Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 654 Promoting the Development of New Housing
In fact, Li Shimin not only mobilized grain from the south, but also mobilized a lot of grain from Shanyang, Dingxiang, Tai'an, Shangqi, and even Anxi Dadu's guards in the north.

The price of sixty pennies per stone is simply too beautiful. If he resells it to Persia, he can make more than double that, because Persia, like this period in history, started fighting with the Arab Empire, and the reason is that Datang borrowed money to support Persia People are related. Abu Bakr is not just a businessman. As the first caliph in history, his political and strategic vision is good. He is afraid that the Persians will come back to life with the support of their neighbors, and then retaliate against the Arab Empire. Take back lost ground.

So, don't look at how polite he was with Yi Sicheng when he was in Dingxiang, but after returning, he immediately suggested that his country call up manpower and launched a large-scale attack on Persia. Fortunately, Yi Sicheng received 1000 million from Datang With the support of Shi Grain, at least the morale of the army in the country has been improved, and it has resisted several rounds of attacks by the 30 coalition forces of the Arab Empire. Therefore, the Persians are more submissive to Datang.

Now, Datang is their life-saving straw. Once they lose the aid of Datang, they will basically end up being destroyed by the Arab Empire just like in history.

At the beginning of February, Yi Siqi went to Suiye City in person, and discussed with the officials of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of Rites the purchase agreement of this year's food and military equipment. Therefore, the price of two hundred pennies per stone, and the freight at his own expense, was finalized. As for the military equipment, Datang can provide them with the standard swords they need, but only accepts payment by young and strong laborers. You must know that the level of smelting in Persia is equivalent to that of Datang in the Wude period. Help them produce swords of similar quality. For the current Tang Dynasty whose craftsmanship has been improved by several levels, it should not be too simple. Almost all you need is to pour molten iron from the coking coal furnace into the mold, and after cooling, press it with a heavy machine tool to sharpen the edge , you can make a difference.

But even so, Li Shimin's asking price is not low, 20 swords, guns and blades, 30 pairs of leather armor, [-] pairs of light armor, Li Shimin directly asked for [-] young and strong, and the labor period lasted for three years.

These 30 young and strong people enter the territory of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and cultivate them for three years. Datang will get at least ten million mu of fertile land. At that time, the value of the annual output will be in the millions. Moreover, when the time comes, they will Whether you want to go back or not is up to you.

Anyway, after Yi Siqi returned to the country, as soon as the news was announced, the people in the country who were willing to work in the Tang Dynasty flocked to the royal city where he was, because, going to the Tang Dynasty, they would not only be able to avoid the suffering of the war, but also live in peace. If they can eat enough, if they can learn Chinese well during this period, they can directly apply for immigration to Datang, live in a good house, plant good land, and their life should not be too good.

The Persian Sassanid Dynasty is a dynasty that has been passed down for hundreds of years, and the rotten ship still has three catties of nails!There are at least 5 million people in their country now, and 30 young adults are nothing at all. Therefore, when the ice and snow in Anxi Dadufufu melt, these Persian young adults between the ages of 20 and [-] , then arrived at Suiye City, accepted Sun Erli's arrangement for farming, and soon entered the state.

As for the situation here, after it was all brought together to Li Shimin in June, Li Shimin finally felt that, as Sun Xiangfu said before, he realized the benefits of expansion in a non-war way.

That is to say, you don’t need to kill people, but you can also complete the construction of the local area. The key point is that those people who are saved by you have no hatred or hostility towards you. The laborers from Persia and the people who were gathered in India, they have no hatred for you. In times of crisis, the Tang Empire, which gave them a bite to eat, was all grateful. As long as the court did not do anything that angered the people, they would never feel any rebellion.

Xuanzang arrived in the Kingdom of Farnabi in July. Now, it should be said that this is the new Tammo Road established by the Tang Dynasty. Its area includes a small part of the Indian Peninsula and the entire coast of the Bay of Bengal. It is more than 3000 miles deep and [-] miles long. .

After he landed, he became very busy. He has accumulated a lot of fame after studying and debating scriptures here for several years. Many people believe in him and are willing to listen to him preaching scriptures. Moreover, he is a language genius. , almost understands the languages ​​of all countries in the Indian region, so, with his joining, Liu Hongji's work on popular support will be done easily.

As a result, a new kind of Buddhism, which was synthesized by Xuanzang and the strengths of many schools in the Western Regions, began to spread in this area. Its main body is still Buddhist philosophy, but it has added the people-oriented philosophy that Sun Xiangfu told him. The idea of ​​following the natural cycle has eliminated almost all the things that Sun Xiangfu thought were bad habits, and what Xuanzang himself thought were bad habits. various beliefs.

Not to mention, the effect is very good, and the speed of transmission is very fast. It is constantly helping these local people transition from fanatical religious superstition to rational religious belief.

In August, when the ears of rice were already yellow, Sun Xiangfu put down the textbooks he had prepared in his house in the county seat, and walked to the pier in the city. The fleet from Lingnan to India to deliver food came back with tens of thousands of Based on the amount of grain output from Jiuyuan County, the young and strong workers will directly get a quota of [-] young and strong workers. They will contribute three years of labor to Jiuyuan County, but Jiuyuan County must provide them with food and housing.

According to the average monthly salary of Datang workers, a person needs at least 1 guan a year, 20 people, 60 guan a year, and 60 guan in three years. The money is at least three times more cost-effective, because Jiuyuan County only pays less than one-third of the grain worth [-] guan.

"According to your request, they are all selected young men and women between the ages of twelve and thirteen to sixteen or seventeen, but they are all like reincarnations of starving ghosts. After entering the cafeteria, they eat like crazy. Moreover, they are not hygienic at all. Tell me, just grab it with your hands." Seeing Sun Xiangfu approaching, Sun Dali was the first to complain to him.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and didn't say much. People of this nationality, even after a thousand years, are used to eating with their hands. When they come to Datang, they have to change it.

The so-called canteen is actually a place where construction workers are provided with food in the county town. Now, more than a dozen high-rise buildings with halls and rooms in Jiuyuan county town have started construction. These houses will be used to accommodate those who go to other places for technical support in the future The family members of the people, of course, some families who have newly registered accounts but do not farm the land can also apply for direct allocation of such houses. Anyway, all the money for building houses is provided by the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce. There are no houses in Jiuyuan County Residents have the right to apply for residency.

After Sun Xiangfu saw the state of those Indian laborers who were obviously overfed, he decisively ordered Sun Dali to stop the food supply.

"First arrange them to live in the built-up sheds, learn Chinese and common sense of life for a few days, and let them participate in labor after the autumn harvest starts in a few days. The intensity is equivalent to the daily labor of local people, and try not to arrange heavy work."

"It's only comparable to the local people. Wouldn't it be cheaper for them?" You know, as the economy of Jiuyuan County gets stronger, the labor intensity of the local people has dropped again and again, and the daily working hours are less than six. It was an hour, and these laborers were used by the imperial government to pay for the purchase of grain, so Sun Dali felt a little bit at a loss if they were not allowed to do more work.

"Let's relax, we can give them more time to learn and adapt to our local life. They are all in their teens, and the oldest is only sixteen or seventeen years old. They are very malleable. Only when we accept them can they become their own people." , write to other counties, suggesting that they do the same!"

"Then listen to you! In the future, will these people be assigned to each family, or will they work together?"

"It is estimated that the number of people assigned to each family is not enough. Moreover, there are barriers to communication and problems are prone to occur. Centralized management will be carried out first. When it reaches a certain level, let's see the situation! There are only about 1 people. In the city, follow the engineering team. It can solve the problem of food and housing, and when they are assigned to work in various towns, each town has only a thousand people, so it is easy to arrange."

"Alright, then I'll arrange for them to stay first."

"Pay attention to cleanliness and epidemic prevention. Everyone has to take a big bath, clean up, trim their hair, and dispose of all those smelly clothes."

"understood······"

As Sun Dali walked, he yelled at the criminal officer to summon his subordinates, and arranged for these people to take a bath and change clothes. Knowing that they would accept labor, Jiuyuan County was already prepared in all aspects, and it would not be necessary. After a while, they will be washed clean and put on comfortable and neat clothes.

Sun Xiangfu went to the construction site to check. These buildings are similar to those high-rise residential buildings in Weinan. They have relatively mature construction technology and complete sets of building materials. They can be completed in a year at most. Thousands of houses are enough. Jiuyuan County, with more than 3 households, has been used to resettle the people. If there is a need in the future, it will be rebuilt.

What he mainly looked at was a whole row of new-style residential buildings built by the engineering team along the street. They were all buildings. They were built on the same site as the original four-room homestead, and still kept the backyard kitchen, livestock shed, and toilets. Auxiliary buildings such as firewood houses, where the main living room and the main room are located, are built in buildings with an area of ​​about 100 square meters. There are two-story buildings and three-story buildings. Most of the first floor has four rooms plus a living room. , or financial resources, choose to build two floors or three floors. Generally, two floors and eight rooms are enough. If there are really many children, considering that they will often come back to live in the future, you can build three floors.

According to the decoration of the model house, the cost of this building is not low. The outer walls will be tiled, and all the floors and walls inside will be tiled up to a certain height. The gates and doors will have plywood frames, and the windows will be sliding There are windows with anti-mosquito screens, paper windows, and wooden windows, which can be installed and disassembled flexibly according to the weather conditions. As for the more advanced glazed windows, they must not be promoted to the whole people.

Because the south is prone to tides, there is no place to paste tiles on the walls. In addition to brushing lime, some replaceable moisture-proof cardboard will be pasted. The corresponding beds, tables, chairs, and coffee tables in the house are all comparable to the common furniture of later generations. The design, it can be said, is very user-friendly.

"How much is the cost of building a two-story building according to the model house?" Sun Xiangfu asked the foreman in charge after looking up and down.

"Now all the building material factories have set up branch factories in the local area. After the material technology becomes more mature, the cost is already very cheap. For a complete set of furniture, the cost price is about [-] guan, and nearly half of it is the wages of the workers. .”

"What about the third floor?"

"Building a three-story building is actually more cost-effective. The wages are not much more, and it only needs to add [-] yuan to add furniture."

"After the model house is built, will people come to ask for the price?"

"Yes! There are many, but they are waiting for the county government and the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce to agree on the housing subsidy policy."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "As long as they have the willingness to live in such a house."

(End of this chapter)