Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 740 New Problems in the New Era

In this era, no one has experience in managing an industrial society. Although Datang is only a country that has just begun to transform into an industrial society, the problems it has produced have never been seen before.

In the past two years, because of revising some messy laws proposed by Sun Xiangfu, Wei Zheng fell ill due to exhaustion and retired honorably.

In recent years, he has held meetings and argued all day long, and the arguments are still some things that people of this era do not understand at all. Before each argument, he has to spend a lot of time and energy to understand these things first, and then convince others.

For example, in terms of environmental protection, there are more than N issues, such as the law prohibiting unauthorized cutting of trees and opening up fields along rivers and lakes, which the common people do not quite understand.

How good the fields near the water are!Irrigation is convenient, the land is fertile, and it is the easiest to have high yield and high harvest. Why don't you let it grow?

prevent soil erosion?

What is soil erosion?
Thousands of years have passed, and the Yangtze River and the Yellow River have not washed away the Central Plains!

There are also things that factories discharge sewage into rivers, which will affect the ecological environment.

Who knows about this thing?
The sewage is discharged into the rivers, isn't it all flowed into the sea, and there are no dead fish and shrimps in the rivers or seas!

Besides, if it is not discharged into rivers, where will it be discharged?You should arrange one!

That is to say, various industries in Datang currently use relatively few chemicals, and even dyes are generally made of plant materials, which will basically not affect the ecology, but the problem of metals is a bit difficult to deal with.

Moreover, the first thing that needs to be stopped for rectification is the imperial weapon research institute. There is a workshop for manufacturing lead shells, and there is a collective heavy metal poisoning, which even affects the staff of several nearby workshops.

Sun Xiangfu is not omnipotent. After he went to various places to plant fields, he can't take care of many new social problems at all. He doesn't even know the extent of various research projects.

Therefore, when Li Ke asked about some industrial matters, it was not easy for him to give any future plans and arrangements. He just agreed to go to various industries in Weinan tomorrow. test drive.

It's been a long time since I went shopping in Chang'an City. More than ten years is enough to change the people on the street. In fact, not only the people, but also the shops on the street and the houses in every square and mile have also changed a lot.

Since the construction of high-rise buildings in Buzhengfang, the buildings in various squares have sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain. There are five to seven-story buildings, and the taller ones, even standing in Li Shimin's imperial study room, are only as tall as bamboo shoots after a spring rain. I can barely see its roof. You must know that the Daming Palace was built on Longshouyuan, and the foundation is more than ten meters high.

The common people are willing to live in this kind of building, and the imperial court will basically not restrict it. Anyway, such a centralized residential building is easier to manage than the original wooden house that was built randomly in alleys. After replacing it with reinforced concrete houses, the fire in Chang'an City The probability has been reduced by an unknown number of times. In an era when there were not so many combustible decoration materials, it surpassed wooden houses in terms of safety, warmth, cleanliness, and comfort.

Walking along the streets of Chang'an, you can see at least a dozen people of different nationalities or races. Don't think that they are foreigners. They are locals with Chang'an household registration, and many of them are immigrants from the Western Regions. The rich and honorable people who came here were mostly ethnic minorities from the four sides of the Tang Dynasty, who came here to work here, and then settled down and moved their household registrations here.

Including the maids in the palace, many of them are ethnic minorities from the original Silla, Goguryeo, Wazhou, or Kucha, Gaochang, and Khotan. They are the only ones who are more willing to do this kind of work, which is the easiest way to get Chang'an City household registration. work.

It is said that there are more than 10,000+ ethnic minority families in Chang’an City alone, which is twice as many as in the Kaiyuan period in history, and the permanent population holding Chang’an City’s household registration exceeds 200 million, which is not counted. Foreign merchants and migrant workers who have not obtained household registration.

Thanks to the fact that there are so many high-rise buildings in the city, more than 200 million people will live in an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers. It is definitely impossible to afford high-rise buildings, but soon, it will not be so crowded.

Because the dwellings and population in the suburbs outside Chang'an City are too dense, not weaker than the population density of some cities, so both Li Shimin and Li Chengqian feel that expansion is needed, and construction has already started.

After the entire construction is completed, people who go south and north do not need to go out of the city to the Weishui Wharf or Baqiao to see them off, because the new city wall is built directly to the coast of the Weishui River in the north direction, and to the Bashui River in the east direction. Along the water, the direction to the south reaches the Qinling Mountains, and the direction to the west almost includes Xianyang.

On the new concrete city walls in the north and east, you can directly see Weishui and Bashui, and the piers of Bashui and Weishui are directly at the gate of the city. It is very convenient for ships to load and unload goods and go directly to storage.

Outside the South City Gate, there are Qinling Deep Forest Park, Jiangjun Mountain, and Zhongnan Mountain, which can be seen directly. The overall area is more than five times larger than before, and it may not be impossible for 1000 million people to live in the future.

If Sun Xiangfu knew about this before the construction started, he would definitely stop it.

Why build a city wall?Just like Weinan New City, wouldn’t it be good to expand infinitely without building walls?

Of course, in this world, only Sun Xiangfu has such an idea, because ordinary people will feel more secure when they see the city wall enclosing their houses. Weinan New City, that is because it is mainly used for construction. Industry requires smoother traffic and unlimited expansion, so there is no need to build city walls.

The unification of Eurasia is imminent. Li Shimin and his son really want to build Chang'an City into the center of the world. Therefore, its scale will be the most magnificent in the world, just like five hundred football fields. No one can finish visiting the Daming Palace in one day.

However, even in a city like this with a population of more than 200 million, Sun Xiangfu did not see any emotions such as haste, anxiety, or indifference in the people. Instead, they were more calm, calm, and serene.

Passers-by walking on the street, when they meet a shop assistant recommending products in the shop to them, if they need it, they will stop to look at it and discuss the price; '.

The guy who got the reply from the passer-by would basically not be beaten, but would smile and say, 'It's okay, come back when you need it'.

This kind of street atmosphere is much more harmonious and warm than that of the later generations. The quality of the people may have been formed gradually through effective actions, or it may be due to continuous exploration, discovery, and training. In a harmonious society, all talents It is easier to gain and be satisfied.

"It's been so many years, I finally saw you on the streets of Chang'an, let's go! Go to my house for a drink. Last month, Ruyan gave birth to another son for me."

The bearded Cheng Chumo found Sun Xiangfu on the street by chance. He was traveling in a five-wheeled rickshaw. In the compartment were many tonics bought in Times Square. He was a dignified four-rank guard General, it is surprising that he would go to the street to buy groceries for his beloved concubine.

"If you're not in the mood to drink, just find a place to sit on the side of the street! If your concubine is in a hurry to eat supplements, let someone send them home first!" Sun Xiangfu said with a smile.

Now, he also has a long beard. Although it is not as long as Cheng Chumo's, he has two upper lips and a big pinch on the top of his chin, which are half a foot long. Usually, when he uses his brain, he can still put on a show He stroked his beard, but he didn't dare to let his little ones get close.

"There are a lot of these things at home, which is not bad. However, these Liaodong specialties, if you sell them slowly, you will not be able to buy them. When the goods arrive, I have to buy them myself to get more. There is no way, there are too many people in the family. ah!"

Cheng Yaojin is not dead yet, the Cheng family's seven brothers and Cheng Yaojin's more than a dozen mixed-race sons who have not been included in the genealogy cannot be separated. Except for Princess Shang's Cheng Chuliang who lives in the Princess Mansion, everyone else is a wife There are a lot of children in a group, and there must be hundreds of people.

But now, the privileges of nobles have become less and less, unlike before, when you say hello, if you have good goods, merchants only supply them from the homes of these nobles.

Now Chang'an City has a lot of rich and noble people, and everyone can afford to spend money and eat tonics, and Times Square is the property of the royal family, selling top-notch goods, that is, Cheng Chumo, who has a real job The little father-in-law was present in person, and the shopkeeper in charge could sell him some face. If he sent a housekeeper and servant casually, no one would buy him.

According to some incomplete statistics, there are more than a hundred people in Chang'an City just with the title of prince.State Dukes, County Dukes, at this level, at least two or three hundred.Marquis and above, nearly a thousand, at the end of a street, you can meet a few high-ranking dignitaries casually, just like the streets of Beijing in later generations, any random person riding a bicycle may be the chief of the department or something.

You know, in the past five years of the Tang Dynasty, dozens of kingdoms have come in, and there are more than a dozen people like Songtsan Gampo who have been conferred the title of King Caotou. Passed down from generation to generation, before the title was lowered, the Duke was not considered the top nobleman in Chang'an.

Because, in addition to these Caotou kings, dozens of sons of Li Shimin and Li Yuan have grown up, and none of them have been released as officials.

Not long after, the two sat down in a milk tea and pancake shop facing the street. Cheng Chumo knew that Sun Xiangfu didn't like to hear him talk about the bullshit in his family, but if he really didn't talk about it, then he wouldn't be Cheng Chumo .

"Recently, my father was looking for someone to paint a portrait of himself, and he insisted on drawing a handsome and unrestrained portrait of himself. After he painted it, he said that the person in the painting was not him, and injured several painters. What do you think should I do? Good!" After sitting down, the store's milk tea hasn't been served yet!Cheng Chumo began to say with a sad face.

That bastard Cheng Yaojin is majestic and rough, so he can be counted.

Say handsome and unrestrained!This word has nothing to do with his devil face, he must have learned it from the drama.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "What's the matter, your father is not dead yet! You want to enter Lingyan Pavilion?"

Cheng Chumo nodded and said, "Who says no? I think he just has nothing to do and is messing around. Didn't he retire at the beginning of the year and wanted to teach at the Military Academy, but Wei Gong and Yue Gong didn't want him, so they said The students there can’t even teach them. It’s useless for him to go, but my father doesn’t believe in evil! Then, after staying there for half a day, after returning home, he never mentioned the matter of teaching at the Military Academy .”

Cheng Yaojin is 53 years old this year, and he has already exceeded the retirement age of generals of his level by eight years. Seeing that the last two years will reach the retirement age, Li Shimin will not send him any practical tasks , If he continues to occupy the position of a general of the group army, it will be bad. This will prevent the subordinates from taking the position. After all, everyone is restricted by the retirement age, so he took the initiative to give up the position.

But when he really gave way, he realized how boring Yuchi Gong, who retired a few years earlier than him, was. If Yuchi Baolin hadn't stopped him, it is said that the old man would have been planning to find a few warlocks to refine elixir at home, but, go In the military academy, he really can't teach anything.

Previously, Yu Chigong obediently went home after being bored once. Its sixteen-character tactics can be finished in 5 minutes in the classroom of the Military Academy, and all the students are very familiar with it. understood.

The students over there are all studying physics, mathematics, learning how to play with guns, learning to drive steamships, hot air balloons and other things, as well as medical first aid knowledge, astronomy and meteorology knowledge, okay!There is nothing they understand, but there is nothing they think is not good.

Those students can actually control the latest guns. For places two or 3000 meters away, where the naked eye can't see clearly, they can point and shoot that, which makes people anxious.

Fortunately, these things did not appear on the battlefield 20 years ago. Otherwise, those enemy troops who fought with Ma Qian's sword would have been killed without even seeing what Tang Junchang looked like.

(End of this chapter)