Zhu Dagui, the person in charge of the grain station in Xingkaihu Village No. 2, knew almost all of them, but among the three carriages that came today, except for the person in the first car, he recognized Zhao Xin in the second car, and none of the others.
know.
However, he noticed that among the people sitting in the car, there was a little boy wearing a badger skin hat and a mask on his face. However, when his eyes swept over the other person's beautiful eyebrows, he realized that
It's a woman.
Under the leadership of Zhu Dagui, the convoy drove all the way to the grain drying field, where the village's granary was also located. Unlike the home, the granary was built with a steel frame, surrounded by painted wooden boards, and covered with reed mats on top; the entire warehouse
The ground is one foot above the ground. This is mainly to prevent insects and moisture and facilitate ventilation.
At this time, a "sting" sound suddenly came from the big loudspeaker set up next to the grain drying field. After a while, as the prelude of the flute and the sound of the lock sounded, a cheerful tune accompanied by castanets began to be sung.
"The green ridges, the lush green mountains, the abundant crops can't be seen to the edge, you can't see to the edge..."
Zhao Xin's body swayed and he almost fell off the carriage. He thought to himself, I will choke him, Lao Yu can do it!
At present, Deli is in charge of the folk missionary work in Beihai Town. He has recruited a wide range of talents among the refugees, including those from opera troupes, storytellers, and even small singers. His main job is to go to the countryside.
Performing later operas and songs that he carefully selected and adapted.
It is said that the publicity team is currently rehearsing Yu Deli's adaptation of "The White-Haired Girl", "Chaoyangou" and "Xiao Erhei's Marriage", and is preparing to start touring and performing in the countryside in a few days.
At this time, all the wheat on the threshing floor had been collected and loaded into bins, and the drying ground was empty. After the carriage stopped, everyone worked together to get the heavy mechanical scale off the third carriage.
This thing is self-produced in Beihai Town. At first glance, it looks heavy and heavy. It seems to be very simple to make. In fact, four kinds of steel are used in the material, forged steel, high carbon steel, plain carbon steel, and low carbon steel. In addition, the measuring lever is made of
Made of brass.
The long and short levers located at the bottom of the weighing pan are composed of load-bearing levers and force-transmitting levers, both of which are cast steel parts. Whether they are forged or cast, the levers must undergo aging treatment to eliminate internal stress before they can be machined. The scale knife is in
The arrangement on the lever, in addition to determining its position according to the force ratio relationship, must also ensure the relative parallelism and verticality of each cutting edge.
Because Chai Rugui and the others are new this year, they are still settled according to work points, and Zhu Dagui assigns work every day. If they really want to wait until the land is distributed, they must have been in Beihai Town for half a year.
The three brothers and Liu Laoshuan were squatting aside to watch the preparations at the grain station, and they all found it strange. In the Qing Dynasty in the south, grain was sold not with scales, but with buckets.
However, Chai Rugui noticed that some of the people at the grain station were different. They were just watching and talking to Zhu Dagui. One of them was very tall and smiled when he spoke, and as a villager
The tall Zhu Dagui looked cautious, so he asked: "Uncle Liu, what are those people doing?"
Liu Laoshuan looked at it for a while and found that he didn't recognize it either, so he guessed based on his experience: "80% of them are people from the civil affairs."
"Minzheng? Why did Minzheng come here?"
"I'm afraid that people at the grain station will play tricks on the scale. If the scale is inaccurate, won't our farmers suffer a loss?"
It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, when calculating grain, buckets were mainly used. The grain was put into the bucket container, and then scraped with a flat ruler. When the bucket was flat, it was a standard bucket. In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, buckets were of different sizes, and there were many standards.
These include "Cangdou issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs", "Canghu", "Caohu", Jingcang Honghu, Tongcang Honghu, Jindou and Guandong Dou, each of which has a different corresponding volume.
For example, the Guandong Dou was used exclusively for grain collection in the northeastern region in the early Qing Dynasty, and each standard dou equaled five liters of the Guandong Dou; while the Jin Dou, also known as the "Imperial Dou", was a special dou for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and each dou equaled 3.6 standard dou.
For another example, if the grain consumption per stone in a certain place increases by 1.5 buckets, then the "bucket" in that place will be expanded by 1.5 buckets per stone based on the standard bucket; or the local "standard market bucket" can be used as the "bucket".
Or use the local "universal market bucket" instead of the "warehouse bucket" to collect grain.
At this time, Gao Liugeng on the side asked: "Uncle Shuan, what is the algorithm for the government to collect grain without using buckets or scales?"
Liu Laoshuan said: "The regulations given by the grain station are one stone equal to 125 kilograms. Just use a scale to weigh it. It is better than the warehouse in the south government and does not bully people."
In the countryside, Li Qingwen had seen government servants playing tricks on warehouse buckets, kicking the stems of stems, which was just childish. He said "oh" and asked: "Uncle Shuan, how much do you plan to sell the Yu family this year?"
Liu Laoshuan smashed the mouth of his pipe and said with a look on his face: "Forty stones, five thousand catties."
As mentioned before (see Chapter 216), the basic grain pricing in Beihai Town is based on the grain market in Jinan Prefecture. Now the grain prices in the pass are reported by Caobang people to Sheyang Lake every month, and then sent back to Beihai.
Town. Although there have been fluctuations in the past two years, it has always been around the baseline of 1.5 taels of silver per stone.
However, because the Qing government deployed troops outside the customs, the price of rice rose sharply. The price of rice rose from 2.1 taels per stone to 3 taels, an increase of more than 40%. This was mainly because the Eight Banners soldiers still ate rice for two meals a day.
host.
Liu Laoshuan sells forty stones of wheat for sixty taels of silver. One silver dollar in Beihai Town is 7.46 grams. The silver content is the same as the clear 925 silver. Five coins correspond to one tael, so Liu Laoshuan's income this time is three
One hundred Beihai silver dollars.
Li Qingwen said in astonishment: "Selling that old man? What should I do if there is a disaster?"
Liu Laoshuan said with a smile: "Young man, if we don't sell it, we won't be able to store it in our house. The west wing of my house is full of grain, and the public warehouse in our village also has a lot of it. If we don't sell it, we'll wait for insects to grow? Last year, my house sold it."
We have raised three thousand kilograms. Since the prince is kind to our people, we cannot sell the old grain. We can only keep it for our own consumption. When we have saved enough money in two years, my family will also build a large brick house with two entrances and a courtyard.
Live the life of a landlord."
Chai Rugui and the others were shocked after hearing this. They didn't expect that farming in Beihai Town could be so rich. Comparing it to Henan, it was like heaven and earth.
But Liu Laoshuan also said that it was hard when we opened up wasteland two years ago, especially in winter, when the white-haired wind blew, and we could only stay in shacks. The next year, with the help of the civil affairs, the village gave
Each house was built with wooden tiles.
At this time, all the men, women, and children from the second village gathered in the grain drying field, one after another. The women were all sitting on small benches, holding awls and needles, either picking up shoe soles or mending clothes, and then beating them.
Two times about my children running wild.
The men from each family either gathered together to laugh and chat, or gathered around to watch people playing chess or the newly learned checkers. The farmers had been busy for more than half a year, and only then could they take a breather. After selling grain and buying things, they were all prepared.
Have a good year.
"Everyone, be quiet." By this time, the music played in the loudspeaker had ended, and the person at the grain station held up a tin trumpet and began to call the names.
"Start calling people now! Li Wang~~"
"Come on!"
"Liu Quanfu~~"
"Here it is!" A villager who was playing chess was about to lose when he happened to hear him being called. He then messed up the chessboard and said, "I'll come back to clean up after I sell all the food!"
"Bah! I'm waiting! You stinky chess piece! Even counting this one, you owe me two white pieces." The dime coins in Beihai Town are die-cast from copper-aluminum alloy. Because there is more aluminum and less copper, it is also called by the common people.
"Bai Zi".
Two people are called at the grain station at a time. After the person named passes by, he first reports the quantity of grain he intends to sell. After the people at the grain station complete the registration in the book and press their fingerprints, they then take people into the warehouse to take samples with grain spies to check the quality.
Moisture.
Usually at this time, the supervisor of the civil affairs will be inspecting. In addition to ensuring that the scale is not tampered with, his task is also to verify the quality of each bag of grain.
After confirming that the quality is OK, the next step is to randomly check and weigh, which must also be carried out with the participation of civil affairs supervisors.
It is said that the supervisors sent by the Beihai Town Civil Affairs Bureau are all randomly assigned by drawing lots the day before departure. People at the grain station generally don't know who will be sent to supervise, so it is very difficult to work together so far.
After the random inspection, the civil affairs supervisor will first put a blue stamp on the outside of the grain bag for sale, indicating that the bag is sold, and then issue a four-part document, two copies to the farmer, one to the supervisor, and one to the farmer.
The farmers can then use the second copy of the receipt to go to another table to settle the payment. Because people often change the quantity temporarily when selling grain, the grain truck will be sent after all statistics are completed.
The grain drying field was crowded with people, laughing and laughing. Zhao Xin and Zhu Dagui were sitting on the wooden piles under the wooden wall outside the warehouse, talking in low voices, only ten meters away from the grain drying field.
The four people beside him, including Chen Jishan and Yin Bingwei, raised their eyes and looked around from time to time. Soon, when Chen Jishan's eyes swept across Chai Rugui and the other three people, and when he was about to continue staring at the two fake Hezhe people, his pupils suddenly
Shrinking, his gaze returned to Chai Rugui and the others, and his eyes narrowed.
Although these three people were squatting on the ground like other old farmers, they seemed to be loose, but in Chen Jishan's view, the three people's posture was like standing on a low stake, with their knees slightly buckled in and their feet gripping the ground, they could jump like a leopard at any time.
go out.
Chai Rugui and the other three have practiced martial arts for many years, working hard all the time, and their daily movements are habits developed over the years. However, after coming to the second village these days, they found that no one here understands this, so the three of them relaxed.
alert.
At this moment, Chai Rugui and the others suddenly felt the cold hairs on their bodies exploding, and the energy in their bodies was rising. They knew something was wrong, so they pretended to be casual and glanced around, and their eyes soon fell on Chen Jishan.
I saw that the man was less than six feet tall, wearing two gray cloth clothes of an "official" in Beihai Town. He was standing unobtrusively behind the civil affairs official opposite Zhu Dagui. His knees were slightly buckled, and he was smiling at the moment.
Looking at the three of them, the aura exuding from their bodies was like a mountain, pressing down on them like a big mountain.
You must know that Chen Jishan is no longer the simple martial artist he was a few years ago. After years of training in the military camp and fighting on the battlefield, he has already achieved great success in both momentum and martial arts. After he returned from Irkutsk this time, Zhao
Xin then planned to let him join the training team and then be promoted to battalion commander.
However, Chen Jishan heard that Zhao Xin planned to go to the village in disguise to investigate the people's situation, so he asked to follow him. Zhao Xin thought about it and agreed. After all, having a master by his side would make him feel more at ease.
The two Qing spies in Xingkaihu Village No. 2 have not been arrested so far. Zhao Xin’s order to the Public Security Bureau was to follow the clues and catch them all. So when Chen Jishan entered the village, he focused all his attention on Zhunise.
And Qibukadai, unexpectedly found three masters.
"Master!" The three brothers were suddenly shocked. They had only seen this kind of momentum from their master Chang Naizhou. After observing the other people around the man, Chai Rugui and the others found that except for the man who was talking to the village chief
There was a thin little man wearing a hat, and the others were also practicing practitioners; several people stood there, faintly surrounding the sitting man.
Gao Liugeng began to mutter in his heart again, who in Beihai Town is accompanied by several boxers when he goes out? According to Liu Laoshuan, that person is just a minor official from the civil affairs. Does Beihai Town have to send even a minor official to go out?
Expert guard?
No! This is too strange.
On the other side, Chen Jishan waited for Zhao Xin and Zhu Dagui to pause in their conversation, then interrupted and asked: "Village Chief Zhu, are the three over there from your village? When did they come?"
Zhu Dagui looked up and said with a smile: "The people who came here last month from Kaifeng Prefecture are all fellows from Henan."
"What are they called?"
"Well, the one on the far left is the eldest, his name is Chai Dazhuang, and the two next to him are sworn brothers, one is called Gao Liu and the other is Li Wen."
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Chen Jishan muttered the names of the three people back and forth, which attracted Zhao Xin's attention, so he casually said: "What's wrong?"
"Sir, these three people are not ordinary farmhands, they all have great skills."
When Zhu Dagui heard this, he quickly said: "I know about this. They said that before coming to Beihai Town, I learned the moves from others in the village for several years."
Chen Jishan shook his head and said: "It's not just a few years, but it takes more than ten years to develop this momentum."
Only then did Zhu Dagui understand what was going on, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he quickly said: "What do you mean by this? Why don't you report it to the official?" As soon as the words came out, he immediately remembered that there was no one in front of him.
big.
Zhao Xin reached out and patted Zhu Dagui on the shoulder, signaling him to calm down, and then said: "Don't panic, it will scare the villagers into chaos. This way..."
Half an hour later, Chai Rugui and three others followed a villager to the courtyard of the village office. Because the three of them earned work points, they could do whatever the village chief arranged.
When they entered the yard, Chai Rugui and the others were about to go into the kitchen to chop wood and boil water as ordered, when they saw the curtain of the main room lift, and the thin man they saw just now walked out, followed by two more.
The eyes of the three brothers suddenly condensed, and they turned back to look at the courtyard door. Unexpectedly, two people were already standing at the door, holding two guns pointed at them. Gao Liugeng knew that they were short muskets unique to Beihai Town, and they could be used continuously.
After firing several shots, he saw it on the security police of Whale Harbor, but the shape was different.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Chen Jishan's mouth. He walked to the steps and looked down at the three brothers. The two men behind him also took out guns and pointed them at the three brothers.
Chai Rugui's heart skipped a beat, but she still held up her hands with a calm face and said, "What are you doing? Didn't you ask our brothers to come over to boil water?"
Chen Jishan said: "Stop pretending! I didn't take action just now because I was afraid of shocking the villagers. Tell me, where are you three from? What is the purpose of coming to Beihai Town?"
Li Qingwen curled his lips, knowing that the three of them had already revealed their traces. He crossed his arms and said, "What do you say, what do you do if you don't say anything?"
Chen Jishan said: "If you tell me, go back and live a peaceful life; if you don't tell me, then we will fight."
Li Qingwen said: "Haha, there must be rules for dealing with each other, right?"
Chen Jishan said calmly: "Okay! If you win, you can go back and forth wherever you want, and Beihai will send gifts out of the country; if I win, then stop talking nonsense."
"Hahaha, okay, I'm really knowledgeable. I've never met such a crazy person in my life." After listening to Chen Jishan's words, Li Qingwen chuckled, took off the jacket he was wearing and threw it on the ground: "Then try it.