Defeat natural disasters with farming

The name of the alliance was finally taken as the word Tianen, and it was called Tianenmeng for short. City Lord Lin explained that he hoped that Tianen mighty, God could end the natural disaster as soon as possible, and let them return to their previous peaceful days.

This name is similar to Wangsi City.

The Covenant of Heaven's Grace basically stipulates the obligations and responsibilities that each city needs to undertake, as well as the corresponding rights. Once someone does something that endangers the alliance, the violator will be punished, and even expelled from the alliance in serious cases.

After Ye Yu signed all the contracts and stamped his fingerprints, more than 50 of them could finally go home.

Before leaving, they made an agreement with the envoys from Sunan City and Miaoshan City that they would form merchants in August every year and bring a corresponding number of furs there.

As for the five cattle they bought from Wangsi City, they were entrusted to Chenhui City, and they would send the cattle along the way.

On the way back to Jiwang City, all of them returned home like an arrow, and God gave me face. The journey was peaceful and there was no disaster. At most, they saw a herd of migrating elephants in a water lake. There were eight elephants in total. , each body is huge, and there is a baby elephant next to the tallest one, which is not long after birth.

Ye Yu always felt that the chief elephant was looking at them, but maybe he didn't think they were a threat, so he didn't come over to drive them away, but let people share the water with the elephants.

It took more than half a month to visit Sacrificial City, but it only took them half a month to go home, a total of five or six days wasted.

When Ye Yu saw the majestic gate of Hope City, he felt a sense of reality in his heart.

When he finished taking a shower, Ye Mu had just finished making noodles, and after bringing them out, she asked Ye Yu to come over for dinner. There was a whole pot of shredded pork noodles with mushrooms, and there were mushrooms and shredded pork in it. Because the soup base added fried tomatoes, so The salty taste has a slight sour taste, which is especially appetizing, and it soothes his appetite that has faded due to the long journey.

Besides the noodles, there was a whole roast chicken on the table, filling Ye Yu's nose with aroma.

Mother Ye helped him serve a bowl of noodles, and then asked, "Why didn't Brother Xu come over?"

Ye Yu took the time to answer while she was buried in the noodles: "We met his cousin in Wangsi City. This is good news. We have to tell Uncle Chu the good news. Besides, Uncle Chu may not have seen Brother Xu for a long time, so we have to call them father and son." reunion."

Mother Ye just asked a casual question, and stopped talking about it when she got the answer.

"Try our roast chicken. It's made according to the method you said. I've tasted it before and it's really good."

After speaking, he tore off a chicken leg and put it in Ye Yu's bowl.

The roast chicken is really well done, the meat is fragrant but not firewood, the skin is especially delicious and soaked in oil, it tastes extremely oily and fragrant.

After the meal, Ye Yu brought the brewed chrysanthemum tea and began to tell Father Ye what he had seen and heard along the way.

"The contracts we signed are all here." He handed over a backpack.

Father Ye nodded while flipping through the pages and said, "Okay, let me take a look first, you can go in and rest."

Hearing this, Ye Yu went to the yard to wash up. Just as he was about to go to bed after washing up, he remembered something. He took out his notebook from his luggage and wrote and drew on it with a pen.The diary records the inspirations he got from Wangsi City, such as opening up the market and changing the form of currency.

Now they can use physical currency, but they don’t know what to use better. In the long run, it is better to use copper coins, silver taels, and gold as currency forms, which can be perfectly integrated into the future market.

However, when using copper coins, the influence of the market must be taken into account. If we only talk about their Hope City, the market is relatively simple, and the impact of inflation and deflation can be minimized. If it is not possible, there are macro-control measures as the bottom line. Sicheng and other cities that also use copper coins are added, and it will not be so simple to regulate, unless they change the style of copper coins and then announce that the currencies between the cities are different, and they have to be exchanged for their respective currencies when consumption.

However, the consequence of doing so is that the market will become inactive, and there are many other shortcomings. However, Ye Yu stopped writing and thought about it before continuing to write. They are now equivalent to an isolated island. There are not many exchanges in the city, and most of them are in the form of barter, which covers up the shortcomings.

After writing these, Ye Yu put away the pen and put the diary back. This is a long-term matter, and it is impossible to finish it all in a short period of time. What they need to do is to make a plan. In the days to come, finish it in a planned way.

Thinking of this, Ye Yu could no longer bear the drowsiness, and lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, it was already the morning of the second day, the genius was dim, but the loud and clear crowing of the rooster had already appeared in his ears.

Ye Yu moved his body slightly, and suddenly felt a very familiar smell beside him.

"When did you come here? Why don't you stay there for one night?"

Chu Xufeng said: "I came here in the middle of the night last night. I didn't call you because you were sound asleep."

Ye Yu got up and stretched, "I slept well last night, my bones are soft."

"But starting today I'll be busy again, and I don't know when I'll be able to really be free."

When Chu Xufeng heard the words, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "Isn't the busier the better?"

"Yes, hurry up." After Ye Yu finished speaking, she suddenly froze for a moment, hallucinating some advertising words hidden deep in her mind, and then couldn't help showing a smile.

But no matter how busy you are, you need to rest.

So they didn't do anything all day today, they just took a good rest, sat on the recliner in a daze after getting up in the morning, holding a glass of iced juice in their hands, and cut watermelon in front of them , the only bad thing is that there are many watermelon seeds, and Ye Yu has to spit out the seeds after eating, which is really troublesome.

But the sweet taste of the watermelon itself is enough to make up for this shortcoming, so Ye Yu directly ate a whole bowl without wasting the watermelon seeds, collected them, and then used them as seeds or fried them into watermelon seeds to eat.

At noon, Ye Yu's family went to the old house for dinner. After seeing Ye Yu, the old couple of Ye's family expressed their distress, saying that he not only lost weight, but also darkened a lot.

Ye Yu's focus was on his own tan, he touched his face and said, "During the journey, I even got tanned, not to mention my elder brother and the others, all of them were as black as if they were stained by coal. "

Ye Hai was thinking of a way to get close to his daughter at this time, and when he heard Ye Yu's words, he said nonchalantly: "What about a man's dark spots, I'm not a woman, so I should pay attention to my appearance."

Ye He on the other side looked very envious, "I also want to visit other places, it's really boring to nest here every day."

Aunt Ye glared at him when she heard the words, "Be honest and stay at home with your wife, don't keep running out."

"Oh." Ye He replied wearily after being trained.

Ye Yu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't think so much, I'm really tired this journey, it's better if you stay at home all the time."

After a brief chat, Mrs. Ye asked them to come to the table for dinner.

Naturally, the lunch was delicious. There were several cold dishes on the table that were most suitable for eating in summer. Ye Yu liked one of the salad tomatoes the most. White sugar soaks the tomatoes that have been half-melted into water to make them extra sweet.

At the end of Ye Yu's meal, he ate his belly full. He thought it would be better not to eat it at night, and just eat some vegetarian food to clear his stomach. However, before nightfall, he and Chu Xufeng received a message from Uncle Chu, calling They went over to eat, so that his idea of ​​being a vegetarian could only be temporarily shattered.

But Uncle Chu was also considerate of their current situation, so he didn't cook big fish and meat for the meal that night, but set a pot on the table to cook the mushroom soup slowly over charcoal fire.

There are no meat dishes in the mushroom soup, and all of them are vegetarian. This is for drinking the soup, so that the taste of the soup will not be polluted by meat and meat. The only meat in it is black chicken.

Ye Yu drank soup most of the time when he was having dinner, the main reason was that the soup was so well cooked, there were many kinds of mushrooms in it, and there were even a few ginseng roots, which tasted extremely sweet.

Uncle Chu lovingly watched them drink the soup, and after they had finished drinking, he said with emotion: "I never thought she would be in Zhaoyang City."

"She's fine now, and she told us that you don't have to worry too much, and she will visit you after a while." Ye Yu put down the bowl and said.

"It's somewhat inconvenient for her to come here. If I'm free, it's better for me to go." Uncle Chu thought for a while and said: "After all, she is the lord of the city now, and it's not easy to leave once."

Ye Yu pondered for a while and replied, "That's true."

The two of them went home after dinner, and the rest of the night was dreamless until dawn.

It has to be said that just a simple day of rest has restored their energy to seven or eighty-eight, so in the following days, busyness has become the theme of life.

As Ye Yu recorded in his diary, the most important thing is to make real currency. After a meeting and discussion, they finally decided to use copper coins, but unlike Wangsi City, the copper coins drawn by Ye Yu have no holes in the middle, and the area is smaller , which is similar in shape to modern pentagrams and one piece coins, with Arabic numerals written on the front, one and twelve. On the back of both are the three big characters of Hope City.

The currency above copper coins is silver coins, which can only be exchanged for hundreds of ten-denomination copper coins, and then gold coins. Of course, there will be no gold coins here for the time being, at least until the market becomes active.

After determining the denominations of the various currencies, Ye Yu and the others began to discuss the ratio of points to copper coins, and finally decided that one point would be exchanged for a face value of copper coins, and so on, ten points would be exchanged for ten denominations of copper coins, and one thousand points It can be exchanged for a silver coin, and [-] points can be exchanged for a gold coin.

Ye Yu originally thought that the people in the city had a lot of points, but when they made copper coins and silver coins and opened them for exchange, he realized that the points saved by all the residents in the city were not too many, and the most points were actually It's their family, with a total of 620 seven points, which can be exchanged for 27 ten-denomination copper coins and [-] denomination copper coins.

Others have relatively few points, on average between [-] and [-], but it's normal to think about it. After all, there are many places where points are usually used, and it is rare to save them.

Corresponding to the currency is the market, so they specially set aside a place in the center of the city as a trading point, built many shops with the same system, and only waited for those willing to rent to pay the rent in the city.

There are also rules in the market, which are clearly written in black and white, and the tenants have read carefully when signing the deed. Once the contract is breached, the guards have the right to drive them out of the market and stop the lease.

Just when the shop started to be built, Chenhui City was about to leave at last. When the group of them passed by Jiwang City, they brought over the five cows that Ye Yu exchanged for them. Ye Yu checked the five cows one by one and found nothing wrong. , and paid them the final payment, a total of two bales of animal skins.

As time went by, the single-story pavement was finally completed in September. They are all green brick and tile houses, which are pleasing to the eye. In addition, they are built in a square shape, so they are very comfortable for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Soon the first batch of people who rented shops appeared, they were the carpenter's shop of the Qin family brothers, the blacksmith's shop of the Lin family, and the shops rented by several apprentices of Master Wu to sell various kinds of goods they brought from the mountains. species of prey.

Ye Yu also rented one according to the process. He plans to sell various groceries, such as straw paper and bamboo paper, maltose, etc., and even self-made books printed with movable type printing. Most of them are enlightenment books, basically all of which are his own The price is not too high, so he thinks the business should be good.

In fact, the monthly income is really good, at least thirty copper coins can be earned a month.

But he couldn't keep an eye on the shop every day, so Ye Yu went through the list recorded by the government and interviewed two sixteen or seventeen-year-old men and women with difficult families to help run the shop.

Both of them came here with Lu Wen. The girl's name is Su Yu. Both of her parents died, and she has a pair of younger siblings under her. Although she has been subsidized after defecting to Hope City, her life is not good. She As a woman in poor physical condition, she is still unable to go hunting in the mountains, so the three sisters can barely survive. She herself has a delicate personality. Although she cannot read, she can still do it with a simple introduction.

Another boy named Chen Lan was sick. He couldn't use his left leg since he was a child. Ye Yu thought it must be a symptom of polio. Fortunately, he only had no strength in his left leg. He was just like a normal person in other respects. In addition, he can read and count, so it is more than enough to be a bookkeeper in the shop.

They have five ten-copper coins per month, and if all of them are used to buy food, it will be enough to eat for a month.

Both of them are grateful. Ever since they were chosen to take care of the shop, they have been very professional. They go there very early every day. Before opening the door, they also carry water and clean up by themselves to ensure that the corners of the shop are not dirty. Sewage.

Ye Yu saw it in his eyes and kept it in his heart, and quickly decided that if they could maintain their performance, they would be given a wage increase next.

In addition to these, Chen Yuan and Uncle Chen also rented a shop next to Ye Yu. He planned to continue selling wontons with his wife. Originally, he just wanted to pass the time and didn't expect to make much money, but what he didn't expect After the opening, the business turned out to be very good. They can sell [-] to [-] bowls of wontons every day. You know, this is already very good. After all, they only open in the morning and evening, with all kinds of cheap steamed buns and fried dough sticks. The uncle and his wife worked very hard, and they both wanted to save some money so that they could marry and have children for their children as soon as possible.

Ye Yu observed the operation of the market for a period of time, and seeing that it was normal without regulation, he gradually let go.