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"How much did you pay for the purchase?" Village Chief Wu thought he had heard it wrong.

"Ten cents a catty, if you have more, I can increase the price." Tie Qing thinks this is cheap enough, because the food in the Northeast, white rice costs fifty cents, and now it has risen to 56 Wen Qian a catty.

Rice from the south is okay, but Hanshui rice from the north is more expensive, at 68 Wen a catty.

This price has been rising all the time, no wonder the Song family was so arrogant at that time, this food is a necessity of life, people may not eat vegetables, but they must eat!

You don't need to spend money, but you can't help filling your stomach.

This allowed the grain merchants to sit on the ground and make money, and the dumped grain was booming.

"How much do you want?" Village Chief Wu asked Tie Qing with trembling hands.

"I want as much as there is in this village, not only food, but also everyone's surplus dried vegetables, big fat pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, I will take them all." Tie Qing said: "I have ten taels of silver, and I will give it to you first. Deposit."

He knew that he was a stranger to them, so he didn't do anything else, just give some benefits first.

The silver that Tie Qing gave was the official silver that was exchanged, it was snow white and of good quality, it looked like good money at first glance.

"Okay, okay!" After giving the silver, Village Chief Wu was so excited that he didn't know what to say: "Why don't you stay for a meal?"

"No, I'll go back and wait for everyone to sell grain." Before Tie Qing left, he said, "I'm a foreign businessman, and the grain merchants in this place are very xenophobic. Don't shout about your grain sales, or they will crowd me out. , I can't stand it."

This is very true, Village Chief Wu is not that Xiaobai either.

On the contrary, because he is a land household and the head of the clan, Village Chief Wu knows the dirty intentions of those grain merchants. Isn't he just trying to lower the price when the farmers need money to pay taxes?

This person's price has tripled and is worth a penny more. If you sell him a lot of grain, it can be even higher.

After seeing Tie Qing off, Village Chief Wu quietly summoned the villagers in the ancestral hall and talked about selling grain, okay, ten cents a catty, even door-to-door delivery is fine!

When they sold the most expensive food in the past, the price of grain was only six yuan.

Tie Qing went back and waited, didn't leave the place to eat lunch at noon, but took a bite of the jerky and steamed buns stored in the space by himself, which counted as lunch.

In the afternoon, no one came.

"Is it disgusting that I don't give enough money?" Tie Qing muttered to himself, "Or is someone obstructing them?"

If things can't be done, he has to think of another way.

As a result, in the evening, the sun was about to set, and people came!

There are still a lot of people, and these families all have ox carts to pull grain. Six ox carts came with more than 1 catties of grain.

It was brought by Village Chief Wu's family: "This is my family's food, take a look."

Tie Qing doesn't need to look at it, he can feel that these are newly harvested rice, which has the unique fragrance, vigor and vitality of new grain.

"Very good. I trust Village Chief Wu. We have the same surname, maybe we were a family 500 years ago!" Tie Qing put on a stern face, and smiled a little: "How many catties are these?"

"[-] catties." Village head Wu reported the amount, which was the grain their family wanted to sell.

"Okay, shall I give you some silver or some gold? I came here in a hurry, and I didn't bring any copper coins. You know, gold is more convenient." Tie Qing asked very considerately.

"Money!" Village Chief Wu rubbed his hands together: "Money is more convenient now, we just use it to pay taxes."

"Okay!" Tie Qing ordered silver coins for him, but because there were too many, Village Chief Wu even brought copper coins, and found Tie Qing some copper coins to go back.

After Village Chief Wu came, Tie Qing figured it out.

For the sake of safety and Tie Qing's safety, these people don't come during the day, but come at night!

The food was unloaded on Tie Qing's carriage, and Tie Qing drove the carriage to the warehouse. In fact, it was not put into the warehouse at all, and he directly received it in his own space.

The next day, he told the hired people that they can relax during the day and don’t have to come here at night. There is nothing to see in this place except for the carriage. These people agreed without thinking too much. , Why wait for this good thing?

There is no need to stay up late and watch the night, and there is no need to do any tiring work, just look at the pier and feed the horses to slip the horses.

On the second day Tie Qing was here, at dusk, this time the sun had not set, and people from Wujia Village came. The goods are settled.

Then people never stopped!

Wujia Village sold all the grain in their village to Tie Qing at one go, and no one sold old grain to Tie Qing. Tie Qing felt that they were all good people.

The simple and simple people, while getting benefits, began to miss their relatives and friends, not to mention the news can't be hidden, everyone is farming, selling grain to grain shops, breathless and angry, it is better to sell to this foreigner.

As for Tieqing, he has been harvesting grain, and will give gold when the silver is gone.

Generally speaking, if a person has two catties of grain a day, it is about seven hundred catties a year.

But at border crossings, those soldiers ate more, and he gave a person a thousand catties of grain.

With 30 people, [-] million catties of grain are needed, which is more than enough to feed the army in the north for a year.

And not only food, but also agricultural and sideline products such as big fat pigs, fat chickens, fat ducks, and big fat geese.

Miscellaneous grains are also sold, and Tie Qing never refuses anyone!

In Ping Township, there were almost 1 million catties of grain sold to him, but outside of Ping Town, there were also people from other villages who heard the news and shipped grain over night to sell.

He was really enjoying the purchase, and those grain merchants couldn't sit still.

Because they waited for three to five days, but no one sold grain to the shop.

The bosses behind the scenes of several grain stores sat together in the private room of a teahouse, and ordered a pot of high-quality alpine green tea. Now they are brewing tea, sitting together, you look at me, I look at you , a very rich big boss said: "I said, what the hell does this mean? We usually control the price of grain like this. Why don't those bumpkins sell us grain this time? It's time to pay taxes."

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the time limit for paying the tax is half a month. From the day when the tax payment starts, there are only fifteen days. After these fifteen days, there are still fifteen days left. But in the second half of the month, every day that passes, the tax will increase by one penny!

This is a bit of a retention fee.

It's just that ordinary people cannot delay for too long, and the imperial court will not let people delay for too long.

The sooner the task is completed, the local officials will also have face, and the comments from the Ministry of Officials will be much better in the future.

The later the task is completed, the more incompetent the local officials are, so many local officials attach great importance to taxation, which is what they show their faces.

Why did Yushu Village get the attention of the new county magistrate when the country was established?It was because their village was the first to pay all the taxes and food, which made the new county magistrate remember their Yushu Village and treat them well.

But several big bosses wanted to buy at a low price, and then went to the Northeast to sell at a high price. As a result, it has been several days, and no one has sold them grain.

"Isn't the day to collect tax money not yet here? These bumpkins just want to sell it for two dollars more." Another big boss who is skinny, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, looks like a stingy guy at first glance. The owner of the son: "When it comes to the last few days of paying taxes and grains, they should be in a hurry. At that time, I will collect grains for two cents a catty, and see if they sell them!"

"I said, Boss Sun, your price is not enough!"

This Boss Sun is a newcomer, he is mean and ungrateful, he has a small belly, and he cares a lot about every detail.

"Who told them not to sell me grain sooner!" Boss Sun thought even more viciously in his heart. When lowering prices in the future, he must be more ruthless, so that he can continue to lower prices and buy grain in the next year.

This is a long-term job, don't care about overnight.

"But in the past, they always sold us some food. This time, none of the eight grain stores in my family received any grain, not even a catty."

"The same goes for my six shops!"

"My family's is the same, not only in the town, but also in the county."

"Over there in Fucheng, you can buy them for five cents per catty!"

"If they have the ability to go to Fucheng instead, the cost of the journey alone will be enough."

Going to Fucheng to sell food, they couldn't get along just for the freight, so no one was willing to do such a thankless job.

In addition, they have to pass through the two city gates of the county seat and the prefectural city. According to the regulations, this kind of grain trading is subject to tax, otherwise, they will not desperately lower the price. If this road goes to the north, even if there are people along the way Check it out, you have to pay taxes when you pass through the big cities, otherwise how can you bargain with the people in Northeast Daying without a receipt for paying taxes?

When they harvest grain, they try their best to lower the price, but when they sell grain, they should try their best to raise the price.

I heard that the Northeast Camp has changed the quartermaster.

After they go, [-]% of them have to "activities" to make money.

"We don't care, anyway, the wool comes from the sheep."

Their prices are kept low, and there are people on the road to help them. They don't have to pay taxes when they pass through small towns, but they can only pay taxes when they pass through big cities. But with just a few big cities, can they count the tax money into their capital?

What they didn't know was that Tie Qing had already moved to another place and continued to buy grain. He would stop at one place for three days and three nights, and then changed to another place to continue buying.

In less than nine days, Tie Qing had almost harvested the grain, and the people here had also sold almost the same amount of grain.

Even if you don't come to sell grain to Tie Qing, if there are relatives who have sold grain, you can borrow money and pay the tax first, so you can keep the grain and sell it slowly.

Anyway, the common people are not in a hurry.

Tie Qing also completed his purchase task, and even bought a lot of beautiful fabrics in a provincial capital here, all of which were paid for in gold, and those fabrics were very beautiful.

There are also various gold and silver accessories, which he has purchased a lot, including some rouge and gouache from Jiangnan water town.

Tie Qing walked back. After two days in the boat, he started to walk by himself. This time he didn't rest during the day, he just walked in a straight line. Others may have to detour because there are high mountains blocking the way, but Tie Qing No need!

He has nothing to worry about, just such a person, like walking on flat ground, because he is not familiar with the road, it took him several days, and it took him two days and two nights to go back.

It happened to be half a month after he left the barracks, and he came back again.

He found a place to take a shower, changed into clean clothes, and found a cave. He found a huge cave in the mountains, which happened to be not too far from the military camp. He put all the food in the cave, and then After covering up, I went to Daying easily by myself, and met my uncle.

It's the hot summer now, Xiao Wei used to have a bit of a bitter summer, and every summer he had a hard time, with thin, sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, but this year, although he also felt uncomfortable, he didn't feel too uncomfortable, although he didn't like food too much However, this is his hometown anyway, so what he eats every day is very simple. In summer in Northeast China, the best meals are actually dipped in pickles or rice buns.

In order to have a simple meal, the Huotou soldiers in the camp usually make cold bibimbap.

It’s just stir-fried miso, and after it’s cooked, chop a lot of chopped green onions and coriander, then pour them together and eat them with rice.

At most one person can give one egg. Eggs, duck eggs and goose eggs are different.

The only one for the officers is scrambled eggs with miso, and then bibimbap, also with green onion and coriander. Of course, some people use Chinese cabbage leaves to make a rice bag.

When Tie Qing came, it was just in time for lunch, and when he came in, he saw his eldest brother, wearing a jacket with cut-off sleeves made by Brother Xiao, cropped linen trousers, and a pair of straw sandals on his feet.

Sitting on the kang, there was a big bowl of mung bean soup on the kang table, and he was holding a big rice bag and was eating it.

Tie Qing was stunned: "My uncle, you don't even have any food here?"

"What kind of food do you eat on a hot day? This is pretty good." Seeing him coming back, Xiao Wei didn't look like he was eating or sleeping in the open, and thought he had failed: "Come and sit down, and someone will bring you a meal bag too." , and another bowl of mung bean soup, don't worry, there is a lot of sugar in this mung bean soup."

"Okay, I'll eat it, luckily I brought my own food." Tie Qing took a large bag of sauced beef, which was the cooked food he bought when he passed by Beifeng County, and five roast chickens.

Xiao Wei picked up four of the five roast chickens, and gave them to the person who came to bring food to Tie Qing: "Send it to the four generals."

"Yes!" Xiaobing took the roast chicken and went out.

Xiao Wei took the dagger again, cut the beef on the spot, divided it into two pieces, and handed it to another soldier: "Give it to the doctors in the wounded battalion in the logistics."

"Yes!" The little soldier also left.

Tie Qing hurriedly protected the last roast chicken, and directly tore it into pieces with his hands: "Brother, eat chicken legs. When I was at home, the chicken legs belonged to Brother Xiao."