132 Entering the city for support)
"Someone has stole vegetables."
When the sky was about to brighten, Shi Yiwen was awakened by the barking of dogs and roosters in the village. Then there was the sound of gongs and shouting again.
Even if I want to sleep, I can't fall asleep. When I put on my clothes and arrived at the gate of the yard, I could still hear the harsh sound of gongs.
"Young Master", "Boss"
As soon as he saw Shi Yiwen coming out, Zhuang Ding and the tenants who had come over after hearing the news were saluted one after another, while Zhao Si, who was carrying a long stick, hurried over to report the report.
"Young master, the patrolman who was patrolling the village just discovered that dozens of cabbage in the field were lifted away!"
"It must be that the nearby villager was jealous of us when we saw us making money, so he came to steal us..."
"That's right, I'm still stealing it. I must want to plant the seeds of cabbage yourself..."
"Boss, as I said, we have to send someone to guard the ground..."
...Shi Yiwen, who had not yet woken up completely, yawned first and then said.
"I'm thinking of something big, okay, everyone will go back to sleep."
It's just stealing vegetables.
When they were driving the car to sell vegetables that day, Liu Yu brought a thick stack of paper and posted a few words on the carts of each household - "Shitaizhuang Dacai".
This is of course Shi Yiwen's idea.
Since someone stole the cabbage and wanted to keep it, there will definitely be competitors next year, and the tenants in the village will definitely continue to grow cabbage next winter. Therefore, the reputation of "Shitaizhuang cabbage" early can always bring some brand advantages.
At the same time, the lives of each household in Shitaizhuang are becoming more and more relaxed because they have hundreds of documents or even thousands of documents every day.
Although they could barely have enough food in the past, they could not compare with the present. After selling vegetables, they would cut some meat and pull a few feet of cloth when they came back to improve their lives and their families.
There are meat every day, everyone has new clothes, and the family has savings. However, in just a few months, the living standards of the tenants in Shitaizhuang have reached a well-off society. Not to mention the tenants in nearby villages, even the families with a slightly more wealthy life are far inferior to them now.
There were even more matchmakers who came to the village to talk about the matchmaking. Not only did the ordinary young man make a marriage with the nearby village, but even those men who were in their thirties and still had no wife, they made a marriage.
Such days were something I never dared to think about in the past.
Because of this, the people in the farm are full of gratitude to the new owner from the bottom of their hearts. If it weren't for him, they might still be living a life that barely makes a living now.
On that day, after everyone in the village went out to sell vegetables, Shi Yiwen went to Chen's house. He was a craftsman in the village and a slave in the village. Unlike other people who made money by selling vegetables, he did not go out, but continued to do wooden work like in the past. When he entered the courtyard, he was sawing wood.
"Carpenter Chen, have you prepared the things you asked you to help me with?"
"Young Master, I just said that I would send it to you, but I asked you to come to my house. It's a sin."
"Look at you, you're all your family, so there's no need to be so polite."
After saying that, Shi Yiwen saw something next to the yard - a sled.
"Boss, look, according to the pattern you drew, you use 3-inch wide wood as a pole, with a front 2 feet high, 4 feet wide, and 1 zhang long, and a trough of willow branches around..."
Listening to his explanation, Shi Yiwen tried the weight when he helped him put the sled down, which was about 200 pounds, which was much lighter than the wooden wheel truck in the bed.
Carpenter Chen looked at the "sled" mentioned by the owner of the manor in confusion.
"Young Master, can this pull things?"
"It can be pulled, and it can be pulled more than a big cart. It can be run faster with it."
The reason why this big sled was built was that it had two more snowfalls, and the snow fell very heavily. The snow on the ground was half a foot thick. Seeing that the big carts were not easy to walk on the road full of ice and snow, Shi Yiwen thought of the horse pulling sled. The structure of this thing was simple, so he ordered Craftsman Chen to make one. The horse pulling sled was lightweight and could carry a load of 1 ton as stated in the book.
On that day, Shi Yiwen asked Wang Degong to try this horse-drawn sled, of course, it was pulled by a cow. Compared with a big cart, horse-drawn sled is not only faster, but also pulls more cabbage. More dishes mean more dishes can be sold.
Seeing the benefits of the big sled, someone immediately went to Chen's custom-made sled. Chen, who was originally idle, got busy and even recruited two apprentices to help him build sled. However, even so, they were still too busy. Some people who couldn't wait to buy sleds in the wooden shop in the city according to the order in order to sell more vegetables.
For a time, the cabbage and horse-drawn sled became a unique scenery in the capital this winter. Although there were sleds in Liaodong, people in the capital felt that they were particularly fresh. After all, this was something that the capital had not had in the past. Some tenants who were active in their hearts were not in a hurry to go home after selling the vegetables, but recruited people to go shopping on sleds and spend two cents to make a mile.
Not to mention ordinary people, even Shi Yiwen himself was also curious about pulling sleds. After all, he had never sat there. With curiosity and of course his yearning for the capital, he took advantage of the warm weather and rode on the horse and pulled sleds and rushed to the capital.
But in just a short while, Shi Yiwen regretted it.
Although the sun is out, when the wind blows on the sled, you will immediately feel the biting cold wind. You should sit in a carriage with a shed.
"Boss, where are we going?"
Wang Degong, who was driving the sled, asked with a smile, saying that the sled was given to him by the owner. This thing is good, not only saves effort, but also allows more goods.
"Go to the Nanzhen Fushi. I, the commander Tongzhi, have not yet reported it."
Although I know that my identity is just a false position, even though I don’t rush to say that I am in a hurry, I still have to leave the situation.
Today, I happened to go to the Jinyiwei to report it, and then experience the prosperity of the capital. However, when the cold wind blew, Shi Yiwen, who was as ice as a dog, was no longer in a mood. In fact, in terms of prosperity, the capital was definitely not as good as Nanjing.
Even so, when he walked in from the outer gate of the city, under the city at Guangqu Gate, looking up at the towering city wall, Shi Yiwen slowly breathed, and his mind was clear.
This is the capital!
Although he has been in the capital for three months, this is his first time in the city.
For Shi Yiwen, who had been free in the village for several months, when he entered the city, he passed the dark and faint city gate hole, and suddenly felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart.
Will this be a new starting point in your life?
In this magnificent and prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty, where will the self as a time traveler go in the future?
With all kinds of thoughts and a confused look, amid the "thunderous" sound when the horse pulled a sled and slid across the thin ice-laden stone road under the city gate hole, when the darkness of the city gate hole was dispelled by the light outside, a thought emerged from Shi Yiwen's mind.
Chapter completed!