Datang: You Can't Imagine the Happiness of the Prince

"Every time I go to a royal family in the Western Regions, Xiongtai, I will come and take a look.

There are no skinny people, everyone eats fat heads and big ears."

"I don't understand this brother, the fatter you eat, the more stupid your brain will be, and the more stupid your brain will be, then we will have to be captured by the Tang Dynasty."

"I heard that Khotan is very rich. Our army has found a lot of gold and silver treasures in the treasure house in his palace."

"If you want to say that those small countries are also lucky, they are at the checkpoint of the Western Regions, and the caravans that come and go have to pay them, or how can they be so rich."

"If you are rich and oily, you will eat like a pig, and if you eat like a pig, you will have to be caught by the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Now that Khotan is also our Datang's territory, and in the future the money will belong to the Datang.

When the time comes, the caravan will give it to us...... the people of Chang'an."

"Brother, don't talk nonsense, the taxation of this country is a national matter, how can it be directly sent to you?"

"Oh, you don't understand now. I have a relative who is a clerk in Zhongshu Province, and he said that His Royal Highness the Prince had a proposal, what is infrastructure construction.

It's just building bridges, paving roads and building houses for the people in Chang'an, and it's still free, don't you think it's a good thing?"

"That's a good thing! But why does it sound like hearsay.

No dynasty or generation has said that they built houses for us ordinary people. You said that I would build roads and bridges. I believe that building a house doesn't sound so credible."

"Alas! You, you, you don't believe the truth.

My relative said that it was the proposal of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, that he wanted to build some kind of tube tower.

Anyway, it's several stories high, we live on one floor and one floor, just for the people who don't have houses in Chang'an City."

"Ah, if you cover one floor and live on the other, don't we have people living above our heads and under our feet?"

"Yes, that's it.

This is nothing new. I heard my relatives in Hebei say that many workshops in Hebei have built these.......

There are people living above the head, and there are people living under the feet.

Everyone lives in the same building."

"It's a little inconvenient for everyone to live together."

"What's the inconvenience now that many places in Chang'an City still live in Datong Shop, after all, this is a single room."

"If you want to say that, His Royal Highness has really done a good thing for our people."

"That's right, His Royal Highness said, the court workshop has made a lot of money, and we have to use this money on our people.

If the money is piled up in the treasury, there is no need to decide who will take it away in the end."

"That's right, in the end, it might be taken away by those corrupt officials, so why don't you do something real for us people?"

In the final analysis, the people of Chang'an City were not interested in those battlefield battles, and they ended up talking about their own family affairs.

It is unheard of for the imperial court to pay to build houses for the common people.

In the year of catastrophe before, the kind-hearted court would build a few shacks to cover everyone's head.

But now the weather in Chang'an City is good and the people are well fed. At this time, the court is willing to build houses for the people, which is really a once in a thousand years.

The people ran around to tell each other, and everyone didn't know whether it was true or not, but Zhang Press: Cheng has spread all over the place.

At this time, everyone was staring at the court's every move, and Fang Xuanling of Zhongshu Province was indeed planning this matter.

The Ministry of Household allocated money to build a large living area by the Qujiang Pool. In fact, the name was originally conceived by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

It is said that Chang'an City is becoming more and more prosperous now, and more and more people come to work in the city, but these people are not based in Chang'an, and they either hide in the corner of the store and sleep every day, or just find a corner to sleep.

In the long run, this is a great hidden danger to the security of Chang'an City.

Moreover, if so many migrant workers enter the capital, if they are not properly managed, it will definitely lead to endless troubles.

Therefore, gathering these people together can be considered to facilitate unified management. Fang Xuanling has absolutely no opinion on this idea. After all, it is much simpler to manage a group than to manage a few idle people.

It's just that building a house is the work of the Ministry of Industry, and it needs the Ministry of Household to allocate copper coins.

What is even more rare is that the drawings and construction copy of the house were proposed by the Prince's East Palace.

Fang Xuanling, as the head of the civil service, had also been to Hebei, and knew that there were many such buildings in Hebei.

Chapter 731

When he saw the building for the first time, Fang Xuanling was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.

There are people living on this head, which sounds sensational.

Although some temples and some ancient buildings have two or three floors, they are all made of wood.

The buildings in Hebei are all made of stone, and the stone won't collapse on top of it anyway... Fang Xuanling's heart was uneasy, but when he actually walked upstairs, he realized that it was very solid.

I jumped up and down on it myself, and there was no sway at all.

Because of this, Fang Xuanling agreed to this construction plan.

Fang Xuanling has been looking for the eldest grandson Wuji these days, because he is too old to deal with the Ministry of Household.

Now that His Majesty and the Crown Prince are not in Chang'an, they rely on their own Central Book Order to support them.

After all, the eldest grandson Wuji is in charge of the world's money and food, and anything related to money has to be in his hands.

And how many accounts the Ministry of Household has, only the eldest grandson Wuji and the present His Majesty know.

Maybe now the prince also knows, but apart from these three people, there is no fourth person in the whole Datang who knows how much money Datang has.

However, although the accounts of the Ministry of Household are not clear, Fang Xuanling can conclude that Datang is not short of money now.

Because now the northeast and northwest are using troops, and the construction of cement official roads in all the state capitals in Chang'an is also stepping up.

Not to mention the dredging of the canal and the construction of the wharf......the big projects.

People from the Ministry of Works ran out every day, and the number of workers from the Ministry of Works increased from four 44s to eight 8s all at once, and that was not enough.

The staff of the Ministry of Works, Wai Lang, was originally an expatriate from the Ministry of Industry, responsible for supervising the major projects in the world, but the number has increased from four 44 to eight 8, which also shows that the Tang Dynasty is now under construction everywhere, and is engaged in infrastructure construction.

In fact, this is Wan Kuan's proposal. Now Wan Kuan has accumulated a lot of money for Datang through business and trade.

And if these silver coins are just put in the warehouse, it is really useless at all, but it will cause deflation in the market.

But these are people's fat and people's cream, and they can't be spent indiscriminately, every penny has to be spent on the edge of the knife.

That being the case, the best way to do this is... to build infrastructure.

Once the infrastructure is done, it's really good for everyone.

On the one hand, Datang circulated the copper coins in the treasury to the market, which promoted currency circulation.

On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty requisitioned a lot of farmers, found jobs for these people, and increased their income.

At the same time, the construction of roads and docks has laid a solid foundation for Datang's transportation network.

Wan Kuan is clear that it will definitely be a commodity society in the future, and the most important thing in a commodity society is... convenient transportation.

Now it seems that Chang'an Luoyang is a prosperous city.

But after the rise of shipping, the most prosperous city in Datang will become a dock along the coast.

This is the impact of sea and land civilization on land civilization, which must pass through stages.

Wankuan has already asked people to build a wharf at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

This kind of estuary, which connects inland shipping and ten thousand sea shipping, is simply a place where every inch of land is worth the money.

When shipping is prosperous in the future, this [-]% will be prosperous. Build it now to save you from cramming in the future.

Wan Kuan made a lap around the South China Sea, in fact, the time was very fast, that is, two or three days, Wan Kuan's sea boat supplied fresh water at the Nanyang Port, and then walked around Java Island, and then returned.

On the one hand, Wankuan is looking at the terrain of Java Island, whether it is suitable for an overseas base.

On the other hand, Wan Kuan is also to observe the progress of shipping.

In fact, Datang's shipping has reached a very high level of efficiency now. Although the sea-going ship only takes half a day to dock at the port, the half-day time from unloading and loading to replenishing fresh water is very fast.

Datang's cargo unloading is very fast, because there are pulleys and slides, except for those......the fragile porcelain, other cargo can be completely Straight down, straight down.

The goods to be loaded are mainly spices, Chinese herbal medicines, and some grains.

Now Datang is no longer short of food, and now the triangular plains of Southeast Asia have been developed more and more powerfully, and there are more and more rice in it.

And now there are not enough people in Datang, so when the rice is transported to Datang and Datang, the people can't finish it, so it can only be put in the granary.

This is a sweet trouble. It is really unimaginable that you will not worry about food in all dynasties, from ancient times to the present, from Yao, Shun, Yu Tang to today.

At any time, even in times of peace and prosperity.

This hoarding of food is still the top priority.

Because even if you can have a full stomach this year, it may not be the case next year.

Unforeseen circumstances, natural and man-made disasters followed one after another. This year's weather is good, and next year there will be droughts, floods, and floods, so this matter is completely uncertain.

Because of this, whenever there is not enough food to eat.

But now the Tang Dynasty no longer has to worry about food, because such a large plain is placed here, and so many high-yield paddies are piled here, you can sprinkle it on the ground, and you can produce food.

In this case, is food still a problem? This has never happened in the past dynasties, so those officials who act according to the old rules are out of luck.

Because the times have changed, their old concepts are no longer useful, and many of their previously established conventions have gradually become outdated habits and become obstacles to the progress of the Tang Dynasty.

Fang Xuanling is also under a lot of pressure now. If he, the head of the civil service, can't keep up with the times, he will only lead the Tang Dynasty to decline.

At this time, Fang Xuanling felt that he really responded to the words of His Royal Highness, to live and learn until old age.

Sometimes, even if you are already famous, you have to be humble and cautious, otherwise you will be like those... mountain villagers, confused.

Fang Xuanling has always come to look for the eldest grandson Wuji these days, but he has just escaped Wei Zheng's entanglement.

This Wei Zheng came to find Fang Xuanling over and over again, and he vowed not to give up if he failed to achieve his goal.

This Fang Xuanling went to Changsun Wuji, so Wei Zheng didn't want to have anything to do with Changsun Wuji, his uncle, so he wouldn't go to the Ministry of Household.

That Fang Xuanling thought it was good, even though he didn't like Changsun Wuji either, but everyone was on guard against each other, and it was not bad to say superficial words.

But when you are with Wei Zheng, you have to listen to him nagging about Haiyan and Heqing, the world is in harmony, knives and guns are put into storage, and horses are released to Nanshan.