Tang's dining table

Buddha can live forever, but humans cannot live forever. Therefore, it is unfair for people to use their short lives to dedicate themselves to Buddha and make Buddha become more eternal.

Yunchu wanted to use his short life to eat, sleep, drink tea, be in a daze, feed Naha, find a beautiful woman to fall in love with, and have children. He had no intention of using his life for anything else.

So, the old monkey said that Yun Chu - Zhu Zi was not enough!

Then he jumped over the wall and left. Even if the door was opened for him, he was still unwilling to go through the door, which shows that the monkey nature has not changed.

The old monkey did not accept the giant sky lantern that Yunchu suggested to him. He believed that it was not pure Buddhism, and Yunchu was also suspected of defrauding him of his money.

Perhaps because Yuan Day has passed, the sun is getting hotter day by day, and the ice in the water channels has begun to melt.

However, it was still 39 days at this time, which should be the coldest period of the year, and the weather was very, very abnormal.

A warm winter is not a good sign, judging from previous experience in street work and various forecasts issued by various departments.

As a good street cadre, he must first stock up on medicines to prevent viral colds, and through publicity, let the people on the street pay attention to personal hygiene and avoid getting sick, and closely monitor whether there is an epidemic.

Second, because winter is not cold enough, many diseases and insect pests cannot be killed and we can survive the winter safely. Therefore, we must urge the environmental sanitation department to spray pesticides on street trees in the coming year.

Third, if the community is in rural areas, winter wheat must recover early in the warm winter, causing the problem of reduced grain production.

The most important thing is that once the warm winter occurs, dry weather will easily occur, so fire prevention is required.

In the past, Yun Chu had already taken action. When he came to the community of Datang, he didn't have to worry about other things. He must not relax the work of food storage and fire prevention. Once something went wrong, it would be the end of the burning camp.

After Yuan Day, the price of grain in Chang'an fell again. This time, Chang Pingcang took the initiative to sell grain, causing the price of corn in Chang'an to drop all the way, almost to the point where you could buy a bushel of corn for two cents.

After careful calculation, Yun Chu found that the price of grain could not be this low, because even if Changpingcang had the conditions to buy corn at a minimum price, the price of a bucket of corn could not be so low. This was very unreasonable. After all, Hebei Province and Shandong Province suffered major disasters last year, and the imperial court even announced plans to stop brewing wine to ensure food supply.

Thinking of this, Yunchu looked at the residents of Jinchangfang who only ate one and a half meals a day and were starving to death. He asked Liu Yi to step in and help those who had to pay wages and buy materials. Set aside the money, and use 60% of the remaining money to go to Changpingcang to buy grain.

The remaining money was used to buy necessities such as salt and linen.

From now on, when paying wages to the villagers, they will give grain, salt and linen.

Because the standard for measuring all prices in the Tang Dynasty was grain, if the price of grain fell, the prices of other things would also fall accordingly.

Speaking of which, Yunchu really had no confidence at all in Datang's legal currency copper plates, because anyone who had copper in their hands could cast them.

Yunchu suspected that the main reason for this drop in food prices was probably the prelude to the large amount of privately minted money that was about to appear on the market.

He is too familiar with this scene and has suffered too much from it. If something is to be shipped in large quantities, the price must be raised first, and then the goods can be shipped to make money.

Therefore, he concluded that it would not be long before there would be a new exchange ratio between copper coins and grain.

The people of the Tang Dynasty felt pitiful when they thought about it. After finally earning a few copper coins, when they were saving up to do other things, they suddenly found that the copper coins had become worthless, so they wanted to become rich. It's harder than climbing to the sky.

Yunchu told Liu Yi, who had recently earned some copper coins, to try his best to turn the copper coins in his hand into grain or other durable items.

Liu Yi sneered at Yunchu's suggestion. After returning home, he carefully wiped every copper coin in the house with tung oil and stored it in a more secure place.

You can buy a bushel of corn for two cents. Oh my God, copper coins are becoming more and more valuable. This is the view of Liu Yi, a miser.

Carloads of grain, salt, and linen were brought back, filling the warehouse arranged by Yun Chu.

To this end, Yunchu created six more watchman positions.

When money enters the warehouse of the village chief's family, the residents automatically think that the money belongs to the village chief. Even Liu Yi thinks so.

Now, the money has turned into grain, salt, and linen and been put into the warehouse where everyone can see it. At this time, everyone finally thought that maybe, maybe, maybe, these things had something to do with them.

What they didn't know was that Yun Chu had deliberately revealed these things to them. A group with centripetal force would first demand public property.

If there is public property, it must be distributed.

Under Yunchu's watchful eye, Liu Yi led four people and distributed yellow rice to families in the city, one bushel per family.

The quantity was not too large. Eight hundred and sixty-seven families could only collect 87 dan of yellow rice. However, every family who received yellow rice felt that they owed a favor to the elder of the village head.

They didn't know the source of these things. They only knew that the things were issued to them by order of the village chief.

After receiving the things, the villagers ran very fast, without even bothering to thank him for his talent.

"What are they doing running so fast?" Yun Chu asked Liu Yi in confusion, looking at a young woman running very fast with a grain bag on her back.

He considered himself not a pervert, nor did he do any bad things like bullying men and dominating women in Jinchangfang.

"They are afraid that the food will grow and they will feel distressed if they ask them to go back."

"Whatever is given to them belongs to them. Why should I come back?"

"Since ancient times, only the common people have paid food to the government. The government has never given food to the people. It is still free."

"Ah? If that's the case, then inform them to come back to collect the salt. Each household will be given one pound first."

"Ah? Are you still sending it?" Liu Yi's hands trembled. Seeing that Yun Chu's eyes were bright and he was not crazy, he decisively sent people throughout the streets to shout, asking those who had received the food to come back to receive the salt.

"Everyone should be obedient. Once we manage Jinchangfang, we will take care of their food hall from now on."

Although Liu Yi already respected Yun Chu very much, after hearing what he said, he still couldn't help but advise: "We can't afford it. Nearly 6,000 people eat 6,000 kilograms of yellow rice and corn a day..."

"Nonsense, one kilogram of yellow rice a day can only keep them from starving to death. If they want to be full, each person needs at least two kilograms of yellow rice or corn every day. That's all. They also need to be equipped with vegetables and meat. If they want to eat Okay, a person should eat three kilograms of yellow rice and corn a day, mixed with white rice and wheat rice, and then add vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, pork and mutton. That is the life that people should live."

Liu Yi licked his lips and said with a smile: "Just think about it, just think about it. We are living a very good life now. There are no people in the city who cannot afford to eat. This is already good."

Yun Chu looked at the sky lazily and said: "I have done the math. The reason why they can eat a pound of corn in one meal is not enough because there is no oil and water in their stomachs. If there is enough oil and water, 5,600 people can eat it every day." Ten thousand jins of corn is actually enough. According to the current price of two cents per bucket, a load of corn is only 20 yuan, and ten thousand jins of corn is only 100 loads. It is only two guan, which is only 60 guan a month. .

A pig was only worth three hundred cents at the grass market outside the city. Nowadays, copper coins are very valuable. I heard that two hundred and fifty cents can buy a pig weighing 150 kilograms.

For the same amount of money, you can buy four pigs, which cost 600 kilograms each, which equals several mouthfuls of pork per person..."

Seeing that the village chief was very involved in settling accounts, Liu Yi was afraid that the village chief would lose all the little wealth that Jinchangfang had finally accumulated, so he quickly said: "The village chief doesn't know what he is doing. These people can only eat one pound of rice a day from their own family. If they eat the food from the market, they can't hold back even five kilograms of rice a day. If you add pork to them, believe it or not, they can eat themselves to death!

Even if we invest all the money in the city, it won't be enough to feed these six thousand people. We are already very good, very good.

There is food in stock in the market, and at least this year, no one will starve to death. This is already a great blessing for them, but they dare not continue to give benefits. "

Yun Chu patted Liu Yi on the shoulder and said: "We can think about it this way first, but is there any guarantee that it will be realized one day?

Since you are fine, go to Caoshizi tomorrow to investigate and see how much it costs to prepare meals for 6,000 people a day.

Remember, treat this matter as a serious matter. "

Liu Yi nodded helplessly. Although the chief looked normal, he still felt that the chief had gone crazy.

It’s not that people starved to death during the heyday of Zhenguan. It’s just that when the government registered people who died of starvation, they would often register them as sudden deaths or deaths from illness. This was something Yun Chu discovered when he kept going to the Wannian County Government recently. fact.

Every day when the city gate is not open, the small gate on the city gate will be opened first to let some ox carts covered with reed mats go out first. When the weather is hot, there will be one cart, or two carts. When the weather is cold, the carts will go out first. There were five or six cars at that time.

These were all corpses found by the watchmen of the Tang Dynasty when they were patrolling at night. There were also corpses found by the officials. They would gather these corpses to Yanxing Gate before dawn. Before opening the city gate, they would use ox carts to drive them from the Menla left the city and stored them in Yizhuang outside the city. If no one claimed them after three days, the people of Yizhuang would bury the corpses in mass graves.

Yunchu didn't know if the ministers in the Tang Dynasty knew about these things. Anyway, in the eyes of the small officials in Wannian County, this was the most inconspicuous thing in their daily work.

If you want others to listen to you, give money!

If you want others to listen to you without hesitation, then you have to pay and take care of yourself!

Yunchu thought this was the simplest exchange.

No ideas, no principles, no grand plans are as practical as giving money and taking care of food.

People of the Tang Dynasty were relatively simple and recognized this.