Chapter 64: Unrealistic
When Zhao Hao arrived in Dangtu County, he realized that he could not receive silk directly from the farmers.
The raw silk in each village is in the hands of the silk club.
In the spring famine, the head of the silk club borrowed money to farmers to raise silkworms and reel silk. After the cocoon was formed, the farmers paid back the raw silk and sold the excess raw silk to them.
"Since the farmers have no silk in their hands, why are they still so urgent?" Yu Peng saw Zhao Hao showing confusion and asked for him.
Zhao Hao gave him a gaze of praise, worthy of being the son of Lao Jia, and he was smart.
"The silk club and the villagers are one. If the silk club cannot sell silk, they cannot pay back the money. What money can I lend them to spend the spring famine?" Then Tang Youde replied with a smile: "Speaking of this, it was also the silk club that he had made a mess. There are also raw silk guilds in these silk clubs. In order to sell raw silk at a high price, the guild will set a minimum silk price every year. If the price is lower than that, one or two silks are not allowed to be released."
Zhao Hao nodded. The villagers of the Ming Dynasty all started playing the Price Alliance. No wonder the scholars and officials gritted their teeth and scolded them in their notes, saying that the common people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are cunning!
It turns out that I can't take advantage of it and hate it.
"This method has been tried every time in previous years, but who would have thought that in recent years, the sea ban was tight and the silk sales were not smooth, and the number of machine owners in the city had cut off people and reduced production. However, the countrymen still kept planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms in the fields. There was no need for so many silk on the market. Shangyuan and Jiangning, those close to Nanjing, could still sell at a time. Although Dangtu was only 120 miles away from Nanjing, it was much blocked, and silk was sold so expensive. Who would go to get far to collect silk here?"
Zhao Hao thought to himself that this problem cannot be solved in four hundred years...
"Now every silk club has accumulated a lot of goods, but it cannot be ignored by the farmers who raise silkworms because of the backlog. Because this fixed bond is the foundation of the survival of the silk club. Once the farmers lose their supply, they will have no silk to collect." Tang Youde said deeply: "So when the year is not good, they even have to pay money to win over the villagers. Seeing that the silk price is low, new silk will be launched in two months. At that time, on the one hand, the autumn silk that they have not sold will depreciate, and on the other hand, they have to find money to collect the spring silk of the villagers. What do you think those leaders will be worried about?"
As he said that, he looked at Zhao Hao proudly and said, "Young Master now understands why I have to leave it close, right?"
"I did a good job in the homework." Zhao Hao praised, patted Tang Youde on the shoulder and said, "I'm relieved now."
After saying that, he left Yu Peng and accompanied by Gao Wu, he walked towards the rapeseed fields all over the mountains.
"Where are you going?" Tang Youde asked loudly behind him.
"Let's play." Zhao Hao smiled without looking back: "How can such a beautiful scenery be disappointed?"
"You, you...I, I..." Tang Youde smiled bitterly for a long time, waved his hand with his fate, "Oh, I'm just giving you the life to run errands."
Having said that, Zhao Hao is actually not here, he is more comfortable.
After several contacts, Tang Youde not only did not eat the boy, but was eaten by him. I don’t know when it started, as long as Zhao Hao was by his side, Tang Youde felt as if he was back when he was a trembling apprentice.
In that room, after Zhao Hao left the pier for a distance, he actually took out a compass like a magic trick.
Gao Wu immediately widened his eyes. The compass was bought by the young master when he was shopping a few days ago. He thought Zhao Hao just thought it was fun, but he didn't expect that the young master would even look at Feng Shui!
How could Zhao Hao look at Feng Shui? He spent a lot of money to buy this geography compass, but he was worried that if he got lost when he went to the countryside, he would just use it as a compass.
After identifying the direction, Zhao Hao strides towards the northwest.
Gao Wu hurriedly followed, but saw that Zhao Hao was walking very anxiously and had no intention of enjoying the scenery in the mountains and fields.
The two of them walked out of seven or eight miles in one breath until a stretched mountain range was standing in front of them, blocking their way.
Zhao Hao then stood up and looked at the compass with excitement. The pointer that suddenly trembled randomly could not be calmed down for a long time.
Gao Wu looked at the mountain shaped like a tiger coming out of the mountain, and it seemed that the Feng Shui shui was good. He thought to himself that the young master had found a Feng Shui treasure land. Could it be that the nanny house was found for the old master?
But this compass is too unusable. I must ask my father to go to the store to argue.
After a long time, Zhao Hao sighed and threw the compass to Gao Wu. He looked lost and was completely different from the moment.
The largest open-pit iron ore in Jiangnan is right in front of him, but he has no blessing to survive for the time being. Is there anything more cruel in the world than this?
Originally, Fatty Tang said that the destination of this trip was Dangtu, and he was still excited for a while because the famous Ma'anshan Iron Mine was here. But when he really came to Dangtu, standing at the foot of the famous Nanshan Mountain, looking at the green mountains and without any trace of mining, he knew that no one knew that there was a huge amount of iron ore buried here at this time.
If others had mined, he could still try to get a piece of the pie. But he would not have the courage to eat this soup, nor would he have the ability to open an iron ore privately, but he would be considered as a conspiracy!
Zhao Hao thought silently, and probably had no chance to become a juren even after his father became a juren, so he had to turn around and leave. He was so excited that he came and returned in disappointment.
On the way back, he thought that since he came to Dangtu, he should pay tribute to Li Bai. But after finally finding a village, he asked the villagers that Li Bai's tomb was still thirty miles away.
"Young Master, that father-in-law said, you can use a ox cart to carry you over." Gao Wu pointed to the old man in the distance and said in a muffled voice.
"It won't be dark that day..." Mr. Zhao rolled his eyes. Now he is also a decent person. How could he ride a ox cart on the dusty village road? How could he meet the poet with a dusty face in front of Taibai's tomb?
"Forget it, we will be back sooner or later!" Zhao Hao turned around and looked at the Qingshan in the distance, gritted his teeth and said, "Wait, sooner or later, you are mine!"
I don’t know, but I thought it was the evil young man who targeted which daughter he was.
The two of them returned the same way. Halfway through the way, they suddenly heard shouting and scolding by the river.
Zhao Hao looked at him and couldn't help but lit up. Someone was fighting...
I saw seven or eight villagers carrying shovels and hoes besieging a thin man. The man waved a shoulder pole, and was able to block all attacks from all directions.
"This guy has good kung fu..."
Gao Wu hurriedly grabbed Zhao Hao who was about to come over to watch the fun. He was about to take him away from right and wrong, but he was stunned. After a while, he said strangely:
"This person's moves look so familiar, just like the martial arts of our Qi family army..."
"Then why are you still standing there? Get on!" Zhao Hao felt energetic and strongly encouraged Gao Wu.
Gao Wu looked at Zhao Hao in embarrassment, obviously not at ease with his safety.
"I'll hide behind the tree." Zhao Hao kept pushing him to the river beach: "If you save the people, let's run back. What else can I be afraid of when I arrive at the dock?"
"Okay!" Gao Wu finally put down his concerns, took off his jacket, wrapped his clothes around his right hand, and strode towards the river beach.
Chapter completed!