Dong--dong! Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The wooden stick hit the bamboo tube and made a sound of one long and four short, echoing crisply in the quiet night.

One update is the first update, two updates are the first update, three updates are the first update, four updates are the first updates, five updates are the first updates.

"It's bright!"

"Fifth update, the fourth hour of Yin, go to bed early and get up early, take care of your health!"

A young man in a robe with a robe beaten on the bamboo clapper and dawned along the street. The young man was only about eleven or eleven years old, with thick clothes and hemp shoes, and was dressed simply, but he was very energetic.

He is a fifth-grade student at Jinyincheng School. These senior primary school students have to take turns on duty. The first task every day during the rotation is to report the dawn.

When the fifth-century drum is ringed in the bell and drum tower in the city, they will start to walk around the streets and alleys with their bangs.

Compared to the special night watch, people are more different from the first update. When the students communicate with each other for the fourth update, they first ring the school bell, and then dawn along the street, and each place is divided.

There are more than one student on the daily dawn every day, but there are several students, each of whom is divided into a section to report the time. While reporting the time, you also need to report the weather.

By the way, I also work part-time to give away the doctor's errand.

Luzon is becoming more and more lively, with gold diggers constantly pouring in, and nearly 100,000 gold diggers also bringing huge demand. Therefore, there are many gold digger towns in Luzon, and the Qin family has also established many supporting shops and workshops. There are many planting estates outside, and there are also teams of servants who act as guards.

The students in Jinyin City are considered a relatively special group, most of whom are orphans or abandoned babies adopted by the Qin family and raised them since childhood. When the Qin family came to Luzon, they also brought many children, allowing them to study here and adapt to the situation here, thinking that they will reserve talents in the future.

The children are both fatherless and motherless, and they are both half-working and half-studying, and they are all very strong and hardworking.

Even a child who is only 11 or 2 years old, he still has to do such a job as paying attention to the public. In fact, there is a bell and drum tower in the city. According to the time when the bell is missed, he will use the bell and drums to report the time to the people in the city.

However, the school still arranged for the children to take turns to get up early to report the dawn. In addition to reporting the time along the way, they also reported the weather and delivered the newspaper's errands.

The newspapers include the gold digging newspapers published by Jinyincheng itself, and there are also newspapers coming with the ship, such as the Taiping Business Daily issued by Wu'an Prefecture, the Southern News issued by Guangzhou Port, and several major newspapers issued by the imperial court Chang'an and Luoyang.

As the boy loudly reported the weather, Jinyincheng slowly woke up.

The breakfast and snack business opened the door, put the stall up, and started to put the first basket of buns on the steamer. The meat shop there had already slaughtered pigs, cattle, sheep, etc., and placed the meat on the table to separate it.

Each shop opens the door.

The vendors, workers or managers in the city also got up one after another and started a new life.

The owner of the breakfast shop in the corner smiled and said to the boy, "The voice of the young man is bright enough. Come on, eat a bun."

But the boy waved his hand and thanked him with a smile.

The school does not allow students to collect things on the street, even if it is given by others. However, the neighbors and merchants also feel that the students report the dawn and weather, especially the children are not hindered from wind or rain, and they are on time and on time.

For the people who are still in bed early in the morning, reporting time and reporting weather are very useful information. After all, not everyone can leak these days. You don’t have to get up to know how good the time and the weather outside are.

You can make arrangements for the day in advance according to the weather conditions.

Everyone wants to thank you, but the school rules are strict and the teenagers are very independent and self-reliant. They will never take any benefits, even if they are just a bun.

So now, the chamber of commerce and guilds have spontaneously organized it. On the 15th day of the first and fifteenth day of the month, they will raise some supplies to the school to visit teachers and students and provide some help. There may not be much stuff, some rice, flour, grain, oil, or fabric, etc., but this is a rare feeling of fish and water, and is praised by the Qin Family Deacons of Jinyincheng.

With these calls, the largest city on Luzon Island, the city of Gold and Silver, also began to become lively.

As the center of Luzon, there are many shops and workshops here. The first one to open are naturally breakfast shops, and the pier area has always been the first place to become lively.

Cao Family Congshi, Wanjia Steamed Bun Shop, Wujia Steamed Cakes, Shijia Hushi Pancakes, Li Sijia Bei Food Store, Jinjia Nan Food Store, Dingjia Vegetarian Tea Store, Shijia Hushang Store and many others all started to shout.

The Shijia Huguo Shop is the most famous for its lung irrigation and fried lungs, and other companies basically have good signature breakfasts, such as Shijia’s quash pancakes, Ding’s eight treasure porridge, Li Sijia’s mutton soup, Jinjia’s duck blood vermicelli, Wanjia’s big steamed buns, etc.

There are all kinds of other fried white intestines, five-flavor meat porridge, glutinous rice cakes, etc. In a certain way, this place is actually similar to those famous ports such as Wu'an Taiping Port, Zhennan Jiaozhou Port, and Guangzhou Port. Because there are many people coming from south to north and having a high population mobility, it brings all kinds of delicacies.

Jinyincheng is a gold-scraping city and a port for Luzon. The ships coming from the Central Plains are all advanced Jinyin Bay. They dock along the Jinsha River at Jinyincheng Wharf. The first stop on the shore must be Jinyincheng.

A large number of gold diggers come and go, and the rich gold collected on Luzon Island will also be processed in the gold and silver city.

This made the gold processing industry in the Jinyin City prosperous, bringing a large number of industrial workers and attracting many merchants who buy and sell gold.

By the same token, there is such an important industry that attracts so many gold diggers and industrial workers, and of course there is a large consumer market around their food, drink, accommodation, transportation, etc.

This is an industrial and commercial port city, no more consumer attributes than traditional inland cities.

"Eat a bowl of noodles."

It was hot on the island, Qin Lang had a pair of slippers and a thin shirt, and looked like a businessman who was getting up early.

Qin Lang went straight to Guangzhou in Xunzhou. Without alarming the local officials, he took the Qin family's merchant ship to Fuqing Port first, then passed through Penghu to Liuqiu Island. After taking a walk around in a slight manner, he left Tainan and arrived in Luzon.

He went to the Gold and Silver Port with the ship, but he did not have any public identity. He still only entered the city as a small manager who accompanied the ship. He planned to go to the city for a close inspection first to see how Luzon has developed over the past year and whether it was as stated in the report he received.

At the same time, from different angles, what you can see is also different.

When they walked into a noodle shop that looked very lively, the boss immediately greeted them enthusiastically and asked them what kind of noodles they wanted to eat. They were all four or five of them, and they were immediately treated as big customers by the boss.

Qin Lang hesitated between the rice noodles and the rice noodles, and finally decided to eat it lighter, so he ordered the rice noodles. The boss enthusiastically recommended the rice noodles and said that the pig intestines in his house had the most positive taste.

Successfully, Zhang Chao and others ordered pork stew noodles, but Qin Lang insisted on asking for the rice noodles and another coconut.

Jinyincheng's catering industry is very developed, which is also a common phenomenon in most port cities.

The rice noodles tasted good, and the coconut was very fresh and sweet. The last price was asked, the coconut cost one cent and the rice noodles cost two cents a portion. The price was really very affordable, and it was even cheaper than the one in Taiping Port.

Originally, Qin Lang thought that Luzon suddenly poured in with people of 100,000 yuan, and the prices would definitely rise steadily, and he was mentally prepared for the price.

But now, a portion of rice noodles is only two yuan, and a portion of such fresh coconut is only one yuan. This price is really not expensive.

Qin Lang took a walk around the wharf and found that the prices were indeed not expensive. There were people on the street who specialized in selling pulp and water, and some directly sold coconut milk, all of which cost a penny.

And those who sell Hu cakes, two ounces, steamed buns, and one ounce.

At noon, Qin Lang specially visited the restaurant and frying vegetables for only ten cents per serving, while ordinary meat dishes such as fried fish and chicken mixed with chicken were only fifteen cents per serving.

Pork, lamb, chicken and duck are relatively expensive, while fish is cheaper.

Tea, wine and sugar are relatively expensive. For example, the cheapest tea sold on the wharf costs 2 cents per bowl, while the cheapest tea in the store is fifteen cents per pound. However, this kind of tea is basically the kind of tea that is crushed, and generally it costs hundreds of cents per pound, while the high-end ones are thousands or even tens of thousands of them.

The same is true for wine. The worst one is two or three cents a bowl, and the most expensive one is hundreds or thousands.

Qin Lang specially visited the grain store and found that the rice portion was very stable, forty-five cents per dou, while the salt price was exactly forty-five cents per pound.

Dog of rice and kilograms of salt.

Firewood and charcoal are more expensive.

The reason for the inexpensive grain price is simple. Nowadays, there are many new plantations in Luzon, and there is no shortage of land. The Qin family directly transported slaves to reclaim land and farm. At least two seasons a year, each mu can earn an average of five stones. One 10,000 mu planting manor, with a hundred serfs, is enough, but it can produce 50,000 stones of grain a year, and twenty manors are one million stones of grain.

An adult male can only eat about seven stones of food a year, and a 100,000 population consumes seven hundred thousand stones a year.

Therefore, on Luzon Island, food self-sufficiency has been initially achieved.

Although many foods such as flour, soybeans, vermicelli and others are now mainly transported by sea, at least the basic staple food can be self-sufficient, which saves a lot of transportation capacity and makes the food price very stable.

Pig, cattle, sheep, chicken and duck are more expensive, but the breeding industry has not yet caught up. Many of them have to be transported from the Central Plains. Although there are no tariffs, the cost has increased a lot.

The gold and silver city is full of gold diggers and gold buyers, which also leads to relatively high prices. It is indeed higher than that of ordinary inland prefectures and counties, but it is still lower than that of big cities such as the Liangjing and Guangjiaoyang.

But he also found that except for some small breakfast shops and small restaurants that are privately opened, other plantations, mines, workshops, iron workshops, etc., they are basically all the industries of the Qin family.

"It's not enough!"
Chapter completed!