so many performers.

Since their performance remuneration and board and lodging are all borne by the city, people can enjoy a visual and auditory feast at no cost, and it is difficult to refuse this kind of hospitality.In fact, before the trade fair began, even before the first batch of foreign traders moved in, the troupe had already started their performances in the city, and the new residents also affirmed their performances.

But what really made people look forward to was the performance from the Union Theater Troupe that just started tonight.