Although the size of "Baisha Village" is increasing, for the rulers of Wu State, it is just a matter of sending a few grassroots bureaucrats to take a look, and then... nothing more.
The various "sands" newly added to the Yangtze River Estuary were of absolutely no value to the princes of Wu.
Land that cannot grow food is garbage.
The closest cities and townships to "Baisha Village" are Yunting, where the boss wants to eat loach, and the other is Furong Township in Yanling County.
Neither Yunting's "Fifth Watch" nor Furong's "beloved" appeared in "White Sand".
The people of "Shaye" live in an area that they will never visit in their lifetime unless some treasure appears.
They are all "savages", and the people in the countryside are "people" after all. They farm the land, and they eat it. The people in the "sand wilderness" are not considered "people", and at most they are slightly better than the barbarians.
During the war, if there were not enough manpower, they would come to the "Shaye" to hire people. After the war was won, the people in the "Shaye" would also have the opportunity to grant farmland, and then transform into "people" in the "countryside".
But most of the time, people in "Shaye" are rootless people.
What are roots? The land is the roots.
Before "Baisha Village" could reap the benefits from land reclamation, the ruler of the Wu State came over to remind the village chief to maintain a harmonious society and not to cause trouble.
Li Jie said that after receiving it, the officials of Wu State hurriedly evacuated without even taking a sip of water.
He didn't even say "behave well".
But Li Jie doesn't care anyway. The primary issue now is to improve his life after all.
Even more cruelly, it is to solve the problem of survival, or in other words, the problem of eating.
The top priority is to rely on mountains and water to increase fish catch. Bamboo, which grows in large quantities in the south of the Yangtze River, has become a good fishing tool.
As a cultural person who graduated from the Textile College, being able to weave eel cages is a very scientific and common sense thing.
After polishing a large number of stone shovels and stone adzes, digging out earthworms for bait has become a daily job for the majority of women. Of course, while digging out earthworms, they also cover the land near Baisha Village with some good rice soil.
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Shallow ditches and ridges do not consume much labor every day, but it is basically guaranteed to be able to grow beans for a whole season.
How do you get bean seeds? Trade them with fish catches.
It is very difficult for common fish and shrimps to survive, but eels and loaches are among the few aquatic products with extremely high tolerance.
It's just that for most people in the "sand wilderness", it's not easy to capture.
However, Li Jie graduated from the Textile College, so catching eels was not difficult for him.
For the sake of their houses and wives, the villagers who were angry and dare not speak out, under the leadership of Li Jie, lowered the eel cages before sunset and took out the eel cages after sunrise.
The natural river ditches and ponds between the "sands" have become their battlefields.
Naturally, the results were impressive. There were countless huge cargoes. There were actually fifty or sixty eels weighing in weight. And these eels were placed in bamboo cages, stuffed with aquatic plants, and transported to Gu with bamboo rafts.
Sioux City.
Even if you don't go into the city and just sell them outside the city, these eels will be sold out easily.
Eel soup is a delicacy for kings and nobles.
But for "city dwellers", eels are also aquatic products that can be kept for several days and eaten slowly.
The name "White Sand with Eels" soon spread.
And compared with eels caught elsewhere, the eels in "Baisha Village" are of excellent quality. For example, when the officials of the "Baisi" of King Wu's palace come to purchase large eels weighing 500 pounds, "Baisha Village" can easily
Take out ten.
"Baisi" was in charge of the chores in King Wu's palace, so naturally he had to pay cash when buying eels.
The price of a catty large eel is forty pounds per catty, which is quite expensive.
And "Bai Si" was willing to pay this money because Li Jie made up a story about the giant eel. In order to catch the giant eel, he had to wait for the dragon who loved to eat the giant eel to leave.
This story is very powerful as soon as you hear it. You must be a king above ten thousand people to enjoy it.
At the same time, Li Jie also vaccinated the people of "Baisi". This big eel... is not easy to catch, and it might kill someone.
Goods without stories are just goods.
Can goods with stories be simply called goods? What about feelings? Feelings must be worth twenty pounds per catty.
He made up a story and sold the eels for twice the price. The villagers who dared to be angry but dared not speak out all said that the village chief was really powerful and majestic!
However, the metal currency obtained from fishing is still a small amount, and the majority is cloth. For about ten dysprosium, you can buy a piece of cloth.
During the entire eel trading period, the total number of pieces of cloth Li Jie obtained actually exceeded 3,000 pieces of cloth, which was a huge sum of money.
However, after taking into account various expenses and the resettlement of new villagers, the total number of cloths in stock is probably more than a thousand.
The most powerful weaver girl in Gusu City can't make much linen in a month. She can only make three pieces of linen in a month. A "eel fever", Li Jie's income to "Baisha Village" is equivalent to three thousand
A skilled weaver girl worked for a month.
The villagers who dare to be angry but dare not speak out have no concept of numbers, but this does not prevent them from making up their minds to embrace the village chief's thigh.
As long as the village chief doesn't worry about their wives and gives them a house, anything can be said!
"Now that 'Buku' has been built, who will take care of it?"
Faced with Li Jie's problem, the villagers were in a dilemma because they were all illiterate and wanted to help, but they couldn't help.
But this did not trouble the village chief. After all, the village chief graduated from the Textile College, so the village chief asked the Sha Diao brother to bring his friends to keep accounts.
I made a big wooden board and painted the character "正" for every five pieces of cloth I spent and received.
Then he invited Dan's two uncles to serve as "Buku" security guards. In order to increase their deterrence, the village chief also distributed five dysprosium arrows to each of them. With the bow and arrow, the combat effectiveness directly increased from two to five.
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However, only long-range weapons were not enough. Li Jie sharpened two stone spears for his two uncles, and paired them with two large bamboo poles. It was no problem to stab the nephew to death from a distance of three meters.
"Baisha Village" made a fortune, and many people in "Shaye" heard about it. Moreover, they heard that "Baisha Village" made so much money that they had to build a special warehouse to store the money.
I asked many people from "Shaye" to come and take a look.
Among them, there are those who watch the fun, there are also those who are eager and envious to motivate themselves, and there are even more who are jealous and greedy and want to take it for themselves.
The purpose of village chief Li Jie's big fanfare of "Buku" is not to inspire others, nor to show off the excitement, but to attract greedy people to come and cause trouble.
It's best to gather a crowd to attack their "Baisha Village".
"I am so rich, why don't these poor guys come to rob me? This is not in line with human nature! Are they also graduates of the Textile College?"
Li Jie was very puzzled, no one came to attack "Baisha Village", he was just "showing off his wealth".
The great kings and officials of the Wu Kingdom would definitely look down on this small amount of money, but to people who were also from the "Shaye" community, the "Baisha Village" was now extremely rich, and looked easy to bully.
After all, the previous "Baisha Village" only had about a hundred people in total.
The leaders in "Shaye" don't think that Li Jie, the village chief of "Baisha Village", can quickly integrate the new villagers after the merger.
When "Baisha Village" began to plant beans on the newly reclaimed fields, someone finally took action against "Baisha Village", but the method made Li Jie very unhappy.
"I asked you to 'show off my wealth', but you ended up targeting my wife?"
Li Jie was furious. There was a place called "Black Jiaosha", and the leader of that place actually said that he wanted to marry Bai Dan...
"Get my weapons!"
The villagers persuaded the village chief one after another, saying that "Black Jiaosha" is a big force. There are more than 2,000 people there, and they are all unruly people. They can even cross the river to rob Huaiyi. They are crazy and greedy.
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Village Chief Li laughed at that time: We now have more than 500 people. If each person cuts four, won't we be able to kill all the people in "Black Jiaosha"?
When the illiterate villagers heard this: Yes, the village chief is really wise.
So Village Chief Li drew a hundred or so young and old men in the name of fighting "Black Jiaosha" and prepared to practice hard and then fight to the death with "Black Jiaosha"!