The top floor of Times Square is composed of food shops and children's playgrounds, and it is also the ultimate purpose of Sun Xiangfu's family to come here today, the whole square covers an area of very large, so the top floor is also very open, surrounded by all kinds of snacks and food stores and dolls, toys, and children's clothing stores, surrounding the entire children's playground in the center.

Trampolines, swings, slides, seesaws, merry-go-rounds, these things that were originally in the Wangjianglou playground, there are everything here, but there are some things that the Wangjianglou playground does not have, that is a super-large, with nets, wooden stakes, etc., which can be used for children to climb up and down, and a large castle made of countless soft sheepskin sews, which is blown up by the air, and the outside is scribbled with all kinds of beautiful eyes, and the children can feel free to crawl and roll on it, and generally will not be injured.

As for the rail car that surrounds the whole park, it is pedaled by an adult at the front with manpower, and as soon as the car runs, there is also beautiful music, because on the track, there is a copper scale pipe, and when the car walks on the track, the scale hammer installed on the body will touch the scale pipe along the way, making a cheerful musical sound.

As soon as a few little children of the Sun family came here, they went crazy, playing here, unlike only their parents at home, there are many children here, which will make them feel more lively.

Li Tai and Li Ke, as the eldest of the princes, although their childlike innocence is still a little untouched, but they temporarily served as playmates to take care of their younger brothers and sisters, and even a few uncles and aunts who are younger than their younger brothers and sisters.

The weather in September, although it has been a little cooler, but it is a good time to go out to enjoy the flowers, obviously, Times Square from today, changed everyone's habits, most of the people who are ready to climb the height to enjoy the flowers, were attracted here, even if the eldest grandson queen led everyone, it took more than half an hour, walked around the whole square, came to the top floor, but the door of the first floor, there is still a steady stream of people gathering over, temporarily can not enter the building.

This square can not carry the entertainment and consumption of nearly two million people inside and outside Chang'an City, even if only a few tenths of people come, it will be full, so in the early stage of its opening, there will definitely be crowding, the supply of goods in demand in the mall is insufficient, etc., and when several other squares open, the flow of people will gradually be separated.

And such a large number of people made Sun Xiangfu think of some other problems, which was something he had been thinking about in Weinan recently, and just thinking about it, he sat in the awning where Empress Changsun sat down to rest.

"Zhengming, you are really a business wizard, on the first day of the opening of our Times Square, I am afraid that the sales volume will not be less than one million!" Seeing Sun Xiangfu sitting opposite him, Empress Eldest Sun, who was in a good mood, opened her mouth and praised.

"Niangniang praised it falsely, the transaction of millions of guan is actually nothing, this is the reason why the scarce commodity is suddenly listed, and it will definitely fall back.

The role of Times Square is that it can promote this consumer culture, when the square has become a must-go place for everyone to go for leisure shopping, its overall value is reflected, and so the four major squares of Chang'an are all opened, every day, there are tens of millions of people entering the square to shop, then, to maintain a daily transaction volume of hundreds of thousands of times, it is not a problem, you think about it, you open commercial squares in big cities across the country, if all are open, how much benefit it can bring to the royal family. ”

Now, the shops in the major squares of Chang'an have not all been built, and the shops have all been rented out, tens of thousands of shops, just collecting rent, every year the queen of Changsun will earn a lot of money, not to mention the profits of the self-operated stores of the eldest grandson such as life service areas, furniture, glass, leather goods, etc.

In terms of the scale of these commercial plazas, the income of each of them will never be lower than the income of a branch of Wangjiang Building, this market prospect, as well as the expected goal of the eldest grandson Wuji who thought of it before, will soon be reached, how can the eldest grandson queen not be happy at this time!

She only waited for Li Shimin to return to Chang'an, and reported to him the results of her hard work in the past two years.

Seeing the beautiful reverie of Empress Eldest Sun, Sun Xiangfu couldn't help but remind, "Queen Mother, when ministers make money, they usually have already figured out how to spend it, do you think about it?" ”

When Empress Eldest Sun heard this, she replied without thinking about it, "It's okay!" Use the money earned to open more commercial plazas, and it is best to let every city in our Datang have a commercial plaza······"

"Uh, what about the opening of the square?"

"Something else!"

"Well, what the minister means is that the money you earn should always have a place to spend!"

"Your Majesty will consider this."

All right! Sun Xiangfu finally knew why there was a famous saying in later generations, called 'Behind a successful man, there must be a great woman', and a man with a woman like Empress Changsun would be too unreasonable if he didn't succeed.

The most unreasonable thing is that Empress Eldest Sun seemed to be reminded by Sun Xiangfu's words, and turned her head to him and asked, "Zhengming, you asked this palace, is there something in your words?" Have you thought of any way to make money, quickly come to the palace, you can rest assured, after the opening of these commercial plazas in Chang'an, the surplus of the inner government will be more, and a lot of money can be mobilized to make investments. ”

"Well, in the area of overseas exploration and investment companies, there is no five to ten years, and the ministers dare not say that they have done well, where do they dare to think about other industries."

Empress Eldest Sun glanced at Sun Xiangfu with a very disbelieving expression, "This palace looks like it looks very simple for you to make!" As soon as the shareholders' meeting is opened, as soon as the personnel are appointed, they have their own distribution and management, you just need to wait for the results, just like the Yangtze River Waterway Transfer Company, you seem to have arranged a few people now to help collect money! ”

"That, if things are as simple as this, then it will be easy to do, you should look at the problem from a higher perspective, after many industries in Weinan and overseas exploration and investment companies began to operate, I Datang does not farm, and there are more and more people who need food to feed, on the other hand, the young and strong people who farm are becoming less and less, which will form social problems, and if we don't solve these social problems, bigger problems will erupt."

As a result of the war against Goguryeo, the agricultural output of the entire Tohoku region was almost destroyed, and until the Tohoku region was not self-sufficient in farming, the imperial court had to allocate grain and various daily necessities there.

The land of the Western Regions can barely guarantee self-sufficiency, but Tuguhun, all party departments, and the land of Yunnan all need the Central Plains to export food, clothing and other materials, and the population of these places adds up to millions, and the consumption is not small.

In addition, after the establishment of the Faculty of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce, a large number of students, coupled with the frenzied recruitment of young and strong people from all over the country by Weinan and Overseas Exploration Company, will inevitably make tens of millions of young and strong laborers in all regions of the country leave the agricultural industry and turn to industry and commerce, which will lead to a sharp decline in agricultural output and great pressure on agricultural production, and everyone will have to return to solving the fundamental problem of 'eating'.

Agriculture has always been the foundation of social development, and only when the grain grown by farmers can feed more laborers, can more people engage in other industries.

After roughly understanding Sun Xiangfu's words, Empress Eldest Sun continued to ask, "Are you worried that there won't be enough food to eat?" ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded and replied, "That's right!" The population of our Datang may reach more than 30 million after making a complete statistics before the end of this year, however, with the development of the country, managing such a large country, our manpower in all aspects needs to be expanded, and the number of soldiers stationed in various places alone will almost reach one million.

With the comprehensive advancement of the new management system, the number of officials will also increase by a large amount, hundreds of prefectures, thousands of counties, the number of officials, officials, doctors, public security explosion-proof and other personnel added up, and the number of workers and businessmen is growing too fast, every year, the number of people is more than doubled, just one Weinan, there are nearly two million workers, more than 10,000 businessmen.

Where did all these people come from?

Most of them are young and strong farmers who originally cultivated in the fields, and without these millions of young and strong farmers, we can see how serious the farming situation will be in the future.

If there is not enough food to feed everyone, and there is enough output of raw materials for crops to supply various industrial needs, our construction and development cannot continue, and once there is a rupture situation, then it may lead to a vicious circle and make the whole situation collapse, so the minister is always worried. ”

After listening to Sun Xiangfu's worries, Empress Changsun was stunned for a long time before she said, "You mean, the industrial and commercial development of our Datang is too fast, and we need to stop for a while to let more people return to farming?" ”

"You're not wrong to understand that! Just like Lingnan, after the development of industry and commerce, most people began to engage in industry and commerce, and drummed for cash crops, so the grain output was less, and now, they can't send as much grain to Guanzhong as they did in the previous two years.

The young and strong people in the south of the Yangtze River are running to Guanzhong, and the grain grown must be reduced, and it will be transported to the northeast, and the grain production in Shuzhong is quite rich, but it may not be enough to eat in Yunnan, and even need help from Guanzhong, and the grain produced in Guanzhong may not be enough for the nearly seven million people gathered here now to eat, so they can only find Shanyang and Dingxiang to help.

These two places are important population towns, and if there is a catastrophe in any of them, there will be a danger of overthrowing the country, so our agricultural gate has always paid more attention to the agricultural development of these two places.

Only by developing agriculture well, so that the original output is enough to support industry and commerce, and enough to resist disasters that may break out at any time, can we ensure that our country can always be stable. ”

After listening to his tirade, Empress Eldest Sun nodded and said, "Zhengming's words are reasonable, then, what can this palace do to maintain the stability of the country?" ”

Sun Xiangfu thought about the crowd that poured into the commercial plaza like a tide, and then thought about the operation of the commercial plaza, and replied, "You are actually already doing it, for example, you release the palace people in the palace to work in the market, this is a kind of progress, when we all go out and live, we don't need to hug each other, when a large number of people are waiting, our labor force will be enlarged a lot."

A flushing toilet, a sewer, a septic tank, don't look at it as just a very simple design, but, because of this design, it will free up a lot of labor to flush the toilet every day and transport the night incense.

As the mother of a nation, you should push for more of these things that save labor and allow more labor to be engaged in meaningful productive work.

If you look at this huge Chang'an City, with a population of more than 1.5 million, how many of them are really involved in production? Compared with the workers in Weinan and the people who farm all over the country, they are too idle, like rice worms, wasting the country's resources. ”

Chang'an is a capital city full of nobles, and the residents of the city, the largest group, are the people who serve the nobles, if there are thousands of officials and nobles here, then there are tens of thousands of family members of the officials and nobles, then there are at least hundreds of thousands of people, who are specially used to serve them, which is too unreasonable.

Sun Xiangfu is a person from later generations, he lived in an era where almost everyone had a job and was earning money to support themselves, compared with the current Chang'an City, the difference was simply too big.

If an official's family has hundreds of people who eat idle food, can he live a high-quality life without corruption and bribery?

This is a problem, and if you see it, you have to solve it, and if you solve all these subtle problems, then the situation of the whole country will be much better.

As for how to change this status quo, Sun Xiangfu actually already has some ideas, and Empress Changsun is an example, she took care of Times Square, and laid off the palace people who could be laid off in the palace and transferred them to operate. So, is it possible to let other powerful families who run shops imitate and learn from her, and experience the benefits of letting the people under her door go out to grasp production and make profits?

This requires a strong propaganda campaign, and in addition, the increasing consumption forces them to desire more economic resources, so that they can accept some more labor-efficient lifestyles, and finally liberate those wasted labor.

Of course, changing the way of life of people in an era is not something that can be done all at once, Sun Xiangfu just clarified a direction for Empress Changsun through chatting, allowing her to play freely and slowly produce results.