No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Regarding rice and rice, in ancient books, the frequency of occurrence is very high. After all, rice is the staple food of the old 100 people. The output is relatively high among all grains. At the same time, it tastes better and is also a lot of old. The 100 surnames love to eat food, especially the old 100 surnames in the south. The staple food they hold is rice, and even the nobles in the north like rice very much.

After the rice is hushed, it is rice, but for the storage of grain, it must be stored directly, because the rice is relatively easy to store, and it is not prone to mold and insects. It can be stored for many years and it is not bad. When it is made into rice, it is much more difficult to store it. Especially in summer, rice is always prone to insects, and the rice of insects must be greatly reduced in terms of nutritional value and taste. After eating a portion, the remaining rice is even less, and it is also a kind of considerable loss.

Regarding the preservation of rice, since ancient times ca n’t find any good way, so almost no one will save rice on a large scale. The general amount of preservation is several months, not more than one year at most, especially In the summer, less rice is preserved. They are all eaten and bought now, and can be stored for one month.

An ordinary family stores one month ’s worth of rice, and there is not much. One bag is enough. However, those grain stores that sell rice need a large amount of storage. The same amount is kept for one month. One bag is enough, but the rice traders who wholesale rice need to reserve a large amount of rice. With a population of 1000000 in Beijing, the rice consumed every month is extremely huge, so even a large meter away is not as easy as rice. Save, but also need to produce a large amount of rice to meet market demand. The people in the city are very busy and live in a very small place. They rarely have the conditions to peel the rice on their own and can only go directly to the rice shop. Rice, so, the demand for rice in large cities is very large.

A large number of old 100 surnames need to buy rice every month, and grain shops need to store a sufficient amount of rice, and wholesale rice rice shops need more rice. Rice merchants are doing business, and selling is directly The rice they eat has no time to dehull the rice. Therefore, when they buy the rice, they will also ask large grain growers to process the rice into rice, otherwise, they will not buy it.

Of course, there will also be some merchants who specialize in selling rice, so you do n’t have to hull the rice, but in Chang’an City, the old 100 people have a great demand for rice, and they are willing to buy rice and go back and do it themselves. There are not too many old 100 surnames processed, so most of the big grain growers still have to process the rice grown by their families into rice.

For growers with only 100-80 acres, the problem may not be very big. At worst, their own family works overtime and over-laundered rice. They can complete the processing of rice to rice without paying for people, but those who have a few 1000 to 10000 acres Even for large households with 100000 acres of land, it seems an utterly inadequate measure to process it by themselves. Even if they use the most advanced and labor-saving hydraulic workshop, the processing speed is far too late, and the merchants of Rice Bank do not collect rice. The imperial court’s rice grain depot is already full. If they want to sell the rice as soon as possible, they must hire a lot of labor to process the rice and process a large amount of rice into rice. This processing fee can be really low. The big grain growers are quite painful.

In ancient marching wars, the food carried by the army consisted of both rice and rice. They were a combination of the two. When cooking, they usually use rice directly, but when they are idle, they can Clay rice, especially the battle of defending cities in important strategic areas. If the grains and grass are hoarded in the city for a few years, then these grains and grains must be mostly rice, and only a small amount of rice. The rice will be full of insects after one year, and then it will be over. Once the grain and grass are lost, the strategic points will not be broken.

Large grain growers need to use a lot of manpower to process rice at this time, but when they harvest rice, they can use the machine. The harvester has been popularized in the Great Tang and is used everywhere. The harvester is used after it is used. How much money are saved by these large households? It is very clear to these large households that it is because they have tasted the sweetness of using the machine, so this makes them dependent on the machine, and hopes that the step of clam can also be done with the machine. , They will be able to save a lot of labor costs.

People are not profitable and early, and these big grain growers will naturally be no exception. At a time when grain prices are not ideal, the profit of growing grain is actually not high. In this way, if you can save a little, save a little. To save is to make money. In order to save money, they very boldly requested Li An, hoping that the Research & Development Center can research and develop the machines they need as soon as possible.

For the suggestions made by these guys, Li An is naturally to be studied. Even without their suggestions, Li An will not give up the research of these kinds of machines. After all, the rice is husk and the corn is groats. It is very promising and has a very important role in reducing the physical strength of laborers. As long as these machines are produced on a large scale, farmers in the Great Tang Empire will be much easier, especially the large grain growers who own large amounts of land Benefit the most.

However, there are too many machines to be researched and improved by the Research & Development Center, and Li An cannot be blamed for a while. The research in the field of machines will never end, and there are too many tasks to be completed.

The climate in Guanzhong is not suitable for rice cultivation. Therefore, rice is very rare in the Guanzhong area. Most of the rice is concentrated in the Jiangnan water network area. The climate is the most suitable for rice cultivation. Even in the area of ​​Yazhou and Guangzhou You can plant 2 crops of rice a year, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the areas with the most dense rice cultivation, because the development is relatively early there, the population is large, and the geographical conditions are also very good. There are large areas of plains, which are very suitable for using machines. Large-scale mechanized cultivation is carried out. Therefore, the rice production in that area is the largest. It seems that since ancient times, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the areas with the largest rice production.

Landlords who own a large amount of land in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River may not necessarily be locals. The nobles and wealthy merchants in Beijing are also likely to have massive paddy fields in the south of the Jiangnan River. It’s just a matter of reason. When the harvest is ready, it’s enough to transport the grain to Beijing.

After all, although the rice output is very high in the Jiangnan area, the market is not large. In Jiangnan, there are relatively few people with rice, but in Beijing, on the contrary, the population is large but the rice is very small. Most of the rice grains needed in the market are Transported from Jiangnan.

It is said that northerners like to eat pasta, while southerners like to eat rice. In fact, this is not simply a question of whether they like it or not, but since ancient times, wheat is grown in the north, and rice is grown in the south, depending on the transportation conditions in ancient times. As the grain is transported to another place beyond a thousand li, the price is going to rise a lot. Could the 100 old people keep the local cheap grain and do not eat it, and specifically eat the food transported from a distance? There were still a lot of poor people at that time, and no one was a fool. They must first choose to eat cheap food. I am afraid that only the particularly wealthy nobles will be keen to eat expensive food outside.

The transportation conditions in later generations have been greatly improved, and even if the ingredients shipped outside of ten thousand li, the price will not rise much, this will eventually cause northerners to easily eat tropical fruits in the south, and southerners can also be very It is easy to eat the specialty ingredients in the north. It is because of the great improvement in transportation conditions. Of course, it is also the people of later generations who have become richer and the conditions are better. A variety of different ingredients to supplement the different nutrients the body needs.

The traffic conditions of Great Tang at this time have also been greatly improved due to the efforts of Li An. The food in the south can be easily transported to the north, and the same is true in the north. Therefore, it is relatively easy for the old 100 people to eat ingredients from different places There is much more, especially in Chang’an City, the rice-based food and the wheat-based food are almost equal, and it is completely unfeeling that this is the north where wheat-based food dominates.

In Chang’an City, first of all, there are too many rich people, there are wealthy and wealthy people everywhere. 2 is the main reason for the hardship of the old 100 people is the tension of the house, that is, the pressure caused by high rents, and the food The pressure is not great. In recent years, food prices have been declining. Only the poorest migrant workers will save on food. For example, they only eat the cheapest sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes, but they are slightly more expensive. The wheat and rice are far away.

Now the food is getting more and more abundant, all the official warehouses in Beijing are filled with grains and grasses. In addition, there are many new grain warehouses under intense construction. Since the official warehouses are already full, then more food You can only store it yourself. Fortunately, many large merchants and nobles in Beijing have their own granaries. Some merchants ’granaries are still very large, even more than the official granaries. The private granaries under construction There are also many.

Although the price of food has fallen again and again, it has been reduced by half. In the foreseeable future, there is the possibility of continued reduction, but this will not affect the practice of some merchants to hoard food, because food is not an ordinary Commodities, this is a strategic material related to the life and death of the old 100 people. Since ancient times, almost every large-scale peasant uprising is related to the lack of and unrecovered food. The importance of food is evident.

Even if there is no shortage of food at this time, there is no hope of rising prices, but the businessmen do not think so. They all say that there is an unpredictable situation in the world. Anything in this world is likely to happen. Maybe some day there will be a grain harvest. What? No matter how bad it is, you can transport the grain to Western Regions countries for sale. At this moment, the food in Great Tang is reduced by half, but the food prices in Western Regions countries are not at all lower. Now the transportation is so good. Countries in Western Regions ca n’t add much cost, and the price of grain still has certain competitiveness. Therefore, the merchants of Tunliang are not nervous. If they have grain in their hands, they wo n’t panic, and they will never lose money. Moreover, There is already so much food, the merchants refuse to hoard, that is, the big grain growers have hoarded, and they can’t throw away the extra food! In a society where science is underdeveloped, throwing away food for no reason is to be condemned. Even if food is surplus, it should be hoarded, not thrown away.

It is also technical to hoard food. After all, food is more squeamish and cannot be damp. Some foods cannot be frozen. Try to avoid insects. In addition, hateful guys such as mice will pose a great threat to food. , The granary of the ancient ancient times, there is no one who does not recruit mice, and they are all squirrels, big big mice, and they are all bad guys who eat and support.

For the structure of the grain depot, since ancient times are the same, there has been no change for a few thousand years. From a long time ago in ancient times, it was a huge cylinder below, with a cone on the top to prevent rain, this is what A grain silo, and a grain silo area, there will be a few 1000 to 100 identical grain silos, each grain silo is filled with full of grain, a few 1000 to 100 grain silos, the amount of grain can be stored is As you can imagine, that number is not huge.

Of course, the grain depots with a few thousand large grain bins are all Imperial Court ’s big official bins, the largest ones. The smaller official bins may have only a dozen or even a few grain bins. Many of them are hoarded according to the needs. Some areas are limited in size and cannot build large-scale granaries. This place is very important and has to build granaries. Therefore, there will be such miniaturized granaries.

For example, Beijing is the core of the Great Tang Empire. No matter how many large granaries were built elsewhere in the Great Tang Empire, Beijing must definitely have an official warehouse, and even need to build multiple warehouses, both inside and outside the city, and even in the palace. There must be a granary that can store grain, otherwise once the capital is under siege, it will be in danger of ruining the country.

Some of the granaries owned by nobles and large merchants are larger than the imperial court granaries. Especially in Beijing, there are privately established granaries everywhere, especially those who do grain wholesale business, and the food they hoard too much.

In Beijing, there are many people who speculate on houses, but there are no merchants who speculate on grain. The reason is also very simple. Houses are scarce commodities in the capital, and there is a possibility of speculation, and grain is in excess of demand in the capital. When you get up, you must know that hype must choose scarce commodities in order to succeed. Only commodities that are in short supply can increase the price of hype. Things on the bad street cannot be hyped anyway.