Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

Tell the grocery store to deliver 300 basins of daily necessities directly to the farm.

Zhang Shang was in charge of the distribution of supplies here, and the women's side was handed over to Zhang Qingyan.

Zhang Qingyan and Zhang Shang are responsible for the general dispatch accounts of various incoming and outgoing goods.

The specific warehouse managers for the three warehouses will still need to be selected later.

A responsibility subcontracting system is implemented, and everyone has their own work to do. For example, there is a kitchen manager in the kitchen who is responsible for various kitchen matters, including the daily consumption of rice, flour, grain, oil and vegetables. The quantity is reported to the manager every day, and Zhang Xinbai will purchase and deliver them.

Responsible persons are also appointed for the breeding area, the farmer's vegetable garden, rice field, and orchard. This makes the personnel allocation much clearer and there is no confusion about who is responsible for what.

Go buy someone.

He bought 120 servants, 30 cooks, 30 maids, 20 servants, and 40 farmers.

The person from the pawnbroker helped to deliver it, and then went to the government office to ask someone to come to transfer the ownership of the property.

Zhao Yuanzhen has been busy with Zhao Yuanlan's marriage recently, so she has to go ask the matchmaker.

The matchmaker said that after comparing the horoscopes, they were very good and auspicious, so the general's mansion could prepare to pay the betrothal gift.

Nazheng is the bride price.

Zhao Yuanzhen asked the matchmaker to look for a good day as well. After the betrothal gift was received, the date would be chosen. It was better to check the approximate time first so that preparations could be made early.

"Madam, the nearest good day is the eighth day of June, which is less than 6 days away. The next good day will be in September."

"Okay, I'll go back and discuss it with my eldest brother, and prepare the items for the betrothal gift. I'll ask Matchmaker Zhou to go to the Yue Mansion to pay the betrothal gift when the time comes."

"Okay, okay, Miss Zhao, go get ready."

According to Zhao Yuanlan's personality, it is not known whether the betrothal gift has been prepared.

"Brother, have you prepared the items for the betrothal?"

"Little sister, I have prepared some, but I don't know what to prepare for the rest. I just want to ask you to help me."

Zhao Yuanzhen and Zhao Yuanlan went to the warehouse and took a look. They were all big red boxes. There were more than 40 of them, which contained tea, wine, cloth, etc.

"Brother, how many tributes should we prepare?"

"I want to sell 128 units, but I don't know what to prepare for the rest."

"So, big brother, are you going to prepare something more expensive or more polite?"

"Please make it more expensive. Miss Yue has been subject to rumors for a long time. I don't want her to be talked about again about these things."

Zhao Yuanlan also checked on Yue Hongmian privately, and felt sorry for this girl. She clearly did nothing but was delayed because of mourning for her grandparents. Such a good girl was talked about openly and secretly every day, especially by her two sisters-in-law, who bullied her a lot.

"Okay, then I will prepare something more expensive. I will give away 10 sets of silver, which is 6.666 taels. I will also prepare 10 sets of sea cucumbers, abalone, shark fins, mushrooms, scallops, etc. Miss Yue is born in the year of the rabbit, so I will make 128 pairs of little golden rabbits, which is 10 sets. I will also make 18 pairs of geese, cows, and sheep, which is 20 sets. I will also make 20 sets of porcelain ornaments. I will also make some more cloth, 108 pieces of brocade and Shu forging of various colors, 88 pieces of Jiangnan gauze, and 88 pieces of Jiangbei feather gauze, which is 10 sets. I will also prepare 8 sets of head ornaments, gold hairpins, and other jewelry, which will be 128 sets in total."

"Okay little sister, just do as you say."

"I'll buy some more jewelry to make up the 20 taels of silver as a dowry. It will be quite generous, and your daughter-in-law won't feel wronged."

Zhao Yuanzhen joked.

"Little sister!"

Zhao Yuanlan called out somewhat embarrassedly.

"Then I'll prepare the rest. You don't know where to sell it."

I have my own system, so I have a lot of choices.

"Okay, that's what I was thinking. I'll trouble you, little sister. I'll give you the money."

"No, I have money."

Zhao Yuanzhen plans to use the 10 yuan.

"How can that be? I can't use your money."

Zhao Yuanlan has his own money, the savings from these years and the recent reward from His Majesty are enough for the bride price.

"Brother, just listen to me on this matter. Keep some of your money. When Miss Yue gets married, it will be easier for her to manage the family!"

Zhao Yuanlan was a little conflicted. He did have more than 20 yuan, and if he used it all on the betrothal gifts, there wouldn't be much left.

"That's it. The 10 yuan that mother left was originally for you to get married. Now that you're married, your parents will be happy to know."

"Okay, then I'll use yours for now, and I'll give you more later."

"What's yours, what's mine? That's what mom left for you. Well, don't worry about it. I'm going to buy the betrothal gifts."

He waved his hand and left.

Go to the cloth shop first and order all the cloth.

"Hello ma'am, what can I do for you?"

"I want 108 rolls of brocade satin of various colors, 88 rolls of Jiangnan gauze, and 88 rolls of Jiangbei feather gauze."

"Madam, this... the cloth shop doesn't have so much goods at the moment, we need to allocate some."

“How long does it take to prepare?”

"Madam, it will take about a day."

The shopkeeper said this carefully, he didn't want to miss out on this big deal.

"Okay, then we'll prepare it and send it to General Anguo's residence. How much will it cost?"

"This cloud brocade is 2 taels of silver per foot, and the gauze and feather gauze are both 1.5 taels of silver per foot, a total of 4.8 taels of silver. If you buy a lot, I will give you an extra 10 pieces of silk, what do you think?"

Ten pieces of silk would probably cost more than 10 taels.

"Okay, give me the invoice, and I won't come to pay the final payment. Pay the full amount. Be careful when you choose the cloth. There can't be any mistakes, otherwise I, the General's Mansion, will not be so easy to talk to."

Zhao Yuanzhen was not afraid that he would dare to default on his debt, and the title of General's Mansion was not just for show.

"Yes, yes, of course. Don't worry, ma'am. I will carefully select for you."

Zhao Yuanzhen paid the money and left with the purchase receipt.

I went to the beauty shop, found a comfortable seat, and started my shopping spree.

First, you have to buy wild geese, buy a pair of the fattest ones.

We also bought sea cucumbers, abalone, shark fins, mushrooms, etc. only those with the best appearance and the largest size.

We bought 18 pairs of tall and fat geese, cows and sheep.

You have to choose the ornaments carefully. First, you should buy some glass ornaments with good appearance and good meaning, some ceramic ornaments with good quality and craftsmanship, some ornaments made of various precious woods, and some calligraphy and paintings by various famous artists.

After all, I felt that they were good and presentable, so I bought 20 of them.

Finally, the main event is left: jewelry.

It is not appropriate to use points to directly purchase gold jewelry, as one point can only buy 2 grams, so Zhao Yuanzhen used gold to pay the processing fee for custom-made jewelry.

First of all, it was used on the wedding day.

Zhao Yuanzhen chose a golden phoenix crown. It had a large crown with a golden thread curtain in front of the forehead and extensions on both sides. The whole crown weighed nearly 2 kilograms. It was really a beautiful burden.

The round fan is also made of gold, with a solid gold handle. The pattern on the fan is made of gold, various jewels and pearls, and there is a half circle of gold tassels. The fan weighs more than 1 jin.

Gold earrings, necklaces and bracelets from the same series.

That’s all for the wedding day, and then there’s the other jewelry.

Comes with 2 sets of pearl jewelry.

Choose large pearls that are larger than 1CM.

A complete set including a large pearl crown, large hairpins, small hairpins, back pressure, flower hairpins, single hairpins, step-shaking ornaments, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, waist necklaces, headbands, etc.

One set of white pearls and one set of pink pearls.

If the price of these two sets is estimated based on the price of pearls in the Daliang Dynasty, the price would be at least 10 yuan.

I bought a few hundred points myself.

A pair of jade ruyi.

There are 18 pairs of gold bracelets with various craftsmanship, including blue-burned, mother-of-pearl, ancient filigree, auspicious words, coiled, twisted, three lives and three worlds, two lives of joy, dragon scale, and other styles. Basically they are all modern styles and very beautiful.

Some craftsmanship is difficult to achieve in this dynasty.

There are 18 pairs of hairpins, in various styles including gold, butterfly shell, red coral, jadeite, agate, and kingfisher feather.

There were 18 pairs in total.

All are unique and beautiful.

Half of the jewelry left by the original owner's mother was also put in.

A complete set of head ornaments, a pair of jade bracelets, and 4 gold hairpins.

These jewellery pieces can fill up 8 tables.

The gold alone weighs more than ten kilograms, and when you add the two sets of pearls, the value of the betrothal gift is maxed out.

Wrap each piece of jewelry with red gauze and put them in their own customized wooden boxes.

There was a pile of jewelry boxes of all sizes.

The things left by Zhao Yuanlan's mother were labeled separately. These were left by the mother-in-law to her daughter-in-law.

I can’t guarantee anything else, but Yue Hongmian will definitely be able to bring back all these jewelry. These can be considered as gifts from Zhao Yuanlan to Yue Hongmian.

As for the other betrothal gifts, if the master and mistress of the Yue Mansion love their daughter, they will bring all of them as dowry, but they can also leave them all.

Therefore, Zhao Yuanzhen spent extra money on jewelry and was very careful when choosing.

The big thing was done and before I knew it it was already evening. It turns out that shopping is really time-consuming.

She planned to send these items over in a few days, otherwise it would be inappropriate to send them too quickly!

And the customization is not finished yet.

After returning to the village, 10 servants with special abilities were picked out. These 10 people were going to set up a mechanical workshop. The equipment of each workshop, as well as the subsequent equipment maintenance and research and invention were all given to them.

Zhao Yuanzhen assigned a workshop to the mechanical team, which was divided into a practice area and a theory area.

The theory area is equipped with bookshelves, desks, chairs, etc. On the bookshelves are placed various mechanical books, which do not involve modern high technology.

The mechanical group will first study here, and after understanding the theory, they will go to the practice area to conduct experiments.

Zhao Yuanzhen also placed various tools in the practice area, including carpentry, mechanics, etc. If you don’t have any later, just tell me and buy them yourself.

This group of people will be the real technical backbone.

After giving everyone a loyalty pill and a strength pill, they started to study and read books seriously. If they didn’t understand something, they could discuss it with each other first, and then they could ask themselves.

The maidservant selected 20 of them and chose the outermost factory building as a workshop for making beauty products.

Customized various equipment required for making products.

After buying all kinds of raw materials, I started teaching them how to make whitening cream, facial cleansing cream, freckle removal cream, shampoo, foot massage packs, etc.

These ancient methods are not difficult to make, but the materials are difficult.

Things like ginseng are too precious, so it’s hard to get them together.

Zhao Yuanzhen worked with them for two days and put all the finished products into small bottles.

The finished products will be temporarily placed in the workshop and will be sent to the warehouse once it is built.