Daily Life In Qin Dynasty Chapter 119

  Chapter 119 No one dares to answer

  When the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the water is full, it will overflow.

   Especially in terms of being a human being, being too perfect does not necessarily mean a good thing.

   Life is alive.

  Fame and fortune, the most of the three get the second.

  Now, although Mr. Mo is not considered an "extreme minister" in Qin State, he basically belongs to the most powerful group of people in Qin State.

  The wealth he has accumulated over the years is comparable to a wealthy businessman.

  If Mr. Mo doesn't pour some dirty water on his "reputation" now, maybe one day, he will become the next Lu Buwei.

   "What's going on down there?"

   While Mo Jun and the others were chatting, they saw a sudden crowd of workers not far away, and suddenly became noisy.

   "The officer will send someone to investigate."

  Chen Jing responded, and quickly recruited two officers and soldiers to inquire.

   Not long.

  Two officers and soldiers returned and reported: "Sir Shengping Jun, a worker passed out just now, but he has woken up now."

   Jun Mo frowned slightly and said, "Did you faint? What's going on? Could it be that he didn't eat enough like last time."

  If dry heavy physical work is not supplemented with enough food, it is easy to suffer from malnutrition.

   But the people in Hanzhong County may be because they are too poor, so now when they make money, the first thing they think of is not to feed themselves, but to save the money and take it home.

  When the construction first started, some people were reluctant to spend money to buy food for food because they made money. I insisted on working hard with a hungry stomach, but suddenly passed out halfway through the work.

   Since then.

  Mr. Mo directly issued a ban.

  In the future, if someone delays the construction period due to hunger, the person will be expelled.

   Hearing the words, the officers and soldiers hesitated for a moment, and said: "My lord, it seems that this time it was not because I didn't eat, but because I didn't eat salt for too long, so I passed out."

   "No salt?"

  Mr. Mo's eyelids twitched slightly, then he turned to look at Xiong Da, and said, "Didn't you prepare salt?"

  Xiong shook his head and said: "Rice, oil and salt are all prepared, but it may be because the price of salt has increased a lot recently, so these workers are not willing to buy too much!"

  Hearing this, Mo Jun immediately covered his face, then waved his hands helplessly and said: "Forget it, when you are resting, you can get some salt to melt and give them some salt water!"

  Xiong Da nodded and said, "I understand."

   In the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.

  As Mo Jun invested 150,000 gold coins in Hanzhong County in one breath, the whole Hanzhong was like a pool of stagnant water into which a bomb was thrown, and it suddenly became lively.

  First of all, there are 12 reservoirs built in various parts of Hanzhong County in the 'four large and eight small'.

  The construction of the reservoir itself does not have much technical content. Except for the need to use cement for reinforcement in the end, most of the project is digging pits and transporting soil.

  So in comparison, the wages of the workers who built the reservoir were a little less, only three dollars a day.

   But even so.

   There are still a lot of people in various villages and counties in Hanzhong County who want to grab a job.

   One time.

  All areas of Hanzhong County are busy.

   After receiving their wages, most civilians immediately wanted to exchange them for food. Seeing this situation, many landlords and nobles in various towns in Hanzhong County began to tacitly raise food prices without any discussion.

   Such a situation has almost become the norm at the moment. Under the policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce", the commercial market of the entire Qin State is like a pool of stagnant water, and effective competition cannot be formed at all.

   Without competition, it often means that the pricing power of commodities is completely determined by merchants, and buyers have no choice at all.

Therefore.

  Even though the currency system of the Qin State has initially begun to form a system, the currency itself still has no credibility at all. The reason why most people want to exchange it for food and cloth even if they make money.

  Fortunately, Mr. Mo was prepared for this situation. Not long after Mr. Mo arrived in Hanzhong County, Xiong Dao had already "passed the letter" and notified the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] scattered all over the place to gather in Hanzhong.

  Although it is inconvenient to transport a large number of goods across the Qinling Mountains, it has been so long now, and the first batch of people from the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] has also arrived in Hanzhong.

   With this group of people, plus the hundreds of thousands of shi of grain obtained by copying the "He clan" before, it is enough for Mo Jun to control the grain prices in various parts of Hanzhong County.

Of course.

   There will inevitably be some 'little accidents' along the way.

Then······

  Jun Mo harvested more than 30,000 shi of grain by accident.

  And some farmers near the Han River are now fishing for river fish in the river almost day and night.

   What Mo Jun implements for fishing is not a daily salary system, but a performance system.

  Every ten catties of river fish caught from the river (approximately equal to five catties in later generations) can be exchanged for a big coin from the government.

   Such an exchange ratio is obviously difficult for many people who do not know how to fish.

  However, for many fishermen who originally lived near the Han River and depended on water for water, it was a huge incentive.

   After all, for many fishermen who live by the water, the most difficult part is not that they cannot catch fish, but that they have nowhere to sell the fish.

  So when Mo Jun issued this order.

  Nowadays, even at night, there are at least a hundred fishermen floating on the Han River. And the number of people during the day can exceed a thousand people.

  The fishing skills of the Warring States Period were indeed not superb.

  But it is also because of this that the catch resources in Hanshui River are far more abundant than later generations.

  Some experienced fishermen can now catch two to three hundred catties of river fish every day, and can earn twenty or thirty dollars a day.

   Among them is "Uncle Tiezi", an old farmer in Tieshi Village, Heishi County.

  The old farmer "Uncle Tie Zi" originally went to the "Huaihuishan" with other people to apply for the job, but at that time many people from the same village were selected, but he was rejected by the recruiting foreman because he was too old.

   The old farmer was naturally a little sad about this, but just after he returned to Tieshi Village, someone happened to come to Tieshi Village to publicize the notice of 'Fishing pays back'.

  Tieshi Village is actually not close to the Han River, but the old farmer lived on the water for a while when he was young, so after hearing this notice, he wanted to try his luck on the water.

   It turned out that he was quite lucky. On the first day, he caught a 'King Fish' weighing 200 catties, and directly made 20 big money.

   Such a speed of making money.

  When the old farmer returned to Tieshi Village that day, the eyes of many envious people turned red.

   But in comparison.

   The busiest place in Hanzhong County is undoubtedly Gunshan County.

  Because with the arrival of the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] in Hanzhong, the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and the breeding farms have to start to be built. In order to speed up, Xiongda directly expanded the number of recruits to more than 2,000 people.

To know.

  Hanzhong County is not a big place, and its population is not large. The total population of the whole county is about a hundred thousand, less than two hundred thousand.

  Excluding the old, young, women and children, the real labor force in the prime of life is only about 70,000 to 80,000 people.

   This is because Mr. Mo invented the "Great Qin Sword and Medicine", which reduced the number of battle losses of the veterans of the Qin Army by more than half, so now the Qin State no longer needs to recruit too many people for military service.

   Otherwise, the labor force of the 70,000 to 80,000 adults may be reduced by 20,000 to 30,000.

  But even if the 70,000 to 80,000 middle-aged laborers are dispersed to various counties, each county will only have more than 10,000 middle-aged laborers.

  Now, Mo Jun recruited more than 2,000 people, close to 3,000 people.

   One can imagine.

  What kind of shock will this cause at the moment.

   Less than a month.

  Hanzhong County, which was originally oppressed by various landlords and old nobles, quickly entered the era of large-scale construction with the arrival of Mo Jun.

   And just when Mo Jun was busy like a raging fire.

the other side.

  The five greats who once successfully completed a large deal with Mo Jun in the county guard's mansion... oh no, now they should be the patriarchs of the four old nobles, gathered together again.

   Behind these four people, there are about a dozen people, as representatives of small landlords and nobles from other places, who come here to discuss important matters with the four old nobles.

   As for what is the big deal?

obviously.

  In the entire Hanzhong County at the moment, there is only one person who deserves so many of them to gather together to deal with it.

  Boom!

  One of the four old nobles, the patriarch of the Sun clan "Sun Zuo" slapped the table angrily and said, "That guy's hands and feet are getting longer and longer recently."

  One of the four old nobles, the patriarch of the Jing clan, 'Jing Cheng', also had an uneasy face, and said in a low voice, "It seems that we underestimated him too much."

One of the four old nobles, Yan Bosun, the patriarch of the Yan family, squeezed his teacup and said, "I once asked my family's descendants to file a complaint against this person, but before the memorial was issued, they were already knocked down halfway. . Five times in a row with the same result."

   "It's the same on our side."

  At this moment, I only heard a representative of a small landlord and aristocratic force below say: "We have all contacted our respective backgrounds in Xianyang, but now every important institution in the court has his eyeliner."

   "But no one dares to accept any memorial that wants to sue that person."

   "And several of them even explicitly told us to give up the idea of ​​dealing with that one."

   Speaking of this, the faces of several representatives of the small landlord and noble forces below showed a bit of fear.

   Originally they thought that Mr. Mo had not been in power for a long time, and it was impossible for him to have a deep background, and at most he would be rampant in Hanzhong County.

  In this world, who can become a landlord and wealthy businessman without any official background.

  In the end, the reality gave them a tough fight.

   Once in Hanzhong.

   They have always used their power to bully others, but now facing the oppression from Mr. Mo, they experienced the feeling of being bullied for the first time.

  This kind of terrifying power that no one even dared to report to the officials made these landlords and nobles in Hanzhong County feel for the first time what it means to have "no way to go to heaven, no way to go to earth".

  (end of this chapter)

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