He learned what Zhang Nuo once told him, and analyzed the scene he saw directly from the details and data, and he could feel that the entire city of Pyongyang had undoubtedly basically cast aside the influence of subjugation on the spiritual level.

Everyone is speaking Datang official dialect, even if the accent is heavy, but they can express the meaning clearly, which makes people feel very friendly, not at all like being in a foreign country, but like being in a certain Remote accents differ from state capitals in general.

At the same time, everyone seemed to have forgotten the previous Goryeo, and lived their lives with a smile on the contrary!

Obviously, the vast majority of people are slaves, but these people don't feel wronged at all. Instead, they firmly believe that they will definitely be freed from slavery in a few years, and even let their whole family be freed from slavery.

The funniest thing is that some people don’t want to get out of slavery, because they think that the current life of working hard every day, with food, lodging and money is good, but if they get out of slavery by then, they won’t have this kind of life. What should I do if the days are over?

Even if the staff say what they say, they don’t believe it. After all, in their opinion, this slave is just talking and being controlled more strictly. When they were commoners in Goryeo, their life was not as good as the slaves now. Filled, dressed warmly, walking on the road without worrying about being hacked to death by nobles.

Many people even think that the Tang people in the pass are living a fairy life, but they don’t see that now that they have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, even if they are slaves, their lives are so good, the people of the Tang Dynasty in the pass will be happy What ah.

Li Shimin chatted with hawkers and workers on the street from time to time, but in the end almost everyone thought so. From their point of view, they are living a good life now, but the people of Datang in the pass must be living better than this better.

This embarrasses Li Shimin, it seems that he, the emperor, is not doing very well!

Chapter 606 The Arrival of Migrant Workers

If you just look at the residents in Pyongyang City, there are really not many people in the entire Tang Dynasty who can live like these people.

After all, these people have at least achieved basic food and clothing, and there is still a surplus every month.

This is unbelievable for people in most places in the Tang Dynasty, but this place that has just been subjugated has done it, and it covers most people.

But what did Zhang Nuo do?

He didn't do anything, he simply asked all factory owners to feed people, and then pay wages on time, these two requirements are gone.

On weekdays, the workshop can be managed as it should be, and those who should be dismissed will be dismissed directly, without saying that they must be kept or what.

But it was just such a few simple arrangements that made the whole city of Pyongyang prosperous, which made Li Shimin a little confused.

Could it be that in Chang'an City, people are not paid for hiring people to work?No food?Then why can't Chang'an City develop like this?

Li Shimin asked Ma Zhou casually, but he never expected Ma Zhou to actually answer.

"Your Majesty, it is mainly because of production and profit!"

"I don't know much about Chang'an City, but whether it is Lantian City, Pyongyang City, or even the entire Pyongyang Road, all the workshops are personally directed by His Highness and even bought shares, so the products produced by each workshop are in short supply. !"

"Especially now that the sea route has been opened, merchants in the customs will place orders directly in the port area to buy a large number of goods, and then transport them back to the customs by sea for sale."

"So, as long as the workshops in Pyongyang Road are not worried about making money, they only worry about not being able to produce enough goods!"

"However, His Highness is very strict in this regard. You can't dispose of slaves privately. They can only be replaced or expelled by the government. Therefore, these workshops now provide good food and pay wages on time, because in this case, even slaves will Will work hard!"

"And as long as they work hard, the workshop owner can earn more money!"

"But it won't be like this in Chang'an City. After all, apart from the winery in His Highness's own house, there is no other workshop that can say that their products are not worrying about selling! Workers are picky!"

"And there are only so many workshops in Chang'an City. If those workers can't stand it and don't want to do it, it's impossible to find another job on the same day as here in Pyongyang City!"

"So, this is why people living in Pyongyang, even slaves, live happily, because as long as they work honestly, they can eat and clothe themselves and save money for themselves and their families in the future. Redemption."

"Your Majesty, you may not know that now that the sea route is unblocked, many people from the Tang Dynasty in the customs have come to work here along the sea route. After all, we are really short of people here in Pyongyang City, and the people from the customs, the people in the customs The workshop owners generally believe it!"

Li Shimin nodded suddenly, it turned out to be like this!

But when he turned around, his expression was a bit ugly, mother, I have worked hard to govern the Tang Dynasty for a year or two, but now Zhang Nuo's side has just started to improve, and the people under his rule are running away from him Here we go, and there seems to be a growing trend.

Doesn't this prove that the development under his rule is not as good as here?

This is a bit of a slap in the face, he thought he did a good job.

But thinking about the situation in Dengzhou and Laizhou across the sea, Li Shimin's anger towards the local government disappeared immediately.

The entire Shandong Peninsula has suffered a lot in the past few decades. Natural disasters and man-made disasters occur almost every year. From the conscription in the Sui Dynasty to fight against Korea, and then the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, even if Li and Tang founded the country, there are also bandits here. At the same time, various natural disasters It didn't break either.

That is to say, the tenacity in the bones of the Central Plains nation supports these people, otherwise, in the situation of ten rooms and nine empty places in Dengzhou and Laizhou, many people would have been unable to survive.

Now that Pyongyang City across the sea has the opportunity to get food, lodging and salary, once such a good news spreads, the people there will definitely not refuse it.

Even Li Shimin can think that if the sea transportation is more developed, or the news spreads more ruthlessly, more people will come here.

After all, there is really no way to survive there. There is only so much land, and the big families and wealthy families have already searched almost all of them.

If you work as a tenant farmer for those gentlemen, you can barely get enough food and clothing at the best time of the year. If the family encounters a serious illness or disaster, you may have to work hard for a year and owe a loan shark.

If you do the calculations like this, I heard that even the slaves here can eat and clothe themselves warmly, and they say it in a decent way, so those who can't make it through, why don't they come and fight.

Anyway, they know that this place is now under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and it is still under the management of the famous King Qin, so there is nothing to be afraid of, they just ask the county magistrate for a guide and come here.

This can be regarded as a desperate fight. If it turns out, everyone will be happy, and it doesn't matter if you are deceived. Anyway, you can't live at home and wait for death.

It was this kind of thinking that made the first batch of people who came over get accurate information and after seeing the real situation, they quickly ran back to inform the folks and elders, and then turned around and happily made money.

On this point, Zhang Nuo did a better job here. For the people of Datang who came to work, the treatment they gave was much better than that of slaves.

After all, in the eyes of many workshop owners, only the people from Guannei are reliable and innocent people. After all, if they are not innocent people, they cannot get the directions given by the county magistrate.

It only took one or two months to bring one by one, and now Pyongyang City can already see the people of Datang everywhere.

And from the very beginning, all the swarms were working in workshops, and now there are many small businesses, food stalls, inns and even other shops.

After all, the tree moves, the dead, and the living are all raised by their fathers and mothers. Now that there are so many opportunities in front of them, who doesn't want to fight hard.

It is also these new Datang people who have made the entire Pyongyang city more stable, because they are already familiar with the government's set, even though this is the new special zone created by Zhang Nuo, it is actually related to the policies in the pass. Rather, the improvements are in some of the more criticized places.

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