Five days later, a lot of people came from the Zhuangzi of the Zhangwang family, dressed in coarse clothes, entered the rice field with a sickle in hand, and began to harvest the rice. Individuals, helping to weigh in on the sidelines.
The busy farming elsewhere is almost over. Only some winter wheat for planting needs to be put into the soil. The market is once again crowded with people. The difference is that at this time, the stalls selling tea and snacks at the market are asking for a higher price than usual. Times.
The people who came to work have already said that all the water and meals are in the care of the people who hire them, that is, the owners of the grain shops. Now the people who do business in the sub-market are getting rich.
"Intentionally, they must have done it deliberately. The shop asked people to go back quickly. The message was sent at noon today. They gave the money and started to increase the price of the things on the market. So a big dealer, even this small amount of money. After some calculations, I really don't understand."
In the Shuiyunjian restaurant, in a box where you can see the rice fields from the window, a proprietor was drinking tea and complaining while looking around.
"This is not a small amount of money. A bowl of tea that usually costs a penny with a few snacks, but now it costs three pennies without snacks. We hired two hundred people and drink tea just like cows, plus morning, afternoon and evening. For three meals, they will earn more than ten taels in one day. According to this situation, they will earn at least fifty taels in three days."
The other owner knew clearly that just for the money, he could find a few ships to transport the grain back and forth. The Zhangjiazhuang Zhuangzi refused to eat at all losses. Among the four shops, there is even a second-story restaurant.
"Don't tell me the two of you, we have taken a lot of money. A catty of seeds ended up being 65 cents. The shop I bought deliberately added 10% to the price. After such a calculation, the seeds are less than 6 cents. It’s a jin for ten cents, and it’s more profitable to grow seeds than grain, hundreds of times the price."
Lu Dong’s family estimated that the seeds they bought this time were worth more than 14,000 taels of silver. If they found others to buy them, they still didn’t sell them for 3 or 4 taels of silver. It’s nothing more than three hundred taels of grain, but that grain is not shelled, and it still has shells.
Jin Dongjia, who was also waiting for the people below to work quickly, agreed with this statement, "Brother Lu is right. Of those 24 shops, only the second-floor restaurant is slightly more expensive, with four thousand taels of silver. The others add up. It’s just over nine thousand taels, and the report is over 1,000 taels. Let the hired people eat hard, and how much can they eat? You can’t let them bring their own dry food and drink the water in the river."
"It’s wrong for Big Brother Jin to say that. But Steward Zhang personally said a few days ago, let us make a fortune in the middle, and they will pay half of the freight for the food sold to them, but they are digging out money everywhere, and the ship asked them to designate it. I've already asked people about it, it's half expensive.
The carts and horses that are transported to their village are also fixed, and half of it is required. We have to watch here. The wine they serve is not sold in the water and the dishes are also the same. Isn’t that the case? Spend money? In addition, they don't need them to harvest, and some manpower is saved. I heard that I went to the mountain to repair other places. "
The owner who spoke first always felt uncomfortable when he said one thing.
Jin Dongjia shook his head, "We usually have to eat too. Which one is not the best choice? This table is only three to fifty taels. Counting everything, it is only a few hundred taels of silver. I still make a profit."
Jin Dong's house is also uncomfortable. There is not much money. One point for a dozen people can share a little. The main reason is that they are constantly calculated. Businessmen want to calculate others.
"Look, all the people from Zhang's family and Zhuangzi who went to the mountain have come back? Why are there so many people, about three hundred people, with sickles in their hands, what are they going to do? Is it possible to help us harvest them? "
While everyone was eating snacks and tea there, a man standing by the window pointed to the bottom and said curiously.
Everyone got up one after another and looked down, isn’t it? There are quite a few people there. Judging from the same clothes, they are undoubtedly the dealers of the Zhang Wang family. Only they are so grand, they specially make the same clothes for the dealers. .
Those people took their sickles and rushed into the fields to start harvesting. After watching for a while, everyone was relieved that they were not collecting the finest fields they painted, but their own.
"Quick, it's too fast, look at the banker, one can match the two we found." Wang Dongjia said enviously when he saw the speed at which the people on both sides were working.
"It’s incomparable. If they want to, they can eat meat every two or three days. What we are looking for is elsewhere. Where can we get so much spare money? If we don’t collect it early, why don’t we find someone here? Did you follow along?"
Lu Dong's eyes were a bit farsighted, and he could see the difference in the bones of the people on the two sides. The Zhang Wangs were also shirtless, with chunks of flesh on their bodies. Looking at what he and others were looking for, they were only better than skin and bones.
Everyone was puzzled, so they could only sit back and drink tea again and talk about some business matters. After a short while, the sun reached the center.
"It's dinner, it's dinner." As soon as all the hosts had hired their buddies to order food and drink, they heard someone shouting from below.
The people near the window looked down and saw a lot of people coming out of the market, some pushing cars, some carrying burdens, shouting and beckoning to the people hired by Tanaka.
"After eating, the people at the market were not bad, and they were delivered here." The owner turned around and explained to other people who were looking over.
"Oh, that can save a few steps." Several bosses said at the same time.
"Let me see." Seeing that there were only a few cold plates on the table, Lu Dong's didn't intend to eat it right away, so he leaned over and looked down, and said after looking at it for a while:
"There are a lot of things. Look at the trolleys, which are enough for five or six hundred people. Oh, I see, the dealers of the Zhang and Wang family will also eat together."
As soon as he finished speaking, the people who had gathered together to prepare for the meal suddenly went into a mess. Some of the people hired by them quarreled with the food delivery person. They were far away, and the voices were mixed, and they couldn't distinguish. What is noisy, can vaguely hear sounds such as "why", "do the same job", and "quit".
"What's wrong? Didn't you give me food? Man, go and ask." Lu Dong's family couldn't understand, and shouted to the guy who was waiting at the door of the room and was ready to serve.
The guy agreed, turned and ran. After a while, the people from the Zhang family's family over there had eaten it. When he was waiting for the hired person to be arguing there, the guy ran back again.
"According to you, the official returning guest, there was a quarrel because of the different food. The people you looked for felt that the food was not as good as that of the Zhangwang Family Farmers."
The buddy said breathlessly.
"You guys, did the bazaar cook the food for those of us?" a proprietor asked.
"No, there are millet rice, steamed buns with sorghum noodles, an egg drop soup, and an egg fried leeks. These are all cooked well." The guy counted the food and said.
"This is not good? Isn't it comparable to what they usually eat? I don't think they are going to ask for wages." The interrogator slapped the table with anger.
"Don't worry, buddy, let me ask you, what did Zhang Wang's family Zhuangzi eat?" Jin Dongjia waved his hand to the man and asked the buddy again.
The guy also counted, "Fine flour pancakes, stir-fried shredded pork with green onions, white sliced chicken, blanched bamboo shoots, minced eggplants, and a bowl of dried tofu shreds and pork soup, lined with chopped fungus and scallion. , And hot sauce. There are two two dishes that can be rolled in the pancakes with hot sauce, and the other two can be made whatever you want."
As soon as the dude’s voice fell, the owners didn’t know what to say. No wonder the people they found were unwilling to work together. When they waited to eat, they had one dish and one soup, and the staple food was worthless. The food is the staple food of vermicelli, plus four dishes and one soup several times better.
As soon as the two are compared, the gap will appear. Of course, the people who work are not willing to do so. Since they are all delivered from the market, they will be treated differently.
"Man, the farmers of the Zhang and Wang family are also made by the market?" Jin Dong's family thought for a while and asked.
"In reply to you, no, it's just a stove over there. They are harvesting rice and lighting a fire next to them. I'm afraid that the water will run out. After the meal is finished, it will be just in time for the market. Let's deliver it together." Dude answered respectfully.
"Just in time? Okay, let me ask you, do you know how much a soup like those four dishes cost?"
"This one is really not clear. I guess it will cost two taels of silver, one person. After all, there are fungus in the soup, and they eat a lot. The hot sauce is not cheap, and there are meat and so on."
The man shook his head embarrassedly, and gave the price he thought about after thinking about it.
These owners looked at each other and sighed. The one who spoke first in the morning said, "I'm right? They don't plan to let us take this seed back with good luck. One person costs two taels of silver, two. For a hundred people, four hundred taels of silver, can it be given? Two days is eight hundred taels."
Now everyone nodded and admitted that the people below are really forced to eat the food prepared by the market, and they will also eat it, but it’s hard to say how much energy they put in their work. They also order something and send it over. Isn't that going to pay for it
"Brother Jin, what should I do?" a boss asked.
"Man, you go down and ask the market to add a meat dish. You can add it for ten cents per person, plus some rice for three cents per person." There is no good way for Jin Dong's. .
The guy said, "Jin Dongjia, how much you add depends on how many plates you need to load. What if they eat more? Is it possible that they can’t eat? There are also the original ones that have been made, and it seems that they can’t be returned. Drop it?"