Chapter 333 The year is approaching
When the snow drifted in Chang'an, Cheng Hong finally completed the first cement road to the inland of Jiangnan East Road!
Quanzhou to Tingzhou (that is, the later Changting) a total length of 700 miles of cement road, multi-section construction, every mountain to open the road and meet the water to build a bridge, this time the whole Quanzhou and Tingzhou people are here!
The road was filled all at once! There is food, drink and wages, and the families are soft and fully cooperate with Cheng Hong, and this person came up all at once!
This is not the time for Cheng Hong to talk about the palace for a few laborers!
It can be said that if Cheng Hong had been so cooperative, Cheng Hong would have built the twin cities a long time ago! Fortunately, the place where Cheng Hong is located is south of Jiangnan, and it is not very cold here in winter!
If this is in the north, then it will be delayed! When the snow falls, you can't fix anything you want to repair! Didn't you see that Baolin Baoqi and the others walked back?
Today, Datang has fought three big battles, and the treasury has been a lot richer! Chang'an is even more prosperous! The steelmaking mill in Weixian County has finally begun to reduce production after a busy year, and is ready to suspend the furnace and fight again next year!
It is rare that this year's wind and rain are smooth, the grain harvest is abundant, and the grain price is not low, if the price of the grain is low, it will be sent directly to the nearest granary, and the treasury will purchase it at a protective price!
If you get copper coins, you don't have to worry about the high cost of leather clothes if you want to add two winter clothes! Although leather clothes are expensive, are there still sweaters? It doesn't take a few bucks to add a sweater to the whole family!
If you go to the wool store in the West Market by skill, buy wool, and knit a sweater by yourself with four bamboo needles! It's a lot cheaper!
Wool weaving, the big picture is clearly hanging on the main hall, several weaving methods are at your disposal, if you are clumsy, choose the simplest, ingenious can weave patterns on the sweater!
And if you can't, you can also ask the manager in the store, and the manager will teach you slowly, and you will definitely not be impatient!
Therefore, I often see a small wool store full of groups of women, chatting about their parents, knitting sweaters in their hands, and if the children next to them are too skinny, they will be slapped twice.
The leather child is also forbidden to beat, and after a while, the skin is up again!
It seemed that the end of the year was approaching, the grain of each family had been sold, and the craftsmen who had built the prince's house had finished their homes.
The caravans have returned from all the farthest thwart! Whether it is the Tibetan side, or Xue Yantuo, or the countries of the Western Regions, they all return with a full load!
In addition to the fur and mountain ginseng of the most popular musk, there are also wines from the Western Regions, and of course, the cheap yak jerky exchanged for Tibet is indispensable!
The beef jerky one by one is salty and fragrant, which is not only satisfying but also satisfying! Even if it is an ordinary home, buy a few catties at the end of the year, go back and put it in the dish to cook, the beef jerky will open when it meets the water, and a large pot of beef and vegetable soup will be full, which is called a fragrant!
Not only that, since last month, not only have the strange things brought by the returning caravans in the West Market, but the fleets of Jiangnan Province and Lingnan Province have also come to Chang'an, bringing specialties from the south!
The latest novelty in Jiangnan Province is snow sugar, which is as white as snow, a pound and five pounds, an absolute aristocratic brand!
If you feel that you can't afford it, you can buy a slightly inferior brown sugar, although the brown sugar is slightly cheaper, but it is not something that ordinary people can buy! It's still being sold in my arms, and I didn't even look at the candy when I went late!
Chang'an has a lot of money! Especially the group of people who auctioned off the grassland, although the money for grazing this year is not much, but it is better to be free!
And those who guard the way to build a winter shed have made a lot of money! Five pounds, a small meaning! Let's try the taste first!
Then you say that there are no bargains in Gangnam Province? Don't worry, there is, there is! Do you want salted fish? It's only a few bucks more expensive than salt, and it can be used as a vegetable and as salt!
If you don't like to move, you can go directly to the meal, if the salted fish is mixed with some oil and water, fry until golden on both sides, the taste ~ tsk! It smells great!
If you have enough salted fish, do you want kelp? Although the sun-dried kelp looks like firewood, if you put it in a basin and soak it in water, you can soak it in a large pot for ten dollars!
After washing, shredded and mixed with some salt and garlic paste, it is very refreshing! I didn't look at the long table shop where the plates of kelp shreds are sold, and they are cheaper than fried soybeans!
There is also canned syrup, a large jar full of canned syrup, which is full of all kinds of fruits, soaked in sweet and sour syrup, take a sip, full of happy taste! The kids next door are crying!
One of the ships in Lingnan's fleet was Cheng Hong's gift to the palace and various families, including abalone, sea shrimp, lobster, large crab, shark fin, and sea cucumber...... Everything that is delicious in the sea, everything that Cheng Hong can catch has been collected!
What can be brought alive and never dead, can be brought fresh, never frozen, this is to be sent to the palace, absolutely to high standards, as long as the most expensive, the freshest!
And it also comes with a recipe with all the seafood recipes, and it is also necessary to write which queen mother can't eat and needs to be avoided. What kind of emperor can't eat.
Finally, add a portion of food that does not match the seafood monarch's envoy! Everything that can't be eaten at the same time is written on it, and it is deliberately written in large font!
I heard that after Li Er in the palace read this recipe, he was happy for several days, and he was in a good mood! happier than receiving Cheng Hong's recital.
Finally, I copied the recipe and what kind of people are not suitable for eating seafood and ordered it to be posted in front of the largest restaurant in Chang'an for everyone to watch!
The goods transported from Lingnan Road are relatively monotonous, although monotonous, but the most attractive thing is on the ship of Lingnan Road, except for a boatload of salt, the rest are green vegetables!
When is Chang'an now? It's snowing! Except for a few wilting green vegetables in His Majesty's Wentang Supervisor, where is this novelty?
This guy's whole ship is full of green vegetables, when the Lingnan fleet stopped and everyone knew about the goods on the ship, the whole Chang'an went crazy!
Big families eat with taste, do others have this thing? This time I missed it, there must have been no more years ago, you must know that the emperor rewarded a few green vegetables before, which is a gift!
There are so many big ships, can you believe it? The rich eat is fresh, after this winter, the green vegetables are gradually gone, and the people who eat meat go straight to the fire, coupled with the popularity of the fire kang, the fire is added to the fire, and the toilet has to squat for a long time!
Eat some green vegetables to change the taste, and also let the fire drop, and there is no shortage of money!
The little rich eat is a rarity, seeing that the New Year is approaching, a big year, buy some to try, eat green vegetables in winter, you can't think of a beautiful thing!
In this way, the arrival of the two fleets completely ignited the purchase enthusiasm of Chang'an City! In addition, there is money to spare, and there is hope for the future, so the purchase of the year before began in advance!
The merchants have made a lot of money, and the tax department has received a soft hand! Every day, you have to use dozens of people just to make money! If you don't order the second watch day, you will get off work early!
Cheng Hong's stimulation of consumption, allowing coins to circulate and generating taxes, has achieved initial results! This money is really as Cheng Hong predicted, and it will generate taxes in the hands of the people once it turns around!
The money really gets more and more!
When the Jiangnan Shi clan left, they were reluctant to give up, this Chang'an is worthy of being the imperial capital, and the people are really rich! Snow candy is not enough to sell! Can you believe it?
And the housekeeper of Lingnan Road almost went crazy, and sure enough, as Cheng Hong said, if you pull a boatload of vegetables, you can pull back a boatload of copper coins.
In the end, the first thing the housekeeper of the Feng family said when he saw Feng Zhidai was not to say hello, but: "Xiao Langjun, are you short of money?" Lack to pull away a boat! It is not easy to live in Chang'an. This is thousands of miles away from home, don't bend yourself! ”
When did Lingnan spend money on boats? I haven't been home in the past few years, has my hometown changed so much?
When he saw a boatload of green vegetables being snapped up, Feng Zhidai knew why the housekeeper was so confident.
Feng Zhidai shook his head with a smile and a cart of green vegetables into the door of the eldest grandson's house, and exchanged most of the copper coins for some tools, as well as household utensils and iron pots, kitchen knives and so on!
And these things are rare things when they arrive at Lingnan Road, you must know that the firewood knives and axes produced by the steel mill now have caught up with the hundred steel knives in the early years of Zhenguan! You can't buy this kind of thing in Lingnan!
Cheng Hong's small steelmaking mill will be enough for his own public family!
It can be said that this year is a year of abundance for Datang! All smiles were on their faces!