Chapter 30: Keep your strength and keep your time (1)

A spring rain washed away the last trace of winter's power. When the rain passed and the sun rose in the east, the two early geese returning north flew slowly north again avoiding the wind and rain.

"San'er, it's getting late, let's go. Come back early tomorrow, and make an appointment with matchmaker Zhang to give you a blind date. Don't miss it. Si'er, you have to follow your brother well and don't run around.

"A village woman stood at the door of a dilapidated yard with the help of a little girl, and smiled and reminded her with a cane.

A strong young man was tidying up his clothes, and a child next to him nodded vigorously with his eyes flashing with clever eyes.

"Oh, mom, please don't worry. When you go to the city, you can hand over the goods to the owner and you will be able to rush back tomorrow morning. It's time for the little Si Lao Dai to go out for a walk." Wu Wan's face turned red, and the sword on his body agreed.

After sorting out his luggage, Wu Wan pulled the retired Liaodong Army horse from the stable, threw two big fur goods onto the saddle, and then carried his younger brother onto the horse. He then turned around and bowed respectfully to his mother, "Mom, you should rest well, and you will be back soon.

Girl, mom is here to take care of you at home. "The girl with a beautiful appearance agreed to her brother's advice. The two brothers flew onto the horse and walked down the mountain.

Wu Wanxin walked freely on the mountain road, the streams of the mountain streams flowed down happily, birds chirping through the forest, and a few naughty little squirrels emerged from the dense forest to chase the pine cones buried under the thin snow.

The blue and white horse under his crotch had been held in the winter and finally walked into nature. It sniffed from time to time. If Wu Wan had not tried his best to restrain the reins, it might have run out happily.

Wu Wan took a deep breath, and the fragrance of wild flowers blooming was everywhere.

He was not dissatisfied with his current life. He thought that after handing over the two big bags of fur goods that he had saved for a winter to his employer, he could get at least 100 taels of silver. In order to calculate the amount of silver he saved in his hand, he would have reached 100 taels of silver.

After deducting twenty taels of silver, they would marry a wife, and borrow some money to open a fur shop in the city, which would produce and sell it themselves. In two years, the whole family would be able to leave the mountain and take root in Guangning City.

Thinking of the excitement, Wu Wan said, "Si'er, do you want to run two steps?" My younger brother raised his head and pointed excitedly. Wu Wan whipped it down, and the blue and white horse ran down excitedly spread its four hooves.

Today is the weather. Farmers from all over the countryside have entered the city to sell goods, and the streets of Guangning are very lively. Liaodong has exempted farmers from land, money and grain for three years. In recent years, farmers' surplus grain has been purchased by the government, and there are many merchants to buy them.

Farmers have not lived such a comfortable life for many years.

Now the only thing left on the farmers is that little corvee service. Every year, farmers from all over Liaodong will be organized by the 100-household security chiefs from all over the country to serve in Jinzhou, Guangning and Lalu.

Jinzhou is building a port. Good guy. After three years of hard work, the port in Jinzhou has now stretched five miles away. There are twenty deep-water berths, and forty large ships with a capacity of more than 2,000 materials can be stopped at one time.

Guangning, Lalu and Liaoyang built city walls, which controlled food and accommodation. They only went to repair for two months after the busy farming season. There were only three men in the family who only took one to go. You can definitely go home before the New Year. If you miss it, the government will also send money to compensate.

Last fall and winter, the main work became water conservancy repairs, and it became even more exciting to do this migrant worker because it was said to serve the government.

But in fact, the project was not done to irrigate the water in your own land. Tens of thousands of migrant workers were very enthusiastic about repairing the irrigation and water conservancy project of more than 100 miles of the Liaohe River.

Now the people of Liaodong have set off a wave of cotton planting. Two years ago, a new fabric business was opened in the Li family's business, and a large amount of cotton was bought from other places. The idle farmers also rushed forward.

Nowadays, farmers have more and more money, and their homes have less and less land to grow grain. Anyway, if they lack food, they can buy it in the rice shop. This has been a while.

The price of agricultural products in Guangning market is much more expensive. In the past, only five pounds of pork cost, but now it has risen to fifteen large amounts. However, the people only think that the money in their pockets is too much, and they don’t know how much the price has increased.

In addition to selling crops at home at a good price, there are many opportunities to make money. Now, workshops, mines, iron shops, copper shops, furniture factories, textile factories, cement factories, etc. As long as you are diligent, you will not be unable to make money.

Various farm tools produced in iron shops. The war horses eliminated from the military camps were bought for farmers. The production efficiency was improved. Now the countryside is much richer, and farmers have sent their children to the city for work.

If you have money in your hands, you are not afraid of losing food. If you have money in your hands, you are not afraid of rising prices.

Farmers from all over the countryside rushed to the city to sell goods. Compared with the past when they had to pay taxes when passing through the city gate, it is better now. As long as the things produced by their own homes are not taxed at all.

All taxes are transferred to the merchants to produce goods before paying them. Everyone can’t figure it out if they want to break their minds. There are such good things in the world.

Wu Wan came to Zhaoji Fur Fruit Store and turned over and got off the horse. A friend inside ran out and greeted him: "Brother Wu, I've been here so early, so diligent." As he said that, he pulled the horse and walked to the backyard.

Wu Wan greeted him enthusiastically, took off the leather bag from the horse's back, and walked into the lobby of the fur shop. Manager Li was so happy that Wu Wan narrowed his eyes. Wu Wan was a famous hunter, diligent and kind, and the goods he sent were of quality and quantity.

Manager Li brought Wu Wan and his younger brother into the back hall, and the guys brought tea.

Manager Li said: "Brother Wu came early this spring. Come on, come and see what good things are available."

Wu Wan agreed to untied the skin and took out a few animal skins from it. The bobcats, rabbits, and foxes had everything, and two leopard skins were bright and smooth. Manager Li shook his head while looking, and sighed softly.

Seeing his appearance, Wu Wan hurriedly said, "Uncle Li, what's wrong?"

Manager Li said: "There are a lot of skins, but why do you always have some problems? Look at the hole here? Look at this..."

Wu Wan felt a little ashamed and dared not speak out.

Now that the demand for animal skins in Guangning is increasing, he did not have the same meticulous work when hunting wild animals. In the past, in order not to hurt the fur, he shot his eyes specifically, and sometimes to wait for a good angle, it often took several hours.

Now, we are trying to save trouble, and when we see the prey, we will just take a single arrow and the quality of the fur will naturally decline.

He knew that he was in a bad way. Wu Wan said secretly: "Uncle Li, then do you think of the price?" His voice was as small as a mosquito.

Manager Li stretched out his hand and stuffed it into Wu Wan's sleeves, and both sides pinched the price inside. Wu Wan's face changed and hurriedly said, "Uncle Li is too few, it's 40% less than last year. Although the fur is a bit malfunctioning, it's still useful."

Manager Li narrowed his eyes and said, "Brother Wu, you don't know that the Jurchens from the 30,000 guards in the north also made this business after surrendering. Their shame suddenly became more and more.

And there is indeed something wrong with your batch of goods. Otherwise, it depends on whether you are an old customer, and you will add 10% to you? No more.”

Wu Wan sighed in his heart, alas, these preys were all brought back from the mountains in the wind and snow, and they were risking their lives many times. They originally hoped to increase the price by 10%. Now they are being ripped like this.

Although Xiao Si was young, he knew that his brother was embarrassed and hurriedly said, "Uncle Li, my brother has worked hard to hunt these things. You can give me more."

Manager Li looked at the two brothers. He raised his legs and looked confident and said, "Brother Wu, please consider again, where can you get these goods in Quanguang Ningcheng? Sell them to people who come to the door to run to the gang.

You can only give you 60% of the land price at most.”

Wu Wan sighed, the market was as if Manager Li said, and he nodded helplessly. Manager Li immediately smiled and shouted, calling out a friend to clean up the animal skin, and then took the two brothers to the front tent to pay seven heavy ingots of official silver.

Wu Wan stuffed the silver into his arms, put it carefully, turned around and bowed to Manager Li, leading his younger brother to turn out. The two brothers walked on the bustling and lively streets with their horses.

There are all kinds of goods here, including Kunshan cloth, Jingdezhen porcelain, Jiangnan bamboo utensils, Nanyang herbs, and even expensive glass.

Wu Wan pulled a piece of blue cloth for his mother and bought a silver hairpin for his sister. He thought about it early in the morning. His sister was about to get married after spring, and she couldn't have no jewelry at all. These silverware from Ryukyu.

The style is good and the quality is sufficient. It has become the new favorite of the lady and wife in the Liaodong boudoir.

The jingling sound of an iron shop attracted Xiao Si's attention. He pulled his brother to the shop and saw several blacksmiths pouring a furnace of iron from sparks into a big pot.

Nowadays, the Liaodong Military and Civil Affairs Office often tinkers with new inventions. For example, the current large crucible steel stir-frying method was developed by some craftsmen of the Military Affairs Office. It can produce several times more steel at a time than before.

Most of these steels were acquired by the military camps, and a small part of them were leaked out of civilian use.

But the price of steel speculation is ridiculously high. For example, a set of pure steel-made ground crossbow arrows was sold at a high price of fifty taels of silver. At this price, you can already buy three old horses eliminated from the military camp.

Therefore, in addition to equipping the army, steel crossbows can only become toys for hunting by some wealthy young men from officials and wealthy families.

Xiao Si looked at the three pairs of steel crossbows with dark blue light hanging on the wall inside, swallowing his saliva. He followed his father since childhood and his brother hunted, and had natural expectations for weapons.

Although Wu Wan also wanted to get a pair of steel crossbows, it would be more convenient to hunt, but the price was really expensive.

He Lala's younger brother wanted to go out, but Xiao Si was unwilling to move. Wu Wan didn't want his younger brother to become a hunter like him again. He just wanted his younger brother to read and read and seek fame.

The two brothers were watching, and suddenly there was a noisy sound outside. The guy in the iron shop whispered and said, "Look, those three semen have come out for a walk."

Wu Wanxun's reputation passed, and saw three blond men dressed in black in the streets.

In Liaodong, there are often merchants from the Western Regions or from the sea. There are even many people in the Liaodong navy admiral. Everyone is not surprised by people.

But these people who are covered in dark clothes and hypnotic robes, who will preach the gods in the sky, feel particularly interesting, and they will use money to buy some candy to distribute to the children on the street for no reason.

So as soon as a few people come out, they will attract a large group of children to follow.

Wu Wan didn't know what was going on, so he asked a businessman selling rouge and water powder beside him. The man looked at him strangely: "You don't even know them. These are the three Seme gentlemen hired by His Highness the King of Liao from the capital.

They taught courses specifically in the school that taught astronomy and gods.

The vendor who bought fresh fruits next to him said, "I said Lao Liu, have your kid sent it to the school?"

The businessman said: "I went there last fall. Now, there are hundreds of students in the school, where are your children?"

The dealer said, "Is that so many people? Where are there? My child is only seven years old this year, so it won't take a few more years."

The businessman said with a proud look: "My kid is only seven years old when he entered the school. Now when he comes home, he can not only recite the Three Character Classic, but also use Zhang Dahua to tell me where Liaodong is. Haha, he is more promising than me."

The dealer said: "Original, wasn't it happened that the princes opposed the admission places of the people and the children of businessmen? I was also worried that my son would not be allowed to enter the school this year."

The merchant waved his hand and said, "No, Yao Dianbu came out to speak. The Supreme Master said: There is no difference in teaching. In the future, as long as you are a child on the ground in Liaodong, whether you are a Han or a foreigner, whether you are a businessman or a scholar, you can go to school to study."

The dealer said worriedly: "So that's the case, I have to send my child over quickly, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with without a seat."

The businessman said: "Don't worry, your family doesn't live in Beicheng? I heard that the school is now divided into primary and secondary schools.

Now the location of Liaodong School will be all middle schools in the future, and then the four cities will set up a primary school each. Children will enter the middle school after four years of study in the primary school and study in the middle school for another four years. After they come out, they can work in the royal family shogunate or the Liaodong Dusi, and the military.

Now, the first batch of middle school students will graduate in two days.”

Ah, Wu Wan suddenly realized and stared at the several gentlemen in front of him who were swaying across the market.

An envious look in his eyes. Wu Wan has always admired the most for educated scholars and those soldiers who fought on the battlefield. If it weren't for the only ones of my mother and younger siblings at home, he would have devoted himself to the Liaodong Army long ago.

Now he is ten years younger than four years old. With some money in hand, it is time to send him to Liaodong Academy.

Wu Wan asked quickly: "Brother, my brother is ten years old this year. Is it still too late to send him to school? How much does it cost to go to school?"

The merchant said, "Haha, you can charge it at any age. You only need one tael of silver a year, including food and accommodation. Nowadays, this amount of silver is not the same as if you didn't give it.

"Wu Wan asked about the location of the school, thanked her, and took her brother to the east of the city.

When Wu Wan was far away, he saw a huge yard located on the hill outside the East City. It was surrounded by towering trees. There was also a small pond in front of the yard. Lotus floating in the pond. It was indeed a pleasant scenery.

When we walked to the yard, we saw a group of students gathered around a notice board in front of the door. Everyone looked at the sheets of paper on the board excitedly.

Wu Wan was illiterate, holding a horse in one hand and pulling his younger brother forward with the other, and asked a 16 or 17-year-old student standing next to him: "This guy, I'm illiterate, what is written on the board?"
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