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

Merchants in the Han Dynasty are generally divided into two categories, one is sitting in the hall, and the other is walking around the streets.

Generally speaking, the country has a higher tolerance for the latter, and the latter is occasionally sold by peasant families, which is also acceptable.

But the former is to be formally registered as a businessman.

In the Han Dynasty, you had to apply for a business license to open a store, and you had to set up a separate household register if you wanted to apply for a business license. Since then, you basically have no property privacy. Once you enter this kind of identity called "city registration", it means that you property to be monitored.The calculation of all income is different from that of other ordinary people, and the poll tax alone will be doubled.

And this thing is easy to do, but difficult to cancel.

Once you apply for a "business license", if you want to become a farmer again, you have to go through many examinations.There is also a fierce tiger standing in front of them-children are not allowed to be officials.

There is no promotion of Xiaolian yet, but there is already a selection system.The basic principle of the election system is that the person comes from an innocent background, and he can even be from a hooligan, but he must not be from a businessman.

But it is not without room for recovery. Those who have enough assets can invest in buying a "Lang Guan" for their children. This kind of behavior is called selection.

This system is the predecessor of selling officials and nobles, but the good thing is that the positions that the talents selected by this system can apply for are limited, only Langguan.

Lang Guan is a kind of existence similar to a talent reserve in the Han Dynasty. Its main source of talent is the father's shadow and the choice. Later, after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty chose Xiaolian, this reserve had another source of talent.

As long as you become a Langguan, your future career has nothing to do with your background. You can still have a good future if you work hard and get acquainted with the emperor.

However, with the recovery of the Han economy, the threshold for being selected as a Langguan is getting higher and higher, and one must be rich to enter. How can this kind of wealth be achieved through the accumulation of one or two generations?

It's like saying to a group of people who haven't yet made it to a well-off life that you don't have a future, and it's not a dream to catch up with Jack Ma after me.

The national policy is here, even if the county magistrate said that there are not many people who are willing to do it.

The person who is registered in the store is an old local family. His son was a soldier before and failed to come back. His grandson also died a few years ago, so the villagers went to him.

This old exorcist can also figure it out, he can't harm his children and grandchildren anyway, and now he can do some things for the village and enjoy some incense after he dies.Being a businessman, or this kind of businessman with support behind him, aside from other things, it must be a happy life in a small life.

If you cook well, you can still have meat to eat, and you won’t lose money if you live for a lifetime.

So he came here as a store manager with a name, and "hired" a few craftsmen from Gaoyang County to dry goods for him. He registered and collected money by himself, and helped measure the size. Seeing that the business is getting better and better. The better, self-conscious life is pretty beautiful.

As Xia Anran's first successful partner in attracting investment, with a wave of his hand, he exempted the rent of the shop and the taxes and fees of operating and management income, which can be regarded as economic support.

This is not because of his generosity to others. In fact, since the vassal king's system is all compared with the imperial court, it is not degraded nowadays.

Xia Anran has Liushang here, who is responsible for taking care of his basic necessities of life and managing documents, he is regarded as a confidential secretary.

There are nine ministers on the prime minister's side, among which the two functions of Da Si Nong and Shao Fu are in charge of finances.The difference between them is that the Dasinong is in charge of the national fiscal revenue, and the land tax and population tax of a country are all put into this treasury, while the Shaofu is in charge of Xia Anran's private income, which is outside the Dasinong treasury. All taxes go into his private treasury, which he can spend as he pleases.

According to the system, he can use the money from the private treasury to fill the public treasury, which is what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did in the later period; but he cannot use the money from the public treasury to fill the private treasury, even though strictly speaking the public treasury and private treasury are actually his money , are not required to be turned over to the state.

Such a system is actually to ensure that the extravagant and dissipated vassal kings will not really toss the local economy to collapse, and to ensure that the vassal state can retain basic self-rescue capabilities at critical moments of disaster.

By the way, the country does not ask you to collect taxes, which means that even if there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, the country will not intervene in the rescue, and you will take care of yourself.Not only did they not care about it, but the surrounding counties would secretly poke at them to take in refugees and poach the corners of the vassal kings.

After all, population is productivity. Apart from a few trade centers in this era, there are basically few cities with a surplus population.

Therefore, he did spend his own money, not the country's money, for tax exemption and fee exemption.

The Shaofu has been so busy recently that the back of his head is on the back of his head. This position was originally a leisurely position, but with Xia Anran's business contacts one after another, he gradually changed from walking slowly to galloping all the way, and his neck became more and more tilted. high.

Da Sinong, who always looked at this gesture, secretly envied him, but he also felt a little uncomfortable. His anger was secretly accumulating, and when he couldn't bear it any longer, he might have to go to the school to fight.

But what can be done?His Highness made it clear that he wanted to focus on business. Fortunately, he had no plans to focus on agriculture. Now that farming is idle, it is normal to be idle now.

But no leader will think that it is normal for you to be empty.

If you want to keep your job, you have to think of a way - Da Sinong began to secretly poke and plan to make trouble.

In the eyes of Gaoyang County people, Xia Anran is simply a good person!In order to thank the good people, they sent another batch of handicrafts, poultry and eggs there. Now that it is spring, Gaoyang has nothing else. This thing is dangling in the reeds, and it can be sure by touch.

Xia Anran accepted the gift with a smile, but did not dare to speak out.

Loss is definitely not a loss. Although a little tax is exempted, the shops here are themselves driving the popularity of the area.And these people have to rent a house to live here, right?Gotta eat, right?The curtain is so big, do you have to ask someone to carry it?

Compared with the fixed tax, these are the big ones.

Nowadays, merchants are inconvenient to move around. Even if the traffic in Zhongshan is smooth, it is not easy to do it again. Therefore, a new service is proposed for these paint merchants who are waiting for the wax curtain - dear, the Escort escort service needs to be tried what?Home delivery Oh!

However, this service is only available among several vassal states for the time being. It is the result of our Highness discussing with other Highnesses. There is no way. The relationship between the prefects of each county is more complicated. It is too complicated to discuss, and it will take time for approval. Fan Wang's way is much easier to talk about.

What, guest, you are not in the domain?That's no problem, let me see which feudal lord you are closest to... Ouch, King Zhao, hello King Zhao, that's our Highness's direct elder brother, and the customs fee he gives is the cheapest.

When the time comes, we will deliver the goods to this address, and you can pick them up with the receipt, and then you can take the goods away by yourself.But you have to pay attention to one thing, the maximum compensation for our goods is five times the freight, if you buy valuables, you have to pay extra to insure the price.

The little official talked non-stop, and there was an endless stream of merchants who came to study the concept of door-to-door delivery.They either studied the terms or listened carefully to the explanations, and finally came to a conclusion.

It seems to be more cost-effective than coming to pick it up by yourself.

Of course it's a good deal, among other things, it saves half of the travel expenses, and there is also the customs duty that Xia Anran asked his brothers to come.

The little king couldn't help but want to kneel down on the ground and mourn for his fallen hair when he thought of the many times of back and forth.

With Zhongshan as the center, Xia Anran has signed a logistics agreement with Zhao, Lu, Hejian, Jiaoxi, where her brother lives, Liang, where her uncle lives, and Jiaodong, where Liu Zhi lives. The frequency of times to transport materials.

At that time, the logistics income will be shared by everyone, and the tariffs will be the same as [-] taxes and [-] taxes. Long-term cooperative firms will also have tax exemption policies in various places.

This is equivalent to building a logistics network similar to a business alliance, and the trade within this alliance can have preferential treatment.

As the younger brother, Xia Anran was the initiator, but how to formulate the relevant rules was actually decided by his brothers. After they figured out what the younger brother wanted to do, the brothers threw him and Liu Zhi aside to discuss on their own. .

There is no way, the younger brother, who is acting like a fool, is still a child at first glance, since he is still a child, he should not participate in the discussions of adults.

And my younger brother didn't even understand the law, so let the elder brothers handle matters related to the money bag.

King Liang?King Liang came to join in the fun.Seeing that his nephews were busy and happy, he didn't intervene. Anyway, he had a lot of money, so it didn't matter if he gave some benefits to his nephews.

It is a model of a good uncle of the nation.

It's obviously a drama of seven countries, but we don't deserve a name?Does being a younger brother have no dignity?

Xia Anran was completely stunned by this kind of treatment that turned his face and refused to recognize anyone. When he realized it, no matter how much he stretched out Erkang's hand, his brothers pressed it down in the void. In the end, he could only turn his grief and anger into motivation. , wandering around in various markets every day, wandering around, he thought of a very useful thing.

— mimeograph. ?

In the era when there were no copiers, woodblock printing and movable type printing were extremely expensive, mimeograph was a memory of an era.

In fact, until high school, Xia Anran would occasionally use this kind of paper to produce papers when the teacher couldn't get on the copier. Basically, the handwritten papers he got were all products of this printing method.

That is simply a memory of an era. Basically, every child finished a set of papers with black paws.

Xiaopangxia still had a doubt back then, why did my grandfather always know that they had taken the in-class test?Not knowing at all is actually the secret exposed by his own hands and claws.

Books generally do not need to be printed by teachers. There are special printing machines for major exams. Only in-class exams require teachers to write stencils to print in small batches.Of course, there are little koalas with mimeographs on the hands-this secret grandpa will not tell the silly grandson.

In fact, the principle of mimeograph is very simple - it uses the impermeability of wax.

Wax is an extremely stable chemical substance. Even extremely active and enthusiastic fluoride ions are difficult to react with wax without the help of external force. Corrosion, frosted glass and patterned glass are made.

The principle of wax printing is actually similar to batik.

Cover the paper with wax, and use a bamboo knife to draw the required graphics or characters on the wax paper. This part of the wax will be completely removed, and then when the ink is over, the ink will flow down from this part of the gap along the fibers of the wax paper Penetrate down and print on the white paper above and below.

Generally speaking, a piece of stencil can be printed more than [-] to [-] times, and later, when the mimeograph machine can control the force and improve the service life of the consumable, a template can even print thousands of copies.

Zhongshan Kingdom used woodblock printing when selecting officials before, but it was really time-consuming and laborious. Although the woodblocks can be preserved for a long time after they are made, Xia Anran felt that the practicability was too low and the cost was too high.

After giving the production method as a gift to his father, who is a big business, he began to concentrate on making mimeographs.

The registration forms and letters of commitment held by these businessmen are the products of mimeographs. Xia Anran used her own experience to show everyone once again how powerful the ancient working people were to invent and create when they had sufficient funds.

After figuring out what His Royal Highness meant, these craftsmen showed their hands-on ability beyond imagination, and experimented with hundreds of kinds of light inks.

Maybe I can still see Gundam in my lifetime... Ah no, Yanjia!

Hey Hey.

The little king's fantasies were quickly interrupted by his younger brother, who ran in with red-eyed ducks, pattering in: "Brother!"

Liu Zhi said to his brother with a bitter face: "Weaving is really difficult!! Besides weaving by ourselves, is there any other way to put diapers on the ducklings!"

His brother smiled when he heard the words. It is not illegal to "get something for nothing", of course the only way is to buy it.

Liu Zhi took the copper coins given to him by his elder brother and ran to a local fabric shop to buy them.However, what puzzled him was that the silk and satin he was used to getting was very expensive. After noticing the amount of money, the shopkeeper pointed him to the burlap in the corner.

Liu Zhi frowned. He was very dissatisfied with this kind of fabric. The little duck is his friend, and he should give the best to his friends. This fabric is not as good as the one he wove himself.

He wanted to buy good fabrics, but the shopkeeper said he didn't have enough money.

Wang Meiren has always been frugal and simple, and the education of her four children is also very strict. Naturally, she will not give the children the wrong impression that "mother can afford everything she wants".

Therefore, although Liu Zhi knew that he should be rich, he had no idea how rich he was, and he couldn't directly reveal his identity to ask for such a thing.

Liu Zhi felt that his brother was waiting outside, and it would be embarrassing if he went to ask for money again. After all, his brother wanted to accompany him just now, and he said he could solve it, so his brother didn't get off the carriage.

Little man, isn't he just getting more face than the sky? He is already a big boy, so he has to figure out a way by himself.

A moment later, when Xia Anran was worried about why his brother hadn't come out yet, and was about to get out of the car to have a look, he saw Liu Xiaozhu, who had been stripped of his coat, staggering out with a roll of cloth on his shoulders.

Xia Anran was stunned.

That's right, it's not a foot of cloth, but a roll of cloth.

How did my brother tell others!How to buy so much?

Liu Xiaozhu cherished this roll of cloth very much, and he didn't want others to carry it, but moved it into the carriage bit by bit by himself.

Then Xia Anran, who frowned and thought that his younger brother had met a profiteer, learned the whole story from his younger brother.

No matter what Liu Zhi said, the merchant was unwilling to sell it to him at this price, and the old way of coquettishness that was always harmful to his father and grandmother was useless.So when the merchant wanted to coax the young man to leave, Liu Zhi sat down.

The businessman could tell from this man's attire that he must be a prince and grandson, and he didn't dare to offend him. He also saw that although the child was cheating, he didn't mess around. Instead, he tried to reason with him, so he told him Learned some business principles.

Especially when the young master said he didn't understand why there were different prices for cloth, he took the child around and told the children the stories behind the cloth.

The sackcloth is taken from hemp grass, which is spun into thread by hand rubbing machine after harvest, and then woven by hand.Silk cloth is obtained from mulberry silkworms. It is necessary to plant mulberry trees and raise young silkworms. After the cocoons are formed, they are boiled in water and reeled. The silk is very thin. It usually takes eight or nine silk threads to weave one thread, and then the silk thread is processed. weave.

The raw materials are different, and the process is even more different.

Embroidery is punctured one by one by female workers, and the threads used must be dyed, and the time-consuming is naturally different from that of pure fabrics without patterns.

What the young master thinks looks good is the dark pattern. When weaving, a female worker needs to twist the thread bit by bit. A piece of cloth needs a female worker to twist day and night for a month or two, and if there is a slight mistake, it will be discarded.

How can the price be the same when the power consumption is so different?

Xiao Douding sucked on a candy that the shopkeeper gave him, tilted his head and thought for a long time, pointed to those expensive fabrics, "These are not good," and pointed to the cheap ones, "This one is good."

When talking about the reason, he pouted and said, "My father said, we shouldn't be too extravagant. There are still many big men who don't have enough to eat." : "I'd better buy the cheap fabric."

"What happened next?" Xia Anran glanced at the satin carried by the younger brother, pushed it inside, and then took the handkerchief in the carriage to wipe his younger brother's sweat.

Liu Zhi, who was swayed by his brother's wiping, puffed his face and said, "The shopkeeper said that clothes are expensive, which also means that more workers are supported behind them."

"The cheap linen I bought can only support the hemp growers and weaving ladies, but I bought this cloth..." Little paws patted the cloth that made him breathless, Liu Zhi proudly raised his hands, breaking each of them. Count down to Xia Anran, "I can support embroiderers, weavers, silkworm farmers, mulberry growers, and, and..."

"And I don't remember the pig! Anyway, there are a lot of people."

However, Liu Xiaoshe is a little Douding full of self-doubt and questioning spirit. He frowned and pursed his mouth, thinking that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. Did he, himself, be deceived?

Facing his younger brother's inquiry, Xia Anran smiled.He didn't answer this question, but after Liu Zhi said that he could wipe his sweat, he took the scissors and started cutting the fabric bought by his brother. ?

Liu Zhi's current clothes are different from those of the prince's time. Since he arrived in Zhongshan, his clothes have been changed to those of the vassal king.Of course, there was not such an obvious division of clothing in the Han Dynasty. If it weren't for an insider, I might not be able to easily see the famous tricks on the young man, but the shopkeeper of the cloth shop is obviously a knowledgeable person.

Liu Zhi just said that he took off the clothes on his own initiative and asked to change them.The businessman didn't even notice that Liu Zhi was bullying others when he was a child. The cloth he got in exchange should be one of the more expensive ones in this store. It is estimated that it is used to make outer robes. It is very thick and has good water absorption. ?

But it may not be cheating, it is really not easy to say whether there is any cheating.

The reasoning is correct, but this businessman obviously missed a big part on purpose. It is not only the craftsmen who are supported by the expensive fabrics. It can even be said that they enjoy the benefits brought by this high price. Far less than these merchants.

These luxuries feed the merchants.

But are businessmen wrong?of course not.

In the absence of macro-control supervision by the National Price Bureau and the pricing of new things, businessmen naturally sell as much as they can as long as they find a big guy.

All opportunistic behaviors caused by imperfect systems, as long as they do not violate the law, can only be said not to be advocated, but they cannot be blamed.

On the contrary, as the ruler, Xia Anran would also like to thank these people. The law was gradually perfected in the battle of wits and courage with these people who are good at speculating and taking advantage of loopholes.

There is a famous saying in modern times that the most profitable business in the world is all written in the "Criminal Law", and the rest is in the "Civil Law". Come to a Western Han version.

Liu Zhi obediently waited aside, the kid's attention was quickly diverted, and he didn't continue to worry about the problem he just had.After seeing that his brother was almost done, Xiao Douding poured some warm water from the thermos, and brought some gauze over with a sullen face.

Liu Zhi took an exaggerated deep breath, and then he lifted a little duck over with lightning speed, and took off the little duck's original diaper in one breath.The gauze soaked in water was quickly wiped the buttocks, and then the old diapers were thrown into a small bucket, and then the clean cloth was handed over. Xiao Douding patiently put on the precious clothes that he bought with his own clothes. diaper.

Afterwards, he followed suit, except that the big duck needed Xia Anran to help him catch it, and Liu Xiaozhu became more and more proficient in changing the diapers of the little duck.

The keg containing the old diapers was quickly sent out, and the windows of the carriage were opened for ventilation. After the indescribable smell in the room dissipated, the two little kings resumed normal breathing.

The three ducklings, who were used to being treated like this, regained their composure faster than them, and chirped to beg for food from Liu Zhi.

In order to reduce the resistance of ducks to wearing diapers, this "unique" family of four in Zhongshan Country enjoys a treatment that other ducks absolutely do not have - there are small earthworms as snacks after changing diapers.

As the right owners, the ducklings have been upgraded from food reserves to royal pets. They enjoy a separate small space in the earthworm breeding field to ensure that they can eat the freshest little earthworms every day.

Xia Anran silently looked away, not wanting to see how the future Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was still enjoying being "bumped on the nose".

This trip they are going to Xia Anran's farmland in Zhongshan country. As the lord of the country, Xia Anran enjoys the most extensive and fertile field here, but now this place is used as a test field for ecological farms.

The procured ducklings and fish fry will be used here. After one or two years of trial planting to ensure that there are no major problems, he will promote it nationwide.

No matter what era it is, farmers are the group with the weakest ability to resist risks.The information he saw before was that paddy fields in the south can do this, but no one in the north seems to have tried it.If an accident leads to the collapse of any ecological chain at that time, it may affect grain production.

In the Western Han Dynasty, anything could be affected, but grain production could not be affected.

If there is food in the house, the people will not panic. Similarly, if there is no food in the house, it is useless to let him talk about it.

Therefore, Xia Anran asked the old farmers and officials in charge to record every step of the experiment. If there was any abnormality, even if there was a spring thunder or a heavy rain, he had to write it down, so as to find the reason in the future.

The fish fry are put in after the paddy fields are transplanted and stored in water. They are all small fish intercepted from the nearby rivers in the spring of this year. They are as big as half a palm. The extent of the catch, so now is a great time to cast the duck.

As soon as he heard that there was excitement to join in, Liu Zhi immediately signed up and strongly demanded to bring Ya Ya.

Because he wants to introduce new friends to Yaya.

Xia Anran silently glanced at the four unique ducks wearing diapers, thinking that they might not be able to find friends.After all, whether it is from a human perspective or a duck perspective, these four are really weird.

Of course, he would not tell the children such a cruel truth. He considers himself a good brother, and he specially asked people to dig up a lot of earthworms, and prepared wheat bran and broken rice.

But in the end he didn't use these tricks, because Liu Zhi went crazy after getting out of the car.

The little boy didn't notice the situation of the ducklings at all. When he saw a fluffy army surrounded by reeds, he led the "Duck Duck" army composed of four ducks and rushed all the way straight!

The ducks who were terrified to see this weird squad immediately exploded their wings and scattered. Liu Zhi became even more excited when he saw this. He chased all the way to the pond, and then succeeded in stepping on the ducks before the farmers had time to stop them. I fell and squatted on the slippery paddy soil.

The author has something to say:

Every time the author wants to buy luxury goods, he will convince myself like this - the stuff I bought is so expensive, there must be a lot of people behind it

But actually... ahem.

Wearing diapers for ducklings is real~ Bird poop is uncontrollable, so the clever owner has developed duck diapers, duck poop is very smelly! !

Hey, you can't have both cute things, the cuter you get, the stinkier it is, it's the truth.

Yesterday, my proofreader asked me: Dear, are you from Agricultural University?

Me: Hehe.

No, I didn't study Agricultural University, I didn't study history, and I didn't study archaeology.

So far no one has guessed the author's subject quack.

Interest is the driving force for learning!

Explain the farming techniques in the text.

When transplanting seedlings, the water is used to adjust the temperature with water, so that the seedlings can take root in a relatively stable temperature, and the water can press down on their roots and apply downward force.

Watering after turning green is to allow the roots of the seedlings to be exposed to the sun, which can promote tillering, and the more tillers there are, the more flowering and fruiting will be.At the same time, less water can make the soil temperature rise, and the warm temperature can also promote tillering.

However, the situation of early and late rice is different, and the crops should be planted according to local conditions, so you can’t just move them by force!

Of course, in order to raise fish, some deep trenches will be dug inside for the fish to hide in.Then, when the fish grow up, it is also the time when the rice is heading. At that time, the water demand of the rice increases just to meet the needs of the fish.

Rice pollen sprinkled in the water will also become fish food.Then water needs to be released before the rice sets seeds, just to catch all the fat fish!

Raising ducks in rice fields is relatively rare, but many people can do fish farming.

Mimeograph…………WooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooWeeping and fainting in the toilet.

It is said that the difficulty of mimeographing is actually in the ink, not in the paper. Of course, it is also related to the paper. After all, it is necessary to be able to bleed the ink and not be easy to break. It is definitely not possible to use A4 paper.

By the way, mimeographs were used when our party promoted itself.

Many of the handwritten pens you see are actually not handwritten, but mimeographed.

But mimeographs and photocopiers are similar now, probably only the old schools have them, if your school has one... it's probably at least 20 years old.

Quietly, Mimi has to say something: I suddenly thought that Xia Miao was following a historian... HMMMMMM