Chapter 579: corvee

Chapter 579 Corvee

Aunt Tao had been with Gu Jinli for more than ten days and already knew the temper of this little boss. When she heard her nondescript words, she didn't feel inappropriate. Instead, she laughed and said with emotion: "Xiao Liu is a very affectionate person. After all these years, she , other men would have married and had children long ago, but he remembered his promise and waited for the end of the year."

 Aunt Hong’s name is Hong Sui.

While the two were talking, Sanqi came over to Grandma Tao with a bottle: "Mammy, we have run out of pearl powder for scar removal cream. Come and get half a kilo."

Sanqi, like Ophiopogon japonicus, used to work as a medicine boy in Xuanhufang, but he was relatively steady and didn't talk much, so he made scar removal cream with Kan Liu, and he will probably take over the business of making scar removal cream in the future.

 Ophiopogon japonicus is a lively person. Following Akebia, she may take over the role of Akebia in the future.

After hearing this, Grandma Tao took out a book and wrote down the date and time he would come to get the amount of pearl powder and what he was going to do with it, and then asked him to put his fingerprints on it.

This is the management method after Grandma Tao came. Everyone in the pharmaceutical workshop must do this in order to ensure that there is evidence.

After Sanqi pressed his fingerprint, Grandma Tao asked Gu Jinli, then got up and went to the medicine cabinet in the house to get half a kilogram of pearl powder for Sanqi.

Before leaving, Gu Jinli asked Sanqi: "How are you doing today, Uncle Liu? Are you still stupid?"

Sanqi is smart, not very young, and is familiar with Gu Jinli. He laughed when he heard this and said, "You are stupid. I was so stunned the day before yesterday that I almost overheated the scar removal ointment."

Gu Jinli was anxious after hearing this: "This is not possible. The cost of a pot of scar removal cream is at least twenty taels. If a pot breaks down, you will lose money."

Sanqi said: "Don't worry, little boss, I will watch over Uncle Sixth and won't let him make any mistakes again."

Afraid that Gu Jinli would blame Kan Liu, he hurriedly said: "I'm much better today. I was just in a daze for a while and smashed a clay pot."

 Clay pots also cost money.

Gu Jinli thought: "This is not a solution. We must make Uncle Kan Liu's wish come true as soon as possible."

Sanqi looked at Gu Jinli, what did the little boss know? I wanted to ask, but Kan Liu had already arrived. After seeing Sanqi, he said: "Sanqi, why are you so slow to get some pearl powder? Take it back quickly and sift the pearl powder twice. I'll wait to use it."

 “Hey.” Sanqi hurriedly took the pearl powder and ran away.

Gu Jinli saw Kan Liu and smiled, which made Kan Liu's hair grow cold. He asked hurriedly: "Xiao, Xiao Dong, what's wrong with you?"

Gu Jinli trotted up to Kan Liu, raised his head and asked, "Uncle Xiao Liu, do you want me to help you find a wife?"

With a bang, Kan Liu's old face turned red and blood dripped, and he stammered: "No, no, no, no... Uncle Liuliu can do it."

Gu Jinli: "You can do anything you can. You stutter when you speak. How can you get a wife?"

Kan Liu shook his head and insisted: "Thank you, little boss, but I can do this myself."

 Stop stuttering!

Gu Jinli looked at Kan Liu, thinking of Aunt Hong combing her hair in a woman's style, and thinking that Aunt Hong must have encountered something over the years, so after meeting Uncle Xiao Liu again, he did not immediately renew their relationship.

"Okay." Gu Jinli agreed, and encouraged: "Come on, Uncle Six, you will definitely be able to do it. An infatuated man will not be let down."

come on?

Kan Liu thought that oil was quite expensive, so he had to save some for cooking. He couldn't afford to add more, but he knew that Gu Jinli meant well and said with a smile: "Well, don't worry, little boss, Uncle Xiao Liu won't let you down." .”

After speaking, he nodded to Aunt Tao, turned around and left. Grandma Tao looked at Gu Jinli, smiled and shook her head... Mr. Wu was indeed right, this girl is interesting, and you won't get bored following her.

With the participation of people like Aunt Tao, the production speed of the pharmaceutical workshop has been greatly accelerated. The 20,000 bottles of tooth powder for Yuanzi Pharmaceutical Store were produced in less than ten days.

Gu Jinli asked Ah Shi and the others to continue making tooth powder: "This thing must be easy to sell. Make more and prepare it, lest we can't deliver the goods when Yuanzi Medicine Store takes a large amount of goods."

 “Hey.” Ah Shi was very happy and was busy making tooth powder every day.

  New Year was also very happy. His little boss reused his sister, and she would have a bright future. He was happy and worked much harder when working and learning martial arts.

Time passed day by day, and at the end of September, the government issued an official document stating that he would leave for corvee service on the eighth day of October for a period of two months, and return home on the tenth day of December to celebrate the New Year.

When the villages knew that they were going to do corvee labor again, they all became sad. Some families even cried bitterly because of the fact that Zou County Cheng was selling men to do the corvée service. They were afraid that their men would be sold or die in the corvée labor force. On the construction site.

 Corvee work is to recruit civilian men to work for the government for free, such as digging canals or building city walls. In short, it is hard work that can kill people.

County Magistrate Xu knew that the people were very resistant to serving as corvees because of Zou County Prime Minister's selling of men for labor service. He was afraid that the people would cause trouble, so he sent clerks and government servants to go to each village to explain to the farmers that this was The place where I went back to do my corvee service was in Linhe Prefecture. I was there to clean up the silt in the Huai River. The place was nearby.

The work was tiring, and there was a possibility of being sucked into the Huai River and dying, but the place was close, unlike before, where the place was far away, and even if one died in the place where he was doing corvee work, his body could not be brought back.

The reason why I was able to go so close to Tianfu County this time was because of Zou County Cheng. The court felt that they had to be appeased, otherwise they would have to go to Zhongzhou to build the city wall.

When Gu Jinli heard this, he frowned and asked in confusion: "Why didn't the court just exempt Tianfu County from the corvee this time?"

Zou County Cheng caused such a big incident. If the Emperor of Chu had been smarter, he would have exempted Tianfu County from the corvee. This small act of kindness was not a loss for the court, but it could win over the gratitude of the people. Heart, but the court did not do it.

Gu Jin'an said: "When I was corresponding with Brother Zheng and Brother Shangguan, they mentioned that some ministers in the court advocated exempting Tianfu County from corvee this time, but some ministers disagreed. They said that because of the previous few During the war in Yue, the walls of many cities were destroyed by the victims. This time the corvee work is heavier than before, and we cannot reduce the number of people."

"And if you don't want to do the corvee this time, the amount of silver you need to pay is twice as much as in previous years. It will cost you ten taels of silver per person...I heard that a head tax may be added."

 Gu Jinli: “…”

 Da Chu is about to end.

It takes ten taels of silver to cover one quota of corvee service. Do the people in the court know how much of a huge sum of money these ten taels of silver are to ordinary peasants?

Rice can be grown in the Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas, and they are famously wealthy places. However, farmers can only earn ten taels of silver a year by working hard, let alone the northwest, Zhongzhou, Northeast and other places. These are barren and cold places. I worked so hard that I couldn't save even three taels of silver for a year.

Gu Jinan sighed: "Brother Zheng and brother Guan also felt that the court had passed. Mr. Shangguan Ge and the others tried hard for a long time but could not make the Emperor of Chu change his mind."

 Brother Zheng had a relatively good relationship with him and revealed two words to him: lack of silver.

The northwest of Da Chu has been experiencing drought for two years and has encountered military disasters. The treasury has long been empty, and the Emperor of Chu is now searching for money everywhere. What worries Brother Zheng even more is that someone else is trying to persuade the Emperor of Chu, saying that the aristocratic family has accumulated wealth for hundreds of thousands of years and should contribute to the country at this moment.

If the Emperor of Chu is really persuaded, there will be another **** storm in Chu.

The Zheng family doesn't have to worry about keeping up with the official family. They are relatives of the emperor, but other aristocratic families are not so lucky.

 (End of this chapter)