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Chapter 241 Fenggao's Travel Notes (2)

"In the past, this cake shouldn't be whole wheat..." Tian Yu looked at the store, but in fact he was more suspicious about whether the store had a expensive bowl for him, and planned to deliberately extort money.

"Now, the whole wheat cakes are made with no profit, and they are disliked by customers..." The store is actually a little dissatisfied. Of course, whole wheat is cheaper, and the problem is not much cheaper. Customers with some money come over and take a look and turn around and leave, which makes it even more loss.

"The main thing is the official farm, which is also purchasing wheat bran and rice bran. The price is not high. However, after the rice and flour are separated, the overall price has increased. Therefore, the grain shops now basically sell white flour and do not sell whole wheat flour." The boss's wife added.

"It's not just the official business. When counties see the farms making money, the powerful people have also opened several companies. If the government had not strictly controlled the number, they would have been flooded!" The store owner said angrily.

There are many farms in this area, and rice bran and wheat bran are not enough, so they even have to buy them in several surrounding counties.

In contrast, a large number of chickens, ducks and pigs were sold to Linjun, making more money.

After chatting for a few moments, the two of them did not forget to eat noodles.

The noodles are very chewy, the soup is very sweet and fragrant, the chicken is soft but not rotten, and the flesh is so soft that it can be chewed.

Such a bowl of noodles costs five cents, and in the eyes of the two, the price can only be described as "cheap".

I only found out after asking that there are cheaper ones, two steamed buns and one bowl of soy milk, the price is only two cents, and one steamed bun is one cent.

It is said that it is a cooking method called "steaming" that was reported from the government office. It uses a cage to steam it, and it can be steamed rice and steamed dishes.

What really makes this cooking method popular is steamed buns. Very little flour can produce large steamed buns. The key is that they have a strong sense of fullness. Steam a large steamed bun and eat one at a meal. It tastes good and it is worth it.

"Do you understand?" Liang Xi looked at Tian Yu with a complicated expression.

"I understand... that is to say, the people of Taishan County are full..." Tian Yu sighed. Even when his family was not in a position, they still had a surrender.

Why do I have to eat two meals a day? I really think I like it. After all, I don’t have enough food to eat!

Otherwise, why can the army eat three meals during wars? Why do those refugees go to the army without military pay? In this world, after three meals a day, I don’t know how much the expense exceeds the military pay!

Especially when you have money and can’t buy food, that is the time of true despair.

"I'm full, I can't believe it." Liang Xi shook his head. He probably understood what Zhang Yu meant. Compared with Taishan, the man who wanted to protect and planned to revive was simply a joke.

Looking back, Zhang Yu once said at that time: Is orthodoxy important? If you take a step back, is the great man really orthodox?

If we count from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, it has actually not been considered orthodox since the Xia Dynasty.

After all, abdication was changed into a family, from the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qin and Han dynasties. Wang Mang changed the policies over and over again, but he never changed the abdication system... Oh, the new dynasty died? That's nothing more!

"Didn't you hear it clearly?" Tian Yu looked at Liang Xi, "This is not just about eating enough, but also about meat and vegetables! The grain output per mu here is twice that of other places, which is simply outrageous!"

"If the Taishan Mountains were surrounded by mountains, if grain yields were not increased, there would be no excess fields to grow vegetables and raise livestock." Liang Xi of course knew this. In the past, vegetables from all over the country were basically adjusted in the corners of the fields.

If you can choose to use fields to grow vegetables, it can only be said that the income obtained by growing vegetables is higher than that of grain, so you will do it. It also indirectly shows that the grain prices in Taishan County have been stable for one or two years, and the people have confidence in the government.

By the way, the two of them happened to pass by Chang Ping's position.

As summer begins, before the autumn harvest is approaching, a batch of grain is transported out and sold.

Seeing a large amount of grain transported out of the warehouse and loaded into a cart to transport it out, the two were a little curious and asked the soldiers who were rushing to see which grain store was in the warehouse.

I’m really curious. With such a large reserve, it should be a big business.

Even for big merchants, most of the grain warehouses are outside the city. After all, if it is inside the city, it would be a waste to use such a large place as a grain warehouse.

"Haha, it's right that this is a granary, but it doesn't belong to any merchant. This is Fenggao's Changping Warehouse." The soldiers who drove the car immediately explained with a laugh when they heard this.

"Chang Ping position?" After hearing this, the two of them were a little unfamiliar with Chang Ping position. After all, this thing has been abandoned for nearly two hundred years.

"I heard that it was also established in the former Han Dynasty. In the years of disasters and famine, grain was used to provide disaster relief, and in the years of harvest, grain was purchased to stabilize grain prices. In the past few years, if there were this in various places, there would not be so many disaster victims. This is the meaning of Changping Warehouse. As a result, the Han Dynasty used Changping Warehouse to forcefully buy and sell grain, colluded with merchants to exchange Chen for new products, and was abolished. Are you stupid?" the soldier teased.

It's indeed very stupid. It was originally a problem of administration, but the result was attributed to the existence of Changping Treasury.

On the contrary, because there is no regular liquidation, the grain prices in various places are completely controlled by the powerful. If they want to be high, they will be high, and if they want to be low... So what is the Federal Reserve? Their methods have been ruined by China in both Han Dynasty!

Of course the two of them knew this and didn't know what to say.

Indeed, if there were frequent settlements in various parts of the Han Dynasty, even if the Yellow Turban rebelled, it would not be possible to gather millions of people at once.

If you repair the water conservancy policy, the problem of food will not be a problem. If the people settle down, then the taxes can be increased.

The most important point is that officials from all over the country will not make excuses for local unrest and will not pay taxes.

If the taxes are sufficient, then there will be a lot of military supplies, especially the Han emperor's treasury will not be short of. If the treasury is not short of, then Your Majesty will not sell official positions. Good officials will better govern the local area and the local area will become better. This is a virtuous cycle.

Who proposed to scrap the Changping Store? The two of them did not have this knowledge, but they didn’t mind checking it out later.

Just then I thought about it, even if I know, so what? Can I still write a letter to let the court reopen the Changping position?

In a daze, he took him to see Fenggao Hospital and Taishan Academy.

Fenggao Hospital is said to be held by Wang Xuanfu, the guest elder of Taiping Cult. The first batch of those who settled in were all respected doctors on Mount Tai, as well as Taoist doctors trained by Taiping Cult.

I have asked carefully that the prices of herbs that are easier to obtain are not high, and ordinary people can afford to treat patients. Even for expensive medicinal materials, the price has increased by 50%. If you can afford this medicine, you don’t mind the price.

After all, at this time, it is not about the efficacy of the medicine, but about the medical skills of the doctor!

If you see it correctly, the medicine will cure the disease. If you can’t see it accurately, no matter how much you take, it will only cause anger!

I went to Taishan Academy again, and the school has been in the process for three months. Zhang Yu even chose three disciples.

In other words, even if the two of them enter school, don’t expect to be accepted as disciple by Zhang Yu.

However, for the two of them, such a comprehensive civil and military institution is indeed very yearning for.

I suffered from the loss of being uneducated and wanted to enter the school with the opportunity.
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