How much is one stone of rice worth in Datang now?
The price of fine polished rice in Chang'an is three hundred cents per stone. This rice comes from Liaodong and is available year-round. Its taste is much higher than the rice originally grown here in Chang'an.
The cheapest rice in Huating is fifty cents per shi. It is rice produced in Nanyang and Baiyue.
Rice produced all year round, no matter how good the variety is, cannot be as nutritious and taste better than rice produced only once a year.
There is also a kind of rice in Huating Port, which costs thirty-five cents per stone. This is unprocessed rice, raw rice with shells. If purchased in large quantities, it costs thirty-five cents per stone. The men of Li Daozhong and Wang Ba even
The rice was sold for over twenty-eight cents.
A fleet from Nanyang, the flag of the ship is Niu Jinda Iron Niu Chamber of Commerce in Kuching.
In Ota City, the city lords from more than thirty surrounding cities, large and small, gathered here. Ota Kazuo was considered a discerning person, so he distributed some of the gifts given to him by Wang Ba to these people.
It is difficult for these city lords to reach 300,000 laborers, but they cannot help but be tempted.
Slaves, prisoners of war, and bankrupt farmers became the first choice.
When the fleet entered the inland sea and approached the port of Datian City, Wang Ba secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Niu Jinda was really generous. Even the freight was added up and he only charged him 350 yuan per ton. But Niu Jinda didn't.
I want cash, I want silver, and I want silver according to the exchange rate of the Tang Dynasty.
"Uncle Wang!" A young man jumped out of the boat and saluted Wang Ba.
This is Niu Jinda’s third son, Niu Ben!
"Thank you father for me. You have been of great help this time. The rice here will take at least another month and a half to mature." Wang Ba was very polite to Niu Ben. After giving him a fist salute, he personally welcomed Niu Ben into the house to rest.
"Uncle Wang, 10,000 tons of rice have arrived. It's just that we don't have enough bags there, so it's all in bulk."
"It's a small matter, as long as it's rice, you can just soak it in water!" Wang Ba said in a low voice.
There is no pier in Daejeon City that can allow such a 500-ton ship to enter the port. Some of them were dismantled and a temporary platform was built, which could barely allow a ship to dock.
Wang Ba would not let Niubeng's people do such a thing as unloading goods. In addition to Niu Jinda's own veteran troops on this ship, they are Mohe people. These are all Tang people, and it is impossible for them to do these hard jobs.
"Kazuo Ohta, arrange for some people to move the rice!" Wang Ba ordered forcefully.
That's right, this is the tone of the command.
Kazuo Ohta was not happy at all. This man was not only the God of Wealth, but also his backer. Cui Jie whispered a few words in Wang Ba's ear, and Wang Ba laughed: "Ota, I would have thought that everyone who had to do these things would
A person can receive five kilograms of rice, so those who work for the general cannot be treated badly."
Wang Ba understands the Japanese language and can speak it well, but given his status, he cannot speak it easily.
What Cui Jie just said to Wang Ba is that if the Japanese know that we are generous and rich, they will send more people to Datang to work for us.
One day's work earns five kilograms of rice. Such a good thing makes Ota Kazuo's soldiers jealous.
There were 2,000 people working there, and everyone was vying for every working spot. It was actually these city lord's guards who came to deliver the goods.
It doesn't matter if it's in bulk, the Japanese will naturally find a way.
First, use wooden barrels to load the rice on the boat, then carry the barrels down and put them into rice bags made of straw under the boat. Then stack them up and haul them away on a cart.
"One hundred thousand stones." Wang Ba smiled and reported a number.
Rice with shells is easy to preserve. Kazuo Ohta grabbed a handful of rice, then picked up a stone and pressed it with the rice. Several of the rice shells were crushed. He picked up the rice and bit it in his mouth.
He shouted in surprise: "This is the new rice of that year."
"New rice!" Many people gathered around.
With such a huge number, it was not surprising that the people of the Tang Dynasty were given the old rice from last year and the year before last, but they were given the new rice of that year. Did the Tang Dynasty have no rice inventory? In other words, the Tang Dynasty had so much grain in its warehouses
Can’t even fit it in?
Anyway, this is real rice.
Compared with the rice packed in bags that may be soaked with sand, this kind of bulk rice is more practical.
A ship has a carrying capacity of 500 tons. In fact, meters are lighter in specific gravity. This 500-ton ship actually carries about 420 tons.
How much is four hundred and twenty tons of grain? A Japanese rice bag made of straw is one stone. Four hundred and twenty tons is the Tang Dynasty's method of measuring weight. One ton is one thousand kilograms. During the Wude period, a stone was actually a unit of volume.
One stone is ten buckets. One bucket is ten liters of rice. One liter of rice weighs about 620 grams.
According to modern calculations, one pound is 680 grams. This makes a difference.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Affairs required a unified measurement unit for several times, so one bucket was changed to ten kilograms, and one stone was one hundred kilograms, in order to make calculation easier. (One stone in the Tang Dynasty was equivalent to fifty-nine point five kilograms in later generations)
In the 1600s of AD, the weight of one stone in Japan was approximately 110 kilograms according to the weight of the Ming Dynasty in China (at the time of the Ming Dynasty, one stone was definitely 93 kilograms).
Now it is more than 600 AD. When the Japanese first had contact with the Han Dynasty, they used the Han system, which was one stone and 13.5 kilograms.
Watching the Japanese beating rice into rice rollers, which were round rollers about two feet long and less than one foot in diameter, Niu Ben asked in a low voice: "Uncle Wang, are they two rice rollers?"
One stone?”
"No!" Wang Ba shook his head: "The Japanese's four and a half stones are almost equal to our one stone. They use the Han system."
"Then, what Uncle Wang is talking about with them is Tang stone or Japanese stone!"
"Ah!" Wang Ba was stunned. He had never thought about this problem at all. He immediately called Cui Jie over with a gesture: "Are we talking about Tang stones or Japanese stones?" Cui Jie was also stunned, thinking in his mind
It was just Tang stones, and I had not thought about the problem of Japanese stones at all. After calculating it, I found that there were too few Japanese stones!
Wang Xuance came over and was a little surprised when he heard this question. He couldn't tell whether these Japanese people were thinking of Japanese stones or Tang stones.
"Don't worry, send someone to find out the reaction of the Japanese!" Wang Ba made a prompt decision.
A few scribes who understood the Japanese language were helping the commander unload the goods while paying attention to the reaction of the Japanese people, while Wang Ba and others went to chat with the city lords, intending to get a feel for them.
Niu Ben sat on a wooden barrel and asked Wang Xuance casually: "Xuan Ce, have the Japanese given you a banquet and have they got anything good? I heard from my father that His Highness the King of Qin said that the Japanese
There are countless delicacies on the island.”
Wang Xuance and Niu Ben were old acquaintances and had dealt with each other in Nanyang. When Niu Ben asked this question, he immediately laughed.
"why are you laughing?"
"I laughed because the Japanese were definitely talking about Japanese rocks."
"Why?" Niu Ben didn't understand why this guy suddenly seemed to understand everything.
"Do you know what the Japanese gave us for the luxurious banquet?" Wang Xuance smiled: "A bowl of rice, a plate of unknown pickles, and a plate of what looked like salted radish strips. And there was only a little bit of it."
Wang Xuance made a gesture, and Niu Ben's eyes widened. Should he eat it for people or feed it to cats? He immediately asked: "No meat?"
"Yes!" Wang Xuance smiled and made another gesture with his hands: "A small fish less than five inches long!"
(Note! The diet of the ancient Japanese was completely real. After the Warring States Period, Tokugawa Ieyasu had such a standard of food)
Niu Ben doesn’t believe it!
"Don't be surprised, Izumo still maintains this habit. We Tang Dynasty soldiers never eat with the Japanese. The Japanese don't eat at night, so as to save food, whether they are nobles or slaves. Meat is the same.
Planting things is not an ordinary precious thing in the eyes of the Japanese!"
Wang Xuance told the truth.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty did not eat with the Japanese, not because they were afraid that the Japanese would steal the food, but because the Japanese only ate a little bit, which really turned off the appetite when eating.
"The Ichijo family has a lot of food because they eat less. The Japanese's favorite military food is rice dumplings, whether they are wild vegetables or brown rice, mixed with some loach, which is the food of the officers."
When Niu Ben heard this, he turned around and left: "I'll go back to the boat to eat. I don't want to starve to death!"
The results have come out, and they are calculated based on the rocks.
This ship is 420 tons, which according to Japanese calculations is almost 18,000 dan.
Working overtime at night, each of them had two rice balls, fist-sized, and the Japanese soldiers cheered happily.
Five ships have unloaded goods, which is almost 100,000 tons, but there are still almost 20 ships here. According to Tang Shi's standards, Niu Jinda prepared 10,000 tons, and even loaded 24 ships with other supplies.
Well. Only five boats have been shipped, and the remaining boats are still full of rice.
Wang Ba was chewing a cigarette and stood on the dock looking at the ships in a daze.
"General Wang!" Ohta Kazuo was very respectful: "This is already more than 90,000 dan. I gave the soldiers some rice balls, and the rest is more than 90,000 dan."
Wang Ba sighed: "Da Tian! There are many sergeants under me who were originally poor. They saw the hardships of the people like you, so I thought about it and first gave it to everyone who is willing to give it to me.
The workers are given two dan of grain to their families. These grains have already been distributed, so you should not take them from their hands. I feel that it is not easy for them, and they are all poor people. Let's do this. Every month, each person,
I will give you half a stone of rice, so don’t deprive those poor people."
"Don't dare, don't dare!" Da Tian Xin said, this Datang general is stupid, he is just there to exploit the people.
If you don't exploit the people, you will have money and food.
If you don’t exploit the people, what if they have enough food to rebel?
But Wang Ba said that this was given by him and you, Kazuo Ohta, can’t steal it. Moreover, he also made up for half a stone of rice, so Kazuo Ohta really didn’t dare to steal it.
"Post the notice!" Wang Ba's face was serious, but he was happy in his heart. He was thinking silently: His Highness King Qin once said, the one who wins the hearts of the people wins the world. He must do more to win the hearts of the people. This is just a toothpick.
Rice, we brothers don't take it seriously. Half a stone of rice, that's just a few pennies worth of nonsense.
If Wang Ba said he would put up notices, he would definitely put them up. The Japanese didn’t even have written language, but there were people who could read. So even at night, there were people in the countryside shouting about the labor conditions Wang Ba had given. (To be completed.) Continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
