Chapter 299 The Sky Between Two Places
Xinchang County
After successfully wiping out another gang of bandits, Qin Yan looked at his listless brother and decided to comfort him. "Six, there are only five bandit problems left in the entire Liaodong County, and they can't do anything. What I mean is, should we take them all down in one fell swoop?"
Qin Sheng turned around and looked at his second brother, "Are we not switching defense?"
He had no objection to continuing to suppress the bandits; suppressing the bandits was his responsibility, and earning money for his wife was also his responsibility. He just wanted to take advantage of the change of guard to go back and see his wife.
"Let's continue suppressing the bandits and not change our guard. According to the news from Houcheng, your wife is very busy and has been busy all day." Meaning, if you go back, your wife won't have time to take care of you. Oh, Xiaoliu is really homesick.
Qin Sheng fell into deep thought. If his wife was very busy, she wouldn't have much time for him. But he still wanted to go back and take a look, just one look.
"There are only a few strongholds left. Let's clear them all out in one fell swoop. Your wife will be happy to know about this, and you won't have to come out anymore, so you can spend more time with her."
Qin Sheng thought about it and agreed. However, he forgot that after clearing out the banditry in Liaodong County and the pirates on the water, he would not have any free time.
Lu Songli is indeed very busy. The entire stall in Houcheng has been set up, and construction has started in various places.
On the mountain
"Get out of the way, the tree is about to fall!"
With a loud bang, a tree as big as an embrace fell down.
After a while, a man came forward with a sickle to trim the branches of the wood. Another team came to the selected wood again, ready to cut it.
The repaired wood pieces were placed there, and soon small groups of people came to carry them away.
"Hey... hey yo... hey..."
The lumberjacks shouted slogans and worked together to carry a piece of wood that was about the size of a man's embrace and was five or six feet long to the designated location.
"one two three!"
As the slogans rang out, the lumberjacks threw the logs on their shoulders in unison.
This piece of wood slid down the extremely steep mountain road that had been opened up. When it reached the foot of the mountain, someone would naturally quickly drag it away.
As soon as noon arrived, someone shouted, "Dinner is ready!"
At the command, the woodcutters gathered around. Two large baskets piled high with multi-grain steamed buns, wowotou, and baozi were placed within reach of the workers, and next to them were two buckets of porridge and two buckets of soup for them to help themselves to.
The laborers could eat as much food as they wanted, but the only requirement was that the food should not be wasted.
The laborers laughed at this request. This was a joke! They had forgotten the last time they had a full meal. Food was so precious, how could they possibly waste it?
The men took their favorite food one by one, sat together and ate while chatting and laughing.
They were a bit tired from felling trees, but the most important thing was that they actually did what was promised on the red list recruitment form - three meals a day and enough food to eat.
In fact, these strong men probably eat two or three kilograms of food a day.
In other words, they spent at least thirty cents a day!
They felt that the owner of the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce was really kind.
Moreover, these pancakes, multi-grain steamed buns, etc. are all made to taste good, unlike before when they worked for others and their masters were afraid that they would eat too much, so they made them to be worse, and the taste was hard to describe.
In fact, their calculations were wrong. Grain expands rapidly when it comes into contact with water. For example, in later times, one kilogram of rice could make three kilograms of rice noodles. On average, a strong man would not eat more than three kilograms of grain in a day.
But in contrast, the Liaodong Chamber of Commerce's approach was still very honest. So these laborers worked very hard.
Today, Liaodong County is a thriving place.
That day, Lan Bingrong had lunch and took his son who had just returned from another place for a stroll in the outer city of Houcheng.
He took his son to see the county magistrate's mansion which was under planning and construction, and also to see the main commercial street in the southern district which was under renovation but had not even been completed yet.
Although I can’t see what it is now, why do I feel inexplicably satisfied?
Lan Bingrong couldn't help feeling happy when he thought about the future when their Lan family's business would be opened on the main street of such a prosperous commercial district.
Although he invested another 20,000 silver coins in this invisible shop, he felt it was worth it.
The eldest son of the Lan family was also quite surprised. He had returned home the previous night and had not noticed the state of the outer city. In the morning, when he heard that his father had paid so much money to the county magistrate's office, he didn't think it was a big deal, thinking that his father was getting old and confused.
Now seeing Hou Cheng's lively scene, he suddenly felt that his father's decision might be right?
Human joys and sorrows are not shared.
Liaodong County was bustling with life. Meanwhile, the sky in the south seemed to have been punctured. The rain in the south continued to patter, pattering relentlessly. The entire south was eclipsed.
As the saying goes, there are people who freeze to death on the road while the rich have wine and meat.
Outside the city, homeless people built tents and lived in a haphazard manner. They could only queue up to get two meals of porridge a day, with one bowl per person for each meal. They were not full but not starving to death.
They wanted to enter the city, but the towering city gates and the majestic gate guards stopped them.
Inside the city, Ji Wuyin had people aggressively promote three kinds of pills brought back from Liaodong County beside the Qin Coffin and Chu Tower - Jinkui Shenqi Pills, Xiaoyao Pills, and Liushen Pills.
Now in the south, in addition to the soaring food prices, the fastest rising prices are of certain medicinal herbs that clear away heat, detoxify, relieve summer heat and reduce swelling.
Of the medicinal herbs Ji Wuyin brought back from Liaodong County, a large portion were of this type, while the remaining small portion was naturally valuable herbs like ginseng. After returning to the South, he made a fortune by reselling these herbs.
Ji Wuyin's promotion of these three medicines was also simple and crude: Jinkui Shenqi Pills - to restore men's virility; Xiaoyao Pills - to relieve women's emotional distress, specially to treat women's menstrual irregularities; Liushen Pills - to cool and detoxify, specially to treat children's throat problems.
During the day, their shop was packed with people buying Xiaoyao Pills and Liushen Pills. Liushen Pills, used to treat pediatric illnesses, were particularly popular. This was especially true given the arrival of a miracle doctor who speculated that an epidemic might occur in the South after the floods receded.
However, even though Jinkui Shenqi Pills seemed unpopular during the day, at night, there were many people sneaking in to buy the medicine. Ji Wuyin had anticipated this, and among the three types of pills he brought back, Jinkui Shenqi Pills were the most popular. If it weren't for his foresight, Jinkui Shenqi Pills would have been sold out by now.
Every day, Ji Wuyin looked at the boxes of silver and money that were brought back, smiling from ear to ear, and then he waved his hand and had people carry them into the warehouse.
He thought that with the increasing amount of silver and money every day, it should be enough to deal with the potential risk of bank runs at Ji's Bank, right?
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