Shortly after the New Year of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the people have not yet recovered from the joyful atmosphere of the New Year, and the court of Qi has already begun to be busy in the new year.

Since the official operation of the railway, the material exchanges between the north and the south of Qi have become much more frequent.

A few years ago, the harvest from the state farms was transported to Chang'an by several long freight rail wagons.

The state-owned farm, as a key project of Qi State, has shown amazing production capacity since its completion two years ago.

This mode of planting and breeding on collective farms has already taken the initial form of later farms.

Compared with the current small-scale peasant economy of the Qi State, the use of the least amount of land has increased a large amount of material reserves for the imperial court.

In addition to leaving the general income to be deposited in the treasury, the remaining materials, after discussion with the imperial court, decided to put these materials on the market to meet the current relatively sluggish business environment of the Qi State.

At this time, Yangzhou was driven by state farms.

Compared with the rest of the Jiangbei prefectures, the living standards of its people can be said to be the highest.

Due to its proximity to the key state capitals around Chang'an, Yangzhou was able to receive a large amount of assistance from these state capitals.

This has given Yangzhou an excellent development environment.

Moreover, the imperial court has decided to choose a good place to build a port in Yangzhou.

It is conceivable that as long as the port will be set up, it will bring infinite benefits to Yangzhou.

Therefore, the people of Yangzhou are also among the four towns in Jiangbei, and the sense of belonging to the country is also the strongest.

If it is said that Qi is the closest to the GC environment, it must be Yangzhou.

And all this is what Yang Hao hopes to see, he wants to leave a seed for the world when he is alive, a thought of universal harmony.

Although the realization of this ideal may be far away, at least there is still a glimmer of hope for doing it yourself.

Just after the New Year, the farms in Beicheng, the capital of Yangzhou, have recovered from the festive atmosphere.

The farm's laborers braved the morning mist and began planting winter wheat.

As one of the new crops in Qi, the yield of wheat is currently far lower than that of corn.

However, when this kind of crop can be planted all year round, it can alleviate the food shortage in Qi to a certain extent.

While the workers in the farmland are working with their backs to the loess, the female textile workers in the capital of Yangzhou have also started a busy day.

Different from the textile workshops in Chang'an City, due to the relatively warm climate in Yangzhou, it has also become an important production base for silk in Qi.

Yesterday I entered the city and returned with tears in my eyes.

Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders.

Throughout the ages, the people at the bottom may be the most helpless.

Although Yangzhou Mansion has its particularity, for female textile workers, the beautiful silk they produce may not be able to wear on themselves for a lifetime.

But unlike the hard-working woman in the poem, these female workers benefited from the moderate policies of the imperial court, and their living conditions were much better than those of the hard-working woman.

In the workshop, the female workers are satisfied with their current lives.

Once upon a time, she was just an ordinary woman in the Tushan tribe, and her mission was to find a man to give birth to a child for the tribe, and then raise the child to a certain age, and continue to repeat the process until she lost her fertility.

But the arrival of the Qi people changed all this, and as conquerors, the Qi people were not too embarrassed.

She was once worried that her tribe, as the dying Xia Dynasty kin, might be abused by the king of Qi, and an ordinary woman like herself could only be reduced to a female slave.

The good thing is that the worst didn't happen.

When Qi ** Fang took over here, as long as he showed obedience and surrender, although his life was harder, his life did not change much.

It wasn't until I heard that the Qi State conquered the Miao people that earth-shaking changes took place here.

A large number of soldiers evacuated from this place, and were replaced by the nobles of the Qi State, who were called civil officials.

Later, I learned that the place where I lived had a new name, Yangzhou.

Whether this name is good or bad, she doesn't know, but later, Qi Guo requires all women of the right age to marry, otherwise they will be punished.

For a while, the women in Yangzhou were panicked.

It was also at that time that she found a man who had sex with her and hastily worshipped heaven and earth, and registered in Yangzhou Mansion.

Fixed marriage is still a little strange to Huan, who was still married not long ago.

Suddenly, there are many places in life with the opposite sex who get along with him day and night, and he is a little uncomfortable.

Fortunately, that man was okay for him, after all, his son's blood was also his share.

His man is a taciturn man, after the construction of the state farm in Qi State, and was assigned to the farm, maybe a fool has a foolish fortune, only knows that the man who is buried in the work, in the autumn, actually became a model worker, and was received by the Fu Yin.

It is said that he has become a model worker for three consecutive years, and may even go to Chang'an City to get the opportunity to meet the king.

This is simply unimaginable for ordinary farmers.

And for a while, he became the envy of everyone on the farm.

Although the textile work is very tiring, but at least three meals a day can have a guarantee, although they are women, the treatment is much less than men, but as long as they work hard, at least they can make their own small family live better.

The shuttle flew in her own hands, and she didn't feel like she was being exploited.

The imperial court has set a production target, and as long as the task can be completed on time, by the end of the year, he will be able to get more rewards.

At noon, the female workers stopped what they were doing.

She stretched out and went to the collective cafeteria to eat with her sisters.

The meal was simple, a large clay bowl with thick porridge, a few pickled radish strips per person, and a boiled dried fish.

The ability to eat dried fish is entirely due to the fact that Yangzhou is relatively close to the river and the sea.

Moreover, the female workers heard that even in the rich city of Chang'an, the female workers who did the same work as them did not have as much food as them.

With this contrast, they cherish their hard-won life even more.

It's just that they don't know that although the female workers in Chang'an City don't have free dried fish to eat, they can use their income to buy more delicious things from restaurants and roadside vendors outside the textile factory.

Of course, these things are impossible for the people at the bottom who have never stepped out of the place where they live.

The speed of eating is very fast, and a large bowl of rice can be eaten in a few bites.

The women burped, bathed in the shade of the trees in the courtyard of the textile factory, and in this rare leisure time, they shared gossip with their sisters that they did not know where to hear.

Maybe it's just the nature of women in every era.