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The wall foundations of the nine earthen buildings have been laid, and building a earthen building requires a lot of labor, but what Liu Jun lacks the least now is labor. The more than a thousand people he got from the county town, except for the hundreds of people who were recruited into the Jiutou Birds team, the rest were still seven or eight hundred men, women, young and old, and they were idle.

It is still a long time since Liu Jun's workshop left the work, and all of them were transferred to the construction site to work. Anyway, Liu Jun did not let them work in vain. Both men, women, and young people were required to work on the construction site. Anyway, there were many different tasks of importance, so Liu Jun asked his father-in-law to arrange for people who scored points and registered for work.

Different work points are set for different jobs, and all those who work on the construction site, the work points are given daily work points, time and grades. One work points are worth one liter of meter, and ten work points are earned by one bucket of rice. According to the current rice price, it is equivalent to eight cents of silver. This is already the money that skilled craftsmen can earn in a day. Ordinary women can also earn four or five work points a day, and half-aged children can earn two or three points.

At the construction site, if the whole family goes to work, they can earn more than ten or twenty liters of rice, and a bucket of rice is more than ten kilograms, and they can earn almost twenty or thirty kilograms of rice a day. Such an income is quite high. Therefore, as long as it does not rain, the newly moved refugees will join in and earn rice together.

Lu Weizhang sent the scorers to score very fairly and would not score randomly. Lu Weizhang was also very generous. The work points of the day were born that night, and the rice that turned white was directly white. Although it was cheaper than refined rice, it was also rice. It was enough for a family to eat two or three liters of rice a day, and it was enough for a day to eat for several days.

However, the four-story earthen houses were not built so quickly. The earthen houses are still under construction, but not far away, more than a dozen rows of wooden houses have been built. These wooden houses are rows of wooden houses, just like collective dormitories. Each house is not big, but there are also one living room and four bedrooms, so it is absolutely fine to live in a family.

Basically, immigrants have all assigned their own new wooden houses. These houses are considered the property of Jiutou Bird, and refugees live in them are considered to be rented, but they only need to pay a small amount of rent every month.

Newly built are public toilets and public bathrooms, and there is also a large canteen. Immigrants working on the construction site do not have time to cook their own food and eat in the canteen every day. The food is cheap and affordable anyway.

There is also a small yard that has been newly built, but it is a school. Liu Jun paid for his own money to hire some old scholars to be a teacher and taught the children here to read and recognize words. The school did not charge money, but instead took care of the children's lunch at noon.

It is not only refugees who send young children to study, but vendors and residents on the street in Hutouguan also send their children to study. It doesn’t cost much money to run a school a year, but it makes many people grateful. Liu Jun is still very happy to do this.

There was a street outside the Hutouguan Yamen, with many shops. Now there are hundreds of gangs and more than 1,000 families and workers, making this place more lively. Now everyone has started to call Hutou Castle or Hutou Town. There are many people, so there are business opportunities, which has attracted many vendors to come here to sell, or even open shops.

Liu Jun also took the opportunity to ask the craftsmen to build a row of new shops, all of which were wooden houses, extending dozens of steps in the street, which was only a few dozen steps, and adding many shops. Liu Jun rented these shops and warehouses, which was a small profit.

Zhang Shan even suggested to Liu Jun that a dirt wall was built on the street and the houses were surrounded by the entire street. In this way, this place would really become a tiger-head fort. Yacheng was inside and outside, and the tiger-head fort had two walls inside and outside, which would inevitably be safer and more stable, and could also attract more merchants and people to open shops here to live.

Liu Jun agrees with this plan, but it is temporarily listed as the second phase of the plan. The important thing now is to build the enclosed building first and then build the exterior wall.

Zhao Shun is busy with workshops all day these days, thinking about how to separate the various processes of bird gun manufacturing, and establish a bird gun manufacturing assembly line according to Liu Jun's intention.

Every day, I have to be busy until very late before I get home. His home is also in the rows of wooden houses behind the street.

The wooden house is also made of wood, and then the bark is laid, and the outside is covered with thatch. The layout of each house is similar. The entrance is a hall, which is not larger than the ordinary residential hall, and is a little smaller, but it can also place almost four eight immortal tables. Behind the hall is a small kitchen with earth stoves and water tanks for water storage. There are two rooms on both sides of the hall, and each room is not big, so you can place a bed and a cabinet, but this is also considered that some people have more families and have scored houses to live in.

Compared with the previous shack, such a wooden house is underground and in the sky.

Zhao Shun's wife also works on the construction site during the day. Although the man now has five taels of silver and one stone of rice a month, she does not stay at home and enjoys it. She also goes to the construction site to pick up soil every day and earns several labor points. Her son has basically recovered after he was sick last time and is full of energy. Now he is sent to school to study. The scholar in the school teaches him and takes care of the meal at noon, which saves the couple a lot of trouble.

“Eat more meat.”

The dinner was made by Zhao Shun's wife himself. There was a vegetable shop on the street, including chicken, duck, fish, and various seasonal vegetables, and the price was fair. Today, Zhao Shun's wife bought a lively carp, another pound of pork, and a very sumptuous dinner. She even brought a pound of rice wine for her husband.

Both of them were holding fish and meat for their sons and daughters. Seeing the three children having a happy meal, they were extremely relieved.

"The head of the family, I really can't imagine this life." Zhao Shun's wife sighed.

"Yes, I met a noble man." Zhao Shun picked up the bowl and took a sip of the rice wine, smacking his tongue. He used to love to drink a few sips, but unfortunately, he hasn't paid for the smell of wine since he left Jinan. Now he lives in this comfortable and clean wooden house, under the oil lamp, and there are braised carp and fried meat slices on the table. Drinking the rice wine is like returning to his previous life in Jinan.

Before he fled, he didn't think that kind of life was so good. But after experiencing the past six months of disagreement and suffering, he finally understood how wonderful that kind of life was.

"Mr. Liu is a great nobleman, the head of the family. You must help others with your work and don't let them down." Zhao Shun's wife said. Now she can still remember that night when she sat in the low, stuffy, and humid shack, holding her son who was unconscious with a heat. At that time, she was really heartbroken and felt ashamed.

Now, he is really a new life.

"Don't worry, we can't repay Lord Liu's kindness to our family in this life. I will definitely help Lord Liu get this workshop done with all my heart." Zhao Shun said sincerely.

Wang Qian brought Yebu back with him, and the horse team was still pulling several carriages.

Liu Jun quickly came out, "How is it? Have you got it all back?"

Wang Qian smiled and nodded, "Nothing went wrong, the goods were intact, and all the items were brought back."

After hearing this, Liu Jun was relieved. Now that the account was already deficit, he was counting on the money to live. The money was safely shipped back, and he also breathed a sigh of relief.

Boxes of gold, silver, jewelry such as gold, silver, pearls, jade, and several large boxes of antique calligraphy and paintings were transported into Liu Jun's study. Liu Jun checked boxes of boxes and found that there were indeed many.

"You can use gold and silver directly, but you have to be careful about these jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings." Zhang Shan reminded that gold and silver were all recast by the bandits, so of course there is no trace. However, those jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, all have their own owners. These things are all traits robbed by the bandits. If they are not done well, they will always cause some trouble.

"The jewelry is preserved first, and I will take the gold to mix it first."

The Ming Dynasty is now basically universal silver. Baochao and copper coins have long collapsed and are in chaos. Most people are accustomed to using silver. Although gold is more expensive, it is not directly circulated and needs to be exchanged for silver first.

Liu Jun was not relieved because he had so much gold, so he finally planned to find his father-in-law directly.

Lu Weizhang's business is quite good, and the most important ones are Qianmi Store and Nanhuo Store.

Qianmi Store is actually a Qianmi Store, but it also operates the rice industry, so it is called Qianmi Store.

Since the reign of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Baochao began to depreciate, and the government relaxed the ban on using silver, and since then, silver and money were circulated openly. Since then, private money was complicated, copper coins have different weights and different colors. The price comparison between money, private money and white money has a large difference and many changes, so the exchange industry has emerged. Many shops specializing in copper coins exchange have emerged, called money shops, or money shops, money shops, money shops, money shops, money shops, money shops, money tables, money stalls, etc., with different names, but they are of different sizes.

Later, the money shop became more and more extensive. They not only engaged in the exchange of copper coins, but also in the exchange of gold, silver, etc., and even sold rice industries. In addition to exchange, they even began to store, borrow, and even issue bank notes.

The Lu family’s money rice shop is a money shop of a certain scale, and also operates the rice industry.

His father-in-law Liu Jun was very relieved and invited Lu Weizhang to come over and then placed a thousand taels of gold in front of him.

"This is one thousand taels of gold. I plan to exchange them for silver. I don't know what the price comparison is now in my uncle's store."

Lu Weizhang was surprised when he saw a box of gold placing in front of him. The golden light was shining. He was a little confused. Liu Jun had got so many gold bars. However, he didn't ask. After picking up a gold bar and watching it carefully for a long time, he nodded, "The quality is good, this one is about ten taels."

"Now the market is 1 to 13," Lu Weizhang said the market price first, and then said, "But the world is getting more and more chaotic, so gold is becoming more and more expensive. A few decades ago, gold and silver were still 1 to 7, and later 1 to 8, but since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, the price comparison has been getting higher and higher. Last year, it was still 1 to 12, and this year has been 1 to 13. And it can be estimated that it will definitely rise again in the future. I estimate that it will rise to at least 1 to 15, or even higher in two years."

Liu Jun also understood this truth in antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times. Just like in recent years, copper coins are becoming more and more valuable, and silver is being exchanged for copper coins. Precious metals such as gold are more valuable than silver.

"One to Thirteen, can you help me exchange this gold?" Liu Jun asked.

"I will suffer a loss when I exchange it now, and it will be more valuable if I wait." Lu Weizhang reminded with kindness.

"Wait for urgent use."

Lu Weizhang didn't use Liu Jun's gold, nor did he ask him where to use it in a hurry. Finally, he said, "Let's do this, although the market is 1 to 13 now, it often has a price but no market. Since you want to exchange it, I'll give you 1 to 14,000 taels of gold. I'll give you 14,000 taels of silver. It takes only three days to mobilize the silver."

"No problem." Liu Jun smiled and his father-in-law gave him a discount price.

"I have some antique calligraphy and paintings here. Can you help me? The price is easy to discuss." Liu Jun did not bother the second master, so he simply continued.

Lu Weizhang narrowed his eyes and guessed the origin of the gold. There were 1,000 taels of gold first, and there were antique calligraphy and paintings immediately. Needless to say, it was definitely not robbed, so it could only be obtained by him when he suppressed bandits. Although these were dirty, Lu Weizhang did not speak loudly and just smiled and nodded.

In the eyes of real merchants, there are only goods and no dirt!
Chapter completed!