Wei and Jin Cooks

   Chapter 182 begins

   Zhao Hanzhang went to see Yushan Hall first, and seeing that it was full of people, he really couldn't make room for it.

   There are more than ten children living in one room, and it can't be squeezed any more.

   She walked out of Yushantang, glanced at the yard on the street and asked, "Is there any vacant yard on this street?"

   "Yes," Chen Siniang said: "There are still three yards that are vacant, two of which were relocated with the family, and the yard was left to the Yaxing for sale, and one..."

   She paused and said, "It's the Song family's other courtyard."

   Zhao Hanzhang directly skipped the other courtyard of the Song family, and instructed: "Go to the household to see the quotations of the two courtyards, and buy them if the price is right."

  Chen Siniang said: "But no matter how cheap the two yards are, it still needs a lot of money. Now is the time to spend money.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hanzhang said: "The smuggling account, put the house in my mother's name, this yard is borrowed by my mother for Yushantang, let someone change the interior of the yard, and allow you to build more rooms. In the future, the two Yushantangs will be separated, one for boys and one for girls, so you can manage it better."

   Chen Siniang breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this, and answered happily.

   As for the quilts and other things to keep out the cold, Zhao Hanzhang looked at the county government's account book and had to admit that if she took the public account, she really couldn't buy anything.

She handed back to her the list of quilts that Chen Siniang had calculated to buy, "Let's take my private account too, when my housekeeper comes over, I will ask him to buy you enough cloth and silk wool, look inside the Yushan Hall. If anyone can sew quilts, they can find them in the county town if there are not enough people."

  Xiping County lost a lot of strong men due to the collapse of the city, and many women became widows. Winter is coming, and they also need to earn some household income.

   Thinking that the rebel army set fire to many houses, and there were also bedding and other items inside. It seems that many people are short of cold protection materials this year.

   Zhao Hanzhang immediately returned to the county government office to write to Ji Yuan.

  She needs linen and cotton for the futon, preferably fine linen, and various cold-proof fabrics.

   Zhao Hanzhang sighed as he wrote. In addition to Yushan Hall, there was also a military camp. They recruited so many refugees, and they all needed winter clothes and bedding, which was a lot of money.

   Zhao Hanzhang wrote the letter and left the data blank for the time being. After Fu Tinghan finished the work at hand, he said, "Tinghan, you have to help me figure out the minimum amount of cold protection materials I need to buy this winter."

   Fu Tinghan glanced at the letter she handed over, searched for it on the table, and found a list for her, "I've figured it out."

   Zhao Hanzhang looked down and saw that the list was very detailed, the number of people, the number of winter clothes needed, the number of winter quilts, and even the number of shoes were listed.

   is followed by the material cost of making a winter coat, winter quilt and shoes, the price estimate, and finally the total.

   Zhao Hanzhang: "...When did you count?"

"Just now," Fu Tinghan said, "when you went to Yushantang, since the children of Yushantang needed bedding, the refugees we received naturally also needed it. The prices of all kinds of cloth and silk wool were paid by Geng Rong, but we There are a lot of things, and the price here is high, so I think the price is a bit inaccurate, and this list is only for your reference."

   So he wrote it directly in Arabic numerals, and he didn't bother to replace it, as long as they could understand each other.

   Zhao Hanzhang took this list and pondered, "Such a large number of clothes and quilts cannot be made by the female family members in the county alone."

  Fu Tinghan joined in and asked, "So?"

"So I have to see that every li and li is upright, and the fat and water will not flow into the fields of outsiders. I will find some women in the village below who are good at craftsmanship, and leave the quilt sewing to them." Zhao Hanzhang said: "There's more Cai, there are many adults in the city over there, and the speed is faster."

   Just took this opportunity to let the common people in Shangcai know about Mr. Ji and her Zhao Hanzhang!

   Zhao Hanzhang thought about it several times, made up his mind, and immediately estimated an approximate value according to the list he gave and asked Ji Yuan to buy it.

   She glanced at the total price estimated by Fu Tinghan at the end, and after calculating her private property, she breathed a sigh of relief, her dowry should still be enough.

  Fu Tinghan put down the pen, rubbed his wrist, looked up and saw that she was staring at the list she gave her in a daze, and seemed to know what she was thinking, Fu Tinghan said: "The county government has run out of paper again."

   Zhao Hanzhang returned to his senses, "How's the paper factory going?"

   "The workshop is not difficult to build. It has been built according to your instructions, but no craftsmen have been found, not one."

   Zhao Hanzhang: "It's fine if we don't have it, we will cultivate from scratch, and choose some loyal people to come out and listen to the instructions. Let's try it first."

   "But the cycle of papermaking is not short. We start papermaking now. It is estimated that we will not know the result until after the winter solstice." Zhao Hanzhang added a few words to the letter, "I will ask Mr. Ji to buy more paper."

   Mr. Ji received Zhao Hanzhang's letter, and when he saw the list of items to be purchased, he twitched the corner of his mouth, threw the letter aside, and turned out the dowry list he brought from Luoyang.

   Uncle Cheng stood by, glanced at the items on the shopping list, and couldn't help sighing, "Sir, can we really afford such a big girl?"

   Mr. Ji said: "The girl is lucky. When she was in Luoyang, she exchanged the fields and pavements in Luoyang and Chang'an for gold and silver jewelry, so it was enough."

   "But it's only enough for one or two years. After this year or two, if she still spends so much and has no other income, I'm afraid it will be difficult to maintain it."

   Cheng Bo hurriedly said, "We don't have a glazed workshop..."

   "Although Liuli makes money, it still doesn't cost more than it spends. Moreover, this thing can be expensive at the beginning, and after more, the price will naturally come down. It's difficult to think about making money like this."

  Ji Yuan pointed his finger at the table, "That won't work, you can't rely on money to support them, you have to be self-sufficient, and that's fine with armaments, but it's impossible for so many people to become armaments."

  Ji Yuan asked, "How is Changning over there?"

   Cheng Bo immediately said: "Mr. Chang has already packed up, and he can leave for Xiping tomorrow."

   Ji Yuan nodded, "You can go with him, and bring some money, the girl can't be without money."

   Cheng Bo should go down.

   Zhao Hanzhang was squatting at the entrance of the barracks with a bowl of wheat rice at the moment, and Fu Tinghan squatted next to her, chewing hard for more than a dozen times and swallowing it.

   Zhao Hanzhang sighed while eating, "That's not possible, we have to be self-sufficient, I can pay for armaments, but they have to be self-sufficient for other people's food and clothing, it's better to leave some for me to support the army."

  Fu Tinghan said: "We are doing what we think of now, a **** in the east and a hammer in the west, it's really not right, should we calm down and make a comprehensive plan?"

   Zhao Hanzhang asked Qiu Wu, "Is there any news from Mr. Chang yet?"

   Qiuwu shook his head.

   (end of this chapter)