Late Tang

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In the early morning, when the first gleam of fish-belly white appeared in the eastern sky, the whole city was still immersed in a hazy frost mist.

The sound of the drums in the barracks in the south of the city mixed with the sounds of the sergeants had already sounded, and then the morning bell on the Bell and Drum Tower in the east of the city rang, and the bell in the Dragon King Temple in the west of the city rang together with the chanting of the Taoists After getting up, the bells in Longshan Temple in the south of the city and the monks' morning class chanting sounded almost simultaneously.

Accompanied by the continuous ringing of bells, the whole city suddenly came to life. Amidst the sound of bells and drums, the troops stationed in the city, as well as the united soldiers, security teams, gendarmerie teams, and urban management teams, all began to line up on the streets. Pass.Immediately afterwards, the students from various scout schools also chanted neatly and ran past under the leadership of the instructors.Then, students from various schools in Dengzhou City, also wearing their own school uniforms, ran past one team after another.In the end, even girls from various girls' schools ran together.

The neat one-two-one trumpets of the soldiers and students combined with the neat pace, awakened the whole city from its slumber with the unique vigor and vigor of the town [***].

When the golden morning sun jumped up from the sea and thousands of golden lights reflected on the roofs of the city, Xindengzhou City had only just built a one-foot-high earth wall, but the nine gates with nine majestic gate towers were already huge. Open, under the gate of the city, those who leave the city early to go to work, and those who live outside the city, come to work in the shops in the city early, and there is an endless stream of people who come to deliver goods, forming the morning peak.

They rode donkeys, drove horse carts and mule carts, pushed coal carts, and pulled fresh vegetables, crowded into the city.

On both sides of the main road in the city, the owners of the early morning shop were yelling hard. Amidst the clattering of mules and horses and the creaking of wheels rolling over the stone road, there were also loud voices of part-time newsboys.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers! Kyushu Daily's headlines today, Wang Xianzhi stormed Ruzhou City and captured Ruzhou Inspector Wang Liao, the younger brother of the current prime minister, alive! Come and take a look!"

"The first issue of Zhenguo Weekly was published. This week's news, the town [***] Academy of Agricultural Sciences has a surprising harvest of potato medicine, with a yield of [-] jins per mu. It is very good news. The officials of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences said that next year, large-scale production will begin. Promote the cultivation of new potato drugs!"

"Selling newspapers! Khitan Bala Khan was assassinated and died. It is suspected that the new Yili Jin Yelu Pugu of the Diela Department did it. Khitan chose Yeluhende, the son of Bala Khan, as the ninth Khitan Khan. Chende When Khan took office, he said that he wanted to find out the real culprit and avenge his father, so he pointed directly at the Diel tribe. The relationship between the Yaoren tribe and the Diel tribe was tense, and civil strife broke out at any time!"

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When the sun turned the Sirius in front of [***] Shuaifu's mansion into a layer of gold, the old Dengzhou city, which had always been half a beat behind the new Dengzhou city, had completely regained its vitality.The pastry chefs in the pastry shop brought out a basket of freshly steamed steamed buns and steamed buns, and the steaming aroma rushed to the face. I don't know which basket it is.Although the master's forehead is covered with sweat, his face is full of smiles. The business has been done for more than an hour, and it is still so hot.In the past, although there were many people rushing to the morning market, few were willing to eat breakfast, but now, people of all ages in Dengzhou have almost got used to the habit of eating breakfast.

Especially those who are busy working in the workshop, many men and women in the family are busy with morning work, so they gradually get used to buying some buns and steamed buns directly at the breakfast shop.

"Dengzhou steamed buns, meat stuffed buns, soup stuffed buns, soy milk fritters, tea eggs!!"

"Hot sesame cake, cold pottery, mutton soup!"

With the sound of yelling, many elderly women are carrying baskets and baskets, but they are shopping in the vegetable market close to home.Soon, several streets in the city were filled with farmers from nearby Dengzhou rushing forward with all kinds of vegetables, and setting up stalls to sell vegetables in the places specially designated by the urban management team.

Although Dengzhou has a special big market, but those are big shops.In order to take care of these vegetable farmers on the outskirts of the city, Dengzhou City has set up stalls in many places in the city. In the morning and evening, you only need to pay a little money to get a fixed stall.These stalls set up at the gates of each square not only provide an orderly stall for the vegetable farmers, but also bring a lot of convenience to the people in the city, and the overall security and appearance of the city are also guaranteed.

The two big markets of the East Market and the West Market have also opened their doors at this time, and various convenience stores located in each square area have also opened their doors for business.

All walks of life and cities have ushered in a new day.

Dengzhou has always been a bustling city in the north, and its variety of commodities can even compare with that of Chang'an Luoyang.But now, the merchants in Dengzhou even proudly guarantee that the goods in Dengzhou must be more reliable than those in Chang'an.According to the newspaper, there are now 25 major classified markets in Dengzhou alone, such as textile companies, rice companies, etc. Under these 25 major markets, there are more than 300 subdivisions.

For example, there are four major trades in Dengzhou: rice trades, white rice trades, japonica rice trades, and rice trades, and there are even small trades such as rice trades, wheat trades, millet trades, bean trades, qiaomai trades, barley trades, and barley trades. OK.

Textile line, more finely divided, small color line, silk line, cloth silk line, silk colored silk line, large color line, silk color silk line, silk silk color line, silk cotton silk line, colored silk line, cloth line , New silk line, large silk line, small silk line.

In addition, there are Futou shop, butcher shop, miscellaneous shop, Wushu shop, horn shop, pig iron shop, meat shop, charcoal shop, etc., horse shop, cattle shop, donkey shop and so on.

In addition to this, there are many other exclusive products of the town [***], almost all of which belong to the franchise.

The Dengzhou market not only gathers all kinds of goods from the Central Plains, but also has goods from foreign countries.Today, along the coast of the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou is the most prosperous business in the south, Yangzhou is the richest in the southeast, Dengzhou is the most prosperous in the north, and further north, there is Duli Town.

Dengzhou has even become the largest commodity market in the north. According to the latest statistics, merchants account for the majority of Dengzhou's current floating population. The 26 counties in the town [***] are mainly Dengzhou and Liao There are as many as 30 merchants in several ports along the south coast, and nearly 20 of them are foreign merchants from various countries alone, and there are even as many as [-] of them. Most of the merchants traveled from the sea to Guangzhou via the Indian Ocean, and then to Dengzhou along the coast.The remaining part is along the Silk Road, from the Western Regions to Chang'an, and then all the way to Dengzhou.

If it is said that the millions of people in Chang'an are full of barbarians who come to China to pan for gold, the people of Datang have already gotten used to it.But now, there are even more Hu people in Dengzhou than in Chang'an. Hu Shang, Hu Ji, and even a large number of Hu people come to study.However, the town [***] has regulations that Hu people must live in the town [***] for three years and apply for a Dengzhou household registration before they can marry Tang people as wives and Natang people as concubines.If you want to study in Dengzhou, you must have a permanent residence in Dengzhou for more than seven years before you can study.And after studying in Dengzhou, he is not allowed to leave Datang again.Han and Tang people married Hu women are not listed here.

In today's Dengzhou, wherever you go, you can see all kinds of Hu people.The big cannibal with the head wrapped, the deep-eyed, high-nosed, blond Fulin man, and the black and gray Kunlun slave.

Sogdian merchants, big sea merchants, orchids, Silla servants, Kunlun slaves, Uighur servants, Goguryeo nurses...

Li Jing was wearing a very common padded jacket today. The cotton padded jacket was stuffed with cotton. It was not very eye-catching, not even as warm as fur.But this suit is extremely precious, even much more expensive than mink fur.

Cotton was introduced to the Central Plains hundreds of years ago, but most of it was only planted in the royal garden as an ornamental.There is no large-scale planting at all. Only in the Western Regions can there be a lot of cotton planting.However, people in the Western Regions call cotton cloth white folded cloth, and this kind of cloth is extremely expensive in the Central Plains, even more expensive than silk.So much so that, in the Central Plains, it was a symbol of great wealth, and even the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty dreamed that he was wearing clothes made of white folded cloth before he died.Many poets also wrote this white cloth into their poems.

Dengzhou's business scope is so wide, and with the help of Xiaoqisi, Li Jing asked them to collect seeds of various crops.Among them, several items such as cotton and Champa rice are among the key collections confessed by Li Jing.However, things are not too troublesome. Taking advantage of business and trade, the town [***] has obtained many seeds, and even harvested the first batch of cotton and Champa rice this year.

Using the harvested cotton, Li Jing asked the craftsmen to make a new loom for removing cotton seeds and spinning cotton yarn. Finally, cotton cloth was spun out and made into cotton cloth, which was filled with cotton.At first, Li Huier and the others felt that cotton cloth was not as comfortable as silk, but when they saw that the first set of padded jackets that Li Jing asked to make was both beautiful and warmer, they immediately asked Li Jing to make a set for them alone.

Wearing this set of padded jacket, a padded hat on his head, a pair of big padded shoes on his feet, and a pair of padded gloves, Li Jing didn't feel the cold at all even though it was the twelfth lunar month.

Cotton is a good thing. We need to breed better seeds and plant cotton on the newly reclaimed land in southern Liaoning that is not suitable for growing grain.In the future, Liaodong will be developed. The cold temperature in Liaodong is a big problem. If we have cotton clothes, this problem can be solved.

With his gloves in his sleeves, Li Jing was like one of the countless foreign businessmen who came to Dengzhou to look for business opportunities.Standing on the street, taking a few breaths of white air, Li Jing looked around the streets of Dengzhou.Compared with Xindengzhou City, this old city seems a bit small everywhere, not as good as Xindengzhou's atmosphere.Although there is only one earthen wall in Xindengzhou City, the layout of the city is much more grand than this.

However, compared with when he first came to Dengzhou, Li Jing is very satisfied with the old Dengzhou city in front of him.Compared with two years ago, Penglai City is still the same Penglai City, but the horse manure and donkey manure that can be seen everywhere on the streets in the past are gone, and the garbage dumps on the street are gone, and even those smelly ditches have been dug into culverts .The pagoda trees on the street have grown very tall, and the greenery is a beautiful landscape.Under the locust trees on both sides, there will be a public toilet at a distance.

On the street, a lame half-centenarian in his forties, wearing a brown robe, was sweeping the fallen leaves on the street with a broom. There were two large characters "Sanitation" on the clothes that were bent and couldn't touch his back.Looking at this sanitation worker, Li Jing secretly guessed his identity, maybe he used to be a veteran, maybe he was just a fleeing civilian who was injured in the war, but no matter what.He was arranged by the government to use the street sanitation fees collected from the vendors in the shops to hire these disabled people who can still work and are not suitable for working in the workshop to clean the streets.

Although this job is not decent, you can earn two bucks a month, and you can buy two hundred catties of millet, so you don't have to worry about life.

Compared with two years ago, Dengzhou is indeed different now, from the inside out, completely changed.Looking up at the half-sun that had already hidden in the clouds again, Li Jing frowned, and made an appointment to meet here, could it be that he forgot the time, or lost his way.

"Hi!" A crisp voice sounded behind Li Jing, Li Jing turned his head to look, but saw that it was Lin Yueru, a young doctor who had met once before.Today she changed her attire, she is no longer in a prosperous body, but wearing a big white gown, with a high bun, on which there are no other accessories except a silver hairpin and a small ivory comb, She was standing right behind Li Jing.

"We meet again, last time we met in the carriage!" She said to Li Jing with a light smile.

Li Jing was slightly stunned. Although they met last time, they didn't talk to each other.It was the first time for Li Jing to be accosted and greeted by an unfamiliar woman.

"Hi!" After being stunned for a moment, Li Jing also greeted her with a smile.Taking a closer look at her appearance, that well-preserved complexion seemed a little tired, her eyes were bloodshot, and there were some dark bags under her eyes. "Could it be that you were busy treating illnesses and saving lives last night, and you just got off work now?"

Lin Yueru was a little surprised, but then she looked down at the big white robe on her body, and smiled, "Well, there was an emergency patient last night, who has been busy until now, and forgot to change his clothes when he came out."

"Hanging the pot to help the world, and the skillful hands and benevolence, I admire you. The acquaintance is fate, and I just want to go to breakfast, why don't I treat you to a breakfast." Li Jing said with a smile.

"Don't bother, I just saw you staring at the old man in a daze, and said hello when I saw you last time."

Li Jing smiled and said: "I know you are a famous little doctor fairy, and you are new to Dengzhou. I am from Dengzhou, and I am considered a half-landlord. There are many delicious breakfasts in Dengzhou, which are delicious but not expensive. It’s economical and affordable, and it’s not far from here. I’ll take you to eat once today, and you can go by yourself in the future.”

"Why, do you think I'm a bad person? I'm a good person." Li Jing saw her staring at him.

Lin Yueru smiled slightly: "Bad guys don't call themselves bad guys! Well, I'm kidding you too. But you'll have to pay later!"

Li Jing didn't expect that the little fairy doctor actually had such a side, so he couldn't help smiling and stepped forward to lead the way. (To be continued.)