Datang romantic little landlord

Before Li Wangyou answered, Niu Wu on the side said proudly: "Thirty shi, each carriage has pulled that much. We transported a total of [-] shi of official food to Yinzhou!"

Hearing this, Ma Zhou was even more surprised: "How is this possible? This carriage runs so fast. Could it be that the addition of two wheels has such an effect? ​​Who built this four-wheeled carriage? Why have I never seen it before?"

Niu Wu laughed loudly, and while driving the carriage, he nuzzled at Li Wangyou beside him: "This is all made by my lord, and you have never seen it before. Not only that, my lord also made a A waterwheel that can lift water for irrigation without manpower is even more miraculous."

Ma Zhou became more restless when he heard the words, and cupped his hands at Li Wangyou and said, "Ziyou, I don't know if it's convenient for me to go to Dingzhou Village to see what the waterwheel is?"

Li Wangyou was worried that he couldn't find a topic and sent Ma Zhouyu to Dingzhou Village. After hearing what he said, he would not agree, so he nodded and agreed.

The two agreed that when their carriage returned from Yinzhou, they would pick up Ma Zhou and return to Dingzhou Village together.

The four-wheeled carriage ran extremely fast on the post road, within half a day, the city of Yanzhou was already in sight.Li Wangyou and Ma Zhou reluctantly bid farewell, and agreed to meet again in three days.

The grain transport convoy bypassed Yanzhou and continued to drive towards Yinzhou.

122 Bragging without drafting

On the way, the post station rested for another night. On the third day after departure, the grain transportation team from Dingzhou Village drove into Yinzhou.

After checking the grain transportation vouchers for the soldiers guarding the city, and asking where the Yinzhou warehouse was, the convoy drove straight to the Yinzhou warehouse to hand over the official grain.

Lao Cunzheng only brought 26 horse-drawn carriages to the Yinzhou warehouse to deliver the grain. Sure enough, the subordinate staff had no doubts, checked that the grain was intact, and put it in the warehouse, and signed and stamped the old village's receipt. print.

Since then, the spring adjustment of Dingzhou Village this year has been completed.

It took them only three days of the original 20 days of active duty.Even including the return trip, it will only take six or seven days.

More importantly, they also saved more than 100 shi of grain, which is not a small fortune.

After finishing the handover with the Yinzhou Warehouse, Lao Cunzheng and the others didn't bother to find a place to rest and eat, so they asked passers-by where the Fangshi in Yinzhou City was, and hurried over there.

If these grains are not exchanged for copper coins, Laocunzheng and the others still feel uneasy.

What surprised Li Wangyou and the others was that the food price in Yinzhou was much higher than that in Chang'an City.

But this is also normal, Chang'an City gathers grain from all over the world, and it is not surprising that the price of grain is lower than other places.

The retail price of grain in Chang'an City is 360 yuan a bucket, while in Yinzhou it is [-] yuan a bucket.

Their more than 100 shi grains were easily sold to a grain merchant, and the purchase price given by the other party was 350 yuan a bucket.

Niu Wu muttered about profiteers in a low voice, watching bags of grain being carried off the carriage and sent to the grain store.

Laocunzheng only kept the rations that everyone ate on the way back, and all the rest of the food was exchanged for copper coins, a total of 420 guan.

All the people in corvée were given a consistent amount of copper coins.

According to what Li Wangyou said before, the rest of the money can be distributed to each household in the village about two times.This is not a small windfall, and everyone is smiling.

It was the first time in the world that people could actually make money while doing corvée.

Knowing that this was all brought by Li Wangyou for everyone, everyone looked at him with respect and gratitude.

Since Li Wangyou moved back to the old house in Dingzhou Village, it has unknowingly brought a lot of changes to the village.

After the waterwheel was built, the farmers no longer had to step on the keel waterwheel to lift water. The Li family's cattle were lent to the farmers for spring farming for free. Now Li Wangyou built this four-wheeled carriage to benefit everyone.

The merits that have benefited Dingzhou Village endlessly made Li Wangyou's status in the hearts of these simple farmers in Dingzhou Village comparable to that of the old village.

Because it was getting late, I didn't plan to rush back today. Lao Cunzheng led the crowd to find a carriage and horse shop to live in.

The Datong shop of the chariot and horse shop costs ten cents a night.

If this happened in the past, these farmers would be absolutely unwilling. They would rather sleep in a carriage overnight than spend the ten cents for accommodation.

However, with the copper coins for selling grain in their pockets as a base, everyone was extravagant for a while, and all lived in the Datong shop in the chariot and horse shop.

Li Wangyou walked into the Datong shop holding his nose, and was immediately smoked again. The smell was so hot that he felt that he might as well sleep in the open air.

Although he doesn't have a cleanliness obsession like the beautiful boss, he can't stand the sour smell in the Datong shop either.

But Niu Wu understood him, and said with a smile: "Lang Jun, you should open another guest room, our family is not short of that money, why should you wrong yourself?"

Li Wangyou followed good advice and immediately turned around to find the shopkeeper of the chariot and horse shop to open a separate guest room for himself.

For Li Xiaolang's "not getting along with others", the men in Dingzhou village, including the old villager, didn't think there was anything wrong.

In their view, it would be a sin to let Li Wangyou, a Wenqu star, squeeze into the Datong shop with them.

After staying in the chariot and horse shop, Li Wangyou had nothing to do, so he took Niu Wu to Fangshi in Yinzhou City for a stroll.

It's been almost a month since he came to Datang, except for the one visit to Chang'an City, he hasn't seen what other cities look like.

Yinzhou, also known as Yulin City in later generations.

As an important city in the north of Guannei Road, Yinzhou is still very lively.Envoys from Turks, Xueyantuo Khanate, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Liugui Kingdom and other countries came to Datang and went to Chang'an through Yinzhou.

Therefore, although Yinzhou's business is not as good as that of Chang'an, it is still prosperous.

Li Wangyou and Niu Wu wandered around the middle and west of Fangshi, buying some snacks from time to time, eating while walking with them.

While strolling around, he heard a merchant arguing loudly not far away, Li Wangyou leaned over curiously.

It turned out that the merchant had a batch of goods to be transported to Chang'an, and was discussing transportation issues with the caravan in Yinzhou City.

Li Wangyou saw that the shopkeeper of the caravan kept shaking his head, but he heard carefully that the time required by the merchant was too tight, and he had to transport the goods to the west market of Chang'an City within five days.

The journey was more than 800 miles, and it was required to be shipped in five days. Naturally, the shopkeeper of the caravan refused to accept this business, and kept shaking his head.

Li Wangyou suddenly asked the merchant, "May I ask how much you have? I may be able to help."

When the merchant saw someone asking about it, Xu was in a hurry to go to the doctor, regardless of Li Wangyou's young age, he immediately replied: "I am in the porcelain business, and I need to transport a batch of porcelain to Chang'an City. There are about eight or nine hundred hu. Lang, can you do something?"

Dendrobium, the weight measurement unit of Datang.

One dendrobium is equal to one stone, about one hundred catties.

Hearing the merchant's words, Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing, it's really a coincidence that such a thing happened even when he went out for a stroll.

Before he came to speak in a hurry, he heard the shopkeeper of the caravan on the side say: "Treasurer Ma, you are too impatient, how can this young man help you transport the goods to Chang'an within five days? Immortal. If you want me to tell you, you'd better ask someone to go to Chang'an first, to accompany the Hu merchant, and then compensate him with some copper coins, just ask him to wait a few more days. I can assure you, ten days, old man I will definitely deliver all the porcelain for you."

The porcelain merchant known as Shopkeeper Ma looked frustrated: "Hey, it's a small matter to accompany money, but won't it ruin the reputation of my Ma family for many years? My Ma family porcelain has never been so dishonest to others! "

On the side, other merchants were talking to each other: "The shopkeeper Ma is really unlucky. A while ago, the mouth of his porcelain kiln collapsed for no reason, and all the porcelain that could be out of the kiln was destroyed."

"Isn't it? This is really an innocent disaster. Shopkeeper Ma has been in business for many years, but he has never missed the delivery time."

"It's an insider's way, and Ma's porcelain is also a masterpiece. His shop in the west city of Chang'an City is a time-honored brand. If the delivery time is delayed, it will be really difficult for the merchants to make a fuss. Let me tell you, the only way is to pay more. Some coins."