Northern Dynasties

Chapter 110
The road outside Shangyuan Village is now a flat road with a width of two feet. The road is paved with a layer of sand, extending from the bottom of the plateau to the gate of the manor, and it is not muddy even in heavy rain.

The construction of this road did not cost the manor any materials. It was all paved with sand in the pockets of the villagers who came and went.

On both sides of the road is the Canal Market, where the villagers have become accustomed to gathering and buying and selling the daily output of seasonal goods, regardless of whether they buy or sell, there is a fair price, three or five chickens can be exchanged for needles and threads, and one or two buckets of miscellaneous beans can be exchanged for salt and vinegar .

Occasionally, the weavers who got off work early thought that they had been working all day long, so they cut off two finger fats cruelly. When they returned home, the daughter-in-law praised them and their children laughed.

People in the village only focus on the current life when buying and selling, and are reluctant to rent the shops and inns along the street. However, the guests from far away villages have nowhere to live, and they are worried about when the new products will be sold in the village. They dare not leave even for a moment, so they can only stay for a long time down.

In addition to the local merchants who handle business, there is another group of people who make a living here.

These people are quick-witted, and every time they see a stranger or acquaintance coming in and out of this place, they will go up and ask: "Do you have a canal ticket? No matter how much it is, I will charge the highest price here! One ticket, one post, and cash is given!"

Some people who are not familiar with the market and current affairs heard that there is still such a bargain, and immediately became happy, took out a piece of paper with red and green patterns, two fingers wide and long, and smiled: "I have more than ten here, you are not lying? I just entered the dealership. I sold six or seven buckets of bean ingredients, and the man from the village stuffed them in, and I planned to use them on the road..."

"I want it, I want it, no matter how much it is, it's in stock!"

Before the man finished speaking, he was dragged out of the road, and was about to panic and struggle, with a roll of cloth stuffed in his arms, the bill was naturally taken away, and he returned to the middle of the road with a blank face, to see if the coarse cloth in his arms was true. It's true, only then did I realize it and muttered to myself: "Did I suffer a loss?"

He wasn't too stupid, so he turned his head and walked to a stall selling baskets by the side of the road, bent down and asked, "Brother, what is the piece of paper issued by the village, and the person calling him a ticket?"

"The ticket, you have to collect it well. In addition to the price of the goods sold in Shangyuan's Lijiazhuang, you have to check and collect the ticket. Without this ticket, you can't buy his house no matter how much you have. goods!"

The stall owner is an enthusiastic person, he laughed and said after hearing this.

"It turns out that's the case, that's useless, and I don't need to buy other materials!"

The man breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, he just felt that the person who bought the ticket with cloth just now was an idiot, and the owner of the village is also a boring person doing boring things, could it be possible that you can still take out the dragon liver and phoenix gall to make people fight for it?The villagers only have food and clothing, what else do they ask for?
At this moment, a group of knights galloped out from the village, guarding two carts in the middle, and went straight to a large shop outside the village.

"New, new!"

Seeing this scene, the originally orderly market suddenly became boiling, shouts came and went from everywhere, and people ran towards the big shop everywhere.The stall owner who was guarding the stall also jumped a few feet, and hurriedly shouted to the stall next to him: "Help me watch the goods!"

Before the words were finished, the stall owner had jumped more than ten feet away.

Just now I asked that person to see this scene, he was a little dumbfounded for a while, he couldn't figure out what the madness of this Shangyuan native was, because he was curious, he was not in a hurry to hurry, he squatted on the side of the road to see what it was. moth.

After another half an hour, the stall owner came back sweating, holding a carved bamboo tube in his hand, sat down with a look of displeasure, and sighed to the stall owner next to him: "Unlucky, I only grabbed a tube of apricots." It's better to sell the tickets for Huazhang!"

The onlooker heard that the stall owner was in a hurry just to buy the ingredients, and he was overjoyed: "Brother, are you Shangyuan people too ignorant? You don't know how to make honey at home, so you want to fight for it here?"

"You know shit!"

The stall owner was upset that he didn't get the product he wanted, so he rolled his eyes after hearing the words, and shouted loudly at the stall: "Li Zhuang Xinghuagu, there is only one tube and a half catty, first come, first served!"

As soon as these words were uttered, several people gathered around to inquire about the price, and the stall owner directly quoted three times the current price. Hearing that, the spectators felt that the atmosphere of the town was corrupt, and couldn't help but said: "My family also has food. It's several times lower than this thief's price!"

The few people who were still negotiating the price immediately surrounded the spectator after hearing the news, and each of them competed for a premium. Here, we..."

"Your family is self-made? It's not from Lizhuang? Go away, don't make trouble!"

When the few people heard this, they scattered like birds and beasts, and then turned their heads to look back at the stall, but the tube of apricot flower soup had already been sold.

Several people couldn't buy goods, they all glared at the onlookers, and some people were already gearing up, the onlookers saw this, hurriedly drove the car away with the cloth between their hands, and after walking for a long time, they spat hard: "Madman, Shangyuan is full of lunatics! "

He came down from here, and another person rushed out from the side road, pulled the car and whispered: "Brother, are you going to sell goods in Lizhuang? Does he have a canal ticket for you? One ticket is one foot of cloth, and the ticket is in stock!" "

When the man heard this, he was taken aback for a while, then looked at the roll of coarse cloth under his arm, and slammed it on the car floor and shouted angrily: "I don't have it! This Shang Yuan, I will never come again!"

Li Tai didn't know that there was a foreign guest who was at a loss and almost collapsed because of his Shangyuan hometown, but even if he knew, he would just laugh it off.

The Kansai region has been in chaos for many years, and the entire logistics trading system has collapsed severely, almost to nothing. The social structure has almost no concept of division of labor and cooperation, and everyone has become an isolated island.

Without division of labor and cooperation, without mutual needs, social development will stagnate.Lack of motivation to change the status quo means nothing more than generations sticking to the status quo and getting by.

Li Tai has already achieved considerable results in the transformation of the countryside. The promotion of Quyuanli has greatly shortened the farming cycle of the villagers, and the reconstruction of the Longshou Canal has increased the crop production along the line. How should the manpower saved and the increased income be used? , in order to play a better effect?
The villagers used to plow the land in three days, but now they can do it in two days, saving one day to go home and dig the ground to store more grain, so what am I busy with?

Hurry up and come to my workshop to work, earning more money is the business!

Don't know what to do after earning money, and still feel flustered while hiding at home?I have a supply and marketing cooperative here. Add new clothes and new dishes, and you will be full of energy after a tiring day!
The truth is this, but when Qushi was first established, Li Tai was also beating drums in his heart. After all, the nostalgia has passed for so many years, and the villagers may still be used to stockpiling grains to prepare for shortages, so they may not be willing to enjoy the present.

So at the beginning, he only wanted to buy surplus farm goods in the countryside, and then transfer them to Huazhou, Chang'an and other cities with high demand for sales.

But when the canal city was built, Li Tai soon discovered that the consumption desire in the village was not low either. It was not that the villagers had no need for consumption, but there was a lack of a stable and continuous commodity supply channel in the past.

Especially for some simple tools and commodities, not everyone knows how to make them, but there is a real demand. Instead of trying to make them yourself, it is better to buy them directly from the market.

In addition to tools and utensils, all kinds of agricultural and fresh ingredients are also selling very well, and the supply is often in short supply.

After all, a better life is the most instinctive pursuit of human beings. Even if Yang Bailao is so poor, he still has to tie a two-foot red rope to his daughter.

Of course, there is another reason for the people to spend their surplus, that is, the government of the Western Wei Dynasty, or Yuwentai's hegemony, is not a proper person.

On the eve of the Battle of Shayuan in the third year of Datong in the Western Wei Dynasty, there was a great famine in Kansai, and Yu Wentai ordered the expansion of households to search for grain. It is a crime to store too much grain at home.Even though Hengnong was conquered and a lot of grain was brought back, and the Battle of Shayuan was a brilliant victory, the seized grain did not say that it would be returned.

Therefore, the people of Kansai really do not have a strong desire to hoard. It is serious to wear and eat, and there is no need for rats to save rations for cats.

The trading profits among the villagers are not big, and the essence is still to exchange what they need and get what they need.No matter how short of money Li Tai was, he wouldn't be so frantic as to take profits from it.

But this atmosphere of prosperous business and trade can be taken advantage of extremely well.Everything starts from small to big, from bottom to top. When some rules become common sense, they have power in themselves.

The tickets that are copied and sold in the market today are such products.The ticket is just a proof of the contribution of the Qumeng, but when it is introduced into a payment system and recognized by the public, it has a certain credit value.

Of course, it is also because Li Tai's manor can provide some high-quality goods, which makes the ticket eligible to be linked to scarcity, and even has a certain degree of circulation.

With the internal approval of the Qu League, and the Qu ticket as a qualification certificate, Li Tai is equivalent to creating the prototype of a business system centered on him.

As long as it can ensure its own leading productivity and continuous supply of high-end products, this business system will continue to expand.In short, channel tickets provided Li Tai with another means of controlling and regulating the market.

He can expand the radiation range of the canal alliance by issuing more canal tickets, and replicate the Longshou canal incident in other towns.You can also use the growing market to attract sellers who have scarce resources, such as the Yanhao family in Hedong, or Duguxin, who is very powerful in the Hexi trade route.

Of course, the current business system is still immature, and it is not enough to touch those real powerful men, but one day, Li Tai will be able to grasp the social resources to have an equal dialogue with them for mutual benefit.

He is not worried that this method will be plagiarized and used by others in the short term. Any method has its own particularity, and others may not be able to use it.

As for the imperial court of the Western Wei Dynasty, it is not as good as direct monetary policy reform to integrate social resources.

(End of this chapter)