Tang Dynasty good brother-in-law

Chapter 710
After thinking for a while, Li Shimin replied: "I don't know, but the son-in-law Chai said he was going back to Chang'an years ago, but he didn't rush back before the New Year. I heard that there was heavy snow in Yanzhou, and the snow in the mountains was nearly ten feet thick, so the road might be difficult."

Liu Mu asked again: "Second brother, is this a snow disaster?"

Liu Mu asked if it counted as a snow disaster, Li Shimin shook his head.

"No, Ruixue." Li Shimin explained to Liu Mu: "Documents from various prefectures and counties have been in Shangshu Province, announcing the good news. Several coal mines have been discovered in various parts of Yanzhou, and the price of the new twelve-hole charcoal cake is much lower than that of charcoal. Therefore, the winter is not cold, and the people have enough food, and the heavy snow does not damage the livestock and houses except for the road, which is the auspicious snow.”

"The Wang family's clan land in Taiyuan has a mountain of coal mines, but they don't know it. It's a pity that even if there are coal mines, there are countless coal mines, but they are useless."

Li Shimin doesn't know the situation of the Wang family in Taiyuan yet.

So Li Shimin didn't mention the Taiyuan Wang family at all, but said: "There are several counties in Yanzhou, and two cases have been reported where the whole family died, and one case where three people died and one went crazy."

Liu Mu interface asked: "Charcoal turbidity?"

Li Shimin nodded: "Yes, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Industry have jointly issued a document requiring all state governments to discuss matters such as the use of charcoal stoves, the necessary chimneys for heating houses in winter, and opening windows for at least a quarter of an hour a day. All townships, ri, and villages must send people to inform them, and the lizheng and village chiefs must memorize the rules for the use of charcoal stoves."

"Second brother, since the use of charcoal, there are probably nearly a hundred people who died of charcoal turbidity."

"It has nothing to do with charcoal. When charcoal was used before, there were reports of accidents and deaths in various states and counties every year."

When Li Shimin was talking to Liu Mu, the four guards were scattered around, not only for safety, but also to prevent anyone from overhearing their conversation.

While chatting, the two soon reached the street between Shengpingfang and Yongchongfang.

Today is the first day of the new year, and it is a day of reunion and celebration.

On the side of the east gate of Yongchongfang, the gate was half closed, and not many people came in and out of the workshop.On the Shengpingfang side, the doors are wide open, and not many people are wearing new clothes, most of them are wearing gray linen workman's clothes.

Li Shimin rode on the horse and didn't get any closer, but looked at the busy crowd in front of the square from a distance.

These people are commanding and busy.

Someone is replacing the big broken bricks on the drain, and someone is repairing the damaged tiles on the roof of the workshop wall.

Datang’s square wall is not high, only six feet or about 1.5 meters, which is almost the height of an adult’s shoulders. This is just a symbolic wall with restrictions.

At this time, the other team came out of the workshop and began to press a deep pit with a diameter of one foot and five feet every three steps along the wall of the workshop. Then there were three rows between the three steps, and each row had ten small workshops the size of a bowl. .

Li Shimin asked a guard to approach: "Go and find out, what are they doing?"

"Back to the saint, I have a cousin who lives in this square. They reported to the Chang'an Mansion as early as the twelfth lunar month last year, and planned to raise money from each household in the square to repair the wall of the square. They think that the wall of the square is incomparable with the inside of the square, the difference is too far, so It needs to be repaired. I heard that a total of [-] guan has been collected, and several big households have made up to [-] guan.”

Li Shimin understood when he heard about repairing the square wall.

The walls of many squares in the northern city of Chang'an are beautifully repaired, and there are trees around the walls.

Li Shimin pointed at the gate: "Go in and have a look."

Riding horses is prohibited in the square, and Li Shimin does not intend to violate this regulation.

In fact, it was the first time for Liumu to enter Shengpingfang, even though it was planned by him.

Shengpingfang needs a medium-sized square, which is the same size as Pingkangfang. Calculated according to modern length units, it is 120 meters from east to west and 830 meters from north to south.This includes drains, green areas, and square walls.

Small workshops, such as the newly built Wutong Workshop, are only half of Shengping Workshop.

The largest Yongxing Square outside Yanxi Gate is four times the area of ​​Wutong Square.

Li Shimin and Liu Mu walked into Shengpingfang, which still followed the Tang-style architectural rules, with two roads in the north and south, and one east and west.There are six gates in the square, and the width of the road is five feet, which is 15 meters in later generations.

After Li Shimin entered Shengpingfang, his eyes lit up.

This is completely different from the squares he has seen before. There is a big tree every five steps on both sides of the street, all of which are pagoda trees.Then there are two long stone benches under each big tree, and there is a rattan box and a litter box under the tree.

Behind the tree, the width of the original street in Datang has increased by about three steps.

The main road is paved with big blue bricks, but the roads on both sides are paved with red bricks.Then there are shops facing the street with almost exactly the same door and front face, but the exact same sign is hung on the door of each shop, which says roughly the same, they are all happy new year, and they will be closed for three days, five days, or seven days.

Behind this row of shops are all four-story buildings, and the distance between each building is about ten feet.

There is a single gate between the shops, which is written in the first district of Shengpingfang, and on the other side of the road is written in the fifth district, the same gate.

Li Shimin was about to go out to have a look. A man with a broken arm wearing a uniform with the words "Shengweifang Security" stretched out his hand and was about to stop him. step aside.

However, Li Shimin didn't go any further and asked, "Is this gate not allowing idlers to enter?"

"We all know the people who live here, or the visitors have to register with the Fangguan, and a temporary pass is issued. People outside the square can freely in the market, but they cannot enter the residential area. Unless there is a pass from the Fangguan Token." At this point, the security guard with the broken arm glanced at Liu Mu and said, "Or the token of the chief ship."

"Oh? Why is it the token of the chief shipping officer?"

"Shengpingfang was built by the General Shipping Department. The General Shipping Department often comes to check on sanitation, flowering, drainage, fire prevention and other matters, so we know the token of the General Shipping Department."

Li Shimin asked again: "Or the token of the Imperial Army?"

The one-armed security guard was stunned for a moment, then scratched his scalp with his hands, and thought for a while: "Probably not, the regulations only say the pass card given by the square official, the command card of the commander-in-chief, and I have never heard of the token of the imperial army. "

Li Shimin laughed: "It's good, it's good. Where did you lose your arm?"

When it comes to arms, the security guard puffed out his chest, proudly: "Followed the general Bingzhou to fight the Turks, and he has been in the army for ten years and has killed twelve heads."

"How is life going, don't you rest after the Chinese New Year?"

"You are a big man, it's not that you don't rest during the Chinese New Year. Those four brothers can see that they are very skilled in the army, so it's not that they didn't rest. I am on duty, and I pay ten extra money every day. During the 20 days of the New Year, each of you has ten days off , worth ten days, and an extra three catties of high-quality pork belly, besides, someone must be on duty."

He spoke very straight and simple, and Li Shimin felt comfortable listening to it.

(End of this chapter)