Below, Zhan Dongwen arranged for some people to chop down trees and some to dig tree holes.
Here, Tang Wen asked people to move the new tent out of the warehouse, and began to level the ground, pave it with stones, and dig out drainage ditches...
Tang Wen and his mother's tent was renovated, and wooden keels were laid on top of the stones, and thick wooden boards were laid on top.
Tang Wen bought these from the Dadong Republic. After all, the load capacity for traveling through space is limited.
We don’t have enough money, so I can only let myself enjoy it for the time being.
However, only half of the sixty strong laborers originally promised to work for the Tang family came today.
It must be that he heard about someone being killed last night and was afraid that he would be a target.
Therefore, Tang Wen still lacks people.
Moreover, Tang Wen also wants to earn another hundred popularity as soon as possible and start his fourth time travel.
In this way, the porridge soup continued.
Here, Li Quan was sent to bring silver coins, and Zhao Du was arranged to bring five people to accompany him to Yanling County to exchange gold.
After all, what happened last night, I was afraid that the gold would be intercepted on the way.
After arranging everything, Tang Wen called Zhan Junru and said, "Organize all the women and ask them who can sew clothes?"
"Master, slave I can do it, slave's sister and mother can do it. Master, if you want to make new clothes, I can make them for you." Zhan Junru said.
"Instead of making it for me, I will sew two sets of clothes for everyone.
Look at how they are dressed, they all look like beggars.
The bloody clothes from last night's fight were still on my body, and they were dirty and smelly.
The weather is still relatively cold, and if we don’t make clothes for them, they will be frozen." Tang Wen said.
"With so many people, how much fabric will we need?" Zhan Junru was frightened.
"I have fabrics, even double-layer quilted fabrics. Come with me." Tang Wen took her into the warehouse. When he saw pieces of beautiful fabrics exposed, Zhan Junru ran away with excitement on her face.
I passed it, touched and pinched it, and couldn't put it down.
"Master, this cotton is so beautiful."
"Ah, there are also silk ones. They are so beautiful. I have never seen such beautiful patterns."
"Master, are you really going to make clothes for us?"
Zhan Junru was as excited as a child and looked at Tang Wen longingly.
"Of course, from now on you will be the captain of the garment making team. You will select women who can make clothes and make arrangements for them." Tang Wen said with a smile.
"Okay, okay, I'll pick someone right away. If they don't know how, I'll teach them." Zhan Junru turned around and ran out.
In ancient times, making clothes was relatively simple. A ruler, a pair of scissors, and needlework and cloth were enough.
Of course, the efficiency is also very low. A woman may not be able to make one piece of clothing after working for a day.
Let them fiddle with it first, and then when they have enough money, they can install sewing machines in large quantities, and then they need to be taught how to form an assembly line operation.
As for buying modern clothes directly, Tang Wen doesn't want to do that for the time being, mainly because the clothes are too weird and will cause trouble.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Quan came back and brought back 3,000 taels of gold.
"Sir, the gold at Yanling Chenji Bank is running low. If you want to exchange it next time, I guess it won't be so much," Li Quan said.
"There is more than one bank in Yanling. You can change it to another bank. Moreover, Chenji Bank has changed a lot and it is time to stop. Otherwise, I am afraid that someone will book it and cause trouble." Tang Wen said.
"Understood, next time I will go to Zhangji and Liji Bank to change. However, I heard from shopkeeper Chen Er that there is a fight in the northwest." Li Quan nodded.
"Who are you fighting with?" Tang Wen was stunned and asked.
"Great Qin State." Li Quan said.
"What's the reason for the fight?" Tang Wen asked.
"I don't know. Shopkeeper Chen Er said that the fighting became more and more fierce, and the emperor sent a general to go over with 300,000 troops.
Therefore, the state capitals in various places have assigned tasks to hand over a batch of grain and grass, carriages and horses, and call for labor.
The prices of grain, grass and horses have increased in the past two days. One tael of silver could buy a hundred kilograms of rice the year before last.
Some time ago, one tael of silver could only buy seventy kilograms, but now it can only buy fifty kilograms.
If the fight continues like this, more people will starve to death.
Moreover, as the war in the northwest becomes more intense, more victims there are flocking to the south.
Therefore, Yanling County will become more and more chaotic, and we must be careful.
I'm afraid that when a large number of victims come, we won't be able to handle them," Li Quan said.
Isn’t that enough for me??
Of course Tang Wen didn't know how to say this, so he said, "You and Zhao Du will immediately select a dozen capable guards with better martial arts skills to practice in the back mountain, and move all our swords and swords to the cave.
Let them practice here.”
Damn it! My people, I have to quickly save a hundred popularity to start time travel and exchange gold for materials and silver...
3,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 30 million taels in Dadong Kingdom, which can buy a lot of supplies and silver taels.
However, the biggest shortage of people is currently, even if we have materials and money, it is useless. Building the dam requires a lot of labor.
Although there are currently one hundred, forty and fifty people who can be used, after excluding the elderly, women and children, there are only about a hundred people left.
In addition to five or six more injured, there are only about ninety left.
It takes people to cut down trees, and it takes people to build tents on the ground.
People were needed to build the barbed wire fence, and about ten people were taken away from the practice, leaving no more people to do other things.
"Dong Wen, there are actually fewer people coming to eat porridge today. There are only a few dozen, even fewer than yesterday. What do you think is going on?" Tang Wen asked.
"The most important thing is that these people are still the same people as yesterday.
They are all people who are unwilling to sell themselves to the Tang family, and are even unwilling to work as part-time workers.
These people are probably lazy, we won't give them anything to eat tomorrow." Zhan Dongwen rubbed his forehead with a distressed look on his face.
"Are there only two or three hundred people on the island?" Tang Wen asked.
"Impossible!" At this time, a voice came from behind, and it was Sun Ping who was back.
"Sun Ping, did you discover something?" Zhan Dongwen asked.
“I was in a hurry when I was cutting down a tree, so I wandered to a place to take a pee and accidentally slipped.
Then I heard someone talking, so I sneaked over.
I found that there are still many people hiding five or six miles away, at least more than a hundred people." Sun Ping said.
"Who are they?" Tang Wen suddenly became interested. Well, there are more than a hundred people. If you buy them all, you will have a hundred popularity points.
"I don't know, it seems there is a mistress, and they all listen to her.
He also said that Mr. Tang, you are a robber who wants to occupy the fields they have worked so hard to cultivate.
If you sell yourself to the Tang family, you will be a slave from now on, and Mr. Tang can do whatever he wants.
If you want them to die, you must die, and if you want their wives and daughters, you must sacrifice them," Sun Ping said.
"Nonsense! My sister has been waiting for me for a few days, and he is very polite to her.
Even for sleeping, we had separate beds for each person, with a small room specially separated for my sister.
I didn’t even ask my sister to take care of me when I was taking a bath, so I took care of myself.
If the master were that kind of person, my sister would have..." Zhan Dongwen stomped his foot on the ground.
"Of course I don't believe it. Mr. Tang is so good to us, he can't be that kind of person." Sun Ping nodded, "But that's what they said."
"Master, is that mistress spreading rumors to scare the victims away from coming here? If you dare to ruin your reputation, I will take people over and arrest her," Zhan Dongwen said fiercely.
"We'll put it aside for today, Sun Ping, and you can continue to inquire about the situation. If you can find out more useful information, I will reward you half a tael of silver." Tang Wen explained.
"Master, can you..." Sun Ping hesitated, looking embarrassed.
"If you have anything to say, just say it, even though you are all slaves of my Tang family.
However, I, Tang Wen, have never treated you as human beings.
I, Tang Wen, am different from other gentlemen, and you will be able to see clearly from now on." Tang Wen hummed.
“Last time, my son gave me a packet of ‘Spicy Braised Red Beef Noodles’ as a reward. My son kept clamoring for it and wanted to eat it.
As a result, my wife beat her half to death, and the whip marks on her legs are still there, which made me feel distressed.
So, I don’t want the half a tael of silver reward, can you give me some instant noodles?” Sun Ping said.
"Alas..." Tang Wen sighed, opened the carton, took three packages and gave them to him, "Here, take one package for each of your family of three."
"Thank you for the reward, Master! I will definitely get the news." Sun Ping took the instant noodles and ran away in excitement.
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