tscritgt In mid-May of the eighth year of Zhenguan, after more than 20 days of long journey, Zhao Chen and others finally returned to Shuozhou City.
The journey was very difficult, but the harvest was also quite fruitful.
The grain they purchased from Lishi County earlier was sold by them when they arrived in Taiyuan City.
By the way, they also sold a few cattle and a few oxcarts at a comparable price, and also purchased a batch from Taiyuan City.
If the cloth is transported back to Shuozhou City and resold, it will naturally make a profit.
After working hard all the way, they finally came back.
Everyone left the remaining things to the brothers who had stayed in Shuozhou recently and didn't go out, and just went to rest by themselves.
Only Zhao Chen couldn't wait to wash away the dust all over his body, so he went into the house to talk with his father Zhao Qi.
"You mean, Naluo Sanlang not only taught you the skill of making bean paste, but also said that he will also deliver the fermented bean curd used for wool replacement next year as usual."
Hearing what the eldest son of the family said, Zhao Qi was very surprised.
"Exactly, I have learned that skill now."
Zhao Chen said solemnly.
"Why?"
Zhao Qi was puzzled.
The Zhao family has no friendship with Naluo Sanlang, so why would the other party teach them the method of making soybean paste for nothing?
"Sanlang Road is a long way, and it is too difficult and inconvenient to get the sauce back and forth."
Zhao Chen said.
After hearing this, Zhao Qi was silent.
The Zhao family started their business by doing business, and their children traveled all over the country.
Over the past 20 to 30 years, they have accumulated the family fortune they have now.
Let's just say that in Shuozhou City, some people despise the Zhao family, some are envious, and some are jealous.
It's just that they all only see what the Zhao family looks like now, but a few of them will think carefully about what kind of hardships the children of the Zhao family have gone through to be where they are today.
The journey is long and difficult.
No one can understand these words more deeply than the Zhao family.
In the early years, the brothers went deep into the grassland to do business with the nomads on the grassland.
It was okay to meet those who were kind and honest.
If they met those who were fierce and domineering, you would have to shed your skin and lose all your livestock, money and food.
It was also a common thing.
His two brothers even died on the grassland, followed by countless servants.
The Zhao family's current foundation depends on the business road they opened up on the grassland, a road paved with blood.
"Mr.
Luo is kind-hearted," Zhao Qi sighed.
Thinking of the difficult past events in his early years, his eyes were already red at this time.
As he got older, the aggressiveness in his bones had been worn away by the years, and he became a little sentimental.
He thought it was because his life was too long.
Relaxed.
"So, I will go to the grassland again in the next few days to say hello to the brothers on the grassland and tell them not to sell their wool to others."
After a moment of silence, Zhao Qi said again.
"Aye" Zhao Chen was surprised.
His father had been in Shuozhou City in the past few years and rarely went out, but now he wanted to go to the grassland again.
The grassland was incomparable to the Central Plains.
Although some grassland peoples had openly declared themselves vassal to the Tang Dynasty, they still carried out robbery and plunder secretly.
Even though the Zhao family has its own business route on the nearby grassland, it is still full of dangers.
"This old bone has been at ease for a long time.
It's time to go out and walk with the brothers on the grassland."
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Zhao Qi said that he had made up his mind.
The people on the grasslands needed food, salt and cloth.
When this trade route was first opened, there were many young people on the grasslands who fought with them to resist the bandits.
It was a friendship that cost lives and blood together.
Making a living on herbal medicine is much more difficult than it is here.
They are also afraid of insufficient water and grass, afraid of thieves and plunder, and afraid of encountering wolves.
It has been many years since we last met, and I wonder if those old friends are still alive. at this time.
Xipo Village, Lishi County, Shizhou.
Luo Sanlang was fertilizing wheat on the field with several of his disciples.
In the past few days, he has burned a lot of soil on the barren slope near his home, mostly made of hay and fine soil, with some dried pig manure and straw mixed in.
The pile is very fertile, and the smell when burned is different.
The villagers say it smells good.
Needless to say, they are greedy for fertilizer.
After the piles of burned soil were poured with pig urine, they were placed on the slope.
In order to prevent rainwater from taking away the fertility, Luo Yong also covered them with straw curtains.
At this time, some villagers began to regret not listening to Luo Sanlang and raising a few pigs at home.
If they could build a pigsty like the Luo family's, raising a few pigs would not seem that troublesome.
As long as the urine in the pig pen can be drained out in time, the fertilizer finally obtained will not be as dirty, muddy and unusable as they remembered it in the past.
If you are afraid of making the yard stink, you can build the pigsty farther away from your yard.
Originally, many people in their village built their huts outside.
They only had to put one or two wooden barrels at home and wash them frequently.
After making tofu for the past few months, every household in Xipo Village had some savings.
At this time, some people began to think of buying one or two piglets to raise.
Buy two boars, and do what Luo Sanlang did, carve the pigs out, and surround them with two hot meals a day.
In the end, you will not only get two fat pigs, but also a lot of manure.
It's just that in this season, the crops in the fields are at a critical time.
If you want to raise pigs to make manure, it may be too late at this time.
Besides, there is really no one in the family who has to farm and make tofu.
They are already very busy.
Some people’s families are really short of manpower, so they have to stop the tofu business for a few days.
"Sanlang, your pig manure is for sale."
When the villagers asked about this, they felt a little embarrassed.
When Sanlang told them about raising pigs, all these people thought that raising pigs was dirty, smelly and unproductive.
Now he has started to think about his pig manure again, which is really shameless.
"If you want, how about exchanging one load of bean dregs for two loads of pig manure?"
Luo Yong was easy to talk to.
Speaking of which, his eight pigs are still relatively small, and the fertilizer they produce is not too much.
The ten acres of land he owns are enough, but not much.
It's just that in the whole village, if other people's fertilizers are not enough, he will plant the crops in the fields fat and strong.
When the harvest comes, other people will only get about 200 kilograms per acre of land, and he alone will Even if it yields three to four hundred pounds, what's the point?
As long as he has money in his hands and the villagers have food in their homes, if Luo Yong is short of food, he can use the money to buy it, so there is no need to hold on to the little fertilizer and refuse to share it with others.
"If you have more, I will exchange a few loads with you."
The villagers did not really want to compete with Luo Yong for fertilizer.
They just thought that if the other party had more, they would exchange a few loads with him.
In the days that followed, villagers occasionally brought bean dregs in exchange for pig manure.
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There are also villagers who spend money and food to hire Luo Yong's apprentices to help build pig houses.
They really can't spare any manpower.
In addition, the pig houses built by those people are really good.
It is also good for three or five young men to build a pig house together.
Very quickly, in order to make these pigsties more durable, the villagers asked them to build higher stone walls underneath.
After the pigsty was repaired and the piglets were bought, someone invited Luo Sanlang to come and slaughter the pigs.
Luo Yong has no intention of eating this bowl of rice, so he naturally has no secrets about the craftsmanship of this pig.
If anyone wants to see it, just come over and have a look, and learn the craft quickly, so you don't have to come to him again next time.
It’s a slaughtered pig.
"hiss" Luo Yong slashed with the knife, and there were several hissing sounds behind him, as if the knife had cut them.
"hiss" Luo Yong stabbed down again, and there was another sound of inhaling behind him.
"Master, let me give it a try."
After a few rounds, a disciple finally came up with the idea of trying it himself.
"Okay, then you give it a try."
Luo Sanlang was very relieved.
The disciple who spoke was named Liu Huo, which shows the simplicity of his parents' wishes.
They asked for nothing more than that he could survive.
Liu Huo is an unattractive person, not tall and somewhat thin.
He is only twenty-five years old, but he looks like he is already in his thirties.
Luo Yong heard something from him when chatting with him earlier.
He was born less than ten months into his pregnancy.
It was also in the early spring when there was no harvest, and his nutrition did not keep up, so he later grew thin and short.
Those uncles and brothers in their family, All of them are tall and strong.
For someone like him, who has both congenital and acquired deficiencies, with such a physique, and carrying things to sell in the countryside like others, it will definitely be more difficult than others.
If he can learn some skills, it will be easier.
Let’s talk about Luo Yong’s group of disciples.
Most of the people who can go to Taiyuan City to give people a bed in the winter are quick-thinking and courageous.
They can also come back in time to help Luo Yong cultivate the land at the beginning of spring without coveting the business in Taiyuan City. , which shows that they are also men who repay kindness and can afford to let go.
Most of these people came here with the three brothers from the Xu family, and later a few more came over in twos and threes, and they were among them.
Later, some craftsmen who learned Pankang wanted to be recognized as Luo Sanlang's disciples.
However, the previous disciples spread the word, saying that the master did not want to recruit many disciples.
Since you learned the craftsmanship from him, you respect him in your heart.
In the same way, it is not necessary for everyone to follow him as a master and disciple.
This is what Luo Yong means.
He does need some help around him, but he doesn't want to make too much noise.
This is a feudal dynasty after all.
You can deal with hundreds or thousands of disciples by yourself, and that's a disciple. , he is still a soldier, maybe he wants to rebel?
Besides, when there are more people, there will be more troubles.
With more than twenty people coming and going like now, it is enough.
If you want to expand in the future, then wait until the future.
In a blink of an eye, it’s late May.
On the twenty-fifth day, people came in and out of the Luo family yard.
They were all villagers who came to buy cakes, and some came from the county driving oxcarts and carriages to buy cakes.
A piece of cake cost a penny.
With the purchasing power of this copper coin, in Their local area is not very cheap, but there are still many people who can afford it.
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Especially since they only cook it on Fridays and three days a month, there are still many people who are willing to eat it.
In the backyard, several of Luo Yong's disciples were sitting in a row in the yard, each holding a wooden bucket and holding Luo Yong's new egg beater in his hand, beating the egg liquid with bang bang bang, and when their master asked for it, To the extent that he could, he covered the bucket with a clean linen cloth and sent it to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Aunt Luo and Erniang Luo were responsible for mixing the beaten egg liquid with red dates, brown sugar, flour, date paste, bean paste, etc.
Lin Xingle was responsible for lighting the fire.
He was also responsible for moving the steamed date cake to the canteen.
The canteen is really busy here, and there is an endless stream of people coming to buy cakes.
The sounds of people, cattle and horses are endless.
The swallow that was hatching eggs under the eaves would poke its black head out of the mud nest from time to time and look down.
The other swallow that went out to look for food would circle around the yard a few times every time it came back.
Go again.
Luo Yong never had time to cut cakes and collect money, so Si Niang and Wu Lang were able to help out a lot.
As for the two youngest ones, they were locked up in the backyard and given jujube cakes to eat.
They were told to play with the wheat and green peas, and the disciples who were beating eggs helped to watch.
Luo Yong and the others felt relieved.
It is said that in the early morning of the 25th, two people rode all the way into Lishi County and asked the people in the city which way they should take to go to Xipo Village.
The people in the city pointed in the direction of the city gate and said, "You two go out of the city and see which road has the most people and horses, then go there.
When you reach the busiest village nearby, it is Xipo Village. ” The two of them found Xipo Village smoothly according to what the guide said.
They saw that the small courtyard at the entrance of the village was very lively with people coming and going.
After asking, they found that it was Naluo Sanlang's house.
So the two people divided the work, and one person guarded the horses here, letting the two horses graze nearby.
Judging from the people coming and going in the Luo family yard, the two big horses should not be able to squeeze in at this moment.
The horse is gone.
The other person took the token and went to find Narasaburo to explain their purpose of coming this time and buy some cashmere socks from him.
The two of them planned to return to Lishi County after buying socks, stay there overnight, and set off back to Chang'an early tomorrow morning.
The two agreed, so the man in charge of looking after the horses found a piece of grass outside the village for the horses to graze.
At the same time, he also found a place to sit down and rest, watching the lively scene of people coming and going at the entrance of the village.
Somewhat novel.
The two of them rode horses all the way from Chang'an City.
Although they passed through some towns, they did not expect to see such a lively and noisy scene in this small Xipo Village.
At this time, the land was vast and sparsely populated.
The entire Tang Dynasty only had a population of about 20 to 30 million.
How could it not be desolate?
People who were used to seeing it at this time might not think it was a big deal.
Instead, Luo Yong, who had grown up in the 20s, People who came here in the first century felt very desolate when they looked at it.
Chang'an City is indeed lively, but how many Chang'an cities can there be in this world.
"Why haven't you come yet?
It's because Na Luo Sanlang doesn't recognize the token."
After waiting for a while, his companions didn't even come out of Na Luo's yard.
The man in charge of looking after the horses was also a little anxious.
However, with these two horses here, he It’s not easy to run and see what’s going on.
After waiting for a while, the guy hurried towards him with a bunch of things in his arms, shouting loudly at him as he ran: "Hahaha, you must have never imagined that this small mountain village can have such good food.
This cake is really more delicious than the dim sum in Chang'an Mifangzhai.
It only costs a penny each.
Do you think it's cheap or not?"
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