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Chapter 229 The most elementary industry

It was when Yunchu had a family story meeting every night, and when the old monkey was racking his brains to weave the religious teachings of Fa, Aspects, and Consciousness into the stories.

People in Jinchangfang have already started preparing for the new Shangyuan Festival.

Today's Jinchangfang Shangyuan Festival can be compared to the existence of Qujiang lanterns. It can even be said that there is nothing in Qujiang that can be compared with Jinchangfang except for the grand ceremony.

People who believe in Buddhism will go to Qujiang to watch the water and land conference, flower boats, and lanterns. In Jinchangfang, they can go through the process of eating, drinking and having fun in one stop.

However, the difficulty of organizing this year's Shangyuan Lantern Festival is not so great.

The main reason is that the supplies are not available.

This made Yunchu extremely headache. He never expected that the Tang Dynasty, which was extremely powerful in history, would not be able to bear a few huge events that were ordinary to him, but extremely extravagant to the people of Tang Dynasty.

It's no wonder that as long as Jinchangfang holds such a huge event, the visitors will come here in a hurry, because for them, this is a spectacle that they have never seen in their entire lives.

In other words, Qujiang's gatherings that only require the participation of personnel and do not require a large amount of material support are the de facto large-scale activities of the Tang people.

Qujiangli is now surrounded by fireworks, and it is impossible to see that this place was originally a leisurely and tranquil village.

The thick smoke from the seven brick kilns rushed straight to the sky, and was pressed down by the high-altitude wind, covering the entire Qujiang River, looking like a demon from a distance.

The originally simple farmers now look dark, not only the men are dark, but even their wives and children are also dark. When they open their mouths, what is exposed is not the whiteness of the mouth. Teeth, but rhubarb teeth corroded because of the fluoride in the water.

Because of the continuous burning of kilns, the temperature on the side of the earth mountain is obviously higher than that of other places. The grass on the ground is still green, and new shoots are still protruding from the ground. The head is frozen to death by the cold wind, while the lower half is still Work hard to grow up.

As long as you look up, you can feel the fine coal dust falling on your face, so the villages here are black, the people are black, and even the earth has turned black.

People in Qujiang no longer like farming, because the harvest from farming is far less than the income from firing kilns.

The dirt mountain that Yunchu thought was an eyesore before, now only less than half of it remains. Over the past period of time, more than half of the dirt hill has turned into bricks and tiles, and houses in Chang'an City.

When the World’s No. [-] Gourmet Conference was held last time, Yunchu almost caught all the fish in the water. Three months was not enough for the small fish here to grow up, nor was it enough for the fish in other parts of the river to migrate to Make a home here.

In addition, there is a thin layer of oil film on the river surface, and the oil film is also covered with a layer of light coal ash, so no fish are willing to come here to live.

Qujiangli was destroyed like this, but none of the villagers came out to complain. They only complained that there were not enough kilns in Qujiangli to bring them more income.

This is a group of people who have just tasted the benefits of industrialization. Because of the seven kilns, Qujiangli has basically become the most prosperous rural village in Chang'an, and it may also be the richest in the entire Tang Dynasty.

If you don’t believe me, you only need to look at their brick-and-tiled tall brick houses, and you only need to look at the white flour buns held by the black children.

Therefore, Qujiangli is very rich, but the environment is not as good as before, and these, in the eyes of Datang people, are not worth mentioning at all.

Yunchu strolled on the brick kilns that were a little hot to the feet. He didn't think it was necessary to implement environmental protection projects in the Tang Dynasty.

The mess in the early stage of industrialization is a process that must be experienced. Even if the pollution in the Qujiang River is serious, it doesn't matter. A strong wind can make the pollution here be accepted and absorbed by this semi-prehistoric world.

Therefore, based on the principle of capital centralization, Yunchu plans to set up a few more paper mills here.

I found the chiefs outside the city of Wannian County, and sat on the warm brick kiln to discuss how to supply materials to Jinchangfang.

"Hey, the people in this city can eat too much. Not to mention that we have sold out all the food in Lifang, even half-sized pigs, half-sized chickens, ducks and geese were killed by the stewards of Jinchangfang in September." Take it away.

Now the pigsty in the house is full of piglets, young chickens, ducks and geese, and it will take at least half a year for them to be useful. "

After discussion, the leaders of the village agreed that there was nothing they could do in terms of supplying supplies.

If the county magistrate insists on them providing them, the only ones that can be offered at present are some sheep and cattle.

It is obviously an irony to say so. People in Datang have not yet had the habit of slaughtering cattle for money.

As for mutton, it can't support such a large-scale event held by Jinchangfang.

"Why don't we go hunting in Qinling?"

A lieutenant voiced his disagreement in a low voice.

Another village chief said impatiently: "How much prey can be obtained by hunting with dozens of people? The county magistrate wants more prey, and at least one big hunting with more than 5000 people will do it.

However, the imperial court has long stipulated that no more than 80 people should be employed in private hunting grounds..."

"The county magistrate is the official family, as long as the magistrate leads it personally, we have so many lifangs and can't gather thousands of people to surround the mountain?

If it doesn't work, we just drive those beasts from hill to hill, and finally gather at a valley, and then capture and kill them one by one. "

Yun Chu quickly asked: "Do the people here have hunting experience?"

Hearing Yunchu's question, some older chiefs showed pride on their faces.

"During Taizong's reign, our Wannian County Lifang received the most corvee service, which was to participate in hunting.

It’s just that there were a lot of people at that time, and a lot of people were dispatched in the army, and they all listened to Emperor Taizong’s deployment. After a hunt, it was not a problem to get tens of thousands of skins. Tsk tsk, the old man was lucky to participate in the hunt in Zhenguan’s 18th year. It was the tiger that killed eleven of them. "

Yunchu's eyes lit up immediately, and at this moment, he felt that this might be the only way he could find a large amount of meat for Jinchangfang.

If it fails in the past few years, I will rely on hunting to support it. Anyway, in Datang, killing pandas for meat is common. As long as they are wild animals, they are basically scourges. Whenever there is an opportunity, they must be killed.

There is no shortage of food in Chang'an City. The reason why they bought a large amount of surplus food from the people in Wannian County in the past was to increase the wealth of the people as soon as possible.

Let them have more money in their hands, don't wait until the next money disaster occurs, it is too worthless.

Near Chang'an City, there are six royal hunting grounds, ordinary princes, princesses and the like can go hunting in the royal hunting grounds.

Even some respectable courtiers, such as Changsun Wuji and Li Ji, as long as these people open their mouths, the royal family will basically agree.

However, for a small official like Yunchu from the sixth rank, if he proposed to use the royal hunting ground, the result with a high probability would be to be spit on his head and face.

Hunting is very common in the Tang Dynasty. As long as an individual is brave enough, he can go hunting with a bow and arrow on his back, as long as he guarantees that he will not be hunted by wild animals.

Hunting is different. There are more than one or two excuses for hunting in history books, and finally the emperor was regarded as a hunting activity.

This kind of activity is very advanced, and the number of people and the time are generally limited. If the time is exceeded and you still hide in the Qinling Mountains, you must be rebelling.

After Yunchu returned to Chang'an City, he convened a meeting with the Six Caos and Four Ministries. After thoroughly understanding the application process for hunting, Yunchu set his sights on Li Shen, the king of Ji who was bored.

Li Shen, who originally looked superior, lost the teacup in his hand in fright after hearing Yun Chu's request.

And he asked Yunchu with an incredulous look on his face: "Do you think this king can organize a hunt with 6000 or [-] people participating near Chang'an?"

Yun Chu smiled and said, "I have already asked you about it. You are His Royal Highness Ji Wang, so you are naturally qualified to hunt in the royal hunting grounds. It is in line with the laws and conditions of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shen was amused by Yunchu's understated answer, so he leaned down and looked at Yunchu and said, "Who are you asking, is it Da Zongzheng, the disciple, or Your Majesty?"

Yun Chu said solemnly: "From the "Da Tang Dian Yi", I heard that during Taizong's period, there were many princes and princesses who organized large-scale hunting. Among them, Wei Wangtai specially drew a "Hunting Picture" and dedicated it to Taizong. The emperor is deeply loved by Emperor Taizong."

Li Shen glanced around, and after the unrelated personnel had been driven out, he grabbed Yunchu's collar and said, "Chengqian, Wei Wangtai, Wu Wangke, Qi Wangyou, Shu Wangmin, Princess Xincheng, and Princess Gaoyang all organized hunts.

Tell me now, where are these people now?
Tell me, what exactly are you going to do, don't fool me with your worthless reasons.

If you don't tell a good reason, don't blame me for turning my face and denying people. "

Yun Chu looked directly at Li Shen and said, "There's no way, Jinchang Square is about to hold the Shangyuan Festival, and there isn't enough meat, if King Ji is willing to host the event, all the fur you harvest will be yours, and I only want meat.

Also, please don't make my thoughts too complicated, His Royal Highness Ji Wang, I'm short of meat and crazy. "

Li Shen frowned and said, "Chang'an has no shortage of meat."

Yun Chu sighed and said: "Deficiency, it's not just a general shortage, if you don't believe me, you will know it once you go to Dongxier City, except for mutton, you can't even find a pig hair or a chicken feather.

As for the scale of the Shangyuan Festival to be held in Jinchangfang, King Ji is not ignorant, but it will require hundreds of thousands of catties of meat. "

Li Shen loosened the collar of Yunchu's clothes, and said with a self-ashamed smile, "You want me to pass on a message to my royal brother for you, right?
That's right, my lord can only do this at the moment, and the most pitiful thing is that the only person who dares to use this lord to send messages to my imperial brother is you, a little sixth-rank county magistrate.

Ah, you said how miserable this king, the Yongzhou shepherd, is. "

Yunchu leaned closer to Li Shen and said, "I think it's just right for me, the Liupin county magistrate, to ask you to pass on a message to His Majesty.

To put it bluntly, it's time for King Ji to invite His Majesty to go winter hunting for a refreshment. "

(End of this chapter)