Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Tongliao, as the name suggests, is where the grassland connects to Liaodong.

Although the shape of Tongliao on the map is not very beautiful, and later generations are only an insignificant small city, it is indeed a strategic place that connects all directions.

This place can be used as a supply point for the army walking out of the Modong grassland, and it can also be used as a fulcrum for attacking Liaodong.

Now there is no Khan in Tongliao, and players have not been able to occupy Tongliao.

Li Yan's system cannot set up spawn points and resurrection points outside the area he occupies, so setting up spawn points and resurrection points in Tongliao is still not feasible.

But with a strategic direction, after Li Yan got rid of the confusion and anxiety in his heart, the huge machine in Longyou began to activate.

Merchants and players in Gaochang began to purchase grain from the Western Regions, and even put up a sign at the Western Region Trading Station that they must have grain in exchange for goods from Longyou.

Only at this moment did Li Yan realize how efficient the terrifying machine he had created was.

The food in the Western Regions was swallowed up by Gaochang and Shazhou like the tide.

These grains were planned and transported to Zhangye and Wuwei.

The autumn harvest was just around the corner, and officials from all the yamen in Longyou went to the fields to start harvesting this year's autumn grain.

The grain harvests in Xizhou, Shazhou, and Guazhou were all bumper, and a large amount of grain was harvested and put into storage. Li Yan also followed the rent agreed with the people before, and officials at all levels effectively expropriated grain from the people.

This year was probably the best year ever lived by the people of Longyou.

In the middle of the post, there are golden wheat ears everywhere. Yun Niang, who came home from Zhangye to visit relatives, is helping her family threshing wheat ears.

During the days when Yunniang was working in Jiuquan Pharmaceutical Factory, she sent a lot of money to her family.

The last time the old house was renovated in the village, Yunniang's mother spent a sum of money to transform the old straw house into a brick house.

Although the old people in the village used bricks to build cemeteries for the dead, the brick houses can resist wind and keep warm and insulated. There are subsidies for renovating thatched houses in the post. Who would not want to live in a more comfortable brick house?

When Yun Niang came back, she also bought a wheat threshing machine from Jiuquan City, and now several nearby families are threshing wheat ears in her yard.

There are long iron nails all around the hand rocking cylinder. After putting the ears of wheat in and shaking the wooden barrel, the wheat on the ears of wheat will be combed off by the iron nails inside the machine and fall into the hole net below.

The grains fall from the perforated net into the bag below, while the straw and weeds are left in the drum of the machine.

With this machine, Yun's family could finish threshing the ears of wheat in one day after three days of threshing.

Yun Niang looked at the wheat piled up in the yard with a happy smile on her face.

Although she has been promoted to the supervisor of the pharmaceutical workshop, two months' salary can buy all the wheat in the yard.

But children who come out of the countryside are most at ease looking at the food.

According to the rules of Longyou, Yunniang's family has four members: mother, sister-in-law, Yunniang and nephew.

The mother, sister-in-law and Yunniang are all grown-ups. According to the law, Yunniang's family can get the land granted by 1.5 adult men.

The little nephew is not yet of age, so there is no land to grant.

One-twentieth of these fields are paid to the government for rent.

According to the regulations, every male in each household needs to serve corvee to the government, but now the corvee in Longyou is also paid, and Yunniang's father and brother both joined the army and died on the battlefield, so the government also exempted them from their labor.

According to the needs of Yun's mother's family, hand over two feet of silk, three liang of cotton or two feet and five feet of cloth, and three catties of hemp to the government.

But Yunniang's family, including Yunniang's female relatives, have already worked in the workshop.

Yunniang's pharmaceutical workshop in Jiuquan has been promoted to the director of the pharmaceutical workshop, and her salary is higher than that of a small official in the state capital.

Yunniang's mother boils hot water in the service area of ​​Yixiali, and now she can earn a lot of money every month.

And Yunniang's sister-in-law was originally literate, so she couldn't go too far with her little nephew.

A few months ago, under Yunniang's persuasion, I signed up for a crash course in mathematics in Shazhou City.

Now, she accounts for several workshops in the village. Although her monthly income is not as good as that of Yunniang, it is still enough for her to live with her little nephew.

The previous life of men farming and women weaving was broken, and King Jianning also ordered that silk, silk and cloth from the people would no longer be compulsorily expropriated, but that the people should pay directly according to the Dingkou.

It was also Jiang Lun's suggestion to King Jianning that Ding tax be paid directly.

According to Jiang Lun, people nowadays hardly know how to make silk by themselves. If the people are still required to hand over the cloth, then the people will have to spend money to buy the cloth.

Then the price of cloth and silk on the market will inevitably increase, and unscrupulous businessmen will use this method to exploit the people again.

Li Yan naturally agreed to Jiang Lun's request, and let the people choose to turn in the cloth or the converted money.

Without exorbitant taxes and exploitation by other landlords, Yunniang's family finally lived a good life.

But even if the whole family has a job, Yunniang's mother still insists on farming her own field.

People who have experienced famine can only feel at ease when they see the food in the ground.

When the ears of wheat were dried, Yunniang's mother said:

"A new mill has been built in the village. I will transport the wheat there to grind it into flour tomorrow. You can go to Daji to buy some meat and vegetables. We will eat dumplings tomorrow!"

I don't know when, the noodle dish of dumplings became popular in Longyou.

Whenever it comes to festivals or family reunions, the whole family must sit together to make dumplings and eat dumplings.

Yunniang works in Jiuquan, so it's rare to come back for a good meal.

The next day, Yunniang's mother borrowed an ox cart from the neighbor and took the family's wheat to the newly built mill in the village.

The mill was built by the river and driven by the power of the water flow, which was also a gift from the previous village chief to the village.

Recently, the mill has been working intensively 24 hours a day, grinding the golden ears of wheat into white flour.

However, the continuous flow of water is always much more efficient than using a millstone in the past.

Yunniang's mother waited until the afternoon, and finally sent her own grain to the mill.

And Yun Niang brought her little nephew to the bustling market in Yixiali.

Next to the official road rest area, a huge market was built in the post.

Today, this market is not only a market where merchants in the past would stop, but also a place where nearby villages go to market.

Compared with when Yunniang left Yixiali, the market has expanded a lot.

Because Longyou's trade routes are becoming more and more prosperous, the market's business is even better than before.

Yun Niang took her little nephew's hand and came to the pork shop first.

These few days are autumn harvest days, and many people who work in Fucheng County like Yunniang have taken leave to go home to collect food.

So more people came to the market to buy pork, but today the boss had already prepared and killed an extra pig.

When Yunniang arrived, she found out that the owner of the butcher shop was also an acquaintance in Yixiali.

"Yunniang, you're back from Jiuquan City!"

The boss enthusiastically chose the best piece of meat for Yunniang, and then said:

"How is Lao Li? Are you in good health?"

The old head of the village is naturally Zeng Mu. No matter how the head of the village is changed, the people in the post will remember Zeng Mu who led them on the road to prosperity.

Without Zeng Mu, even the official road rest area, there would be no market.

The livelihoods of more than 130 people in Yiheli are all developed by relying on the official road rest area.

When eating a well, one never forgets the person who dug the well. For Zeng Mu, a high-ranking village chief, the villagers are naturally concerned about his health.

Yun Niang said quickly, "Zeng Zhizhou is in good health."

"That's good, that's good! This piece of meat is for you."

The butcher shop owner chopped the meat into stuffing, wrapped it in paper and handed it to Yunniang.

The butcher shop owner said kindly again: "Yun Niang, don't you want to buy some vinegar to eat dumplings? There is a businessman from Gaochang over there, and he sells vinegar there, and it is best to eat dumplings!"

vinegar?
Only then did Yunniang remember that Fangzhu Wang also gave her a taste of this kind of thing when she was having a dinner in the pharmaceutical workshop in Jiuquan and eating dumplings.

Unexpectedly, there was vinegar in the post, Yunniang brought her little nephew to the vinegar booth.

The stall owner is a Huren businessman from Gaochang. The jars of balsamic vinegar are sealed in clay pots, and the price is about the same as that of rice wine.

The stall owner said that this is the balsamic vinegar produced by a large vinegar factory in Gaochang, and it took several months to get such pure rice vinegar.

Yun Niang sniffed it, and it sure tasted the same as the vinegar she ate in Jiuquan, so she readily bought a jar of vinegar.

Let the little nephew carry the pork, and Yun Niang holds the vinegar jar. There are always many stalls in the lively market that attract the attention of girls and children.

On the way back, Yunniang bought another beautiful hairpin for her sister-in-law and a box of desserts stuffed with jujube kernels for her little nephew.

After going back, Yunniang helped her mother move the flour into the warehouse, and now the sister-in-law who helped the workshop in the village to pay the bills also went home from work.

Yunniang's mother had made the noodles, and Yunniang had also fried the fillings. The whole family sat at the table and started making dumplings.

In the stable Longyouli, there are many families like Yunniang.

The bumper harvest this time also fulfilled King Jianning's promise, allowing the people to truly live a good life.

The golden wheat waves trembled gently, and the granaries all over Longyou were filled with grain.

Merchants traveling through Longyou transported the grain in the warehouse to Zhangye and Wuwei.

The weapons and armor forged in the iron workshop near Dashui Gorge in Guazhou were also transported to Zhangye and Wuwei along with the caravan.

With the implementation of the big detour strategy, a large number of players also began to gather in Zhangye and Wuwei, and there were many more generals and players wearing weapons in Hexi.

And on the last day of August, King Jianning came to the artillery field outside Shazhou City.