Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Some people are jealous of others who live better than themselves.

But those people never thought that when opportunities were presented in front of them, others seized them firmly, while they missed them because of fear, laziness and other reasons.

Fortunately, the villagers of Dashan Village were not the ones who missed out. They seized the opportunity to make their lives better.

They were the first people to learn how to make tofu, and they learned how to make tofu earlier than later generations.

After learning how to make tofu, they were very far-sighted and learned how to make stone mills and stone rollers.

I had just finished learning how to make stone mills and stone rollers when I happened to catch the Shaofu teaching people how to make kangs and selling black stones.

Everything was right, every step was right, and all good things happened to him.

As the leader of the village, Liu Qinghe thought about it and decisively went back to call for help.

Those who learned how to make tofu and use stone mills and stone rollers went back to prepare for making tofu, while the new villagers stayed in Shaofu to learn how to build a kang.

At the beginning, Liu Qinghe's idea was very simple, which was to make the village have a warmer winter.

However, as more and more people learned how to make kangs and more and more people needed kangs, the villagers in Dashan Village who had already learned how to make kangs actually made money!

The reason why they were able to earn money was because they were employed by the Shaofu.

There were too many people who wanted to learn how to make kangs and make kangs, and the Shaofu was short of staff, so they temporarily became non-staff members of the Shaofu.

The Shaofu promised them that he would give them money, and he clearly stated how much he would give for teaching someone how to make a kang, and how much he would give for making a kang for someone else's family.

After a few days, Liu Qinghe helped the villagers to calculate and found that in just a few days, the villagers had earned more money than they would have earned by working for other families for a month.

Now the villagers of Dashan Village were completely crazy.

Young and strong men who learned how to make stone mills and stone rollers made them, and those who learned how to make kangs taught others how to make kangs and made kangs for others. Those who could not learn either returned to the village to help make tofu.

Young women are taking care of the family and the fields.

The elderly and children, as long as they could move, started moving.

Those who can collect firewood should collect firewood, and those who cannot collect firewood should collect beans, and pick out the rotten beans to avoid affecting the taste of the tofu.

After the whole village worked overtime, on the fifth day, the whole village finally ate the first pot of tofu pudding they made themselves.

Liu Qinghe, the village head who was very smart, made another bold decision after seeing his grandson eating with relish and the villagers looking so happy after earning money.

He gathered all the men, women, young and old in the village and told them his plan: he wanted to open a tofu workshop and a stone mill workshop in the village.

In Liu Qinghe's opinion, relying solely on the little harvest from the fields, it would be difficult for the villagers to even have enough to eat, let alone live a rich life.

Now their village is the first village to learn how to make tofu and use stone grinding, which is their advantage.

They can sell tofu before others learn how to make it.

Of course, there was already a tofu stall in Ningping City, so they didn't go there to join in the fun. His target was the villages that were farther away from Ningping City.

At the beginning, they could make some money by relying on the novelty of the product, but when everyone knew about the existence of tofu, he had other ways.

As the head of the village, he thought more than the villagers, so when the villagers were learning to make tofu, he asked the tofu maker about how to eat tofu.

Those people told him that tofu can be eaten cold or stewed, and if you want to preserve it for a longer time, you need to pickle it with salt.

But it will be better in winter. You can just take the tofu outside and freeze it. It can also be kept for a while.

Look, as long as you have the will, here are the ways to make money.

Liu Qinghe had made up his mind. As soon as the village earned its first fortune from selling tofu and grinding stones, he would buy salt.

When the weather is warm, I sell fresh tofu and pickled tofu, and when it is cold in winter, I sell frozen tofu. I am always one step ahead of others.

As for why he didn't use the method of making money by making a kang, this is also a kind of survival wisdom of Liu Qinghe as an ordinary citizen.

In his opinion, although everyone will use kangs in the future, a kang can be used for a long time and it is impossible to keep it in use all the time.

Even if there were wealthy families who needed work, they had their own craftsmen or craftsmen from the Shaofu, so they didn't need them.

They can go to other places, to places without kangs, to earn money, but that would mean leaving their hometown.

This felt too unsafe for ordinary people like them who had only been to Ningping City.

Making tofu is different. Liu Qinghe is sure that tofu will become a food that everyone eats frequently in the future.

However, making tofu requires a stone grinder and is somewhat difficult, so not everyone can or is willing to do it.

In this way, the tofu made in their village can be sold!

Making tofu is very tiring, but for ordinary people, being tired is not a problem; not having enough food to eat and not having warm clothes to wear are problems.

Facts have proved that Liu Qinghe's idea is correct.

When they first took the finished tofu to sell in some villages that didn't know about tofu yet, the buyers rushed to buy it.

When night came, he looked at the food and other things brought back by the villagers, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all.

They usually barter anyway, so they don't feel they're losing out.

After counting those things, he immediately made a decision to expand the scale of production.

Before the autumn harvest begins, make more tofu, exchange for more cloth and bricks, and store more food and cloth.

Let’s strive to ensure that everyone in the village can sleep on a kang this winter, so that no one starves or freezes to death!

There were many smart people in the Great Xia Dynasty, especially those businessmen who traveled far and wide. They were more sensitive to money than Liu Qinghe.

When they first saw the tofu-making process, when they first heard someone say that tofu can prolong life, when they first ate tofu, they immediately realized that there was a huge business opportunity.

I immediately tried to find out the process of making tofu.

The government, which has always been dismissive of businessmen, was very gentle this time.

Dozens of reputable businessmen were selected, and using Jiang Tuan's suggested shareholding method, they were allowed to open tofu shops throughout the Great Xia Dynasty.

When Jiang Tuan finished explaining what it meant to invest, Taiwei Zong Zhenghe was a little confused.

In his opinion, since the method has been taught to the people for free, couldn't the people just do it themselves?

Why do we need to invest in the tofu-making method and find merchants to open a store? Isn't this redundant? And merchants are not stupid, will they agree?

In response to Zong Zhenghe's question, Jiang Tuan told him, "There are three hardships in life: rowing a boat, forging iron, and grinding tofu."

From what they said, we can tell that in ancient times when machines had not yet been invented, making tofu was not an easy task. Just grinding tofu was enough to make a person collapse.