Zhutian: Starting from the Space-Time Merchant

Chapter 61 Open Source

"Wow~~~"

A group of women squatted in front of a basin of water, picked up potatoes from the side and poured them into the basin to wash.

The cleaned potatoes are placed on the layer screening machine and poured in.

The so-called layered screening machine is a net woven from iron wire.

The mesh is divided into several layers from large to small.

Pour the cleaned potatoes on top and use the support rod made of rebar to shake and filter them continuously.

The large potatoes remain on the top layer, while the smaller potatoes fall to the bottom.

Afterwards, the potatoes screened out from each layer will be packed separately into different baskets and carried up to the canteen.

The size of potatoes is distinguished and screened because the supply targets are different.

The larger potatoes are given to young and strong men, and the smaller ones are given to women.

The remaining small, rotten potatoes were given to the elderly and children.

If there were free rides, old men and women who would fight with young people going to work or school for seats and even attack others while eating small potatoes, there would definitely be a big commotion.

But this is a reasonable distribution that conforms to the productivity standards of this era.

If the big potatoes are given to the elderly and children, it will inevitably lead to tragedy, as the men will use force to snatch them away.

The inferior potatoes are given to women because women can work.

In this chaotic world, if anyone takes advantage of his seniority, there will be only one outcome.

In Yonghe Time and Space, a cruel world where people kill and sell people immediately, there is no such thing as respecting the elderly and loving the young.

When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.

Only when people are well fed will they pay attention to etiquette and have morals.

When you are hungry, everyone looks like a vegetable to you.

The entire cleaning and screening process is supervised by dedicated personnel.

When potatoes are delivered, the number must be the same as when they are sent out.

If even one potato is missing, all the workers here will have nothing to eat.

Anyone caught hiding the goods on the spot would be dragged out and hung on a wooden pole for public display.

Even stealing potatoes worth two cents a pound was a capital crime in that era.

Baskets of potatoes were delivered to the canteen, and the cooks poured them into large pots and boiled them in plain water.

There is no other seasoning except a sprinkle of salt.

After boiling for 25 minutes, take out the potatoes, count them, and distribute them according to different baojia areas.

Similarly, there is supervision in the cafeteria at all times.

If there is less, everyone will starve.

The rules set by Lin Dao are so simple and crude.

He didn't have the energy to assign people to investigate the case, so he just dealt with it at the source.

If you don’t want to go hungry, then just open your eyes wide and stare intently.

The headmen of each district in the newly-added refugee settlement outside the city brought the able-bodied men in their district to take over the potatoes in the baskets, counted the number, and signed their seal.

From this time on, the safety of the grain was in the hands of the headman and the laborers who transported it.

As for the embezzlement during transportation.

Several such incidents did occur recently.

When the matter was reported to Lin Dao, he simply ordered, "The offenders will be handed over to this guard for disposal."

Anyone who stole potatoes during transportation was beaten to death by Benbao Benjia's men.

The corpse was hung on a wooden pole to serve as a warning to future generations.

For these refugees who have been in a state of hunger for a long time, food is their life!

To steal their rations is to kill them.

He was not carried to the chopping board by the refugees because the master strictly prohibited it.

The headman and the young men escorted the cart full of potatoes all the way back to the village.

Distribute them one by one according to the registration list.

Each of the newly arrived refugees was given a potato every morning and evening.

Potatoes have high nutritional value.

Starch can supplement sugar, as well as carbohydrates, protein, vitamins and so on.

Enough to sustain life.

If there is a woman at home, let her come to receive it.

If there is no woman in the house, but only elderly and children, the elderly and children will lead the family.

If you are single, you can only come and get it yourself.

When the bachelors received the potatoes, they were too lazy to go back to their own dens and just squatted aside to eat them.

The village chiefs and the headmen all stared at these bachelors with vigilance.

These people have nothing and no worries.

He really dares to do anything.

Fortunately, the Beggar Army is very strict in this regard.

In the past few days, various incidents occurred in the gathering area every day.

The looting is light.

There are many evil deeds such as extortion, insulting women, fighting, injuring people and even killing people.

Fortunately, the beggars were never tolerated.

Every time, soldiers were sent to suppress the rebellion with force.

If you are lucky, the soldiers will hit you on the head with a hammer and you will fall asleep.

Those who were unlucky were hit by the shortened rebar, their bones and tendons broken, and they were dragged away by their hair and hung on wooden poles, and they have not been let down yet.

With sufficient warnings, the security situation in the refugee gathering areas outside the city has greatly improved.

The bachelors held potatoes weighing half a pound and ate them with the skins.

I still felt hungry after eating, but I could only stare at the potatoes in other people's hands.

There were still people who dared to rob it before, but those people are now drying up.

"Brother."

A half-grown child looked at his pale-faced brother and said, "I can't eat enough~"

Someone nearby jokingly said, "If you want to eat enough, go carry coal."

"Not only can I eat my fill, but I can also eat meat."

My brother turned his head and looked over with a cold gaze.

The man didn't care. "If you want to have enough food, you can either become a soldier and wait for the war to come and take the head of a foreigner, and then you can be promoted to a regular soldier."

"Or go underground and fight coal."

"If I stay here, I'll just survive."

The brother was silent for a moment. "Why don't you go?"

The man slowly said, "I went there, but they said I had a serious illness and wouldn't take me in."

The elder brother stood up and took his younger brother with him. "Big brother, where are we going?"

“Go fight coal.”

The younger brother hesitated and said, "Brother, I want to be a soldier. I want to avenge my parents."

The elder brother stamped his feet, staring at his younger brother with wide eyes, "You know, if you want to be a military household, you have to take the head of a barbarian!"

"The Hu people are not so easy to kill!"

"Don't forget, a hundred or so barbarians slaughtered our entire fort!"

He held his brother's hand tightly and said, "If we have something to eat, we will have strength. We can go to carry coal and have enough to eat."

There are many coal mines around Xiangguo City.

The coal mined is mainly used as daily fuel.

After all, the surrounding trees had already been cut down, and coal was the only fuel source that could be obtained on a large scale.

The excess coal is stored, and when the quantity is sufficient, Lin Dao will transport it back to modern time and space to sell it.

Compared with gold, silver and jewelry, minerals and timber are the most stable sources of income.

Minerals are difficult to mine and are difficult to sell due to insufficient quantities.

As for timber, there is really not much on the Hebei Plain, which has been developed for thousands of years.

Either the big forests in the northeast, the big mountains in the south, or the Taihang Mountains.

Before the mining business became large-scale, Lin Dao mainly relied on the exchange of seized valuable materials for funds.

Modern time and space, Harbour City, Xinsheng Hall.

In the reception room, Lin Dao put down his teacup and unzipped his backpack.

The manager sitting opposite and the doctor on duty looked at each other, both of them showing joy.

This Mr. Lin is their old friend.

The goods he brought were all top-quality stuff.

I am really looking forward to what kind of treasure it will be this time.

Also wrapped in silk.

After opening it, it was a piece half the size of a palm, slightly flat and round, covered with short, furry stuff.

If an outsider sees this, he will naturally not understand it.

But the manager and the doctor were both experts and knew what it was at a glance.

"Musk?!"

"I found it." Lin Dao extended his hand and gestured, "Take a look."

The doctor looked serious, put on gloves and went forward to check.

After observing for a while, I took out a pair of tweezers, pried open the hair shell and picked out a gray particle from the inside, which looked like a small stone.

First look, then get closer and smell the scent.

The doctor's expression changed slightly. "Wild?"

Lin Dao leaned on the sofa, took a sip of water from the tea bowl and said, "I picked it up, I don't know."

There is a huge difference in price between wild musk and artificially raised musk.

Musk obtained from artificial breeding costs only a few hundred yuan per gram.

The price of wild musk is as high as tens of thousands per gram!
The manager subconsciously looked at the doctor, but the doctor shook his head slightly.

People say they picked it up and it's not clear, just listen to it and don't take it seriously.

I really want to buy wild products at the price of artificially bred ones, but this business won’t work.

You really think I'm a fool.

The manager came back to his senses, rubbed his hands and said with a smile, "Mr. Lin, then we will open the shell."

Lin Dao nodded and said, "Please."

The outer layer of musk is called the hair shell.

The real musk is the musk kernel inside the hair shell.

Open the hairy shell, take out the musk kernel inside and weigh it.

"Twelve point eight grams," the manager said immediately, "rounding it up to thirteen grams."

"Fifty thousand per gram, are you satisfied, Mr. Lin?"

"Don't be impatient." Lin Dao put down the tea bowl and reached into his backpack to take out a dozen silk-wrapped musk deer shells.

The tweezers in the doctor's hand fell onto the table with a clang.

The manager's face flushed and sweat broke out on his forehead. He took out a handkerchief to wipe it.

This is too much!
"They're all picked up."

Lin Dao gestured, "Get on the scale."

The manager stood up awkwardly and said, "Mr. Lin, I need to ask the boss what he thinks."

It’s not that I don’t dare to accept it, but I’m worried that the source of it might be problematic and I’ll be implicated.

I returned to my office and reported the matter to my boss.

After a while, the boss called him back.

"We checked, there was no notification, and we collected everything."

There are a total of sixteen hairy musk shells, and a total of 217 grams of musk kernels were taken out.

Rounded off to 220 grams, the total price is 11 million.

Among the four famous fragrances, musk weighs the least but has the highest unit price.

After Lin Dao left, the doctor on duty asked in confusion, "Where did this Mr. Lin come from?"

"First, there was the hundred-year-old wild ginseng, then there was the large piece of ambergris, and now there is this much musk."

"Where do all these rare and precious medicinal herbs come from?"

The manager whispered, "We are in the patent medicine business."

“Just put the good stuff into storage.”

"As for the source of goods, don't worry about it."

Lin Dao took a car to the company and handed it over to the finance department for recording.

Most of the subsequent payments for various orders and the final payment for the purchase of scrap gold mines in South Africa were gone in an instant.

"Peter," Lin Dao instructed the staff, "Rent a warehouse over at Kwai Chung Pier."

“It doesn’t matter if the location is remote.”

The types of goods entering and leaving the country are increasing, and the quantities are growing.

We can no longer use documents to hide the destination of goods as we did before. We must actually declare customs and book shipping.

A warehouse is also needed in Harbour City.

After arranging all this, Lin Dao sat on a chair and closed his eyes to rest.

"We have the scrap gold mine, and the next step is the source of gold."

"In Yonghe Time and Space, where is the most gold?"

"Yecheng!"

(End of this chapter)