Chapter 316: Li Shimin to Shanyang
In fact, Li Shimin's calculation is only the income of the most ordinary Han people in Shanyang City, the real high-income people are those Guanzhong people who are engaged in business in Shanyang, among the first group of people who came here, they can calculate some accounts a little, and now most of them have opened their own shops to do business, even if they are in the Hu people's shop to be a shopkeeper or something, the monthly Feng is as high as five and eight times, and they are also everywhere, counting the income of the entire family, there are many people who earn more than ten times a month, who is called in this place where Hu people are dominant, Han people have a natural advantage in making a living!
Soon, a few palm-sized flower cakes went down Li Shimin's stomach, and he visited the village in Shanyang, he couldn't use the set in Guanzhong, the people here are not poor, so he doesn't need to give anything at all, but he can exchange gifts.
Li Shimin asked Wei Chigong to carry two pots of freshly cooked flower cakes to the camp outside the village for his concubines and children to enjoy.
"It's a gift to have dealings, these melons will be given to you to eat, and next time I come to bother again, you will entertain us with this good tea and cake."
"Definitely, definitely."
After drinking a large jar of tea, and chatting with everyone for a while, Li Shimin waved goodbye to everyone, through this period of chat, Li Shimin also has a little more understanding of the basic public sentiment of Shanyang, and one word describes 'rich'.
The basis of their wealth is that there are no idlers and they produce more.
With the exception of children under the age of seven, everyone here knows what to do for the day from the moment they wake up in the morning.
The young and strong people work in the workshops in the city, and the old and weak also produce in the village, and when they are not making flower cakes, they can also pick flower petals, remove weeds, take care of beehives, and so on.
Children over the age of seven are all studying in the city, regardless of men and women, only on the day of bathing, will return to the village to rest for two days, Li Shimin also learned from Liu Dawang's mouth that there are seven or eight schools in Shanyang City, each school has more than 10,000 students, regardless of Hu Han, as long as the child reaches the age of seven, he can enroll, and it is free to study, only need to pay a small amount of room and board fees.
It seems that Sun Xiangfu wants to implement education for all in Shanyang early, but he doesn't know if Shanyang's finances can afford it.
I thought that after the bumper harvest in Guanzhong, in terms of people's livelihood, Lingnan and Shanyang would be thrown away, but now that I look at the actual situation, Li Shimin feels that maybe it is not to get rid of it, but to catch up, because after Li Shimin returned to the camp, he looked through the twists and turns that turned around today, and found a letter of Feng An's folds in it.
He asked the imperial court to send skilled craftsmen to help him build a new city, and the original city of Guangzhou seemed to be too small and backward for the current people of Lingnan.
Moreover, the manpower and financial resources for the construction of the city do not need to be paid by the imperial court, and the imperial court only needs to provide technical support, and he also said that after the construction of the new city is completed, the land of Lingnan, at least around Guangzhou, can implement the same household registration tax system as the land of the Central Plains.
This made Li Shimin very frustrated, and he had to find investment through various means to get a Weinan New Town, and even possibly a loan, Feng An, who was wealthy, directly told him that I had money, that is, to build the city of Guangzhou as big as Chang'an, and I would also pay out of my own pocket.
This round of people's livelihood development competition, Li Shimin is destined to be difficult to win, Guanzhong now not only owes Lingnan a lot of grain, but also owes the people a lot of savings, Weinan Industrial Zone is too important for Guanzhong, if it is not done well, Li Shimin is afraid that he will be thrown farther and farther away.
At noon the next day, the convoy arrived at the south gate of Shanyang City, and the army led by the generals of the guards went around the north gate from outside the city, and entered the camp of the Anbei Army to live.
Li Shimin also appeared at the gate of the city, accepted the visit of Sun Xiangfu, Yi Nan and others, and let the people who were waiting here to watch the excitement pay tribute to his holy face, and quickly announced that the welcoming ceremony was over.
There is no way, the sun in June is very strong, especially at noon, so let everyone dry and dry the oil, in case of heat stroke, it is not good.
Li Shimin felt very new to the neighborhood in Shanyang City, and he ordered people to remove all the curtains used to shade the car windows, and only hang a layer of tulle, through which he could roughly see the scene on the street, and the people on both sides of the street also roughly saw the outline of the emperor.
Because there were still several concubines sitting in Li Shimin's carriage, Sun Xiangfu was inconvenient to accompany him by car, so he fought with Su Dingfang and other generals, led the convoy, and went to the north of the city where his mansion was located.
Behind Li Shimin's carriage, Li Chengqian's car is also spacious, and now, the whole is a children's sightseeing car, Li Tai, Li Ke, Li Liqing, Li Mengjiang, etc., directly lifted the curtains to look at both sides of the street, Hou Shuya, Sun Deshou and Sun Xiaomei, who were in the same car, would also look at the outside from time to time, but they did not grab the window position with several princes and princesses.
"Wow, there are so many people in Shanyang, more than people in Chang'an."
"Look, blond-haired, blue-eyed people, and ugly creatures who look like black charcoal······"
"That's Kunlun Nu ······"
"Listen, it's the sound of the huqin, it's so cheerful, ah, why doesn't she wear clothes······"
"Wow, there was a guy with a broken waist and actually put his ass on his head······"
"That's a jiu-jitsu show!"
The small children are exclaiming, the big children are explaining, and the carriage seems to be very lively.
Most of the people in the city know that the convoy that came into the city today is the emperor's convoy, and while hugging together to watch the excitement, some are also showing their unique skills, in order to attract the attention of the emperor, or some nobles accompanying them, but the little ones in the car take the lead in forming a sense of Shanyang, lively, novelty, is their first impression of Shanyang.
When the convoy arrived at the Sanggan River area in the center of the city, Sun Xiangfu was about to come out to be a bad guy, and the courtiers' cars were stopped under his command, and before they bought a house in Shanyang, they could only pay for the inn by themselves, in this regard, Chu Suiliang was mainly responsible for coordination, of course, whether he was promoting Shanyang's inn to the courtiers, or Shanyang's villa, it was hard to say.
There was almost no pomp or anything to greet him in the city, and even Sun Xiangfu did not specifically tell the people what to do when the emperor came, so the people on both sides of the street almost all watched Li Shimin's car with strange eyes, but it made him a little disappointed, and the eyes of the people did not have the kind of awe and love he wanted to see, which was completely different from his situation in Guanzhong's home field.
The convoy came to the north of the city, originally thinking that the red flags on both sides of the street were arranged by Sun Xiangford to greet Li Shimin, but after seeing the handwriting on those flags clearly, he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.
These things have nothing to do with him coming to Shanyang, they are just some advertising slogans to promote Shanyang's products, and what makes Li Shimin want to vomit blood is that Sun Xiangfu's house in Shanyang is not as big as one-fifth of the house in Mayi, originally he wanted to take the opportunity to scold Sun Xiangfu for being too extravagant and knock him a little good, but now, he can't find a reason.
In the house, Hongmei and Chuntao had already led the attendants who came in advance, preparing cold melon and fruit drinks, and cold dishes and cold noodles and other foods, the weather in June and July, the temperature in Shanyang during the day was also high, and after a group of people sat down, Sun Xiangfu talked to Li Shimin.
"Your Majesty, the minister has invited the leaders of the Xia, Muwei, Jian, Khitan and other departments to come and watch the military parade, and you can arrive in Shanyang two days after tomorrow at the latest, and the military parade will be held in three days, okay?"
"Well, in three days! By the way, you have a good intention in inviting people from these tribes to come to Shanyang to observe the ceremony! ”
Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Exactly, these tribes surround the entire Goguryeo in the middle, if they are willing to pay tribute to our Tang Dynasty, then if something happens to Goguryeo, we don't need to take action in person, we can clean them up." ”
"Well, you have done a good job in this matter, have you prepared all the materials that I want to reward the people of the Northland and Xue Yantuo?"
"Please rest assured, it's just a little more, in addition, the minister has also discussed with Yi Nan, and the supplies sent to Xue Yantuo are best announced at the military parade, and then you will personally go to Mobei to deliver them."
Hearing this, Li Shimin immediately knew Sun Xiangfu's intentions, Yi Nan is now thinking about seeking benefits, and giving some benefits and collecting the good deeds of the people's hearts, Li Shimin and Sun Xiangfu are very happy to do it, one is for the present, the other is for the long term, and the judgment is made.
Seeing that Li Shimin nodded in agreement, Sun Xiangfu said again, "There is one more matter, the minister wants to report to you." ”
"Come on."
"Koji Zhisheng, the prince of Gaochang, is in Shanyang City, and he will also watch the salute at the military parade······"
Sun Xiangfu told Li Shimin about the situation of Gao Changguo and some of Ko Zhisheng's proposals and requirements, which reminded Li Shimin of some things.
"The king has to use it, go and bring Cheng Zhijie's recital to Zhengming for a look."
Since Cheng Yanjin cooperated with Li Jing to defeat Jieli, he has been leading troops to guard Li Shimin's newly established four states outside the Yumen Pass.
The territory of the four states is not small, but the population is very sparse, all because Jieli and Tuli have fought here before, causing the population to flee to the neighboring Qiuci and Gaochang, which led to Cheng Yanjin's tens of thousands of horses stationed in the local area, but there is no tax output, the consumption is huge, he had to urge Chang'an to send grain and grass.
In addition, Gao Chang and Qiuzi wanted to ask him to return the land that was occupied by Jieli before, and with Cheng Biting Jin's character, he would definitely not give it, and he also asked the two countries to return the population that originally lived in these areas, and they were unwilling to give it, which led to the army being in a state of Cold War confrontation.
With the ecological environment of this period, the land of these four states is very suitable for cultivation, as long as someone cultivates, its output may not be worse than the Shanyang territory, think about the Ili region in later generations, it is a good place with deep grass, lush forests, good scenery and many water systems.
After all, the military tun has been implemented in Shuozhou and Anbei for almost two years, and some middle and low-level officers already know how to operate and manage.
As for the grain and grass, it doesn't have to be sent from Chang'an, Shanyang sent it to him closer, and Shanyang has more strength.
Because, Wang Hao's new grain for the first season of Zhancheng rice planted in Jiangnan has already been sent to Shanyang, and now the grain in the grain depot in the city has reached more than five million stones, and the hundreds of thousands of people in Shanyang City can't eat it all year long, and Wang Hao has at least two rounds of grain to send over this year.
However, when he finally talked about money, Li Shimin felt that it hurt his feelings, and Sun Xiangfu wanted to tell him that talking about feelings hurt money.
But there is no way, these things are now the resources of the country, how Li Shimin wants to mobilize, Sun Xiangfu can't stop it, besides, building Shanyang into the core of the north is to support the development of the surrounding areas, this is the meaning of its existence, Sun Xiangfu has to try his best to arrange.
After chatting about these serious matters, Li Shimin said again, "I heard that your summer night in Shanyang is more lively than during the day, so make arrangements, I will travel tonight." ”
Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu is happy, it seems that Li Shimin hasn't seen enough of the street scene just now, and he still wants to go out again at night to have fun, which also shows that he has become interested in Shanyang's block-based urban culture.