Chapter 776: Official Purchase of Cattle and Horses

"Hey~~ Let's get off at the place." A horse-drawn sleigh from Xianyang County to Chang'an stopped.

The driver jumped off the sleigh first and urged the four passengers to get off so that he could unload the sleigh and make the horses feel easier.

The horses were rented from Lijiazhuangzi. The lessee took good care of them and always let the horses run at a constant speed when they were on the road, and never urged them.

The places where free soup was given by the river were separated, and five sheds were combined into one shed.

There was still free soup, and people and horses could rest.

Xianyang County was fifty miles away from Chang'an. The horse took five people to run for more than an hour, and rested in a shed for a quarter of an hour in the middle.

The four people got off the sleigh, and each of them took out a four-cent exchange voucher to give to the driver.

This was their fare. In summer, renting a boat was cheap. From Xianyang to Chang'an, six to eight people could sit on it, and the cost was four to five cents.

In winter, one sleigh trip cost four cents per person.

Not wanting to spend this money, they walked more than fifty miles on the snow.

"Buy anything you like, and get back before dark." The oldest of the four said to the others.

"Uncle Eleven, I know. Things in Chang'an are cheap. After deducting the travel expenses, we can buy things for less than in Xianyang."

Someone said the purpose of this trip, shopping.

Today is the Little New Year, so we will go shopping once and will not go out again after returning home.

Things in Chang'an are cheap, and the same goods are compared with Xianyang.

There are also goods in Chang'an that are not available in Xianyang, and the prices are sky-high.

The price of vegetables in Chang'an is more expensive than that in twenty counties of Jingzhao Prefecture, and people in the counties do not buy them.

The coachman watched the four people leave, took off the dung bag behind the horse's buttocks, unloaded the sled, and led the horse to eat.

There is a place to park horses nearby, and someone provides food and grass for the horses. The coachman buys the grass and fodder according to the package, a small bundle.

The fine feed is purchased by the kilogram and added to the horse.

There is a guillotine next to it, and if you want to cut grass for your own horse, you can do it yourself.

Water is free, provided by the court, just like the supply points on the road.

"Eat, eat, and go back after eating. They brought goods, so they charge more. Run another round and a half today, then rest, and give you more feed in the evening."

The driver said to his horse, with a slightly wrinkled face full of smiles.

Coming from Xianyang, four people paid sixteen coins. Going back, because there are goods, we will negotiate the price based on the amount of goods.

If there are too many, people must go down, and the horses cannot be tired.

The rent is now ten coins a day, and the feed depends on what the lessee gives.

Feeding concentrated feed costs more, more than ten coins a day, and feeding ordinary hay is cheaper.

There is a problem. If you don't feed concentrated feed, the horse will have no strength and die of malnutrition. Don't expect to rent anything from the farm in the future.

The neighbors around will even point fingers at him, saying that he is harming the livestock of the Li family farm in Bashui.

The driver planned to go back once, earn back the rent and hay money, and run another round trip, which is his own income.

The daily income was nearly 40 coins, which was not a small amount in a winter.

A snow sled pulled by an ox came nearby, carrying nine people.

The ox stopped, and everyone got off, carrying the goods they were carrying, and went to the West Market to sell.

The driver took out a broom to clean the snow from the ox's hooves and legs. The ox could pull the cart, but it was slow.

The ox cart was obviously out earlier, and then rested for a while, and went back in the afternoon. It made about the same amount of money for one trip a day.

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"Boss, I bought three more oxen and two horses today. They are old, and the people who raise them can't do much work with them. They can't afford to feed them. Ask the farm. If the farm doesn't buy them, they will report and kill them."

Song De found Li Yi, who was watching the big rose-breasted parrot, and reported the situation.

"Did you buy it for meat?" Li Yi picked up a pine nut with long tweezers and put it in the cage.

"Hello, my boss." The parrot said the two words it learned together.

Sometimes it said 'Hello, welcome, it's too cold, my boss. '

"Yes, it's calculated according to the price of the meat." Song De responded.

"Feed it for a few days, then harness it to a cart." Li Yi didn't want to kill it for meat.

He knew that Song De didn't buy the kind of livestock that couldn't do any work. It was a family that raised a cow. When it got old, they couldn't expect it to work like before.

There is a way, put two cows together to pull a cart, or even three or four cows.

They can work together. In theory, two cows and horses like this can do more work than one normal cow or horse.

Working in the current state, you can earn some money, and there will be some left over in addition to eating for yourself.

Then keep raising them until one day when the four cows can't do the work of a normal cow, and use the extra money they earn to feed them.

By that time, it's not far from natural death. They won't live for a few years. Otherwise, they can work all the time, and it's a matter of efficiency.

When they die of old age, check them, and then eat their meat and skin them.

That is, use the labor of cows and horses to exchange their old age for a chance of natural death.

After death, you still need to eat. As long as there is no disease, no matter how important cattle and horses are, people are not important.

"The owner is kind and righteous." Song De always thought that Li Yi was kind and righteous.

Li Yi stopped explaining, but others didn't believe him.

He wanted to make the most of the labor force, and more livestock worked together, just like repairing a broken engine.

Do what you can, and the value generated cannot be directly calculated by the monetary value at that time.

If the cow can live for another five years, it will work for four years and wait for the last year to slowly die.

We need to consider the depreciation of currency. The money earned from the work done in the first year of the four years has greater purchasing power than the last year, so Zhuangzi made money.

There is also an issue involving jobs. A thousand acres of land, plowed by old cattle and horses, the feed and the work done are basically the same, which does not mean there is no profit.

If cattle and horses are not used to plow, and people are used instead, the consumption is greater, and even people cannot be recruited, and a thousand acres of land will be abandoned.

The embodiment of value lies in the maximum utilization of resources, and old livestock supplements the position.

"The owner is kind and righteous." The big scarlet parrot that Li Yi fed slowly suddenly imitated a sentence said by Song De.

"Okay, you are smart, I'll give you two more." Li Yi was stunned for a moment, and continued to pick up pine nuts and pass them in.

"The owner is kind and righteous!" The parrot shouted again.

"This is the power of capital. Even if you are a waste collector, you can make a fortune if you reach a certain scale.

When the cattle and horses die, you can make money by processing the meat, leather and tendons with the scale of Zhuangzi.

Yes, the bones are used to make free soup, giving the livestock a chance to die naturally, and people get a lot."

Li Yi explained to the parrot, UU Reading www.uukanshu.net I was free, smacking my lips, I wanted to eat braised beef, why haven't there been any dead cows in the past two days?

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At noon, heaven on earth.

Song Jing invited a group of people to dinner, he had something important to discuss.

All the people from the First Inspection Team of the Tang Dynasty came, probably because he felt that the current power in the court was not enough and he had to find more people.

"You have seen the carrying capacity of sleds in the snow in winter. Compared with last year, it is unimaginable. This year's water network works, and it is easy to travel on land because of the heavy snow."

Song Jing pointed to the crowd outside. There were no sleds in the city, but there were many people on the streets.

Everyone looked at him and waited.

"The court earned tax money this year, and the Li family farm has too many livestock. Can the court take them?" Song Jing got to the point.

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