The food in Shanyang City is very delicious, especially for Dongzhu, who has been eaten all her life, those green vegetables don't seem to fill her stomach, after autumn on the grassland, it is difficult to eat green vegetables, and all kinds of fish, they rarely eat on the grassland, and in this restaurant, those fish are so delicious that she can't stop chopsticks.

"My Chinese teacher said that the Han people have a separate meal system, why do you eat at a table like this?" Dongzhu pointed to the table where a big hole had been cut and the hot fish hot pot was boiling.

"Hehe, this kind of food is the first thing our aunt thought of, and later after the opening of Wangjiang Building, many restaurants have learned from us to greet guests like this, especially after this cold day, everyone likes it." Chun Tao smiled a little smugly.

"Is this Wangjiang Tower?" Dongzhu looked at the huge dining room outside the window of the private room.

"This is the Shanyang branch of Wangjianglou, the real Wangjianglou is in Chang'an, which is bigger than here, and there is a drama stage."

Chun Tao mentioned the drama stage, but Hongmei, who was originally in charge of the stage in Wangjiang Tower, glanced at Yu Xiu'er, the person who sings, if he doesn't sing for three days, his throat is itchy, like Yu Xiu'er, who has been sought after by tens of thousands of people, how can he not miss that feeling!

"Miss, I heard that there is a new play from Yangzhou in the drama theater, why don't we go to the theater in two days to see it!" I understood Yu Xiu'er's thoughts.

"Good! But after eating today, I'll go to the spa first. Yu Xiu'er finally agreed.

The so-called spa and health center is just a hot steam bath that Sun Xiangfu made out to retain water for the skin because the weather in the north was cold and the skin was prone to dryness and cracking.

In addition, Shanyang has millions of acres of flower fields, a year to get out of the petal flavor is huge, the essence has a great volatility, especially the rose flavor, it is easy to dissolve in the oil, because the molecular chain of this essential oil is relatively short, it is easy to penetrate the skin, enter the human body, so that the human body naturally has a fragrant breath.

It is said that aromatherapy in later generations can also strengthen people's mental and physical functions, but now Sun Xiangfu's research craftsmen do not have the ability to synthesize so many chemicals, but only make the most primitive and ordinary plant essential oils.

Sun Xiangfu one day lust suddenly, fooled Yu Xiuer to try, who knew that this pure natural plant essential oil effect is excellent, Yu Xiu'er's skin after using this petal essential oil, there is a natural overflow of fragrance for many days, and the body and mind are very happy, so far, the idea of this spa health center has been put on the agenda.

Now, not only Yu Xiu'er will come to the spa after a while to do an essential oil treatment, Wang Xu's concubines, also driven by her, also often run here, you know, the price of a treatment is not cheap, at least it is ten, but none of them think it is worth it, if it weren't for the fact that there are not many noble ladies living in Shanyang City now, this spa and health center doesn't know what it will become.

Dongzhu, who was taken off clean and slippery, was a little dazed, she didn't understand why it was so warm in the Tang people's house, and after soaking in a bubbling aroma and hot water pool with Yu Xiu'er and the three daughters for a while, she felt that the whole body was indescribably comfortable, and then, on the rows of white soft beds, several maids poured some strange fragrance on her, and then it was a constant massage.

After an hour, Dongzhu who comes out of the health spa with light steps can't help but raise her arm and smell her skin.

It's amazing, the smell of cattle and sheep on my body is gone, and now there is a fragrance that I can't smell enough.

What's even more amazing is that when she saw the mirror that could make things appear in the sun's mansion, she was fascinated by her appearance, her long hair was combed into a good-looking Han style, full of good-looking gold and silver flowers, her skin was like a shelled egg, tender and tender, and even the blush that had been frozen out of the desert all the year round was covered by the blush, is this what they just said about makeup? What a door magic technique.

One day, just one day in Shanyang City, she was a little reluctant to be here, no wonder her brother Yi Nan often said that the Han people are rich, this is too big a gap with the tribe!

Dongzhu's feelings about Shanyang City are not unique, she is comparing the top life on the grassland with the top life in Shanyang City, and there are many more, she is comparing the hardest life on the grassland with the hardest life in Shanyang City.

Xi Junmai brought back not only 10,000 cattle and sheep from Ulanqab, but also many herdsmen who were responsible for managing cattle and sheep, and they could not have imagined that the Tang Dynasty would have such favorable conditions for the captives, and they had just come to bring Shanyang, and they were assigned a house to live in, which was a brick house that was not permeable to cold wind, with a large vat full of rice noodles, and a piece of briquettes with holes, it is said that after igniting these briquettes in a carbon stove, you can put an iron pot or iron kettle on it to cook and boil water.

As for how to burn the kang, how to fetch water, and even to urinate in that location, the people who were responsible for arranging them explained to them clearly, and all they had to do was to go to the livestock trading market every day after sunrise to help them get forage and take care of and feed the cattle and sheep.

They didn't know the situation at all, and they didn't even dare to eat more of the rice in the rice jar, so they just grabbed a few handfuls and cooked a pot of gruel, not to mention the fragrant sauce on the stove.

However, after daybreak, they came to the cattle market, and sure enough, the steward here only let them work, fodder, feed the cattle and sheep, and sometimes help with the slaughter, which they did every day when they were on the grassland, and they didn't feel anything.

But at noon, the steward of the market actually told them to go to dinner, a clay bowl bigger than a head, filled with yellow and white noodles, and a large spoonful of soup boiled by cattle and sheep, the taste was strangely fragrant, and the herdsmen who were not very good at using chopsticks drank the whole bowl of noodle soup, their stomachs were full, and their whole body was warm.

Then they continued to work in the afternoon, until dusk, and the stewards gave them five copper coins, and told them that if they came here every day to do such work, they would still be able to eat a bowl of beef and mutton haggis noodle soup, and get five copper coins, but in the future, they needed to fill the rice and flour jars in their residences, and they also needed to buy them when the briquettes ran out. They can do more work and get paid more.

Where is this being a captive! This is much more comfortable than the days of grazing for the Khan, just the big bowl of noodle soup with cattle and sheep in the water at noon, enough for himself to last a day.

The purchasing power of five copper coins is not very strong, you can buy five palm-sized sac cakes in a street food store, which is only the minimum level of wages for novice rookies who have just arrived, but even so, a family of several people together can earn twenty or thirty yuan, and there is no problem at all to eat a full stomach.

The stewards of the construction sites in the city were not very selective, and the children in their teens and the elderly in their forties and fifties had a salary to be paid as long as they did the work they had assigned, and there was almost no need for people to do their ideological work, and they themselves felt that they should settle down here.

Early in the morning, the herdsmen who were brought back by Xi Junmai went to the yamen to apply for household registration, and then they had a Han name.

At this time, a businessman wearing a Han robe would come to them flatteringly and ask them if they wanted a house of their own, saying that the resettlement houses they live in now will be repossessed in a month, and if they want to live and work here for a long time, they must have a house of their own.

Then they were taken to the neatly arranged residential quarters, which were much more complete than the resettlement houses, many times wider than the yurts they had lived in, with several rooms, a small cow shed, and toilets leading to the sewers. And they only need to press the handprint, and the house is theirs, but because of this, they will owe the merchant thirty yuan, but with the government as a guarantee, they do not need to pay back the thirty yuan within three years, and it will not count the interest, and then there will be a small amount of interest, as long as the full amount is repaid, the deed will come to them and become their private property.

When these resettled herdsmen figured out that 30 yuan was 24,000 copper coins, they immediately panicked, and their family could only earn more than 20 copper coins a day.

However, the merchant was not worried at all that they would not be able to pay back the money, but told them that feeding cattle and sheep and getting a salary of five cents was only a job that novices who had just arrived in Shanyang and did not understand the situation would do, even if they followed the grass harvesting team to harvest grass on the grassland, they could earn two meals and thirty copper coins a day, not to mention going to the construction site in the city to move bricks, or going to some shops to work as a small servant, helping to carry, sell goods, and so on.

There is a rule in the Yamen of the Metropolitan Protectorate that the minimum wage for those who have obtained a household registration in Shanyang and signed an employment agreement with any merchant in the city is 900 copper coins per month, except for temporary workers without household registration. Because in Shanyang City, only if you get more than 900 wen a month, you can buy briquettes, food and clothing, and barely survive.

Then, from the third day, they did not go to the livestock market to work, some people went to move bricks, some people went to the restaurants opened by the Hu people, and some people were not qualified for those jobs, and went to the lawn mowing team, and basically could earn a day's food and a salary of more than a consistent amount of money every month, anyway, the people here did not discriminate against them, and even recruited people like them who could speak Turkic.

Shanyang City is like a huge sponge, constantly absorbing the surrounding population and nutrients, after Sun Xiangfu formulated the rules, there was basically no need to restrict it, let him develop. When it is saturated, the herdsmen who flock here behind will naturally not find a job and return to the grassland to graze, and at that time, they will feel that even if it is grazing, they will have no competition, and they will choose the pasture with abundant water and grass, of course, at that time, Sun Xiangfu must have a new policy of diverting and relocating them.

Sun Xiangfu's huge debt was owed because he had done something like this, and he was relieved when he saw Li Jing coming to Shanyang City with a huge team of Hu merchants from the Western Regions.

"There's General Lau Lee."

Sun Xiangfu is now on par with Li Jing in terms of status, but due to the age difference, when he greeted him outside the city gate, he held a junior salute.

"Zhengming is polite, I arranged your affairs first, and we'll talk about it later." Li Jing returned the salute, and went to the barracks with Su Dingfang, who was standing behind Sun Xiangfu, and these Hu businessmen were naturally going to be handed over to Sun Xiangfu to receive.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the Western Regions, the Bendu Protector has set up a reception banquet in the Wangjianglou branch in the city, and after you settle down in the city inn, you can come to the banquet, and for some Shanyang specialties, the Pontus Protector will display them one by one at the evening banquet."

When businessmen have money, they will be bullish, especially these Hu people who have not been educated in Confucianism and do not know much about their superiority and inferiority, and now they have partnered to support an army of the Tang Dynasty as their escort, and they have bought nearly one million yuan of treasury bonds from the Tang Dynasty, and their waists are very straight when they are in Chang'an. Therefore, most people are not surprised that a high-ranking official like Sun Xiangfu came to receive them, and when he arrived in Chang'an this year, Du Yan, the head of the imperial court, came forward to say a few words to them.

However, there are also some shrewd people, but they are looking for an opportunity to meet Sun Xiangfu alone, and they are familiar with each other, most of these people are people who have figured out Sun Xiangfu's family history, and even seen the so-called new products made by Shanyang.