On the way back, with Dongzhu, a little sparrow who loves to chirp, Sun Xiangfu has a lot more things to do, first of all, he has to tell him a lot of Han customs, in fact, Dongzhu's Chinese teachers have taught her some, but for Sun Xiangfu, or for Shanyang City, what her teacher teaches is already outdated.

Because the entire construction plan of Shanyang City was made by Sun Xiangfu, here, you can see more shadows of later towns, at least, it will not be like Luoyang Chang'an, which is a fang district system.

Sun Xiangfu directly started the block system here, so in addition to the commercial street in the bulk commodity centralized trading area, in fact, there will be a lot of houses on the street in the city, so it is natural that many shops will emerge.

Houses built of bricks and tiles will be neatly arranged at the back of the shops facing the street, connected by alleys in the middle, and even each house will have a house number, which is directly included in the household registration.

And because the livestock trading and storage place is placed in the old city next to the new city, so that the livestock in the whole new city is reduced, except for the professional horse-drawn carriages and a small number of private carriages, the number of livestock wandering in the city is comparable to that in the city in the Central Plains, which will make the whole city appear cleaner, after all, where there are more Hu people, there will be more cattle, sheep and horses, if not divided, it will look very dirty.

Hundreds of miles around Shanyang City, in addition to the cement pavement, is the vegetation, there is very little dust in the air, even if it is now close to September, you can see the dense chrysanthemums and dogwood flowers outside the city on the city wall, except for the winter snow season, the air here will be very fresh, full of floral fragrance.

Sun Xiangfu finally brought a woman home, which made the alarm bell in Yu Xiuer's heart ring, and after seeing Dongzhu, Yu Xiuer just sighed, "Husband really likes young people." ”

I think back then, when the two first met, wasn't she thirteen or fourteen years old.

"What are you talking about?" Sun Xiangfu looked at Yu Xiu'er who went out to greet him a little inexplicably.

Of course, hearing Yu Xiu'er's words, the saddest thing is Chun Tao and Hongmei, they are almost twenty years old girls, no wonder my uncle still doesn't accept them into the room, it turns out that ······

Inexplicably, the two touched their tears, inexplicably, Sun Xiangfu ran around outside for a few days, and when he returned home, he didn't even have a full meal, and he had to cook it himself.

"Hmph, my uncle really has a newcomer and forgets the old, how long has it been since I cooked for Miss······"

"The latest news, the latest news, my uncle sent the cooked meal to the bearded girl's room······"

The atmosphere in Sun's Mansion was a little wrong, and Uncle De was the first to react, but thinking that Sun Xiangfu was nineteen years old and had no children under his knees, he didn't say much, just told him that Su Dingfang had news that Li Jing's army and the Hu Shang team from the Western Regions had entered the Shuozhou territory and arrived in Shanyang City two days later.

Meetings, inspections, is the most work that Sun Xiangfu has done since he became the protector of Anbei, and there are still two days to arrive, so the reception work in the city should be carried out, he wants to let all the Hu merchants in the Western Regions know that Shanyang is the place where merchants are most respected, and their arrival, as the highest-ranking officials in the northern Tang Dynasty, will personally go out of the city to greet them.

"What do people pay most attention to in this life? Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, eating, drinking and merrymaking. My request to you is to do these eight words to the extreme that can be achieved under the existing conditions. ”

After the stewards of the business premises were concentrated in the mansion, Sun Xiangfu took the lead. He had already explained the specific things to be done a month ago, and now it was time to test the effectiveness of their work.

"The head of the family, we are good at Yang, it will snow at most in October, yes, the garment workshop has rushed to make tight-fitting and warm cotton clothes, leather coats, fur boots, etc., no less than 50,000 pieces. Nowadays, our several major shops in the city have all been distributed, not to mention the Hu people, even our Han people, are also very interested in these clothes and shoes, and the people in the city who have received wages are all choosing to buy. ”

The person in charge of the garment weaving, named Jia Shitao, was transferred from Nie Sanniang's subordinate, Chang'an's garment workshop has a full set of weaving, dyeing, as well as new process research and development, new product design department, Shanyang is only responsible for collecting raw materials and making them in large quantities with mature technology. After all, the price of raw materials for leather goods here in Shanyang is much cheaper than that in Chang'an.

In the future, Sun Xiangfu will plant a large amount of cotton in the farmland around Shanyang, and it is foreseeable that the cost price of cotton will also be very low, so it will become a production base in the entire north of the country with a relatively large demand for thick clothing.

"50,000 pieces is too little, the number of Guanghu businessmen's team is more than 10,000, do you think, they share one point, how many goods can each bring back to China? But this year's industry start-up, I won't say, next year, Shanyang's textile industry, leather processing industry, the finished products manufactured, at least one million pieces as a mark, the year after that, to reach more than five million pieces, three years later, I want to let the people of Datang all over the country can wear cotton clothes, leather boots, and there are many can be replaced. At the same time, you also have to ensure the export of more than one million pieces per year, do you have the confidence to complete this small goal? ”

"Yes, the small ones have ······"

Sun Xiangfu's words are like a hammer, and the beating frequency of Jia Shitao's little heart has doubled, so that the people of the whole country can wear cotton clothes, and how many pieces must be replaced, and the annual output will not be tens of millions? Is this a three-year plan, small goals?

However, he felt that it was possible to complete it, because, under the encouragement of the craftsmen, the looms in Chang'an were constantly improving, and the female workers in the Shanyang workshop were only a thousand people, but in one or two months, more than 50,000 products were produced.

What he didn't know was that in the future, a random garment factory with more than 1,000 people would ship tens of thousands of pieces a day, and this country could meet more than half of the world's clothing supply with less than one percent of the garment workers.

Moreover, don't underestimate the clothing industry, this is also a kind of cultural transmission, in ancient times, people who wear the same style of clothes, it is easier to be recognized, Sun Xiangfu has made efforts to promote clothing culture from the beginning, and also hopes that Datang will go more easily on the road of integrating other nationalities. Let the integrated country be more solid. Wearing the same clothes and saying the same things, even if they have different skin colors, they cannot be easily separated as they have historically.

After finishing speaking, Sun Xiangfu's eyes immediately turned to the next person, his name is Luo Jin, he is the concubine of Luo Tian, the head of the imperial dining room, Sun Xiangfu has a close relationship with Luo Tian, and a large number of Luo's children are enabled in the back kitchen of Wangjiang Tower, this Luo Jin has some brains, so he was sent to Sun Xiangfu by Luo Tian, and let him use it.

"The head of the family, Shanyang's grain reserves are sufficient, the grain shops of the major families in the city have been opened, the price is lower than that of Chang'an, now a stone of wheat, only sold consistently, and it continues to fall, in addition, the fields planted by the head of the family in the spring of Shuozhou are all bumper harvests, due to this year's tax exemption, the people's families have a lot of surplus grain, and they will be sold in the market at that time, which will further impact the grain market, and will also promote the price decline, and there should be no problem in dealing with the possible population growth in Shanyang."

"Well, I know more about this data, but my expectations for you are more than that, simple and fast, with a unique taste, suitable for selling food on the streets and alleys, you must develop more as soon as possible and promote it to the people of Shanyang. In addition, you also have to research some foods that are easy to preserve, as takeaways, which can also create big profits. ”

In later generations, Xinjiang or Inner Mongolia, there are small shops that make naan cakes for sale, a bit similar to the pot helmet in the mainland, but do not add so many easily perishable materials, after the kang is good, it can be stored for a long time, and it is no problem to eat at least one winter, if it is made of refined flour and add some white sugar to it, it is eaten by later generations, and it is a delicious food to nourish people, not to mention this period, if Shanyang City can be made on a large scale, I believe that the merchants in the past will be very willing to buy, after all, This thing is very convenient to eat as dry food when you are in a hurry.

Whether a place can keep people, in addition to sufficient food reserves, stable prices, and even cheap, food culture is also very important, Shanyang will soon become a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands, and most of the people in this city will be engaged in industry, in order to improve production efficiency, they may not be able to live as slowly as before, buying vegetables, cooking, washing pots and dishes, will delay the time of young and strong laborers.

Therefore, the cheap, delicious, convenient, and trouble-free street food culture must be promoted, at least to ensure that every block, there are a few cheap places to eat.

"The small ones have set up a special training course in the city to teach snacks, and have accepted some lonely widows or middle-aged and elderly people, women and children, and let them learn these cooking techniques, and then open shops in the city, and now there are more than 30 in operation, and later, it may reach one or two hundred, but the shops and start-up funds are all ······ in the form of loans."

"It's okay, our family is not short of this money, and it is the top priority to make the street prosperous as soon as possible, and the pace can be accelerated."

After talking about food, it is natural to stay.

Zhou Chun is the general manager of all the houses in Shanyang City, but today Sun Xiangfu does not need to listen to such a comprehensive report, Zhou Chun's subordinates, the three stewards who manage the inn, walked out from behind his chair.

"The master of the house, the inns we operate have all been cleaned up, and they have been in trial operation for seven days, and there are no problems, as for the other inns in the city, when the business license was issued, the Duhufu Yamen has made many restrictions on them, they are actually imitating our business, and many of them have opened in the past two or three days, and the guest rooms add up, at least twenty or thirty thousand people can live, and it is more than enough to receive the Hu Shang team."

Since Sun Xiangfu let other people come in to invest and open a store, he never planned to do a monopoly, sometimes, it is necessary to maintain competition, anyway, as an owner, he has rent to collect, the Sun family's self-operated inn was not originally opened to meet the market, he is an official after all, and Shanyang has not yet built a post station, so to entertain court officials and VIPs, you have to use these inns.

Since Sun Xiangfu operated the catering and inns separately, several inns specializing in room service were able to do a little more sophisticated. The most upscale inn in Shanyang City, the comfort of the guest room is not inferior to the Wangjiang Tower in Chang'an, and the lowest-end one also has a fire kang and a hot water configuration for the stove. Just because there are not so many steel bars for the time being, there are no high-rise buildings, most of them are bungalows, and after the conditions, high-rise buildings are also a direction for the development and transformation of Shanyang in the future.

As for the line, it is Sun Xiangfu who does not have to worry about the most, the boundary of Shanyang, the terrain is flat, and all the wide cement roads have been built, and the four-wheeled carriages pulled by horses run on the cement road, there is basically no resistance, yes, Sun Xiangfu let his groom Liu San open a carriage and horse shop, with a specially built relatively wide carriage, in the city to do passenger transport, as long as the sound of copper bells is heard, passengers can spend a penny on the car, the carriage will take them on the main road in the city, about an hour, You can almost run the whole way.

Moreover, the carriage and horse shop has a future plan, and the passenger and freight transportation in several cities around Shanyang will be done, of course, this has to be done after the infrastructure is more complete.

After spring ploughing next year, the cement roads connecting Mayi City, Ying County, Huairen County, Shanyin County, Youyu County and Dingxiang City will be repaired within 300 miles around Shanyang, and of course, the cement roads leading to the newly established Anyuan County and Ningyuan County in the direction of the grassland will also be repaired.