"Second brother, you are born in poverty. Don't you think the actions of these people are not in line with the sufferings of the people? Even if the people in Pi County are richer now and are Shangyuan Sai Society, you shouldn't be so willing to spend money. Otherwise, how could those mills mill rice work be dissatisfied with it?"

Liu Bei observed the abortions passing through the teahouse and bathhouse from afar, and couldn't help discussing with Guan Yu.

He subconsciously did not ask his third brother about this question, because he knew that Zhang Fei was the one who had never lived a hard life among the three brothers, and was not only suffering among the people, but also had the least sympathy for the poor people at the bottom.

Guan Yu was poor and wandering until he was in his early twenties. Liu Bei was poor before he was fifteen years old, that is, his father died and his uncle had not sponsored him for those years. After his uncle sponsored his study tour, he found a way to do business by himself, and basically never suffered from hunger or cold. Only Zhang Fei was the local tyrant who was the local tyrant and the local tyrants raised their troops.

"It's useless to think too much. Maybe Boya has some other idea. You can tell if you go and take a look." Guan Yu said bluntly.

Liu Bei nodded: "Let's go, while I haven't brought many followers today, let's go and experience the people's sentiments."

Liu Bei's current identity is that even if he goes out to visit friends, he will not be able to bring his followers at all. In today's situation, even if Guan and Zhang are enemies of thousands of people, and they are wandering around his territory, he still brings more than a dozen people to ensure safety.

However, more than a dozen people could disguise themselves after all, so Liu Bei ordered the guards to bring some hats.

But Zhang Fei sneered at this and smiled and said, "Brother, I'm afraid this is not a stolen bell. We are so eye-catching that we wear a straw hat and will be recognized as soon as we open our mouths."

Liu Bei thought it was right. Even if he covered his face, the giant man with nine feet tall and the strange man with his knees were still too silly. He laughed at himself and admitted his mistake and changed his mind:

"Yider said yes, then let's not speak. Liu Dun, you pretend to be the leader of this caravan and go to the restaurant in front to negotiate with them. We won't talk."

In the second half of the sentence, Liu Bei turned to the personal guard who was born as a Wuhuan cavalry beside him.

"Yes, king." Liu Dun quickly agreed.

Liu Bei: "From now on, stop calling the king."

Liu Dun: "No."

Liu Dun recruited Wuhuan cavalry when Liu Bei fought against the Yellow Turbans and became a county lieutenant. Liu Bei only had fifty cavalry when he raised his army. Later, he served as a county lieutenant for two years. Before the fury of the supervisor, he was dismissed some because of insufficient funds, and only thirty were left.

After another six years of war, only twenty-two people were left in the group of the most veteran cavalry. But the lowest level also reached Qu Junhou, and some of the people who were good at leading troops had been promoted to Sima of other departments. This is the benefit of following the boss early.

Liu Dun is so good at riding and shooting. Before Zhao Yun joined, he was always the best archer around Liu Bei. Unfortunately, as a Wuhuan person, his cultural level was too poor, and he didn't know how to govern the military, so he was still just Qu Junhou could not be a Sima of other departments.

But Qu Junhou is also different from Qu Junhou. He can be a Qu Junhou among the personal cavalry of Liu Bei's side. He is all intimate and has good treatment. Liu Bei also hinted that when the Northern Expedition is successfully officially the King of Hanzhong and controls the defense of the capital, he will be promoted to Sima of another department, and then promoted the Yamen Supervisor, and will be the Yamen Supervisor under the Jinwu Guard.

Liu Guanzhang put on a hat to cover his face, pretended to be an ordinary merchant in the caravan, and went into the store to observe secretly.

As soon as I entered the door, there was no waiter to greet me. A shop owner, who looked like a shopkeeper, sat on a stool made up of three long wooden boards, with his elbows on his elbow.

The so-called "口" is naturally the "口" that Zhuo Wenjun sells wine, which is the earthen platform in the wine shop. Some shops even half-buried wine jars and other wines in the wine shops. The teahouse is now a new thing, and no one has ever opened it before and can't learn from it, so the decoration of the counter obviously imitates the wine shop. Anyway, there were almost no pure wood for the wine shops in the late Han Dynasty.

The owner of the shop supported the elbow with his elbow, holding a dog-tail grass in his mouth, and greeted the guests in line.

But Liu Bei didn't find it strange. Who made the business premises of small places in this era like this?

The civil business atmosphere is not strong enough, and there is no competition in the service industry. What kind of service attitude is needed? It is not a fiercely competitive business society like the Tang and Song dynasties.

If a person in the 21st century sees this scene, he will definitely feel that the service attitude here is even colder than that in the state-owned shopping malls in the 20th century.

After Liu Dun got the order of his lord, he first found a few cases for everyone to sit down, and then he lined up next to observe.

The shop did not sit on the ground with a mat, but used a simple stool made of three wooden boards, which really made people feel fresh. Even Liu Bei thought the stool was simple, but it was more comfortable than those exquisitely decorated seats.

When Liu Dun was queuing up, they saw some local townsmen holding some bamboo chips with horizontal bars and handing them to the store owner. After checking, the store owner ordered the shopkeeper to take a large pottery pot with a hole and pour hot water.

Some of the guests also bring their own containers, including wooden cups and basins, which can be filled with water to wash their faces and wipe their teeth.

Or if you have some decent ones, bring your own broken tea and have a nice word to ask the shop assistant to help brew it.

If you are more decent, you will not thank you for your gratitude. You will just throw a five-zhu coin on the case, and then the guy nodded and bowed carefully to serve you, thanking Haoke for his reward.

A five-zhu money is not a small amount for ordinary poor people. Local women only earn a wage after weaving a brocade workshop that just opened last year. How much time does it take to make tea and water for people? You can get a money for such a little work, and nodding and bowing is what a little face is. So even a tenth guest who is willing to give money to make tea may not be one.

It was Liu Dun's turn soon. Liu Dun cleared his throat and asked the store to buy hot water and tea.

"Where is Chai Chou?" The shopkeeper didn't look up at the person, and instinctively asked for bamboo chop first.

"What kind of firewood?" Liu Dun didn't want to explain much. Since there wasn't, he would just discharge a few Wuzhu coins.

Hearing the sound of copper coins, the listless shop owner looked up and looked at it for two seconds, and received the money: "Foreigner? That's two pots of hot water, one is worth one. If you don't bring your own tea, one is worth one is worth one. Take a bath. If you have to wait for the first soup, then two is worth two."

(Note: "其" is a unit of measurement, ten in one liter, ten in one liter, ten liters and one dou. That is, one percent Han dou.)

Liu Dun counted some money and asked, "Do you have no food or food to sell? This water is a bit expensive, but taking a bath is cheap. What is the soup?"

The store swept the money into the cabinet, asked the guy to put hot water and tea, and laughed and said, "There is wine, so let's warm it up first for the customer. The only dishes are cooked cold dishes: rabbit meat, braised chicken, salty and pickled radish. We are a teahouse and bathhouse, and there is no chef."

Liu Dun asked each dish to fill a few plates, gave the money, and then continued to talk to the store.

The store started a big business and started talking more and continued to explain others: "The bamboo shoot was called the firewood. The Zhuge Juncheng came up with the idea that the people of the village and town paid the firewood. First, calculate how much firewood is needed to cook a pot of hot water at home. As long as one-third of the firewood is paid, you can use the same amount of hot water in the teahouse.

Those who want to take a bath can also pay a little more, but they have to calculate the days. One soup is three days a day, and the cooking times a month is boiled ten times a month. The villagers who want to join the group give two chips a month, which can be washed twice, and the days are all distributed. If you want to change the days temporarily, you can change the chips with your neighbors. As for the first soup we just mentioned - we are a large stone pond, which can be soaked with more than a dozen people, and can also heat water in batches. The first batch of water comes the cleanest, so you have to add more money."

Liu Dun couldn't help but wonder: "If you only pay one-third of the firewood, you can use hot water. Why is it so cheap? Why do people have to share a good life when taking a bath?"

The store owner proudly showed off: "So, you foreign merchants are worse than those in Pi County. You think that ordinary people boil water by themselves, make fire and turn off the fire, and how much fire is wasted. How can you cook a fire and cook it with a big pot?

This is even more so when bathing. If you soak a person alone, you can’t soak it without three or five pots of hot water. If you squeeze in a pool, you won’t use much. If you think it’s dirty, you can’t join the group. Assign a good life to the people, so that there will be no use for some days when there is too much burn and no one will use it and waste firewood.

Zhuge Junzheng said that this is called "plan coordination", which is a good policy that benefits the people. The people don't work hard but enjoy it. It has only been implemented for a month or two, and everyone feels it is convenient, and we have made a little profit. We were idle too.

Especially this method was only started at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month last year. It was the cold winter season, and the villagers were suffering from the cold. If there was no teahouse, everyone would wash away ice water sooner or later, otherwise they would not wash. Now, many villagers went to the town early in the morning to rest, and then looked for some work to do. Even women would enter the town every day. Anyway, firewood should not be used in vain, no thanks."

Liu Dun was quite surprised when he heard this: "Women also enter town every day? Could it be that there is a sporting market on the first lunar month and it is impossible to get through? Otherwise, it would be worthwhile to use some hot water to walk a few miles for nothing, right?"

The owner said proudly: "A new weaving workshop was opened in the twelfth lunar month in our town. I heard that it was run by the girl Zhuge Juncheng. It was so kind. I heard that I was afraid that those village women who took advantage of the village would go to the town for nothing. One hour would cost five zhu to weave brocades.

I have also met many neighbors and village women these days. Last year, I have cooked cocoons and silk slimmings by myself. Now I have seen the difference between the price difference between the silk slimming and the silk slimmings by myself. It is better to sell cocoons and weave them to work in the weaving slimmings. Some people with some capital want to have twice as many mulberry trees. They don’t have time to reel their own silk slimmings, so they can spend money to reel the silk slimmings, and then take the silk back to weave brocades by themselves.”

After hearing this, Liu Dun was beyond his understanding. After all, he was from Wuhuan and mathematics was definitely not good, so he didn't know what else to ask.

Liu Bei and his wife were wearing straw hats, drinking tea, wine, eating cold rabbits and cold wax chicken legs, and their hearts were already quite emotional.

Even the people of Pi County can make simple calculations and know what kind of work they spend on is the most cost-effective and earn the most.

Raise twice the silkworms, use twice the silk to hand and weave twice the brocade. It is better to raise three times the silkworms, spend money to hire someone to reel silk, and buy a loom to weave three times the brocade.

It is winter now, and it is not the season for collecting silkworms, so there are no brokers and silkworm farmers selling cocoons in the teahouse. However, there is still a wooden sign with the price of collecting cocoons and collecting silk two months ago hanging at the entrance of the teahouse, and some dust has accumulated.

When Liu Bei and the others first came, they didn't pay attention to the sign. Now they look back, but they have a different understanding: it clearly states the purchase price of silkworm cocoons, raw silk and Shu brocade, and they are calculated according to the amount of "one piece of brocade", so it is very intuitive to tell everyone what the added value is in each production link.

Every day, every villager who enters the teahouse will be refreshed and emphasized: the added value of silk reels has dropped to the lowest level in history! Let’s outsource the division of labor!

"Boya and Ziyu are really talented people who can help the people. If the people's strength does not increase, their wealth will double. If you give Ziyu ten or twenty years of training in time, you can be a senior manager." Liu Bei sighed sincerely to Guan Yu.
Chapter completed!