62. Austerity in the Age of Inflation (Part 2)
Strictly speaking, Ferry Taylor has never experienced a real life of poverty no matter which world he is in.
Although not as good as the protagonists in some stallion harems, as soon as the kingly aura comes out, there will be little brothers from all directions to worship, idiot rich man generously donating money, and there are also brainless beauties who voluntarily deliver goods to their doors. However, compared with other unlucky colleagues who had to go through a series of terrible disasters during the initial period of time, they had to go through a series of terrible disasters such as separation from life and death, family destruction, family despair, and family descent, betrayal of relatives, etc., Feili Taylor should still be considered a relatively lucky time traveler.
Because, the first stop he arrived after this time traveling through time was the New Neseril Colony, which was the richest, cheapest, richest and most stable in this era. Moreover, because Feili was an alchemist, an extremely scarce professional in the colony, he was immediately recruited by the local government facing the crisis of war and appointed as an intermediate technical officer with good treatment in an extraordinary manner.
This led to Feili not having experienced poor life from the beginning, so he developed some habit of being big-handed. Although he himself did not realize it at all, and the people around him were doing more extraordinary things. For example, when the empire had already negotiated peace with the elves and had no urgent military needs, he even did not inform Feili who was running and smuggling outside, he threw all his vaults to build the Xiangrui floating warship, etc. "
Therefore, when he was organizing the dressing of the troops this time, he habitually thought of ordering a batch of brand new clothes, and then he was soon scared to death by the terrifying quotation in Edo.
But in fact, in this Japanese island country where land poverty is addicted and has few products, ordinary people rarely buy new clothes.
Usually, only those who live a wealthy and particularity will wear expensive new clothes all day long, and then wait until the clothes are worn, scratched or damaged, and feel that wearing them will damage your face, so they will sell them as old clothes at a low price.
Others who specialize in old clothing business will go from street to street, collect the cheap price from door to door, hire people to sew and repair it, and then sell it to some people who don’t have much money in their pockets and want to make a fortune.
By the time this group of customers think the clothes are too worn, the store can recycle them at a cheaper price, sew, clean and dye them into dark colors to cover up the stains, and then sell them to another group of poorer customers,"
I repeated this several times and kept till my clothes were completely worn and turned into pieces of cloth. I couldn't continue to wear them for anyone. I had to make rags and mops, or sold them to paper workshops as raw materials for producing paper. This is the outer cycle of a piece of clothing.
There is also a more common internal cycle, where the father makes a new piece of clothing, and when worn, he will give it to his son, when his brother wears it, he will give it to his younger brother, and finally rewards it to servants or disciples, or to poor ronin who live on the streets. Each piece of clothing must be worn by at least seven or eight people.
If you know which link a person is in this kind of clothing circulation chain, you can roughly judge the socio-economic status of this guy.
So, in order to save expenses and get cheaper clothes, Kuroshima Hitoshi took Feiri and Miss Zena and others to wander around the deep alley for several times, and even made Owo lose the fat man with a little little head. Then he stopped in front of a very inconspicuous old clothes vendor and greeted the stall owner very familiarly. It seemed that he had taken care of the business of this family before. Old wooden clogs, a pair of strong text, a torn coat, a piece of strong text, equivalent to a bag-mounted cloth pendant for underwear? Well, this price is indeed very affordable. But, alas, let our soldiers wear this kind of rag? This may cause a riot!"
I feel that learning to study Amano Tsuko is better than enduring this kind of mental attack.
Chapter completed!