In the next two days, Zhao Qi was in the dark and cut down more than ten small trees as thick as thighs. With his thin body, he carried them back tremblingly. His body was covered with scars, and he also made a bunch of blood and blisters on his hands and feet, which made him feel so painful when he touched it.

Old Man Liu set up a Trojan horse in front of the cave to chop and chop the trees into the size and style they need.

After finishing, Zhao Qi and Zhao Qi began to build a house in the cave according to the location planned by Zhao Qi.

Seeing the few cabins becoming more and more complete from scratch, not only Zhao Qi was tired, but Xiao Zhu was also very happy. She helped to pour water, cook and hand over the tools. Old Mrs. Su also lived in crutches to help do some work within her ability. She was busy picking vegetables and making a fire, and she kept smiling on her face. She never even scolded Xiao Zhu. The family looked harmonious, and the dilapidated cave also had some laughter.

Five days passed in a flash, four small wooden houses and a pergola were all built, and the roofs were nailed with bamboo to cover with thatch.

The three rooms are bedrooms, all of which are very small, only six or seven square meters. The other room is used to store food and some daily necessities. As for firewood, grass, furniture, pots, pans, etc., they are all piled in the pergola.

Without a bed, the bedroom is simply padded with some bricks and stones, placed wooden boards on it, and a bundle of dried straw is laid, and a straw curtain is hung at the door. Even if the place to sit and sleep for the time being is almost done.

As for other tables, chairs, stools and other furniture, Zhao Qi could only ask Old Man Liu to go home and make some things slowly. It doesn’t need to be too good, just use it.

Although it was such a simple environment, Xiaozhu and the old lady were still very happy. Xiaozhu was so happy that he went in and out like a bird to help pack up the things. The old lady also stood on a crutch and checked back and forth in several rooms, and told Xiaozhu where to place the items.

"It's finally done!" Zhao Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the neat row of bamboo and wooden huts and the two women who were busy with joy.

However, the wooden house was repaired, and the bag of rice and flour delivered by Yang Dayuan was ate all the food, and the few kilograms of meat delivered by Manager Liu had already turned into a baba.

Fortunately, Manager Liu also gave him ten taels of silver, so Zhao Qi decided to go to the town to sell some grain and cloth, as well as various daily necessities such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

If you lose money, you can make another profit. Zhao Qi believes that he will not starve to death. At least according to his cooking skills, although he will not have the eight major cuisines in later generations, in this era when food was just beginning to take shape, it should be no problem to go to a restaurant in the town to find a chef's job.

Of course, being a chef is just a choice, and now what he needs is to find an opportunity to make a fortune in addition to spending money.

As for how to get rich, he hasn't figured out yet.

But this place is close to Ningbo Wharf. Although he has not seen it after traveling over, he can hear the prosperity of the wharf with his ears. Yang Dayuan, Ermazi and most of the people in the village are working as helpers at the wharf. It is much better to go to the wharf to try your luck than to think about it at home.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, the sky was a little gloomy and the sea was covered with clouds, as if there were signs of rain.

Zhao Qi was a little lucky, but fortunately he moved faster, otherwise when a sudden heavy rain came, he would be afraid that there would be no place to sleep.

With a broken basket on his back and a heavy shadow in his arms, Zhao Qi went to Yanggong Town to buy things.

Yanggong Town is very large and is almost connected to the harbor terminal.

The villagers in several villages near Yanggong Town almost rely on the harbor to make a living, move goods at the wharf, work as crew members, grow grain, grow vegetables and open inns and hotels, rely on the mountains to eat mountains, eat water, and make money on the wharf. This is completely no different from the residents of the harbor city in later generations.

The Song Dynasty's relaxed management and developed business were the period of rule that was closest to modern civilization among the feudal dynasties. In fact, many folk traditions in later generations, including many inheritances of eating, drinking and entertainment, almost all began in the Song Dynasty.

During the day, Yanggong Town is bustling and noisy. The streets are full of caravans carrying cargoes from north to south. Because most people only eat two meals a day, many hotels and restaurants are half-closed. On the contrary, more food is the mobile food stalls on the street. There are many people carrying loads and carts selling buns, steamed buns and cook cakes, so the streets exudes a strong food fragrance.

Because I have been here once, I probably know the location of some shops, so Zhao Qi was not in the mood to go shopping next to me. First, I went straight to the cloth store to buy a coarse cloth and a fine cloth, and it was the cheapest gray cloth. Then Zhao Qi was a little overjoyed.

Prices are too expensive.

The price of ordinary coarse cloth is always 300 yuan per piece, and the price of fine cloth is two pieces per piece. I thought silver was very valuable, but it cost more than three taels of silver to spend two pieces of cloth.

Silver does not belong to the official currency for circulation. Although merchants check cash, they are all calculated at the market price. One tael of silver is currently worth a flat amount, that is, one thousand copper coins. This is because silver coins are hard currency. If you use the official banknotes, the price of a coarse cloth is as high as more than five jin.

In other words, at this time of the late Southern Song Dynasty, the imperial court began to issue large quantities of paper money due to lack of money, which led to very strong inflation. The purchasing power of paper money was declining and prices soared.

Although the prices are expensive, some things must be bought.

In addition to the two pieces of cloth, Zhao Qi went to the garment store to buy three sets of single clothes for summer wear, including one set of one for himself and his grandmother and Xiaozhu. These three sets of clothes also cost more than two cents.

Ten taels of silver went away in the blink of an eye.

However, when buying things, Zhao Qi found that most of the shops in the town were used for trading, with a lot of money, but there was very little copper coins. In order not to find change, the store even was willing to take the initiative to reduce the price.

Zhao Qi found out this strange behavior for a while before he understood it.

Liangzhe Road, where Qingyuan Prefecture is located, is the capital's location and is also a huge harbor city. The sea transportation is developed and commerce is prosperous. Moreover, Qingyuan Prefecture is also a place where the imperial court stipulates to receive foreign envoys. Merchant ships from Goryeo, Japan, Ryukyu, Southeast Asia and even the Great Food in India must land in Ningbo Port for inspection and arrangements, so there are a lot of foreigners.

Because of the exquisite casting of copper coins in the Song Dynasty, a large number of foreigners gathered in the coastal areas of Ningbo for a long time to purchase copper coins at high prices. Merchants from Goryeo, Japan, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and even Europe used gold, silver, jewelry, and even precious spices, glass, ivory, rhinoceros horns and other items to exchange copper coins at very low prices, and then secretly transported them back to China. The Japanese made the most.

A large number of copper coins continued to flow out, resulting in the fact that even if millions of coins were cast in the Song Dynasty every year was not enough.

In order to make up for the insufficient circulation of domestic coins, the court had to issue a large amount of paper money as a supplement.

Of course, there are many reasons for issuing additional banknotes, but the large outflow of copper coins is also a very important factor.

In other words, the copper coins of the Song Dynasty are now hard currency in the surrounding countries, which is equivalent to the status of the US dollar in later generations.

Whether in the past, the Liao, Jin, Xixia, Dali, or the Mongols, they all agreed with the trading status of the Song Dynasty copper coins. Even the currencies minted by the Liao and Jin countries and issued paper money were not willing to ask for them, and they only liked the coins of the Song Dynasty. This also led to the copper coins of the Song Dynasty that were popular in the Liao and Jin countries, and sometimes Jiaozi and Huizi also collected them.

In other words, the current situation is that the Song Dynasty spent a lot of money and material resources to mint money, and then the entire East Asia and even most of the earth are in use. Therefore, the more prosperous overseas and border trade is, the less money is needed, and it can only be used to top it with paper money, otherwise the country will fall into an extremely deflation state, and industry and commerce will be in a slump.
Chapter completed!