Chapter 299 Northwest

This year, the biggest harvest of the people of the two states is the lotus root in the fish pond and the vegetables planted. Not only do families have vegetables to eat, but many pickles are made in clay pots and sold to other places, and now in the autumn harvest, many vegetables are also being made into pickles.

Pickles can be said to be the favorite of the army, not only to supplement the salt, but also very good, for the soldiers guarding the border, this is one of the best food.

And pickled vegetables are sold to the grassland, the market is better, the price is more expensive, it can be sold as refined salt, the grassland tribe, where you can grow vegetables, a little wild vegetables, are all expensive, not to mention vegetables from thousands of miles away. After selling for half a year, after Longyou Road, Tuyuhun, Turkic, and Western Regions, tea, pickles, and salt have been included in the best commodities, and they are ranked in front of salt.

Liangzhou pickles, not only sold in large quantities to the grassland, but also sold a lot in the Tang Dynasty, after all, in the past, salt was tight, how many people were willing to make pickles, and the people in the past were drying vegetables and making dried vegetables. Therefore, pickled vegetables are a very fresh food, especially its diversity, that is, any dish can be pickled, not to mention the radish with the largest yield, which tastes very good when pickled.

However, this will not be sold for many years, after all, this is very simple and easy to learn, and with the abundance of salt in Datang, every household will inevitably make it by themselves.

Of course, Situ Changfeng didn't care about this, after all, vegetables only improved the food diversity of the people and reduced food consumption, and vegetables could not only be used as pickles. It's not a staple commodity of the two states.

This year, the largest output of the two states is still cane sugar, and the cane sugar made by Situ Changfeng is as white as snow and as fine as sand, and it is called white sugar on the outside. The emergence of white sugar directly made the previously yellowed and bitter sucrose no market, and the price plummeted.

Li Shimin even hand-picked Yuezhou white sugar as a tribute, which made the sugar famous in Guanzhong, and it was snapped up as soon as it arrived, especially Luoyang and Chang'an, as long as it arrived, it was sold out.

The Jiangnan family has harvested a lot this year, making a lot of money on tea, and all sugarcane in Lingnan, Jiangnan and Nanyang have also been purchased.

Although it is difficult for ships to sail far now, there is still no problem in offshore navigation, especially the Nanyang Sun family, which has the largest ship in the world now, and only needs to transport sugarcane to Guangzhou to sell it to the Xiao family. Because in Guangzhou, there is a workshop jointly established by Situ Changfeng and the Xiao family to make white sugar.

This year, the family has reaped a good harvest, the people have also profited, everyone is looking forward to the coming year, and the support of the people of the two states for the Governor's Mansion has also reached a new height.

Yuezhou has built a new official road, repaired the old road, has completed the first stage, connecting Langzhou, Jingzhou, Ezhou, the same is true of the waterway, it can be said that it has achieved four links, that is, it leads to all sides; The second stage is Bada, which must be built to every village, at least to allow horse-drawn carts and ox-carts to pass, otherwise the production will not be able to be transported in the future, and it will be a big loss.

Because of the huge demand in the two states, not only did they buy a lot of grain this year, but also the rest of the materials, meat, and a lot of demand, which drove the nearby states and counties, not to mention the coal and salt, which were also transported from all over the country to make this road more prosperous.

Just after the two states are busy, the palace of Chang'an City is also a festive, after two years of promotion, the cotton is finally harvested, the textile workshop of the eldest grandson queen, not only all over Chang'an, Luoyang, and out of the Guanzhong, nearly 50,000 women are working for her, so the manpower is not enough, helplessly, from the palace to transfer 5,000 palace maids, into the workshops around the country.

This year's eldest grandson's cotton clothes were sold all over the Tang Dynasty, and almost all the poor people in Guanzhong received a thin cotton coat rewarded by the Tang Dynasty Queen, which not only amazed the government and the opposition, but also gave hundreds of people an immortal archway for the eldest grandson, which made Li Shimin and his wife greatly buy a wave of people's hearts.

Not only cotton clothes, wool acquisition is the major families, noble, but sweater production, in addition to Yizhou, only the eldest grandson under the name of the workshop, there is that technology, although there are also people secretly made, but the sales technology is not up to par, the cost is too great, it is better not to do, so it is given up.

As for Li Shimin, the addition of salt alone has filled the treasury a lot, not to mention coal, which has made his waist straight, and according to Situ Changfeng's suggestion, he has opened up several pilot states and counties across the country. The most important thing is that several pilot states and counties have sent back good news, which has a huge role in promoting local development.

But for Li Shimin, perhaps the biggest gain is to slay the dragon! The huge dragon head was transported back to Chang'an, which caused a huge sensation, and the failure of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu to slay the dragon is well known. Being able to do what the Qin Emperor and Han Wu had never done, Li Shimin's face increased greatly, especially offsetting a large part of the impact left over from the Xuanwumen Rebellion.

Of course, this is only one of the effects, the dragon's blood bathed in the body, Li Shimin's physical fitness has greatly increased, according to rumors, His Majesty has several concubines at night, and the upright Wei Zheng has repeatedly spoken out and asked His Majesty not to be greedy for pleasure.

The reason why the people feel that this is the truth is that there are rumors in the palace that several imperial concubines are pregnant with dragon seeds.

"Your Majesty, the Northeast Xiongnu have begun to fight inwardly, the Western Turks are in peace and defend themselves, and the Western Regions are in turmoil, only the people sent by the Northwest Imperial Court have made little progress, because there is always a force blocking it." In the imperial study, Fang Xuanling reported respectfully.

"Humph!" Li Shimin's originally smiling face sank suddenly, and he couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Your Majesty's anger is expected, but under the temptation of interests, their loose alliance will sooner or later break up." The emaciated Du Ruhui hurriedly comforted.

"Aiqing's intention is to increase the intensity of co-optation and division?"

"No, the minister thinks that the opportunity is ripe, and next year Your Majesty might as well stop buying wool from the northwest, strictly control the flow of salt, tea, cotton, and coal into the northwest, and they will not be able to sit still." Du Ruhui explained.

"Ke Ming is reasonable, and the old minister seconded it!" Xiao Yu stood up and agreed.

"What is Elder Xiao's opinion?"

"Back to Your Majesty, after two years, they have become accustomed to exchanging useless wool for a large number of materials, and suddenly cutting it off, which is equivalent to making the people have no income, and naturally there will be complaints, not to mention that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, which is human nature." Xiao Yu replied.

"Yes, Xiao Lao analyzed it well, this year's salt has poured in, and the northwest has dropped to fifteen wen a catty, not to mention cotton clothes and coal, so that the northwest is not cold, and suddenly there is no reason, how can the people have no complaints." Fang Xuanling continued.

"But in this case, it is the people who suffer, and this does not give them a reason to rebel." Yu Wenshi said embarrassedly.