Chapter 1040 How can we get money?
Perhaps because Youfu gave too many gifts this time, the friendship between the Baiwu tribe and the Han tribe quickly warmed up, almost to the point of overflowing goodwill. If strangers from other tribes saw them, they would think they were a family.
The next morning, the Han tribe members who stayed at the Baiwu tribe also started to take action. Youfu first sent ten people to lead the Baiwu people to herd sheep. Their tasks today were first to teach the Baiwu people how to herd sheep, second to plan the area, route and time for herding sheep, and third to tell them what plants the sheep can eat. It was a small matter, but it was very troublesome for the Baiwu people who knew nothing.
Thirty people were left in the Baiwu tribe. These people not only had to look after the vehicles and horses of the team, but also had several clever guys who were responsible for teaching the women of the Baiwu tribe how to cut cloth, sew clothes and shoes. The Han tribe gave them wooden shoe patterns, which made it easy for them to make shoes. They first compared the soles of their feet to find the right shoe size, then cut them according to the shoe patterns, and finally sewed them together. Whether it was leather boots or cloth shoes, these shoe patterns were universal, the only difference was the material.
Several of them were also teaching the Baiwu tribe weaving technology. They didn't have to think about weaving, but they could teach them basket weaving. In fact, the Baiwu tribe also had their own weaving technology, and they could make baskets, but compared with the complicated weaving skills of the Han tribe, they were still far inferior.
The people of the Baiwu tribe were also very smart. They knew how hard it was to learn advanced technology, so they all eagerly learned the various technologies taught by the Han tribe. As long as the Han people were willing to teach, they would learn whatever it was.
Some drivers even hung a blackboard next to the carriage and wrote and drew on it. A group of children, big and small, gathered around them, all sitting there laughing and learning Chinese characters and pinyin from the drivers.
In order to make the children interested in the various affairs of the Han tribe, the drivers also took them to identify the various gifts brought yesterday, and taught them the Chinese names of various things one by one without getting tired of it.
Children's learning speed and acceptance ability are the fastest and most efficient in human life, so in just one day, these children can remember a lot of Chinese words, especially the names of various things. The drivers also taught them some Han tribal understandings, such as greeting each other with a bow, and the children also laughed and learned, as if playing.
And the mothers of those children, some followed the men to go out to farm, and some took care of their children at home, or learned to sew clothes from the Han tribe. When they saw the older children also learning from the Han tribe, they couldn't help but smile.
In the eyes of these mothers, the Han tribe was very powerful, and it was a great fortune for their children to learn something from the Han tribe. They had no sense of prevention at all, and they had no idea what cultural invasion was.
On the other hand, Youfu led the team himself and followed several tribe leaders of the Baiwu tribe to the Baiwu tribe's farmland. On the one hand, he learned the Baiwu tribe's potato planting technology, and on the other hand, he had to teach the Baiwu tribe how to plant corn.
According to Luo Chong, he knew how to plant potatoes, but Youfu was not at ease. Since they were willing to teach, he had many people with him this time, so it would not hurt to learn.
At the same time, Youfu also selected a place next to the original fields of the Baiwu tribe to plant corn. During the planting process, Youfu also subtly passed on the Han tribe's measurement to them, telling several tribe leaders how the Han tribe calculated the area of land and how big an acre of land was. He also asked someone to take out a roll of soft ruler made of fine hemp rope to measure the land.
While planning the layout of the cornfield, he conveyed to them the various policies of the Han tribe, such as what is a household registration in the Han tribe, what is a family unit, how much land each family owns, and at the same time the ownership of the land is shared by the entire tribe, and the people only have the right to use it.
The tribe is responsible for maintaining the safety of these lands and the convenience of use, such as the tribe paying for the construction of water conservancy facilities and irrigation systems, but the people also have to contribute to the tribe, and pay 20% of the output of their own land to
the tribe every year. The several patriarchs of the Baiwu tribe were fascinated by what they heard, and only then did they know how the Han tribe operated. As for the ordinary Baiwu people, they came to the conclusion that the Han tribe was very safe and had the most fertile farmland in the world. Every family with a household registration could get a large piece of land. Even after handing over a part of the food to contribute to the tribe, they still had more food left than they could eat. These uneaten food could be sold to the tribe at the market price and exchanged for money to buy various goods. Those so-called goods were naturally the things that Youfu sent yesterday.
These things that seemed like fairyland in their eyes were available to every citizen in the Han tribe.
Therefore, everyone who was farming on the scene had a yearning for the Han tribe. Even if they did not have the idea of joining the Han tribe for a while, they would still want to go to the Han tribe to take a look. Even if they could not join, it would be good to be able to see this fairyland-like place.
While the followers were working in the fields, Youfu was chatting with several clan leaders. After the land and ditches were measured and planned, Youfu had people set fire to the wasteland, first burning the weeds and dead grass on the land, and then using the agricultural killer of this era, the curved plow, which was only pulled by manpower. Of course, it could also be used if there were livestock.
Several people took hoes and shovels to dig ditches for irrigation, and two people operated the curved plow to plow the land. The sharp plowshare was inserted into the soil and was pulled by an adult man with a rope in front. The plowshare would immediately move forward in the soil, and the soil blocking the front was also turned over from the two slopes of the plowshare and automatically turned over to the side and rear. Such a convenient and labor-saving way of turning the soil almost shocked the Baiwu people.
At this time, the people of the Baiwu tribe knew that every family with a household registration in the Han tribe could really cultivate the land they were allocated, and their farming tools were so convenient and easy to use.
People of this era did not know how to evaluate whether a tribe was strong. What industry, what education, what military, what social welfare, all did not exist. In their minds, a large population, food and drink, shoes on feet, clothes on body, and a cover of animal skin in winter to avoid freezing to death, this was already amazing.
They were very unfamiliar with the Han tribe, but from now on, according to their standards for evaluating a tribe, the Han tribe was absolutely invincible. From the sheep sent by Youfu yesterday, it can be seen that the Han tribe had no shortage of animal skins, and they were already so strong that they didn't need to wear animal skins. They had cloth!
In terms of food, the Han tribe had animal husbandry, so they didn't need to go out hunting to have endless meat. In terms of grain, although they had never seen it, according to Youfu, the Han tribe had at least several kinds of edible grains. The corn sent this time was just one of them, and it tasted good.
In addition to the efficiency of the curved plow that we saw now, and the household registration system of the Han tribe that Youfu just mentioned, we can roughly judge how much grain the Han tribe had by how much land each family could get.
They didn't know the total population of the Han tribe, but they could apply these data to their Baiwu tribe. How many families did the Baiwu tribe have? According to the Han tribe's system, how much land did they have and how much the land produced? No matter how they calculated, they were much better than the Baiwu tribe.
Perhaps the yield of corn per mu was not as high as that of potatoes, but the Baiwu tribe did not have good tools and their farming efficiency was extremely poor. However, the Han tribe was different. The Han tribe had various advanced agricultural tools, and one person could plant a lot of land. In addition, the food of the Han tribe was very durable. Even corn, which was said to be the most difficult to store, could be stored for three years . With such a series of advantages, the people of the Han tribe would definitely live a good life.
"Fu, what is this thing called? It turns the soil so fast!" A tribe leader stared at the curved plow and asked You Fu beside him.
"The curved plow is a kind of agricultural tool specially used for turning and loosening the soil. Similar tools can be unified into plows or plowshares." You Fu explained immediately.
"Plowshare! Do all the people in your Han tribe use this to cultivate the land? Does every family have one?" Another tribe leader asked.
"Yes, we in the Han tribe also use this to cultivate the land, but it's a little different. Our curved plow is usually equipped with three plowshares, while the one you gave only has one plowshare. This is because a plow with three plowshares is very heavy, and the resistance of the cultivated land to the soil is also greater. It cannot be pulled by one person alone. In our Han tribe, a plow with three plowshares is usually pulled by an ox. I don't know if you have seen an ox before. It is a kind of livestock similar to a horse, with horns on its head. It doesn't run as fast as a horse, but it is more powerful than a horse. You see, this is what it looks like when people drive an ox to plow the land."
You Fu took out a five-cent copper coin. The pattern on the front was a picture of a man driving an ox to plow the land. There were also lowercase and uppercase numbers for the five-cent coin below. On the back was the year of the casting, as well as Luo Chong's head. The coin was so exquisite that it could be called a work of art. It was made using the unique stamping technology of the Han tribe, and no one or any force could imitate it.
Such an exquisite metal object immediately attracted the attention of several clan leaders.
"What is this?"
"Is the animal pulling the plow an ox? It looks so big."
"I seem to have seen this kind of animal. Can the Han tribe domesticate and raise such a tall animal? They can even use it to do farm work? It's incredible!"
"What a beautiful gold ware. The pattern on it looks alive. The other side is also very beautiful. What do these Chinese characters mean, and who is the person on it?"
"What is such a beautiful thing used for? I seem to see other people you brought with you also have this thing."
Several clan leaders passed the five-cent coin to each other, and immediately began to discuss and admire it, and their praise for the coin was beyond words.
You Fu saw all the reactions of the people, smiled knowingly, and began to introduce them.
"This is money, also called currency, coins, which are the unified equivalent currency used by the people of our Han tribe to trade with each other. Currency, the name is easy to understand, you can understand that this thing can be exchanged for any goods, the difference is just the amount."
You Fu said and poured out a few coins of other denominations from his purse, one cent, two cents, five cents, one dollar, two dollars, five dollars, ten dollars, from brass to silver ring yellow heart, to pure silver, three different colors, three different sizes, a total of ten denominations, which can meet any trading needs of the Han tribe.
“In our Han tribe, everything is related to it, whether you want to eat food, buy and sell livestock, or even build a house, buy a carriage, or get a salary, you can't do without it. In the Han tribe, you can exchange almost everything with coins. Of course, the premise is that you have money.
"This is the coin created by our leader. It is divided into three different levels. There are three different levels: the civil level copper plate, with patterns of rice, rice seedlings and cultivated land, representing that the Han tribe is based on agriculture, and the reverse side is the portrait of our leader; the horn level silver ring copper plate, with patterns of animals, including horses, sheep and giant eagles, representing that our Han tribe's breeding industry includes birds and beasts. Our Han tribe now has birds and beasts except fish in the water.
"The last is the yuan-level silver dollar. The patterns are weaving, ironwork, sailboats and lighthouses, which represent the top manufacturing industry of our Han tribe. From clothes and various iron tools to buildings and sailboats, there is nothing that our Han tribe cannot make.
"The denominations of these coins are also different. One penny is the smallest and ten yuan is the largest. Such a silver dollar can be exchanged for one hundred copper coins of one penny and ten copper coins of ten cents. If you want to trade something in the Han tribe, just take out the corresponding coins. For example, if you want to have a meal, you only need five cents to fill your stomach in our Han tribe, and there is also meat.
"Similarly, you can also get other people's coins by selling your own things. For example, the price of corn this year is about seven cents per catty, about this big bowl."
You Fu explained the rules of using coins while showing them how much a catty of corn is, which amazed several clan leaders.
"Coins are really good things. Can they really trade anything?" A clan leader asked curiously.
"It's almost like this. As long as the tribe allows trading, it can be used. Anyway, general daily necessities, meat, live animals, grain, cloth, tools, can all be purchased with it. If you have money, you can even buy a boat of your own. Even if you can't afford it, you can rent it. Renting means that you pay money and the boat can be used for a period of time. You have to return it when the period expires." You Fu explained again.
After hearing this, several tribe leaders were very excited. Since all kinds of good things in the Han tribe can be traded with this coin, if the Baiwu tribe has money, will the Han tribe be willing to sell them things?
But now the problem is, how to get the money of the Han tribe.
The tribe leaders also raised this question immediately.
You Fu raised a smile at the corner of his mouth and finally brought the topic to business.
"It's very simple. In our Han tribe, there are roughly two ways to get coins. One is to sell your own things, which can be selling the food you grow to the tribe, or selling things you make to other people, such as livestock, furs, or some tools you make yourself, like the bamboo baskets or steamers I gave you yesterday, which are made by the people themselves and sold at the market. The tribe does not make these things themselves. Things that need to be made by the tribe are usually very large.
"Another way to get coins is to work for the tribe, and the tribe will pay you a salary. For example, you can build houses for the tribe, repair roads, cut wood, drive carts, smelt iron, mine, or even be a teacher, teach children, and teach them all kinds of knowledge and skills. These jobs are paid. Ordinary workers have different salaries depending on their jobs, but on average, each person has 30 yuan per month, plus some output from their own fields, which is enough to support all the expenses of a family.
"Like me, I also live on the salary given by the tribe. My job is to explore new territories for the tribe, find water sources and land, as well as various minerals, and deal with foreign tribes. If I do these well, the leader will give me money."
Several tribe leaders felt incredible after hearing this. Now they know the role of money and the source of money, but they still have a question.
"Fu, where does the money given to you by the tribe come from?"
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