Chapter 664: Big Project

In and outside the city, there are constant projects.

Along the Bianhe River in the east of the city, a row of warehouses was built, and there was a newly built grain trading market.

Xiao Su Taibao said that all ships were concentrated in Bianjing, causing congestion in the Bianhe River. Moving the market outside and building additional docks could save water transportation costs and increase the throughput of Bianjing City.

To the west of the city, close to Zhengzhou, is the Luo Ma Market and the Hardware Market.

The mule and horse market is so lively, and the transaction volume is said to be astronomical every day. The money in the market is gone, and only the transaction tax is left. Business is booming.

The citizens of Kaifeng went back there to see the fine horses, cows and camels from Shaanxi.

I heard that a businessman from Guangdong transported camels to the south, circled them for ten cents each, and put them in to watch the show. For fifty cents, he could ride them around for a while, making a lot of money.

The Shaanxi Wolf Crossing Horse is really beautiful, with shoulders as tall as a man, and its coat is dazzling in the sun. It is said that it can travel a thousand days and eight hundred nights. God, can't it run from Bianjing to Luoyang in one day?!

However, this kind of horse can only be seen to increase one's horizons. It is bought by nobles to participate in horse racing. A horse costs more than 1,000 or 2,000 guan. It can be sold in a smaller yard in Bianjing. How can ordinary people afford it?

People from Bianjing don't know much about agricultural tools, but I heard from relatives in the countryside that they are very useful. For example, the sickle with fine iron teeth is much more convenient to use than before.

It also comes with a small pointed file. It takes more effort to take care of this kind of sickle than usual.

There is also a seed market next to the agricultural equipment market. The reason why seeds are seeds is that they are larger and plumper than usual.

It is said that Xiao Su Taibao used magic to select ordinary seeds. Without magic, how could he have produced so many seeds just by shaking them with a dustpan?

It's not expensive, only 10% higher than the price of ordinary grain, and you can use your own grain to exchange for it.

There are also shelling machines and noodle grinding machines.

The smaller one is only as big as the imperial doctor's consultation box, has a crank handle, and is suitable for small households.

The ones that are big enough for people to sleep on are for the big dog owners who live in thousands of acres of land.

The big things are all from several prison workshops in Zhengzhou. The rest of the small hardware, such as nails, loose leaves, fine drill bits, pliers, wrenches, screws and nuts, etc., are from the iron shops opened in Zhengzhou by the powerful clans in Beijing.

Made in the workshop.

I heard that the Liao Kingdom could only make copper screws, but not iron screws. Hahahaha, it’s so funny!

Speaking of which, the quality of ironware has really improved a lot in the past few years. The iron pots, kitchen knives, scissors, and resounding brands of "Hard to Good" brand iron pots at home must be used very much.

After chatting here, I remembered that it was time to go to Wanhuofang to buy groceries.

We are all decent people, how can we go to Wanhuofang without a small trailer?

It’s the kind that can be folded into a board and hung by the door, and then opened with its own mesh bag! This is the face that Bianjing people want from new products bought at Wanhuoji!

By the way, where's my little spring scale? I have to bring this too. Although there are fair scales in Wanhuoji, and there are officials from the Municipal Bureau of Economics and Trade to supervise the cunning people who play with the scales, there is no way I can take a spring scale out of my bag and play with it.

Decent?

Thinking about what to buy, um, I picked up a few cans and bottles. These are good, they can be sealed by tightening them, and you can add soy sauce, rice vinegar, and soybean oil without fear of spills.

It's almost done. I put on my money clip and went out. I have to use the few small bills that are almost torn apart today, otherwise I have to go to the bank to exchange for new money and lose another 20%!

The items in Wanhuoji are really popular nowadays, not to mention the pots and pans that are sold at designated locations, not to mention the vegetables from the suburbs, there are even Yellow River fish and Bianhe shrimp!

The common people in the countryside are not stupid either. Wang Xianggong implemented the method of protecting horses, and Xiao Taibao used horse carriages to build a road connecting sixteen counties to Bianjing!

I heard that today's horse-drawn carriages are so portable that the country bumpkins set out at midnight every day to sell vegetables in the city in the horse-drawn carriages of the wealthy Baojia family!

If you join Wanhuoji, you won’t need to trade money! This will give them an advantage!

The rebellious son of the Lu family scolded with his feet jumping, saying that the market management fee collected by little Su Taibao was the same as the money from the market exchange.

Can it be the same thing? How much does Xiao Su Taibao charge? A mobile stall only costs five cents a day, and a fixed stall only costs twenty cents a day. Then you can sell as much as you like, and shout as much as you like.

Everyone is happy.

How do you sell this carp? Don’t talk to me about returning Yellow River carps, they don’t belong to Bianhe River!

I, a Bianjing native, have a vicious eye. You are just the duck dung fish raised in the pond at home. When I bought it home, I had to put it in a tank and raise it for half a month to feed it to get rid of the bad luck! Just shout out the price and let the yamen from the Yi Department come and get you!

Right, twenty cents per pound is pretty honest, and this is the big one. I have a spring scale here later.

He weighed the fish and gave him money, but did not take it away. He let the fish seller continue to raise it while he continued to visit the market.

There are a lot of new things in Wanhuoji. How do you pronounce this word? Gon? Gonjiang? It smells so fragrant?

Something from the south? How much does it cost? Such a small bottle costs two hundred coins?!

Hey, hey, don't be too crowded, Zhang Zhigaojin gave it to the palace? One bottle, one bottle, go home and test the word "examiner", is it okay? Come with me every day to make sure...

How to use this thing? Just add it to the dish like pepper oil? It's very good and convenient. Why do you think it's Xiao Su Taibao again? In the Song Dynasty, besides Xiao Su Taibao, which official is in charge of our kitchen?

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Then add half a pound of soy sauce, two ounces of vinegar, and two ounces of black bean sauce. It was so risky that people looked at the bad money and accepted it with a frown.

I went to pick out onions and ginger for ten cents, and the dishes for tonight were complete.

Well, I walked around a lot again to see the novelties, went back to the fish vendor, took the carp, and went home to cook happily.

In the evening, the family was full of praise for the braised carp. Except for the mother-in-law who thought the konjac sauce was a bit expensive, everything else was good.

The official said it was worth it, but he didn't pass the test on that word. This shows that the officials in my family are still knowledgeable after all.

The official also said that before Jing Lake opened, the Jiangjiang sauce was a tribute from the South Vietnam Kingdom. A bottle was worth five guan and could only be used in the palace! After hearing this, my mother-in-law stopped talking about it.

The official winked at himself, meaning that he could get up later after taking a bath tomorrow, and he had saved himself, so he would arrange for the eldest and second child to sleep with his mother-in-law today.

If you eat fish, you will be dishonest! There is no cat that doesn’t want to get fishy!

This is the daily life of a housewife of a low-level official in Bianjing in the sixth year of Xining.

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In May, there was abundant water power, so Su You used a large amount of Zhengzhou cement to reinforce what he considered to be shabby projects in Caocun.

He didn't know why officials didn't trust big machinery. In the end, it could only be attributed to the fact that officials had poor scientific and engineering foundations and were afraid of being tricked by deceitful things like the Junchuan Harrow.

But whoever dares to trick Su You, Su You will let him know what fried pork with bamboo shoots is.

Do you really think that little Taibao Su is so amiable that he doesn’t dare to hit anyone?!

Biankou Zong was a long-term bet. Su You was angry. Taking advantage of the low water flow in the Yellow River this year, in April, he used iron and concrete four-corner castings to sink to Biankou Zong, and then dropped bamboo cages and pebbles to sink Bianjing.

The river defense project in the upper reaches has been improved to a level that will only occur once in 60 years.

The servants worked very enthusiastically, because in addition to the generous wages, little Su Taibao also said that after September, land will be distributed! There will be four acres of irrigated land per capita!

Money is easy to make, but land is hard to buy! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

The Biankou Xinxi reconstruction project was thousands of feet long and was completed quickly with the help of various large-scale machinery.

There is also a water dike in front of the river embankment, and between the two is a huge water wheel.

The Yellow River Waterwheel!

The cart is seven feet high, has thirty-six spokes, and has forty-eight water buckets. The two carts are placed side by side. If there are two hundred water carts, they can irrigate tens of thousands of hectares of farmland day and night!

This is a huge water conservancy system project. Xinxi must effectively divert the water of the Yellow River. A gate must be installed in front of the water embankment. Sufficient stones must be prepared on weekdays. It must be able to slow down the flow, control the water level, and prevent the water tanker from being destroyed by floods.

Gates should also be set up along the way, not only to prevent excessive floods from pouring into the Bianhe River when the Yellow River surges, causing Bianjing to be flooded, but also to prevent insufficient water in the Bianhe River during the dry season, affecting water transportation.

After the water is obtained, how to arrange the subsequent water canals so that they can wind all the way through the Yanlu Red Land and finally lead into the old canal.

This is a replica of Dujiangyan, but on a larger scale. Su You used the power of Si Tianjian and Hequ Department to great effect, and Zeng Bu, the envoy of the third department, was very dissatisfied at first.

After inspecting the first large water tanker on the spot, Zeng Bu immediately established the water tanker department in the Third Division, specifically responsible for coordinating the joint distribution of large water projects with Kaifeng Prefecture.
Chapter completed!