Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 432
Zhu Dagui, who is in charge of the grain station in the second village of Xingkai Lake, knows almost all of them. However, in the three carriages that came today, except for the person in the first carriage, he recognized Zhao Xin in the second carriage. know.

However, he noticed that among the people sitting in the car, there was a little boy wearing a badger fur hat and a mask on his face; It's a woman.

Under the leadership of Zhu Dagui, the convoy drove all the way to the grain drying field, where the village's granary is also located.Different from the house, the granary is built with a steel frame, surrounded by painted wooden boards, and covered with reed mats on the top; the floor of the entire warehouse is one foot above the ground, which is mainly to prevent insects and moisture, and to facilitate ventilation.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of "thrilling" from the loudspeaker next to the grain drying yard. After a while, with the prelude of the flute and the lock, a cheerful tune accompanied by castanets began to be sung.

"The green ridge, the green mountain, the harvested crops can't be seen, and you can't see the end."

Zhao Xin swayed and almost fell off the carriage, thinking I'll fuck it, Old Yu can do it!
Right now, Deli is in charge of the publicity and education work in Beihai Town. This man has recruited talents from the refugees. People from theater troupes, storytellers, and even those who have done small singing are also included in the propaganda team.The main job is to go to the countryside to perform those operas and songs of later generations that have been carefully selected and adapted by him.

It is said that the propaganda team is currently rehearsing "The White-haired Girl", "Chaoyanggou" and "Xiaoerhei Marriage" adapted by Deli, and is planning to start a tour in the countryside in a few days.

At this time, the wheat on the grain field has been collected and put into warehouses, and the grain drying field is empty.After the carriage stopped, everyone worked together to remove the heavy mechanical scale from the third carriage.

This thing is self-produced in Beihai Town. At first glance, it looks heavy and heavy, and it seems to be very simple to make. In fact, four kinds of steel are used in the material, forged steel, high-carbon steel, ordinary carbon steel, and low-carbon steel. In addition, the measuring lever is made of Made of brass.

The long and short levers at the bottom of the weighing pan are composed of load-bearing levers and force transmission levers, all of which are cast steel.Whether it is a forged or cast lever, it must be subjected to aging treatment to eliminate internal stress before machining.The arrangement of the pound knife on the lever, in addition to determining its position according to the force ratio relationship, must also ensure the relative parallelism and verticality of each cutting edge.

Since Chai Rugui and the others are newcomers this year, they are still paid according to work points, and Zhu Dagui assigns work every day.If you really want to wait until the land is allocated, you have to stay in Beihai Town for half a year.

The three brothers and Liu Laoshuan squatted aside to watch the preparations of the grain station, and they all felt strange.The Qing Dynasty in the south did not use scales to sell grain, but buckets.

However, Chai Rugui noticed that some of the people in those grain stations were different. They were just watching and talking to Zhu Dagui.One of them was very tall and smiled when he spoke, but Zhu Dagui, the village head, looked cautious, so he asked, "Uncle Liu, what are those people doing?"

After watching it for a while, Liu Laoshuan found that he didn't know him, so he guessed based on his experience: "[-]% are people from Minzheng."

"Civil Affairs? Why are Civil Affairs here?"

"It is said that the people at the grain station will play tricks on the scale. If the scale is not accurate, our farmers will suffer."

It is said that buckets were mainly used to calculate grain in the Qing Dynasty. The grains were put in the bucket container, and then scraped with a flat ruler. When the bucket was flat, it was a standard bucket.In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the buckets were of different sizes, and there were many standards, including "Cangdou awarded by the Ministry of Households", "Canghu", "Caohu", Jingcang Honghu, Tongcang Honghu, Jindou, Kanto bucket, each corresponding volume is not the same.

For example, Guandong Dou was specially used for grain collection in the Northeast in the early Qing Dynasty, and each standard dou was worth five liters of Guandong Dou; and Jin Dou, also known as "Huang Dou", was a special dou for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and each dou was 3.6 standard dou.

For another example, if the consumption of grain per stone in a certain place is increased by 1.5 buckets, then the "storage bucket" in that place will be expanded by 1.5 buckets per stone on the basis of the standard storage bucket; or the local "standard market bucket" will be used as the "storage bucket", Or use the local "universal market bucket" instead of "cang bucket" to collect grain.

At this time, Gao Liugeng who was on the side asked, "Old Uncle Shuan, the government doesn't use buckets and scales to collect grain, what's the formula?"

Liu Laoshuan said: "The regulation given by the grain station is that one stone weighs 125 catties, and you can weigh it with a scale. It is better than the warehouse in the southern government. You don't bully people."

Li Qingwen had seen yamen servants playing tricks on the buckets in the countryside, and kicking the tip of Dendrobium was nothing but pediatrics.He let out an "oh" and asked again: "Old Uncle Shuan, how much does the Ye family plan to sell this year?"

Liu Laoshuan smashed the mouth of the cigarette pipe, and said with a look of color on his face: "Forty stones, five thousand catties."

As mentioned before (see Chapter 216), the basic price of grain in Beihai Town is based on the grain market in Jinan Prefecture.Now the price of grain in the pass is sent to Sheyang Lake by members of the Cao Gang every month, and then sent back to Beihai Town.Although there have been fluctuations in the past two years, it has always revolved around the benchmark line of 1.5 taels of silver per stone.

However, because the Qing court used troops outside the pass, the price of rice rose sharply.The price of rice rose from 2.1 taels per stone to 3 taels, an increase of more than [-]%. This is mainly because the Eight Banners soldiers still mainly eat rice for two meals a day.

Liu Laoshuan sells forty stones of wheat for 60 taels of silver, and one silver dollar in Beihai Town is 7.46 grams. The silver content is the same as that of Daiqing’s 925 silver. Five coins correspond to one tael, so Liu Laoshuan’s income this time is three hundred Beihai silver dollar.

Li Qingwen was stunned and said, "How much do you sell? What if there is a disaster?"

Liu Laoshuan smiled and said: "Young students, if you don't sell them, there will be no room for them. The west wing of my house is full of grain, and the public warehouse in our village also puts a lot of grain. Don't you sell it and wait for the worms? My house sold it last year." I paid three thousand catties, the lord is good to our people, we can’t sell the old grain, we can keep it for ourselves to eat. After two years, the money is saved enough, and my family will also build a green brick and big tile house with two courtyards. Live the life of a landlord."

The three of Chai Rugui were stunned when they heard this. They never expected that farming in Beihai Town could make them so rich. Compared with Henan, it is really a sky and an earth.

But Liu Laoshuan also said that two years ago when the wasteland was opened up, it was hard, especially in the winter, when the white hair wind blew, we could only stay in the shack on the ground. In the second year, with the help of the civil affairs department, the village gave us Each house is covered with wooden carvings.

At this time, men, women and children from all families in the second village gathered in the sun-drying field, one wave after another.The women were all sitting on small benches, holding awls and needles and thread, or fixing shoe soles, or mending clothes, and slapping their children running wild twice.

Men from various families either gathered together to chat and laugh, or gathered around to watch people play chess or the newly learned checkers.The farmers have been busy for more than half a year, and it is only at this time that they can take a breath. They have sold grain and bought things, and they are all preparing for a good year.

"Everyone be quiet." At this time, the music played on the loudspeaker had ended, and the people at the grain station held up a tin trumpet and began to roll the roll.

"Call someone now! Li Wang~~"

"Come on!"

"Liu Quanfu~~"

"Here!" A villager who was playing chess saw that he was about to lose, just when he heard the call to himself, he immediately messed up the chessboard and said, "I'll come back to clean up after I sell the grain!"

"Bah! I'm waiting! You stinky chess player! Even if you count this one, you owe me two white pieces." The dime in Beihai Town is made of copper and aluminum alloys. "Bai Zi".

The grain station called two people at a time. After the person who was called passed by, he first reported the amount of grain he was going to sell. After the people at the grain station finished registering it in the booklet and stamped their fingerprints, they took people into the warehouse to take samples with grain spies to check the quality. moisture.

Usually at this time, the civil affairs supervisor will check on the sidelines.His task is not only to make sure that the scales are not tampered with, but also to verify the quality of each bag of grain.

After confirming that there is no problem with the fineness, the next step is spot check and weighing, which is also carried out with the participation of civil affairs supervisors.

It is said that the supervisors sent by the Civil Affairs Bureau of Beihai Town are randomly assigned by drawing lots the day before departure, and the people at the grain station generally do not know who they will send to supervise, so it is very difficult to cooperate so far.

After the spot check, the civil affairs supervisor will first buckle a blue stamp on the outside of the grain bag for sale, indicating that the bag is sold, and then issue a quadruple receipt, two for the farmer, one for the supervisor, and one for the supervisor. After that, the farmer can go to another table to settle the payment with the second copy of the receipt.Because people often temporarily change the quantity when selling grain, the carts pulling grain will be dispatched after all statistics are completed.

The sun-drying field was full of people, laughing and laughing, while Zhao Xin and Zhu Dagui sat on the wooden stakes outside the warehouse and talked in a low voice, only ten meters away from the sun-drying field.

The four people beside him, including Chen Jishan and Yin Bingwei, raised their eyes to look around from time to time.Soon, when Chen Jishan glanced over Chai Rugui and the other three, and was about to continue staring at the two fake Hezhes, he suddenly shrank his pupils, turned his eyes back to Chai Rugui and the other three, and narrowed his eyes.

Although the three of them squatted on the ground like other old farmers, they seemed to be loose and loose, but in Chen Jishan's view, the posture of the three of them was like standing on a low pile, with their knees slightly inward and their feet gripping the ground, ready to jump like a leopard at any time go out.

The three of Chai Rugui have practiced martial arts for many years, they are working hard all the time, and their daily movements are habits developed over the years.However, after coming to Ercun these days, they found that no one here understood this, so the three of them relaxed their vigilance.

At this time, Chai Rugui and the others suddenly felt the hairs on their bodies explode, and the Qi in their bodies felt it. Knowing that something was wrong, they pretended to casually raise their heads and looked around.

I saw that the man was less than six feet tall, wearing two gray cloth clothes that belonged to the "officials" in Beihai Town, and standing behind the civil affairs official opposite Zhu Dagui, his knees were also slightly buckled, and he was smiling at the moment. Looking at the three of them, the aura emanating from their bodies was like a mountain, pressing down like a mountain.

You must know that the current Chen Jishan is different from the simple martial artist a few years ago.After years of tempering in the military camp and fighting on the battlefield, both his aura and martial arts have long been accomplished.After he returned from Irkutsk this time, Zhao Xin planned to let him join the teaching team for training, and then be promoted to battalion commander.

However, when Chen Jishan heard that Zhao Xin planned to go to the village in disguise to investigate the people, he asked to follow him for another trip, and Zhao Xin agreed after thinking about it.After all, with a master by your side, you will feel more at ease in your heart.

The two spies of the Qing court in Xingkai Lake No. [-] Village have not been arrested so far. Zhao Xin's order to the General Public Security Department is to follow the clues and catch them all.So when Chen Jishan entered the village, he focused all his attention on Zhu Niser and Qi Bukadai, and unexpectedly found three masters.

"Master!" The three brothers were startled, they had only seen this kind of momentum from their master Chang Naizhou.After observing the other people beside the man, Chai Rugui and the others found that except for the man who was talking to the village chief and a thin man wearing a hat, the rest were also Lianjiazi; they stood there, Faintly surrounded the sitting person.

Gao Liugeng started to mutter in his heart again, who in Beihai town is following several boxers when they go out?According to Liu Laoshuan, that person was just a minor official of civil affairs.Does Beihai Town have to send expert guards even when a small official goes out?

wrong!This is too strange.

At the other end, Chen Jishan waited for Zhao Xin and Zhu Dagui to stop talking, and interjected, "Mr. Zhu, the three over there are from your village? When did they come?"

Zhu Dagui looked up and said with a smile: "The ones who came last month, the ones from Kaifeng Mansion, are all from Henan."

"What are their names?"

"Well, the one on the far left is the boss, named Chai Dazhuang, and the two next to him are sworn brothers, one named Gaoliu and the other named Li Wen."

"Chai Dazhuang, Senior Sixth, Li Wen"

Chen Jishan muttered the names of the three people back and forth, which caught Zhao Xin's attention, so he said casually, "What's wrong?"

"My lord, these three people are not ordinary crop handles, they all have kung fu."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Dagui said quickly: "I know about this. They said that before coming to our Beihai Town, they learned how to do it from others in the village for several years."

Chen Jishan shook his head and said, "It's not just a few years, not even ten years without this aura."

Only then did Zhu Dagui understand what was going on, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he hurriedly said: "What did you say? Why don't you report to the officials?" As soon as he said the words, he immediately remembered that there was no one to report to the person in front of him. big.

Zhao Xin reached out and patted Zhu Dagui's shoulder, signaling him to calm down, and then said: "Don't panic, it will make the villagers even more chaotic if you startle them. That's it."

Half an hour later, Chai Rugui and the others followed a villager to the courtyard of the village office.Because the three of them earn money with work points, the village chief will do whatever he arranges.

When they entered the yard, Chai Rugui and the others were about to go into the kitchen to chop firewood and boil water as ordered, when they saw the curtain of the main room lifted, and the thin man they saw just now came out, followed by two others.

The three brothers stared at each other for a moment, and then turned to look at the gate of the courtyard. At some point, there were already two people standing at the gate with two guns in their hands pointing at themselves.Gao Liugeng knew that it was a short gun unique to Beihai Town, which could fire several shots in a row. He had seen it on the security police of Whale Harbor, but the shape was different.

A sneer appeared on the corner of Chen Jishan's mouth, he walked up to the steps, and looked down at the three brothers.And the two people behind him also took out their guns and pointed at the three of them.

Chai Rugui's heart skipped a beat, but he still cupped his hands calmly and said, "What are you doing? Didn't you call us brothers to boil water?"

Chen Jishan said: "Don't pretend! You didn't do anything just now because you were afraid of shocking the villagers. Tell me, where did the three of you come from? What is the purpose of coming to Beihai Town?"

Li Qingwen curled his lips, knowing that the three of them had already shown their signs, folded his hands on his chest and said, "What if you said it, what if you don't say it?"

Chen Jishan said: "Say it, go back to live in Ansheng; if you don't say it, then let's live with it."

Li Qingwen said: "Hehe, there must be a rule of thumb for handover, right?"

Chen Jishan said lightly: "Okay! If you win, you will go back and forth, and Beihai will send you out of the country; if I win, then stop talking nonsense."

"Hahaha, okay, really insightful, I have never encountered such a crazy person in my life." Hearing what Chen Jishan said, Li Qingwen chuckled, took off the jacket he was wearing outside and threw it on the ground: "Then try Bar?"

(End of this chapter)