As they rowed the boat toward the villages along the river, Huo Xi saw many villagers standing on the shore and waving to passing ships.
"That big ship, come on, yes, it's you, the one with the flag!"
Huo Xi turned around and looked at the sign on the bow of his boat and touched his nose. Well, not many villagers were literate these days. He asked Yang Fu to row the boat over.
Huo Erhuai put away the fishing net he was repairing, took the oar board from Yang Fu's hand, and rowed the boat towards the villagers who raised their hands.
"Are you willing to take over the job?" the man asked in a loud voice towards Huo Xi and the others.
Two young men stood together. The young man waving to them and asking questions was very lively and even walked a few steps over to look at the Huo family's boat.
This boat was much larger than an ordinary awning boat, and could carry a village's tax grains. The man had some surprise on his face, and he looked at his companions.
Huo Xi also looked at the young man in front of him and his companions.
He looked at the stele behind them: "Are you from Fengtan Village?"
The man was stunned: "Are you literate?"
How old is this little kid? He is actually literate! Can fishermen nowadays afford to read? He couldn't help but take another look at the big ship in front of him.
Then he went to look at the people on the boat.
Yang Fu glared at him: "We fishermen are not interested in learning how to read?"
The man smiled awkwardly and shook his head: "No, that's not what I meant."
Then he gave a thumbs up to Huo Xi: "This is the little one. I don't know the words on your sign."
"Huo Ji Floating Grocery Store", Huo Xi read it to them.
The two young men read it again and were impressed when they learned that the Huo family was fishing and selling goods at the same time. No wonder they could afford a much bigger boat than others.
Seeing them in a daze, Huo Xi asked, "You said you were taking the job, but do you want to help you transport taxes and grain?"
The man nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes. Are you willing to take this job?"
Seeing Huo Xi nodding, he asked again: "How much grain can your boat carry?"
Huo Xi looked back at her boat. The two hundred pieces of cloth she bought yesterday, Huo Erhuai had been packed by the fisherman in Taoyedu yesterday. The groceries and storage shelves on the boat were also unloaded. Huo Xi estimated the number in her heart.
, glanced at Huo Erhuai.
Huo Erhuai thought for a while and said, "My boat can still carry dozens of stones of grain."
"Can it hold dozens of stones?" Doesn't that mean he can hold a village's tax and grain?
The man was very happy and looked at each other with his accomplice. The two of them were sent by the village chief to hire boats by the river. They originally planned to hire several boats, but unexpectedly they were lucky enough to encounter a big boat that could carry the entire village's tax grain.
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"Then how much do you want?"
Huo Xi asked him: "How much does it cost to pay for an ox cart?"
"Thirty Wen."
Huo Xi calculated in his mind and said, "Then we will charge you two coins."
The man lowered his head and calculated. Two coins of silver equaled two hundred coins. This boat could carry dozens of stones of grain, and all the tax grains of their village could be loaded on it. A few coins for a family stall was nothing.
Then he nodded: "Okay. I'll go back and tell the village chief and let the villagers bring the food. You guys wait for me here."
He turned around and told his companions, turned around and ran towards the village.
The other person was a little dull and looked at Huo Xi for a long time before looking at Huo Erhuai: "We have agreed that you can no longer take other people's jobs."
I'm afraid they'll run away.
Huo Erhuai nodded to him: "Don't worry, we'll wait here." Then he docked the boat to the shore.
Seeing that she was bored with waiting, Huo Xi took a shrimp and crab pot and put it next to the water plants on the shore, and got a few crabs and a few kilograms of fresh shrimps.
After she and Yang Fu had carried shrimp pots and crab pots several times, the young man led the village chief and a group of villagers and pushed a dozen carts over.
Without further ado, both parties paid half of the fee and began loading the grain from the cart onto the ship.
After all the tax grains on more than a dozen carts were loaded, the village chief waved the villagers back to the village and only took a few people on the boat.
Huo Xi looked at the tax grains that were less than half of the space on the boat. A village only had this tax grains? Is it a small village? Or does it only have a small number of acres?
The village chief explained to Huo Xi and others.
It turns out that when Taizu founded the dynasty, because he himself was a farmer, he set a national policy of light corvee and low taxes. The grain tax levied on private land was only three liters, three in five spoons per mu.
Huo Xi quickly converted. Calculated in this way, the total grain levy per mu is only 0.04 shi? The grain levy per 100 acres is only four shi?
Damn it, buy a field! You must buy a field!
Make money to buy fields! Buy hundreds of thousands of hectares! She wants to be a landowner! In the prosperous Jiangnan, she wants to lie on the grain pile and be a happy rice bug, with no worries about food and drink for the rest of her life!
Huo Xi felt hot in her heart and clenched her fist.
The village chief, whose surname was Feng, and another village chief, whose surname was Tan, brought a boatload of tax grains to the Jiangning County government office. Both of them were literate, and they stared at the signs on the boat for a long time.
"Water store? What do you sell?"
Huo Xi rolled his eyes and walked next to them: "We mainly serve the fishermen on the water and sell the things they need, such as food and vegetables, daily sundries, wine, cloth and so on."
"You still sell wine?" Village Chief Feng and Village Chief Tan swallowed, greedy.
Huo Xi's eyes lit up and she nodded: "Yes. There is rice wine, rice wine, and fruit wine. Would you like some of the two village chiefs? It's still a while before the county government office. Why don't you have some drinks to kill the time?"
The two village chiefs were wearing cotton and linen clothes without any patches, and their feet were made of cloth shoes covered with meat. How could they not afford to drink a few taels of wine?
Then he nodded: "Then drink some. And bring out some rice wine."
"Hello!"
Yang Fu responded quickly. He immediately turned around and entered the cabin, and brought out a ten-pound wine basket. He also brought three taels of large wine baskets and bamboo cups.
The lid of the wine basket was just opened, and the aroma of wine overflowed.
Then Village Chief Feng took a big sip: "Fragrant. Is this the wine from Shuangquan Village?"
Huo Xi couldn't help but look at him and flatter him: "That's right. You have a really good nose. We did get this wine from Shuangquan Village. It's of good quality."
Village Chief Feng then called to Village Chief Tan: "Come on, it's boring to just sit around. Come on, I'll buy you a drink today."
"Okay, then I want to take advantage of your glory." Village Chief Tan also sipped his saliva and leaned over.
Several young people and village elders who were accompanying the grain collectors also started making noises.
Village Chief Feng felt comfortable with the flattery, and everyone agreed: "We have all, and I'm treating you today. You all have worked hard, so I'll treat you to a glass of water and wine."
Everyone applauded in unison.
Huo Xi, Yang Fu, and Huo Erhuai were also very happy. One was busy making wine with a wine basket, and the other was passing bamboo tubes and cups to fill it. Huo Erhuai was rocking the boat happily.
Seeing the people in Fengtan Village squinting and enjoying themselves while holding wine glasses, Huo Xi felt that she had missed something again.
How can we drink without some side dishes and fruits?
Otherwise she could still earn more today.
It's such a good opportunity for the workers to go out with the boss, and it's a rare opportunity for the boss to treat him to a treat. This opportunity is not enough to make a little more money, but it's a loss. It's a loss.
Huo Xi said in her heart that it was a pity.
I need to prepare more snacks on the boat next time. How can I not have some snacks to go with the wine?
Big mistake.
Hey, no, there are grilled shrimps, dried shrimps, and choked shrimps!
He walked over again and said, "Two village chiefs, would you like some snacks to go with the wine?"
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