Chapter 460 A rich harvest

Nandi, Li tribe

The tribesmen bundled the dried and sorted paper, put it into a basket woven with vines, and then placed the baskets on both sides of the elephants.

After all the goods were arranged, Xian Yi led a few young and clever Li men to set off. They drove the elephants carrying the goods outside.

The tribesmen watched them go out with smiles on their faces.

"This time we shipped more than 12,000 kilograms."

Every time they shipped, they took the elephants with them, and they were not tired.

"I heard that the three counties in Nandi like our two kinds of paper very much. The ones we sent are not enough to sell."

"Who wouldn't like it? It's cheap and easy to use."

Toilet paper costs three cents a bundle, and one bundle is a knife, and one knife is 100 sheets. A sheet of toilet paper is very thick. Basically, you can take a sheet of toilet paper when you go to the toilet.

In addition to toilet paper, there is green knife paper. Green knife paper is used by women during those days. Because it is boiled with herbs, it is one cent more expensive than toilet paper.

"Our life is getting better and better."

"It's the master that my second uncle has joined that's good."

"Indeed." Sugarcane can only be harvested at the end of the year, and it takes too long from the beginning of the year to the end of the year to make sugar and sell it, so my second uncle brought them back this business.

They made these two kinds of paper two months ago, and they made a lot of money by selling toilet paper and green knife paper.

Then they took the money and exchanged it for a lot of daily necessities in the city, and the life of the tribe has improved a lot.

It's better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. They like this, earning money by working with their own hands, so it's down to earth.

"The last time Amin came back, he looked very improved, and it felt very different from before. I really hope that next time the chief sends someone to Pingzhou, my Lei Zi can be selected." The woman who spoke looked yearning.

"Haha, I think so too."

The chief was walking around with his hands behind his back, and he heard the tribe members talking. He paused, and did not continue to move forward, but turned a corner and continued to walk on another road.

Xian Yi brought his tribesmen and elephants to the designated trading point. They did not enter the city. They had been trading outside the city for two or three months.

At this time, the buyer Li San was already waiting there.

Li San was a small trader. He opened a grocery store in the city. Since the flood last year, the business in his store has been very slow. When he was worrying about how to improve the business of the store, he accidentally heard a mother and daughter complaining that there was no toilet paper and toilet paper for sale in the south. They also said that many ordinary people in Yangzhou next door used them, but there was none in the south.

He paid attention to it at that time.

Later, he went to Yangzhou to inquire about these two kinds of paper and bought some. He took some of these two kinds of paper home and sold the rest in the store. Unexpectedly, the family praised the two kinds of paper for their good use. They were sold out in the store soon. Later, people kept asking him when he would get some more toilet paper and toilet paper.

Li San had used toilet paper before, and he understood what these people were thinking. Isn't it just a matter of eating two or three fewer eggs a month? But it is convenient for the whole family.

At that time, he was happy and worried. He wanted goods, and wanted a lot of goods! But if he went to Yangzhou to buy goods, the cost would be high, and the other party could not supply the quantity he wanted.

Just then, he found that someone in the south was selling these two kinds of paper on the street, and he was overjoyed!

Later, the two sides have been cooperating until now. The Li tribe's average daily goods of more than 10,000 kilograms were all eaten by him.

After a few months, he also made a lot of money.

After Li San asked people to count the goods, he settled with Xian Yi. First, give them the materials they specifically asked for, and then settle the rest with money.

"When will the next batch of goods be delivered?"

"It's uncertain. When there are goods, I will have someone inform you in advance." Xian Yi did not give a definite answer.

When the tribe brought them the papermaking method from Pingzhou, they hinted to them that if they wanted to do this business, they should do it as soon as possible, because it might be difficult to do it after the autumn harvest.

"Okay."

After the two sides settled the payment for the goods, they left back to back.

At this time, Xie Nan also came to the Lu family paper mill. After he came in, he went straight to the master chef.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he approached, he heard several young masters complaining to the master chef.

"The people above actually asked us to make toilet paper?"

"More than that, didn't they ask me to make toilet paper for women to use during those days?"

"It's simply insulting!" Their paper mill produces high-end paper such as silver paper, and it has never been so cheap.

"Then toilet paper sells for three cents a dollar, what's the profit at such a low price?"

Hearing this, Xie Nan couldn't bear it, "You guys take a look at this first!" As he said, he slapped the paper in his hand on the table next to him.

The master chef took the paper carelessly, but the more he looked at it, the more wrong his expression was.

Xie Nan admired their changing expressions. Before, they suggested that Lu's paper mill make these two kinds of paper, and the master chef and the masters were full of displeasure.

Now seeing that this kind of thing they don't like is making so much money, the master chef shut up.

Xie Nan was relieved, are these people still noble?

Pingzhou

The autumn weather was bright and clear. The rice in the fields of Pingzhou all bent down and turned golden. It was ready to be harvested.

The soldiers from the military camp also came to help with the autumn harvest.

Almost everyone in Pingzhou, except the elderly, women and children, participated in the harvest. Many people took up new-style sickles and swung them, causing a large area of ​​rice to fall down.

Then there were the foot-operated threshers, two or three per machine, which were stepped on by these men until sparks flew.

The threshed millet was quickly transported to the dam and spread out on the ground to dry.

The diligent women tied the rice straws into scarecrows and left them on the ground to dry.

Of course, Xianbei knew about such a big commotion in Pingzhou.

Many of them were about to make a move, but were stopped by someone, "Wait a moment, wait until they dry the food for us."

"I want it."

During the autumn harvest, Lu Desheng personally talked to the people about taxation.

Hearing that they had to pay about two pounds and seven taels more tax per acre of land, the common people trusted Lu Desheng, so they had no objection. The main reason is that Pingzhou really had a bumper harvest this year, and more grain was harvested from every acre of land. Mr. Lu said that he wanted to pay more to the court, so he should pay it.

Lu Desheng couldn't tell how he felt when he saw the common people raising their heads and looking at him, with faces full of trust in him.

The common people make a living by farming, and every household has land, and twenty or thirty acres is not much. If the tax is paid according to the standard of 400 catties per mu, a family with ten acres of land will have to pay an additional 27 catties of grain.

In disaster years, these twenty or thirty kilograms of grain can not only save a life, but sometimes even get a wife.

But the plan must go ahead.