[Comprehensive] Traveling through Cheng Kangmin

Hao Tai brought three men of different ages.The oldest looked like 50, the other two in their forties.According to Hao Tai, these three are brothers from the beggar gang, they are very good at fist and kick, but unfortunately they were crippled by their opponents, and now they have withdrawn from the arena and want to live an ordinary life.But the beggar gang is a group of beggars. Don't you see that the deputy gang leader Ma Dayuan only lives in a small farmyard, let alone these members who are not ranked high.

Walking in the rivers and lakes is a very risky job. According to Hao Tai, these three are lucky to have saved their lives.The only trouble now is that the beggar gang can't find a place to house the three retired members for a while.

There are three main sources of livelihood for the disciples of the beggar gang: first, begging. 70.00% of middle and lower class members make a living from this.Second, work income, including bodyguards guarding the house, guarding the courtyard and helping boxing, etc., due to the image of the beggar gang disciples, the income in this item is generally not as good as that of other sects.Third, the collective economy.The main clean clothes faction is responsible for managing some beggars' industries.Yes, the beggar gang also has its own property, just like almost all the farmland in Shaosi Mountain is owned by Shaolin Temple.Fourth, support from the same people in the world. For example, if two people do not know each other, they feel that their tempers and personalities are speculative. "If you don't accept it, you look down on me".There are fewer such good things.

"Although Brother Hong, Brother Gai, and Brother Wang have lost their internal strength, they have not lost their fists and kung fu. Waiting for idle scoundrels is by no means their opponent. Your father and daughter live alone, and Brother Hong and the others can still take care of your safety. Probably because he was afraid that Kang Min would refuse, so Hao Tai tried his best to promote the advantages of the three of them.

Hao Tai brought these three, the oldest one is called Hong Taishan, the younger one is called Gai Daxiong, and the other is called Wang Meng. They don’t sound like the main character at all. It’s like the sound of “Ah” being slapped by the main character when they appear on stage. Just dead cannon fodder.

The three have different qualifications, ages, and martial arts. There are only two points. One is that the ancestral home of all three is Xinyang, and the other is that all three are unwilling to be "trash" who receives food every month and does nothing.But there are so many disciples of the Xinyang Beggars' Clan, every radish and every hole has been filled in, but they lost their martial arts when they first came, so there was no place to house them for a while.The upper layer was pushed down layer by layer and pushed onto Hao Tai. Hao Tai thought hard for a long time and thought of the Kang family girl.

"Although my three brothers have no time, they are much stronger than ordinary peasants in one stroke, and their work will never be worse than others." Hao Tai swore to Kang Zhao.

Kang Zhao bowed his hands to salute the three of them, asked them to sit down, and lifted the teapot to pour tea for them, but Hao Tai snatched it away: "Kang Bo, sit down, we young people are here, how can I let you pour tea." He set up the tea bowls, poured five bowls of tea one by one, put down the teapot and smiled at Kang Zhao.

Kang Zhao coughed twice, a little bit hard to wipe off his face. "Have the... three heroes farmed land before?"

Hao Tai looked at his three classmates with hope.

Hong Taishan stroked his beard and shook his head.Gai Xiong was silent.Wang Dameng thought for a while: "I seem to remember planting when I was a child. Dad plowed the field, and I helped hold the plow."

It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s not like I don’t know everything.

It's almost winter now, and there's not much work in the fields, so I can teach slowly.

Kang Zhao smiled and said, "It's good, it's good if you have strength, the work in the field is not difficult, and you can learn it slowly." Since buying the land, even though it was a distance of forty miles, he still went to see it every now and then. , Kang Min asked him to buy a mule for transportation, and then buy an ox to plow the field in the spring.Kang Zhao had done a lot of dealings outside, and his words gradually had the shadow of a landlord.

Fortunately, the four of them, including Hao Tai, were straight-hearted, so they didn't hear it.Hao Tai finally settled down to arrange jobs for the three hard-working brothers.When the three of Hong Taishan saw Kang Zhaosheng, they looked honest and friendly, and they didn't express any dislike in their words. They also saw the neat and tidy courtyard of Kang's family with neat furniture, and they all felt that this place for the aged was good.

Alas, thinking of the word "pension for the elderly", the bitterness of the end of the hero floated up in my heart, and I couldn't help but sigh silently in my heart.

Hao Tai said beforehand that the three of Hong Taishan are considered employees of the Kang family. They don't need the Kang family to prepare a residence, nor do they need the Kang family to provide food. They have their own Beggar Gang Xinyang branch to take care of them. They only need to pay the hired money every month, one per month. Three renminbi silver, minus one renminbi in winter, Kang Min felt that it was too little, so he added clothes for the four seasons, moon cakes and fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and meat for the New Year.

Kang Min judged this time according to modern standards, but he didn't know that Hao Tai and others were shocked by his generosity.It turns out that in ancient times, even in the prosperous period with a long history, various taxes were still indispensable.The Kang family's dozens of acres of land is too much in the eyes of modern people Kang Min, but at this time it is nothing more than mediocre, and it can't even be called a landlord.It is all because the ancient tools were primitive and relied on animal power and manpower. Compared with modern times, the productivity is of course lower, and even the agricultural tax has been canceled in modern times, and there are government subsidies. After paying taxes, the father and daughter have more than enough to eat, but it is impossible to even think about getting rich with this.

Kang Min only thought that his family had become a landlord, but he didn't know how depressed it would be when it was time to pay taxes!

Within a few days, Kang Zhao took Hong Taishan and the three to the field.The Hu family had already harvested all the crops, but the remaining straw and the like were confiscated and left to the Kang family.Kang Zhao had a helper, so he went to gather and bind the straw. Those are good things, whether they are useful for starting a fire or fertilizing the field.

Kang Min thought that the ancients didn't do anything in winter and just stayed at home.Traveling through time, I didn’t realize until winter that there were a lot of jobs in winter.

After picking up the stalks, Kang Zhao went to the market every day, bought cattle, iron plows, hoes and other agricultural tools, and then took Hong Taishan and the others to turn over the land.

Kang Min didn't understand, Kang Zhao told her that there were wheat stubble left after the autumn harvest in the field, if left unattended, it would cause insects and affect the harvest next year.In short, when they finished plowing the fields, it was early winter and the weather was getting colder.

The unlined clothes on Kang Min's body were replaced by jackets, the underskirt was covered with beige, and the outer robe was added when he left the room.

It was Xiugu who reminded her to buy more firewood and charcoal, as usual, the price of these two things will go up as soon as winter comes.

In addition to charcoal, there are many things that need to be prepared for winter.When Kang Min and his daughter came to Xinyang, they brought nothing but soft things with them. Kang Min was used to the modern day when he went to the supermarket to buy what was lacking, so how could he arrange everything in advance like an ancient housewife.All the things in the house were found to be missing when they were in use, so they made them stumbled.Fortunately, after tempering in autumn, I will not be in a hurry.

Looking for a tailor to make winter clothes, Kang Min didn't find cotton. I heard from the merchant that there are similar things, but they are rarely grown.Today's winter clothes are filled with silk cotton, or fur clothes, which are not cheap anyway.The same goes for bedding.

I bought a full five hundred catties of charcoal, and set aside half a utility room for storage.We bought less firewood because we collected the straw left by the Hu family.These things are not only used by Kang Min and his daughter.Xiugu's family is old and young, and they can't cut firewood at all, so they usually go outside the city to pick up some fallen dead branches. If it's cold today, Xiugu won't let them go out of the city casually.Therefore, [-] catties of charcoal were distributed to Xiugu's family.There are also Hong Taishan and the other three, who are now employees of the Kang family. Naturally, they are treated the same as Xiugu, and Guangtan has gone for a little while now.

There are some bits and pieces that need not be elaborated.

At this time, Kang Min's stomach is getting bigger and bigger. The advantage is that the morning sickness gradually disappears. The disadvantage is that the stomach is oppressing the bladder or other organs. In short, not only does he want to run to the toilet every few quarters of an hour, but also his legs often cramp and swell. I have to wear a size up for embroidered shoes.

Simply because there were fewer door-to-door visits in winter, Xiu Gu was no longer an outsider. Kang Min asked Xiu Gu to help make the soles of the shoes, made the uppers himself, made a pair of slippers, and wore them at home.

Seeing Kang Min's slippers, Xiugu thought it was convenient to wear at night, so she made a pair for herself. "I don't like to go out in winter. It's really convenient to wear this. I want to make another pair for my parents-in-law."

Kang Min's heart skipped a beat. "I suddenly had an idea... How about we make some slippers and sell them?"

Xiu Gu thought for a while: "I'm afraid no one will buy it...the shoes are not difficult to make."

That's right, female red is an essential skill for ancient women.

But... "People from two kinds of families won't buy them, the rich and the poor. The former don't like it, and the latter won't spend money on unnecessary things, but those in the middle, like our family in Ping'an Lane. Hands You don’t have to do everything yourself, so you won’t be stingy if you spend two dollars on something that brings convenience, right?”

As a woman, it is in nature to spend money indiscriminately.Kang Min felt that the slippers were indeed very convenient at night, and they should be able to sell.

"I have another idea." Kang Min said.

Xiu Gu looked at her.

"Since we're talking about people who are financially distressed, maybe we can ask them to help... No, no, not all of them, just some of them, so they don't know what we do, at least not very much. Learn everything quickly, and we can produce a batch of products as soon as possible." Kang Min said.

It took her seven days to make a pair of slippers, and it took Xiu Gu three days.Among them, the soles are the most time-consuming. It is too laborious to put them together layer by layer. Of course, they don't do anything all day long and just make shoes.Kang Min plans to separate the process of making slippers, formulate standards, and adopt the method of assembly line production.

For example, soles can be divided into brushing paste, cutting shape, and stitching.After the proficiency is brushed up, the speed will be so fast that even those who do it will be surprised.Of course, how to split it depends on the situation.

Xiugu was still skeptical about this. Slippers are very convenient, but they are also a bit weird for people who have never seen them before. Will anyone buy them?

Yuanshen's lover gave Yuanshen a lot of property, and within a few years, Kang Min's father and daughter would be able to live comfortably.However, part of the money was spent on buying the house and fields, and the rest, Kang Min, wanted to leave it to his children. Those who have managed their own property know that daily expenses are the most terrible thing. It is flowing water that cannot be stopped by dams.

Throttling is not as good as opening up.

There are many women who want to work through the winter.Kang Min asked Hao Tai to find some women, assign the work, and pay by the piece.This kind of work that can be done at home with materials is very popular among housewives even in modern times, let alone ancient times.Moreover, at the level of ancient women, Kang Min's request was too simple.

The first batch of fifty pairs of slippers was completed in half a month.Kang Min also considered the degree of market acceptance, and these fifty pairs of slippers are the test products for the experiment to see if they will be sold or whether they will be sold well.If you really can't make money, the loss is not too big.

Kang Min didn't bother to rent a shop, but after inquiring about it, he handed over the slippers to the matchmakers and tailors to sell them, which was also calculated on a commission basis.If the shoes can be sold, after deducting materials, workmanship and marketing commissions, each pair can earn ten cents.Fifty pairs means five hundred wen, five taels of silver, and half taels of silver.

It's very meager, but at the price of two yuan for a meat bun, it's enough.

All that’s left is to wait for sales feedback.