RPAGF Chapter 245 There's a lot going on
Chapter 245 There's a lot going on
I didn't think too much about it. I took the banknote and threw it into the box when I got back.
In the future, the two kids will have to get married. There are many places where money is needed! As a father, taking 200 taels seems a bit shabby to me.
The next day, the clan leader and the village head came together. After getting my consent, Old Man Zhang took them to the front yard hall.
The two of them sent me a list of people who wanted to join the team. I said yes. Those who are willing can start buying carriages and set off to Weibei with the team that came this time.
Now that you know the route, you can decide the time to go by yourself. However, you are responsible for your safety on the road.
The next day, those who could afford to buy a carriage started to come and load the goods in the afternoon. There were some who wanted to buy a carriage but couldn't find one. I just asked Cao Feng to drive a carriage to send them to the capital to buy it there.
By the way, I also sent someone to the farms that I was related to to deliver the letter. Anyone who could afford to buy a carriage and was willing to work could come.
Transporting the clay and limestone over such a long distance is no small project and it would take at least a year or two to complete.
As long as you are not afraid of hard work and invest some money, you can buy a carriage and do this, and basically your family will make some money. Although it is hard work, what is not hard?
Now, the small mountain village became bustling with people coming and going.
It would be very inconvenient and unsafe to have so many carriages coming in and out and passing through my yard.
I discussed with the village head and the clan leader to build another road from outside my wall into the mountain. The village head thought about it and agreed to go back and ask each household.
I promised that if they asked about a family's land and they didn't want it, I could pay to buy it.
There are so many people coming and going here now, isn't it the best place to do business? When the time comes, everything from where you live to where you eat and what you use can be bought and sold here.
It can be said that whoever's land this road is built next to will benefit, and it depends on whether these people can seize the opportunity.
The clan leader and the village head found it a little strange, and I didn't explain much, just saying that this was an order from the emperor and it had to be completed as soon as possible. There was no time to delay.
Then we talked about the distance from the village to the official road. Now it seems that this road is really too narrow, and there will be more and more cars passing by in the future.
The current condition of this road is no longer sufficient to support future development. If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. This is a hard truth.
But I still need to talk to the county magistrate about the road construction. I can't do everything myself. He has to do something too. I'll see if I can use the work in lieu of taxes. After all, I'm working for the emperor!
We still have to do things that use the tiger's skin to gain some benefits.
When I put forward this idea, the clan leader and the village head looked at each other, fully supported it, and said they would accompany me tomorrow.
Having these two people go together would save me a lot of words. How could I refuse? I quickly agreed to go together after breakfast tomorrow.
I will ask Cao Feng to drive there and see if they want to bring anything back. We can think about it first and bring it back later.
The two old men nodded happily and said they would go back and discuss with their spouses whether there was anything they needed to bring. If there was, they would bring it back together.
I thought about how someone in the village has been asking me these days, when will the sweet potato contract I signed in the first half of the year be purchased?
I took this opportunity to ask the clan leader and the village head to help tell the villagers that I will purchase the sweet potatoes we dug up according to the original contract, and asked everyone in the village who had signed the contract to send all the sweet potatoes they dug up to me.
I will start collecting from tomorrow, no matter how much.
The two old men couldn't sit still after hearing this. They had grown the most sweet potatoes in the past, and now once they sell them, they will have income immediately. If they use the money to buy a car, they can go out to deliver goods. This is a series of good things!
Seeing that they were in a hurry to leave, I smiled and sent them to the main gate. I also told them that if anyone wanted to sell sweet potatoes tomorrow, they should send them directly to the side gate, where someone would be there to buy them.
There is no high threshold at the side door, so if a car comes, it is also convenient to deliver it directly to the yard. And the warehouse is also there. The received goods can be directly stored.
After seeing off the clan leader and the head of the village, I called Uncle Mo and Uncle Wu and assigned them the task of harvesting sweet potatoes tomorrow. I promised that as long as they finished their work, I would make a unique delicacy for everyone to taste when I returned from the town.
The two were bored to begin with, and didn't mind having something to do, so they immediately called two people to do the preparations.
Thinking about going to see the county magistrate tomorrow, it would be bad to go empty-handed. I decided to ask Shopkeeper Su, after all, he had dealt with many things in this area before and had experience.
Come to think of it, this is really a lot.