Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 965

At the beginning of May, the emperor drove to Chang'an in Guanzhong.

Along the way, there was a lot of horses and chariots, and the team was mighty.

Emperor Luo Cheng didn't stay on the wheel palace all day long. In fact, all the officials asked to pull out the wheel palace in Luoyang Palace of Emperor Sui and Ming, but Luo Cheng didn't agree.

As an emperor who immediately conquered the world, he had not yet arrived in his thirties, so he didn't need to sit in the wheel palace at all. Most emperors rode horses, and occasionally rode in a carriage.

He often even took Habayashiro to leave the brigade and visit the nearby village of Nossa City. He would also summon local officials in the counties and counties he passed along the way, and he would go to the local military government to inspect the soldiers and county officials. Soldiers.

Along the way, the emperor discovered many problems.

Wei Zheng, the servant under the door, was dressed in a Taoist robe, and he returned to the attire of a wandering Taoist in the past. He rode a green mule, and wiped the sweat from his brow, "It's only the beginning of May, and it's so hot."

"As the old saying goes, after May [-]th, you have to sleep on a mat. Look, the rice by the river is growing so well. If the weather doesn't get hot, how can the crops grow?" The emperor had black soft feet and a headband Wearing a white gown, a belt around the waist, and a horizontal knife, it looks like a knight-errant.

Luo Cheng felt that the temperature at this time should be slightly higher than that of later generations, and it was this wave of warm current that allowed the Tibetans on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to take advantage of the trend, and even the Khitan and other tribes in the northeast became stronger.

Such a good climate is of course more beneficial to Zhongyuan, which means that there will be more land suitable for planting and more people can be fed.

It is said that at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a small glacier climate. At that time, the average annual temperature of the whole of China was much lower than that of later generations. There were severe droughts and floods in summer, and extremely cold winters. Not only Hebei, but even Even Guangzhou in the south of the Lingnan had a blizzard.

The Little Ice Age led to a sharp drop in temperature, a sharp drop in food production, and constant natural disasters, leading to frequent famines, a sharp drop in population, and turmoil in the world.

"If it's hot, it's hot, it's better than cold."

In the past few years, it can be said that God has taken good care of it. Compared with the years at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there have been severe droughts, Yellow River embankment breaches, locust plagues, etc., at least in most areas.

In this era of agriculture that mainly depends on the weather, a good weather is not only crucial to the people who farm the land, but also to the imperial court.

If everyone has a harvest, they will be able to have enough food, people will not be distracted, and they will be able to develop stably.

Wei Zheng said with a smile, "Summer is indeed better than winter. At least for ordinary people, summer hotspots are best to avoid the heat, but winter is severe cold, but there is nowhere to escape. Every winter, many people freeze to death."

The monarch and his subjects, leading a team of Habayashiro, walked into a grass market by the river.

In this era, cities, cities, and markets are linked together. Where there is a city, there must be a city. Markets are generally built in the city. Set up a stall.

Of course, in rural areas, there will also be some markets outside the cities.

Generally, they are set up at some ferry crossings, rivers, or intersections, so that it is convenient for people in some nearby villages to come and trade, and there will be no houses or shops.

This kind of market is generally called grass market.

Some grass markets are held every three to five days, or every other day, or every single or double, and the common people also call it the market.

Compared with the prosperity of the three cities in Luoyang, this Xiaocao market is obviously much inferior. There are not so many categories and complete industries.But it is also very lively, with people coming and going, and people shouting everywhere.

The people who came to the market were all the nearby people, and there were also some businessmen from the city. Most of the people came to the market to buy things, and at the same time they brought some of their own things for sale.

For example, the eggs laid by the old hen at home, the chicks hatched by oneself, or the cubs laid by the domestic watchdog, or the big goose raised by the family.

Some people also sell some of their handicrafts, such as reed mats and willow baskets.

There are also people who will sell the prey they get from hunting or the fur they have accumulated.

There are all kinds of things, and there are many good things.

Listening to these people bargaining, even bartering, Luo Cheng felt very down-to-earth.

In a corner of the market, a few fathers and sons even set up a blacksmith's shop there, burning charcoal stoves there, tinkling iron, making and repairing various agricultural tools, kitchen knives, etc.

Luo Cheng went over to take a look.

"Can you use a knife?"

The blacksmith looks to be over 50, a little skinny, but a bit lean. He has a big beard and half of his head protrudes. Seeing Luo Cheng's attire, he thinks he is a big customer, and immediately smiles, "Mr. What knife?"

Luo Cheng untied the horizontal knife from his waist and handed it to the blacksmith, "Can this be hit?"

The blacksmith took it, pulled it out, looked at it, and shook his head.

"My lord, this saber is not ordinary. It must have been made by a master craftsman in Luoyang or Chang'an. I have no such skills." An expert is an expert, and he can see the extraordinaryness of this saber at a glance.

"It's about the same." Luo Cheng said with a smile.

As a result, the old master said, "To be honest, although I can fight horizontal knives, the imperial court has regulations. I can only make weapons for the imperial court, and I cannot accept private orders. If you want to buy a knife, you should go to the government to buy it. Generally, you can buy it from the government." Registered for purchase."

"That's a pity."

Seeing that the business was getting worse, the master immediately said, "I can't fight with a big knife, but a small knife is fine. A dagger or a hand knife is fine, you are satisfied."

"Then give me a hand knife."

"Good class."

The hand-relief knife is very small, not smaller than a dagger. It is generally used with you. It can be used for cutting paper and meat, so it is not too sharp. People of the time usually carry such a small knife on their bodies, just like people in later generations will when they travel. It's such a handy little thing to carry around like a Swiss Army knife.

It doesn't take much skill or time to make such a small knife. Of course, different craftsmen make different styles, some are delicate and some are crude.

Luo Cheng was not in a hurry to leave, he just squatted by the side and watched the old man instruct his sons to take over the building, while chatting with him.

The main thing is to ask about their lives, how many blacksmith fathers and sons are there, which makes him feel very similar to his former home and has a natural sense of closeness.

The old man sighed and said that the past two years have been good, and the most important thing is that he feels a lot more free after he was hired as a farmer and served as a farmer.

In the past, he always had to serve in the army, especially as a blacksmith, he was often conscripted.

Well now, the imperial court has assigned the land. There are eight people in his family, father and son, four males, and they have allocated more than 100 mu of land. It can be said that there is no need to farm any more.After the imperial court converted the service money and distributed it to the mu, although it was equivalent to paying the service money, that little money was much better than having to do free service every year in the past.

(End of this chapter)