[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

After Song State increased the export volume of pork this year, Liao State also increased the export volume of mutton correspondingly.Immediately afterwards, the situation that the supply of mutton in Bianjing, the capital of the Song Dynasty, was in short supply gradually began to change, and the surplus of goods meant that its prices were reshuffled.

The gradually lowered price has also enabled more Song people to satisfy their fantasies about mutton.

When the people's preference for mutton was satisfied to a certain extent, this move ushered in their hunger and thirst for beef.

All of a sudden, everyone looked at these cattle teams and felt that they had seen the advertisements of the Dangxiang clan. The Dangxiang people who were leading the cattle and driving the cattle were living signs.

Even their gestures of waving whips to drive the cattle seem to express with their body language: Hi, this is our cattle, especially delicious and fragrant cattle!Hurry up and buy beef from us.

Well, whether it tastes good or not is not based on the opinions of the family, and you still have to eat it to know. The mature people of the Song Dynasty said this. Just when the party escorting the goods became more and more frightened under the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, They finally met the Kaifeng government servants who came to pick up the cows. After feeling their eyes immediately cast on those government servants, these party members finally took a breath, did not dare to stay, and immediately packed up their things and left the place.

Let me be good, what about the reserved and elegant people from Bianjing?Why do they all look so scary!How long have they been hungry! ! !The eyes are all green, as scary as a prairie wolf.

Xia Anran really admired Yu Tianbao, he couldn't figure out how this guy managed to use the 500-odd cows as compensation for the party, and was safe and secure without attracting attention, and was even confessed Protected and sent to Songdu.

After all, as a tribute, these cattle received preferential treatment from all parties during the transportation process. Even in the summer when travel is not suitable, the loss rate is not high.And I don’t know if it’s because they walked, ate, and exercised along the way, forming an invisible state of chasing grass that is most beneficial to herbivores, or because the post stations along the way gave more care to these cattle in order to prevent accidents. It's all fat!

Although as he expected, most of the cows sent by Yu Tianbao are cows, and there are only a few bulls here and there, and these bulls are basically not very healthy, so it is a bit far-fetched to be a breeding cow. type.

However, the leader of the herd looked very energetic, with a tall character and dark eyes that seemed somewhat transparent.It's just that it looks like this... I always feel that it is different from other cows.

Xia Anran stood outside the cowpen in the posture of a farmer and observed carefully. It seemed that the bull that pushed aside the other cows and occupied a feeding trough by itself was not quite like the bull on the side of the party, especially the horns. , the horns of ordinary captive bulls should not be damaged so badly, right?It looks like it has experienced a bloodbath... and so on.

He rubbed his chin, looked at the charming heifer waiting with its tail tossing, and then looked at this bull with an obviously different style of painting... After a while, he watched it sway left and right in the cow pen after eating Shaking, rubbing this top top that... Xia Anran's expression changed significantly.

Ok……

If he guessed correctly, this should be a bison, or a stray cow that escaped, and then this cow may be attracted by this strange group of cows and weak bulls, and then indulge in beauty and indulge in Concentrate feed, just followed all the way here and was locked up here.

...Why didn't people along the way notice that this cow is weird?And does this cow know that if he hadn't stopped him, it would have sent itself to the people's table in Bianjing City?

Seeing that I am a person with vested interests, heck, let me stop complaining.

While the people in Bianjing City are eagerly waiting for the beef to go on sale, Xia Anran is preparing concentrated feed to take care of these moos. Their thinking is correct, there is indeed no way to deal with the sudden herd of cattle with the free area in Bianjing City and pasture storage. , but this couldn't hold Xia Anran ready to meet these cows early in the morning.

He not only planted pasture, but also bought a large amount of grain when the water transport was just opened, as well as roughage made from fermented straw that had been tested in small batches before, all of which were enough to meet the food needs of these cattle.

The herd of cattle confined to a small area was a little dissatisfied at first, but they were quickly appeased by the fragrant concentrate feed, and they didn’t have to do anything to walk around every day, and no one drove them away, just went for a walk Eating and eating happily, the little life couldn't be more beautiful.

In order to entertain these guests who came from afar, the servants in this village were fully mobilized, especially Xia Anran asked them to check the cows for scabies and wounds one by one, and isolate anything that was wrong.

Among them, Xia Anran asked them to pay more attention to whether there were ulcers on the udders of the cows. If there were any, they must be picked out. Fortunately or unfortunately, this batch of cows did not have similar conditions.

Xia Anran could only put aside the plan of introducing vaccinia due to regret. He touched his chin, thinking that there might be problems in this area when the cows are in their lactation period. squeak.

And by checking the mating status, someone finally discovered that many of these cattle herds that spanned more than half of the Song Dynasty were pregnant.Xia Anran was immediately excited by the news. In order to find out how many pregnant cows were pregnant and what their pregnancy status was, he had to second a livestock officer to observe.

The alfalfa grass that was sown in the beginning of this year is ready to eat. For hygiene reasons, these grasses have undergone secondary treatment, which is more hygienic and easier to eat.The fat and tender alfalfa grass quickly captured the hearts of the cow girls, and the cow girls who were in a better mood could endure the animal officer's hands for a while, and Xia Anran soon got a report.

There are more than 30 pregnant cows, and some cows may not be pregnant for a long time, or they may be too alert. After all, they are not acquaintances who have been cared for for a long time. , this situation has far exceeded Xia Anran's expectations!

On the 14th day when these cattle arrived in Bianjing, the first calf was born.

This time the birth was so early that Xia Anran was caught off guard, and when he got the news and rushed over, the calf had already stood up, trembling and curled up under the mother's belly.

He first gave a thumbs-up for the mother cow, and then immediately began to adjust the feed for lactation. The alfalfa was full, the proportion of roughage was reduced, the proportion of concentrated feed was increased, and all drinking water was replaced with plain water. On the salt rock.

Xia Anran snapped his fingers. He looked at the "mother's dormitory" prepared by the animal officers and the cows. After calculating the travel time and pregnancy time of these cows, he finally came to a conclusion. It should not be the breed of this stray cow who loves beauty but not country, but the cub of the original herd.

Heck, that's pretty good too.He rubbed his chin, and it was considered a buy one get one free. A calf that was born safely after a long journey must be a good breeding cow in the future.

I rely on you to improve the cattle gene of Da Song!

Xia Anran leaned against the side of the cowshed, watching the calf with round eyes and squealing milky sound with its eyes closed looking for its mother's nipples, eating with satisfaction.I just think it looks cuter!

With the birth of this calf, the other mother cows seemed to have received the message that it is safe to give birth here, and began to give birth one after another.By the end of the summer, he had 36 calves in total, as well as 36 lactating cows.

The lactation period of a cow is about half a year, and it can last for about nine months if the nutrition is sufficient. In fact, since the local cows in Bianjing City gave birth to calves at the beginning of the year, Xia Anran has already cooperated with artisans to develop how to make milk powder.

At present, the method they use is to boil the milk in large quantities to evaporate the water in large quantities, then spread the highly concentrated milk on a heated iron plate, grind it thinly and heat it for further dehydration, and finally shovel it down and beat it powder.

Although the number of meshes is relatively high, after testing, these milk powders after brewing can return [-]% of the fragrance of milk.

However, it is unknown how much nutrient content is lost in this kind of processing, and how long the shelf life is. After all, it is only a test product, and the output is not much, so the experimental data that can be collected in a short time is very rare.

But the milk collected now should be able to provide them with the most important data - milk powder, whether it can provide soldiers with enough calories in winter.

Because of the sudden addition of dozens of lactating cow mothers, and the verification by the animal officer, there are also many pregnant cows in the herd. Xia Anran's hoarding of forage before is not enough, at least not enough to deal with it. There is a big wave of dairy cows every spring.

He couldn't use the forage stored by the army, which was used to raise horses, and horses were much more delicate than cows.In desperation, Xia Anran could only openly buy alfalfa from the people of Kaifeng Prefecture.

Those who are interested can buy cheap alfalfa seeds from him. They can harvest a wave after planting in autumn this year, and there will be another big wave in spring next year.

At the same time he also buys wheatgrass.

That's right, wheatgrass itself is also a good green fodder, but those who are willing to sell him wheatgrass are usually weak winter wheat seedlings that were culled when the farmer repaired the field.

It is better than nothing, because the price he offered is more beautiful, and alfalfa itself is a weed, and it is not picky about the growth environment and soil quality. , There are quite a lot of people who are willing to grow alfalfa.

In addition to these common forages, he basically needs as long as the forage that the cows are willing to eat, even if the cows don't eat it, he can feed it to the pigs, and there is absolutely no waste.

With the market, the farmers in Kaifeng Prefecture immediately took action, and some even found the government to contract the saline-alkali land on both sides of the Bian River.

The saline-alkali land itself is a piece of waste land, and the contract price is naturally extremely low. This brother also made preparations beforehand. He quietly dug some soil here and went back, using this soil to cultivate alfalfa. Although it germinated in this soil The rate is not high, but alfalfa can barely adapt to this field if the method of raising seedlings and then transplanting is adopted.

Although it doesn't look very good, it can't stand the cheapness here.

He took the lead and quickly attracted people to follow.

When autumn came, the caravans coming and going found that small fields suddenly appeared on both sides of the Bianhe River, which had been barren in the past.

I don’t know what that kind of one is, it’s so green and pretty~

The change has already quietly started through these unobtrusive pastures.

Since autumn, Zhao Zhen has issued several memorials for tax exemption and labor exemption. In July and August, the Qiang people were exempted from rent and labor in the areas affected by the border disturbance for two years.

Bao Zheng and Pang Taishi, who collected all the information in the south, handed over tax increases or illegal activities in several areas in Zhongzhou Yanjing, Kuizhou, and Wanzhou. After the special investigation team went to the local area to investigate the facts, Zhao Zhen abolished them in one fell swoop. The transshipment envoy inspects the state and judges those who are incompetent.

After a great turmoil in the officialdom, a group of officials fell from their horses, and young people stepped up one by one, and the government was cleared up instantly.

On September [-]st of the lunar calendar, money supervisors in various places were ordered to stop minting old coins, and began to use new coinage methods. The Song Dynasty coins with brass as raw materials officially entered the stage.

At the same time, in order to solve the strong demand for currency in the Song Dynasty, the new version of brass coins appeared for the first time with a denomination of more than one penny, with a cross engraved on it.

Its weight and thickness are higher than one penny, but due to the need for carrying, the weight of this coin is less than ten pennies.

In order to prevent local money supervisors from issuing ten coins indiscriminately and causing currency inflation, such coins are only issued and allocated by the central government. At present, the positioning of this part of coins is still placed on large commercial exchanges, rather than on daily life of the people.

At the same time, for the first time in the Song Dynasty, the crime of using counterfeit currency and the punishment regulations were posted on the bulletin boards of various regions.

One of the innovations is that anyone who sees the use of counterfeit money will be rewarded by reporting to officials.

At the same time, county governments around the country have received a document on how to punish those who make and use counterfeit money.Among them, the different penalty methods for various situations are clearly divided.

At the same time, in order to avoid the great impact of this punishment on the people, the official regulations now start to end the year when the dragon raises its head in the next year. Within half a year, if you are not sure whether the money you use at home is counterfeit, you can still use the money to go to the local area. The money supervisor and the official authorized department exchange the old copper coins for the new version of the coins one-to-one.

Of course, a large exchange needs to be booked in advance.

Also published is the official weight of coins for each year. The county government has placed a fair scale, and people who are not sure can go to weigh it by themselves.

--What?What do you think those people from abroad are too late to rush over?Hehe, that's not us from the Song Dynasty, the money was also stolen, our country only protects the interests of its own people, thank you.

The Honglu Temple of the Privy Council jointly issued a statement, reminding foreign trade workers to remember to pay attention to the coins in the hands of foreign businessmen in the coming year, and be sure to check them carefully. After the exchange date, the use of counterfeit coins will be punished according to the situation.

Hope that everyone knows.

The new version of coins is golden, just like gold coins, which makes people like it when they look at it. Ordinary people don't care about exchanging currency. Since they can exchange one for one, there is no loss for them.Nowadays, when the government famously says that counterfeit money is harmful and may involve their own interests, the public's enthusiasm for resisting counterfeit money has obviously increased a lot.

Ordinary small households naturally don't matter, and small shops are not a big problem, just buy a fair scale to weigh coins, but for large merchants and wealthy families, the problem is much more serious.

First of all, no one can guarantee whether the copper coins at home are real, but it is a bit tangled to take them out for exchange.

Compared with the modern counterfeit coins which are almost worthless, the counterfeit coins of the Song Dynasty are also made of copper. At the time of the founding of the country, the coins were more advanced, and the copper content in the coins had to drop sharply in the middle and late stages.

For this reason alone, in fact, everyone has the habit of hoarding copper coins.

Even if the copper coins are rotten and stuck together, he is still a lump of copper, and he will not lose money.

New coins were issued every year in the Song Dynasty, and it’s okay to have a Tiansheng coin this year, but now a piece of news about “cracking down on counterfeiting” will inevitably make people panic. If they accidentally traded hidden copper coins, they would be sentenced It's good to use a fake.

If there is a criminal record, not to mention that it is not clear, just saying that you will not be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future is enough to cause headaches.But if they are all exchanged for coins, does anyone know how much less copper the new coins have than the old ones?This is virtually a loss.

Among the mysteries, there is no room for people to deliberate carefully.

The last decree made many people feel even more heavy. The superiors issued a document saying: The real currency will continue to be used for ten years, and it can be exchanged for the new version of currency for free. After ten years, an exchange fee will be charged.

In other words, even if they take real coins ten years later, they will be discounted.

In fact, now that we have entered the Iron Age, the value of copper in society is far less than it was in the past. Now the biggest consumption is the production of bronze statues besides making coins.

Currency that is not in circulation is scrap copper, and these coppers will be sold at a discount.The news of this price discount immediately shifted the balance in their hearts.

But there is still the most troublesome problem - as the saying goes, wealth should not be revealed, if you go to exchange copper coins, won't you reveal your family's wealth?It would be good if Xiao Xiaoke would be attracted by then.

Don't worry about this at all.

As the time entered December and the Great Song Dynasty entered Maodong, in order to meet the performance of various places, some county governments provided door-to-door currency exchange services.

Although part of the handling fee needs to be paid, others cannot get the truth about the exchange value.

Of course, in order to further confuse the masses, such a service starts with five carts. Even if the customer only has one cart of copper coins to exchange, he still needs to pay five carts.Such rogue clauses are euphemistically called a cover for specific numbers.

There are many merchants in the Song Dynasty, and this kind of service quickly received five-star praise when it was launched. At the same time, it also caused another way to show off wealth. Everyone, today you call five cars, tomorrow I will call ten cars, and the day after tomorrow I will make an appointment. 20. There are two carts, and each cart is heavy when coming and going. It is not known whether the contents are stones or coins.

In short, Kaifeng Fufu Yamen, which was the first to launch this service, has made a lot of money. Although it is free to exchange money, the escort vehicles cost money. With the wind of comparison, the business volume has skyrocketed.

With a big wave of his hand, the money is considered as an annual gift for the brothers, except for some costs.

Escort services also emerged at the same time. The number of official guards is limited, and the exchanged coins must be sent to the corresponding money prisons in various places, and new coins must also be retrieved. In addition to soldiers, the protection work is handed over to the local post.

The post station needs manpower, which naturally attracts some people from the rivers and lakes to do odd jobs.

At the same time, after obtaining approval, some local garrisons also set up escort teams, and the elderly soldiers who are also military officers hang the flag.Most of them appear in cooperation with the local government, which can be regarded as the tertiary industry.

In fact, most of the army in the Song Dynasty had secondary and tertiary industries in order to support themselves. The more common one was lending business. The distribution of military rations, rewards, and salaries was postponed. Recovering wealth, on the one hand, there will be growth, and the food will still be new food, and it will also reduce the pressure on storage.

Strictly speaking, this has become a common situation for the Song army, except for the possible risk of emergency dispatch of troops and insufficient food reserves or the risk of going to the peak for investigation.

Even Yue Fei and his Yue family army are local usury creditors.

Escort business, water transport entrainment, smuggling, and selling copper coins and armaments have become good ways to make money.

In the final analysis, the reason is that one of the methods used by Taizu in the early Song Dynasty to reduce military power was to encourage the local military and government to collect money and return to business, and the style of singing and dancing girls naturally led the military officials to the other extreme.

Unlike most military officials in most dynasties who were troubled by money, the military officials in the Song Dynasty were really not short of money.

In the barracks, the middle and upper levels are mostly interlocked, and they collect money in a unified way. This part of the wealth is shared by almost everyone who serves as a soldier, and they can get some sweetness. Until the financial constraints in the middle and late Song Dynasty, they could only default or even The military is encouraged to operate in this manner.

At the same time, the soldiers at the border can also help spy intelligence inadvertently by conducting such trade activities.In addition, this also improves the treatment of the soldiers, eases the pressure on military expenses, and stabilizes the conflict between officers and soldiers. In the end, the official even advocates them to engage in business.

As long as you have money, many things are no longer a problem.

It’s just that the impact is huge. The essence of the army is to defend the country. Now it’s possible to focus on the secondary and tertiary industries without negative impacts. The biggest impact is corruption.

Enjoying the days of singing, dancing and peace, big fish and meat, how can you be willing to settle for porridge and side dishes?

Besides, if you put a lot of energy into management, where do the soldiers get their experience and training?

There are many capable people in the army of the Song Dynasty. After a rough investigation, there are those who can make wine, paper, calligraphy and painting, pharmaceuticals, and even burn charcoal and weave embroidery.These people are cheap labor in the army.

And the most important thing is that the labor cost of the Song Dynasty was not low. If ordinary people were employed normally, they would have to obey the state's regulations and pay the "minimum wage", but the upper and lower ranks of the army did not need it at all.

Is it not the dream of all foremen to keep the labor fee and not pay the wages.

The impact of such a problem was all written in the document and handed over to the emperor after Bao Zheng and Pang Taishi made a round of inspections.

But even though several discussion conferences were held in the imperial court, this problem still could not get a better solution.Xia Anran couldn't think of a good solution to this point.

The troops of New China were allowed to serve the secondary and tertiary industries for a long time after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This was largely because the country was poor at that time and indeed could not afford the expenses of the army and barracks. Therefore, we had no choice but to acquiesce The barracks self-find ways to subsidize.

But all this was banned after the Chinese economy took off.

During the period, various corruption incidents were exposed on a large scale in the army, which was largely related to the private operation of the army. It was not until 17 that local troops basically stopped paid services.As of that day, it took nearly [-] years from the prohibition of the establishment of the tertiary industry to the cessation of paid services before it was considered a smooth transition. At that time, it had been nearly a hundred years since the establishment of the Huaxia Army.

If there is such a problem in modern times, how can we talk about the Northern Song Dynasty.

In this era of prosperous commerce, not only the military, but even many official projects have the shadow of large capital and large investment. There are too many operations involved in the capital market. Don't dare to move it easily.

In short, if the military is completely prohibited from opening collateral industries, the state will have to distribute a large amount of assets to make up for their losses-this part of the money cannot be provided by the imperial court.

But if the army continues to do this, it will inevitably suffer losses for the country, and the decline in combat effectiveness is also inevitable.

That being the case—

"It's better not to directly establish a business department attached to the military region."

Xia Anran brought out the concept of "military investment" that has been banned in modern times.

This move is nothing more than drinking poison to quench thirst, and frankly speaking, there are many legacy problems, but considering Renzong's major movements in the next ten years, it can barely be used at present.

"It is better to choose young soldiers to follow." Renzong said after a long silence.

Therefore, taking advantage of the east wind of currency reform, this decree traveled all over China.

At night, Xia Anran told Bai Jinxi her worries one by one.

Although this is his third world, the era of Song Dynasty is more complicated than any era he lived in before. A road that history has never traveled.

The economy is taking off suddenly, the quality of the people and the concept of the country can't keep up, but there are still many powerful enemies around. Xia Anran thinks and writes the knowledge he acquired in college, writes and writes, and still can't think of it good idea.

Apart from accounting, what he had learned about economics before was "Western Economics", but what he majored in was just an overview of "Western", and only briefly mentioned some concepts. Now, he can't think of a good one. method.

This point, Bai Jinxi is quite open to it.

He stretched out his hand to grab it, and put his troubled partner into his arms.Xia Anran obediently sat on his lap, and raised her hand to hook her lover's neck. The feeling of being comforted made his posture extraordinarily docile.

The man's temperature was transmitted to him through the thin unlined clothing, and the breath was gentle and quiet, which made his brain that had been tortured for these days calm down immediately, tiredness surged, Xia Anran yawned, and he took his own The cheek rubs against the neck of a person, just like a little leopard rubbing its smell everywhere outside the door.

Bai Jinxi didn't care about people who were dawdling on his most sensitive parts. With a flick of his fingertips, he took off the little prince's little crown, and with his movements, the black hair fell loose.

Xia Anran froze for a moment when he felt that his long hair was loose, and he groaned, "The hair is loose... You have to help me comb it tomorrow."

"it is good."

The lover's unhesitating response made Xia Anran immediately turn into a coquettish girl while staring in a daze, "I want to eat donkey meat pancakes tomorrow morning."

"Which one?"

"Hmm..." Xia Anran's brain was running slowly, and after a while, he turned his face slightly, looked at his lover's focused eyes and smiled brightly, "I want you to do it."

"Row."

"Well," his long eyelashes fluttered a bit, and he regretted it after feeling a little tired, "Forget it, don't burn the pancakes, you can sleep with me for a while."

His words were exchanged for a man's chuckle, Xia Anran only felt a pair of gentle hands touch his clothes, and then his man's hoarse voice rang in his ears, "Okay, sleep with you. "

Xia Anran woke up suddenly, "No, wait! I didn't mean that! Withdraw, withdraw"

"The withdrawal is invalid." Relying on the strength of his abdominal muscles, the man directly entrusted him to him, stretched his long legs, and went to prostitution in the daytime.

Xia Anran was so ashamed, alas, it's all about old couples!It's really embarrassing.