Daily Life In Qin Dynasty

When the moon is full, it will be waning, and when the water is full, it will overflow.

Especially when it comes to being a human being, being too perfect may not necessarily be a good thing.

Life is alive.

Fame, wealth and power, at most two of the three.

Nowadays, although Mr. Mo is not considered a 'very popular minister' in Qin State, he basically belongs to the small group of people at the top of Qin State's power.

The wealth he has accumulated over the years is comparable to that of wealthy businessmen.

If Mr. Mo doesn't throw some dirty water on his 'reputation' now, maybe one day he will become the next Lu Buwei.

"What happened down there?"

While Mo Jun and others were chatting, they saw a sudden surge of crowds at the workers' gathering place not far away, and it suddenly became noisy.

"I will send someone to investigate right now."

Chen Jing responded, and then quickly summoned two officers and soldiers to investigate.

It didn't take long.

The two officers and soldiers returned and reported: "Sir, Mr. Shengping, a worker fainted just now, but he has woken up now."

Mo Jun frowned slightly and said, "Have you fainted? What's going on? Could it be that you haven't eaten enough like last time?"

If you do heavy physical work without adequate food supplements, you may easily suffer from malnutrition.

But people in Hanzhong County may be too poor, so when they make money, the first thing they think about is not to feed themselves, but to save the money and take it home.

When construction first started, some people were reluctant to spend money on food to eat because they had made money. I had to work hard on an hungry stomach, but I suddenly fainted in the middle of the work.

Since then.

Mo Jun directly issued a ban.

In the future, if someone is delayed due to hunger, he or she will be kicked out.

Hearing this, the officers and soldiers hesitated for a moment and said: "Reporting to your lord, it seems that this time it was not because of not eating, but because of not eating salt for too long, that's why I fainted."

"No salt?"

Mo Jun's eyelids twitched slightly, then he turned to look at Xiong Da and said, "Don't you have some salt prepared over there?"

Xiong Da shook his head and said: "We have prepared rice, oil and salt, but it may be because the price of salt has increased a lot recently, so these workers are not willing to buy too much!"

Hearing this, Mo Jun immediately covered his face, then waved his hands helplessly and said: "Forget it, when you rest in the future, you can ask someone to dissolve some salt and add some salt water to them!"

Xiong Da nodded and said: "I understand."

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In the blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed.

As Mr. Mo invested 150,000 gold coins in Hanzhong County, the whole Hanzhong was like a pool of stagnant water that a bomb had been dropped into, and suddenly became lively.

The first is the "Four Large and Eight Small" built in various places in Hanzhong County, a total of twelve reservoirs.

There is not much technical content in building the reservoir itself. Except for the final cement reinforcement, most of the project involves digging pits and moving earth.

Therefore, in comparison, workers who build reservoirs are paid less, only three big bucks a day.

But even so.

There are still a lot of people in various villages, counties and towns in Hanzhong County who want to grab a job.

For a while.

All areas in Hanzhong County are busy.

After most civilians received their wages, they immediately wanted to exchange it all for food. Seeing this situation, many landlords and nobles in various towns in Hanzhong County began to increase food prices in a tacit understanding without any discussion.

This situation has almost become the norm nowadays. Under the policy of "emphasis on agriculture and suppression of business", the entire Qin State's commercial market is like a pool of stagnant water, and effective competition cannot be formed at all.

The absence of competition often means that the pricing power of goods is completely determined by merchants, and buyers have no choice at all.

Therefore.

Even though Qin's currency has initially begun to form a system, the currency itself still has no credibility at all. Even if most people make money, they will immediately want to exchange it for food and cloth.

Fortunately, Mr. Mo was well prepared for this situation. Not long after Mr. Mo came to Hanzhong County, Xiong Daji had already sent a message from a flying bird, notifying the [Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce] distributed in various places to gather towards Hanzhong.

Although it is inconvenient to transport large quantities of goods across the Qinling Mountains, so much time has passed now, and the first group of people from the Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce has also arrived in Hanzhong.

With this group of manpower, plus the hundreds of thousands of grains obtained by plagiarizing the 'He clan' before, it is enough for Mo Jun to control the grain prices in various parts of Hanzhong County.

Of course.

It is inevitable that there will be some 'little accidents' along the way.

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Mo Jun unexpectedly harvested more than 30,000 shi of grain.

And some farmers near the Han River are now fishing in the river almost day and night.

Mo Jun does not implement a daily salary system for fishing, but a performance system.

For every ten kilograms of river fish caught from the river (approximately five kilograms in later generations), one can exchange a large sum of money from the government.

Such an exchange ratio is obviously difficult for many people who do not know how to fish.

However, for many fishermen who originally lived near the Han River and depended on the water, it was a huge incentive.

After all, for many fishermen living by the water now, the most difficult part is not not being able to catch fish, but catching fish but having no place to sell it.

So when Mr. Mo issued this order.

Nowadays, even at night, there are at least hundreds of fishermen floating on the Han River. The number of people during the day can exceed a thousand.

The fishing technology of the Warring States Period was indeed not superb.

But precisely because of this, the fishing resources in Hanshui are far more abundant than in later generations.

Some experienced fishermen can now catch two to three hundred kilograms of river fish every day, making a fortune of twenty or thirty yuan a day.

Among them is "Uncle Tiezi", an old farmer from Tieshi Village in Heishi County.

The old farmer ‘Uncle Tiezi’ originally went to ‘Huitou Mountain’ with others to apply for a job. However, many people in the same village were selected, but he was rejected by the recruiting foreman because he was too old.

The old farmer was naturally a little sad about this, but just after he returned to Tieshi Village, someone happened to come to Tieshi Village to promote the notice of 'repaying money for fishing'.

Tieshi Village is actually not close to the Han River, but the old farmer lived on the water for a period of time when he was young, so after hearing this notice, he originally wanted to try his luck on the water.

Unexpectedly, he was very lucky. On the first day, he caught a 'King Fish' weighing 200 kilograms and made 20 big bucks.

Such a speed of making money.

When the old farmer returned to Tieshi Village that day, many people's eyes turned red with envy.

But in comparison.

The most lively place in Hanzhong County is undoubtedly Qunshan County.

Because as the people of the Xiong Chumo Chamber of Commerce arrived in Hanzhong, the headquarters of the chamber of commerce and the breeding farm were to be built. In order to speed up the construction, Xiong Da directly expanded the number of workers to more than 2,000.

To know.

Hanzhong County is not a large area and has a small population. The total population of the entire county is only about a hundred thousand, not less than two hundred thousand.

Excluding the young, old, women and children, the real prime-age labor force is only about 70,000 to 80,000 people.

This is because Lord Mo invented the 'Great Qin Sword Creation Medicine', which reduced the number of battle losses among the veterans of the Qin Army by more than half, so now the Qin State no longer needs to recruit too many people for military service.

Otherwise, the 70,000 to 80,000 prime-age labor force might be reduced by 20,000 to 30,000.

But even if these 70,000 to 80,000 prime-age labor force are dispersed to various counties, the number of prime-age labor force in each county will only be more than 10,000.

But now, Mr. Mo has recruited more than two thousand people, close to three thousand people, in one recruitment.

One can imagine.

What kind of shock will this cause now?

Less than a month.

Hanzhong County, which was originally oppressed by various landlords and old nobles, quickly entered an era of great construction with the arrival of Lord Mo.

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And just when Mo Jun was busy in full swing.

the other side.

The top five who once successfully completed a large deal with Mr. Mo at the Sheriff's Mansion... Oh no, now they should be the patriarchs of the four old nobles, gathered together again.

Behind these four people, there are about a dozen people, who are representatives of small landowners and nobles from other places, coming here to discuss important matters with the four old nobles.

As for what the big deal is?

obviously.

At the moment, in the entire Hanzhong County, there was only one person worthy of all of them gathering together to deal with him.

Bang!

One of the four old nobles, "Sun Zuo", the patriarch of the Sun clan, slapped the desk angrily and said: "That guy's hands and feet have been stretched longer and longer recently."

One of the four old nobles, the head of the Jing clan, ‘Jing Cheng’, also had an unpleasant look on his face, and said in a low voice: “It seems that we underestimated him too much.”

One of the four old nobles, the head of the Yan clan, 'Yan Bosun', held the tea cup and said: "I asked the descendants of my family to write a letter to accuse this person, but before the memorial was sent, he was beaten down halfway. .The same result five times in a row."

"It's the same here."

At this moment, a representative of a small landowner aristocratic force below was heard saying: "We have all contacted our respective backgrounds in Xianyang, but now every important institution in the court has that person's informant."

"No one dares to accept any memorial that wants to sue that person."

"And some of them even explicitly told us to give up the idea of ​​dealing with that person."

Having said this, the faces of several representatives of small landowners and aristocratic forces below showed a hint of fear.

Originally, they thought that Mr. Mo had not been in power for long, so his background could not be very deep, and at most he would only be rampant in Hanzhong County.

In today's world, who can become a wealthy landlord and businessman without some official background.

As a result, reality gave them a hard time.

Once in Hanzhong.

They have always used their power to bully others, but now facing the oppression from Lord Mo, they experienced the feeling of being bullied for the first time.

This kind of terrifying power that no one even dared to take over made the landlords and nobles in Hanzhong County feel for the first time what it means to have "no way to heaven and no way to earth".

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