Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 357

Leaving the convenience store, the two continued to go deeper.

When they got here, Xu Jiajun appeared more frequently. They wore bandages of various colors on their wrists, and each color represented a function.

The red ones are responsible for security patrols, the green ones are responsible for the carriages and horses on the streets, and the blue ones are responsible for maintaining the order of the wandering vendors in the market.

Under Xu Jiajun's jurisdiction, the itinerant vendors were also managed in an orderly manner. On the commercial street, there was another alley for vendors to set up stalls alone. In this alley, there were farmers from surrounding villages selling melons, fruits and vegetables. There are also hunters who have hunted their prey.

A city woman wearing a four-bag bag from Xujiazhuang came to buy vegetables with a basket on her shoulders. The vegetable vendor was an old man over half a century old with an eight or nine-year-old grandson.

The woman picked out a handful of vegetables and handed them to the old man for weighing.

weighing?

Qi Zhou looked at it strangely.

In the county town of Zhuojun Prefecture, there are very few weighers, and they are usually calculated by portion, because farmers are illiterate, can't read scales, and don't know how to do arithmetic. The vendor asked for confirmation.

Because of this, he has seen too many scenes of peasants squatting in the corner and crying hopelessly because they don't know how to calculate and are deceived by cunning guests.

When he first saw it, he couldn't bear it, but after seeing it a lot, he knew that this was normal and nothing worth noting, who made these farmers so stupid.

However, the farmers here in Xujiajun seem to be different.

The old man really didn't know how to count, but the little grandson he brought took the vegetable skillfully, ran to a pavilion guarded by the Xu family army, and shouted kindly:

"Fellow Daoist, help me weigh it."

Daoist, fellow Daoist?What a strange name!

Qi Zhou glanced at Xu Da suspiciously, Xu Da looked at the cute child with satisfaction, and explained: "Those who share the same ideals are all fellow Taoists."

The grandparents and grandchildren of the vegetable vendors couldn't afford the scales, so they took them to the public weighing kiosks for weighing.

The woman who bought the vegetables trusted Xu Jiajun's weight, and the child said how much it weighed, and skillfully calculated the price.

A transaction is so simple.

"This is credit." Xu Dawei explained to Qi Zhou who was stunned.

Qi Zhou looked at the wooden chip in the child's hand, and no longer dared to treat the wooden chip as a worthless piece of wood.

Because in the eyes of these Yuyang people, the value of this chip is equivalent to gold and silver.

As the saying goes, laymen watch the fun, and experts watch the way. Qi Zhou happened to have some research on the currency system of the Qing Kingdom.

At this moment, seeing Xu Jiajun's own use of wooden chips so successfully, a strong sense of crisis suddenly rose in his heart.

Once the Xu family army establishes the concept of 'credit' among the common people, no matter whether the Xu family distributes five baht coins or wood chips, they are all the same thing in people's eyes.

And once the people no longer use the five baht coins issued by the Qing Kingdom, this will pose a huge threat to the entire Qing Kingdom's economy.

Because, when the coins hoarded in the treasury are no longer money, then the dynasty will collapse.

Of course, this possibility is relatively small, and the biggest possibility is the foreseeable reduction in value, and the originally unstable five baht coin becomes even less valuable.

Once Xu Jiajun is allowed to open up the plate, Zhuo County, which is close at hand, will become dangerous!
At that time, the Xu family can even successfully assimilate Zhuo County without a single soldier!

No wonder he didn't see people using cloth to trade in Xu's market. It turned out that in Xu's army's territory, cloth, the 'payment currency' with the most stable external value, no longer had the property of currency.

In Yuyang County, cloth is only used to make clothes and bedding, and it is no longer valuable.

Because the price of the cloth sold in Xujiazhuang is really ridiculously cheap.

Qi Zhou didn't see a single disheveled commoner on the streets of Beicheng, just because the Xu family only needed [-] chips for a set of sackcloth.

Now the people in the city earn at least [-] chips a day for working, and in just three days, people can wear a complete set of new clothes.

As a result, the value of cloth has become so low that it is not as good as wooden chips.At least under Xu Jiajun's rule, this is the reality.

The more Qi Zhou looked at it, the more frightened he was. When he saw a stewed meat shop selling loose meat, he offered to ask Xu Da to treat him to a piece of stewed pork, and then a storm arose in his heart.

This brine contains many kinds of precious spices!

No, it's not just the spices, but also the source of the pig's offal. It seems that it's not just the material of one pig, but the material of several pigs.

Of course, most of them are chicken and duck, which are relatively cheap.

At first glance, it doesn't seem like much, but if you think about it, you can know that the entire Yuyang County can digest at least three pigs, thirty chickens, and forty ducks a day.

What moved Qi Zhou the most was that so much meat could be sold out in the middle of the morning.The people in Yuyang County are actually so rich?
If it was placed in Zhuojun County, it would be good for a butcher to sell two pigs a day, and chickens and ducks are hardly seen in the market, because ordinary people can't afford it, and buying pork once in a while is considered a luxury.

While swallowing a braised duck intestine, Qi Zhou looked at the dense crowd of people on the street, and tentatively asked Xu Da:
"Mr. Xu, there should be 5000 people in Yuyang County, right?"

The Xu family will not hide their operating results at all, as long as outsiders don't know it.

Xu laughed and nodded, "It's about the same. Recently, the number of people who have been busy harvesting rice and entering the city has decreased a lot. When the number was the largest, there should be more than 6000 people."

"The road has been repaired, and the time for the big guys to enter the city will be shortened. Some villagers will come from the village thirty miles away for this piece of stewed pork."

Suddenly, Qi Zhou felt that the duck intestine in his mouth was tasteless, and forced himself to swallow it like chewing wax.

The two passed by the health center, the second-story building was not common in the old capital Luoyang, let alone in a small Yuyang County?

Qi Zhou couldn't help but take another look, and was immediately blinded by the rows of glass windows on the first floor.

He hurriedly raised his hands to cover his eyebrows, and only then felt his eyes feel better.

"So, is glass so worthless in Yuyang County?" Qi Zhou gritted his teeth and asked Xu Dakou.

Because it was hard not to remind him of the set of glass vases he had bought from Xu Da for several loads of silk and satin.

Now that I think about it, he Qi Zhou is really a big injustice!Take other people's scraps as treasures and offer them in the ancestral hall!
Seeing Qi Zhou's expression, Xu Da knew that this guy had realized that he had been taken advantage of. Of course, he would not expose the truth so cruelly, so he hurriedly comforted him:
"The cost of glass is extremely high, and it is only because this is a health center that it is used extravagantly. After all, human life is a matter of life here, so we can't be careless."

Hearing Xu Da's explanation, Qi Zhou finally felt better.

However, Qi Zhou's expression became subtle again when he saw that the people entering and leaving the health center were not high-ranking officials but the low-level peasants.

(End of this chapter)