Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 446

The last issue of Datang Daily before the military parade really brought a huge response among the people. First of all, the common people knew who to sell the grain to. The old man is not deceiving, and the price is absolutely true.

Moreover, selling it to the imperial court is patriotic and contributing to the country, as the emperor himself said.

Therefore, starting from the next day, the price of grain, which was about to drop to freezing point after being suppressed again and again by the grain merchants, actually started to stabilize and rise again. Talk about regulation, so even if the merchants who collect grain raise the price again and again, they still choose to sell the grain to the imperial warehouse. Anyway, the price of the official warehouse is also raised by the merchants, and the market price is maintained. They know that There is a lot of food in the official warehouse. In the future, even if they are short of food, they can go to the official warehouse to buy it at a low price, and naturally they will not sell it to merchants.

Now those businessmen don’t dare to keep raising prices with the court so irrationally, because after all, Guanzhong has a bumper harvest this year, and next year, the year after that, it may continue to have a bumper harvest. When Shi 130 is a few dollars, they dare not raise the price. At the same time, the amount of grain in their hands is fixed at the moment, because the more the price rises, the less people are willing to sell grain to them. Through the propaganda of the newspapers, the common people have already formed some sense of crisis, and they are relieved to sell it to the government.

Secondly, the folks praised Li Shimin all the time. The people spontaneously gave him tens of thousands of carts of grain for free, but he didn't want it.Where can I find such a good emperor?Who would not listen to such a wise gentleman.

Therefore, the next day, the people who sold the grain and got the money were particularly willing to spend. The emperor said that when the people had money, they had to buy better clothes, new farm tools, livestock, etc. to improve their productivity.Eat more meat, salt, and maintain a healthy body so that you can produce better. This is also a help to the country and the emperor. Of course, the people must listen to the emperor's words.

Therefore, the cattle, horses and livestock markets in Chang'an, as well as in the prefectures and counties of Guanzhong, are extremely hot. Even the simple cotton summer clothes produced by garment factories have seen a sharp increase in sales. , Quyuan plows, human-powered carts, mule-drawn carts, etc., are also shipped in large quantities. With these things, their farming efficiency will be greatly increased in the future.

Not only this, but also the food stalls on the streets of various county towns. The business is also booming. On the Chang'an Night Market, there is an endless stream of people shopping and eating. Many small stalls with good craftsmanship are even full of customers. It is a sign of a bumper harvest and a better economic situation.

Shelong had a little feeling for these things, but Zhang Cheng, who came with him, had a deeper feeling. Li Tang really has the strength to wipe out the surrounding barbarians, as Wang Hao said. Simply, he came to Chang'an this time. The task has been successfully completed, eating, drinking and having fun, it is time for Li Shimin to return to Yunnan after his expedition.

But for some reason, when he was walking on the bustling streets of Chang'an, he felt a sense of melancholy and reluctance in his heart. He grew up in a special environment, and he didn't dare to have the slightest doubt and rebellious heart towards Wang Hao. I just feel that such a beautiful picture should not be destroyed.

Zhang Le Qiujin has been completely corrupted in Chang'an, and within half a month, he is reluctant to leave here. The mansion that Li Shimin gave him is indeed very large. Among the maidservants, there are two Silla maidservants, three All the Japanese servants have been put to sleep by him.

It is said that in Datang, these third-class citizens such as prisoners of war and criminals can be dealt with by dignitaries like him, as long as they don't die.

He also wants to spend money to buy more maids like this to serve him, but unfortunately, he only has a monthly salary of five hundred guan, and the price of these maids has reached hundreds of guan, and he wants to buy some sexier ones Orchid, but the price of that top-notch stuff is as high as a thousand.

Then, he thought of the suggestion of the steward assigned to him by the emperor to move the tribe to Guanzhong. They can help him earn a lot of money for his own spending. In a place like Chang'an, as long as you have money, you can Get any comfortable experience that you can't imagine, let alone a white king, even an emperor, some people are unwilling to do it, because being an emperor doesn't have the pleasure of spending money indiscriminately.

Therefore, he sent back some of his entourage, and also asked Shelong to help him after he returned. He knew that Shelong did not want the Zhang family to stay in the old place in Yunnan.

It was not only Zhang Leqiujin who was reluctant to return, but also Yumi and his son from Lingnan, Hecha, and ethnic minority chiefs from around the Central Plains. Now, they are very envious of those people who agreed with the imperial court's arrangement and moved to Guanzhong.

After these people came to Guanzhong, they not only had houses and fertile fields, but they also got enough food for two years during the first summer harvest. Some of them even bought livestock, mules, horses and carts, It is said that next year, they will live in a spacious brick house.

This is simply unbelievable. In the past few days in Guanzhong, those chiefs and tribal leaders have visited the new countryside. As of May this year, nine counties in Guanzhong have implemented new rural construction and transformation. It is said that by the end of the year, It can reach more than a dozen, and by the end of next year, the construction will be fully completed, that is to say, even those descendants who were moved from Goguryeo will live in such a good house, so why do they have any reason to stop their own clansmen? How about living such a good life?
In the ravine, so what if they are heavenly kings and fathers?Is it good to eat, drink, live and play here?
No.

Therefore, they have been begging everywhere recently, hoping that the emperor will allow them to move to Guanzhong. After Li Shimin learned about this, he is already looking for data such as land and housing statistics from the Secretary, to see how many people in Guanzhong are suitable for moving here at most. .

The political unit in the newspaper, the largest page, also published another news that the Tang Dynasty was going to restore the Han system and set up Rinan County. A tribal leader named Bamu dedicated the land with a radius of thousands of miles to the court. , Moreover, a city has been established, called Guangzhi City, and Li Shimin named Bamu as the governor of Rinan County and the guarding general.

If it’s just a barbarian land in the south, people don’t have any intuitive image of it, but the newspaper said that there is the origin of Champa rice. Let’s look at the gift of Bamu, the governor of Ninan County, to the court. Everyone dare not underestimate this place even more, because even Shangzhou in the Central Plains may not have so much tax paid to the imperial court in a year.

For the golden nanmu alone, Bamu has pulled fifty boats, and each boat has a hundred pieces of high-quality golden nanmu. The market price of one piece of this kind of golden nanmu in Chang'an is as high as ten pieces. The value of the boat is one thousand guan, fifty ships, fifty thousand guan.

In addition, there are ten thousand catties of sandalwood, three thousand catties of agarwood, ten elephants, ten rhinoceros, ten colorful birds, ten adult dragons, gold ores, precious stones of various colors, a total of one ship, five silver ores, and copper materials. Ten boats, although these precious metals are loaded in small boats of two or three thousand shi, but the value of each of these types is not low, and the sum of them is definitely more than one million.

Who would dare to underestimate something worth more than a million guan in a single county?
This is no longer a matter of submission to a small barbarian tribe. This is a fertile land for the imperial court to expand its territory for thousands of miles, because the things that are paid for as tribute are all produced in that land.

When Bamu escorted these things to the stones at the Weishui Wharf, thousands of people crowded onto the wharf to watch. Those little elephants with long noses and rhinoceros with big one-horns stretched their tails when they called out. , into a large colorful fan-shaped bird, in fact, it is a peacock.

As for those ferocious dragons with their mouths tied up with ropes, ordinary people are even more amazed. In fact, they are crocodiles.

These things are not just strange to the people of the Central Plains. When they see them being subdued and honestly locked in iron cages, the first intuitive feeling of the people is that this country is getting stronger and stronger. All beasts must be surrendered.

In the early morning, several fast horses came from the west. The man in charge was wearing a dirty military uniform with the buttons on his chest unbuttoned, revealing his thick hair. The horseshoes knocked out sparks from time to time on the wide concrete road, but he The line of sight, did not pay attention to this at all.

"This damn is Guanzhong? Why do I feel like I've returned to the wrong home?"

The person who scolded her was Cheng Chumo. In the first year of Zhenguan, like Yuchi Baolin, he was sent by his father to practice in the army. After leaving Guanzhong, he never came back. First, he worked in Zhechong Mansion in Yinzhou for a year. Later, when Cheng Yaojin came out of the town of Yumen Pass, he took him there. Later, of course, Mijieli was killed, and the army went all the way west, occupying Yizhou, Wuzhou, Tingzhou, Xizhou and other places.

It was after eating sand in Xizhou for two years that he finally got a chance to return to Chang'an.

When he came, his father Cheng Yaojin said that during the Eastern Expedition, the Cheng family had to go, even if a hundred horses were killed, he had to reach Chang'an before the army went out. After only sleeping for more than two hours, he was bumped on horseback for eight or nine hours, and the calluses on his buttocks were thicker than the palms of his hands. He finally arrived in Guanzhong the day before the army oath parade.

Then, the scene just now appeared. He is no stranger to cement. As one of the supervisors of Wangjiang Tower, he was one of the first people in Datang to come into contact with cement. However, he spread the cement so thickly throughout Guanzhong All the main roads on the earth made him a little confused.

Then, he discovered that he didn’t need to worry about the city gate being closed when he was driving at night, because the curfew had been completely lifted in Guanzhong, and he could eat at a street stall immediately after dismounting in any county town street. All kinds of pastries and drinks that only the Sun Mansion could have in the past are sold in these small roadside shops, and they are open until midnight. After eating, he can get on his horse and go on the road immediately.

The most annoying thing is that when he came to Jingyang County, he saw a guy riding an iron horse. He was also a son of an official. He had been bullied by him in Chang'an before. When the war horse was about to foam at the mouth, it actually showed a mocking expression.

He is the grand son of Lu Guogong, but he is laughed at by others, can he bear it?So Cheng Chumo dismounted and snatched the boy's iron horse. Unfortunately, the iron horse only had two wheels, and he couldn't ride it. As soon as he sat on it, he fell down and was laughed at by that guy again.

Afterwards, Cheng Chumo, who had a sore knee, was fooled, and the kid made a bet with him, whoever reached Chang'an first, with his iron horse and Cheng Chumo's war horse, won, and the loser had to give the winner a thousand bets.

At first, Cheng Chumo saw that the iron horse was not very fast, so he naturally agreed, so, as soon as he arrived at the gate of Chang'an City, he owed someone a thousand guan.

Although the iron horse may not be as fast as the war horse in a short period of time, that guy can actually ride it all the time. Moreover, once the kid rides hard, the speed can be unbelievably fast, and his war horse, after running fast for an hour, is about the same. Almost useless.

In the end, he watched helplessly as the boy arrived in Chang'an first.

No matter what Cheng Chumo said, he was also the son of Lu Guogong, and he couldn't do things like breaking his promise to get fat. He admitted that he owed a thousand guan. Taking the opportunity of making a written statement, he began to ask the boy about the origin of the iron horse and how to ride it. After that, he really wanted to use it again. One thousand strings, buy that kid's iron horse.

Fortunately, he didn't bring so much cash with him. He wanted to owe the debt, but the boy didn't agree on the spot. When he was leading his strenuous horse and was about to return home, he found that officials of a slightly higher level in Chang'an no longer needed a carriage when they traveled. It is a three-wheeled vehicle that is pedaled and ridden by a driver.

Besides, who the hell demolished all the square walls in the city?
At this moment, the whole of Chang'an was very unfamiliar to Cheng Chumo. When he returned to the mansion, he couldn't find the stables where the horses were tied, and there were many beautifully crafted tricycles parked in the original stables. After the family, he learned about some situations in Chang'an one after another from his younger siblings. With a dazed look on his face, he felt that he seemed to have missed something very interesting in his life.

(End of this chapter)